The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-28
INTERNATIONAL
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
BY w. I. ELLIS

/ Josiah. The history of Judah was
like mountainous skyline, with the
good kings as the mountain peaks
They made their people to turn to
God. Forever they stand as illustra-
tons of the truth that one man has
power to lead many men to do good.
Now that people choose their own
rulers, it may reasonably be said to
be incumbent upon them to see that
these rulers are men with that first
fear Of the Lord.
The power of one small boy in the
neighborhood for mischief is the Won
der and despair of parents. 1t seems
as if one such is able to offset the in
f1uence of half a dozen good boys.
plus all the anxious parents concerned.
1t was so with the mischief making
kings of Judah. They made the peo-
pie to sin The warnings of the
prophets, the strong pull of the ma
| tons providential history, the exam
pie of their pious predecessors, all
! seemed to be nullified,- when kings
like Rehoboam, Joash, Ahaz, Manas-
sch and Jehoiakim came to the throne.
The people who condone or suffer
wickedness in a public official are tri-
fling with their own and their chill
dren's welfare.
Like beacons, reckoning a bewil-
dered traveller on a dark night were
the prophets of Judah-Isaiah, Jere-
miah, Ezekial and Daniel. The man
with a word of truth is the divine
/ corrective in the life of society. A
nation is never in the worst state so
long as lit has fearless, disinterested
men, who will proclaim the wise
word of true counsel. The underly-
ing evil of the nation was it's neglect
of Gods clear word, and failure to
! follow the path He had clearly marked
out Written over all those trou-
/ blous generations we may clearly read,
/ righteousness exalteth a nation. but
sin is reproach to any people"
Taking Civilization to Task.
1t has CHANGED to be my lot to
traverse practically all the ruins of
antiquity. l have trodden the fallen
grandeur of all the ancient and i'm
perial civilization. In these ruins one
reads story of a retributive power
who overrules all of mans vaultings
and ambitious plans. One cannot visit
Nineveh for instance, and behold the
children of Israel who have still sur
vived while the glory of Sennacherib
has persisted without awesome
thoughts of the God of Abraham and
the children of the promise.
A long look back over the millen-
NUNS makes it clear that society has
an obligation to God. He has held
accountable the nations of the earth.
God deals with peoples as we'll as
with individuals, and that is the les
son for today. We are engaged, on
this western continent, in creating a
new civilization. If we are not ig-
norant of the teachings of time we
Will keep Gods program. in mind and
hold our nation true to it's obligation
to the King of kings.
Hold ye the faith the faith our fathers
Whoring not with visions over wise and
stale.
Except We pay the Lord,
Single heart and single sword
" your children in their bondage
Shall He ask them treble tale
Serving the States strangers.
Terse Comments on the Uniform Pray
er Meeting Topic of the Young Peo-
pies SocietIes-Christian Endeavor
Etc.-for September 80: Home
Mission Work Among Immigrants
. Psalms 67:1-7.
The immigration emergency has
| brought the great agencies of home
missions of the leading American de-
nominations into oneness of action
They have formed co-operatina
council, and have campaigned the
! states together, in an effort to arouse
the churches to action upon this great
/ issue. Thus, indirectly, the Immigrant
has been the means of fusing into {
measure of oneness the forces that are
to be exerted for his service.
The religious forces of North Amer.
lea are only now awakening to the
Importance of one of their Creates
problems: namely, how to merge the
vast alien population upon the Chris
, tan life of the new world Frankly
the most shallow and perfunctory eff
forts had been set forth until recently
toward the solution of this question
Nor has there yet appeared any ade-
quate, statesmanlike method of deal
: ing with the irnn1i era flood
Patriotism joins with religion il
| constraining the churches to actor
with respect to their immigrants. The
very genius of the nation is imperillet
by this invading army of foreigner:
except they be led into an acceptance
of the Christian ideals of this western
world.
A Christian greeting to the Devil
dered, lonely and sensitive immigran
IS testimony to religion indelibl,
craven on his heart.
Even if a man is personally indif
ferent to the claims of the church
: he will admit in his serious moments
that the pillars of patriotism, the pill
5 lars of good government, are FOUNDED
: in religion.
\ Except the immigration question b.
: accepted as a mission by the churcl
it will be a menace to the country.
The person who teaches a mission
Sunday school class among foreigner
may be doing more to solve the i'm
migration problem than the man Mh,
! makes eloquent speeches upon it.
Some men have walked the street
of the new world as ignored aliens
/ whom, had we been wiser, we shoul
have welcomed as heroes and sol
, diers of liberty's universal cause. Tn
: narrow-mindedness which indiscrim
: inately condemns the stranger thereb
r accuses itself
i The biggest things of our nationa
:. life are at stake in this problem of tn
alien All that our fathers won s.
dearly is again on trial The Sabbath
e the church. the reign of law, the free
dom of the individual, all are subjec
: to attack from these hosts of new