The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-28

shall know of the dOctIlilS 49, If
: he of God or whether Spee'h u
myself John 7:17.
fRy WILLIAM T EL1I@IS-'
There is a distinguished New T..,. i W Is
man whose foible is the Sieat - nc
ne ndS -. .,,d I[o1I are certain to hear
Of his visit to the car, the hdlSeI' ~
King of England, the pope VI
president And reaIIy IleSe "a -,
en .-1s, ToyI-er TO the man. He shows
- his demeanor that it is not IN VAN
nat he has met the great o. INC
earth. ,.ro,f of associa-
+i,1, with the best people; we reveal
q, ourselves the influence OF thaI eA
rje,1ca To be with the great ana
Vet show no greatness writes one uoM II
as unworthy of the company ne kee eir7
Ibsracter is acquired in aSSoclalIoii'
We become like those with WholIl W
habitually fraternize- Even LIle ~
salem rabble, when they pehelu II
Witness of Peter and John, tooh
Irn01vledge of them that they had oeen
1-i+b JesIs" Their courage pore lh0
characteristics of Christ
Good Society of Good People
During the year just ending more
+ban tyventv-tive million persons nave
80 stnt1ying in the life of Christ
This simple fact in itself Is stu pen .--
o1Is achievement. No other one theIle
has held the concerted Afternoon u 80
1.-THE of this number OF persons; a. ~
even this host is only part OF the
great multitude which no man car
lumber who call themselves people OIL
the Book and of the Biography
Generally speaking, these are -. IN
worlds good society. They nave IINeu
under the influence of the best Ll1e.
THE ideals and standards OF Jesus
have been adopted as their loedIS an
standards. The result is written IaISe
L, Whence
these strange, new notions OF alIru
ism which are dominating tne "oi ~
in this year 1912? They are SIr1iS ~ -
out of this Biography when tne sun If
We trace the Cides of the times PACK
to their source, we find their spring
in the life of Jesus
The Bishop and the CanniDaIs.
In the early part OF TINS pIe seIS
month of December, there passed.
through America, on his way TO the
South Sea Islands, Bishop Wins Whe
for thirty years has been missionary
in the Friendly Islands. He had oeen
taking his first vacation Tor AIteeh
wears and he told a reporter that ne
was heartily glad to go back. he saLu
he felt safer in the Friendly 1s!anus,
which, within the memory OF aE1n9
men. were entirely peopled by CAM
balls than he felt in London or New
York a New York newspaper print
ed this statement with the olspIdy
ERe1S
Islands" 1t thought the fact remark
able. But Bishop Willis pointed out
that in Tonga practically all the PEG
pie once cannibals, are now ChrlS
tians. Honesty is so generally the uLe
that there are no locks on the doors
of the houses, and n need for saIes
or strong boxes. Malignant diseases
are not known. Simple friendllness'
integrity and good VIII preNdl4 a-lO17
these happy folk
Whv? How explain this miracle or
the transformation of a cannloal so
ciety? There is but one explanation
That is the power or CHRIST 70 nls an,
the individual and the conlInuIl Gil
tirely over into newness-
That is the vindication OF the gos-
mel Christ was born in vain In Beth-
Iehen unless He is born anew IN hu-
nan lives today This is the radical
-3iefaranca between the biography of the
master and all other life stories. w
read of Caesar and Alexander ana
Nerves and Socrates and Confucius ana
Ruddha all as historic characters "iO
lived and died, leaving the world oLIy
"A memory and some teachings Bu0
the life of Jesus is still pelnS trahsId' ,
"a into the lives of everyday men ana
women. The gospel of Christ lncor-
.orates itself in character. The prod
ict of this IL months study is in the
growth and fuller knowledge OF tne
facts of a great Life; it is new ne
on the part of multtudes OF the SIuu-
ents.
Landscape View.
ono advantage which students OF the
sunday school lessons have over othef
newspaper readers is their taml1arity
with the geography of the Iurklsn
war. To them the Bible Iands arr
I-noyrn territory. We may be very
go that the reporter had never at
tended Sunday school who went to Dr.
I. BARTON the other day with the
question. who are these Balkans Who
are fighting the Turks?
The Sunday school students see III
+ba OTTOMAN empire the present-day
1-o1-e- which rules over the land made
socrAd because of its association with
Cbrist's earthly life. They know that
q turkish soldier sits on guard at the
manager in Bethlehem and That Others
keen guard at the entrance 70 the
church of the Holy Sepulchre, and also
So +i1e Ten1ple Area in Jerusalem can
only he entered by a Christian when
gccCuranied by a soldier. Perhaps we
soon shall see great changes because
of the present working oil the leaNeH
which makes such incarnate inquiry
as Turkey intoleraole-
,r,ba wears lessons have carried the
s.,,5ept over the whole of the lovely
land called holy. From Bethlehem.
,-os+1ing in the hills below Jerusalem,
clear nm to the foot of the snow-croWn-
ed Hermon, we have followed the ioot-
r,rints of Jesus. With Him we nave
gone to beautiful Nazareth and TO the
neighboring towns OF Nam ana cana,
In conapanv with Him, as He visited
rTvra and Sidon, we have looked upon
the blue waters of the Mediterranean
where now the warships of the Powers
patrol. We have crossed the JORDAN
into the wilderness and have been
adrift on Galilee, the sea OF sacreu
--.--,o,-iac on both shores of the lake,
steap Gadara on the east and the Stop
ing Mount of Beatitudes on the west,
we have traced His footsteps Amid
the busv rnarts of metropolitan Caper-