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Among the Workers.
The subscriptions to the Wesley Memorial and
the Tabernacle Institutional enterprises continue to
come in.
The Baptists of Inman Park are organizing a
church and preparing to build a house of worship
in the not distant future.
Correspondents of the Wesleyan Advocate report
most gracious meetings with large results in gornl
to the respective places, at Lindale, Roswell, Gaines
ville and Toccoa.
Rev. George C. Cates, mentioned a few weeks
since in these columns in connection with bis mar
velous revival work in Kentucky cities and towns,
and recently in Petersburg, Va., has been in Yazoo,
Miss. Two hundred and fifty conversions are re
ported. He goes now to Jackson, Miss.
The organization of Baptist laymen for the pur
pose of enlarging the spirit and power for mis
sions is going on with widespread interest. Ex
changes from many places over the country are
reporting the preliminary meetings to secure effec
tive organization. Hon Joshua Levering, of Bal
timore, is at or near the head of the movement.
During the next three years the building of the
Armory Auditorium, the Tabernacle Church and
the Wesley Memorial Church, will employ not less
than seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars —•
three quarters of a million dollars in one line of
public work! The prospect is that they will all
be needed by the time they are finished. In fact,
they are needed right now.
The Evangelical Ministers’ Association responded
cordially to a suggestion coming from the Atlanta
Methodist Ministers’ Conference, that the Evan
gelical Association take immediate steps to endorse
the pending prohibition legislation. A committee
was appointed with which the Executive Committee
of the Anti-Saloon League is expected to co-oper
ate, to arrange - a ratification meeting of Fulton
county prohibitionists in the immediate future.
There are more prohibitionists in Fulton county
than there are pro-liquor men. Now will be a time
for them to speak out.
Mr. John Kirk, Secretary of the Ragged School
Union, one of London’s great charities, has com
pleted forty years of splendid service in rescuing
and moulding the lives of young outcasts of the
city, so that thousands have become good and
useful men and women. King Edward, a benevo
. lent and watchful gentleman, has set the seal of
approval upon the meritorious career of plain
John Kirk, by conferring upon him the degree of
Knighthood, “Sir John Kirk” is no better nor
no worse than plain John Kirk. But King Edward
has honored himself, and has selected for knightly
honor in this case one whose service for forty
years has been full of knightly achievement.
The Baptist Standard of Dallas, Texas, says:
“How about the Baptist Memorial Sanitarium?”
That is a frequent inquiry. The finishing work is
being done as rapidly as possible. It is very tedious
work.
This reminder is quoted here to call attention
to that great institution that is approaching com
pletion at Dallas, Texas. The several hospital en
terprises that were inaugurated in Atlanta several
years ago have reminded the Lord’s servants of
a long neglected opportunity to serve Him. Our
Atlanta institutions began with no homes, but they
have pushed forward in the work. The Tabernacle,
Home for Incurables, the Presbyterian, the Wes
leyan have all begun in the big heart of some one
or two of God’s servants. And these are not all
of them. The Texas sanitarium starts out as a .
great denominational institution that proposes to
employ about two hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars in the hospital alone. It is strange that the
Lord’s servants have neglected this manifest duty
go long!
The Golden Age for July 4, 1907.
What We Think of What Wi? See
By A. E. RAMS A UR, Managing Editor.
Apropos of our cartoon on the front page, show
ing John Barleycorn beginning to “move on,” a
news item from Augusta, Georgia, says that as a
result of the belief that the State Legislature will
pass a prohibition measure at the present session,
two of the largest potteries in the State, whose
products were confined almost entirely to .jugs for
the liquor trade, have closed their establishments.
The item further states that since the Legislature
convened, orders for more than 35,000 jugs have
been cancelled, and a wood-working concern having
an order for bar fixeures worth $20,000 has received
a telegram cancelling it. This is good news; but
if this thing keeps spreading, where will we be
able to secure the corks for our lines when we go
fishing this summer?
They do say that the Georgia Colonels outshone
everything at Jamestown, so far as uniforms and
mural decorations were concerned, except the ad
mirals of one or two foreign navies. The new Col
onels can’t well improve or add to the present
style in Colonels’ uniforms. To attempt it would
certainly be to gild refined gold and paint the lily.
Some discussion is going forward as to what the
ex-Colonels will do with their uniforms. No rea
son why they should not do service for evening
dress for years to come; for once a Colonel, al
ways a Colonel in Georgia; and then, they will
make priceless heirlooms for the coming genera
tions. They will be indisputable evidence some
years hence for ambitious aspirants for member
ship in the Sons of Georgia Colonels. Let the uni
forms be sacredly preserved. But if cruel necessi
ty commands their sale for reasons of financial
stringency, why not sell them to the League teams?
The style in baseball uniforms is rapidly growing
more rich, is becoming more expressed in fancy;
and a properly gowned team would add greatly
to the enjoyment of a ball game.
Jean Brun, a citizen of Geneva, died recently at
the age of one hundred and two years. A short
time before his death, he said: “I have never con
sulted a doctor and have never taken medicine. I
.have drunk and smoked all my life, and with the
exception of my mother, have never kissed a wom
an.” We earnestly strive to accumulate instances
of this kind which lend themselves to the point
ing of a moral which may bear good fruits in the
conduct of our readers. If this man had never
smoked and drunk, and had escaped both the doc
tors and kissing during a long life of one hun
dred and two years, we could at once hold him up
as a beautiful example; but what arc you going to
do when a man persists in such habits and still
comes out ahead of the game? It does begin to
seem that the wicked are getting all the blessings
and flourishing as the green bay tree, but just wait
until next week; we will find some one who has
been properly punished for his wrong manner of
living.
Mr. Andrew Townsend Hisey, of lowa, is a per
petual candidate for the office of President of the
United States. He dresses in a black frock coat,
a silk hat of the vintage of ’45, eyeglasses, beard
and some minor articles of apparel. He has al
ready announced himself as a candidate for elec
tion in 1908, and states his platform to be in part
as follows:
1. “To rediscover the arts which are lost and
to reveal those which are hidden.”
2. To complete the unfinished work of the ages,
right the wrongs of generations past, correct the
mistakes, retrace the errors and see to it with great
care that the ills which affect the race do not re
occur; these and some more.”
The platform sounds good to us; and the beauty
about it is, that it sounds just as good and means
just as much when we read it backwards as it
does the other way. It is rich in hidden meanings
and conjectures. It is ample, it is generous, it
is just'. But Clause No. 1, is the one we cling to.
We have often worried over the arts that are lost
and sought to have a revelation of those which are
hidden. We have sought the palmist and the sooth
sayer in vain; in vain have we scanned the dream
book. But in the new era, when the lowa seer
comes into his own, all will be made clear. But
why does he neglect to say anything about the
Octopus in his platform? In that we are disap
pointed.
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The Atlanta Baptist Ministers’ Conference has
taken decisive action upon the matter which has
for some time engaged the attention of members in
regard to securing proper reports of the proceed
ings of the Conference in the daily press. A com
mittee having the matter under consideration, lec
ommended that a committee be appointed to super
vise the publication of news items. This was dis
cussed, and the conclusion was finally arrived at
that the best thing to do to reporters was to do
nothing at all. They are now to be allowed to en
ter the meetings, sit unharmed during discussions
(that is, they are to be responsible for their own
safety) and they may then retire to their respect
ive workshops to prepare such articles as may seem
proper and just. It was the sense of the body
that it might be possible to secure reporters who
would be responsive to- kind treatment and that
the probable good influence of the ministers on the
reporters would outweigh the possible bad influence
of the reporters on the ministers. An era of good
feeling has set in. Many vital questions have been
settled, and there are in the immediate future no
issues of especial import demanding adjustment, so
it is hoped that by the time the trying Summer is
past, the reporters will have attained to a plane
where they can see the necessity of handling their
assignments in the right spirit, and there will be
no further unpleasantness. In (he fullness of time
it may even come to pass that the little leaven
borne away by the reporters on this assignment
may leaven the whole lump, and the press in gen
eral be elevated. And much of this desirable state
of affairs has been brought about by cur sugges
tions on this page.
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Keeping Jack "Busy.
A daring theft Jack wrought last night
On darling little Rose;
He stole some things he wanted, right
Beneath her very nose.
—Philadelphia Press.
’Tis to be hoped that if fair Rose
Returned the blissful smack,
Jack did not overlook a bet
But turned and kissed her back.
—Houston Post.
That may be as they do this job
Down in the sunny South;
But if Jack lived here in the North
He’d kiss her on the mouth.
—The Commoner
Why ’rouse again the bitter strife,
And North and South wax hot?
Let’s all agree to compromise—
Jack kissed her on the spot.
—St. Louis Post-Dispatclp
If Jack did kiss her on the spot,
Upon the mouth and back to boot—
I'll bet SHE wouldn’t compromise
Without a breach of promise suit.
—The Tennesseean.
Jack met Rose upon the bridge
And kissed her on the spot;
The brook it murmured down below,
But Rose —she murmured not.
—The Golden Age.
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