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4 The Golden Age Br«ry Thursday by Th* Golden Age Pablishins Company (Inc.) •TTICIt It MOORE BUILDING, ATLANTA, GA. WILLIAM D. UPSHAW ....... Editor MM. WM. D. UPSHAW . . . Associate Editor MRS. G. B. LINDSEY .... Managing Editor LEN Q. BROUGHTON, London, Eng. . Pulpit Editor Price: $1.50 a Year. Ib mmm «f foreign address fifty cents should bo added to cover additional postage. Motored ia the Postoffieo in Atlanta, Ga., as seeond-elass ATLANTA. OA.i PUBLISHERS' PRESS. PRINTBRS “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! TWO OF A KIND. A GREAT COMBINATION OFFER. The Christian Herald and The Golden Age. 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