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fflT N every national crisis of our country when the call has gone forth for volun teers, that call has been most loyally responded to. Thousands upon thou sands of the bravest men that the world has ever known have, without hesitation, turned their backs upon mothers, wives, children, sweethearts, occupations, and everything that they held dear at home, and with hearts throb bing with the purest patriotism, have gone to the front to fight and to die if necessary for the land they loved so well! They have fought and suffered and died without regret. This country has never been lacking in the bravery and patriotism of its soldiery. Should a for eign foe land upon our shores today, there are hundreds of thousands of “minute men” standing ready to go at the shortest notice to fight for home and native land. 0 patriotism, thou art the most beautiful flower of American soil! We praise thee, we honor thee, we love thee! Thou art equal to the most stupendous task that may be set before thee! Listen, my countrymen, listen! A foreign foe has landed upon our shores and even now we are entirely surrounded by the enemy. Stop ! Listen! Do you not hear the wailing cry of mothers whose hearts are broken; the bitter, bitter sigh of wives whose fond hopes of hap piness have been crushed; the piercing shrieks of poorly-clad, half-starved little children pleading for redress; and the awful groan of a lost and debauched manhood, struggling and gasping for its very life? “What is it?” you ask. It is the most cruel stampede of the enemy, in the form of the American liquor traffic, riding rough shod over our hearts, cle stroyingthe bodies, and damning the souls of out people. 0 men of America, you who should be called the “bravest of the brave,” where is your patriotism now? Is it “clean gone forever?” Have you been cowed by the enemy? Do you tremble at his strength? Will you continue to sit idly by and tamely aquiesce FIFTY YEARS A SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHER. QUITMAN BAPTIST CHURCH CELEBRATES SEMI-CENTINIAL OF JUDGE JOHN G. McCALL AS A TEACHER IN THE BIBLE , , SCHOOL—A RECORD OF UNUSUAL INSPIRATION. HO was it that said 1 ‘The Sunday School is a good place for women and children?” g True —but only half true. Let him add —“Yes, and for the growing of stalwart, Christian manhood as well.” Quitman Georgia can furnish a lu'minous example of the full statement. Fifty years ago a young limb of the law hung out his shingle in Quitman, but he did not make the fatal mistake that many young lawyers do —trying to curry favor with the world by fighting a bit shy of church ac tivity. Young John G. McCall ran up his flag and let everybody know where he stood as a Christian man. Taking charge of the Bible class in the Baptist Sunday School the young THE GOLDEN AGE FOR WEEK OF FEB, 5, 1914 A CALL TO ARMS WILSON T. JABOE, PASTOR CHASE M. E. CHURCH, CHASE, MARYLAND. in this terrible onslaught of human misery? God forbid! My comrades, there comes to us today “A call to arms,” and this time the call comes not from the head of any earthly government, but from the Lord of Hosts. He issues the call for volunteers to enlist in the service for the purpose of fighting this common enemy of man. Think not that there will be enough without you; every man and every woman is needed; nor think that it wiill be an easy victory—it will be the hardest fight that American soldiers ever waged! Said Congress man Wm. H. Murray, of Oklahoma, to the writer the other day:“ Some of you people do not realize it, but you have got a hard and long fight before you.” The enemy will con test every inch of ground, and they will fight to the last ditch. All the powers of darkness and even hell itself, are engaged against us. My Brethren, and I address especially my colleagues in the ministry, heretofore we have been only playing at the job. We have preach ed an occasional sermon on the subject, and we have made an occasional reference to it in our general work, but this will not suffice. So long as we continue to go on “at this poor dying rate, ’’just so long will the enemy con tinue to fling defiance in our faces, and mock at our cowardice. What, then, shall we do? We must cease to handle the liquor traffic with gloved hands; we must get out of our coats and roll up our sleeves and go at it as though we meant business; we must arise in the strength of our manhood, with the deter mination that the traffic must go, and fight with all our might while God lends us life! Ah, yes, I know it is easier not to do this. It is unpleasant to receive the knocks, to be wounded, and to be beaten back again and again. When we are forced to beat a tem porary retreat we are tempted to discourage ment. It would seem preferable to the flesh to rest on our oars awhile. But we must not rest until the war is over! Rev. Dr. George Young, of Kentucky, when he arose to speak man poured his thought, love and life into his work, and through all these fifty years he has never allowed any sort of social plans to make him sidestep his Bible Class. Now, in life’s fair evening, standing on a high pedestal of honor in thought and the af fections of the community, while his brethren over the state have honored him with the high position of President of the Board of Trus tees of Mercer University. Judge McCall still insists that he is young enough and vigorous enough to serve in the ranks of the workers of God. It was eminently fitting that the church of which Judge McCall has been so long a faith ful member should celebrate his semi-centenial as a Bible teacher. The exercises occurred on the morning of Sunday, January 19th, with a at the National Convention of the Anti-Saloon League at Columbus, Ohio, touched every heart present and brought the tears very nefhr the surface. His tottering step, drooping form and wrinkled face told us more plainly than he could tell us in words, that his day’s work was almost done. Said he: “I wish this war were over! I’m very tired and I’d like to go home and rest, but mother’s heart was broken by rum! I must fight on till God calls me home. ’ ’ My brethren, here is one who has enlisted for life! I stand subject to the command of my Captain in this war. Where he sends me I will go. Will you join me in the ranks to fight to the finish? Our slogan is nation-wide prohibition of the liquor traffc. The victory shall be ours because God and right are on our side. THE REACTION. The New Year is far enough advanced now for YOUR “purse to have reacted from the Christmas eliminating” operation, but ours can’t react until you and a good many others send in your renewal or new subscription. Every $1.50 added to our subscription list makes “just that much more” ammunition with which to fight the flourishing evils that satan continues to plant all about us. Your Saviour and mine never needed the use of the money he has loaned you in the work of reacting humanity for His glory and their sal vation, more than He needs it now. The minds of the people MUST be educated AWAY from the carelessness —the tango and its “sister hood,” the locker club and its associates, the bar-room and its patrons, the looseness every where which forgets God and fills the coffers of sin possessed men to the hurt and hindrance of the kingdom of God. Nothing creates public sentiment more than the papers one reads. What kind are you supporting? Your subscription will help. SIO.OO for one share of stock, which gives you one subscrip tion as a dividend the first year, will help more. 100 SHARES would help that much more. It is the Master’s cause, not ours, we are asking you to become partners in. Managing Editor. splendid program of music and brief addresses as follows: Address: “The Sunday-school as a Factor in a Live Church,” by Wm. H. Hitechew. “A Brief History of the Quitman Baptist Church,” Charles T. Tillman. Address: Dr. J. G. McCall’s L ife and Work in the Sunday-school, in the Church, and in the Denomination, by Wm. T. Gaulden. The Calling of the Names of the Former Pastors and Reading One-minute Letters from all Former Pastors now Living, by W. T. Gaulden. The inspiring exercises were concluded with a thrilling response by Dr. J. A. Wynne, the pastor. Quitman is richer because of such a day, and all who read the story will hear a new call to church duty and to God. 5