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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 'Pear WILLIHM D. UPSHfAW. - . - - Editor A. E. RAJIS A UR. - - - Associate Editor LFl\l G. STOUGHTON - - - Pulpit Editor Entered at the Post Office tn 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. Dr. Morgan’s Articles. Many of the readers of The Golden Age have been interested by the announcement recently made that, beginning about the first of January next, we will publish Dr. Campbell Morgan’s Bible notes each week, and have written to know just what will be contained in these articles. We take pleasure in explaining more fully. Dr. Morgan is said to be the greatest living expounder and interpreter of the Bible. He is so considered in his own country, and as an evidence of that fact a large publishing house has closed a contract with him whereby he will fur nish them within the next two years a complete commentary and interpretation of both the Old and lhe New Testament. This work will be published in book form -when completed and will be far beyond anything heretofore published both in scope and in quality of subject matter. The serial rights to this matter have been secured by us, and it will be fur nished to us direct by Dr. Morgan, personally revis ed and authorized, and will appear in The Golden Age before its publication in book form. No other publication in America will have this matter. It will be copyrighted and will belong exclusively to us. To the Bible student this will be the mcst valuable work in existence, and to the layman it will mean an opportunity to secure in a clear, direct and il luminating manner the truths of the Book. We feel that we cannot too strongly congratulate our selves and our readers on securing this series of articles. A Bloodless Victory. The people of Valdosta, the “Queen City of the Wiregrass,” are rejoicing over a bloodless victory which they have recently achieved over the sa loons. Briefly told, the history of the crusade is as follows: On October 31, last, the city saloon licenses expired. On the last Sunday in October, before the Council met on Wednesday to consider the granting of licenses, four of the pastors of Val dosta preached from their respective pulpits on the question of closing the saloons for good and all, and called upon their congregations to join in an irresistible petition to the Council to refuse new licenses. The response on the part of the congrega tions was enthusiastic and practically unanimous. The people went to work in earnest. Their time, their strength and their prayers were given to the cause. A petition was prepared for the white voter’s and another for the women of the town. When the Council met on Wednesday, a petition signed by over four hundred of the best citizens and one signed by over six hundred women was laid before them. The meeting was held in the City Hall, and it was crowded with eager men and wom en. The petitions were presented and addresses were made. The Council went into executive ses sion at once and decided to give the saloon men four months to close out their business. There was no concerted action of any kind on the part of the whiskey men. So it has come to pass that with the end of February, 1907, will come the end of the licensed liquor traffic in that beautiful city. No mere words can describe the joy and thankful ness felt by the good people over what has been The Golden Age for November 15, 1906. accomplished. Rev. L. R. Christie, pastor of the First Baptist Church, says: “The truth is, this is the strongest prohibition town today in Georgia. We know what the saloon is. It is no theory. We have watched it ruin our boys, curse our men, break the hearts of our women, fill the courts with crimi nals, demoralize labor and impoverish the people. We are ashamed of it. The decent men and women of this town make their apology to the State for having so long tolerated this business and social scandal in our city.” The people of A aldosta have accomplished much. The good results of their concerted efforts will be for time and for eternity. The blessing they have secured will extend through the coming years and its uttermost reaches can never be fully reckoned. But more than this: If the people of the State and of our country will profit by their example, will hear the moral which should be taught by their consecrated efforts, they will have wrought more than they dreamed. No .election, no long, bitter, cruel fight was waged for prohibition. The people simply worked and prayed with one mind and one purpose and made such an impression upon their Council that the saloons were doomed. The first day of March will be a day of thanksgiving in Val dosta. Other cities should institute such a Thanks giving Day in their own history. Dr. Bernard’s Book. “The Work Once Delivered to the Saints” is the title of a book by Dr. H. R. Bernard, just pub lished. The general purpose of the book is a dis cussion of the work of the Baptist denomination and of the methods employed by individual church es to carry out their enterprises with reference to their local duties and their obligations to the field at large. Dr. Bernard is at present connect ed with the educational work of the denomination at Mercer University. His long and inva’uable ser vice to the denominafon as a minister and as a fac tor in the advancement of Baptist educational in stitutions is well known to all: and his business ex perience fits him peculiarly to speak with authority upon the subject he has chosen. He states the problem before the denomination to be the working out and perfecting of a system whereby the auto nomy of the individual church can be entirely pre served and that will at the same time secure that concert of action in organized effort that will achieve success through being based upon a co-op erative spirit and a rigid adherence to the agree ments entered upon the records. Various phases of the work of the church are discussed; notably, “The Martyr and Reformer ; v “The College,” and “Bookkeeping as a Part of the Work.” A solution of various difficulties is suggested, and the whole argument is conducted in a broad, sensible and at tractive vein. It is not a dry book and it is not dull. The author’s meaning can be misunderstood in some instances, and his anecdotes may, perhaps, be misinterpreted; but one who knows the author and his service to the Cause, and who reads with a desire to benefit by what is helpful, even though it necessitates an abandonment of some old forms and usages, cannot be otherwise than largely in structed and agreeably entertained. The book, tak en in this spirit, will accomplish good. The Countess of Castellane. The papers of two continents have for some time been publishing daily accounts of the troubles the Countess of Castellane is having with her husband. It seems that the Count has proven a rather ex pensive possession. He cost a pretty sum to begin with, and has been spending over two millions of his wife’s money annually since. His extravagance and worse still, his unfaithfulness and his bru tality, have grown too great for endurance, and the Countess is trying to secure a divorce. The Count and his creditors are unanimously opposed to this divorce proposition. Divorce means a cutting down of the gorgeous allowance that has been the Count’s since his marriage. Os course it would never do to turn the Count out with nothing, as the cele brated Bill Bailey was treated; he will be pen sioned: that is, he will receive a mere bagatelle, something like a hundred thousand dollars per an num; but what is that paltry and contemptible sum of money to a member of the Frencn nobility? From the revelations brought about by the hearing in the divorce suit, the Count must be the limit. He is more—he is the limit and then a few. He lacks in the attributes of common decency and grat itude much that is possessed by the average Amer ican hog. We have our limitations and can’t say just what we think of Count Boni Castellane. Neither have we . inclination to add a sympathetic wail to the chorus that is going up in behalf of Anna. We wish she could have had a good time: it is a shame that she has spent so much and had such poor returns, but further than this we do not go. She must have known what she was buying when she bought Boni. The fact that he had to be bought was in itself enough to forewarn her as to what she might expect. The sad feature is not so much that the Countess of Castellane is having hard luck and is forced to appeal to the divorce court; it is that our modern social system is such that many of our women regard social prestige, at what ever cost it has to be purchased, as preferable to the establishment of a home, the rearing of a fam ily and the expenditure of their inherited wealth in away to benefit and bless mankind. And it cannot be otherwise than humiliating to every American to reflect upon the regard in which our women are held by the titled degenerates of foreign countries. They can sell their mortgaged coronets above par at any time; and to give their patron saint his due, it is small wonder that they /treat with scorn the wife who is thrown in as lagniappe. The Orphan’s Home. The Georgia Baptist Convention meets at Car tersville, Georgia, on November 20. It is urged by some members of the denomination that the securing of funds for the Baptist Orphans’ Home at Hapeville, be given especial attention and that an extra effort be made to secure in cash or in pledges an amount sufficient to pay all the in debtedness which is now on the institution. It is eminently fitting that this be done. It is not ex pected that Methodists, Presbyterians and other denominations will contribute largely to this cause. It is distinctly a Baptist work and depends upon Baptist giving for its maintenance. It is to be feared that the average Baptist does not fully realize just what work is being done by his Or phans’ Home. If every member of this denomina tion could visit one time the Home and see the children who are being cared for there, who are fed, clothed, carefully reared in Christian environ ment—and could see the opportunity for bringing more cheer and light into those young lives, the difficulties of the Home would be removed. It needs but to stop and think—and no heart can be unmoved by the contemplation of helpless, unpro tected childhood placed in the world absolutely alone Fortune and fate work queer changes in this world. No father or mother, however prosperous they may be now, can be sure but that within a year their worldly possessions will be swept away, and their children left without a protector or a home. Your little boy, your little girl, alone in the world! Does it net fill up all the depth and fullness of pathos? Think of what a life must be without a happy childhood to look back upon. The dearest treasures of the heart are the memories of the old home, the parents, the loving care and peace of childhood. Without this, without loving hands to direct aright your budding life and character, what might you not be now? To assist in giving a home 10 one lit tle child is one way of making your life worth something to another life. A little gift means much to these helpless ones. Some are not moved to supporting foreign missions; reasons are adduced why home missions are not worthy objects of contrib ution ; but how is that heart fortified that does not warm to the needs of innocent children who have no one to care for them?. To bring a smile to the face of a child; to make him feel that there is love for him in the world; to guide a life aright in its beginning—is there a sweeter, grander opportunity in life?