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"THREE DAYS ONLY”
The Y. M. C. A. Tlakes Its Work Among the State Colleges a Vital Force.
Mr. E. H. Turner, General Secretary of Georgia
School of Technology, gives the following interest
ing and convincing account of the glorious work
accomplished there in a three days’ campaign:
DO NOT write to The Golden Age often,
because I feel that your space belongs
to the work of the churches of the State,
but I feel that there is an interest
throughout the State in an evangelistic
campaign we have just closed here at
the Georgia School of Technology.
The campaign lasted only three days,
and yet it was the most marvelous one I
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have ever seen, with results beyond the hopes of the
most faithful of us. No opportunity was given for the
men to take the stand for the Christian life until the
closing night of the campaign, but when the opportun
ity was given, two hundred and three arose almost as
a man, thus indicating their intention to live a Chris
tian life. I have never seen such earnestness and de
cision as these men showed. There was no excite
ment and no pressure.
The campaign was conducted under the auspices
of the Young Men’s Christian Association, with
Messrs. C. S. Cooper, E. C. Mercer and G. V. Aid
rich, of New York, and W. D. Weatherford, and W.
E. Willis, of Nashville, as leaders. These men are
all Association Secretaries under the International
Committee of the Young Men’s Christian Associa
tion. Their messages were sane, strong, and con
vincing, and the men who took the stand took it
deliberately and earnestly. The entire college is
aroused, and the influence of these few days will
linger through the spring and greet the new men
when they come next fall.
It is hard for one on the “outside” to realize the
importance of the work we have just passed through.
The city pastors are too busy to help us. Only one
pastor was able to get out to one of our meetings,
and yet many people throughout the State are saying
that the Young Men’s Christian Association has no
place in the life of the college. The churches here
and elsewhere will minister to the college man if
he comes to them, but few city pastors have time to
do their own work, and go out and do the personal
work among college men that so many of them
need, hence the necessity of the Association and the
General Secretary, who will give his entire time to
the work among the students. The purpose of the
Association is not at all to take the place of the
church, but to supplement its work, and I know of
activities would not be 'confined to this city. He
would be free to go wherever he found there was
need of him.”
And who that loves the Lord and His cause does
not “thank God and take courage” at such a pros
pect? After all, as William E. Gladstone said to
Dr. Talmadge: “Talk about the questions of the day,
Dr. Talmadge, THE QUESTION OF THE DAY IS
CHRISTIANITY.” How beautiful—how glorious to
see a man with the princely intellect and kingly
oratory of William J. Bryan standing at once fearless
and humble upon the Rock of Ages and dedicating
his mighty powers to the uplift of humanity and
the cause of his Redeemer.
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Shorter 's Nelv Leaders.
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educational builder was again on fire. Van Hoose
surrendered —Rome had conquered.
And then "the new President and Trustees looked
about for a yoke-fellow in leadership, and did the
audacious thing to covet and capture President J. W.
Gaines of historic Cox College, at College Park.
President Gaines has been a great builder himself
and with Van Hoose as President and Gaines as
Dean, Shorter College, whatever the glory of her
past, will begin her modern renaissance—marching
to the music of countless feminine voices as they
circle the South with a zone <>f culture and con
secration.
no organization that is better supplementing it than
the Association is doing.
The Foreign Mission Boards of the different de
nominations will bear me out in saying that it is
the greatest agency they have for enlisting new
missionary candidates, and certainly it is doing a
great work in enlisting young men for the Christian
ministry. All city pastors are willing to pay tribute
to the work of the Association in reaching and
bringing men into the membership and fellowship
of the church. The first step of the Association
Secretary after getting a man interested in the
Christian life is to put him in touch with the church
of his (the man’s) choice.
It will be a surprise to many to know that forty
per cent, of the students in the State colleges of the
South are voluntarily studying the Bible, and that
this is true of only twenty-five per cent, of the
students in our denominational colleges. You ask
why. It is because the life of a General Secretary
is being spent cleanly and quietly among the stu
dents of the State colleges; it is being spent in per
sonal and friendly touch with them. It is leading
and organizing them in a work that can not fail to
give character. Character is the goal of college
training, and surely our colleges ought to have every
influence possible to give it to their students. The
complaint of the business world today of the colleges
is that they are not giving character. They say the
college man is not dependable. The Secretary of
the college Association stands for clean athletics,
for pure lives, for positive and aggressive lives, for
high honor. He stands as neither student nor fa
culty man, but as a link between the two. Many
times he has brought student and teacher into closei*
relationship that would have been impossible with
out him. He has taught the faculty man that the
ideal for him is not class-room efficiency alone, but
efficiency combined with or strengthened by per
sonal and real friendship with his students.
I know of no other work that gives a young man
a better opportunity to touch the lives of men more
vitally, to influence more men for the Christian min
istry and the foreign field, and to educate the men
who can not enter either of these fields, to come to
the support of the men who can go, than the Secre
tary of the College Young Men’s Christian Asso
ciation. The denominations can well afford to send
men into this work, for they will return men to them
a hundred fold for the ministry, the foreign field,
and for the lives of Christian business men, physi
cians and lawyers.
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Jubilee Opening Wesley Memorial.
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thos he caught that great crowd and held it and lifted
it toward the skies to such an extent that over three
hundred came from all over the galleries as well as
the main floor, in response to a call for those who
desired a purer, higher life. And fifty or seventy-five
made a definite decision to accept Christ as their per
sonal Saviour at this first service.
How the New Building Looks.
A reporter in The Atlanta Constitution, describing
the appearance of the Wesley Memorial building,
says
“The inspection of the completed edifice will sur
prise most people, for, except those who have been
in complete touch with the work as it progressed,
few have any idea of the magnificent building which
has just been completed. It is decidedly unlike
a church in structure, being built more along the
lines of a large and handsome auditorium. It offers
splendid seating capacity, having every arrangement
to perfect the accoustical properties. Its exterior
presents a fine example of that style of architecture
known as the “school gothic,” and the materials used
in construction are concrete, stone and brick, with
trimmings of terracotta. Within the dark mission
oak gives a rich and beautiful finishing, while the
dull cream and light blue walls lend light and
beauty.
The Golden Age for April 14, 1910.
A Tender Tribute.
Dr. D. M. Russell, of Cedartown, Lays the Laurel
on the Brow of the Companion of Forty-
Seven Years.
Verily, the husband knows, and if any man has
a right to pay tribute to the memory of his life
companion, it is the husband who has seen her
through sunshine and shadow for nearly half a cen
tury.
The editor of The Golden Age has lost one of his
warmest friends in the death of Mrs. D. M. Russell,
of Cedartown. How inspiring the thought, wrapped
now in sacred sadness, that in her generous heart
she believed in the editor and loved every page of
the paper that he was trying to give to the world.
And now that God has called her away, as a bereaved
son to a stricken father, we reach out our hands
and welcome Dr. Russell, Cedartown’s “grand old
man,” to the deepest, tenderest fellowship of our sym
pathy and love. We are glad he felt like coming to
The Golden Age with the following beautiful tri
bute to his companion of life’s morning, noon and
evening-time:
MY WIFE.
lam lonely! Oh, so lonely! My home is deso
late. On the 22th of February, 1910, my darling
wife, who, for forty-seven years had been the light
of my life and the joy of my home, was transplanted
from earth to heaven. She was charmingly beauti
ful; she rejoiced with me when success attended
my efforts; cheered me when reverses came; was
a sharer in my joys; a comforter in my sorrows.
Pure in heart, lovely in disposition; a devout Chris
tian; one who was a true lover of the Lord, and
an earnest, joyous worker in His service. She was
exceedingly modest and wholly devoid of self-adula
tion. Conceit or deceit had no place in her heart
or life. But few, except the recipients thereof, will
ever know of her many benefactions —her many
kindnesses, her charity, and her helpfulness. She
loved to visit the sick and help the needy.
Up to her last sickness she was a regular atten
dant at church, and no one enjoyed the service
more than she.
She was an ideal mother; a loving devoted wife,
and above all, rejoiced in being a part of the Bride
of the Lamb.
My wife was a true friend of The Golden Age and
its talented editor. She never failed to read every
line on every page, and enjoyed it more than any
thing she ever read except her family Bible.
But she is gone. No more on this earth will I
rejoice in her sweet smile, no more will 1 experience
the sacred joy of her loving embrace, or the warmth
of her precious lips.
But this great sorrow that now darkens my even
ing time is brightened by sweet, sustaining hope
that I shall soon see her again in the Home of the
Blest, whose glittering turrets I can now see by the
eye of living, happy faith.
And my poor old stricken, lonely heart finds itself
both sighing and singing the sad, sweet, familiar
words:
“A precious one from us has gone,
A voice we loved is stilled.
1 A place is vacant in our home
Which never can be filled.
God in His wisdom has recalled
The boon His love had given,
And though the body slumbers here
The soul is safe in heaven.”
D. M. RUSSELL.
Cedartown, Ga.
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correlated uses to which it will be put.
“It will form a church center in the state for
Methodism, and will be a central point also for a
wider and broader usefulness.”
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