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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-30
BY WILLIAM +. ELLIS.

A terrible struggle for death is being
waged all about me as these words are
being penned; for write in the famine
district of Central China, where more
than three million persons are at close
grip with starvation It seems in
congruous to be writing upon the joy
GUS Easter theme when the clamors of
the mortally hungry fill my ears, with
the waftng of women beside the I'M
cof1ned dead as minor undertone; and
all about me is suffering, hopelessness.
death. Yet after all, it is when we
draw nearest to death. where the dread
secret of existence hides, that we see
in its full magnitude and symmetry
and splendor the glorious hope Of i'm
mortality.
Here even a careless observer sees
that they who are without God are
without hope in the world. Lacking
this factor which lies at the basis of all
the thought of Christendom, men be-
come as beasts in their efforts 20 pre-
serve within their breasts the vital
spark Almost every hour of the day I
encounter some new story of the awful
to preserve their. existence. That they
I'LL their stomachs with leaves and
roots is not to be, wondered at; nor yet
that they push and scramble and fight
for a dole of their rice cruel at the
relief stations: i saw an American res
cue little girl and an old, old woman
who were being crushed in this FASH
ion; and an old man and woman who
had thus been seriously injured, while
I know Of one man who was literally
crushed to death.
The Fear That Snaps Loves Cords.
Worse than all this, though, in con-
temptation of the conduct of those who
have no sustaining faith or exalted
Christian principles in this life, and no
hope for the life to come, is the man.
ner In which the heather repudiate nat
ural ties. Scores and hundreds of chill
dren have been cast away to perish.
looked into little straw hunt, the
size of a dog kennel. where a mother
huddled with two children, one of them
suffering from smallpox, and the old,
old story was told me of their desertion
by husband and father. 1 have in my
own care an arrnless, legless cripple
boy OF 20 years whose parents, fleeing
vainly to escape the famine, had cast
him into ditch to die.
1t would be easy to fill this column |
with stories of such actions as these, |
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-30
BIBLE STUDY.
Lesson LII. Ezekiel s2-4s

Lesson LII. Ezekiel 32-4s.
A summary and review of the book
of Ezekiel.
Author-Ezeliel. the prophet OF
fsraels re1aissance- Date 1854
judgments. Key verse 1911. Best
verse 1926. Christ in type-"A Shep-
herd" 34:23. Prominent word
warning. PARALLELS in chapters Is, II,
10 and "a. Word out1ine-1-24 Jeru-
salem. 25-32 Foreign nations. 33-4s
Restoration. Ezekiel should be com
pared with John in the Apocalypse.
The fourfold creatures seen in Ezek-
iel's vision on earth, appear in Johns
temple ritual; John purity and victory
with no temple
1. Who was Ezekiel?
2. Where did he belong?
3. OF what family was he?
4. When was he take ncaptive7
prophecies witness7
6. What was his call and commits
Z. Where was his home? How
could he know jeremiah?
8. What picture does he give US of
the exiles?
9. TO whom did he feel he was
sent?
10. How do we know there were
false prophets with the exiles?
IL. What to Ezekiel was the nature
of the prophets calling?
IL. Name some Oft repeated
phrases.
49, What particularly charaoterizes
the book of Ezekiel?
IA. How do we get Ezekiefs con-
eeption of Jehovah?
10. What is the one thought for the
whole vision in chapter i?
16. What does the thought -four
fold' symbolic?
II. What do the eyes declare?
IS. The throne on which the man
sat?
10. What was the nature of Eek
iel's God?
90. What of all the vision was
manifest to men?
81. What is Ezekiel's title for God
%. How does Ezekiel represent his
inspiration to serve?
%. In what form did the same
thought come to Jeremiah?
"a. Where are EzekiePs restitution
chapters?
%. Where is the shepherd chapter?
Resurrection?
&c. What did Ezekiel see in the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-30

Witnessing 1t. I was caught with a
missionary in mob of hungry Chi
nese a few days ago q can feel the
talonlike clutch of their hands upon
me to this moment), and I marvelled
at my companions GOODNESS and un~
concern. Again and again his fearless
ness and possession have saved
his life in mob emergencies. The way
in which these China missionaries
walk serenely through the days, fully
aware of ever lurking peril, and yet
without a particle of panic, Is itself
vindication of the power of the resur-
rection truth. For 1t is the Christians
privilege to master the fear of death.
Because Jesus has risen from the
dead, and because he also expects one
day to rise. he can cry, 20 grave.
where is thy victory? 0 death, where
is thy sting 20
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that characterized by PURITY and TRUTH and
HONESTY that could always DELIVER what A(K
1t PURE DRUG law and our PROMISE has
always been FULFILLED.
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If the ONE TIME induce the reader to Casea
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-30

e:45 a. M; preaching services, IL a. m
and 1850 p. m. Morning subject. The
Divine Seal" evening subject, The
Secret OF Strong Manhood" Miss Chloe
Baker ana the choir will render special
Easter music.
Leland Street U. B. church. Sunday.
school D. M; preaching by Rev. w.
8. Baker, p. m. Rev. F. M. Tester
man, conference evangelist, will begin
evangelistic meeting Sunday, April Z.
First Lutheran church. Sermon at IL
a. m. and 1880 p. m, by Rev. H. L.
Yargcr. d. D., of Atchison, secretary
of the Lutheran board of church ex-
tension. Holy communion will be adj
ministered at IL a. M; Sunday school.
9:45 a. m.
Railroad Y. M. c. A., East 4th
street. On Sunday, March 81. at 3:30
p. m. Mr.. VIM. II. Conry, who has
spent the past two years in the old
world will talk on "The Religions OF
the East" Special music Consisting
of solos by Miss B. walters, Mr.. Geo,
Adamson and Mr.. J. T. Shaw will he
given All men are welcome to this
meeting.
Second Church OF Christ, betvwesn r.
sas avenue and Jackson street on NIntb
Services Sunday at II q. m and Vvadrssi.
day at p. m. Reading room one,, ,,.ets1
p. m. Public invited uiisA
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-30
SEVEN SENTENCE SERMONS.


If thing is possible and proper to
man, deem it attainable by thee.-Mar-
Gus Aurekus.
-
Heaven is not reached at a single
bound.
But we build the ladder by which
we rise,i
From the Iowly earth to the vaulted
And we mount to It's summit round by
round.
j. @. Holland.
The measure of a mans life is the
well spending of it-not the length
Plutarch.
How shall I be able to rule over
others, that have not the full power
and command of myself ?-Ra belais.
- y
Our greatest glory consists not in
never falling, but in rising every time
we fall.-Goldsmth.
Retreat may be success;
Delay, best speed; half lost at times,
whole gain.
Browning.
A man Is specially and divinely for
tunate, not when his conditions are
easy, but when they evoke the very
best that is in him, provoking him
to nobleness and singing him to
strength.-Mabie.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-30

The Epworth League of the Kansas
Avenue church will hold on Easter Sun
rise meeting in the lecture room or the
church at $50 Sunday morning. The
meeting will be led by Mrs Maud Sykes.
TIL Sunday school hour beginning at
$40 will be given to lessons of the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-30

The followers of Dowie refuse to ac-
knowledge the fact of his death, claim
ing rather that he has fallen into a
deep slumber from which he will
eventually awaken in another part of
the world. They assert that he is i'm
mune from death and will shortly ap-
pear gifted with. even more than his
former power.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-30

Lowman chapel, c. E. Holcombe,
pastor. Sunday school with special
Easter exercises folio wing, 9:45 to
HAS a. m. Easter sermon, 1880 p.
m. (Note that the hour of evening
services changes with April from 80
to 3D.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-30

Two members of the Disciple de-
nomination who live in the same
South Dakote town have been urged
by the organ of their denomination to
get together and establish a church"
in this place.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-30
worked Ilfl1e a r,hn-.,.

Mr.: D. n. Walker, editor of that spicv
Il ran naa! in my foot last week 80 ,;
at at G i1fie zap applied Bqcklen's Arnica SAVE.
~ healed the wound" Heals ever e sn,pe
burn and skin disease. Guaranteed at m:
Arnold Drug Co.. 81 N. Kansas avenu"'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-30

First United Presbyterian church.
Rev. J. A. Renwick, pastor. Preaching
IL a. m, by the pastor. Sacrament of
the Lords Supper will be observed at
morning service. 1880 p. m, the Chris
tan Endeavor will have charge of the
service, subject, 1.-THE Afro-American
Mission Sabbath school 10 a. m.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-30

China's great famine has already at.
fected 100000 Of the native popula'
ton.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-30

Quinton Heights Mission, in school
house, Rev. D. w. Beanblossom, pastor.
Sunday school at 3:15. Preaching at
1880 by the pastor. Special music.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-30

Easter From Chinese view.
The International Sunday School Les
son for March 81 is, IAN Easter Les
SON" 1 Cor. Is. 1921, 55. IS. The
Golden Text is, Nov is Christ Risen
from the Dead, and Become the
FTrstfruits Of Them that Slept" I
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-30
NEWS AND NOTES.

Sunday, May 18th, will be observed
in all lands as Worlds Sunday school
day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-30

It is estimated that the average sal
airy of the Episcopal clergymen of the
United States is but $500.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-30

Third Presbyterian church. w. NJ.
Cleveland, pastor. Sunday school, 9:45
a. M; reaching, easter sermon) IL a.
M; Junior C. E., Especial Easter pro-
gramme) 2:30 D. M; Senior C. E., els
D. M; evening, scored Easter concert
and remarks by pastor, 1880 p. m.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-30

The national spirit of Japan, and the
growing strength of Christianity there,
are both shown by the recent action of
the Japanese, Missionary society in
taking upon itself the support of thir-
ty native churches aided until now by
the American board.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-30

There will be no meeting at the
Young Women's Christian association
Sunday. All members are invited to
meet with Mrs. Menninger at the
Presbyterian church. 8 o'clock. Amy
g. Bruce, general secretary.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-30
CHURCH NOTICES.

Potwin Presbyterian church, Rev
Loyal w. Madden, pastor. Specia
/ Easter services both morning and even
ing. At the morning service there vii
be three special numbers In whicf
Mrs Morehouse, Mrs. Guthrie. Messrs
| Woods and Brown will sing, and Miss
Troutman will accompany them. This
| evening service will be musical serv.
day school will both engage. The
church will be decorated in keeping
| with the season, with Easter lilies and
palms. The morning program is as
| follows:
Holy, Holy. Holy.
| Invocation.
Quartette, "Alleluia, Christ Is Risen, .
by Green; Mrs. Morehouse. Mrs. Gut1-
RE, Messrs. Woods and Brown.
| Scripture and prayer.
Solo, "Hosanna," by Granier; Mrs.
Morehouse.
Hymn, "The Lord Is Risen." by Her
old.
Quartette, '"The Resurrection and
the Life" by Shackley; Mrs. More
house, Mrs. Guthrie. Messrs. Woods
Sermon, "The Power and Hope of
the Resurrection"
Hymn, Resurrection Morn" by
Sankey.
Benediction. -.-.-.
service of song by the church and
Sunday school. and consist of solos,
duets, quartettes, readings and Choir
uses.
Order of exercise at the Third Chris
tan church. Easter Sunday at 1o:45
a. M:
Piano Prelude.
Doxology.
Invocation.
Solo, Mr.. George Nightingale.
Hymn.
Communion.
Offering.
Ladies' quartette: Mrs. Charles Laird,
Mrs. r. F.. Dawdy, Mrs. Eugene Hatton
and Miss Elsie Yewel.s
Scripture lesson.
Hymn, Joy to the World.
Sermon, Witness of the Resurrec-
ton"
Ladies' quartette, same as above.
Hymn.
Benediction.
Easter Cantata, p. M, 1.-THE Gift of
the Graces,' by the Sunday school and
Junior Christian Endeavor.
Baptism.
BenedictiOn.
Easter morning program at First Con-
gregational church:
Organ Voluntary.
Invitation to Worship.
Doxology.
Invocation.
Lords Prayer.
Anthem, Why Seek Ye the Living,
Brown.
Responsive Reading. No. So.
Gloria.
Duet, Crufix, Faure.
Scripture, Luke "a.
Anthem, Lo, The Tomb Is Empty,
Broone.
Prayer.
Offertory.
Solo. Hosanna, Grandeur.
Hymn, No. 206.
Sermon.
Anthem, They Have Taken away MY
Lord, Harrington.
Hymn No. EOS.
Benediction.
The evening service will be one or
music by the choir and Sunday school.
First Baptist church, Thomas =;
Young, pastor Sunday school at $3.50 |
a. M, Supt. ]. S. West. Preaching at
IL a. M and 1880 p. m. Rev. R. A.
Kimbrough will preach an Easter |
sermon at each service. Special Eas-
ter music. Baptism at morning SER
vice.
Easter Music, Ii. a. m.
Church Orchestra
Gloria in Excelsis, from First Mass,
Haydn.
Miss Brunette Walter.
1880, Church Orchestra.
March Pontifical, Gounod.
1.-THE Lord Is King" J. Pittmen.
Miss Burnnette Walter, solo.
''Christ Is Risen,'' (violin obligato) |
Dossbe.
Mixed Quartet, "Sing Ye Heavens"
First Unitarian church, Rev. ]. H.
Zones, pastor. Services II q. m. Subject.
Why Unitarians Observe Easter"
Sunday school 10 a. m. |.
Quinton Heights Mission, in school
house. Rev. D. w. Beanblossom, pastor.
Sunday school at 3.15. Preaching at
80 by the pastor. Special music.
The Epworth League of the Kansas
Avenue church will hold on Easter Sum
Use meeting in the lectura room of the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-30

Roman Catholics except with the writ
ten consent of the authorities of their
church.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-30

First United Brethren church. Rev.
w. s. Baker, pastor. Sunday school,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-30

America alone sends $21,o00,000
across the sea every year to support
more than 100000 workers, to main
ain more than $4,000 schools, and to
establish many hospitals.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-30

The Laymen's Missionary Move
mcnt, the newest development along
the line of joint church action, has al
ready in view several unusual plans
for work. One of the most striking
was that which was offered at a din
ner of prominent laymen in New York.
1t is in brief, the organization of one
hundred business men, who at their
own expense will travel around the
world in a body, visiting and inspect
ing in every country the chief mission
airy stations. The effectiveness of the
work accomplished, the visible moral
results and the bettered social condi-
lions of the people will especially en-
gage the attention of these laymen.
The British parliament has recently
presented a bill recommending that
Sunday legislation be enforced in the
Kingdom. and that one entire day of
rest in every seven shall be required.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-30

Special Easter services. The pastor
will preach at IL a. m. On Easter
Mornings Immortal Message At
1880 D. m, on Christ Is All In All"
Sunday school at $50 a. m.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-30

Many Russian peasants, probably
numbering many thousands, have sep
arated themselves entirely from the
Russian church and have formed some
of the most rational as we'll as the
most spiritual. sects now in existence,
regardless of the continuous persecu-
ton of the government.
Within the last few months decree
has been issued by the reigning au-
thorities in Christian Science peremp-
toriIy forbidding the teachers and
healers of that organization to teach
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-30

NJ DVERTISING Is .
wv PROMISE. 1t is also
Ala c o Mt R A C 4.
"A AWhen we agree to do
certain things, we have TO
"make good" Otherwise we
lose the confidence and faith
The principle we adopted
in 1896 when CASCARETS
rANnv CATHARTIC were
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-30

The W. c. T. u. will meet at the Firs
NJ. E. church at p. m. Monday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-30

First Unitarian church, Rev. ]. H
Jones, pastor Services II a. m. Subject
why Unitarians Observe Easter.
Sunday school 10 a. m.
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PURITY
PROMISE
ssRGak9 G0Od's and youslI
Be Prosperous

put PROMISE saesmanshiP
that not characterized by PURITY and TRUE aqq
HONESTY, that could always DELIVER what we
1t PURE DRUG law and our PROMISE has
been FULFILLED.
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Gentlemen Unafraid.

Because of the Easter teaching that
old, old enemy of the race. the fear of
death, which today is stalking so ar
rcgantly- through this part of China
Again and again Christians have
taught the world what it is to die un-
fearingly; ancient Rome trembled be-
fore that spectacle, and China is today
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Wesleyan Methodist church services
Subject for morning service, IL a. m.
1.-THE First Glad Easter Day" At s p
m. the Great wedding Supper. D. T.
Grout, pastor.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1907-01-05
CAUSE or CHINESE BOYCOTT.
1t is Herr Drobin." said he.
Ito be continued.)

Movement Declared TO BE Wholly
Due to individuals, Not Nation.
No doubt tie boycott was wholly due
to the strisency OF the exclusion law,
but the paramount object OF the move
ment Ii to raise the Chinese penple to
On equal footing with nLy other peoLie
In relation with the United States and
not for securing the actual economic
advantage OF exporting laborers to
America, says r. Y. Chang in the Re
view Of Reviews. 1t is for national
right and dignity rather than for any
thing else. There are however. more
important points regarding this ques-
ton that should be carefully exam
ined; that ls-first, the boycott has
never been authorized by the govern
ment; second, the boycott has never
been carried out with any forcible or
violent means.
The government has done nothing
toward promoting the boycott. On the
contrary, the PelSin authorities have
tried hard to advise the merchants to
modify their disposition. But no gov
eminent In the world. however absolute
1t may be, has power to compel It's sub
jects to buy goods from certain coun-
try unless they are willing to do so.
No doubt this disagreeable movement
has been started by those who had per-
sonally suffered maltreatment under
the regulations of the Chinese lmmi-
grafton service office. But there has
been not the least sign Of violence or
force, as the boycott has spread through
several provinces. 1t is purely volun-
tary action Of individuals. SO long as
there Is no disturbance OF peace, boy
colt" is considered legitimate move
ment by any civilized country Of the
world. 1t Is n commercial design and
not a warllke scheme. 1t Is an lndi-
vidual action and not a national policy.
There Is, therefore, no good ground
upon which the recent alarming news
could be supposed to have been based.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1907-01-05

you see. mein Herr. the big curing
station has not long been stAblished.' .
"a new enterprise?'
"Yes, meIn Herr. II belongs 70 Herr
Drobin, a South German. Two years
ago he took the big farm at Gran, which
you passed on your way here. 1t Is this
side of the dye-works. He has many
pigs Ia the forest His hams are becom-
Ing famous from Warsaw to Konigsberg.
II is said he has some secret In the feed
ing or curing-no one knows which"
Thank you-that Is ALL"
The door was scarcely shut when
TURNED holly upon Graden. How dare
you sit here in this house Of murder and
talk Of the excellence Of the food?"
cried furiously. 1T Is shameful. inde-
cent?"
yet we will visit the farm Of Gran
on our way back. l have some little
inquiries to make"
I'VE shall do nothing Of the sort" /
snarled.
IF you were a soldier or an explorer.
Cousin Robert" he said leaning across
and tapping me kindly on the arm, you
would know that In any expedition one
alone can be responsible. The rest obey,
whether they be few or many. As II Is, |
beg you to recognize that fact and to
obey"
He was right, and I knew IL. But to
save appearances / walked to the win
dow and stood drumming upon 1t with my
fingers for a while before l answered him.
well, do as you please" / said at
length.
Il think the sleigh may be ready by
now" he said. Come, let us 60 out
and Inquire"
There Is no need to dwell on this mis-
cradle drive. The tired horses dragged
slowly forward, the driver, sullen and
frightened, urging them on with blows
and curses. Mile after mile OF pine woods
marched past us, but we did not speak,
crouching In the furs. At last, rs night
was falling, we reached the edge Of the
forest and swung aside from the main
road into a track that sklrted the edge
OF the pines. The ground sank away into
hollow like the palm of the hand. At
the lowest point | could see a square,
wooden building aanked by rows of out
buildings. 1t was. as l imagined, the
farm Of Gran. But before we reached II,
our driver suddenly drew up his horses.
A man was advancing toward us
through the trees. Our driver turned,
and with a wave of the whip explained
the situation.
1T Is Herr Drobin." said be.
TO be continued.)