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The Golden Age
(SUCCESSOR TO RELIGIOUS FORUN)
Published Ebery Thursday by the Golden sAge Publishing
Company (Inc.)
OFFICES: LOWNDES “BUILDING, ATLANTA, GA.
Price: $2.00 a Year
WILLIAM D. UPSHfXW, - - - - Editor
A. E. RAMSAUR, . . . Associate Editor
W. F. UPSHA W, - - - - “Business Manager
H. R. BERN ART), . . . Sec’y and Treas
Entered at the Post Office in Atlanta, Ga.,
as second-class matter.
To the Public: The advertising columns of The
Golden Age will have an editorial conscience. No
advertisement will be accepted which we believe
would be hurtful to either the person or the purse of
our readers.
Poor Lige Dowie! He doesn’t intend for his man
tle to descend upon anybody for sometime yet if he
can avoid it. But Voliva is yearning for it.
Howdy, Atlanta Georgian! Congratulations, Mr.
Graves and Mr. Seeley. We like you' mighty well
and like your principles still better. The Atlanta
Georgian is the noblest Georgian of them all.
At the recent annual reunion of the Confederate
Veterans at New Orleans it was resolved that each
Southern State be asked to grant a pension to such
surviving slaves as followed their masters through
the Confederacy, and in many instances fought by
their sides without ever having been enlisted as
soldiers.
It is an ill quake that quakes nobody good. Many
San Francisco fiances have suggested to their be
trothed that if “If ’twere well ’twere done, then
’twere well ’twere done quickly” and many mar
riages have resulted, the happy couples beginning
their married lives coincident with the life of the
new San Francisco.
Mr. John D. Rockefeller gave one hundred thous
and dollars to the San Francisco relief fund and by
some strange chance the price cf oil rose a little.
We know there is no connection bet wen the two
incidents and it’s a shame to insinuate that our
Cousin John is raising the price to get his money
back, but there is something odd about the sen
sitiveness of coal oil. When Cousin John gives
up, oil goes up.
A news item informs us that an lowa man’s
whiskers turned white while he was engaged in a
lengthly joint debate speech. We regard this as a
warning. The same paper mentions a Methodist
minister in Brixton, England, who has been preach
ing seventy-seven years. So far as our knowledge
goes, he holds the record. It is possible that this
is the minister who was holding forth on one
occasion when a visitor came rather late to the
church door. He asked the usher how long Mr.
Blank had been preaching. “About thirty years,”
the usher answered. “Then I will go in. He must
be nearly through,” the visitor said.
There are those who claim that the hey-day of
American humor is past and that we have now no
American humorists. These people are not wise to
the true situation. They are honest in their belief
but they do not look in the proper place for the hu
mor. They read our funny magazines and the edi
torial pages of the dailies and we cannot blame
them for their opinion. Your true humorists are
the authors of the plate matter going to make up
the “patent insides” of the country weeklies.
There humorous gems of purest ray serene are hid
den away, and it is there that we learn how far it
is to the moon; how tall the Washington monument
is, how to prevent blight in pear trees; and some
day we will find there the name of the man who
struck Billy Patterson.
The Golden Age for May 3, 1906.
Father Sherman’s March.
Father Thomas Sherman, a son of General Te
cumseh Sherman, is making a trip through Georgia
over the route covered by his father on his March to
the Sea. Father Sherman began his journey un
der the escort and protection of eight enlisted men
and two lieutenants of the regular army stationed
at Fort Oglethorpe, Chicamaugua Park. Under
protest of the Georgia senators, the war department
has ordered the soldiers to return to the Post after
reaching Resaca, Georgia.
Father Sherman does not need a mil'tary escort
through Georgia. The people of the South have no
idea, of attempting to visit upon the son any ill
treatment for the sins of the father in his wanton
destruction of property forty years ago. Father
Sherman is really not so important as he believes.
It is conceivable that he could travel over the route
traversed by his father and no appreciable excite
ment result from his passage. There are not so
many of the Father as there were of General Sher
man when he made the trip. It might even be per
missible to refer to him in the singular number, but
we won’t do it here. We will sneak of him as
“they” for the brief time we devote to him.
Father Sherman does not need a military escort.
He merits an escort of the tender and sympathetic
nature usually accorded to those who march through
Georgia to Milledgeville, in said State.
The Torrey-Alexander Meetings.
Next Sunday, May 6th, these remarkable men of
God will begin their meetings in Atlanta. These
services have been anticipated with great expec
tancy on the part of the active church workers in
Atlanta, and the Business Men’s League—a notable
body of consecrated business men, under whose aus
pices these meetings are to be held, have wrought
diligently and prayerfully in their preparations. It
is to be regretted, of course, that a larger hall could
not be secured, but still, if all the people who will
throng the Peachtree Auditorium shall carry away
a spiritual blessing the opportunity of the evange
lists will be great and the benefits far-reaching.
Dr. Torrey has been to Atlanta before and his
powerful addresses during the Christian Workers’
Convention some years ago are yet gratefully re
membered, and Mr. Alexander, after all, is coming
back to his own. A Tennesseean by birth, a Geor
gian by brief residence, a Moody Institute man by
education and the world’s most blessed singer by
the grace of God, he comes with his consecrated
magnetism to sway and sing thousands into the Bet
ter Way.
The readers of The Golden Age who have followed
the work of these beloved evangelists for many
months through the graphic reports of Geo. T. B.
Davis, will be kept in weekly touch with the Atlanta
meetings, and we who are here on the field of battle
are rejoicing that the Light we have seen from
afar cometh now to us.
Nightly meetings are being held this week at the
Auditorium, addressed by leading pastors of the
city, preparing the people in prayer, song and in
struction for the month’s campaign. Dr. Marion
Hull has done peculiarly effective work in getting
ready for the King’s business a large company of
“personal workers,” and we trust that the Revival
Spirit, capturing and peimeating the famous
“Atlanta Spirit,” will carry a moral and spiritual
uplift not only to our great “Gate City,” but
through the arteries of her influence over the en
tire South.
The T. P. A’s.
It was the high privilege and refreshing expe
rience of the Editor to be the guest of Post B. of
the Travelers’ Protective Association at their reg
lar monthly meeting in Atlanta last Saturday night.
That was a genial and royal crowd that assembled
in the Convention hall of the Piedmont. Mr. W. 0.
Stamps, a prominent wholesale gTOcer in Atlanta,
occupied the chair, dispatching business and intro
ducing speakers in a most graceful manner. Strong
resolutions were adopted, urging the railroads to
grant a two-cent rate on mileage books of two
thousand miles, and two and a half cent rate on
one thousand miles interchangeable on all lines of
the Southeastern Tai iff Association. It was brought
out in the meeting that such a rate has been given
in Virginia even on books of five hundred miles,
and the merits of their plea were strongly urged.
The T. P. A. is a powerful organization. Thousands
of strong and influential business men are counted
in its membership, and the influence of these men
is one of the strongest factois in th? building up
of our commercial life. The class of men on the
road has gone through a wonderful transformation
during recent years. There are many devout Chris
tian men among the traveling salesmen now, and
the Gideon’s Band, composed of active Christian
men. is doing a gracious work among them. In a
brief speech to this genial band of drummer broth
ers, the writer expressed the hope that every mem
ber of the T. P. A. would honor God in his life,
and as they travel over the land touching thousands
of lives every year, they would fulfill Goldsmith’s
dream of the “Village Blacksmith”—
“Lure to brighter worlds,
And lead the way.”
Dr. Folk in Atlanta.
The visit of Dr. Edgar E. Folk, of Nashville, was /•
greatly enjoyed in Atlanta last Sunday. He came
especially under the auspices of the Anti-Saloon
League. Dr. Folk is president of this vigorous
stale organization in Tennessee, and has done a '
wonderful work by his masterly leadership in. that
state. The fact that he is the brother of the fa
mous reformer, Governor Joseph W. Folk, of Mis
souri, naturally invested his coming with peculiar
interest on his distinguished brother’s account, but
as Dr. Junius W. Millard said in his happy speech
of introduction, “Dr. Folk does not gather his dis
tinction from this source by any means, for he is
a reformer on his own hook, having led in the fight
which has closed hundreds of saloons in Tennes
see.”
Dr. Folk preached at Ponce de Leon Avenue
Church on Sunday morning a tender and beautiful
sermon, and at night at the Anti-Saloon League
rally at the First Baptist Church on Sunday after
noon he made an address of great power.
Short addresses were also made by Dr. Cofer, of
the Wesleyan Christian Advocate, and Dr. L. G.
Broughton. The Chatauqua salute was given Dr.
Folk as a token of the appreciation of his stirring
address. Altogether it was the most enthusiastic
meeting which the Anti-Saloon League has yet held
in Atlanta.
Tennessee has -taught Georgia what great things
can be done in the fight against the saloon by wise
organization and vigorous prosecution. We are
sure Dr. Folk’s splendid services will again be in
demand in our Georgia campaign.
The Congress of Mothers.
Organization seems to be the order of the day in
every branch of social and domestic, as well as in
financial and commercial life. There is, therefore,
a fully organized and very effectual International
Congress of Mothers, but no branch of this order
is to be found in Georgia. A meeting, however,
which was termed a “Mother’s Congress,” was
called in Atlanta a few days ago. It was under
the auspices of some of the leading club women of
the state, and was addressed by able educators, as
well as by writers and thinkers of more than a local
reputation. The occaion attracted many women
to whom no other call for “organized effort” would
have appealed, and the results of the first meeting
promises to be far-reaching.
It is an established principle that “in union there
is strength,” and if in every other ethical and
actual work this is true, then surely in the supreme
work of being a mother—and a good mother—the
experience, the aid and the co-cperation of many
mothers must inevitably result in good to the indi
vidual.
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