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The Golden Age
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Doctors! Doctors!! Doctors! ! !
An editorial in The Christian Endeavor
World sums up in the following striking
fashion the finding of the
And 155 Carnegie Foundation for the
Doctor Factories Advancement of Teaching —
Continue to a title, by the way, which the
Turn editor says is in sad need of
Them Out. abbreviation.
The investigations of Mr.
Abraham Flexner, on medical education in the
United States and Canada bring out the fact
that there are 155 doctor factories.
Its conclusions, in brief, are:
1. That we have three or four times as many
doctors as we need.
2. That this is because we have three or
four times as many doctor-factories as we need.
3. That about three-fourths of the medical
schools do inferior work and turn out inferior
men.
4. That, therefore, the thing to do is to build
up the already strong schools and let the rest
go where Macbeth would have their physic
thrown, namely, to the dogs.
Well, it is easy, of course, for newspaper
writers, public speakers and practical jokers to
“throw oft"’ on doctors —and we confess that
a good many of them need throwing oft on —
or perhaps throwing at. A few incompetent
ones will soon go to the trash heap—but upon
the whole, our doctors are great “institutions.”
They get up at midnight or stay up all night,
and travel in all sorts of weather, wearing out
bodies, nerves and lives —often for very uncer
tain pay, in order to lift the shadows from
hearts and homes.
Among all these benefactors of mankind the
faithful country doctor is the HERO 1 . And
among them all and above all, the Christian
physician who can carry healing for the suf
fering body and balm for the sinking, soul—
the man whose tender “God bless you” is often
worth far more to the patient than all his med
icine and his skill —fills a place in our Chris
tian civilization which no other man can fill.
God give us MORE SUCH DOCTORS.
A Request From Nelv Zealand.
Dear Sir: I should feel favored if you or
any interested readers would kindly send the
address of the Religious Education Association
of America, or that of any kindred bodies
which have for their object the reading of the
Bible in the American State Schools (the Bi
ble is read only in part of the State Schools of
America.) Addresses of Orange Lodges and
religious newspapers will be welcome. An
nual Reports of Church conventions, contain
ing addresses of clergymen will also be of great
use.
It is intended to get, with the assistance of
your readers, the addresses of the American
Clergy and others interested, in order to send
to them a circular describing the New South
The Golden Age for February 16, 1911.
WHY NOT EVERY GOVERNOR?
In his bright, breezy “Snapshots on Prohibi
tion,” in The Atlanta Georgian, Rev. A. C.
Ward says:
Common “The people of Georgia are look-
Decency ing on Governor-Elect Smith to de-
Demands pose from office any and all prosecut-
It. ing attorneys and sheriffs who fail to
do full duty in regard to the viola
tions of the prohibition law.”
Why not? Why should not every Gover
nor of every state do the same thing every
time? Why should prosecuting attorneys
and sheriffs be held accountable to the chief
executive of the state for their fidelity in office
concerning everything but the liquor laws?
A dispatch from Washington quotes Col.
Cecil Lyon, the prominent politician of Texas,
as saying that the Lone Star
Cecil Empire will go dry on July 22d.
Lyon When politicians get to admitting
Predicts a prohibition victory, it “looks
Prohibition good” to the rest of us. Col.
Victory. Lyon says:
“About a quarter of a century
ago, Texas decided against prohibition by over
100,000 majority. On the 22d of next July the
people will vote on the same issue, and I am
of the opinion that this time prohibition will
carry. The verdict may not be by a heavy
majority, but it will be decisive. We have
had the whisky traffic stopped in most of the
counties for a long while under local option,
Wales (Australia) system of religious instruc
tion in State Schools.
The New South Wales (Australia) System
briefly described. (In vogue in N. S. Wales
for nearly 50 years.)
“1. The State Schoolmaster, in school
hours, teaches selected Bible lessons from a
reading book provided for the purpose, but is
not allowed to give sectarian teaching.
2. Any minister of religion is entitled in
school hours to give the children of his own
denomination an hour’s religous instruction
on such day or days as the School Committee
can arrange for.
3. Any parent is entitled to withdraw his
child from all religious teaching if he chooses
to do so.”
I would advise that Canon Garland, Secre
tary of the Bible in State Schools Party of
Queensland, Australia, (Address: Box 285, G.
P. 0., Brisbane, Australia) be invited to lec
ture in America and to organize a powerful
“American Bible in Schools Party,” and then
get the various States to take a Referendum on
the question of Bible reading in State Schools.
Postage to New Zealand is 2 cents. I am,
Yours truly,
SAMUEL PEARSON.
253 Cuba Street, Wellington, N. Z.
January 13th, 1911.
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TEXAS ”GOING DXI”
It is usually the same old story of a “loaded
question.” Maccaroni politicians are afraid
to touch it for fear it will “go off” —and alas!
real statesmen — fearless, uncringing statesmen
—are so rare!
It is a shame for the good name of a great
state to be dragged in the mud because prose
cuting officers are afraid of the liquor interests.
And a REAL GOVERNOR in any state can
change the complexion of the situation if he
really tries.
If he counts his hands technically tied, he
can lead a “law and order” crusade that will
untie his hands, dethrone unfaithful officers
and break up the defiant machinations of the
liquorized crowd —the crowd that makes no
account” officers and timorous governors.
but the people never desisted in their efforts
for state-wide abolition of the saloon, and
what the people persist in they usually accom
plish.”
But the vote of Texas a quarter of a cen
tury ago was the untaught act of the folly of
youth. Texas was then in “knee breeches.”
She was sowing her “wild oats.”
She is older and wiser now. That part of
her territory that has been partially dry so
long is an object lesson to the whole state.
And the aroused decency of Texas has deter
mined that a few liquor-soaked centers like
Forth Worth, Houston and San Antonio, shall
no longer rule the great Lone Star Empire.
“Let the congregation rise and sing!”
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A Great Woman Gone.
The recent death of Mrs. J. B. Gambrell, of
Texas, removes from the activities of life, one
of the truly great women of our
Mrs. J. B. time. If she had not been the
Gambrell consort and inspiration of Dr. J.
Leaves Old B. Gambrell who, as preacher, ed-
Warrior itor and organizer, is one of the
Fighting “moral mountain peaks” of the
Alone! century, she would still have been
a great leader among women and
workers in the Kingdom of God; but it was
only natural that this sacred relation should
add to her prominence. And yet Dr. Gambrell
humbly, tenderly declares that she largely
“made him” what he is. The beautiful truth
is that they, under God, made each other.
Mrs. Gambrell held up the hands of her great
husband as pastor, as college president, as
mission leader and editor, lighting up his way
as the “day star of his manhood and the even
ing star of his old age.”
' She died as she had lived—in the triumph
of beautiful Christian faith. “Into Thy hands I
commit my spirit” were her last words, and
the loved ones who watched her could almost
hear the stirring of unseen wings.
God bless the dear old Patriarch as he
stands in sorrow and fights on alone—yes, and
the children to whom she calls with “beckon
ing hands.”
