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Tabernacle Conference In Tull filast
Great Teachers from Tlvo Continents Inspire and ‘Bless Delighted Crotods
EVER been to a Tabernacle Conference?
Sorry for you. It is wonderful to be a
part of such a great company, all bent
on one eager, burning purpose —to know
more of the truths of God and be better
prepared to give those saving truths to
the starving, dying world 1 The opening
exercises this year were decidedly
marred in atendance by rain, rain, con-
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tinuous, “everlasting” rain!
But the teaching masters seemed to know it not.
Those who braved the elements feasted all the more,
perhaps, the first two days without the throng. But
now the days are cloudless and the nights are
lighted by the stars and the hungry multitudes are
being fed with the manna from the skies.
■S. D. Gordon, the “Quiet Hour” apostle, an old
time Tabernacle favorite, seems richer and more
mellow with his quiet, tender messages than ever
before. W. L. Walker, evangelist (our own Will
Walker), former associate pastor of the Tabernacle
and superintendent of the Tabernacle Bible School,
is leading the devotional hour every morning to the
spiritual delight of all. Miss E. Stafford Millar, of
Australia, is proving herself a “Bible woman” in
deed as she brings forth “treasures new and old.”
England and Scotland Represented.
It is only natural that special interest should
center about the two great teachers from England
and Scotland who are known at Northfield, but
strangers hitherto on the Tabernacle platform.
Rev. Stuart S. Holden, of London, represents
what we know in America as the “Evangelistic
side” of the Church of England, and has been giving
in his morning messages a rich and enriching un
folding of the “Keswick movement.” The Golden
Age will give next week a “brief” of Mr. Holden’s
view of the much tal'ked-of Keswick influence.
Rev. J. W. Kemp, now seven years pastor of
Charlotte Chapel, Edinburgh, presents the rather
unusual picture in this country of a Scottish Baptist.
He makes you think much of that Tabernacle
magnet, Campbell Morgan, in manner and Bible
exposition. He has the largest Bible class in Scot
land and is a faithful champion and exponent of the
verities concerning the Book and the Blood.
R.
MISS MILLER FIRST SPEAKER.
Saturday afternoon the first speaker was Miss E.
Stafford Miller. She is no stranger to the people who
He is lecturing on the menace of the saloon ami
the saloon element, to civic progress.
In speaking of his trip across the line, Mr. Wright
said:
4 ‘Winter is the time to go to Canada. The aver
age tourist goes in the summer, ami sees nothing
but a vast pine forest, interspersed with a few
lakes. But there are hundreds of things to see in
the winter that are different from what we have
here. It is a world of snow and ice. I did not
see a wheel on a vehicle while I was in Toronto.
Everything is on runners.
“Winter is the time those people enjoy them
selves. They have nothing to do out get in their
sleighs and drive to the meetings, political and
religious, to enjoy their sports. Tobogganing is one
of the most popular of these. You might think
that riding on sleds is confined to children, but it
is not. I have seen old men and women up in the
eighties, sliding down hill, their cheeks as red as
apples, enjoying the sport to the full. Ice-sailing
is another great sport. Those little boats go faster
than anything I ever rode on. They start fast, too.
One of them lit out so suddenly that it left me on
my back on the ice, much to the amusement of the
crowd.
“I did not suffer from the cold. For that matter,
cold is a matter of comparison, anyhow. We fee!
32 degrees as keenly in Georgia as they do zero up
there. I wore the same clothes that I do at home,
with a heavy overcoat, of course. The Canadians
are a demonstrative and hospitable people, and
treated me royally.”
attend these conferences, for she has been here
before. She is an enthusiastic speaker and one who
has much magnetism about her.
She spoke from the thirteenth verse of the thir
teenth chapter of First Corinthians, “Now abideth
faith, hope and love, these three, but the greatest
of these is love.”
She stressed the need for faith in the world in
which we live. Without it there would be stagna
tion on every side.
She gave a beautiful illustration for the necessity
of hope. Out in Australia there was a drought that
lasted seven years. The ground was bare of vegeta
tion and the water courses had all dried up. There
were no leaves on the trees. The Australian trees
do not shed their leaves as ours do and the bare
trees were especially noticeable. The sheep were
dying by the thousands and the cattle and the
horses were gathered about the farm houses lowing
and calling piteously for water. They had to be
killed to put them out of their misery.
And yet the people had smiling faces because they
hoped the coming winter would fill the water courses
and moisten the ground.
Miss Miller spoke of the love of men for each
other and then she stressed the deeper love of God
for all the sinful world. The prayer that followed
was preceded by a song, “I Need Thee Every Hour,”
sung while the men and women were bowed in
prayer.
Dr. Gordon Heard.
Rev. S. D. Gordon took as his theme, “The Revival
in Bethany.” He told what, was meant by the word
revival and then proceeded to show the need of a
revival. There was a man -who was dead and his
friends needed him back in life. They prayed for
Jesus. He came in answer to the message sent
to Him. He groaned within himself at the ravages
of sin. He grieved for the sorrow of the sisters and
yet there was no revival.
It did not come until the people put forth their
stone-moving ability.
Mr. Gordon stressed the need for the removal
of stones in the way of revivals. He called atten
tion to the objection of Martha. She did not want
the stones removed on account of the bad odor.
He said the moving of many stones in the way of
revivals would make bad odors, but still they must
be moved before dead men could walk into life.
He stressed the need for prayer and told of an
old father and mother who prayed all night for
the conversion of their absent boy. They would
talk a while and then pray together. Then they
prayed separately. They read the Bible and prayed
some more. At three o'clock in the morning the
wife said she couldn t pray any more. She
knew Charlie was either dead or converted.
She and the husband went to bed. The
next day a letter was received from Charlie telling
Hamilton’s Great New Song Book.
A great new book by a famous trio —that is the
Evangel. It is bound to make an instantaneous hit
in the song book world. If either one of the men
connected with publishing this book had performed
the task alone it would have been a guarantee of
rare worth and success. But think of such a trio
as William Wistar Hamilton, Superintendent of
Evangelism of the Southern Baptist Convention;
Robert H. Coleman, the magnetic right arm of
George W. Truett in his matchless work, and E. 0.
Excell, the famous singer and author —all on one
book! That tells its own story of surpassing excel
lence.
Speaking of this new book Mr. Harry C. Robert,
Atlanta manager of the American Baptist Publica
tion Society, says: “It is not often a song book is
published under such favorable conditions and com
piled by three prominent specialists in his own line,
residing in three different sections of the country.
“Dr. Williams Wistar Hamilton, the great South
ern Baptist evangelist, while engaged in his meet
ings found the need of a first-class evangelistic song
book without the unorthodox and trashy songs so
liberally represented in the latter day selections.
“Mr. Robert H. Coleman, a Sunday school super
intendent, prominent B. Y. P. Th leader and assistant
pastor to Dr. George Truett of Dallas, Texas, also
saw the need of such a book that would be easily
adapted to a Sunday school, B. Y. P. U., Church
The Golden Age for March 18, 1909.
TttE EVANCjEL
how he had been convicted of sin and of how he
had prayed throughout the night. At three o’clock
in the morning he had settled the question, had sur
rendered to Jesus and had become a Christian.
The cessation of the rain on the coming of the
Sabbath proved a powerful magnet for drawing the
people to the Baptist Tabernacle.
The first speaker of the morning was Rev. Dr.
R. J. Bateman, the man who is in charge of the
rescue work in Jacksonville, Fla. He is a man of
nandsome face, lit. up by a splendid eye, one that
gleams with glory from the other world when he
talks about his work. He is a word painter of
no mean ability and tears are very plentiful when
be tells of his work. He grows eloquent at times
and sweeps all before him, so earnest is his manner.
He speaks about his work, which was established to
save the lost and to glorify the name of Jesus
Christ. To emphasize the need of this work he said
there were three hundred and sixty thousand lost
girls and that the average age of a girl after she
enters this life was five years. In addition to these
girls there were a million homeless men.
Talks About His Home.
The home over which he presided furnished
eighteen thousand free meals a year and ten thous
and free beds. There had been secured five thousand
places of employment for those out of work; one
hundred and; thirty girls had been restored to their
families and one hundred abandoned babies had
been rescued and provided with homes where they
could be reared in a Christian atmosphere. There
was no creed for the work in Jacksonville, all
being done under a banner on which was inscribed:
' Jesus Christ, the King.” All the home had been
able to do and to get was because Jesus was King.
Dr. Bateman created something of a sensation
when he announced that he could prove that there
was in this country a systematic traffic in young
girls. This was a shame and a blot on the stars
and stripes that float above the land in which we
live, and yet it is a startling and heart-rending fact.
In closing. Dr. Bateman asked the people when
they were in their own homes to pray for him and
for the work that God had laid upon his heart and
put into his hands.
Rev. J. Stuart Holden Speaks.
In the opening prayer, Dr. Broughton asked God to
open the hearts of those who had money to see the
sin of spending it foolishly, spending it for expensive
furniture, for expensive clothing and for expensive
feathers on their hats. He prayed that they might
see the great need of money to be used in redeeming
the lost.
The eleven o'clock hour was occupied by Rev. J.
Stuart Holden. He is an intensely spiritual man
and a preacher of wonderful power, and is the
rector of an Episcopal church in the west end of
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and Prayer Meeting services.
Mr. E. 0. Excell, the world-famous gospel singer
and composer, was ready and willing to assist in
the perfecting of this matchless collection of Gospel
songs, permitting the use of some of the most
inspiring and uplifting hymns of which he owned
the copyright; among them being the celebrated
Glory Song,, used so effectively in the Torrey-
Alexander meetings.
“The price has been put so low that there is no
excuse for a church or Sunday school to be without
good music. The flexible manilia edition, like the
sample sent, is $13.00 per hundred, SI.BO per dozen;
the one-quarter cloth edition is only $20.00 per hun
dred, $2.50 per dozen.”
The following Conventions will use this book at
their next meeting:
Florida B. Y. P. C. Convention, Lake City, Fla.
Tabernacle Bible Conference, Atlanta, Ga.
Southern Baptist Convention, Louisville, Ky.
Mississippi B. Y. P. U. Encampment, Blue Moun
tain, Miss.
This book is now off the press. send for samples.
Price: Manila, locas., postage acts.; Boards, 20cts.,
postage scts. H. C. Robert, Mgr., Atlanta, Ga.
* It
lhe Masons and Shriners of Cincinnati have
decided to discontinue the use of alcoholic drinks at
all banquets, and will serve uniermented grape juice
instead.
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