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8 As I stumbled in the pathway, Feeling all was dark and drear, To my soul there came a Presence, Speaking words of hope and cheer. “Be not anxious,” said the Master, Fret not, neither be afraid; Tread the path with faith and courage Be ye strong and undismayed. “Bear in mind I’m always with thee, Tea, am with thee to the end; x ES, I attended a beautiful fun eral last week —Monday, Mar. Bth. Since death must come and funerals must be, it gives a golden tinge to the sombre sunset when the Christian’s faith and hope light up the hour of sorrow, shining through falling tears like the rainbow promise of God. I had known and loved “Birt” Jones for a dozen years —I knew the rare fellowship that bound him and his next door neigh bor, Dan Hammack, together, and it gives genuine pleasure to have that true-hearted comrade pay tribute here to his neighbor, friend and Christian brother. W. D. U. Editor Golden Age: In the passing away of Bro. A. J. Jones, of College Park, Ga., and for many years a citizen of Coleman, a strong and useful Christian man is gone. In the solemn compact which be and I made years ago—that when either of us died, the one surviving, with our pastor, Bro. W. W. Arnold, should attend the funeral and make some little testimony of his life, I did not think at the time that such duty and responsibility would ever fall on me. But the unexpected occurred, and being inefficient orally to portray even the faintest conception of the personnel of “Birt” Jones in his real worth to church, society and civiliza tion, I shall ask you to let me carry out this responsibility through your paper. Birt could do more to the square inch that was worth being done in the unpretentious life that he lived than anybody I ever knew. For him to un dertake a thing meant success. When he was secretary and treasurer of our church he always got all the funds that were needed for every purpose without trouble to anyone. As super intendent of the Sunday School he had the happy gift of filling the whole school with his own enthusiasm. As a peacemaker when friends and broth ers had fallen out, he had no equal. He was an adept in helping a totter ing, stumbling brother to his feet again, ever patient with his faults and gradually leading him back to right paths . A Born General in Fighting Vice. He was a real general in combating vice and routing it out of the com munity. On one occasion while mayor of our town, he saw being unloaded from the train a keg of beer which had been ordered by some of the young men, this being their first ven ture in that directions; and he prompt ly ordered it seized by the marshal and locked up in the calaboose. He did not consult much law, he just did things that were right, and that he knew ought to be done. As a friend he was a real Gibral- THE GREAT LEADER. A Beautiful Funeral Dan Hammack Pays Tender Tribute to “Bert” Jones. NEWS FROM THE WORKERS I have from a servant raised thee To the honored place of friend. “Be courageous, firm and steadfast, If thou wouldst deserve the crown; There is no disgrace in falling; The disgrace is staying down.” Then I rose, with freshened courage, Ready once more for the fray; And, with strength Divine supported Faced the conflict of the day. —H. S. J. Penison. tar, always true in time of need and fully to be relied upon. Birt loved good people with all his soul. To be Christlike was the “idol of his affection.” I don’t mean that he never sinned; he did many things that, perhaps, were wrong, but the evidence of his conversion was as strong as we find in the Bible, for he truly loved the brethren. Os course he made some enemies—all men of bis aggressive spirit do that. I had some friction with him myself, but thank the Lord He led us both to un derstand that our sins were not fitting luggage to carry along in Christian warfare and we laid it all aside and loved each other in Christ’s name and for His sake. And as we worked to gether under His yoke we loved each other more. That was the only rea son he wanted me to be present at the closing service of his life. He knew that any effort on my part at eulogy on his life could be nothing but a blundering failure. While it was sad and sorrowful for me to look on his pale but peaceful face with the realization of its being the last time, yet I would not have missed that privilege for anything. It was one of the saddest pleasures of my life. Well, Birt, your ticket of brotherly love and manifest interest in the sav ing of souls, was too well established to leave any doubts of your safe voy age over the shadowy deep. The lit tle group, Brethren Knowles, Arnold, Ray, Brown, Rogers, Hall and others so often mentioned in your letters to me those whom you so joyously la bored with while in Coleman, will fol low on, one by one, and perchance the same oak trees that shaded us in sweet communion and fellowship around Coleman will be typified when we all have crossed over and joined you on the other shore. Our garments are all measured and cut by the same pattern as yours and the Perfect Laun dry that whitened yours as the drifted snow will also cleanse ours. Only a little while, and we’ll all be there. Your loved ones left behind shall have our earnest prayers and deepest concern. Fare thee well, my comrade-brother, until we meet again! DAN W. HAMMACK. Coleman, Ga. MAKE PLANS NOW TO ATTEND THIRD NATIONAL DRAINAGE CONGRESS, Which will be held at the Planters Hotel, St. Louis, Mo., April 10, 11, 12, under the auspices of the Conventions Bureau, for the purpose of securing the creation by the United States of a National Drainage Convention, with ample power and funds to evolve and The Golden Age for April 3, 1913 Georgia’s Sunday School Convention The Program Committee for the An nual State Convention of the Georgia Sunday School Association, which is to be held at Elberton, April 22-23-24, has planned a program on which more than twenty-five of the leading Sun day School workers from various parts of the State are to take part. Among the speakers are: Mr. Join J. Eagan, of Atlanta; Rev. J. L. White, D.D., of Macon; Mr. John D. Walker, of Sparta; State Supt. of Education, Mr. M. L. Brittain, of Atlanta; Mr. Frank L. Mallary, of Macon; Rev. H. M. Dußose, D.D., of Atlanta; Mr. C. A. Rowland, of Athens; Mr. W. D. Upshaw, of Atlanta. In all there are more than twenty-five speakers. The program provides for the open ing session to begin at 7:30 p. m., April 22d, and runs through the 23d and 24th, closing at 9:30 on the night of the 24th. The speeches are to ba on various methods of Modern Sun day School work. Preparations in Elberton. Mr. W. M. Wilcox, of Elberton, is Chairman of the Committee on the Arrangements for the Convention, and the church people of Elberton are making elaborate preparations sorer.- put into effect a comprehensive na tional plan for: 1. The protection of the public wel fare by the drainage and reclamation of the 75,000,000 acres of swamp and overflowed lands in the United States, and their utilization for agricultural purposes; 2. The protection, by drainage and reclamation, of the public health, which is constantly menaced by the existence of these swamps; 3. The protection, by levee construc tion and other means, of the people and their lives, their homes and their lands, from floods, storms and tides; 4. The protection of the financial interests of the United States, the va rious States, and the individual land owners, by co-operation and an equable sharing of the expense of carrying out this plan, in proportion to the bene fits received. GREAT BIRMINGHAM REVIVAL. Evangelist A. A. Walker has just completed a singularly successful re vival service in Calvary Baptist church, at Birmingham, Ala. During a period of three weeks he succeeded in adding sixty-one members to the enrollment of he church —forty-nine of these accessions being by baptism and the balance by letter. Calvary church, prior to this meeting, had a membership of only about two hun dred and fifty persons and when this fact is considered the results of the meeting will readily be seen to be out of the ordinary. One remarkable feature of the meet ing is that practically ninety percent of the eligible membership of the Sab bath school not previously belonging to the church, were enrolled on its books during this revival. It rarely ever happens that such complete re turns are brought about and of course this circumstance speaks exdeedingly well for the efforts of Mr. Walker. Mr. Walker, who is at present work ing under the State Board of Alabama, has been a member of Calvary Bap tist church for some time and has done quite a little preaching for that church at different times and conse- tertaining of all who attend. They have furnished the office of the State Sunday School Association, at Atlan ta, with letter heads printed in two colors, on which are the pictures of eleven of the prominent speakers for the convention. They are also fur nishing a poster on which are the pictures of fifteen of the speakers. The poster is in two colors, and is tc be mailed to the Sunday School Super intendents throughout the State. Delegates and Entertainment. All white Sunday Schools are re quested to elect at least three dele gates besides the pastor and superin tendent, who are delegates by virtue of their office. All who attend the Convention at Elberton will become delegates by paying a registration fee of fifty cents. All who register will be furnished homes by the Elberton Committee. Low Railroad Fares. The various railroads have granted low round trip rates. The state of fice reports that the indications from different parts of the state are that the attendance at this Convention will be unusually large, all sections of the state being well represented. quently the great results which he obtained in this revival cannot be at tributed to the novelty of a new speak er, but rather to the highly efficient preaching of Mr. Walker. Mr. Walker takes a very strong and uncompro mising attitude toward sin and while he is exceedingly forceful in his con demnation of sin he does not use the method pursued by many evangelists of dealing in a vitriolic way with the great variety of sins peculiar to this day and age. He takes the stand that unbelief in the Savior is the great mother sin of all sins and that all other sins, whether petty or very grievous, spring from this mother sin. His manner of preaching is very direct and personal and none who lis ten to him can escape the impres sion that they have been given a personal exortation to right living and as a consequence of this fact the in terest in his services is always very great, and furthermore this interest is of the kind that springs into be ing not at the command of some en tertaining theatrical display, but rath er at the call of the conscience of the listening autience. Evangelist Walker has been in the ministry about seven years. Prev ious to his taking up this work he was a business man, looking after considerable lumber interests in Mis sissippi. When he became converted he at once gave up his business pur suits and attended the Moody Bible Institute at Chicago, where he imbib ed much of the spirit of the founder of that institution. In the direct forceful manner with which he deals with the sin of the people and with the plan of God for their salvation, Y; Walkers methods resemble those ot Paul,” the stalwart apostle, and by some people Mr. Walker has been called a “Modern Day Paul.” VISITOR. PASS THE NEWS ON. new/»? fiT ere as quick to P ass along good there womdVJV^ 7 - to sprea(i scandal, uitie would not be a single civilized town in the world without its quota of remark able cures made by Tetteriue, the great Tfph ed A for Eczem a, Ringworm .A cne ’ Pimples, Itching Piles, etc And there would be less suffering. Get a box—try it, then tell it. 50 cents at drug fr °“ Sh " l,trln<i