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Ihe Golden Age
(SDCCZ.SSO* TO HZLIGIOUS lOKUM)
Published Ebery Thursday by the Golden Hge Publishing
Company (Inc.)
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WILLIaPI D. UPSHWW, ... - Editor
A. E. RAPfSAUR, - - - Managing Editor
LEN G. BROUGHTON - - - Pulpit Editor
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The Bible Its Olvn Best Defender.
The trite caption just written was probably never
more clearly illustrated than in the Bible Confer
ence just closed. The emphasis all the way
through was on the divinity of the Book itself.
Dr. Campbell Morgan in his superb series of ser
mons on the atonement made the fact stand out in
unmistakable lines that the whole scheme of re
demption, as taught in the gospels, is the same
scheme that runs through the whole Book. Dr.
Dixon, with special power, unfolded that scheme
in Genesis, and Dr. Harris magnificently identified
Exodus with the gospels and the letter to the He
brews, showing the vicarious blood of Christ in
every sacrifice and the redemptive work of the Son
of God in every ceremonial.
Dr. Morgan w’as magnificently bold in taking the
Word at what it says. In his mind there was
never any controversy with the Book. A com
petent scholar has no difficulty and no hesitation
in bringing to his aid the nice distinctions of the
Greek or the broadening suggestions of the Hebrew
roots. All these things must have been in the divine
mind when the Book w T as given to holv men of old
who spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
Errors in copying and in translation are merely
mechanical and affect only the spot in which they
occur. They do not count against the Book.
It may be just as well to say right here: When
the Lord was on the earth, He quoted frequently
from the Scriptures. He found no fault with the
group of writings that we call the Old Testament.
He quoted various writers, and confirmed the claims
that they wrote the documents attributed to them.
If they had mistakes in them, He knew it, yet He
did not speak of any mistakes. The generally ac
cepted theory is that He quoted from the Greek
translation of the Old Testament, that was in com
mon use in the synagogues of that country. Modern
scholars say that that translation is full of mis
;akes, yet Christ never mentioned one of them.
He knew that every mistake which that work con
tains was there, but He also knew that they were
in His Book, and He had not yet passed His Book
out of His hands. He knew that it had some mis
takes in it, but He knew that He would send
the Holy Spirit, the spirit of truth, to look after
jt, and to correct the mistakes as it became neces-
The Golden Age for March 19, 1909.
sary to do so. He knew that it was given by in
spiration when the Holy Spirit in-breathed the
words of truth to the original writers, and in the
end of His ministry. He promised that that same
Spirit should bring to their remembrance whatso
ever He had spoken. The Spirit of Providence is
the same as the Spirit of Inspiration. The Bible
is God’s written message, signed, sealed and de
livered. It is the only document on the earth that
makes that claim for itself. Its attestation is per
fect. A critical examination of it, followed step
by step, leaves no possible conclusion but that the
document is all it claims to be.
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"The Inevitable. ”
A contemporary uses the above heading for an
editorial on the Thaw divorce trial, and the senti
ments expressed therein receive our complete en
dorsement. For this reason we copy it here. It is
now meet that the Thaws get out of the public
prints and out of the minds of our people. The
tragedy and the trial have filled the papers of the
world with details of such lives as many people
even now find it hard to believe could be lived by
human beings. The American people have been
made acquainted with such conditions among the
idle rich of this country as may well cause them to
tremble for the future of our Republic. We can
hope for no good to come from the publicity save
through its effect as a warning. The editorial
referred to is as follows:
“The separation of Harry Thaw and his wife is
the logical result of the course of their lives. No
other end could come about from such a marriage;
no two people could ever live together again after
the horrible revelations made public concerning
them. The crime of the one and the shame of the
other were bound to tear them apart and cast them
both beyond the pale of honorable society.
44 The marriage of Harry.and Evelyn Thaw was
as sordid a barter as was ever consummated. It
was marriage based solely on money. She sold her
self to him for nothing else but money; he bought
her, as men buy cattle, with nothing but his gold.
To drag the sacred word Love into that shameful
bargain is like trailing the flag of one’s country
through filthy gutters. That marriage never had
one redeeming feature about it for its purification.
4 4 What a hideous brood of vipers sprang from
that disgraceful union. Stanford White murdered
in cold blood; the story of a ■woman’s dishonor
hawked about the streets-; a prison and a mad-house
for the pet of wealth; a vile stench in the nostrils
of a decent public 1 But there may be more to
follow. Release that dangerous man, tainted with
degeneracy, from the walls of the mad-house, and
the life of none whom he encounters is safe. Evelyn
Thaw’s, at least, will be in the gravest danger. The
hysterical arm that blotted out the life of Stanford
White will inevitably be turned against his wife.
4 4 Waking or sleeping, Evelyn Thaw dreads the
day of her husband’s release. She knows that her
life hangs upon the slim thread of his caprice.
The moment it snaps she knows her own luring,
living body is likely to follow that other body into
the earth, where she helped to place it. Always she
spends her days in deadly fear of her husband —
awaiting the coming of that hour which is inevita
ble. The finger of destiny points immutably to
ward it. If her husband becomes a free man she
perishes. It is part of the toll paid for their sin
that one must fall, in recompense for the life of
their victim. The husband of Evelyn Thaw is her
ghost. She wants to be free to put trackless lands
and the sea between them.
4 4 Aye, he is her ghost and her Nemesis. But she
was his destruction. Through her wretched de
pravity he is ruined forever; through association
with him her name is become a hissing and a by
word unto her generation. Such relations and such
barters of manhood and womanhood must bring
this end. There can be but one bargain where
souls are bought and sold —and the devil gets that.
4 4 There is yet another note made clear through
the career of Harry Thaw. It is that idleness
breeds vice. A man cannot waste time and money
he has not earned, and be yet a man. The things
men value most in life are of true value only to
him who has earned them. Thaw had high position,
good fortune, much leisure —things all men desire
and hold in such high esteem that they spend their
lives working for them. But Thaw had not earned
them; therefore they ruined him. This, also, was
inevitable.”
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Tom Watson on "Strong Drink. °
The Golden Age has received an appreciated com
munication from Mr. William Merritt Hairston of
Elberton, Ga., enclosing a stirring
Gem for Your editorial on 44 Strong Drink,”
Scrap Book, from Thomas E. Watson, Georgia’s
brilliant editor, orator and histo
rian. As Mr. Hairston says, it is 4 4 gloriously com
forting to know that such a titanic force” is mov
ing in behalf of Prohibition.
But that is no wonder. A man as sensible as Mr.
Watson and who knows the history of the world as
well as he does, has seen the ravages of the wine cup
and strong drink blurring and blighting humanity
from the serf in the hovel to the monarch on the
throne.
Mr. Hairston writes:
4 4 Enclosed please find the following luminous and
talismanic editorial from the cogent pen of the
golden-hearted sage of Thomson, Hon. Thomas Ed
ward Watson, on ‘Strong Drink.’ It is gloriously
comforting to know that this titanic force is mov
ing in behalf of prohibition. Humanity has no great
er friend —I mean common humanity—than this
great Hercules of Georgia. I thank God for this
Christian statesman, for this sublimely eloquent son,
for his magnificent and admirable simplicity, for
his lovable and approachable traits.”
Mr. Watson’s editorial is worthy a place on our
editorial page and in everybody’s scrap book.
44 It is a warrior whom no victory can satisfy, no
ruin satiate. It pauses at no Rubicon to consider,
pitches no tents at night, goes into no quarters for
winter. It conquers amid the burning plains of the
South where the phalanx of Alexander halted in
mutiny. It conquers amid the snow drifts of the
North where the Grand Army of Napoleon found
its winding-sheet. Its monuments are in every
burial ground. Its badges of triumph are the
weeds which mourners wear. Its song of victory
is the wail that was heard in Ramah —‘Rachel cry
ing for her children and weeping because they are
not. ’
4 4 The sword is mighty, and its bloody traces reach
across time, from Nineveh to Gravelotte, from Mara
thon to Gettysburg. Yet mightier is its brother, the
wine cup. I say 4 brother,’ and history says ‘broth
er.’ Castor and Pollux never fought together in
more fraternal harmony. David and Jonathan never
joined in more generous rivalry. Hand in hand, they
have come down the centuries, and upon every
scene of carnage, like vulture and shadow, they have
met and feasted.
“Yes; a pair of giants, but the greater is the
wine cup. The sword has a scabbard, and is
sheathed; has a conscience, and becomes glutted with
havoc; has pity, and gives quarter to the van
quished. The wine cup has no scabbard and no
conscience; its appetite is a cancer which grows as
you feed it; to pity, it is deaf; to suffering, it is
blind.
“The sword is the lieutenant of Death, but the
wine cup his captain; and if ever they come home to
him from the wars bringing their trophies, boasting
of their achievements, I can imagine that Death,
their master, will meet them with garlands and
song, as the maidens of Judea met Saul and David.
But as he numbers the victories of each, his pean
will be, ‘The sword is my Saul, who has slain his
thousands-; but the wine cup is my David, who has
slain his tens of thousands.’ ”
"Family Friction.”
Hon. M'. J. Baker, Clerk Superior Court, Dallas,
Ga., says:
4 4 Y our paper almost causes family friction in my
home. When my wife gets The Golden Age she
just won t let anybody have it until she gets
through and then her aunt makes for it, and by
the time it reaches me it is almost ancient history,
but I must have it. Here’s $2 for renewal.”
