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Virgi?'rt ..Ibrars I
VOL. LXXXV11. RICH*
The Three Genera
What is there, iying at the root of the ambition
and the zeal of the people of Atlanta to
welcome visitors and visiting bodies?
We have never seen a city so ready to welcome,
and to undergo inconvenience in order to welcome,
friends from all the world. Of secular
conventions, we nave many. me Sociological
Congress has just closed its sessions in Atlanta.
Three General Assemblies, of the United Presbyterian
Church, of the Southern and of the
Northern Churches are here this week. An invitation
is now being extended for the next
meeting of the Pan Presbyterian
Alliance. And the Chamber of Com- _
merce is trying to secure the next
meeting of the National Bankers'
Association, with its thirteen thous- t
and members. What is the secret of
this activity? iBfel.
It is partly in the physical eleva
tion of the city, nearly 1,100 feet
above sea level?a thousand feet
higher than New York or New Orlens?five
hundred feet higher than
St. Louis or Pittsburgh. And this
means increased purity of atmos- Sri
phere, with (increased capacity for jS
daily work. Then, too, the vicinity
of two mountains, Stone Mountain B
sixteen miles to the east, and Kennesaw
Mountain thirty miles to the
west, Tnaintain constant breezes
through the city. We have never
heard of a case of sunstroke in the Wcstn
city of Atlanta?never a sunstroke.
Again, we have public halls capable
of seating large audiences,?the Auditorium,
fti-miug six rnousana or more and the Baptist
(Broughton's) Tabernacle seating about half
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AN INTENSELY INTERESTING PREAMBLE
TO THE LAST WILL AND
TESTAMENT OF JOHN
PIERPONT MORGAN.
EDWIN A. WILSON.
"I commit my soul into the hands of my
Saviour, in full confidence that having redeemed
it and washed it in His most precious hlood, He
will present it faultless before the throne of my
Heavenly Father; and I entreat my children to
maintain and defend at all hazards and at any
cost of personal sacrifice the blessed doctrine of
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of Jesus Christ, .once offered, and through that
atone.'.'
This point of attraction in the Last Will and
Testament of this distinffuishcd man of many
millions will linger and shine when the sheen of
his dollars wanes. When his confession of faith
in the value of the blood of Jesus Christ was
published to .the world his hold upon the millions
he left had loosened forever, while the inheritance
of faith took on its eternal realities.
40ND, NEW ORLEANS, ATLANTA.
I Assemblies Meetin
This aspect of a Will of such magnitude rare- ti
ly receives more than a casual consideration, this fi
is dubbed the unreal, while the perishing evanes- ii
cent dollars are defined as demonstrable. tl
The actions of men while they live, brought to h
.light at their death, often out weight in appreciable
value the great exploitations of active busi- b
ness experience. Thus, this confession of the g
faith of John Pierpont Morgan is infinitely more a
effective and far reaching in its influence for p
good than his disposition of all his millions.
There is a simplicity in true greatness which a
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Another of Jltlanta's Rapidly Growing Churches
often arrests hnd holds the interested observer.
Salmon P. Chase, Lincoln's Secretary of the n
Treasury, was always accessible to callers, no s
Oars were maintained to overawe the man of the
simple life; and the visitor was placed art; his
case at once by this man of parts. President
Lincoln himself in his simplicity scorned to observe
the conventionalities that later character
ized the White House. The opening clause of ^
this wonderful Will, marked by its simplicity, is ^
the only one in which we have any interest what- *
ever; it may be read and reread by all with great
profit. His latest, most important earthly under- j
taking was the dictation of his last Will and ^
Testament, in which he disposed of his tremendous
earthly estate, and yet we find him preempting
the first space in this document of great ^
human value for God; here are words pregnant
until lTttoTlSO lTltflTVlot fni? tinnn _V._'L.
- ...... i"i kiuic auu rMjruiljr WHICH ^
are devoted to stating his paramount relation to
his God. This preamble, which the world prizes j
so little, reveals the highest type of Christian (
manhood.
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"i COMMIT MY SOUL TO MY SAVIOUR." P
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These ten words proved that he recognized c
^ himself a sinner, basing his hope for the future h
on the grace which saved him in the face of the
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1*11 tli about him. Esteeming his soul of inuitely
greater value than all his human holdigs,
he puts first things first. He publishes to
ae world the relation that his soul bears to God;
e then makes a disposition of his millions.
His confession has the marks of an instructed
eliever; he deliberates with the conscious
ravity of his theme; his assurance issues from
knowledge of God's Word; he intelligently
roceeds:
"In full confidence that having redeemed it
nd washed it in His own most precious blood."
In th is God honoring confession of
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eternity to his Saviour; he prizes the
application of the blood of the Man of
Calvary as all sufficient. Ilis hope is
based upon a progressive doctrine and
is the fruit nt a thoughtful research
of the Holy Scriptures made vital to
him by the illuminating Spirit. The
Shedder of His blood for sinners he
recognizes as the
"author ani) finishkr of his
faith."
He lias, ^Uoved and appro- *
priat vm'g fimpls of Paul
L ! " Being c-tmWgf^^this very tiling
that lie which mmts^egun a good
V work in you, will perform it until the
B day of Jesus Christ," and thus he
coufideiitly continues:
3^or' "He will nresent.it fanitiocM
A _ .. .VMAVtVUO UUXU1 C
the throne of my Heavenly Father."
This personal appropriating pronour MY
lentifies him with the Father, who alone preides
at the Court of last resort in which he
(Continued on page 5.)
THE POWER OF JESUS MY LORD.
BY THE REV. HENRY T. SCHOLL, 1). D.
Power is a characteristic that captivates mulitudes.
The pugilist who can knock out his
ntncnnisrf- in ? ?!~ *
???^ ?. xun i^uxium wins ioua applause,
nd has a large following. The athlete who can
un faster than all competitors, or throw the
ammer further, or make the biggest jump, or
ug the hardest at a knotted rope wins an inernational
reputation. The college crew that
overs four miles in better time than all conestants
receives an ovation, in which fellow
hlHontfi wall tVlnmoAl- 1
wioniBuvtsi uoarse, ancl the vicarious
eleven in a foot ball conflict are graced
nth a like reception. Then, too, there is
audation of power displayed in masterful conrol.
PoweT that has safely suspended the masive
bridge that links New York and Brooklyn;
ower that forces huge steamers across the Atlantic
within five days, and speeds the 20th
entury express at the rate of fifty miles an
our; power that accurately lifts and lowers
(Continued on page 5.)