The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-19

before: we win not take chances with
him again. We forgive him. and
honor him as a brother; but he has
disqualified himself for pioneer serv-
ice
This very human disagreement be-
wise discreditable either to Paul or
Barnabas. The latter took Mark off
to their own land of Cyprus, where the
family lived and in this easier, con-
genial field they did good gospel
work. Paul, on the other hand, with
Silas and Luke, undertook the major
mission in Asia Minor, adding Timothy
to their party at Lystra. What
goodly fellowship OF immortals that
was-Paul, Christianity's greatest ex-
ponept; DR.. Luke, its greatest his
torian; Timothy, its model convert
saint who could make a prison cell
ring with his songs at midnight.
All too seldom do we reckon the
value of the associations of Christian
service as one of the most immediate
rewards of our religion. Even in the
finds this exempiified in the mission
airy fellowship. 1t has seemed to me
that the hottest company of Ameri-
cans that 1 have ever known in for
eign lands was the circle OF Presoy-
terrain missionaries at Urumia, Persia
now, alas, a station destroyed and
deserted. its Christians driven afar,
into restitution and death, sheep
stricken by the wolves of war.
A Mother as an Education.
Teachers and preachers 10 not grow
rich; but they earn rewards that are
not attainable on the stock exchange,
for they deal in life. When Preacher
a fortune awaited him, in the person
of one of his young converts. Timothy,
who had grown to heights of goodness
land good works. To be the spiritual
father of Timothy was a greater hon
or than to be the builder of the beau
Paul made many notable converts, but
this one, whose character is mirrored
in the letters which the great apostle
afterward wrote him, letters which
now form part of the New Testament.
was his greatest reward. Pastors and
parents and teachers, weighed down
by a sense of the worlds present
needs, should be sedulous in seeking to
train new Timothies for the ministry
of mankind in the Gospel of Christ
Even while We re honoring Paul
for his winning of Timothy we know
that back of the apostles preaching
was the home training that made the
young man fit for the new RESPONSE
bilities as trusted friend. confidant,
messenger and representative of the
great missionary. The. man who bore
the letters of Paul to the far-scattered
! churches, whose companionship the
apostle craved in prison, and who
himself came to martyrdom as Bishop
| of Ephesus, had been schooled to
faithfulnesS in every errand and COM
mission by his mother Eunice. This
high-souled Jewess, of the sort who
gloried in the revelation to Israel and
who shaped her sons ideals by the
Hebrew Scriptures, possessed the spir-
| ituaI sensitiveness which made her
quick to respond to the Christian
story.
There is a word for women in this
t lesson. Timothy's mother and grand
| mother, Eunice and Lois, stand for
| the type of womanhood which finds
an adequate career in making a
home and in training children. That
is the oldest ideal of the race for the
| sex Today 1t is being challenged A
host of women contend that this DO
nestle conception of a woman's lot Is
narrow and restrictive. and that she
should be free to express her person.
atty" and to follow her taste for per-
7sonal pleasures and for a public life
untrammelled by home ties. So we
have the over-sophisticated and un-
der-dressed modern" woman. who
SCOTS at Victorian manners and mod
estes and morals. 1t is We. too early
to say of certainty, but there are no
signs that these powdered and
rouged and vanity-pursuing women
are to give the world the great sons
who are the gravest need of the race.
| The judgment of the "futurist" and
feminist" movement which pervades
| our day VIII be the sort OF children it
brings forth, Eternally The Truth
abides that mothers mind is the
/ child greatest school,
While we contemplate Paul and his
staff as 1T were, setting forth to the
greatest conquest in the world, the
universal epthronement of Jesus
| Christ we are bound to think of those
forces in the background, the Chris
tan mothers and teachers and church
officers. who recruit and train the
great supporting army.
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