The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-03-28

OF our Lord. 1914. or Of q discussion
before q womAnse club. There was a
! lesson. the children and their rights.
Another treated the subject Of the
Another expounded the axes-old and
ever new theme Of mans access to a
Supreme Being. Another discussed sin
certify. Another talked about q rest day
for tho world. Another dwelt upon
that attitude Of vigilance which Is the
price Of liberty. and OF everything else
worth while. Another was an expo
sition OF wider outreach. sometimes
called decentralization and sometimes
named missions. Another taught help
fulness. 1.-The art OF being kind
Well has President Wilson said, THE
Sunday school lesson Of today Is the
code Of morals OF tomorrow"
The Worlds Greatest Social Service.
Terse Comments for March 29-"What
Missions Are Doing for the World
Cor. 15:1-1O.
Nothing 10 good for the bee that
II not also good for the hive" says
the ancient epigram. The idea never
was 80 popular as it IL now. when
than ever before. The days best
thought il OF world welfare. Our
new social unit is all mankind. It is
no fanciful and empty phrase to say
that the forces of human up.ift at
work today are affecting the whole
earth. That is literally SO. And of
the modern world-movements, none
has had SO direct and perceptible an
influence as Christian missions. The
missionaries have been the pioneers in
carrying Intellectual enlightenment and
material progress both to governments
and to individuals. They have permeat-
ed the nonchristian lands with their
influence. The advent Of the mission
ary has always meant change.
The critics Of missions are not the
persons who are possessed Of the most
facts about missions.
Scores OF alien languages have been
unlocked to the western world by
Christian missionaries.
Subtly and silently. missions are inn
posing a new standard Of ideals upon
the nations. They represent the veri-
ties OF brotherhood, and SO bear wit
ness against selfish exploitation Of the
weak nations by the strong. The best
friends the east has had in the west
have been the Christian missionaries,
who have alphabetically interpreted
the Oriental point OF view and charac-
ter.
A hundred detailed stories of the
practical services which missionaries
are rendering may be told. Here is
one Just in from Constantinople by a
late issue of 1.-The ORIENT DIR. W. B.
Adams, OF Beirut, learned a couple of
years ago from Johns Hopkins Of the
good effects Of the treatment Of leprosy
by freezing with carbon-dioxide snow.
In America not one physician in 10000
would hauo 60 =
ment with cases Of leprosy. But DIR.
Adams patiently tried out the process
On ten lepers. who have been SO great
ly benefited that they have proclaimed
themselves cured. A moments thought
suggests the stupendous meaning of
what D. Adams has DONE The hide
Gus outward blemishes, which advertise
the victim to all the world as a leper.
have been removed. Deadened mem
Ders OF the body have been given life
and feeling. The hopelessness Of lep-
rosy has been replaced by a zest for
life. Health has been set coursing
through the arteries Of the living dead
Thus the medical missionary follows in
the footsteps Of the Great Physician.
The familiar jinrickisha of the port
cities is the invention of the mission
airy.
The plea for famine smitten North
Japan has been sent to the world by
missionaries. The starving people Of
the Balkan States get the ear of
ChristendOm through the mission
aries. The missionaries sheltered ref
ugees in Marking, China, during the
recent hghting and ministered to
the wounded. When massacres have
swept over districts in the Turkish
empire 1t is the missionaries who
nave cared Tor the homeless and the
orphans. The atrocities OF the Bel
gians upon the Congo blacks were
stopped by the agitation Of mission
aries, even as they were the means
OF arousing the world to the horrors
OF the African slave trade. These in
cldents are all social service of first
magnitude. and recognized as such by
even the bitterest foe of missions
The sudden death of North Amer
ica's leading layman in missionary ac-
tivity. Hon. Samuel B. Capen Of Bos-
ton, president of the Layznen,s Mis-
sionary Movement, while travelling in
the Orient, has interested a world
wide public At the very same hour
there passed away in Japan. Mr..
Ishii, the George Muller Of Japan.
founder OF the great Okayama Or
phanage. This remarkable Christian
man was the greatest philanthropist
OF his nation. He housed, clothed, fed
and educated hundreds of Japanese
children in singular dependence upon
the resources of prayer. The orphan
age Will go on as before, with Rev.
James Pettee, missionary Of the
american board. and Mr.. Ishff's close
friend and adviser, in present charge.
The Christian idea Of womanhood is
one OF the potent requests of the mis-
s1onary to the great non-Christian
world. The changes in the social or
der OF America ana Europe wrought
Dy tne woman movement. are not
comparable with the far rreafer
changes effected by Christian missions
In Asia and Africa.
Not all the achievements Of mis-