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I THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. W'KDMKHDAY, KKCHUHKR 15, 190«, 1 ' >• 1 • V* * ;f. ’ • y&IM Hr ,jV, ■— jyTr , *~rmriir^~T' t 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 kerchief*, -nicely packed, alx In fan cy box, ?5e and I1.G0 box. 39 and 41 Whitehall. Give Him a Hand- Some Overcoat Here you are. Just as smart In looks 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. "wme 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 ;:i! d goc,s itut with oitr guarantee. 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 $1.00 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. OPERA GLASSES Not only make a handaomd gift, but one of iMtlnit ueefulneee. We have ju*t received three of the larceet Im portation order, ever ,hipped to At lanta. Le Mulre and other hlch grades. Kvery kIobk guaranteed. .See them while the (dock I, complete. Walter Ha I lord Optical Company. 61 Peach tree Htreet. THE RESULT was dissatisfaction, be cause “She" gave “Him” a Side Saddle instead ot a nice TRAVELING BAG that he needed. Don’t make the same mistake, but select one of our Fine Traveling Bags For That Christmas Present. A large stock of Bags, Suitcases and Leather Novel ties for Holiday Gifts. Get our Catalog and 1907 calendar. PINNACLE TRUNK MANUFACTURING CO. 62 PEACHTREE ST.