The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-13
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of the Maori race, and next come the
worshiping thousands of the aborig
ines OF Australia in Christian fellow
ship with as many Polynesian labor
ers from their island homes, and Chi
neSe immigrants from the ancient seats
of their race. Close upon these fol-
low the Christians of New Guinea,
gathered out from a wild and savage
race, and won at a heavy cost of preci-
Gus life by European and Polynesian
fellow laborerS.
From New Guinea the day passes
with hardly an interval to Japan, where
a vivid contrast is presented
"One hour later the Church of
Manchuria begins its worship. =
Almost contemporaneous with the wor-
ship of Manchuria is that of the
Korean churches Next in order
of time come the worshipers of the
Philippine Islands, and with these IS
associated an old and interesting Chris
tian community in the Moluccas ana
the Celebes Islands.
Long before the day has traversed
the length of Java it has begun in
China and Formosa, and over vast
territory are scattered congregations
which-to speak only of those repre-
scented at the Shanghai conference
number at least 100000 communicate
members, and a Christian community
may be associated Siam, the Malay
Peninsula, and Sumatra, closely follow
ed by Burma and Assam, where null
titudes of souls continue the strains Oh
Christian worship. But IN these lons
itudes, too, occur the great plank
spaces of Tibet and Turkestan, in which
as yet scarcely a single voice of Chrls
tan worship is found.
Immediately on Burma follows the
of
Ceylon, whose yearly increase Is morS
than four times as rapid as that oil
the total population. AS the DAY
passes over the western frontier OF
India, it enters the small but soma
blocks of untouched ground in Belu-
chistan and Afghanistan. Immediate
Nv n their rear comes the old KING
dom OF Persia, with its great history
of literary and political glory, Where
only a small proportion of its inter-
esting people acknowledge Christ as
Lord: while in Arabia also another
name has usurped the place u9e
His alone, and few of the DESERT
rangers yet bow the knee to Him.
passing over Arabia, the day al
most Immediately enters upon AFRICA:
one of the widest and most varied OF
ali the mission fields of the world.
First on it's eastern threshold the
martvr Church of Madagascar halls
the return of the Lords Day. On the
continent itself vast spaces are yer
unreached by the Gospel. But the
church, planted at many points Win
untold labor and sacrifice, maintains
across the intervals, through Living
stonia and Uganda to Congoland ana
Old Calabar, the far-reaching success
sion of Christian worship, and hanus
ON the day of rest from the 1nuiaH
ocean to the Atlantic, it's day OF Wor-
ship coinciding with that OF the olo
Mother Churches of Europe.
Greenland in the far north, with
its Christian church, fills up the in
terval between Africa and Europe on
the east of the Atlantic, and the
Americas on the west. So by Esk1
mos and Aleutians and American In
dams, by Christian negroes IN the
West Indies and the United States
and by Patagonians in the tarthest
south. Joining with all the American
churches. the strain of worship is con-
timed 11nbroken, till finally, when the
dav has completed its long circuit, 1t
ends. as it began in the Pacific ocean |
and the last lingering Worshipers IN the
House of God are the Chris !
tian DeopIe of Samoa and the Friendly
islands It is these simple people OF
tha islands-savages century ago
who first greet the Lords Day with
their songs of praise, and 1t IS they |
who close it with their lingering
prayers"