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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN.
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For the Men’s Christmas
Give a man something that will increase his comfort and add to
his pleasure and you have given him something he regards as ideal.
Doubly appreciated, too, if the box or parcel bears the name of Em
mons—it means a guarantee of style and quality—especially impor
tant in a gift.
Make your selection from this list—you won’t go wrong.
Smoking Jackets,
$5.00 to $15.00
Lounging Robes,
$5.00 to $15.00
Bath Robes,
$5.00 to $10.00
Silk Mufflers,
$1.00 to $2.50
Stylish Hats,
$2.00 to $5.00
Suits, Overcoats,
$10.00 to $35.00
Silk Umbrellas,
$2.50 to $6.00
Fancy Pajamas,
$1.50 to $2.50
Night Shirts,
50c to $1.50
Silk Handkerchiefs,
50c to $1.50
Linen
Handkerchiefs,
25c to 50c
Silk Suspenders,
$1.00 to $2.50
Give Him Initial
Handkerchiefs
Imported Hemstitched' Initial Hand
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Some Overcoat
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and hr good in tulloflng hr the brat
tailors can make them, $12.50 to
$85.00
Pretty Neckwear,
50c to $1.50
Kid Gloves,
$1.00 to $2.50
Watch Fobs,
$1.00 to $2.50
Scarf Pins,
50c to $1.50
Cuff Buttons,
25c to $2,00
Fancy Vests,
$1.50 to $5.00
Give Him a
Silk Muffler
39 and 41 Whitehall
MufTler* and evening dress protectors
of the finest silks In rich designs—
fancy and solid colors, $1.00, $1.50,
$2.00 and $2.50.
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6 TR ONG, TIMEL Y WORDS SPOKEN
FROM THE PULPITS OF ATLANTA
AGAINST CRIME & MOB VIOLENCE
The following excerpts from sermons
delivered by the ministers of Atlanta
are given to the public with tho hope
»imt the strong words spoken will help
to crystal!*© tt b« aPt y and immovable
public opinion against crime and all
f'Uins of mob violence. '
This Is one step taken by the minis
i-rs in co-operation with the officers of
lh " Business Men's Gospel Union, to
' v »r.l an effort to readjust the relations
,,f the races nt the South. It is agreed
nn all sides that our civilization is in
!'iti. because of Increasing crime and
lawi The whole nation is wak-
,n - to the condition, ami men, every-
’ i'*r, are casting about for the best
«»i» th.ifiH to secure the proper enforce-
H-nt of law.
11 '■ Christian League, recently or-
- nut d In this city with members from
b " , b faces, Is now attempting to bring
""i-r «»ut of confusion and harmony out
,j iT«ird and hate, through a sane,
s " u, id public opinion, to become domi
nant among nil the people. The end
iikMu |m concerted effort to Inspire in
jtii in,- |K*..pie a greater respect for the
Th. i,. is needed strong public senti
ment to back up the law upon the fol
lowing propositions:
1. That criminal assaults upon wom
en constitute the most villainous crime
known to the catalogue of Iniquities
and must be punished to the very ex
tent of the law In the execution of the
criminal.
2. That death by mob violence Is
murder, outright, and can have no ex-,
cuse or countenance In Christian civili
zation or Individual or community life.
It violates the law of God and the law
of man ns well.
3. That all law-abiding white people
and law-abiding negroes, us far as may
be needed, will aid tho proper officers
of tho law to apprehend and bring to
trial all offenders against the law,
whether Individuals or mobs, regardless
of race, with such pr«»of to convict as
may ho within their knowledge and
control.
used to create, In every possible way,
such public sentiment as will maintain
obedience to law.
7. That all the people may pronounce,
positively, against all undue delays by
the courts, whether In forms of the law
or through petty technicalities that
Anally defeat the end of justice, and
demand such changes In the law ms will
make the penalties for violation swift,
certain and effective.
The appeals set out in these excerpts,
taken from the sermons delivered, are
necessarily limited, but they constitute
an earnest, strong effort made In God* i
name and for the sake of humanity,
that we may have security In our
homes, law and order In the community
and a civilization worthy of the great
trusts that have been committed to us.
\V. .1. XORTHEN.
REV. JOHVj F. PURSER.
Pastor West End Baptist Church.
Rom. 13:1-2. "Just laws are made to
.. That It Is the duty of every citizen
to be absolutely obedient to law and to
maintain the peace of the community ! restrain evil and protect good. ■ The
as far as Ills power and Influence may j p OWe| . || are ordained of God.
That In tho ndjuntment of nil ,llf- j w*", *vcry man out-* unnwei vlr,* obo.
ferences between the ruces absolute dlence to the laws of his governnunt.
justice as to all legal rights shall be | \\*e make one exception: If these laws
i ecu red to each Individual, Irrespective • ;ire c . ontrH ,y to (| lw law* of G«h1 then
,f 6 r That r th^proM°Sf th«“ntale may I* : •»»"« <»**»• Oo.l rath., than man.
Brooches
Christmas
Suggestions
Always appropriate for a gift to a woman.
Our Brooches range in style and elaborateness
tlie simplest plain gold designs to the rieliest
-< in-set kinds. Between these two extremes of style
•'re all the expressions of the jeweler's most clever
ideas.
Scrolls, love knots, leaves, sprays, clusters, cir-
,- lcs. ovals, scaarabs are afewot the scores of attract-
i'c patterns.
The <|utility of even tin* luwcst priced is perfect
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Pricesl Any price you like.
From $i.50 to $3,500.
Maier and. Berkele
Even then, passive resistance I* often
(wise, as in the case of our dissenting
: hr»thren In England regarding the In-
' Iqultoua school tax. When Pi'.ul ut-
I tered Ills dictum he was the subject
j of tho Komnn government with Nero,
! the most wicked and profligate of nil
I Roman wicked and profligate emper-
| ors, as the head and arbiter of Its laws,
j Why could he say this? Because he
f knew that a bad government was bet-
| ter than no government at all. Mob
law Ik no law. It brutalizes men; It
makes beasts of human beings; It sub
verts all authority; It substitutes ven
geance for justice and defeats the ends
ft seeks to gain. It Is a multitudinous
being nt the hands of his fellow men,
whether Innocent or guilty, when un
authorized by the law, la the "grim
mest and ghastliest of all grim and
ghastly tragedies" -Such a tnpb, with
Its illegal hours, false witnesses, mock
trial and unrelenting envy and hat
crucified the Innocent Son of Man. Such
a spirit is In every mob which sets
aside the legislation of heaven and
wreaks its vengeance upon the obfect
of Its malignity. Huch a spirit, un
checked, will Inevitably destroy all
Christian civilization"
REV. e/cTcRONK.
Pastor English Lutheran church.
Rom. i3:1-4. Men set themselves
against all authority, trample under
foot the majesty of the law, sow the
seed of anarchy. In order to accomplish
their own purposes and then turn and
appeal to the dethrrned law for pro
tection, and are surprised at Its Itnpo-
tency:
We are living in perilous days, but to
seek to ektabjlsh Justice by means of
lawlessness. Is sowing the wind and
our children. If not wo, will reap the
whirlwind.
it is time for men to recognize the
fact thnt any man who violates the
laws of his country Is -i lawbreaker,
ther it be the law of common non-
osly or the state law tclativo to the
Sabbath, or the law that protect* llf«
and property.
The representative citizenry must set
tite example of obeying law because it
is law. Let the respectable, profess
edly lau-abiding citizens refrain from
their secular calling on the Lord's da>
—closing their stores and shops and
factories and offices—because the laws
of tiiM commonwealth say they shall
close them, though these laws Is* not
enforced.
The truly law-abiding citizen refrains
from doing-forbidden things, not be
cause of the penalty, but because
these things are forbidden. He re
spects authority because all authority
hex b?en ordained o£ God.
Rom. 18; 1-4 is the best sermon ever
preached on law' and order.
Lot its lay a sure foundation by In
stilling Into the minds of the people
fundament:.! principles of right
eous government
gro problem and Imvn the law upheld,
get down the old Hook and see what
God. the -Lord, has said about the
brotherhood of man and the father
hood of God and what He says about
obedience to law.
REV. H. hTpROCTOR*,
Pastor First Congregational Church
(Colored).
Rom. 13; 1, "Let every soul be in
subjection to the higher powers." True
preaching takes Ghrlst for Its center,
and from that pivot sweeps every de
tail of human conduct. This Includes
obedience to law. latw’s seat Is the
bosom of God. and the regulation of
the conduct of man to man Is essential
to civilization. This Is civil law and
Its only alternative Is anarchy. Jus
tice Is blind, and the demand for obe
dience to law and order knows no color
line. As a body, the colored race Is
law-abiding, those notorious moral de
generates being 111 no case representa
tive. Every Interest of the race Is cen
tered In Its observance of law and or
der; the greatest enemy of any people
being Its lawbreakers. There cun be
no excuse for the breaking of the law;
Its sovereignty claims the solemn al
legiance of the greatest and the hum
blest. The lawbreaker pulls down the
pillars of state, destroying both him
self and others. The greatest guaran
tee for law and order Is the Christian
home. Given godly homes, where there
Is real unity between the parents and
true obedience nrf the part of the chil
dren, the lawbreaker will disappear.
The home is the reservoir .from whence
flows those stream*,that make for weal
or woe to the state.
REV. T. H. RICE,
Pastor Central Presbyterian Church.
Rom. 13:5. The end sought In this
concerted effort Is to Inspire In all the
fMMipl* a greater reaped for the law of
the land in which we live. The part
which the Christian minister may take
In the work is to plainly declare what
God has said on the subject. He has
no commission from his Master to ex
ploit or discuss the theories of civil
government which have been evolved Jn
the course of ages of human experience.
He Is the ambassador of Jesus Christ
and Is under explicit Instructions to
"preach the word." This by no means
restricts tho Christian minister's power
to bless every department of human
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These principles aie not going to b:
tuught from the politic. ! platform, at | life; for the Bible has Its message for
Infamy of baseness, stupidity and sav*jleo*t In the pit scot generation of pol- men touching everything essential to
agery. It Is humanity at Its lowest and IticIan*. their life here anti hereafter, and Its
muddiest ebb. The death nt a human! Let men who want to solve the ne- message Is the wisdom of God, and no
» I man can possibly do more for the wel-
■ 1 ‘ " j fare of the world than by explaining
ard enforcing God's will.
* The text declares very plainly that ft
j Is Gml’s will that men should obey tho
civil authorities under which they live.
{"Vo must needs 4a* subject."
Two reasons for this obedience are
used to enforce It.
! The first reason is hi the word
"wrath." The duty of obeying civil
• tulei* Is supported by terrible sanction.
iGud lias ordained that the civil m:igf«.
Urate shall not hear the sword in Vain,;
t that Is. t«* ro purpose The contempt I
{of law Is sure to bring the frightful |
! penalty. If the magistrate In any given |
‘ease fails to execute the penalty, Ibid
1 has conferred on this law an automatic!
| power of enforcing Itself. The law - ;
I breaker I* veiy apt to come to a felon’s j
lend, the vfofi nt man Is very apt toj
meet a vMcnt death, while the couuiiu-
Start* an account with a LITTLE HOME BANK and book or with the
book only In tire
SAVINGS DEPARTMENT OF
THE NEAL BANK
In-.rpM allowed ,t the rate of THREE AND ONE-HALF PER CENT.
PER ANNUM, compounded semi-annually.
E. H. THORNTON. Pr«nd*nt. W. F. MANRY. Cafh.tr
H. C. CALDWELL. AtsL Cashier.
nlty which fa lax In Enforcing law' Is
sowing a harvest of anarchy.
The Hecond reason for obaying the
law' Is conscience—"for conscience
sake." This Is the appeal to the nobler
heart. AH true respect for law Is
reached in reverence for God. Ho who
attacks the law. strikes a blow openly
nwk without dlsgulnn at the person and
throne of God.’ Read the find three
verse* of Romans 13. Moreover, all
who love the gospel and want to see It
pro*j>er must obey their governors and
support tho law. This Is Insisted on In
I Tim., the second chapter.
* * REV. W.’t7hAMBY,
Pastor Walker Street Methodist Church
Rom. 13:1; 11 Tim. 2:1-2. The min
ister* of tho city have been requested
to preach today on obedience to law.
Recent events justify the call. The
public conscience must be aroused and
oOr people must lie led to see the
necessity und Importance of good citi
zenship.
God Is behind good government. The
laws ot our land grow out of the Ten
Gommandinments. Man Is made n lit
tle lower than the angels that he may
have dominion over the earth. The
power* that be are ordained of God.
Every soul I* subject to the higher
powers.
A true conception of the majesty
f law will insure resect for It. Hence
we must recognize the authority of law,
cultivate ri spirit of reverence for law
and become good citizens by submis
sion to law. Lot us remember the Bi
ble Injunction that "supplication, pray
ers, intercessions and thanksgiving he
made for all who are in .authority thnt
we may lead a quiet and traceable life
in all Godliness and honesty."
Mr. Gladstone ha* declared that the
purpose of Jaw I* to make It hart! to
do wrong and easy to do right. Right
doing not only exalts the nation, but
It uplifts brightness and sweetness und
makes |»o\verful individual life, home-
life. social life, civic life—all fife.
REV. 8. aTcOWAN.
Pastor Immanuel Baptist Church.
Permanency of ?-,ovemment makes
the law necessary. Men are by nature
bent on mischief. There must be so me
final authority. Many men noem to
look upon law ns their enemy. "Rulers
are not a terror to good works." Law
is not the enemy of any man who
loves righteouHnea*. There is some
thing radically wrong About the man
who looks upon good government a*
hi* enemy. The altn of law,is twofold:
to restrain the libertine and protect
the good citizen. The law in its aim
1* preventive, protective and correct
ive. it encourage* liberty but curb*
license. A good man respects law and
count* It his friend. The good nuui
rejoices In the abundance of his lib
erties under the law, while the bad
man complains that all his rights hava
been taken away. The aim of tho law
I* to promote happiness and encourage,
worthy pursuit*.
Effectiveness of law it destroyed if
It cun be broken at will. No law is ef
fective if exceptions are mode In which
It may be disregarded. Effectivcnena
lies in enforcement Every law la right
or wrsng. If It 1* wrong it should be
repealed. If It is tight it should be
enforced. Laws that are * broken at
will become a curse because they hin
der the enforcement of other laws. If
the breaking of one law Is allowed, lib
erties will be taken with another. So.
In the last analysis obedience to law. i
glv» * the effectiveness oPhiw.
Th final safeguard for the effective
ness of law Is wholesome public sen
timent. We get what public sentiment
coils for. If the people are back of »h»
law, men In executive positions will
find no trouble in enforcing the law.
Here is the place for the pulpit to ex
ercise Its God-given function. ' Labor,
preach and pray tor a wholesome, sane
public sentiment.
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