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WHO WILL START GOLDLN AGL LUND?
“Nothing succeeds like success.” That is the
slogan under which The Atlanta Georgian has
worked its way to its present prominence and in
fluence. Mr. F. L. Seely, the genial, level-headed
Business Manager of The Georgian, with his loyal
band of co-workers, is proving again the wisdom of
their motto in the noble work that is being done for
The Tabernacle. The subscription fund is rapidly
climbing into the- thousands. People from every
walk in life, seeing the wide scope and limitless pos
sibilities of Dr. Broughton’s great work, are contrib
uting according to their prosperity. The Money
Kings are giving their thousands. The men in more
modest circumstances are giving their hundreds.
The lads in the ranks of the daily wage earners are
gladly giving their dollars. And even the working
girls—brave, noble spirits that they are —are giving
their dimes and ducats that the work may prosper.
We know the readers and friends of The Golden
Age have enjoyed Dr. Broughton’s sermons from
week to week, and many of them would, no doubt,
like to have some part in his great work, but do not
feel able to give large amounts, and therefore will
not count their mites of sufficient consequence to be
offered. But The Golden Age Family must not be a
deserter at a time like this, and we are going to
make it possible for everybody to give something.
Until the $75,000 needed to complete Dr. Brough
ton’s new Tabernacle building is raised The Golden
Age is going to give fifty per cent, of all sub
scriptions received, toward the fund, unless the sub
scriber is participating in, or wishes to enter, our
prize contest. Each person contributing to the fund
will be listed, and a full list printed when the amount
is secured. The money received on such subscrip
t ons will be known as The Golden Age Fund.
Subscriber Friend, you want to be enlisted in this
"The Mission Girl” Aids Foster Parent.
One of the most beautiful features connected with
the raising of The Tabernacle Fund is the fitting
and splendid donation made by our charming story
writer, Mrs. Odessa Strickland Payne. Her winsome
story, “The Mission Girl,” published in serial form
in The Golden Age about two years ago, was inspired
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largely by Dr. Broughton’s deep interest in, and
splendid work for, the working girls of Atlanta and
vicinity. The plot of the story centers around his
“Home for Working Girls,” located on Luckie street,
in Atlanta, and pictures, in a measure, the boundless
blessing and saving influence of this arm of his insti
tutional work.
Mrs. Payne is deeply interested in the success of
the movement now on foot to raise funds for the
completion of the new Tabernacle building. Her
faith in its ability to do yet greater things for the
generation that now is and those that are yet to
come is being proven by her works. Her pure and
crusade. Os course you do. In after years it will'
be a joy and perpetual inspiration to you and to your
children to watch the Tabernacle Institutional
Church grow from grace to glory. And it will give
you greater joy to be able to say: “I am a stockhold
er in that enterprise.” Everybody loves to be on the
winning side, and The Tabernacle is a winner. The:
only way to be on its side is to get there, and the:
only way to get there is to do it now. Don’t lay the:
paper down and forget this offer. You will be sorry
all your life if you do. When you come to Atlanta,
and see the splendid People’s Church moving for
ward in its boundless work of rescue, redemption
and righteousness, you will feel ashamed that you
hid your talent in a napkin and buried it away when
the Lord asked the loan of it that His work might be>
prospered.
Go out among your neighbors, your business,
brother next door, your friend across the street, use:
your telephone, tell the folks that there’s “something
doing” in Atlanta, and The Golden Age Family is in
vited to “get in the game while the running’s good.”'
Get six or a dozen friends to subscribe to The Gold
en Age for one, two, three, four, five or as many
years as they will. The paper will come to them a
year if each of them will send us $2.00, and 1.00 of
that will go to The Tabernacle Fund. Ministers get
the paper for 1.50 per year, and sevent/-five cents of
that will go to the Fund. You are “casting your
bread on the water” with one-half of your subscrip
tion fee, while the other half brings a loaf back into
your hand. This is in no way intended to take the
place of those who feel they can give larger amounts,
but as a “gatherer up of the fragments, that nothing
be lost.”
Now is the time for all good men to come to the
aid of The Tabernacle. Os course, when we say
unselfish heart has conceived the delightful plan of
letting the Tabernacle’s “Brain Child” work for its;
“Foster Parent” until the crisis is past and victory'
is won.
“The Mission Girl’ is now in book form, attrac
tively bound in cloth, neatly engraved and illus
trated. As long as the edition lasts, Mrs. Payne
proposes to give fifty per cent, of the proceeds aris
ing from the sale of the book to The Tabernacle
Fund. The price of the book is SI.OO, and can be
had by sending order direct to Mrs. Odessa Strick
land Payne, 814 Austell Building, Atlanta, Ga.
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A Cruel Blunder
(Continued from Page Four.)
name, what harm could it have done if, in that vast
army, which was supposed to be on its way to the
Better Land, there had been a company—white, or
black, or yellow —from “every kindred, every tribe
on this terrestrial ball?” If —
“Jesus shall reign where’er the sun
Doth his successive journeys run” —
then does not that “excluding committee” expect all
colors of every tribe and nation to join in the shouts
and triumphs of the great Coronation Day? Is it
not devoutly hoped that those whose color excluded
them from the parade will —
“ * * join the everlasting song,
And crown Him Lord of all?”
The wonder is that men who took part in this
“exclusion act” would expect such a spirit of spirit
ual ostracism to admit them at last beyond the
Gates of Pearl.
This blighting blunder was the Anglo-Saxon spirit
gone mad and wild. Surely no Christian man will
claim that it was the Spirit of H m “who is no re
specter of persons” —Him in whose name the great
World’s Sunday-school Convention had met in the
Capital of a “Christian nation.”
Forty Tears at Calhary.
(Continued from Page One.)
and compelling immediate decisions. Traces of his
Highland Scotch ancestry are discovered in his
The Golden Age for June 9, 1710.
“men” we mean the ladies, too, because the men
always embrace the ladies.
The Georgian’s great campaign has raised to date
$40,441 of the $75,000 needed, leaving $34,559 yet to
be raised. These subscriptions are coming from ev
erywhere, from companies and individuals, from rich
and poor. Surely this is as God would have it, a
work of “the people,” and you want your part in it.
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The Kingdom
The parable of the kingdom which the late Dr.
Bruce used to consider the most beautiful of all our
Savior’s sayings in this subject was: “So is the king
dom of God as if a man should cast seed into the
ground, and should sleep, and rise night and day,
and the seed should spring and grow up, he know
eth not how; for the earth bringeth fruit of herself,
first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn
in the ear.” This exquisite picture of a seed unfold
ing slowly and unobserved, but surely and prosper
ously, till it attains to ripeness and perfection, is not
a description of a political development, but of the
interior life in its most sacred aspects. Harnack’s
observation, that it is in the parables that the true
genius of the kingdom announced by Jesus is to be
discovered, is a happy one; and what these specially
suggest, as they are read over one by one, is, that
Jesus meant by the kingdom a spiritual principle,
secretly and firmly seizing the soul, but pervading
it slowly but increasingly as a leaven, till it has
leavened the whole lump; it is a spiritual discovery,
which fills the soul with joy, and causes every sacri
fice to appear cheap, if only the matchless prize can
be secured. In short, it is “The Gospel.”—Dr. James
Stalker.
tones, while his careful mastery of the best English
and American writers and speakers is constantly in
evidence.”
In New York and vicinity he is much sought after
to deliver addresses before clubs and kindred asso
ciations. He has taken an active part in municipal,
State and national politics, and, although only a
naturalized citizen, he is widely known for his loyal
Americanism. His church is a popular center on
Thanksgiving and other national days, when it is
known that he is to speak on patriotic themes and
other living subjects. He is a striking example of
his own theory, that the highest form of genius is
willingness and ability to do tremendously hard
work.
Author of Great Books.
In addition to ever-widening pulpit and pastoral
labors, Dr. MacArthur has been busy with his pen.
He was for many years the regular correspondent of
The Chicago Standard, and was for some years edito
rially associated w : th The Christian Inquirer and
The Baptist Review. He has been a frequent con
tributor to magazines and other publications. In all,
Dr. MacArthur has published, including his hymn
books, twenty-three volumes, as follows: “From the
Invasion of Canaan to the Last of the Judges,” “Cal
vary Pulpit,” “Royal Messages of Cheer and Com
fort,” “Divine Balustrades,” “The Attractive Christ,”
“Quick Truths in Quaint Texts,” “Current Questions
for Thinking Men,” “Sunday Night Lectures on Pal
estine,” “The Celestial Lamp,” “Old Testament Diffi
culties,” “The Question of the Centuries,” “The Old
Book and the Old Faith,” “Around the World,” “Cal
vary Hymnal,” “Quick Truths in Quaint Texts” (sec
ond series), “Calvary Selection,” “In Excelsis,”
“Landes Domini,” “People’s Worship and Psalter,”
“Advent and Other Sermons,” “The Christie
Reign,” “The True Scala Santa,” “Precepts and
Prayers.”
A Dream of Architecture.
The church building is one of the most beautiful
in the world, and is at once a teacher of sacred his
tory and a dream of architectural beauty. But be
yond and above all these things the great man who
has preached from Calvary’s pulpit “these forty years”
loves Christ and His cause and believes in the Book
and the Blood.
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