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“NOW.”
“Rise! for the day is passing,
And you lie dreaming on;
The others have buckled their armor,
And forth to the fight are gone:
A place in the ranks awaits you,
Each man has some part to play;
The Past and Future are looking
In the face of the stern Today.”
—Selected.
AFTER FOUR THOUSAND YEARS.
Only once since the days of Joseph has
Egypt exalted a Hebrew citizen to a position
of prominence and power.
Hebrew To But now, after a lapse of
Rule Egypt, nearly four thousand years, the
Jewish Chronicle states that it
is rumored that Sir Matthew Nathan, Secre
tary of the postoffice, will succeed Sir Eldon
Corst as British Resident in Egypt.
Sir Matthew Nathan was formerly gover
nor of Natal.
We cannot predict with any assurance, just
what this return of Jewish prestige means to
the history of the Exile Race. But it may be
but the portal to the gracious reclamation
which the Old Prophets foresaw.
PRINCIPLE ABOVE PARTY.
With an approving twinkle in his eye Dr.
Thos. S. Potts said at the big Memphis ban
quet in behalf of the great Tri-
Patriotism State Hospital:
That “Since our honored Brother,
Counts. Gov. Hooper, cannot be here
it is fitting that his place, as
master of ceremonies, should be filled by the
man who elected Hooper—l present to you
Col. 0. C. Barton, of Paris.”
This eminent Christian lawyer, who was
chairman of the campaign committee of the
Fusion forces that put Ben W. Hooper in the
Governor’s chair in Tennessee was received
with stirring enthusiasm and presided over
the greatest banquet Memphis ever saw
with the ease and grace of a banquet-master.
But this is not the story. It was a remark
made by Col. Barton to the editor of The
Golden Age that night. “I have been a life
long Democrat” he said “and I didn’t vote for
Ben Hooper because he was a Republican, but
because he, with all of his ability, is a Chris
tian gentleman.”
And thus this distinguished Tennesseean
sounded the keynote of that stalwart politi
cal independence which always masters party
machinery, manipulation and money.
In Tennesse the “whiskey devil” and all of
its attendant elements of corruption had to
be fought and it was a time for manhood to
stand together irrespective of party lines.
Such patriotism as Col Barton expressed
always exalts Principle above every form of
political devilment. Parties must keep clean
if they expect the fealty of men who are
clean and brave.
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The Golden Age for June 1, 1911.
The untimely death of Gen. H. M. Strat
ton, commander-in-chief of the Boy’s Bri
gade of America, removes
Taps Sounded from the sphere of Chris-
For Noble tian activity one of the
Commander nobly notable men of this
of the generation.
Boy’s Brigade. The Boy’s Brigade is a
military organization of
boys—chiefly in their ’teens—with Christian
fellowship and manly ideals, whose supreme
purpose is to win and hold boys in their
formative age to everything that makes for
stalwart Christian manhood. The military
feature attracts “Young America,” while the
ultimate spiritual purpose is kept steadily
before the boys, leading them to desire above
all things to be true “soldiers of the cross.”
The organization is taking hold especially in
our larger cities, and the work was given a
tremendous impetus by the organizing abil
ity and unselfish devotion of Gen. Stratton.
Failing health caused him to try to resign a
year ago, but the heroic boys and their offi
cers would not hear to it.
When the Editor of The Golden Age met
General Stratton at Daytona, Fla., in Febru
ary, the “shadows” of the Great Beyond
were evidently settling about him, but hop
ing almost against hope, and tenacious of
life because of its opportunities of service tb
his beloved “boys,” an invitation was given
DUKE GIVES ALL TO HIS KING.
It was worth a lifetime of labor and sacri
fice to have been used of God to bring such an
hour as Hardy Z. Duke brought
Twenty to the great Southern Baptist
Stores Convention at Jacksonville last
At Work week. The Laymen’s Movement
For God. was under discussion when Mr.
Duke was asked by the chairman
to tell the story of God’s wonderful blessing
upon his “tithing” in business. Humbly and
modestly the plain business man talked, and
those who were there will never forget the
effect of that beautiful story.
Beginning with S7OO, sixteen years ago, he
took God into partnership with him, prom
ising to faithfully give one-tenth of every
thing he made to God and His work. Soon
he began to give an eighth, then a sixth, then
a fifth, then a fourth, and now he owns twen
ty stores.
“If a man says he cannot know just how
to get at the tenth, if it were coming your
way you would get at the tenth,” said the
speaker. This brought laughter and enthu
siastic “amens” from the audience.
When the Texan’s simple, earnest story
had been modestly told. Dr. George W. Tru
ett, pastor of the Baptist Temple in Dallas,
arose and said: “I must tell it, for God’s
glory. That man is one of my deacons. I
have had the privilege of watching the
growth of his business and his holy joy
through most of these years. And last
Christmas he came to me and whispered:
‘Pastor, my operating capital has reached a
hundred thousand dollars, and now I have de
termined to give all the income of my twen
ty stores, above an actual living, to my Re
deemer and His kingdom. Every week I’ll
be around to confer with you about where
the money will do most good.’ ”
As these words were uttered the great con
vention sprang to their feet and sang “Praise
God, From Whom All Blessings Flow.” Tears
were in many eyes, and many on the crowded
stage pressed forward and grasped the hand
of the modest man who sat in happy tears,
with bowed head.
It was the greatest spiritual hour of the
convention.
GENERAL H. M. STRATTON
his Georgia friend to come to Brooklyn as
his guest and address a great city mass meet
ing of the Boy’s Brigade—Five Thousand
Strong.
How the dream of that vast deathless op
portunity had lived in the writer’s thought
and heart—plus all the golden days of Chris
tian fellowship in H. M. Stratton’s home!
Now that dream of Brooklyn fellowship
has passed out forever unreturning to “The
haven under the hill.” But we shall renew
it, thank God, where “taps” are never more
sounded, and where the pain of body which
we witnessed is lost forever in the glory of
unspeakable Peace.
Let the Boy’s Brigade remember that they
must “double quick” now in their march to
make up for the princely stride of their great
commander.
To Mrs. Stratton and the stricken children
who sorrow with her, with all the bereft bat
talions of the Boy’s Brigade of America, we
waft the fullness of Christian sympathy
from the saddened warmth of Southern
hearts and the tear-dimmed brightness of
Southern skies.
Verily, the ranks of wholesale lumbermen
in New York will keenly feel the loss of this
great Christian merchant, but the Knights
Royal in the Grand Tournament of the skies
are rejoicing over the coming of a Christian
Prince from among the sons of men.
TREADING THROUGH BIBLE LANDS.
On another page of this issue, we have the
great pleasure of publishing the first of a
series of articles that are to
Dr. Eager be given to The Golden Age
Writes readers. These articles come
Interestingly to us from the racy pen of
Os His Tour. Dr. John H. Eager, who is
now making a tour of the
Orient.
Dr. Eager has for a number of years, de
voted himself largely to travel, and has so
familiarized himself with the language and
customs of the various European countries,
that he is now disseminating his valuable
knowledge in a very helpful, practical way.
Through an organized company, known as
The Eager Tours Company, under the man
agement of his son, Mr. J. Howard Eager,
Dr. Eager gathers about him a party of trav
elers, and carries them on a tour.
Quite a number of itineraries have been
selected, and any person wishing to tour Eu
rope or the East would do well to join Dr. Ea
ger on one of his notably interesting and edu
cational trips.
For information concerning the tours, ad
dress The Eager Tours Company, 306 N.
Charles St., Baltimore, Md.
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