The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-18

sciousness of her undeserving and her
utter dependence upon the mercy of
God The sin of hypocrisy turks ever
outside Of her door Her great fear,
night and day, should be that her Mas
ter's condemnation of the Pharisee
should by him be applied to her.
Pride in the heart is worse than out
ward sin; the latter may spring from
ignorance or sudden temptation; the
former is a spiritual state. a canker at
the root of the tree.
Pharisaism cares more for what men
say than for what God thinks.
NEWS AND NOTES.
Rev. DR.. G. Campbell Morgan. of Lon
don, has been elected president of the
English Sunday School Union.
Sir Andrew Fraser. governor Of Ben
gal, India, and ruler of 100000 people.
is the active president of the Calcutta
Y. NJ. c. A.
A journey of $50 miles to set a broken
arm, and forty patients treated at the
villages en- route, is the record of a re-
cent trip made by DIR. Grenfen in Lab
rador.
A report from China states that the
NlCCIOy OI AndlS Ou1n uliS IDS OI0SiSQ
the New Testament to be put into the
schools Of his province as a text book
Fifty lepers of the Molokai colony in
Hawaii sent a contribution to the San
Francisco sufferers consisting Of five
cents or more from each one. Resolu-
tons of sympathy accompanied their
gift.
A report from India states that during
a recent tour through that country the
Prince and Princess of Wales indicated
their position on the question of Sabbath
observance by refraining from travel on
that day and by refusing to permit any
public function to be held in Their
honor.
A training school for Christian work
ers among Jewish populations will be
opened in New York in October. Special
I courses will be offered in Talmudic lit
erature IN the Yiddish dialect and pure
| Hebrew, and in the fulhllment of Mes
sianic prophecy. This school will be
under the supervision of Rev. Thomas
| Chalmers.
A movement to introduce the study OF
religious pedagogy into theological semi
naries has been inaugurated by tbs
! Southern Methodist and the Southern
Baptist churches A chair of Sunday
! school pedagogy is to be established al
/ the Baptist seminary at Louisville and
a professorship of religious pedagogy al
Vanderbilt university
Sir Wilfred Lawson, who died recently
in England, was one of the pioneer tenn
perance reformers. He had spoken II
every town and village of Great Britali
on this question and had brought SOM
temperance measure before parliamen
annually for many years At length
Iofo III n 49, hi
local option law passed by that body.
The centennial Of China missions /
to be celebrated in Shanghai next yea
by all the British and American
Protestant societies. An historica
survey of the work accomplished II
the empire along missionary lines vii
be written for this occasion by Rev
DR.. Arthur H. Smith. the vetera'
author-missionary of China, who thi
month returned to China to resume hi
work, after a brief visit in thi
country.
The Y NJ c. A in Tientsin China
is occupying creditably a strategi
situation in the new China of today
Its headquarters have been a hundre
room mansion of a mandarin. The lai
est scientific apparatus, X-ray machine
and stereopticons have been added t
. the equipment of the association. TIL
B A-~NA -eA ---tN DAoAAACSo men u III
city are awaiting themselves of the OF
portunities offered by the associatio
in large numbers.
Two missionary enterprises hav
been inaugurated on the Isthmus
Panama during the past few week
One Of these Is undenominational; tn
other is a branch of the Anglica
church. The former, known as Beth
house, in the Coolie Town district
Colon. is in a locality which has bee