The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-11


Wells 7 hat IS 10 say. lei all your
earth lines be such as may be extend
ed ia heaven Have for a life center
hers. thai which viii continue. to be
ceneer Jnere Project nothing in time
that may not be prolonged in eternity.
Listen to the chatter of the street.
Watch how men and women employ
themselves in their idle hours. Study
the drift of human life. Try to form
an estimate of what ails present-day
society, If anything Is not the in
evitable conclusion that great masses
OF people are living without purpose
or aim, simply drifting through the
days, and beguiled by every trivial
interest that arises? Life is a cheap
tremendous to them, and consequent
ly, they mean nothing tremendous to
the world. What they need above all
things else is not so much as new
orbit, for life, but a new center; some
great fixed principle, purpose or OBJ
ject which should dominate them ut
terly Who can doubt that if men
were to accept the Lord Jesus Christ
In all the fullness of acceptance that
he himself prescribes, the result
would be the social salvation of our
timer 1t is in this broad sense, as
well as in the more limited, conven
tional meaning, that Jesus is the Re-
deemer of mankind.
News and Notes From Korea.
There have never been any asylums
Or hospitals for lepers in Korea. One
SiOnarieS at FuSan.
The historic Korean topknot is COM
ing off. Under japanese stimulus, the
emperor has set the fashion of wearing
short hair.
The leading man of Korea, Yum Chi
Ho, has declined all invitations to enter
the imperial cabinet, and has become
head of the Southern Methodist Mission
school at Song-do.
All the missions at work in Korea
Methodists, north and south, and Pres
byterian, north, south, Canadian and
Australian-are united in an eyange-
listic council, which aims to prevent, for
one thing, all overlapping of fields.
Each denomination is given its own ter
ritory.
After only 20 years Of mission work.
an independent, se1f-supporting native
church organization has been created
Presbyterian denominations. No other
| heather land has progressed so rap
idly as this.
DR.. J. Hunter Wells hospital at Ping
Yang, Korea, last year treated more
than 10000 patients. The hospital is not
only self-supportfng, but it showed a
| balance of more than yen 500. This
idea Of self-support runs through all
| the Korean missions. A report just re-
ceived in this country from the Pres
| byterian missions records 59,7S7 mem
| bers, and their gifts for the year ag-
gregate yen S0,176.96, a remarkable
amount for such a poor people. Their
| Christians maintain 434 self-support-
ing day schools. They have built 423
| church buildings.
! The Japanese say that the mission
| aries in Korea have encouraged the ma
| tives in revolt. This the missionaries
| deny. pointing out that the whole
| north country would have risen in re-
i bellion had it not been for the efforts
| of the Christians in behalf Of law and
order. Leading Christians of Pyeng
Yang walked up and down the streets
| during the exciting times of the en-
! peror's abdication, urging the people to
! be calm.
| The Methodist Episcopal church con-
| siders religious conditions in Korea al
| present to constitute such an temer-
| gency' that 1t has made a special ap-
| peal to the church for 100000 in order
| to send out 25 married missionaries and
! their wives at once. and to build them
| houses. The Northern Presbyterian
church has issued a similar emergen-
cy call in order to send out 20 new mis-
sionaries with their wives to Korea this
| year. The Southern Presbyterian
church is likewise largely augmentins
| its Korean force.