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The Golden Age
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Marshall, Texas Is Tree.
Os course, we are always glad to see a black spot
wiped out, and any community on earth take its place
under the white banner of the free.
“Licker” Licked But the writer confesses to an
And the City unusual degree of pleasure and
Leaps for Joy. thanksgiving over the news that
the fair City of Marshall, Texas,
with her twelve thousand happy, prosperous people,
is no longer under' the dominion of the saloon. April
sth, was the day of her emancipation. The bells
of memory are ringing gaily. We are moving again
among her schools and colleges, speaking to her
boys and girls, addressing a prohibition rally and
seeking in every way possible to sow principles that
are now triumphant.
One very notable thing was stated in the press
despatches—that the negroes, about one-third of the
population, voted almost solid for prohibition, de
spite the fact that the “Antis” spent money freely in
paying up taxes for them. Wylie University and Bishop
College, two great institutions for the Christian, in
dustrial education of the negro, are located at Mar
shall under the auspices, respectively, of Methodist
and Baptist philanthropy. The influence of these
schools is wholesome and glorious. They led the
fight which crystalized negro sentiment and held it
to the ballot box against the saloon. And yet some
foolish men declare that the “negro's criminality in
creases with his intelligence.” Never! when that in
telligence is linked to God, His Word and Work.
It was wonderful when Texarkana went dry a few
weeks ago, and now with the very gateway into
the Lone Star Empire free from the dirt and deviltry
of bar-rooms the crowds that flock to Texas from the
East will receive better than hitherto, a first im
pression of the great Texas Empire.
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Shorter's Nelv Leaders.
Shorter College, at Rome, Ga., has made the great
est coup detat in the matter of leadership which
can be credited to any Southern insti-
Van Hoose tution in recent years.
and When Prof. M. L. Brittain, the acc-
Gaines complished Atlanta educator declined
a Great • the presidency of Shorter College, be-
Combination cause of the insistence of his metro
politan constituency, it put that fa
mous institution for women on its mettle and the
Shorter Trustees determined to redouble their efforts
to capture the best within reach of love and money.
Prof. A. W. VanHoose, of Gainesville, Ga., the
founder of famous Brenau, had just sold out his
interest to Prof. H. J. Pearce, his cultured asso
ciate of many years, taken a recuperative trip
abroad, and come back to his handsome new colon
ial home —one of the most beautiful in all of Geor
gia, the great educator had settled down for the
well deserved rest of which he had so long dream
ed. But, as was said of the Master, “he could not be
hid.” Shorter set upon him. She besieged him. She
carried him to the City of Hills and showed him the
kingdoms of another world. She would move and
erect a great new building that would take care of
five hundred girls. The best blood of the great
(Continued on Page 5.)
The Golden Age for April 14, 1910.
T. ROOSEVELT—AMERICAN
We are glad of it! It will be worth a century of
sermonics and polemics to the cause of evangelical
Christianity.
Pope Pius X It would have seemed that the
of The Fairbanks incident would have been
“Dark Ages” enough to wake and shake the Pope
of Rome from his sleep in the Dark
Ages. His horrible demand that ex-Vice President
Fairbanks cancel his engagement to speak at the
Methodist Mission, or give up his hope of seeing the
Pope, struck the world so unexpectedly in the face
that civilized men of every clime and name and
creed found themselves wincing under the cords of
the inquisition or listening to the crackling flames
of Smithfield.
We found ourselves wondering if Theodore Roose
velt should care at all to see such a despot when
he should come to Rome. The Pope and his clumsy
advisers might well have known that if Charles W.
Fairbanks would allow no restrictions placed on his
liberties, then it would be the most collossal folly
that tottering dignitaries ever perpetrated to at
tempt such a thing on that “itinerant volcano” —
Theodore Roosevelt. But the Vatican says that it
did not put a restraint on Mr. Roosevelt —it was only
a friendly suggestion that “he hoped that nothing
unpleasant would occur like the Fairbanks incident.”
It was “all the same in Dutch,” or Italian either.
The Vatican threw a match in a powder magazine
that exploded around the world.
Verily, Mr. Roosevelt has been about the least
excited and most conservative man connected with
the whole tumult. He has urged that the matter
be not made a basis for bitterness, excitement or
any form of anti-papal demonstration. He only says
that as an American citizen he could not do other
wise than decline an audience with the Pope on
such conditions. In Rome he showed his fineness of
spirit “by declining invitations to go to Protestant
Missions in order that he might better ca’m the
turbulent sea.
It is little worth for the Vatican to declare that
Mr. Roosevelt could have gone to any other Mission
except the Methodist —that the Methodist propaganda
has been “so vile in its misrepresentation of the
Papacy that the Holy Father can countenance no
man who sets his foot on the Methodist preserve!”
WILLIAM J. <BRYAN
We welcome you, Great Commoner, into the high
est fellowship on earth. Not many months ago we
published an editorial on this page
Three Cheers entitled: “COME ON MR. BRYAN,
And the COME ON!”
Doxology We were talking then of Mr. Bryan’s
evident leaning toward an anti-liquor
plank in his democracy. We knew that his per
sonal sentiments had long been fighting upward
toward this mountain height—that his heart being
in the right place, he was beginning to see with
many other good men hitherto wrongly taught from
“Democratic Environments,” that the best Democ
racy must be a saloonless Democracy.
A few weeks later we rejoiced in the fact that
made possible another editorial: “AND MR. BRYAN
HAS COME.” For the great Christian Statesman
had come out with the ringing declaration that
he was tired of the insolent interference of the liquor
business with political platforms and elections, and
that he intended to spend the remainder of his life
in fighting the Liquor Traffic. Anthems of thanks
giving arose from millions of American hearts —for
they knew the mighty influence that would be
wielded by the Gladstone of America. And now
comes the yet more glorious statement proceeding
Mr. Bryan’s return from South America, that he is
going to give his time less and less to things political
and more and more to the personal proclamation of
vital Christianity, whose truths he loves so well.
Not that he contemplates “taking orders” as an
ordained minister, but as a great lay preacher,
“constrained” by the hand and voice of God to carry
We are very sure that with all their commendable
zeal the Methodist missionaries—preachers and edu
cators —in Rome, have committed no crime against
the Papacy except the exposure of such doctrines as
bound the world in superstition and darkness during
the Middle Ages —yea, that produced that long night
of spiritual darkness—-the doctrines that bind it still
where Rome has undisputed sway. That is what the
Methodists went to Rome for. If they had been satis
fied with the dominion of Romish dogmas they would
never have gone there to preach the Gospel.
And we are sure, also, that Methodists have not
been more pronounced in teaching and preaching
these vital illuminating doctrines of evangelical
Christianity than Waldensians, Presbyterians and
Baptists have been. They have all taught that the
hollow forms and ceremonies of Rome cannot save —
that -there must be the miracle of regeneration—per
sonal repentance toward God and faith in the Lord
Jesus Christ. This is the crime which has con
stituted the unpardonable sin of Methodists and all
other evangelical missionaries in Rome. It suits the
purposes of the Vatican better to single out one
denomination and declare it especially obnoxious, so
that the Papacy would escape the charge of whole
sale barbarity toward all nonconformists who dare
to preach liberty of conscience and freedom of soul.
Barbarity did we say? Yes, it is nothing less than
barbarous for a man to claim to have civilization and
religion and then give himself over to such cruelty,
proscription and purpose. It only shows what Rome
would do —if she only could.
We rejoice to express again the conviction uttered
in our Fairbanks editorial, that all Catholics do
not endorse this mediaeval position of the Pope of
Rome.
Even Archbishop Ireland, about the readiest Ro
man prelate in America, to interpret and support the
Pope in this country says: “That if the Vatican in
tended an insult to Roosevelt and the American
public, we would stand by our Republic.”
It is a wholesome sign when thinking Catholics all
over the world begin to put question points after
the doings of the Papal See. Catholics are waking.
The light is breaking; and with our hearts thrilling
with new admiration for our country’s fearless son,
we close as we began— THEODORE ROOSEVELT—
AMERICAN! POPE PIUS Xof the Dark Ages.
the transforming truths to the hearts and lives of
men that alone can build them into that Christian Cit
izenship, that loyalty to the altars of God of which
Mr. Bryan himself, since his conversion when a boy
of fourteen, has been such a blameless exponent.
The press despatches announce that a movement
is on foot in New York, backed by Christian men
and women of large means, to build a great audito
rium seating ten thousand people in which Mr.
Bryan will have opportunity to gather thousands of
men who never darken the door of a Gotham church.
A prominent Christian man in New York, speaking
of the proposed plan, says:
“There is no disguising the fact that the church,
so far as New York is concerned, has lost touch
with the men of the community. The whole thought
of the church today is directed toward re-establish
ing this touch. Accepting the fact that the men
will not come to the church, it is imperative that
the church should be taken to the men. No man in
America is better qualified to do that work than
William J. Bryan. There are tens of thousands of
men in New York, and hundreds of thousands
throughout the country, who cannot be induced’ to
go to church, but would flock to hear him speak. He
could arouse them as no other man could, and the
good he could do is past calculation. Now, Mr. Bryan
is an intensely religious man, and when this matter
is presented to him, as it will be soon after his
return, we _ are hopeful he will see it his duty to
accept and undertake the task.
“While under the plans as now partly formulated
New York would be headquarters for Mr. Bryan, his
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