The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-12

I the Redeemer, who shares the throne
| OF Heaven with the Father. He por-
trays the overcomers, who were vic
tors in the Lambs great army. His
pen writes clearly and often of the
! bliss OF the redeemed about the throne
1t is all Jubilate of victory and i'm.
mortality. Who would be so foolish
as to turn from these inspired GER
/ tainties to the dwellings and inanities
of spiritism?
:. A Mothers Faith.
| Simple faith, as ever. sees farther
/ into this spiritual theme than science
/ or worldly-wise speculation. Christians
who reverently read their Bibles know
more about the future life than the
| literary experts who are finding such
a good market for even their widest
conjectures. A few days ago a woman
wrote a letter to The New York Sun
and Herald that is so stimulating thai
l quote it in<full:
sir Oliver Lodge heard from his
boy, he says, thru a medium and he
told him they had houses of wood and
stone, food and sugar. That is all he
has heard; all he knows yet.
And our boys? All of US who have
borne this great sorrow, even to H. G.
Wells of England, have found God
We know him Alright now. He is our
Father and our boys Father. We are
al SAOGSA tO6CAACL AiONy anu 44CdNSI
is nearer.
Instead of brick and stone we have
many mansions, not built with hands,
eternal. fadeless. and the city in which
they are built is so bright and beauti-
full that it has no need of the sun or
moon.
81 love to think of him as at rest,
safe from hunger, thirst and pain and
death. I am glad to know that God
himself has dried his eyes. that they
look lovingly into each others faces.
and that Gods name is in my boy S
forehead.
"Oh, he had weary marches and he
was gassed and 1sheIl-shocked and
shot almost to pieces and imprisoned
and tortured.
Now it is all over. He is at peace.
1 am at peace, as well as stronger,
wiser. better, conscious of my immor-
tality. sure of q. home.
MY journey is almost over. The
pain is slowing down-nearing the
Great City. Ny boy will meet me at
the station.
Join US. Sir Oliver. You are too
grand an old man to be running
''' "a MOTHER"
The Longest Look of All.
Far-sightedness is the mark of all
wise men. Even business men have
to look ahead" This Book of the
Revelation gives US the longest look of
all. Its vista stretches thru all the
centuries, and then beyond to that
timeless life of eternity, where there
are no problems. no woes. no tears. no
injustices, no poverty no darkness, no
evil of any sort at all. Some folk
sheer at the teaching of heaven; they
are only interested in this world. God
pity them; they will change their
minds when they stand beside the bier
of their dearest. Tomorrow is alike
the test and the reward of today.
Times flower and fruit is eternity.
Back in the seventeenth century
Francis Quarles put the truth into a
figure:
MY soul, sit thou a patient lookeron:
Judge not the play before the play Is
Her plot hath many changes; every day
Speaks a new scene; the last act crowns
the play"
That is it: "the last act crowns the
play" Christianity is tested by its
fruits on earth, but more by its tri-
umph in heaven. Everything else in
the Bible is indicated by the eternal
life wherein God reigns undisputed in
realms of perpetual bliss.
1t is of supreme interest that in his
picture of heaven, the Seer Pictures
Christ as victorious. There. as on
earth, it seems as if God expressed
Himself thru the Son. AS the poem
The message of Revelation was from
him which is. and which was, and
which is to come" Even in eternity,
the redeemed life is Christo-centric.-
Better Than Democracy.
All the talk of today is democracy,
or the vicious substitute therefor
called Bolshevism. Real democracy
seems almost Utopia. Yet there is
something better than democracy, and
this book tells about its successful
operation. That is the kinsship of
Christ, about which Jesus used to talk
as the kingdom of heaven. All the
finest experiences of earth are sur
passed by the realitieS of heaven.
What democracy continually struggles
for, is attained under the perfect rule
of Christ. This is the larger hope, the
great goal, the supreme assurance. 1t
alone drives away all fear. Our les
son climaxes with it: Fear not; 1
am the first and the last: L am He
that Iiveth, and was dead; and be-
hold, I am alive for evermore."
This is not a little faith: it holds
all that prophets and poets ever
dreamed of the greatness and good
ness of God. It echoes in a myriad
poems, such as the familiar words of
Sidney Lanier:
Gas the marsh-hen secretly builds on the
'watery sod.
Behold i will build me a nest on the
greatness of God:
1 will fly IN the greatness of God as the
marsh-hen flies
In the freedom that fills all the space
'twiXt the marsh and the skies:
By so many roots as the marsh-g grass
sends In the sod
! will heartily lay me a-hold on the
greatness OF God
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