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Nelvs of Interest Gathered Here and There
The Churches of America and England.
In the repent of an interview of Chicago min
isters with Gipsy Smith, the celebrated English
evangelist, the question was asked: “What dif
ference do you notice between the churches of'
America and Great Britain?” Gipsy Smith an
swered, “You, in this country, have not got over
the mumps and measles in theology. We, in Eng
land, are greatly in advance of you. The higher
critics in England are among the most evangelistic.
They seek God’s blessing upon their knees.”
These words of the great evangelist evidently fell
into a hotbed of the morbus theologicus, and one
of the worst infected of its patients came back at
him with this luminous question: “Is that be
cause they have left higher criticism or in spite
of it?” Answer: “They believe in Christ as
iSavior. They are loyal to the atonement, and I
ask nothing further.” —Christian Century.
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Man 9 s Crabing Tor Immortality.
Man craves immortality. It is the teaching of
history and the testimony of experience. The old
question is ever new, “If a man die shall he live
again?” It is being asked today by countless
thousands. The materialism of our age cannot
utterly quench it, the seeming indifference does
not disprove it. With each recurring anniver
sary of our Lord’s resurrection the heart of the
world thrills with a new tide of hope and antici
pation. Much of our acclaim may be perfunctory.
Our songs may not all be justified by the joy that
is within us, nor all of our prayers of thanksgiv
ing afford accurate measurement of the soul’s
faith. But at the center of the world’s heart is
a quenchless longing to live, to live on after death.
Jesus did not come to create desire but to answer
it. His words of promise, affirmed and validated
by his own resurrection, were not spoken that with
in the soul of man a new passion for immortality
might be born, but that the eternal and deathless
hunger, planted in the heart when man first came
to be, might be satisfied by full assurance. Life
and immortality have been brought to light. That
which was dim has been made clear. The guesses
and hopes of human hearts have been transformed
into convictions. Whoever believes in Jesus Christ
not only may, but must, believe in the life to come.
By the graves of our dead the angel of the res
urrection sits. Let the Easter bells peal out their
messages of cheer, and the exultant songs of hope
fill the air! Christ is risen! The world’s hope
is turned to assurance! —The Standard.
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The Will to Receibe.
God cannot bless a man who will not be blessed.
It takes two wills to complete a blessing: God’s
will to grant, and man’s will to receive. lor the
receiving of a. blessing is not a passive matter;
it calls for will power, and often for action. Many
a man prays for a blessing, gets up from his
knees and does nothing about it, and then wonders
why God does not send it. One of the greatest
blessings on record cost a roan an all-night strug
gle do win. Its .cost made it mean something to
Israel. “Prepare our wills to receive a blessing”
is a good prayer to offer in preparation for a
prayer meeting, or for any other season of hoped
for special blessing from God. If a longed-for
blessing does not come, let us be sure where to
place the blame. If we know that God wants us
to receive that blessing, we must be sure to do
our part. — J S. S. Times.
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Recognizing the Inebitable.
Mr. Charles E. Newlin, in The Defender, of New
York, recently quoted a prominent distiller as
going to another to solicit from him a subscription
to the “Campaign of Education Fund,” which was
being raised, to finance the scheme of sending plate
matter on “temperance and the scientific value
The Golden Age for April 11, 1907.
of liquor as a food and medicine” to the country
weeklies. When the subscription paper was pre
sented to Mr. Bernheim he waved it away and re
fused to subscribe a cent. The other distiller, in
astonishment, said:
“Why, Mir. Bernheim, I knew that no one would
subscribe more than you would, and I came to you
first, expecting to get a large contribution, and then
expected to get others to come as nearly up to
you as 'I could. This refusal is a great surprise
to me. Do you not know our business will go to
pieces if we do not do some such work of education
of the people as this, to counteract the continual
fight that is being made against our business?”
Mr. Bernheim deliberately replied:
“Yes, I know it ■well, and I know it will go to
pieces in spite of all we can do. It is only a ques
tion of time when you and I will be legislated out
of business, and I shall not spend any of the money
I have made in trying to stave that time off a
little while.”
Mr. Newlin also tells the following incident:
“Recently, I was taking supper at the hotel at
Hymera, Indiana, when a fine-looking traveling man
entered the dining-room and took a seat just oppo
site me at the table. In conversation with him I
learned he was a wholesale liquoa- salesman from
Vincennes, Indiana.
“To an inquiry as to how business was, he said,
with emphasis, that ‘it is rotten.’ He gave as the
prime cause the fact that the competition between
brewers had grown so sharp that they had put in
about four times as many saloons as were really
needed, and no one was making a living with the
profits so divided. Besides, he said, the license
was in the name of the bartender, who was sim
ply a hired agent of the brewer and entirely irre
sponsible. And the only way they could ever col
lect a bill was to let the saloonkeeper have more
liquor on a new bill larger than the old bill he
paid off. So they were continually getting a bigger
credit list with every sale they make.
“With sadness, almost to despair, he said, ‘We
feel that something awful is going to happen soon.
We do not know what it will be, but all feel this
way. I don’t believe it will be ten years until we
will all be out of business.’ ” —The Baptist Stan
dard.
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The A rtman Ruling in Indiana.
As considerable interst has been expressed by
our, readers to see a fuller text of the recent decis
ion of Judge Artman declaring the retail liquor
business unconstitutional, we give herewith the
part of it covering his direct ruling on the ques
tion :
“Whatever contravenes the law for self-preser
vation, by being destructive of the good order, the
safety, the peace, the health, the morals or the wel
fare of the people, is unlawful. What is wrong
cannot be lawful; whatever is right is legitimate
and lawful.
“In view of holdings, based as they certainlv are
upon good reason and common sense, it must be
held that the state cannot, under the guise of a
license, delegate to the saloon business a legal
existence, because to hold that it can is to bold
that the state can sell and delegate the right to
make widows and orphans, the right to break up
homes, the right to create misery and crime, the
right to make, murderers, the right to produce
idiots and lunatics, the right to fill orphanages,
poorhouses, insane asylums, jails and penitentiaries
and the right to furnish subjects for the hang
man’s gallows.
“The Supreme Court of Indiana, the 'Supreme
Courts of many other states, and the Supreme
Court of the United (States, have already so far
passed the middle of the stream upon the ques
tion involved that return would be more difficult
than to go over. ‘Go over’ is merely to draw the
natural, logical and inevitable conclusion from the
declarations and judgments of the courts. To re
turn would mean either to abandon the‘adjudication
that the saloon business is unlawful at common law
or to hold that a business that has been adjudged
by the courts to be unlawful at common law, be
cause it naturally and inherently endangers the
health, comfort, safety, morals and welfare of the
people, may be legalized for money.
“Some court may so hold in this case, but it will
not be done by this court. If it is done by any
court it must be done by the court that has 'already
held the business to be unlawful, because of its
inherently destructive effects upon society.
“With due appreciation of the responsibilities
of the occasion, conscious of my obligations, under
oath to Almighty God, and to my fellow-men, I
cannot, by a judgment of this court, authorize the
granting of a saloon license, and the demurrer to
the amended remonstrances is, therefore, overruled,
the amended remonstrance is sustained and the ap
plication is dismissed at the cost of the applicant.”
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Raraca and Philathea Conbention.
The next religious convention of national note
to meet in Atlanta and the South is the coming
of the Baracas, whose motto is, “Young men at
work for young men, all standing by the Bible
and the Bible school” —who are to meet in their
eleventh annual convention at the Wesley Memorial
Tabernacle, April 16-18. Delegates from all parts
of the United iSitates and from Canada are ex
pected.
Atlanta Baracas await with pleasure the coming
of the first national convention to meet in the
South, and every effort is being made to make this
the most helpful convention in every way.
Many noted speakers and Sunday school workers
will be here. Among those who will address the
convention are Rev. Albert Marion Hyde, D.D.,
Brocton, Mass.; Dr. 11. M. Hamill, Nashville,
Tenn.; Rev. C. A. Fulton, D.D., Syracuse, N. Y.;
Dr. Len G. Broughton, D.D., Rev. J. W. Lee, D.D.,
Atlanta, and (the National President, Mr. M. A.
Hudson, Syracuse, N. Y., originator and founder of
the Baraca movement, which Governor Terrell de
clares in his message of greeting to be a work of
method and originality, nothing short of wonderful,
and he extends to the Baracas a genuine Georgia
welcome.
Good music will be one of the main features of
the convention, a large chorus and orchestra has
been organized under the direction of Mr. A. 0.
Boatman.
On the same dates the Philatheas, the organized
young ladies’ classes, will hold their National Con
vention in the Congregational church, having their
business sessions during each day, and then com
bining with the Baracas at the Wesley Memorial
each night in a big mass meeting.
Arrangements have been .made with the rail
roads and steamship lines for one and one-third
rate from all points east of the Colorado. And
hundreds of delegates aire expected to be here at
that time.
Atlanta, Ga. E. Cregar.
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Women in Great Britain are well represented in
the professions and trades, and about 4,500,000
earn their own living. There are .124,000 who
teach; 10,000 are bookbinders; over 3,000 are print
ers, and nearly 500 act as editors and compilers;
1,300 are engaged in photography; civil service
clerks number nearly 2,300; 3,800 are engaged in
medical work and nursing, and 350 women are
blacksmiths. —Pittsburg Dispatch.
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Dr. Harry Pratt Judson has been elected presi
dent of Chicago University. He has served as
acting president since the death of President Har
per, on January 10, 1906. Dr. Judson was bom at
Jamestown, N. lin 1849. He is a graduate of
Williams College.
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“Oh, to be the temple and not the tomb of the
Holy Spirit!”—Gypsy Smith.