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The Golden Age
Published Ebery Thursday by the Golden Age Publishing
Company (Inc.)
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WILLIAM D. UPSHAW ... - Editor
MRS. WILLIAM D. UPSHAW - Associate Editor
MRS G. B. LINDSEY - • Managing Editor
LEN G. BROUGHTON - - - Pulpit Editor
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Editor Polk Comes Home.
Lots of people go to Europe and her continental,
oriental neighbors, and then they write about it.
The Brilliant Story
of His Travels
Are a Classic.
for the upbuilding of Tennes
see, has just returned from a trip abroad which has
been signalized by an unusual series of letters. “A
Southern Pilgrim in Foreign Lands,” running as a
travel serial in his own and several other papers
ought to be put in book form. Not since the days
of the lamented and brilliant M. B. Wharton has
the public been treated to such charming and com
prehensive letters of foreign travel. They are a
rippling, sparkling classic and read like a romance.
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Mobement Tor "Greater Shorter. 99
Rome, Georgia, sitting like a queen on her throne
of hills, is determined that Atlanta shall not get
ahead of her. The Capital City has
Rome is
Raising
One Hundred
Thousand
Dollars.
be moved out to Maplehurst, the beautiful property
worth $40,000, given by Rome’s Christian merchant
prince, Mr. J. L. Bass.
The “Greater Shorter” campaign is now on in
Rome and the first week registered more than half
of the amount grandly and joyously subscribed.
Os course the movement will win. President A.
W. Van Hoose is a ‘‘natural born,” premeditated and
ever'asting winner and he has with him Vice-Presi
dent J. W. Gaines, and Prof. L. R. Hogan, who are
stalwarts themselves and know how to bring things
to pass.
Our hats are off to heroic* Rome and Greater
Shorter.
H *
Holcombe Goes to Yazoo.
It is beyond the province of this paper to chron
icle the goings and comings of all preachers and
teachers within the range of its wide
And Satan
Will Have
to “Skidoo.”
and general “live wire,” goes from Durant to Yazoo
City, Miss., makes us want to wear crepe for Durant
and sing psalms for Yazoo. Holcombe had a grip
on Durant, especially the young men of the town,
that is seldom wielded by a young pastor; but it is
not expected that the opportunities for doing good
offered by a town of three thousand could hold out
against the open doors of ten thousand people.
Durant has already sought “Farr” for comfort —for
W. E. Farr, the beloved Belzoni shepherd with lots
of vim and a sort of Milo Massey face, has been
called to follow Holcombe; and as for that rich
Delta city the Devil will have to **skidoo” when Hol
combe gets to town.
But Dr. Edgar E. Folk, editor
of The Baptist and Reflector
and a vigorous preacher and
leader in all things that make
had several whirlwind campaigns
for great educational and benevo
lent funds; and so Rome has risen
in her might to raise One Hundred
Thousand Dollars for Shorter Col
lege for Women. The college is to
circulation, but sometimes the pecu
liar fitness of a valiant worker in a
new field inspires comment. The
news that Luther Holcombe, preacher
The Golden Age for July 21, 1910.
JUDGE HA ETSGEEAT HEAET
The complex gubernatorial race in Georgia has
been largely simplified by the withdrawal of Judge
His Sacrifice Will
Bless Humanity
for Years.
He said —and we heartily believe him —that he had
one supreme purpose in entering the race, and that
was the hope of “averting another campaign of bit
terness between the Joe Brown and Hoke Smith fac
tions of the Democratic party.”
The fact that Judge Hart had been urged before
to offer for Governor gave him just ground for hop
ing that the people would welcome a non-factional
candidate of recognized ability and character on the
platform of Peace.
But nay! The lines had been too long and too
sharply drawn. The battle was on and must be
fought to the finish. The great, golden-hearted jur
ist with commendable Utopian dream, says in his
patriotic letter of withdrawal that he found that the
people do not want peace but war, and without fur
ther fruitless sacrifice he would get out of the way
and let the fiery factions fight it out.
The spirit of the great-hearted statesman —a spirit
as noble as it is rare —is revealed in the first two
paragraphs of his letter addressed to the people of
the State of Georgia:
“Grieved that the state was entering again into po
litical strife and believing that I might possibly
avert it by announcing my candidacy for governor,
and feeling if it were in my power to do so, it be-
John Odum —Gob Candler 9 s Nurse.
It will be a wholesome lesson for everybody, and
especially our readers up North to read the beauti
ful story of “Uncle John” Odum,
Beautiful Story of who comes to Atlanta from a
Old Negro’s Devo- Jones county farm to nurse for-
tion to “My White mer Governor Allen D. Candler
Folks.” during a season of serious ill-
ness. The far-away world does
not know how to appreciate the love which the “old
time” negro bears to his white master —when that'
master was what he ought to have been. And there
were thousands. The Constitution tells the touch
ing story:
John Odum was reared on the plantation of Gov
ernor Candler’s father-in-law, Mr. Williams, in Jones
county, and except for an occasional drive over to
Macon, has never before in his life left the old plan
tation at any time. He is the father of nineteen
children and has been a member of the Hardshell
Baptist church for more than fifty years.
Odum lived with and served his old “master,” Mr.
Williams, up to the day of his death, and afterward
adhered to his widow until she, too, died. He has
always been deeply attached to every member of
his former master’s family, and when Sherman
marched through Georgia and two corps of his army
were encamped for two nights and a day on his mas
ter’s plantation, he stood loyally by the family, and
by his influence prevented any of the negroes from
following Sherman, while nearly all the grown-up
ones on the surrounding plantations did follow in the
wake of the army.
Odum has never been drunk, nor has he ever been
arrested in all the eighty years of his life, and he
always voted the democratic ticket as long as he
had the right to vote.
He had nursed Governor Candler through the only
severe attack he ever had, until the present one,
and hearing that he was sick, he came here, on
his first trip, to perform similar service.
Odum was mystified by the tall buildings and the
activity in Atlanta, and he doesn’t think of going
around the city alone for fear of being lost.
He is active and vigorous for his years and talks
interestingly of the things he has seen, for he wit
nessed history-making events without going away
from the plantation to do it.
John C. Hart, who had resigned
as attorney-general to enter the
race three weeks ago. Judge
Hart startled everybody by his
unexpected race for Governor.
came a duty, I protested against further political
bitterness and announced my candidacy for govern
or. It was only a hope I entertained of averting
strife, a bare chance that the announcement would
have that effect, but Georgia I well knew was enti
tied to the chance and I gave it, and with it my
political all.
I have no personal ambition to be governor and
men who know me will acquit me of sinister pur
pose or unworthy ambition. I knew the best inter
ests of this state demanded, especially its financial
affairs, that political hostilities of a partisan char
acter in the democratic party should cease and that
the legislative mind be turned in the direction of the
state’s real substantial business affairs. The hope
that this could be accomplished was worth any per
sonal or political sacrifice which it might involve.’
Think of the spectacle! The day that Judge Hart’s
resignation as attorney-general took effect his letter
of withdrawal from the governor’s race appeared,
and he stepped down and out of a high position
which he had honored by his great ability and spot
less character for eight years and went back to his
Greene county farm to spend life’s meridian splen
dor and eventide in the bosom of his family and
amid his old-time neighbors who love him so well.
John C. Hart may not save his state from fac
tional strife, and he may never occupy the Govern
or’s chair, but he has given to his state and nation
an example of heroic self-effacement which will bless
the haunts of jarring men through countless years.
He deserves any honor which any state or many
states could give.
With such loyal, faithful and upright ancestry as
John Odum and his like give to their race for a par
ent stock, does it seem reasonable or just to say
“there is no future for the negro?”
Hishop Morrison 9 s Trumpet Call.
Bishop H. C. Morrison never utters an uncertain
sound. He stands for “old time religion” and the
saints sing and the echoes ring
He Scores Mam- whenever he speaks.
mon and Higher Preaching the dedication ser-
Criticism. monos the new Methodist
church at Washington, Ga., last
Sunday, he said:
“The two great forces for evil in the church to
day are equally divided between the pew and
the pulpit. In the pew we have that force which
comes in the attempt to serve both God and
mammon. No man can serve two masters, and
the result is that mammon comes in for the
greater service.
In the pulpit we have a subtle agnosticism mas
querading under the name of “higher criticism”
that must be destroyed. No soul was ever
brought to Christ by the higher critic. Crowds
may be drawn to hear their high sounding
phrases, but their teachings never caused a hu
man soul to be saved. The gospel of Jesus
Christ is not a thing, it is a power. Just like the
power of gravitation, it remains the same
throughout the years and will remain the same
as long as the world endures. If we are to be
saved, we are to be saved by the gospel of the
New Testament.
O, the arrant emptiness of the gospel of faithless
folly! Its wastes are like Sahara and its trophies
are dead men’s bones!
Notice.
We are sorry to announce that the Sunday School
lesson failed to reach us in time for publication this
week. As we are two weeks ahead, we trust our
readers will have prepared the lessons in advance
and we hope to continue the publication next week.
