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December, 1915
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Vol. 7. DECEMBER No. 81.
Our Motto: “Pull for Atlanta, or Pull Out. ’ 9
Editorial Etchings
Christmas 1915
In this year of grace 1915 we come to the Christmas
season with hearts burdened with the thought that for
several hundred millions of our fellows across the water
the annual season of peace and good will but accentuates
their sorrow, and that fifteen millions of our neighbors
next doors are still busily engaged in wholesale slaugh
ter.
However great our own prosperity, however comfort
able our own condition, no man who believes in Chris
tian principles can enjoy to the full his own blessings
with his subconscious mind charged with the overwhelm
ing misfortunes of half the world.
Some would be wise man solemnly announced last year
that the European war proved the failure of Christian
ity, whereas if he had been really a wise man he would
have known that it is the result of a failure to apply
Christian principles and practice.
Sorrowfully one has to admit that today there is no
truly Christian nation upon the earth. Of nominal Chris
tian nations there are many. Of nominal Christians
there are millions, but when we stop to take stock of
those who believe and practice fully in their daily lives
the creejl formulated by the Prince of Peace we must
count in thousands rather than in millions.
Realizing, as all thoughtful men must, that but a small
percentage of real Christians are to be found, one stands
amazed at the tremendous work which has been done
by this little army of devote* 1 men and women who in our
own generation, and in all ‘die generations for nineteen
centuries, have accepted the fatherhood of God, and the
brotherhood of man both in their heads and hearts, and
have made hands and feet do the will of God. Our civi
lization, which with all its shortcomings is superior to
any which has gone before, we owe to them.
Every church, every hospital, every asylum for the af
flicted in mind or body, every charity organization, every
Red Cross chapter, every philanthropy, stand as monu
ments to Christian principles, whether it bears the label
or not.
Christianity has as yet but gotten under the skin, and
yet it has accomplished amazing betterment for a per
verse humanity.
When in God’s good time the day shall come when it
shall have permeated the whole body, when mind, and
soul, and strength, shall all be given unreservedly to the
service of God and fellow man, the people of that time
will wonder how their forbears endured the evils of such
a world as this of 1915.
But God reigns, and makes good to come out of evil.
If the natal day of the Christ, which this year we cele
brate is saddened by the things that are, our sorrow for
stricken humanity may be profitable to us in helping us
to get a firmer grip on the eternal verities of life, and
in making us more useful during our remaining days.
For the things of the Christ, kindness, tolerance,
mercy, charity, brotherly love, these be the real things
compared with which our petty wisdom in material mat
ters is but as dross.
Let us open our hearts and celebrate this Christmas
season not in riotous pleasures, but in doing good to our
brethren, whose need is greater than ours, and thus hon
oring as He would be honored, that Saviour of men who
first taught humanity the law of love, and the neglect
of wjiose teachings is responsible for all our woes.
Our earnest wish is that the peace of God may abide
with every one of our readers, and with all men, and
may your spirits be sweetened, and your deeds be born
of love in this Christmas season of 1915.
Senator Hardwick Has Made
Good
That Senator Thos. W. Hardwick has made good in
the United States Senate is admitted even by those who
do not love him.
We send men to Washington, theoretically, because
we think they can serve us well. Now and then we make
a mistake and send some one because we think him a
“good fellow” and we always pay the penalty of our
mistakes.
Thos. W. Hardwick belongs not to the “good fellow”
class, but to the “capable” class. In point of intellect
he ranks with the first and is equal to any position. More
than that, he has aligned himself with the progressive
thought of the country and has played a strong part in
the forwarding of progressive legislation. Under these
circumstances it would be idle folly for any Democrat to
enter the lists against him next year for certainly Geor
gia Democrats will not from the mere love of change
replace a tried and efficient servant simply to gratify
some other man’s ambition. If the Progressives or Re
publicans, differing with the Democrats on many things
should see fit to nominate a candidate there would be
nothing out of the way in that, but for the Democrats
to give encouragement to any other man than Thos. W.
Hardwick would be like administering a rebuke to the
faithful servant.
Hoke Smith and the British Order
In Council
Senator Smith has from the very beginning contended
that the British Orders in Councii were contrary to the
plainest terms of International Law, and that the Brit-