The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-19

of the court OF causation in Korea It
Is generally understood that this is a
move looking toward the Cancellation
Of the Koreans and the refnedying of
notorious injustiees, for It is openly
said that Judge Watanabe was APP
pointed by the Japanese government
because he is Christian.
Following the lead of the Laymen's
Missionary Movement in the interests
of foreign missions, the Home Mis-
61ons Council lately organized plans
to hold series of popular home mis-
sion rallies IN each of the leading
American cities this winter. Two
days viii be given to each conven-
ton, and the big home mission prob
lens OF the times will be discussed
from the same platform by represen-
tatiyes of all the affiliated churches.
One OF the epochal gatherinss OF
Christendom during the present year
WAS meeting in Ch'engtu, West
China Representatives of practi-
ca1ly all the Christian bodies at work
in West China unanimously adopted
as their goal one Protestant church
for West China. This is the most adj
Vanced step toward practical Chris
tan union that has lately been record
ed. The conference called for an adj
ditienal fifteen hundred missionaries
for its particular field.
The cost1iest professional education
IN this country is that of ministers, ac-
cofd1ng to statistics given in the cur
rent issue OF the American journal of
Psychology and Education. In 1904
the number of law students, as COM
piled from the United States educa-
ton reports, was 1896, and the value
of buildings and endowments of law
schools was $3,e11, 500; the number
q al 80 ~
the investment for educating 1892
Theological students was $35,726, 36S
In ten years the students Of law had
nearly doubled, and of medicine had
increased more than twenty per cent
while in the same period students of
theology had decreased nearly four
per cent.
The last words written for puhlica-
ton by the late xe-President Cleve-
land were the following intended as
an introduction to book upon the
sending cut this book you will do
something to invite more attention
among the masses of our people to
the study of the New Testament and
the Bible as a whole. 1t seems TO nae
that in these days there is an unhappy
falling on in our appreciation of the
importance of this study. 1 do not be-
lfeves as a people, that we can afford
to allow our interest in and veneration
OF the Bible to abate. 1 look upon
it as the source from which those who
study it in spirit and truth will derive
strength of character, a realization of
the daty of citizenship, and a true ap-
prehension of the power and wisdom
and mercy of God"
There has recently closed in London
an exhibition known as The Orient, ."
which was, visited by thirty thousand
people daily for more than five weeks.
1t was really a new form of mission
airy propaganda, organized and run by
the London Missionary society. 1t
contained twenty-five thousand exhib-
its, and ten thousand volunteer work
ers served it, The total cost was more
than seventy-fiye Thousand dollars. yet
it closed with a profit to the society.
The exhibit features included a Chin
csc pagoda, Hindu village, and an
African kraals all pictured fun size. In
addition there were efaborate tab
leaux Of historic missionary scenes.
But the central feature of The Orient
and one about which great contro-
versy ragged in many quarters since it
seemed to be the Introduction OF the
theater into church work, was 1.-THE
Pageant of Darkness and Light" a
series of four scenic presentations of
the overcoming power of Christianity.
There was a great singing chorus in
costume of five hundred voices, and
supporting company upon the stage
that sometimes numbered two hun
bred.