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The Golden Age
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OFFICES: AUSTELL BUILDING, ATLANTA, GA.
WILLIAM D. UPSHAW .... Editor
MRS. WILLIAMD. UPSHAW . Associate Editor
MRS. G. B. LINDSEY . . . Managing Editor
LBN G. BROUGHTON . . Pulpit Editor
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JOHN S. CANDLER’S BRAVERY.
It runs in the Candler family to have nerve
to do big, brave things. Bishop Warren A.
Candler proves every week, with
As Atlanta’s his pen and every day with his
Mayor Pro- tongue, that he is not afraid of the
Tem. He Devil in the gutter or of “spirit-
Shuts Up ual weakness in high places.”
Eight His brother, Asa G. Candler,
Locker shows a wholesome disposition to
Clubs. master his money instead of let
ting it master him by planking
down $75,000 at one clip to guarantee the Wes
ley Memorial Enterprises, the pride of Southern
Methodism. And Judge John S. Candler
bravely embraces his opportunity, as Mayor
Pro Tem. of Atlanta to veto eight lawbreaking
locker clubs out of business.
He didn’t have to— he could have managed
to sidestep the responsibility till Mayor Winn
came home. But we think Judge Candler
was like the old woman in Carroll county was,
about going back to live with her husband,
after being “parted”—he was “mighty glad
to get the chance.”
Judge Candler is being warmly congratulat
ed on all sides, especially by parents in and
around Atlanta, whose boys have been de
bauched by these devilish clubs.
Three cheers for John S. Candler! No good
man—no man of everyday, practical goodness,
will favor a whiskey-drinking social club and
no clean, brave man will fail to fight them.
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GEORGIA’S NEW W. C. T. U. EVANGEL.
The announcement that Mrs. Lem Gilreath,
of Cartersville, has been appointed as “State
Evangel” by the Georgia W. C. T. U., causes
everybody who knows Mrs. Gilreath, and who
is interested in the vital, abiding work of the
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, to con
gratulate the Georgia Union on this impor
tant forward movement.
To those who do not know this modest, gifted
woman, we feel impelled to say: Go and hear
her when she comes to your section; go, if you
have to crawl or camp over night! And if she
doesn’t come soon enough, send a letter or a
telegram after her, and bring her at the earli
est possible day. Brilliant in mind, graceful in
speech, and consecrated in heart, as few wo
men we have ever known, Mrs. Gilreath will
charm and bless all who crowd to hear her.
She comes from Cartersville —the famous
home of the nine celebrities: Sam Jones, Joe
Jones, evangelists; Bill Arp, the philosopher;
Dr. Felton, the great orator; John W. Aiken,
and Will J. Neel, the great temperance leaders,
who have all crossed over the river—and
among the living, Judge Fite, who hasn’t a
single beer saloon in his circuit; Mrs. Annie
Jones Cunyus, the “sweet singer in Israel,”
and Mrs". W. H. Felton, who, in life’s beautiful
evening yet abides to enrich the world with
her tongue and pen —and mark the words, it
will not be long before the greatness of her
worth and work will cause Cartersville to be
widely known likewise as the “home town of
Mrs. Lem Gilreath.” And the shining galaxy
of Cartersville celebrities will be increased to
TEN!
The Golden Age for October 31, 1912.
A GOOD MAN'S GREAT MISTAKE
We want to be fair to all men, especially to
every honest enemy of the liquor traffic. We
have shown this disposition to be
Chafin fair toward the leaders of the
Chafes National Prohibition Party by giv-
Because of ing space to the sane, though par-
Narrow tisan, articles of Mr. A. J. Orem,
Vision. of Boston, and by surrendering a
whole page this week to an argu
ment by that veteran soldier, Rev. L. L. Pickett
—an article published at the special request of
Chairman Henshaw, of the National Prohibi
tion Headquarters. Not satisfied with the at
titude of the Democratic, Republican and “Pro
gressive” political leaders on the liquor ques
tion, we are anxious for our readers to get hold
of, and sift all the argument possible that will
ultimately help us all to clean up or annihilate
the whiskeyized parties.
But, behold the great mistake of the National
Prohibition candidate, as well. Dr. J. B. Gam
brell, the grand old man “of Texas,” Editor
of The Standard, at Dallas, and long a party
prohibitionist says:
“According to a dispatch Mr. Chafin,
Prohibition candidate for President, recently
made a savage attack on the Anti-Saloon
League of America, saying its managers ought
to be prosecuted for getting money under false
pretenses seeing the saloons can never be closed
without a Prohibition party. It is a singular
Are Your Children Going to New York ?
Few men, if any, in the American ministry
have shown more practical grasp of the actual
problems of Christians living in
Pastor a great city than Pastor Chas.
Eaton Aubrey Eaton of Madison Avenue
Holds Out Baptist Church, New York,
a Warning, When he was pastor of Euclid
Friendly Avenue (Mr Rockefeller’s home
Hand. Church), in Cleveland, Ohio, the
papers tried to make a sensation
out of the fact that “the pastor of the richest
man in the world had actually preached to the
masses on the street.”
The inevitable “committee” of ministers
was appointed to confer with the Euclid Ave
nue pastor about “inaugurating a campaign
for street preaching.” The kindly, dark eyes
that illuminate some six feet four of the
“street preaching millionaire pastor’s physio
logical being beamed on the ‘committee’ ” with
penetrating power:
“Why, brethren,” came the somewhat dis
tressing and depressing answer, “just get a
few of your faithful members to gather around
you on some street corner and raise a hymn
to attract the crowd —then get up on a dry
goods box like I did and go to preaching.”
And so when this towering personality, but
refreshingly practical preacher, would help the
thronging thousands of young people who come
into the dangerous Gotham whirl he sets an
example to the other metropolitan pastors and
Churches by reaching out his own hand and
that of his great Church to all — before they
come and after they come.' We ask our read
ers to give his letter the widest possible cir
culation for the sake of the Gotham-bent and
the tempest-tossed:
“After some years of practical pastoral work
in the heart of New York City, I am impelled
on behalf of the Madison Avenue Baptist
Church, to make an appeal to pastors and par
ents throughout the land in the interest of
their boys and girls who come in a continuous
procession to New York. First of all I
say, do not let them come if it is possible to
give them a fair opportunity at home. But if
they must come, as they do come by the tens
of thousands, send them to some Church or
fact that the liquorites and the party pros are
allies in flieir vicious attacks on the Anti-Saloon
League. Liquordom attacks the League be
cause it is the most effective force fighting the
saloon business. The party pros fight it be
cause they think it is the way of party prog
ress. The Prohibition party could be useful
and once was in emphasizing certain features
of the general fight. But lately it has destroyed
its greatest usefulness by its foolish fight on
the most virile and effective Temperance force
in America. And doing this, it has driven from
it and out of sympathy with it, the sanest Pro
hibitionists in all the land.”
Alas, alas! that a great and good man like
Mr. Chafin, who would have us all to line up un
der his banner, will suffer himself to indulge in
expulsive abuse instead of winsome and com
pelling argument.
We still believe that with spotless Christian
statesmen like Woodrow Wilson and William
J. Bryan — prohibitionists in practice and pro
hibitionists in heart, leading the Democratic
party, and with the Republican party hope
lessly split and powerless, we will yet be able to
clean up the party of our fathers and cause a
prohibitionized Democracy to drive the liquor
traffic from the nation.
Meantime, we will keep on fighting to make
and keep her clean.
pastor immediately. On behalf of my Church,
which is located on the corner of Madison Ave
nue and Thirty-first street, and on my own be
half, I extend to all parents and pastors who
may read this an invitation to send your boys
and girls to us, unless you have other friends
in the city to whom you prefer to confide their
welfare. As soon as a young man or woman
reaches this city alone, every surrounding is
unnatural, and life becomes difficult beyond
belief. We endeavor to welcome all such to
our family circle as children, and to do for
them as we would have ours done by. These
boys and girls are the very best in the land,
and we must save them to the Churches and
to the country. We shall be very glad, indeed,
to assist in securing suitable boarding houses,
and in giving advice as to finding employment
where possible. But above all, we shall ex
tend to all young men and women sent to us
by pastors and parents a loving welcome.”
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EAKES SUCCEEDS COFER.
As the successor of the late beloved Rev. M.
J. Cofer, Business Manager and Associate Edi
tor of the Wesleyan Christian
New Business Advocate, Rev. Frank Eakes will
Manager be what Mark Twain said of the
of Wesleyan ocean, “a success.”
Advocate We are sure of it. He was
Is Colored four years the successful pastor
Just Right. of Wesley Memorial Church, At
lanta, doing foundation work in
the days when the work of a full-grown man
was required. Frank Eakes has made things
go wherever he has been pastor. But, in ad
dition to his being a strong preacher, he has a
clear business head on his shoulders. And that
head is colored just right.
A Texas paper said of the Editor of The
Golden Age— “hair, which one more dip would
have made red.” Frank Eakes got the other
“dip”—two of ’em, and we hope that the
blending of the golden heart and the golden
head of the new manager and associate editor
of the Georgia “Wesleyan” will cause a yet
more golden voyage of the ‘Old Ship” as she
turns her broadsides against the ramparts of
sin.
