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8 The Golden Age (SUCCESSOR TO RELIGIOUS FORUM) Published Ebery Thursday by the Golden Hge Publishing Company (Inc.) OFFICES: LOWNDES "BUILDING, ATLANTA, GA. Price: $2.00 a Year WILLUXMD. UPSHAW, .... Editor A. E. RA7ISAUR, - - - Associate Editor 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. 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.”