The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-29
CLEAN UP WORLD
Billy Sunday Sounds TOcsin to
All America.
Urges Missions; Cites Million
Slain by the Turks.

New York, May 2e-Billy Sunday
thinks the devil is just as great a men
ace in Africa and Asia as in America.
He says that people are not born
heather. They become heather under
conditions that could be remedied if
the people of Christian lands would
do their duty by their less fortunate
neighbors. The world is so small now,
and we have become SO dependent up
on the people of these other lands for
labor and special materials that enter
into our manufactures, that we cannot
lrepudiate our moral responsibility for
their welfare.
Missionary enthusiasts looked for
ward with more than usual interest to
Mr.. Sundays Missionary Meeting in
the Tabernacle Monday night. Some
how the impression prevailed that he
did not believe in missions. particular
ly foreign missions. But to use his own
language, "A man would be fool to
suppose that God intended to save
Americans only
Ship Idols to India.
Much of the devilment we see here
and every year we ship enough rum
to Africa to send the whole continent
to -. Think of it-rum from Bos-
toni Then did you know that most of
the tin gods used by the heather in
India are made in the United States =?
Germany used to have a monopoly on
that business, but Philadelphia and
other cities now have the trade. 1 be-
lieve in the whole missionary business
from top to bottom. If L didn't, what
those Turks have done to the Ar
menians and Syrians would fix me.
Was there ever such a record in all
history? Listen!
More than a million men, women
and children have been slain. Two
million helpless refugees appeal to US
for bread to save them from starva-
ton. Simply to die would nave
meant heaven to these people, but
before they were permitted to pass
away there were practiced upon them
Families torn apart; people driven
like cattle; old men slain in cold
blood; preachers, professors, some OF
them educated in America, foully
murdered after having their tongues
cut out, their nails extracted by the
roots and other indignities heaped
upon them, that are TOO obscene to
mention; women violated, forced into
harems, or left by the roadside to die.
A favoritc method of torture was to
close all the doors and windows in
large house, make a hole in the roof
then threw the victims alive through
this hole till the house was filled.
Over this mass of struggling humanity
buckets of oil were poured and the
torch applied!
OIptldnS Dy the tens OIL
have been gathered, in some parts by
kind frierds who will care for them,
in others by Turks who will bring
them up as Turks
War for World.
It's just as President Wilson says,
the whole country-every man, wo-
man and child-must be modified for
the war. So every member of every
Christian church must be modified
for the Christian conquest of the
world. Dent wait to be drafted. Do
your duty. Give your money. Pray
for the mon and women on the firing
line in Armenia, China, Africa, India,
and the Islands of the Sea
Lets take hold and clean up the
whole world. If you leave a bad spot
anywhere it's filth will run over on
the good places. To make any one
part of the world really safe, we
must make all parts safe. In order to
be sure that we have saved one man,
we must save all. This is what the
missionaries have always said The
great war has proved thar they are
right