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The Golden Age
Published Every Thursday by The Golden Age
Publishing Company (Inc.)
OFFICES: AUSTELL BUILDING, ATLANTA, GA.
WILLIAM D. UPSHAW .... Editor
MRS. WILLIAMD. UPSHAW . Associate Editor
MRS. G. B. LINDSEY . . . Managing Editor
LEN G. BROUGHTON . . Pulpit Editor
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A GOD-FEARING NATION.
It is a wholesome thing when a great paper
like the Memphis Commercial Appeal issues a
trumpet-call to the people as a whole
The Only to “keep their souls clean, their
Nation minds pure and put their trust in
That the Lord.”
Endures. That sterling patriot, A. A. Gra
ham, Cashier of the Bank of Blue
Mountain, at Blue Mountain, Miss., keeps his
ear to the ground always for anything and
everything that can make for good citizenship
and better government. He goes out in the
rural districts on Sundays or on week-days,
and makes plain heart-to-heart talks to the
people, white and black, about the simple, sav
ing truths of God. He wisely says that if the
truths of the Bible don’t make white people
and negroes get along better together then
nothing will—and he has more faith in the
truths of God than he has in the lies of men.
It is little wonder that a sane Christian citi
zen, of such ideas and such ideals should be
sending to The Golden Age to which he is such
a loyal friend, the following editorial comment
from the Commercial Appeal on the recent
presidential election:
“The nation yesterday was divided into five
lections. Today 90,000,000 people are behind
man, and as head of the nation he will have
of the citizens of the greatest re
hc that man, under the goodness of God,
Contrived to set up. That republic will
kdust so long as the people keep their
their minds pure, their honor un
■Lput their trust in the Lord.”
™oble words from Editor Mooney,
framed and hung on the wall
■d in the office of every man in
The Golden Age for December 19, 1912.
THA T LA W-BREAKING SA VANN AH
Quite a flurry has been created by the wide
spread publicity given to the fact that liquor
dealers in Savannah are sowing
But down Georgia with advertisements
Savannah seeking orders for “Christmas
Does whiskey.”
Not Os course whiskey sympathizers
Represent on the outside will try to make out
Georgia. to the world that Savannah is a
representative of the general law
breaking in Georgia. But everybody who
knows anything, knows that most of the whis
key leaders are given to open out and out pre
meditated lying. Plain talk (but no other term
will express it). Because two or three towns
like Savannah and Augusta, in Georgia, and
Chattanooga, Nashville and Memphis, in Ten
nessee, choose to be beer guzzling, whiskey
drinking, law-defying, spots of moral darkness,
the whole state should not be charged with law
lessness, and nobody but a political goose or a
whiskeyized gander will make such a charge.
But the fact remains that these undesirable
citizens in Savannah are doing their best to
bring the prohibition laws of Georgia into dis
repute and fill their pockets with filthy coin at
the same time. Some weeks ago we were
forced to condemn The Atlanta Georgian for
saying that drink does not cause poverty, etc.,
and a general disposition toward “yellowness”
in printing sensual and suggestive pictures on
its front page, but as we were reluctant to
make that criticism concerning a paper which
we had long held in such high esteem, we are
quick to commend now, the following extract
from The Georgian’s vigorous editorial on
“Whiskey and the Law.”
“It may be that Savannah thinks it a fine
joke that ‘blind tigers’ can not be convicted
in that metropolis, no matter how boldly they
ply their trade. It may be that Savannah fails
to see in the keeping of an open whiskey shop,
America who wants to be a real patriot.
Let that truth be ever before the citizen and
always in the citizen’s heart —that “righteous
ness alone exalteth a nation,” and that the ir
reverent, Godless citizen is incapable of the
highest type of American patriotism.
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THE GOSPEL OF MANLINESS.
On another page in this issue will be found
the forceful, the unusual, letter of acceptance
which Dr. Junius W. Millard, read
Millard’s to Jackson Hill Church, only a few
Deathless months ago. We urge every preach-
Influence. er, every church member, and every
body w r ho ought to be a church
member to read that letter more than once.
And while thinking of this living message of a
great man, now dead, we remember that Dr.
Millard had just announced a striking series
of sermons on “The Gospel of Manliness.”
“He lived what he preached.” We hope to
learn that they have been put into manuscript,
and can be given to the world, taking their
place beside his notable book, “Life’s Tomor
rows.” Ah! Brave heart, thy “Tomorrows”
have become one bright, everlasting day.
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METCALFE FINDS A MATE.
It is not good for any man to be alone, and
especially a preacher. Pastor A. B. Metcalfe,
the popular leader of the Fifth Avenue Baptist
saints at Rome, proves his faith in this whole
some doctrine by taking unto himself an as
sistant pastor of the very best sort. She was
Mrs. Lillie Farnum, of Cuthbert, Ga., a gradu
ate of Bessie Tift College, and a great church
worker. His beautiful bevy of noble daughters
are already missionaries indeed, and his fair
“assistant pastor,” we are sure, will add great
ly to his usefulness in the church which his
ministry has so greatly blessed.
despite the laws prohibiting that, an undesir
able citizen. It may be that Savannah is a lot
of things that other cities are not, nor yet hope
to be.
But Savannah is not the state of Georgia,
and Savannah law breakers should, at least,
be made to operate inside their own illegally
permitted field of endeavor, no matter how
disgraceful that may be to Savannah, unless
it be determined to call the Savannah law
breakers’ hands entirely.
Every lawyer knows it is against the law to
solicit whiskey orders in Georgia, by mail or
by word of mouth. It should be an easy matter
to convict one of these mail order ‘tigers’
in Savannah —if not in the state courts, then
in the federal courts.
And now that the authorities of Chatham
county are aware of the names of persons al
leged to have been violating the prohibition
laws of Georgia by soliciting mail orders for
whiskey to be shipped out of Savannah, it will
be interesting to watch and see what comes
of it.
Will the solicitor general do his duty in Sa
vannah? Will the judge of the superior court
direct the grand jury’s attention to the facts
in the case?
If not, inquiry might be made of the federal
authorities with an eye to seeing whether the
IT. S. mails may be used to defy the laws of
Georgia inside the state of Georgia.”
Whereupon we have this to add: If The
Georgian, or any other great daily paper will
just keep up that lick in any state and lead a
blazing, blistering campaign for the unhorsing
of such defiant devilment, the deed will be
done.
We hope Georgia’s present governor will im
mortalize himself by joining in; yea, leading
such a wholesome campaign.
A PREACHER’S HELP CALLED HOME.
That was a sad message that flashed over the
telegraph and telephone wires throughout
South Georgia last week, saying: “Find Rev.
J. I. D. Miller, of Macon. His wife dropped
dead today.”
The faithful preacher, in addition to pastor
al work at Newton, is giving part of his time
as field worker in the endowment campaign
for Bessie Tift College, and he was out in the
country prosecuting his work for the Chris
tian education of women when the news finally
reached him announcing that the one woman
who had been his stay and helper through so
many trying years, when he was seeking an
education for himself, had been called to her
reward. Every preacher whose loyal wife
“stays by the stuff” at home while he is fight
ing the battles of the Kingdom in the field,
will think he knows how to let his heart go
out to this stricken worker now —but he can
never really know, until such a blow falls upon
him.
Entering college almost in middle life, and
graduating at Mercer University, at an age
when most men count themselves half through
life’s battles, J. I. D. Miller knew the full
meaning of that wifely fellowship which pours
itself out for husband and his usefulness.
Naming his Mercer-born son Calder, in hon
or of Calder B. Willingham, the principal
philanthropist, who helped the struggling fa
ther through Mercer, J. I. D. Miller has kept
young in his sleepless enthusiasm for his alma
mater in particular, and Christian eudcation
in general. And the faithful wife and mother
was helping Calder, the son, to make his father’s
alma mater his own, when she answered God’s
summons to come up higher.
Verily, such a woman labored not in vain.
She will live on in the larger usefulness of hus-