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hunts to damn if he can, but thank God, he cannot
cvercome a soul that has been thus given over to
God.
Then there is resignation to the providence of
God, verses 28-37. It is the man who is living the
victorious life who is resigned to the providence of
God. This does not mean that we are not going to
have heart pangs. It does not mean that the moth
er who sees her child dying is not to weep, but it
means that through her tears she is to look up with
a smile of reconciliation to a well-doing Father. It
means that, in all things that come to us in our daily
life of struggle and toil, there is the conscious
ness of the fact that God is working out through
these things the development of our spiritual lives.
The life of victory results in bold security, verses
38. 39. “Neither death nor life nor angels nor
principalities, nor things present, nor things to
come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any
other creature shall be able to separate us from the
love of God which is in Christ Jesus.”
Talk about the strong pledge of the Masonic
brethren! The strongest pledge of all is the pledge
that is made to us in these verses. That is the
pledge of God’s love. The strongest thing that
can be imagined by the human mind is the love of
God. I tell you, when we come down to the place
of suffering and when our souls are tried, there
is nothing that will bring more comfort than to
fall back on Romans 8: 38, 39. Oh, the love of God
for his children! Oh, the love of God for me as
one of His children! Oh. He loves me enough to
plan for the life that I live, to make it a success;
to make it overcoming; to make it victorious. God
wants it to be victorious more than I do. God is
baring His very heart and pouring out His love
in the plans that He has for victory in the life that
He has given to me. I know it. I feel it, and 1
thank God for it.
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Bessie Tift College Notes.
All classifications having been completed, the
students are now turning their attention to athletic
sports. The possession of the banner, which is now
in the hands of the Senior-Sophomore team, will
be warmly contested by the Junior-Freshmen this
year. The students are at present showing most
interest in tennis and basket ball, as the posses
sion of he banner is decided by the contests in
those two games.
The college orchestra, under direction of Miss
Nellie Felsburg, instructor in violin, has begun
work. This promises to be a successful year for
the orchestra.
Visitors to the college last week v'ere Dr. Critten
ton of New York, and Dr. Pickard, of Savannah.
Dr. Crittenton addressed the students at the chapel
services and in their twilight prayer meetings. No
doubt the influence of his consecrated life will be
felt in the college for many days to come. Dr.
Pickard, who has visited the college many times,
is always welcomed by the faculty and students.
His sermon, the subject of which was “The Fourth
Man in the Furnace,” was very helpful to all who
heard it.
The third of the series of Faculty Recitals will
be given in a few weeks by Miss Lynds, of ,the de
partment of expression, Miss Gloer, of the depart
ment of vocal music, and Miss O’Neal, of the de
partment of instrumental music.
The religious organizations of the college have
begun their work thi- year with new zeal. The
missionary society has a large membership and al
ready it is beginning to follow the line of work
mapped out f< r this year.
The Junior Union, composed of the younger girls
in the college, has also been organized with a large
membership. This organization has proved to be a
wonderful power for good among the younger stu
dents.
The good news comes that Lowndes county, Ala
bama, has gone “dry” by a good majority.
Lowndes is in the “Black Belt” and was consid
ered almost hopeless. There is now some hope of
carrying New Orleans and Chicago.
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TO OUR READERS.
Don’t fail to read, “A Story of Success,” in this
issue.
The Golden Age for October 17, 1907.
The University and Its Tootball Pros
pects Tor this Season
Athens, Ga., Oct. 14, 1907.
The University opened its doors this season with
one of the most promising bodies of students that
have gathered together under* the Red and Black
for many years, in fact the attendance is probably
the largest in its history, the increase over last
year being nearly 20 per cent, which is far above
the average growth of the American College. Al
ready the enrollment has neared the 500 mark and
the prospects are that something like 100 more
will matriculate before Christmas. The Winter
Agricultural School opening at that time will also
bring a good bunch of Georgia’s farming class to
the University.
The one great feature of interest connected with
Georgia at present is. What will the Red and Black
football team be? This question’may be answered
very simply. The team will be eomposed of stu
dents only, a policy which has lost many games
for the Varsity in the past few years, but it is
the only clean, honest policy, and the Athletic As
sociation has chosen to stick to it.
It is an easy thing for a college to hire profes
sional players, win games and then celebrate their
victory, but the question that stares this method
in the face is, How long will this kind of victory
last ? Is it better in the long run to adopt only
pure athletics, or adopt the dishonorable plan of
hiring players and then claiming the victory as one
won by college students'?
Whatever mav he the better plan, the Varsity
for the coming year will be picked from the student
body, and not a man will wear Georgia colors in
any of cur games that is playing for any other rea
son than pure love of the sport and college patriot
ism.
Our prospects at present are reasonably bright.
We have a number of our last year players back
among whom are Capt. Kyle Smith, Dick Graves,
Sam Hatcher, Harry Harmon, Arrendale, Dilli
peare, Fleming, Napier and a number of others.
The new men who have come to us from the pre
paratory schools are Kid Woodruff and T. Grace,
both excellent Quarters.
Wrey will in all probability play center, and
Koofer, the heavy back field man, will manage the
position of Full Back for the Varsity.
Kyle Smith and Napier look good for the two
Half Baeks, Woodruff will undoubtedly play Quar
ter, and for the line there are numerous candi
dates, and no definite line, up can be given. How
ever, Graves and Hatcher seem certainties as the
two Ends, while Harry Harmon will undoubtedly
be somewhere on the line. Arrendale is also a
promising candidate for the line, and there are
many other strong men fighting among themselves
for the other positions.
The great purpose of the Varsity this year is to
put up their best game on November 2, when Geor
gia will once more meet Tech, on the gridiron. It
has even been suggested that our strongest play
ers be kept out of most of the other games to pre
vent any accidents from spoiling our chances to
give Heisman the hardest fight he has ever met
from the Red and Black since the days of old when
Tech, went down without a struggle.
From indications on every side we may fairly
judge that Whitney will bring to Atlanta on the
second a great aggregation, and one that will make
the puzzle interesting for the wizard who has so
long baffled every team in this district.
Y. B. Smith.
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Monday, October 14, was emancipation day for
Opelika and Lee counties, Alabama. Lee is on the
border line of Georgia and a few “business men”
wanted to keep saloons in order to furnish liquor
to some “wet” men in the dry state of Georgia; but
“bloody” commercialism has been dethroned by
nearly 900 majority.
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NOTICE TO OUR READERS.
We wish to call the attention of our readers to
the article in this issue called, “A Story of Suc
cess.” The success of this body of men shows what
can be done by careful management of Capital. It
will help you to read this account carefully.
‘BOOK REVIEW.
“THE TRAITOR.”
By Thomas Dixon, Jr.
John M. Miller, & Co., Atlanta, Ga. #1.20.
To a large number of people who know Thomas
Dixon, Jr., as a preacher and lecturer, the announce
ment that another book written by him is now on
sale will be of interest. A still larger number who
know him as a playwright and author will be moved
to read this last book. The first book by this au
thor to attract attention was “The One Woman.”
Aside from the fact that it contained a rather well
done portrayal of a beautiful female creatine and
abounded in Dixonian phrases, little could be found
to attract or upon which to hang a comment re
garding the book. “The Leopard’s Spots” and
“The Clansman” were the first and second vol
umes of “The Trilogy of Reconstruction”; as
planned by the author; “The Traitor” being the
third and last. The reader who holds the rather
old-fashioned opinion that a book, as an excuse for
its author foisting it upon the public, should con
tain some literary merit, or should discuss a really
important and timely question in a sensible wav,
will find little to commend in the first two books of
the “Trilogy.” They derived their sale from the
fact that they stirred again the prurient details of
an epoch which is now best forgotten. They ap
pealed to prejudice cherished by a class of people
who are still fighting the battles of the war of the
sixties, and still hating 1 ‘Yankees.” We love and
revere the men who fought the real battles of the
sixties, and we can understand certain dislikes
which they still hold; but why their ch?’ldren and
grandchildren still distil bitterness and seek to make
old wounds gape anew, instead of entering into the
hopefulness and tranquility of this better day,
we are unable to understand. But many such there
be, and they made the books referred to run to a
good sale. But even the appeal to race prejudice
and the revival of the old prejudice of the South
erner against the “Carpetbagger” is weakly and
lamely done. There could not well be a gauzier
portrait than that of the Carpetbagger as embod
ied in Judge Butler, one of the leading actors in
the moving drama portrayed in. “The Traitor.”
And the Dixonian phrases are sadly few and far
between. There is little plot; the characters are
carelessly drawn; there are no dramatic situations
such as might be expected in a time when the Ku
Klux Klan had just been disbanded and a rival
Klan was brought into existence. The plot be
gins without a very strong excuse for so doing,
starts forth apologetically, proceeds lamely and
fades away from general debility and lack of satis
factory encouragement. It is hard to understand
why the author wrote this book, other than that lie
had written two, and it needed a third to complete
a “Trilogy.” The scene is the foothills of North
Carolina, and the time between 1870 and 1872 A. D.
There are times when the conscientious reader will
begin to hope that he is about to find something
like a painstaking portrayal of the conditions that
then existed; but ere his hopes are realized, the
chapter follows off a by-path into a cheaply ve
neered description of a love scene or a threatened
gun-play which never materializes. But we have
promised ourselves not to say anything really un
kind about the book. We are convinced that the
average reader of the book will feel about it just
as the old-fashioned deacon felt about the ser
mon of the young theolog who was acting as a sup
ply at his church. The theolog was going home to
dinner with the deacon after the service, and af
ter waiting as long as he could bear to wait for
some voluntary expression as to the merits of the
sermon, broached the subject and asked: “Well,
how did you like my sermon?” The deacon spat
thoughtfidiv and replied, choosing his words with
care: “Well, I have heard better sermons” ''a
pause) “and I have heard worse; but I don’t re
member where.” A. F. R.
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Christianity wants nothing so much in the world
as sunny people, and the old are hungrier for love
than bread. The oil of joy is very cheap, and if
you can help the poor on with a garment of praise,
it will be better for them than blankets.
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