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' ■mmhhvmhhpi THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. 8ATCRDAY JUNE », 1»01 THE SURPRISES OF THE JUDGMENT By REV. DR. JOHN E. WHITE, Pastor Second Baptist Church it H' • E hath appointed a day In the vhlch He will Judge the world In righteousness." •'And many will say to Me In that day. Lord! Lord!" In an old picture, Monica and Au gustine—rare mother and son—are shown in the twilight standing hand In hand looking earnestly Into the open sky. The artist does not tell us what the picture means, but the poet does. They are— "Sending their souls Into the Invisible, Some letter of the after-life to spell." The richest hours of life are those In which we obey the call of the beyond and boldly put to sea In the boat of our deepest Intuitions, In quest of the things that lie beyond the grave. The soul never returns empty from Its solemn adventures Into the hereafter. The Bible Is the greatest Book Ip the world, because It Is the Guide Book Into these things. The most con vincing of the, many convincing evi dences of the Divine Inspiration of the Scriptures la the fact that what I dis cover of deepest reality In myself, ques tions, longings, misgivings, fears and hopes, I And reflected and set out on the pages of the Bible. This evi dence may not pass In the court of criticism, but In the court of the In dividual conscience It has the con vincing power of a personal revela tion. He came near to saying the pro- foundest thing that can be said about the Bible who, declared, “I believe the Bible Is Inspired, .because It Inspires Now, among the most explicit and positive revelations made In the Bible Is that there Is a great day coming—a day of Judgment. "It )■ appointed unto men once to die, and after that the judgment." He hath appointed a day in the which He “will Judge the world In righteousness." But the Bible Is not author of the idea of a final judgment. The Idea of a day of Judgment existed long before theri was a written Bible. It exists now In lands where the Bible « not known. If there had been ho Bible, or If every Bible were destroy- the Book forgotten, men would still believe In a day of final Judg ment. So, while the Integrity of tho BIWe Is Involved In such a belief, the belief Itself rests back upon the In destructible and unchallengeable moral consciousness of man. If there Is no such thing as the day of Judgment, then the moral faculty will be for the Brat time caught In a lie. The truth Is one that draws sanction from the very nature of things. Na ture, history, government, reflect and Illustrate It. The human conscience de clares over and over to every man that he must meet the Issues of his life In a final arbitrament. This sense of accountability Is ever-present with him. The feeling Is Inborn and springs out of the unfathomed depths of moral being. There Is no faltering for the preacher here. There Is a great day coming—a great day coming—a great day coming by-and-by—a *day of final crisis, when the truth will come out on us all, whether It be good or bad. • "But a day Is coming fast, Earth, thy mightiest and thy last! It shall come In fear and wonder, Heralded by trump and thunder; It shall come In strife and toll, It shall come In blood and spoil, It shall come In empires' groans, Burning temples, trampled Ithrones. "Then shall come the judgment sign; In the East the King shall shine; Plfluhlnr from hnivan'a <mMan s>nta Flashing from heaven"' golden gate, Thousands, thousands round his state; Spirits with the qrown and plume; Tremble then, thou silent tomb! Heaven be opened on our sight. Earth be turned to living light.” The Restful Thought. The Idea of the judgment tq come Is by no means always a disturbing thought. As the hymn sings, It Is “a great day," it Is “a sad day," but It Is also "a bright day coming.” When we can think of It disasso ciated from Its personal aspects, our minds find response In the truth that there Is to be such a time of great vindications. It harmonises with our sense of truth. Sometimes It Is such a relief to reflect that a day Is com ing that will set things right for once. Tired and fretted, our hearts seek the restful contemplation of the day of judgment, when all noble causes will command the resistless championship of an infinite and Incorruptible right' eousness. When we think of the confusions of this world, the controversies that rage, the disputes and contentions of men over questions that separate hu man minds Into warring schools of thought; and remember that there is a day coming when a halt will be call ed upon our disputatious race, the case closed, the Imperious and unap pealable verdict rendered, and the noisy strife put at peace, the day of Judgment becomes a consolation to the mind. Borne of these controver sies are as old as mankind; some of these debates have been running thou sands of years. A mass of the world's unsettled quarrels, unanswered ques tions, unresolved problems have been laid in the lap of each new generation to perpetuate age-long strife, to per plex, harass and divide humanity, and to mar the harmony of human life, till the world Is rife with factions and full of dlword. When we think also of the wrongs which have gone unrighted, the un checked cruelties, the unrebuked tyran nies, the world's crimes and criminals which have flourished and still flour ish, there la satisfaction In knowing that there 1s a day of judgment. Nearly all pessimism and much of unbelief would be cured, If men realised the fact of the day of Judgment. It re-harmonlses life to be assured that evil will not always escape. We can REV. DR. JOHN E. WHITE. crowned, beside the shivering Nero; and the martyrs also broken upon the Judgments of men. We shall see the young girl who moaned— "My false lover stole the rose, But O, he left the thorn with me!" sometimes forget the shock nad Jar and terrifying horror of the thought of doom and Judgment In the reposeful reflection that God Is golitg to read just the universe to a beautiful order. Truth and Right will sit on cantral thrones, arrayed In the vestments of perfect law, which will then be seen to he perfect love. Christ will be there, and His mur derers. Socrates will be there, Judged In a fairer justice than when he drank the hemlock at the hands of the Athen ians. Paul will be there, radiant and And we will not be sorry to see her there. In the sermon on the mount Jesus Christ drew aside the curtain to throw a awlft and startling light upon the day of Judgment. The thought which arrests us In what He said Is that the day of Judgment will he the scene of great surprises, of profound disap pointments, of unanticipated chagrin to those who have missed the secret of life. Judgment Not Appeal. "Many will say to me In that day—" What will they say? It la made very clear that It doeen't matter what they say. Here ts one of the great surprises of the judgment. It Is lo be a day of Judgment, not of appeals. Short shrift with eloquent speeches, plausible pleas, Ingenious arguments. Half the cause In our earthly courts ts a good lawyer. But this tribunal places the stsmmerer on a level with the orator. Doth are useless there. Have you ever thought of what you could say to God In your own behalf at the Judgment? We will all try to say something. Give me a henring with my life at slake, stand back and glva me a chance to tel! my story, to plead my cause ut the Judg ment. "I was weak—In sin did my mother coneslve me. My ancestors left me a heritage of appetite and lust and wil fulness and selfishness. I had n bur den, 1 was bessl, t was tried and tempt ed. I stumbled, staggered, fell. I strove, I resolved, t was pverwhelmed. ' But I did some good. I pray Thee I was not cruel to men. I obeyed law, I stood for morality. Ask my fsltow man. They will give me character. I did this and this and this.” Oh, could 1 not make my case at the judgment? Who could not? i But though I spake with the tongues of men and of angels. It would profit me nothing. The day of Judgment Is a closure upon all pleading of men. The solemn fart Is that the rase Is all In. The Judge knowa the facts. To go to God for Justice la lo go to doom. If death brings life In sudden review the chanros arc that we ourselves will see enough In I he black minute to frCese every self-righteous thought in our souls. The Sorrows of God. Again, It Is fact startling to us all that In the day of judgment good Works will not pass us to salvation. The sur prised company cried out, "Lord, Lord, did we not cast out devils and do many wonderful works?" But what availed It? Nothing. Now, I believe that no good deed ,1s lost or wasted In God's universe. 'No stream from Its source flows sea ward, how lonely soever Its course. But some land Is waterad, no sun e'fr rose or set without Influence some where." If we have learned the mind of Christ we will never epcak III discredit of kindness and mercy and goodness. I do not believe God will despise a kind word or a noble service, no matter who renders II. I conducted the funeral of a woman In this city who was the pro prietor of dens of vice and her long life Identified with the grosses^ Immorality. of our. city, t was told, however, that she was a friend lo Ilia poor, a helper of the needy, charitable and most gen erous lo those tvho were In want. I thought better of her for thnt. It re lieved, to some extent, the awful shadow that rested upon her cold face as It lay In the coffin. And I think Got! thought better of her for It. It le Just that which makes the day of Judgment, a time of euch sorrowful tragedy. Christ looked upon the rich young ruler and loved him. loved him »» he, cam,, with armful of good words, loved him as he went away sorrowful, loved him with pity deeper because lie had so much, but would not have the on«. thing needful. In one of our Bouthern states the governor found that some one was In tho habit of leaving a beautiful boquet of flowers at his door, also frequently a basket of carefully selected fruit. For a long time he did not know the hand of his unknown friend, but he appro-;, elated the fiowers and tho fruit never-,, theless. At last one day a young wo man waited In his ofllce to see him She. had flowers and fruit In her hands, She then told her story. Her brother was In the penitentiary, a dangerous criminal, a guilty murderer. She plead ed for hi* pardon. And this was what the flown s Con you not'lmaglne the sorrow of the governor when he was icompcl deny her request? She asked too She naked more than flowers nn.i fruit could buy. She asked for the li and Integrity of Uie law, the afet the commonwealth. I can never that good works are filthy rags, they cannot avail at the day ,f J ment. The man who goes up to i God pleading Ills good works will I a hitter disappointment. God l« bought With things, nor even d< We are no! redeemed with corrup thing", such as silver and gold, ho precious love. Even Christ's holy life la not mir redemption—He must Himself to death. Our preparnll in the Judgment Is a cross In the hca 'Were the whole realm of nature ml ns, That were an offering far too an Love so amazing, so divine. Demands my heart, my life, my I THE CREED OF A CHRISTIAN By REV. E. D. ELLENWOOD, PoHtor UniverBollttt Church L ET us go back, In our thought, to a day In the very beginnings of Christianity. The clashing of conflicting creeds had pot yet paved the way for Infidelity. Warring sects had not yet risen to plumo themselves for battle, and to tip their lances with bigotry and superstition. The Chris tian concept of religious truth Issued pure and untrammeled from Its source and he who would might refresh his spiritual being at Its llfs-glvlng fount. There came one day to the leader of this new dispensation one desiring to know authoritatively the fundamen tals of .iir way of salvation, and ask ing of Hint, "Master, what command ment Is the first of all?" Twenty centuries have slipped away since the simple, direct answer, spring ing from the Inspired heart of the great Teacher, faatened Itself by the very authority of Its own Inherent truth upon the mind and soul of His questioner. Today we have even more need than had the seeking scribe to go to the very fountain head In our search for the very essence of Chris- tlanlty. The call of many leaders'Is upon the air, and the sternuous notes nf command or entreaty do not al ways blend Into "one harmonious whole.” Lo, hers I 4k>, there! they cry, but the unjted Invitation to a life of righteousness, unfortunately, does not always produce a “concourse of sweet sound." Par too often, we suspect, the Im pression left upon the mind of the listener Is that of the eager clamor of rival dispensers of “the only original and Infallable and personally tested" panacea for spiritual debility and moral defection. It Is well for us, therefore, to go to Chrllt for the foundation of our Christianity, rather than to. the makers of creeds and the builders of theologies. Ills onswer to His ques tioner contains no • metaphysical* In tricacies, no opportunity for mental confusion, or spiritual misunderstand ing. "The first commandment is, 'Hear O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lflrd Is one; and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart,,and .with all thy soul, and with alt thy mind, and .with all thy strength. The second commandment 1C this, 'Thou sholt love thy neighbor as thyself.”’ Then, as though to leave In the mind .of His hearer no room for doubt as to tho essential character of these precepts as containing all that should bo noc essary In the faith and practice of tho new concept of religion, the MAster added: "Upon these two command ments hang all the law and the proph ets.” All of the law of love and ser vice which a belief In the one true God must bring Into being; all ot the law of moral precept and of funda mental ethics 'which the prophets of old had deduced from the experiences of the nation for whom they had been railed to be the spiritual teachers and leaders. One of the most helpful of our mod ern thinkers was asked one day by a despondent friend, why It waa that Christianity, If true, had not long ago redeemed the prophecy and prombie of Its early teachers, and come to a place of unquestioned supremacy among the religions of the civilised world. "Be cause," said he. "It has never been really and genuinely practiced." And when we measure the practices, of the Christian world by the uncompromis ing standard of these two "great com mandments," moreover, when we even try to harmonize these peerless state ments of faith and trust and duty with the strenuously advocated teachings of the vast majority of the leaders of Christian thought, we are brought face to face with the reason why Chris tianity has not, long ago, come to en tirely dominate the policies of nations, and to sit forever regnant In the hearts of men. The Christian world has been led away after strange gods ot sense PEACEABLE SETTLEMENT OF THE RACE QUESTION GREA TEST OF THE ISSUES To the dltor of The Georgian: Having been a constant reader of the Atlanta paper you formerly edited, and being one of that> numerous class of which am proud (the tillers of the soil), wish to express, flrst, my hearty appreciation of the success you have made In giving to the public In The At lanta Georgian. What you In your flrst 1-rue claimed for It, a strictly Indo- of which I have endeavored to prayer fully and duly consider, I have decided to give to the public, through your pa per, some thoughts that I have In pri vate ropeatedly aet forth bearing upon this question. I wish to prefaco these thoughts by saying that an all-wise God has and always will overrule the destiny of races, as well as nations, and that the teachings of His Holy Word Is the only safe guide to the right solution pendent Democratic paper, not to be , of all queat |ons bearing upon the peace dictated to bv nartlsan leaders. Esdc- amJ 0 f our gre at notion. From dictated to by partisan leaders. Espe dally do I commend the conservative, generous and manly tone of your able editorials on the many great tssuss which so vitally concern the best In terests of the people of our beloved .Southland and the country at large, say. away with the dominant, selfish Bible history we learn that, In all ages of tho world, tha representatives of some races have been servants to those of another, and at times were In bond age. Even the posterity of faithful old Abraham had to servo the Egyptians as bondsmen. All well Informed Amer- Splrlt that controls so many of our ; , canR kn(iw how the negro race become public men. that they can not see and 1(0n ,i am en to the South. I wish to say. nd the good In others who differ „., th -m fairness. In consideration of funmend _ with them politically or religiously. The reverse has been a leading char acteristic of your pen, and that of all .vour able contributors. I make spe cial mention of your contributor. Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Her poem, 'The Oonward March of Repub lics," is certainly fine. While some "I the our leading men differ "Ith you on the race problem, 1 be lieve you are right when you say that the greatest Issue confronting us of the South, and, In fact, all sectlona of our "mmon country. Is a peaceable and satisfactory settlement of this much vexed question. May sn all-wise God direct to this great end. I believe that had our much lamented martyred pres ident, Mr. Lincoln, lived through his second administration that colonization would have besn his policy. If mem ory serves me right, his successor, Mr. Johnson, In his first annual message, c ommended their colonization In the Indian Territory. Having read with much Interest the views of all, as pub lished In The Atlanta News and else where, coming from men of much bet ter Information, than myself, and all this feature of the question, that the men who were responsible for the In troduction of chattel slavery Into the United States, that their posterity has reaped "the lion’s share" of the profits accruing from the labor of the negro while In bondage, when the wealth of those of our ancestors consisted In owning them as slaves. Why then should there have been a conflict of arms over this question. Welt I thlra this Is enough to say on this point. W* therefore can not hold the negro re sponsible for being with us as bonds men. An all-wise God permitted It to be thus, and the same God ruled In that awful bloody struggle which arrayed brother against I brother In a contest at arms which resulted In his emanci pation. and for all of his fellow-men, and In terested In how the contest should end. Issued the following proclamation: "Lay down your arms: rotum to your allegiance to the United States government, and you shall have grad ual emancipation ot your slaves, and an Indemnity guaranteed from the government of what would be a Just valuation for your slaves as property." The terms ot the emancipation were, to-wit; "All slaves forty years old and upward were to be free; all under, when they reached that age were to be free, and all bom after the acceptance of the aforesaid terms by birthright would be free. 1 Now, these terms I, as a Confeder ate soldier, and, I think, the entire Vicksburg garrison, with the exception of some of our field officers, would have unanimously voted to accept. As to whether these terms would be ac cepted hy the Confederate government, it waa agreed that a delegation from each government meet at Hampton roads, and. If possible, close the treaty. Our delegation was headed by that wise, conservative statesman, Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, who labored faithfully to make the conference a success, and end hostilities. I refer to the final result, and what followed, for all to decide who was right and who wrong. I must say that on the part of Sir. Lincoln It was magnanimous to offer such terms. Forty years have pasted and gone Into history, and yet we stand confronted with the race problem not peaceably and satisfactorily settled. I say that the thirteenth and fourteenth amend ments to the constitution of the United States, passed when strife, prejudice ■mo hatred prevailed, were wrong, and this 'em Id not have been Mr. Lln- clon's policy had he served out his second administration. These enact ments, clothed the m-5'o, who had Just emerged from slav<Jy. Ignorant and untutored as he was, with nil the rights of cttlsenshlp Now this brings mo to the consideration of what 1 think Is the main feature of the race problem. REV. E. D. ‘ELLENWOOD. went to the field, where wo were har vesting the wheat, to notify them of tho proclamation. These were hta words; You have served me faithfully as slaves, and now, by law, are declared Biiivt.ij) ntiu nuns uj lulli illr udliiiicu free men. I still hold the farm, and if you wish fo remain with me and cul tivate It under my direction, I will that you and your families still have a with me, and a Just compensation horns out of the proceeds of the lands for your services. Now, I suppose you will think and say among yourselves that you have labored ell the while for me without compensation, but time will convince you that I have been labor ing and providing for your welfare, as well as my owrt." Such a proposition, mods by their former owner, was naturally contrary to their idea of what freedom should be. If wo remain and labor under his them sought homes In the cities and elsewhere, and, never having had the responsibility of pro viding homos, food and clothing for themaelves, they would naturally seek n change, and conclude that freedom (In the mnln) meant freedom from la bor. Prompted by such motives and with his natural Inclination (unre strained) to Indolenre, with the excep tion of those who wore raised to be Industrious, he has become Indolent und shiftless, thereby rendering him self unprepared for the full rights of citizenship. Now, as my Ilfs, from childhood up to the present, except when In the school room, lias been spent ii;m the farm; by association and dealing with the negro, before and and superstition. The Christian church falls short of her highest success be cause her members, yes, nnd even the priests of her altars, hues too often departed far from the "faith once de livered to the saints.” Christ has been betrayed In the house of his friends! Ifs taught that pure and unqtfeatlon- ed love of God which could come only through a belief In a' being altogether worthy to he loved und trusted, even to the uttermost; and, lo! His priests In their heavenward pointing temples declare unto the hungry souls who look to them fpr bread, n god Impotent in righteousness, decrepit and detective In morals, and fiendish In malignity, a god conceived in the feverish and sensual Imaginations of men upon whose souls the light nnd love which are In Christ Jesus had never shone; a god utterly unworthy a place In the minds nf men touched by the ethics of modern civilization; a god abso lutely Impossible lo be worshiped and trusted by a sane nnd honest mind with thnt "perfect love which casteth out all fear," This Is the god, substi tuted these many dreary centuries by the church of Christ, for the all-pow erful, all-wlae, all-loving "Father who art In heaven,” to whom the Master addressed His prayers, and to whom He directed the worship of His follow ers. Is It any wonder that Christian ity has not fully leallsed the hopes and eager expectations of Its most sanguine aupporters? And then consider how Christianity has obeyed the second greet com mandment. Christ evidently designed to teach us that love to God can only be expressed Intelligently by love to men. "How can a man love Ood, whom he hath not seen, and love not his brother whom he hath seen?” Behold, how the Christian world "loves his neighbor as himself!" From reeking sweat shop nnd suffocating mine: from stilling mill and death- breeding foundry: from squalid hovel nnd den of Infamy, from honest, sweat- lug millions whose backs are bent with Ill-requited toll, there goes up the In creasing murmur of righteous Indigna tion against the Christian task-master and his most peculiar methods of set ting forth In the practices of his own Ilfs the teachings of the Lord Jesus. So long as our Institutions of religion, of learning and of culture shall bo budded upon the martyred bodies of little children, denied their birthright of untrammeled youth, upon the blaet- ed hopes and blighted ambitions of strong and purposeful men, denied the opportunity for the full development ot latent capacity; upon the crushed srtd bleeding hearts of loving mothers. In consolable tor the loss nf little ones sacrificed to the Insatiable greed or a nation's commercial supremacy; sn long as our peculiar administration of up* llliaft* congress the cultu who steals a railroad; so l< llglon and morality are persist' divorced by tho prophets nml pri of Christ; so long ss upright';"" character. Integrity of living and "hm vatlon are considered te he not synonymous, but only Isolated items of human thought and human desire. Just so long shall the Christian church prove unfaithful to the great charge committed to her, aiuI Just so long shall Christ continue to he b-t rayed In tho house ot Ills friends'. Friends and brethren, “the night Is far spent, the day Is at hand." TheoJ logical squabbling will never bring the world any nearer to the worship of the one true God or to an adequate knowledge of tho Christ. Let us have done ivlih deunclatlon, with charge and countercharge, with nur pitiful childish prattling of infallablllty In In'"; pi e- tatlon and In credal conceptloi us still the profitless clamor ol mode creeds by the unceasing of Chrlst-llke deeds. Become a to some needy fellow-man; thu you conclusively show to III Father, “For modes of faith 1st gracele-H zea lots fight; He esn't be wrong whose life Is In the right.” iy •1 I,eC nhatl tM FREE bookkeeping and shorthand BY MAIL Now, It Is not my purpose to j and I wish lo appeal direct to the unduly censure the men on either side \ calm and deliberate Judgment and rea- who led our people In the great contest I son of my fellow-clt tens of the white at the ballot box which ended In one race South, and ask ourselves, who of the bloodiest struggles that Is re- ' claim superiority over the black race, corded upon the pages of history, and ; Have we done our duty to him In which has Mr all time to corns settled ithe premises? I emphatically answer the question of chattel slavery In the j n o, and, God being my helper, I hope United States. As a citizen of our be- | to show wherein we have failed. He loved Georgia, while I thought seces- served us faithfully as,a slave, and, slon was not the best course to take. I with some exceptions, was humanely I wanted to cast my lot with treated and was well provided for. In her After the contest had been go- health and sickness, by those who tnr on for a year, I volunteered my i were his masters, tt e should never sendees on the elde of the lost cause.; forget, nor fall to appreciate and e*m- and spent throe years of the hard- I mend, his loyalty and devotion to our **** * l . ..I. itn. • • ...« n is wf/.ainn nnd rhlldron FIVE persona In ear h county. ilwdrinff totako I*‘rw>o«l instruction, wfco w.ll within JO day* ( Kpand SEND this notJro to either of i ■ DAAUGHON'S ffiMiiie&tf&Megfeb while the contest was raging. Me- thinks I can now see the rulings of a merciful providence that prevented an uprising that would hove slaughtered ■nnrHiKiR, , thousands nf uur loved olgll. Emapcl- save by the men who served tn his patlon changed the relation of the n«- 1°,mediate department, who learned to j gro race from slave to servant. If. the love honor and appreciate him. I have race problem had been viewed from somewhat digressed from the main J this standpoint^ by the^ representative question, but for a purfcose, and wish * l ■lUM'lfll art der the wise leadership of our much beloved General Joaeph E. Johnston, whose services, I regret to say, have been comparatively unnoticed and un appreciated by people nnd historians, ATLANTA, 122 Peachtree. Piedmont Hotel Block. Columbia or Montgomery. W* .l-o tem-h BY MAH, snccsssfnllT. o» REFUND Mon ey. Law. Penmanship. Arttb- jWtte, Letter-Writing. Drawing. Cartooning, c—En^lUh. Banklmr. etc. , 27 Colh^-t :n 15 «*t^- I30C.00C.00 ( »r<iUL 17 years* Indorsed br>^ : * men. so ,a? otter »nr ttraa write IV make’ mention of one special act connected with the war. during the ad ministration of Mr. Llncoln (a man Whose memory I have learned to hon or and revere). During the memorable siege of Vicksburg, when to me It seemed the contest had reached a crisis, when the arbitrament of the sword should eeaae endthe whits- winged messenger of pew* again brood over our ones hAppy and prosperous nation. It waa then that this noble-hearted patriot, YOU MIST innrd'rtogetHoin'. u t 'lyFliEE. | an d commander In chief of the union - Write apw. rhn.: *‘I darieeto 1 , lre d the carnage of r'sp^iaj'Honi'PtadyMrBfde | of'SSSW. men of both races, and we had been faithful In our duties In this new rela tion to the negro and his posterity, the problem would have naturally solved Itself. In our former relation to them, which. In the main, had been mutually friendly and confidential, better pre pared us, left free from outside wrong Influences to be the leading factor tn a right solution of the question. After Mr. Lincoln had Issued hie emsn- clpatlon proclamation, well do I re member the wise counsel of a dear de parted father to the men who had faithfully served him. He came from his home In Gainesville out to his farm, where the writer now resides; HHU UCUIIIIH wins mu i/ciwm biki since emancipation, has given me an opportunity of studying his leading characteristics, and natural bent nf mind, I wish to say In connection with my association with him through Ilfs, thnt I have always thought It best for the peoce and harmony of the two races, that socially the linn of distinc tion should be closely drawn, but In all other relations of life, ns expressed by Rev. Attlcus Haygdod, "To remember that he Is our brother In black," and has a human soul, to bn saved or lust, and a mind susceptible of Industrial, moral and religious training. On this line, ! wish to mention two Instances connected with my personal experience since emancipation. From early child hood, by consent of the|r mothers, I took Into my boms two little boys (Wesley Smith and Bird Oliver), snd In assuming this responslbllty, I felt that It was as much my duty to train them on Che above-mentioned lines as that of my own children. In the ear- neet and prayerful study tha'. I am now giving this all-absorbing question, f realize how far short I have come to tny duty In a general way to all acces sible to me. I ought to have enlarged on the work of teaching them to be come Industrious, frugal, God-fearing and law-abiding In their sphere of life. In the family, we taught these two boys to bf truthful, honest, Industrious and respectful In all their dealings and associations In Ilfs, and In a limited way, gave them primary leaching In a literary education. Wesley, the first named, remained with us until he had about reached manhood, and went to north Alabama; bough; some of the cheap land, married, and when he last wrote me, was making a good Itvlng; waa a enurch member, and teaching vocal music. The other (Bird) still remains with me on the farm; has a family (wife and four children), Is hpnest, respect ful, trustful and duly appreciated by both white and black; is a member of the colored Baptist church: can write end reads the Bible readily. I think their children should be provided with public school Instruction In separate schools. These two Instances of my personal experience constrain me say that thla was the course that should have been taken by the white race of the South nt the beginning of emancipation, which I believe would have resulted In a satisfactory solution of the problem, and, as separate and distinct races, we could Jiave remained together In one common country and been a blessing lo each other. Here in Is where I emphatically affirm that we have failed In our duty to them. As a nation claiming to have a civil government, based upon democratic principles and republican In form, and professing the religion of the meek and iowly Jesus, whose gospel with Its mis sionary spirit Is world-wide In Us ap plication, we should not neglect lo aid in giving them an opportunity for mor el, religious and political training. Let me any that, on a political line. Ills education, has been right the reverse of what It should have been, and those who have used him as a voter are re sponsible for hln not lielng qualified at this time to exercise the sacred right of the elective franchise. I liuvo hud some experience as a candidate, hut I cun truthfully say I never sought his support by any corrupt means. We are sending consecrated men and women to Africa snd other foreign fields, while we have and nre greatly neglecting the representatives of the race whose lot has been cost with ours. Here I think Is e good field for homo mission work. At this time, I suppose that Ood only knows what Is to be their ftnul destiny, but let us strive to do all no can to make them n better and more law-abiding people. Let us wise- ly nnd Judiciously guard against every tendency, either publicly or criminally. thony Brown), who was my father's ox-teamster. He left her a farm of 50 acres, which was purchased after emancipation, with funds ($400 In gold) saved up while In servitude, from (he sale of fish, 'possums, nnd other game. This purchase was adjoining our old family homestead. Here she resided until four yeurs ago. 'She sold It, and went to make her horns with her son. During her stay there she waa mads to feel frrs to coma 10 my home when' ever she wished. Thfs aha would often do, and sometimes remain for months. queathed to us by our forefathi of her Illustrious sons, who-' adorn the pages of her hlsto that nf he* ith 'I he# H«) unit ■'iiiiriiiiirn iriiMiii tui iiiuiilim, and, being of Industrious hsblts, would not be satisfied unless employed at something pertnlnlng to household af fairs. For such services, we would always pay her. There nre others who are getting "Id that I might mention, but don't deem It necessary. Will say that should I be living when they pus away I expect to see that they have a decent burial. In conclusion, I wish lo say, "Let the dead past bury Its dead," and wisely dealing with the present, and hopefully looking to the future, let our wisest in uin tui’iic, out w incni and best men of both races act Ju diciously, and co-operals with each other, and 1 believe they can and will rightly solve the problem. If what I have written, bearing upon the ques tion. which, t assure all, are the ex pressions of an honest end sincere heart, merits the consideration of any who may read, take them for what they are worth; otherwise, pass them by unnoticed. Will say, being a na tive son of our beloved Georgia, that I am proud of the nohle put record she hu made In founding nnd perpetuating the great und good government ba ng the Empire State of the Hoi mention the names of some o worthy sons: Crawford, Lumpk . Cobbs, Toombs, Hlevens, Brown, Hill nnd Gordon. Let us hope tlmt her fntr banner may still nnvs triumphantly over Ihe "home of the free, nml the Innd of the brave," and that Ood from the ranks of her living noble give us wise statesmen, who will be equal to the present emo _ successfully solva all Issues iiffc-tlng Ihe pence and prosperity of our xtnta and nation, nnd whose names will mid now luster to her fair escutchoon. Lika one of old, I can uy, "Entrant me not,| to leave thee, or to return from fol lowing after thee, for whither thou gosst t will go, and whers thou lodge est I will lodge; thy people elmll be my people, and thy God my Ood, Where thou dtest, will I die, nml there will I be buried." Your fellow-citizen, II. II. BROWN. Flowery Branch, Ga., R. F. D. No. L THE LOVERS OF ART. Who live In Atlanta will he gratified tel learn that .lie. l-ldna Freeman, wife of I Georgs Fri' imin. H " well-known and I once-famous Enidl-h portrait painter] nnd mlnlaturo nrtlst, deceased, hu lo-1 rated In this city. Sho wna for three I yeara the pupil of Mr. Freeman, and I under hta direction had tho finest OfJ advantages abroad. Mrs. Freeman mat] be seen every day nt Motes' Studte | from 11 to 1, where samples of bar] work will always bo on exhlbtlon. leniency, eitner puouciy or >. I'l'i.i..,.,, thnt tends toward amalgamation of the races, nnd to see that by law they have'full protection of life and prop erly. I.ct us co-operate with and en courage every laudable effort on the part of their wisest and beat men look ing to their betterment Industrially, morally or religiously, and, whether u employer or master, take the teaching of God's holy word ss our guide, and as a laborer on the farm or elsewhere, or aa servants In our homes, pay them a Just rompcneailon for their serv ices, and. In this way, gain their con fidence and esteem, hoping thereby to reetore the friendship that once ex isted between the two races. Could such be the remit, I emphatically say that I do not believe that we can ever get a better rlass of laborere, so well adapted to the farm nnd all other enterprise* that require manual labor. It Is still pleasant from memory, In my declining years, to revert back to scenes nnd relations connected with ante-bellum days, when, In boyhood, I romped up and down the hanks of the Chhttahoochee river, fishing and chas ing the '|K'«»um and 'coon, or on the farm, working side by side with the boys of this race of people. There Is sttlt living, near me, tn comfortable circumstances, with her hon, a very aged negro woman whom I still delight to address as Aunt Rachel, and ebe In return to address me sa Marse Berrien. She It was that nursed me In baby hood, and cooked for the family. She alwaya speaks of our family as her whits folks. From the best records ob tainable, she Is supposed to be In the nineties, and still retain* a clear mem ory, and has of late yeara repeatedly said to me what she most needed now was the grace of God to support her In old age, and that when death come* she may get to a better .world than this. Away with tbs fa lie doctrine that "the negro ts a brute, and has n > soul." Eighteen year* have pa«Ad since the death uf her husband (An- TELEPHONE TRADE The wise merchant known the viilne of orders that come over tho telephone. If the telephone is always "busy” it’s equal to closing a main entrance. Be sure your facilities are ample. Perhaps you need ad- rlitional Bell telephones or a private branch exchange. Bell Service Is Satisfactory. The Rates Are Reasonable. Call Contract Department, Main 1300. Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Co,