The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-01
Only $500 Asked of State To
Provide the TestamentS.
They win Be Given to the Sol
diers on French Soil.
EVERY MINISTER IS IN WORK
Religious Organizations, Also,
Will Help the Big Fund.
Special Sermons in Behalf OF
Movement December 8.

Kansas churches and religious or
eanizations today began a campaign
To raise a $500 fund for Bibles for
Trrcla SANS soldiers IN France and
in the cantonments. Before the end
of the campaign, December IL. the
American Bible society, thru the pa
+rio+ic and religious organizations, VIII
cot +o raise a national fund of $4OO,-
ooO Every minister of the gospel
will be in the campaign. Four min
NO mon will assist in the work and
the drive will have the support and
andorsen1ent of hundreds of prom1-
In Kansas the $500 will be sub
scribed in the states own P';ll.iI., PeGuiia1 !,
vav. Every Sunday school, CHRISTIAN a
Endeavor, every churcn a. 90
branch religious organization IN Kan
sas will seek to do its full snare:
From the pulpits the ministers Will
Mead for funds in special sermons
Sunday. December 9. The four-Inln-
,,ta men will speak for the Bible tund
~ eI1ery Kansas theater-even in the
will direct the taking
of subscriptions. 80
Then there is the sinner on foot.
He will be asked to do his share IN
spreading the gospel He Will pc
asked for a subscription for a bunch
of Testaments for the men in the
cantonments Hundreds of men VINO
lack a working knowledge concerning
the Psalms and thoughtlessly NIX the
a fairs of John the Baptist with the
lamentations OF Jeremiah wIli uS
deep in their pockets and hand over
a donation for the cause.
Wilson Endorses 1t.
President Wilson has given nat
tering endorsement of the movement
to supply the national army with
rq.xr nARnTn
the day upon which the work shall
receive its emphasis. meets with my
yery cordial approval 1 hope that IL
wifi be possible for you to work out
a plan and to carry it to a very sue
cessful consummation, for nave the
deepest sympathy with the work
which it will represent. Ihat was
the sentiment expressed by President
Wilson in a letter to the men ana
women behind the movement.
Army officers, state and federal or
ficials in all sections of the country
have given the movement a most
hearty commentator. Nor is the
least concern expressed by the men
who lack the benefit of scriptural
study and training. Some of the men
who will head the movement IN Kan
sas are not in the class OF church
goers. But they will give the move
ment most positive support. In fact
| some of the really heavy individual
subscriptions will probably be received
| from men who are not on the rolls OF
the church, but who feel deeply and
keenly the spirit of the movement &c
spread the MESA ge among the night
| ing men of the nation. Not only will
the hundreds of thousands of New
Testaments be distributed to the
/ American troops, but they will be
| printed in French, Italian, Russian
and other languages that the men ir
the trenches and in the prison camps
may road the word in their owr
tongue.
Appeals for aid in the Bible cam
paign will probably be made in the
next few days by many prominent
Kansans In this state they will urge
| success of the movement, just a:
President Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt
William Howard Taft, Brigadier Gen
eral Hoyle and other prominent meT
are urging success of the campaign il
the nation.