The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-23

pent will cease it's struggles, crushed
forever, according to the promise that
since the birth of man hiss been the
hope of the race. All ccnquests are
embraced in this conquest of sin.
Here is the situation in a sentences:
Less than nineteen centuries ago the
Christian church could all be gathered
tically without influence; today that
same church exists universally and is
the controlling force of tho world. Can
we conceive of a greater triumph?
Into the most difficult and unlikely
realms of heathenism where degrade
ton reigned unudisputed. Christianity
has gone and has established true
homes. pure living, and enlightened
standards.
Did you ever see a drunken. disco
lutte, debauched and degraded wreck
of man become clean and pure and
upright and noble in the power of the
Son Of God? If so. then you have
witnessed the great triumph of Chris
tianity: a triumph that is being eff
fected and repeated every hour of the
day the world around.
News and Notes.
The National Conference of Chari-
ties and Correction will be held in
st. Louis, May 1926. Such topics as
Industrial Hygiene" "a Federal
ing and Child Labor" will be dis
cussed at it's sessions.
Recent excavations in Egypt reveal
the fact that the principles of medi
cine were known and practiced IN this
land 1000 years ago. The first Egyp-
tan physician was lem hetep,
whose name Signified "the bringer of
peace" and 1.-The master of secrets"
of their denomination who have reach
ed the age OF 81, and who have re-
tired or who should be retired from
active pastoral service. is movement
now under consideration by the Bap-
lists of Massachusetts. Annual grants
may be made upon the basis of $500
for 25 years of active service.
The National Conference of Jew
ish Charities is to be held in Chicago
in May, as is also the great Catholic
Laymen's Movement for social SER
vice, the st. Vincent de Paul Society.
The proposed missionary exposition,
''The World in Boston," which will
be held in April, 1911. is now an as
sured fact. as the guarantee fund of
$50 600 has been secured. Rev. A.
NJ. Gardner Of the London Missionary
Society is directing the enterprise. in
which forty-eight missionary organiza-
tons will cooperate.
Religious liberty in Madagascar has
not been allowed by the government
since 1905. At this time schools and
were in successful opera
llOA anu Tie 10y al COIlQuCl OI LIiS HIS
had secured the confidence
of the governor. The passing of pow
err into the hands of confirmed ag-
nostic resulted in the suppression of
all Christian agencies. The revival of
heather practices is now encouraged
and Sunday is made day of public
sports.
No less than eleven women in the
United States have given each $1,000
600 for charitable purposes. -
iTal11 isrra tiO0 secretary is fhe lat
est addition to the staff of officers of
the Chicago y. NJ. c. A.
A novel feature of the new Fifth
Avenue Baptist church of New York
City is to be a roof garden where
open air services will be held.
Under the edict of prohibition, the
raising of opium in the province of
Shansi, China, has practically ceased.
A Baptist jubilee will he held in
Norway, June 1927, commemorating
the fifty years during which the de-
nomination has planted in that coun-
try forty churches with u total MEM
bership of $500.
The Belgian government has APP
pealed to all the missions n the Con-
go to cooperate in an effort to stamp |
put the sleeping sickness. In order to
accomplish this the government Of
fers to all missionaries course in the |
institute, promising to as |
sumo all incidental expenses, and to |
provide the mission stations with the |
scientific and medical equipment nee |
essary for the treatment of the dis |
ease.