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Friendship firings Suffering.
It is a beautiful thought in that rare little booklet,
“What Is Worth While?” that he who is not willing
to suffer with his friend is not worthy
But The to have a friend. But verily, no man who is
Privilege capable of real friendship would flee the
Is Sweet, sweet and uplifting privilege of suffering
with his friend. These thoughts come to
the writer as he learns of the death of the good
old mother of our golden-hearted Mississippi friend,
Mr. J. T. Thomas, the great prince of finance and
philanthropy of Grenada, Miss., whose inspiring life
story we recently gave to our readers.
The sacredness of motherhood takes on a new
meaning when we think of the satisfaction and
thanksgiving that must have come in her last days
to the heart of this dear old mother in Israel when
she looked out upon the noble, useful son whom she
had given to the world. From the time she sent
forth that bright-faced youth from the altar of a
mother’s love and prayer on that Grenada county
farm the pressure of that mother’s hand was upon his
heart entering into his every success and inspiring
him in his every noble deed.
Heaven bless the mission and the memory of our
good old-fashioned Christian mothers!
I?
E. P. Peabody—a Prince of Tien.
This generation of young men has known no more
princely spirit among those who honor God in their
business lives, than E. P. Peabody of
Way cross. As a commercial leader he
was keen, vigorous, resourceful and suc
cessful. But with all of his business
alertness and application he never for
got his obligation to the First Methodist
Church of which he was a devoted mem
ber. Verily, he was “first at her feet
and last at her service.”
Prominent
Christian
Business
Man
Meets
Tragic
Death at
Way cross.
And beyond its sacred precincts, out
into the workaday world, Peabody went to carry a
large-as-life expression of the vital truths he had
learned within the “holy of holies.” He came down
from his tryst “on the mount with the Lord,” his
face shining, his heart aglow, carrying the atmos
phere of the Mount Divine into his everyday deal
ings with men. There was no “cant” about him,
no sanctimonious air, no “goody-goody” manner that
made men of the world seek the other side of the
street. He was just a real man, whose head and
hands and purse all bowed at the heart’s sweet
shrine of Faith.
Whenever a good movement was thought of in
Waycross—any effort for civic uplift and the general
publie good, if E. P. Peabody did not start it, his
name was always thought of among the first to be
its practical and victorious exponent.
His pastor’s standby—his community’s inspiration!
O, to live such a life!
Why don’t more business men thus make their lives
count for God and humanity?
And why was such a man torn so suddenly from
the bosom of his family? We cannot tell.
Out driving with his wife and children a frightened
horse did the awful deed. And as Douglas was
plunged Into sorrow last week by the sudden taking
Off of her beloved Mayor, so her neighbor, Waycross,
is in tears now over the tragic going of, perhaps,
The Golden Age for September 29, 1910.
It is time for all Protestants to wake up, and see
where they stand. If love of the Cause does not
inspire to effort, surely pride of Prot-
estantism will act as a substitute
lever. Not so effectively, to be sure,
but once aroused, it will be easier to
“get going.”
From an editorial clipped from The
Examiner, we propose to furnish evi-
What
Catholicism
Proposes
To Do
About It.
denee of the fact that the Catholics are sowing
dangerous tares while we sleep.
The twenty-first International Eucharistic Congress,
which was recently held in Montreal, was an occa
sion of many revelations, so far as the aims and
ambitions of the Eucharists are concerned. Quoting
from The Examiner, we give the following:
“Many of the high dignitaries of the Catholic hier
archy were in attendance, and the thousands of de
voted followers of the Roman system. Possibly never
before has the splendor of religious pageantry been
witnessed to so marked an extent on this continent.
All the theatrical functions, of which Rome is su
preme master, were in evidence, and the orators of
the Church used their most seductive arts of speech
to move and impress the masses of the faithful in
the city and to reach, through the press, the wide
world beyond.
“The ostensible aim of the Congress, viz., ‘to meet
the appalling growth of rationalism and religious
indifference characteristic of our times,’ is a worthy
one. With Rome’s understanding of these terms and
with the mediaeval methods employed to achieve her
end we are, needless to say, not in accord. In fact,
we believe that Rome’s meddlesome domination and
extravagant ceremonial are largely responsible for
the very conditions that she is now so belatedly and
unavailingly seeking to combat and counteract.
“We are glad, however, that the Eucharistic Con
gress this year was held on this continent, and that
the press has been giving such full publicity to its
doings. Why? Because the spirit of Rome is not
the spirit of the New World, and the Congress served
to make the contrast vivid and real to us. The surges
of unrest that mark our day and generation are not a
revolt against pure religion. They are rather the
result of awakened thought and insistent will to have
things better, freer, juster than they have been;
and awakened, insistent and free men do not make
blind followers of any system. The tide of progress
will not turn backward, and Rome’s costly, super
stitiuus and antiquated pageantry will not serve either
to make proselytes or to win back her wayward sons,
who have breathed into their lungs the freer atmos
phere of our age.
Besides, there has been a deal of revelatory non
sense talked at the Congress. Rome’s attitude to
America has been made plain. Read what Father
Bernard Vaughan, a somewhat voluble English eccle
siastic, had to say:
her most useful citizen. Mrs. Peabody, whose charm
ing sketches have appeared from time to time in
The Golden Age, will be too strong in Christian
faith to be utterly crushed by “sorrow’s crown of sor
row,” but she will dip her gifted pen into the wealth
of a tender Love and a chastened, brightened Faith
and make her fruitful life mean yet more and more
to the community so enriched by the life and memory
and so stricken by the loss of her princely Christian
husband.
The Scholar ’s Croton.
The unsought nomination of President Woodrow
Wilson, of Princeton, as the gubernatorial standard
bearer of New Jersey Democracy is
Woodrow a beautiful and inspiring evidence of
Wilson the crown which the scholar wears. Os
From course it is understood that this
President crown is not always worn by the
te mere scholastic —the bookish expo-
Pi'esident. nent of pedantry and research; but if
a strong man of affairs adds to his
practical mother wit the winsome charm and intel-
AT MONTREAL
“From what I hear of conditions in the United
States the Catholics will soon control that country
through force of numbers. Christian fecundity is
fighting sterile paganism. The battle for the pos
session of the world will soon be narrowed to the
Roman Catholic Church and the destructive forces
of agnosticism. Protestantism is disappearing. To
me nothing can be more contemptible than those
married women who shake their little fists in the
face of God, saying: ‘We ignore you and despise
your laws.’ The fever rush for pleasure is leading
them to paganism and the destruction of Carthage,
of Phoenicia, of Greece and Rome. Women no longer
want the trouble of rearing children. Children inter
fere too much with their pleasure, they figure. The
empty cradle and the empty church are the great
problems of modern life. Racial suicide and religious
suicide act and react upon each other. The Roman
Catholic Church stands alone in its enforcement of
the law of God concerning marriages, and the Roman
Catholic Church alone has no complaint to make of
empty pews. I can understand the unmarried woman
who feels that she does not want to be left out of
public affairs and who wants her share of the prizes
of life. I find no fault with her ambitions, but I
think it is a grand thing to see a woman taking in
washing. She is far better than her richer sisters,
who spend their time taking in men. I think it is
unfortunate that women have to work outside the
home, but it seems to be a necessary economic con
dition of the day.”
Father Vaughan’s remarks are largely flap-doodle,
but they are enlightening just the same. They make
patent three facts: Rome’s hope to control the Unit
ed States, her contempt for Protestantism and her
claim to be the sole depository of truth and the
supreme arbiter of man’s destiny—all of which we
sincerely question and most of which many of her
own followers disbelieve in their hearts today. One
who could see the more than 700,000 children troop
ing to the public schools in New York City on the
opening day this week, might well have his doubts
about the empty cradle proposition; and we are not so
sure about the empty churches, at least in the sense
in which Father Vaughan uses the words. Protest
antism is neither dead nor dying, and the United
States is a long way yet from being Roman Catholic.
The fling at American women is characteristically
priestly, and will disgust rather than convince or
convict. The reference to the marriage relations
has truth in it, but it is truth exaggerated. Decent
men everywhere are alive to this peril, and decent
men combined will in time find a remedy for this
•evil.”
■ * >;s * *
We have only to look to the atheism of Italy and
the unrest in Spain to catch the real sequel to Catho
lic domination. But it is far safer and saner to re
pulse an enemy from the city gate before he enters
than to eject a despot from his ill-gained throne.
lectual liberty of the real scholar along with the
bed rock imperative of character the world rejoices
to stand uncovered as he passes. Thus, America
watches Woodrow Wilson as he yields to the demand
of his party in New Jersey and enters the lists as
a probable Governor and a possible President. As
a historian and a student of governmental science
Woodrow Wilson stands at the top.
If he wins—if he wins, the numerous nominations
already given him for President will be largely mul
tiplied, and the fact that he is a native Southerner
—one time a Georgian—will not hurt his chances
And so it occurs that two Southern men are liable
to be struck by presidential lightning, for Joseph W.
Folk, of Missouri is a native Tennesseean, and, like
wise, a scholar, a gentleman, and a statesman. So,
whether it be Vanderbilt or Princeton, the South will
be honored and the scholar crowned.
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