Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

WHAT IS RELIGION?—I jjan ns Invariably finds something: In the f g ,ts he faces out of which to make religion foe Ills soul ns he finds something In them out of which to mnfce knowledge tor ills Intelligence, or food for his hunger. He has never |h|b how ttf K ot along without re ligion no more than the lice lms known , „»• to get along without honey. It Is • long way from bees to men and from honey to religion, but nil forma of life (Lnt the same universe and severally Ileal with 11 according to their capaci- “ jo receive Its raw material and turn a In the direction of their various •rades of endowment. The liydrolds hulld coral Islands at the bottom of re.'l/on. and men build cities like Lon don n. the top. The difference betwen ihe lower and the upper centers of nonilatlon measures the distance be- iweep the simplest and most complex orders of life. •piie establishments the zoophytes ereot against the tides of the ocean ure composed of carbonate of lime the tiny laborers extract from the water. The narl "f the universe they can grasp 1‘nii use is very limited. Outside of securing the inenns of subsistence, their otlvity Is confined to securing from L, ,vines the particles that float and L,.king them Into reefs that stand. Hut nil forma of workers, from structureless bits of protoplasm engaged ■ building ten-forests to men engaged , building Egyptian pyramids employ their powers In organizing the different levels iif existence Into the forms of Hull life. The grade of work turned loUt ■filial er. determines the rank of the work- *\Ve know whnt tho shell forms of life are by the chalk cliffs they build. lVe know what the sponges are by the ■ ItlfK they erect. The place of the bee Is Axed by his cell and tile merchan dise with which he stores ft. The level or the beaver Is settled by the dam he throws across the river. Every living thing under heaven advertises its rank by what It can make out of what It can find In nature. In the character of Its work we aee the level of Its en dowment. Man, like the rest of living creatures, takes his place In the scale of being by what he can do with what he can And in the world about him. At the be ginning of his life on the'planet ho was not as well furnished for making his way as the crawling, swimming, walk ing, flying forms of existence below him. They had Instinct, well develop ed from the first—-he had reason, cap- sulate In his being, but hidden be neath the surface of his life. They had varying capacities for doing tl-.c work before them already developed In their claws and fins and beaks and falls and wings, while he was under the neces sity of learning by slow and painful processes of discipline what he could find and what he could do. They canto Into life from the greut tech nological school of nature already grad uated for business; he came a stran ger to himself and a stranger to every thing he met. The bee was ready to make as good honey as ho could ever turn out us soon as he could fly. The beaver was ready to arrest water with as good a dam as he would ever know how to build as soon as he could walk. Every grade of life below the. human knew exactly at the start where every thing was to which It was related. It knew how to open every dour that shut from Itself what It wanted. He Blood like an ignoramus In a museum. All living things under him had the advantage of him. They were acquainted with the premises. Birds were singing in the trees, finding their final, building their nests, feeding tlielr By REV. JAMES W. LEE, PASTOR TRINITY METHODIST CHURCH young and using the sky to fly In as I If the whole earth belonged to them, j The fish were Just as perfectly at home In the sea, playing amid Its depths.! faking the water for their comfort and j support. Between the birds finding their native home In the air above him. ■ and the fish sailing the seas as their liquid dwelling place below him, he! stood on the earth along with other! living creatures, a palpitating sped- 1 men of pitiful weakness am 1 helpless ness. To him tin- surrounding full ness se. Uleil IT* r no S].eeiuI items of food or clothing or shelter, and no par- I tfcular line of work In which ho could j find for himself a career. Every other animal had Ills food and ! his function prepared for him. He: seemed to be the only one whose place | ans not doe ii on ihe t ,, ogi uni. In 1 In scheme of nature It appeared that am- . pie provlslnn hnd been made for all performers front brachlpods to monk- j eys. but he did not uppear to arrive! on the stage until after all parts of tho ! play had been assigned. . There Is not In all history a com pound of dust and loneliness so pathet ic as that represented by the first hu man being. The universe he faced ap peared to be organized to destroy him. The weather was against him. the wild beasts were Inimical to him, and noth ing appeared disposed to lean toward him In friendship and good will. But having arrived in the midst of tcenes where everything puzzled him and opposed him, the only alternative open to him was to vacate standing room, or vindicate his right to breathe and live. Though the odds were .against hint, he took his stand and be gan his career. The means of physical existence engaged his attention, and when we contrast what lie eats and what lie wenrs nnd the mansions lie houses himself In today, with the food REV. JAMES W. LEE. and raiment and shelter he used In the beginning, we are able' to form some Idea of tho Infinite distance be tween him and the rest of the animal reatlon with which he Itegan his hts-,| tory on the earth. The zoophytea are back there where they were In the morning of the world, extracting lime from sea water to use In building sub marine cities The bees are back there licking sweets from (lowers to use In making honey. The beavers are back there manipulating mud with their tails to use In their work of masonry. The loiter animals began with every endowment they possess today ami stay where they started. Man began with nothing except powers packed away so deeply In his nRture that he did not know he had them, and has gradually discovered them and learned how to use them In making his way onward and upward In the conqueat-of all things. Starting at the foot, he has spelled his way to the head of the class. From being the weakest hh has become the strongest. Step by step he ha* climbed from the bottom to the top of creation. The elements and forces that threatened to crush him he has mastered, nnd subjected to his service. He haa put till history under his hat amt made himself the trustee of the earth and Its affairs. He admin isters upon all terrestrial Interests, and turns all the meaning the world has In the direction of his Intelligence and heart nnd will. * Animated protoplasm demonstrates that the lime was made for It by get ting It and piling It Into reefs. The bee demonstrated that sweets were made for it. by getting them to (111 Ills cell. Man demonstrates that all things were made for him by getting them and using them to build up his commerce. Ills law, his literature, his art and his religion. He has learned to turn the raw material of sea and sky and soli with all the thought they embody Into the forms of Ijls own life. He has made the whole world friendly by mak ing It human. He has made the eurth his own by making It n garden. He lias made tho ether his by forcing It to I express his ideas. He has made the 1 avalanches his by transmitting their power into light and heat. He has made the whole sum of things his by learning to sweep with his fingers Its entire keyboard and make all the combina tions necessary to bring to his soul all the riches of melody lodged In It from the beginning of time. "W# scatter the mists that enclose us. Till the seas are ours and the lands, Till the quivering ether .knows us And carries otlr quick commands. From the blaze of the sun's bright glory We sift each ray of light— We steal from the stars their story Across the dark *pac$s of night." I. Life in all It* form* find* creation responsive to Its every height of fac ulty. The outside order never plays false with any igrade of animate ex istence. It answers to the call of the' amnelit, at the bottom of the scale with exactly what It reaches for. Whatever the aitonges call for to take up tho walla of their palaces, they get. If the swallow culls for adobe to build his nest,-he gets It. Inferior grades of life need little and call for little, but what ever they ask for the universe hands them. Tito response Is always accord ing to the call. Pearls are never cast before swine, because the hog does not ask for anything but'eorn. The scheme of nature Is adjusted to meet on Its own lane the demands of every order of fe. There has never been a species of exlsjenee but found the outside sys tem of things matching Its wants with the precise object necessary to satisfy it. Man la not confined by Instinct to any particular round of tho outside order. He Is not limited In structure to nny particular side of It. The tiger Is made for the Jungles, the whale for the ocean and tho eagle for the skv. All living things except him are teth ered to some particular patch of land or water or atmosphere. His structure corresponds to the constitution of things. At the beginning he had no home anywhere, hut he has slmvly domesticated himself to all that he perceives, and now finds a home every where. The seven stars are locuted within the confines of his plantation. He weighs the constellations in his bal ance*. He associates with the wheel ing heavens and learns their secrets. Ho moves amid the suns, counting their number, and analyzing thrir con tents, thelf Interpreter and master. Nothing Is foreign to him. nothing is without hut Is represented by some thing within. Tho scheme of outside things Is met by the scheme of his In side Intelligence. The eternal purpose moved up from particle and spicule, through plant and pnlypt and quad ruped, expressing Itself all the way In limited and meager forms of life, but waited until tho topmost stage was reached and then emptied the whole content and meaning nnd sweep of It self In the Ufe of man.. He became the measure of nil things. Towering above all, his life furnished the standpoint from which to determine the precise rank of all. Ae the climax of the di vine process he Is not only the heir of all things, but also tho Interpreter and Interpretation of all. Nature does not know Itself. The self-consciousness of the Infinite mind repeats Itself In the self-consclousnrss of finite mind. Editor's Note: (Dr. Lee will continue his article ,,n "What Is Religion” In next Saturday's Issue of The Georgian.) I [j i i HOLD YO UR E 0 o ■ s : By REV. JOHN E. WHITE, PASTOR SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH ; « — ’ so built we the wall.”—Nehe- Imlah " and 4. A .tPi,VO the people of Jerusalem several thousand years ago the problem was a rotted and rained wall. That wall represented the drill- nation of the Jews. To repair and re build It was the necessity of the j hour. The people alone Inside that city could do the work. Self-respect ancl self- preservation and the hopes of the na tion drove them to the task. Other questions and other duties might arise, but tlielr first duty was to save them selves. They fell upon a wise plan. Every man over against hi* own house —so built they the wall. That proved a practical Idea several thousand years ago. It la a true prin ciple today. It la a plan nnd a princi ple to bo Invoked now for the prob lems of the Southern people In Issues that ate immediate and pressing. The loyal.wife of a minister In AJ- panta some time ago, seeing that her husband was about to get Into a con troversy with another minister which promised to be disagreeable, said: "I am going to hold my dog." Hold Your Dog. There are some who do not seem to appreciate that the more deeply and earnestly one loves the South and the more ho Is concerned with the welfare i of his ow n people, the more anxious he | will he, having no selfish interest to serve, that they should not be nr do that which is discreditable to them es, and that they shall be correct or wrong dispositions and morally Indefensible tendencies, Ho lie will bo faithful in Ills love for them to direct their attention to the things that put to disadvanjtge. If one's own brother goes wrong. It Is no assumption of superior virtue while standing with him to show him his wrong in Its true colors, i’ertalnly such an attitude with respect to the South, weighed In any balances that are to be read fifty years hence. Is proof and fact of a better affection and a higher order of In this weakness for the upplause of negVo, Ills character and status among the multitude and make merchandise us Is our problem; what to do with of their faults und foibles to advance I and about him Is our task; for sihnd- I himself. lng next to that burden we have got to The other day a boy got Into a row with a negro boy. It was perfectly clear that both of them were to blame. The father of the white boy was a wit ness of the scene and saw and heard all that ihls little eon said and did, and ft was enough. I can assure you. What did he do when fits boy came In with rage yet ubgoverneil? What was his duty to his own child? Was It to pat hint on the back and set him to a worse frenzy by dilating on the meanness of the boy he hud attacked? Because he loved his child he did no such thing. He-, showed him wherein he hud done wrong, and pointed out strongly where the path of true su periority lay. Whenever wa hear of negro leaders stirring up their race by relating the wrongs, real or Imaginary, which they have suffered, and abusing the white race, we say, and say truly, “Thby are doing it grent Injury to their own people." Wherein Is our wisdom or service better when we speak to our people of the negro In such a way as to Increase our nlreudy very acute sense of provocation to the end of deep, oiling Individual bitterness and with the effect of deadening conscience among tho white people? Is that the true way to be loyal to our own? Shifting the Emphasis. In the long view of.things, from tho standpoint of tho South, the gravamen of peril la not the peril of tho negro, but the peril of the white man. The lift It But the real and the vital problem that we ought to give most attention to Is the superior character, the moral supremacy of our own race. How to prephre and strengthen the generation nt our own children, so that they will be able to grapple the Issues we leave them, Is our greater question. Instead of gazing and grumbling ut the amount of educational opportunity the negro has at the hands of philanthropy, our S reat concern I* to Improve tho white oy's opportunity. Absorbed over the negro und engaged In convincing our selves of his. menace and meanness, we areJn danger of forgetting our own weakness, and even of promoting our own racial Inefficiency. ' Hon. Charles B. Aycock. one of the truest of Southern leader* produced since the war, gave utterance during his great campaign In North Carolina to a sentiment that rings whenever I think upon our situation In the South. He salt!; “I am sick of hearing that we are go ing about over the state crying, 'Negro! Negro!' It shall not be the truth about my campaign, for It Is not the truth about my cause. T drop and despise that, cry here and now for one that Is grander and worthier. My cry Is and ■hall he, so help me God. 'White man! Whiteman! White fhan!"’ The time 1ms come for a shift of em phasis like that,' from tlid negro, to whut we arc and whkt we ought to effectively lodged. It is the opinion of I wny. The king undertook for public the Individual that Is to be met with amusement to organize u great shout, protest and persuasion. Yet the dls- | He sent proclamations all over the danger to be really feared Is not that . . ,, h the negro will lose his skin, but that Jj?'*.® - ■ ■ , imie their souls People, we ought to do. A* a captuln ’ n se tneir souls— , ., ,. T| . vollr the white iieoplo muy their Christian civilisation—and that Is not a negro problem, but a while man’s problem. That Is a matter largely In tho hands of those who, through offl- cIM, editorial, school room and pulpit Influence, ure In the position to mould tho Southern ntlnd. There Is not Importance enough or power enough In the nine million ne groes In the South to Injure the white race seriously. It deep und lasting hurt comes to the South It will come of old, let our leaders cry, "To your tents, O, Israel!” Let us hold our dog. Booker Washington et ill. have theirs to hold. We have ours. We can better help him hold his dog when we huve better mastered our oi#n. Lost in ths Crowd. Now, when the people of that ancient olty realized that their task was to build the wall and savo their civiliza tion, they set about finding a plan by which their forces could be utilized to i REV. JOHN E. WHITE. en easy to plunge everything Into confusion If they undertook the work without plan. We have seen whut their plan wus; “Every one repaired over against Ills own house. So bullded we the wall.” Every man began ut his own home and did his own work. The home Is the center und the In dividual Is the unit of civilization. Therefore, the peril* of civilization are not primarily with the public, but with the Individual. The complaint against wrong public opinion Is never , tlnctlon Is scarcely worth while, for I men being as they are, public sent! ment, or what seems to be public sen tlment from the clamor It ralaes, haa the power hi determine Individual sen timent with tremendous and dangerous rapidity. This Is the real weakness of , a democracy. The Individual gets i quickly swallowed up In the crowd. Democracy may be but one hour re moved from mobocracy. That Is a fact often Illustrated. As members of cor- j poratlons, the Individual conscience surrenders to the corporate conscience and men violate moralities they hold sacred In their personal capacity. Three or four years ago In one of our Georgia country towns, a few men Inflamed talked about lynching a ne gro In the county Jail. They moved public sentiment. It caught up one after another, und In thirty minutes the mob was at the jail door demand ing the prisoner. The sheriff came out and heard their I clamorous demands. Btundlng on the | jail steps he said: “Fellow citizens, you I ' know me and I know you. You elected me to office. I don’t want you to do this thing. Bpt If you are determined thnt this negro shall die and die today 11 cannot prevent'It. I see Mr. Thom as Jones right here before me. He Is ! your leader. If he will come Into the jail, or anyone <tf yoiir number you ,may select, I Will point out the right ■nan to him and he may kill him.” A silence fell upon the mob. Mr. Jones would not accept the commission. No one else would. The negro was not lynched. The mark of advanced society Is In dividual Independence—the ability to govern ourselves righteously. The mark of Imperfect civilization Is Indi vidual Inability to stand alone—the In ability to go a straight personal course, with sovereignty firmly seated under our own lint. Alexander H. Stephens never appeared at a more Impressive moral advantage than when he said: I um toting my awn skillet," In the ‘Autocrat nt tho breakfast table," you recall the story of the King of Nor- get , kingdom. The Imperial decree de manded that at a certain hour on a certain day, at a certain moment by the, clock, every one of his subjects should shout his loudest In unison. The greatest Interest was taken by the peo ple In the king's Idea. There was movement to and fro, and preparation for the appointed moment. Every man cleared hi* throat. The moment camo, passed, but breathless silence reigned. "Only one person shouted," says the Autocrat, “ and that was a ll;tle woman In tho mountains of Norway who said 'boo!'” And the rest stood waiting to see what the oth ers would do and to hear the great nolae which was expected to follow. You laugh at the ludicrous story, but do you not seo how It Illustrates the great weakness ot Individuals? Peo ple wait for the crowd, wait, wo might say, “to see how the cat Is going to Jump.” That Is why the wall doesn't ■built The Amount of a W*n. Tie pOet sings: “The face the most fair jto our vis ion allowed Is tho one we encounter and lose In tho crowd." He Is very much mistaken. The fairest faces are the faces turned up like Savonarola's • to the glare of the fagots, or of Luther, or of John Knox, or of Patrick Henry, who dared to stand In the Unrelieved brightness of Individual Independence, "heart within and God overhead,” But what la an Individual? A drop of water, a grain of sand . What Is an Individual? The grandest something this earth and the universe know*. You may go all around the range of Immensities, sweep tha planets Und the stars, take the measure of ocean* and continents, but however vastly you rove or of vastnas* you see—you comeback at last to that which Is of Infinitely greater value to you—"your self." Yes, and from standpoints out side yourself you are the supreme val ue of the world. God himself has ap praised the Individual above all els.' This Is the estimate In Jesus Christ. What He was, what He said, what lie did and what ho left to be done Is writ ten all over with ciphers running Into endless series that faintly tell what a man Is worth. Now I say that man—that Southern man, ought to stand up and not be afraid of being loneeome. And when It la done he will find he Is not alone There are thousands to rise up nbout hint and join hands with him In any righteous cause. It was just a drop of rain that fell on tho arm of an engin eer as he drove his train along the vol ley In Pennsylvania In 1885. A drop of rain. He flipped It off with his fin ger and forgot It. But In the night tin companions of the rein drops gathered one by one In the high hills. From tree top to bough and trunk they ran dnwn,raln drop on rain drop, until they were an army no man could number, each little soldier doing bis shnre. Thej massed their forces at length at tin great Conemaugh Lake, and began to push, pound by pound, ton by ton. against the great dam above the city or Johnstown. Nothing but rain drone, but pushing, pushing, each doing his share, till tile vast fortifications of the dam crock and crash, and down tin valley go the awful flood of raindrop-. It catches that engineer and his train, and hurls them Into eternity. It cn- K'lif- tin . 11V nnd piles the wreckage In a mass three miles below the site of the city. It tears out the heart or a mountain. Rain drops! Rain drops! 3e sure you are right In your own heart ami thnt you nre doing your share toward making a righteous pub lic sentiment. I am speaking to a largo number of young men, every one an Individual mind In the tide of life around us. For you I borrow the motto of Christian Endeavor and ask you all to say It: 'I am but one, but I am one; I cannot do everything, but I can do something. What I can do I ought to do. And what I ought to do by the help of God I will do." "Every man over against his house, So bullded wo tho wall.” THE NONCHALANCE OF MURDER By REV. EVERETT DEAN ELLENWOOD, l PASTOR UNIVERSALIST CHURCH ; T HE apparent Indifference to tho sucrednesa of human life. In the “ thought of too many men and "■'men is indeed appalling. The Initial ■ rime or I'altr seems to have let loose upon the earth the Insatiable demons ”< blood lust, whose crimson-stained lingers have left their mark of re- iro.u h upon every civilisation since his I The fresh gathered record of the worw* doings with which we modern fo k heg| n our day fairly reeks with the lutes In which the passion-blinded son* und daughters of the world’s first mur derer, with bestial rage, with lustful running, or with misconceived and mis appropriated vengeance have smeared l™'J r souls with a stain which neither ■■ freely shad blood of a thousand | saviors nor the fiercest flames of the hell shall be able to ever fully And to add to the. wretched ness and horror of It all, those whoso insk it is jo gather for us these records of the world's doings all too often so far lorget the responsibility of their ■ugh "tlk-e as teachers of morals and '•inn's, a. well as mere Informants, as ■ I their precious columns with the fnv.iltlng details of these temporary nut terrible surrenders of the man to ■he brute. Here upon this page we learn how an aged pair of lovers, whose living lias ever been to the honor and profit of tnun and to ths glory of God, are sent suddenly out of the world they have loved and blessed by the ruthless hand of some moral delinquent who coveted the few, paltry pieces of silver which their frugality and Industry hud won. Close by, in another column. Is reported the sudden and trivially born quarrel of two hitherto Ilfo-long friends, the flashing forth of the ull- too-ready weapon of destruction, nnd another crimson tally mark on the list of unpremeditated homicides. Turn over the page nnd wc find the story a man with a cruelly lacerated honor, whose defense he believes has justified him In calmly anti deliberate ly taking away from his defamer that which was not his to give and certainly could not be his to take away. In *n- er place, heralded in extra bold type ... order that It may not escape the eye, we are regaled with elaborate de tails of the doings of a crowd of mur derers, who, believing themselves di vinely ordained to avenge o-crlme most revolting to the mind of civilized man, seem to have forgotten that murder Is no less murder when committed by fif ty or one hundred men than when one frenzied brain directs the hellish act. .Then, In addition to the horrifying records of deliberate and Intentional homicides, there Is also the distressing ly increasing list of those whose earth ly duties nnd pleasures are premature Iy cut off by the frequent disasters In Industry, In transportation and In amusement. Too often do we, with out serious reflect ton, characterize these catastrophic* as the unavoidable accidents of human life. Too often also do wc dishonor God nnd do vio lence to our own Intelligence by nam ing them the mysterious working* of the Divine Providence, the unspoken rebukes of an Indignant God. If we shall carefully Investigate and determine the causes of very many of these great misadventures In human society, which sadden a nation and shock a world, we shall discover to our shante and our reproach as civilized and morally enlightened beings, that they trace their origin to the same moral defection which make* so possi ble und apparently so appallingly easy the willful murder. It Is the careless regard for human life. A great theater, filled with hu man souls demanding education and diversion, suddenly takes fire, and all over the land the papers whirl the news of the translation.of hundred* of REV. F.. D. ELLENWOOD. precious hunjan lives In the horrible holocaust. Perhaps we call It an ex ceedlngly unfortunate accident; or it tnay be thut we shall bow our heads in fancied piety Instead of shame, and declare that It was the hand of God. The cold und unsentimental facts re vealed show that the upparatus pro vided for the prevention of Just such catastrophlcs, failed to operate at the critical moment. And why? Hlmply because those whose business It was to keep these things In perfect condl tlon had been remiss In their duties. The fire curtains refused to work and the exits provided for emergency Were locked. Hhall we cliurge Providence with this crime, or shall we find guilty that lust for gain which places the value of gold above that of human life? An upraised platform, upon which are gathered a company of llfe-lovlfig, pleasure-seeking people to witness a splendid contest of human brain and brawn. Is taxed beyond tho limit of safety prescribed by the experts who Inspected Its construction, and a score ‘ lives pay again the penalty of In- able human greed. Was this not really murder, us much so as that of the brutal highwayman who. with his bludgeon, coolly takes the life which stands between his lust and the gold In the purse of his victim? A railroad train, bearing a heavy loud of the most precious freight of which we are conscious, dashes at full speed Into another train similarly laden and a community Is benumbed by the horror of the catastrophe. Upon Investigation It Is discovered that a train dispatcher, upon whose alertness depended the safety of these hundreds of human liras; worn by weary nights of vigil at the sick bed of a loved one, has fallen asleep at his desk and has thus Men the unwilling instrument for the performance of a great crime, whose guilt imut surely rest, In the final analysis, at the door of the cor poration whoso greed refused to pro vide against this very possibility. Our civilization must be but a mock- _ y of morality and a playing at ethic* until we shall have possessed ourselvet of a greater knowledge of the Inesti mable value of a single human life. That school which does not have as the very center of It* curriculum the most careful Instruction in the beauty, the dignity and the sacredness of all life, regardless of the colur of skin which covers Its temporary house, and the slant and shape of the eyes through which it looks out upon the world. Is shamefully recreant to the high trust Imposed upon It. That parent who fails to endeavor, by all the power ot his Influence, I ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE, mm •••••• ~ tlln Editor of The Georgian: There seems to be considerable spec, ttiation as to the work of the Anti- oa’f'im league, what It stands for, and lally what it purposes doing with fWerenc* to the local campaign con- Mandated, n you vr ||| permit me, I "■h to make just « few plain simple ati meats a? to the league and Its '■Th- I thought I had written and '■■>11 enough’ during the year that i.jhody knew Just what tho league and **a purposes. s n.ere are some fundamental prtn- thi- ' eM *ntiai-facts and methods of “ * !r,0 'ement which many temperance people do. not aeetp yet to cbmpre- hend. The league I* misunderstood In the main by many who faff to realise that this la practically a new' movement In Georgia, though well established In many other states, and that It Is seek ing td»lntroduce some method* of re form hitherto untried here, and must of necessity seek to educate the pub lic and create a working force out of untried volunteers. This Is not anoth er temperance socletv. but, as Its name Implies, a league of organizations—a clearing bouse for effective utilization of temperance-sentiment which It is the province of the church, the Sunday reate, strengthen and maintain. The league regardi the saloon ques tion not simply as something to work at, but as a question which can and must be solved; and holds that the only solution of the saloon question Is no saloon. It stands for the largest present repression and the speediest ultimate suppression of the whole liquor business. • The league has no permissive fea ture whatever In It* creed. It stands unalterably opposed to the license sys. tern, believing It to be vicious in prin ciple. Inconsistent with enlightened government and In practice -a. protec tion to the traffic.' This Is not a multiplication ot agen cies, but rather a unification of ex- Iztlng force* and a centralization of means. It seeks first to put the liquor traffic In a course of final extermlna school and all temperance societies to* that course. 1 Never as extreme as the ... ultra-radical, but always In advance of the, ultra-conservative. The league Is Just what It Is be cause nothing else has ever solved the saloon problem. .* . Our national superintendent. Rev. P. A. Baker, says: "The saloon problem Is the church's problem and the world expects the church to solve It. Her failure to do so will disappoint both friends and enemies. "The church Is not only responsible for result*, but Is obligated to bring forth the best resulta. Falling to do this, she is In danger of forfeiting lead ership In moral reforms. "The Antl-Halonn League Is an ef fort to bring about the highest stand ards ofi church efficiency In the solu tion of the liquor problem. The past weakness of this reform has been It* deflection from the church. "The league stands ready to become tlon, and then hasten* progress along everywhere un official church federa tion, controlled by the church Just as the churches are sufficiently aroused to Insure permanence of the work with out loss of power." The league has It* place In the movement of humanity back to ( and Is hopefully practical because It bring* the question out by Itself, that It may be dealt with on its merits. It Is the militant righteousness of a nation endeavoring to establish In government the highest personal stand ard* of Integrity and service. The work of the league and its suc cessful attainment In any community dependa upon the temperance senti ment behind It. The league goes just as fast end Just as far as the sentiment of (he churches will allow, and cannot advance a step beyond. Now, If the churches In the city and the county believe the saloons to be a curse, and a menace to the peace and happiness of the people, and reallv de sires to get rid of them, they have only to give the. command, and then get behind the machinery of the league, and the work can be done. The executive board of the league Is made up of true, courageous work ers—men who believe that the saloon ought to be speedily removed and who are ready, at short notice, to buckle on the armour und begin the fray. The league I* not only ready, but anxious, for the engagement, and we do piost earnestly appeal to the Chris tian citizenship of the city to come out ' lly and courageously and help make “p the permanent campaign commit tee and let the work begin. Let every church In Atlanta speak out on this question Sunday morning, and say by sermon and by vote or resolution that they will not tolerate the saloons longer, and the world will know Just what to expect of our be loved city. J. B, RICHARDS, Associate HuoerintendenL be withheld from lust -and tho hand from violence, has brought Into being that which la at any time liable to be come an unspeakable curse to socletv and a reproach upon Ills own declining years. • Let us unlearn, as rapidly as possi ble, the easy art of murder, and remove from the foreheads of those who shall come ufter us the brand of Cain. Let us prepare In our own beans tin- Imlv mountain of the Lord, In which we shall neither kill nor destroy. EVERY SUNDAY Athens, Ga„ and Return. Only One Dollar for tho Round trip. Trains leave the Union Depot at 7:20 a. nt. Cheaper to go than It la to stay at home. Remember Just 21.00 SEABOARD. W. E. CHRISTIAN, A, G. P. A., Atlanta, Ca. THE BEST MAGAZINES IT THE BEST RITES. Every one must keep up with dally events going on so rapidly all the time. If you do not read some dally paper you are falling behind. If you do not read some good magazine and en joy the literature that Is contained In these publications ever}- month you are missing much that Is good. You can secure The Georgian every day In the year, except Sunday, and one of the most prominent magazines in America for a little more than the price of The Georgian alone, which Is only ft.GO per year. Take advantage of Tito Georgian clubbing offer. o.< <• now-