The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-10
The worlds Greatest Enterprise,

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The worlds Greatest Enterprise.
There really is "a good time COM
ing" Today seems to be the day of
the pessimists. Amidst universal in
dustrial and commercial depression
and difficulty: amidst international
misunderstanding and strife; amidst
worldwide social unsettlement. the
man of faith dares to cry aloud,
| There's a good time coming!" And
| that good time" is what the Bible
calls the kingdom of heaven"
Despite the darkness of the sdays
! in which it was written, the Bible is
consistently an optimistic book. True,
It does not make comfortable reading
for the wicked; but it holds up stead
fastly, from Genesis to Revelation.
the sure promise of the righting Of all
| wrongs. the ending of ancient woes,
and the dawning of a day of world
peace and of human happiness. With
clear despite of them, the inspired
Word maintains a sublime optimism.
| A Books Vast Sweep.
| Recently had a letter from a
Jealous clergyman who contended
that all is right with the Church
| and the world because Christian work
is going well in a little town in Okla
homa. Most OF US generalize from in
adequate data. The Bible, however,
takes a long, large look at life: it
sees things as a whole, and in their
relationships. 1t never confounds the
| waves with the tides, the battles with
the war. This vast sweep of horizon
is what makes the Book both unique
and optimistic.
From this viewpoint. the inspired
writer's contemplate the glad day
when THE wolf shall dwell with the
lamb, and the leopard shall lie down
with the kid: and the calf and the
young lion and the failing together;
and little child shall lead them
And the COW and the bear shall feed;
their young ones shall lie down to-
gether; and the lion shall eat straw
like the OK. And the sucking child
shall play on the hole of the asp. and
the weaned child shall put his hand
on, the adder's den. They shall not
hurt nor destroy in all my holy noun,
tain; for the earth shall be full of the
knowledge Of Jehovah, as the water.
cover the sea-"
The Three IRIS"
At present, men of affairs are no
thinking in any such large terms. The
Prevailing programs might well b'
grouped as the three RS.
First. and lately engrossing. is th'
thought of reparation. What column:
and pages and volumes have beef
written upon this topic in recen
weeksi A reader might easily ASSUME
that the one ready remedy for thu
| wrongs OF our troubled times is ade
Quate reparations. Yet we have seel
IhCw this has led to grave misunder
standings and even to a fresh menace
to the precarious equilibrium of on
tottering world. 1t will take some
, thing more than reparations to brini
. peace and prosperity.
, Akin to this remedy proposed i
that other of reconstruction. Ate
the armistice 1t was rather a fad t.
assume that our broken civilization
could be repaired by elaborate plan:
, for reconstruction. The stronger ma
lions gave themselves ardently to as
sisting others in reconstruction prof
ects in the fond hope that new home
and barns and factories and road
as of yore. Well, to an amazing ex
tent reconstruction has already beef
accomplished: and still humanity wal
lows In woe.
Out of Russia has come the thirt
"R," standing for two cognate concep
tions, revolution and radicalism. Nor
I millions of long suffering people thai
we care to contemplate have lent al
eager ear to the teachings of thi
third t:R," which processes to end al
way the good time that has been s
long in coming. Even SO early. tho
it has become apparent that revolution
and radicalism are akin to ruin, rathe
than to remedy.
Il A Fourth "R-"
Plainly, these modern three RS
: have not brought the world to wisdom
: or peace or happiness. Bit there is
t fourth "R"-religion, synonymous wit
1 righteousness which alone hold
. promise of succor for society. So dee
is the disease of the day that the cur
must go deeper. Political and socia
= programs are inadequate. Merely me
chanical methods are of no avail. T
5 bring in the new era of life for whic
: all the world longs there must be
e fresh and adequate power applied t
I the very roots of human life. i
other words, there must be change
: men and women before there can be