The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-14

were made strong to conquer Nthe
world. To every teacher and preacher
and writer, PauPs message is Give of
your best to ALL" For every public
utterance that is too profound for
it's audience there are a thousand
cially, in a newly-awake world, the
need and demand is for a more ex-
allied presentation OF the things by
which men live.
1.-THE Greatest Thing In the World"
Doctor Slosson writes of science
more readably than nevelists write of
romance. To be able to popularize
the prefundities is a great gift. The
Apostle Paul had it. Most minds are
too thick or too thin, as they attempt
to portray the divine quality of love:
yet Paul set it forth, in one of his let
tiers to g. handful of squabbling saints
freshly out of idolatry, so that the
ians, which is the present Sunday
School Lesson, is one of the worlds
finest literary treasures. Henry Drum
mond was such a living exposition of
this passage that many OF us have
made pilgrimage to his grave in Scot
Thing in the World" was one of the
great literary productions of the past
generation: it should be read by every
student of this Lesson, for its effect
upon character is mighty. Here is the
Pauline passage upon which it was
based:
eff I speak with the tongues of men
and of angels, but have not love, am
become sounding brass, or a changing
cymbal. And If 1 have the gift of
prophecy, and know all mysteries and
all knowledge; and if have all faith,
SO as to remove mountains, but have
not love, I am nothing. And if I be-
stow all my goods to feed the poor,
and If give my body to be burned,
but have not love, it profiteth me moth
ing. Love suffereth long, and is kind;
love envieth not; love vauhteth not
itself, is not puffed up, doth not be-
have itself unseemly, seeketh not its
own, is not provoked, taketh not ac-
count of evil; rejoiceth not in unright-
eousness, but rejoiceth with the truth;
beareth all things, believeth all things,
hopeth all things, endureth all things.
Love never faileth; but whether there
be prophecies, they shall be done
away; whether there be tongues. they
shall cease; whether there be knowl-
edge, it shall be done away. For we
know in part, and we prophesy in part;
but when that which is perfect is
come, that which is in part shall be
done away. When I was child, I
spake as a child, I felt as a child, I
become a man, have put away child
ish things. For now we see in a mir
ror, darkly; but then face to face: now
know in part; but then shall know
fully even as also I was fully known.
But now abideth faith, hope. love.
these three; and the greatest of these
is love"
Paul Mt Washington.
AS the product of a sawmiu is
boards, and as the product of the
printing press is reading matter, SO
the product of the church is men and
women fashioned after the likeness
of Jesus Christ. This is the unique
and Indispensable contributions OF
Christianity to the present need OF the
world-human beings who are seeking
to live by the rule of the Thirteenth
Chapter of First Corinthians. A good
era cannot come by way OF bad men;
only love can expel hatred. It is real
state-craft to multiply the number of
persons who are living by the aftruis-
tic and righteous standards of Jesus.
True peace will come to all the earth
only when the spirit of Christian love
becomes dominant.
Some men who deem themselves
worldly wise flout such an idea. They
sheer at the Christian Endeavor sio-
gan, "a warless world by 1929"
Secretly they have no faith in any
thing but shrewdness and material
might, being blind to the wars reyeia-
ton of the futility of force. With
truer Insight, the great mass of man
kind expects, and is coming gradually
to insist, that the diviner way of love
shall persist.
Humanity everywhere has been al
lured by the great dream of world
peace. The peoples of earth are turn
ing in expectation toward next months
nomentous disarmament conference
in Washington. Failure Of this SUI
preme effort to preserve civilization on
a Christian basis would be a universal
calamity too dreadful to contemplate.
Yet it will fail as surely as the Paris
peace conference failed if it is likewise
conducted and concluded on the old
basis OF self-interest and self-advance-
ment. If ever believers in prayer were
called to intercess4on it is now; that
the spirit of the Thirteenth Chapter
of First Corinthians may prevail in
these Washington deliberations.
The world lives by its loftiest per-
ceptions; and once again we have
come to a historic opportunity to
translate the clear will of God into
the law of the life of nations. May
the Apostle Paul be given a seat at
the disarmament conference.