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The Golden Age
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BEALER ON “RUSSELLISM.”
The editor of The Golden Age decided to
send to Rev. Alex W. Bealer. of Eastman, Ga.,
Its Founder
Unworthy of
Confidence.
make a general reply through
the columns of this paper. We sent him also
a copy of “Pastor” Russell’s paper in which
the Baptist position concerning salvation was
shamefully misrepresented. We felt that
since Mr. Bealer is a prominent and widely
accredited Baptist minister, it was only fair
to those whom he represents that he be given
opportunity to make special reply to the false
conclusions of “Pastor” Russell.
Mr. Bealer does not feel that the cause of
evangelical truth will be especially helped by
specializing further in a reply to this deadly
doctrine, and from a private letter to the edi
tor we feel constrained to give the following
extracts:
“Since reading your letter and those of pro
test which you enclosed, I hardly think it
would be worth while for me to take any no
tice of them. If we should call attention to
the twisting of the Baptist position which Rus
sell gives it would only serve to place him be
fore the public a little more and that is just
what he wants. He states our position cor
rectly, but from it he draws his own inference
which is entirely false, as to our meaning and
he knows it. That, however, is his chief stock
in trade—misrepresentation. He does it for
the money there js in it, for he is making
large sums from deceiving the people. To
show you the spirit of the man, I need but
quote you from the introduction of Vol. 3
as follows: “Possibly you may be a member
of an Epworth League or Christian Endeavor
Society, or of a Baptist Young People’s Union,
and may be called on for an essay on some
Scripture topic. How convenient to select one
among these numerous studies (covering al
most every topic) and to find therein the ap
propriate Scriptures cited. Ministers use them
when composing special sermons and address
es.”
Your editorial on the subject of Russellism
has about it the right ring and I congratulate
you. I like the way you express yourself on
any topic. There is no ring of uncertainty
about your utterances and a man does not have
to take out a search warrant to find where you
stand. Yours truly,
ALEX W. BEALER.
Remember—reading The Golden Age is the
«*ly way to keep up with Dr. Broughton every
week—Send $1.50 to pay for a full year’a vie
tie. Golden Age Pub. Co., 13 Moore Bldg.
Atlanta, Ga.
some of the letters of protest con
cerning his recent powerful ar
ticle on “The Perils of Russell
ism,” thinking he might like to
THE GOLDEN AGE FOR JULY 31, 1913
The decent element among the Democratic
“regulars” who have hitherto supported Mai-
Tennessee’s
Former
Governor
Arrested
In House
Os Shame
make the Democratic party the
guardian friend of the liquor business, who
sought but last year to inflict his presence
and his liquorized ideals on the United States
senate —this “Democratic” dignitary was last
week arrested—arrested in a house of ill re
pute in Nashville, the very capital of the state
where he one time sat in the governor’s chair!
What horror! What sorrow to all who love
purity and manhood! What a travesty on
leadership! What a tragedy in our civiliza
tion !
And what do you reckon?
His political supporters are now declaring
that it was a “frame-up”—that it was all done
by his enemies for political effect.
The world laughs—yea, it could weep in dis
gust !
One thing is certain— he could not have been
arrested if he had not been there!
HOW TO REACH THE MASSES.
Are you as a Christian worker ®r church
leader deeply interested in the oft-repeated
The Question
Answered by
New Tabernacle
In Athens
respondent about the notable work of Rev.
R. E. Neighbor and his co-laborers at the new
“Tabernacle church” in Athens, Ga.
The story holds inspiring interest for preach
ers and churches of all denominations every
where.
It is a practical and thoroughly encourag
ing answer as to “How the thing is done?”
Years ago on the campus of Mercer Uni
versity the writer met “Little Ben” Groover,
who had just led his great class, the immortal
class of 1900, in mid-term examinations.
“Groover, you little 'Brat,’ you, how on earth
did you do the thing?”
And the smiling, quiet, triumphant answer
came:
“I did it by doing it.”
That is the way Broughton did it in At
lanta, that is the way Allen Fort is doing it
in Chattanooga; that is the way George Truett
is doing it in Dallas; that is the way Cortland
Myers is doing it in Boston; that is the way
W. J. Williamson is doing it in St. Louis; that
is the way Russell H. Conwell has done it in
Philadelphia; that is the way J. Whitcomb
Brougher is doing the thing in Los Angeles;
that is the way Mark Mathews has startled
conservative Presbyterianism and astonished
the sons of earth at Seattle. That is the way
R. E. Neighbor and his fighting phalanx are
doing wonders in the “conservative” atmos
phere of Georgia’s “Classic City.”
Key working genius, dynamic energy and
deathless love for God and man—key these to
the cross of Him who said: “And I, if I be
lifted up will draw all men unto me”—do
this, 0 ye workers in the vineyard of the Lord
and the hungry masses will flock to your con
quering standard.
PATTERSON'S PITIFUL PLIGHT
colm R. Patterson in his political
ambitions are now hanging their
heads in shame.
Tennessee’s former governor,
who pardoned the ruthless slayers
of the gallant Carmack, who has
strenuously sought for years to
question: How to reach the
masses ?
On our front page this
week we are giving the read
ers of The Golden Age a
striking story by a staff cor-
And think of this: Patterson, his men com
panions and seven or eight girls who were
arrested with them, were all dismissed by the
city judge of Nashville, with the all sufficient
remark: “There is something back of this.”
And the woman who kept the house was also
dismissed after she confessed that she was keep
ing a house of shame. Patterson and his com
panions were allowed to show contempt of
court by not appearing at the trial.
Can this be Nashville, the home of colleges
and culture in the South?
Oh, for a generation of citizen-heroes in
Tennessee, yea, in Georgia and everywhere,
who will not sell out to Satan—wi»o will be
lieve that righteousness can win, and who will
close ranks and fights on till victory comes!
But Patterson! Poor Patterson! We have
no wish to herald his wickedness abroad —that
has already been done by the daily press a
hundred times; but we grieve beyond expres
sion to think how a man who could have been
so useful if he had given his heart and life to
God, will persist in laying all of his brilliant
powers, all his ability to make friends and
lead men on the altar of sin and shame.
God save him and all who follow him!
A LIQUORIZED PRESS.
We wonder how many of our readers have
thought seriously of the universal truth of the
following article from The Methodist Protes
tant of Baltimore, and the blighting effect
on the thousands, yea the millions of readers,
into whose homes these papers go daily; and
into many of whose homes practically no other
reading matter finds its way:
“Is it not strange that the whiskey-ruled
press never finds news notes like the following
of sufficient interest to print. The following
dispatch is from Norfolk. Va.: 'lsle of Wight
county, Virginia, having a population of 15,-
000, claims the record for law and order. No
grand jury has been necessary for the consid
eration of criminal business thus far during
the year 1913, and Judge B. D. White, of the
circuit court, said today the county jail was
empty and practically for rent. Civil business
alone keeps the court alive.’ We will venture
to say that if some heartless fabricator of the
whiskey ring said something like the follow
ing it would be taken by the Associated Press
and scattered to the four corners of the globe:
'The Isle of Wight county temperance law is
a failure. There are more trials on the docket
and more men prisoners in the jail than under
the license system and more liquor drank now
than ever before.’ That it was said by some
nobody, whose word would hardly be taken by
his own mother, would make no difference. It
would be damaging to the cause of temper
ance, and it would squint an approval of the
saloon business and that would be altogether
sufficient to justify the publication of the
falsehood. And yet the press wants to be
considered the purveyor of truth and virtue to
the public.”
“THE BEST IN THIS HOME.”
Mrs. G. S. Anderson, of Newbern, Ala.,
writes:
I consider The Golden Age the best paper
that enters this home. You have some warm
friends among your readers in this section
who are anxious for you to visit Newbern.”