The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-25

ty million persons VIII study sinful
taneously. For it is opportune beyond
most. We welcome it gladly. as dis
cussion of the truth for the times.
Here we may find light from the clear
lamp of Scripture upon the one out
i standing problem of our day. the ques-
ton of fraternity and social helpful
ness. 1t viii be a dull teacher indeed
who slavishly follows the old method
of coming, verse by verse, only the
one assigned portion of the inspired
word. This lesson, like the entire six
ito be so considered. livery days
newspaper has living comment and
illustration upon our present theme.
Our world is bent upon realizing
new era Of fraternity. Some call it
Bolshevism (Which is only a CHASTITY
imitation of the genuine article), some
call 1t social amenoration; and others
term it the growth of the kingdom of
heaven on earth. Nobody is so re-
mote from the days currents of news
as not to understand that this has
emerged not only as the war after
the war, but also as the real fruition
of the great struggle. We fought to
make all men free: we find we must
likewise help them to achieve brother
hood. Prussia nfsm has to go, in its
social and Industrial, as well as in its
political and military phases. There
was more involved in the war than
anybody forcsaw.
Out of Wars Fellowship.
1t has often been regretfully OBJ
served by the British that change
was noticeable in soldiers going home
| on leave. AS they drew near to Eng
simplicity and directness and open
comradeship slipped off, and the old
constraints of civilizations artificiali-
ties took their place Which visualizes
a.present problem; namely. how are
we to preserve in civil life the nobler
| characteristics of trench and camp?
\ In the war men learned the value of
the common man, and his essential
worth with respect to the great quail
ties. That was a comradeship of sim
| plicity and sincerity and justice and
mutual dependence.
Then was born an endless fellow
ship: a soldier solidarity will persist
after the war, and will be the prin-
cipal factor in reshaping the general
! scheme of things. There have been
countless signs already that our
warriors want to improve upon the
/ old system of caste and strife and in
! equity; they seem determined to get
i thru with aristocracy and exploitation,
| The boys coming home are bent on
brotherhood.
! So is every other red blooded man
and woman. Even the poor creature
there are fewer such, by far, since
| the war-who would rather be exclu-
siveN then simply human, is obliged to
accept the new program of brother
hood, for the whole world has-set its
mind upon it. Fraternity is coming,
/ either in the American and Christian
way; or in the Russian and savage
hway The worlds turmoil will not
! cease until a far fuller degree of
liberty, fraternity, equality" has been
achieved. From the midst OF the
ominouss unrest of the Orient 1 write
these portentous words, with a full
sense of their seriousness.
A Program and a Peril.
| People are panicky about the peril
| of social uoheaval, and with reason;
| for the program of Bolshevism. when
/ is being definitely promulgated in all
lands, is a thing of ill-will, OF class
| consciousness, of destruction, dlslnte-
grafton, despoliation and irreligion.
| This hideous menace of BolsheXlsm,
| however, should not becloud the fairer
prospect of a nobler condition of life,
| with more of Justice and freedom and
real friendliness, to which the hurt
| and hungry hearts of humanity look
forward. In avoiding the false, we
must beware lest we turn aside from
the true.
! Fraternity, the spirit of brother
| hood between all men, is a divine
goal. God wills it. The Bible teaches
it. True Christianity promotes it. 1t
has it's rise in the spirit and words OF
Jesus. Our grayest present peril is
| that the new social impulse will de-
part from the spirit of its Author and
| Leader.
1t viii not if Christians ring true.
Once all the disciples of Jesus stand
steadily and strongly for the clear and
undeniable teaching of Scripture,
lone is your Master, even Christ, and
Is.1I he ri
tide of fraternity will be kept within
the bounds of what is noble and de-
sirable. 1t is the privilege of the pull
! pit to proclaim that humanity is all
tied up in the one bundle of life; that
we belong together, are, in Bible Ian
guage, members one of another" The
social solidarity of mankind is
theme of Old and New Testament
writer's. We are told that to bear one
another's burdens is to fulfill the law
! of Christ; and that no man liveth 10
himself. and no man dieth to himself.
Jaames had a caustic pen for churches
| which paid more respect to the rich
worshipper than to the brother of low
| degree. Even in the British army.
\ where the lines are so rigidly drawn
between officers and other ranks that
I they may not stay in the same hotel
or eat in the same restaurant. the Of
ficer and enlisted man sit side by side
in church and kneel together at the
| communion table. Real fellowship
I does not come until we get under the
sway of Christ
The Soldiers and the Missionary.
About the most fellowshippy spot I
have found in six months of travel
over the eastern hemisphere is the
| American Mission church in Cairo.
The services are severely simple But
at their close worshippers gather for
1 senJ nd
/ of animated conversation for perhaps
half an hour Everybody is sure of a
welcome The group is predominantly
! American, tho there are always Brit
ish and Australian soldiers and off,
. GERS present. as well as Egyptians
After service one is sure to find SOL
diers in the missionary homes; and l
have found tho venerable Mrs. Har-
vey weeping at the departure for
| hnrne of some of her 'shovs." These