Kansas City journal., 1898-03-13
NOTES AND NOTIONS.

Colonel Wheeler, United States revenue
officer in Arkansaw, does not seem to agree
| with the opinion of Ex-Governor Morrill,.
of Kansas, that laws cannot be enforced
where the local sentiment is against them
or Indifferent. Our columns contained an
account few days since of the measures
adopted by the United States under such
conditions which would be good reading
for Governor Leedy and others. 1.-THE de-
partment gave orders to clean out the gang
and we are doing it." How strange and
yet how refreshing 1t would sound to hear
that Governor Leedy had given orders ito
clean out the gang" in Leavenworth or
Wichita. Yet there are more persons in
the Arkansaw mountains who sympathize
with the moonshiners than in either of
these cities who sympathize with the vio-
lation of the state laws. Every man
who refused to aid the officers was ar
rested" explains Uncle Sans method of
procedure. And probably it wouldn't deter
Uncle Sam if he had to arrest all the peo-
pie in Arkansaw in order to enforce the
law.
The student volunteer movement for for
eign missions. which held its convention in
Cleveland recently, is doubtless destined
to accomplish a great work. In bringing
together for common purpose the rep
resentatives of a large number of denomi-
nations it will do valuable missionary
work among its own members as does the
Lo
yond that, in the broadening and liberal
izing influence that comes from the min
Cling of the people of one race with those
of another its results cannot but be good.
One defect of earlier Christian missionary
work was that it respected. too little the
carried the Gospel, and was bent too much
on numerical conquest. But we like to see
these student missionaries realizing the
desirability of going to the foreign coun-
try with a general purpose to lift and CIV
iize. Thus it is reported that two-thirds
of the recent British missionaries are
equipped with a medical education. That
is the idea! Let us show the heather the
fruits rather than the doctrines. and they
will become converts fast enough.
Rev. Mr.. Meyer. of England, is in this
country engaged in evangelical work,
| and incidentally expouadng a new move
ment," known the Keswick move
| ment. from the place where the
! ton. Mr.. Meyer states the seven prin-
ciples upon which the movement is based,
| in language more or less technically theo-
| logical and mystical. They doubtless mean
something good to those who formulated
| them. but It seems to one uninitiated more
| likely to become stone of stumbling and
| cause of sectarianism than to clear up
| the problem of righteous living for COM
mon men. We cannot fail to recall that
Christ Himself, on the few occasions when
| He undertook to state the essentials of
| salvation. used few and clear words: Love
| the Lord thy God, and thy neighbor as
| thyself; if Christ could get along with two
principles, which He often condensed into
| one it would seem as if the Keswick move
ment ought to. But then it would not be
! a movement" If it did.
! The Topeka Committee of Seventeen
proposes to transform itself into a COM
| mittee of two hundred. That is a COM
| mendable ambition. The old committee has
| made an honest effort and has achieved
some results. but it has not been bloom
| ing success. We understand that the new
] committee proposes to devote itself to the