The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-30

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era of high prices by gong
into the retail provision
business himself Commend
- ahIe as this procedure may
re- the fact remains that the pHeiiolII55
- II hiah prices is absolutely world
wide Its causes and cure mus ~
-orob+ with broad vision 50 IN an
Troble11s Of economies. politics. ousl
ness and religion. it is important TO u
derstand things in their relations -
4erdav is linked to today, ana tiieie ~. 49,
rare are inextricably interviewer 4 ils
-.or,- is told of a certain president u
4ne I-nited States that ne touha mn
se1f greatly hampered in the lofeiSil
aefairs of the nation. because ne " %
- ,.onversaut with American hlS1oIy
49, Jungle Books the boy Mowgll
@oo1r counsel in emergency with tis
1ong-lived python and elephant pe
cause out of the experience OF the pas
they could offer remedies 1or the
present ...,, +i,,es
CONFRONTING peculiarly critical times
&, The nations life, it is well for pa
4riots to recall that God has been Keep
inc historv's sch9oI for many lolls cen
flries. The present generations are
1o+ his first pupils. The lessons ne,
taught the nations of long ago are 80
Arc lessons that he is trying to teach
rs If we would understand the rela-
zion of God to our own times. We ne
NOT be ignorant of the relation u GON
a times
serial for studies in citizenship tna1l
+bis mast years course of Sunday
school Lessons in the life of the ancient
Jewish people.
starting With the News.
common interest IS good begin
ming for a broader acquaintance, me
average person who would IKE d laiiiih
lar route back to the OLD lailus diIu
times in which these Bible stories were
1aid can ind it in the days newspaper
.7ispatches from the East some OF eiAe
1ater lessons were laid in Persia, the
land which was then so glorious anu
l. now 50 abject- Russia has lnNaueu
Persia, and there has oeeh
st7-,,eele waged for the ousting OF
1-ounp American. W. Morgan Shuster'
80 financial adviser to the PERSIAN
Government. Probably the ehu u ti1S
sto,-1- will be the partition of Persia
,,rttins the old nation under the com
parativeiy new haSs u
Great Britain
Relations between Germahy an
r.se,+ britain are strained just now,
"a one Doint at issue is the BaSuau
,sflvxav There is no better way 10
s+,,d,- This subject of the Hebrew eNlles
man to look into the question OF the
13agdad railway. which has branches
running from Palestine up INTO syria
mast the home of Abraham anu re-
Leeca-s we'll in Haran, ana down
4l,ro,,gh Babylon to the vicinity OF Ut
~ The Chaldees. This new line pleFces
the territory of Assyria and BapSiol I'D
rr,ere are lessons in craftsmanship LOT
MS nresent enterprise to be learned
iron, these old-fashioned Sunday school
III. Holy Land. as we now learn
from the cable dispatches, IS aIllIGlS 7
with what the Moslems call Holy
Var" The followers of the Pfophet
have attacked Christians because Oh
the Italian operations at Tripol- mus
I'm an entirely new form. the old str1fe
between truth and error is continued
and the studies in Judah's carry MS
tory fit the present case
The Jews on the Spot.
Down in the neighborhood where the
Jews were carried captive py Menu
cbadnezzar. and where they hung their
harms on the willow trees. and lament
ed that they could not sing the LORD
songs in a strange land the archaeolo-
sists are digging up much new 1Shl
1lDon the times and incidents about
which the Sunday schools have been
studying There seems to be an IN
creased interest in archaeology
throughout the world, and it is worth
remarkfng that the student OF the
Bible is better prepared to understand
the finds in Babylonia and Assyrla
than is the ordinary person
Present interest in this region. upon
which the Sunday schools have con-
centrated the attention of millions, IS
Increased bv new projects for the re-
denptiOn of NIesopotarnia by vast irri-
cation schemes. It has been deter
mined that this land-once a garden,
now a desert-shall be made to bloom
again and the engineers and wOrkfnen
are or the ground and far advanced in
their Ia bors
There is a further romantic interest
attached to these old stories by the
fact that the Jews are still on the spot
a huge remnant from the exile con-
tinues to live in Babylonia. Assyria
and old Elam What to do with the
Jew is the subject of much discussion
and various colonization projects. The
status of the Jews in Russia is agitat-
ing America Let US remember that
to these days Of disobedience concern
ing which we have been studying.
Learning the Great Lesson.
After all and after all. did the Jews
learn their lesson during the five hun
dred and eighty years of history which
this review period covers? We have
seen them rise as a kingdom. split in
twain. and then pursue an undulating
course until finally they we're dispersed
by the Captivity. which was the fail
of Jehovah. Were they cured OF their
fdolatrvo It is commonly said that
they We're. Yet the archaeolOgistS are
digging up incarnation bowls which
show that for centuries after the Cap
tivity the Jews were past masters of
the art of witchcraft
Today. the temporal condition of the
Jew is better than il has ever been
since the fall of Jerusalem. Wealth.
prestige. position and political con-
sideratio all belong to the Jew The
most careful observers within the race
however point out that the present If
reiigion of the Jewish people is an
ominOus sign of a deplOrable condition
that makes wealth. learning and stand
inc nf no avail Youth nf T11F1.1 ism