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IN CHRIST WE TRUST.
In Christ we trust;
No other helper needing
When we, for mercy pleading
Lie in the dust;
Our faith in him we cherish,
Though other hope should perish,
In Christ we trust.
In Christ we trust;
We need we know no other,
Our friend, our Elder Brother,
The true, the just;
On him alone relying,
While living or while dying,
In Christ we trust.
—Charles W. Hubner.
BE GOOD TO YOUR PREACHER.
As the time for the May-time meeting of
the Southern Baptist Convention draws near
Good
Example
In
Oklahoma.
brought all his former pastors from anywhere
and everywhere and took them to his home
for the convention.
That was fine, very fine! And we’ll ven
ture that that big-hearted Oklahoman got lots
more pleasure out of his thoughtful generosity
than any of his happy and fortunate guests.
A man who does a really great unselfish deed
always gets more reflex joy out of it than the
recipient of his generosity.
Now, let Baptists send their pastor to the
St. Louis convention, let Presbyterians send
their pastors to the great Atlanta convocation
about the same time, and let Methodists, Disci
ples, Episcopalians and everybody see to it
that their pastors go free to their great church
gathering. Why, that brave little Baptist
church at Jesup actually sent their golden
hearted pastor, Dr. J. C. Solomon, to the inau
guration. You get good interest on all the
love and money you invest in your preacher.
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we are reminded of a beautiful
thing which occurred last year in
Oklahoma.
J. B. Moseley, formerly of
Hickory, but now of Oklahoma
City, sent out far and wide and
The Gulden Age for May 1, 1913
Liquor Leaders “Skeered” at Palm Beach
(Continued from page one.)
should never pass any law touching a moral
question to which the lovers and doers of
evil are opposed—and such a position would
tear the very heart out of every moral princi
ple on the statute books of Florida.
2. We have no right to stop traffic in a commo
dity that is in itself valuable, both as a medicine and
as a manufacturing adjunct.
2. Answer: Government exists for the
greatest good to the greatest number, and
when it is discovered that the traffic in any
article interferes with the value of citizenship
and the peace of the community or the state,
then it is the duty of government to forbid
the evil.
3. We are withholding from mankind a test of
will power by prohibiting the use of alcohol or any
other drug, as it is essential for us to be tried
if we want to prove ourselves true.
3. Answer: This would be funny, ladies
and gentlemen, if it were not so foolish and
tragic. Over against the unwisdom of Mr.
Currie which calls for the presence of tempta
tion in order to make men, women and chil
dren strong, I offer for answer the wisdom of
the Bible, as well as our every-day experience,
which admonishes us to 41 flee temptation, lest
we be not able to withstand it.” According
to Mr. Currie’s doctrine, he would take those
bright little children of his and put them down
near a den of rattlesnakes, and award the palm
and the crown to the one who could come near
er killing all the rattlesnakes or getting away
from them. Sakes alive! ladies and gentle
men, everybody who believes that Mr. Cur
rie actually believes in such doctrine for his
own children or anybody else’s children, will
please reverse your position.
4. We have no more right to prohibit the use of
alcohol than we have to prohibit the use of opium,
morphine, cocaine, laudanum, arsenic, nicotine, paris
green or any other poison—and these are all equally
injurious if used to excess.
4. Answer: Opium, cocaine, paris green
and the like do not produce a general disturb
ance of the peace and they do not make a
man go home and beat his wife and children
or shoot down his best friend. When there
is a big crowd in town, or excitement in the
air, or a riot, possibly imminent, it is not
necessary for the mayor or the governor to
issue an order to. close up the drug stores
and stop the sale of opium, arsenic and paris
green in order to keep the peace—but such
an order has been given ten thousand times in
America concerning barrooms in order to pre
serve the peace. The difference is as wide as
the wideness of yonder rolling sea, whose
breakers are beating on our ears tonight, and
the argument is positively too ridiculous to
challenge the attention of reasonable, thinking
men and women.
5. We either induce a race of untried weaklings
or law-breaking hypocries according as we succeed
or fail in suppressing the actual sale of intoxicat
ing liquor.
5. Answer: Jehosaphat! The history of
the world, supported by all medical science,
will prove the very opposite of Mr. Currie’s
contention. Whiskey poisons; it stimulates
temporarily, but it does not build up the sys
tem. Whiskey produces weaklings, and we
face the awful fact on every side that the sins
of the drinking father are transmitted as a
horrible legacy to their children. Again the
logic of Mr. Currie fails and falls.
6. We retard the progress of civilization if we
take from it the use or even abuse of any commo
dity that has been discovered.
6. Answer: Forgive me, ladies and gentle
men, for even taking your time to answer such
groundless argument. Civilization that has
enough to discover the things that hurt its
sense to make real progress must have sense
progress and then stop those things which hurt
and hinder.
7. We fly in the face of divine providence when
we destroy anything that He has given to us. By
prohibition we quarrel with His wisdom when He
put the tree on which was the forbidden fruit with
in the reach of Adam and Eve. And we deny His
mercy and the divinity of His word when we make
ourselves unable to “give strong drink unto those
who are ready to perish.”
7. Answer: It is always a dangerous thing
when a man tries to quote the Bible to en
courage a community to throw its guardian
arms around legalized wrong. The trouble is
that Mr. Currie didn’t quote all of this scrip
ture. Somebody has said that 4 ‘ A text without
a context is a pretext.” Immediately preced
ing this verse in the thirty-first chapter of
Proverbs, we find these words: 44 1 tis not for
kings, 0 Lemuel, ,’t is not for kings to drink
wine, nor for princes strong drink; lest they
drink and forget the law and pervert the
judgment of any of the afflicted.” Then fol
lows the word quoted by Mr. Currie, in keeping
with what was regarded as the merciful cus
tom of the time to give a condemned criminal
strong drink in order to make him unconscious
of suffering. In any case, strong drink is only
suggested for a medicinal purpose and almost
all prohibitionists do not object to that. It
is the legalized sale of liquor which produces
drunkenness, debauchery and crime, which we
propose to stop in Palm Beach county, and
God helping us everywhere else in America.
8. To date no prohibitory law has been absolutely
successful, though many have been tried, and by its
failure law-breaking has been encouraged, hypo
crisy has been made a virtue, revenue has haj to
be collected in less meritorious ways, and accord
ing as the law has been surely enforced just so
much has every business activity been curtailed.
8. Answer: No law prohibiting any evil
has been wholly successful. Every law on the
statute books of Florida and every other state
was put there with the distinct expectation
that it would be violated, and as a proof of
that fact there is a penalty attached for the
breaking of that very law. Almost every one
of God’s ten commandments is a prohibition
law, and they are violated every day. Accord
ing to Mr. Currie’s doctrine, a man would be
afraid to forbid his children to do this or that;
every teacher in your splendid school would be
afraid to say, 44 Thou shalt not,” to any child,
and thhe state of Florida would be afraid to