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A SUCCESSFUL WHISKEY FIGHTER
J. J. Thomson and J, 'Richards Make Good Running Mates.
We are glad to present to the readers of The Gol
den Age this week the picture of a famous whiskey
fighter who is going to help “put the lid on tight”
in Georgia.
The Anti-Saloon League of Georgia has felt the
need of a special legislative man in its work, and
with the coming of Rev. J. J. Thomson to Atlanta,
it is thought this want is supplied. He is in charge
of a Mission Church of the United Presbyterian de
nomination, but is giving it but half time. The way
was thus open for the Headquarters Committee, at
the suggestion of Acting Superintendent J. B. Rich
ards, to secure his services for the other part of his
time.
He is a man of wide and successful experience in
Anti-Saloon League Work. While in pastoral work
in Ohio seven years ago he led the law and order
work and succeeded so well that he was given a
place with the Anti-Saloon League, and after a few
months’ training in Ohio, was sent to Oklahoma to
organize the league in that Territory. Under his
direction, and with the co-operation of the Indian
Territory organization, and that of the National
League, he saw in just three years the great and
notable victory of State-wide prohibition by consti
tutional enactment. Another year he spent in the
service of the State enforcing prohibition.
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THE WINNING OF BRIDGET MALONEY.
"Thank you, Bridget,” said Mrs. Williams, as the
new girl slammed the tray on the table before her.
A faint glimmer of surprise came into the sullen
face. "Huh?” she interrogated.
"I said, ‘Thank you.’ It was kind of you to climb
those long stairs,” responded Mrs. Williams pleas
antly.
“ ‘lt’s a new broom that sweeps clean,’ but it won’t
last,” muttered Bridget in her own domain.
But when day after day passed and she never
failed to receive the same perfect politeness from
her employer, her wonder increased.
Bridget was used to commands, but not to re
quests. She -was accustomed to a curt, supercilious
"That will do,” but not to a kindly "Thank you,
Bridget,” and she insensibly softened at the change.
Mrs. Williams treated her servants like human
beings, not like machines. And while she ever main
tained that nice reserve which forbade familiarity,
yet she scrupulously respected the rights of others.
"Sure, one would be a haythen to be sassy to
Mrs. Williams,” said Bridget, after a month’s stay in
her new home. "She has away of making ye feel
so polite and pleased with yerself that yez wants
to please her and I’ll stay with her as long as me
name is Bridget Maloney.”—E. M. C., in Mother's
Magazine.
The multiplication table is all right in its place,
but the multiplication table without the Sermon on
the Mount never made a man.”
The Golden Age for December 15, 1910.
REV. J. J. THOMSON.
RULING OUT THE BIBLE.
Dr. G. A. Nunnally, on Christian Education:
"Think of the tragedy: A certain state up North
has passed the law that no part of the Bible can
be read in her state schools and no lesson or illus
tration drawn from a Bible character.
"The teacher can talk of Alexander, but must not
mention Joshua; he can talk of Gibbons but cannot
mention Moses; he can speak of Jupiter and Juno
and Saturn but he cannot call the name of God.”
NOT COMMERCE BUT CHRIST.
Rev. Ed. Cook, the new missionary secretary, said
at the North Georgia Conference:
“The church holds the world’s greatest need.
"The darkened nations need not your commerce
—they knew how to trade and grow rich before
the Christian era; they need not our philosophies—
they have systems of brilliant philosophy that are
hoary with age. The sin-darkened world needs
Jesus Christ, and w r herever He goes through the mis
sion of the gospel—the nations are lifted —the dark
ness flees away.”
H. A. Ethridge, a consecrated Atlanta lawyer, said:
"I’ve been tithing for years, and I wouldn’t quit
it for anything. But let us not stop there. True,
we are not under law, but under grace, but let
us not live in disgrace while we are under grace.
I believe it is a spiritual disgrace for a man to
own an atftomobile before he has a missionary on
the foreign field.”
“TOO WISE TO FUSS.”
Dr. John E. White on Education: The democratic
position of a Baptist church gives opportunity for
all sorts of trouble. None of us would want to
belong to a church where we couldn’t have a “row”
if we wanted to, but none of us would want to be
long to a church that is always exercising its priv
ilege of having a “row.”
The Christian education of the masses will fill
the rank and file of the church membership with
people who are too wise and too good to fuss. The
wide diffusion of Christian education is the hope
of the church and the safeguard of society.”
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THE HEALTH OF THE KING IN GINGER ALE.
The new "teetotal” Lord Mayor of London will
drink the health of King George in ginger ale. King
Edward ruled that his health might be drunk in soft
drinks, and his ruling has been accepted by the
present king,
Florida next asked for his services as legislative
superintendent; and although the liquor men boasted
that they would control both houses of the legisla
ture, they were disappointed, and the Constitutional
Amendment was submitted in seventeen days to
the vote of the people, by a vote of three to one in
each house. Besides this Mr. Thomson handled suc
cessfully other temperance legislation at Tallahas
see, chief among which was the defeat of a very
shrewd attempt of the friends of the brewers to fast
en near-beer upon the State on the basis of a definition
of intoxicating liquors as those containing two per
cent, or more of alcohol.
It is understood that Mr. Thomson is to have
charge of the legislative campaign with a view to
securing some advanced temperance legislation
against beer at the next session of the Georgia Gen
eral Assembly. He will also handle much of the very
much needed law enforcement of the League. With
the other advance steps being planned for by the
League and the addition of a very able and influen
tial minister of the State as State Superintendent in
the near future, the indications are that the Anti-
Saloon League of Georgia will hammer away at the
liquor traffic until our State is absolutely free and
clean.
“THE CHILD AN ANARCHIST.”
"The child is an atom, an animal, an agnostic, an
anarchist and an atheist. He starts without intelli
gence; he follows his inclinations; he knows noth
ing until he is taught; he rebels at all law and fights
in his natural state the fact and authority of God.”
“And the school is expected to take this combi
nation and make an angel out of him.
“This herculean task can never be accomplished
by mental and physical training alone. Woodrow
Wilson declared recently that the Bible gives some
thing vital and saving to the college student that
nothing else can ever supply.”
"The state cannot be fair to all its citizens of
every creed, and no creed, and give the deep mean
ing of the Bible to its students, therefore, Christian
men who love their Lord better than they love their
gold must provide Christian institutions for the ear
liest, widest, highest possible training of their chil
dren.”
“Alcohol antagonizes every manifestation of life,
stamps every tissue with the seal of disease, depraves
the morals, and destroys the soul. Instead of the
‘elixir of life,’ ‘the fountain of Immortal Youth,’ it is
the essence of depravity, the grave of hope, the ad
vance agent of death.” So says Dr. Alex. Mac Nichol,
Prohibition candidate for Governor of New York.
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THE ESTIMATE OF A MISSISSIPPI LAWYER.
Gulfport, Mias., Dec. 7th, 1910.
The Golden Age,
Atlanta, Ga.
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ceeding pleasure to make this remittance for the
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EVON M. BARBER,
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