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Things That Are Happening
Nelvs Gleanings and Thoughts They firing
California Wine Growers claim to have achieved a
“great victory” by slipping through this year’s
Legislative session, a resolution strongly recom
mending the encouragement of the wine making in
dustry. It is the announced intention of California
Wine Growers to secure the introduction and pas
sage of similar resolutions in every other State Leg
islature. Instead, however, of helping to make more
popular the wine makers’ business, their “victory”
appears in the light of an absurd impertinence to
the Christian people of California. The Califor
nia Christian Advocate, April 22, says:
“The interest shown in the grape industry in
California is a fake pure and simple. . It is a thin
disguise on the part of the wine dealers and the
liquor dealers, for they are one, to stem the rising
temperance tide. There should be no cessation.
Temperance people should keep right on. The agi
tation should not cease. There can be no perma
nent prosperity in growing wine grapes. The wine
dealers are essentially dishonest.” —From the As
sociated Prohibition Press.
Fresno, California, is in the center of the grape
growing country of that great State. Notwithstand
ing the fact that the wine industry has been re
garded as the main source of wealth of that section,
Fresno has gone dry. Our exchanges from Jhe
Slope explained it thus:
A few years ago the liquor men made a strong
fight for control of the municipal government and
won it. They rejoiced in their victory. “The
craft by which they had their wealth” was saved
•nd they cried out as the shrine makers of Ephesus,
“Great is Diana of the Ephesians,” only Diana in
this case was the liquor business. Not only did
they celebrate, but they proceeded to demonstrate
the unspeakable advantages to any community to
have unrestricted liquordom. They had been under
such restraints hitherto that the powers of the
liquor trade could not be exhibited. Ender their
own chosen rulers they made an exposition that
was entirely satisfactory. So satisfactory, indeed,
that manv voters who had never been willing to
believe the prohibition charges against the liquor
men found out to their complete satisfaction what
the liquor business means to a community. The
result is that the liquor men have lost Fresno.
J. L. D. H.
JUDGE LINDSEY, OF DENVER, AND
CIGARETTES.
I have been in the Juvenile Court nearly ten
years, and in that time I have had to deal with
thousands and thousands of boys who have dis
graced themselves and their parents, and who
have brought sorrow and misery into their
lives ; and I do not know of any one habit that
is more responsible for the trouble of these
boys than the vile cigarette habit. No pure
minded, honest, manly, brave, gentle boy will
smoke cigarettes.—S. S. Times.
Some years ago Sir Wilford Lawson told in
the British Parliament of a little girl who pray
ed that God would protect the little birds, and
keep them from entering the trap her brother
had set. “Do you think God will answer that
prayer?” she was asked. “I am sure lie will,”
she confidently replied. “What makes you so
sure?” “I smashed the trap!” How many of
Satan’s traps have you destroyed?—Central
Baptist.
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Are you interested in the new movement of
mental healing in the Church? Order Dr.
Broughton’s book, “Religion and Health/
price 25 cents, from the Tabernacle book stall,
care Tabernacle, Atlanta, Ga,
The Golden Age for July 29, 1909.
NO LIQUOR ADVERTISEMENTS IN MAINE.
The Maine Supreme Court some time ago handed
down a decision affirming the constitutionality of the
Maine statute prohibiting the advertisements of in
toxicating liquors in Maine publications. The case
was that of the state versus J. P. Bass Publishing
Company, of Bangor. —Maryland Issue.
The Wife—The JTother,
(Continued from Page 3.)
fer with her and plan with her, and give her the
best judgment he has got, and when she does
her best never speak in a discouraging way of
her,' but help her to a place where eventually
she can become an expert in housekeeping
economics.
Another thing. I want to speak of the prob
lem of co-operation on the part of the wife.
There is one of the ways in which you may
help to hold your husband. When I lived in
Roanoke, Virginia, I remember one day stand
ing upon the street corner and seeing a horse
coming in, hauling a wagon loaded with wood.
That horse ought to have been taken off the
streets; the man should have been punished
for cruelty to animals for driving him. And
that horse got stalled in the street. There
had been severe rains and the streets were fear
fully muddy ; the wagon went down to the hub
and the man sat on the wagon and began to
whip that poor old horse. Finally his boys,
two great strapping fellows, began to whip the
horse. Finally I said, “You boys stop whip
ping that old horse and get down off that
wagon and let’s lift it out of this hole and push
it through this mud,” and 1 waded out in mud
nearly up to my knees and we got back of that
wagon and lifted and pushed until after awhile
we lifted it out of the mire and pushed it on
through the mud. I got to thinking about that
thing afterwards, and said, “Why should I pity
that old horse? I know hundreds of men in
this town that are now in the same position of
that poor old horse; they are pulling the family
wagon the best they can, straining every nerve
and muscle, doing their dead level best, but
unfortunately they get stalled. Perhaps they
get in debt. It may have been to humor a
whimsical wife; it may have been sickness, or
the loss of a job, reduction of wages; never
mind what it was, the old family wagon got
stalled. Things can't go on like they once did.
What generally follows under such circum
stances? Too often this follows, the poor old
horse, the husband and the father, hitched be
tween the shafts, trying to pull his load and is
goaded and jerked; criticised and whined at;
and grumbled and complained at, until he loses
heart. Instead of that, that is the time for the
wife to show her mettle. When you find that
he is doing his level best and that the load is
a bit too heavy, you get off the wagon, instead
of applying the lash, the criticisms, the com
plaints often lodged under those circumstances.
You follow the law of co-operation. Remem
ber you are given to man to be his help-meet.
Remember that you arc to compass him with
your love and affection and helpfulness. Get
down and put your shoulder to the old family
wagon which is moving rather slow and help
by pushing. Help by kindness, by encourage
ment, by love, by sympathy, yes, help, if needs
be, by hard work. Don’t go and do the work
and whine and growl while you are doing it.
THE RELIGION OF HOME.
1 can not close this subject without
just this word of warning. I want to say to
you that your home, religiously speaking, in
ninety cases out of a hundred, is going to
be just what you make it. Let your religious
temperature be low and your home religion
will be low. If there is anything that I remem
ber tonight with more love and affection than
anything in my past life it is the fact that for
years and years, all during the time when the
children were growing up in our home, my own
sainted mother was the religious life of that
household. No other light ever shone for
Christ in that home until we were all practi
cally grown, but for that light that she never
allowed to go out, that she always kept holding
high, but for that mother light, I do not know
where mother’s boys would have been tonight.
Oh, mother, wife, everything religiously re
volves about you. God bless you in your great
work, but in no department do you need his
blessing like you do in that department pre
siding over the religion of your home.
Interesting Story of the L. G. I,
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that at the opening of the Fall term Graham
returned to his beloved Mercer bearing Claude
Gray under his wing. For four years, sitting
side by side, they ploughed through the myste
ries of learning, Graham translating Greek for
Gray and Gray working mathematics for Gra
ham.
During his school career Graham preached
at Locust Grove, and there conceived the idea
of a Baptist high school for boys and girls
which would give them the advantages of su
perior mental training under an environment
of helpful influences and at a cost that was
reasonable. 1 4
The Flint River Association established the
school in 1894. Y. E. Bargeron was elected
president and the small beginning was made
with thirteen pupils housed in an old brick
store.
The town and community were loyal and
true. Friends multiplied, patronage increased,
and in 1897 Prof. Bargeron resigned, after de
voting three years in heroic and highly success
ful service, and was succeeded by Claude Gray.
Gray came when the entire equipment was a
wooden recitation building and an old school
room used as the boys’ dormitory. With no
partitions and beds ranging down the long
room side by side, the president and twenty
boys stayed the first year at a cost of $5 per
month. Year after year he has poured his life"
and love into the work, refusing frequent calls
to heads of higher institutions and larger sala
ries because of his conviction that his opportun
ities for real service of the highest type were
larger in a boarding high school than in any
college.
Purpose of “L. G. I.”
The chief end and aim of this won
derful institution is to give superior men
tal training under an environment of posi
tive Christian influence, to the boys and
girls of Georgia, and to place education
within the reach of all. The equipment and
accommodations are thorough and comfortable
enought to appeal to the most fastidious,
and yet there are provisions made whereby
the poorest boy or girl in the State may at
tend. The great purpose of the school is to
make its pupils eager to know, quick to feel
and strong to do the things which are worth
while. It is a Christian school, founded and
maintained by Christian people, and with a
faculty which contains only Christian teach
ers, who value character above physical
strength or scholarship.
One of the distinctive features of Locust
Grove Institute is its atmosphere. The spirit
of courage, self-sacrifice and unselfishness char
acterizes those who began the work, and that
spirit has remained unbroken. The school was
not founded to fill the coffers of individuals, but
the dominating impulse and aim was to make
a school home where young men and women
should be developed in the highest physical,
intellectual and spiritual environment. The
story of Locust Grove Institute is a story of
conflict and achievement. Every brick and
every plank represent the consecrated pur
poses of Christian hearts.
This subtle spirit—this atmosphere is stamp
ed upon every feature of the school life. The
ideals taught and the standards upheld firjfj
expression in all the varied departments of the
school life. Honesty in the class room, gen
erous rivalry in the literary societies, fair play
