The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-25

poverty of real life on the part of both
rich and poor. William E. Russell well
said, There is one thing better than
making living: that is making a life"
A man may heap up things until his
poor starving life is smothered beneath
them. It's life we need: and large life
comes by large sympathy and large SER
vice: which links this basic thought to
| the present Christian Endeavor topic.
Every man is responsible for the ut
termost reach of his powers.
Wherever God puts us he puts a duty
down alongside of us. And now that he
| has made us nigh neighors of all the
world he has laid upon US an obligation
| to minister to the whole of mankind.
Home" and foreign are pernicious
words that will one day be eliminated
! from the missionary vocabulary. 1t is
not just to God to divide his world
fields up into sections that provoke
partisanship. Moreover it is beyond
the power of man to make the division
fairly. Who can tell where home"
ends and foreign begins? By what
token shall we determine which is
which? Shall we say that the sway of
the flag determines it? Then all the
mission work in the British empire
whether in Africa, India or China, is
home mission work. Shall color of skin
determine it? Then let US hand over
all the negroes and Chinese in the land
to the foreign mission boards. The
whole division is absurd: in this TWEEN
tieth century, with its compact world
neighborliness. there is only one mis-
sion field. Holy Writ defines it: THE
field is the world
God calls by many voices, but most
commonly by capacity. It is the man
who has strength who should bear bur
daOS AhiIifx- tn
preach. Power to give is an appeal to
give. The simple fact that today the
Christian church is so tremendously
able is a providential summons to world
service.
All the reasons that brought Christ
into the world apply to constrain Chris
tians to labor for the world.
In all the religions of the world there
is only one manger. The little Child
has no place in other faiths. Christian
ity alone glorifies and exalts childhood.
Hence it is the only religion for chill
dren. There is no god beside our God
who is a loving Shepherd, with tender
care for the lambs.
He who cannot understand that
Christ died to save all men cannot I'M
derstand Christ at all.
dlOII0 Statistics NO OLH0T
religion does. Peace on earth is impos-
sible to any except the Christian. Every
other religious system leaves lodgings
unmet, desires unsatisfied, and there
fore in a vain outreaching after coveted
mystery, men who have not heard Of
Christ, erect affairs ito the unknown
God" There is nothing more pathetic
in the heather world than the vague
and deep yearning after something
which it does not possess. That need
can be satisfied only in Christ.
The world rises as it follows Christ's
reckoning. ~-
The principles of peace will prevail
among the nations only as the Gospel Of
Christ is given sway. To promote
peace, preach Christ.
49, - worthy features of other re-
ligions may be found in Christianity,
with Incompatible addition. 1t is the
sum of all good because the Eternal
Goodness is the author. Christianity is
all-inclusively excellent because it is in
itself the body of the living Christ.
The lifting up of Christ lifts up the
world. The elevation Of humanity de-
ponds upon the exa1tation of the cross.
We are not practising the Gospel at
home unless we are preaching it abroad.
Gods kingdom will surely come,
though we may miss the blessing Of
helping to bring it.