The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-07
FIRST MEMS MEETING.
Revival Has a Good Start at Majestic
Theater.


/ DR.. Howard Agnew johnson of Colo
RADIO Springs delivered his address
| The Scientific Chara cter of the Chris
/ tan Faith, to a full house. at the
! Majestic theater Sunday afternoon at
| the first of series of addresses to be
| given under the auspices of the Mems
| Evangelical council of Topeka. This
| council has planned a series of eight
addresses to be given by eminent reli-
| Sious speakers Sundays, with the ex-
| ception of December 20, at the Males
| tic theater. At the opening of the sea-
| son last year in indianapolis there
were 1900 men present, at the last
J meeting there were 1900. This is the
| example Topeka hopes to equal.
| one does not expect to find in an
| orthodox address any new theme or
| theory. 1t is ever the old, old story
| and it's application is the same. How
| ever. a new treatment is a welcomed
| factor and DR.. Johnson's address was
| of fresh interest to the large crowd of
men who waited patiently for admis-
sion Sunday.
"You live in a scientific age" said
DR.. johnson. "a scientific thing claims
your attention. The Christian faith is
scientific. Behind every mysterious
! thing there is a simple fact. There
are two ways of looking at this fact:
/ one to push back the mysterious. dis
| closing more of the fact; the other to
refuse the fact until you can solve the
! mysterious. Consider electricity, the
achievements of Edison. Marconi How
| would Marconi have established the
| fact of wireless telegra ply had he in
sisted on waiting until he could un-
| dersland all the mysteries of cleo
tricity? The greatest fact is life, the
greatest mystery If life, the greatest
| life is Christ" said DR.. Johnson. 1--WE
| can only reach to the end of our
| finger, so to speak. We can not even
imagine the extent of space or the
| duration of time. People are finite
and can not understand the infinite.
| Scientists have to take the atom
on faith because they have to begin
somewhere. Biologists. astronomers,
PSYCHOLOGISTS have all to base their
work on faith in the discoveries of
their experiments. L believe in the
power of Jesus said Gladstone, be
SOUL Experience is the basis of this
faith. it is more real than experiments
of scientific nature, this faith comes
from more real experience and is the
most scientific faith in the world.
George j. Romanes. professor of
biology at Cambridge, editor OF Ma
ture and the greatest Darwinlan after
Darwin could not believe in the Inn
m ortality of the soul, could not satisfy
his intellect about the mystery of a
soul. But he was honest with himself
While watching a tiny point of life
under microscope one day he be-
came convinced that the forces there
evidenced some great intelligence be-
hind that life. A missionary friend
SAID 10 MIN, IN DiOlOBy YOU ISCOS me-
a new type of life when it exerts a
new influence upon its environment.
The life of Jesus, wherever given
place has exerted a new influence:
You must take that into account
Finally George Romanes decided that
the intellect was not the greatest hu-
man force. L know that my mother
loves me. 1 can not prove it by logic,
he said.
eff one aspires to be great in any
profession he goes for instruction 10
the greatest specialist in that profess
sion If one would be great physl-
clan. lawyer or musician. he goes 70
that specialist. The greatest specialist
in character and victorious MANHOOD
is Christ. If you wish a wholesome.
scientific manhood go to that specialist
in character. That scientific. When
Prof Roentgen discovered the N-ray
he was not anxious that people should
believe. He only said go and do this.
and this, and this. All who did SO
were satisfied of the fact. Jesus sald'
Come unto me and learn. He has
been proved so far as our human un-
derstanding reaches, then logically and
scientifically. must believe all ne tells
us that lies beyond our finite minds