Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1901-09-13
Politics Corrupt in This State.
cARTERsv1LLE, Ca. Sept.

CARTERsvILLE, Ca, Sept. 5.
Editor Journal.
After a tour of nine weeks constant
work l am back home again shaking
hands with friends and enjoying their
greetings. / am glad to note the
widespread and profound interest in
the coming Tabernacle meetings.
We shall have the largest corps OF
efficient preachers this year that we
have ever had, and believe the peo-
pie not only feel the need Of a great
religious awakening. but that they
are earnestly praying for it.
Personally, / want to see and feel
the greatest religious awakening
North Georgia has ever experienced.
This shall not be a religio-politico cam
paign. 1t shall be conducted along the
lines of repentance towards God and
faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, for we
may say what we will about reform
alton but the only permanent reform
alton that can come to the human
race will be through the personal re-
generation of each individual soul.
In this dearth of religious interest
and enthusiasm which the church has
been passing through humanity can
realize that man does not live by bread
alone. Mckinley and prosperity may
soul. We old people and middle aged
people need more religion, and the time
never was in the history of the United
States when the young people needed
the grace of God and the restraining
power of religion more than they need
It today. The boys are going to the
devil in groups and squads. The girls
are going into fashion and fondness
for dress, and disinclination to en-
gage in those pursuits which strength
en- the body, ennoble the mind and
beautify character. Our boys are dew
ilish and our girls are silly, and
don't know which Is more hurtful 10
character, devilishness or Stiffness.
You may talk about a girl having q
pretty mouth or pretty eye or pref
ty foot or beautiful hair. To the dogs
with all these things, a beautiful
character is so far above and beyond
all such things that they ought not to
be mentioned in a week Of each other.
The average young man seems to i'm
agine that he must drink whisky and
cuss to be a gentleman, but 1 rather
be a dog than a gentleman If that's the
qualifications of a gentleman. Re
llgion teaches the boys to first seek
the kingdom of God and his righteous
ness and all other tA.ngs will be add
eQ uItO
We want everybody to feel that they
are invited to come and enjoy the
meetings with us. We will feed them
as long as we have got crust OF
bread and pray that GOD may feed
them also upon heavenly bread and
water Of life.
In glancing over our home papers to-
day 1 find that there is a growing in
terest in candidates and political issues
in Georgia.
There is one criticism pretty gener-
ally used, and that is: Why begin to
agitate so early? Twelve months ahead
of primaries, fifteen months ahead OF
elections. OF course this cry is not
raised by the friends of prohibition, but
ii is the clamor of the saloon gang.
To begin early means organization, and
organization means everything. Here
tofore we have let maerers go along;
courthouse rings and district ci1ques
have gotten in their work through their
little machines and made 1t impossible
for the God-fearing, good citizens of
this state to do anything, but we pro-
pose to begin and lift the calf over the
gap when he is young and lift him
every day until we will be used to lift
ing him when he is a full grown steer.
The difference between a pile of scrap
iron and a locomotive engine is the
fact that the engine is organized iron
and the scrap iron is not organized.
The courthouse cliques and rings and