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The Prohibition Tight.
We propose to amend our caption. “The Field
of the Prohibition Conflict” is the present standing
caption of this column. Tt is the purpose of the
column to give each week the news from the “far
flung battle-line.” The old caption means that, and
we do not intend to abandon that idea, but merely
to bring cur caption into small compass, we will,
in the future, tell our stories under the caption
given at the head of this column.
The prohibition fight in Alabama is moving on.
The Georgian and News gives this item:
Huntsville, Ala., Sept. 3. —At the monthly meet
ing of the City Pastors’ Union a committee was
appointed to ascertain just what the law’ of the
state allows Madison county or the city of Hunts
ville to do in the way of making a move for pro
hibition.
“Rev. K. N. Matthews and Rev. Francis Tappey
were appointed as members of the committee, and
they will communicate with Attorney-General Gar
ber in regard to the matter.
“There is some question in the minds of the
preachers as to whether or not the local dispensary
law will allow a local option election.”
In addition to this, The Birmingham News, in
a strong editorial, points out the situation in Jef
ferson county, and declares that the temper of the
people is to vote liquor-selling out of that great
county.
The influence of the great awakening cn the pro
hibition question is so marked that the liquor-sellers
themselves have become reformers, as evic’enced by
the following:
(Special to The Geoigian).
“Chattanooga, Tenn., Sept. 3. —Local liquor deal
ers have appointed a vigilance committee to watch
themselves, or rather each other. At a conference
held with the excise board, leading saloon men told
the commissioners that they wanted the law’s en
forced to the letter, and to prove they were in ear
nest, chose a committee of five, whose duty it is to
look for infractions and report them to the excise
commission. The committee is expected to do away
almost entirely with Sunday selling.”
The Golden Age published last week an article
explaining the “Locker Tax Situation,” by J. L.
D. H. The secular papers at the begin nng of thi.-
week published a very clear and forcible presenta
tion of the subject from Hon. Seaborn Wright. Mi.
Wright, of course, understands that subject pei
fectly. His explanation accords absolu'ely with
The Golden Age article. There was no collusion
between J. L. D. H. and Mr. Wright, and it is very
evident that when Mr. Wright wrote his ! ettei he
had not seen The Golden Age. The two articles
were practically simultaneous.'
Another proposition comes from Cincinnati,
showing how 7 a liquor man might take out a license
in that city and do business in Georgia as agent
for himself, having goods shipped from Ohio to his
customers in Georgia, etc. Os course, such things
must be, but if they violate that law’, they will
be detected and punished.
Among the Workers.
The Stone Mountain Baptist Convention adopted
a resolution instructing the Executive Committee,
in co-operation with the State Mission Board, to
employ a missionary in the bounds of '.he associa
tion to bring the strength of the association to
the help of those outside of Atlanta who are in
conditions of more or less spiritual destitution.
(Special to The Georgian).
Loganville, Ga., Sept. 3. —Sunday night a re
vival meeting of eight days and nights closed at
the Methodist church at Walnut Grove, in Walton
county. Thirty-seven new’ members joined the
church. Twenty-five were received at 11 o’clock
on Sunday. The pastoi, Rev. W. 0. Butler, was
assisted by Charlie D. Tillman, of Atlanta.
Revival Times is credited with the following:
The Island of Flowers: Writing of the South
The Golden Age for September 12, 1907.
Avans, a group of islands thirty miles south-west
of Galw’ay, an author says: “The islands are al
most treeless, and at first sight so apparently bar
ren that their favorite name of ‘The Island of
Flowers,’ seems but a cruel sarcasm; but a stroll
in any direction discloses the fact that between
the many crevices of the limestone rocks there
flourishes an astonishing wealth of the loveliest
and rarest of flowers and ferns.” Is it not so with
many a ragged truth and rough, hard providence?
At first sight we see nothing of love or loveliness;
but looked into by the eye of faith w T e find flowers
even among rocks.
(From the H|aptist Commonwealth.)
Rev. Paul C. Metzger, of Ikoko, Africa, recently
sent this item to the Rooms: “Mr. Stahlbrand
left this afternoon to establish an outpost in one
of the largest and fiercest cannibal towns in this
district. We are praying for its success.” The
days of courageous pioneering in missions are not
yet past.
Chas. F. Aked, the new pastor of the Fifth Ave
nue Baptist Church, is quoted as saying: “The
Son of God goes forth to war against ugliness, stu
pidity, disease, selfishness and sin:—who follows
in His train?”
And this:
The change in the attitude of the public towards
the Salvation Army has on several occasions of
late been commented upon in this column. Another
illustration of the altered relations was afforded
last week, when General Booth visited Whitchurch,
in Hampshire. Eighteen years ago, that quiet lit
tle town was one of the storm centers of the Army,
magistrates and people uniting in their fierce op
position to the Christian movement. Open-air
meetings were forbidden, and several Salvationists
were sent to prison. The father of the chairman
at General Booth’s meeting the other day passed
sentence on the members of the Army, and to com
plete the transformation, from the magistrates the
veteran chief received an address of welcome. Time
does indeed work wonders.
And this:
The Rev. F. B. Meyer has been describing some
of his Northfield experiences, which seem to have
been very pleasant: “At the Science Hall,” he
writes, “the professor of chemistry and I gave
an hour’s demonstration of the analogies between
physics and theology. He helped me perform the
experiments, whilst I endeavored to point the les
sons. We made an iron bar float in the air to
show how the spirit of life makes us free from
the law of downward gravitation; compelled a wheel
to revolve rapidly by a stream of electricity to
illustrate how Paul wrought according to the work
ing that worked in him mightily; showed the unity
of white light and the trinity of the three compo
nent colors; heard in the response of one tuning
fork to another the answering pain of Christ to
the woes of His suffering Church; learned marvel
lous lessons from the X-rays, the arc-light,and the
ultra-violet rays. In fact, I should like to carry
the apparatus with me round the world.”
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in very deed. Then, answering Amaziah, he de
clared that God’s judgments would overtake him.
The next vision—that of the basket of summer
fruit —indicated the imminence of the judgment.
Jehovah declared that the end was come, that He
would not pass by them any more. This announce
ment was followed, on the part of the prophet, by
an impassioned address to the moneymakers, in
which he first declared the effect of their lust for
gain. They swallowed the needy, and caused the
poor to fail. He described the intensity of that lust;
the new moon and Sabbath were irksome. Then
there is a figurative description of judgment, which
declared Jehovah’s perpetual consciousness of these
things, and His consequent retribution. The final
issue of judgment the prophet declared to be a fam
ine of the words of the Lord, as a result of which
there would come eager and fruitless search, fol-
lowed by the fainting of the youth for lack.
The final vision was that of judgment executed.
In this there was no symbol, no sign. We hear
the manifesto of Jehovah Himself. It is one of
the most awe-inspiring visions of the whole Bible.
The message proceeded in two phases. First, an
announcement of judgment irrevocable and irresis
tible; secondly, a declaration of the procedure as
reasonable and discriminative. Jehovah is seen
standing by the altar, declaring the stroke of de
struction to be inevitable, and all attempts at es
cape futile, because He has proceeded to action.
While the judgment is to be reasonable and dis
criminative, the claims in which Israel had trusted
were nothing. They became as children of Ethio
pians. Philistines and Syrians had also been led by
God. The eyes of Jehovah were on the sinful king
dom. The sifting process must go forward, but no
grain of wheat should perish.
D. RESTORATION.
The phrase, “In that day.” indicates the closing
movement of restoration and all that is to precede
it. It is now declared that the reason of the Divine
judgment is not revenge, but that it is the only
way in which it is possible to usher in the restored
order upon which the heart of God is set. The pro
cess of restoration is described as threefold. First,
preliminary, “I will raise up . . . that they may
possess.” Then as to progress: “I will bring
again the captivity . . . they shall build the waste
cities . . . plant vineyards . . . make gardens.”
Finally, the permanent: “I will plant them . . .
they shall no more be plucked up.”
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The Successor of Samuel H. Hadley.
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ment. The words of his original song run as fol
lows :
“A wanderer from God and from His salvation,
I squandered my time, while here on probation;
The torments of devils on several occasions,
Brought sorrow, misery and pain to my soul;
t But God said to me, ‘There is just one condition:
If you will repent, I will make you a Christian’;
If I would on Jesus, His mercy, lay hold,
He would send joy, comfort and peace to my soul;
So now I can tell you without contradiction,
He turned out the devils of every description,
And Jesus He came in to reign as my King,
And that is what now tunes my poor heart to sing.
“The time I was converted, I always remember:
It was the fifteenth day of December,
Seventy-five in the nineteenth century,
When I got out of the Devil’s penitentiary.
Oh, I am so glad that I ever changed masters,
Which saved me from a thousand disasters!
But the devil he got in a furious rage,
When he saw that I did to Jesus engage;
But, nevertheless, he shall have me no longer;
For my Savior’s arms are a good deal stronger;
He promised if I would trust and obey,
He would use all His power to see me go free.
“My friends, when they heard I had changed my
position,
Supposed that I only did take a vacation,
And said that I would soon be back to my station,
And serve the old devil as never before;
But, thank God, thirty-one years have passed be
hind me,
.When you always could in a meeting find me,
Witnessing to God’s wonderful grace
That rescued e’en such a serious case.
1 wondered if I was the same old Charley
Who used to hang ’round in a dirty alley,
But when I myself in a looking-glass saw,
There was a change such as any one else could
know.”
A little boy of three years was very much pleased
to have a quilt put on the floor for him to take
his daily nap on, and his mother spoke of the quilt
as his pallet. One day when he heard her speak
of the palate of her mouth, he did not seem to
notice her remark, but a few days later he came
running in from play and said, “Mamma, mamma,
where is the quilt in my mouth?” —Ex.
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