The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-23

tldH missionary. 1llS IacI removes MN
from the ranks of professional Christian
workers. and business men everywhere
sense this subtle difference in the point
of view suggested by his talks.
The world is wide open today. to the
influence of Christian civilization, salu
Mr.. EDDY. Sixty years ago Japan was
q closed land without protesting Chris
tians, Corea a hermit nation, only %
Christians in the Chinese Empire ana
a handful in India. Today there are
10000 Christians in Japan, 100000 in
Korea, half a million adherents in chi
ma and million in India.
"A Japanese named NeeSiIna worked
his way to America and went back to
found the Doshisha Christian univer-
sity which has changed the history OF
Japan. Other students were also edu-
Gated in America at the expense OF the
American missionaries. Ihe whole en-
terprise cost less than $4,000 but IN
Il single order of so million dollars
American commerce reaped Il thousand
fold return by this Investment in mis-
sions.
Travancore I saw audiences of thou
sand Christians, who two generations
ago, were outcast slaves selling Tor
two and three dollars apiece; today
they have their colleges hospitals and
a high moral civilization The pres
ent unrest in India marks an aWak-
ening of that great land.
mot India only but all Asia is
awakening. From Japan 10 1HOid-
from Korea to Persia, from China to
Turkey, that vast continent is awak-
ening with new life. Think of it's sig
nificance, Asia with twice the popula-
ton of Europe, more than four tunes
that of Africa, more than six times
North and South America com bined,
with over half the population of the
world that vast continent with its
eight hundred and fifty millions is at
last awakening.
And there is the call of the worlds
need; half the world today can not
read or write any language; half have
not medical knowledge; half the world
is poor, half have never heard of
Christ.
where the population of the United
States has increased So per cent, our
wealth has increased $50 per cent and
is now one hundred and seven billion.
Twenty-Five thousand missionaries
could be supported for fifty million
dollars a year with all their native
work A car fare a week from Protest
ant Christians would furnish all the
money we would need for the enter
prise. We gave last year from Amer
lea eleven million dollars for foreign
missions. The tires on our automobiles
cost us twelve millions; our chewing
gum, thirteen millions. We spent
seventeen times as much for candy
and seventy times as much for jew
elry last year as we did to give the
gospel to the rest of the world. while
the men OF the country DuneQ away
more in tobacco smoke last year than
the church has given from North
America in all its history.
Here is the call of the non-Chris-
tian world; it is a call of opportunity;
a call of need; a call of duty. The
Watchword of this movement is The
evangelization of the world in this gen
Grafton" We do not mean that the
world will be converted in that time,
We only mean that 1t is our Huty to
give every man, woman and child an
opportunity to hear the gospel while
they live. We have the men, we have
the means, we have the ability. we can
do it if we will We can do it and we
will"
This Mornings Meeting.
Professor w. E. NichoI who spoke
on India" this morning, said in part:
4 represent the Indian empire
which contains about half the area of
the United States, with population of
100000 900 people, with civilization,
language and literature that was hoary
with age when our ancestors were
clothed in skins and eating the raw
flesh of beasts, and yet in spite of this
fact. a people just as needy with re-
gard to the gospel of Jesus Christ as
are the untutored millions of Africa.
we find among the educated of
India the evidence of a new spirit of
nationalism, and a longing after the
freedom and liberty enjoyed by the ma
tions of the occident, a spirit that has
manifested itself in number of ways,
such as the assassination of govern
ment officials, the publication of sedi-
ttous literature and the agitation of
the people against the government,
none of which, of course, can be com
mended, and all of which have given
more or less anxiety to the mission
aries and to mission interests.
However. we sympathize with the
cause of this spirit, recognizing that it
is but the birth throes of a new life
and Great Britain has already recog-
nized this fact and is promulgating
reforms which promise very much to
the people of India, largely in the way
of an enlarged place in the national
life OF the people and in the govern
ment or their own country"
Japan has as many Christian peo-
pie today after fifty years of contact
with Protestant Christianity" said
DIR. j. L. bearing, this morning, las
there were in the whole world one
hundred years after Christ. The at
t1tude of the Japanese government to-
ward Christianity fifty years ago was
one of extreme hostility. In those
early days the Japanese officials said
that they were ready to allow foreign
erS all trading privileges if way
could be found to keep opium and
Christianity out of the country.
On the recent celebration of the
hftieth anniversary of the opening of
Protestant missions in Japan. cele-
brated on Oct. 1, the present attitude
of the government and nation was
clearly shown by an editorial in the
Kokumin. This paper is regarded as
the organ of the government and its
editorial utterances beyond doubt
expressed the opinion of the premier
and the emperor.
This editorial which attracted
great attention said. The development
of Japan as a first class power with
in the past SO years is to great ex-
n FOL 10
by missionaries, who by either estab-
fishing schools or preaching the Cos
pei of Christ in the churches have
cultivated the minds of the japanese
and enhanced the standard of their
morals. In country like Japan
where the state and people are GOV