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SOUTH El
RN LEADERS
By REV. DR.'JOHN E. WHITE,
Pastor Second Baptist Church
I M MEDIATELY at hand for South-
I *m men is the necessity of choos-
I ing between two sets of leaders.
The negroes are also facing the same
proposition with regards to their lead
ers. On one side are those who ear
nestly and for the most part sincere
ly encourage and promote devotion to
the negro Issue. On the other, those
who lead away from that and encour
age and promote devotion to other In
terests. The two policies are at a
point. My ple.'» to Southern young men
Is that you will tak«* a firm stand with
those who lead away from the negro
question to the strengthening concerns
of Southern life. .And let the stand be
firm. You will be assailed and Irri
tated, by prejudices on one hand and
the provoking folly of the negroes on
the other, but let your patriotism be
sufficient for these things.
Separating from the confusion, let
us choose those lines of leadership
which, if ’honored and followed, will
lead the South to a noble future. And
you will take note that they represent
the ideals ami the spirit, as well ns
the habit of the good days when the
Southern people were powerful In In
fluence.
The industrial leader, the educational
leader and the religious leader are the
three who must lead us out of that
which Is false into that which is true
In our Southern life—business man,
teacher and preacher.
The Business Man.
I place the business man—the Indus
trial leader—foremost In the rank, be
cause he has at his command the
readiest motive, and Is least influenced
by the discouragement of reactionary
forces.
Industrialism Is primarily the basis
of organised society. ^In his address
on the “Economic Interpretation of
History," Professor Seligman, of Co
lumbia university, says:
•‘With every Improvement In the ma
terial condition of the great mass of
th* population, there will be an oppor
tunity for the unfolding of the higher
moral life, but not until the economic
conditions of society become far more
Ideal will the ethical development of
the individual have a free field for lim
itless progress.
“The ethical Ideals of society which
can alone bring about any lasting ad
vance in civilization have been erect
ed on and rendered possible by the
solid foundations of material prosper
ity."
The activity of industrial leaders
and the prominence of Industrial
forces have a much more Important
relation to patriotism than the super
ficial critic allows. Immediately, the
surest deliverance of Southern thought
from unhealthy to healthy self-con
sciousness is being promoted by the
men who are pointing the way to In
dustrial development. They are hav
ing effect directly at those points of
weakness suggested by the friendly
critic I have mentioned. The!** mes
sage Is, “Get too busy to mind criti
cism. Don’t apologize; don’t explain.
Get things done. Let them howl!”
The center? of industrial life which
dot the Southern landscape Increasing
ly are centers of Independence in
thought, quite the despair of nil sorts
of demagoguery. The work they are
doing in the very nature of the case
overcome* Isolation and cures provin
cialism. They are concerning the pub
lic mind with the world relations of
self interest. They are Introducing the
South to the world and the world to
the South. They are diverting atten
tion to atrength-pfoducing interests.
They are creating a sound basis for
Southern pride. They are giving
Southern tneh a reason for the faith
that Is In them. They are teaching us
to say the South Is the best—not Just
because she Is the best—but because
she has the best soil, advantages, re
sources, opportunities for real achieve
ment. and the happleut lives und homes,
and a people equal to their tasks.
1 am an idealist. I abhor the boasts
of sordid commercialism. But the man
who has imagination, who Js charac
teristically Southern in temperament,
can And a feast for the soul in con
templation of a heroic Industrialism
especially If he will see far enough to
note that it Is one of the mighty agen
cies for our Intellectual and moral free
dom. The boy who used to listen to
father tell the story of the struggle
of the civil war with burning cheeks,
[ sorrowing on his pillow that he had
not been bom earlier to share such
i Klory. If he will look about, will find
, the battle at his hand. No greater
. mistake can be made, ns lias been so
often ami so well urged by Richard
Edmonds, whom I honor as a true
Southern leader, than to hold that In
dustrialism Is at war with the histori
cal Ideals. The old South made os
much of her Industrial opportunities as
the new South has done with hers.
: Before the break came In her prog-
! ress, the sun of Industrial advance was
well up In the heavens. The men of
liberty days honored the fact that In
dustry was basal In the new republic.
They were themselves fnr from being
as sometimes pictured, the devotees of
lordly leisure. George Washington’s
brother nnd George Washington’s fath- |
er were engaged in Iron mining. He
was himself a civil engineer by pro
fession. Thomas Jefferson was In the
business of manufacturing nails. The
battle field of King’s Mountain Is not
far away from mines nnd bloomerles
a hundred nnd fifty years old.
The School Teacher.
Equally as distinct In the leadership
of the South to her great future is the
group of men who nre Identified with
education, under denominational, stnte
and Individual auspices. They have
seen the vision and are leading In a
true path to better things. The
Southern h ohei in sonm icspe- tM
the loneliest of patriots. He has had to I thought though uttered by another that
lire by faith. His rewards In pnurtl- I Ignorance in a republic w as a political
cal t-fP-.-t on Ih* both pnlitl. .*uv t."t 'crime; th«H lllvrty was ;i dongoious
Immediate. He must sow In tears, nnd thing: that u free people must be a
he knows that he must wait patiently thoughtful people.
for the harvest, if. Indeed, It ever comes In that thought Is represented what
In his lifetime. At first, there was n«» . D fundamental In tin- pies*>nt leader-
recognition of the teacher os a public [ship of education In the South. It Is a
man. The school president has evolved gosepl that never falls to convict the
it new stuteMtuttudilp. and tin* South consciences though it mat not ul«.i\*
has no asset rising In value and in (convert the prejudices or our people,
power faster than the educational lead- JefTersonlan Democracy is what the
er. South wants, only Jt must bo what Jcf-
Here again the true Ideal of the fersonlsn Democracy was—a < Ivillzn-
South rises to view ngalnst the false, tIon no more enslaved by Its own pre-
Thomas Jefferson was never more Indices than by the prejudices <fl ty-
withln what was native to and con- rnntsr—a stnte of society In which the
cerdant with Southern character than citizen exercises ids highest liberty;
when as a corollary of his democracy the liberty to think without threat and
he preached for education and planned to act without a caucus force to do-
accordlng to his creed and educational I fine his limits of freedom. We are not
system for Virginia. It was Jefferson’s I far from the secret of many troubles
(in the South when our educational
j census is displayed. We are not
! from the hoptfullest sign of the times
J when college presidents and teach
assert their offices as . functions
I statecraft. The words of the school
| teacher who lay dying were prophetic
of a new order now being realised tn
the South. He said. “When I nm dead
I put a sword on my cofTIn. For 1 was
a soldier in the w ar against Ignorance."
Under that order Southern people will
preserve and perpetuate tholr best tra
il 11 11 ■« i ii.!. i Hi.ii order they wilt be
led to take counsel not from that which
| represents their fears, but from that
which represents their force. 1
The Preacher.
I Less distinct, perhaps, but more per-
| vastve and commanding a vital post-
tlon with reference to the true life of
the South are those who stand for the
I Christian principle, the religious Ideal.
I The leadership of the religious teacher
I nnd preacher tn the South Is Indispen
sable to the industries and educational
i forces. Harmonious progress Is Impos
sible here without him. He is nsarest
to the conscience of the people and he
stands for an Idea and philosophy of
life underlying the whole fabric of so-
(ciety. An alliance of leadership be
tween him nnd those who represent the
Industrial and educational movements I
have referred to would present an lr-
resUtablo front against the things
which are false and for, the things
which ore true in Southern life.
Benjamin Franklin was not in any
sense a religious partisan, but he was
wl»e enough to recognize the religious
Idea In the foundation of the republic.
He snld that the now constitution
would crumble unless It was the re
sult -of divine counsel and he called
upon his colleagues In the Philadelphia
convention to baptize it In prayer. In
NMjjjf n;n >))•• j»i In ih- ..
did not escape In the general arrest
of Southern progress. He got shunted
too. In that South of the day of great
promise he wo* a powerful figure. A
candid crltl6 speaking of conditions In
the South prior to the war refers to the
great place which the preachers held
and says; “They almost ranged them
selves with the giants; I had rather
have known one of these men than a!
the political and military heroes
have since bred. The politician has
ro, but
Influence. For a century he waa by
far our greatest man—-the man of the
largest original power and of the
strongest character."
The preacher has lost hls public
power to a great degree in the com
mon chaos or Southern unsettlement.
He Is himself In part to blame because
he ht* been afraid to assert hls her!
t&ge from hls apostolic ancestry. But
the reason-of hls fear had its grounds.
The politicians of our sorrowful period
have resented hls approach to public
Influence and the Idea has been suc
cessfully grafted on to Southern pub-
lie opinion that the fleid of politics Is
worldly or of the devil; therefore, the
preacher must keep well out of touch
with It.
The man In the South that the truth
will set free at once Is the preacher.
Hls message and meaning to our life aa
a public man Is too Important to he
lost. Patriotism must be defined In
terms that Include him. He Is more
than a passive subsidiary social nnd
political asset. He has a gospel that
saves both men and nations and hls
priesthood Is a priesthood of the public
In the vestibule of the caplto! of
Georgia Is the statue of Benjamin Hill,
and In the marble are cut these words,
He who saves hls country saves all
things, and all things saved shall bless
him. Who lets his country die lets all
things die and all things dying curse
him. I have pondered that incom
parable definition of patriotism. It was
written by a Hmitherner and with ref-
nee to the South In hls “Notes on
»l" Situ tn ii |.i int« .1 in I s''.' Thu ■
Is no saving of one’s country so that
nil things are saved If the religious
principle Is omitted from Oie founda
tions. Industty will savs from poverty
and Isolation, nnd help to save from
morbid self consclousenss, hut what
will save Industry from sordldness nnd
greed. Education will save from Ig
norance, prejudice and the perils of
liberty, but what will save education
from unbelief and godteasneasT The In
dustrialist and the educator needs the
papi
i not with*
i which i
come vehlcl
South, lead
sentiment n
hour. If gn
posal I can c*»n< rive of n<
Ice to the land I love thar
the promotion Of an organ!
•uetalned propaganda to <■
to the great thing.- und av
narrowing absorption In
gle depresalng l*»ue of the
lem. I would say to all
"You ahall not press <Jowr
false and cruel crown up
of the Bout >i t sh.tii
the strength and hope c
manhood upon this At
uth needs aJi.
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; hope that our news-
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ihe new spirit in the
id makers of public
pie reflections of the
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f Southern
.-JOSS” \\<
have no future conditioned upon a state
of affairs which Is surrendered to a
permanent Irritation We have u fu
ture if we will put the negro problem
aside and devote ourselves to the many
nnd great duties which cull for our
beet energies. The security ot the
South la. not In self protection. It Is
in self elevation.
tt Is a civic tradition In New Or
leans that when the milt flood in the
Mississippi river had broken over the
levees and wrecked the city, two citi
zens were ruefully purveying the de
bris and wreckage. One of th-m rather
bitterly exclaimed, “Oh. If 1 had al
mighty power in this arm, I would build
a levee here so high that the river
could never get over it!" “I would
not do that,” quietly responded th«
other. “If I had almighty power In
this arm, I would put it beneath our
city and lift It up so high that the old
Mississippi would roil harmlessly r* Its
feet.” The safety, the progrops. the
glory of the South does not lie In ths
mouths of those who say, "Let the
South alone," but rests In that nobler,
braver clarion, “Lift the South tip.
Develop her resources, educate her
people, clennse her thought of perilous
stuff and ennoble her moral intorfata.'’
« Mir 1"v• • :111■ I "iir dm v hH"itg to th*
f "in p« "p]** ho I* i *' confused
by many voices. Lot every man start
where he stands to giv** f..r th** South
a voice that will reach some other
man.
I N our youth, we were frequently
regaled by the fascinating tale of
the frantic old lady, who, with her
puny strength, unceasingly plied her
broom In an- atempt to sweep back the
oncoming sea.
The history of the rise of the human
race from mental Inferiority, crass
ignorance and primitive superstition,
to Its present boasted degree of intel
lectual freedom and spiritual power,
records the constant presence, of the
obstructionist, with hls Increasingly
pitiful and futile attempt to hold back
the oncoming tide of the eternal truth
of God.
And still is the theological old lady
with us. Still with 1 her worn nnd bat
tered broom of dogma does she keep
up the frenzied struggle to hold back
from the knowledge of men the bound
less ocean of unceasing love. Driven
from on position <o another by the
persistent progress of theological
thought, with falling strength, but un-
dlmlntshed zeal, the unequal and los
ing combat Is continued. Despairing
appeals for help are made from time
to time to those upon whom the light
has fallen, and who have converted
their brooms -Into paddles, with which
to help the tide of truth to bear them
safely on to the haven of righteous
ness and peace; but those who have
tasted the Joys of freedom In faith and
love are not prone to return willingly
to the slavery of fear and supersti
tion, and so, though they would fain
change their old friends from hlnder-
ers into helpers, yet progres waits not
long for the laggard, and the obstinate
old lady must be lert to be engulfed
In the kindly, Ufe-brlnglng flood she
has so valiantly combatted.
Up a toilsome, thorn-strewn way
have men come to an ever-increasing
knowledge of the character and attrib
ute# of the one true God. Blood-be
spattered and shriek-echoing has ever
been the pathway of the pllgffins of
truth. Ever, In the way of advance In
theoolglcal thought, ha* stood the ob
structionist. counting no method too
cowardly, no weapon too cruel for use
In besting back the patient seekars af
ter light and truth. Ever, as an echo to
the triumphant shout of the explorer
upon the hilltop of a new revelation,
has come the dismal warning of the
prophet of gloom, “Forsake not the
ancient landmarks."
With some men and women, rever
ence Is synonymous with stagnation.
The tenacious love of the old absolute
ly prevents unprejudiced examination
of the new. This spurious reverence
also begets a decidedly dwarfing and
unhappy type of egotism. It leads men
to conceive that they have taken-their
own petty little theological tin cups
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON j
Tht Gtntilo Woman'* Faith, Mark 7:24
30. Golden text—Groat ii thy faith)
bo It unto theo even >• thou wilt—
Mott. 15:28.
By DR. GEORGE - A. BEATTIE,
I N our loot lesson Jesus was feeilInK
the 5,000 at the north end of the Sen
>f Galilee. That night after sending
the multitude away, and posing some
time In prayer, Ho Walked on the wa
ter to meet Hls dlsdphta who were
rowing across the sea.- Scarcely had
He reached the land when some whom
He hod fed come to Him asking that
He feed them again.
This suggested the dlseoune record
ed In John (:32-7I. Then came the
Pharisees from Jerusalem, seeking to
entangle Htm, and make It appear that
He did not keep the law of Moses as
recorded In Mat. xv, 1-t.
After this He made another circuit
more extended than any of the othe
going as far west as the borders
Ihenlrla, the vicinity of Tyre and 81-
oon. This was the scene of our lesson.
Hero He went Into a house that He
might get rest, and be concealed from
thoee who sought Him. "But He could
not be hid.” Among those who sought
him was s mother whoso daughter had
»n unclean spirit, who did not bring
her child, but esme alone. It waa not
necessary that Jesus should have the
Person present whom He would heat.
All He had to do tvaa to speak the
word. ~
This woman was Sryo-Phenlclsn;
'bat Is: a native of Fhenlcla that be-
I mged to Syria. She was a heathen,
one of those whom the Jews called bar
barians or Greeks. She was a descend
ant of the Syrian as distinguished from
toe i'arthagenlan, a Semitic race. Mat
thew tells us she was a Cannanltlih
woman, one of the original Inhabitants
or the land, descendant of Ham. Thus
(?• represented the representatives of
Hniii, and Shem by descent, and of
Japheth by language and civilisation,
and SO was a representative of a vast
number of pagsm. So she hsd all these
barriers of strangeness In race. relig
ion end nationality to overcome In cell
ing on Christ.
n*n peopls wish to see Christ,
I P' non they feel the need of Him, no ob-
|*.a<de Is too great to prevent them,
w, * fact t!»at Jesus at this period of
Hl * ministry betook Himself to the
"***» of Tyre and Sldon calls for a
•E-vlal Inquiry.
why Jetus Went to a Heathen Land.
•r
ately after Hls disciples had been sc,
cused by the Pharisees of eating bread
with "denied, that ts to say, unwash
on hands." The ground of that accu.n
tlon Mark himself gives us when he
tells of those Pharisees that over and
above all washings of cups and pots
and brazen vessels, "when they come
form the market, except they wash,
they eat not.”
Against that substitution of an out
ward for an Inward purity against that
thought that any human being made
In the Image of God, waa In himself
common or unclean, and capable of in
fecting others with hls uncleanness, the
divine teacher protested with more
than wonted sternness.
It waa after this utterance that "He
arose and went Into the coast ot Tyre
and Sldon." Was It not aa though He
would testify by act as well as words,
that He did not shirk from that con
tact with a people whom the Pharisees
regarded as accurssd and unclean—
that It waa better to go to and from
among such as these than to abide
among a people who honored God with
their lips, while out of their hgnrta
flowed the full stream of evtl? And
does not this supposition throw light
on ths conduct of Jesi
Christ, or sho might have hoard of
them through others, so when the
prophet came she would know’Him.
come to Him, and plead for Hie as
sistance. So she followed Him through
the streets and lanes of the city. Hut
II.' iiiiowcr.'il her ii"t .’i win it. lie en
ter,,I a le,nre l" avoid the till',me. tmt
she followed Him, nnd reiterated her
I ry. "Hut He him erell net II w Ill'll "
Tasted Her Faith.
That seemingly hard anil repellent
treatment might have appeared likely
to crush out all hope. But the wren,'in
Him. He likes to give like a king.
The reformers In every ago have been
■assessed of great faith. Luther, when
•r.y— . fie arose room no Knees worn ascona-
wlth that keen Insight Into motives and j )nlt mate's staircase at noma, not only
emotions wnicn come# often a* a mi- 'became a convert to the doctrine of
pernaturn! gift, In hours of special ngl- justification by faith, but ho also be-
tatton, saw In It that which gavo her ||eved that God would bless hls efforts
esus In Hls answer
to tha petition of the woman-
judged by the standards that we ap-
„.y to human thought and conduct, ths
act waa but the natural and legitimate
development of what Hs had then pro
claimed In words.
Hls primary object was not to make
proselytes or proclaim the kingdom.
Ht was still working within the limits
which He recognized as appointed by
Hls Father. What He sought In that
Journey over the high mountain posses
of Lebanon or Hermon, was rather the
refreshment of the solitude where man
holds communion with God, of the
everlasting hills which are as the fa
vored haunt of the Eternal Voice.
The woman addressed Him by Hls
Mssalsnlc name, "Thou son of Da-
vfd."
Among thosa whom He taught on the
shore of Galilee, yeven before the ap
pointment of the twelve hsd been num
bered, "they about Tore and Sldon. a
great multitude." Luke tells us: '.They
had come to hear Him and to be healed
of their diseases, and they that were
vexed with unclean spirits, and they
were healed.” Here we have an ex
planation of what at first seems hard
to understand. This woman might
have been among those who heard the
words and saw the miracles of the
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courage to persevere.
He meant to refuze absolutely
oud altogether It would have been easy
to utter the refusal. Silence was u
token that n conflict of some kind was
going on within. At lost the silence
wss broken, but not by Him. but by
the disciples. It Is not pity or love thnt
prompts them. It might have been
consideration for the Master, but It
seems more like Impatience.
A Needed Lesion.
At this moment we may believe the
Master saw that thsy needed a lesson.
They were forgetting the limits 6f the
work which He had aaelgned them, or
were ready to transgress those limits.
And so with that Irony which has en
tered In greater or less measure Into
the work of nearly all great teachers
of mankind, he puts forward the ex-
In reforming the church. When John
Knox prayed, “Otve me Scotland or I
die," he believed hls prayer would be
answered. In Dr. Cullls' home for In
curabtes In Boston and la OseQI MmI
l.'l-'r "I |.ll■■ ii.i■ !n III i '-.I KliKl.tml
have today Illustrations of the power
of faith. In the eleventh chnpter of
Hebrews the nfiostle has given us a
catalogue of the triumphs of faith. The
secret of Mr. Moody's success ns an
evangelist was hls faith. When the
disciples asked ths Bavli
could not cast out a devil from one
that was possessed, after they had tried
tn vain. He told them that It was be
cause of their unbelief.. The disciples
with Utile faith were trying to perform
n miracle for a man who. It may be,
had still less.
There Is too much unbelief In the
pulpit and the pew today. We do not
preach for results nor do we expect
presslon, not of hls own thoughts nnd results,
feelings, but of those which were work- The faith that can triumph over oth-
Ing secretly In thetr minds, though ers' unbelief Is faith of the highest
they shrank from giving utterance to klnd wh< .„ you rom , . crog , „ UC T, an
them. It le not meet to take the chit- onr p | a worth while to stop and look,
drens meat and give It to the dogs. y uu lniiy wr) , lurn a ,idr t0 <ee thl.
This was an tllustratlon of the com- Krrm , »| g ht, for be sure that when a
mand "Cast not that which Is boly>|bush burns by Itself God Is In ths inldst
unto dogs.” How were they to recon- i j,.
c|le this with the other words that Wt must have faith In our work tf
spoke of a wider hope, which told of p | a (0 result In anything more then
the many who should com* from the 1 miserable failure. We must believe In
Cast and the West, and sit down with me power of Ood to cast out any nnd
Abraham and Jacob and Isaac in the every unclean spIrIL Christ Is able to
kingdom of God? The woman rnw In save unto the uttermost. The faith
the word* a new ground of hope. She that wlnM the day Is the faith that
caught at the very form of the words -bouts the victory before the aword Is
which He had used, and pointed to the drawn.
dog, not as the unclean, ferocious , -According to thy fslth, h* It unto
beasts thst still Infest those Eastern . you."
cities, that feed on carrion and ranm -
the streets, but those that are admit- |
ted Into the house.
■I
She finds In thst word not a refusal,
but a new plea for compliance. She
did not claim a right to a full fellow
ship In the blessings of the kingdom,
and wss content to accept Just that
Which would meet her special want
and supply nourishment for her hope.
And so her prayer jvas heard. The
deeper law of love, the enthusiasm of
humanity prevailed over the law of
the self-imposed limits of the Master's
work.
The most casual reader of the miracles
of Chriet cannot but be Impressed with
the fact thst In every Instance where
It was possible faith In Hls ability to
perform the miracle waa required be
fore He wrought ft. When the two
blind men came to Him He asked If
they believed Jle was able to restore
their sight, and when they confessed
they were. He touched their eyes Say
ing, "According to your faith, be it unto
you.” We are belittled and blessed ac
cording to our faHt
Alexander ths Greet.
Alexander the Oreat once had a sol
dier who performed some meretorioue
sendee, and the king Hsked him to
name hla reward. He specified a lacg-
sum of money. The king’s counsellor-
regarded the request as presumptl . ts
and urged him not to grant It. "No.-
said Alexander, "I wish to show him
| that I ran give Itkt a king." and th-
request was granted.
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nnd have dipped dry the whole mighty
ocean of God's love aud truth, lenvlng
nothing Upon which a brother of dif
fering credal conception may float hls
bnrk of hope and faith.
This spurious reverence occasionally
Induces men of apparent Intellectual
power and attainments of scholarship
to descend to the employment of ridi
cule and misrepresentation to combat
the freely admitted march of a great
truth.
Among lawyers end men of logic
everywhere, the employment of such
methods In lieu of argument Is always
considered a tacit admission of a weak
case.
Progress has brought to us a new
meaning for reverence. The truly rev
erent mind Is the constantly seeking
mind. In overy sincere why or where
fore, sounds the keynote of n truly
reverent heart. True reverence has for
Its object truth alone, nnd this truth,
embodied In God, teaches man that he
wae put upon the earth to subdue tt
nnd tn possess It, Intellectually and
splrtually, ns well as physically. True
revrence Jeads out the heart In Its
searrh after Ood, und bids It, In this
iwtlent search, to fearlessly and con
fidently construct Its own theology,' re
gardless of the blatant clamor of tradi
tion nr the galling chnlns of supersti
tion. True reverence teaches a man
that the God who fashioned the hu
man soul, long ere the human soul
fashioned Bible or creed, speaks con
stantly nnd comfortingly, In commen
dation or In correction and admoni
tion, even though the mind know no
formal theology, nnd though the mem
ory hotd.no Moses, no Isaiah, no Christ.
It must have been the Inspiration of
such .reverence as this which mused
HI. John to write, "Beloved, If our
heart condemn us not, then have wo
confidence toward God."
and
This In the reverence which the
needs today. The reverence
causes a man to hesitate Ion)
ponder earnestly ere ho dub bis
er-tonn "henthen." The reverence
which teaches us thnt religion Is of
God, while theologies, creeds nnd Bi
bles nre of men. The revetence which
teaches thst even the soul which strug
gles blindly toward Ood through the
medium of a -graven Image" Is en
titled tn rsspert and consideration In
hla devotions, although our ot,n mind’s
larger vision may not permit our 110-
ceptsnee of hls special form of relig
ious Iwllef. Let us have more nnd
more of this reverence, which, w hile be
ing ii ill', gi hi, fid t"i 11"- "ancient
landmarks’* of theological progress, yet
forever Inelste Hint these same "land-
Iii.nks" w ■ I' in v IT 'III lie'll Intended
to lie perennial trees upon the bank
of the stream of life to which our
\\ Inc,"I b.iI I. • of -I'll IImil Iisplr atl"lt
should bo forever anchored.
ARM CRUSHED OFF
IN ICE CREAM FREEZER
Kpeclal (o Th# Georgian.
Augusta* Oa., June 2.—John t'roey,
a negro boy, while engaged In operat
ing the neven-gnllon Ice cream churn,
with electric motor power, for a local
Ice cream concern, Tliurzday had hi*
.mu i ought In tin* unit hln« i \ nml <•.
hudly mangled that It wan afterward#
amputated.
CITY WILL CONSTRUCT
BRIDGES OVER RAILWAYS
rity Engineer Clayton 1# making
plan's r II n fn.it hllilg.* III tin* l«
of Alderman W. H. Patterwon, which
Jil ).. pJiK'cd «I til" «;.">IJ{||| ; illinii.l
fin! i Mu "M i fiit.-M i \ griti- 1 1 1 tin- « s
tentlon of Jacknon Htroet. Th# hridgo
will be used by the people coming
from Jackaon Mro#t and vicinity who
have to pa*# arrn#« the track#.
The other underpaa# will be on Dan
iel atreet. At the point wher# the
Mi*ft i !!••• Nout hr! n miIIu ,iv.
near the Bouthem yard*, it I# danger-
oua becauee of the large amount of
awitchlng. The promoted plan’ le to
lowtfr the atreet. The plan will proba
bly come up before council Monday.
PUMPING OUTFITS
In Combination With Foss Gasoline Engines
ARTEMUS WARD'S PRANKS
AS TOLD BY HI8 C0U8IN.
I and WHISKEY HAOrit
| cured at home with-
tpaiu. Book of r,ar-
I Honiara t*nt FHF.K.
■ B. M. WOOLLEY. M. D.
ita, 44a. Office 104 N. Pryor Street.
lisle and hearty In hls 80th year,
Daniel Brown, an own cousin to Ar-
temus ward, bears a striking resem
blance to Maine’s famous humorist.
Mr. Brown was a schoolmate with Ar-
temus Ward—Charles F. Brown—and
a boyhood companion, In those early
days. Ha llvei Just across tha street
from tha famous Brown mansion. He
relates many Interesting stories about
the famous man. especially of hla boy
hood pranks and tha merrymakings of
school days. Arternus Ward enjoyed
a good time as well as any of tha boys
of those days, and he entered hls sports
with all hls might. The two cousins
enjoyed msny Ashing trips together,
although Art emus Ward cared little
for outdoor aports, preferring good
tlmee with people: able to mingle und
enjoy the association of all clasaaa of
man and women.
Bays Danfet Brown: "One of the
best-known stories of Arternus Ward
la about the slow-going train, and It
goes something like this! T asked the
conductor If this railroad company al
lowed passengers to give It advice If
they did eo In a re
conductor replied
he guessed so.' 'Well,
on. 'It occurred to me It would be well
to detach the cowcatcher from In front
of tbs angtns snd hitch It to the rear
of the train, for you sea wa arb not
liable to overtskl a cow, but what's to
prevent a cow strolling Into this car
from bthlnd and biting a passenger?’"
Re-elected to Prlncipalshlp.
Hpeclal to The Georgian.
Culloden, Ga„ June 1.—The board of
commissioners of tha Culloden Insti
tute re-elected Professor B. O. Powell
as principal, with a handsome Increase
imin ipai, " • hwiwwwht.
In salary.* This act of the hoard will
HgaaMgl approval ""
thH section.
country Ikjijjpi, for «•
nud fire protectk
. , j ■apply.no
Tim above outfit on exhibition dally.
Dunn Machinery Company
54 Marietta St/ - -- -- -- - Atlanta
RENOVATING
ATLANTA MATTRESS CO.
Both Phones 4141. 114 Piedmont Avenut
meet the universal approval ot the peo
pie throughout
AMERICAN MU8ICIAN8
WILL MEET IN COLUMBUS.
Special to The Georgian.
Chattanooga, Tenn., June L— The
race leeue het caused Chattanooga to
loss tha nest annual meeting of the
American FederatloiTof Musician-. The
federation Is composed «f a number of
negroes, and because It vox thought
Don’t Pay Rent!
It is exceedingly bad form to do so when vou
can pay your own money back in your own pocket,
by coming to me. Just run your eye over this!
We’ll build you a house’just like you want it. ou
'•n\\ pa; ini'iifs, from S500.C0 to $5,000.00, if you buy
the lot. ’ The College Park Land Co. have 2,000 lot's
to select from, $100 to $500 each. Come out and see
mo, or call me up. Edward H. Walker, the College
Park Real Estate Dealer. Office at end of car line.
Hof! ’phone .‘17-J, East Point Exchange, College
Park, Ga. I sell ereiything at College Park.
that It would not
the## mix with
decided to hold
t be Rood policy to have ! Inn
the whit?* here. It wa* j i»rr
the convention at Co* ! Ing
PHWB