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they regard their own”? You say, “You will never see that in this business age.” Yes, that is not the spirit of the age, but it is the way the church should live. Listen, again: If this were true, we would never take the advantage of our brother in any transaction, and never allow any one else to do it if we could prevent it. Wouldn’t that be delightful? Say! wouldn’t it be delightful for our membership of about 1,600 to adopt such a standard as that? Then, were this true, we would regard our broth er’s good name with the same sacredness and in terest with which we regard our own. Wouldn’t it be grand and glorious to have a church of 1,600 members, made up of all shades and ranks of so cial and business life come together on such a basis as that? Wouldn’t it be good to feel we were in a church that would die rather than let us be misrepresented—all of them die? There are some churches into which I should very much hate to go. I should be afraid of my character. The ideal church that the apostle Paul wanted to see in Ephesus is the church that has its eyes open. Wouldn’t it be blessed if the girls coming to this city to school and to work could say, “Well, I am constantly liable to misrepresen tation. and I want to go somewhere where I can get protection. Mother is dead, and father is dead, and I have nobody else to look after me, and I want somebody to protect me so long as I am straight.” Wouldn’t it be blessed if they could say, “There is one place where I know that is true.” If this were true, when our brother goes astray, we would go after him. Not with a club—but would go with love, and woo him back. Or if our sister goes astray, we would do the same thing. Do you know that the church goes after a man, sometimes with a club, and sometimes with love, and brings him back, but when a woman goes astray, all backs are turned. The last thing I want to say is this: It would mean that my greatest pleasure would be my brother’s good, and not my own. You say that is not natural. It isn’t natural, but it is divine. I maintain that the man who is governed by that principle is going to get all he needs. It is in keeping with what Jesus said. “Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground, and die, it ahidet’h alone, but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.” THE WAY LOVE WINS. In the early days of my ministry, we waked up to the fact that one of our most popular and active girls had gone to the bad. Os course, it was the cause of much regret and sorrow. Everybody in the church said: “Turn her out.” When the dea cons met the first night after the talk had gone the rounds of the community, they said, “Turn her out.” I said, “Let’s not do it that way.” We went about it in the scriptural way. One morning I was preaching and stepped down from the platform, and made a proposition. You could not have made me believe she would have looked out upon the world. But she had come in, and had taken a seat almost behind the door. I gave the invitation for all who wanted to get back to God to come forward and give me their hand. After awhile I heard a scream, and saw her coming. She was crying, and when she took hold of my hand she fell down upon her knees and began to pray. I thought to myself, this church will wish they were at home. Men and women began to hang their heads, and feel they were disgraced. But the young people in the house seemed to look dif ferently. She had at one time been the leading voice in that choir. They were the ones that were hurt most. I felt for the choir, and while I stood there weeping myself, I heard a movement from behind me, and I looked, and I saw coming from the choir about fifteen young women, led by one r\n \ A/TT)DI7T T A/ffAD A XT’Q exposition of the bible will be published in the Urv. VF. L>Z\lVlr IJILL/L/ IVIkJrVVjrZAIN O GOLDEN AGE BEGINNING ABOUT JANUARY Ist, 1907. DR. MORGAN IS KNOWN THROUGHOUT TWO CONTINENTS AS THE GREATEST EXPOUNDER AND INTERPRETER OF THE TEXT OF THE BIBLE NOW LIVING. THE SERIES OF ARTICLES WHICH WILL APPEAR IN THE GOLDEN AGE WILL COMPOSE THE CONTENTS OF A WORK TO BE PUBLISHED BY AN ENGLISH PUBLISHING HOUSE, THE GOLDEN AGE HAVING SECURED THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHTS TO SERIAL PUBLICATION IN AMERICA. THE WORK WILL COVER THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS, AND WILL BE INVALUABLE TO THE LAY MAN AS WELL AS THE BIBLE STUDENT. The Golden Age for December 6, 1906. •of the best women God ever gave a church. Then came, too, the young men, without a word being said—nothing worked up. One after another they took her hand, and stooped down and kissed her cheek. This was religion. It is just what God demands. Dr. Wicker in Atlanta. Evangelist J. J. Wicker, who has for the past week been conducting the most successful evangel istic service in the history of the Tabernacle, hails from Massachusetts, is by birth a Virginian, whose father was a Roman Catholic, mother a Methodist, graindfather a Scotch Presbyterian, and he is a Baptist. In an interview with The Golden Age he expressed his great delight with the city of Atlanta, and with the splendid aggressiveness that charac terizes all of its enterprises, and especially its re ligious life. When asked what Ire thought of the work of the Tabernacle, he grew enthusiastic and said: “It is the most unique institution for God that I have ever become acquainted with. Dr. Broughton is a man of peculiar power doing a pe culiar work in away all his own for the glory of God and the good of his fellow men. He has solved the problem concerning the masses. His great Tab ernacle is packed and hundreds turned away every Sunday evening. The congregations at any service surpass anything that I have ever seen, and would be an inspiration to any speaker.” EVANGELIST J. J. WICKER. When asked concerning the institutional side of this work, Mr. Wicker replied: “Beyond all ques tion, it is God. I have seen a number of diunk ards reclaimed during the last two weeks. Homes that were broken and shattered have been beauti fully brought togeher. Men out of work have been given positions of employment suited to their capac ity. They express their gratitude for every kindness in an immediate devotion to the cause that has brought them relief. Anyone who will go to the office of the Tabernacle at almost any hour of the day will find a stream of people needing sympathy, comfort and instruction.. Here they find all three, and heavy hearts have been unburdened by the prac tical forces that are at work in the name of God for humanity in this great institution. Dr. Broughton is one of the greatest organizers I have ever known. His work is undoubtedly a phenomenal success. Few men in this country would be capable of admin istering the affairs of the Tabernacle, but God has laid His hand on Broughton, and with consummate skill he is carrying forward one of the grandest enterprises on earth.” “And what do yon think of the new enterprise?” was the next quesion. “I think that it would be one of the greatest ca lamities that could come upon Atlanta if in any way it should fail. The work, as I understand, started with practically nothing, and has now reached such proportions as to command the atten tion of Christian people from every part of our country, as well as many beyond our shores. The new enterprise is worthy of all that can possibly be bestowed upon it. It seems to me that regardless of denominational lines, all Christians everywhere should support this work. I know of no place where a man could place his money to a greater ad vantage for God and humanity. It seems to me that, anyone who would become acquainted with this work would feel the call from God to help to carry forward to completion the contemplated enterprise which Dr. Broughton has recently outlined in the public press. My prayer shall be for the success of this great work, and I hope that God will raise up friends everywhere to help to complete a work worthy of the most exalted ambition and that com mends itself to the prayers and pocket books of all good people.” Concerning the fight of saloons or no saloons in the city, Mr. Wicker delivered an address in the Tabernacle, to men only, last Sunday afternoon. Among other things he said: “A city of churches like Atlanta ought without question to be able to drive out the saloons. No matter how well managed the liquor business may be in any city, it must, wherever it exists, carry sin, shame, poverty, death and hell in its wake. Surely there can be but. one side to this question, and cer tainly when it comes to the direct issue every lover of God and man will throw himself into the very front of the fight and carry its cause forward Io a glorious victory. Now is the time above all others that enthusiasm and co-operation is needed in securing tlie election, and it is to be hoped that when the issue comes all the forces of righteousness will unite to fight a common foe which has done much to destroy our fathers, our brothers, our sons, and alas, in many places the other sex! I wish I could be a citizen of Atlanta and help to banish the saloons from her beautiful streets forever.” It may be added that several hundred people have found Christ during the special meeting conducted by Mr. Wicker, apd it is expected that at no dis tant date he will come back for a more extended stay in our city. He left last Monday for a four weeks’ engagement with the Clarendon Street Church of Boston. High Finance. A man stopped a newsboy in New York, saying, “See here, son, I want to find the Blank National Bank. I’ll give you half a dollar if you direct me to it.” With a grin the boy replied: “All right, come right along.” And he led the man to a building half a block away. The man duly paid the promised fee remarking, “That was half a dollar easily earned, son.” “Sure!” responded the lad. “But you mustn’t fergit that bank directors is paid high in Noo- Yawk. ” —American Spectator. A little Topeka girl came home from church the other day and was asked what the minister’s text was. “I know it all right,” she asserted. “Well, repeat it,” her questioner demanded. “Don’t be afraid and I will get you a bed quilt,” was the astounding answer. Investigation proved that the central thought of the sermon had been, “Fear not, and I will send you a comforter.”—Kansas City Journal. 5