The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-03

Rr1SOncE5 Oh nope
Recently a newspaper dispatch re-
ported that Toronto university physi-
clans have discovered q remedy for
diabetes. In tens of thousands OF
homes that dispatch obscured the other
news of the~whole world; for it spelled
the possibility of life to some haii
million sufferers from a dread dis
ease. In like manner, the thr1ll1ng
message has run, from time to time
of succor for victims of tuberculosis,
typhoid, cancer, pneumonia, leprosy'
for in the shadows of our everyday
life,-off from the busy highways there
abide millions of prisoners of hope,
suffering from bodily pain
It has always been so. The news
of n healer sets any community asog;
Pairs and London and q vast world
beside, have been lately stirred by DR..
Emil Covet's theory of "Autosugges-
tion," which has set millions to sre-
peating hourly. DAY by day. in every
way, I am growing better and better"
Did you notice how the newspaper
headlines featured the recent Profess
tant Episcopal conventions approval
of spiritual healinsH Strike the note or
health for the afflicted, and cords are
set vibrating into every community
and into almost every family on earth.
In the presence of such vast areas OF
suffering. how compassionate we
should be!
The Healer in Gahlee.
II was only last l1ldL was II
initiated into the fellowship of suffer-
ing, as, in a hospital beneath tropical
skies. TO the music of rustling palms
outside my window, I went close TO
the portal that swings but one way
There life was all keyed to the note
of pain. Many and varied, and brave.
were the women and men who had
become strangers to health. L seemed
to be having an inside view of all the
countless hospitals that have visited
- he and
ciaIly on the mission field All, the
sick who have no helperi
We may imagine the commotion
that was created in the Roman Prov
ince of Galilee by the news that
young Rabbi Jesus, VINO had appeared
SO sensationally from their own midst.
was not only a wonderful Teacher,
but, also a Healer. One of the most
vivid and beautiful passages in the
biography of the Master describes the
scene:
''And when the sun was setting. all
they that had any sick with divers
diseases brought them unto Him: and
He laid His hands on every one of
them and healed them
Every one has his own mental pic
ture of the Master in characteristic
situation ThoYwaIdsen' s famous statue,
a replica of which stands in the ro-
tunda of Johns Hopkins hospital. rep
resents Jesus with outstretched hand,
saying, Come unto Me, all We That
labor and are heavy laden, and I will
give you rest" Mai IS a typical atti-
tude of Jesus. beloved by myriads.
Others think of Him as blessing the
little children. Others as the Good
Shepherd. Many never recall Him
EXCEPT as the Savior upon the Cross.
But to the sick, the wounded. the
helpless, prisoners of pain, this lovely
picture, painted by DR.. Luke, of the
Great Physician healing all who came
unto Him, is dearest of all.
81 l4--sl H. 20 H.
Jesus helped people is picked out OF
the center of the LeSSon-the healing
of the palSieds man who was borne
by four friends. who even tore open a
roof to get at the Master. There is an
audacity about this incident that at
tracts. 1t is every WORD human in
terest.
This poor fellow had a palsied body.
but husky soul. Conquering per-
sona1ity shines out from mis- story. He
was so much man in all essentials
for. after all, our carcasseS are only
incidental to our real SelveS-that he
drew to himself friends after his own
heart. Whining, whimper1ng, wailing
weaklingS do not attract anybody.
There was a stronger sentiment than
pity that bound these four stout COM
rades 10 the invalid.
Anybody who wants anything worth
while, as desperately as this sick man
desired health is likly to get it. One
thing that palSieS our generation is
a lack of eager earnestness- We have
into a. mood of "Oh. what's
the use?" Things go wrong, and stay
wrong, because nobody has energy and
purpose enough to try to remedy
them. Petty political abuses and
great international calamities alike
pacity to feel deeply? Do we no longer
know how to hate wrong and ito be
ardent for the right?
Once let a considerable proportion |
Of the people-say the Christian |
animated by a des-
perate desire for a new spirit of good |
Will and justice and peace on earth, |
and see how quickly the puny and
parasitical politicians will scurry out |
Of the way. Let US at least be honest
with ourselves. We are not doing the |
great things, as Christians and patri- |
pts, which are our duty, simply be- |
cause we do not care The palsy that
afflicts the world is not cured mainly |
from lack of resolution~to be cured.
Crowded Out!
Who will write the unwritten por.
trayaI of the/Popular Christ? What
figure he was during his ministry. |
High and low, peasants and profess
sors, thronged him. Everybody with |
any sort of need turned naturally to
the Nazarene. He had no leisure /
either to eat or sleep. Sometimes he |
by stealth or by flight, for the
renewal of his own resources Even
n the case of Christ, the law applied
hat whoever would help must first be
helped. In this one episode of a busy |
lay in His own city of Capernaum we
zee Jesus so thronged by the multi
Jude that the palsied man and his
friends could not draw near.
If this sick man and his bearers
mad been of softer spirits they would /
have missed their chance altogether.
Life'S best things pass by multitudes
Of us for the simple reason that we
have not enough initiative and enter
prise and resourcefulness to grasp
hem. A spirit DIFFERENTIATION and
Of audacity is worth more to a youth
Than. a college education. 1t would |
have been easy and natural for this
company of five to return home, de-
iected, with the report, I'VE could not
come nigh Him for the press"