The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-23

people. Because he is big and brave
and genuine, he is not content with
a perfunctory organization, drifting
along comfortably and usefully: he is
out to transform lives.
Progressive in his outlook, like the
Apostle Paul, he never loses sight of
the central truth that it is the Bible
and it is Christ that alone can make
over human beings and organized So
ciety. All the Tesourcefulness of
modern business man are applied to
the fascinating task of vitalizing his
Sunday school members. This past
summer, for instance, he has got
pledges from more than four hundred
of them TO "read and Feread." after
definite plan, the Gospels and the
Acts, attractive copies of which are
given to the coyenanters. Al series OF
questions. cleverly designed to stimu-
late real thought, accompany the Bible
study plan. For my friend knows full
well that when he is impregnating
young people with the Scriptures. he
is rearing pillars for the support of
the nation and of the world.
Z Better Off Than Paurs Converts.
This one business man, like every
other Christian worker, is better
equipped for his work than was, the
Apostle Paul. We often overlook the
tremendous accumulation of aids for
Christian service which the church to-
day possesses. Imagine the missionary
apostle with railways and steamships
and automobiles and telephones and
telegraphs and wireless and postoffices
and printing presses at his disposal!
He had so little. and did so much; we
have so much and do so little. One
of the gratifying signs of the times is
the widespread increase of interest on
the part of church folk in the subject
of cooperation with tae daily news
NJ Whom this fully fInxxrore nj
fruits. we shall see every daily paper
in the land carrying Christian news
and teachings.
IN another way the church today is
better off than those Paulsfeunded. We
have a Christian background, instead
of a gross heather setting. We have
an accumulation of Christian teaching
and a worldwide Christian organiza-
ton. They had only Paul himself;
and some of them were not big enough
to discern thru his physical limitations
his real greatness They had no writ
ten Gospel: Paul's own letter to the
Thessalonians was the first book of the
Christian canon. We have the whole
New Testament, accessible, in more
than five hundred languages, to every
people under heaven. The full sweep
of Christian teaching is available to
us.
With heroic and audacious Paul,
his missionary enterprise was a real
Jump" into the unknown and perilous;
in our case, it is scarcely a Jump" at
all, for we have great and highly-or-
ganized and efficient missionary
societies to carry on the task he be-
gan. Our machinery for service is
prodiguous. AS we listen to the same
call that he heard-now coming with
peculiar insistenee-we find the way
open to east and west, north and south.
If this six months of study. in the ex-
periences of Christianity's first great
missionary does not have an ap-
probable effect upon the treasures of
the missionary boards, then we are
only idle theorists and unfit students.
One cause for gratitude that this
course of missionary studies has come
just now is that it may help overcome
the financial deficit which worldwide
financial conditions have forced upon
most missionary organizations. The
Sunday schools should Just now rally
to the help of the boards. 1t is Pau
line to sta nd by thosbiggest enterprise
for world services you ran find. Most
of US will have to Jump into the
work of reclamation by way of the
contribution bex. tsEkRT -