The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-28

quarters lessons-the death of Johr
the Baptist, and the Masters OWL
rejection by His Nazareth neighbors
He came unto His own and His owr
received Him not" It was not the
| Garden and the Cross alone that made
Jesus "a man of sorrow;' He walked
the way of the Cross from the first
! al that the world might have pardon
and peace.
The Heroes of the Kingdoms War.
Terse Comments for September 20.
Missionary Boldness." Acts ALB,
1881.
(BY WILLIAM T. ELLIS.)
A new novel, that gives promise of
! being one of the seasons best selling
| books, is called 1.-The Goodly Fellow
ship" and the plot is laid in re-
mote mission station in Persia. The
! story has plenty of spice and adVen-
ture, and a high-spirited character
who disdains danger. After all,
though, the reader feels, as he lays
down the book, that the real hero
is the wife of the murdered mission
airy, who quietly. and without hys-
terra or herOics, continues her work,
| fOrgiVing freely her husbands STAY
ers. The quality of resignation and
endurance is higher courage than the
spirit of adventure. This is the bold
ness for which missionaries are most
truly to be honored, rather than for
the occasional acute hardships or
perils which they experience. 1t is
nobly brave to be able to exhibit the
character of the Master in an I'M
christian environment.
Having met more than a thousand
missionaries on their fields, I can yet
say that I have only known one who
exhibited any trace of cowardice, and
he was safe and snug in port city
China instances hero
ism almost without number, I have
personal knowledge. 1t is a pleasure
to testify that, as a class, mission
aries are not deficient in that ele-
mental quality of manhood known as
courage.
One of the most interesting and
invigorating of topical Bible studies
AN experience that vii! put iron
into the blood of any Christians to
follow the word "boldness" and its
derivatives through the Book of the
Acts. The American Revision brings
the subject out most clearly, and
makes it appear that this record of
| the apostolic church is a book of
boldness- The first recorded prayer
of the Christian church is a prayer
for boldness-and it's answer came
straightway. The first and last chron-
icled characteristic of PauPs preach
| ing was bOldnesS. 1t was when men
'beheId the holiness of Peter and
John that they took knowledge of
them, that they had been with
Jesus This word boldness literally
means free utterance." 1t is cour-
age in bearing witness. The truth
is one for testifiers: the disciples who
are not afraid to speak for their Mas
ter are the ones who have power in
the world.
A sweet-faced Canadian woman is
INoY- of nf a +
Pao Ting-fu, China, where, in Boxer
days, the missionaries were mas
sacred. Upon a visit to Pao Ting-fu
this lady, we learned, surrendered her
own room to my wife and myself. We
made some remark about the taste
full, simple white furniture. "And it
is all made from packing boxes. 1 lost
all my possessions when the Boxers
burned down our houses and as there
has seemed a constant possibility
time it did not seem advisable to
send home for good furniture" That
gentle woman spoke as quietly of the
possibility of the breaking of the
storm-cloud of loot and massacre be-
meath which she lived as another
woman might have talked of the
changing fashions. She is spending
her life with and for a people who
murdered her dearest friends, and
who might, in sudden blind frenzy,
ton to the Christ and His cause that
this fear haunts her not at ALL
Last week I talked with a man who
will be on the sea, en- route to China,
ere these words are read He is leav-
ing behind him in America his wife
and children for the sake of the
chiIdren's education. Now he faces at
least a year of loneliness in the in
terror of China, far from those to
whom his life is bound by strongest
cords AS he walked through the
groves of a summer assembly, the
women on the piazza reading novels
were absorbed in fiction less romantic
than this mans life. His was the
great choice between love and duty;
and, like a host of other missionaries,
he unquestionably made choice of
duty AS Christ's sent man, he was
ready to forsake all and follow Him.
Sometimes the uniformed pity
missionaries: they forget that these
men and women have compensations
far beyond the ken of the comfortable
srav-at- homes. Nearly every mission
arv on furlough finds that he must
Withdraw within himself, sharing only
a part of his work, ard the petty, pic
torial part at that, with the home folks.
They cannot understand his wider in
terests. They know, little OF his great
international social. racial and eco
nomic problems which his work has
made a part of his thinking. He is
world citizen; the people he commonly
meets at home are provinc1als. Despite
all its cost, the life of a missionary is
supremely worth while
few weeks ago a party of south
ern Presbyterian missionaries sailed