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The Golden Age
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Off ICES: AUSTELL 'BUILDING, ATLANTA, GA.
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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as second-aass matter
Mrs. Mary Baker Glober Eddy.
Because sin came into the world death abounds.
And yet Mrs. Eddy, the remarkable New England
woman who became the
High Priestess of founder of a new religion —
“Sinless” Creed Pays a religion that denies the
the Debt of Sin. fact of sin and the exist
ence of disease and matter,
has paid the debt which sin imposes and bowed her
own head to the ravage of Disease and the sickle of
Death.
What of Mrs. Eddy? Problem. She capsuled a
continent of blighting error in a gauze of fascinating
truth.
It is an awful thing to misjudge the hearts, and
motives of those who claim to be religious leaders.
But, frankly and dispassionately, we fail to see how
the founder of a benevolent religion could amass a
fortune of millions; how a woman who taught the
non-existence of sin could divorce a second husband
and marry a third, and how such humanely human
humanity could so characterize her secular dealings
with those about her.
Poor woman! Unhappy flowers! “If the light in
thee be darkness how great is that darkness.”
Joel T. Dabes.
The return of Joel T. Daves as Presiding Elder of
the Atlanta District, causes general rejoicing among
the progressive Methodists of
Beloved Presiding Georgia’s capital. We might call
Elder Comeis Back him “Rev.” or “doctor,” of
to Atlanta. course, if religion and scholar-
ship are any title to titles. But
from his school days at Emory College where, as the
youngest member of his class, he graduated with first
honor, his legion of loyal friends have liked to spell
his name clear out —Joel T. Daves.
With intellect as keen as a Damascus blade, with
scholarship as profound as any preacher of his years
—we might say of his generation—and best of all,
with mind and scholarship and ambition all bowing
at the heart’s sweet shrine of Faith, Joel T. Daves
has never let the “oppositions of science falsely so
called” lure him away from the altar where his good
old Christian mother and preacher-father consecrat
ed him, and where he stands today, a devout believer
in the Book and the Blood and a stalwart preacher,
defender and expounder of “old-time religion” with
all of its brightening transforming power.
Edgelvood Abe. Tights "Near Heer.”
Let prohibition communities far and wide take
warning from Atlanta’s “near-beer” mistake.
Our conditions in the capital
Why License a city of the pioneer prohibition
Thing That Must State of the South are far, far bet-
Be Fought? ter than under the reign of local
ized liquor shops. A decrease of
nearly five thousand arrests for drunks during 1910
as compared with 1907, the last year of bar-rooms,
is “moving some.” But in our honest wish to con
ciliate and “be merciful in victory” to the fallen
foe we allowed “near beer” saloons which alas! soon
developed into defiant real beer saloons. And while
beer does not produce quick and violent drunken
ness like “pop-skull” whiskey on every corner, a beer
The Golden Age for December 15, 1910.
COLLEGE ENTHUSIASM THAT COUNTS
If any editor in all the land could be acquitted of
the charge of apathy concerning that necessary ad
junct in our educational life
The Bible Studied known as “college spirit”, we
and Toasted at verily believe the writer of these
Auburn Banquet. lines is that individual.
The records are in his favor.
Indeed, time was during his college days, and even
since that exuberant period, when the very menton
of his name anywhere around in Georgia would pro
voke a smile and several “exclamation points” when
college enthusiasm was the topic of conversation.
Well, why not? A- thing worth loving at all is
worth loving well, and a thing worth doing at all is
worth doing with enthusiasm.
But the explosive point with this erstwhile Mercer
enthusiast was her forensic contests. Not that we
discounted athletics —far from it —but we always did
feel that a young collegian, who can delve into facts
and figures, weave them into a powerful argument
and thus overcome an antagonist, deserves far more
credit as an interpretation of the meaning of col
lege life than the fellow who can knock a three
bagger or kick a football over the fence.
Os course, if a school goes into inter-collegiate
athletics, then let her keep clean and do her best.
But we plead guilty yet to being an incorrigible
enthusiast about college forensics —intellectual
gymnastics, if you will —and we heartily wish that
every college in the land would make her higher life
her chiefest rallying cry instead of the fascinating
exploitation of her physical skill.
But a thousand times more than her intellectual or
physical prowess should an institution magnify the
mightiest force in manhood’s best upbuilding —the
moral and spiritual side in the student’s life. For
athletics may make giants, and intellect and elo
quence may create kings and princes of forum, but,
verily, these things are but “sounding brass and
tinkling cymbals” unless spiritual beauty and moral
grandeur support the college victor’s throne.
It has been a long time since we have seen any
thing about student life that pleases and stirs us
quite so much as the following press dispatch clipped
from the Birmingham Age-Herald about a recent col
lege event at famous Auburn. Read it all and bend
your energies to make such events paramount in the
life of the institution which is nearest to you in per
sonal touch and influence:
Enthusiasm Shown in Study of Bible.
It is proved now that the enthusiasm of college
saloon becomes an obnoxious rendezvous of the “low
and devilish” in any community, and Edgewood ave
nue is trying to drive the beer saloons from her sa
cred soil.
Amen! A loud, camp-meeting Amen!
But why Edgewood avenue only? Why should her
privileged precincts be counted more sacred than
Decatur street or busy Whitehall or stylish Peach
tree?
Why allow anything sold in Atlanta or any other
community that is so bad that it must be fought
off of any street? The decency and common sense
of this proposition will ere long fight its way into
the voting consciences of law-making citizens every
where.
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men is not a thing restricted to football, for as much
enthusiasm was displayed at Auburn College at a
luncheon and business session of the State Bible in
stitute as ever at a football game.
The success of the institute, which ended tonight,
is regarded as significant of a new purpose which is
instilled in the life of Alabama colleges. Three days
methods of Bible study and organizations for study
have been considered and addresses have been de
livered emphasizing the value of the study and the
message of the Book. As a result many classes have
been organized, some in the fraternity houses.
At the luncheon last night, which was given by the
college authorities in honor of the visiting delegates,
several short speeches were delivered by college men
who are interested in the work. Dr. C. C. Tach,
Auburn’s president; Dr. Weatherford, a Vanderbilt
graduate, who is engaged in the student Bible study;
Secretaries King, Ramsaur and Turner of the col
lege Young Men’s Christian associations at Auburn,
Alabama, and Georgia Tech.; Dr. Waters of the
Birmingham college faculty, and G. C. Housshell of
the Student Volunteer Movement, spoke of the work,
its manliness, its necessity and its freedom from
littleness.
The institute at Auburn, which has just closed, is
the first of its kind to have been held in the State.
Seven colleges of the State were represented, in
cluding Auburn. The others were the University of
Alabama, Greensboro, Howard, Owenton, Troy Nor
mal school and Abbeville Agricultural school.
Next year the institute will be held at Tuscaloosa.
And why not? We ask again—why should not the
student body of every college gather in its highest
and holiest enthusiasm about the altar of Sacred
Learning?
When William E. Gladstone declared: “Talk about
the questions of the day—-the question of the day is
Christianity!”—when Wiliam J. Bryan, the “Glad
stone of America”, bows from his worldly eminence at
the foot of the Cross with the faith of a little child
—when Charles E. Hughes rejoices to embrace the
saving faith of his preacher-father before him —
when Joseph W. Folk clings with passionate love to
the faith he learned at his mother’s knee, why,—
why should not every young collegian count it the
manliest of all manly things to offer the incemse of
his enthusiasm on the altar of the Nazarene and
bravely, humbly lay the foundation stone of life’s
pyramid upon the Rock of Ages?
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“John Barleycorn” and all his “kinfolks” might as
well pack their grips and get ready to move —move
off the universe!
“A CALL TO THE FAR WEST.”
Calvin, Okla., Dec. Bth, 1910.
The Golden Age,
Atlanta, Ga.
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It is too bad that we haven’t just such a paper in
Oklahoma to fight Mr. Booze. May God bless you in
your noble work.
Yours very truly,
ANDREW M. THOMPSON.
