The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-27

Union evangelistic services advertised
for several weeks are now to begin in
the four districts of the city tonight at
half past seven O'Clock. The places and
speakers and singers have been an
nounced so that the people generally are
well informed concerning them. There
will be opportunities for those outside
of the central district to hear DR.. Chap
man so that there will be no cause for
fear that people in the southwestern,
northern and eastern districts will aban-
don their meetings to go down to the
Auditorium where DR.. Chapman will
be stationed. He has mass meetings in
the afternoon and gatherings of various
kinds where people in different parts of
the city can hear him. There is perfect
unanimity of purpose and feeling among
the twenty-four churches entering into
this movement. 1t is matter of salts
faction that the churches in Topeka
have always been practically a unit
when it came to effort for the uplifting
of the city.
The methods of the evangelists will
be more fully disclosed as the meetings
go on, but the one purpose of all of
them is simply to reach and save men.
1t is well for the people of Topeka to
remember that countless institutions
come to this city to take money out
of it, Things that furnish simply en-
tertainment or amusement are constant
ly coming here and asking for the peo-
pies money and time in return for
momentary qualification. In this in
stance eleven men come to the city not
to make money or to take money away,
but eimnlY to 60 the city all the good
thes A. The prayers, the singing.
the preaching, the appeals, the meetings
all tend towards one simple purpose,
that is to give men a sense of the
meaning of life IN oiker words, to
make Chris AIRS out of then II is not
the purpose OF the churches 10 make
Methodists, PresDy ,es.anS, I3aptists or
Congregatioaliists ont Gs the I'euile
but simply good members of the king
dom of Heaven, and the results worked
for are along the most practical lineS.
Looking at this, then from the stand
point of the welfare of the city these
meetings are to be worth more in the
years to come than any number of cir
cuses or entertainments. The welfare
of the city, in the long run, depends
upon the kind Of people who live in i'll.
Given forty thousand men ard women
who have high ideals and live up to
them, who believe in doing right instead
of wrong, who have some definite aim
in life to make it better every day and
every point of view, beginning with
the money side. which to many men is
the first thing to be considered.
1t is hoped by the ministers and
church members and by all good citi-
zens that everyone in Topeka will bear
result of these meetings, even one hum
dred men in addition to those who al
ready live here should become real, use
full and permanent Christian citizens
! Topeka would be the gamer by more
than anything that money can measure.
In other words, it is for the making of
manhood and womanhood, for the ele-
walton of the people in their daily think
ing and conduct that the meetings are
organized.
The Kingdom Of God is the most real
thing in the world At the last analysis
! there is nothing that is worth so much
I to n city as character in the lives of
| its people. and it is for the creation of
| this new life that the Christian people
are working and praying.