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16 OUR LONDON LETTER. By J. KENNEDY MACLEAN. Everybody knows St. Paul’s Cathedral. If they have not actually seen it, they have heard of it, and its name is as familiar to them as their own, or almost. It was, therefore, with feelings of con siderable astonishment and concern that the public read in newspapers the other day of a supposed danger to the foundations of this historic edifice. It was alleged that the construction of a new sewer close to the Cathedral by the London County Coun cil, would mean ruin to the stately pile, and there was naturally much concern when this announce ment appeared in print. Londoners, in imagination, saw their beautiful cathedral laid in the dust, and they shuddered lest the imagination should become a reality. Happily, there was no cause for alarm; there is not the least danger to St. Paul’s, according to expert re port. The newspapers were simply on the hunt for a sensation, that was all. And yet one wonders whether or not London will collapse some day and disappear in the numerous underground railways. These are increasing every year. Deep down below the swirl of the river and the rush and noise of the streets, there are railway tracks in abundance, and the thought often comes to me when traveling on these lines: What if there should be a collapse? Hitherto these under ground systems have been wonderfuly free from serious accident, which is a tribute to the engineer ing care taken when they have been constructed. I was one of the company of friends who trav eled to Tilbury last week to see Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Alexander off on their trip to China and Japan. Many friends accompanied them to the steamship, “India,” and cheered them when the tender left for the shore. Both Mr. and Mrs. Al exander looked remarkably well, and there is every reason to hope that the long sea voyage will bring back to the latter the health and strength which she so much needs. Mr. Alexander hopes to re sume his work in America next fall. The City Temple here has long been a place teeming with sacred and historic associations. Vis itors from the provinces seldom return home with out paying a visit to it and attending at least one of its services, and Americans on tour to this country seldom omit it from their round of calls. PHO “ 2 ” typewriters S ille " Rented. nThe Qffice Quitters, n So i d> ET ’ Repaired. ATLANT . Des s, Chairs, Filing Cabinets, _ _ Sectional Bookcases. 1 ypeWHter Supplies. AHE OLIVER The Golden Age’s Liberal Clubbing Oller. The regular subscription to The Golden Age is two dollars per year. We will give one year’s subscription to The Golden Age and the periodicals mentioned, at the following prices: The Golden Age and Cosmopolitan Magazine (regular price, $3.00), $2.25. The Golden Age and the Woman’s Home Companion (regular price $3.00)> $2.25. The Golden Age and The Review of Reviews (regular price $5.00), $2.95. The Golden Age, Cosmopolitan and Woman’s Home Companion (reg ular price $4.00), for $2.90. The Golden Age, Cosmopolitan Magazine, Woman’s Home Companion and Review of Reviews (regular price $7.00), $4.25. The Golden Age, Woman’s Home Companion and Harper’s Bazaar (reg ular price $4.00), $2.90. The Atlanta Georgian, published by Frederick L. Seely, and edited by John Temple Graves—a great daily paper that does not advertise liquor. Price, $4.50 per year. The Golden Age and The Georgian together only $5.00. We will be glad to make any combination of the periodicals mentioned above at prices equivalent to those quoted. Watch this column for new The Golden Age for December 20, 1906. Tn the days of the late Dr. Parker its pulpit had always a message for the people. I am sorry to say that the message of his successor, the Rev. R. J. Campbell, does not carry the same authority. Mr. Campbell is a man of wonderful charm of manner, but he is striving after new and peculiar interpretations of Scripture. One day he preaches a sermon to which the most orthodox Christian could never take objection, his next deliverance from the pulpit surprises even the most advanced thinkers by the “newness” of its theology. Mr. Campbell is thus an uncertain quantity, and he seems to be wandering more and more from agree ment with his fellow ministers on cardinal points of doctrine. He is evolving a theology of his own, and putting forward theories and conclusions as though they were established and recognized facts. These are bold statements to make, I know, but the occupant of the pulpit of the City Temple is creating unrest in many minds, and it is well that your countrymen should know exactly how things stand. Before commencing to write this letter, I sat down to read Mr. Campbell’s latest pronouncement. A few weeks ago, he gave an exposition of his the ology to the Congregational Board of Ministers, but this address, instead of satisfactorily fixing his doctrinal position, sems to have increased the uncertainty in the minds of many. The criticism which followed seems to have goaded Mr. Camp bell into delivering this address, which is regarded as a kind of manifesto: After dwelling on the many manifestations of the Christ and the various ways by which Christ makes his message known to the minds of men in all generations, not only through the ordinary expositions of Christian truth, “but by men of no formulated religions convictions, yet possessed by moral passion for the salvation of mankind,” he continues: “There has risen today from every part of the intelligent horizon a new vision, a wider view of the meaning of the Christian revelation. Men of science and men of letters, as well as preach ers of the Gospel, are prophets of the new era. You may recognize it in the breaking away from outworn intellectual forms of religious belief called the venerable creeds. Ecclesiasticism is crumbling Dr. Broughton’s Books Among the Greatest Sellers in the Religious Book World. Order from The Golden Age Publishing Company, Atlanta, Ga. ’‘The Revival of a Dead Church,” contains more spiritual dynamite than any book for its size on the market. Price 30 cents. ‘‘Up From Sin,” a special book for young people. It shows how sin will wreck a life. Price 30 cts. ‘‘God’s Will and My Life,” a spiritual biography. Price 25 cts. ‘‘The Second Coming of Christ.” The exponent of the Tabernacle Bible Conference on the Second Coming. Price 50 cts. ‘‘‘The Representative Women of the Bible” has had a great sale and is as interesting as a novel. Price SI.OO. ‘‘Old Wine in New Bottles.” A book of sermons containing the latest and best of Dr. Broughton’s illustrations and stories. Price SI.OO. ‘‘The Soul Winning Church” tells how every church can win souls. It has had the greatest sale of any of Dr. Broughton’s books. Price 50 cts. ‘‘The Table Talks of Jesus.” “Specially adapted to the fireside and home. It is an exposition of everything Jesus ever said ‘at meat.’ ” It is Dr. Broughton’s last book and has already gone through the Ist edition. Price 50 ets. Be sure and get these hooks and you will see the human side of the sue cess of the great Tabernacle in Atlanta. The Golden Age, Atlanta, Ga. FOR SALE. We have for sale at a bargain, one L. C. Smith Writing in Sight Type-- writer, regular price, $102.50; entirely new, at much less than usual cost. L i u. .c. ....... . THE GOLDEN AGB. before that new divine word in every civilized country on the face of the globe. “The message that is being thus declared is, briefly outlined: The essential divinity of man; his unbroken oneness with God; the salvability of the race as a whole, and not merely an individ ual here and there; the unity of all life, this side and the further side of the change called death; the divine appointment of the struggle and the pain which are the necessary conditions of the man ifestations of the essential nature of Eternal Love; the identity of divine justice, mercy, righteousness, love, truth; the liome'-gathering of mankind to that Eternal Heart whence it came. “I defy any man, Christian or atheist, scien tist or pietist, to show that this is not a deeper wider gospel, more really worthy to be termed glad tidings, than any of the conventional carica tures of truth which pass current today in the name of religious faith. The word of God has never ceased pealing through the ages, and finding its echo in the hearts of men; but today, as in all days, though accepted by the few, it is re jected by the many, through ignorance on the one hand and malice on the other.” iStung, apparently, by the criticisms to which his teaching has been subjected, he turns round on his critics and hurls at them his reproaches. “Religious people,” he says, “are often found willing to employ the weapons of slander, mis representation, and petty persecution in order to destroy, as they can, an unpopular doctrine. With all deliberation and solemnity I say these men are liars like their predecessors in days of old; liars, not so much by what they say as by what they do not say; liars, by trying to misrep resent, or ignore, or distort the truth, preaching as though they do not believe it when they do; liars, because they will not look facts in the face; liars, using the name of God. ‘Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat and swallow a camel!’ ” A recent unique scheme of the United States gov ernment to induce recruits to enter the navy is a moving picture machine which shows in detail the life of a bluejacket on shipboard. The value of this plan is seen most strikingly in those western countries where but little is known of sea life, and the eye grasps a moving picture more quickly than the ear does a spoken description. Os course, only the most attractive events of navy life are depict ed in these cases.