The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-13
INTERNATIONAL.
SUNDAY SCHOOL
LESSON
FOR september IS is swimming the
world to Christ. Matt. s:1s-l6;
as.1a-on. A cts 1k.6-16.
BIZ WILLIAM 7. ELLIS.

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2S:1S-20; Acts 16:6-15.
ve,,ssian. Prussian or Christian Way?
AFTER the war''-tfiat Is the phrase
that is heard ten thousand times
day all over the world, and in europe
esDecialiy. Even the newest rookie in
phrase, "apres la gnetre. Those who
have experienced most Of war are the
ones who think ever of the days TO
come, after the war. Soldiers taih
1 about this good time coming even
more than they talk about the war.
f3attie smoke has only. opened their |
ewes to the vision of the new earth |
for which they are fighting. The
world is to have fresh start and a
new chance, '.apres la guerre.
the war. After the powers OF --evil
which have terrorized humanity Tor
four years have been forced to their
knees, apd their arch criminals nave
been held to personal responsibility
Fly the legal processes OF ciyiilzahon.
effected, there is to come to pass, ac-
| cording to common expectation,
| world order almost utopian. Thought
/ full persons are graveiy concerned as
they realize the magnitude OF man
/ kinds expectations OF new cenoitlohs
after the war.
| For the supreme problem of the
world, after the war has been won,
| is how to reach and maintain the
new level Of life for all men which
| q common conviction OF mankind de-
| mands. Whence will come the power
and the impulse that will transform
our universal desire into a workable
reality? i is easier TT, to tais stfs aPo u
Nobody should complain OF the old
1 order, or plead for the new, who is
| not trying. in some definite, practic-
able fashion. to bring 1t to pass. A
r.tx-rr~
4 tionists, would be a calamity like un-
| to war itself.
i The BIuncers OF the Bolsheviks.
j A new program will not make
new world. Only the halfbaked can
think SO. We have learned from the
4 Bolsheviks in Russia the futility OF
mere program. They had scheduled
utopia for immediate delivery. Every
Il thing that radical reformers had ever
dreamed as desirable for an improved
i social order they put into their edicts
4 Poverty, hard work, social disa bility.
unhygienic living conditions-al were
abolished by the deliverances OF the
Bolsheviks when they took control in
i Russia. The rich were despoiled, land
!, was distributed, and Httermest self
4 government was inaugurated. From
the standpoint OF the theoretical and
radical socialist. the Bolshevik pro-
gram was perfect. Even today there
u aer some addle-pated sentimentalists
|, who support it, Yet if there is any
|, where on earth a spot more like
, chaos than Hnssia I do not want to
, have personal experience Of it.
Il Belshexikism has let loose a verit-
Il able reign OF terror upon the poor
land that once was Russia. and self
ishness starvation, suffering and de-
| spair stalk hand in hand.
: Preachers and teachers, and every
|, other person who thinks, should, con
/. well the lesson of Russia. Humanity
= EcAnnot be legislated or fevolutioni1ed
into q new order OF altruisrn. All our
shortcuts and swift panaceas for
social reform have been discredited.
Let US at least be grateful that we
Il come to the end OF the war with the
lesson of Bolshevikism well learned.
Gefnaany's False God.
Still keeping in mind the goal that
we are considering, a. new and better
world order. we are bound to look
| next at the German way. The pro-
gram OF 'kultur'' is that the greatest
good OF Germans, and, incidentally, of
| all other peoples, who should be
subordinated to Germany. will be
served by the dominance of education,
efficiency and science. Others be-
side Germans had made a fetch OF
this root idea of Prussianism. Edu-
Gated and liberal persons especially
al were convinced that mankind could
s | be educated out of all it's sins and
e bootstraps, as it were.
E II hell has ever had any better ally
+ than Germany we do not know II
$ All the forces of evil have been
e strengthened by Prussianism: Ever
e Turkey has been outdistahced anc
(, made q disciple by the opponents OF
e "kultur" The universities and schol'
:, airs, to whom all the world of learning
n used to bow down as to little gods
e have proved to be the inspiration ant
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n is SO intolerable that civilization II
!. giving millions of it's fairest yeuni
L. lives to wipe it out utterly.
L. Unless we are as dunder-headed a.
e Prussian officer, we shall learn tn
1t lesson, written on the ravaged soil o
,e Belgium and France, repeated in Ar
l. menia and the Holy Land, and in hal
i, a dozen other little nations, and trace
d, In blood on every sea, that mere edu
p cation. of the most thoro and scien
lie tific kind, may co-exist with the yer.
f. worst trait of human nature. We can
l. not make mankind over by science
j. That is one big essen which German.
N has taught us. Textbooks and lniver
r. stiles and arrogant savaIits are n
A. remedy for what Is wrong with hui
man life.
Evolution as q war casualty.
Now that the attention of twent
million persons in North America
fixed for the present week upon thi
| subject of a transformed world, let u
) think 1t clear thru. Two major meth
:. DDS remain for consideration. Socis
ie revolution has failed before our eye
/ So has education to the nth degre'
OF as exemplified by '.kultur." Let uA re
gard for q moment another pet rem
ne edy. evolution There lis a 1ars
is school of perons who, net conten
with accepting the doctrine of evolu
in ton in it's proper scientific plac
I'd make a shibbeleth out of it. They bs
lieve that humanity is going to "eve
49, lute'' out of all of its ills. By til
~ processes of survival and selection
Ut man will rise to heavenly levels. TIL
theory of evolution is the braminic;
UT cord of the highbrows.
no Possibly the idea would work, if v
lie rr,,I7 only matt lone opo,,0b, fal