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T HE statement of Kraut Haeckel that "human nature haa no more value for the unlverae at large than an ant or the fly of a summer's day," does not square with the facta Man haa more Importance for the uni verse In wholesale and detail than any of the lower animals, for he learns enough about It to Improve It and In crease Its value, while they get a living out of It without enhancing Its worth a particle. Consider the difference In the value of the American continent to- dny, as compared with Its value four hundred years ago, when Columbus discovered it. The present wealth of America Is more .than sufficient to buy out the whole Eastern. hemisphere of the world as the people knew It before U92. And It la all owing to what man has added to It. The beavers have not helped any, nor have the ants or the files or the mosquitoes. The thought wo call Instinct the animals carry in their blood does not grow. It Is sta tionary. It Is man who has to struggle for what he knows by changing hla In tuitions Into general Ideas which he reproduces In modifying climates, alter ing the courses of rivers, Invading the domain of the ocean, with his fields, and making forests grow on new ground prepared for them; who turns the face of the earth from a wilder ness Into a blooming garden. He It Is w ho finds out the secrets of things In themselves. He It Is the Almighty has endowed with a mind capable of har vesting the thought sown In the stars, and In the light, and In the mighty sea. and In the human spirit. I. He It Is who uses his knowledge to tunnel mountains', bridge rivers, sub due the ocean, and make out of Wire anil electricity a nervous system for the social human whole as perfect as that ench Individual has for hla own body. He has abolished space and obliterated time. The great ether sea through which suns and constellations swim he now proposes to subordinate to his purpose as he uses the Atlantlcs and PacIflcH. Whether he Is more Impor tant for the universe at large than the "ant or fly of a summer's day" or not nip- thing Is certain, he haa forced th* universe to serve him In an Infinitely larger sense than the ants and the »1 t/»r» have ever been able to get It to serve them. The truth Is, the Author of the universe (which Haeckel says Is matter and motion) seems to be using him, his Intelligence, will and emotion through which to transmute the whole material order Into higher realms of being. II. Man. according: to the Psalmist, made but a little lower than God. God Is the Infinite self-conscious, self-de termining, self-active One. Man Is the fllnite self-conscious, aelf-determlnlng, self-active one. The brilliant essayist and biographer of Browning, G. K. Chesterton, said that one might declare with truth per haps that comparatively few men are manly, but that no one could say that all whales were not whaly. So one might say to a friend after he had ta ken hla tenth drink, hoping to deter him from taking another, "Be a Man," but no one would ever think of saying to a crocodile after he had swallowed his tenth explorer, "Be a crocodile.' Whales and crocodiles are not spirits; but man, essentially and fundamental ly, Is and In calling upon a human being to be a man, an appeal Is made to what he essentially and eternally Is, In distinction from what he locally and temporally Is. III. The evolutionary process that for millions of years steadily moved up until the topmost plane of creation was reached, has since that time seemingly kept up Its ascending movement through the highway of the human soul. Horses, cattle, sheep and all ani mals that have promise of a career on earth go up Into liner forms by way of the human spirit. Chrysanthemums, roses, honey-sucktes and all flowers, as well as pears, watermelons, grapes, peaches, and all fruits, climb now by way of thought. Pigeons, ducks, chick- nay ui iuhuhiii. a iBfruitn, uutnn, uiiitn* ens and all birds ascend through hu man life. The evolutionary process af ter an adtve business career of from fifty to one hundred millions of years along the lines of matter and motion, seems to have mode a complete change In Its method of procedure when man appeared on the scene of activity. Plants and animats struck not for higher w ages but for'a different road up which to travel. Things generall) appeared averse to climbing any more except over the human rimifwny. At the first man was new to himself and the world was new tq him. It has ta ken some thousands of years to build a human highway broad enough for all earthly things to move up through. But with the process of the suns the thoughts of men have widened until now there Is ample space for all things to move abreast along the upward way. Atoms, molecules and compounds, elec- 1 tricity, heat and magnetism, gravlta- | tlon. chemlsm and ether, a* well as tor- gnr,!sms / of every grade and type are all I finding their way to higher realms of existence through humeri*nature. IV. Haeckel may not cAre to share In the glory the universe has thrown around man by selecting him as the medium through which to continue the evolu tionary process; he may prefer the lowly estimate of himself which aspires to no higher level than that occupied uiftiici tt vci kiiau iiibl ucuupieu . by the ant and the fly; but he has noI right to publish 5>ooks filled with Ideas | which would lead the rest of the human i race to feel.as humble as he does. One I would think. In his attempts to feel as I unimportant as the ant or the fly, that I he displayed enough of the spirit of < self-efTarement to satisfy the demand I In that line of things for the whole of j mankind. One mortal on earth feeling! that Way Is at least enough for.a gen- : eratfon; especially when it la remem bered that he has not ,a single suno reason for taking such an enormously low estimate of himself. - . V. The thought that things have steadl- ; ly moved upward from the beginning Is the most stimulating and wide- reaching conception ever grasped by the mind of man. The conviction that underlying matter and motion, and. life there has been an ascending purpose, widening and deepening, and gradually disclosing Itself, has come as a brac ing and universal tonic to the modern mind. It has put pessimism, together with the atheism and agnosticism, which made It possible, out of busi ness. It has closed the careers of the Schopenhaurs and the von Hartmans. It has caused a complete change in the outlook of the human race, lead ing It to see no longer Its Ideals In the narrow Edens of the past, but to press toward a. paradise In the future where all the sons'of men shall stand together In the wide, ample gardens of God. The companion thought to that of the gen eral upward movement of the evolu tionary process throughout all time and space Is the one that since man’s appearance on the planet, the divine purpose haa been mining toward Its consummation through the Intelligence and will and emotion • of humanity. Through man, even things are lifted Into finer forms and higher values. Through man, lands and rivers and places are. transfigured. The barren, commonplace Palestine Is transmuted through Joshua and David and Isaiah Into a country of fadeless beauty. Sun burnt and rock-ribbed iGreecc gets an REV. DR. JAMES W. LEE. eternal lease on Immortality through her artists and philosophers and poets, The Scotland of Sir Walter SSott Is Inllnttely more attractive than was his native land before It begaii to glow’ In' the colors of his genius. The waters of Burns' Tiny Bonnie Boon are of more value than those of the vast A mason. . The Avon outranks the Mis sissippi. Not only through the artistic genius of i men are' things enhanced In value, but through the practical genius and patience of men are living things advanced to higher uses. VI. For the past\wenty-live years there has been a regular procession of Cali fornia plants making their way through the genius of Mr. Luther Burbank. |ito finer forms than ever grew on this earth before. He believes there Is not one weed or flower, wild or domesti cated, Which will not sooner or later respond liberally to good cultivation and persistent selection. He finds his delight In lifting up from the race of I weeds the vile, the neglected, the down- |trodden and the despised of all. He I>elleves that ■'weeds are weeds because 1 they are Jostled, crowded, cropped and ! trampled upon, scorched by flerce heat, ' starved or perhaps suffering with cold, wet feet, tormented by Insect pests, or lack of nourishing food and sun shine." "The whole creation groaneth and travalleth In pain together until now." But through man the natural creation Is moving up into use and beauty such as was never seen before. Man who lifts up all things around him must also go up Into the full perfection of his being. We know better than ever before—thank God—the way of human ascent. Through Jesus Christ, the Son of God. the Son of Man. the universal Life, man has been coming to salvation from sin, to freedom end hope, for the past nineteen hundred years, nnd the way gets brighter and wider with •wry passing century. iThrougli Him we are to do for the human world what such patient workers as Mr. Burbank are doing for the pltmt world. Human beings arc far more susceptible and responsive to treatment than are the weeds of the Held. But if we are to lift them up we must take hold of them in the wholeness of their being. They arc primarily and essentially and persist ently religious. The only treatment to which they permanently respond Is Christian treatment—the treatment of love and sacrifice and sympathy. VCe have a concrete Illustration of the ef ficiency of this method of redeeming human life In that furnished" by Dr Thomas J, Barnardo and his .ninety- three . homes established In different parts oCJingland today. Thirty-c-lght years»ago he began with one poor little waif of a bo)• named Jim Jarvis, found In the streets of London. The boj was motherless, homeless, friendless. In thirty-eight years he has gathered from the streets of English cities nearly 60,- 000 wolf children. In his homes they have been educated, trained to work, and taught to trust In Jesus Christ for livntion from sin. When the children leave the homes for the great world they go out trained In'mind, disciplined In hand, and committed In heart to Christ. The results are far more amaz ing than such as Mr. Burbank has ac complished In taking the shell Inclos ing the kernel from stone fruits, or In making tl)e plum-cot by crossing the apricot and the plum. Out of the nearly 60,000 young people trained In Dr. Bernardo’s homes not more than 2 per cent have turned out badly. Think of that wretched procession of waif children, Jostled, crowded, cropped, trampled upon, ■ torn, beaten, despair ing, making their way to noble man hood and womanhood through the Christian soul of a man who loves his fellow man, as Jesus loved him, cause filled with the spirit of Christ, and you get a view of the direction the evolutionary process, as guided by the mind of Christ, Is taking In the sad, dnful, human world. VII. This upward movement of human life and Its affairs through Christ must not be regarded as merely dog matlc and doctrinal, It Is cosmlcal And universal. Lamenals said long ago that "Christianity can only continue Its evolution by entering Into the circle of the natural laws of man. It Is now entering on this new era, one of those solemn moments In which everything seems to be perishing, but In which everything is being bom." We arc now beginning to see In the light of the history of the past nineteen hun dred past years that the ethical and spiritual forces which Christ set work ing In humanity are destined to domi nate the world. The great truth Christ taught was that men live by dying, they go up by going down, they find themselves by losing themselves, they triumph through sacrifice, Christ sac rificed Himself. He descended from a higher to a lower order of social ex istence. “While In the form of God," he "counted It not a prize or a thing to be grasped to be on an equality with God, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, being made In the likeness of men, and being found, In fashion as a man. He humbled Him self, becoming obedient even unto death, yet the death of the cross where fore also God'hadh highly exalted Him, and gave unto Him the name which Is above every name; that In the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things In heaven and things on earth and things under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ Is Lord, to the glory of God the Father." By His descent from the heights of holiness. Into the depths of wretched ness and sin enough redeeming power was liberated to redeem and transform the world. VIII. It Is a well known truth of the ma- terial.realm that energy, whether radi ant, electrical or chemical, always re sults from the conjunction of that which Is the higher with that which Is lower. If all things In the physical world were on a dead level such a thing as energy would not be possible Whenever It is generated It may h» known that something above Is na.«in. to a level below. If the atmosphere surrounding the steam engine was heated to the same degree of ih# steam In the boiler not a wheel would turn. To the difference of temperature of that within to that without we owe the power that moves the flying train When the water plunges down more than 150 feet at Niagara power Is lib erated sufficient In <iuantlty-to turn an the wheels nnd light all the streets of America. When water goes from the boiling to the freezing point heat !> communicated to the surrounding at. mosphere. It Is equally true that spiritual pow. er Is due" always to the entrance of higher life Into the conditions of low. er life. And the amount of force liberated or made available by such a down-falling process will be in pro portion to the energy of position oc- cupted by the life, and by the moral and spiritual value of the life, h it beyond any question that one person can never raise the moral grade of an other above that which he occupies himself. An Ignorant man can never add to the Items of knowledge pos. sessed by his neighbor. If all men were thieves and liars by settled prac- ttce and confirmed habit, available power for converting them into lovers of honesty nnd truth could only be se cured from some holy life coming down from above them Into their midst. If the sun were to cease to come with his light and heat Into the atmosphere of the earth we would soon all freeze. The annual spring revival that comes to meadow and, plain, forcing the plants to swejl and bloom, Is due the coming of that which Is above the earth Into contact with living things upon It. All analogies break down at some point. This does because It falls to Illustrate what we mean by the de scent of Christ Into the conditions of human life, In that when the sun parts with Its heat It does not get it back, but In giving away Its force Is gradu ally getting poorer In resources. Now the sacrifice of Christ, while it does stand for the coming of the Son of God from a higher Into a lower realm, and does give us the secret of his success among men, yet Christ does not, like the sun, loses Himself by giv ing Himself. Here is a distinct line differentiating the material. from the spiritual power, for man to draw on, but Instead of losing Himself by this process He flnds Himself multiplied and magnified by all who are, redeemed through His sacrificial movement. ••••••••••••••I >•••••••••••••••••( !•••••••••••••< llieiHHMHH RAISING A BIGGER ISSUE “And the Lord direot your hearts into the lovs of God and into the pa tience of Christ.” —2d These., Mi: 5. By REV. JOHN E. WHITE, PASTOR SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH N OTING that the text Is In the form . of a prayer, we naturally Inquire for some explanation. The ex planation Is the situation In the Thes- snlonlan church. It Is to that situation the second Epistle la addressed. The Christians there are In the throes of an unhappy division over (he question of the second coming of Christ. Some think that Paul had himself unwitting ly furnish'd the occasion of the discord by rather ttrong and unguarded state ments about Christ’s return, as though It were Immediately at hand. With vivid and startling emphasis he had In the former letter pointed to the while clouds of the "Parausl” as If at that moment they were In the sky. "Be hold! He cometh with clouds and every eye shall see Him. The Lord Himself Mi nil descend from Heaven with n shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trump of God.” Com menting on this and what came after a great Scotch preacher says; "Paul drove the nail too hard and split the plank.” If the authorised rendering la the correct one. the sad disruption at Thessalonlca may have been brought about by a spurious epistle which some tricky enemy wrote and signed Paul's name to. In the second chapter Paul refers to It: “Now, we beseech you, brethren, touching the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together unto Him, that ye be not quickly «haken from your mind nor yet troubled by epistle as from us, as that the day of the Lord Is now present. Let no man deceive you In any wise.” Whatever Its origin, whether In Paul or In a forgery, the trouble was there In full blast. One party going wild and turning away from labor and duty to sit down and Indulge rhapsodies of high-strung ex pectation; the other party flyliig to the other extreme and In disgust with fnnattclsm throning the whole doc trine of the second coming overboard. So bitterness and strife rent the church In twain. It has always been so. One extreme creates another, and the truth falls through. The distortion of truth,’ fanatical extremes, by very earnest and h -nest people, provokes and supports unbelief. Now, Paul, who hod founded nnd nourished the cause at Thessalonlca, witnessed this disruption sadly. The note of distress Is evident In his ad dress to them. In the course of this address our text occurs. Hehas coun sided, he has exhorted, he has warned them In his best wisdom; now, as though he suddenly realises the gravi ty or the trouble, that human effort to harmonise the factions would fall and tbana higher power must take It In hand, he appeals to God. "The Lord direct yuor hearts Into the love of God and Into the patience of Christ." I commend to you the Apostolic diploma cy. Christianity has this witness still to bear to modern life. It Is accredited by history. Ollyer Cromwell prefaced his bailies by prayer. Marlin Luther anil John Knox In their revolutions made Illustrious the Pauline diplomacy of prayer, David Livingstone actually fought his way Into the heart of dark est Africa on his knees, and then out o/ Africa he went to Heaven on his knees, for so they found him dead. Chinese Gordon and Btonewnll Jackson took It to the Lord In prayer. At Val ley Forgo George Washington went ulono and laid the Issue of war nml thu destiny of this dear land before God. Benjamin Franklin railed for prayer at the launching of the American Con stitution. If General Toombs nnd Thaddeua Stevens had sworn less nnd prayed more a Bloody and ruinous civil war might have been averted. A Bigger Issue. Dr. Sylvanus Landrum, the distin guished father of his still more dlsttn- gulshed son, left behind him for preachers a charming bit of wisdom. ”1 have learned,” he said, ‘in forty years' experience, how to deal with a church row. It Is to always raise a bigger Issue, take a great collection or project a new enterprise.” The night before Snlamla Tbemlatocles brooded discouraged In his tent over the dark shadow that hung over Greece and the fateful battle that Impended. Suc cess had crowned his ambition. He had succeeded In having his rival, Aris tides, banished. But now a mournful melancholy tilled his heart. Suddenly a figure darkened the door of Ills tent. It was Aristides. The hand of Ther- mtstocles flew to hla sword as he saw hts old antagonist. Aristides advanced and extended his' hand. "Thermlsto- cles." he said, "let us he rivals still, but rivals now for death tomorrow to-save our common country." He raised a blggerrissue. On the morning of Tra falgar Lord Nelson called >a council of his officers. He noted the absence of Captain Rotherham. He was Informed that It was on account of a disaffection between him nnd Admiral Uolllng- wood, his superior. Nelson sent for the captain and upon his arrival took him by the arm and led him Into the presenco of the admiral, and stretch ing forth his hand toward the ships of France and Spain, said; "Gentlemen, these are the enemy. Shake hands." He raised a bigger Issue. In one of our court rooms-a bitter suit for di vorce was In progress. The husband was on one side nnd the wife on the other pf the court room and between the warring array of attorneys. By the mother's aide was a little girl, the object of the struggle, between them. Suddenly that little figure flew across the room, climbed Into the man’s lap, hugged his neck and said In the hear ing of the startled company: "Daddy, we love you." In the hands of the wise Judge who looked through a mist of tears, the case came to an end nnd the litigants want out with the child be tween. The child raised a bigger Is sue. Thus Is Paul's statesmanship. He does not propose to settle their dif ficulty, He raises a larger Issue. He appeals to religion, to the love of God. A Lovs Like God’s. The principle behind the suggestion of the text Is that the love of God Is the law of harmony and the proper mood of the Christian. Traced through the New Testament the phrase as sumes a particular Christian signifi cance. The words are old enough but when Christ comes to reveal and cre ate a new relation between God nnd mnn "the love of God" becomes un expression standing for a well defined force and fact. The old preachers had the Idea when they spoke of "the love of God shod abroad In our hearts.” It does not mean God's love for us, nor yet our love for God. It means Chris tian love—thrfdlvlne love as a posses- REV. DR. JOHN A. WHITE. slon, a love like God's that Is the Chris tian's own distinguishing quality. In the thirteenth chapter of First Corin thians a certain vlrtuo Is invested with a surpassing dignity. The au thor says that without It faith Is noth ing, hope Is nothing, ’nothing Is any thing so far as the Christian is con cerned unless be has this wonderful virtue. He calls It love. Now, the thing that Pawl says It greater thun faith and greater thnn hope Is exactly what he Is talking about In the text. "The Lord direct your hearts Into the love of God." It Is an exact nnd n most exacting virtue. It make* no allowance for bit terness against brethren or any hu man hate whatsoever. Now, this love of God comes to us when His ,|ove-for us Is revealed and realized and our love awakened and aroused In respqnse. A new moral ele-' rrlent drops Into, our lives and a love' the heathen knows not comes to power tn us. It Is a love like God’s that Huftereth long and Is kind, cnvleth not, vaunteth not .itself, le not puffed up, doth not behave Itself unseemly, seek- eth not her own, Is not eaqjly pro voked. thlnketh no evil, rejoiceth not In Inqulty, beaseth all things, bellevetH all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.” A love like God's! Can such a thing be? Two men who were brothers were visiting their old father. They were talking about the old man while he was going about the place happy enough. One of the brothers said to the other: ’’Do you know I have come to have a 'strange feeling about father? I do not love him like I used to exactly. I feel like I would like to have him In my home and look after and make him take care of himself and care for him just like a child. I’ really feel like a father to him." I do not know a bet. ter definition of this love of God about which I am speaking thnn this sug gests. It Is (toe spirit of fatherhood In is. What does It mean when Christ, ne man Christ Jesus, says so clearly and with such n distinction of, em phasis, that His words eut the air like blades of steel, ”1 and the Father are one; If ye have seen me ye have seen the Father?’ And how far Is Paul from saying the same thing of himself when he pointedly declares, "For me to live Is Christ. Nevertheless It Is not I that live, but Christ that llveth In me?” Mr. William T. Stead, the great Eng lish publicist, has told In a book of a Christmas he spent In prison when he was arrested as the editor of the Pall Mall Gasette. He says that he had a revelation there that changed his whole life. He wae writing a letter to a young lady who had written to him for advice. She was having a hard time trying to live a better life In the city of London, and he was saying to her In his letter that she ought to become a Christian. He seemed to hear a, voice saying to him distinctly, "Why are you asking that girl to be a Christian? Never say to any one any more, ’Be a Christian.’ Always say, ’Be a Christ.’ ’’ He says at first the’suggcstlon shocked him. It sounded almost blasphemous, certainly presumptlous. Ho '.recoiled from It. But as he thought more deep ly of It he Saw’that It' was a; flash of truth of most vital Importance. He writes: "Henceforth I shall never say -to any one, 'Be a Christian.’ It Is not Christians who will save the world. No, not even churches. What we want Is not to be Christians, but to be Christs. The name Christian has come to mean to many an Infinitesimal sem blance of the shadow of Christ and a whole ocean of self.. We have got to be real Chrlste or the world.wlll never be saved.” Now, this bold way of stating It, though I can not see that It is any bolder than Paul's way of stat ing It, may excite a momentary re pugnance, but think about It, think about It with your New Testament be fore you. I think you will get a new light on your path. The peril of blas phemy Is far more real for us when we use the term "Christian’' loosely ond with little significance than It Is when we put the power Into It that belongs there. If we take His name In vain we do blaspheme. The name "Chrls- tlan" Is an Irrevsrent liberty with the name of the Bon of God whenever It Is made tq stand for any spirit abhorrent to the Spirit of Christ. A Southern Exposure. What has been said brings me to an application I cannot avoid. As I understand my calling, os I understand the significance of this gathering, we are representatives of Jesus Christ be fore we are anything else. I speak also to a larger audience, which may read these words. Here In Georgia and here In tko South Christianity Is on trial as It Is no where else In the whole world at the present time. Christians are undergoing a harder test than Christians ever underwent since the days of'the reformation. We are call ed from two directions to adopt In dividually and as a people a “modus vlvendl" for our dealing with the ne gro race. Dark and difficult as the problem Is when we come to consider practical solutions, the approach to the problem Is not so difficult. The first question to be met Is not a complicat ed one. We have simply to decide the question of attitude and temper, wheth er It shall be rash, vengeful and wick ed, or calm, thoughtful and with the purpose to do that which conscience and justice will approve. There are two principles to choose between and' only two. On one hand Is the dictate of Christianity, the spirit and princi ple that Is behind overy theory of the Christian religion oa that religion le . Incarnated in the historic Christ. It 1# >Ute • principle that animates and Inspires the Christian enterprise In missions at home and abroad. No creed denies it, our creeds affirm It. It Is a* distinct and a distinguished philosophy of man’s relation to his fel low man, which I might with the ap proval of the - centuries and the Chrls- tion millions, propose solemnly and earnestly In the name of the Father, and tn the name of the Son and In the name of the Holy Ghost. On the other hand an opposite princi ple and temper clamors. It Is the prin ciple of the human nature. It Is nat ural and racial and Instinctive. It runs In the blood, It riots In the veins nf the natural man. Ita passion Is as flerce as the human animal knows. Its law Is vengeance and hate. It arouses and supports a murderous tem per and the most ferocious and tact less expedients. No one can say to It "Come, let us reason together." Gov ernors and statesmen plead with It In vain. Here are the two way* before every Southern cltlxen’e feet. I for one am going In the path that Is marked by the sandalled feet of Christ, even though I go It alone. And If In God’s good providence we shall see the clouds rolled away, the fearful problem solved and Its peril averted of one thing I am sure. It will be found that true statesmanship did not lie with those who cry "Take v Into your own hands! Kill. Shoot I Burn!" But with those larger men of unclouded minds and steadfast hearts who could think clearly and or der wisely even though methods In volving tremendous measures. And If not, If there Is no way In God or man out of this peril, there will be no regret that we chose the high est way and walked In it. "The Lorn direct your hearts Into the love of Goo and Into the patience of Christ." THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE GIRL OF TODAY IlKATRICE FAIRFAX TELIA YOUNG MEN NOT TO DISCOURAGE Gill!A FROM BECOMING INDEPENDENT. By BEATRICE "MRFAX. Woman Is much more Independent than she used ta be. Of that there Is not the slightest doubt. Htr independence Is largely due to the fget that there are so many waye open to her of earning her own living. Twenty-live years ago there were few chances for the self-supporting woman. She had her choice between teaching, aewing, becoming a saleswoman or en tertaining domestic service. Those were all womanly occupations, but they gsve small chance for ad vancement Hot Weather Trips via Cen tral of Georgia Railway- Summer Excursion Tick ets. t 4 To tb* SEASHORE, MOUNTAIN and LAKE RESORTS Id tb« north, south, test end west. A trip by roll snd soil to NEW YORK, Boston, Baltimore. I'Hilaoki. 1*111A snd points In the Nit Tls SAVAN NAH and HTEAMHIIIP LINES, Is delight ful st this season. Tickets are now on ante at all coupon ticket offices. For rates, schedule*, etc., apply to nny agent or representative or the Central of oeorfta railway. W. U. Vvfgt UUutct Passenger Agent* Atlanta. I The woman who advanced one step beyond the most conventional lines was accused of unwomanllness. . The result was that Ihe average woman had little or no self-reliance once outside the narrow confines of her home. She was brought up with the Idea that the men of the family always knew best, that their word was law. They let her do pretty much as she liked concerning the ordering of ths household, but one step beyond that she must not go. To marry, to be a good wife, mother and housekeeper, that was supposed to be Ihe sum total of her ambitions. No matter how many daughters there might be In a family, and no matter how little money to clothe and feed them, not one would be allowed to step out for herself and order her own way of living. The term "bachelor girl" was an un known quantity. Today many girls are self-supporting who are not driven to It by actual ne cessity. The modern girl has learned that there Is more content tn be found In living the life of a busy bee than that of an idle butterfly. Man's attitude toward woman's In dependence Is exceedingly changeable. It he Is personally Interested In a wo man he likes her to be clinging and dependent. But If he Is not she cannot be too Independent. He does not want her to rely on him In the slightest degree. He thinks woman In the aggregate should get out into the world and earn her own living. He would prefer his own womankind to stay at home. Woman has advanced a great deal In the last decade, but man’s Ideas re garding her have not advanced one step. There Is no reason why the fact of earning her own living should detnftt In the least from a girl's womanliness. Sam Jones Tabernacle Meetings, Carters- ville, Ga. On Beptemper 15th to 23rd. Inclu sive. the Western and Atlantic rail road will sell tickets from Atlanta- Dalton and Intermediate stations, to Cartergrllle. at rate of one fare for the round trip. Sam Jones will be assisted by Evangelist Oliver and other ministers of renown. Prof. K. O. fcjxeoll will hare charge of t.' music, and other gospel singers of note trill attend. Three services each day, 10:30 a. m., 3:00 p. ro. and 8:00 p. m., and the people of Cartersvllle will welcome the great crowds with the same hos pitality they have always shown. CHA8. E. HARMAN, Gen. Pass. Agent She ran be modest and dignified and not so Independent as to become uti- femlnlne. The girl who Is needed at home Is fulfilling her mission In life to the ut most. But In families where there are sev eral unmarried daughters It Is far bet ter for some of them to do something toward self-support It need not Interfere with their mat rimonial prospects, for the girl who makes u capable business woman should make a capable, economical wife. Do not discourage the girls from be coming Independent, young men. Tell them that you admire them, and encourage them all you can. It Is said that there are eight million more women In t(je world than men. So you sec there are not enough hus bands to go round, and a good many of the eight million superfluous ladles must support themselves. - The business woman of today Is be coming a factor In the business world. She Is fayt making herself Indispen sable to her employers by her faithful ness to duty and general trustworthi ness. / Instead of criticising her Independ ence. men should admire her for her capability. ARE WE BEING EFFEMINIZED? The Stamp of tho Feminlns Mind Is Upon Everything American. From the World's Work. In the United States there are at least a million more'men than women, and only one.tenth of the women are at work outside of their own homes. Yet the stamp of the feminine mind Is upon everything American, and In many of the higher phases of culture women take the Initiative. Thle rule of women In the United States begins In our public schools, where boys and girls are educated to gether, add where the teacher Is al ways, In the lower grades at least, a woman. In the great cities the femi nine influence goes Into every nook and cranny pf social development. A wom an has been suggested as mayor of Chicago, and the "civic creed" of Chi cago was composed by a woman, and Is recited every day by thousands of school children. Women compose very largely the reading public, and no current novel can succeed without their patronage. Some of the most successful mogaxlnes are devoted to their Interests exclu sively, and those given to scientific and philosophic discussions seldom exist long, or they become the organs of small and detached organisations of men. Art exhibits are conducted by wom en. and women hold executive offices In worM's fair committee* they serve os chairmen of school boards, and they i torment, through their municipal leagues, the party leaders. They are : notable as charity workers and they have made reputations as doctors, lawyers, magaxlne editors, newspaper reporters, preachers, political speak ers, and labor organisers and agita tors. Indeed, where In the United States do we not find the woman with her Influence, battering at all doors? F. E. PURSE '•THE PRINTER1" PRINTING OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS ^ 16 1-2 E. MITCHELL ST. ATLANTA, GA. •Tell me bo»e#tljr what you think of ay intmlnt! talent.** • ••Well. If you’!! prvimae not to be of- fewle«r*— ••Why. of conn** Bot-l«t. nerer m!n*1; j talk'Uf somethl \g elae.***~Trnnsbite<f | /or a talker sometbl ig elae/*~Trnnal< Tal»-a from Mergerijorfrr Blaetter. LAST CHANCE. Our sale of rammer Shoes is still on, but must end soon. Only ■ few more days. Our Repair Department Is rapidly increasing. Call us up and wp will send for your Shoes” and return them tn good order. CARHART SHOE MANUFACTURING CO. Bell ‘Phone 1355. II VIADUCT PLACE, Bet. Whitehall and Broad