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George W. Coleman,‘Boston’s Ideal Lay mart; Citizen Gibes Unique Neto Book to the World —Christian Publisher and Pu.
Heist, in His Searching "Searchlights” Discobers "Acres of Diamonds” by the Way side.
ERILY, it is not the making of a book
that counts —but the counting only of a
book that makes men and women think,
feel, act! —a book that makes them
dream and love and smile and cry by
the wayside, and then, rising, rush back
into the busy throng, determined to
dare and do!
I have just been reading such a book
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on. the electric car morning and night between my
home in beautiful College Park and my office in busy
Atlanta, and I have not yet recovered from the elec
tric thrill it gave me —not an electric thrill from
the electric car, good people, but from that little
book with a cluster of dynamos in it.
And the funny thing about it is that the author
didn’t know he had written a book at all! My! I
shall never forget how I felt that Christmas eve
morning in ’93 when, after years of dreaming, plan
ning and working, I walked in to the Franklin Pub
lishing House and saw, first thing when I entered,
my book, “Echoes From a Recluse,” lying on the
counter bound and ready for the reading world, or a
small part of the world at least. I remember how
I snatched it up in my hands —this firstling of mine
—and leaning there on my crutches, tried to lift my
heart to God with blended praise and supplication
that the Author of my being would take my mental
child and make it a blessing to every life it might
touch in the world.
I imagine the feelings, then, of George W. Cole
man, publisher of The Christian Endeavor World,
when he walked into his office in Tremont Temple,
Boston, last Christmas eve morning and saw on his
desk book which he did not know he had
written —or rather, saw before him in book form a
collection of his “wayside musings” which his busi
ness associates had published for him as a Christ
mas surprise!
Not because I know and love the author as a new
but royal friend; not because he was the formidable
“committee of one” who came all the way from
Clarendon Street church to carry Dr. L. G. Brough
ton to Boston and, thank the Lord, went back with
empty arms, not because I was a fortunate guest in
his homelike summer home when I spent a wondrous
day at Sagamore Beach by the blue and sounding
sea —but because this little book of this busy busi
ness man has the most unique table of contents, I
do believe I have ever seen since Columbus discov
ered America, I am going to stop right here and do
something I have never done before since I became
editor of The Golden Age nearly four years ago—l
am going to give that appetizing “table of contents”
in full. Here it is:
SEARCHLIGHTS.
Page.
While We Sleep the Crowd Perish 9
The Human Brain Only a Tool 10
Our Spiritual Eyesight Poor 12
A Trinity of Ideas 13
Running Over the Law 16
The Man on the Street 18
Doors Into the Heart of Life 19
Do You Idolize Business? 20
Leisure-Squanders 22
From Slavery to Partnership 24
“I Didn’t Mean It” 26
Restless Jews —Sleepy Christians 28
Do You Mix? 30
Shadowy Lines 33
A Prejudice-Eraser 35
Theological Extremes Meet 37
Chiidolatry 40
Church Conventions and Labor Meetings 41
Something Besides Profit 44
Pulling and Hauling 48
The Respect of Fear 51
Founded on a Rock 53
The C-O-G 55
The Two Sides of Business 57
Learn to Laugh 59
Help That Helps 60
Profitable or Brotherly 63
The Golden Age For January 27, 1910.
“Lead Me Not Into Temptation” 64
Moral Anarchy 65
Get Out or Get In, or Take Down the Fence.... 67
Ought to Fight Fair 68
Consistency, Thou Art a Fraud 70
Boston Boys of the Same Stripe 73
“Viciously Orthodox —Vigorously Pious” 74
Tremendous Powers Unutilized 75
The Church Outrunning Their Critics 76
Money Has a Double Edge, Too 78
When Virtue Becomes Vice 80
Tithing and Sharing 83
Are We Liberal? 85
A Marvelous Multiplier 86
The Consecrated Rich 89
Religion Transplanted 92
Success-Worshippers 94
Fair Questions • • 95
Face the Facts 96
“ic Must Always Be So” 98
Crackers Versus Chicken 100
Chain-Letter Foolishness 102
Hypocrites and Hypocrites 103
The Hot Stove-Lid 104
A New Light Ahead 105
Training Only One Gift 108
Having Respect to the Truth 110
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“Feed My Sheep” 1H
A Rich Imagination 114
Business Morals 116
Undercurrents H 8
Getting at the Facts 120
Caste Without Color 122
What We Really Think 126
Democratic Religion 438
Simplicity—Modesty —Frankness 130
Many, If Any 132
Flexibility and Rigidity 134
Sympathy and Its Counterfeits 136
Little Church —Big Church 138
What Does It All Mean? 141
A New Brake l^ 3
These Ever-Recurring Mysteries 145
From Business Leadership to “Washing Feet”...148
Glutonous Working 150
Just Because He Loves It 151
He That Ruleth His Own Spirit 153
If You can’t Hunt, Don’t Hinder 155
Both Fellowship and Independence 157
Big Fortunes and Incompetent Owners 160
A New Breed of Pioneers 162
The Money-Bug 152
Respect for What You Do Not Know .....169
Company Manners • 171
Two Gospels I? 2
Self-Measurement 1 73
If You Own It Take Care of It 175
“A Bait for Sillies” 178
The Trade Union and Temperance 180
William D. Upshalv.
Now, isn’t that great? Don’t it make your intel
lectual mouth water? Don’t you agree that “Search-
Lights” must indeed be a book that’s very “differ
ent?”
Just as a sample of some of the “juicy,” solid
things this busy man says suppose I give you this
one little smidgen of a taste:
The Money-Bug.
If there are moral bacteria, the money-bug must
be a king-bee among them. It is no respecter of
persons. It finds welcome Ibdgings in the souls of
the poor and rich alike, among the ignorant as well
as the educated; in the heart of the saint quite as
often as in that of the sinner. It is curious to watch
it at work in the nature of a great, noble-God-fearing
soul. I have seen it there. Oh, you would never
guess it, looking on at a distance. Everything with
out is fair and beautiful. The victim himself is the
very last to acknowledge its obnoxious presence.
Like the poor, self-deluded consumptive, the man
of character is the very last to discover the presence
of this microbe of gold in his system.
Oh, no, indeed, he looks at his charities, a. mere
pittance from his great surplus; he recalls his love
for the stated means of spiritual grace; he knows
his heart is kindly toward his fellowmen (outside of
business); he loves to talk about the affairs of the
Kingdom. But what does he do? He goes on and
on and on accumulating that he may make his chil
dren modern princes and princesses; or, lacking that
means of gratifying his pride, proceeds with a dead
hand to buy for himself as much immorality as pos
terity is willing to sell him for the money that he
has to leave behind whether he would or not.
I have seen the noblest of men, the strongest and
ablest I ever knew, both young and middle-aged, ab
solutely conquered by this money-bug. And they
didn’t know it. They never dreamed of being con
quered by money. They thought they were its mas
ter. And yet to the onlooker, even their best and
most loyal friends, it was pathetically patent.
Lookout for the money-bug. No one is immune.
Not content with doing the unusual thing of pub
lishing entire the list of contents, nor with giving
a sample of these delightful kaliedoscopic “chap
terets” which fascinate the reader “like orient
pearls at random strung,” I feel almost constrained
to give the “foreword” entire. It is written by
Amos R. Wells, managing editor of The Christian
Endeavor World, and begins as follows:
“One of the best things I ever did as managing
editor of The Christian Endeavor World, was to per
suade the publisher of the paper to contribute reg
ularly to its editorial page.
“These contributions signed ‘Searchlights,’ have
been and are distinguished by the qualities of
frankness, vivacity, energy and insight. I do not
know where, in periodical literature or between
the .covers of books one could find a nobler ex
pression of the thoughts and ideals of the best
type of our modern business man.
“To be sure, Mr. Coleman is far more than the con
ventional ‘man of business.’ As originator .and
directing head of the Ford Hall Meetings in Boston
and the Sagamore Sociological Conference, he has
been a leader in the practical work for the unify
ing and uplifting of humanity. He stands high in
the councils of * * * the Baptist denomination. The
Sunday school, the Young Men’s Christian Associa
tion and the Christian Endeavor Society have all
been stimulated by his vigor and enthusiasm.”
In a leaflet Mr. Wells makes the following an
nouncement:
“Searchlights.”
“The striking editorials contributed to this paper
by its publisher, Mr. George W. Coleman, have been
published in a "very attractive book. The title of
the book is Mr. Coleman’s pen-name, ‘Searchlights.’
“Every editorial has increased my own appreciation
of Mr. Coleman’s keen insight and fine literary
ability,
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