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THE ATLANTA G EORGIAN AND NEWS. SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 190T. THE GOSPEL OF LOVE OR THE GOSPEL OF FEAR? By REV. EVERETT DEAN ELLENWOOD, PASTOR UNIVERSALIST CHURCH O P ALL the obstacles In the way I »*• " hl f h c ,?i“ ° f none Is ao difficult and so persistent fear. When foar becomes even a i temporary resident of the soul, deter mination departs, the will Is para- 1 lysed, courage Is forgotten, and ambi tion dies a slow and painful death from j starvation. The world has been rob- i bed of man)’ an artist, many a scutp- ‘ tor, many a musician, many an orator, , and many a statesman, by roason of the subtle blandishments of fear. Talent Is a useless thing, and opportunity but an Idle hour for him whose heart has become Inoculated with this deadly vi rus. Unless a man's faith In God Is strong enough to enable him to believe In himself, the world's testimonial con cerning his life will be given In tones of disappointment. One man of medl- . ocre mind and average ability, who has learned the potency of the magic words •T believe; I can; I will." Is worth a dozen physical and Intellectual giants whose life motto Is "I am afraid.” Therefore, the Individual or the In stitution that ezerclsea the power of , filling humanity's heart with fear, 1 ahnuM twk rArardMl U A r 1 should be regarded aa a public evil, be either oonverted. suppressed or de stroyed. One of the most progressive minds of the present century, In an effort to de termine the moet prolific causes of hu manity's various manifestations of | fsar, which, from tlms Immemorial, • hare killed elfort and prevented that ‘‘peace of Ood which poseeth all un demanding,” brings a sweeping charge against threa of the coveted "learned I professions," and declares that In ncar- 1 ly every Instance of that lack of cour- raced back, either to the theologian, 'he lawyer, or the medical practition er. The preacher, he declares, has poisoned man's mind with the fear of death, the lawyer has turned the stat utes into a scarecrow, and the doctor nas accustomed us to regard disease as i he normal condition of humanity. And a little study and entirely unprejudiced reflection must disclose to us that there Is a painful amount of justice In the arraignment. "The fear of the Lord Is the begin ning of wisdom.” Undoubtedly this must always remain true, and hu inanity's progress toward a morality which shall be something more than the name, must always begin with the wholesome fear' of punishment. But, let us not conclude that the fear of the Lord la the ultimate goal of wisdom. The sons and daughters of Ood can never reach the maturity of their di vinity by remaining In the moral kin dergarten of fear. Let not tho preach er, who has acquired marvelous pro ficiency In painting graphic and terri fying descriptions of the place of fu ture torture of unfortunate and rcbcll-' lous spirits, congratulate himself that lie Is contributing nnythlng of per manent morality to the community which considers Itself obliged lo sub mit In silence to his ministrations. A nan Is never made really righteous by lining his mind with the fear of hell. It may be that his slow and painful march toward the distant goal of pure, disinterested decency Is thus begun, out the chances are Infinitely greater that the pitiful stunting of his moral naturo will bo thus effected, and In stead of a man being given to society, one more coward will be turned out to battle with a hostile world. The fear of hell Is the prolific parent of the much praised "death-bed repentance,” which one of the world’s greatest preachers and evangelists has rightly declared to be "a disgrace to mankind and an Insult to Ood.” It seems reasonable to conclude that the fear of hell Is In largs measure re sponsible for humanity's exaggerated horror of death. It Is Inevitable, of course that wa should always be over, whelmed with the sorrow of parting and the deep grief of loneliness when ever those whom "we have loved and lost a while” obey the summons from tho spirit Isnd. Our grief Is the pries we pay for our love, and because lova la life, we must continue to pay, how ever grudgingly, the pries the demands. But death Is merely an Incident of life, even as birth must also be reckoned, aa we shall be able to fully understand, os soon as wa have listened with pa tience to the voice with which Ood speeks to Hla children. Therefore, we should not sutler from this awful hor ror of death, which la certainly some thing more than the sorrow of sepa ration, were It not for the fact that for untold generations tho theologians hava filled the minds of our ancestors with the terrible fear of that which should come after death, and we are the un fortunate Inheritors of that entirely needless fear. And this Is undoubtedly the reason that so many of our mad houses hold men and women. In whose brains the slender cord of reason and sanity has snapped under the unbear able strain of religious emotion and excitement "O, Religion, Religion; how REV. E. D. ELLENWOOD. many are the crimes that have been committed In thy name!" And, If we are so fortunate as to es cape the theologian and retain a re spectable amount of honest courage with which to face the Issues of life, then we fall Into the hands of the doc tor who feels It his professional duty to "do us good.” With a very com mendable desire to make us well and keep us In that condition, he regalea us with the names and the numbers of the various microbes which Inhabit the food wo eat, the water we drink, the air we breathe, the clothes we wear, the books we read and the houses we live In. By seductive advertisements he encourages us to develop symptoms, which he treats with much enthusiasm and no little pcrsonnl profit. If the pa tient’s mind Is not sufficiently open to conviction concerning the extreme gravity of his condition, then It Is fre. quently found neqpssary to open the patient. The spiritual and mental at mosphere Is filled with disease and ab. normality, and the patient Is apparent ly expected to get well by persistently remembering that he Is sick. Then the doctor very obligingly shunts us along to the lawyer, through whom we have learned to secure Jus tice whenever we are In a position to pay for It, and . who has so manipu lated the laws which ha has so oblig ingly made for us that wo can never be quite sure whether we are the plain tiff or the defendant In a case, we have come to Inseparably associate In our minds the court house and the jail, and the sight of a policeman Instinctively fills us with dread. We find ourselves scarcely able to eay with the pealmlst of old, "O, how I love thy law!" The legal system which eoclety. hae butlded for her protection eeems about to be come a machine so vast and so mys terious that It Is small wonder that we all, perhaps It may be unconscious ly, but nevertheless actually, live In the terror of tho law. Let us have dons with the gospel of fear. It has gsrved us well, but the period of Its greatest usefulness Is rapidly passing. “Down Mars, up Eros!" It Is high time that humanity should usher In a new reign. Let the reign of the law of fear bo euperseded by the reign of tho law of lovs. "Per feet love casteth out fear, for fear hath torment." Tho conscloua effort of humanity should ba directed In tho line of that progress In true morality and spirit ualised ethlca which shall enable us to dispense with the services of tho moral policeman, fear, substituting, as mranco of proper conduct the on Insurance sweet, persuasive Influence of love. The preacher In the pulpit, the parent In the home and the individual In the ae- cret, ellent discipline of his own heart, must plead always for tho upbuilding of a genuine lova of rlghteousnese un til It ehall become a positive element of character Inatead of a merely nega tive product of the deterrent power of fear. We need to be continually re minded of the fact that we are the children of Ood, and that our Rather never glvei over any of Hie children utterly and forever to misery and de spair, and that His punishments, though absolutely Inevitable and often necessarily severe, are never concelvod In anger, but always lovingly admin istered for correction and euro. Tills realization of our kinship with Ood, as it Is deepened and strengthened In our consciousness, will engender In us such a wholesome self-reepect ae to eventu ally render the Inclination to sin abso lutely foreign to our nature, and thue wa ehall no longer be held In the bond age of the fear of the law. Tho perfect love of Ood shall also make ue acquainted with the lawa of nature, which are the lawe of Ood, as they relate to our physical well being and, following these laws by natural choice, rather than by fearful con straint, wa shall discover that wa may truly walk with Ood physically as well as spiritually, and that aa we accustom ourBelvea, more and more, to "think His thoughts after Him,” tho old dread and fear of disease (hall dip away from ua as the shadow of an evil dream, and we ehall find ourselves to be continually "tranefortned by tha renewing of our mind." And so also shall tho fear of the po liceman and tha Intangible terror of society's laws cease to trouble us, as our hearts become filled with that per. feet love of Ood, whoso only possible human manifestation la through love to our fellow men. Fear of whatever form It may bo le a natural product of selfishness, an unhappy exaggeration of the divinely Implanted Instinct or lm- pulse of self-preservation. Aa we learn to ‘love our neighbor as our selves” ws shall loss our fear of the operation of that law, which our self ishness distorts In our understanding until ws come to conceive that It is Instituted to give our neighbor some undue advantage over us. Altruism shall take the place of unduly empha sised egoism, and we shall cease to think of tho law as an agent of per sonal restriction, because wo shall come to be grateful for It, ae a mes senger of peace and happiness and public safety. And ao shall "perfect love cast out fear, which assuredly hath torment" HEAVEN—ITS REST “There remaineth there for* a rest to the people of Got .”—Hob. 4:9. By REV. RICHARD ORME FLINN, PASTOR NORTH AVENUE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH O NE of the profoundeet needs of humanity Is rest, and for this need heaven offers a blessed h °la 1880, after years of distinguished l service, fhe late and lamented Chief Justice Bleckley retired from public ! life, and In hla resignation as explana- . tory of his step he Included two stan- ’ zas, entitled "In the Matter of nest. 1 In the first of these he voices his wearl- | ness and explains that It Is for this ! reason he lays aside the ermine with Its attendant honors and responslbill- ! ties. He le tired—and I* seeking rest. "Rest for hand and brow and breast, For fingers, heart and brain! Rest and peaco, a long raleaaa From labor and from pain; Pain of doubt, fatigue, dcspali^- Paln of darkness everywhere. And seeking light In vain." In this confession there Is far more than a mere statement of one man n experience. In It wa find and feel tho pathos of the deep and common crav ing of tho race. All great-hearted mea all faithful earnest Christians an tired men, and all tired men need reef. To this deep and common craving, a craving that grows more eager as the vears Increase, our text responds. In Its promise we have God's reassuring answer to our mute appeal, "There re- malneth. therefore, a rest to the people of Ood." Yea. aa He who made the eve mad# corresponding light and beauty; as He who made the ear made corresponding speech and harmony; aa He who made the heart mado corre sponding friendship possible to meet Its need, so He who hears the age long, world-wide sigh of the weary, heavy laden, has promesd—rest Ways of Rest. , There are many ways In which tired men seek relief other than through the acceptance of God's offer. They seek It In the pleasures of home, In the relax ation of retirement, In the absorbing study of art, of literature, or science. In the relaxation of exercise. In the diversions of travel, In the distrac tions of society nr the drama. In the excitement of chance. In the stupefac tion of debauch or In the desperate plunge forward through the dark, when, intensely wenry of the present, they Uaxard everything anil swing out Into tho unknown future In search of— rest! Hut none of these things satisfy the cravings; some sooth It for a time, but not for long, and some but mock the need which they fall to modify. Yea. more, they do but fix, enlarge, Intensi fy and deepen It and make It madden- Ihg. In the second stansa of Chief Justice Bleckley's lines he announces a senti ment which hla retirement confirms as truth; "Peace and rest! Are they the best, For mortals hero below? Is soft repose for work and woes, A bliss for man to know? Bliss of time Is bliss of toll— No btlsB but this from sun and soli Does Ood permit to grow." In accordance with this utterance. It does not surprise us to find that nfter seven years nf retirement the chief jus tice returned to Ills former activities, for no earnest-hearted man can find In such retirement a permanent relief. This testimony, coming os It does from one so great, Is most Important If "bliss of time Is bliss of toll," then, though we may here on earth enjoy an honorable activity, we can not here experience either nn adequate or an honorable rest. Toll taxes, It wearies, It wears, It wastes, and so as long as we are associated with "sun and soil" wo must feel tho need which our text pledges shall he supplied to the people of Ood, namely, of a blessed future time of rest. Why Heaven 8elieflee, But what Is the nature of thla heav enly rest, and why Is It so alluring? First, because of Its permanence. The rest that remaineth for the people of Ood Is not a rest that shall continue for a day, but forovor. It shall not tan talize us by Its solace for a time and then Its loss whereby we are left more restless than before, but It shall con tinue from ags to age without an end ing. Second, because of lla peacefulness. When we shall enter the "rest that re maineth to the people of Ood" we Will then be beyond the utmost confines nf the tempter's reach. Then the wicked shall cease from troubling and the weary be a* rest. Job 3:17. The fight will have been finished, the victory will have been won, the enemy will have been banished after a fatal and final defeat, and we, for the first time In our entire exletenoe, ehall know what It means really to relax—to be off our guard and yet to be—safe! Third, heavenly rest will satisfy be cause of Its perfection. In this rest thoro will be embodied all that the soul ran crave or full-orbed life enjoy. Heavenly rest (reserved for tho people of Ood) will mean final cessation from toll, an honorable retirement with an ever Increasing competency. It will mean the sanetlfled pleasures of fel lowship with our reunited family and friends (from whom we shall nevor more be estranged or parted), and with the best society of all the ages as, with them. In a state cf perfect health and In tha condition of perfect develop ment we shall dwell eternally In God's most beautiful city. Grounds for Asauranos. But does anyono aak what assurance have we that auoh a rest as we have REV. RICHARD ORME FLINN. described shall be that of heaven? We answer much for in every count we have built our statement upon the sure ground of revelation. Our conception Is not born of our own desire or fash ioned by our fancy, but Is Indicated by Ood’i Word. We may not stay, how ever, at this time, to cite those scrip tures, for space forbids. Only one shall we consider. It Is found In Rev, 14:13: "And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, blessed are the dead which die In tho Lord from henceforth; yea. salth the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; and their works do follow them." In these words, descriptive ae they are of the nature of that rest which re maineth to the people of Ood, we have as well the statement of tho cherished ambition of many a tired man—to “rest from their labors" while "their works do fallow them." And there are some who, having la bored thus, lmve now attained. Edison Is such a one as this. The other day we read that, having for years limited his Investigations well nigh exclusively to such Inventions as have commercial value, he now proposes to turn aside and allow himself the liberty of fol lowing up certain great scientific prob lems upon which he has come during his past labors, and which have en kindled his Interest and for which he has waited an opportunity to investi gate. Now, he feels the time has come —he has a right to pause to take the time and use It as lie pleases. Andrew Carnegie Is another. He has earned an honorable leisure In which he can devote himself and his Immense resources to that which seemeth best. But though these and a few other men have accomplished their ambition, a vaster multitude have failed. They have tolled as faithfully, have known its great fatigue, but have never known the privilege of arrival at that point so coveted, where they can let go their business, or where their business will let go of them, so that they may be re. tensed from further labor to rest as they will while "their works do follow them." Who Shall Rest? But, hold! Is thla promise of rest limited? Are we to believe that It le qualified? Instead.le It not universal? Shall not all men finally enter Into It? Nay, If we take God's word for It, It Is alone for God's people that this rest Is reserved. Such Is the distinct state ment of the text, whloh Is emphatically enforced In the context See Heb. 3:15-18, 4:1-3, 8-11. But are not all Ood'a people? In the sense that they ere created by Him, dependent upon Him and accountable to Him—yes. But In the sense In which, the words are used In this passage of being Identified with His cause and of reverencing Hla name—no! There are some who die tlnctly disclaim His allegiance, repud! ate His authority and even deny His existence. Whose course of life man ifests that they do not honor Ood nor serve Him, trust Ood nor lovo Him. These are not God's people and the rest of God's people Is not reserved for them. In the second place it Is explicitly declared that there can be no rest for the wicked. Isaiah tells us (87:20), "The wicked are like the troubled sea, when It can not rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. There Is no peace, salth my Ood, to the wicked." Now, we can not but admit that there are some who are not only such, but who are showing no disposition to do otherwise, and though wickedness Is tiring—Intensely tiring—yet It has no promise of peace, either In time or In eternity. He who clings to sin shall not enter rest. He who will be wicked works his own undoing, and shuts and bolts the door of entrancaelnto rest. Can It be that there are any to whom this promise of rest does not appeal? Yes, and let us very frankly add, that neither to them does It apply. The shirker, the coward, the quitter may experience no keen satisfaction In the contemplation of an honorable retire ment, because their dishonorable re tirement from action now makes them Insensible of such need. There Is noth ing In their life to make them ‘trad or make them need rest. Moreover, It Is very certain that there Is nothing In the life of such os these to grant as surance that they shall over know this rest reserved for the people of Ood. The promise of God's rest In Rev. 3:31 ws are taught Is to "him that overoometh," but the man who Is not weary Is not he. Tho man who Is not weary Is a trlfler, and no trtfier Is an ovorcomer. The ovcrcomer Is a man with an earnest purpose, a man with an aim, a man who wilt make an ef fort. Tho overcompr Is a man who will work, nay, a man who will toll. But toll tires, and the man ho Is not tired Is the man who hasn't tolled; he Is the man who hasn't strived for that which Is great enough to tex his powers, and difficult enough to tire them. The man who Is not weary Is not laying out hie full strength. He Is not lavish with Ills life. Ho has not enlisted In Ills labor his entire being. Whatever ho may be doing he le not doing hla level best, nor Is ho meaning his very most to God and to humanity. Is God Partial? But finally let ui face the question whloh some are asking and answer It. Is Ood fair to turn any tired soul at last away from rest, and If He does Is not Ood partial? Nay, the statement Is not fair. Ood doesn't turn any man nway from rest, nor la Ho partial. Standing of old amid the multitudes and feeling their mute deep need, the Master cried, "Come unto me all ye that are weary and heavy laden, and I will, give you rest." The blessed offer thus He pressed upon them all and any one—yee, any one—who dared accept His Invitation received the blessing that He offered, and Christ still seeks to draw ue thug to Him. Hti cry Is still-the same to you, to me, come unto me, ye weary, heavy laden hearts nnd I will give you rest. If we will not hear Him, If we will not heed Him, If we will not eomo, we can not rest, but If we fall to rest It Is because we fall In faith or In obedience. With yearn ing heart He pleads with ua, with open arms He waits for us. Oh, will you not come unto Him and rest? AFRICA’S DARKNESS LIGHTENED TtrM Comment* on tho Uniform Proyor Mooting Toplo of tho Young Poo- plo’t Societies for Juno 30. "Christ in Afrleo,” Iso. 43: 1-13. A fries lo not t country but b contl ntBt. Tho eyes of all th® worm ire turned to Africa. Too many different nntlons nr* concerted In Its future to nllow Its removal from the forefroat of Interest. By WILLIAM T. ELLI8. Into the heart and life of the people of . Educational work Is especially necessary In Africa bocauae there Is no odncutlon, . properly speaking, In tho native African civilisation. Education In Africa Is purely After otavery. tho dark apot thnt hsa marred America’# relations with Africa I* the liquor traffic, wo nave often heard that ! tho same ship that boro our first missions* lies to Africa carried for barter with tho necrooo a cargo of Msdford rum. Although tha condition of woman among pagan Africans lo degraded, her daily life ; Is more free and more ennobled by oervtro, * by work accomplished, than It la under * Mohammedan Influences. There ore now at many Christian* In the missions of Africa aa th*r* were In the • whole world at tho end of tho first cen i tury. Each sphere ef missionary work In Africa i has nn Individual character. Hast Africa • Is the Indian or Oriental region. North , Africa la ancient, mediaeval, and modern t! la Christian, Mohammedan, and nn*m It |* European, Ilamltls. and The most frequent contact between blsck men and white In Africa Is through (l) the government. (2) the colonist. <S> the mission ary. Tha Utter relation Is as Important as The most wonderful of all the missions of Africa Is the work In Uganda. The Bngnnda bavo been called “the Japanese of Africa.” quick la learning and adopting civilisation sa soon aa Christian _... r _ .. ersion. Alexander Mackay has well been termed the Bayard of African missions, and his Ufo and prayers and those of Pllklnjrton largely responsible for the marvelous result. Where lets than forty years ago Bishop tlannlagton waa martyred, now one convert In every tlve is au evangelist to his own brethren or to the “regions beyond.*' last glimpse we hare, almoat. of Alexander Mackay is that of hla meeting with Btauley, tha einlorer Th»* niPtMi mttmr m waalr'e tho explorer. They parted after a week's Intercourse; Btauley, revived, strengthened. en^orsged. to go tuck to the courts of P***? 1 ^ •nd nf Belgium to report his explorations. Mackay, n few weeks later, went to his King to give account of his labors. chlnory of the colonial office clothing has taken the place of the old . that pH.jjooi,, nn d chapels dot the country nnd the Christian teacher has re placed the witch doctor, and. as magi trates testify, marriage Is vastly on the li crease where there was no semblance of tl tle-these aro fruits otChrlatlnn missions. Africa's T.fvingstonea and Gordons and Clarksons, her humane jp>vernors and hun dreds of missionaries who hive spent tlmlr lives in the service of Arrlca and have mntlo • heir last bed In bor soil, each In hla meas ure has caused tho darkness to disappear. An outlook on the twentieth century con Slot In Africa haa been thus tersely stntod In North Africa—The final conflict be tween Islam ami Christianity. In West nnd Central Africa—Conflict bo- tween foreign trad* and tha Interests of Afrtcsns themselves. In East Africa—Conflict between Oriental 'Olonlata and Africans and governments, and tho last resistance of Arab slavery. In South Africa—Racial struggle between white and black; between Industrial and political power on the one side, and flvo times aa many people, inexperienced but iroused, on the other side. In Pagan Africa—Conflict between Inher ited superstitions and the Inrosds of civ- .llsstlou. ‘When the great pageant of the year w# sea Once more beginning. W# know that Life again tho victory O'er Death Is winning.'' The aecret of sueresa lies In tha man and not in the stuff bo works on.—Bradford Torrey. Life alone can rekindle life; what others ,*laim from us is uot our thirst and our hunger, but our bread and our gourd.— There ire millions of loving thoughts and That never would start from tho world's cold heart But for sorrow nnd suffering. —Robert Beverly Rale. It Is a good thing to be rich and a good hlng to lie strong, but it la a hatter thing o be beloved of many friends.—Euripides. Dare to be true, nothing cun need n He; A fault which tiee«lg Tt most, grows two thereby. —George Herbert. nges which go deeply and Intimately “They have hope of victory who endure," Nsws ahd Nstss More than ons-L g re rationalists. It la estimated, live In Mai* aachnaetts and Connecticut. The anti-opium movement In China la rapidly gaining popularity, practically every dcu In rektn having !>een closed. At the world’s fifth Bunds? school con vention which met in Roms (n May. more than 1,600 delegates were present, represent ing twenty-soven nationalities. The us tilde lu erlon ch A recent gift to F , , „ Converse Is That of a residence in Fbtdsdsl* phis to be used by the l* ‘ “ * Diversity as head quarters for studbnta who ore to make weekly pilgrimages to the city to engage In evangelistic work on Sunday. iirntma ui Launri'u ■ i»*y t *o "dongs to the Unlversallsts, the Ion of the day having been ob* served by them fifty years ago. That ds* nomination Is urging their Run-lay schools to celebrate thla year the semi-centennial of the day. Business man In the city of Montreal, SOCIOLOGICAL STATE SOCIETY President-Dupont Quarry, Macon, Gs. First V.-P.-Dr. A. R. Ilolderby, Atlanta. Second V.-P.—Dr. E. C. Paste, Macon. 8®c.-Tr®es.—Dr. W. T. Jones, Atlanta. Annual Meeting In May, 1007, at Macon. ATLANTA 80CIETY rresident H. Marvin Underwood Vice Pree ....pr. Theo. Towel Secretory Miss Hsllle |. Msrtle Treasurer C. K. Folsom Itegnltr meeting second Thursday night of each month at the Carnegie Library. EDITORIAL COMMITTEE. Rev. C. B. Wilmer, J. D. Cleaton, E. Marvin Underweed, Dr. R. R. Klme. THE STATE LEGISLATUIIE-IT’S OPPORTUNITY. A T NO time In tho hlatorj' ofGeor gia has the state legislature had such nn opportune time to make history and enact laws for the good of humanity and *he best Interest of the state. The chief excctitlvo was elected by a popular sentiment In favor of proper adjuslment and judicial regulation of railroads nnd their relation to tho poo- plo of tho state, a popular sentiment In ten to General Booth, who spoke et the boant of trade, sad to the story of tuedlral missionary work In Labrador as told by Dr. TAX NOTICE Slats and County Tax Books will close next Make your re now, and save double tax, T. M. ARMISTEAO, week. turns Receiver Tax Returns. favor of disfranchising the ignorant, unqualified voter, which must be net tled upon ft basis of Justice and right if wo would retain our own self-corn- mendatlon with the peaceful submis sion and Just esteem of the disfran chised. The civic moral conscience of the state nnd nation is being aroused or never before, and If the present leglsla* ture desires to receive the commenda tion of an arouse 3 purifying public conscience It must enact laws upon a high moral plane, based upon Justice and right, that not only looks to the control and regulation, but to the pre vention of our social evils. While railroad regulation, the proper adjustment of the right of franchise, are Important question*, requiring care ful consideration and proper, equitable, honorable adjudication, there are equal ly as Important and weighty questions that Involve other soelologic conditions that demand attention, consideration and legislation. It is as much, or even more, the duty of the legislature to enact laws that will prevent, rather than simply con trol or regulate, crime, pauperism, men tal degeneracy and disease. Wo arc living in an enlightened age with suf ficient knowledge and intelligence to know our duty along these lines, and wnen we neglect the common demands Wilfred Grenfell at tbe Canadian Club. A forward step toward merging tho In dians Into American citlsena has recently been Inaugurated by tbe appointment of Dr. Charles A. Eastman, a graduate nf Boston University, nu-l a full-blooded Sioux Indian, empowering him to give a new name to each of the Indians of the Sioux Nation. He haa already named 15.000, and It Is estimated that the work will occupy him for two years. Iu selecting the bam* the people themselves are consulted, anti an entirely new name Is not given If it can be avoided. By R. R. KIME M. D, of humanity we are doubly responsible by sinning In tho presence of light nnd knowledge, and inuat suffer the conse quences. If we were In Ignorance, dark ness and superstition, then there would bo palliation and excuse for neglect of duty. Every legislator has an Individual duty to perform and an Individual con science to direct him In a high moral plane of Justice ar.d right, and each Is nn Important factor In performing n public duty and the demands of an awakened public conscience. It requtros discrimination and Judg ment, und the proper enlightenment of u moral conscience to be equally Just to tho monied interest, trusts, railroads, etc., as well as to the labor er. agricultural Interest and general public. Each legislator holds a public trust which is sacred to the state nnd the IH)opie, and should be used for the best Interest of each under all circum stances. There should be but one motto to nil legislation, L e.: Is It Just, is it right and for the best Interest of the people and state? Party politics, prejudice and Indi vidual pecuniary gain has no proper place In state legislation. The public sentiment of tho state 4s on a higher plane today than ever before and wUl demand higher and nobler legislation. Legislation for the good of humanity la the demand of the day. and If this legislature falls to do so It will be low ered In the estimation of the people and a portion of the evils that follow will rest upon their shoulders. The de mands for such legislation will be made the public sentiment Is In favor of tt, and It only remains for each legislator to do his duty to himself, the people and tho state. Among the sociological demands for the good of the people that looks more to the prevention hither than regulation and etntrol are: A state sanatorium for treatment of tuberculosis, a state col ony or home lor tho care of the feeble minded and epileptic, a state sanitarium for the Inebriate, a commission for the study and development of means of prevention of crime, pauperism. Insan ity nnd mental degeneracy, a state law establishing Juvenile courts and means of caring for Juvenile offenders, and last, but not least, that monumental ATLANTAN WINS HONORS AT UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH HENRY MATKLEY CA88. ROBERTS THEODORE PHILLIPS. Special to The Georgian. Howanee, Tenn., June 38.—Among the students to receive honors at tho Uni versity of the South this year ore Rob. ert Theodore Phillips, of Atlanta, and Henry Matley Oass, of Scwanee. Robert Phillips, who took an A. B. degree, was an honor graduate and president of the class of 1807. Henry Gass, who also took an A. B. dtgree and was valedictorian of his class, won the Rhodes scholarship to Oxford University this year. It being the first scholarship to go to ths uni versity. foe to all that Is good In humanity, which does more to degrade the human race and produce more crime, vice, disease and degeneration than any other one factor In the whole category of evil, the liquor traffic, which de mands suppression at your hands for the good of humanity. The best Inter est of the state demands such legisla tion, the best development of her citi zens cells for It, the common demands of humanity require It, the protection of the home, the corner stone of civiliza tion needs It, the future deveiopment of the children and the unfortunate must have It, and the common brotherhood of man viewed In the light of the Golden Rule makes plain the duty and obliga tion of every member of the legislature. 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