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Wonderful Strides in Sunday School
Work Indicated by the State Sun
day School Convention
The State Sunday School Conven
tion held in Elberton April 22-23-24,
indicated marked increase in the in
terest in religious life in
There were 415 delegates present, rep
resenting 56 counties.
Officers Elected for Ensuing Year.
The officers elected for the ensuing
year were: President, Dr. Joseph
Broughton, Atlanta; Vice President,
A. H. Merry, Augusta; Vice President,
C. D. Montgomery, Atlanta; Vice Pres
ident, A. R. Moore, Savannah; Treas
urer, Paul Fleming, Atlanta; Assist
tant Treasurer, J. V. Wellborn, Atlan
ta ;Auditor, A. B. Caldwell, Atlanta;
Recording Secretary, P. B. Johnson,
Thomson; General and Financial Sec
retary, D. W. Sims, Atlanta; Asst.
Secretary, Miss Flora Davis, Atlanta;
Chairman Executive Committee, J. J.
Cobb.
Pledges for the Ensuing Year.
Several counties made very liberal
pledges for the support of the work
for the ensuing year. Fulton county
pledged SI,OOO, Bibb county pledged
S3OO, Richmond, Laurens, Cobb and
Bartow counties each pledged $l5O.
These pledges, with some smaller
amounts from other counties and
schools and individuals, made a total
of about $3,500 pledged for the gen
eral work.
Seven Pennies Grow to More Than
S6OO.
Mr. Thos. Moore delivered a mes
sage of love from his 4 -year-old
great-granddaughter and a contribu
tion of seven pennies toward the
work.
When the seven pennies were plac
ed in Mr. Pearce’s hands, he stated
that he ■wanted to take the seven pen
nies and add to them the sum of sev-
LIQUOR LEADERS “SKEERED.”
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in the history of the world has such a result been
accomplished. A man convinced against his will
is of the same opinion still.
14: Answer: We do not claim to legislate
morals into a man when we take barrooms out
of a community; but we do claim that we
will make it easier for the weak to be strong.
William E. Gladstone said, “It is the duty of
government to make it as easy as possible for
the citizen to do right, and as hard as possi
ble for the citizen to do wrong.” Which will
you take, fellow citizens, the advice of Mr.
Currie, or of his own countryman, the un
crowned king of the common people of the
world, William E. Gladstone?
15. When we refuse to let temperate folks have
their accustomed glass we let down the bars for
other blue laws to be enacted that will make bridge
parties, smoking, dancing, theatre going, whistling
on Sunday, and similar domination, more reprehen
sible than coveting our neighbor’s wife, his man
servant, his maid servant, or his ox or his ass, or
anything that is our neighbor’s.
15. Answer: Again I declare there is no
analogy between the shadows of these blue
laws which Mr. Currie threatens, and the shad
ow of barrooms. None of these things which
he mentions cause riots or drunkenness, al
though some of them are sometimes the accom
plishments of barrooms. lam obliged to be
lieve that my resourceful friend, Currie, was
NEWS FROM THE WORKERS
en dollars to form a basis for a fund
to support a field worker for elemen
tary grades in Georgia Sunday
schools.
The suggestion sprang to a flame of
enthusiasm that swept the great au
dience.
The enthusiasm was doubled when
General Secretary D. W. Sims had
Mr. Moore stand in view of the audi
ence. Mr. Sims stated that Mr.
Moore was 86 years of age, and pro
posed that the Georgia Sunday School
Cenvention name this elementary fund
the “Moore Memorial Fund” and that
86 shares of $5 each be taken out by
members of the 1913 session.
The pledges reached the number of
118, rather than 86, as asked for.
The sum total contributed, started
by Alice Moore Warren’s seven pen
nies, reached $685.
Report of the Executive Committee.
Mr. J. J. Cobb, Chairman of the
Executive Committee, showed in his
report that the State Secretary, Mr.
D. W. Sims, and his assistant, Miss
Flora Davis, had done faithful work.
His report of the field work showed
that Mr. Sims had visited 54 counties,
helped in 146 different meetings, and
delivered 388 addresses, and that
when Mr. Sims was put in the field
less than a year ago there were only
a few counties with nominal organi
zations and at present there are 62
counties with organizations, and that
36 of these counties have held county
conventions. The chairman of the
committee recommended that the
work of the Georgia Sunday School
Association be conducted along the
same lines as the association has been
working since the last convention.
The Golden Age for May 1, 1913
almost “out of soap,” for these is no real rea
son in “reason 15.”
16. By insisting on the morality of prohibiting
the sale of alcohol spirits we add an amendment
which will read: “Thou shalt not drink wine or
strong drink, neither ‘in remembrance’ or if thou
art about to perish. All laws or parts of laws in
conflict with this amendment are hereby repealed.”
16. Answer: Over against this groundloss
conclusion, I offer the Bible declaration,
“Touch not, taste not, handle not,” along
with that other awful truth, “No drunkard
shall enter the kingdom ( of heaven.” And
T declare to you that no individual, no com
munity, no state, and no nation, has a right
to help make a man a drunkard, and thus bar
him from success in this life and from heaven
at last.
17. If it is incumbent on us to prohibit what
seems to cause crime to a large number of our
population, why not prohibit all things that seem to
have bad effects? For ages ana ages it has been
conceded that wine and women are the cause of the
downfall of many men. Why not prohibit women as
well as wine? Or now that the United States is
awakening to the disasters following on the white
slave traffic and the white slaves themselves com
plain that it is the men that are at fault, why not
prohibit men? Prohibition, if good in one case, is
surely good in the others, and if absurd in one, it
it is equally absurd in the others, although we do
not realize it at first thought.
GEORGE G. CURRIE, In The Megaphone.
17. Answer: It is to laugh! Now it is to
Delightful Memory of Brantley
A PUBLIC SCHOOL WITH RELIGION IN IT.
That man is not very human who
does not enjoy being “called back.”
Brantley, Ala., called me back. Os
course I love Brantley. My first lec
ture engagement there over a year
ago was attended by some features
out of the ordinary. Even if it was
a pay lecture, I felt that no man
could speak on citizenship in Ala
bama or anywhere else in this coun
try, and put his conscience on top,
without attending to the liquor traf
fic. I simply said things “with teeth
iu them”—and naturally some folks
who like the “stuff” didn’t like what
I said. But the prohibition element
was in the majority, and they laughed
it off in good humor with their neigh
bors. And when my prohibition
friends called me to come back for a
“meeting of days” in March, I knew
they meant business.
Pastor H. D. Wilson, of the Baptist
church, is a refreshing combination of
the conscientious student, the force
ful preacher and the hard-working
pastor. His wife and beautiful baby
are his daily inspiration and my stay
in their happy little home “hard by
the synagogue” was restful and re
freshing —a social delight and a spir
itual tonic.
A Remarkable Public School.
I found something gloriously unus
ual in the public school at Brantley.
Prof. Thigpen, an educator of unique
originality anj deep spiritual life, ac
tually believes that no real Christian
teacher has the right before God to
transfer to “Caesar” the supremest
obligation of the teacher’s life.
The state may pay him to teach sci
ence and mathematics —and he does
it “to the queen’s taste,” but God
pays him to look after that part of
the child that shall live forever, and
as a result of his personal, religious
influence the first day of the meeting
was crowned with the happy conver
sion of a bright young man from the
school. His heart had already been
reached, anj he made the full sur
render to Christ and united with the
church. Others followed and a daily
prayer meeting among the students
was bearing gracious fruitage when
I came away. God give us more
teachers like Thigpen at Brantley. I
would love to see him at the head of
some college with a thousand stu
dents.
Pastor J. F. Feagin of the Methodist
church, gave us helpful fellowship and
co-operation and I left Pastor Wilson
and his loyal people rejoicing in the
blessings of the present and the pros
pects for the future.
W. D. U.
LAKE HELEN LOSES DOUGHERTY
The Baptist church at beautiful Lake
Helen, Fla., loses a good man and a
“live wire” preacher in the resigna
tion of G. S. Dougherty, who wishes
to bring his family to the hill coun
trj of Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee
or the Carolinas. The church passed
strong resolutions, declaring that Mr.
Dougherty’s ministry at Lake Helen
had been greatly blessed and express
irg regret at losing him and his church
working wife and daughter.
Mr. Dougherty is available for some
revival meeting work during the spring
and summer, pending his settlement
in a hill-country pastorate.
Mary had a Thomas cat;
He warbled like Caruso,
A neighbor swung a baseball bat,
And now Thomas doesn’t do so.
laugh again! Now laugh the third time! You
mustn’t get mad, Mr. Currie, if we laugh at
this far-fetched, ridiculous argument. You
have “laid yourself liable.” In the words of
dear old Sam Jones, “It is not my curry comb
but your sore back.” We don’t want to pro
hibit women, thank you. But we want to pro
hibit the wine from the women. We don’t
want to prohibit men and wipe them off the
face of the earth simply because some of them
engage in the white slave traffic and lead peo
ple to the devil; but we do want to prohibit
the gilded fascination of the horrible women
which, as a protected institution, is supported
by white slavers, and alas! by the white slaves
in the day of their degradation—for you know,
and I know that as the corruptor of our poli
tics and the despoiler of our society, the saloon
is the hot-bed of crime, the trysting-place of
anarchy, the companion of the brothel, and
the gate-way to hell.
Tn God’s name, Mr. Currie, I must believe —
we all want to believe—that you are suffering
from a horrible hallucination, and in all good
fellowship we call on you now to throw your
17 reasons to the winds, or bury them in the
bottom of Lake Worth, and join your fellow
citizens—these brave, unselfish men, these fair
women, and these helpless children in an effort
to drive your tempting and corruupting bar
rooms from the borders of your fair city, and
keep them out till judgment day.