The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-24
STUDY THE BIBLE.
Mrs. G. Z. Menninger's Glasses
Hold a Banquet.
Four Hundred Sit Down at the
Tables.
DIPLOMAS ARE GIVEN.
FOrty-SiX Are Awarded to the
Graduates.
DIPLOMAS ARE GIVEN.
DIR. S. S. Estey Delivers a Schol-
arly Address.

Dr. Dc % ESIoy OcIINcIS q OCHOA-
| arly Address.
| Mere than 400 persons sat down to
| the banquet table at the First Presby-
| terrain church Tuesday night on the
occasion of the annual commencement
event of Mrs. c. f. Menningers Bible
| classes, and at the close of the even
| ing diplomas representing the compile
| ton of a four year course OF study were
! presented to 46 persons.
Mrs. Menninger's classes which num-
| Der about 400 persons are perhaps
unique in this country, and their in
| huence is broad. One interesting fea-
| ture of the work of the instructor is
that after receiving diplomas the stud
| ents do not stop their diligent appllca-
ton to the study of the Bible, but come
| back as post graduates.
High school girls, Y. W. G. A. girls
Tuesday class, negro class and a class
of the Sunday school of the First Pres
| byterian church are the five classes
which form Mrs. Menningers great BIZ
BILE school. There are several persons
who have been studying with her for
IA years. In the past five years Mrs.
| Eula Albaugh has been present at eV-
| cry meeting of the class to which she
| belongs.
The program Tuesday night was as
follows: song, Holy Bible, Book Di-
vine" Mrs. George ParkhurSt; reading.
When 1 Read the Bible Through.
Miss Irene Welshans; address, Dr.. 5;
S. Estey; In Memory of Four Years
Bible Study" Miss Margaret Koontz;
presentation of diplomas.
I'VE have heard a great deal about
the Seven Wonders of the World.
said DIR. S. S. Estey in the course of his
address. THE ancient world had its
own notion of what is wonderful, and
no doubt the Colossus of Rhodes and
the Hanging Gardens and the others
were wonders of the physical world
which astonished those earlier days.
But the real wonders of the modern
world which command the profound
respect of men are not the marvels of
the physical reaIm-though these are
wonderful indeed these days-but they
are the wonders of the mental and
moral realms. And so. defined, 1 think
that the sight see before me tonight,
is one of the wonders of the modern
world. Four hundred and more people
seated at a banquet, and these people
the members of the Bible study classes
of one woman in one city, challenge
any city in the United States to dupll-
cate this scene!
When 1 try to think what it means
to countless individuals, to hundreds
of homes, to dozens of our churches,
to the city of Topeka, that this great
company of women have elected to
give time and strength to the study of
the great character moulding BOOK
of the world, am overwhelmed with
the thought of the volume of influence
that is represented here.
This Book which you study has
miraculous power to inspire the soul,
to quicken the conscience. to beaut1fy
the life. If one had magic power OF
vision to follow out the rays of inf1u-
ence which radiate from your Bible
study; If one could see how many of
you have received a new outlook on
life, new ideals and standards of sue
cess and happiness; how many homes
have been touched with higher inf1u-
ences: how the moral atmosphere of
the whole city has been altered, by this
great company of women who thread
our streets every Tuesday with Bible
under their arms-I think we should
be amazed and awed.
"But these great successes, these
great movements, do not come easily,
these miracles do not happen among
the worlds common places, just by &C
cident. There is always back of them
some tireless worker who gives himself
to God in the absolute surrender of
service. 1 shall never feel that I have
said quite all that is in my heart to
say. paid quite SO full tribute as
desire, to the woman whose wonder
full strength of personality has enabled
her to do here in Topeka work for
God which 1 have never seen dupli-
Gated in the land.
How does she do it? How does she
make you careless women, you
thoughtless girls. bend to your work SO
persistently? We preachers can't do it.
We preach our best sermons and you
tell us how good they are-and then
you go away and never think of trying
to practice them! But when Mrs. Men
ninger breaches, you practice! How
does she get you to do it? 1 don't
know.
''Only this / can see that she gives
herself so completely, so absolutely, to
her work for you, that you are ashamed
to match her conservation with care
lessness. May God spare Mrs. Men
ninger many years to continue this
great work for God in our midst!'
The graduates:
Tuesday class-Mrs. Eula Albauzh,
Mrs Ida Bollard, Mrs. c. S. Bowman,
Mrs. w. w. Bowman, Mrs. Ann earle,
Miss Fannie Cole. Mrs. F. W. Freeman,
Mrs. Eliza S. Gender, Miss Edna Hey
wood. Mrs. j. NJ. Hayes. Mrs G. N.
Morton, Miss Anna O'Meara, Mrs. G.
W. Port. Mrs. E. S. Quinton, Mrs. C. H.
Roney. Mrs. w. z. Seguine. Mrs. X. A.
Shunaker. Mrs. N. E. Thompson, Miss
Florence Welcome, Mrs. c. A. Wolf.
Y. w. {. A. class-Miss Louise Alli-
son, Miss Maggie Beede, Miss Leonora
Bates, Miss Jessie Campbell, Mrs. d. w.
Crawford, Miss Mary Coleman. Miss
Mabel Cuthbert. Miss Nellie Conkin,
MISS Lena Davis. Miss Miriam Dale,
Mrs. Jane Godney, Miss Anna Heart
burg, Miss Lou Hodges, Miss Margaret
koontz' Miss Katherine Marlett Miss
Caroline Morton, Miss Mabel Moss,