The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-25
KANSAS COAAENT
CRUSADE AGAINST Sun.


"A good deal of valuable adyertisin1
withas obtained. without money and
aoue price. by the diligent GENTLE
co,m VINO are organizing a year-lone
sos paisn against wickedness in KAN
THESE reformers propose to organ.
re an army OF evangelists and star,
sole OF holy war, with the assis-
.anSe OF the regular pastors in the
communities. Every nook
sant corner OF the state will be sub
- 90 the cleansing process, ana
- - noped to break all records in the
matter OF saving souls, to the greater
siory OF the professional evangelists,
Inc regularly established ministers
WHO LABOR In the vineyard all the year
louno; ooang their best to help peo-
PIE along the paths Elysian. are
almost as easily worked az editorr
ana rev OF them will have neryu
enough to decline to go cahoots with
the visiting evangelists in this great
Work OF renovating the morals of
Aansas. The local preacher, when one
OF these spiritual campaigns is on. is
expected to take a back seat In his
own church, and look as though he
enjoyed 1t when the fluent visitor
rants at the congregation and scares
people into repentance. The visitor
sets all the credit for everything that
Is accomplished; the home preacher
ls permitted to sweep out the church
after the meetings.
II Is question whether the Spec
eaeuIar revival. engineered by out
sloers' does any permanent good to
snyoooy but the outsiders; it certainly
oOes no good to the home preacher.
VINO usually suffers by contrast with
the rrenz1ed orators, and who usualIv
nnds slump in his CONGREGATION
When the fury and the tumult hayo
died away,
aho churches they really need. and
these preachers are almost invariably
sooo. earnest men, who do their work
sanely and without tinkling cymbals
or sounding brass. They teach both
oy precept and example; they are
per or suffer with the Community IT
should be their privilege to gather in
the stray sheep, and they'll do II
eventually, even If they don't use a
bass drum for the purpose.-Empori
Gazette.
KANSAS FAILED TO BLIrNDER
Oklahoma has the state oil refinery
craze. Oklahoma seems to be lust
ABOUT seventeen laps behind Kansas
all the time except when it takes a
squirt and gets about seventeen laps
ahead OF all the rest of the world.
Kansas thrashed out the state oil re-
has been thanking its lucky stars ever
since that 1t escaped without having
that sort of white elephant on its
hands. Never since the law was pro-
posed IN this state has there been a
minute when it would have worked
out to the advantage of the people Of
Kansas and 1t was a great piece of
good fortune when the supreme court
declared 1t unconstitutional If Okla
homa undertakes it, there will be a
time OF regret coming to 1t in after
years.-Abflene Reflector.
Occasionally we hear statements TO
the effect that Kansas takes up with
every hare-brained scheme that comes
along. We can plead not guilty. The
agitation for state refinery is almost
forgotten even though it existed but
few years ago, and so has been the
fight under the Standard bearing the
strange device, Kansas gas for kan
sas." So also shortly will be the state
guaranty proposttion.-Leav
Times.