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The Golden Age
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“BEAUTIES AND WONDERS OF ANCIENT
AMERICA.”
We congratulate our readers on the pros
pect of more delightful letters from the West
like those appearing last week and
Woodson this week from the facile pen of our
special correspondent, Woodson D.
A“A Hit.” Upshaw, concerning the “Beauties
and Wonders of Ancient America.”
These realistic articles are eye-openers to
those who never dreamed that the “wilds of
Arizona” could furnish aught of interest in the
antiquities of art and scripture.
Woodson Upshaw (a kinsman of the editor
of The Golden Age) is a gifted, plucky Atlanta
boy, chiefly reared in Alabama, who bids fair
to “win the west” as a newspaper man.
Our readers, we are sure, will look eagerly
for other graphic letters from the land of pic
turesque grandeur, mystery and prophetic
progress.
SYLVANUS STALL ISSUES CLARION
CALL.
We do not know when there has come to the
office of The Golden Age a larger illustration of
consecrated genius than in the following letter
from Dr. Sylvanus Stall, the
Famous famous author of the “Purity
Author of Books.” which every bov and
Throws Out ln America ought to read.
Red Lantern With his own heart stirred
On Indecent to desperation, along with
Dress.
some of the rest of us, concern
ing the shameful challenge to lust and indecency
which the “smart” dressing of so many voting
women now affords. Dr. Stall takes time to
write a series of strong articles seeking to awak
en and arrest the devilish tendency of “modern
smartness.”
It is not often that we give to the public a
personal letter of conference and instructions to
the Editor, but the unselfish spirit of this great
philosopher and philanthropist is so splendid we
feel constrained to give his letter in full:
Philadelphia, Oct. 13th, 1913.
To the Editor-in-Chief,
Dear Mr- Editor:—
Our country, the grandest and best country on
earth, the country that has led all nations of
Europe during the last twentyfive years in
nearly all the most important reforms, is in
peril. The modest, and in manv instances, the
indecent dressing, the gauze hosiery, the x-ray
dresses, and the tango and turkey trot which
have converted secret vice into public vice and
solitary vice into social vice, are in danger of
THE GOLDEN AGE FOR WEEK OF OCT. 23
Along with all the startling and glorious anti
liquor revolutions in Tennessee comes and goes
Former Liquor the wonder-working story of
Leader of Ex-Governor Malcolm R. Pat"
Tennessee terson's conversion. To every-
Now “Preaching , . . ,
The Faith He body who knows Gov. Patter-
Once Destroyed” son's history—and especially to
readers of The Golden Age
who have read from time to time the editorial
strictures on this page which, in all good con-,
science, we have been compelled to make against
Governor Patterson's liquorized affiliations and
performances in Tennessee politics the very sug
gestions of his conversion to Christianity and the
cause of prohibition and law enforcement is al
most unbelievable. And yet why? God still
lives—and the same Christ who spoke to Saul
of Tarsus when he held the clothes of those who
stoned Stephen—the same Christ who arrested
Saul on his way to Damascus said, “It is
hard for thee to kick against the pricks” (the
conscience that had disturbed him ever since he
heard Stephen’s dying prayer-—the same Christ
who saved Jerry McCauley, “Hop” Hadley,
Gipsy Smith, Len G. Broughton, Sam Jones,
Capt. Ryman of Nashville, and countless thous'
ands of other sinners great and small, is glori
ously equal to the task of saving Malcolm R.
Patterson and making him a “new creature in
Christ Jesus” and a mighty power for good-
It is generally acknowledged that Governor
Patterson’s announced conversion had much to
do with “breaking thEfiack” of the whiskey op
position and enabling the law enforcement bills
to pass in the Tennessee legislature by such a
large majority.
His Own Position.
Anyway it is wonderfully refreshing to read
such a news item as this in the columns of The
Tennesseean, the paper that fought so long and
so vigoruosly against the “reign and ruin” of
“Pattersonism” before the former Governor’s
conversion. In a speech before a large audience
at Murfreesboro, Tenn., regarding his own posi
tion, Governor Patterson said:
“When I sent in my message to the Legisla
ture on the prohibition question, and afterwards
vetoed the bill, I was as honest and sncere with
the people as I knew how to be, and absolutely
true to my platform pledges.
Since then I have tried to discover whether
the law itself was responsible for the evils or its
non-enforcement, and I have been irresestibly
led, as if by the hand of an unseen power, to
the belief that our trouble wqX not in the law—
not altogether in the lion-enforcement of the law
—but in the accursed thifig thing itself.
“You who have me in the past and
rallied around my/flag when the smoke was
thickest and the' fighting fiercest, will ask, ‘ls
this the man wgonce knew ?’ And I answer,
‘Yes; the only difference is that I have cast off
the shell of my environment, cut the cord which
bound me, and entered upon a new, and, I hope,
happier and better life.
“I know that every man in Tennessee who
has been my real friend will never find it in his
heart to censure. There are others who will
charge me with inconsistency; those who have
used me to their own advantage, and those who
wish to be unmolested while they coin money
Governor Patterson’s Conversion
from the wails of children, the tears and heart"
aches of women and degredation of men-
Views Have Changed.
“To those who charge inconsistency, my reply
shall be an admission to the fact. I am incon
sistent—my views now are not what they were
—I <mi glad lam inconsistent—l want and
i>ean to be inconsistent. How has this change
come about? It did not come through me or by
me. I have felt, my countrymen, like one grop
ing in the dark.
“I know suffering and sorrow, and I have
pitied it in others. Ihave felt my weakness and
insecurity and need of help. I could not find
it in cold logic and reason. I looked for it in
my own mind and conscience and could not dis
cover it.
“I then cast aside all pride of opinion, all
thought of what the world would think or say.
and bowed my head before the throne of
Almighty God and asked for strength and light-
At last I found it there—my doubts are dispell
ed—the curtain of the night has parted and the
way is clear.
“From now on as long as life lasts I am the
uncompromising foe of the liquor triffic. Its
ugly and venomous head should be struck wher
ever it is raised.
‘‘Failures have been recorded and failures will
be recorded in the attempt bv the state alone to
control or destroy this evil.
“The great battle to be fought is to dissolve
the connection of the United States government
with the manufacture and sale of liquor and in
terdict it by a constitutional amendment. This
and this alone will strike the last and decisive
blow for redemption.
«
“In this mighty effort the friends of law and
order everywhere, from ocean to ocean, will be
enlisted, and every patriot heart. When the vic"
tory is won its fruits will be the richest and
most stupendous ever won in any contest since
time began.”
Some people, of course, are holding their
breath and charging political motives to the bril
liant Tennesseean, but we answer: How differ
ent could Malcolm R- Patterson have acted if
he had been guninely converted? He has pro
fessed conviction for sin and conversion and has
joined the Presbyterian church in M'emphis, and
at once declared warfare against the liquor that
had almost wrought his ruin. Now he sings:
Down—forever down with the accursed thing!
It has never done any man any good!” Could
he do more?
Thank God for such a miracle of conversion!
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