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VOL. LXXXVII. RICHI
The Three Genera
What is there, tying 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 have many. The Sociological
Congress has just closed its sessions in Atlanta.
Three General Assemblies, of the linited Presbyterian
Church, of the Southern and of the
Northern Churches are here this week. An invitation
>s now being extended for the next
meeting of the Pan Presbyterian
Alliance. And the Chamber of Com- ??
merce is trying to secure the next
meet ins of the Xation.il M:inlrors'
Association, with its thirteen tlious- L
a J ul members. What is the secret of
It is partly in the physical eleva- lliiflF
t ion oL' the city, nearly 1.100 feet
liifflier than New York <>r Xcw Or- wQWH
lens live hundred feel higher than Sfiflfl
Si. Louis or I 'it tsburirh. Aiul this
moans increased purity of atmos- Pt&uS
jtli'Te, with 'lie reused capacity HHl
daily work. Then. Inn. the vicinity
of two mountains. Stone Mountain
sixteen miles to the east, and Kennesaw
Mountain thirty miles to the
west, maintain constant breezes
through the city. We have never
heard of a ease of sunstroke in the ... .
W estr
eitv ot Atlanta?never a sunstroke.
Again, we have public halls capable
of seating large audiences,?the Auditorium,
seating six thousand 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.
'/ commit my soul into the hands of my
Saoicur. in full confidence that having redeemed
it and washed it in llis most precious blood, He
will present it faultless before the throne, of my
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..t .ti/cruy r unit:i ; anu i enireai my CHUftretl to
maintain and defend at aU hazards and at any
cost of personal sacrifice the blessed doctrine of
ihc complete atonement for sin through the blood
of Jesus Christ, once offered, and through that
atone
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mis point or attraction in tlie l^ast Will and
Testament of this distinguished 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
lie left had loosened forever, while the inheritance
of faith took on its eternal realities.
tviwiNU, 1NLW UKLLANb, A 1 LAN 1 A, M
I Assemblies Meetii
This aspect ? t" a Will of such magnitude rarely
receives more tl.an a casual consideration, this
is dubbed the unreal, while the perishing evanescent
dollars are defined as demonstrable.
The actions of men while they live, brought to
light at their death, often outweight in appreciable
value the irreat exploitations of active busi?
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ill:** l-AJHTll'IHT. I IlllS. 1M IS C0I11 CS.S1011 01 tlie
faith ol' John I?*?nt .Marfan is infinitely more
effective am! far reaeli;n?r in its influence for
good than his disposition <?f all his millions.
There is a simplicity in true greatness which
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Another of jdtlunla's Rapidly Growing Churches
often arrests and holds the interested observer.
Salmon 1'. Chase, Lincoln's Secretary of the
Treasury, was always accessible to callers, no
oars were maintained to overawe the man of the
simple life, and the visitor was placed at his
ease at once by this man of parts. President
Lincoln himself in his simplicity scorned to ob
.-.cue in*.- tiuncuiiuiiiuuii-s i:i;u unci* cnaracterixed
the White House. The opening clause ol*
tliis wonderful Will, marked by its simplicity, is
the only one in which we have any interest whatever;
it may be read and reread by all with great
profit. IT is latest, most important earthly undertaking
was the dictation of his last Will and
Testament, in which he disposed of his tremendous
earthly estate, ami yet we find him preempting
the first space in this document of great
human value for God; here are words pregnant
with intense interest for time and eternity which
are devoted to stating his paramount relation to
his Ood. This preamble, which the world prizes
so little, reveals the highest type of Christian
manhood.
"i COMMIT MY SOI I TO MY SAVIOUR."
These ten words proved that he recognized
himself a sinner, basing his hope for the future
on the grace which saved him in the face of the
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ig at Atlanta,
i I'll til about him. Esteeming liis soul of iuliuitcly
greater value than all his human holdings.
ho puts tiiftt tilings tir.st. lie publishes to
the world the relation that his soul bears to Govl;
li" then makes a disposition of his millions.
His confession lias the marks of an instructed
believer; he deliberates with the conscious
gravity of his theme; his assurance issues from
a knowledge of Clod's Word; he intelligently
proceeds:
"In lull confidence that havinir redeemed it
.-iiul washed it in His own most precious blood."
In this God honoring confession of
;? . iiis faith, he traces his hope for
'r eternity to his Saviour: he prizes the
' application of the blood of the Man of
. j Calvary as all suttieient. Iiis hope is
1 based upon a progressive doctrine and
is the fiu:t oj a thoughtful research
of the Holy Scriptures made vital to
him by the illumiuatins? Spirit. The
Isbeddcr of 11 is blood for sinners lie
recognizes as the
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"Aimioi: \ni? riNisiu:K ok mis
. v KAl'IM."
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He has n-nlh; Jieljcvcd ami appro
| printed those iis^iririg yyords oi' Paul
? who hy ihc,Spirit -WaL
! "Ueing < onfr.luiuL \pV( this very thing
' that lie which hath hogllU a good
Hff work iu you, will pert'orm it until the
IB day of Jesus Christ," and thus he
eoulideiitlv continues:
astor.
| lie will present it faultless before
the throne of mv Heavenly Father."
This personal appropriating pronoun MY
ideal ilies him with the Father, who alone presides
at the Court of last resort in which he
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THE POWER OF JESUS MY LORD.
BY THE KEY. IIEXKY T. SCIiOLL, 1). I>.
Power is a characteristic that captivates mul1
i t?i /t ah Tl-" ?
... me wno can knock out his
antagonist in a few rounds wins loud applause,
and has a large following. The athlete who can
run faster than all competitors, or throw the
hammer further, or make the biggest jump, or
lug the hardest at a knotted rope wins an iniemational
reputation. The college crew that
covers four miles in better time than all contestants
receives an ovation, in which fellow
students yell themselves hoarse, and the victorious
eleven in a foot ball conflict are graced
with a like reception. Then, too, there is
laudation of nower ; ?
,..u;iu jii uiuaieriiu coiiirol.
Power that has safely suspended the massive
bridge that links New York and Brooklyn;
power that forces huge steamers across the Atlantic
within five days, and speeds the 20th
century express at the rate of fifty miles an
hour; power that accurately lifts and lowers
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