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'Rum and Ruin
An Editor’s Heroic Words.
On last Sunday night at a rousing mass meeting
of the citizens of West Point, under the auspices
of the Anti-Saloon League, a local editor created
a sensation.
Short, but stirring addresses had been made by
Mr. J. B. Richards, financial secretary of the Anti-
Saloon League of Georgia, and Rev. S. P. Wiggins,
pastor of the Methodist Church in West Point, and
Pastor Albert Bond, of the Baptist Church, where
the great audience was assembled was just about
to present the editor of The Golden Age for a ten
minute speech, when suddenly, the editor of
a local paper arose in the audience and asked
the of saying a few words. He
said he wanted to confess his wrong in once
having yielded to the temptation of drink, de
clared that he had quit forever, turned to a group
of young men with whom he had but recently
mingled in the revelry of the “social cup,” and
pledged them that he would never drink with them
or tempt them to drink again, and then declared
with ringing bravery: “And I expect to notify
every dealer in liquor for whom I have been ad
vertising that I will never again advertise their
goods in my paper. It will cost me several hundred
dollars a year, but God being my helper I will bear
the loss and redeem my pledge for the sake of sav
ing the young men around me.”
As the editor sat down - tears glistened in
some eyes and joy beamed on hundreds of faces.
Let the brave words of this Georgia editor ring
a clarion call to every editor in the land—not only
of the country weeklies, but the daily press as well.
It is nothing les than a shame that any newspaper
claiming to be a decent builder of civilization should
carry into our homes and spread before the youth
of our State and nation the flaming advertisements
of liquor—when the managers of the papers know
that their success as an advertising medium for
these horrible wares depends on the swiftness and
the wideness with which their advertisers get in
their work of wrecking homes, blighting hopes and
debauching human lives.
God save all the weeklies and give us at least
one great daily paper in Georgia and the South that
will not advertise liquor!
The Great Need.
O that the erring sons of men might see,
And, seeing, love the loveliness divine
That from the face of Him doth shine
Who trod in pain the paths of Galilee!
0 that the woe of dark Gethsemane
Might fill all eyes with penitential brine,
And Calvary’s sad appeal all hearts incline
To Him who said to all, “Come unto me.”
Then would our earth, disrobed and clothed anew',
Its myriad voices lift in joyful praise:
Then would each heart reject all things untrue,
And mild religion hallow all our days.
Then Love, enthroned, would bid contention cease,
And wrap the world in universal peace.
J. B. Ely.
Editorial Convictions.
Let the cigarette smoker ponder these words from
Sam Jones: “Fire at one end and fool at the other.”
Remember, a man whose name is on the church
book and who is untrue to his sacred obligation, is
not fit to go to the legislature.
And when you go to make up your verdict at the
ballot box, keep this truth before you: That man
who votes for a friend of the liquor traffic is a
practical enemy of good government. Analyze that
statement and face the truth like a man,
The Golden Age for March 29, 1906.
The Old Doctrine.
By J. L. D. Hillyer.
Every now and then during the past six or eight
years, I have been hearing about the teachings of
the Keswick Convention, and I have frequently
caught words of intense disapproval from the lips
and pens of good men. I have heard from the same
sources some sharp reflections o n the Tabernacle
Conference, because it employed men who stood
high among the workers in the Keswick Conven
tion..
Prominent among these are F. B. Unger, Camp
bell Morgan, Samuel Chadwick and A. T. Pearson.
I have heai’d all these men repeatedly. I have
heaid from them the teachings of Keswick. During
this week Dr. A. T. Pearson has been giving a se
ries of addresses for the distinct purpose of set
ting forth the Keswick theory of the religious life.
After three of his addresses had been given, Dr.
Broughton says some one came to him and said:
“I thought Dr. Pearson was going to give us what
they teach at Keswick, but he is just presenting the
old time Bible truth, where is the Keswicksism ? ”
Dr. Broughton replied: “What Dr. Pearson is
preaching is Keswickism. ”
That is just the point I wanted to come to.
As I have listened to F. B. Unger, G. Campbell
Morgan, Pearson and Chadwick, I have recalled
what I used to hear from my father, Dr. C. D. Mal
ory, N. M. Crawford, E. W. Warner and other men
of those days. And I could discover no difference
in the doctrines.
My father used to say to me habitually: “My
sou, you must remember that however complete
may 'be the preparation of your sermon, you must
have the Holy Spirit with you in the pulpit, if
any good is to be accomplished by your work.”
Fifty years ago our religious leaders were ac
customed to speak very often of the subtle pres
ence of God to them in the time of their private
devotion. They did not have anything to say about
a state of life that they called “spirit-filled,” “en
dowed with the Spirit,” “endowed with the pow
er,” and the like. Those expressions are modern.
But our fathers were well acquainted with the spir
itual state that these expressions describe.
Their sermons, conversation and letters were
filled with those doctrines. But visions and dreams
became unpopular. The idea of those close personal
experiences of the presence of God got out of
fashion, and for forty years there has been a dis
position to ridicule and discredit all such teachings.
But what is now called Keswickism is a reaction
from that revolt of forty years ago. And it is a re
affirmation of the old conceptions that are biblical
and historic. Keswickism means only, that: The
Bible means what it says in the promises of God’s
spiritual presence with his people.
The difference between the teachings of these
men, and of our fathers is simply one of empha
sis.
Our fathers used to put the emphasis on the ex
perience of God’s presence and the joy that came
to them. These brethren put the emphasis on the
effect of that experience in giving them greater
power for doing good. Our fathers emphasized the
process of those experiences. These brethren em
phasize the results. Yet our fathers did most surely
recognize the indispensableness of Divine help in
all our Gospel work, while these brethren fully
recognize the joy of those experiences.
Again, our fathers looked for a renewal of the
endewment for each particular service, and put
the emphasis there. These brethren claim that there
comes a general endewment with power, which
must be viewed for such service but the emphasis
is on the general endewment.
Our fathers recognized the general endewment,
and these brethren just as fully recognize the ne
cessity for special endewment for each service.
As to Holiness.
Keswickism does not teach that monstrosity of
professing a holy life which some people in this
country have made ridiculous.
They claim, however, that the Bible promises
to cleanse from sin by the power of God. They be
lieve that promise,
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I have watched closely for the horn and hoof of
peterodoxy at this pumt, but I did not find them.
I have not heard one thing that could justify the
charge that they claim absolute holiness. That is,
a holiness in which the eye of God himself would
detect no flaw. That is absolute holiness. No eye but
God’s can pass upon that. But there is another
grade of holiness. It is relative, not absolute, but
relative to what? It is relative to the law of God as
a man may comprehend it. Absolute holiness is
relative to the law of God as God comprehends
it. Keswickism nowhere claims that a finite being
becomes absolutely holy in God’s sight, but it does
claim that a man can know, and can do the will
of God so far as that wil] is revealed to him in
God’s book and by God’s personal dealings with
him in providence and Christian experience.
All the genuine preaching I ever heard urged
to the struggle after this very sort of holiness. It
was 'good doctrine when our fathers preached it.
] cannot for the life of me, see why it is not just
as good, when it comes from Keswick.
Notes From the Humboldt School.
Our public school is situated near the center of
this prosperous town.
1 he present building is in the shape of a cross,
and is an eight-room, two-story, brick structure,
which stands in the center of a beautiful four-acre
campus.
The ground slopes gently from the center to the
four streets which surround the campus.
In one corner of this lawn stands a neat two
room, brick building, with a convenient porch and
beautiful surrounding trees.
I his is for our music department, and is presided
over by our musical director, Miss Flora Marsilliot.
1 he main school building was erected by the Inde
pendent Order of Odd Fellows, and other good citi
zens of Humboldt, and was designed for a female
school. It has been known since as the I. 0. 0. F.
College.
After being used for several years as a private
school, it was first rented, then purchased, by the
town as a public school building.
Last year a movement was completed to greatly
enlarge and improve the present building and make
it a modern school, having steam heat, single desks
and all the latest equipment, also a seating capacity
of seven hundred. For this work an appropriation
of $12,000 was made, the plans adopted, the con
tract given and the work is already progressing.
By September we will have one of the best school
buildings in our State.
Our present faculty of nine teachers, with Prof.
S. F. Howard as Superintendent, is to be increased
to eleven or twelve for next session, to meet the
growing demands.
One side of the campus is fitted up for basket
ball games, but our team was forced to disband
when the building work begun.
Our graduating class, consisting of six studious
Aoung pupils, is very busy preparing for commence
ment.
They are finishing a year of good work, which is
a credit to themselves and instructors.
We are glad that The Golden Age exists for the
education of young America, the uplifting of ideals,
and the furtherance of universal good.
We bid it hearty welcome, believing it will be
a source of inspiration and encouragement to stu
dents everywhere.
SALLIE V. CLEMENTS,
Humboldt, Tenn. Correspondent.
K. of P. Convention.
I will hold a district convention in K. of P. Castle
Hall, Kiser Building, Atlanta, Ga., on April 4th, be
ginning at 9:30 a. m. The district embraces At
lanta, Blue Ridge, Marietta, Griffin, Newnan, La-
Grange, Hogansville, West Point, Carrollton and
Villa Rica,
Fraternally yours,
CLAUDE A. UPSHAW.
Deputy Grand Chancellor.
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