The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-12

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! be the best possible for God. They
saw that Jehovah needs men of force
and fineness to represent Him in
| nigh places. Every firSt-class Chris
tan is the best advertisement of the
| Gospel There are "a lot of misguided
folk spending time in coddling their
own souls and specializing about their
| be out doing things worth while in the
name of the living God. Religion be-
| longs in the palace, even if it has to
get there by way of the servants
household of Nebuchadnezzar and of
| Caesar.
Efficiency and Religion.
prove us!' cried Daniel to the
master steward. That is it: religion
asks no odds, and it will stand any
test. Genuine gold welcomes the acid.
If Christianity does not work out in
to efficiency, there is something
wrong in the process. This is the test
which the hard-headed twentieth CEN
partments of life: Does the thing pro
duce results. So Jesus said, by
| their fruits shall We know them"
This Daniel story falls on World s
of Christendom giving special heed
to the temperance issue. Never was
there such a day of temperance jubi-
lation as this. In spite Of occasiona!
Set-backS, the cause is winning all
over the world. Phenomenal victories
have been won for temperance in Brl-
tain, France, Germany and Russia
since the war broke out 1t is prop
ably safe to say that there have been
greater triumphs for temperance in
the past one hundred years. The case
of alcohol versus no-alcohol has al
most ceased to be debataDle.
One big factor is the modern argu-
ment that abstinence makes for eff
cheney. This is the slogan of most big
business enterprises today. The dead
lest blows to John Barleycorn are
being dealt by the unsentimental and
coldly calculating commercial spirit
of the twentieth century, which has
scientifically proved to itself that al
cohol diminishes the efficiency of
men With Daniel, our times are
learning that self-indulgence does not
promote manlinesS or might.
United Work for the Common Cause.
Terse Comments on the Uniform Pray
err Meeting Topic of the Young Peo-
pies Societies-Christian Endeavor,
etc.,-for November IA: How the
Denominations May Be United in
Service. lisa. 52:7, s.
Among the dying things of our day
must be classed denomination rival
nv Even as certain diseases are
doomed by science to extinction, so
the unseemly jealousy and strife be-
tween religious denominations, which
has marred the history of the church,
is certain to disappear. There is less
of it every year. Men and women are
coming to see the essential irreligion
of it all. Christian unity, and actual
Christian union move on apace. All
over the world there is a new era of
comfy and cooperation among Chris
tianS of all names.
While these line are being written
and read there is in progress through
out the United States a Laymen's Mis-
Sionary compaign that is holding un-
precedented meetings in one hundred
different cities. In this work prac-
tically all evangelical denominations
are actively cooperating. The
churches present a common front for
common cause. The result is that
these meetings are registering as high
as five thousand delegates in single
city, and they are making a really
unprecedented impression upon the
public The Laymen's Missionary
movement in Canada has had quite a
massing of Christian men has proved,
if proof were needed, that when the
churches work together they get re-
suits commensurate with their aim
and spirit.
The greatness of the tasks confront
ing the whole Christian church in this
hour is driving all the branches of the
church together in a united effort to
meet needs which no single denomi-
nation or organization can meet alone.
The churches have one gospel, one
Christ, one heaven and one work;
why, then, should they not forever
sing?
I'VE are not divided, all one body We
One in hope and doctrine, one in charity
The Christian activities which of
recent years have made the greatest
impression upon the coun-
try have been INSTRUMENTATION !
like the Sunday school, the Young
Mems Christian association, the Chris |
tan Endeavor society, the Laymens !