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The Golden Age
WUCCESSOII TO RELIGIOUS TORUJ9)
fablubod Ebery Thursday by the Golden Hge Publishing
Company {lnc.)
OHIC1S: LOWNDES BUILDING. ATLANTA. GA.
WILLIAM D. UPSHAW, - - - - Editor
A. E. RAMSA&R, ' - Managing Editor
TEN G. BROUGHTON - Pulpit Editor
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The Southern Female College
At an early hour last Sunday morning, the
Southern Female College at LaGrange, Georgia, was
destroyed by fire. This news will bring sadness
to the hundreds of alumnae of the institution
throughout the State, and to the friends of female
education everywhere. The college was one of the
oldest colleges for ■women in the South. It was es
tablished in 1842 and has ranked as one of the
leading institutions for female education in this
country.
Its first president was Dr. John E. Dawson,
succeeded after a few years’ service by Professor
Milton E. Bacon, who presided for about fifteen
years. During the next ten years, Prof. Henry E.
Brooks and Prof. John A. Foster successively occu
pied the president’s chair. Then came Prof. I.
F. Cox, who was succeeded by his son, Prof. Chas.
C. Cox, who was succeeded by Dr. G. A. Nunnally,
at present at Lake City, Florida, and then Prof.
M. W. Hatton, the present head of the institution.
No plans have yet been formulated as to the fu
ture, but it is to be hoped that a determined move
ment will at once be inaugurated looking to the re
building of the college, and the continuation of the
work which has been so long a blessing to the young
womanhood of the South. We cannot spare from
the Southland the influences which grew from the
Southern Female College.
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'Religion and Lumber,
Why not ? The men who are “captains of jndus
t.v" am. al tie -me tine leaders in the kingdom
The Lurie of
Florida
Saw Mill
molders in th realm of commerce,
while the very consecration of their business suc
cess is also a necessity to the work of advancing
the cause of Christianity.
Up in Virginia the president of a cotton factory
was converted to Christ. A new vision of his duty
to his employes came upon him as the scales of self
of G' <l, . e growing in numbers
end influence every day. They
lo«e none of their forcefulness,
but gain rathe;, as makers and
The Golden Age for July 23, 1908.
fell from his eyes. He fitted up a neat chapel, in
stalled an organ, bought hymn books and Bibles
enough for every man, woman and child in his mill,
and now every morning they file into the chapel after
the whistle blows and spend a few minutes in beau
tiful and blessed worship. Be sure that, in addition
to all the spiritual and moral blessings coming to
the operatives in that mill, they go down among
the looms and spindles each day determined to do
their full duty to the cause of the man whom they
so much love.
The Editor of The Golden Age recently saw an
other scene like that down at a big saw mill at
Rodman, Fla. The president of the mill, Mr. Henry
Spurgeon Cummings, and his consecrated wife make
the people of that industrious saw mill community
feel and know that they love them and wish and
work for their best good in every way.
The glove of velvet kindness covers always the
hand of oak in the management of the hands, both
white and black. Every man at the mill and in
the woods knows that Henry Cummings longs su
premely for the spiritual good of his men. In the
little church the most delightful and impressive fel
lowship reigns.
Occasionally when special revival services are
held the mill is shut down for an hour or two every
day and in his own time the hands, white and col
ored, are bidden to the house of God.
The example of generous giving is also set by
the president of the mill and every man there counts
it his duty and privilege to give liberally to every
worthy cause.
Happy Rodman! What a contrast when we think
of many saw mill towns and cotton mill communi
ties where the leaders are hard, godless men and the
settlement abounds in religious dearth and immoral
devilment!
Thank the Lord for religion that will mix with
lumber, with factories, with farm work, law, banks,
and merchandise!
That saw mill at Rodman makes music that min
gles with the symphonies of the skies. Would God
its counterpart might be found in every factory com
munitv on earth!
He Throlvs Alvay a Crolvn.
It was a great compliment to the character and
ability of Hon. Seaborn Wright, of Georgia, when
he was offered last week the pres-
Seaborn Wright
Declines
Presidential
Nomination
Not that Eugene W. Chafin of Il
linois, who did accept the nomination, lacked either
conscience or wisdom, but Mr. Wright is a Democrat
—a Democrat of the growing prohibition variety —
and he conscientiously believed that he could do the
cause of Prohibition more good by working inside
the dominant party in Georgia and the South than
he could as the standard bearer of the National Pro
hibition party. He reasoned that if leading prohibi
tionists in the Democratic party leave this great and
influential organization the cause of Prohibition will
suffer by allowing the liquor men to monopolize the
leadership of Democracy for countless years before
the National Prohibitionists can hope for party suc
cess. Indeed, we doubt if party prohibitionists ever
expect to win the presidency, at least in this gener
ation. But they do hope by their continued, con
sistent, everlasting propaganda to sow down the
country with prohibition sentiment that will make
itself felt in the platforms and practices of the two
great parties who hold the reins of government.
We do not feel that it is a sacrifice of principle
with Mr. Wright to remain a Democrat as long as he
is a fighting, fearless, influential leader or voter —
actually bringing things to pass for the principles of
prohibition inside the ranks of Democracy. This
is the position taken by countless other good men
and brave. It is only a question of the best method
cc accomplishing the same great end. Certain
It is that a prohibitionized Democracy in Geor
gia, Alabama and Mississippi drove saloons
from the.’p while almost the same can
be said of Cop-f’fntional prohibition in Okla-
idential nomination of the Nation
al Prohibition party. And his de
clining to accept it shows a high
order of conscience and wisdom.
homa. It was almost entirely a party vote that
adopted prohibition in that new state, while in North
Carolina it was a Democratic legislature that gave
all the people in a largely Democratic state
the privilege of voting out saloons.
We candidly and deliberately believe that the cor
rect position is the working principle of the Anti-
Saloon League in every state —take charge of the
dominant party and win its leaders and voters for
prohibition as the paramount plank in a platform of
principles to which, for the most part, they are al
ready wedded, and in a party organization to which,
for the most part, they acknowledge the fealty of a
lifetime!
For these reasons we commend the conscientious
tvisdom of Georgia’s eloquent Prohibition Democrat,
Seaborn Wright.
Still, it is not every day that a national party,
representing a million faithful men, women and
children, offers the crown of leadership to a man
who declines it. Georgia appreciates the high honor
conferred upon her great and worthy son. The
South, so rapidly becoming prohibition territory,
likewise joins in the grateful acclaim. We heartily
wish the National Prohibitionists all the good that
can come their way.
Let them hammer away at their end of the line
and we at ours, and between us all, after the tardy
years, America will yet lift above her queenly head a
flag without a stain.
Holv to Secure a Change oj Address.
Among the communications from the subscrib
ers of any publication, there are cards and letters,
sometimes many a day, making request for a
change in address. In this one little item of rou
tine work, so much unnecessary trouble is caused
by (he subscriber’s failing to give full instructions as
to his wishes, that the subject seems to us to justi
fy this mention at this time. We recently received
a card from a subscriber which we are taking the
liberty of publishing in full, because it is a model
for the form in which such a request should be
made, and because it is in such violent contrast with
many cards and letters sent to us for the same
purpose. This is it:
Dallas, Georgia, July 16, 1908.
Gentlemen:
Please change on your mailing list the ad
dress of Miss Sarah E. Doggett from Bloom
ingdale, Tenn., to Dallas, Georgia. The first
address was Dallas, Georgia, then it was
changed to Bloomingdale, Tenn. Now it is de
sired that the address be changed back t-o Dal
las, Georgia.
■Yours very truly,
Miss Sarah E. Doggett.
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ize that it is purely an oversight, but such over
sights add greatly to the routine work of an office,
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more copies of the paper. We desire not only to
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