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WILLISIM D. UPSHSIW, - - - - Editor
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'Emory and Wesleyan'
The daily papers have had a good deal to say
for several days about probable
Talk of changes in the leadership of both Em-
Changing ory and Wesleyan, the leading Metho-
Presidents. dist colleges of Georgia. Because of
We Protest, the splendid work done by both Presi
dent Dickey at Emory and President
Guerry at Wesleyan, we would regret to see either
of these eminent educators leave the helm of their
respective institutions.
Dupont Guerry, great lawyer and Christian
statesman, left a vacancy in the civic leadership
of his state whic his vacant yet and welcome his
return, but it does seem to us that nowhere can a
man do greater good than in the Christian educa
tion of womanhood, such as he has been doing so suc
cessfully at Wesleyan.
And as for Dr. Jas. E. Dickey, it does seem to us
that he is, as Robert L. Adamson said about Tom
Watson’s being a Populist —a college president “cut
to fit.” Jas. E. Dickey, just then graduated from
“Old Emory,” preached the first commencement
sermon that the editor of this paper ever heard.
That day can never be forgotten. Fresh from years
of imprisonment on bed and lying that day in a roll
ing chair in the Methodist church at Douglasville,
Ga., he caught the holy fire as it fell from the tongue
of the young preacher who had been sent as a substi
tute for some “distinguished man” who could not
come. That delighted audience, enchained and uplift
ed, joined the boy on the chair in being “mighty
glad” that the invited “D.D.” did not come. The
stirring sweep of that sacred eloquence is calling yet
to the heart and brain and tongue and pen of him
who writes these grateful words. Jas. E. Dickey,
now a “D.D.” himself, may have preached since then
many sermons that the world called greatey, but
for our part he has never surpassed that first com
mencement sermon at Douglasville College from the
The Golden Age for March 18, 190 G.
Lonesome Without Landrum
It all happened while we were away fighting liquor
in Texas. Os course if we
Kentucky a Robber had been here we never
and Georgia Forlorn! would have allowed it —we
mean the “taking off” of
Dr. AV. AV. Landrum from Georgia soil to the “Old
Kentucky Shore!”
It was “highway robbery” on the part of Ken
tucky, committed in “broad open day time.”
It was ,done by the overwhelming odds of num
bers on the vantage ground of a larger opportunity
■ —that’s all. That plea on Louisville’s part —that
confessed conviction on Atlanta’s part spares At
lanta’s pride and prevents a clash of arms.
But since this editor’s return from a two-monfhs’
trip to the Lone Star Empire, the city of Atlanta —
the whole state of Georgia, seems “lone ’’-some
without Landrum.
“A splendor from the earth hath fled—a glory
from the skies.”
Dr. Landrum was just about the “most wanted”
man in all this busy city, and hence he is about
the most-missed man who could have left the city
or State. Not merely the fact that he was pastor
of the First Baptist Church, the mother church
of all the other churches of his denomination, and
naturally “pastor emeritus” and ex-officio of all
of them, but because of his remarkable, charming
versatility and ability, Dr. Landrum was the sought
for guest at wellnigh every function where culture,
character, wit and wisdom, and all-around mastery
of the situation were needed. He could preside with
text: “What shall it profit a man if he gain the
whole world and lose his own soul?”
President Dickey has not only steered “Old Em
ory” grandly since he went to the helm, but he is
now leading an inspiring and gloriously successful
movement to add $300,000 to Emory’s endowment
and equipment. We hope he will practice the good
old doctrine of “final perseverance” and stay at the
head of Emory College just as near as possible to
the Judgment Day.
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John E. White, Educator.
The removal of Dr. W. W. Landrum from Georgia
to Kentucky left vacant the presi-
A Preacher Still dency of the Georgia Baptist
—And More! Education Board and in the selec-
tion of Dr. John E. White as his
successor, the natural, the wise thing has been done.
Georgia was nearly “scared out her wits” with the
newspaper prospect of losing Dr. White also to
Euclid Avenue (Mr. Rockefeller’s church), Cleve
land, but Mr. White has proven his wisdom by stay
ing with his royal hureh in Atlanta, and now Geor
gia has fastened him more firmly with “hoops of
steel” by laying on him the responsibility of edu
cational leadership in his denomination. “Hand
some as a prince,” erudite as a scholar, profound
as a philosopher, eloquent as an orator nd ferless
nd forceful as a Christian citizen in Georgia’s civic
life, John E. White in the pulpt and on the platform
wll do great things for Christian Education in Geor
gia.
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Militant Millard.
Everybody is so glad! Junius W. Millard has come
back from the border land.
Good News About Hundreds, indeed thousands,
a Great Man. hung, anxious and almost
breathless, over his bedside for
several weeks. Prayers from countless altars rose,
tears from his own devoted people at Ponce de Leon
Avenue Church in Atlanta fell upon his pallid face
and called him back to life.
Few stronger men in the pulpit of the South and
none more lovable on earth than Junius W. Millard!
And now everybody is rejoicing because he is back
in Atlanta, ready for work again. May Heaven
add to his years and broaden yet more his growing
usefulness.
equal grace over the Chamber of Commerce, the
Education Board, the Mission Board —Home, State
or Foreign—a Music Club, a Citizens’ Mass Meeting,
the Exclusive “Ten” or the inclusive thousand—
Landrum was at home everywhere!
We have heard him hold a country audience in
the mountains spell-bound for two hours and a
quarter with the same ease, tact and mastery with
which he would charm the Concord School of Phil
osophy or make the Literati of Boston herself won
der at his grace and wisdom. As patrician as the
Ghacehi, as plebeian as the like of him
for consummate versatility was never grown or
known on land or sea!
Ah, greedy, presuming, consuming Kentucky, with
all of your frills and rills and stills and thrills, you
ought to have left our Landrum!
But, seriously and best of all, AV. W. Landrum is
girt about and permeated through and through
with a good case of “old-time religion.” He loves
to sing it because he has it and he would get up
at midnight to reach out a brother’s hand to a
struggling soul.
Grand old Broadway church will feast on him,
the seminary students will caress him and all Louis
ville will bless him as her foremost preacher-citizen
before “many moons have waxed and waned.”
God bless the union! But we cannot forget that
he is a son of Georgia, a son of Mercer —and we are
compelled to turn again to the most plaintive
chapter of Lamentations and declare —Atlanta and
Georgia are lonesome without Landrum!
"The Hand of Douglas.”
Verily “the hand of Douglas is her own,” as is
delightfully revealed by the follow-
She Fights soring dispatch to the Fitzgerald News:
Her Students. Douglas, Ga., March 5. —Twelve
petitions against the sale of near
beer in Douglas were in the hands of Rev. T. S.
Hubert, of the Baptist church, Mrs. Heath, of the
Method’st church, and other temperance workers
and were being criculated this week. Some of the
dealers express a desire to quit the business without
petitions if they can get their license money re
funded.
Now that is the way to “do business,” when a
community must be protected against the nuisance
of a near-beer joint with all its open door of tempta
tion. Some “phule” (much obliged to Josh Bil
lings for that delightful way to spell it) cries
out: “Keep the preachers and women out of
politics!” But the preachers and women (God
bless their faithful souls!) are not going* to stay
out of our civic battles when our homes and our
youth are in danger.
Douglas, Georgia, is booming with prosperity, due
chiefly to an educational revival, her Normal College
and her Agricultural School numbering about 700
students. Os course the near-beer “holes” must
not be allowed to tempt these students—nor their
citizen guardians of the town.
Let every infested community show its hand like
the ‘‘hand of Douglas” has been shown.
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Seaborn Wright in Canada.
Great Prohibition Orator Stirs the Subjects of King
Edward.
Seaborn Wright, our Georgia “Sea.b,” one of the
most effective prohibition orators in America today,
has 'been up in Canada stirring up the subjects of
King Edward to mutiny against “King Alcohol.”
Our Georgia Tribune —our Southern Knight, is much
in demand up North and is helping to swing the
nation and her neighbor into the white ribbon
column. The Tribune-Herald of Rome speaks as
follows of his last delightful trip:
Hon. Seaborn Wright is at home from the war
for a few hours, but leaves again today for a three
weeks’ trip to lowa, Wisconsin and Maine. Since
leaving home he has been in Canada and Tennessee.
