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,'HE ATLANTA GEORGIAN,
AT CRDAY, DECEMBER
THE COMMON SENSE OF JESUS CHRIST
By REV. JOHN E. WHITE,
PASTOR SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH
‘ -fXevertheless, when the Bon of Man
dnuoth shall He And faith In the
*4artli?“—Luke xvll. 8.
.This question has been made the text
of, much pathetic pessimism. It is a
f favorite tvlth the pre-mlllenartan
brethren, who believe that the world Is
getting worse and that when the Lord
without sin unto judgment very
. f#n* who believe on Him will be found
in the earth.
3 Without entering Into that contro
versy, I want to say thut this text Is
not one to conjure with on either side
of it. An examination of the passage In
tho light of the context, and particular
ly a glance at it in the original, will
•’Vjfinko dear that the “faith” here re
ft i red to Is not “piety” or saving faith
hi God as to personal salvation or the
fnlth used synonomously with the idea
«>f the Christian religion. Christ Is not
\ raising the question whether when-He
E es*He will And piety or Christianity
ho, earth. This, I say, Is made clear
:hg context; it is also brought out
hn marginal rendering and also In
the revised translations. The text
part of'the parable. Our Lord is
hlng^Hls disciples that they ought
lyii to pray and not to faint and
¥>Ho,*how» how* a woman perseveres
^Bven with an august judge till she gets
justice. Then He turns and by con-
‘' Vetst toadies that God's own chosen
•nos may certainly persevere in their
frust and expectation from their God,
who is more than a just judge, even a
B> avenly Father, It is fully borne out
the use of the article with the
^|<>rd translated “faith” that* He
inferring to this context. What Christ
ffiiliy asks Is, "When the Son of Man
cBmoth shall He And this faith in the
aftrth—the faith that has confldence
111 God as "one who answers prayer and
»keeping watcli over His own.”
■■There is much more danger that
th» spirit of patient hopefulness will
4le out among Christians than that
piety und the Christian Institution will
. ppri.di.
The Pessimism of Jssus.
Mflyhere is, however, no question that
Ip these words Christ crowds a distinct
not*' of misgiving; one could almost say
a note of doubt. Does It startle you to
think that Christ ever doubted? Yet,
witfl the New Testament befpre us, how
cati we question It? Does It startle
you to think that He was nt all limited
Uln His knowledge of the future or that
anything was hidden Q*om His vision?
Yet, with His own acknowledged words
at hand, how can we doubt It? That
there were limitations to His know!
edge .and that He was subject to the
depression and even the agonies of un
certainty and that these facts are in
the record Is to my mind a Aawless
evidence of the trustworthiness nnd
the divine inspiration of the gospels.
Writers who were conspiring, os
Renan charges, to make a God out oi
Christ, who was a mere man, would
never have mentioned such matters,
would never have quoted such words as
His mvn. But here they are. In the
thirteenth chapter of Mark, In the thir
ty-second verse, Christ, speaking of the
time of His return, said, "But of that
day and hour knoweth no man; no, not
the angels that are In heaven, neither
the Son, but the Father." ,
Now, we do not like to admit that
our Lord was Ignorant of anything. We
forget that the evident effort of Christ
was not to make (he world believe that
He was God, but to make them believe
the mo.re wonderful thing that He was
man. In the one. confession of His
deity He made He put the emphasis
on His humanity, “Whom do men say
that I. the Son of Man, am?” Should
this disturb our ccnAdence In our
Savior? Rather It should strengthen
and greatly comfort us. Of all, his ten
der words none are more tender than
these.He spoke to His disciples, “Ye are
they which have continued with Me
In My temptations. Are we then to be
shaken in our loyalty because we are
told that He confessed limitations and
Ignorance? Christ Is our perfect Savior,
but He was perfected In his Savior-
hood by His identity with humanity.
“For It became Him for whom are ail
things and by whom are all things
In bringing many sons • Into glory to
make the Captain of their salvation
perfect through sufferings.”
Wherefore In all things It behooved
Him to be made like unto His brethren.
"For In that He himself hath suffered,
being tempted. He Is able to succor
them that are tempted. Who can have
compassion on the Ignorant and are
out of the way, for that He Himself
also Is compassed with InArmlty."
What means that cry from the depths.
My God, my God, why hast Thou for
saken Me?” It Is a cry and more than
a cry*. It Is a message. He has gone
like the scapegoat of the old day of
atonement into the very wilderness of
sin and Is traversing the uttermost pos
sibilities of the ultimate war of God
forsakenness to which human sin can
carry the human ,sou! and from thut
depth sends back In His own heart
break a message to men which means
to them that He {s their Savior no
matter how'sunken In depravity they
may have beeu, no matter how faf
they may have fallen.
The Enthusiasm of Jesus,
The note of doubt then in the ques
tion, “When the’ Son of Man cometh
shall He And faith In the earthT we
may readily admit. It waa a sensible
question to ask of men who were be
ing trained for a religion of spiritual
faith and whose sense of danger need
ed constantly to be quickened. Indeed,
the good grounds for such a question
are at once apparent. Christ, wc must
remember, was not Ignorant of the con
ditions which were to be reckoned with.
The aggravating slowness of His own
friends to grasp the spiritual meanings
of the kingdom; the moral stupefaction
of the Jewish people and their faith-
weariness with waiting for Messiah,
and especially the difficulty inherent In
a religion of pure spiritual faith, added
to the materialistic disposition of the
human mind, were facts to be taken
into account. To say that Christ meas
ured these facts and realised their
force, ahd “did not make His reason
blind.” Is but ahother way of saying
that He was no fanatic.
Some time ago a brother pastor In
this state wrote a letter to one of our
woman societies which had advertised
a bazaar for the purpose of selling arti
cles, made by their own hands, to se
cure money for a certain benevolence
to which they had subscribed. He read
them a lecture and said that he was
going to ask his church to make them
objects of special prayer. I happened
to know the brother and his variable
ways, and In answering his letter which
had referred with unjust severity to
myself as the guilty pastor of a guilty
church, I told him that he had turned
my attention to the study of fanatics,
a branch of religious science full of
Interesting specimens, and that from
my study I had formulated a definition
of u fanatic; “A fanatic Is a man of
such elastic conscience that he cannot
help Alpping it Into somebody else's
territory.”
Christ was the furthest removed from
fanaticism. A fanatic would never
have taken into consideration the diffi
culties of the situation. He would have
rushed blindly ahead without consider-
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atlon or forethought for his cause.
What a wreck, sudden and disastrous,
would fanaticism have made of that
little company of disciples had a fanatic
been their leader. Peter was a constant
peril until he was converted from his
fanaticism. Christ could not and did
not avoid giving offense. There was A
war between Truth nnd Right on one
side and Falsehood and Wrong on the
other, and Christ kept the lines straight
in that war. “But ever over Its tu
mult," as Robert K. Speer says, “those
who ‘had ears' could always hear *Hls
sweet voice calling.**'
Let me Illustrate by a.famous con
trast the Important distinction between
Chrlst'n measurement of the difficul
ties which must have been In His mind
when He asked the question, "When
the Son of Man cometh shall He And
faith in the earth?" and the heedless
and blind methods of fanaticism which
would have taken no account of them
at all.
In the year 10*4 a man of dwarAsh
stature, dressed In the garh of a monk,
might have been seen riding upon an
ass through the villages of Europe.
That man had been at one time a sol
dier In the French army, hut In pen
ance for deeds of blood he had become
a monk and had retired to the brooding
place of a-cloiater. As time passed ru.
mor came to him of the horrible cruel
ties practiced by the Mohammedans
against the Christian pilgrims visit
ing the Holy Sepulcher at Jerusalem,
and at his devotions he fumbled at his
rosary as if It were a sword hilt,
length the Ares of his zeal became un
controllable. He could endure the life
of the monaster}* no longer. Voices
came to him, calling, calling for help,
calling from the dungeons of tho Turk
for deliverance. He mounted and rode
forth. His head and feet were bare.
In his hand he carried a white image
of Christ on a cross of Ivory. Passing
through the villages north of the Alps,
ho told In vehement phrase the story
of the Christian captives and the de
struction of the Lord’s Sepulcher. The
peasants responded with sobs and
groans. “To the rescue!” he cried.
“Delia nut.” (It Is God's will!)
tore his red scarf Into crosr-shaped
fragments and his followers, crowding
after him, pinned them as badges on
their breasts. From village to village
they went until 60,000 men, women and
children were at his back, marching to
rescue the Holy Sepulcher from the
Moslems. “Honest!” Very honest—
earnest I Terribly in earnest! Relig
ious—vehemently religious! But fa
natics! That man, Peter the Hermit,
sent 2,000,000 to their death; One hun
dred thousand children perished under
his Incitement. The Turks remained
undisturbed in the end and remain ao
till this day. *
What a contrast do the crusades pre
sent to the methods of Jesus. He pro
claimed a great triumph, but It was
to be a victory of patience, a victory of
faith. Twelve legions of angels stood
unaummoned ever at His call. All pow.
er was His, but the bruised reed He
would not break and the smoking Aax
He would not quench.
Christ was no pessimist. Christiani
ty Is not a pessimism. His question,
“When the Son of Man cometh shall
He And fal'.h In the earth?” Is not of
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cuitleM he takes into account. Tfle
kingdom whs coming; Ho said “not
with observation," It was true, but it
was coming just the same. The en
thusiasm of Christ was wonderful. But
It was not w’onderful for noise or shout
of frenzy. It was an enthusiasm of
an eternal faith In God, marvelously
calm, and cosmic In Its quiet, relent
less. hopeful conAdence that God His
Father w*aa on His throne, to be trust
ed, to be Inquired of, and to fulAU all
that whereunto He had been sent.
The Liquor Traffic.
Let us not shun Christ's question.
Let It come up before us today. “When
the Son of Mon cometh shall He And
talth In the earth?” The good grounds
are here for Its reasking. Doubt and
fear sometimes creep over the stanch
est Christian heart. The old forces of
dlfAculty that encamped about Christ
In Palestine are encamped about His
cause In our own land and times. The
weakness of disciples, the Impatience of
the weary world that ‘gropes for the
golden age. the high? hard, but glo
rious standards of a spiritual religion
over against the cross materialism of
mammon In the hearts of men—we
cannot and should not blink the facts.
“Will He And faith in toe earth?" Let
our faith In God. our confidence, our
trust and hope be the answer. “He
would And It should He come. He will
And It In me.” Put your hand on your
heart and say, “No panic here.” The
kingdom of God Is coming, “not with
aberration." not with boisterous ban
ners, not with revolution and Aerce
rending asunder, not with a crushing
overwhelming denouement as the Jews
expected, but steadily, reslstlessly and
gripping Its foundation# In the age as
it comes so that Its gains are Irreversi
ble. Thus the kingdom of God Is at
hand three hundred and sIxty-Ave days
In the year, twenty-four hours in the
day, for It comes even as we sleep
Take for Illustration the liquor traf-
Ac. It Is with one fell stroke, but like
the pressure of some great natural
force the anti-saloon sentiment has
quietly Invested public opinion. Space
by space the conviction against It has
seized community after community In
the South. That movement so much
unobserved because It conquers In the
hearts of men before It secured Institu
tional prohibition, la going on today.
One county after another In Georgia
has come Into line. We are not far
from tho day when the state will be
covered and controlled by the convic
tion of the public conscience against
the saloon and the trafAc as the
waters cover the bed of the sea.
A representative of the business lias
frankly said to me. "There Is a tre
mendous difference between the way
people fee! now about the whisky bus
iness and the way they felt thirty
years ago, when I went Into It, and
the sentiment against it 1# growing
all the time. Every intelligent man
in the business knows It”
What Is behind It? God and His
will Is behind It. As His kingdom comes
In men’s hearts the institutions /if
Satan’s kingdom take down their ban
ner* and depart not to return. So it Is
with every righteous cause. So It shall
be with all unrighteousness. This faith
Is In the earth. Come quickly. Lord
Jesus, It is here. It Is here because
the power that Supports It Is here and
at work. Evil Is doomed, “To me,” said
Paul, "the world Is crucified.” He meant
that to him the w*orld of evil wns as
a dead thing. It was judged, condemned
and delivered to die out before the
cross of Christ. This Is the Christian s
faith that our Lord would And in the
earth and He will And It, for It is
growing with ?ach passing year os
we look back and see the sure gains
which the cause of the kingdom lias
made over great iniquities. As one of
the great prophets of our generation
has said, ."Morally evil Is dead already.
The sentence has passed the judge*
lips.” The weakest child of God may
safely defy It and scorn Its boasting. Its
visible force Is still Immense; Its sub
jects multitudinous; Its empire to ap
pearance hardly shaken. It towers like
Goliath confronting “the armies of the
living God, but the foundation of Its
strength Is gone. Decay saps Its frame.
Despair creeps over its heart. Tho con
sciousness of Its Impotence and misery
grows upon It.”
Mr. Gladstone, standing In the house
of commons after the defeat of a
great moral reform said, "You have <lc-
featel us today, but, gentlemen, the
future Is against you."
'Right forever on the scaffold, wrung
forever on the throne!
But that scafTold sways the future.
And behind the dim unknown
Standeth God wlthtti the shadow
Keeping watch above his own.”
WHAT IS RELIGION?—IV
By REV. JAMES W. LEE,
PASTOR TRINITY METHODIST CHURCH
The primitive man felt God’* prea-
1 ence In the object* of nature. He we*
the crude forerunner of Whittier be
fore he had advanced sufficiently to
write the beautiful prayer:
So eometlmea come* to aoul and sense
The feeling which hr evidence,
That very near about ua Ilea
The realm of spiritual mysteries.
The sphere of the supernal powers
ltqplngse on-this world . of ours.
The low and dark horizon lifts
To light, the soenlc terror shifts
Thd breath of a diviner air
Blow* dowrt the answer to a prayer
That all sorrow, pain and doubt,
A great compassion clasps about.
He was Wordsworth before he was
developed enough to say:
"And I have felt
A presence that dlsturba me with a Joy
Of elevated thoughts, a sense sublime
Of something far more- deeply Inter-
I fused,
I Whoso dwelling is the light of setting
suns.
And the round ocean and the living air.
And In the blue sky and In the mind of
man; *
I A motion and a spirit that Impels
All thinking things, all objects of all
thought, .
And rolls through all things."
>
S. The second divine element of re
ligion is the revelation God makes of
Himself In the constitution of man. Tho
world without Him was no greater
myatery to the primitive man than wna
the world within him, but both con
tained for him. he felt, the revelation of
a power higher than hlmaelf. He hod
within the half of everything out of
which civilisation has been built, but
It was an undeveloped half. He waa
under the necessity of rinding and de
veloping the outaldo half of the means
of subsistence, knowledge and re
ligion, by opening up within hlmaelf,
through struggle and trial and cxperl-
inent, the Inside half. At the begin
ning both the Inside and the outside
were unknown. History Is the record
of the gradual coming together of these
two unknowns Into the unity of catho
lic religion, verifiable knowledge and
modern civilisation.
The revelation God makes of Himself
through the structure of human life
has been converted Into those great
religions we know as Brahmlnlsm.
Zoroastrianism, Confucianism and
Buddhism. Unlike the fetishists, who
dnd the divine In nature, the leaders
of these faiths found God making Him
self known In tho moral and mental
constitution of men. In Brahmlnlsm,
the best example of pantheism, man
sought for God In thought; In Zoroas
trianism. Confucianism and Buddhism
he sought for God In conscience.
3. The third divine element of re-*
llglon Is the revelation God. makes of
Himself through tho Old and New
Testament Scriptures, and through
Jestli Christ, who In Himself sums up
and makes direct and living and human
all revelation, whether found in nature,
the moral constitution of man. or In
the Holy Scriptures. The whole nature
of God, glimpses of which the anlmlst
got In nature, and the great religious
leaders of Persia and India and China
saw In the moral constitution of man,
and the chosen people found In the
Scriptures, Christians believe was re
vealed In Jesus Christ. They believe
,thnt Jesus Christ was In nature nnd
mind from the beginning, though the
world knew lllm not; Just aa the laws
of gravity dominated all worlds from
the beginning, though men knew them
not.
‘Ill
Knowing the facts of religion, human
and divine, we are prepared to deter
mine what the religion of aclenre la
By the religion of science It Is Implied
that tho facta of religion contain
thought baarlng on the spiritual Inter
ests of man, which run be turned Into
verifiable knowledge, Just os by chem
istry it Is Implied that there are atomic
facts expressing thought bearing on
the practical interests of man which
can be turned Into verltlablo knowl
edge.
No one disputes the human facts of
religion, and even Herbert Spencer, In
whoso esteem God was unknowable,
was forced to admit tho unknowable
had revealed Itaelf In almost as com
plete a sense as professors of religion
are accustomed to think aod has re
vealed Hlmaelf.
On page $# of First Principles Mr.
Spencer declares:
"Common sense asserts the existence
of a reality. Objective science proves
that this reality cannot lie what wc I
think It. Subjective science shows why
we cannot think of It aa It Is, and yet I
are compelled to think of It as exist
ing: and In this assertion of a reality,
utterly Inscrutable In nature, religion
finds an assertion essentially coinciding
with her own. >V« are obliged to re
gard every phenomenon as a manifes
tation of some power by which we arc
acted upon. Though omnipresence Is
unthinkable, yet .as experience dis
close* no bounds to the diffusion of
phenomena, we are unable to think of
limits to the presence of thin, power,
while the criticisms of science teach ua
that this power la Incomprehensible.”
Analyse that sentence. Read It care
fully nnd you will find that Mr. Spen
cer knows there la an ultimate reality,
Then It has being. It acta upon ua.
Then he gives to It the attribute ac
tion. All phenomena are manifesta
tions of It. Then It has power. All
phenomena are manifestation! of this
Inscrutable power by which we arc
acted upon. Then It has caused ener
gy. We are unable to think of limits
to the presence of this power. Here
he gives It nnmlpresencft. Of his un-
acrutable. unknowable something, then,
he knows that It has being, power, ac
tivity, causal energy and omnipresence.
Precisely along the same lines of rea
soning by which' Mr. Spencer deduces
these attributes of what lie calls his
unknowable the .Christian who accepts
the God revealed In the Bible might de
duce the wisdom, mercy, Justice and
truth of God. There are equally aa
much data furnished for the deduction
of wisdom. Justice, merdy and truth as
for being, power, activity, causnl en
ergy and omnipresence.
The synthetic philosophy of Mr,
Spencer consist of two parts (1) "The
Unknown and Unknowable," (S) "The
Known and the Knowable." He de
votes small space to the treatment of
an Unknown and Unknowable, but out
of this dark void he manages to draw
a magnificent universe.
It la remarkable how a man who
knoty so little In the beginning of bis
system knew so much at the end of it.
How front such a limited and meager
absolute creed he managed to find
such a long and comprehensive relative
one. He says: “Amid the mysteries
which grow the more mysterious the
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more they are thought about, there will
remain the one absolutely certainty that
man stands In the presence of an infi
nite and Inscrutable energy from which
all things proceed.” But this Unknown,
Mr. Spencer places In relation to the
known. Ho says that all phenomena
are manifestations of the unknown. It
would seem therefore that In so for as
the Unknown manifested itself In
things known, It managed to make It
self known. Think of the Unknown
manifesting Itself, uttering Itself, cloth
ing Itaelf In form and see If you can
resist coming to the conclusion that
In manifesting Itself and In uttering
itself, the Unknown has come to be so
far known. You cun know no more of a
man than you are able to learn from
the manifestations he makes of him
self. But we have an understanding
with ourselves that we know men from
their deeds, from their speech, from
their achievements, from the outward
expressions they make of themselves,
and we know nothing ot men except
that which we learn In this way. Noth
ing ever proceeds from th* Unknowable
except what waa In It, and whatever
comes out of It helps us to Judge of It,
and form an opinion ot Its nature
and resources. If mind comes out of
the Unknowable a* we see It In man,
then we know that mind was In the
unknowable before It appeared In man.
There Is no element In any legitimate
conclusion that was not In the premise.
There la no element In any tree that
was not In the germ of It. and as, ac<
cording to Mr. Spencer, sll that Is, pro.
ceeds from the unknowable, we have
a right to conclude that the whole
manifest universe wsa sll In the un
knowable before It came out and pro
ceeded to pass before our eyes, and
provoke us to ask questions about It.
IV.
With no on* questioning the reality
of the human half of religious facts,
and with th* great apostle of agnosti
cism admitting th* leading facts of the
other half, ws may take It aa aettlad
that there sre facts as permanent and
fixed for constructing the religion of
science os there are facts In the heav
ena for building astronomy. In a *>•*•
tern of thought arranged from a study
of celestial facts and one that accounts
for, accommodates and accords with
the facts, we may say that we have
the stare of science. Bo In a system of
thought patiently arranged from u
study of religious facts, and on* that
accounts for, accommodates and ac
cords with th* facts, we may say that
we have th* religion of science. Pro
fessor Huxley says: "By science I un
derstand all knowledge which rests
upon evidence and reasoning of a like
character to that which claims our as
sent to ordinary scientific propositions,
and If sny man Is able to make good
the assertion that hta theology rests
upon valid evidence and sound reason
ing, than It appears to me that such
theology must take its place as a part
of science."
Another maeter In eclence lays down
the following directions as preliminary
to a definition of science: "1. The
senses place before ns the characters of
th* book of nature, but these convey
no knowledge to us till w* have discov
ered th* alphabet by which they are to
be had. i. The alphabet by means of
which we Interpret phenomena con
sists of the Ideas existing In our own
minds, for these give to the phenomena
that coherence and significance which
Is not an object of sense. >. The two
processes by which science Is con
structed are the explication of concep
tions and the colligation ot facts.
Knowledge requires us to possess both
facts and Ideas; Every step In our
knowledge consists In applying the
Idea* and conceptions furnished by
our minds to the facts which observa
tion and experiment offer to us. When
our conceptions ar* clear and distinct,
when our facta are oertaln and suf
ficiently numerous, and when the con
ceptions being suited to the nature of
the facts are applied to them so as to
produce an exact and universal con
cordsnee, w* attain knowledge of ■
precise and comprehensive kind which
we may term science."
It must be clearly understood, how
ever, that the Ideas and conceptions
furnished by our minds, which we are
to apfily to th* facts offered us, are
such aa we have obtained (com a study
of the facta thsmsMvea. We must not
com* to faots with preconceived opin
ions, with a view to forcing them Into
conformity with our Ideas. That was
the mediaeval method. Every fact Is
related to some other fact, and what
a fact I* for another, that It Is In
Itself. In finding what, by observa
tion and experiment, a fact Is for an
other or for a group of facts, and.
therefor*, what It Is in Itaeir, we get n
theory of It that accords with Its na
ture. Ptolemy came to the heavens
with a theory of them already In his
thought, but he could never corral the
stars with It and pen them In his mind.
Copernicus cam* to the heavens to find
a theory through the stud}* of the
planets, end the conception of them he
formed by this method enabled him to
house the firmament In his Intelligence.
V.
It is only by reducing facts to terms
of science that we are able to get from
them all they contain for the practical
life. Fire has been hot and useful ever
since men first learned .to kindle It
But It never yielded up all that waa
In it for comfort and for service until,
by the experiment of Count Itumford,
It was proven to be a mode of motion.
He showed that things are hot or cnkl
In proportion to the rapidity with which
the particles composing them vibrate.
This discovery revolutionised the world.
It was the first time In the history of
the race that a conception of heat wa*
formed In the mind by th* study o(
firs Itself. That Idea alone shitted from
human shoulders to machinery half tho
burdens of toll. For thousands of years
■nan has stood In tho presence of the
Illimitable stores of wealth he has ju-:
now learned, by means of the modem
■scientific method, to take from nature.
He remained hungry In the presence of
bountiful supplies of food. He remained
thirsty close by water ready to gush
from every hill. He wont half clad
with raiment hidden beneath the soil
and diffused through the sunshine. Hn
shivered In the dnrkness with warmth
and light going to wusto over every
waterfall. He painfully trudged over
muddy roads with palace care burled
In the mountains, standing in the trees
and falling from tho aun. He housed
hlmaelf In rude shanties with mansions
concealed In the hills and rising to
heaven In the forests. He sent his
messages by means of torches from
height to height with th* undulations
of luminiferous ether penetrating every
recess of hi* body and svsry object be.
fore his eyss. He remained half bent
beneath load* with force* enswathlng
him ready to bear them. He slept be
neath aklea filled with constellation-,
with telescopes lying In brass and sand
to bring them near. He was ignorant
of the doings of his brothers on the
R Manet with movablo type piled beneath
Is feet to give him news even- morn
ing of the activities of humanity. He
was lonely and depressed with rungs
circulating In the ur and capsulatc In
the woods and the metals to thrill his
heart. He was sick with medicines In
minerals and waters and plants to cure
him. He waa In pain with opiates to
relieve him. And ha was thus deprived
lor what belonged to him and of what
God made for him for the simple reason
that he blindly persisted In taking to
facts self-devlaed theories with which
to manipulate them Instead of forcing
fact* to give up the theories embodied
In them.
CONFERENCE COMMENDS THE GEORGIAN FOR ITS POSITION ON LIQUOR QUESTION
At the closing session of the North Geor
gia conference nt Mlllcdgcvlllc, the commit
tee on temperance reported some strong
resolutions* which were adopted.
Kpeclat mention Is given The Georgian for
Its refusal to accept liquor advertising. It
is the only targe dally In the state occupy
ing this high |M>Bltlon.
The committee calls on tin* legislature
to enact lows prohibiting the manufacture
or sale of liquor within the boundary of
Georgia, and also suggests that the confer
ences should devote more time toHbla sub
ject. Tbs resolution In full Is as follows
The Resolution.
The committee on temperance hogs leave
to cite the following facts: KMencc Is now
teaching what the Bllde has been declarfug
for thousand* ot years, that nlrobol Is n
deadly polaon—“at last It blfetb like a aer-
pent and stlngeth like an adder.” Alcohol
Is ao more a food than chloroform and has
but one medical property, that of a heart
stimulant, asd that only because ft Is Imtb
n sarfotlc and Irritant pofsou. therefore It
Is a, giboomer to apply tbs word temper*
a nee to 'the * beverage use of Intozlcatlog
liquors. •
One 'of the greatest delusions that even
afflicted our race la the alcoholic delusion;
It promises wealth nnd gives poverty: It
promises wisdom and gives folly; It prom
ises strength nnd give* weakness; It prom
ises health and brings disease gnd death.
The people of tho t'nlted Htates consume
annually twenty gallous of Intoxicating
liquors, or one .gallon nnd three quarts of
pure alcohol |>cr capita, nnd these poison
ous liquors arc putting Into their graves
approximately KM.OM people every y»»ar.
The cint of the |>olsouoUB liquors to the
poor, deluded people who consume them
amounts to fi.400.()0b,000 annually, and the
Indirect cost which falls mainly on the
community amounts to half as much more.
Our own Dr. Powell nnd other experts Itf
five as at the present time. Perhaps the
greatest achievement In the great move
ment for the deliverance of pur country
from thla dlaMIc tyrant fs the fact that
the W. C, T. U. has secured a law tu every
state ot the Colon requiring scientific tem
perance tanght In the public schools.
Hlnce congress gives us denatured alco
hol for mechanical purposes, and most
churches no longer use fermented wine In
the holy communion, and doctors liave
found that alcohol has but one medical
property, and may lie substituted, we flml
nhout the only remaining use for alcohol la
In.the making of tinctures, und as we
understand that fluid extracts are equally
this country aud Europe tell us that *0 per w v convenient and efficient, therefoi
cent of the Insanity Is caused directly oV In
directly by th# use ot alcoholic liquors. The
courts Inform us that nt least •» per cent
of Crimea are traceable to strong drink.
The poverty, desolation and ruin wrought
by this monster evil cannot be sstfmated.
It strikes down the rich as well ns the
poor, the high ss well as the low.
Encouraging Facts.
Hut we are glad to Ite able to call atten
tion to some facts which are encouraging:
The churches and other enemies of the ne
farious traffic were nevtr ao united aud or-
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O LETTER OF APPRECIATION O
O FROM CHA8. N. CRITTENTON.O
O M(HedgevlHe, Ga., Nov. 29. 1906. 8
O A(r. F. L. Seely, Publlaher of The O
0 Atlanta Georgian. Atlanta, Ga. O
O Dear Sir and Brother: Dr. Lew- O
0 Is has sent me u clipping from O
O your paper. The Georgian, of the 0
0 26th Instant, in which there Is an 0
0 extract from an addreaa which O
O you made the day before In the 10
O First Methodist Episcopal church. O
O It certainly touched my heart, and O
O brought tears to iny eyes, to think
S that kind words and looks to a boy
had been remembered for nearly
0 a quarter of a century*, and sub- D
O stantlal evidence thereof given, 0
O even In the education of a young D
0 girl to place herself In a position O
•Teems to us that the time has come In our
civilization when there can no longer he
auy exense for the use of Intoxicating li
quors.
Onr Information l» that the legalised II-
?ie - B - dl . Pf n “ ry fln ' 1 O at any future time return to At- 0
“ — O lanta. I shall hope to have a face 0
O
(I fee! O
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that there are but twenty aalooo towns
and twenty-four dispensaries In our slate,
and from this It Is evident that the vast
majority of the law-abiding, tax-paying
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5SST MOWER-HOBART CO/
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0 to face talk.
O Faithfully yours.
O C. N. CRITTBNTON.
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people of the state favor prohibition, there
fore wc appeal to the legislature to give
Georgia a Inw prohibiting the manufacture
and sale of liquors throughout the state.
We ore Hn* more free to urge this appeal
because It |« the duty of (be legislature to
give to the |M*«iple such laws Ss the people
uecd. Tho people need this legislation more
lature to enact such a law and not shirk
responsibility by submitting the Issue to
a popular vote, which would Inevitably lead
to great strife, confusion and demorallza
tlon.
Protection of Paopls.
One of the fundamental principles of
Democracy Is the right of local self-govern
ment, and Georgia Is n Democratic state,
ruled by a Democratic legtslstnre. and yet
the will of the people of s hundred and
twenty dry counties Is defeated In the In
terest of tho liquor dealers lu a few Geor
gia towns who are piling up great for
tunes by the jug trade. It Is the sense
of this conference that the least* the legis
lature can do la to enact such law as will
protect the people of the dry counties
against the jug trade.
Recognising the powerful lufluenee of sec-
ular press, we request that In every way
possible they aid us In furthering this great
movement. It affords us great pleasure to
GEORGIA RAILROAD
IMPORTANT CHANGES IN
SCHEDULES EFFECTIVE
DECEMBER 2nd. ARRI
VALS AND DEPART
URES, ATLANTA,
GEORGIA.
No. I arrives 12:45 p. m.
No. 2 arrives a. m.
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No. 4 departs 11:45 p. m.
commend The Atlanta Georgian and itbrec
other papers In ottr state which refuse li
quor advertisements.
We are gratified at the great work the
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union la
doing In Georgia.
W<* commend the Anti-Batnou League aud
be«p«>nk for It tho support of the people.
It la an Important mission of the church
to inculcate tho principles of total absti
nence nnd to l*e active for the suppression
of the legalised liquor traffic, sad. following
the suggestions of the Godly womeu of the
Women's Christian Temperance Union, we
designate the fourth Kuuday lu April, or
as near thereto as possible, to 1m* observed
as s day of apodal prayer that God will
move the hearts of our law-makers to give
us state prohibition, and we request that
all our pastors and other ministers preach
oa prohibition that day. We request that
total abstinence pledge be circulated
among our yoong people nt that time.
We respectfully request Henator Bacon
ami Keuutor Clay and our representatives iu
congress to do all In their power to secure
the enactment Into Inw of.that hill nos
pending In rongrrss to prohibit the ship
ment of liquors Into states and counties
where the state law prohlbts their sale,
aud that other bill designed to i
part of th# tatarual revel— law that Ifr
censes the sale of liquors In status am!
counties where the state law prohibits tL- it
It la the sens# of this conference that tl.*
cause of temperance and prohibition l-< ..f
su«h importance aa to merit more time
and attention than It noually receives at
our conference, therefore suggest that at
the next session of the annual o t r. r < i.....
ran hour ite set apart for the eonstderatiou
of thla subject.
LONG WINTER EVENINGS
DEMAND GOOD READING
Thro why not get th* "whole family
sroup”—Th* Delineator, McClure's
Magazine and Th* World’* W.,rk, to
gether with Th* Georgian for *n r,u per
year In advance. The price u( th-»»
magazines alen* Is The Om-glan
Is 34.30. But all ot th. in can toe ob
tained (or a year by sending The
Georgian now |«.C0, or yuu ran get
The Jeffersonian (Watson's new mag,-
sine) end The Georgian esch on- year
for 14.50.
than sny other, nn.l ;t is th, vine- nf t*. No. 33 departs 3:23 p.
...nfer. ii. e that It !■ the duty „f the l.gto- 1 R. E. MORGAN, Gen. Agent
PAUL BURKERT
Fixed over 2,000 Umbrella:
! a.st year. Let him fix yours.
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