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The Golden Age
Published Every Thursday by The Golden Age
Publishing Company (Inc.)
OFFICES: AUSTELL BUILDING, ATLANTA, GA.
WILLIAMD. UPSHAW .... Editor
MRS. WILLIAM D. UPSHA W Associate Editor
MRS. G. B. LINDSEY . . . Managing Editor
LEN G. BROUGHTON, London, Eng. Pulpit Editor
H. P. FITCH Field Editor
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RUMMIES ON THE RUN.
Down at Valdosta they are “doing things”
in the cause of law enforcement. The “Owls”
are hooting and the Elks are “pow-
Valdosta erful skeered.” The highest offi-
Juries cer in the “Owl nest” has been
Convict gloriously convicted for practical-
Owls ly conducting a straight-out whis-
and Elks, key shop, and the ‘ ‘ high diver ’’ of
the Elks has “enjoyed the same
blessing.” Judge W. E. Thomas, who is a
righteous terror to evil-doers, gave the “Owl”
man the limit of the law —$1,000, so far as a
fine is concerned —but as there is something
like a dozen grand jury cases hanging over
the same man, woe to said offenders and others
like him if they persist in their devilment.
Judge Thomas will put stripes on them sure as
the world, if they don’t watch out.
The Elks have been on their knees and prom
ished to “be good.” And there is general con
sternation among the “rummies” of these
liquor-locker clubs.
Some stalwart citizens of Valdosta, deter
mined to guard the peace and good name of
their community, employed Judge Oscar
Smith, the veteran whiskey fighter, to help..
Solicitor John Wilkes and Col. Wilkes, him
self, determined to leave no stone unturned to
rout the law-breakers; retained Col. Buford
Copeland, the brilliant young lawyer who used
to be the orator pre-eminent at Mercer Uni
versity.
It was the privilege of the Editor of The
Golden Age to hear Copeland’s speech in the
“Owl’s” case, and it was a masterpiece. Every
body “felt like hugging him” when he sat
down —everybody but the “Owls” and the
Elks.
We were proud of the gifted son of our na
tive Coweta county.
One thing is certain—if all grand juries,
petit juries, judges, solicitors and patriotic
citizens will follow the example of those guar
dians of law and order whom we saw at .work
in valiant Valdosta, the “rummies” will be
on the run everywhere.
GREAT GATHERING OF CHRISTIAN BUSI
NESS MEN.
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history of Atlanta, famous for notable gather
ings.
Already registrations for this great event are
being received at headquarters, 502 Empire Life
Building, and indications point to all the reser
vations for the supper being taken in advance.
Parties from a distance are sending in their
names and registration fee so as to be assured
a seat, and as the railroads are offering reduced
rates, there is little doubt that many will avail
themselves of the opportunity to visit Atlanta
and hear these noted speakers discuss the
world-wide themes.
A Sign and a Promise.
It is unnecessary to say that the present
widespread missionary awakening is a sign and
a promise—a sign that Christians are coming
to look out of themselves unto the fields already
“white unto the harvest;” a promise of intend
ed consecration to sacrificial effort to obey the
The Golden Age for February 6,1013.
Some folks and some daily papers are
“mighty funny.” It seems they must talk or
“bust.” When Dr. Robert
Newspaper Stuart MacArthur, acting pas
“ Sensations” tor of the Baptist Tabernacle,
About Dr. gave up his pulpit last week
Broughton. to enter more fully into his du-
ties as President of the Bap
tist World Alliance, a lot of people began to
speculate about Dr. Broughton’s possible re
turn to his old pulpit. The newspapers of At
lanta, being like other city newspapers, of
course (or a little more so) wanted the “news,”
and they got it —all sort, kinds and colors.
Much of it handled the name of Dr. Brough
ton in connection with The Tabernacle pastor
ate in a very indelicate way, and the Editor of
The Golden Age felt constrained to make the
following protest in the daily papers of
Atlanta:
“To the Editor:
“As a close personal friend of Dr. Brough
ton and editor of the paper which he has made
his exclusive mouthpiece in America, I feel it
my duty to protest against the kind of news
paper stories which have, without warrant,
been connecting his name with the possible
pastorate of The Baptist Tabernacle. It would
not become either side in the controversy to
speak personally or collectively concerning the
matter, and inasmuch as I am not a member of
that noble Church, but have long been its faith
ful friend, and inasmuch, also, as I have had
opportunity to know Dr. Broughton’s heart in
the matter as perhaps no other man in Atlanta
outside of his own relatives, I think I am in
a position to speak with authority and fairness
to all parties concerned.
Unfair to Broughton.
“Everybody who thinks about it carefully
must admit that it is very unfair to a man
thousands of miles away across the seas to be
publishing big headlines, supported
speculation, running in one paper, ‘Dr. Brough
ton May Be Called,’ and then in the other, ‘Dr.
Broughton Will Not Be Called.’ The personal
opinions supporting these headlines can not be
more nor less than speculative speculation. It
should not be forgotten that Dr. Broughton
has been pastor less than a year of the most
historic Church in the metropolis of the world.
Under no consideration would he lay down that
work which he has just begun to organize to
come back to a field whose heavy burdens al
most cost him his life.
Dr. Osler Said Stop.
“Those who thoughtlessly complain that he
‘left the Church in the lurch’ forget that he
gave up his Atlanta work under the advice of
the most famous specialist in the world. After
examining him for a day spent at Oxford, Dr.
Osler said: ‘Dr. Broughton has been playing on
one chord in his nervous make-up for fifteen
years. He must get out of that particular
Great Commission. The open doors of the na
tions are swinging wider than ever before since
Jesus walked the earth, and challenging the
Church to enter and possess the land.
Atlanta a “Get-Togther City.”
Is it not time that the men of Georgia—the
reserves —are getting together for the Man of
Galilee? This is a get-together age. Men gather
for every purpose under the sun. Atlanta is
the get-together city. Why not get together
now to consider the supremest task, the evan
gelization of the world? The opportunities of
the Church, the needs of the field, the prosper
ity of the homeland, the command of the Lord,
all combine to constitute a royal challenge to
service, to conquest, to blessing.
Men of Georgia, awake! Atlanta, the gate
way of the nation’s heart, the incarnation of
the spirit of the New South, the city of fine
churches, hotels, auditoriums and conventions,
bids you come, and welcome.
A Protest Against Unfairness
type of nervous strain or he will be in the
grave or the asylum in less than two years.
If he comes to England he will breathe a, dif
ferent atmosphere. He will be free from finan
cial anxiety; he will have too much sense to
try to help King George run the government
for the first few years, and with the ground
work of his sermons for many years already
done, he can do a great work over here in
London, and at the same time get back his
vigor of mind and body.’
“This opinion of the world’s greatest nerve
specialist was given to Dr. Robertson, Dr.
Broughton’s London physician, when he went
to England to recuperate from his tragic col
lapse that followed the long strain of faith
ful work which was crowned by the comple
tion of the Tabernacle. And those who glibly
say that ‘Dr. Broughton ran from the burdens
that he had brought upon the Tabernacle’ for
get, or never knew, that he sat before his
faithful deacons and said these heroic words:
‘lf you brethren think or say that I got you
into this, and am now running from it, I will
stay and see you through, whatever the cost.
The doctor says that cost will be my life, but
I will lay it on the altar of this Church that I
love so well if you think I ought to do it. I
leave myself in your hands.’
“And with tears in their eyes those noble
men answered: ‘Go, Dr. Broughton—we be
lieve it is God’s w T ay of saving your life and
helping you to live many years yet to bless
the world. And we believe this same God who
has opened to you this wonderful door of oppor
tunity will lead The Tabernacle, under whose
burdens you are now staggering, out into ul
timate victory.’
Noble Words on Both Sides.
“These were noble words on both sides, and
in face of these facts no man should ever
charge Dr. Broughton with, having been un
faithful to the work which Campbell Morgan
has declared to be the ‘ most wonderful achieve
ment which any man ever accomplished in fif
teen years, since the days of Apostle Paul.’
“Dr. Broughton, of course, was the cause of
Dr. MacArthur’s being called to The Taber
nacle to supply as acting pastor until a perma
nent pastor could be secured. We all rejoiced
over the coming of this great man, who is a
world figure in the Kingdom of God, and
prayed with Dr. Broughton for the blessings of
heaven upon his short, but notable ministry
here. We sorrowed, of course, that any fric
tion ever came, but I personally know that Dr.
Broughton never sought in the slightest way to
keep his hand upon the affairs of the Church
whose pastorate he had relinquished with an
almost breaking heart.
‘When Dr. Broughton left Atlanta, as Dr.
Richard Orme Flynn said, ‘he had just come
into his own.’ All creeds and classes vied
with his own great congregation in doing him
every possible honor; all Churches united in
the movement which elected him director of
the great Atlanta Bible Conference, whose per
manence has been guaranteed by the signature
of 200 underwriters, responsible business men
all over this section, and the wonderful good
by service in The Tabernacle which he and his
loyal people had built, bathed 4,000 people in
tears while they sat for three hours listening to
tributes of love paid the man who has been
such an unspeakable blessing to Atlanta, and
such an inspiration to the Christian world. Dr.
Broughton is the same man now that he was
that night— true, brave, unselfish, golden
hearted. In the name of all that is fair, let
private individuals and newspapers quit say
ing and publishing things which reflect un
favorably upon the loyalty and the manhood of
Len G. Broughton, whose unapproachable
work and whose consecrated genius united in
making the greatest individual religious and
civic asset which this city and section have
ever known.