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VOLUME TIVL
NUMBLI THIRTY-TWO
A BEAUTIPUL BALTIMORE WEDDING
The Story of Holv Fulton Abenue Presbyterian and Fuller FI emorial baptist Churches Join Hearts and Hands in Their
Christian Actibities —Pastors Cook and Jackson True Yokefellolvs.
By WILLI AM D. UPSHAW.
T SEEMS a long time since May, when
you count the days one by one, but when
the calendar in my head and heart reg
isters ten times as long, I shall not be
able to forget that beautiful Baltimore
wedding I witnessed where a Presby
terian and a Baptist Church were the
“contracting parties.” Just which was
the “wooer” and which the “wooed” prior
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to the nuptials “not knowing I cannot tell.” From
all appearances when I was there it seemed that the
pastors had done like young folks often do —“just
fallen in love” without either being the aggressor. I
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REV. H. P. JACKSON,
Pastor Fuller Memorial Church.
was in Baltimore just prior to the Southern Baptist
Convention for a series of inspirational, religious
and prohibition addresses in Fuller Memorial Baptist
Church, of which my old Georgia friend, H. P.
Jackson, is the beloved and highly successful pas
tor. I would not attempt to tell of that visit in de
tail, for that wizard of description, Lamar Strickland
Payne, my inspiring companion in travel, told that
story with a delectable dash such as his brilliant
pen alone can do; but delayed as this tribute comes
from the whirling life of a tremendously busy man,
I must not be denied the privilege of “spressing
myself” about the fellowship I witnessed and un-
ATLANTA, GA., SEPTEMBER 29 t 1910.
joyed among those royal people.
Fulton Avenue Presbyterian Church is only two
blocks away from Fuller Memorial. Rev. J. Z. Cook,
the cultured as all Presbyterian preachers are, has
a face like the morning and has never suffered his
scholarship and culture to make him forget the worth
of a warm hand-clasp and a genial smile. And he
and Pastor Jackson, believing in common in the veri
ties of the BOOK, the BLOOD and “old-time relig
ion,” have a beautiful practice of joining forces in
their evangelistic efforts and all things that make for
the spiritual uplift of their people. This does not
mean that Cook is less a Presbyterian nor Jackson
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less a Baptist, but that in a great stronghold of sin
and Satan like Baltimore, these two consecrated
servants of God unite on the VERITIES on which
they agree, seeking first of all to convince men of
sin and to win them to Christ, and then urging them
to settle the question of their church membership by
Bible reading and prayer.. All Christians of all names
must say “Amen!” to such a wedding of hearts, pray
ers and efforts, and all that side of Baltimore is im
pressed and blessed by such a sensible union.
Jackson Remembered His Friends.
It is not mine to mention a single name in this
fragrant bit of Baltimore memory lest I leave out the
name of one friend who did me a cheering kindness,
but bless your hearts tne faces and the deeds are
not forgotten.
I can not close this little story, however, without
commending one splendid trait which I always ad
mire in any man and which I found radiantly devel
oped in H. P. Jackson. As chairman of the Pulpit
Committee during that big convention, with over two
hundred pulpits to fill on Sunday, Jackson did not
forget his friends. In this loyalty he did not sacri
fice the interests of the convention visitors, for Jack
son’s friends could preach as well as anybody, thank
you, but present and former Georgians were largely
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REV. J. Z. COOK,
Pastor Fulton Ave. Presbyterian
Church.
in evidence on the program that Sunday. Jackson
went away out into the country and got “the boys”
who .had not been “uster” preaching at the South
ern Baptist Convention, but they knew how to preach
“old-time religion” all right and Baltimore feasted
on Jackson’s loyalty to his friends.
A Wide-Awake Church.
I had labored with Jackson twice before when be
was pastor at the splendid town of Montesuma, and
while 1 knew he was a live wire, I confess I was
hardly prepared for the growth of this big, little man
and the great grip he has on Baltimore In general
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