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VOLUME FIVE
THREE
TEASTING DATS AT THE TAVERN ACLE
Great 'Bible Conjernce in Full Blast—Robertson Reasons —Hixon Delights—Gray Grips—Ellis "Enthuses ”
Kemp Kindles —Weyer Wasters and Broughton Brightens and Blesses All.
ERILY, these are feasting days in At
lanta for all who love the Lord and His
Word. The Tabernacle Bible Conference
whose visitors and speakers we rejoiced
to welcome last week, has reached the
“high tide” of spiritual interest and in
tellectual quickening—and yet it seems,
the pleasure of the Highest and the for
tune of the favored for it to sweep on-
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ward and upward from height to height and glory
to glory until the final consecration service next Sun
day night. From the refreshing devotional services
at 9 in the morning, led by Rev. J. W. Ham, through
every message, with lunch at the Tabernacle —and
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DR. JAMES M. GRAY.
on far into the night, the holy influence has held the
people.
Dr. A. T. Robertson First Speaker.
The conference with its large company of Atlan
tans and its hundreds of out-of-town visitors did not
open in a literal “blaze of glory” as was the purpose
and expectation of the Tabernacle leaders who had
turned on a double production of “candle power” from
the electric firmament for, just as the congregation
was getting ready for business, Professor Boatman’s
music was rudely checked and Dr. Robertson’s
preaching was postponed amid a mixture of comedy
and tragedy—the lights went out! The transformer
outside the building had burned out and the lights
STAYED OUT! And then under the dim light of two
faint gas jets and several good old-fashioned candles
like many of “we brethren” had been “raised on” the
opening service went brightly on. Dr. Broughton
“turned on” the current of his ready wit to brighten
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ATLANTA, GA., MARCH 10 WlO.
the darkness, while Dr. A. T. Robertson, the genial
and scholarly “Grecian,” who interprets New Testa
ment theology at the Southern Baptist Theological
Seminary in Louisville, Ky., declared in opening his
talk on Jonah that he didn’t know which was the
“Jonah” of that dark night—he or Dr. Broughton.
He said he had not learned the Book of Jonah “by
heart,” and as it was too dark to read he would just
repeat what he could remember —and “what you
don’t remember,” he said, “will fill in the gaps.”
Dr. Robertson, who is essentially a believing philos
opher in his daily interpretation of the Book of John
during the conference, spoke in this first service in
formally but incisively on the character and experi
ence of Jonah, the Hebrew missionary who, he de
clared, had to be led into the very jaws of death to
be made willing to preach fearlessly to a wicked city.
The fact that Nineveh repented at the preaching of
Jonah showed what one faithful man can do in the
midst of wickedness. Dr. Robertson closed with a
danger signal to the soul who dares to fight against
the will of God.
Dr. A. C. Dixon, of the Moody Church, Chicago,
who arrived during Dr. Robertson’s address, closed
the service with a brief but breezy, brilliant and
deeply spiritual comment on Jonah, declaring that
God was as able to perform the miracles of “whale
and gourd vine” as He is to make the seasons come
and go and the sun to rise and set.
F. B. Meyer’s First Message.
' B. Meyer, the great London preacher and
a. % -ht his first message Friday morning at
11 o’c. i theme was “Identity With Christ.”
“If we live Him we shall also reign with Him.”
* * If we deny Him He will deny us,” etc. He
came, he said, not with jokes to tell, but with faithful
effort to teach the Word of God. “Knit to the eter
nal adamant of God’s Truth,” he declared the Chris
tian men and women can dare, and do and win!
"It is easier to die a martyr’s death than to die
daily,” he said. “The deeper you lay the foundations
of personal experience with Christ, the higher the
structure of your fellowship with God and His peo
ple.”
“ No Paradise without going through the ‘iron
gate.’ ”
“Jesus is as near to you on earth as He will be
when, in Heaven, He shall wipe away all tears from
your eyes.”
A devout Christian man in England had to undergo
a serious operation. His life hung by a slender
thread and he knew it might not last through the
operation. “No,” he said to the doctor, “I will not
take an anesthetic —if I must go to meet my Savior
today, I want to meet Him with a clear, unclouded
mind.”
The man lay upon his face on the operating table.
His eyes looking just over the edge. As he prayed
for strength to bear the terrible ordeal before him,
he saw two sandaled, nail-pierced feet pause beneath
his eyes. He could not see more of the sacred form
because he could not lift his head, but he knew that
those blessed feet could only belong to Jesus.
The incision was made, the tedious operation com
pleted, and the attending doctors and nurses bore the
patient from the room. He had not felt the cruel
knife, had not realized the torturing pain, but in
stead of pain his face was beaming with an ecstasy
of joy, and his lips repeated over and over a psalm
of rejoicing. He was living in the presence of Him
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DR. W. T. ELLIS.
who said: “I will not leave you comfortless —I will
come to you.”
“In Egypt, I was surprised to see beside the statue
of one of the mightiest of the Pharaohs, a statue of
a lady whom I supposed had been his wife. I won
dered at it and said to the guide: “I did not know
that the Egyptian kings thus honored their wives.”
“Not so,” answered the guide. “It is the statue of
Pharaoh’s God.” And impious as was the suggestion,
there is yet in it a beautiful thought—for the Egyp
tian ruler said: “I reign with my God.” “If we reign
over sin and death, O Christian, we must reign with
Him.”
“Death is like dropping off your great coat and
speeding away on Heaven’s Express.”
These are some of the beautiful gems of truth
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