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AND THE EDITOR GLAD.
Let 'em Tight.
Ordinarily we favor peace. Indeed, the Beatitudes
have lost none of their beauty. We believe in and
Ha! ha!! ha!!!
It will soon be over!
think we may justly rejoice. Read this delectable
press story:
'Norfolk, Va.. March 20. —The liquor dealers of
Norfolk united and organized to prevent North
Carolina liquor dealers who have been driven out -by
statewide prohibition there, from opening up here,
and thus dividing profits with local interests in the
increased “jug trade” business that Norfolk now
has through North Carolina, and a large part of
Virginia, today won their first battle when the court
denied an application for license for Halifax, N. C.,
whiskey interests.
Statewide prohibition and local option in Vir
ginia, according to local business men, has doubled
the business of liquor dealers in Virginia cities and
towns that are still “wet.”
Today’s action of the court was on the ground
that there were already enough licenses.
To all of which we can but say — Let ’em fight!
The old school-boy shout of the playground: “Fight!
You are no kin!!” will hardly serve as a salutation
to the principals in this combat, for they are very
much akin —so much akin that we want to see them
like the prize-fighters ought to do —“knock each
Other out.” We don’t want to see any real blood
flow —we simply rejoice in that measure of combat
w T hich will hasten to put the combatants out of
business. When whiskey seller turns against whis
key seller, you may know “the grazing is getting
scarce.”
In the language of Dr. George C. Rankin, the
old warhorse of Texas — On with the battle!
covet the blessings pronounced
upon the “peacemaker.” But
here is another matter—here
is a battle over which we
'■The d-olden Age for April 1, 1909.
THE MISSION GIRL OUT!
It Is a Charming Story—" Beautiful Inside and Out
Send Tor It— "Do It Now”
We are delighted to announce that that beautiful story “The Mission Girl of The Golden Age,”
has come from the press of the Interstate Publishing Co., and it is “a beauty.” It has a captivating
cover design and will “look good” on your center table at first, and then in your library, after you
have finished its thrilling pages.
The “old folks” will feast on it, the young people will “enthuse” over it, and the neighbors will
cry for it when they once learn of its charm and its beauty. ‘Our favorite story writer,
Odessa Strickland Payne, is at her best in “The Mission Girl,” and the fascination of its plot, the
inspiration of its real-life characters, the lilt of its movement, the rose-tint of its romance, and the
stir of its purpose—all call mightily to the enchained reader’s head and heart. Send a dollar to The
Golden Age, Atlanta, Ga., and “The Mission Girl” will hurry to see you!
Hishop Candler On Sheldon's Plan.
The papers are making something of a stir over
a declaration by Bishop Candler at Baltimore against
Famous Methodist
Leader Discounts
Organic Efforts to
“Live as Jesus Would.”
movements to make peo
ple live like they think Christ would live have
been failures,” he said. “From Thomas a Kempis
down, all who have tried such plans have ended by
becoming morbid. These campaigns did no good.”
The stalwart bishop must not be misunderstood.
No one would be further than he from discounting
a real spiritual effort on the part of a true believer
to live as Jesus would have him live; but he in
veighs—and rightly so, against organic and ostenta
tious “movements” to “live like Christ would
live” —movements that attract attention to them
selves and say: “Behold! and I will show you how
the thing is done.”
The dispatch went on to say that Bishop Candler
stressed the importance of “personal religion,” and
pgid his respects in Candlerean style to the preacher
who announces a series of sermons on “English
literature and kindred subjects.”
This shows where the great man’s heart is. He
believes in the Old Book and The Blood, in the mira
cle of regeneration and the beauty of the life that
inevitably follows it, but he does not believe in
“showy” organizations to impress the “deep things
of God.”
Every man who really loves the Lord Jesus Christ
will try every day without ostentation to live not
so much as Jesus would have lived every day nearly
two thousand years ago, but as he believes Jesus
would have him live NOW.
And every such man sings in his heart every day
and hour:
“In the Cross, in the Cross
Be my glory ever —
Till my raptured soul shall find
Rest beyond the river.”
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"Flirt With Tour Husband.”
Behold the home tragedy revealed, yes, and
avoided, in the following dispatch:
And the Honey-moon
Will Abide.
Alva Gorton today. “I tried it this morning and it
succeeded. ’ ’
Gorton, a grocery man, was arrested on a charge
of abandonment of his wife. Municipal Judge
Stewart discharged him, telling him to treat his wife
as he did when she was his sweetheart.
“We are trying to be sweethearts again and I
think we will be happy,” she said. “I think that
our trouble is the same as that of most married
people. We got used to each other and did not take
enough pains to please as we did when sweethearts.
“We have been married five years. We were
sweethearts since I was fourteen years old. It
seemed like girlhood days when Alvin kissed me
good-bye this morning.”
the so-called “live-like-
Christ” movements.
These are the words
attributed to him:
“All these so-called
Chicago, Mar. 20. —“Flirt
with your husband. That is
the way to keep him inter
ested in his home,” said Mrs.
And all because they “forgot!” All because
husband and wife “became used to each other” and
harshness and neglect took the place of tenderness
and attention.
Not long ago the writer heard a faithful Christian
wife, the cultured queen of an Alabama home say
these words: “And we recently found and said on
the eleventh anniversary of our marriage that we
were happier then—happier now, because we mean
more to each other, than on our w T edding day.”
How beautiful such home life! And despite the
grind of the divorce courts and the coarse jests of
th° penny-a-liner, there are millions of homes on
which Heaven smiles because love like that reigns
within. “Lest you forget,” hpsband, wife, do not
be too busy in the morning or too much absorbed
when you return from the busy world at eventide
to speak “three little words” —and you will prove
the truth of the beautiful couplet of Lucius Perry
Hills when —
“The humdrum of your life
Will >be a lifelong honey-moon!”
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Tor gibe the Printer.
Yes, and the proof-reader, too. We seldom call
attention to the printer’s mistakes, but one so tragic
occurred last week that we want to do like the un
dertaker “who covers up the doctor’s mistakes.”
In the editorial, “Tennessee’s Good Name Redeem
ed,” we wrote the “heroic Carmack,” and the type
said “chronic Carmack.” It was just one of those
tragedies that the printer and proof-reader will
sometimes make in a busy office. We are sorry.
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If the City Council have the right to compel the
near-beer shops that do not violate the prohibition
law to close at 10 P. M., they have the right to
compel every other business house in the city to close
at that hour.
In the early days in lowa, writes a correspondent,
a village school was held in a room of a farm house.
The farmer, Mr. Jennings, told the pupils that they
must not molest the bees. They were obedient chil
dren and respected the farmer’s right; moreover,
since most of them went barefoot, they were not
anxious to stir up trouble in the hives. One day a
little girl went to Mr. Jennings and made this naive
and sincere explanation: “Please, Mr. Jennings, my
brother Willie stepped on a bee, but it was an acci
dent, and he got right oft'.”
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