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TH A TARE HA PPENING
THOUSAND LAYMEN CALLED.
An invitation has been issued to ten
thousand laymen to attend the Con
vention at Macon in January 21-23.
Great interests is being manifested
throughout the State in the Laymen’s
Convention and extensive preparations
are being made for the entertainment
of the great body. The various ses
sions of the Convention will be held in
the city auditorium.
The Laymen’s movement is interde
nominational in its scope and the call
that has just been issued by Rev. Ju
lien S. Rogers, the executive secre
tary of the Convention, states that
there will be ten thousand laymen in
vited to the meeting.
As this will be perhaps one of the
largest gatherings of Christian laymen
ever held in Georgia, the call will
doubtless appeal Very vitally to a large
and influential number of the best peo
ple of the State.
The great Laymen’s Movement has
SO far been primarily educational in
character and as a result great gath
erings of laymen have taken place at
Birmingham, Ala., Washington, D. C.,
Clinton, S. C., Richmond, Va., and Har
risburg, Pa., and various other places,
at which the needs and possibilities
of the work have been discussed and
considered and the enthusiasm has
been unbounded.
A series of about seventy conven
tions has been planned to take place
at centrally located points in practi
cally every State in the Union, and
Macon, Ga., has been selected as the
Convention point for Georgia.
Some of the ablest speakers of
America have already consented to
address the convention on live topics,
and the meeting promises to be one of
the most important of the year.
A TENNESSEE WOMAN WINS
BEAUTIFUL DISTINCTION.
’Tnh committee of representative
men Southern States
who had been appointed to select a
suitable monument to be erected to
the Women of the Confederacy, unani
mously chose the one presented by
Miss Belle Kinney, of Nashville.
The sculptor was present when the
decision was announced in the Pied
mont Hotel, Atlanta, Ga. Miss Kinney
will probably go to New York imme
diately to begin work on the monu
ment, as there she can have better fa
cilities. She has been given two years
in which to complete the work, al
though she preferred four years.
Designs were also submitted by
Lewis Potter, of New York, Comride
Dupree, of Texas, Ruckstahl, of South
Carolina, Armatiee, of Italy, and oth
ers.
The Monument.
To represent the courage, devotion,
brave heroism and noble sacrifices of
the Southern woman during the hor
rors of our Civil War is a matter so
extensive that it seems impossible to
express in bronze or marble, so va
rious were her sacrifices.
In one instance, we see her as a slip
of a girl, guiding the hand of a gen
eral to victory. In another we find
her weaving with her delicate hands
the garments which clothed the almost
naked bodies of our soldiers. Still an
other placf/*we see her as a mother,
kissing good-bye her last treasure, her
baby boy, scarcely old enough to hold
a gun, as she bravely sends him into
battle with the prayer that he might
at least die as bravely as had his fa
ther and brothers for the cause dear
er than life itself to her heart. Not
content at having given all, she goes
herself into the field and hospital to
nurse the sick, quench the thirst and
whisper words of consolation to the
dying soldier.
To represent all of these of our no
ble women would be impossible. We
can only represent the spirit that
moved their hearts. The Spirit in ev
ery case was to give victory to the
soldier and his cause.
Miss Kinney has marvelously shown
this in her beautiful group of three
figures, composed of Fame, seated in
the centre; on her left, a dying Con
federate soldier; and to her right the
Confederate woman. Miss Kinney does
not separate the soldier and the wo
man, but shows them together on the
battlefield moved by the same spirit,
with the same loyalty and the same
hope burning in their hearts.
The soldier is depicted dying, but
with his last strength raising the Con
federate battle flag; the woman, with
all the hope, love and devotion of body
and soul strained into her desire, is
trying to place victory on the breast
of the soldier.
In this typical Southern woman —re-
fined, aristocratic and delicately beau
tiful, is depicted the strength and loy
alty of a great soul, a loyalty which
makes every effort possible and every
sacrifice sweet for the soldier and his
cause.
The woman’s whole attitude shows
only concern for the soldier. She is
unconscious of the great figure of
Fame which has claimed him, and is
crowning her as the noblest of all the
noble women of the world.
The figures of the group are to be
heroic size, measuring over seven feet.
That of Fame will exceed the others
by one foot. The group can be repro
duced in either marble or bronze.
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12,704 LESS SALOONS IN AMERICA
THAN TWELVE MONTHS AGO.
Prohibitionists at National Head
quarters, 92 LaSalle street, Chicago,
are happy over the news from Wash
ington, which strongly confirms the
progress being made by the prohibi
tion cause throughout the country.
The detailed report of the Internal
Revenue Department for the month of
October, which has just been issued,
reveals unmistakably the advances
made by Prohibitionists throughout
the United States during the past
year. While the report shows a sud
den increase in the internal revenue
receipts from spirits for the first four
months of the fiscal year 1910 as com
pared with 1909, the items showing the
payment of special taxes by rectifiers,
wholesale liquor dealers, retail liquor
dealers, and those paid by brewers,
wholesale dealers in malt liquors, and
retail beer sellers, all show a signifi
cant drop from the similar figures of
last year.
According to the internal revenue
report up to November 1, 1909, there
were 11,273 less retail liquor dealers
in the United States, paying a “Fed
eral license” than for the first third of
the fiscal year 1909. At the same time
there were 1,431 retail dealers in malt
liquors exclusively. In other words,
there were no less than 12,704 less
saloon-keepers holding Federal tax re
ceipts than last year during the same
period.
At the same time, there was a drop
of 680 in the number of wholesale
dealers in malt and other liquors, 079
of which were dealers in beer exclu
sively. The same report shows that
during the first four months of the
present fiscal year, from seventy-five
to one hundred distillers have gone out
of business, and over one hundred
brewers, making a total of more than
13,500 liquor sellers and makers who
have dropped from the ranks of the
liquor trade during the past twelve
months.
While the total receipts from spirits
shows a net* gain of over $3,000,000
sjo far this year, the astonishing shrink-
The Golden Age for January 6, 1910.
age in the number of distributing cen
ters for these wares, promises almost
certain decrease from this record be
fore the end of the present fiscal year.
As regards beer, the month of Octo
ber showed an actual decrease in re
ceipts from the “barrel tax” of brew
ers’ product withdrawn for consump
tion of $194,869, or in other words,
nearly two hundred thousand barrels
of beer less during the month of Octo
ber, 1909, while the first three months
of the present fiscal year showed an
apparent increase in the production of
beer, the period of shrinkage which
has now begun will at the same rate,
wipe out all the increase recorded so
far by December 1.
Compared with 1908, therefore, the
liquor traffic is undeniably losing
ground, and as compared with 1907, the
high-water mark of the drink trade in
recent years, all indications point to
an extraordinary loss before the end
of the present fiscal year, July, 1,
1910.
BURTON HALL MEETINGS.
Editor The Golden Age:
I closed a revival meeting at Lib
erty Hill, Texas, last Monday night.
Liberty Hill is a small town, but she
has a big-hearted people, and the meet
ing was a glorious success. It was
conducted in the good old-fashioned
way. It was a real joy to my own
heart to labor with a people that make
so much of their religion.
Scores and scores surrendered to
the Savior. Among many others, one
old drinking man was saved and join
ed the Hardshell church, and as they
nevei* lose their religion, I suppose
he is safe for the good world.
I landed here at Llano yesterday, be
gan the meeting in the city opera
house. They tell me that this is one
of the hardest towns on earth to have
a real revival in. In fact, they have
never had one, But things look en
couraging now to “turn the town up
side down” for God in the good old
Pauline way.
Many men in this old world delight
in counting their money; but I do get
great joy looking back over the past
few months of my revival work since
I gave up my pastorate. I have seen
fifty and seventy-five people at the
mercy-seat inquring the way of sal
vation many times. In the last 164
days’ preaching I have witnessed, by
actual count, 3,201 professions of con
version. God be praised for all this,
and keep them by His power.
It grieves my heart sorely that
my former co-worker, George C.
Cates, of Louisville, Ky., is sick
and not able to continue in the
work. The last words he said
to me were: “Bro. Hall, I may have
held my last meeting; if so, I want
you to carry on my work till you die.”
God bless his dear heart. I have known
but few men who live as close to God
as Bro. Cates. Let every Christian
who reads these lines ask God if it is
His divine will that Bro. Cates may be
restored to health.
Well, I am not especially advertis-
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ing for work, but I would love to come
to dear old Georgia for a few meet
ings. And I would be glad to corre
spond with pastors in any town who
want a meeting builded on God’s Word
and God’s power. I once lived in
North Georgia and her grand old hills
are dear to me yet.
Fraternally,
BURTON A. HALL.
Westminster, Tex.
THE CAUSE OF MISSIONS.
The Goal More Than The Pole.
T. E. Richey.
Missionaries are sent of God. This
means every child of God. Every true
believer in Jesus must be a mission
ary. It was to all his children, he said:
“Go ye into all the world and preach the
gospel to every creature.” As Christ
came to bring light leading to immor
tal life, so his followers, one and all,
are sent to bear witness of that light.
And, now, another thought: so Cook
and Peary, the great explorers, when
they set their compass at the North
pole—that spot henceforth forever
historic —he found no north, no east,
no west, but south only at the other
extremity of his needle; so is it true
with the Bible spirit of missions.
There is no north, no south, no east,
no west, but all the world a mission
field. Christ Himself said: “The field
is the world,” Matt. 13: 38. How vast
the work to be performed! The whole
world to be taught the way of life eter
nal! Who does not see the importance
of united and persistent effort with
not an idler in the ranks? But now
let us think. The North pole has at
last been discovered. The event is one
of the greatest known to
Whatever may prove its intrinsic prac
tical value, it will go down in history
as one of the most astonishing epochs
that ever has or ever will come to the
world.
The achievement is the fruit of long,
energetic, unconquerable effort, with
Christianity as its enlightening force.
It is this kind of spirit that is requi
site to reward missionary effort to
plant the banner of Immanuel’s cross
at the center of cold heathendom, even
as the explorer planted the stars and
stripes at the frozen pole of the hither
to unexplored North.
And is not the goal of infinitely more
value? Let no effort, then, be slack
ened to attain to it.
Princeton, Ky.
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promise that bald heads may eventu
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wonderful. Mr. Keene says that all
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