The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-20

south It's strides have been so
great as to amaze those people who have
not known it for several years past. At
tending the cotton convention, and hap
pening to be in Birmingham during the
past week. have been some of the most
prominent business men and financiers,
as well as statesmen and legislators, In
the south. For instance, yesterday we
had Governor Conner of Alabama, Cover
nor Smith of Georgia and Governor Hey
ward of South Carolina, all with us. 1t
was regretted that the governor of North
CaEollna was not present in order that
the governors of the other states might
have saluted him in the old-fashioned and
proper manner. They were. however, not
permitted to suffer.
President Hanson of the Central Of
Georgia railway, President Finley of the
Southern, and other railroads presidents
have been among us making big prepare
lions for the future
President Topping of the Tennessee
Ceal. Iron and Railroad company and
the Republic company and President
Hoadley of the Alabama Consolidated
company have been together, and both
are expending and preparing to expend
large sums in development. Both are
greatly interested in the proposed immi-
grafton movement.
Governor Hayward has told us how sue
cessful South Carolina has been and sue
ceeded yesterday in interesting Governor
ccmer and Lieutenant Governor Gray, as
we'll as the presidents of the various cor
porations and other prominent men OF
Birmingham, in the work. 1t is to be
taken up earnestly, and undoubtedly the
present legislature of Alabama will pass
bill much on the order of the law now
in existence in South Carolina.
The corporations and concerns desiring
additional labor for proposed develop
ments will contribute the large mass OF
funds necessary to carry on the work. AS
in South Carolina 1t will cost the state
made to man." In this reply there is an
nervousness that is absolutely refresh
ing. 1t ought to have convinced that stu
dent that in matters of religion, II Woulo
be best to let the scientists alone, ana
to consult Jesus and Paul. who had
studied religion and therefore knew some
thing about it.
Again, Professor Fosters book on ''Ihe
Finality of the Christian Religion" and
Mr.. Selleck's more recent work on THE
New Appreciation of the Bible have SO
kndled the wrath of the editor OF the
Chicago Chronicle that he goes SO Tar as
to say: "If Christ exists and the bible IS
his book, Mr.. Mancasarian "a notorious
unbeliever, l presume) will arrive in
Heaven a long time before Professor Eos
ter and Mr. Seleck are seen there.
Now / have read neither Professor Eos
ter's book, nor Mr.. Sellecks, and am not
set for the defense of anything that they
have thought proper TO say; but nave
read the English Bible through sixty
times, to say nothing or the number or
times | have read the Greek Testament
through and think l have learned some
thing, from what the Bible does not say
For instance; of all the multitudinous
scoundrels that the Bible mentions and
describes 1t does not say that any one
of them was lost, except the son of
perdition,' Judas Iscariot. am not
teaching, and 1 90 not believe, the doc
trlne of the "Universalsts,' but am try
ing to teach that 1t is downright pre-
sumption in any mere man to usurp the
functions of God Almighty, by condemning
to everlasting destruction any human be-
ing.
Some years ago a prominent and bril-
liant American preacher publicly, and I'M
der his own signature, condemned Mr..
Darwin ito HE'LL" for advocating 'Evolu-
ton" Sometime afterwards, in CONVEX
sation with that preacher who was
friend of mine, learned that he had not
read the "Origin of Species" and did not
know what Evolution was. A wise
agnosticism would have done that preach
er world of good,
l am told that the editor OF the chi
eago Chronicle is smart and he must
be il he can tell not only who is going
TO Heaven, but which win get there first!
My brother, go thou and do otherwise.
If you really believe in an Au-Wise and
Almighty God, then let Him attend to
His own business; and He will be sure to
do it all right.
do they not tell us that His hand is seen
In all that is, in all that yet hath been
The falling sparrow and the shooting
light
Which, blazing, hurries Ger the vault of
night.
With such strange splendors that we
wonder how
The gem was shaken from some angels
brow;
The falling sparrow and the bursting star.
One at your feet, the other gone afar.
Each follows some decree of His some
law,
Which in dead bird. or shooting light we
saw"
j. C. HIDEN.
LES Majestic.
From the Washington Herald.