Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-04-30
GEORGIANS FOR GOD AND MAN.

ally great man comes 10 the ueIense
ct the great state of Georgia.
Too common has become the habit
nowadays to cast slurs at our stats
even by Georgians. This is a most rep
rchensible habit and is deplored by all
who have te proper appreciation ami
honor for our fair state at heart.
That we have our faults and some
times make mistakes goes without the
saying, but that we are as good, even
better. than our traducers is self evil
dent. The people of Georgia as a
whole are a law-abiding and God fear
ing people with a hate for crime and
lawlessness,, scorners of sin and in
i1uity, and supporters of law and good
government
Recently a great Georgian came to
the defense of our state, his state, in
no unmistakable terms, and in most
eloquent manner DR.. w L. Pickard,
president of Mercer University, was the
man and he did so as follows:
Not a man in Georgia believes ia
lynching, normally. But, at times, men
do, under great provocation, what they
do not believe in.
These Georgians are not savages,
but among the most civilized people
of the globe. They are not a cruel
people but are among the kindest
people in the world. They are not
heather people, but among the most
.cGnsecrated Christians in the world
The yare not an ignorant people, bu.
represent true culture and refinement
They are not a lawless people, natul.
ALLY, but would stand like a Gibraltar
against any tide of anarchism which
might threaten their ancient foundG-
lions Of Jurisprudence.
BY the census of the United States
VIC are among the most religious peo-
pie in the United States. Every com
n,unity has its school, its church, its
teachers and its preachers. Georgia
has produced great statesmen. great
orators, great preachers, great editors,
great writers of prose, poetry and
fiction; great scientists, great educat-
ors and great jurists, men of whom
our race is proud but she has never
yet produced a great skeptic, infidel
Or agnostic. The fame of some of
her great ones has filled the world but
no great type has risen here to blight
cur race. Think of this and rejoice.
In spite of some sins and mistakes
which We all regret, and for which
we have been terribly criticised, the
people of Georgia have their founda-
ton laid in righteousness and thei;.
faces toward the sunrise. Today thew
are trying to solve their problems in
the fear of God and in the spirit of
brotherhood of man. They have God,
one another and the human race.
Their schoolhouses and temples of
worship are to be seen in every COM
nlunity. Their missionaries tread
their own state and also go to the ends
OF the earth to tell the story of re.
deeming love.
They are awake to the problems
of the present and their debt to the
future. They know their heritage and
mean to transmit it untarnished to
the future. They are studying with
earnestness and seriousness Of pur-
pose the problems of vital interests TO
their educational, religious,
economic, industrial, commercial So
Geological and racial and doing this
in the fear of God and the love of
man.
God is developing here, under
these Georgia skies, a people as cul-
tured as the Bostonians, as gentle as
the old Virginians, as strong as the
old New Englanders and as devout Is
the Pilgrim fathers with Puritanisnl
left out and the spirit of golden rule