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4 The Golden Age Pabliehed Every Thursday by The Golden Age Publishing Company (Inc.) OFFICES: 13 MOORE BUILDING, ATLANTA, GA. WILLIAM D. UPSHAW Editor MRS. WILLIAM D. UPSHAW . Associate Editor MRS. G. B. LINDSEY . . . Managing Editor LEN G. BROUGHTON, London, Eng. Pulpit Editor H, P. FITCH . Field Editor Price : $1.50 a Year. In cases of foreign address fifty cents should be added to cover additional postage. Entered in the Postoffice in Atlanta, Ga., as second-class matter. 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. Remember—reading The Golden Age is the only way to keep up with Dr. Broughton every week— Send $1.50 to pay for a full year’s vis its. Golden Age Pub. Co., 13 Moore Bldg., Atlanta, Ga. DON’T FORGET TO REMEMBER „ THE ONLY PAPER IN AMERICA PUBLISHING A SERMON EVERY WEEK FROM DR. LEN BER ?OO TOIT TnSr WORTH MANY TIMES THE SUBSCRIPTION PRICE-$1.50. REMEM. NOW-^AND 1 T pr l nn^v G^E?c PL ?w?i A EroT o S E?r I^™ THEM AT AN ANGLE WHICH NO OTHER PAPER DOES. SUBSCRIBE NOW AND TELL PLUCKY BOYS AND GIRLS EVERYWHERE TO WRITE US FOR A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY TO GO TO COLLEGE. COME ON! 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