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8 Libing Like Christ. There is at present a widespread movement to induce young Christians, especially, to give some at tention to living like Christ would have them live. A good deal has been written about this movement. Some speak of it favorably, some doubtfully, some in open disapproval. In some places the leaders of the effort are censured and in some laughed at. But why? Is it not the ever-recurring command of the Lord: “Follow me?” Is it not Paul’s constantly recurring admonition to “walk in His footsteps?” Does not everybody know that to walk in His foot steps means that we should make Him our example? Certainly. There can be no two ways about that. Then why should there be anybody to find fault with the movement? Well, it is said that it is “a fad.” It is said again that it is dependent upon a sort of fanatical high pressure which will be followed by a certain reaction that will leave the misguided youths in a worse state of hardened indifference and in a worse condition that that in which this special movement found them. Again, there comes the criticism that the propo sition to limit the pledges to two weeks is all wrong, or words to that effect. Take notice —we are not quoting the words and charges of any one. or a dozen people, but we have given a. sort of order to the great many things that have been said and they may be viewed all at once. Those good men who have this work on hand are fully able to take care of themselves, but The Golden Age has something to say about this move ment on its own account. Christ is a perfect example of righteousness. An example that every one who wishes to live uprightly should delight to imitate. If one could behave all the time, and everywhere, just as Christ would, un der the same circumstances, he would be saved. But when we consider the difficulties of a perfect life, that way of salvation is very unpromising. The Scriptures, our own observation and experience, as sure us that “there is none that doeth good, no not one.” We have all some short of the glory of God, because we have sinned. That means that men are all lost and condenmend before the gospel comes to them. It must then be distinctly remembered, that this invitation to young people to try to imitate Christ is limited to those who know the Lord. The gospel call to repentance still stands and rings out to the lost souls with the promise of peace with God and salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ. It is useless to try to imitate Christ when one does not love Christ, does not believe in Christ, does not know Christ. When one has not repented and been for given the sins that have been already entered up against him. no amount of imitation of Christ, how ever perfect, can make one’s life clean. But every consideration of love, fidelity, and grat itude ought to impel the Christian to do as nearly as he can what he knows the Lord, who bought him with his blood, wants him to do. The desire to do thus, is present in every regenerate soul. But it is precisely at this point, that the Devil is making bis constant attacks. Paul says, “When I would do good evil is present with me.” The aim of the Devil is to make men who have broken from his bands still serve him. He may know that he cannot pluck them out of the Lord’s hands, but it pleases the old adversary to torment the servants of the Lord, as long as they will let him. It is just here that we reach the core of this question. If. we resist the Devil, he will flee from us; if we try to kalk as He walked, we will be resisting the Devil. If the Devil flees from us, it will leave us to enjoy the unspeak able blessings of reflecting as from a mirror the glory of the Lord, and being thereby changed into the same image from glory to glory as by the Lord, the Spirit. Shall we not try to imitate Him? Will it not be a good investment of time and spiritual strength? If it be an effort that lasts only for a few days, or weeks, it lasts that long, and to that extent, at least it resists the Devil and with what ever success, there is that much gain, there is that rpuch of encouragement, both to himself and to oth- THINGS THAT SIPCL HAPPENING The Golden Age for February 25, 1909. Nelvs Gleanings and Thoughts They firing ers, to put forth other and greater efforts “to walk in His steps.” J. L. D, H. * H Needed Legislation. In Mississippi the other day, in the town of Union, the officers of the law found some liquor in the depot that had been shipped to that town in viola tion of law and for unlawful purposes. They took it and publicly destroyed it, against the protest of the depot and the express agents. It is understood that the law of that state gives that power to the constabulary in some cases. It is a wise provision of the law. Our Georgia law should recognize the same principle. In fact, if a good case were made out, at common law, in Georgia even now, I believe that the courts would hold that the ground upon which prohibition rests is that alcoholic liquors are poisonous and dangerous and hurtful to the best interests of the state, morally, politically, socially and financially. That for these reasons they have no common law rights but are wholly dependent on a government license for all their privileges and since those that were procured by the license have been withdraw, the intoxicating liquors have no standing before the courts. Gambling goods, in fected clothing and furniture, vicious or rabid ani mals, and even in some cases, human life has no value in the law, for the very reasons that have been enumerated against liquor. Why should intoxicating liquors be kept out of the limbo they deserve? But if our courts do not find that the common law status of intoxicants is what I have pointed out, then let the legislature make them so. It will simplify the administration of prohibition in a hundred ways. J. L. D. H. Health and Happiness. By Dr. Robert Maxwell Harbin. In a neatly printed volume of 184 pages, from the press of Griffith & Rowland, Philadelphia, bear ing the alternate title: “An Analogical Study of the Diseases of Sin,” Dr. Harbin has given us a very interesting glimpse “of that region of sur passing interest that lies between the body and the soul. There are five chapters: 1. Argumentum, which is very properly devoted to a general survey of the region in question. 2. The Influence of Nature in Disease as Revealed by Recent Investiga tions. 3. Philosophy of the Soul. 4. The Analogy of Disease and Sin. 5. Philosophy of Death. The book is very tenderly dedicated to his mother. This book treats of one of the strictest scientific themes, but the wise author has very 'thoughtfully trans lated the language of the subject into the vernacular of the people. In doing this he has brought this very difficult subject within reach of the unscien tific reader. The field is too vast for anything more than the presentation of examples picked up here an dthere, but these examples show something of the wonderful way in which God has wrought. The only flaw that I have discovered in the book in its physical, intellectual or spiritual side, is the notion that man has a section of the divine in his nature. There is no divinity in man. When God made him, He did not make another god, nor a piece of a god; he made man. The notion that man has some of God in him is one of the recent resuscitations of an old idea of paganism. That particular notion is a slightly disguished pintheism. It is true however, that the other good points of the book are not affected by this bad one. On page 30 is found this sentence: “A mur derer is more blamable, primarily, for not controll ing his anger which leads to a ‘brain-storm’ than he is for taking the life of a fellow-man.” When the Thaw trial was in progress this reviewer said in an article in the papers that Mr. Delmar had given us a striking expression but that in Georgia law it would be recognized that every intentional homicide was the result of a brain-storm, and that the question before the jury would be “Was the brain-storm justifiable?” Dr. Harbin has the same idea. An old English philosopher wrote a very instruc tive book on the “Anatomy of Melancholy.” When I first began to study such things I found frequent references to Burton’s Anatomy scattered through the books. Now our author has given us a very in teresting and valuable book on the Anatomy of Happiness. Happiness does not depend on bodily health nor mental soundness. All of these may exist without happiness. This condition belongs to the soul. Independent of the education of the mind and unaffected by the condition of the body, the soul enjoys happiness because of its own healthful condition and its pleasing environment. This is good doctrine. It has the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come. J. L. D. H. Lo Hold Success. Thirty years ago in a poor schoolhouse in a back district a boy at the foot of his class unexpectedly spelled a word that had passed down the entire class. “Go up head,” said the master, “and see that you stay there. You can if you work hard.” The boy hung his head. But the next day he did not miss a word in spelling. The brighter scholars knew every word in the lesson, hoping there might be a chance to get ahead. But there was not a single one. Dave stayed at the head. He had been an in different speller before, but now he knew every word. “Dave, how do you get your lesson so well now?” said the master. “I learn every word in the lesson, and get my mother to hear me at night, then I go over them in ■ the morning before I come to school. And I go over them at my seat before the class is called up. “Good boy, Dave!” said the master. “That’s the way to have success; always work that way, and you’ll do well.” Dave is today the manager of a big lumber com pany, and he attributes his start to the words: “Go up ahead, and see that you stay there. You can if you work hard.” —Genesee Courier. * « Editorial 'Ramblings. to —and that I would come back and deliver “John and His Hat” next year. And so I am “engaged” to Blue Mountain —and the “time set” one long year from now! Sunday at Blue Mountain. But the Saturday night lecture was not all. Sun day was the day for the beginning of a revival meeting. Brother Borum of Oxford, the noble man of God who was coming to lead the services, could not reach there until the next day. Pastor Kim brough, the beloved leader of the church at Blue Mountain, generously urged me to take charge of the Sunday services. Three times did the Lord meet us in gracious power, eight or ten happy souls re joicing in newness of life on the first day of the meeting. A day away down at New Albany with the royal E. L. Wesson, a preacher who stands mighty high (about six and a half feet) and the genial Prof. Schumpert and his bright boys and girls—and then back to Blue Mountain for another day and night. How beautifully did they treat me—what practical friendship did they show! Through the helpful ex amples and leadership of President B. G. Lowery, his quiet but solid, royal brother, T. C. Lowrey, their ’brother-in-law, Prof. Berry, all of Blue Mountain College, and Prof. J. E. Brown, quaint and heroic headmaster of Mississippi Heights Academy, a superb fitting school for boys, I left Blue Mountain with nearly one hundred and fifty subscribers to The Golden Age. Oh radiant, royal Blue Mountain—but I must hurry this letter to the train, and tell you next time of my other Mississippi rambles, beginning with the U. D. C’s. at the historic town of Pontotoc. W. D. U.