The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-26

and moro righteous standard. An
ever-increasing number of persons are
standpoint The latest books-such
as Gilbert Murray's THE Problem of
Foreign Policy"-and the most recent
editorials and speeches. display re-
markable trend toward an insistence
upon the code of religion in the prac-
tice of statecraft. It is becoming daily
more and more apparent that nothing
is politically expedient which is not
morally right. Simple integrity is
coming to its own in public affairs;
save politics to both breadth and
honor.
1t is impossible to study this Sun
day School Lesson, which Is basically
inter-continental as well as inter-
national. without contemplating its
clear application to the present prob
lens of the nations. And it drives us
back to the conclusion that PauFs way
is not only the best way, but also the
one sure way. Except East looks to
! the West and West to the East in the
spirit of the righteous and loving
Christ-unless public affairs are con-
Quoted on basis of Righteousness and
of good will,-there can be no true
solution OF pending perplexities.
Over and over again the experts
upon Near Eastern affairs keep assur-
ing us that the Near Eastern question
is fundamentally a religious question.
That is true; but no more true than
that in broader sense other questions
of the relation between nations and
individuals are basically a matter of
religion. Paul carried with him the
ore sure panacea for the ills of the
race
Have We an Asiatic Faith?
Once we get to thinking in CONT
mental and racial terms of religion,
we find ourselves forced to examine
the real character and functions of the
Christian faith. How does it affect
org nize life and governments?
Wherein is it really different from
Iother religions? What did the Apostle
Paul have in his possession as Re
sailed from Troas to Neapolis (now
the modern tobacco port, Kavalla,
bone CT contention between ,he
Greeks, Bulgarians and Macedonians)
which Macedonia and Europe did not
always possess?
Is it true that one religion is as
good as another; and that fundamen-
tally "all religions are alike; and
that "It does not matter what a man
believes, so long as he acts the best he
knows how?" Or, more to the pres
ent point, is Christianity a universal
religion, equally adaptable to all
chimes and colors and conditions?
When Paul carried into Europe, which
lies within "the zone of power" his
and a life destined to bear its best
fruits amid Europeans because pecu-
liarly designed for them?
Often it is said by men whose
breadth is equalled by their shallow
ness that they don't believe in mis-
sions. These Asiatics have their reI-
gion and we have ours. and theirs is
as good for them as ours is for u.s."
| Obviously, if Christianity is at all
racial religion it is Asiatic, and there
fore we are bound to send it back to
Asia whence it came-which still
would be missionary work!
AS a matter of simple observance,
to which as a traveller on four con-
tinents I personally can bear witness,
Christianity is a world religion and
produces it's characteristic fruits as
naturally in Asia and Africa as in
Europe and America. Thanks to
Paul's decisive invasion of Europe
with the Gospel, the Church has grown
to fullest proportions in the West.
Now it must be borne back to the
East, whence it first came. A mort
bund civilization can be sayed only by
a missionary Christianity.