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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN.
UIMV. Jl I.y a. Hr*.
MUD AND STARS
“Two Men Looked Through Prison Bars,
One Saw Mud and the Other Saw Stars.”
By DR. JOHN E. WHITE,
PASTOR SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH
Text: "Whntnoever things are
lovely and of good report; If there
be any virtue and If there be any
. praise, think on these things."—
Phil. 5:8.
(gj PROTEST that If some great
I Vower rvould agree to make rao
/ * always think what Is true and
do what Is right on condition of being
turned Into a sort of clock and wound
up every morning I should Instantly
close with the offer."
When Thomas Hurley, toward the
end of his life, gave earnest expression
to this sentiment he won the sympathy
of good men everywhere. He wanted
to be good. Let us trust, agnostic ant)
father of agnostics though he was, that
he did not wholly miss the comfort of
the fourth Beatitude, which Ur. Me-
Laren says ought to be rendered:
"Blessed are the men and women that
long more than for anything else to be
good."
Scarcely had Mr. Hurley's proposition
appeared on this side of the water be
fore Henry Drummond accepted Ita
challenge. In hla Incomparable essay
on "The Changed Life" he ventured to
show that the Apostle Paul hud met
the Issue and had provided a formula
of sanctification for Mr. Hurley and
for every other man who wanted to be
good. The formula he found In Second
Corinthians 3:18, "We all with unveiled
face reflecting as a mirror the glory
of the Lord are transformed Into the
same Image from glory to glory even as
from the Lord, the Spirit."
That was to say. by contemplation
of Christ, by steadfast thinking upon
Christ, a man would grow like Him.
Such Is the alchemy of thought. With
the theology of this proposition, what
It neglects and what Its Implies, we are
not now concerned. But there Is the
soundest basis in Scripture and expe
rience for the principle that to an
enormous extent men are what they
are because they think what they do.
"As a man thlnketh In the heart so Is
he." To be spiritually minded Is life
and peace; to be carnally minded Is
death."
If you think on "whatsoever Is true"
you will love, honor and obey the
truth; In a word, become truthful and
loyal of soul. If you think on "what
soever is honest" you will cherish and
protect your honor. If you think on
"whatsoever Is Just" you .will Increase
In ■ falrmlndedness. If you think on
"whatsoever la pure," unsullied flowers
will flourish and wave their white
plumes In your soul, and the vulgar
and malodorous weeds will droop and
rile for lack of soil. If you think on
'Whatsoever Is lovely and of good re
port," strength and beauty will adorn
your manhood and virtue and praise
will flow like living waters from your
life. It Is a holy philosophy of charac
ter. "Think on these things." Poten
tially our thoughts are more Important
than our arts, our actions are externn!
and occasional, reuulrlng the Induce
tnent of circumstances to draw them
out, but our thoughts are Internal, per
sistent and spontaneous. "He that
would govern his nrtlons by the laws
of virtue," said Samuel Johnson, “must
regulate his thoughts by those of rea
son; he must keep tjulet from the re-
resaes of hla heart and remember that
the pleasures of fancy and the emo
tions of desire are more dangerous as
they are hidden since they escape the
sense of observation anil operate equal
ly In fivery altuutlon without the con
currence of opportunltlea." The duty
of right thinking la the sternest of
life's duties. Our thoughts are the
staple food of our aouls. We ahall aome
dny learn what the best teachers are
putting Into our modern systems of
education, that whatever Inducea
thought affects the fabric of charac
ter, that education must have the no
bleat and purest surroundings, since
outward objects and sounds stimulate
the Internal machinery to activity. One
of our most able Southern educators In
a recent commencement address, In
which he was pleading for more attrac
tive surroundings for our common
schools, said that he would like to see
these words written on the lintels of
every school room: "Whatsoever things
are lovely and of good report, If there
be any virtue and any praise, think on
these things."
Mud and 8tars.
The power of personal will, of choice
of taste, of habit and of disposition Is
directly the object of appeal here.
These two men are representatives of
contrary philosophies or life. The mud
was there and the stars were there;
the things lovely and of good report
are here and the things ugly and of
elU'are hers, i should, say the prison
bars are here, tob. We all have to look
and think within our limitations. Bun-
yan had these two characters In his
Immortal allegory—the man with the
muck-rake and the man who Journeyed
with the delectable mountains In view.
I need not tell you that onk whs Ch'rls-
tlan, the other a nameless fellow. They
are types that persist In human society.
How many homespun Illustrations one
would And In a day’s Journey through
the streets. What a multitude of mud-
gazers our life affords. The cynic, the
pessimist, the fault-finder, the grumpy
critic and his tribe, who does not know
them? But alas! they never know
themselves. In varying degrees of mood
the mud gazer sits on the hlrh seat of
human contempt and Issues edicts of
mean comment on all who pass by. He
never sees a good quality In a man
and never falls to see a bad one. "He
Is the human owl vigilant In darkness
and blind to light, mousing for Vermin
and never seeing noble game," If he
turns attention to politics every man
Is selfish, greedy, corrupt. Every man
has his praise. The government Is a
nest of rascals. Presidents and gover
nors are dominated by unpatriotic mo
tives. If he goes to church a slight dis
comfort, an Imagined neglect of the
ushers, an unpleaslng anthem, too many
stanzas of a hymn or five minutes too
long In the sermon, will cause him to
condemn the congregation which has
spent 81110,000 to build a comfortable
church; the ushers who are where they
are because they are known to lie
warm-hearted and conalilerate men; the
rholr which la devoted to the prepara
tion of pleasing, helpful music; the
hymn that a saint saw angels through
and the preacher who has labored and
prayed with Sod at hla aide for the
sermon, all are doomed and delivered
to dullness and misery In one short
breath of withering criticism. Who does
this? The mud-gazer. Why? Because
he Is a mud-gazer.
Sometimes the mud-gazer, forgive
the profanation, Is not a man. Women
sometimes are found who do not look
for the stars. To the credit of John
Bunyan’s rhlvnlry, let It be said that
hla character with the muck-rake waa
man. Possibly If that other great
John—John Wealey—had written the
atory It would have been the woman
with the muck-rake Instead.
The critical habit abounds among
women as well as among tnen. A t«w-
REV. DR. JOHN E. WHITE.
dry dress, an Ill-wrought bonnet, a
distasteful color,! an Inelegant stride,
though It were Madonna' herself, well
Hhum out all the slant for her. Mothers
may make mud-gazera of their children
very enstly. They then should be very
patient with the child when he
thoughtlessly humiliates a cripple on
the street by directing attention to the
doformlty. But "one saw stars;" one
thought on the things that were lovely
and of good report. He was then no
prisoner. His soul swept out and dwelt
In the empyecum.
How much liner life would be If we
would live more In the sunshine! How-
much more powerful our Christianity
If It saw the world through the eyes of
Christ! - Perfect and pure, though He
was. He did'hot see the sinner In the
saint, but the saint In the sinner, saw
Peter In Blmnn, Paul In Saul and a
lovely woman In the Magdalen.
Tha Question of "Canned Meats.”
Tills text la a hammer to strike with.
On the anvil of truth let It ring out
warning to those who are feeding the
hungry appetites of souls; to the mak
ers of books that drip poison; to the
makers of newspapers that purvey
moral fllth. Dr. Washington Gladden
says that If Isaiah Were living today
he would be the heart and soul of a
great, clean, outspoken, radical, inde
pendent, righteous 1 newspaper. Allow
me. then, to Imagine that the Apostle
Paul were here now to lay his hand
upon these .mlghtest levers of civiliza
tion, the dally newspapers. He would
view with unutterable! alarm what you
and I are viewing with dull hearts. He
would cry In ronsterriatlon and Indig
nant remonstrance against what
scarcely awakens a murmur In us. He
would stVetch forth pis hand In the
name ofGod'and hnmartlty to stay the
Inundation of stuff that reeks with
Immorality and unehastlly and foul
ness which our newspapers pour out
almost every day on our hearth-stones
for us and our children to eat and di
gest.
I asked an able news editor In our
city recently what, In'his honest Judg
ment, was the effect on my boy or on
young people generally to read the
newspapers of the week just passed,
when a deluge of murders, adulteries
and moral scandals had filled their col
umns:
It can have only a bad effect, of
course," he said.
"But the blame Is not on the news
paper. It Is our business to And out
where hell broke loose last and tell It
first, our business to print all the news.
It Is your business to decide whether
your boy shall read It or not.” If that
Is a true and Just statement of the
case and places the responsibility fair
ly .where Jt belongs, then I say "God
pity the country; we are almost help
less." But Is It true? Have the news-
palters no responsibility? In the Anal
justice that must be, Is there no moral
guilt attached to the collection and
dissemination of that which acta as
moral poison on the minds of the
young. It Is current ns, a theory of
crime among newspaper men that the
publication of .one gt;eat sensational
crime brings on Immediate,!)- a flood of
Imitative crimes. Have the newspa
pers no responsibility then? By their
theorj - It the newspapers were not to
publish the crime or were to trent It
without sensation, other crimes would
not be stimulated. Here. Is the pulpit
nnd the school teacher admonishing
the people "whatsoever Is lovely and
of good report,"think oft,these things."
Here are the newspapers, not one, but
seven days In the week, teaching the
people "whatsoever Is abysmal In Im
morality and vile In news, think on
these things." There Is a wretched
rcistoke somewhere. Madame Roland
said: "Oh, Liberty, how many crimes
are committed In thy name!" The
parents of children In the city have a
far more hopeless plaint: "Oh, Prog,
ress, how many young minds are mur
dered at thy altar!”
It would not be Just to. say that the
newspapers are public enemies. They
are public servants. They minister a
vast good. They are a moral necessity
t> our civilization. But It Is true to
suy that every newspaper of the mod
cm city type must share with other
agencies generally accounted vicious,
tile responsibility for many a sorrow,
many a woe, many a vice, and many a
crime, for they practically monopolize
the mental food Industry of the masses.
The Chicago meat packers are purvey
ors to the stomachs of the people; the
new-papers are purveyors to the aouls
of tin- people. A keen moral sense, oh.
my masters, a keen, fair Justice."
What Are Christians For, Anyway?
"If there be any virtue and If there
be any praise." Does the apostle raise
a doubt? Let It be so then. .The
lovely things are'worth digging after.
It will require some effort often to find
the loveliness. Virtue hides In hard
places. But Is It not a great thing to
be a man who believes It is there Jifst
the same? Sir Humphrey Davis found
Michael Koradag In The lad who wash
ed his bottles.
The beauty of It Is that In an age like
ours —harsh, -compeltlve, exacting—
there are men who still believe that
there's more good than bad, more truth
than error, more God than devil. Who
can pretend to know that the man we
dislike hds'more bad than good In him
or the woman the world despises and
casts off has sat In the depths of her
woman’* soul the patience of a lovers'
fidelity, a mother's tenderness, a
friend's loyalty, a neighbor’s sympathy
and mayhap In the casket of her Inner
soul the pearl of great price, far out
weighing in the sight of God her single
weakness? Suppose with.acent as keen
ns the cynic you begin to marrow the
I search for virtue and nobleness. Take
your book and Invsntory all the kind
ness and gentleness and unselfishness
and charity and noble-mindedness you
will And in a single city block Do
you think you would say the world is
overwhelmingly bad?
Take life broadly. Is there In the
balances of Just Judgment any room
for the overwhelming pessimism that
permeates our preaching? Are we
ready to asiert with this book of the
record open before ua that Jeeua Christ
Is the authority for the mood that con
trols Christianity In aome of Its ten-
sorioue types? He wept over Jerusa-
lent. He wept but He did not despair
He wept, but He did not denounce'
The Bible never despairs. God's In
finite hopefulness Is to be placed along
side of Ills omnipotence.
It Is the privilege of the- Christian
to cpmpanlon with Him who traversed
life limltiesaly and who said His last
woeda In the tone of a conqueror. We
ought-to cultivate the dominant moods
of Christ. We. ought therefore to flnd
sweet In every bitter, Joy In every pain
light In every darknees, and the good
In everything.
John Mosely, summing up In his Ufa
of Gladstone, says that what every
body saw coloring alt Gladstone’s Ilfs
and statesmanship was a kind of un-
wordllness, which exposed him to de
signing counsellors. But, says Mr.
Mosely. who le himself an unbeliever!
as If crushing the criticism In a sen
tence: "What are Christians for, anv-
way?" What are Christians for, any-
way? What are Christiana for. If not
to be as lights In dark places? What
are Christians for, If not to scatter
seeds of kindness and make sunshine In
the world? What are Christians for,
If not to live and lift above the fog?
What are Christians for, If not to think
of the heavenly and reflect It? What
are Christiana for, If not In pilgrim In
the power of an endless life and In
the enthusiasm of a boundless hope?
Oh. Christ, what are thy people for,
If not to think no evil, rejoice not In
Iniquity, bear nil things, have faith In
nil things, and hope all things? In the
true kingdom of God the unkind, un
charitable and the Inconsiderate, the
critical, the cruel and the unmerciful
will be shunned even as now the vul
gar and the unchaste are avoided In
the companies of the refined and Hie
cultivated.
SAN FRANCISCO AND ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
By DR. JAMES W. LEE,
PASTOR TRINITY M. E. CHURCH
N O one can fall to obaerve, as he
goes about In the world, the en
hancement places, roads, rivers,
mountain* nnd material objects of
every kind, get from connection .with
the lives of great men. The fact that
Shakespeare was born In Stratford-,
upon-Avon, llv©4 there, married Ann
Hathaway there, died there, and waa
burled there, Is worth more annually to
that little English town than all the
wheat produced year by year In the
county of Warwickshire. This fact
alone draws twenty thousand pilgrims
every year to the place. Ayr, Scot
land, la indebted to the poet Burns for
thd thirty thousand tourists who annu
ally visit his birthplace. Who would
ever go to Concord, Mass., but for the
significance given the Village by Emor-
son and Thoreau and Hawthorne?
Who would leave Boston to aee Ames-
bury but for Whittier? People remain
between trains at Newburyport to see
the old church where Whitfield Is bur
led. A great man has only to stop for
an hour under the shade of a tree to
make it immortal. General Mercer wua
.shot on the battlefield of Prlncetdn,
and a pyramid of cannon balls marks
the spot forever. Thackeray spends a
week with his friend, Andrew Low, u
cotton merchant In Savannah, Qu.. and
the old vine-covered Southern mansion
takes on added Interest and value. Dr.
J. J. Lafferty, of Virginia, was accus
tomed years ago to present his par
ticular friends with piallets made from
the wood of a tree that grew out of
the grave of "Stonewall* Jackson. The
pen used by a great man to sign an
important state document at once be
comes of priceless value. A button
from the coat of George Washington Is
of more Interest thun a diamond. A
pebble, worn round by the waves of
Lake Galilee, la esteemed like a Jewel.
A drop of water, from the River Jor
dan Is worth more than a million gal
lons from the Amakoa.
Reflections like these passed through
my mind as I stood, not many months
ago, by the monument erected through
public subscription In the Plaza of Ban
Francisco to Robert Loufa Stevenson.
It Is a granite pedestal, supporting a
bronze galleon, designed by Mr. Bruce
Porter. Vptm one side of it are carved
the following words taken from Ste
venson's own writings: "To be honest,
to be kind, to earn a Jlttle and to spend
a little less, to make upon the whole a
family happier for his presence, to re
nounce, when that shall be necessary,
and not be embittered, to keep a few
friends but these without capitulation,
above all, on the same grim condition,
to keep friends with himself—here Is a
task for ull that a man has of fortitude
snd delicacy.”
Btevenson came to San Francisco
from Scotland In August, 1879, but was
so much shaken by the long Journey
that he looked upon his arrival like a
man at death's door. To recover, his
health he Immediately went south,
about 150 miles, and camped out by
himself In the coast range of moun
tains beyond Monterey. After this, he
went down to Monterey, noted the
world over for Its beautiful hotel In the
midst of ample grounds, where he re
mained until the middle of December.
But ahllq there was a magnificent ho
tel at Monterey, Stevenson did not atop
there. He lodged with a doctor und
got his meals at Blmoneau's restau
rant. Btevenson describes It us having
a barber shop In front und u kitchen
at the back. The dining room was a
little, chill, bare, adobe nlfalr, and upon
the table was alwuys to be found a
dlah of green peppers and tomatoes.
At any time, Just hefore a meal, Bl-
moneau, the proprietor, could be heard
all about the kitchen rattling among
the dishes. With Blmoneau Stevenson
says "he played chess every day and
discussed the universe." After the mid
dle of December he went back to Ban
Francisco and remained there until
May 19, 1880, when he waa married to
Fanny Van de Grift, In the house of
Rev. Dr. Scott. Immediately after hts
marriage he went to the country, GO
miles north of 8an Francisco,, to seek
health In the mountains. Here he took
! possession of all that waa left of an
old mining town, and found the data
for that Interesting work of his, "The
Silverado Squatters." In July he left
California, and with his wife returned
to Scotland to visit hls father. He was
therefore at this time In California
not quit* a year. He returned to the
United States In 18fl7 and T>y the 7th,
of June, 1&98, he was back In Califor
nia.
Soon afterwards he sailed with hls
family on the Casco for a long cruise
In the South seas, where among its
Islands he spent the remainder of hls
life. While sojourning In Snn Francis
co, before he nailed away for the last
time, he and Mrs. Stevenson lodged at
the Occidental hotel. The details of
Stevenson’s life In Son Francisco are
given to show that while he was there
but a short time, It was long enough
to give new Interest and color to every
■pot and hotel nnd person he met. It
was long enough to awaken Interest
sufficient In him to secure a monument
to hls memory. Not one of the multi
millionaires on Knob Hill, whose pala
tial residences are now In ruins, lent an
much Interest to San Francisco In all
hls life as did Stevenson by a few
months' residence there. Not that mil
lions are counted In public esteem
against a man, but more than millions
or billions Is the man himself. If the
man who comes ipto the possession
of millions of money happens to be
one wh6 uses hls wealth as Stevenson
used hls genius, to bless mankind, then
the millionaire will be honored not be
cause of. hls money simply, but because
he used It nobly.
The kind of Interest 8tevenson lent
to San Francisco It Is not within the
power of an earthquake to break, or
destroy.
I wish I could awaken among our
young people Interest In Robert Louis
Stevenson, at this time, when so many
precious moments are being wasted In
reading the shallow, worthless books of
Action, which are coming so constantly
and multltudlnously^from the press.
Stevenson was the greatest literary art
ist and genius of the generation Just
past. Who that has ever read It can
ever forgot hls "Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
DR. J. W. LEE.
Hyde"—the very first of hls works to
give hint world-wide‘fame? Not only
hls wnrka of fiction, but hla essays are
taking rank with the very finest In the
language. There Is nothing more thrill
ing In the whole history of literary
achievement than the "South Sea
Cruises" of Robert LoiUs Stevenson,'
sailing leisurely from one Island to an
other, meeting the king of this one and
of that, forming friendships with sav
ages, and amid It all, writing those
wonderful stories* which reveal a new
power In the English language to de
scribe the weird, the \vlld and the mys
tical. Think of a nfiin for years on the
very verge of the grave, yet fighting
death, ns If face to face with the grim
monster, and while holding him at bay
with one hand, using hls pen with the
other to write "The Master of Bal-
| Jantrae," "The Wrecker" "The South
I Seas,” etc., and you can form some
j conception of one of the most heroic
i and Interesting characters of the age.
After hls various cruises in the South
?eas, he bought for himself a planta
tion of four hundred aqrfs of land In
the island of ITpolo, In the Samoan
group. ; Her.e, / overlooking Apia, the
capital and port of the Island, he built
a house nnd lived In It until he died.
Having permanently settled himself, he
spent hls time when not writing In
Improving hls estate, and In advancing
the mental, moral and political condi
tions of the poor natives he found liv
ing around him. He attended church,
taught a Sunday school class, and held
in* hls household family prayers dally.
He died on .the 3d of December, 1894.
On the evening before hls death, which
was Sunday, he uttered In the pres
ence of hls family the following prayer,
which he composed for the occasion:
"We beseech Thee, Lord, to behold us
with favpr, folk of many families and
nations gathered together In the peace
of this roof, weak women, and women
subsisting under the covert of Thy
patience, be patient still; suffer us yet
u while longer: with our broken pur
poses of good, with our Idle endeavors
against evil, sulTer us awhile longer
to endure and (If It may be) help us to
do better. Bless to us our extraordina
ry mercies; if the day comes when
these must be taken, brace us to play
the man under affliction. Be with our
friends, be with ourselves. Go with
each of us to rest; If any awake temper
to them the dark hours of watching;
and when the day returns, return to us,
our Sun and Comforter, and call us
with morning faces and with morning
hearts—eager to labor; eager to be
happy, If happiness shall be our portion
—and If the day be marked for sorrow,
strong to endure It. * We thank Thee
and praise Thee; and In words of'HIm
to whom this day is sacred, close our
oblation."
By hls own direction he was burled
on the Summit of Vaea, near his Island
home, and after the Samoan fashion,
a large tomb was built above hls grave.
On either side of the tomb there Is a
bronze piste. On one of them*is vvrlt-
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Men hls ovvn requiem beneath hls name
thus:
Alpha Robert Louis Omega
1850. Stevenson. 1894.
"Under the wldfi and starry ski
Dig the grave and let me lie
Glad did I Hve.and.gladly die
And l laid.me down with a
.This be; the verse you grave for trie;
Hex-e he lies where he longed to be;
Home Is the Sailor, home from the
sea,
And the hunter home from the hill."
Stevenson profoundly believed .. Ip
foreign missions., "In’an address thade
to the Women's Missionary Association
and members of the general assembly
of the Presbyterian church of New
South Wales, at Sydney,—March vd8,
1893, ho -saJd at the opening of-Ills
remarks: i suppose I am In the posi
tion of many other persons. I had a
great prejudice against missions In the
South Seas, and I had no sooner co(pe
here than that prejudice v?as at first
reduced and at last annihilated. Those
who deblaterate against missions have
only one thing to do, to come and see
them on the spot. They will see a
great deal of good done; they will see
a race being forwarded In many dif
ferent directions, and I believe It they
be honest persona, they will cease to
complain of mission work and. its ef
fects.
" ‘The true are of the missionary, as
It seems to me, an outsider, the most
lay of laymen, and for that reason, on
the old principle that the bystander
sees most of the game, perhaps more
than usually well able to judge—Is to
profit by the great, I ought really to
say the vast—amount of moral, force
reservolred In every race, and to ex
pand and to change and to fit that
power to new ideas, and to new possi
bilities of advancement.'"
Mrs. Stevenson, In the Introduction
to a little book entitled "Prayers Writ
ten at Valllma, by Robert Louis Ste
venson," says: "As soon as our house
hold had fallen into a regular routine,
and the bonds of Samoan life began to
draw us more closely together, Susl-
tala (the name the natives gave to
Robert Louis Stevenson) felt the ne
cessity of Including our retainers (ser
vants) In our evening devotions. I sup
pose ours was the only white man's
family In all Samoa except those of the
missionaries, where the day naturally
ended.' with this homely, patrlarcIM
Custom."
‘ "With my husband," continues Mrs.
Stevenson, "prayer, the direct .appeal,
was a necessity. When he was happy
he felt Impelled to offer thanks for un
deserved Joy; when In sorrow or pain,
to call for strength to bear what must
be borne."
One of the most beautiful of Steven
son's prayers Is as follows:
"Lord, behold our family here assem
bled, we thank Thee for this place in
which we dwell; fop the I6ve that
unites us;, tor. tbe„ peace accorded us
this day; tor the hope with which we
expect tomorrow; for the health, tha
work, the food, and the bright skies,
that make our lives delightful; for our
friends in all parts of the earth, and
our friendly helpers In this foreign Isle.
Let peace abound In our small com
pany. Purge out of every heart the
lurking grudge. Give us grace and
strength to forbear and to persevere.
Hfenders. give us the grace to accept
and to forgive offenders. Forgetful
ourselves, help us to bear cheerfully
the forgetfulness of others. Give us
courage and gaiety and the quiet mind.
Spare to us our friends; soften to u*
bur enemies. Bless us If It may be In
all our Innocent endeavors. If It may
not, give us the strength to encounter
that which Is to come, thnt we be
brave In peril, constant in tribulation,
temperate In wrath and in all change*
of fortune, and down to the gates of
death, loyal and loving one to another.
As the clay to the potter, as the wind
mill to the wind, as children to their
sire, we beseech of Thee this help and
mercy for Christ’s sake."
That one with such wealth of mind
and heart should have lit up the Soutn
Seas with a new light Is not strange.
Pilgrims In the years to come will
climb that lonely hill above hls home
In the Island of Upola, where he sleer*
the last sleep, t& stand again amid tn«
scenes of his closing years.
CHURCH SER VICES
, I’liini UAriin i— rwrnirw nun v nin
streets. W. W. 1 .and rum, pastor. Hun-
day school st 9:3J a. m. Morning wor
ship st 11 o'clock. Evening worship lit 8
CENTRAL BAITIHT—The pastor. Rev.
B. L. Motley, will preach at 11 n.iu. und
8 p.ui. snd administer the ordinance of
baptism ut each service. Sunday school
it 9:30 n.in. Personal Workers' Club lit
7:15 p.ui. Church prayer meeting Wednes
day at 8 p.ui.
JACKSON HILL *BA*PTI8T—Jackaott at.
suit Fast avenue. Preaching nt 11 s.tu.
and 8 p.m., by the former pastor, Or.
J. J. Rennett. Sunday school at 9:30 a m.
Prayer meeting Wednesday evening at 8
o'clock. Woman's Mission:! ’ —
defies Thursday afternoon
Kol’TII HIDE BAPTIST—Preaching at
11 n.m. and 7:3J ti.nt. by the pastor. Rev.
J. H. Dunlap. Morning subject: "Some
Results of True Fnltit." Evening subject:
"Ihittlng on -the New Rohe," Sunday
ary nn
t 4 ©VI
lock.
B. V. P. L\ 3:30 p.t
"The
He will prench it* II
lu tlrnce. *
CAPITOL AVKNt'K BAPTIST-Preach
ing by pastor. Rev. John K. ltrlggs. ut
11 n. tu. Morning stthjee?, "Some Ad-
dltlount Bible Principles." Evening sub
ject, "The Fast Young Man Treed, Sun
day ScIiimiI. 9:30 n. tn.. and Ita men Classes.
Bsracn prayer Meeting. Monday. 8 i». hi.
Teachers’ Meeting. Tuesday, 8 n. m. Pray
er snd Praise Meeting. Wednesday. 8 p, ro.
Senior H. Y. P. 1'., Friday, H p. in,
ner Woodward and Cherokee avenues.
Preaching st I! a. m. and i p. m. by
Rev. A. L Hunstsu. Illbie school at 9:30
n. m. Junior Baptist Young People's Union
Sunday afternoon at 2:S> o'clock. Phils-
then prayer service In Sunday school rooms
st 6:46 p. tn. Monday afternoon nt .1
k In Stindsy schools rooms Woman's
Missionary Union. Wednesdsv evening nt
6 o'clock midweek prayer service Rev. A.
L. Dunntnu has Just returned from Ilrasll,
In which field he has t>ecn tailoring ns a
inlsalotiary for the past five years. This
pastor. Wui. II. Bell.
TEMPLE BAPTIST—Corner West limi
ter nnd Manguiu Streets. Hr. A. C. Ward,
pastor. Regular services Sunday at 11 s.
in. and 7:45 p. m. Sunday School nt 9:30
a. m. Prayer Meeting, Wednesday evening
st 7:46.
EGLKRTON MKMOIllAlz—Corner Wash
Ington mid Fultou streets. Rev. I. II. Mtb
ler will preach on "The Principles of the
Improved order of Red Men. Sunday
school nt 9:30 n.iu. league meeting at •
p.tu. Preaching at 11 a.tu. and 8 p.m.
PONCE HE I.KOsT BAPTIST—Rev. Hr.
C. N. Donaldson will occupy the pulpit
of the Ponce Helton Avenue Baptist
church, e«»rner Piedmont and l’once Be-
Leon. Sunday at 11 n. m.
METHODIST.
GRACE METIIOIHST—At t:9> a. m . Sun
ilny school. Phllnthen class and Barnes
class. At 11 a. in., preaching by pastor,
* * A* In,,..! I I «... *•* •.. —
P-
WESLEY MEMORIAL—!Corner Auburn
a venue und Ivy street. Rev. Frsnk Fake*,
pastor. Sunday school at 9:30 a. m. Busy
V tuple's class, Young Men's Itnrscii chimi.
'ouug Ijwtlea' Phllathen class. Preaching
af II a. iu. Song service at 7:45 p. in.
Preaching ut Epwortlt League de
votional service nt 6:45 p. m. Midweek
prayer meeting Wednesday evening at &
o'clock. Weekly eliureh social at 9. Teach
ers' meeting at 7. Noonday prayer meeting
every dny 12 to 1 o'clock.
ST. LI KE METIIoniST-At Junction of
Powell street nnd llereau avenue. Sunday
*‘11001 nr 9 a. in. Prenchlng at 11 a. m. and
* |>. hi.; by the pastor, f.’.-orge IV. Grloer.
FIRST METHODIST—Junction of Peach-
tree and Ivy streets. Charles E. Itowtrotn.
D-D.. pastor. Sunday schot nt 9:3D a. tn.
Public worship at in-.55 a. tu. and 8 p. m.
The pastor will preach nt morning serv
ice. Subject, "The Christian's Assets."
At the evenlg service there will I* a abort
address by the pastor. Subject. "Christ—
The Light Giver." Juvenile Missionary So-
elety nt S p. iu. Junior lllhle study tii
. in. Devotional service of Kpwnrth
f ue nt 7 p. in. Midweek service Weil-
ly at 8 p. in., followed by quarterly
conference.
HT. MARK METHODIST—Corner Peach
tree and Fifth streets. The pastor. Rev.
Charles O. Jones, H.H.. will prench nt 11
a. m. Sunday sclimd at 9:30. Heaf mute
class taught by XV. F. Crussclie. No service
nt night. Prayer meeting Wednesday at
TRINITY M ETIIOBI ST—Corner White-
hull nnd Trinity nvcuuc. Hr. J. W. I<ee,
pastor. Services nt M a. m. and 9 p. m.
Sermons by the pastor. Sunday school at
9:30 a. m. Prayer meeting nt 8 p. in. Wed
neaday.
JEFFERSON STREET MBTIIODIST-B.
E. L. Timmons, pastor. Preaching 11 a. tu.
by the pastor. Sundny school st 9:30 a. nt.
IlollnesM meeting nt 2:30 p. m. Prenchlng at
7:30 t>. tn. Sunrise prayer meeting Sundny.
Weekly prayer 'meetIqg Tuesday nt 7:30 p.
til. Holiness prayer meeting 'Ihuraduy at
7:30 p. tn. Ready workers Monday at 1:3)
p. nt. Open sir meeting on Jefferson street
nt 4:30 p. in.
ENGLISH AVENUE METHODIST—West
ern Heights. R. E. L. Timmons, pastor.
Preaching nt 11 a. hi. by Rev. Georg* W„
Lewis. Sunday school nt 3 p. tu. P'csch
lug at 7:30 p. m. by pastor. Prayer meet
ing Wednesday at 7:3) p. tn. Young Men’i
**•—'**■.» L'vl.Li. 7;30 J>, In. Sun
WEST SIDE METHODIST-Rev. C. I.
Put title, pastor. Sundny school nt-10 a. in.
Preaching by the pastor at 11 a. m. Bp-
worth Durgue at 8 p. tn. Prayer meeting
Thursday nt 8 p. tn.
PARK STREET METHODIST—Corner of
Park nnd la*© streets. Rev. M. U Trout-
man. (Htstor. Sunday seboot at 9:33 a. tn.
Preaching at 11 a. hi. by the (Mistor, and nt
8 p. mi by JJev. J, JJ. Fake*. !>.!>. Prayer
meeting Wednesday at 8 o'clock.
BATTLE HILL METHODIST—Rev. C. L.
PatrlMo. pastor. Sunday school at V) a.
m Prvurbliig by the pastor at S p. tu.
EPISCOPAL.
(Sixth Sunday after Trinity.)
CATIIEDHAL—Corner Washington ami
Hunter. Very Rev. C. T. A. I Mae. dean.
At 7:30 a. in., holy conimtiahm; it a. in.,
mornllig prayer mid sermon; 5 p. ui.. eve
ning prayer and senium. Sunday school at
9:46 n. m. All other days: At 7:3a n. tn.,
holy communion; 9 a. tu., morning prayer;
5 n, in., evening prayer. Wednesday and
Friday, litany at 10:30 a. m.
.. LUKES—Peachtree, next to Peach
tree Inn. opposite Alexander street. Rev.
“ " tor. At 7:30 a. tn., holy
. morning prayer und
enltig prayer nnd
n» Q-AS I.V ‘
C. It. Wllmer.
com in un Ion; 11 u
•riUOli: 8 p. IU.. «*VV8BIII K
inon. Suiutay achol at 9:45. Friday, litany
at 11. Services lu the crypt.
INCARNATION—Lee, near Gordon. West
End. Rev. J. J. P. Perry, rector. At 7:30
a. in., holy coiumuuloti; 11 a. ui.. morning
prayer and sermon: 8 p. iu., evening prayer
and sermon. Sunday school at 3:30 p. iu.
Wednesday, evening prayer nt 8. Friday,
holy communion; 11
morning prayer and sermon; 5 p. nu, eve-
ulg prayer. Wednesday, litany at 10:30 a.
in. Sunday school at 9:45 a. tu.
EPIPHANY—Corner Moreland and Euclid
avenues. Rev. C. A. laugston III charge.
At 11 n. m., uiornlug prayer und sermon.
Sunday school at 9:4*> a. iu. Friday, litany
and address at 5 p. in.
Corput. Sundny school at 9:30
MISSION OF THE HOLY INNOCENTS—
Woods avenue, uesr West Peachtree. Sun-
tiny school every Sunday at 3:31 p. nt.
HOLY COMFORTER—Cor
at 8. Services by the
ALL SAINTS—Barnesvllle. Rev. W. J.
PRESBYTERIAN.
CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN—Serv
ices by Loyal Cumberlamls at the Cum-
herlnna Presbyterian <*hurch Sunday at 11
a. m., corner Spring and Harris streets.
Preaching by Rev. J. A. Whltner, of Hay-
ton, Teim., *a loyal Cumberland Prcshy.
ferlnit. Three elders anti two deacons will
be elected nnd nrdnlued. Congregational
meeting Monday at 8 p. m.
the pastor nt 11 n. m. The Christian Eli
deavor Society will have charge of the eve
ning service st 4 o’clock. Prayer meeting
Wednesday at 8 p. nt.
WEST END PRESB YTE H1A X-Corner
Gordon nnd Ashby, streets. Rev. Lynn
It. Walker, pastor. Sunday school nt 9:30
a. tit. Mornlug service at 11 a. in. Sermon
by Itev. A. J. McKetwny. D.D., Charlotte,
era' Normal class.
NORTH AVENUE PRESBYTERIAN —
Corner Peachtree street and North ave
nue. Iter. Richard t.krme Ftinn, pastor.
Atinnt* Morning worship at 11 n. tu. Evculng
IIIds ! • h, l» 8 P ") Ruth sendees will lie
ST. ANDREWS—Corner Glenn aud Kent,
ev. Gilbert Higgs. VJK, In charge^ Eve
ning prayer nnd sermon nt 8. Wednesday,
many aud choir work at 8 p.* m..
.. PAULS—East Petal. Rev. Glllirrt
Higgs. H.D.. In charge. Morning prayer
ud sermon at 11.
HOLY TIUNiTY—Decatur. Rev. C. A.
bond
meet* at 4 p. ro. on Sabbath and 6. p. m.
on Monday. Dulles' prayer circle meets
nesdny evening prayer meeting at Ip. m.
ISM AS PARK PRESBYTERIAN—Preacj}.
tug Sunday at 11 a. nt. by Itev. G. A. Beat-
tie. Sunday school nt -9:W a. ni. Young
People's Society at 7A5 p. tu. At 8 p. nt..
Rev. G. A. Jlcafric wftl prench nt the
service of the Tninau ltark Prcshv-
MetiiodiHt church. Regular midweek prny
er meeting nt 8 o'clock Wednesday night,
ege Park. ! /
lloiv com- CENTRAL PIIKSHYTKRIAN—Opposite
m. by the Capitol. Sunday schot at 9:.*J a. iu. Reg-
*1 nlnr services at 11 a. m. and 8 p. iu. Dr.
Strirkler. of Union Theological seminary.
ST, * IGNATIUS—Tallapoosa. Rev. It. F.) Richmond. Vn.. aril! preach both morning
DvBclle lu charge. Holy couiwuuiou and aud evculng. This la midsummer Imitation
Sunday In the 8unday school.
WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN—Rev.
Charles It. Nesblt, pastor. Morning serv
ice at II a. nt. Evening service nt 8 p. nt.
Sermons by the pastor. Sundny school at
9:30 u. m. Young People's Society nt 7:15
p. in. Midweek prayer service Wednes
day evening at 8.
FIRST _ PRESBYTERIAN—The pnator.
Itev. C. P. Bridewell, will preach Sunday
nt 11 a. tu. No evening service. Sun
day school and Bible classe nt 9:30 n. nt.
Westutnlster League nt 7:46 p. m. Prayer
meeting Wednesday evening nt 8 o'clock.
BARNETT PRESBYTERIAN—Corner of
Hampton street nnd Bradley avenue. J. Ed
win Hemphill In charge. Service* at 11 a.
tn. Subject. "Robbing God," nnd nt 7:30
p. in., "Purity of Heart aud PcrsouHl In
fluence.' Sunday school nt 3 p. in. Pray
er meeting Thursday At 7:80 p. m.
nt 8 p. m. The reguk. .....
he held Wednesday at 8 n. ro. Hiindav
Young People'* Society
sundown — **-»• —
CHRISTIAN.
FIRST CHIUSTI AN-44 East Iluuter.
Rev. II. K. Pendleton, pastor. Preaching
5* bt. snd 8 p. m. Morning theme.
"Dr. Broughton and Dr. Wllmer ami !n-
atitntnneouK Salvation." Bible school nt 9:30
a. in. Christian Endeavor at 6:46 p. m.
WEST END CIIRISTlAX—Corner Gor
don and Dunn streets. Rev. Bernard P.
Smith, pastor. Preaching at 11 a. m. nnd t
p. m.
HOWELL STATION* CHRISTIAN—End
M? r ?. tto < * nr ,,De - R**- Georg©
U. Mullins, pastor. Bible school at 1 p.
tu. Preaehtng at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m.
WESTERN heights CHRISTIAN MIS-
Sunset avenue, near Kennedy afreet.
Bible school at 9:30 a. m. Preaching at
11 a. ui. and 8 p. m.
COLLEGE PARkThRIHTIAN—Rev. G.
H. illnnant, pastor. Bible school every
DmJs day at 10 a. tn. Preaehtng first
Ixwd a day at 11 m. m. and 8 p. m.
CONGREGATIONAL.
WABJPJA STREET CONGREGATION-
AL—Rev. W. II. Tl.Iman. pastor. Preach-
iX*"/ .'. l * ml 7: " ► -T
IMMANUEL CONG REG ATIONAL-ttev.
Starr C. Williams, pastor. Preaching at J}
n. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday al
9:30 s. in.
CENTRAL CONG BEG AT ION AL- R‘*!
Frank E. Jenkins, H.H.. pastor.
lug nt .11 a. n». by Rev. R. II. H" 11 -.
led rally of the Business Men* Gysp*
union nt 7:45 p. tn. Sunday whom i
«. ut Christian Endeavor at 6:4o l»* t
MISCELLANEOUS. -
THE MILLENNIAL DAtt N WBJj
CLAS8 will hold Its regular week!)
lug In Woodmen's hall. 122 ,! ''". I'lt
street, on Sunday morning at it
All interested lit Bible doctrine* «r»*_•
dlalljr Invited to lie present nnd enjoy »
aervlees.
HT. JOHNS HERMAN F.VANUKtHAU
I.I T1IERAN—forarr Porwik nn<!
street*. Sunday school nt 9:30 a. > u 7 „
Ira. trill lw roDtlnrtnl nnfl \_ wr Kf.
preached by the pastor. Rev. W.
brecht, at 11 o'clock.
t'NITE!) BRETHREN TAnKHNA'l-l'r
McDaniel nnd Hightower street*.
8. HnnJelter will preach at 11 a.
Ject, "The Touch that Tell*. |l ', l! ,. 1
Rlosser will preach at 8 p. ; 1
"looking One Hundred \enn Ahea 1.
CHURCH OF CHRIST—W,»I »>' ^ I
nu., corner Wollhnrn «trrat. *[Mf *
»t 10 a. in. I'reartilnic »"'! ,»» I
iwrvlraz nt It n. iu. I’rnvrr ui;'*’' 11 *
dny evening nt 7:45. Tnkc " ,,r j
cnr.
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST.ifS
1ST—I? Went linker ntreet. "I-"" /. ,i
subject of the sermon Bfinday. J‘*J. ^ 1
11 a. tn. There will In* 2°, • \Vei-
nlng service daring Joly and Ango* ^
neaday testimonial nioeGg* JJ.-rfeti
Reading rooms, 812-614 English -Ann n j
building.
YOU NO MEN'S CHRISTIAN
Tfo.V—Corner l'rr..e-nfree<■ nn‘> , I
n venue. At 8 oVlm k. tbe Md' •“?, rf (
lie cntHlm'ted liv Rev. C. J. UJlver. , I
o'eloek. Rev. C. C. Jnrrell. «■-
odlnt ebnrcb. wit! N!? flk lrt “"' n t;
Jeet of Intrrent. Ail men nra In ”
attend tbene eervtran. The I
vbentrn will pin) nt 1 o'eloek. I
S o-eloelc f
g o’elork-
open from
Cni’RCIt OF Ot’R FATHER ’ ""qclf." I
—Corner C*to and 8firing * fr<H J l ln .
Hanlrorn. pastor. The. **■’
Icea will, lie discontinued daring JJL
August, while Mr. Kanlxfru h "Vhangv* • I
Sundny school hoar har.lw*^
U a. m.