The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-29

intellectual and social quickening than
centuries of formal schooling.
Undoubtedly there is new stir and
ferment and power enough among
mankind IN the mass today to wreck
all of our inherited civilization, unless
it all be guided by spirit of rev.
erence and responsibility. There is no
hope that education can avert this
possible calamity; many university
graduates are leading the forces of
unrest into extreme radicalism. Only
the tested impulses and inspirations
and inhibitions of Christianity can
meet this universal emergency This
Use a day to remember that IF any of
you lack wisdom, let him ask of God,
who giveth to all men literally, and
upbraideth not, and it shall be given
him.
Getting right down to bed rock. we
cannot overlook the fact that the Sum
day school, and all that it represents,
stands for an education which relates
human life to God and to the eternal
verities. It awakens and imp1ants the
Divinest impulses; SO that it is mat
ter of simple observation that often
the one hour week in Sunday school
has meant more to a young life than
it's week of secular teaching. For
while education is a matter of years,
wisdom is a matter of illumination.
Carrying on the Torch.
IN 6DlISle 10 oIGpIlSD, 1SOAS
Mason Wicher catches a Bible idea of
education:
Little hands, leave to you.
All the deeds, could not do.
Little feet, It's yours to fare
In the paths l did not dare.
when mems lips shall praise thy name,
/ shall slake my thirst for fame;
When love dawns in those dear eyes
1 shall know all Of Paradise.
.Thou wilt answer what I ask,
Finish my unended task.
/ must pass and thou wilt be
Henceforth my Immortality
Modern life is too contemporary: it
is thinking overmuch of the passing
hour With the wisdom OF the East,
the Bible is ever looking ahead to sue
ceeding generations. Vital education
is of the family line, the nation, the
race The Law of Moses was to be
taught to children's children, and kept
always in remembrance. The truly
educated person holds in his thought
the continuity of life. Each Of us is
ssthe heir of all the ages" Today is to
be lived in the light of yesterday. We
are ourselves, plus all who have gone
before. In some stirring lines THE
Phantom Caravan" Kendall Banning
gathers up this thought of responsible
ity for all who are to come after u.s.
1.-THE flames of a million sires and danes in
the blood of your pulses run;
OF a million flames to feed and serve, how
can you serve but one?
Their prides are yours; their loves, their
Iusts, their hopes and their hates are
your own;
You are the fruit that their loins have
bred, the flower of the seed they have
soWn.
Their lives are spun as the threads of
your cloak. thru the warp and the
I wool of your Whole;
Your hands are theirs and your eyes are
theirs, and your mold and your Self
and your Soul
The dreams they dreamed and the fights
they fought and the prayers that their
lips have prayed
Shall be your dreams and shall be your
prayers; your fights are the fights
they made.
The lives they lived and the deaths they
died you shall live and die again;
In you is the seed of a million hopes of a
million maids and men.
"God grant. my son, that you fight the
fight and hold to the faith. Amen?'