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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. OBSERVATIONS OF CHURCH LIFE IN NEW YORK CITY By REV. JAMES W. LEE, PASTOR TRINITY METHODIST CHURCH During the early spring I wai in vited to take pastoral charge of three churches In Brooklyn for the month qf August. The Simpson Methodist Church,* the Bethany Dutch Reformed and the Centra! Baptist united their congregations for the months of July and August. The pastors of these sev eral bodies were given each two months' vacation. Meanwhile out of town preachers were asked to expound the truth' during the heated term. This has given me a glimpse Into the wav things are done In the churches here. * The unity of sentiment among dif ferent denominations of Christians is deep and apparent on all sides. Think of Methodists, Dutch Reformed and Baptists worshipping together as if hey were members of the same or ganization. This would not have been possible twenty-live years ago. Evi dently a great revolution has taken place In the doctrinal and ecclesiasti cal conceptions of Christians, bearing different names. There are doubtless two causes, the one external and the other internal, to which this warmer nnd higher »tate of reiigloua life la traceable. The outside cause we may llnd in the tremendous competition ofi the world, the flesh and all organized : forms of secular pleasure constantly furnished against all spiritual life. It Is apparent to all the denominations that they are engaged In a common u-arfare against the elements which threaten destruction to all the princi ples of active religion. They are be ing drawn together by the very coer cion of Ind I (Terence and badness.* The pressure of outside forces in ten thous and bewitching forms Is well nigh over whelming. The great daily papers, Il lustrating every phase of human activ ity over the entire planet, the street cars running out every whither to the ocean, or Into the heart of the coun try. Coney Island and Brighton Beach, and all the parks with their bands of music together offer a bewildering multitude of attractions, thht the or dinary hard-worked mortal, with the thermometer ranging from 90 to 100 degrees In the shade, finds It hard to resist. Against nil this, and besides, the general Inertia of poor human na ture, the summer preacher In a New York pulpit has to pull. No one .can understand how amazingly difficult the task Is, who has not tried it. The sense of this powerful human current, running in mountain-high waves against the quietude and solitude of all ecclesiastical enclosures, has driven the churches Into the hot weather bunches, tied together by a common bond of hope and fear, and has had much to do with unity of congrega tions In the great cities of the present day. - It • Is seen to be far better for Baptists, Methodists and Presbyterians, etc., to get together In a few fortresses during the frazzling, disintegrating heat of the. summer's sun, than to stay apart In small decimated reglfiients, to bo pulled Into fragments entire by the common enemy of devotion. The In side cause of the larger and sweeter sort of harmony now prevailing among the different battalions of the Lord's army is found In the fact that Chris tians understand one another better than they used to. All of them are leaving conceit and bigotry and parti sanship behind. All are coming to see the essentials, and to emphasize them. All are coming, as never before, to recognize Jeaus Christ as their com mon head, and themselves as members of His body, and thus members one of another. If the Ideas now dominant, mbre or less, throughout the member ship of all Christian bodies continue to work It Is only u question of a short time when all Methodists, North and South, will be In one ecclesiastical or ganization. all Baptists in one, all Pres byterians In one, and a general coming nearer and nearer together of all the others. The time may come when, If Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians and Congregatlonallata do not get together into one ecclesiastical body, they will so 'federate their forces as that we will no longer see the waste we now DR. J. W. LEE. nations worshipping the loving Father of us all in as many different church houses In a town of 1,G00 or 2,000 In habitants. The strongest church In such a town should be given the field. The others should retire and spend their zeal in reclaiming waste places elsewhere. More and more we arc coming to see that the doctrines of Christianity are as fixed and eternal as tho doctrtens of astronomy of chem istry. Think of two astronomical ob servatories Jn a little town of two thou sand people. There Is but one science of religion. Christianity Is the relig ion of science. Just as Sir Norman Lockyer's doctrine of the heavens Is tho astronomy of science. All this will be seen some day, and then there will be as much unity of thought among all Christians as there Is now* among all students of the stars. 2. I have been called to officiate at several funerals, and all have been at night. Upon Inquiry as to the mean ing of this, 1 was Informed that It gave the men the opportunity to at tend who were too busy to leaVe their work In the day time. The preacher la not asked to go to the cemetery, and It Is the custom to give a fee an In the case of weddings. 8. The preachers are given two months' vacation, instead of one. As the work Is more exacting and taxing than In a less populous community, 1 could see the reason for a longer pe riod of rest. In the case of some of the pastors of great churches here a vacation of three months-Is given. In the absence of the pastor the assistant, or some out-of-town man. occupies the pulpit. 4. It Is the custom now almost every where to take a collection at the morn ing and evening services, but this Is the first place I ever saw the habit observed of taking a collection at the prayer meeting. It seemed to me that the attendants did not feel that they had completd a divine service until they had mude a contribution. 4 was particularly Impressive, too, to witness that every single person, from the youngest to the oldest, paid his re spects to the plates as they were pass ed by the officers. The only exception I have observed of this universal cus tom of giving w'as during last Friday evening at a poryer meeting I conduct ed at Bejthany Dutch Reformed church. When the collectors passed the plates nt the conclusion of the service, I no ticed one middle-aged -woman who did not seem to see the money receiver when it was placed under her chin by an ofTicer of the church. But then I remembered that she tvas one of those who responded with a very long, tedious talk when the meeting vy®* thrown open for remarks. She doubtleis felt that as she had contributed several Ideas to the meeting It was hardly to be expected that she would chip dimes In, too. A pull on her Intellect seemed to relieve her from all sense of obliga tion to make any draft upon her jx»ck- et book. I am practically sure, how ever, from the look I witnessed on the faces of those present, that the sister would Wave edified people far inure bv giving up a few dimes, than by mak ing such a lavish distribution of her Ideas. If anybody was helped by her talk It was herself, and not her audit ors. Upon coming away I asked an old Methodist brother whether the woman who talked so long was Dutch Reform ed, Baptist or Methodist? With some little hesitation he replied: "I am sor ry to say she is a Methodist anil never misses an opportunity to relieve her own mind of a burden of thought which all who hear her find exceed ingly heavy to carry. Our pastor," he said, "sometimes begins a song nearly as soon os she starts." "This does not wound her feelings in the slightest," he continued, "for she be lieves that her words have so moved tho heart of the pastor that he can only find a safety valve by hymning one of the songs of Zion. This drowns out further words from the sister, but she feels amply compensated In recog nizing that the few she did utter called forth a song from the preacher." It was clear to me. therefore, that one Is liable to meet nlmost anywhere, those who are afflicted with that worn of nil religious diseases, pious conceit. IHHHIMIMUtl THE CHEERING CROSS "Who (or the Joy that was aet be fore Him, jendured the Croat, despis ing the shame.” IMMMUttHtHtHMMHHHMUmtHHMHHHHMI ][ • | I 1 By REV. JOHN E. WHITE, PASTOR SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH I T wat the trick of the Cockney ac cent on the" tongue of the con ductor, of the London omnibus Just a year ago In front of my hotel In London that rang and rang again In my ear*. "Charing Croat! Charing Crott! All off for the Charing Croat!” For many days these men were preaching to me. I caught up their uncontclout and un meant message and have kept It hid In my heart ever since. The Cheering Croat! All oft fop the Cheering Crott of Christ. The cross of Christ Is the one spot In all the continents of thought where the world may dry Its tears, and where Chris tianity may fly Its standard with a shout of Joy. It has not always been true that Christians realised this. Therefore, I want to bring Into glad statement the fact that should never be forgotten. ' • Jesus Christ redeemed the cross from its shame; he rescued It from Its Ig nominy. Down the ages came the mon strous cross covered with shame. The people or the nation that would own It as their Invention have never been found. Christ stripped off Its shame and transformed the cross from the diabolical symbolism of hate and fe rocious cruelty Into the symbol of love and humanity. “He endured the cross, despising Us shame." These Is nothing dismal about the cross of Christ. Let us b« careful about saying that Christ suffered shame. The shame of the cross could 4fh# touch Him, und It did not. He rose superior to shame. He despised Jt, thrust It under His foot, and bore anray the cross transformed and glori fied. In the picture galleries of Europe mediaeval -theology has painted, cru- i Iflxlons In which the characteristic features are agonies and horrors of pain. I looked In vain for the Cheering cross, the cross thnt represented the joy of Jesus—"the Joy that was set be-- fore Him." But In the gallery of the New Testament I found It supreme. In the gallery of human experience the cheering cross stands ais<5 triumphant ly forth. Every agony of Calvary Is .refrected by passing through the lens of the Divine Loving. The cross of Christ Is like the sun which rose this morning—-yonder In the heated realms of space a sultry world of matter Immensity, swinging at the center of the universe; but here sunbeams and golden rivers of light, gently wakening us In the morning and bathing the flowers In baths of golden warmth. Tha Inspiration of tho Cross. The cross of Christ cheers the noble and the unselfish nature Ih men. What ever we may say abouf the natural meanness of mankind we are compelled to acknowledge oftentimes where we would least expect it, that human na ture Is capable of divine Impulses and beautiful heroisms. In every form of the human there Is an available sym pathy, a hint of the highest, a quality that echoes to the call of the Infinite self-forgetfulness of Christ. Ood has that much left In us; we are not en tirely mean. And I believe the cross of Christ is Cod's magnet to draw from depravity this nobler and better nature to express Itself In the fashion of Christ In thought and deeds of self- cruclflxion. * The cross Is the world's supreme moral Influence. I do not mean to say that the moral Influence of the crucified Christ creates In men this no ble nature. I do not sgy that there were no heroes- before Cftrfst came; man mads In the Image of Ood has never lost All his dlvlnenqss. But what I am saying Is that the nobility of man has suffered a terrible eclipse. It !• hidden beneath an awful wreckage. It Is Imprisoned in a mass of ruins, and the cross of Christ searches out and cheers to action the dormant nobility of our nature. Deep down In all hu man souls, not always formulated Into a creed or a philosophy of life, but .dis believed by no man, Is the sense that self-sacrifice Is the noblest and the highest thing In the world. I do not believe there lives a man who Is not In some degree thrilled by that sense. And I believe that In the multitude, the unherolc mass, the cross of Christ has Its power. There Is a' Christianity which escapes the census. It Is not a perfect Christianity. It leaves much to be desired and much to be feared, yet I thank Ood for It. Ho does not despise It If we sometimes do. It Is the Christianity of the un conformed multitude, outside the church and outside the ranks of pro fession, that deeply feels tha power of the cross, condemning Its sin and its selfishness and approving Its Imperfect und pathetic efforts to be merciful and g enerous and unselfish In bearing other urdens and suffering other sufferings than Its own. The cross has gone Into many a life and had power there, when the church was not a power. "And I if I be lifted up will draw all men unto ms.” I think' the best men the world has known, the martyrs and crucified saints, Sa vonarola and Luthor and Bunyan. would confess that It was the cross of Christ that called Into action their readiness to suffer for others, and that la was the deep sense of a fellowship with the crucified Christ that cheered them to forget themselves, even their families, and all human Interests in pains and shames In devotion to duty. This world has had and still has Its leaser martyrs, who are also of the fellowship of the cross. When a man suffers for any cause nobly and un selfishly, whatever his circumstance, he makes n mimic that harmonises with Calvary. We Instantly feel that he has done a Chrlst-llke thing, and If we knew the whole story we would know that the same power that movad the heart of the suffering Son had touched the heart of the humble hero also. The late John Hay wrote Interna tional treaties and he wrote books that live, hut he came nearer to the deepest faith In us In the simple lay which told the story of a. .Mississippi pilot who, when his boat was on fire, would not desert Ills post at the wheel, but— REV. DR. JOHN E. WHITE. ‘He wern't no saint, but at Judgment I’d run my chance with Jim, Longside of some of your pious folks. As wouldn't shook hands with him. He'd seen his duty, a dead sure thing, And went for It thar and then: And Christ ain't a-going to be too hard On a man that died for men." There Is a truth In that which goes straight to the heart of man. We touch bottom, we feel the eternal rock under our feet there. And when I feel my deepest nature quivering and thrill ing with response to such human hero ism as that, 'I do not need that the theologian and the dogmatist should explain this power of the cross of Christ to me. Such moments do not loste-the emotion subsides, hut while the Illumination Is upon us we feel, we realise what the high Impulse that thrilled In Paul's heart was when he cried: "Ood forbid that I should glory save In the cross of Christ;" what his soul felt when he cried: "That I may know Him, being made conformable unto Ills death.” It was the cross cheering his noblest nature, stimulating his highest self con science. I heard the preacher of the London City Temple commenting on the death of John Hay. the day after he died. He quoted what I have Just roclted, and the great audience broke Into cheers. The preacher mildly re buked them. "I question." he said, "whether you should rhear In the pres ence of the Cross of Christ.” The preacher- was wrong. The cheering Cross kindles In man the highest en thusiasm. Let man answer if he will In cheers, 1st him echo the cheering cross. Wtary and Haavy Laden. Th# cross cheers every man who Is heavy laden and depressed. Through his passion, through the dark moment of Oethsamane when the awful foreboding of purity in contact with sin came over him and even when on the cross the great loneliness closed upon him, Jesus Christ still presses forward. If we should add one other word to the “Love" that explains the patience of the cross It would be the word "Courage.” The croee was not a pan ic, a rushing wildly Into agony to es cape pain. It Is not the courage of the Russian soldier In the hospital who tor tured by the misery of hla wounds whispered In pleading to hla comrade to thrust the knife Into his aide and And his heart and pierce It. not the courage of the suicide, Christ was a pilgrim to the end. "Who for the Joy that was set before him endured the cross." There was an end, a goal of duty and desire before Christ. What was It? What was the Joy set before him? It does not con tent me to believe that It was the es cape of pain or the enthronement at the right hand of Qod, which awaited him—that Christ Is working a policy of self aggrandisement. His was not the courage of the time server. I believe It was the Joy of overcoming, the'Joy of being brave, of suffering victoriously,, of obedience to the behest of Divine duty, the Joy was that Inward peaee which rewards the unterrlfled and the resolved soul set upon carrying through to tho end the will of the Father, which will Is re vealed to him as a kind of necessity put upon him. Now, that makes the cross or Christ mean something to every men, and ea- ■■eclally to those who are heavy laden and depressed by the stern necessities of life. There Is a Joy of the cross that cheers all such. Have any of you ever cotnplalped because your religion has not given you good lurk, has not slaved off disappointment and disaster? Have you ever In your heart asked, "What good does It do to serve God, to try to do good and to be a Christian?" Let me tell you what the nnswer of the cross Is to that. God never meant to secure you ftont trouble and sorrow. Christianity was never proffered to men as a good luck token. Religion brings courage, that Is all. Patience, victory tyUhln. That la the joy set before the Christian. "Hofd thou the cross before my fainting eyes.” What do I see? I see One who sang a brave song In the up per room and went out Into the Mount of Olives to tha buffeting of conspira tors. I aae one who gathered himself together, and, though drops of bloody sweat stood upon hla temples, said: "Thy will, not mine, be done.’ I see one who rame through the great loneliness of soul as though His Fath er had forsaken him, crying out aa he passed Into unconsciousness, "It It fin ished,” and mine are fainting eyes no longer. “Up with the burden, on with the Jour- noy, Forward with the battle. Onward with the tiresome, cutting load and the sorrow. With the cross of Jeaus going on be fore." The Ground Plan of Rodomption. Now, there Is one burden which the cross lifts off. This Is Its greatest cheer. It Is the burden of sin. j The cross Is more than a moral In fluence to Inspire nnd encourage men to noble achievement. I wonder at those who can bo antlafled with the cross of Christ os merely an object lesson In patience nnd sympathy. It seems to mo the greatest Intel lectual difficulty to reconcile reason to the reduction of the cross to the level of a natural und loglcnt heroism, sub mitted to the admiration of mankind for stage effect. That Is the most me chanical theology Imaginable. But the cross us a Gotl-llke mercy proclaimed and sealed In blood, showing forth His only bogotton Son to be n propitiation laid on the world altar for sin and revealing the enormity of sin In contrast with perfect sinlessness, the Just suffering, the sorrow of the unjust, the pure enduring pain with the Impure and making clear the love God has nnd alwayli has had for sinners. This Is the cross I glory In, because It not only draws men. It lifts them; not only wins them but saves them. The cross of Christ Is the ground plan nnd the efficient dynamic of redemption. Every- traveler In Europe seeks the city of Cologne, In Germany. It has Its temples of art, It holds Its place among the Gormnn cities ns the center of commercial Importance, but people go to Cologne not for these reasons. They go to see tho great Cathedral, the most splendid Illustration of Gothlo architecture in the world. They told ine there the legendary history of that mnrveimia atructure. A young archi tect prayeU to build a great church for the honor of God. One day ho fell asleep on the banks of the Rhine and had a vision. An angel came and told him that he should build the great church and In his wondering ea.fi whispered thnt when he awakened he would find the plnn which heaven hsd patterned for him lying nt his side. He awoke nnd, lo, he found a wooden cross. Thus In the shape of a cross rises the wondrous cathedral. The cross Is the ground plnn of the kingdom of God. It Is the pattern of the church. It Is the foundation prin ciple of the Christian life. It Is the keynote of that gospel which Is "the power of God unto salvation to every man that belleveth.” ’ * BAPTI8T. nilST BAPT18T—Corner Peaehtrec and Cain streets. Preaching by Rer. W. n. I. Smith. No evening service. TBMPLB BAPTIST—Presehlmc nt 11 n. m. by the pastor. Dr, A. t . Ward. Song service at night. Sunday achol nt 9:30 a. nt. ltognlnr monthly conference rjednea- tlay night. IMMANUEL BAPTIST—8. A. Cowan, pastor. The pastur will preaeh at It a. in: and 7:30 p. in. Morning subject, "Lse- kl.-rs Vision of the River." Evening still- Jot, "Why Am I a CTirlstlan.'' Sunday Ri’Uool nt 9:16 n. ui. SECOND BAPTIST—Dr. A. J. Dtekltt- Sun, pastor, of First Baptist church, Blr- Ala., will flit the pulpit again Hiinunj nt II a. m. nml 8 p. ra. Gospel *mg nml evangelist service* nt nlgUt, to which the public, especially young people, nr*' cordially Invited. Dr. John B. nhito, pastor, return* from hi* vacation In time to nil bin owu pulpit tho -Hrat Sunday in September. SOUTH RIDE BAUTflT—Itegulnr preneh- lti« Morvieen nt 11 *. m. nml 7:45 p. uw l*y the pastor. J. H. Dunhip. Suuday ■rimoi at i»;J9 n. m. Prayer nml J»ral*e •"■rvlre Wedheiulny evening nt <:45 oeloek. baptist Young People's Union Rundny ntter- iiegilining at 3:10. Ladle* MiMioilnry Society Tuesday afternoon nt 3:30. The pastor has l»een absent several weeks, bnv- Ins \ lilted a mi miser of the larger east- eru cities; also attending the Moody 1*1- M«* Institute st NortUflelu, Mnsn., nud lie sill glad to uohvmte a large nttemb ■nee of tho church membership and con- Rogation Hundny. HAPTIRT TA B K BNAC LE-Ber. YV - L* Walker will fill the pulpit of the B*pB»t til.t-riniele morning nnd night In the ah* ►u.f of the pastor. Dr. j®». who is In London. England. Mr. M al ter* subject for Rundny night I* A Mod el Young Man." ■‘“••o nt ii n, ui. by Bev. «. »*■ At* p. in., Evangelist J. Erauk Jackson *111 preach. Sunday school nt 9:30 n. in. jVnemal workers' dab nt 7:16 p. m. , WESTERN HEIGHTS BAUTIST-Preiieh- by the pastor, V. L\ Norcross. at 11 « in. and •:» p. ui. Sunday school at • :3f» ii. in. J.VKSitX HILL BAPTIST—Corner N»rtli Jackson street and East avenue. ' ('alder T. Willingham will preach at •I n. »». find 8 p. nt. Sunday school at * J*. Wednesday evening prayer meeting ■’ * o'clock* M'DONALD BA1TI8T—West Fair and " limit «irm>t. It. T. Itowc, |Htatnr. The t»»-i..r will reach at 11 o'el**ck *hi '' rite '.’a?, ami at x o'clock In the evening on n-l-nicd." Knnday achool nt 9:15. , ’■APITOI. AVBNl'K BAPTIST—Pastor J. .has returned from North t.aro- Umm"' 1 Ptvaeh at It n. m. nml J p. m. Mm-nltig subject, "The Value of Godliness;" -leidns .object, -How Three Dlsrtplet Sunday school nt »:*> a. m. n .i- t nion resnmes work Brat Snmlay In •etteiuiKT. Uaraca prayer meeting Monday at I p. m. Mid-week prayer and praise a. vice Wednesday at 8 p. ni. Senior B. V. 11. Friday nt 8 p. in. 1'rcncblng nt 11 a. m. ami 8 n. m. by the pastor. Iter. II. C. Hurley. Bible school at 9:30 n. m. Junior B. V. V. t!. Sunday after noon at 2:30. Mid-week prayer meeting on Wednesday evening nt 8, METHODIST. GRACE METHODIST—Iter. C. C. Jarrell, pastor. Sunday school nt 9:30 n. m. Preach ing nt 11 a. in. jind 8 p. m.' by the pnstor. I-Ipworth League at 7 p. m. - ST. MAJ1K METHODIST—Corner Peach tree and Fifth afreets. Iter. Charles o. Jones. D. !».. imahir. The Business Men s Gospel I nloli will have charge at It u. iu. No service nt nlglit. Sunday selmol at 9JO n. in. I>cnf mute class taught by 11. r. INMAN PARK METHODIST—BIgewood nvciine nml Hurt e rect. Key. Henry It. Sleye, pnstor. Preamble nt It a. in. by the pnstor. At 8 p. in. the Inst of the- summer union service, at the iuiiinu Park Presbyte rian church; Mr. Muys wilt preach, Sunday school at 9:30. Prayer niiK)lliig « eilnesdny nt 8 p. in. Sunday school nt l openhllt at 4 p. in. HEMPHILL AVENUE MF.TllODIST-Oll Hemphill nvenue, north of .Emmett street. Morning subject, "The < "inforte'. I roaeb- Ing morning and evening la It H. Bnbl. pnstor. Sunday achool at 9:3*. Itcport lu the morning of a vnpi|> meeting. ST. JOHN METHODIST—The pastor. II. C. Christian, will preach at 11 a. m. n siieetal sermon to the church. At 8 the pastor will hold revival aervlees. deliv ering n special aeriaou to the unconverted. ST. JAMES METHODIST—T. th Ken dall. Jr., pnstor. Preaching nt 11 n. in. nml 7:45 p. in. by pnstor. Stimlny school nt 9-30 n. 1 m. Prayer meeting Mednesdny nt 7:45 p. m. Men's nnd Imys prayer meeting Saturday night at 8 oeloek. 1’rnyer meeting every Snmlay morning at j o'clock. Cottage prayer meeting every Friday night. ENGLISH AVKNI'E MET 11 GDI ST—B. B. L. Tlmnioiia. I'mMblng at J1 a. ui. by the pnntor. Snwhy arbool nt 3 i». in. Prwn-hing si I 7:W I*, in. by Rev. A- El-neat. Hnnrlm* prayer meeting. Open jlr meeting at Blue Knob. Thirl qnnrterD ttiuferenre Morning at »:30 P- fM * R'*v. 4. If Knkea. prenbllng rider. I'rnyer meet ing nt 7:30 p. m. Wedneodajr. Young men * prayer meeting nt 7:3) p. u». Friday, JKFKKBRON RTBKKT MKTIiODIHT-B. It. Timmons, |«stor. l-ren.lilugstll ui by Bev. 41. W. Ie«*wla. Rnnday nehooi nt 9:30 n. in. I'rearhliig itls) P. bv Bev. J. II Knkea. nrnjbllng el- der Sunrise prayer iBeetiM iJnnday morn ing. Holiness meeting at J* I’- 1 t Sm>- Aar. Ready workers Monday at 13» p. at- Prayer meeting Tneoday at 7 JO p. m. Ho- llnesa prayer meeting nt 7:39 p. ni. WESLEY MEMO If ML—Sunder arfeori at Churches leiiuiett rniiiitnea eiuM. \ouug .Men n mr- aen Bible elnna. Preaching nt 11 a. in. by f mator. Hong aerrlce 7:4o p. ni. Preach* leg nt 8. Kpworth League MlMlounry inerting at l.'borua rehearsal Friday evening j'cloek. Midweek prayer Weekly^ church nodal at ih o’clock. Noonday prayer meeting every day from 13 to 1 oeloek. TRINITY MEfHODIHT-Corner White* hall nnd Trinity avenue. Dr. .f. W .Leo, pnntor. Kcrvlrrn nt 11 a. in. and 8 p. m. Kcriiioua i»>- (lev. W. T. Huiinlcntt, pastor Payne Mem or Ini church. Rnnday achonl nt 9:10 a. m. Weekly prayer meeting Wed* nendny nt 8 p. m. KOKLHTON MEMORIAL METHODIST— Corner of Wnidiitigton nnd Fulton afreet*. Bev. I*n«c II. Miller will preach at 11 a. in. nud 7:45 p. ni. Rnnday achool at 9:30 PABK RTBEET METHODIST—Corner of Park nnd Lee xtreeti. Bev. M. L. Trout man, piutor. Rundny kcIiooI at 9:90 a. m. Preaching nt 11 n. In. by the pnntor. At the * o'clock nervlee Proreiwor Edwin Ablliic Pound will deliver a lecture. Prayer meet ing WediieMlny at 8 p. in. # .EPISCOPAL. (Eleventh Sunday After Trinity.) C'ATHEDUAL—Corner of Washington nml Hupter. Very Bev. P. T. A v Hie, dean. 7:30 a. nj., holy communion; 11 n. in., lit any, ■erimm and holy communion; 5 p. evening prayer nud nermou. Sunday achool at 9:46. All other day*: 7;3D a. in., holy 8T. LUKES—Peachtree street, next to Peachtree Inn. opposite Alexander street. Bev. (’. II. Wtlmer, rector. 7:3*1 a. m., holy communion; 11 a. m.. morning prayer and INCABNAT10N-I.ee. near Gordon, We*t End. Bev. J. J. P. Perry, rector. 7JO a. m.. Indy communion; 11 o. ni., morning prayer and Heruion by Bev. W. J. Handy; 8 p. u»„ evening prayer nud sermon. Sunday achool at 3:90. Wednesday: Evening prayer at 8. I.itnuy nt 4:30. ALL SAINTS—Corner West Peachtree and North avenue. Bev. R. Faria ml, rector. .8 a. in., holy ccuuiiunlon; 11 a. in., morning prnycr and sermon; 5 p. in., evenlg prayer. Sunday nehooi ut 9:45. Weduefdny: Litany nt 10:30. EPIPHANY*—Corner Moreland and Euclid . iemit*, Intiinu Park. Bev. C. A. Long- *ton In charge. Morning prayer ami ter- MISSION OK THE HOLY INNOCENTS— Wooda avenue, near Wf*t Peachtree. Run day Mchmd every Knmlny at 3:9). HOLY COMFOBTEB—Comer of Atlanta avenue and piilllnin. Bev. Gilbert lligg*, D. D.. In charge. Evening prayer and Her at i. Sunday tchoul at L Frida v: Litany nnd choir work at 8. RT. ANDREWS—Corner Glenn nnd Kent. RT. PAULS—Boat Point. Bev. Gllliert -Ilggn. D. D., In c* nud sermon ut 11. ■erinou nt 11. and sermon at 11. RT. PAPER—Newnnn. Gn. Bev. W. J. Moody In charge. Evening prayer nnd aer- nion at 4:30. by Bev. B. F. D#Belle. RT. JOHNS MISSION—College Park. Ga. Bev. W, J. Moody in charge. Evening prayer nnd Mcrmon at 8. PRE8BYTERIAN. INMAN I’AKK rtlKSIlVTlCKIAN—Tho pastor, Rev. Jnme*. B. Fincher, hna re turned from Europe nml will preach to morrow at 11 a. ill. Bev. II. B. Alnyea. pnntor of the Inman Park Motbodlat church, will conduct the union service at R p. in Sunday schol nt 9:30 a. in. Young People's S«M*|ety nt 7:16 p. m. Regular week prayer meeting Wednesday ut 8 p. in. WALLACE PRESBYTERIAN - Corner YY'alker nnd Rtonewull. Bev. T. P. Cleve land, pnstor. Services nt 11 a. in. nnd 8 p. iu. Sabbath school at 9:90 a. m. Pray er meeting Wednesday nt 8 p. in. nt 11 a. ni. nml 7:46 p. m. by Bev. J. A. Whltener, a Cumberland Presbyterian minister, of Dsrton. Tenn. All cordially Invited. Sabbath school at 9:30 a. ni. MOORE MEMORIAL PRESBYTERIAN— Dr. A Ii. 11 Older by. pnntor. Preaching by the pn*tor nt 11 ••. in. Chrlatian Eli denvrfr meeting nt 6:45 p. ra. Prayer meet lug Wednesday at 8 p. m. CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN—Opposite enpltol. Dr. Theron II. Hire, unitor. Sun day school at 9:30 a. m. In the new Sun day school bill Ming there are comfortable iiccnmimKlntlon* for all departments. Young men's Bible elan* will lie conducted by the leader. J. J. Eagan, who lias Ju*t re turned from his atiiuiucr vn«*ntiou. Regu lar Snmlay aervlees at 11 a. in. nud 8 p. m. ' NORTH AVENUE PRESBYTERIAN— Corner Penehtn-e street and North ave nue. Rev. Richunl Urine Fllnn. pastor. Morning worship at 11 a. in. Evening wor ship nt 8 p. in. Preaching by the pantor nt imtli of these service*. The evening *ub- lert will Ih». "Can a Man Be Neutral; That pim Christ Kay Abbot It7" Sun Teachers* training class conducted m Marlon Mrll. Hull nt the mine hour. Cove nanters’ Imiid nt 4 p, m. Christian En deavor at 7 p. m. Wednesday evening pray er service at 8 p. in. Subject, ’The Chris tian's Armament*." Dulles* prayer dr- le THnrsduy st 6 p. in. WESTMINSTER PRESBYTER I AN-The moruhig service st 11 n. in. Evening serv ice nt a p. ui. Sermons by the pastor. Bev. Charles B. Msbet. Snmlay school nt 9:39 a. m. Yuang People's Society st 7 p. ui. Tuple# "Shares of \Y ortdliuesa.* Lender, Mr. White, general secretary.of the Young Men's Christian Association. Regu lar midweek prayer service Wednesday evening at 8. , BARNETT PRESBYTERIAN—Carper of Hampton afreet and Bradley avenue. Serv ices every Hundny at 11 a. in. nnd 7:30 p. in. Sunday school ami special song service 3 p. m. Prayer meeting nml chorus prac tice Thursday, 7:30 p. m. Subject for the Sunday morning service will be "Purity of Heart and Personal Influence." The sub ject for the evenlitg service, "Today and Tomorrow, or Eternity." chrTstian. FIRST CHRISTIAN—N<v 44 East Hunter street. Ilev. 11. K. Pendleton, pn*tor. Preaching nt 11 n. nt. and 8 p. m. Morning theme; "The Savior of Men." lilhle school at 9:30 a. ni. Christian Endeavor at 6:30 p. tu. WEST END CHRISTIAN—Corner Gor don nud Dunn street*. Rev. Hernnrd P. Smith, pa*tor. Preaching at 11 a. m. ami 8 IIOWELL STATION CHRISTIAN-End of Marietta street ear line. Rev. George W. Mullins, pnstor. Bible school at 3 p. to. Preaching at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. WESTERN IIEIGHTS CHRISTIAN MIS SION—Sunset avenue, near Kennedy street. Illhle school nt 9:30 a. m. Preaching nt 11 a. m. nud 8 p. in. CONGREGATIONAL. CENTRAL CONGREGATIONAL—Rev. Frank E. Jenkins. D.D., pastor. Preaching at 11 a. iu. ou "Repenting Pentecost; the Results." Sunday achool at 9:99 a. m. Christian Endeavor nt 4:4S p. m. Night church service omitted during August. MARIETTA STREET CONGREGATION- Air-Rev. W. II. Tillman, pnstor. Prench- Ing nt 11 a. in. nnd 7:90 p. in. Sunday school at 3 p. ra. IMMANUEL CONCIRBOATIONAL—Bev. Starr 4.*, Williams, pnstor. Preaching at 11 a» ml and 7:30 p. in. Sunday school at BEBEAN CONGREGATIONAL—Dr. S. YV. Howland, a returned missionary from Ceylon, will preach at li a. m. Sunday school at 3 p. in. MISCELLANEOUS. FIRST CHURCH OF CUBIST. SCIENT IST—17 West linker stret. "Man" I* the subject of the lesson-sermon Sunday, An- :nat 26, at 11 n. n». There will Ih? no tnndny evening servlet? during August. Testimonial meeting Wednesday nt 8 p. ST. JO HNS GERMAN M TIIERA.V-Cor- . it Forsyth nud Garnett street*. Rev. YV. Vollbrccht. pnstor. Sunday school at YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIA TION—Corner ITyor street nnd Antmro avenue. At 3 o'clock, the Illhle claaa will Ik* eoudticted by Rev. C. J. Oliver. At 3:33. o'clock, Bev. K. A. Cowan will speak to men on a subject of Interest. All men are Invited to attend these aervlees. The asMK-Intloii orrhestrn will play nt 3 o'clock. Building t»pen from 2 o'clock un til 6. CIIUBCII OF Cl I BIST*-West End ave- nue, corner Wellborn street. Bible study at 10 a. m. Preaching and communion service at 11 a. m. Prayer meeting Thurs day night at 7:46. All Christian personal workers who nr* not otherwise engaged, at the hour are cor dially Invited to come to the Central Con gregational rhnrrh, corner of f'nrnegte way and ElUs street. At 4 p. m. Sunday, August 26. for a conference nnd report of work done, firing your Illhles and your Torrejr Alexander song books, nlao your friends. ENGLISH LUTIIKBAN—Church of the Redeemer. Corner of Trinity and Capitol I dace. Her. E. C, Crook, pastor. Miming service at 11 o'clock. Sunday school at 9:3o a. m. Evening service at 8. The Mlllenlnl Dawn Rlbie Class will hold Ita regular weekly meeting In YVoodmon's hall. 122 Penehtree street, on Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. All Illhle students are cordially Invited to attend. Non-dcaom- I national. CHRISTIAN AnTT*MISSIONARY AL LIANCK—Regular services In Alliance hall 7214 North Broad stret, Honda/ afternoon and YVisInesdnv afternoon at S:I0 o’clock. Also services m the tent every hlgkt the ruining week on Flora srenne, Edgewood. Gn., on main Decatur cur line. IJo0 off nt imrotby Station. THE ATLANTA PSYCHOLOGICAL SO- CIKTY, Robert Bryan Harrison, president, will meet Sunday afternoon nt 4 o'clock ut 122 Peachtree street. Subject for dlacua- slou: "The Philosophy of Belief." Ten minute talk* by ndvanml thinkers. Change of speakers every Sunday. Demonstrations In Instantaneous healing at every meeting. Visitors welcome. .00 What ONE DOLLAR a Month Will Do. 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