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The Golden Age
Published Ebery Thursday by the Golden Age Publishing
. Company (Jnc.')
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WILLIAM D. UPSHAW .... Editor
MPS G. S. LINDSEY - - Managing Editor
LEN G BROUGriTON - - - Pulpit Editor
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Charles C. Pl Hott Dead.
Georgia Methodism is unspeakably shocked and
bereaved and evangelical Christianity everywhere
infinitely poorer by the untime-
A Young Preacher ly death of Rev. Charles C.
of Wonderful Elliott.
Promise. Stricken with pneumonia on
the field of his new pastorate,
Asbury church, Savannah, he was brought to Wes
ley Memorial Hospital in Atlanta for treatment.
Love and skill fought valiantly for his brilliant
young life up to the very gates of death, but God
took him. The Infinite sees as the finite can not do.
It is only about four years since the writer saw
this stalwart, self-made young man graduate ar
Emory College, and heard him deliver a medal win
ning speech on the subject, “Moral Courage Needed
In Our Public Men,” which fairly electrified the audi
ence. It was naturally gratifying when the big,
broad-shouldered fellow came down from the stage
wearing the gold of victory, took the editor of The
Golden Age by the hand and said with a smile: “I
am glad to tell you, Upshaw, that a part of the
motto of your paper, purity in the state, suggested
to me the subject for my commencement speech,
while the line of thought w r as peculiarly inspired by
your story of the Folk Family, especially your por
trayal of Joseph W. Folk as a moral leader.”
And when Charles Elliott became President of the
Sparks Institute, following that rare* heroic spirit,
Comer M. Woodward, it gave his editor friend great
pleasure to visit and speak to his students.
Why did one so truly great have to die so young?
We do not know. We dare not try to tell.
Charles C. Elliott had in him the timber out of
which thfe best of Bishops and all other religious
leaders are made. It is the ultimate of faith to be
lieve that God can utilize that timber in the man
sions of the skies, and can let the spiritual contem
plation of their grandeur prove a balm to the broken
heart of his devoted young wife and thousands of
sorrowing friends who mourn o’er his early going.
Farewell, noble, knightly Elliott! The tears come,
dear heart of the brave and true, as, from a narrow
bed in Mississippi flowers of brothely love are
wafted to fall all over your new-made grave! But
thank God, through this shower of tears shines the
rainbow promise of Hope and Heaven.
We shall stand before the King.
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Dr. J. L. White in Macon.
J. L. White back in Macon!
Verily “there’s magic in the sound.” The news
papers tell us that Dr. E. C.
Finding the Flowers Dorgin, pastor of the old First
He Planted for a church in Macon, Georgia,
Dozen Years. has invited Dr. J. L. White,
of Greensboro, N. C., to help
him in a series of meetings beginning the middle
of March. And, behold! here lies this editor friend
to whom Dr. White has done a thousand kindnesses,
beautiful and cheering—not able to reach out a hand
of welcome, nor catch “a drop” of his glorious
preaching.
J. L. White helped to build the “Old First,” Ma
con, into one of the greatest churches in all the
world —we measure our words when we say it —
and we know his welcome in Macon and up at Bes-
The Golden Age for March 24, 1910.
WESLEY MEMORIAL to Open Soon
One of the greatest events in the history of the
religious world, in this section of America, will be
the opening of Wesley Memorial
The Pride of Church in Atlanta, Georgia, Sunday,
Southern April seventh. In addition to an audi-
Methodism torium seating three thousand people,
In Insti- there are vast areas of space for carry
tutional ing on all phases of institutional
Work. church work —religious, educational,
physical and benevolent.
Wesley Memorial Hospital, only a few steps away,
is already doing a wonderful work in obeying the
Master’s example by caring for the bodies as well
as the souls of men.
It is announced that Dr. J. S. Simon, President
of Didsbury College, Manchester, England, will
preach the opening sermon. In the event the dis
tinguished English preacher should fail to reach
Atlanta in time, the first sermon in the great audito
rium will be delivered by Bishop Warren A. Cand
ler. We believe that Bishop Candler ought to preach
that first sermon anyway, for the great Wesley
Memorial enterprises, we are told, were born in
his head and heart.
As this wonderful building nears completion, an
other figure looms out and up above all other men
connected with its construction—Asa G. Candler,
whose gift of seventy-five thousand dollars (all paid
in) has made the Wesley Memorial edifice a possi
bility. And yet another, R. J. Guinn, the indefatig
able Sunday school superintendent and organizer
of the field forces for raising money.. It is an
nounced that seventy thousand dollars must be
raised by April Ist, to clear the building of all debt.
Os course, there will be “hurrying to and fro,” but
we believe the amount will be forthcoming. We
are frank to say, however, that no one feature
connected with the completion and opening of this
great temple of work and worship, gives us such
keen satisfaction as the bringing of Lincoln McCon
nel; from his home in the teeming Northwest to
conduct the first series of revival meetings.
sie Tift College, Forsyth, wnere he was President
of the Board of Trustees until he left the State,
will be all that hearts of love can feel and speak.
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Wray Goes Tar South.
While The Golden Age does not claim in any sense
to be a chronicler of church and social news, it is
only natural that the editor should
Live Oak Loses find himself saying things about
to Miami. people and places with whom he
has been closely associated.
Live Oak, Florida, because of nearly a month
spent among some of the noblest people on earth,
holds a place forevermore fragrant in the heart.
And when the writer went back there after Pastor
Ridley had gone to wake up “the folks” in Texas,
he found Ridley’s successor, John A. Wray, as beau
tiful in attention and as tender in brotherly kind
ness as any pastor friend ever was to a wandering
friend and brother.
And now the news comes that John A. Wray, he
of the gifted tongue and the great warm heart, has
gone just about as far south as he can go without
splashing into the gulf stream. He is at Miami,
which he describes in a personal letter, to be the
most beautiful place on earth.
But, be it remembered that Miami, the home of
the orange, the pomegranate and the pine, of dim
pling lakes and glistening sands, is likewise the
home of every rank from the northern tourist to the
southern promoter —and that means Miami needs
the gospel. John A. Wray knows how to preach
it in fascinating power.' God bless the union of
Wray and Miami.
Cheer the Editor’s heart by sending
in your subscription to The Golden
Age now.
Lincoln McConnell (you will never catch us call
ing him “Dr.”) laid tne very foundations of the
Wesley Memorial work in Atlanta. He came
to it when there was no organization, no
congregation, no meeting houset-no anything
but the sane, consecrated dream of Atlanta Meth
odism to build a great people’s church that would do
institutional work for the masses.
Through the frost of neglect and the frenzy of
the Devil’s opposition, this valiant, gifted soldier
of the cross worked on, day and night. He poured
brain and brawn, labor and love and all the outside
lecture money he could make into the early launch
ing days, and now it is a beautiful and fitting thing
indeed, for the pastor, Dr. Siler, to award the
crown of the opening opportunity to Wesley Memo
rial’s first pastor, who sowed so long in tears.
Dr. Siler’s enterprise and his winsome, vigorous
and virile personality have gripped the Wesley Me
morial situation since he came from North Carolina
to the leadership of this great work nearly two years
ago, and it will be, at once, a delight and a benedic
tion to see the pastor of the new yoke up with the
pastor of the old in a revival of “old time religion.”
Converted in Atlanta where he was for a half dozen
years engaged in the legal side of detective work,
Lincoln McConnell immediately renounced every
thing that would interfere with his loyalty to his
new found Master and entered the life of a wonder
fully successful evangelist. Coming now from the
great northwest, where he reigns like a “king among
men,” as an evangel of vigorous Christianity, the
highest type of Chautauqua work, and a leader among
the faces of civic righteousness, the people of At
lanta who feel thankful pride in his notable triumphs
will find that Lincoln McConnell has grown in power,
of course, since he went away, but he is the same
humble, lovable golden-hearted man, stirring the peo
ple with tongue aflame and lifting the eager thou
sands who will heai’ him to clearer visions of God
and Christian living.
All hail to Wesley Memorial and her first revival!
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The Gold bullion Mines.
We have only time to add this further word of
confidence concerning the advertisement of the Gold
Bullion Mines Co., at Tucson, Arizona, which our
columns have been carrying for some weeks. We
emphasize again the fact that we would never have
given this mine the indorsement of publication if we
had not first been absolutely satisfied as to the re
liability of the company.
Personally acquainted with Eugene B. Moore, the
high-toned Christian gentleman who is secretary
and treasurer of the company, and accepting without
Question his indorsement of the Gold Bullion Mines
Co., after his personal investigation, and having
assurance made doubly sure by the high character of
ex-Governor L. C. Hughes, of Arizona, who is presi
dent of the company, we declare again in answer to
every inquiry that we believe absolutely in the Gold
Bullion Mines.
Os course, we cannot guarantee results, but the
fact that the brightening prospects at the Gold Bul
lion Mines have caused the directors to vote to raise
the stock from 25 cents to 50 cents a share on April
Ist, calls for immediate action.
One man whose name we know, went to the
mines determined to invest one thousand dollars if he
was satisfied. After investigation he immediately
bought five thousand dollars worth (20,000 shares).
If you did not do so read Eugene Moore’s letter in
The Golden Age last week and communicate with
him by hurried letter or wire at 623 Lissner Build
ing, Los Angeles, California.
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