The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-11-28

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: women walled. Women first hailed
Christ's advent: women comforted his
| ministry; women stood closest to his
cross and women were first at his
tomb.
The cross bore the Saviour's kingly
title. The cross Of sacrifice is the throne
of service.
/ On the cross Christ forgave his enc
mics: by the cross God forsives the
world.
The Scriptures were not fulfilled I'M
| til Christ had done his work on
the cross; and the cross is not full
filled until it has done its work with the
last person on earth.
/ On the cross Jesus fOrgave his enc
mics. saved a thief, provided for his
mother and gave work to his disciple.
| The curious crowd which beheld the
| crucifixion was not alert to the signi-
the blunder of not discerning the signs
Of it's own times.
| The crucifixiOn means nothing to men
! in the mass unless it means everything
! to man as an individual.
| Calvary was Gods uttermost inter-
probation of his love for the world.
Written across Calvary is sacrifice;
/ written across this age Of ours is pleas
ure, says G. H. Morrison. On the lips
Of Christ are the stern words, Il must
die" On the lips Of this age of ours,
| L must enjoy" And it is when think
| of the passion to be rich and the judy
| ment OF everything by money-stand-
ards; or the feverish desire at all costs
to be happy. Of the frivolity. OF the
worship of success; it is when I think
pale and solemn scene" upon the hill.
that I know the offense of Calvary is
not ceased.
Pioneers Of the Greatest War.
Terse Comments on the Uniform Pray
er Meeting Topic of the Young Peo-
pies SOcieties-Christian Endeavor,
etc.-for November 20 is Missionary
Heroes and Heroines,'' II Cor. Alb.
BY WILLIAM T. ELLIS.
The fog of battle in Europe should
blind none Of us to the relative impor-
lance of the struggles now under way
upon this old earth of ours. Stagger-
ing. tremendous, incomprehensible as is
this greatest of all history's armed con-
flicts. it is yet less important to human
ity than the immeasurable war that is
being waged for the betterment of the
race. The strife between Christianity
and heathenism. between light and
darkness. between truth and err
ror is really the greatest of all
'He coHteStS tnat the universe mas
ever Witnessed Because we can
not see the opposing forces in actual
battle array, and because the weapons
are spiritual, the common imagina ton
is less likely to grasp the significance of
the fight upon which the worlds war
over-estimate the magnitude or impor-
lance Of the Christian conquest Of the
world.
AS the common soldier is the vital factor
In the clash OF armies. SO the missionary
, is the decisive force in the kingdom's
great war. The personality of the men
and women on Christiantty's firing line is
fect!ve beyond all methods and organ'za-
ton. So 1t is well to remind ourselves.
as this weeks topic suggests. that person
the seed Of the gospel. planted on the
, mission field. Kipling has sounded this
truth in his poem, Things and The Man"
"Oh. We who hold the written clew
To all save all unwrtten things.
And half a league behind pursue
The accomplished fact which flouts and
Look. to your knee your baby brings
The oldest tale since earth began,
To answer to your worryings-
Once on a time there was man.
He single-handed met and threw
Magicians, armies. ogres, kings;
He, lonely mid his doubling crew,
In all the loneliness of wings;
He fed the flame. he filled the springs.
He locked the ranks. he launched the
Straight at the grinning teeth of things.
Once on time there was a man."
Literature is so full Of the heroes of
the mission field that 1 should like to
devote myself in this brief space to wo-
men on the mission field OF whom have
personal knowledge. Woman's lot is hard
mission service.
great public has no understanding OF the
heavy cross borne by American and Euro.
pean women missionaries in oriental
lands, where their motives are impugned
and their position grossly misrepresented
Once in Turkey a noble American woman
told me- during lull in struggle with
| the Turkish officials over according her
| the rights and cOurteSies which are wo-
mans due, that 1t is only the conscious
fellowship of the Master who was con-
| stantly misunderstood and maligned that
makes her lot bearable at ALL
An American woman doctor in Syria
| for many years the only woman physician
| in the Turkish Empire-began the tuber-
| culosis work which is now being taken up
in other parts Of Turkey. But when DIR.
Mary Eddy c'Docteur Maree" have heard
dozens Of Syrians affectionately call herr,
began to minister to consumptives she
had to help bury the victims with her own
hands. All over the Lebanon mountain
! region, and into the desert and amid the
| Druzes the loving service of this noble
woman, now herself an invalid In Ameri-
| ca, is known and honored. She could
/ shoot and ride like man; but she could
1 minister like angel.
| Up at the headwaters of the Tigris
! River in an ancient walled city, I once
found a single American family. The
. fame of the young husband, the mission
airy doctor. has already reached far and
called him to q high post in a missionary
university; but most of all was I i'm,
pressed with the sweet and sunny and
wholesome girl wife. with her little daugh.
j., ter. No other American woman lived
so small that there was real hardship
The wife had to help her husband daily