The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-02

Follow the Gleam-"
Where Wars Guns Boom.
Both Troas and Phfsippi are over
run by troops today. and the waters
between are cleft by the PROV of many
a warShip. Philippi itself is a ruin,
and the giories of Philip of Macedon,
after whom it was named, are well
nigh forgotten. The neighboring city
Here is one of the strategic centers of
tie world war. Before these lines are
printed there may have been vast de-
velopments there. The best way TO
study the war news in this part of the
earth is through the maps of Paurs
missionary journeys
Paul Travelled from city to city. He
adventured Philippi as the most dom
mating center of Macedonia This
missionary statesman always proceed
ed on the strategy of attacking the big
cities. Then, as now, news goes from
city to country. Enterprises win by
city victories And Paul knew that
he had a gospel adequate for the
greatest cities of Greece and Rome
1t is well that the Church is newly
alert to the Importance OF rural com,
munities; yet the old lesson stlli
stands, that the issues OF the gospei
are to be settled about the cities
Fancy has always loved to play over
this dramatic journey OF Paui from
Asia to Europe. John Mcneil says,
SJIDDOS6 L
been ordered the other way. Then
very likely Europe would have oeen
the India and Asia and the Africa that
now are, and away in those lanos tne
ministers would be doing their pest
to get their people to contribute TO
foreign missions to evangelize the bar
barians of Europe"
The Woman of the West.
THE man of Macedonia turns out
to be a woman" says Andrew Bonar.
The first person mentioned by Paul IN
| his European experiences was Lyola'
lest meetings at Philippi were the lit
| tie conferences for prayer by the
riverside where a few cody women
gathered on the Jewish Sabbath.
! Apparently, there were not enough
persons to form a synagogue Small
and insignificant as this gathering
was, it was the one heavenward-
| pointing group in Philippi, and Paul
| identified himself with it. Anybody
who has wit enough to understand
| Sunday school lesson, is too wise to
! despise the day of small things. We
/ have seen a little conference of bust
| ness men in New York turn into the
Laymen's Missionary Movement; and
! a conference of students under a
Massachusetts, haystack become the
modern enterprise of missions. The
| conversion of Lydia at Philippl stood
for a great ideal.
| In this day of sex consciousness OF
women it is well to recall that the
first convert to Christianity in Europe
was LYDIA AS says Dr. Peloubet
christianity has made women hon.
ored everywhere. and they in turn have
honored Christianity The women OF
Europe and America have come to fill
the position of greatest faithfulness
and efficiency in the Christian church
without them it would be impossible
to conduct the Christian activities OF
today. The entire modern movement
of Christian womanhood may be i'm
aged in that little riverside meeting al
Philippi, where the Apostle Pau
preached his first European sermon.
The arrival of Paul at Philip
launched a new force in the life OF
Europe, alongside of which all the
armies that have landed seemed small
and insignificant. He lighted a bea.
con which has since shed its rays
over the whole of the known globe.