The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-27


To learn the good way the fathers had
Ntrod
But he found time to die; oh, yes! he
found time to die.
This busy old fellow, too busy was he
For the merry small CHATTER n Of cniidre en
But he live" lived in his marriage. a bachelor
Too busy for kisses, too busy for play.
No time to be loving, no time to be gay.
No time to enjoy his gathering wealth.
But he found time to die; oh, yes! he
found time to die.
"This beautiful world had no beauty for
Its eolors were black and its sunshine
No leisure for woodland, for river Or hill
No time in his life just to think and hs
No time for his neighbors, no time for hit
friends
No time for those highest, immutble ends
OF the life Of man who is not for day,
But he found time to die; oh, yesi he
found time to die" =
Bedrock Democracy.
There is much thought1ess prating
OF democracy nowadays, as il it
were some hocus-pocus that will work
wonders without regard to ordinary
processes of life. Democracy is not a
sort of higher legerdemain, that will
take rabbits and ribbons, gauds and
gold, out Of magic hat. Bedrock
democracy is simple neighborliness.
We recall the early pioneer days of
our country, when democracy was
simplest and most real. Then families
We're dependent upon one another.
Was barn to be raised? The neigh
bors raised it. Was a road to be
built? The neghbors built it. Was a
al L.
bors nursed him. Thru all the life of
that time. as, happily, is true in our
rurar communities today. simple
neighhorliness was the expression of
the principles Of democracy and reli-
gion.
from the ken of the Broadways of the
great cities; but 1t, still rules in the
country and in the small towns. The
glory of our Christianity is the un-
counted company of men and women,
boys and girls, who daily prove their
| discipleship to Christ by deeds of I'M
selfish neighborliness. They are the
ones who make the land Christian.
Their simple, unquestioning accent
ance Of the Masters teaching of good
will and helpfulness has made un-
| thinkab1e any experim entation in our
| favored country with the vasaries OF
an unneighborly radiealism. Christian
| neighborhoods sec no need for Boil
| shevism.
Thus were we formed as a people
Our national roots are all in the soil
OF Christian neighborliness. At the
center of this stands, inviolate and
sacred, the Christian home, place
where love for God and man are
taught, and where happiness has its
abode. Given Christian homes and the
result is a, Christian neighborhood. Let
Christ reign in the family and He will
! inevitably be crowned in the com
munity
Two Pictures of Lepers.
| Jesus was himself better than tbs
| Good Samaritan, whom He described
in the parable which is the basis Of
| this Sunday school lesson. The Sa
to a man who was lying beaten anc
| stripped en- the highway of life
Jesus came to abolish condition:
which lead to crime and need. Hi:
| Gospel forms character so that there
| is no need of reform.
Two pictures of lepers are before
my mind. One is a memory from AL
| lahabad, India Beneath a noontidt
| tropical sun, whose beams smote a:
hammers, had gone with Sam Hig
ginbottom to visit the leper asylum
| one poor man, without hands, pleaded
when sleeping on the ground he wal
| well-nigh devoured by white ants; ant
| he had no fingers with which tc
/ brush them off. So he sought relic
and rescue.
/ The other picture was painted re
Gently by an Associated Press CORE
spondent in Hawaii, as he described
/ the giving of freedom to some sevent!
| lepers who had been in isolation, bu
now have been healed by the new cur'
| for leprosy which the American ply
sicians have perfected. The scenes O.
rejoicing as these living dead" wer'
restored whole to human societ!
were such as have been witnessed a
historic religious revivals. The healed
and their friends leaped and shouted
and sang, praising God for this resur
j reetion.
In thesa two pictures is all the diff
ference between reform and regener
alton. no make a neighborhood Chris
tan is to give it 1ife-full, free
brotheriy Iife-such as is the right O
the friends of Christ.