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THE SOLDIER OT PEACE
Dr. Holvard S. Taylor.
We have laureled the heroes Whose glory
Was won where the battle-waves rolled;
We have chiseled and chanted their story
For mankind to hear and behold —
To hear and behold and to wonder,
While cannon and trumpet and rum
Send a militant message of thunder
To awaken the ages to come!
Ah’ the ages to come —will they treasure,
As we uo, our trophies and tombs?
Will they level all life to the measure
Os the sword that destroys and consumes?
Will they still plow the fields with their cannon
And seed them with bullet and blade,
And reap, under war’s crimson pennon,
The harvest of grief they have made ?
We have come through the deep tribulation;
We are heavy with fear and regret;
And we long for the dear consummation
When men shall forgive and forget!
When neighbor shall strike hands with neighbor
And wrath and contention shall cease
And the world finds its hero at labor —
The good, gallant Soldier of Peace!
TOUR TO OLD MEXICO CITY.
The. Centenary of Mexico’s Indepen
dence will be celebrated in the City of
Mexico in the month of September.
The International Sunday-school Con
vention of America is planning to take
advantage of that celebration to hold
a Sunday-school rally inMexico. The
purpose of this rally is to stimulate
interest in Sunday-school work among
the Mexicans, and to encourage and
strengthen the Missionaries who are
now at work in that field.
An elegant train of pullman, din
ing and baggage cars will be secured
for the journey, and all parties will
be housed and boarded on the train
during the entire stay in Mexieo and
enroute.
Stop-overs at points of interest have
ben arranged for the return trip, and
the cost of travel and accommodation
has ben reduced to a surprisingly
low price.
Only people who are vitally inter
ested in Sunday-school work are in
vited to join this personally conduct
ed tour, which will be under the direc
tion of Mr. Chas. H. Gates, of Chicago,
as the promoters of the trip desire to
leave only the best impression and
the most abiding influences for good
on the minds and hearts of the Mex
ican people.
All information concerning the tour
can be had by writing to Mr. Marion
Lawrence, 805 Hartford Building,
Chicago, 111. The date of the trip
will be September 6th to 24th, 1910.
BRAVO! WILLIAM JEWEL.
Missouri Baptists are rejoicing.
William Jewell College, one of their
oldest and most famous institutions
of learning has just completed a stir
ring campaign in which $500,000 has
been secured. This money will un
clog the machinery and enable the
great old school to go forward in a
work of wider and more enduring use
fulness.
Here’s hoping that William Jewell
may ever shine as a radiant star to
guide the feet of aspiring youths.
I guarantee by Croup Specific to cure
and cure quick. Let me make known to
you the best remedy to be had. Sample
free for the asking. Writ* Dr. J. M.
Christian, Hazelhurst, Ga.
THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING
A soldier!—on whose stainless glory
No turbulent passions encroach;
A Bayard, with no written story,
Yet still above fear or reproach;
No red-handed warfare he wages,
But the heroes of Rome and of Greece
Grow dwarfed in the noon of the ages
Below the good Soldier of Peace!
He has conquered the hostile high mountains,
He has mastered the obdurate flood,
He has dappled the desert with fountains
And opened the tangled wildwood,
Till nature, subdued by his spirit,
Doth bounty on bounty increase,
And they who that bounty inherit
All bless the brave Soldier of Peace!
Oh, blameless knight-errant of Labor,
Our eyes have been holden! —but now
We know that for musket and sabre
Thy arms were the axe and the plow!
We will cross them in heraldic fashion,
A blazonry never to cease,
And wrap in our hearts’ fondest passion
The good, gallant Soldier of Peace!
A NEW THING UNDER THE SUN.
And that is Savannah’s Conscience
Fund. Is it possible that the modern
Sodom has at last discovered her Lot?
Evidently so. For the newspapers
tell us that a certain Minister in the
“Little Monarchy by the sea” has
turned over to the Mayor of the City
$1,500.00 which he asserts was de
livered to him by a party who con
fesses to having robbed the City of
that amount. Would it be pertinent
(impertinent we mean) to ask Miss
Savannah if it wasn’t a little dis
concerting to uncover a conscience
and a fund both at the same flush?
THE SALOON UPLIFT MOVEMENT.
The Patriot, which is one of the
numerous misnamed liquor organs of
the country, thinks that if things get
much worse a movement for the up
lifting of the churches will need to be
started. In a recent editorial under
the head of “ A Serious Mistake,” the
Patriot published the following:
“A church is a place intended for
the worship of God, and for no other
purpose. When it is used —and on
Sunday, at that —for the purpose of
abusing a certain industry, the object
of the vituperation being to aid in
lobbying a prohibition measure of the
most venomous type through Con
gress, the church is desecrated, and
the respect in which its officers are
held is greatly diminished in the
minds of many. The temperance-mad
gentlemen, who mix blessings and vil
ification will, we feel sure, find out
eventually, to their cost, that they are
gaining neither admiration nor friends
by their performances. Sensational
ism is not religion. What right has
one man to abuse another for engag
ing in a legitimate, licensed business,
when the speaker is doing even worse
than the one at whom he aims his
criticism? If it is wrong in the owner
of the public resort to allow his prop
erty to be used, for the sale of liquor,
it is even worse for a “minister” to
allow his church to be used as a lob
bying place. The former injures the
reputation of his own property only,
but the latter desecrates the house
of God! If things get much worse,
a movement for uplifting some of the
The Golden Age for July 21, 1910.
churches would be a good thing to
start.”
We are incl’ned to believe that the
Patriot is right in one sense at least;
namely, that the saloon’s up-lift move
ment will need to start soon if the sa
loon as an institution is to be saved;
and we would commend to the editor
of the Patriot one Colonel Gilmore
and his band of liquor renovators who
are engaged in the uplift business.
There is no question, however, but
that it is high time the movement
were started. If the liquorites wait
much longer it will be too late. —Ex.
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LEPROSY IN FALSE HAIR.
Dr. N. H. Bowman, city health of
ficer, received word from Dallas
Thursday morning that forty cases
of hair shipped into that place had
been condemned as bearing germs of
leprosy. It is getting to be a serious
matter when the women of the United
States go so daffy over personal
adornment as to continually run the
risk of contracting the loathsome dis
ease of leprosy. It has been proven
that within the last few months a
great quantity of the false hair ship
ped into this country came from a
leper island in China. —Hall County
(Texas) Herald.
IT DOESN’T PAY.
“It doesn’t pay to have one citizen
in the county jail because another
citizen sold him liquor.
“It doesn’t pay to have fifty work
ingmen poor and ragged in order to
have one saloonkeeper dressed in
broadcloth, and flush of money.
“It doesn’t pay to have these fifty
workingmen live on bone soup and
half rations in order that the saloon
keeper may flourish on roast turkey
and champagne.
“It doesn’t pay to have ten smart,
active and intelligent boys transform
ed into hoodlums and thieves to en
able one to lead an easy life by sell
ing liquor.
“It doesn’t pay to have one thous
and homes blasted, ruined and turned
into hells of disorder and misery in
order that one wholesale liquor deal
er may amass a larger fortune,” —
Clarion Call.
Heriy Editors at Americus.
(Continued from Page 5.)
beauty as ho plead for comradeship between the pa
pers of the two sections in building our common
country.
Dr. Taylor's original poem, “The Soldier of Peace,”
with which he closed his charming speech is given
.elsewhere in this issue.
The closing session of the association on Wednes
day morning was enlivened by “Reminiscences from
Editor Hodges of The Houston Juornal, and the in
imitable “Uncle Jimmie” Freeman, of Douglas, and
a powerful speech by Prof. Thomas A. Early, of
the Agricultural College at Athens, calling the edi
tors to help link the country boy to “corn clubs”
and intelligent agriculture.
And then came the tug of war. It was Clarence
Perry’s first battle and he and Cartersville won.
What was this scribe to do? Swainsboro had treat
ed me royally, Dublin ditto, of course, so there was
nothing left bM to vote for and speak for the first
man and place that asked me. Savannah “also ran.”
It was lots of fun! But I can not close without a
special wave of the hand to gallant young Gordon
Statham, who carried our party in his peerless “Over
land” all over that beautiful Americus country. With
steady nerve, quiet smile and victorious sweep he
made us all feel safe and sane, left good-natured
envy grinning at us as w r e passed other cars and
landed us cool and happy as the fellow said when
he escaped shipwreck, “on terracotta once more.”
W. D. U.
THOMAS JEFFERSON’S ADVICE.
Thomas Jefferson: Do not sit up
late at night; study and work in the
day time. Rise early and go to bed
early. Avoid novel reading and culti
vate the companionship of good books.
Never tell a lie or stoop to a mean act.
Be kind to every living creature.
Speak no evil of any one. Be good,
adore God, be loyal to your friends
and love your country better than
youself. Take hold of things by the
smooth handle; avoid disputes; do
not turn pleasant conversation into
heated argument. Too much speak
ing is not best. Never put off until
tomorrow what you can do today.
Never Spend your money before you
have it. Never buy what you do not
need because it is cheap. Pride costs
more than hunger and thirst. We
never repent of having eaten too
little. Never borrow trouble. —Ex.
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MOVING PICTURES OF BIG FIGHT
BARRED.
America wild over a prize fight! It
was a disgraceful and disgusting sight
to see the Fourth of July—the day of
hjgh heroism and real courage—turn
ed into a barbarous and brutal prize
fight. It is time to cease our prating
about the “heartless Mexican and his
cruel bull fights,” and begin to sweep
our own doorways. The one encour
aging note to right minded people is
the refusal on the part of the majority
of the large cities to permit the repro
duction of the fight in the moving pic
ture shows.
Effects of the Spoken Word.
Many persons once addicted to the
use of opiates and liquors are today
cured and leading useful lives, because
some friend directed them to Dr. B. M.
Woolley and his son, Dr. Vassar Wool
ley. Their book on these habits and
their . cure will be sent free to any
one interested who will write them
to No. 16 J, Victor Sanitarium, Atlanta,
Ga. “I desire to express my gratitude
for your wonderful cure. I commenced
your treatment September, 1907, and in
July, 1908, took the last dose, and I had
taken opium 35 years.” Mrs. Sarah
Parkerson, R. F. D. No. 2, Box 17, Bain
bridge, Ga. “I quit your treatment
(about ten years ago) because I was
cured. I have no appetite for whiskey.”
C. H. Beall, Uniontown, Pa. ‘‘Several
years ago (about eight) I took your
treatment and was cured of the mor
phine habit, and have never had any
desire for it since. I tried other treat
ments and failed.” T. S. Ferguson, R,
F. D, No. 2, Edgemoor, S. C.
