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The Golden Age
(SUCCESSOR TO RELIGIOUS FORUM)
Published Ebery Thursday by the Golden Hge Publishing
Company (Inc.)
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WILLUXMD. UPSHAW, .... Editor
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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.
Commencement is now’ over and the young grad
uates are turned loose to set all things right. They
will find that what seemed gold will, in many in
stances, prove plate only, but there is more gold
than imitation when they come to test it.
The social referees are having a difficult task in
deciding which has achieved the more remarkable
success: Mrs. John Burns, wife of the labor leader
in the House of Commons, in being received at
Court, or Alice Longworth in having King Edward,
clad in a dress coat with knee trousers and silk
stockings, as her guest. It is thought that the
stockings put Alice in the lead.
Young women are being graduated from a class
in domestic science in Chicago, and now hold diplo
mas certifying that they are qualified to “keep
house for husbands receiving $lO per week.” That
is the first ray of hope we have seen in many weary
days. Maybe next session the graduates will be
qualified to keep house for four dollars a week
husbands. Us for matrimony then!
Think about how little some people know. A
cablegram w r as sent the other day to Wm. Jennings
Bryan in Dresden, and w T as returned to the sender
with the information that it could not be delivered
because “party not known.”
They will be ashamed a few years from now’ to
reflect that they didn’t know' a “party” who was
just about to be elected President of the United
States.
Representative John Sharp Williams of Missis
sippi keeps things lively in the House. In reply
to the question: “What are we going to do with
our ex-presidents?” he said, “We are going to do
just the same as we do with our members of con
gress, our blacksmiths, our carpenters, our lawyers,
our doctors, by giving them equal opportunities
and equal burdens under a free government. That
is what w r e are going to do with them and that is
all we are going to do with them.”
In a year or two the question that will demand
most serious attention will be: “What is our ex
president going to do with us?”
The Panama Canal.
The House of Representatives has voted in favor
of the lock type of canal at Panama. The engi
neers and experts have tried hard to make the differ
ence between the lock and sea-level types of canal
plain to the lay mind, but to most of us the condi
tions affecting the situation are not fully understood.
This is a question that should be carefully weighed
and wisely settled, for it is safe to say that no
single piece of legislation has ever meant so much
commercially, to the nations of the world as is
involved in the cutting of this water-way. No con
sideration of money or a few year’s more time in
building should prevent the canal being made the
best and most complete one possible. There is no
doubt that President Roosevelt is trying to crown
The Golden Age for June 21, 1906.
his already remarkable administration by a wise
settlement of this problem, and his efforts promise
to meet with ultimate success. The efficiency of the
canal should not be sacrificed to an unwise haste to
get it cut in some shape.
Mr. W. F. Upshaw.
Mr. W. F. Upshaw, who has been for several years
district manager of the Equitable Life Assurance
Company in Columbus, decided, after urgent persua
sion, to come to Atlanta and help launch The Golden
Age. After faithful service in the capacity of
business manager from the inception of the paper,
he has been offered a splendid position with the
National Life of Vermont. His natural leaning
toward his “first love”—the life insurance business,
in which he has been trained for years, has inclined
him to accept this positon. The Natonal Life of
A ermont is one of the strong, safe companies in
America, and both Mr. Upshaw and the company
are to be congratulated on the union of so much
strength on one side and experience and pluck on
the other. We are glad to announce that Mr. Up
shaw will continue with The Golden Age as stock
holder and director and his brilliant pen will enrich
our columns from time to time.
Chancellor and President.
Just as we go to press the announcement comes
that the Trustees of the University of Georgia have
done the wisest possible thing by promoting Dean
David C. Barrow to the chancellorship of the Uni
versity. Professor Barrow has served the univer
sity for many years with conspicuous fidelity and
ability. He is gentle in his nature, strong in his
character and positively beautiful in his Christian
life. And what is of paramount importance—he is
devotedly loved by the students—those who are
in college now and thousands who have gone out in
the world, carrying the abiding and transforming
impress of his pure and powerful life.
We know of no other man so well prepared to
walk in the hallowed footprints of Walter B. Hill.
And before the next issue of The Golden Age the
state will have another college president, whose elec
tion will create the same kind of enthusiasm among
the students of Georgia’s great Technological School
as that caused by the election of Dean Barrow at
the university, Acting President K. G. Mattheson is
to be President of the “Georgia Tech.”
We have seen this “coming event” casting, not
its “shadow,” but its light before. Professor
Matheson was the logical, inevitable and only man
to head the Technological School. Winning his
spurs in his highly efficient professorship and prov
ing during his incumbency as Acting President,
those essental qualities of leadershp which have
given him the Presdency, he comes to his own with
the chivalry and grace of a cavalier and the piety
of a Scotch Presbyterian.
With a heartiness that amounts to enthusiasm we
rejoice that men of such acknowledged scholarship
and vital Christianity as Dean C. Barrow and K.
G. Matheson will stand at the helm of these great
institutions that are more than state wide in their
constituency and world-wide in their influence.
Rev. J. J. Bennett.
Followng close upon the election of Dr. S. Y. Jame
son to the presidency of Mercer University, comes
the announcement that Rev. J. J. Bennett, the pop
ular pastor of the First Baptist Church at Griffin,
Ga., has been elected to the Baptist State Mission
Board to succeed Dr. Jameson. The election came
as a great surprise to Mr. Bennett, for, as he said,
he went to the meeting “deeply interested in the
election of another man.” We hope he will feel it
his duty to accept, for his ability is unquestioned and
his election has caused wide-spread satisfaction in
the ranks of his denomination.
J. J. Bennett is a much wanted man. Several
strong churches this year have been trying to cap
ture him from Griffin, but those wise people in that
historic church have grappled him with “hooks of
steel.”
A refreshing personality, a magnetic orator—and
yet with the humility of a child, J. J. Bennett has
quickly won and permanently held the love of every
community he has ever entered. If he should de
cide to enter the field as State Secretary of Chris
tian Missions he will wed the culture of the classes
to the heart of the masses and his consecrated elo
quence will be a trumpet call to continue and widen
the great work accomplished by Dr. Jameson.
Christians Not “Killing Jews.”
The secular press is a great educator—in some
things. But the lack of acquaintance with the ver
ities of Christianity on the part of the average
reporter and headline writer is sometimes amusing
and often appalling. Take, for instance, the usual
dispatches concerning the anti-Jewish uprisings
in Russia. The daily papers have been declaring
with flaming headlines for several days that “Chris
tians are Chasing and Killing Jews”—Chil
dren of Abraham Hunted Down and Butchered by
Christians in Odessa.”
We deny the charge. In the name of true Chris
tianity we resent the declaration. All the daily pa
pers say it, but there is not a word of it so.
Christians do not kill Jews. People who are
called Christians have often done so, but they were
not Christians indeed. Real Christianity has long
suffered in the estimate of the unthinking world,
whether that world be civilized or pagan, because
there is an absolutely false and fatal conception,
widespread over the earth as to what Christianity is.
A nation may have been christened in infancy as
Germany has been, or confirmed in childhood as
England has been, or dipped three times as most
Russian babies have been—and thus grow up under
the awful delusion that this makes them Christians
—simply because they are not Mohammedans or
Parsees or Jews. And thus with unregenerate hearts
—absolute strangers to Christ and His redeeming
grace, they have given to the staggering world
the horrors of the “Dark Ages,” the blight of
Spain, the infidelity of France, the ignorant pau
perism of Italy, the skepticism of Germany and the
cruelty of Russia I It is the lie of the devil. This
is not Christianity.
There are some Christians—beautiful shining ex
amples of them, scattered here and there among
these so-called Christian nations, but the nation is
not really Christian until every soul in it experiences
the miracle of regeneration through personal faith
in Christ and the operation of the Holy Spirit of
God. This is the one wonderful and glorious truth
that differentiates the Christian religion from every
other religious system in the world. The regenera
tion of a human soul is a miracle as wonderful as the
creation of the world. It takes nothing less than
omniscience to conceive and omnipotence to perform
them both. And no man is a Christian until this
miracle takes place in a truly repentant heart.
Then in heaven’s name let daily papers learn how
to quit saying every time there is a racial outbreak
in Russia that “Christians are Killing Jews.”
Every true Christian says with honesty of heart:
“ love the Jews. My Savior was a Jew.” And it
is no more true that Christians are killing Jews in
Russia than it is true that our Christian people
here are killing Jews in our own beloved America.
Sociology.
The Georgia State Sociological Society, which
meets at the Carnegie Library in Atlanta, June 26-
28, will bring together many notable thinkers and
speakers along sociological lines. Dr. R. R. Kime,
who has been elected “Honorary President for
Life,” on account of his tireless efforts in founding
and fostering the society, and Dr. Wm. T. Jones,
Secretary and Treasurer, deserve the thanks of all
men who think and feel, for the wise, unselfish and
preserving l work they have done, trying to have
society see the causes of social disorder and reach
the best possible remedy therefor. Such men and
others who labor with them are nothing less than
unsung heroes, ’ ’ and are counted among those
who “Work together for the lifting up of man.”