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OBSERVATIONS OF CHURCH LIFE IN NEW YORK CITY
By REV. JAMES W. LEE,
PASTOR TRINITY METHODIST CHURCH
During the early spring I was In
vited to take pastoral charge of three
churches in Brooklyn for the month of
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-five 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
and higher state of religious life is
traceable. The outside cause we may
find In the tremendous competition of
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
warfare against the elements which
threaten destruction to all the princi
ples of active religion. They are be-
•ng drawn together by the very coer
cion of indifference 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, that the or
dinary hard-worked mortal, with the
thermometer ranging from 90 to 100
degrees in the shade, finds it hard to
resist. Against all this, and besides,
the general Inertia of poor.humam na
ture, the summer preacher In a New
York pulpit has- to puli. No one can
understand how amazingly difficult
the task ts, who has not tried ft. The
sense of this powerful humnn current,
running in mountain-high waves
against the quietude and solitude of ail
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 regiments, to
be 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. AH are coming to see
the essentials, and to emphasize them.
All are coming, as never before, to
recognize Jesus Christ as their com
mon head, and themselves as members
of His bod)', and thus members one of
another. If the ideas now dominant,
more or less, throughout the member
ship of all Christian bodies continue to
work It Is only a 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 m*y come when, If
Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians and
Congregatlonallsts 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.
do of religious energy. It Is unseemly
to have four or five different denomi
nations worshipping the loving Father
of us all In as many different church
houses In a town of 1,500 or 2,000 In
habitants. The strongest church
In such a town should be gtwn the
Held. The others should retire and
spend their zeal In reclaiming wazte
places elsewhere. More and more we
are coming u> see that the doctrines
of Christianity are as fixed and eternal
os the doctriens of astronomy of chem
istry. Think of two astronomical ob
servatories In a little town of two thou
sand people. There Is* but one science
of religion. Christianity Is the relig
ion of science, just ns Sir Norman
Lockyer’s doctrine of the heavens is
the 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, I 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 Is
not asked to go to the cemetery, and
it is the custom to give a fee as In
the case of weddings.
3. The preachers are given two
months' vacation, instead of one. As
the work Is more exacting and taxing
than In a less populous community, I
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 made a contribution.
It 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 was during last Friday
evening at a pnA'er meeting I conduct
ed at Bethany Dutch Reformed church.
When the collectors passed the plates
at 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 officer of the church. But then I
remembered that she was one of those
who responded with a very long, tedious
talk when the meeting was thrown
open for remarks. She doubtless -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 pock
et book. I am practically sure, how
ever, from the look I witnessed (> n the
faces of those present, that the sister
would have edified people far more by
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 and 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 as she starts."
“This does not wound her feelings In
the slightest," he continued, “for she be
lieves that her words have so moved
the 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 almost anywhere,
those who are afflicted with that worst
of all religious dtsenses. pious conceit.
THE CHEERING CROSS
“Who for the Joy that was set be
fore Him, endured the Cross, despis
ing the shame.”
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By REV. JOHN E. WHITE,
PASTOR SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH
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I T was the trick of the Cockney ac
cent on the tongue of the con
ductors of the London omnibus
just a year ago in front of my hotel
In London that rang and rang again
In my ears.
"Charing Cross! Charing Cross! All
off for the Charing Cross!” For many
clays these men were preaching to me.
1 caught up their unconscious and un
meant message and have kept it hid in
my heart ever since.
The Cheering Cross! All off for the
Cheering Cross 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
shout of joy. It has not always been
true that Christians realized 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 ft 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 Its
shame.” These Is nothing dismal about
the'cross of Christ.- Let us be careful
obQBl-JWyill^ Jlhat-^-Cbrlst J. Buffered
shAme. The shame of the, cross could
not touch Him, and It did not. He
rose superior to shame. He despised
U, thrust It under His foot, and bore
away the cross transformed and glori
fied.
In the picture galleries of Europe
mediaeval theology has painted cru
cifixions In which the characteristic
features are agonies and horrors of
pain. I looked in vain for the Cheering
Cross, the cross that 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 also, triumphant
ly forth. Ever)' agony of Calvary is
refrected by passing through the lens
of the Divine Loving.
The cross of Christ is like the sun
fc’hlch 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.
The Inspiration of the Cross.
The cross of Christ cheers the noble
and the unselfish nature in men. What
ever we may say about 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. God has
that much left in us; we are not en
tirely mean. And I believe the cross
of Christ is God’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-
crucifixion.
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. 1 do not say that there
were no heroes before Christ came;
man mode in the linage of God has
never lost all his dlvlnents*. But what
I am saying Is that the nobility of man
has suffered a terrible eclipse. It Is
hidden beneath an awful wreckage. It
Is Imprisoned In a mass of mins, and
the cross of Christ searches out and
cheer# 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 unheroic 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 God for It.
He 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 the power of
the cross, condemning Its sin and its
selfishness and approving Its Imperfect
and pathetic efforts to be merciful and
generous and unselfish In bearing other
burdens and suffering other sufferings
than Its own.
The cross has gone Into many a life
and had power there, Vhen the church
was not a power. "And I If I be lifted up
will draw all men unto me.” I think
the best men the world has fcnown,
the .martyrs and crucified saints, Sa
vonarola and Luther and Bunyan.
would confess that It w*as the cross of
Christ that called into action their
readiness to suffer for others, and that
is 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
lesser martyrs, who are also of thfi
fellowship of the cross. When a man
suffers for any cause nobly and un
selfishly, whatever his circumstance, he
makes a music that harmonizes with
Calvary. We Instantly feel that he has
done a Chrlst-llke thing, and If
knew the whale story we would know
that the same power that moved 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, but 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 his post at the wheel, but—
"He wern't no saint, but at Judgment
REV. DR. JOHN E. WHITE.
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 w'hen I feel
my deepest nature quivering and thrill
ing with response to such human hero
ism as that, 1 do not need that the
theologian and the dogmatist should
explain this power of the cross of
Christ to me. Such moments do not
last—the emotion subsides, but while
the illumination is upon us we feel,
we realize what the high Impulse that
thrilled in Paul’s heart was when he
cried: “God 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 His 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
recited, and the great audience broke
Into cheers. The preacher mildly re
buked them. “I question," he said,
"whether you should cheer 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, let him echo the cheering
cross.
Weary and Heavy Laden.
The cross cheers every man Vho
is heavy laden and depressed.
Through his passion, through the
dark moment of Gethsamane 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 cross waa not a pan
1c, a rushing wildly Into agony to cs
cape pain. It is not the courage of the
Russian soldier in the hospital who tor
tured by the misery of his wounds
whispered in pleading to his comrade
to thrust the knife into his side and
find hls heart and pierce It, not the
courage of the suicide, Christ wa• 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 God, w*hlch awaited
him—that Christ is working a policy
of self aggrandizement.
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 peace which rewards the
imterrifled and the resolved soul set
upon carrying through to the 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 of Christ
mean something to every man, and es
pecially 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
complained because your religion has
not given you good luck, 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 answer of the
cross is to that God never meant to
secure you from trouble and sorrow.
Christianity w'as never proffered t;>
men as a good luck token. Religion
brings courage, that is all. Patience,
victory within. That is the Joy set
before the Christian.
“Hold thou the cross before my
fainting eyes." What do I see? I see
One w*ho sang a brave song In the up
per room and went out into the Mount
of Olives to the buffeting of conspira
tors. I see one who gathered himself
together, and, though drops of bloody
sweat stood upon hls temples, said:
"Thy will, not mine, be done.’
I see one who came through the great
loneliness of soul as though Hls Fath
er had forsaken him, crying out as he
passed Into unconsciousness, "It Is fin
ished," and mine are fainting eyes no
longer.
"Up with the burden, on with the Jour
ney,
Forward with the battle. Onward with
the tiresome, cutting load and the
sorrow,
"With the cross of Jesus going on be
fore."
The Ground Plan of Redemption.
Now', there Is one burden which the
cross lifts off. This Is Its greatest
cheer.. It Is the burden of sin.
The cross Is more thnn a moral in
fluence to Inspire and encourage men
to noble achievement. I wonder at
those who can be satisfied with the
cross of Christ as merely nn object
lesson In patience and sympathy.
It seems to me the greatest intel
lectual difficulty to reconcile reason to
the reduction of the cross to the level
of a natural and logical heroism, sub
mitted to the admiration of mankind
for stage effect. That Is the most me
chanical theology Imaginable.
But the cross as a God-llke mercy
proclaimed and scaled In blood, showing
forth Hls only begotton Bon to l»e a
propitiation laid on the world nltgr for
sin and revealing the enormity of sin
In contrast with perfect slnlessness.
the Just suffering, the sorrow of the
unjust, the pure enduring pain with the
Impure and making clear the love God
has and always ho* 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 th*m. The
cross of Christ Is the ground plan ami
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 plate
among the German cities as the center
of commercial ’Importance, but people
go to Cologne not for these reasons.
They go to see the great Cathedral, the
moat splendid Illustration ' of Gothic
architecture In the world. They told
me there the legendary history of that
marvelous structure. A young archi
tect prayed to build a great church for
the honor of God. One day he fell
asleep on the banka of the Rhine and
had a vision. An angel came and told
him that he should build the gr^at
church and In his wondering
Whispered that wh»*n be awakened he
would find the plan which heaven bad
patterned for him lying at hls side.
He awoke and, lo. he found a wooden
cross. Thus In the shape of a cross
rises the wondrous cathedral.*
The cross Is the ground plan of the
kingdom of God. It Is the pattern of
the church. It la the foundation prin
ciple of the Christian life. It Is th*
keynote of that gospel which is "the
power of God unto salvation to every
man that bellevpth."
BAPTIST.
FIRST BAPTIST—Corner Peachtree and
"nln streets. Preaching by Uev. W. It. L.
Mnlth. No evening sendee.
TEMPLE BAPTIST—Preaching nt 11 n.
n. by the pastor, Dr. A. C. >\ard. Bong
u*rvlce at ulght. Sunday sdtol at: 9:30 a.
n, Regular monthly conference panes-
lay night.
IMMANtIKI. BAPTIST—8. A. Cownn,
>n«lor. The pit-tor will pimh-Ii nt 11 a. u>-
mil 7:30 u. in. Morning nnlijent, "Bie-
cU-l's Virion lit the ttlvor." , Kvonllyt »iib-
iw-t, "Why Am I n ttirUtlnn. Sunday
H'buol nt 9:15 a. in.
SKCONrt BAPTIST—Hr. A. 1. THckln-
nm. pnutor of Ftrat Beptlut ehnreh, Blr-
iiliighaiu. Ale., will iff the pulpit ngnlii
Sunday at 11 a. m. and * p. «n. Ooapei
i“'iig and evangelist services nt night, to
which the public, especially young people,
ut- cordially Invited. Dr. John L. White,
i.iittor, returns from hls vacation In time
to nn Ills own pulpit the first Sunday In
September.
SOUTH SIDE BAIT t*T—Regular preach
ing service* at 11 a. tn. and 7:45 p. m.
t>> the pastor, J. S. Dunlap. Sunday
► hoot nt 9:3# n. ui. Prayer and
►rvlee Wednesday evening at 7:45 o clock,
baptist Voting People's Union Sunday afttr*
beginning at 3:90. Ladles' Missionary
Sm |, ty Tuesday afternoon nt 3:30. rite
pastor has been absent several weeks, hav
ing visited n numlter of the larger east*
rrn cities; also attending the Moody BI-
I'lt* institute st Northfleld, Sins*., nwl he
will be glad to welcome a large attend-
■•we of the cltun b membership and con
gregation Sunday.
baptist TABKBNACI.E—Bcv. w. u
"nlkrr will Ml the pulpit of the ll.ptl.t
tohcrmtrle morning and night In the ab-
tif the pastor. Dr. Leu 4». Brough-
pn. wlm Is In London, England. Mr. J'"*'
let s subject for Monday night la A Mod-
h Vouitg Man.”
•'KNTRaL BAPTIST—The pulpit will be
fillr-l nt n a. ui. by Rev. \V. L. Savage.
A ! a l». in- Evangelist J. Frank Jackson
*iU preach. Sumluy school nt 9:30 u. u».
* ptnotiiil worker#* club nt 7:15 p. m.
’.STERN HEIGHTS BAPTIMT-Preneh-
l>) the pastor, V. U. Norcrosa. at U
> and 7:39 p. m. Sunday school at
JAi’KMox HILL BAPTIST-Corner
{J'*rth .lacksou street and East avenue.
«-v. ('alder T. Willingham will preach at
J! »• m. and 8 p. in. Sunday school at
at i ."|**duesday evening prayer lueetlug
M'LoxaM) BAPTIST—West Fair and
, ,ll, ‘Ut street. O. T. Itowe, jKistor. The
ha-tof will preach at 11 o’clock on “The
!.?/■ and nt 8 o'clock In the evening on
“^Willed.” .Sunday school at 9:15.
' Al’lToi. AVENUE BAPTIST—Pastor J.
ii* ** r iIggs has returned from North t.aro-
X! frni'" PHi at 11 n. m. nod f p.
Sit '** ■inject, “The Value of (fcxIUnesa;
TrJ "H aubjeet. "flow Three Disciple#
& tM, ,J-sns.” Sunday srhool nt 9:10 a. m.
nJV* J ,l,on irauiues work flrat Sunday In
■*H«uln* r . Baruca prayer wcetiug Monday
nt 8 n. m. Mid-week prayer and praise ser
vice Wednesday at 8 p. m. Senior B. V. P.
V. Friday at 8 p. m.
WOODWARD AVENUE BAITIST-Uor-
ner of Woodward and Cherokee a venues.
Preaching nt 11 n. in. and 8 n. m. by the
pastor, Rev. II. C. Hurley. Bible school nt
9:30 a. ui. Junior B. Y. 1\ U. Sunday after
noon at 2:30. Mid week prayer meeting on
Wednesday evening nt 8.
METHODI8T.
GRACE METHODIST—Rev. C. C. Jarrell,
pastor. Sunday school at 9:30 a. m. Preach
ing nt 11 a. nt. and 8 p. in. by the pastor.
Kpworth League at 7 p. in.
ST. MARK METHODIST—Corner Peach
tree and Fifth street#. Rev. Charles o.
Joiie*. D. D.. pastor. The Business Men's
Gospel Union will have charge ut 11 a. in.
service at night. Sunday school at 9:30
... .ii. Deaf mute class taught by >\. 1.
Crtwsellc. P/ayer meeting, stewards' meet
ing and quarterly conference, conducted by
Dr. J. II. Bake*, presiding elder, Wednes
day nt 8 p. in.
INMAN PARK METHODIST—Edgewodd
avenue and Hurt street. Rev. Henry B.
Moya, pastor. Preaching nt 11 a. m. by the
pastor. At 8 p. in. thelnst/of the summer
union services nt the Inmnu Park Presbyte
rian church: Mr. Mays wl|I preach. Sunday
school nt 9:30. Prayer meeting Uwlncsdaj
nt 8 p. ni. Sunday school nt Copenhfli at
4 P- m.
HEMPHILL AVENUE METHODIST-On
Hemphill avenue, north of Emmett street.
Morning subject. “The Comforter. Poach
ing morning and evening by K* H- Robb,
pastor. Sunday school nt 9.31. Report In
the morning of u camp meeting.
ST. JOHN METHODIST-The pastor. II.
C, Christian, will preach at It a. m. a
RiMMinl -rrniim to tin* rhurrli. At 8 I'. in.
th. parior will holil rovlvnl ■errlcra, iMIt-
.rlnif a special acninm to the unconverted.
ST. JAMES METHODIST—T. It. Ken-
tlitll, Jr., pnutor. Prcnoliliut nt tl a. in.
ami 7:46 p! in. Iijr pnator.
at 9'30 a. m. Prayer ineettnit " ednemtny
nt 7*45 ii. in. Men’, mol Imy.* prayer
meeting 1 Sntnnlny nlslit nt 8 nelock.
Prarer ineeilnit every Sunday morning nt
0 oVIock. Pottage prayer meeting every
Friday night.
ENGLISH AVENI K METHWHST-B. K.
J„ Tfinmona. |ui«tor. Prenehlng at 11 a.
in. by the pnutor. Snndny nebool at 3 t>.
m Prenehlng nt <:3> p. ni. by Her. A.
Kriieut. Hiiurliie prayer meeting. 0|»'ii nlr
meeting nt Pine Knob. Third quarterly
rnnfervnre Monday nt ‘P- ,u - Her. J.
lI Enken. prealdlng .'bier. Prayer lu.vv
log at 7:30 p. at. H’.-duenday. l-uug " H ' n '
prayer meeting at 7:.Tl p. m. Friday.
JEFFEItSOS STREET METHODIBT-B.
E r Timmons, isistor. Preaching at u
b ' i, v Rer. G W. Lewis. >unday
“ i Prenehlng at 7:M P.
in lie Itev J. H Enken. jirnddlng el
der Sandin' prayer meeting dumbly morn,
lug. Ilellnena nie.'llnc nt J Jn p. iiv Bn
day Readv workers Monday at l
Prayer meeting Tnewtay at 7i» p. in. Ho-
llnemi prayer meeting at 7.*) p. m.
WESt.EV MEMORIAL—Sunday nchnul at
Wide class. Preaching at 11 n. m. by
pastor. Song service 7:45 |i. m. Preach
ing nt 8. Kpworth League Missionary
meeting at 7 o’clock. Midweek prayer
inetlng nt 8. Weekly chureli social nt .9.
Chorus rehearsal Friday evening nt *
o’clock. - Noonday prayer *’— —
day from 12 to 1 o’clock.
prayer meeting every
TRINITY METHODIST—Corner White-
hall and Trinity nventie. Dr. J. W .Lee,
psstor. Services nt 11 a. in. and 8 p. in.
Sermons by Itev. W. T. Ifuiinfeutt, pastor
Payne Memorial church. Sunday school
EGELSTON MEMORIAL METHODIST—
Comer of Washington and Fulton street#.
Rev. Isaac II. Miller will preach nt 11 u. in.
nml 7:45 p. in. Snndny school at 9:3>> a. in.
!,engue nt 6:45 p. tu. Prayer meeting on
Wednesday at 8 p. nu
PARK STREET METHODIST—Corner of
Park and Lee street*. Rev. M. L. Trout
man, pastor. Snndny school at f:30 a. m.
Preaching nt 11 a. tn. by the pastor. At the
8 oYliM’k service Professor Edwin Aldiur
Pound will deliver n lecture. Prayer meet
ing Wednesday at 8 p. in.
EPISCOPAL.
(Eiavanth Sunday Aftar Trinity.)
CATHEDRAL—Corner of Washington and
Hunter. Very Rev. I*. T. A. Pise. dean.
7:39 a. m., holy communion; 11 a. in.,
any, sermon nml holy communion; 5 p.
evening prnyer nml sermon. Sunday school
nt 9:45: All other days: 7:30 a. ui.. Indy
communion; 9 a. tn., morning prayer: 5 p.
m.. evening prayer. Wednesday and Fri
day: Utility ut 10:30.
ST. LUKES—Peachtree ntrcct. next to
Peachtree Inn. rfppoffife Alexander street.
Rev. €’. B. Wllmer, rector. 7:3» a. in., holy
cmiuuunion; 11 a. tu.. morning prayer am!
sermon; 8 p. ni.. evening j»rnver and oer
tnon. .Sunday school at 9:45. Friday: Lit
any nt 11.
INCARNATION—Lee. near Gordon. West
End. Uev. J. J. P. Perry, rector. 7 JO a.
m.. holy communion; 11 a. in., morning
prayer and sermon by Rev. W. J. M«**ly: a
p. in., evening prnyer and sermon. Sunday
school nt 3:30. Wednesday: Eveniug pruyer
at 8. Litany at 4:30.
ALL SAINTS—Corner West Peachtree and
North avenue. Rev. Z. H. Fnrland, rector.
8 n. ni.. holy ecinuitmion; 11 n. in., morning
prayer and sermon: 5 p. m., evcnlg prnyer.
I ... It.lK • I ll„n»
EPIPHANY—Corner Moreland and KneRd
.. renue*. Inman Park. Rev. C. A. Lang
ston in charge. Morning prayer ami ser-
MISSION OF THE HOLY INNOCENTS—
W<n»I* avenue, near West Peachtree. Sun
•lay school every Sunday at 3:30.
Litany nnd choir work at 8. *
ST. ANDREWS—Corner Glenn and Kent.
Rev. Gilbert Illggs. D. D., In charge. Even
ing prnyer nnd sermon at 8. Sunday school
HT. PAULS—East Point. Rev. Gllliert
Higgs. D. D.. In charge. Holy communion
and sermon nt Jl.
sermon nt 11.
and sermon at 11.
ST. PAULS—Newnati. Ga. Rev. W. J.
Moody In charge. Evening prayer mid ser
mon nt 4:30. by Rev. It. F. I)eBelle.
prayer nnd sermon nt 8.
PRE8BYTERIAN
INMAN PARK PRESBYTERIAN—The
pastor. Itev. James II. Fincher., has
turned /rom Europe and will preach to
morrow at 11 a. in. Rev. H. B. Mayes,
pastor of the Intnnii Park Methodist
church, will conduct the union service at
8 p. m. Snndny sehol nt 9:30 n. m. Voting
Pimple’s Society nt 7:15 p. ui. Regular
week prnyer meeting Wednesday at 8
p. m.
WALLACE PRES1IYTERIAN ~ Corner
Walker nnd Stonewall. Iter. T. P. Cleve
land, pastor. Service* nt \\ a. in. and 8
CUMBERLAND PRESBYTER! AN-Cor
ner Spring nnd Hnrri* strafes. Prea«!dug
at 11 a. m. ami 7:45 p. m. by Rev. J.
A. Whltoner, a Cumlwwlnnd Presbyterian
minister, of Dayton. Tenn. All cordially
Invited. Sabbath school at 9J0 a: m.
Ing Wednesday at S p. tu.
the leader, J. J. Eagnn. who has Just re
p. m.
NORTH AVENUE PRESBYTERIAN—
Corner Peachttve street and North ave
nue. Rev. Ith-hanl Urine Fllun. pastor.
Morning worship at 11 a. iii. Evening wor
ship at 8 p. tn. Prembing by tin? pastor
nt imth of these services. The evening sub
ject will Ih», 'Van a Man Be Neutral;
What Docs Christ Say About It?” Sun
day school at n. m. Governor-Elect
Hoke Smith and Charles D. Taller, super
intendents. ' Men's League at 19 a. m.
Teachers’ training Has* conducted by I>r.
Marion MelL Hull at the same hour. Cove
nanters’ I Kind at 4 p. ui. Christian En-
WESTMINSTER PRESBYTER! AN-The
mining service at 11 a. nr. Eveniug serv-
Ice at 8 p. ui. Sermons by the pastor.
Rev. Charles It. Nlsbet. Sunday m<boo!
rft 9:30 a. in. Young People’s Society nt
t. in. Topic, ’Shares of IS orldliuess.
Lender, Mr. White, general secretary of the
BARNETT PRESBYTERIAN—Corner of
Hampton atreet nnd Bradley avenue. Serv
ices every Sunday at 11 a. ui. and 7:30 p.
Tomorrow, or Eternity.”
chrTstian.
FIRST CHRISTIAN—No. 44 East nunter
street. Itev. II. K. Pendleton, tnistor.
Preaching nt 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. Morning
theme: “The Savior of Men.” Bible
*cb«»ol at 9:3<) n. m. Christian Endeavor
at 6:30 p. m.
WEST END CHRISTIAN—Corner Gor-
don nnd Dunn street*. Rev. Bernard P.
Smith, pastor. Preaching at II a. ni. nnd 8
p. tn.
HOWELL STATION CHRISTIAN—End
of Marietta street car line. Rev. George
W. Mullins, pastor. Illble school at 3 p. tu.
Preaching at 11 a. ni. and 8 p. m.
WESTERN HEIGHTS CHRISTIAN MIS-
SION—Sunset nvenoe, near Kennedy atreet.
Bible achool at 9:30 a. m. Preaching at 11
a. m. and 8 p.
CONGREGATIONAL.
CENTRA L COSUIl EGATI ON A L-Hev.
Frank E. Jenkins. D.D., pastor. Preaching
nt 11 a. in. nu “Repenting Pentecost; the
Results.'' Sunday school at 9:30 a. in.
Christian Endeavor at 6:45 p. tn. Night
church service omitted during August.
IMMANUEL CONGREGATIONAL—Rev.
Harr C, Williams,
It a. m. and 7:30 p.
BE REA N CONGREGATIONAL—Dr. 8.
W. Howls in!, a returned missionary from
Ceylon, will preach at 11 a. m. Sunday
school at 9 p. m.
MISCELLANEOUS.
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCI ENT-
36, nt 11 a. ni. Then* will lie .
Sunday evening servlet* during Atignst.
Testimonial meeting Wednesday at 8 p. in.
at 10 a. nt. Preaching and communion
nervlce at ll a. ro. Prayer meeting Thurs
day night at 7:45.
All Chriatlan personal workers who are
not otherwise eugaged at the hour are cor
dially Invited to come to the Central Con
gregational chureh. earner of Carnegie way
and Ellin atreet. at 4 p. tn. Sunday, August
26. for a conference and rejwtrt of work
done. Bring your Bibles nnd yonr Torrey
Alexander song books, also your friends.
STr JOHNS GERMAN LUTIIKRAN-Cor-
•r Forsyth ami Garnett streets. Rev.
W. Yollbrccht. pastor. Sunday school at
9:3i n. ni. Worship and sermon at 11
o’clock. Young People’# Society at 4 p. m.
YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIA
TION—Corner ITyor street nnd Anlmrn
avenue. At 3 o'clock, the Illble class will
lie conducted by Rev. C. J. Oliver. At
3:39 o’cbick, Itev. H. A. Cownn will apeak
to men on a subject of Interest. All men
an* Invited to attend these services. The
association orchestra will play at 3
o’clock. Building i»pen from 2 o'clock un
til 6»
. CHURCH OF CHRIST—Weat End ave
nue, corner Wellborn atreet Bible study
The Mlllenlnl Dawn Bible Class will hold
Its regular weekly meeting In Woodmen’s
ball. 122 Peachtree street, on Sunday
morning nt 11 o'clock. All Bible student#
are cordially Invited to atteud. Non-denom-
1 national.
Ga.. on main Decatur car line. Get off
UB., III! Him III Jinn
at Dorothy Station.
• ir.u, iKMM-ri urynu unrnson. promrui,
will meet Sunday afternmm nt 4.o'clock at
122 Peachtree street. Subject for discus-
sloa: “The Philosophy of Belief.” Ten
mluute talks by advanced thinkers. Change
of speakers everv Sunday. Demonstrations
in Instautaneons healing at every meeting.
Visitor# welcome.
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