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“I Am
The Way,
The Truth, ana
The Life.”
The Georgia Baptists Orphans’ Home is to install
a shoe shop to make shoes for the inmates of the
home.
Rev. Thomas Dixon, Sr., the father of Dr. A. 0.
Dixon, of Boston, Thomas Dixon, Jr., and Frank
Dixon, is eighty-five years of age and is the act
ive pastor of three churches in Cleveland, N. C.
President J. C. Brewton of the Union Baptist In
stitute, at Mt. Vernon, Ga., has been forced to
resign his pastorate of the Mt. Vernon and Glen
wood churches to devote his whole time to his edu
cational work.
The Baptists of Kentucky, at their recent Gener
al Association, decided to raise $500,000 for the
better equipment of their schools. Dr. A. Gatliff,
of Williamsburg, agreed to give 4,000 acres of coal
land, estimated to be worth at least $200,000.
Rev. G. C. Hutton, D.D., has been chosen modera
tor of the Scotch General Assembly. He is eighty
one years old, was ordained in 1851 and took charge
of the Presbyterian church at Paisley, where he is
still the active pastor, doing his preaching, his
pastoral work as well as he did years ago.
Prof. Benjamin W. Bacon, of the Yale Theolog
ical Schoo], who for the last year has been director
of the American School of Archeology at Jerusa
lem, will return in the coming college vacation and
his successor as director of the school for the com
ing year will be Prof. David G. Lyon, of Harvard.
A Presbyterian Church of colored people in Roa
noke, Va., has unveiled a handsome stained glass
window to the memory of Stonewall Jackson. The
center of the window contains the design of a
river. On one side of this is a. camp of soldiers
and on the other a forest with the inscription, “In
memory of Stonewall Jackson. ‘Let us cross over
the river and rest in the shade of the trees.’ ”
The Baptist Young People’s Union will probably
hold their ninetenn hundred and seven National
Convention in Spokane, Washington. A half fare
rate has been granted on all railroads. If the
convention comes to Spokane the chamber of com
merce, the Publicity and Promotion committee, the
150,000 club, the Association of Commercial Clubs
of the Inland Empire and other organizations will
unite to give the Baptists the greatest meeting they
ever have held. Already $5,000 have been pledged
to the Baptist authorities for the expenses of the
convention.
The Massachusetts Humane Society is one of the
pioneers in the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
and it has recently taken an important step in the
same direction. There is a monthly publication is
sued by the Brotherhood of Teamsters and the
Massachusetts Humane Society lias agreed to fill a
page of this perodical with articles on the humane
treatment of animals. The theory is that if team
sters better understood the treatment that animals
should have they would be less cruel and thought
less to them.
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The Golden Age for July 19, 1906.
A Remarkable Young Preacher.
Among the truly remarkable young men of the
Southern ministry, irrespective of denomination, is
Oliver J. Copeland, the new pastor of the First
Baptist church at Gainesville, Georgia.
Converted at twenty-two, beginning his education
at Patrick Military Institute, Anderson, S. C., and
continuing that education every day since then—
whether a. student of books in his library or a stu
dent of men and things out in the world, he has
risen in the six years of his ministry to one of the
most important pulpits in the South.
Mr. Copeland spent nearly three years at Waynes
boro where a handsome new building was erected
during his pastorate. About a year ago he came
to Jackson Hill, one of the most solid and active
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REV. OLIVER J. COPELAND.
churches in Atlanta. Jackson Hill went grandly
forward under brilliant and consecrated leadership,
and both pastor and people grieved at the recent
separation. But Mr. Copeland’s health is not vigor
ous, and he began to see that the ideal prosecution
of a large church in a large city would cost him the
expenditure of more vitality than kindred work in
the mountain clime of Gainesville. A church that
greatly needed him had reached her hands to him,
and he felt constrained to walk into the open door
of a wonderful opportunity.
The gateway to the commerce of the mountains,
the home of famous Brenau with her three hundred
girls, Gainesville is the distributing center of an
influence which any pastor should covet—especially
since this work can be done while laboring at a per
petual health-resort.
Oliver J. Copeland is just that type of man which
the Gainesville section needs. A self-made man
(but not like many such men—too much in love
with his “maker”) a magnetic orator, as consecrat-
ed as the “beloved John,” as fearless as Paul and
as humble as a child, we believe this remarkable
young man will be mightily used of God io do a
far-reaching work in one of the most beautiful and
promising sections in the American continent.
A Great Meeting.
The reunion of the present and ex-members of
New Hope Church at Coleman, Randolph Co., Ga.,
was truly a great meeeting. Rev. W. W. Arnold,
the pastor, was assisted in the preaching service by
Rev. J. S. Knowles, a former pastor, and Rev. John
Martin, pastor at Valukah.
The roll of ex-members was called and out of a
long list only 6 or 8 answered present, though
many kind letters from absent ones were received.
Some of these were well posted as to the church
history, going back to 1847, about the date of the
constitution of the church, which took place in a
private home. Quite an interesting account was
given <>f the first meeting house, which was built of
split logs. Th seats were also made of like ma
terial with long pegs driven in, as a support. Af
ter the first house proved too small, a second one,
after that a third, then the fourth which has lately
been remodeled and is one of the neatest and best
furnished village churches to be found.
During the meeting many beautiful things were
said about the former pastors, their good work and
great usefulness.
The present membership of about eighty, forms
quite a strong body which is doing good work in the
Master’s vineyard. *
The Sunday School is one of the best. It does
not make or grow Christians, but. it teaches the
Book, and prepares the young to be useful and ef
ficient workers in the Lord’s cause, after they have
been led through it teachings to yield their hearts
to Christ.
The meeting was intensely spiritual and lasting
good was accomplished.
It is impossible to name all visitors, but no one
will feel that this visitor is unduly partial if special
mention is made of Mr. E. IT. Thornton of Atlanta,
who has grown to such prominence in the commer
cial as well as the Christian world, being now
President of the Young Men’s Christian Associa
tion in Atlanta. Mr. Thornton’s father was an
honored preacher in Southwest Georga for many
years and the fragrance of his memory was only
sweetened by the visit and heart-moving talks of
his noble son.
Such reunions of Christian men and women as
that at Coleman, made that part of the world bet
ter and enriched the life of a former citizen of that
splendid community.
Visitor.
During the year 1905 the Methodist Episcopal
Church sent out seventy-two new missionaries to
reinforce its workers in foreign lands.
Switzerland will probably soon enact a law in
accordance with which exhorting to crime or glori
fying it will be a prison offense. It is aimed chief
ly at anarchists.
“The Entrance
of
Thy Words
Giveth Light.”
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