The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-29


ambitious plans. One cannot visit
Nlneveh, for instance, and behold the
Ch1ldren of Israel who have still sur
vfved while the glory of Sennacherib
has persisted without awesome thoughts
of the God of Abraham and the chill
dren of the promise.
long look back over the millen-
NUNS make it clear that society has
an obligation to God. He has held ac-
bic the nations of the earth. God
deals with peoples as we'll as with in
dividuals. and that is the lesson for
today. We are engaged, on this west
ern continent, in creating a new civil
fZation. If we are not ignorant of the
teachings of time We will keep Gods
program in mind and hold our nation
true to it's obligation to the King of
kings.
Hold We the faith the faith our
fathers sealed US
Whoring not with visions over wise
and over stale.
Except ye pay the Lord.
Single heart and single sword
OF your children in their bondage
Shall He ask them treble tale"
The Religion That Carries a Book.
Terse Comments for March 30. Mis-
sion Work at Home and Abroad, III.
Education" Acts IS: I'll.
(BY WILLIAM T. ELLIS.)
The notion is finding Judgment in
many minds that education is in dan
ger of becoming musty and mechanical
1t is suffocating plastic minds with lit
formation, instead of quickening them
into sturdy life. So the brave OBJ
servers who have looked at life in the
large are calling for less stereoptyped
form of teaching. They want method
that will develop power and PERSONAL
Right here. while the debate upon the
efficiency of our present school meth
DDS is raging, the minister of the gospel
steps in and claims for vital religion
a sheer educational power beyond that
of the schools. His reasoning is that
Christianity floods a soul with new pur-
poses, new ideals, new life. He quotes
an expert from India, who declared in
the Edinburgh Conference that the
vival in the Kassia Hills had done more
for the intellectual stimulus of the peo-
pie than all the mission and govern
ment schools mbined. In this con-
tention the psychologist would support
the missionary as against the machine
made-peda gogue. 1t is impulse, pur-
pose, vision that young and old need,
rather than facts or methods. That is
the very reason why Mark Hopkins
sitting on the end of a log could give
a better education than an ordinary
teacher in the most scientifically
equipped classroom ever built Educa-
ton is for life and it should be by
life. There is profound philosophy in
the truth that the gospel has been the
greatest educational force in human
history.
Christianity has been peculiarly a re-
ligion to stimulate thought. 1t teaches
men a divine discomfort
President Wilson was the first lay
man to be head of Princeton univer-
sity. President Hadley is the only
lay president in Yale's long history
n
cent times it has been the practice
for most of the leading universities
and colleges of North America to be
presided over by ministers of the
gospel. The usage reveals the gen
eral belief that the interests of edu-
cation are conserved and directed by
religion. The planting of home mis-
sion colleges has been one of the
formative factors in the life of Amer
lea The church and the school
house have been the twin landmarks
of new communities since the founda-
ton of this WESTERN empire.
A fundamental difference between
Christianity and the non Christian
faith-Judaism and Islam excepted
is that this is the religion of book
To all its converts it gives the Bible.
The intellectual cultivation of the
people has been a goal. The scrip
lures have been made the foundation
las followed, as effect follows cause,
that the Christian nationes have led
the world. There is warrant for the
bitter plant of the young Turk.
christians have all the power in the
world"
1.-The entrance of Thy word giveth
light''-light for the mind. as well asI
light for the soul.
thorough knowledge of the Eng
lish Bible is real education.
Captain Burton. the famous Brit
ish traveller, whose knowledge of the
Arabic language and life was so COM
plete that he penetrated even to-
lating into English famous Arabic
poetry. He looked upon this as his
great work But when he died his
wife, after reading his manuscript
is not fit to print The masterpieces
of Moslem literature are erotic
that. translated. they would be de-
MED transmission through the mails
of any Christian government 1t is
singular fact that the sort of think
ing which may be found in Moslem
and other non-Christian lands today
is quite the same as the state of
mind into which the Christian
church was born. The Apostle Paul's
letters give us glimpseS of it. His
torians have marveled at the sweet
ness and purity of the lives of the
early Christians amid such foulness-
Steadfastly the gospel has trained its
adherents and the world at large in
to a state of mind pure and gentle and
brotherly.
The minister used to be called the
dominic" or teacher. He was pre-
eminently the intellectual leader of
the community.
One of the greatest educa tional
achievements in the history of the race
has been the translation of the Bible
into the speech of every nation, and