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The Golden Age
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WILLIAM D. UPSHAW Editor
MRS. WM. D. UPSHAW .... Associate Editor
MRS. G. B. LINDSEY .... Managing Editor
LEN G. BROUGHTON, London Eng. . . Pulpit Editor
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BROUGHTON SAFE ON AMERICAN SOIL.
Thousands of enthusiastic friends of Dr. Len
G. Broughton, all over America, rejoiced when
the announcement was made last week by the
daily papers that the doctor's feet were safe
once more on American soil—he had landed in
New York.
The danger of submarines so far as he and
his family were concerned was gone and his
friends everywhere took a deep, easy breath.
The daily Times-Herald of Waco, Texas,
speaks of his home-coming in the following
beautiful tribute to his international work for
the Master, which we rejoice to reproduce.
The Times-Herald says:
COMES BACK TO AMERICA.
L
EN G. BROUGHTON made for himself an
international reputation by his pulpit utter
ances and by the great work he was doing
in Atlanta, capital city of Georgia.
Dr. Osler who, we are assured, didn’t say that
a man should be chloroformed at 60, told this man
Broughton that he would have to give up his work
in Atlanta, and this he did, subsequently accepting
a London pastorate—big London in England, and
ovex' there the common people heard him gladly.
But the climate was too severe a sort, which fact
became known, and two calls went to him from this
country, one from Boston and the other from Knox
ville. But Boston, climatically speaking, is no bet
ter than London, and so, for his health’s sake,
Broughton has accepted the call of the First Bap
tist church in Knoxville, where he at one time, if
we mistake not, was a practicing physician.
Now what is there about Broughton’s preaching
that causes him, like Saul of old, to stand head and
shoulders above the mass of preachers?
We would say that it’s because he talks in a sim
ple, direct way out of his own experience, backed
by the Scriptures.
Evidently the man went through a period of doubt,
as do most physicians, and came out of it with a
countenance suca as Moses had when he came down
from the mount.
es, most physicians are or have been skeptics—
not merely unbelievers, but disbelievers. They see
the body perish, and nothing short of the direct Di
vine interposition can make one of them believe
in a spiritual existence beyond the grave.
But when a physician does walk from darkness
into light, as the preachers say, he at once becomes
a devoted religious worker and seldom turns back.
The Episcopar bishop of Tennessee, Dr. Quintard,
now deceased, was a man of this sort; a doubting
physician transformed into a flaming priest, whose
work in connection with the University of the South
at Sewanee won the praise and the admiration of
men all ovex' American and in England.
Len G. Broughton is not a returning prodigal son,
but all the same those Knoxville folk will kill the
fatted calf and rejoice greatly when he again enters
their gates.
THE GOLDEN AGE
PROHIBITION ENRICHING RUSSIA
The evidence that the banishment of alco
holic drinks from Russia is greatly enriching
the people of that mighty em-
Productivity pire is gloriously cumulative.
Greatly It is positively thrilling the on-
increased ' looking world.
By Banishing In summing up the financial
Alcohol condition of the different- coun-
Drinks. tries engaged in the European
war, Lloyd-George, Chancellor
of the Exchequer in England, makes the fol
lowing striking comment on Russia:
“Russia is in a different position than either Great
Britain or France. She is prodigiously rich in nat
ural resources, food and raw material. She produces
virtually every commodity. She has a great and
growing population of virile and industrious people.
Her resources are overflowing and she has labor to
develop them in abundance. Russia has enormously
increased her resources by suppressing the sale of
all alcoholic liquors. By that means alone she has
Words, Words From Young Mr. Rockefeller
Those of us who know him personally and
who have always believed that his heart is in
the right place, were very
“Building much gutified to see the
Good Citizenship highly favorable impression
The Highest made on the committee and
Purpose the public by John D. Rocke-
Os My Life” feller, Jr., during the recent
governmental investigations
in New* York. There was a straightforward
frankness and manliness about his every utter
ance which gripped the hearts of his hearers
with the conviction that he was an honest man
wrestling, himself, with the problem of persona]
as well as corporate duty toward the thou
sands of laborers who are related to his vast
enterprises.
Among other things the plain, hard-working
son of the “richest man in the world” gave
utterance to the following wholesome senti
ment :
“I believe that the ultimate object of all ac
tivities in a republic should be the development
of the manhood of its citizens.
Such manhood can be developed to the full
est degree only under conditions of freedom
for the individual, and industrial enterprises
can and should be conducted in accordance
with these principles.
If fair wages and reasonable living condi
tions cannot otherwise be provided dividends
must be deferred or the industry abandoned.
If, with the responsibilities I have and the
opportunities given me, I am able to contribute
toward promoting the well being of my fellow
men through the lessening of injustice and the
alleviation of human suffering, I shall feel that
it has been possible to realize the highest pur
pose of my life.”
It is little wonder that the audience listen
ing to the investigation broke into applause
when such words were spoken.
It is easy enough for the unthinking to con
demn at a distance without knowing the con
ditions that confront men of great wealth, yes,
and the motives that color their actions. Fif
teen years ago the writer was a member oi
young Mr. Rockefeller’s Bible Class for sev-
increased the productivity of her labor by something
between thirty and fifty per cent.”
That is glorious! It proves the truth and
wisdom of Gladstone’s words: “Gentlemen,
give me a sober citizenship, not spending their
earnings for drink, and I will take care of
the revenue.”
And the present wonder grows—in face of
this marvelous transformation of Russia under
the reign of real prohibition, why on earth
does America or any other nation, allow the
manufacture and sale of alcoholic drinks to
continue ?
If hoary, heathen China banishes opium for
the sake of saving her people —if the Russian
Cossack and the Slavic Peasant prosper in
health and purse under National Prohibition,
then surely “Civilized America” will learn
soon the unspeakable folly of debauching her
people with liquor. Come on, America, come
on!
eral months, and that personal contact has al
ways made an equation of faith since then
from which he could not be shaken by criti
■ cisms of hostile 1 papers and politicians.
One thing is certain —the two John Rocke
fellers, unlike so many multi-millionaires, have
never nauseated the American public with di
vorce suits and social scandals, and their names
“spell Santa Claus” to more benevolent in
stil utions and philanthropic movements than
thousands who have flung spiteful criticisms
at them.
We believe they are patriotic Christian men,
honestly trying to set in motion the best pos
sible plans for the far-reaching uplift of hu
manity.
IN THE HANDS OF OUR FRIENDS.
We regret very much that our Editor, who
has been on a lecture tour in Florida for sev
eral weeks, could not be reached in time to
give his own feelings in the matter of “At
lanta’s Needs,” or to endorse as he would so
heartily do, the position taken by Drs. Dußose
and White.
We are sure he will regret it even more; for
if there is any onething he “just loves” to do
more than another it is to emphasize always,
everywhere, the need of a REAL Christian
citizenship— the separation of professing Chris
tians, for the Master’s sake, from those things
which, because of the fruits they bear, we
must know are born in the thoughts of Satan
himself and isown broadcast by his numerous
agents.
But we rejoice that “in the hands of our
friends” the characteristic uncompromising
policy of The Golden Age in these things is
so ably sustained by Drs. H. M. Dußose and
J. L. White. Read them. Mg. Ed.
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THE GOLDEN AGE
March 4, 1915