The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-18

| DRY OY every STUDENT OIL THIS 1cSSOA-
Let not him that girdeth on his armor
| boast himself as he that putteth IL
off, A good motto for young America
that
fury, Ben-hadad did drunkard s
deed-in the very midst of his drink
ing bout he ordered the battle joined
at once. No time was taken for re-
connoissance or special preparation; IN
the heat and frenzy of drunkenness
the Syrian hosts were to go forth.
Meanwhile. a prophet of Jehovah
had hidden Ahab take the initiative,
even with his small army. No longer
was he to remain on the defensive
THE best way to parry is to hit Inc
| hosts of God are too often entrenched
| when they should be on the open neiu
| in a swift assault. Hold the fort
should be dropped from our repertory
of songs, and Onward, Christian Sol
dierS" sung instead. Any Christian
| community that is not making an ag-
gressive onslaught upon the saloon and
other evils needs to read It's general
orders again.
The news that sally was being
| made from Samaria by the besieged
was brought to the carousing king. He
made a maudlin, boastful answer, but
went on drinking. But ere long he
was sobered by the rout of his army,
/ and he himself was put to flight Je-
hovah and His righteousness had once
more been indicated. Syria was
routed in flight that parallels the
panic of the liquor business today. For
victory is inevitably with those VINO
mons to battle.
The New Call of the New Times.
| Terse Comments on the Uniform Pray
er Meeting Topic of the Young Peo-
pies Standardization Endeavor,
! ETC.. for September 10: world
| Ideals, and How Foreign Missions
! VIII Promote Them Dan. 2:36-45.
(BY WILLIAM T. ELLIS.)
Muddled minds never were more Of
a menace than now. 1t is easy to
think crookedly at present when
straight thinking is needed more than
ever before. The world seems badly
| jumbled. Old landmarks have top
pied over in the upheaval of recent
months. World relationships have
shifted bewilderingly. Ancient isola-
lions have disappeared, and imme-
mortal insularities have been bridged.
Allegiances which once seemed clear
and simple have become confused
Our very conceptions of society have
been affected. "Old things have pass
ed away: behold, all things have be-
come new" seems a Scripture for the
hour. Ruts that were routes for ages
have suddenly been blown up or OBJ
liberated 1t is not easy even to be
a conventional thinker. Most people
are standing dazed and amazed amid
world phenomena without precedent
and almost without explanation.
Frankly, it is hard to think straight
in these twisted times. So let us fix
our minds on three sure things, that
nothing can shake. though all else
changes. First is that, despite our too
small notions of Him, God still reigns
and is working out His own purposes.
Second, human brotherhood is needed
more than ever; we are under oblfga-
ton to be citizens of the world. And
third, 1.-The next thing" the near-at-
hand task remains to be done.
In working out the new world ideals
which the mutations of recent months
have made necessary, these three fac
tors need to be held dominant; q fresh
loyalty to God, a new sense of world
brotherhood, and quickened devotion
to ones own task and work. Rever-
ence, fraternity and efficiency will so
come to pass. These may reverently
be said to be goals of God. He surely
wants all men to be His loyal chill
dren, and to love one another, aud to
develop to the full the capacities with
which He has endowed them.
There has been too much of mar
rowness and selfishness in the ideals
which have ruled the world hitherto.
From the days of Babylon until now
great nations have put their own ag-
grandizement as the first of all objec-
tives. They have held 1.-The world for
our country" and that policy has