The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-29

the Judgment or ChriStendOm gives
hearty favor and assent. There are
beyond the touch of Christian infiu-
ences- There are multitudes of chill
dren growing up outside of the pale of
religions formative touch. A vast
multitude of aliens, as foreign in tenn
permanent to the spirit of this new land
as they are in language to its tongue,
need to be leavened by the teachings of
the gospel which is, after all has been
and difficult social problems there are
awaiting solution by applied Christian
lty. truly. the proper scope OF applied
Christianity is great enough, without
any wasteful and unseemly rivalry and
friction.
The man who invests his Life in help
ing to fix and ennoble the ideals of
community in it's formative period has
achieved the mission of a patriot.
The modern pastor of a downtown
city church is nowadays as truly a
home missionary as is the circuit riding
frontiersman.
We may not speak of the great work
of pioneer missions as in the past
tense. Ralph Connor's books show
how truly this sort of service is being
done in the Canadian northwest today.
At the present time the official repre-
sentative of one Of the Canadian de-
nominations is going to Great Britain,
there to seek recruits for the mission
field of the northwest He will offer
to young British ministers the oppor-
tunity to duplicate the work Of the men
whose names the churches cherish as
home mission heroes and pioneers.
Gods roll of honor will never be closed
until the last of all his wandering chill
dren has been brought home.
Bright are the triumphs of the mis-
sionary. The famous Indian warrior,
Geronimo, who died a short time ago,
missionary.
The character of Alaska and the
Canadian northwest is yet to be fixed:
and it is for the church to say who
shall fix it.
Magazine readers have shown an in
satiable interest in the character and
mission of DR.. Wilfred F. Grenfen of
Labrador who is hailed everywhere as
a knightly hero of Jesus Christ. In
order to serve the people of the bleak
coast of Labrador he has undergone
the rigors of an Arctic explorer, and
has employed all the versatility of one
man 50 high in public office. or so
richly laden with the emoluments of
business, that he is above a feeling of
envy as he beholds the noble, full
OFD0Q HE OF tnlS cn1ValrOuS exponent
Of the twentieth century's best spirit.
John Eliot thought he was merely
doing the extension work of his Rox-
bury parish when he began to work
for the aborigines, but, 10, he was writ
ing his name large upon the roll of
Americas history makers and scholars.
Father Dyer the snowshoe itin-
Grant, was one of that innumerable
company of Methodist preachers who
have braved the wilderness for the
gospels sake. He has given his name
to the early annals of Wisconsin, Min
nesota and Colorado.
The general assembly of the Presby-
terrain church in the q. S. A, in Den
yer, is commemorating the golden
jubilee of home mission work in Colo
RADIO. Among the commissioners are
several members of that company of
men who, along with DR.. Sheldon
Jackson, had an imperial vision of a
new land to be won for their Lord
What they achieved in labor and suf-
fering their whole church is now cele-
brating in dignity and honor. Sheldon
Jackson himself passed, only a few
days ago, to the greater honors of the
general assembly of the Church of the
First Born.