The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-27

the ultimate triumph of truth has
Characterised all great refo-mers:
the comfort of the good and the ter
ror of the evil. If the dew ever
feels despair it is because he knows
that he is only the devil, while God
is God. And God has said, with the
calm assurance of conscious omnipo-
return to me void, but it shall accom-
plish that which pleases, and it shall
prosper in the thing whereto : sent
it,"
Some Superlatives.
The refuge of every human soul is
the hope of divine pardon. None are
SO goo6 as to be beyond the iced of
1t. The great message of the gospel
is comprehended within the word of
the old seer, Let the wicked forsake
his ways, and the unrighteous man
his thoughts; and let him return unto
the Lord. and he will have mercy
upon him; and to our God. for he will
abundantly pardon"
All sorts of mere ethical isns and
ologies rise and flourish for a brief
day and then pass away into the limbo
or forgotten things, because they do
not satisfy a human souls deep need
of forgiveness. The gospel that is
winning the world is a gospel of par
don.
In that day of the Lords nonrness
for while He is always nigh there
is sense in which He is at times Pc
culiarly near-man enters into per-
sonal relations with Him only N the
basis of forgiven sin. Amos R. Wells
has finely said:
..Of all things. far, I love the best,
Fne s arsf that from the East to west,
Gods mercy parts me from my sin.
and best love, of all things high,
The space between the earth and sky,
For by that height beyond all ken
Gods love exceeds the love Of men.
Il love. OF deep things undefiled,
A fathers pity for his child,
For by that depth, so far so clear
God p1tfes all that faint fear.
| thank Thee for my human mind,
But CHIEF of all my praise shall be
Ihat mine cannot encompass -Theei"
Worlds Veal in Many Ways.
Terse Comments on the Uniform
Prayer Meeting Topic of the Young
Peoples Standardization En-
deavor, Etc.-For July %: EVAN
gelistic, Educational, Medical, and
Industrial Work in Foreign Mis-
sions."-Isa. GLIB.
Certain old words are being inter-
preted more largely nowadays Time
was when some persons declared
, themselves in favor of svangelistic
liiiSSIOIS, Out OppOSeQ TO medical mis-
SlonS. Now we see that in a very real
altho broad sense, medical and edu-
cational missions are evangelistic.
They interpret the religion of Jesus
/ to communities and nation. Their
ministry mirrors the mind of the
! Master. They are actually telling the
/ story in comprehensive terms to null
/ titudes who never hear the Gospel
| from the lips of missionary.
The Great Physician surely counts
| as in the true line of succession to
| himself all who heal the sick, give
| sight to the blind and bind Up the
\ wounds of the hurt in body.
| On the mission field, as everywhere
else. Christianity has to do with men
who work. In some lands, notably in
India, the missionaries have had to
train their converts up into new
forms of self-support. Rejected from
/ their old relationships because they
have become Christians, these ma
tives have to be taught other indus
] tries. Thus it is that in India espe-
cfally there are great many indus
trial missions, some of which are al
most self-supporting.
The lace-making of Armenia
China, India. Japan, and Korea-im-
mense Industries. which now support
| tens of thousands of persons-wat
taught to the natives by missionaries
Protestant and Roman Catholic. Thi:
is but one instance of the introduc.
ton of new vocations by the represen
tatives of the Gospel.
Nothing can take the place of al
Turing men to new life by the procla
nation of the Story. The only sur,
way of making over this old earth
with its complex sins and problems
is to win men to personal salvation il
Jesus Christ.
Turnout China they have built man.
educational establishments, they hav
attracted into these educational estab
lishments the men of the studen
class. and there they have laugh
them the great truths that we believe
Some have been converted, some hal
converted, some have merely admire
Christianity from the outside, but i
is by them that China has been in
fluenced. With one or two excep
tions, such as St Stephens College a
Hong Kong, and the London Mission
College at Tien Tsin we must ALLOW
that the great bulk of educational es
adjustments are American and tina
the greatest missionary work that ha
) been done in modern times. the wor
: by which China has been change
from being an oppressive and heathe
autocracy to an enlightened moder
: natlOn, hao Deen zone Dy America
modern energy and American money
The new China has been made i
America; that great, massive powe
that must influence the whole indus
! trial history of the world draws mos
of its Inspirations from the America
trained students, and it is not withou
meaning that in choosing a new sys
tenn of government under the influ
!. ence of these students China pre-
3 ferred president to a king.
Il
. After all the other aspects of mis-
E sions have been recounted, it still re
mains true that not the vast educa
: tionaI or medical or literary or indus
5 trial or exploration or politics
: achievements of missions are til
e greatest work of Christianity's for
r eign propaganda. The work of work
: the crown of crowns. of Christian mis-
Il sions has been in leading myriads {
d individual men. women. and childre