The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-21

logically involved in any treatment of
the scheme Of Zebedee's wife and her
sons to secure peculiar advantages for
themselves in Christ's kingdom. Much
! of the woe of the near east is due to
the political rivalry of branches of the
Christian church. If the ecclesia sti-
cal politicians would permit, the peo-
pies of the Balkans and of the Otto
man empire would dwell together in
neighborliness. The first schism in
| the apostalate grew out of selfish am
bition: and woe is us that the schism
has not been healed unto this day.
The New Road to Power.
Altho all the centuries needed
the radical teaching of Jesus which
followed this incident, it almost seems
as if it were especially designed for
our own perplexed and difficult day.
Be it observed that Jesus, unlike the
layman I have just quoted, did not
fling Himself out in disdain from such
unworthy company. Instead, turning
aside from His own agony of spirit,
He patiently and tenderly showed to
His friends the better way.
Here we have the new law of the
Kingdom: the distinctive characters
tic of the reign of Christ: the manner
Of life that makes needless all the
short-sighted destructiveness of Boil
sheyism:
But Jesus called them unto Him.
and saids.Ye know that the rulers of
the Gentiles lord it over them, and
their great ones exercise authority
over them. Not SO shall it be among
you: but whatsoever would become
great among you shall be your minis
ter; and whatsoever would be first
among you shall be your servant:
even as the Son of man came not to
be ministered unto, but to minister,
and to give His life a ransom for
many
Is this mere impractical presenta-
ton of the heavenlies? Look about
and see. In realms small and great
we know that honor and power ultf-
mately go to those who most truly
serve What gives to American and
Canada their unique position in the
world today2 What made them SO
powerful at the recent League of Ma
tons meeting at Geneva? Is it not
service? Their worldwide philan-
thropy at the present time, in China
in the Near East and in central Eu-
rope, have given them an imperial
BY the road of ministry they have all
Unexpectedly come to thrones of
power. In so far as they have fol-
lowed the Jesus way, they have come
to true greatness.
Better Than Bolshevism.
That ( program is practicable.
Wherever it has been tried it has
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society. In all carefulness and So
berness it is to be solemnly declared
today that the one preventive of
the calamities of radicalism; the one
remedy for the cruel inequities of
capitalism and privilege: the one ade-
quate cure for our present satur-
MALTA of materialism, is the acceptance
of the Jesus principle and program
of service. When the most hopeful
among men are deemed the greatest,
and when the ambition of all is to
serve to the utmost, for the sake of
society and in the Spirit of the Re-
deemer, then we shall have an order
of life that will be little less than the
kingdom of heaven on earth. Short
of this goal we may not stop. As We
lead men and women, boys and girls
to the Saviour, we lead them to this
conception of 1ife's mission.
Service has come to be a watch
word in business today; for the cold
commercial reason that it is good
business" There is more of uncon-
scious absorption of the spirit of Jesus
in the world than we can commonly
perceive. Even the support that the
western world is really only an out
flowing of the ingrained Christian
spirit of brotherliness and of minis
try. If our Christianity were vitality
and militantly functioning, it, rather
than the perversions of Bolshevism,
would be challenging the worlds at
tention. When we promote the king
dom of God by selfless service We
are fulfilling the highest law of life;
the law by which Jesus lived-and