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of our readers.
Christian Citizenship and Crime,
One of the notable and far-reaching things done
by the Southern Baptist Convention was the adop
tion of a strong resolution offered by Judge George
Hillyer. of Atlanta, looking in a most practical way
to the creation of a law-abiding sentiment among
our people. Judge Hillyer, be it said to his honor,
never allows a Convention to pass without sound
ing a high and ringing note on some point of Chris
tian citizenship and civic righteousness; and the
great mass meeting planned for the next session of
the Convention will do unspeakable good in sow
ing down the country through the thousands of rep
representatives at the Convention with the deter
mination to see that crime is lessened and the law
enforced, “though the heavens tumble down.”
Judge Hillyer’s resolution follows:
“Resolved, That the President appoint a com
mittee of three, whose duty it shall be to arrange
for the holding of a mass meeting in the Conven
tion Hall on the Sunday afternoon during the next
annual session of the Southern Baptist Conven
tion: said mass meeting to consider and counsel
together as to what may best be done by Christian
men and ministers, especially Baptists, for creat
ing a more wholesome public opinion: for making
the criminal laws more certain, more prompt and
more effective: so as to take away the reproach
resting on civilization and religion by the preva
lence of Crime and Lynchings; and so as to make
the law respected and effective in all parts of our
common country.”
This resolution breathing such a spirit of Chris
tian statesmanship was supported by Judge Hil
lyer in a powerful speech, and was passed almost
without a dissenting vote. As usual there was a
faint suggestion from the “conservative brother”
that religious bodies should have no part in any
thing that leads to a ballot, or shaping of laws.
Rut it was clearly pointed out by Judge Hillyer
that a great body of Christian men have a right as
citizens to so express themselves in a religious body
as to further the enactment of any and all laws
which should reflect the moral sentiment of the peo
ple who are to be governed by law. Judge Hil
lyer's resolution will be blessing the world long
after he has crossed over the river.
A Secular Comment.
The following editorial, clipped from the Rich
mond Times-Dispatch, is remarkable for several %
things contained in it. but more remarkable still
because it reveals an unmistakable tendency even
among secular newspapers to give the Church of
Jesus Christ credit for the quickening of the moral
conscience. Many of our great dailies are taking
this high ground and in a bold and fearless way
becoming the exponents of civic righteousness and
The Golden Age for May 23, 1907.
the conservators of an enlightened moral conscience.
We thank God and take courage.
“The Men’s Movement.
“The great missionary meeting which the South
ern Baptist Convention held on Friday night is sig
nificant of a wave of spirituality that is sweeping
over the world. For years past, the men have been
too much inclined to leave church work, and espe
cially Sunday school and missionary work, to the
women. But of late there has been an awakening
and a revival. The Spirit of God is now working
among men, and there are many manifestations
thereof. We believe that the demand for reforms
in the business world proceeds from that source.
“Many of the abuses recently exposed had been
going on for years, and the people knew it, but
were indifferent. They are no longer so. They in
sist upon purer methods, and they are bringing
(he delinquents to book. Unquestionably there has
been a marked improvement in the moral tone;
unquestionably the standard of public morals has
been raised.
“Another manifestation is found in increased
activities in philanthropy and education, and more
significant than all is the enormous increase in the
number of Bible students. We venture that in
many sections the enrollment of men’s Bible classes
has more than doubled within the past five years.
Wo are sure that that is true of Richmond.
“The Day of Pentecost has returned.”
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Dr. Johnson to His Mother.
“Dear Honored Mother:—You have been the
best mother, and I believe the best woman, in the
world. I thank you for your indulgence to me, and
beg forgiveness of all that I have done ill, and all
that I have omitted to do well. God grant you
His Holy Spirit, and receive you to everlasting hap
piness, for Jesus Christ’s sake. Amen. I am,
dear, dear mother, your dutiful son,
“Samuel Johnson.”
Such are the sentiments breathed by a million
dutiful sons for their mothers. To some these
thoughts have come while the rich red blood of
youth was hot and throbbing in their veins; to
others they have come when in mid life, while the
sun. full-orbed and glorious, stood on the key
stone of heaven's magnificent arch, and to still
others they have come amid the deepening shadows
when the death dew began to gather and the chilly
night creep on. But they always come. No man
with a Christian mother will ever get over it.
A Southern Literary Magazine of
High Standard.
It has been said that one of the most important
literary achievements of the past decade has been
the gradual “standardization of the magazine,”
a phrase which interpreted fully merely means
that the public has tacitly set a high standard of
excellence in the magazines which it patronizes and
indorses. While there is and must always be a
vast amount of inferior literature circulated through
the medium of carelessly edited periodicals, it is a
fact really significant of the inherent good taste of
the English speaking public that the magazines
which have created the deepest interest and which
have held the attention of the people are those
which have maintained a literary, artistic and moral
policy of the very highest order.
It is, therefore, fitting that we welcome with
genuine gratification the appearance in Atlanta of
the long heralded, eagerly anticipated “Uncle
Remus's Magazine.’’ The very name of this publi
cation bears with it a delightful suggestion of the
South; of the beautiful folk lore, the romantic
mysticism and the wholesome philosophy which have
ever distinguished this section of our country; a
country in which the trend of commercialism has
fought hard for supremacy, but in which the ethical
ideals of the people are attaining daily triumphs.
A most striking evidence of this fact may be seen
in the new publication which is under consideration.
In its every page it breathes of a progress and a
purpose which means the development and the
broadening of a people.
A glance al this first number convinces us tjhat
we are safe in announcing the appearance of the
Great Southern Magazine, so long desired, so eager
ly sought and heretofore so illusive as to seem a
veritable delusion. But in “Uncle Remus’s” we
have a realization of much that we have desired in
an ideal southern periodical. Edited by one of the
South’s most distinguished writers, Mr. Joel
Chandler Harris, of Georgia, the magazine contains
every element which would insure success. It is
artistically prepared, beautifully illustrated and its
scope is so broad and far reaching that it cannot
fail to create national if not an international at
tention.
While it is impossible to mention specifically the
very attractive features of the first issue, yet we
must call attention to the contributions of Mr.
Harris himself, both editorially and in the vein of
fiction in which he equally excels. The first in
stallment of a delightful serial by the editor has |
the effect of creating an urgent desire for the next
issue, while a new “Uncle Remus” story is also 1
given as well as an ever welcome and characteris- "
tic interview with “The Sage of Shady Dale.”
The contributions of Mr. Don Marquis, the As
sociate Editor, are also notable, while an article
on “The South’s Prosperity” by Richard H. Ed
monds, the beginning of a series entitled “Five
Men Who Made Epochs,” by M. A. Lane, “World
Movements as Viewed from the Metropolis,” by
Harold Boice, and “Letters From Henry Clay to
Madame Levert,” by Mrs. Thaddeus Horton, are
some of the prominent features of the first num
ber.
In addition there are several delightful short
stories; that rarest of all contributions to current
literature, some really poetic verse, and a depart
ment devoted to late books which, because of its
just estimates and clear judgment, must command
general attention.
Taking the new magazine as a whole, therefore,
and considering its policy, its high purpose and its
physical attractions, we feel safe in saying that
it assures for itself a cordial welcome from the
people of the South as well as those of the en
tire country, and to this we, as a contemporary, add
our own cordial endorsement and support.
May-June Music 'Festival.
An event of most unusual importance to this city
and state is the forthcoming May-June Music festi
val, which will be given in Atlanta beginning on
Wednesday of next week, and ending the following
Saturday. Indications now point to a financial
as well as an artistic success, upon which Dr. J.
Lewis Browne and his associates are to be congrat
ulated.
With such artists as Madame Schumann-Hein K,
who sings at the opening performance, Miss Bessie
Abott, and Guiseppe Campanari, all of the Met
ropolitan Opera House in New York —these in addi
tion to nine other artists, a chorus of 200 and an
orchestra of fifty—the program is a brilliant one,
and should appeal to the most exacting musical
tastes.
The approaching festival is additionally impor
tant from the fact that upon its success depends a
plan to make it a permanent affair.
A meeting of London Suffragettes was broken up
recently by a.mouse which appeared in one of the
aisles of the hall. Now there is the one thing that
should convince all thinking people that woman is
untit to stand at the helm of state and such like.
It also revives in our mind the gnawing desire to be
told why the average woman is so afraid of the
mouse. We never heard of any one being bitten
by a mouse; we have yet to learn of a mouse even
looking as though he would attack any one. We
here and now invite correspondence on this point.
A couple in Kentucky who have been correspond
ing for twenty-five years, recently married. It was
a love match. And there are morals to this inci
dent, which show conclusively that there is such
a thing as true love, etc., but the cold fact prob
ably is that they married because they were tired
of reading each other’s letters.