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ITH twice a .score of volumes treating
upon the life, ministry and teachings of
our Lord, it seemed that, the New Testa
ment had yielded up all of the hidden
treasures contained in its matchless sto
ry of the Christ. But the deep digging of
patient and earnest theologians have fail
ed to exhaust the value and beauty of this
rich mine, and the twentieth century
brings on the bosom of its first decade a new revela
tion of Mary’s kingly son.
Dr. A. R. Bond, the beloved pastor of the First. Bap
tist Church, Marietta, Ga., coming as a pioneer over
an undiscovered country, has planted a torch on the
literary altar of our era that will illuminate and re
veal a new and beautiful avenue to the heart-life,
purposes, and position of Jesus during His earthly
career.
In presenting “The Master Preacher,” the author
gives the following purposeful foreword:
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A word of justification may be allowed a new
book which seeks to cover any part of the work of
the Nazarene, whose influence has created such a
vast literature.
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While the ministry of Jesus has had large atten
tion from scholars as to the questions of Biblical the
ology, there has not been published any adequate
treatment of that ministry from the viewpoint of
homiletics. Jesus was distinctively the Master
Preacher, but his preaching, as preaching, has been
neglected. The present treatise seeks to supply this
neglect.
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The central and centralizing desire of the author
THANKSGIVING at the HA KjCLA 7 HONE
HE Barclay Memorial Home is an Insti
tution. A little less than nine months
ago it was only an experiment. But the
phenomenal growth and merit of this
peculiar work for wayward girls and
destitute women proves beyond the per
adventure of a doubt that only a great
need could have so suddenly developed
so large a respons ; bility.
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The Home was founded for the protection and up
lift of giddy, untrained girls, and helpless, hopeless
women who had no refuge in the South outside of
convict camps, jails and brothels. The Barclay Me
morial Home is non sot t;nian, and its creed is sym
pathy, discipline, loving care and encouragemeut.
Homeless girls are taken in, pure ideals and noble
aspirations are instilled into their hearts, and they
&r§ taught those things that tend to fit them for use
ful, honorable, womanly lives.
Special Training Courses,
Special hours are given to domestic science, to
sewing classes. Bible study, and an academic course
is given to those who need it. Many of the girls who
have entered the home have been unable to read or
write. Everything possible is done for the health,
welfare and comfort of the poor, unfortunate girls.
The Home is presided over by a matron who sees to
the individual need of every inmate. A medical staff,
composed of some of the leading physicians and spe
cialists of Atlanta, is at the command of the Home,
and religious services are held every Sunday after
noon.
How the Work of Rescue is Prosecuted.
During the nine months the Home has been in ex
istence, fifty-seven girls have been received, and
twenty-seven applicants are pleading for admission,
but can not be taken in for lack of room.
These unfortunate women have been sent from
Rome, Columbus, Jasper, Jeffersonville, Cartersville,
and a number of other places. Many of the girls
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has been to present the preaching of Jesus in away
to attract the reader to the Master Preacher; with
out. peer or rival in the history of oratory, profane or
sacred.
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We can only add that Dr. Bond has gloriously de
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veloped the motif of his ambition. He carries the
reader rapidly through the home scenes and envi
ronments of the boy Jesus, and, with consummate
genius, culls the choicest bits of history, setting them
in their proper casts of scenic embellishment, and
Institution Doing Great Good Tor Waylvard Girls.
have been sent to the Home by their parents. Oth
ers, realizing their need of guidance and protection,
have come of their own accord and sought admission
into tlie Home, while others are sent by the courts
to tlie Barclay Home, rather than keep them locked
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in the jails with criminals, or sent to the stockade
where all their future would be wrecked and blighted.
One case of especial interest is that of a girl nine
teen years old, who Avas tried and convicted in the
Floyd County Court, and sentenced to twelve months
in the stockade. Rev. E. H. Peacock, Agent for The
Barclay Home, heard of her appealed to th*>
Prison Commission, and secured permission to bring
The Golden Age for November 17, 1910.
paints, with rare artistic instinct, vivid pictures of
the social, civil and religious customs which formed
the background, as it were, from which the Saviour
of the world emerged.
But, the intrinsic merit of the book unfolds itself
in the masterful applications which the author makes
of the teachings of The Master Preacher to the per
sonal needs of those who eagerly feed upon 11 is teach
ings.
In preparing this unique discourse, the author hap
pily disguises the profundity of his theme in the
simplicity of his language, thereby producing a book
that can be appreciated and comprehended by the
lay-mind, and is still rich enough in revelation to
charm the philosopher and captivate the sage. Dr.
Bond is a wizard when it comes to weaving forceful
sentences. His book is agleam with his original,
scintillating proverbs, and is redolent with the spirit
of profound reverence for the character of the world’s
greatest Hero, The Master Preacher, whose influence
and compassionate love have swept in a purifying
wave from the Judean hills to the crest of the New
World.
In addition to its charm and worth as a pioneer
instructor in homiletics, the book is intensely valua
ble as a reference work on subjects involving the Ro
man, Jewish, Greek and Pagan ascendency during
the early days of the Christian era.
Taken as a whole, we value Dr. Bond’s literary pro
duction as one of the brightest, most informing, and
thoroughly fascinating treatise that has ever come
under our eyes. We bespeak for the volume the wide
sale and careful perusal it deserves.
The American Tract Society, 150 Nassau St., New
ork, will fill all orders for the book promptly at the
regular price of SI.OO net.
her to the Home. She Avas rough, illiterate, untidy
and almost desperate, yet not Avholly abandoned. She
has now been seven months in the Home and her
transformation lias been most wonderful. She can
now read and write, is one of the neatest, most in
dustrious, girls in the Home, and is profoundly grate
ful for the chance she has had to make something of
her life. She has become a noble Christian and it is
her desire to remain in the Home and help other un
fortunate girls as sue nas been helped.
One girl, hardly more than a child, was taken from
a convict camp where she had been forced to work
with criminal men during the day, and sleep in a box
car where they were herded at night.
One reclaimed girl has gone to the Bible School in
Nashville to fit herself as a mission worker; another
has gone to a training school for nurses, while not a
few have beep so improved by the influence of tho
florae that they have returned to their own homes
determined to lead Avorthy and useful lives.
Report of Committee From the Evangelical Ministers’
Association.
The following splendid report was rendered to the
Evangelical Ministers' Association of Atlanta by a
committee appointed by them to look into the work,
needs, and possibilities of the Barclay Memorial
Home;
Your committee, appointed by the Evangelical Min
isters’ Association, has visited the Barclay Memorial
Home. We want to report to you Avhat is being done,
together Avith some of our impressions of the work.
The Home is located on a hill-top about two miles
from Hapeville, at a station ot‘ the Central of Geor
gia Railroad, known as Maxwellton. The site is an
ideal one for such a work, the only drawback being
that it is outside of Fulton County, and thus the
Home is deprived of any possible help that our comi
ty might give. The stone bouse has been fitted up
so as to comfortably accommodate the twenty-six
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