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4 The Golden Age Published Every Thursday by The Golden Age Publishing Company (Inc.) •FFICES: IS MOORE BUILDING, ATLANTA, GA. WILLIAM D. UPSHAW Editor MRS. WM. 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. 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.”