The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-26

basic with the early church. 1t is at
| that truth that Paul is hammering in
the present lesson. A few evenings ago
I sat with a committee of men to pro-
| mote social cohesion in their commun-
| ity. The gathering was not the result
| of advertisement or agitation, and no
| remark was made about it afterward;
| it was merely the working out of the
| teachings of the life of Jesus which
| these men had been studying in a Bible
class. For when the mind of Christ
IS given. play, as the early Christians
sedulously endeavored to give it play.
| II expresses itself in an exaltation of
human relationships. The old gospel
makes new neighborhoods. The social
| sense of our day is but a beginning
| OF an apperception of the genius of
the gospel.
Here is where the days teaching ap-
plies to temperance,-for this is desig-
mated as a temperance lesson-this new
| social impulse of brotherliness. this
love, is the most insidious foe to the
| use of and traffic in strong drink.
There is a worldwide and irresistible
movement toward temperance, because
temperance is inextricably bound up
with the social health. The liquor men
may hire renegade preachers to es-
pouse their cause; they may organize
national leagues for the reform of their
own business; and in panic they may
pour limitless treasure into their legis-
lative defence fund.- But 1t is all in
vain. The stars in their courses are
fighting against the unneighborly sa-
| loon. 1t is doomed in an enlightened
| society because it hurts manhood and
the community life. The war against
| the saloon is one with the war against
| tuberculosis; and a specialist remark
ed recently that within fifteen years
| tuberculosis would be as uncommon
| as smallpox. There is so much of the
| mind of Jesus in the world today that
| these social anachronisms cannot be
| tolerated.
Expulsion and ImpuIsion.
The attitude of the twentieth CEN
fury world is hospitable to the new
| teaching which Paul was enunciating to
| the early converts in Rome. Men are
! reader to listen to the doctrine of I'M
| selfishness, for they have seen the Bit
| ter truth Of the practice Of the coun-
trary teaching. When people get busy
! about loving they have no time for
| selfishness, and sordfdness, and low
self-indulgenee. When any community
| is permeated with the ministering
spirit of Jesus a great deal besides
! strong drink will be driven out by the
| impulsion of that strong mind. Put
we on the Lord Jesus Christ as Paul
| counseled. and great many other
things will be put off. Darkness and
! light cannot abide in the same room.
| The spirit of Jesus and the spirit that
erects saloons and sweat shops and I'M
sanitary tenements and permits child
labor and the other evils of our time,
must fly as the night before the dawn.
To bring this to pass is the mission
of the gospel. 1t is after new So
ciety. which Jesus called the Kingdom
of Heaven. That kingdom consists of
men and women who live by the love
| law. His disciples are disciplined to
se1f-forgetting services of their fellow
| men. Their allegiance to him is prov
ed by their attitude toward their
neighbors. In his train enter new or
der of men and women-sober, self
restrained, self-sacrificing. and society
serving. No thought of temperance is
to a social order where men walk
becomingly, as in the day''-whose
every action will stand the test of the
will of God. 'Put We On the Lord
Jesus Christ cried the apostle, be-
cause He is social salvation. There is
no other power that can make the
Rome of Nero into the worlds relig-
fous capital, that can make the sodden
cities of ancient heathendom into new
JerusalemS.
News and Notes.
A monster labor union meeting I'M
der the direction. of Rev. Charles
Stelzle was the principal feature of
the Presbyterian General Assembly in
Denver.
The remarkable Chinese revival,
which began in Wales, spread to India
and then to Korea, has made its way
through
is at Marking, the southern capital of
the empire. The same scenes of SIM
ultaneous vocal prayer, of the con-
fession of sins and the restitution of
Possessions wrongly acquired mark
these recent revival meetings.
1.-THE Interior quotes President
James H. Baker, of the University of
Colorado, as saying that the religious
revival in educational circles Is one of
| the most marked of all the intellectual
signs of the present time.
The Log College, founded at Mes
haminy, Pa, by Rev William Tennent,
which was the mother of Princeton
university, and contemporary of
memorated by the establishment of a
summer school for Bible study and
evangelistic work at Neshaminy. A
committee of Philadelphia Presby-
| terians have organized for this pur-
pose.
The twenty-fourth international
Christian Endeavor convention, which
| meets at st. Paul, Mimi, July 7-12,
will be unusually comprehensive in it's
| character. The leaders say it will have
a record attendance. One feature will
| be a daily exposition of civic, moral
and religious progress. This will in
clude a tuberculosis exhibit. On Sat
urday evening there will be a cele-
| bration of the Mendelssohn centennial
| by the rendition of the oratorio eli
! jah"
| There are in the Hawaiian islands
| the same number of Congregational
| churches as there were children in the
Mayflower in 1602-101. They are a
| polyglot company, as is illustrated by
the fact that they comprise Chinese.
| Negroes, Hawaiians, Koreans, Portu-
| guese, japanese and white men.
| The special propaganda for the
benefit of Korea in the Presbyterian
church has raised up to date over
| $4,000.
! At the time of the ecumenical con-
| ference in New York, in 1900, Presi-
! dent Harrison, after hearing Miss
| Singh, of the Isabella Thoburn univer-
| sity at Lucknow, speak, declared, eff
I had given million dollars to for
| eign missions, I should count it wise
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