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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN.
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<ATl KDAY. Jl LY 21, 1W8.
MUD AND STARS
“Two Men Looked Through Prison Bars,
One Saw Mud and the Other Saw Stars.”
By DR. JOHN E. WHITE,
j PASTOR SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH |
Text: "WheUoever things are
lovely and of good report. If there
be any virtue and It there be any
praise, think on theee things."—
Phil. 5:8.
PROTEST that If aome treat
I rower would agree to make me
1 always think what Is true and
do whet la 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 hla life, gave earnest expression
to this sentiment heswon the sympathy
of good men everywhere. He wanted
to be good. I-et us trust, agnostic and
father of agnostics though he was, that
he did not wholly miss the comfort of
the fourth Beatitude, which Dr. Mc
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 Its
challenge. In hla Incomparable essay
on "The Changed Life" he ventured to
show that the Apostle Paul had met
the Issue and had provided a formula
of sanctification for Mr. Hurley and
for ever," other man who wanted to be
good. The formula he found In Second
Corinthians 8:18, "We all with nnvetled
face reflecting as a mirror the glory
of the Lord aft transformed Into the
same Image from glory to glory even as
de.mi lha t .nr/1 t ha Hnlflt '*
from the Lord, the Spirit;
That was to say. J>y contemplation
of Christ, by steadfast thinking upon
Christ, a man would grow like Him.
Such is the alchemy or thought. With
the theology of this proposition, what
It neglects and what Its Implies, we are
not now concerned. But there !a 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
To be spiritually minded Is life
In
and peace; to be carnally minded Is
death.” , .
If you think on "whatsoever Is true”
vou 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 la Just” you will Increase
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 wilt droop and
die for lark of soil. If you think on
"whatsoever Is lovely and of goo/I 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 acts. Our actions are external
and occasional, reitulring the Induce
ment of circumstances to draw them
out, but our thoughts are Internal, per
sistent and spontaneous. "He that
would govern his actions by the laws
of virtue," said Hamuel Johnson, "must
regulate his thoughts by those of rea
son; he must keep quiet from the re-
rrsses of his 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 and operate equal
ly In every situation without the con
currence of opportunities." The duty
of right thinking Is the sternest of
life's duties. Our thoughts are the
staple food of a/ur souls. We shall some
day lenrn what the best teachers are
putting into our modern systems of
education, that whatever Induces
thought affects the fabric of charac
ter. that education must have the no
blest 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 Stars.
The pow'er of personal will, of choice
of taste, of habit and of disposition Is
directly the object of appeal here.
evil are here. I should say the prison
bars are here, too. 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 one was Chris
tian, the other a nameless fellow. The/
are types that persist In human society.
How many homespun Illustrations one
would find In a day’s Journey through
the streets. What a multitude of mud-
gnsers our life affords. The cynic, the
pessimist, the fault-finder, the grumpy
These two men are representatives of
contrary philosophies of 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
critic and his tribe, who does not know
them? But alas! they never know
themselves. In varying degrees of mood
the mud gaser sits on the high 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 lo are a bad one. "He
Is the humnri owl vigilant In darkness
and blind to light, mousing for vermin
and never acting noble game.” If he
turns attention to politics every man
Is selfish, greedy, corrupt. Every man
has his praise. The government Is n
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 unploaalng 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 8100,000 to build a comfortable
church; the ushers who are where they
are because they ace known to be
warm-hearted and considerate men; the
choir which Is 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 Ood at his aide for the
sermon, all are doomed and delivered
to dullness and miser/ 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'a chivalry, let It be said that
his character with the muck-rake was
a man. Possibly If that other great
John—John Wesley—had written the
story It would have been the woman
with the muck-rake Instead.
The critical habit abounds among
women as well as among men. A taw-
REV. DR. JOHN E. WHITE.
dry dress, an Ill-wrought bonnet, a
distasteful color, an Inelegant stride,
though It were Madonna herself, well,
shuts out all the stars for her. Mothers
may make mud-gazers of'thelr children
very easily. Thgy then should be very
patient with the child when he
thoughtlessly humiliates a cripple on
the street by directing attention to tho
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 empyseum.
How much finer life would be If we
would live more In the sunshine! How
much tnflre powerful our Christianity
If It saw the world through' the eyes of
Christ! Perfect and pure though He
was, He did not see the sinner In the
saint, but the saint In the sinner, saw
Peter In Simon, Paul In Huul and a
lovely woman In the Magdalen.
The Question of "Canned Meats.”
This text Is 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 filth. 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 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 consternation and Indig
nant remonstrance against what
scarcely awakens a murmur in us. He
would stretch forth his hand In the
name of God and humanity to stay the
Inundation of stuff that reeks with
Immorality and unchastlly 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 bis 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 bad 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 find 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 It belongs, then I say "God
pity the country; we are almost help
less.” But Is It true? Have the news-
pn|>ers no responsibility? In the Anal
Justice that must be. Is there no moral
guilt attached to the collection and
dissemination of that which acts as
moral poison on .the minds of the
young. It Is current as a theory of
crime among newspaper men that the
publication of one great sensational
crime brings on Immediately a flood of
Imitative crimes. Have the newspa
pers no responsibility then? By their
theory If the newspapers were not to
publish the crime or were to treat It
without sensation, other crimes would
not be stimulated. Here Is the pulpit
and the school teacher admonishing
I he people "whatsoever Is lovely a
of good report, think on these thing
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
rcisteke somewhere. Madam* Roland
said: "Oh, Liberty, how many crimes
are committed In thy name!" The
parents of children In the city have a
for 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
say that every newspaper of the mod
em city type must share with other
agencies generally accounted vicious,
tiic responsibility for many a sorrow,
many a woe, many a vice, and many a.
crime, for they practically monopolize
tiie 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 souls
of tin people. A keen moral sense, oh.
my masters, a keen, fair Justice.”
What Are Christians For, Anj/way?
"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 wilt 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 just
the same? Sir Humphrey Davis found
Michael Foradag In the lad who wash
ed his bottles.
The beauty pf 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 has more bad than good In him
or the woman the world despises and
casts off has sat In the depths of her
woman's soul the patience of a lovers'
fidelity, a mother's tenderness, a
friend's loyalty, a neighbor's sympathy
and mayhnp 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 scent as keen
as .the cynic you begin to marrow the
i.-earch for virtue and nobleness. Take
iPMr Mk and Inventory all the kind
ness and gentleness and unselfishness
and charity and noble-mindedness you
will find 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 assert with this book of the
record open before us that Jesus Christ
Is the authority for the mood that con
trols Christianity In some of Its cen
sorious types? He wept over Jerusa
lem. 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 companion with Him who traversed
life llmltlessly and who said Hts last
words In the tone of a conqueror. We
ought to cultivate the dominant moods
of Christ. We ought therefore to find
sweet In every bitter, Joy In every pain
light In every darkness, and the good
in everything. > ' ,
John Mosely, summing up In his Life
of Gladstone, says that what every
body saw coloring all Gladstone’s lire
and statesmanship was a kind of un-
wordllness which exposed him to de
signing counsellors. But, says Mr.
Mosely, who Is himself an unbeliever
as If crushing the criticism in a sen
tence: "What are Christians for, any.
way?” What are Christians for, any-
way? What are Christians 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 Christians for, If not to 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 all things, have faith In
all things, and hope all things? In the
true klngddm 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 the
cultivated.
SAN FRANCISCO AND ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
By Df?. JAMES W. LEE,
PASTOR TRINITY M. E. CHURCH
N O oiy can fall to obaerve, as he
goes about In the world, the en
hancement places, roads, rivers,
mountains and material objects of
every kind, get from connection with
the lives of great men. The fact that
Shakeapeare waa born In Stratford-
upon-Avon, lived there, -married Ann
Hathaway there, died-there,-and waa
buried there, la 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 tho place. Ayr, Scot
land, la Indebted to the poet Burns for
the thirty thousand tourlata who annu
ally vlalt hla birthplace. Who would
ever go to Concord, Mass., but for the
slgnlflcance given the village by Emer
son and Thoreau and Hawthorne?
Who would leave Boston to see Amea-
bury but for Whittier? People remain
between trains at Newburyport to see
the old church where Whltlleld Is bur
led. A great man baa only to stop for
an hour under the shade of a tree to
make It Immortal. Generul Mercer waa
shot on the battlefield of Princeton,
and a pyramid of cannon balls marks
the spot forever. Thackeray apends a
weak with hla friend, Andrew Low, a
cotton merchant In Savannah, Ga., end
the old vine-covered Southern munslon
lakes on added Interest and value. Dr.
J. J. Lafferty, of Virginia, was accus
tomed years ago to present hla par
ticular friends with mallets 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 ot George Washington Is
of more Interest than a diamond. A
K bble. worn round by the waves of
he Galilee, Is esteemed like a Jewel.
A drop of water from the River Jor
dan Is worth more than a million gal
lons from the Amaaon.
Reflections like these passed through
my mind ns 1 stood, not many montha
ago, by the monument erected through
public subscription In the Plaza of Han
Francisco to Robert Louis Stevenson.
It Is a granite pedestal,' supporting a
bronze galleon, designed by Mr, Bruce
Porter. Upon 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 little and to spend
a little less, to make upon the whole a
family happier for hla presence, to re
nounce. when that shail be necessary,
nnd 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 all that a man baa of fortitude
and delicacy.”
Slevensun came To San Francisco
from Scotlund In August, 1878, but waa
so much shaken by the lung Journey
that he looked upon Ills arrival like u
man at death’s door. To recover his
health he Immediately went south,
about 160 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 uinple grounds, where lie re
mained until the middle of December.
Hut whllq there was u umgiilflcent ho
tel al Monterey, Stevenson did not stop
there. He lodged with a doctor and
got Tils meals at Slmoneau's restau
rant. Stevenson describes It as having
a barber shop In front and a kitchen
at the back. The dining room waa a
little, chill, bare, adobe affair, and upon
the table waa always to be found a
dlali of green peppers and tomatoes.
At any time, Juat before a meal, 81-
tnoneau, the proprietor, could be beard
all about the kitchen rattling among
the dlahea. With Slmoneau Stevenson
says "he played chess every day and
dlscuaaed the universe." After the mid
dle of December he went back to San
Francisco and remained there until
May 19, 1880, when he waa married to
Fanny Van de Grift, In the houae of
Rev. Dr. Scott. Immediately after his
marriage he went to the country, 60
miles north of San Francisco, to seek
health In the mountain*. Here he took
possession of all that waa left of an
old mining town, and found the data
for that Interesting work of hla, "The
Silverado Squatters." In July he left
California, and with hla wife returned
to Scotland to visit his father. He was
therefore at this lime In California
not quite a year. He returned to the
United States In 1897 and by Ihe 7th
of June, 1898, he was back In Callfor.
nla.
Soon afterwards he ealled with his
family on the Casco for a long cruise
In the South seas, where among Ita
Islands he spent the remainder of Ills
life. While sojourning In San Francis
co, before he sailed away for the last
time, he and Mrs. Stevenson lodged at
the Occidental hotel. The details ot
Stevenson's life In San 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
spot and hotel and person he met. It
was long enough lo awaken Interest
sufficient In him to secure a monument
to his memory. Not one of the multi
millionaires' on Knob Hill, whose pala
tial residences are now In ruins, lent hs
much Interest to Sun Francisco In ull
Ills life as did Stevenson by a few
months' residence there. Not that mil
lions ure counted In public esteem
against a man, but more than millions
or billions Is the man himself. If Ihe
man who comas Into the possession
of millions of money happens to be
one who uses his weulth iih Stevenson
used his genius, to bless mankind, then
the millionaire will be honored not be
cause of hla money simply, but because
he used It nobly.
The kind of Interest Stevenson lent
to Ban Francisco It la 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 momenta are being wasted In
reading the shallow, worthless books of
Action, which are coming ao constantly
and niultltudlnouily from the press.
Stevenson was the greatest literary art.
1st and genius of the generation Just
past. . Who that has ever read It can
ever forget hla “Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
lantrae," "The Wrecker” "The South
Seas,” etc., and you can form soma
conception of one of the moat heroic
and Interesting characters of the age.
After his various cruises In the South
seas, he bought for himself a planta
tion of four hundred acres of, land In
DR. J. W. LEE.
Hyde"—the very flrst of his work* lo
give him world-wide fame? Not only
his works'of fiction, but his easaya are
taking rank with the very flnest In the
langiiuge. There Is nothing more thrill
ing In the whole history of literary
achievement than the "South Sea
Cruises" of Robert Louis Stevenson,
sailing leisurely from one Island lo 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 wild and the mys
tical. Think of a man for years on the
very verge of the grave, yet lighting
denth, ns If face to face with Ihe grim
monster, nnd while holding him at bay
with one hand, using hla |>en with the
other to write "The Master pt Bal-
the Island of Upolo, In the ’Samoan
group. Here, overlooking Apia, the
capital and port of the Island, he built
a house and lived In It until he died.
Having permanently settled himself, he
spent Ills lime when not writing In
Improving his 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 his household family prayers dally.
Ho died on the 3d.of December, 1894.
On the evening before his death, which
was Sundny, he uttered In the pres
ence of his family the following prayer,
which he composed for the occasion:
“We beseech Thee, Lord, to behold us
with favor, folk of many families and
nations gathered together In the peace
of this roof, woak women, and women
subsisting under the covert of Thy
patience, be patient still; suffer us yet
a while longer; with our broken pur
poses of good, with our Idle endeavors
against evil, suffer us awhile longer
to endure nnd (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 nnd Comforter, and call us
with morning faces and with morning
hearts—eager to labor; eager to be
the day be marked for sorrow,
strong to endure It. We thank Thee
and praise Thee; and In words of Him
(o whom this day Is sacred, cloee our
oblation.'
By hla own direction he waa burled
on the Summit of Vaea, near hla Island
home, and after the Samoan fashion,
a large tomb was built above hla grave.
On either side of the tomb there la a
bronze plate. On one of them Is writ
ten his owti requiem beneath hla name
thus:
Alpha' Robert Louis Omega
1860. Stevenson. 1894.
“Under the wide, and starry; sky,
Dig the grave and let.one lie; .
Glad did I live and’ gladly die ■ . ■
And 1 laid me down with a will
This be the verse you grave for me;
Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home Is the Satlor, home from the
sea,
And the Hunter home from the hill."
StevensPn profoundly believed in
foreign missions. "In an address made
to the Women's Missionary Association
and members of the general assembly
of the Presbyterian church of New
South Wales, at Sydney,- March 18,
1893,- he said at the. opening of- his
remarks: T suppose I am In Ihe posi
tion of many other persona. I had a
great prejudice against missions In the
South Seas, and 1 had no aooner com*
here. than that prejudice was 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 aee a
great deal of good dona; they will aee
a race being forwarded In many dif
ferent directions, and 1 believe If they
be honest persons, 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
reservotred In every race, and to ex
pand and to change and to lit 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 Vatllma, by Robert Louis Ste
venson," says: "As soon aa our house
hold had fallen Into a regular routine,
nnd 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 tha only white man's
family In all Samoa except those of ths
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 waa 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; for the love that
unites .us;, for the peace accorded us
this day; for the hope with which we
expect tomorrow; for the health, ths
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 tha
lurking grudge. Give us grace nnd
strength to forbear and to perseveri.
Offenders, give us the grace to accept
and to forgive offenders. Forgetful
ourselves, help ua to bear cheerfully
the forgetfulness of others. Give us
courage and gaiety and the quiet mind.
Spare to us our friends; soften to us
our enemies. Bless ua If it may be in
all our Innocent endeavors. If It may
not, give us the strength to encounter
that which la to come, that we b«
brave In peril, constant In tribulation,
temperate In wrath and In all changes
of fortune, and down to the gates of
death* loyal and loving one lo 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 ana
mercy for Christ'* sake.”
That one with such wealth of mind
and heart should have lit up the South
Sea* with a new light la not strange
Pilgrims In the years to come "III
climb that lonely hill above his horns
In the Island of Upola, where he sleeps
the last aleep, to stand again mnld ths
scenes of hla closing years.
CHURCH SER VICES
BAPTI8T.
FIRST BAI*TIST—Peachtree Hud Cain
itmti. W. W. Landrum, pastor. 81111-
day • school at 9:30 a. in. Morning wor
ship at 11 o'clock. Kvenlug worship at 8
o'clock.
CENTRAL BA!»TI8T-Tln» pa*tor, Rev.
It. L. Motley, will preach ut 11 n.ui. nnd
8 p.m. aud administer the ordinance of
Imptlam at each service. Sunday acbool
at 9:30 a.to. Personal Workers* Club at
7:18 p.m. Church prayer meeting Wednes
day at 8 p.m.
JACKSON HILL BAPTIMT-Juckson at.
•ml East avenue. Preaching at 11 11.in.
‘ 8 p.m.,- by the former paator, Dr.
J. J. Rennert. Similar school at 9:30
Prayer meeting Wednesday eveulng at 8
o'clock. Woman’s Missionary nnd Aid so
cieties Thursday afternoon 4 o’clock.
SOUTH HIRE BAPTIST—Preaching at
11 n.u. mol 7:3J i».ui. by the pastor. Rev.
J. 8. I>milnp. Morning subject: “Homs
Results of True Faltli.” Evening subject:
“Putting on the New Robe." Kunday
jThool 9:80 a.m. I*adteV Missionary Society
p.m. Tuesday. Prayer meeting 7:#)
tom. Wednesday. If. V. P. I'. 3:5»p.m.
Sunday.
BAPTI8T TABERNAlll.E—Tills will lie
I»r. Broughton's Inst Huuday until Oetober
16. He leaves next week for the North,
and will sail August IS for l.oiidon.
will give a parting message at nlaht on
“The 1 nbls apd Ends of Atlanta's Nccdo/'
He will preach
In Grace.
11 a.’ in’. Morning subject, “Home Ad
ditional Rlble Principles.'* Evening sub
ject, “The Fast Young Man Treed.” Sun-
day School, 9:8n a. ni,. ami Harnett Classen.
Baraca Prayer Meeting. Monday, K p. in.
Teachers’ Meeting. Tuesday. 8 ■■■
er and Praise Meeting. Wednesday, 8 p.
Senior B. V. P. I*., Friday, 8 p/m.
Hunday afternoon at 2:30 o'eliM-k. Phils
then prayer service In Sunday school rooms
at 8:46 p. m. Monday nftermMiii at 3
clock In Huuday school* room* Woman's
Missionary 1’nloii. Wednesday evening at
ft O'clock midweek prayer service. Rev. A.
L. Bunstnn has Just returned from Brasil,
address by the pastor. Subject, “Christ—
The Light Giver." Juvenile Missionary So
ciety at 3 p. tu. Junior Bible study n(
4 p. in. Devotional service of Epworth
League nt I p. in. Midweek service Wed'
nesdny at *
conference.
day at 8 p. ra., followed by quarterly
missionary for the past five years. TbL
la ths first visit he bss paid bis home
state since entering Into his work In for
eign fields.
NORTH ATLANTA HAPTI8T CHURCH
—Preselling 11 a. in. aud 7:46 p. ui,. by the
pastor. Win. II. Bell.
TEMPLE B A PT IHT—Corner West Hun
ter and Mangmii Streets. Dr. A. C. Ward,
pastor. Regular services Sunday at 11 a.
m. and 7:46 p. tu. Sundny School at 9:30
a. 111. Prayer Mcetlug, Wednesday evening
at 7:46.
EOLR8TON MEMORIAL—Corner Wash
Ingtoii aud Fulton streets. Rev. I. II. Mil-
ler will preach on “The Principle* of the
Improved Order of Red Men. Sundny
school at 9:30 a.m. League meeting at 7
p.m. Preaching at 11 a.in. nnd 8 p.m.
PONCE DE LEON BAI*T18T-Rev. Dr,
Leon, fcimdny at 11 n. m.
METHODIST.
GRACE METHODIST—At 8:30 a. m.. Sun
•lay school. I'hllnthea class and Baraca
class. At It a. iu.. preaching by pastor,
Itev. C. Jarrell. Epworth league at 7
p. m. At 8 p. m.. preaching by pastor.
WKSI.EY MEMORIAL-- Corner Auburn
avenue mill Ivy street. Rev. Frank Eakes,
pastor. Sunday school nt 9:30 a. iu. Busy
people's class. Ymiug Men's llnraca class.
Young I.miles' Philatheu class. Preaching
at II a. in. Song service nt 7:46 p. iu.
Preaching at 8:15. Epworth League de
votional service at 6:45 p. in. Midweek
prayer meeting Wednesday evening at »»
o'clock. Weekly church b*m*IhI at 9. Teach
ers' meeting nf 7. Noonday prayer meeting
every day 12 to I o'clock.
HT. LI KE METHODIST—At Junction of
Powell street and llereaii nveuue. Sunday
school nt 9 n. m. Preaching at 11 a. m. air
9 p. m.. by the pastor. George W. GPlner.
FIRST METHODIST—Junction of Peach-
tree and Ivy streets. «’l|i.rlcs E. Dnwinan.
D.D.. pastor. Hunday srhol at 9:30 a. 111.
Public worship at 10:55 a. m. anti s p. in
HT. MARK METHODIST—Corner Peach
tree and Fifth streets. The pastor, Itev.
Charles O. Jones. D.D., will preach at 11
6 p. m., evening pra/sr. Wednesday and
Friday, litany at 10:30 a. in.
at 8. Services by the
ALL 8AINT8—Barnesvlllc. Rev. W. J.
in. Sunday school at 9:20. Deaf mute
claaa taught by W. F. Crusaelle. No service
at ulght. Prayer meeting Wednesday at
8 p. m.
TRINITY METHOD!HT—Corner White
hall and Trinity avenue. Dr. J. W. Lae,
pastor. Service* at 11 a. ui. aud 8 p. 111.
Sermons by the pastor. Sunday school nt
9:30 a. ni. Prayer meeting at 8 p. in. Wed
nesday.
.:30 p. m. SnnrL- ...
Weekly prayer meeting Tuesday* at 7:*) p.
tu. Holltieaa prayer meeting Thursday nt
7:30 p. in. Ready workers Monday at 1:30
p. m. open air meeting on Jefferson afreet
at 4:30 p. m.
ENGLISH AVENUE METHODIST—West
ern Height*. It. E. L. Timmons, paator.
Preaching nt 11 a. in. by Rev. Georg* W.
Lewis. Sunday school at 3 p. m. Poach
ing nt 7:30 p. in. by paator. I*rayer meet
ing Wednesday nt *:3u p. tu. Young Meu's
....u.lla.., l>S.|.la a. .at ? *S1 .a ha ktlin .
Preaching by the pastor nt 11 a. iu. Ep
worth League at S p. 111. Prayer meeting
Thursday nt 8 p. in.
PARK STREET METHODIST—Corner of
Park and l4*e streets. Itev. M. L. Trout
man. |Mitor. Sunday school at 933 a. m.
Preaching nt 11 n. in. hr the pastor, and nt
communion; 11 a. in., morning prayer an*,
sermon: 8 p. in., evening prayer ami ser
mon. Sunday schol ut 9:45. Friday, Utany
nt 11. Services In the crypt.
INCARNATION—Lee, near Gordon. West
End. Rev. J. J. P, Perry, rector. At 7:30
a. in., holy communion; 11 a. m.. morning
PRE8BYTERIAN
j. CUMBERLAND PRESBYTER I AN-Fenr.
Sunday In the Sunday school.
WE8TMINRTER PRESBYTERIAN—Rev.
Ice nt 11 a. m. Evening service at _
Sermous by the pastor. Sunday school at
9:30 n. m. Young People’s Society nt 7:15
“ “ Midweek prayer service Wednes
day evening at 8.
Starr C. William,, paator. Frearhlng «t it
a. tn. and 7:80 p. m. Sunday school »*
9:80 m in.
CONGREGATION AL-B'
Frank E. Jenkins. D.D.. pastor. Pt^J
and nertnou. Hunday school at 3._- ...
Wednesday, evening prayer at 8. „ Friday,
litany at 4:30. *
ALL SAINTS—Corner Went Peuebtree and
North avenue. Rev. 7.. S. Faria ml, rector,
a. ui., holy communion
morulng prayer nnd m^nnoti; 5 p. nu, eve-
nig prayer. Wednesday, Utany at 10:80 a.
in. Sunday school at 9:45 a. in.
EPIPHANY—Corner Moreland and Euclid
avenue*. Itev. c. A. Ijiugston In charge.
At U a. ui., morning prayer nnd sermou.
MISSION OF THE HOLY INNOCENTS—
Wood * avenue, near West Peachtree. Sun
day school every Sunday at 3:80 p. m.
HOLY COMFORTER—Corner Atlanta
avenue and Pulliam. Rev. Gllliert lllggs,
D.D., Iti charge. F«mlng prayer nnd ser
mon at 4:f0 p. ui. Sunday acbool at 3:30
p. in. Friday, evening prayer mid choir
work nt 8 p. in.
ST. ANDREWS-Corner Glenn and Kent,
ev. Gllliert lllgg*. D.D.. In charge. Eve
ning prayer anil sermon at 8. Wednesday,
litany and choir work at 8 p. tn.
BATTLE HILL METHODIST—Rev. C. L.
Pat Hilo. iMmtor. Sundny school at 10 a.
Preaching by the |*iator at 8 p. ui.
EPISCOPAL.
(Sixth Sunday aftsr Trinity.)
CATHEDRAL—Comer Wnahlngton ami
Hunter. Very Rev. C. T. A. Pise, dean.
At 7:30 n. in.. Indy communion: 11 a. in.,
morulug prayer and sermon: 5 p. m„ eve
nlng prayer and nertnou. Sunday school at
9:45 a. m. All other days: At 7:89 a. m.,
holy communion; 8 a. ni., morulug prayer;
ST. PAULS—East Point. Rev. Gllliert
Higgs. D.D.. In charge. Morufng prayer
gA(J | * ••
and sermou nt 11.
Ices by Loyal Cniuberlanda at the Cum
berland Presbyterlau church Sunday at 11
a. tn.. corner Spring and Harris streets.
Preaching by Rev. J. A. Whitner, of Day-
ton, Teun.. a loyal Cumberland Presby
terian. Three elder* and two deacons will
be elected and ordained. Congregational
meeting Monday at 8 p. in.
the paator at 11 a. m. The Christian En
deavor Society will have charge of the eve
ning service at 8 o'clock. Prayer tueetlug
Wednesday at 8 p. ni.
WE8T END PRESBYTERIAN—Corner
Gordon and Ashby streets. Rev. Lynn
R. Wu.ker, pastor. Sundny school nt 9:30
a. in. Morning service at 11 s. ui. Sermon
by Rev. A. J. MoKelwny. D.D.. Charlotte,
N. C. Young People's Society of Chris-
tlnn Endeavor at 7 p. in. No servlet
Sunday evening. Prayer meeting Wednes
day evening at 8 p. m., followed by Teach
ers' Normal class.
NORTH- AVENUE PRESBYTERIAN —
Corner Peachtree street and North ave
nue. Rev. Richard Orme Fllnn. pastor.
Morning worship at 11 n. m. Evening wor
ship at 8 p. m. Both services will Ik* con
ducted by the paator. Sabbath school at
9:30 a. nt. Men's league and Teachers'
Training class at 10 a. m. Christian En
deavor meet* at 7 p. m. Covenanter hand
meets at 4 p. tn. on Sabbath and S p. ni.
HOLY TRINITY—Decatur. Rev* C. A.
I .an g*t 011 In charge. Evening prayer aihl
sermon at 4:80. Wednesday, litany and
address at 6.
mg niiiiiint ni 11 n. in. itj lift. v*. a. oral-
tie. Sunday school nt 9:30 a. tu. Young
People's Society at 7:16 n. m. At 8 p. tn..
Rev. G. A. Beattie will preach at the
preach
union service of the Inman Pnrk Presby
terian and Inman Park Methodist churches,
which will lie held at the Inginu Park
Methodist church. Regular midweek pray-
er meeting at 8 o'clock Wednesday night.
CRVTRAL PRESBYTERIAN—Opposite
Capitol. Sunday schol at 9:3) a. m. Reg
ular services at 11 a. ra. and 8 |* m. Dr.
Sfrickler. of Union Theologies I seminary,
Richmond, Va.. will preach hath morulng
and eveulng. This Is midsummer invlutSoa
lug at 11 a. ui. by Rev. B. U. Holt, ‘cu
pel rally of the. Business Men s G<upfj
union nt 7:46 p. sn. Sunday school nt **1
. FIRST PRESBYTERIAN—The nsstor,
Rev. C. I*. Bridewell, will preach Sunday
nt 11 a. m. No evening service. Sun
day school Snd Bible claasc at 9:30 a. m.
WcMtuinlster league at 7:45 p. m. Prayer
meeting Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock.
BARNETT PRESBYTERIAN—Corner of
Hampton street and Bradley avenue. J. Ed
win Hemphill In charge. Services at 11 a.
in. Subject, "Robblug God," and nt 7:30
n. m., “Purity of Heart and Personal In
uenoe." Sunday school at 3 p. m. Pray
er meeting Thursday at 7:30 p. m.
FOURTH PRESBYTERIAN—Chamberlin
and Jackson streets. Preaching at 11 In
the forenoon Sunday, and In tne evening
at 8 p. m. The regular prayer meeting win
lie held Wednesday at 8' p. m. Sunday
'* “ ” People's Society
CHRISTIAN.
FIRST CHRISTIAN-44 East Hunter.
Rev. II. K. Pendleton, pastor. Prearblug
at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. Morning theme.
"Dr. Broughton and Dr. Wllmer and In
stantaneous Salvation." Bible school at 9:30
a. m.' Christian Endeavor at 8:45 p. m.
WEST END CHRISTIAN—Corner Gor
don snd Dunn streets. Rev. Bernard P.
Smith, pastor. Preaching at 11 a. m. and 8
p. m.
HOWELL STATION CHRISTIAN—End
of Marietta street car line. Rev. George
U. Mullins, pastor. Bible school it ! p.
m. Preaching at 11 a. in. and Ip. s.
-,S2? 8 T BBN HEIGHTS CHRISTIAN MIS-
I* 1 .? ne * r K«ran«dy street.
Bible school at 9:30 a. ra. Preaching at
It a. m. anil 8 p. m.
COLLEGE PARK CHRISTIAN—Rar. O.
II. lUonant, p*,tor. Illblr Hhnnl erarr
Lent, day at 10 a. m. Pmirhln, lint
Lord’e day at U a. m. and Ip. n.
CONGREGATIONAL.
MARtETTA STREET CONGREGATION-
At-—H-t. \\. II. Tt.lman. paatnr. Prmirh-
at 3 p.
IMMANUEL CONGREGATIONAL—Rev.
a. tu Christian Endeavor at 6:45 p.
f MISCELLANEOUS. g
TIIE MILLENNIAL DAWN HIDLH
CLA88 will hold Its regular weekly m£t
Ing In Woodinen'a hall. 122 IVarbtrJ
street, on Huuday morning, at ll
All Interested In Bible doctrine* are r*
dlnllv Invited to be present ami enjoy to*
services.
ST. JOHNS GERMAN EVANGEL!™*
LUTHERAN—Corner Forsyth and *****
streets. 8unday school at 9:30 a
So
loes will be 'conducted and a sens 1 ?
preached the "pastor, Rev. W, **
hreebt, at 11 o'clock.
UNITED BRETHREN TABKESAitB'
McDaniel and Hightower street*. l‘ pT \ .'
8. Hanlelter will preach at 11 a. in.
Jeer. -The Touch that Tells." Dr. J ;
Bloaaer will preach nt 8 p. m-
Looking One Hundred Year* Ahead.
nue, corner Wellborn street.
FIRST CHURCH OK CHRIST. *'}{*£
I8T-17 Wart Baker atrert. "Lore
subject of the sermon Sanday. v ' ,. T 7
11 a. m. There will no S'in.ln.r ' j;
ulna aerrtee during inly and Angu» T - ,,
nnday teattmonlal meeting at J
Reading rooma, 812-811 Kngllih AmT.o
building.
TOITXO MEN'S CHRISTIAN **?£& 1
TION—Corner Pryor atraet ,»»•'
arenne. At * ifrlock. the Blhlr rt«» I
lie rondneted liy Rer. C. J. >
o'clock. Rer. C. C. Jarrell, of , ]
odlat church, will apeak to nirn on a ( .
Jeet of Intrreat. All men are Inrnj „
attend tbeae service*. The A»* |MW
ebrstra will, at * q ctock.
to • o'clock.
Open from :
CHURCH OF OUR FATHER '' “"ySS
-Corner Cain and Spring atreet. ’ ^
Sanlmrn. paator. The regular
leea will Uleroatlunea durtns ;
August, while Mr. Sanborn 1* 1,1 “mu •
Knnday acbool hour baa hecu 'ha P”
U a. tn.