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IHIRliPRIiViPPI ' ■' ^ ,'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- DR. JOHN E. WHITE. 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 i'll' 1 • .. i i <!!-• .mi. .K'f.l l.v- t l.<* .lit! 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 DR. J. W. LEE. 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- 00000000000000000000000000 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 I O 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 FOR CHRISTMAS SlobitWirnicl. “ELASTIC” BOOK CASES 5SST MOWER-HOBART CO/ - - - _ face • 0 to face talk. O Faithfully yours. O C. N. CRITTBNTON. O i 0000000000000000000000000O 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. No. 27 arrfv#*.......S:fo p. m No. 2 departs 7:20 a. m. 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. 1 Viaduct Place* S-'