The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-05

n nAACENsos naEAcSS NtOEl
Wireless masts aret rising all over
civiliza ton, like giant fingers beckon-
ing the imagination of mankind. What
a day for dreamers! The radiophone
has outrun prophecy: already we see
that it holds possibilities of transform
ing almost the entire organization of
human life upon this planet; while it
| filings its challenge and inquiry to
possible life upon worlds outside of
our present reach. Recently men
have talked without wires by the
spoken word to other men submerged
in submarines on the bottom of the
sea; and to passengers aboard trains
speeding thru tunnels under noun
tains; and to airplaneS sailing amid
the clouds. The seas and the conti-
nents, burning desert sands and frozen
Arctic wastes, have been overpassed;
so that the distant explorer may bid
his family good night in the familiar
tones of the fireside; and listen to the
prattle of his children over the radio
phone.
Bolshevisn. became most formid-
able to the governments of Europe
when it began by wirless to broadcast
their plain people. Nowadays there
is nothing hidden that shall not be
revealed. Mans powers and opinions
are projected instantaneously to the
uttermost parts of the earth. Univer-
salty is speeding down upon us like
a beneficent spring rain. Humanity
is being standardized by wireless; and
the whole earth made one neighbor-
hood.
One Speech, One Code.
One of the implications of the
radiophone is a common speech for
all peoples. 1t may be in Esperanto,
but it is likely to be in English, that
the nations will henceforth talk daily
with one another, regardless of the
mountains and waters that used to
divide them. Boys in Samarkand
will gossip with the lads in Cairo and
Moscow and Constantinople and Delhi.
Switzerland and Scandinavia will, as
it were. exchange neighborhood news
over the wireless fence; while Ger
man, French, Italian and British
school boys will chatter together about
the things of tomorrow, rather than
concerning the wars and fears of
yesterday.
Such an era of intercommunication
as has come upon the world will make
mere matter of months and years
the unification of human ideas, rather
than the slow process of generations
and Centuries. Contact creates cos
mopolitanism; neighborliness removes
dissimilarities. BY the highway of the
upper ether the soul of man is swift
ly marching on to the attainment of
the goals of which seers and saints
and sages have dreamed for ages. The
audacity of an Isaiah, shut up of old
in a little land about the size of the
state of New Jersey, suddenly becomes
the realiZable possibility for the uni
verse. Communication creates
common code of conduct for the en-
tire world neighborhood.
Good News sin the Air"
Let imagination run free; that is
why God gave it to US. AS we read
matter-of-fact reports of broadcasted
day when the Gospel shall be similar
ly heralded to all nations. Startling
possibilities for missionary extension
are suggested. Then remember that
this new marvel, which ObliterateS
time and space, is only one Of the
stored-up wonders OF God, which He
has held in reserve until the need was
great enough and the world was ready
to receive it. Our daring dreams are
staggered at the possibilities of what
God has still in store for us.
As I recently watched the "Clavi-
lux" or color organ evoke from SEEM
ing nothingness, with awesome inti-
nations of untouched possibilities,
such flow and form of color as fairly
intoximated the sense of sight, I had
a strong sense that was standing at
the portal of new revelation of
beauty. Consider the wonders that
heaven must hold
All this is but PREDATORY to the sin
gle observation, which I regard as the
heart of the present Lesson, that the
Prince of Peace is opening new ave-
nueS IOF Inc 1uIIlllInenI OF Isaiah S
beatific vision when
''They shall beat their swords into
plow-shares, and their spears into
pruning hooks; nation shall not lift
up sword against nation. neither
shall they learn war any more"
Heaven has now put earth beyond
the power of any national censorship
or blockade of ideas. Isolation is
gone Every people has wireless &C
cess to all peoples. A small boy with
a radiophone Yields scepter that
Alexander the Great would have en-
We'd. 1t is not only possible, but
wholly reasonable and probable. that
messages of peace and good will may
the first Christmas morning. when
the angels sang the song that prom
ised earth a nav era. Since Good
News is actually sin the air. we may
expect it to settle in the hearts of
mankind
Does it not almost seem as II
Isaiah were looking forward to our
own wireless era as he uttered the
familiar picture of the sway of King
David's Greater Son ?"
And 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 e little child shall
lead them.
And the COW and the bear shall
feed: their young ones shall lie
down together; 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 mountain; for the
earth shall be full of knowledge of
Jehovah, as the waters cover the
sea-
A ForUard-LooLing Faith.
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