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they regard their own”? You say, “You will
never see that in this business age.” Yes, that
is not the spirit of the age, but it is the way the
church should live. Listen, again: If this were
true, we would never take the advantage of our
brother in any transaction, and never allow any
one else to do it if we could prevent it. Wouldn’t
that be delightful? Say! wouldn’t it be delightful
for our membership of about 1,600 to adopt such
a standard as that?
Then, were this true, we would regard our broth
er’s good name with the same sacredness and in
terest with which we regard our own. Wouldn’t
it be grand and glorious to have a church of 1,600
members, made up of all shades and ranks of so
cial and business life come together on such a basis
as that? Wouldn’t it be good to feel we were
in a church that would die rather than let us be
misrepresented—all of them die?
There are some churches into which I should
very much hate to go. I should be afraid of my
character. The ideal church that the apostle Paul
wanted to see in Ephesus is the church that has
its eyes open. Wouldn’t it be blessed if the girls
coming to this city to school and to work could
say, “Well, I am constantly liable to misrepresen
tation. and I want to go somewhere where I can get
protection. Mother is dead, and father is dead,
and I have nobody else to look after me, and I
want somebody to protect me so long as I am
straight.” Wouldn’t it be blessed if they could
say, “There is one place where I know that is
true.”
If this were true, when our brother goes astray,
we would go after him. Not with a club—but would
go with love, and woo him back. Or if our sister
goes astray, we would do the same thing. Do you
know that the church goes after a man, sometimes
with a club, and sometimes with love, and brings
him back, but when a woman goes astray, all
backs are turned.
The last thing I want to say is this: It would
mean that my greatest pleasure would be my
brother’s good, and not my own. You say that is
not natural. It isn’t natural, but it is divine. I
maintain that the man who is governed by that
principle is going to get all he needs. It is in
keeping with what Jesus said. “Except a corn of
wheat fall into the ground, and die, it ahidet’h
alone, but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.”
THE WAY LOVE WINS.
In the early days of my ministry, we waked up
to the fact that one of our most popular and active
girls had gone to the bad. Os course, it was the
cause of much regret and sorrow. Everybody in
the church said: “Turn her out.” When the dea
cons met the first night after the talk had gone
the rounds of the community, they said, “Turn
her out.” I said, “Let’s not do it that way.”
We went about it in the scriptural way. One
morning I was preaching and stepped down from
the platform, and made a proposition. You could
not have made me believe she would have looked
out upon the world. But she had come in, and had
taken a seat almost behind the door. I gave the
invitation for all who wanted to get back to God
to come forward and give me their hand. After
awhile I heard a scream, and saw her coming.
She was crying, and when she took hold of my
hand she fell down upon her knees and began to
pray. I thought to myself, this church will wish
they were at home. Men and women began to hang
their heads, and feel they were disgraced. But
the young people in the house seemed to look dif
ferently. She had at one time been the leading
voice in that choir. They were the ones that were
hurt most. I felt for the choir, and while I stood
there weeping myself, I heard a movement from
behind me, and I looked, and I saw coming from
the choir about fifteen young women, led by one
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•of the best women God ever gave a church. Then
came, too, the young men, without a word being
said—nothing worked up. One after another they
took her hand, and stooped down and kissed her
cheek.
This was religion. It is just what God demands.
Dr. Wicker in Atlanta.
Evangelist J. J. Wicker, who has for the past
week been conducting the most successful evangel
istic service in the history of the Tabernacle, hails
from Massachusetts, is by birth a Virginian, whose
father was a Roman Catholic, mother a Methodist,
graindfather a Scotch Presbyterian, and he is a
Baptist. In an interview with The Golden Age he
expressed his great delight with the city of Atlanta,
and with the splendid aggressiveness that charac
terizes all of its enterprises, and especially its re
ligious life. When asked what Ire thought of the
work of the Tabernacle, he grew enthusiastic and
said: “It is the most unique institution for God
that I have ever become acquainted with. Dr.
Broughton is a man of peculiar power doing a pe
culiar work in away all his own for the glory of
God and the good of his fellow men. He has solved
the problem concerning the masses. His great Tab
ernacle is packed and hundreds turned away every
Sunday evening. The congregations at any service
surpass anything that I have ever seen, and would
be an inspiration to any speaker.”
EVANGELIST J. J. WICKER.
When asked concerning the institutional side of
this work, Mr. Wicker replied: “Beyond all ques
tion, it is God. I have seen a number of diunk
ards reclaimed during the last two weeks. Homes
that were broken and shattered have been beauti
fully brought togeher. Men out of work have been
given positions of employment suited to their capac
ity. They express their gratitude for every kindness
in an immediate devotion to the cause that has
brought them relief. Anyone who will go to the
office of the Tabernacle at almost any hour of the
day will find a stream of people needing sympathy,
comfort and instruction.. Here they find all three,
and heavy hearts have been unburdened by the prac
tical forces that are at work in the name of God for
humanity in this great institution. Dr. Broughton
is one of the greatest organizers I have ever known.
His work is undoubtedly a phenomenal success.
Few men in this country would be capable of admin
istering the affairs of the Tabernacle, but God has
laid His hand on Broughton, and with consummate
skill he is carrying forward one of the grandest
enterprises on earth.”
“And what do yon think of the new enterprise?”
was the next quesion.
“I think that it would be one of the greatest ca
lamities that could come upon Atlanta if in any
way it should fail. The work, as I understand,
started with practically nothing, and has now
reached such proportions as to command the atten
tion of Christian people from every part of our
country, as well as many beyond our shores. The
new enterprise is worthy of all that can possibly be
bestowed upon it. It seems to me that regardless
of denominational lines, all Christians everywhere
should support this work. I know of no place
where a man could place his money to a greater ad
vantage for God and humanity. It seems to me
that, anyone who would become acquainted with this
work would feel the call from God to help to carry
forward to completion the contemplated enterprise
which Dr. Broughton has recently outlined in the
public press. My prayer shall be for the success
of this great work, and I hope that God will raise
up friends everywhere to help to complete a work
worthy of the most exalted ambition and that com
mends itself to the prayers and pocket books of all
good people.”
Concerning the fight of saloons or no saloons in
the city, Mr. Wicker delivered an address in the
Tabernacle, to men only, last Sunday afternoon.
Among other things he said:
“A city of churches like Atlanta ought without
question to be able to drive out the saloons. No
matter how well managed the liquor business may
be in any city, it must, wherever it exists, carry sin,
shame, poverty, death and hell in its wake. Surely
there can be but. one side to this question, and cer
tainly when it comes to the direct issue every lover
of God and man will throw himself into the
very front of the fight and carry its cause forward
Io a glorious victory. Now is the time above all
others that enthusiasm and co-operation is needed
in securing tlie election, and it is to be hoped that
when the issue comes all the forces of righteousness
will unite to fight a common foe which has done
much to destroy our fathers, our brothers, our sons,
and alas, in many places the other sex! I wish I
could be a citizen of Atlanta and help to banish
the saloons from her beautiful streets forever.”
It may be added that several hundred people have
found Christ during the special meeting conducted
by Mr. Wicker, apd it is expected that at no dis
tant date he will come back for a more extended
stay in our city. He left last Monday for a four
weeks’ engagement with the Clarendon Street
Church of Boston.
High Finance.
A man stopped a newsboy in New York, saying,
“See here, son, I want to find the Blank National
Bank. I’ll give you half a dollar if you direct me
to it.”
With a grin the boy replied: “All right, come
right along.” And he led the man to a building
half a block away.
The man duly paid the promised fee remarking,
“That was half a dollar easily earned, son.”
“Sure!” responded the lad. “But you mustn’t
fergit that bank directors is paid high in Noo-
Yawk. ” —American Spectator.
A little Topeka girl came home from church the
other day and was asked what the minister’s text
was.
“I know it all right,” she asserted.
“Well, repeat it,” her questioner demanded.
“Don’t be afraid and I will get you a bed
quilt,” was the astounding answer.
Investigation proved that the central thought of
the sermon had been, “Fear not, and I will send
you a comforter.”—Kansas City Journal.
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