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26 TH
COFFEE TALKS
No. 1.
SEASONING.
You would not eat unseasoned
food, would you? It takes salt to
give zest to what is eaten. And
so coffee, too, may be seasoned
?all its good qualities and flavor
brought out. The Dutch of Holland
had the secret of seasoning
coffee for more than a hundred
years. The French and the
French-speaking people of New
Orleans now have it. That is
why French coffee and New Orleans
coffee are famous the world
over. That is why
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LutiAiiiiL iurru
is so rich, refreshing and satisfying.
It is a coffee of the highest
grade with just enough of the
French seasoning to make it perfect.
When you once taste it the
other kind will be about as satisfactory
to you as unsalted food.
THE RE ILY-TAYLOR CO.
New Orleans, U. S. A.
THE r.AI UIM UnCDlTA I
.Presbyterians in Georgia To Build $100,000
Hospital?Mass Meeting Determines
to Begin Raising Fund at
Once?Good Start Already
Made.
A representative and enthusiastic
crowd of Presbvterian men ami wnmo;i
of Atlanta asesmbled at North Avenue
Presbyterian Church, Atlanta, oil Sunday
- afternoon, January 17, 1909, to hear the
report of tne reorganisation committee.
This committee is composed of Charles
D. McKinney, Chairman; James K. Bachman,
Secretary; S. W. Carson, C. D.
Montgomery, C. R. Normandy, Dr. T.
P. Hir.man, J. K. Ottley, W. Woods White
and Clyde L. King.
The plans for reorganization reported
by this committee, with some amendments
were enthusiastically endorsed
by a rising vote.
Charles D. McKinney, the Cnalrm&u
of the committee, called the meeting
to order after a prayer by Rev. Richard
Orme Flinn, and briefly stated some
of the details that the committee had to.
-consider in arriving at the conclusions
as expressed in the report. The report
was then read by Mr. Bachman, and was
ably and exhaustively discussed by W.
Woods White, Rev. A. A. Little, Dr. S.
L. Morris, and others.
Dr. Little showed that the plan was
Presbyterian in every detail, and elo
quently urged it& adoption.
Dr. Morris, the Secretary of the Presbyterian
Home Mission Committee for
the Southern Presbyterian Church then
urged his hearers to make the building
-of a great Hospital a rallying point for
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a great forward movement of the Presbyterians
of Georgia, in the year 1909,
the 400th anniversary of the birth of John
Calv'n, the great reformer.
Mr. White made a most interesting
statement of a statistical nature, of
which the following are the most important
facts:
"The work of the present Hospital is
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Whilo it has not been connected organically
with the Presbyterian Church, it
has been under distinct Presbyterian control.
When the real merits of the work
are fully understood, the need for a well
equipped modern Presbyterian Hospital
will be apparent. It Is surprising to
discover the extent of territory from
which the patients have come; South
Carolina has furnished 72 patients; North
Carolina, 25; Florida, 59; Alabama. 70;
Virginia, 14; Tennessee, 14; Louisiana,
14; Mississippi, 9; even faraway Texas
has furnisned 6 patients; Kentucky, 6;
Ohio, 8; Illinois, 1; New York, 11; New
Jersey, 3; Delaware, 1; Massachusetts, 4;
West . .rg'nia, 1; Rhode Island, 1; Pennsylvania,
2; Indiana, 1; Connecticut, 1;
Missouri, 1; Nebraska, 1; Utah, 1; California,
2; Arkansas, 1; addresses unknown.
193. Europe has contributed 2,
these being from Holland.
See how catholic has been the
aim ii ui ine worn. uon? By me gentlemen
of the old hospital: Presbyterians have
furnished 593 patients; llaplist, 383;
Methodists. 494; Episcopalians, 101;
Catholics, 50; Lutherans, 23; Jews, 31;
Christian Church, 36; Greek Church, 6;
Church of Disciples, 1; Universalists, 5;
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vn?uv/MUUOIO, ?/ f L?UIV ? nnui in, 1;
Mormon, 1; Mental Science, 1; Syrian,
1; Associated Reform Presbyterians, 2;
unknown affiliations, 1,013.
Note the generous treatment of the
\ Hospital by the physicians of the City
and State. See how they have used
it in the amelioration of suffering. One
hundred and forty-eight of Georgia's best
physicians have used this Hospital in
their work.
But even more significant than the foregoing
is the fact that almost without exception
every large city in Georgia has
250 smaller towns have sent their sick
sent patients to the Hospital, and over
and suffering to this hospital. That
Georgia needs and wants a Presbyterian
Hospital there is no doubt, when the foregoing
facts are consideied. The work
of the old Hospital has covered the
entire Synod of Georgia; has met some
of the needs of every Presbytery in
Georgia. These cases cover every Kind
of invalidism from the baby to the grayhaired
minister and his wife; and in justice
to the present Hospital authorities it
must be said that a very large percentage
of the work has been given because of
their love of God and men without price
or monev.
How has Atlanta fared in the work?
One thousand four hundred and ninetytwo
cases have been cared for by them,
all from Atlanta. These caces include al-most
every form of disease and every
kind of surgical work from minor to major
operations, and all must have had
the attention which alone is secured in
a well conducted hospital,.
When our people fully appreciate the
work done, the extent of territory cov
H. February 3, 1909.
ered, the catholic spirit of the work, the
tremendous need for a modern, well
equipped hospital, will appeal to them as
one of the absolute necessities of our
greater Church life.
The essential details of the plan for reorganization
are as follows: That the
present charier be so amended as to
have all the Trustees elected by the various
Presbyteries and by the Synod of
Georgia, all Trustees to be laymen; an Executive
Committee to have charge in tho
interim between the quarterly meetings
of the Board of Trustees, the Executive
Committee to elect a Superintendent to
take charge of the Hospital, and act as
field agent for the institution; the medical
staff to be selected by the Trusteesjan
Advisory Committee of active ministers,
elected in the same way as the Trustees,
to see to the religious life of the Hospital;
the various organizations of ladies
to be affiliated by being given the right
to inspect the Hospital through its officers,
subject to the authority of the
Superintendent; annual reports to be
made to the various Presbyteries and to
the Synod.
This plan for reorganization cannot be
put into operation until the spring meetings
of the Presbyteries. On this account
a temporary plan of reorganization was
also adopted, the principal features of
which are the election of the following
men as additional Trustees: W. Woods
White, Charles D. McKinney, T. P. Hinr.ian,
J. K. Ottley. Jas. R. Rachman, Clyde
L. King and S. W. Carson, and the recommendation
that the present Executive
Committee proceed immediately, to the
election of a Superintendnt.
A ringing resolution wa3 then adopted
to the effect that the meeting assured the
Executive Committee that the selection
of Dr. S. R. Preston, of Bristol, Va., as
Superintendent, would meet with the
hearty support of the meeting.
For several months the authorities of
the Hospital have had in mind this gentleman,
who is known to a great many
of the people of Atlanta. He is personally
known to nearly every Presbyterian
minister of the city, and his selection
as SuDerintendent was nrnni.
mously recommended at the meeting of
ihese ministers last week.
It is understood that the Executive
Committee has already officially notified
Dr. Preston of this call, and his wel1known
success in several other similar
enterprises, is considered a guarantee of
his success in ihis new work.
Mr. C. D. Montgomery then introduced
a resolution to the effect that the Trustees
should at once proceed to raise the
sum of $100,000 for the purpose of buying
a lot and the building and equipping
a modern Hospital. This resolution was
unanimously and enthusiastically adopted.
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