The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-10
International
SunddySchoolLessor
For November IL is Jesus The Great
Teacher''-Luke 6:1-49.
A Master Mind for a Blundering
World
By WILLIAM T. ELLIS.

Old political groups are TOO 11@aCt4
alike in their thinking. A plain in
ference from the fact that every gov
eminent on earth has changed since
the war is that the people have been
trying, perhaps vaguely, but none the
less truly, to express the opinion that
they were tired of the old way of
thinking and want a new outlook and
attitude, a new expression or their
broad purpose.
Nobody outside Of an institution for
the feeble-minded is satisfied with the
way the world has been run and is
being run.
= Nearly everybody is ready for a
more radical change than public men
have been willing to propose.
Really enlightened persons know
that this present international mess
cannot possibly be cleaned up until
whole new set of ideas come into
they see that mankind must have, in
its organized civilization, new leader.
a new teacher, a new master And N
ever-increasing numbers these dis
eliminating persons perceive that the
only qualified Leader for the new day
is Jesus Christ. whose philosophy the
Sunday schools around the world are
this week studying.
Religion I'm Politics.
While there have been frequent and
depIorable outcroppings of blind and
narrow sectarianiSm in various parts
OF the land of late, there also has
been, altho less on the surface. a gem
eral growth of the deep conviction
that fundamental and therefore toler-
ant and patient Christianity must
come to the rescue of our times. The
mind of Jesus, as set forth in the
Sermon on the Mount, is widely seen
to be the only remedy for destruc-
tive spirit of class and clash in the
industrial realm, in intellectual life,
in political affairs and in social re-
lationshipS. Business men, economists,
scientific experts, pubhciStS and Off
Gals, are going about talking to clubs
and conventions, with the burden of
their message that nothing but Chris
tianity can save us. As a British slo-
gan has it, we must choose between
Christ or Chaos
Churches are awaking belatedly to
the call of the crisis. Leaders see
that this is no day for a discussion of
differences in doctrine or in form or
method, with a world on fire. All
Christians hold in common the great
central truth Of the complete ade-
quacy of the Son of God. Unless He
is accepted as Saviour and Sovereign
there is no hope for the world. The
cept God as guide.t This is the sense
IN which we must have religion in
politics and in business and in edUca-
ton. Christ alone has the master
word.
The Secret OF Happy Home.
runs 0OMh 1ulO every oc-
partment of life. At the recent gem
eral convention of the Protestant Epis-
copal church a stirring presentation
by the commission on home and fam
lily life concluded with these words:
I'VE utter the solemn warning to
the men and women of America. This
ma ton will decay and finally perish
when American homes cease to re-
we're God Advanced culture did not
save past civilizations, did not prevent
Germany plunging into gulf of in
fanny. Upon Americas CONSERVATION to
Cod depends her fate.
1.-The solution of American family |
problems is contained in one word
Christ.
r Christ at the marriage altar.
Christ on the bridal Journey
S'Christ when the new home is set
up.
Christ when the baby comes.
Christ when the baby dies.
Christ in the pinching times. |
Christ in the days of plenty.
Christ when the welded pair walk |
towards the sunset gates.
Christ when ons is taken and the |
other left.
Christ for time, Christ for eternity
this is the secret of happy home I
Wanted: A Teacher.
News columns of the papers are
with stories of scandal and /
crime springing from disrupted home
life To mirror the alarming state of |
society it is necessary mat Journalism
show us the shocking side of life.
Less Grass and revolving is the news
from the educational world. Yet
things seem askeW in/the realm of the
schools. While the educators are
doubtless ''muddling thru a transi-
ton period, they at present seem to
nave found neither feet nor voice. 1t
must have been remarked by many
Observant readers that none of the
widely reported academic addresses at
he opening of the college year had
any high, clear note of idealism or
spiritual vision. With a world eager
y alert for a prophets tones, the
scholars have no word for a civiliza-
ton that is perilously begged and
'ogged.
We are admittedly in an era of what
Mr.. Bryan happily calls mind wor-
hip" The schoolrnen claim the right |,
nowadays to say the last word in all L
'ealms. Scholarship was never more
reated ST he were a pupil up for
sxarnination. The "ipse dfxit' of
science" demands acceptance as final
authority. Whatever of history or
aith or the supernatural does not
EASILY win the approval of the learned
5 cast into limbo. The opinion OF
scholarship" takes precedence OF the
inspired writings of Holy Writ.
Without, at.this point, going into the
moot matters of science and religion,
n tarrytng to point out that SO many
doctors OF learning are only echoes
# echoes, it is surely Reasonable to
Lsk that this proud and pretentious
md powerful position of the peda-
;ogues shall give light and leadership
o a world that is dangerously floun-
lering in darkness and error. From
he Near East; from central Europe:
rom the Far East: from our great
ities-from the whole world, in fact,
here rises a new and distressed cry
or some one to show the way out
Where is the teacher to make answer
las any modern master the word2
)r will the educationally great step
side to make room for Him who
paze as never man spake? There is a
riSdOrn heNnnd the hnnks and thu