The Golden age. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1906-1915, March 01, 1906, Page 5, Image 5

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    “The Entrance of Thy Woras Giveth Light."
NOTE—The eyes of the student world are turned this week toward Nashville and the four
thousand “Student Volunteers’’ in convention there. THE GOLDEN AGE will have next week an il
lustrated story of this wonderful gathering of students who are planning so gloriously to spread the
Light of the World.
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• What Means This Great Convention? ♦
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4 By WILLIAM D. UPSHAW. •
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* (Dedicated to the Students’ Volunteer Convention Assembled in Nashville, Tenn. £
J February 28 —March 4, 1906.) ?
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* Our hearts have felt an impulse— That we who, once in darkness, •
And our eyes have seen a power Rejoiced to see the Light, ?
® Which they never comprehended Will ‘ ‘speed away” our blessing ♦
• Till they met this mighty hour! To those in rayless night! f
• . Indeed, it is so wondrous It tells that “foreign missions” *
* We can not tell it all, Mean just the same as “home”— •
♦ For God Himself is moving To all in death and blindness— •
♦ Within this very Hall! That Life and Hope are come! •
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• What means this mighty concourse?—■ It means our Faith is strengthened; J
• This eager, listening throng— For more than e’er we see ♦
• This depth of soul and feeling That where’er Christ is lifted, f
• That swells in every song? There’s Love and Liberty!—■ >
• This blessed Christian fellowship That purse-strings shall be loosened, *
• That glows in words and eyes, And scholars now be fleet •
+ And keeps us daily feeding To rise and cast their treasures •
• On manna from the skies? Down at the Master’s feet! •
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What mean these thrilling stories It means our own America—■ •
• Os conquests far and near?— The nations—all the earth— ?
• This joy that seeks expression Must catch the holy fire ♦
• In smile or happy tear? And know the “second birth”!—-
e What means this mystic Presence Our churches be more active >
• That makes these faces shine, In th’ light these students leave, •
4 And wraps the whole convention As day throws back its splendor •
• In atmosphere divine? In th’ golden glow of eve!—- •
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• It means that if some skeptic That “in this generation” •
• Within these walls should stray— The Cross—the Cross shall stand ?
• Hear all these stalwart students “From Greenland’s icy mountains ♦
• Who love and work and pray, To India’s coral strand”! f
• His “theories” would crumble—- We’ll “go” or send another, >
• He’d feel the sacred flame, Till idols fear and fall, *
? And own the saving power And “every tribe and nation” •
Os Jesus’ love and name! Shall “crown Him Lord of all’”! •
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f It means that Christ our Captain, And in that Day of Crowning •
• In golden word and deed, Whose dawning now we see, £
• Still reigns above all dogma—- The Light of this Convention ?
• Still shines in every creed!—■ Will kiss the Crystal Sea! ♦
• That every name and kindred Then—then we’ll know the fullness—
• Forgets the lines between, In the harvest of the years— *
• When on the world’s Golgotha The meaning and the mission •
• Our blessed Lord is seen!— " Os the Student Volunteers! •
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The Golden Age for March 1, 1906.
AN HONORED SON OF MISSISSIPPI.
Georgia bad as her guest last week one of the most
honored sons of Mississippi. He was Professor B.
G. Lowrey, co-president of Blue Mountain college,
who has for more than thirty years been a great
power for the Christian education of women in
Mississippi ami the South. Blue Mountain now has
over four hundred students.
'While Professor Lowrey was in Georgia he visit
ed Monroe college at Forsyth and charmed students
and faculty by his eloquent “common sense.”
Here is part of a letter to the editor from one
of the brightest girls at the college, telling how
greatly Dr. Lowrey’s visit was enjoyed:
Monroe College, Feb. IS, 1906.
Your kindness in sending Professor Lowrey to us
so unexpectedly can not be overlooked. When we
heard that we were to have a lecture in the chapel
on Saturday night we were a little disappointed
because you know that is our only holiday, and we
are always tired by then. But every girl left the
chapel with a radiant face, which told that she
had thoroughly enjoyed the evening.
I wish you could have been here. I have never
enjoyed anything we have ever had at the college
more than I did that “heart to heart” talk, and
I think I voice the sentiment of every girl when I
say it. I feel sure that my whole future life will
mean more for God and more for humanity because
of the beautiful thoughts which were given me.
I took notes from the talk and would love to give
you an outline of it if I had time to write it and you
had time to read it. Professor Lowrey’s talk was
so refreshing.”
Conwell’s Temple.
(Continued from Page One.)
But Dr. Conwell doesn’t confine himself to the
spiritual side only, but to the educational and phy
sical as well. One morning recently I spent a very
pleasant half day at the Temple College. I visited
the different departments, from the Kindergarten
to the Medical and Theological departments. In
ISS4 seven young men with limited means wanted
to study for the ministry and Dr. Conwell, busy
though he was, offered to give them instruction
evenings. This was really the beginning of the
work which has now become a college of seven
thousand students. The original idea was to make
it a school where those employed during the day
might have an opportunity of fitting themselves for
higher positions in life. The present college was
built in LS93, but the accommodations have now be
come too small, and they expect to build a larger
college in the near future. Some of the branches
now given at the college are: civil engineering,
chemistry, elocution and oratory, painting and
drawing, sign writing, mechanical and architectu
ral drawing, music, physical training, and a feature
especially interesting to me is the training of the
young women in such useful arts as dressmaking,
millinery, cooking, embroidery, etc.
The Samaritan Hospital is a monument to the
sympathetic nature of Dr. Conwell. This hospital
which was started in two rooms, now occupies half
a square, ami more than a thousand patients were
cared for last year. This Samaritan Hospital has
been a benediction to the poor of the city. From
it none who cannot pay are turned away. In it
young women are trained to follow the profession
to which they are peculiarly adapted—that of car
ing for the sick. At the present time the patients
in the hospital, by means of the megaphone, can
listen to the services conducted at the Temple on
Sunday.
Dr. Conwell is also noted as a lecturer. Several
of his lectures have been published in the story of
his life by A. R. Burr. An interesting fact con
nected with his return trips from the various places
at whi( h he lectures is that his stenographer meets
him half way with his mail and takes dictation
during the remainder of the trip. This indicates
that Dr. Conwell in his busy life has learned to
use his time to the best advantage. This, and
many other valuable lessons I have learned as I
have come in contact with Dr. Conwell in his work.
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