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The Golden Age
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MORE TIME FOR THE “D. D.’s.”
When we announced that the replies in the
“D. D. contest” would appear in our New
Year number, we had not calculated that it
would be impossible for replies mailed at mid
night of December 31st, to reach us in time
for this issue.
It is a “funny” fact also, that of all the
replies that have come, not a single soul has
written in favor of the “D. D.” title.
Surely, there has been an oversight. While
we honestly oppose the practice of conferring
the degree on preachers of the gospel, we recog
nize the fact that many of our good friends —
some of the best men in the world, are in favor
of the title and wear it with unmixed pleasure.
Will not some of these defend the thing they
so much enjoy?
Therefore, “be it resolved,” That we give
one more month to this contest, and urge not
only the opponents of the title to write of its
evils, but the friends of the title to write on its
benefits.
Let the answers come within fifty words,
and reach this office not later than February
Ist.
The best answer on each side will get as a
prize a Life Subscription to The Golden Age.
Come along, “D. D.’s!” Come along!
BRYAN PRACTICES WHAT HE PREACHES.
When disappointed politicians rise up to
“cussify” William J. Bryan—men who would
have counted him a kingly hero
The Great if he had only been elect-
Commoner ed President, but who traduce
“Touches Not and malign him now because his
The Unclean powerful ability and his “reg-
Thing.” nant conscience” have thwart
ed the march of their selfish am
bitions —it is always refreshing, at such times,
to think of the “Great Commoner’s” character
that is untarnished —the Christian manhood
that even his enemies dare not assail.
When he, refusing to be a “Boozocrat,” de
clares himself a Prohibition Democrat, forever
more, no man can declare that “he preaches
one thing and practices another.”
It is an inspiring example which he sets am
bitious young men in America and the world,
when his wine glass, at banquets, in his own
honor remains “turned down,” and when, in
the conference of the cloister or the story-tell
ing of the hotel lobby, he never utters a word
that could not be spoken in the presence of a
lady.
The last number of the North Carolina Issue,
referring to Mr. Bryan’s recent visit to Raleigh,
says:
Hon. William Jennings Bryan, in his
great and timely speech in the Raleigh Au
ditorium on November 18, stated that
since childhood he abhorred the wine cup,
that from infancy his mother and father
had trained him to dread that “which bit
eth like a serpent.” He said: “When I
signed the pledge I do not know, but I
should guess it was when I learned to first
write my name, or it might be that I made
The Golden Age for January 2,1913.
Time is deliberately marking the pass
ing years, and moving resistless to its last
little day—steadily on, and noiseless as an
angel’s wing, unobserved by the great
throngs of human beings at work or play
through the few fleeting years we call life.
All pause awhile on the brink of the
years and He down, silent, to sleep till end
less morning breaks.
Does time grow weary in its monotonous
flight as the world grows hoary with age
—its destiny wrought, its doom forever
sealed?
And when its tragic passage is ended
and earth lies silent, shrouded in deadly
gloom, will time retrace its course and
pass more swiftly across its abandoned
waste and gaze but for a fleeting moment
upon the dismal scene once quick with
* life, now wrapped in calm repose and
then on glad fleet wing mount up to God
to bask on seas eternal, while with voice
omnipotent He shall proclaim that “Time
shall be no more?”
But, Oh, the dream! I have been borne
forward upon its fancied form until lost
to the stern realities of a New Year’s day
in this swift age of deed and daring.
my mark while mother held the pen. The
number of times I have signed it since I
can not tell, and now I never lose an op
portunity to sign it when thereby I can get
some other brother to sign with me.”
Noble words from the great molder of ideals
and the “Warwick of politics!”
Let drinking pigmies ponder—and let Youth
everywhere acclaim and follow!
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DUBOSE DEMOLISHES BIBLE CRITICS.
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particularly hopeful agents of this promotion.
If we presume to have the spirit of our com
merce steered by the stars, as once our ships
were steered, the evangelization of the world
will have come into view. When the Bible
rules in business life, the day will have come
when it shall rule in all the world. By so
much as it is depreciated, therein, by so much
are our hopes and ideals made impossible.
The Bible is not only the source, but it is also
the pledge, of our civilization. What we know
as enlightenment could not only not have been
without the Bible, but without its presence as
a test it can not continue to be. Without it
no social order, no commercial interest, no do
mestic tradition, could be steadfast
If one alleges, in objection to this, that some
nations, as those of eastern Asia, have come to
certain conditions of civilization without the
Bible, it need only be said in reply, that the
modern transforming ideals of these nations
have been influenced by the civilization of
western peoples, themselves a product of Bible
teachings. If this should not be accepted as
an answer, it might then be asked of these re
vilers of the Bible if they would consent to
exchange birth and life in a Bible land for
birth and life in one of these Mongolian lands
—in China, in Burma, or in Thibet! That the
laureate affirmed the truth when he sang:
“Better fifty years of Europe
Than a cycle of Cathy, ’ ’
is due to the difference between the Gospel and
the Koran, the Veda, or the Precepts of Confu
cius.
Every Christian State must defer to the Bible
in matters of the higher ethics. Its laws must
be Bible laws, conceived and shaped in the
spirit of Bible teachings, for the reason that a
NEW YEAR’S DAY-A VISION
But in the midst of the dreams and vis
ions of the coming year, and meditations
upon sweet memories of the past, let me
not forget the appealing voices of the
Eternal Now.
Historian and prophet, one stands on
the nexus of the two measured periods
nearest, while the voice of the historic
mingles with the voice of the prophetic
year, bewildering, confusing, alluring, and
tempting one while trying to listen both
to the feeble echoes of the tragic past, and
the hopeful calls of the triumphant future.
The year nineteen hundred and twelve
has glided into the ever-widening gulf of
time, stretching back to “in the beginning
God,” and into this bottomless abyss, as
into eternal oblivion, let there be cast ev
ery tragedy, fault, foible, failure, regret,
of every life; and thou, Oh, Star of Hope,
rise in the twilight of the coming year,
and shine resplendent through every dark
night, and vanish only at the dawn of ev
ery bright and happy day, whose noonday
sun shall flood the world with light and
every needed blessing.
W. A. JORDAN.
Starkville, Miss.
vast majority of its citizens have been born,
and have developed, under the influence of
these teachings, and hold them to be final tests
of moral and civic conduct. The logic of this
leads to the necessity of recognizing the Bible,
not only as a proper guide and stimulus, but as
an indispensable authority in public education,
both moral and intellectual; a volume to be
read and used in the schools of the State, both
primary and advanced.
Shall Hundreds Destroy the Ideals of Millions?
The fact that any number, small or large, of
the patrons of the public schools might with
hold faith from the Bible, or that they should
believe in the Koran, the Veda, the Zend AVes
ta, or the Precepts of Confucius, or in no book
or authority whatsoever, constitutes no argu
ment against the right or duty of a Christian
State to recognize and promote the use of the
Christian Scriptures. Until the State be
comes, both in its spirit and in the letter of
its laws, Mohammedan, pagan or anti-Chris
tian, the logic of its life and institutions de
mands the exaltation of its real charter and
constitution —the Bible.
The objection, therefore,' that “hundreds,
who do not even believe the Bible, send their
children to the public schools,” and, therefore,
the Bible should be outlawed from these
schools is specious and nihilistic to a most dan
gerous degree. Shall these hundreds subvert
the consciences, ethical ideals, social institu
tions and laws of these millions, who do believe,
and who have founded in their faith a com
monwealth for their own defense and happi
ness, and as an asylum to those thousands who
through Old World oppressions, have come to
that moral and political state in which they do
not know their right hand from their left?
The matter of retaining the Bible in the public
schools, and in the seat of public acknowledg
ment, is not to come of the dictation of denom
inational creeds to the State, but as the result
of a simple and direct effort to maintain the
best ideals of morality, and preserve respect for
the State’s own rule and laws. This defer
ence demanded of the State for the Bible, is
not only what is due the Book, but is what the
State owes itself, that it may continue to hold
the confidence of its citizenship. It is not that
the Bible will perish if rejected by the State,
but that the State must inevitably perish if it
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