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THANKSGIVING AT THE BARCLAY HOME
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girls. Altogether, there have been fifty-seven com
mitted to the institution up to the present time. Sev
eral have been dismissed. One of the girls has been
married.
The house is well kept, tidy, and faultlessly clean.
We had the pleasure of seeing the girls assembled
and the members of your committee were accorded
the privilege of speaking to them. During the serv
ice, several of the girls testified to their faith in
Christ. More than half of those living in the Home
profess to have been converted since coming. The
spirit in and about the place is reverent, the atmos-
phere truly homelike. The new piano, which
was given by Messrs. Phillips and Crew of
Atlanta, is proving a source of pleasure and
inspiration to the girls. In short every
thing about the Home impresses one favor
ably. There is an eager desire on the part
of most of these girls to live a new life.
Many of them are mere children and most
of them took a false step before they really
learned to walk. Christian philanthropy can
do no greater thing than to help this insti
tution which is so sadly needed.
Your committee would like to urge you
to visit the Home. You can leave Atlanta
from the Terminal Station at 3:20 p. m. and
get back at six o’clock. You will be accord
ed a royal welcome and your heart will be
thrilled with the possibilities of this enter
prise.
Mr. Peacock and his corps of workers are
finding it a little difficult to raise the amount
of money necessary to carry on the work in
a successful manner. If you can do any
thing to help, either by suggestion or by
bringing the needs of the Home before your
people, you will be doing the work of your
Master. The churches of Atlanta can make
Barclay Memorial Home a veritable city of refuge.
We ought to do it, it is the only institution of the
kind in all the South, and if we all do what we can
so-r the cause, the burden will not fall heavily upon
any one of us.
Trusting that you will be able to lend your assist
ance in some way to this great enterprise, we beg
to remain,
Your brothers in Christian work,
HENRY A. ATKINSON, Chairman,
C. B. WILMER,
JERRE MOORE,
BERNARD SMITH,
CHARLES W. DANIELS,
J. S. FRENCH,
Committee.
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A New Department of College Work.
The need for Christian work among college girls
was vividly revealed by Miss Lynne Durham and
Miss Mattie Morris, who are now engaged in that
special labor.
Miss Durham has completed one year’s study in the
Woman’s Training School and is now training the
young women at Shorter College, Rome, Ga., while
Miss Morris is doing noble service at Bessie Tift Col
lege, Forsyth.
An earnest overture was then made by Mrs.
Withoff, of Fort Valley, and Mrs. W. H. Wiggs of At
lanta, to the Mothers of the State to fit their daugh
ters for the Master’s work, rather than for social
life.
Rev. H. C. Buckholdz Touches Vital Chord.
The address of Rev. H. C. Buckholdz on the ques
tion: “Is The Woman’s Work Narrow.?” was one
we have never heard equalled. Mr. Buckholdz is the
State Evangelist supported by the Woman’s Baptist
Missionary Union, and his work during the past year
shows glorious results. So great an impression was
made upon the assembly by his address that the Con
vention, by unanimous vote, called for the publication
of the sermon in pamphlet form to be distributed
throughout the bounds of the State.
GEORGIA WOMEN IN CONVENTION
A Slaughter-Pen For “Calf-Love.”
Thousands of girls are silly, but only a small mi
nority are really vicious and bad. Mr. Peacock, the
faithful, warm-hearted Agent of The Barclay Home,
is helping to readjust the vision of a horde of those
love-lorn maidens. In speaking of his work, he laugh
ingly said: “There is more “calf-love” dying out here
to the square inch than at any other place in the
world.” “Girls come here believing they are desper
ately in love, but it generally takes only a few days
to cure them.”
Saved From the Sensual Snare of a Bigamist.
One day an anxious father came to the Barclay
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Home office and asked that his daughter, a frivolous
girl of fifteen, be admitted to the Home. He stated
that a man thirty years of age, about whom she
knew nothing, was trying to persuade her to run
away with him, promising to marry her. Mr. Pea
cock went to work on the case; found that the man
had procured a license and all things were ready for
the elopement. He sought out the man, confronted
him with evidence that had come to him from an
other city, in which it was stated that the would-be
groom had been married twcie, one wife having died
after his desertion, and the other, to whom he had
only been married three weeks, was then living in
an adjoining state. Acting on the advice of Mr. Pea
cock, the girl went back to her home, and the man
left suddenly for parts unknown. And Mr. Peacock
The burden of the State Mission report, as ren
dered by Mrs. Mary Gunter, Field Secretary, was that
the isolated sections of the State should be built up.
Mrs. Gunter laid especial emphasis on the need of or
ganized effort in the mountains of North Georgia,
and gave a number of striking instances that had
come under her observations where the densest ig
norance held the people in bonds. She recited one
experience that she had encountered that illustrated
as nothing else could have done, the need*for educa
tive and constructive work in the rural districts:
The women in a certain community had asked her to
come and organize a Missionary Union. She went on
the Sunday designated and found a church full of
people. At the close of the sermon the announce
ment was made that a Woman’s Missionary Union
would be organized in the church that afternoon. Im
mediately a pious brother in the church arose to file
an objection. He stated that Women’s Societies, Sun
day-schools, etc., were all works of the devil and the
forbidden fruit for which Eve sacrificed Eden, and
he was opposed to them. His harangue so impressed
the other members of the church that Mrs. Gunter
was forbidden to use the church that afternoon. But
the women were called to meet at the school-house
and when the hour arrived Mrs. Gunter declared
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that the house was packed, and men were hanging
in at the windows and craning their necks for a peep
The Golden Age for November 17, 1910.
THE BARCLAY MEMORIAL HOME.
is in possession of the marriage license which he
says is “for sale, cheap.”
The Birth and Growth of The Barclay Memorial.
The movement which has resulted in the establish
ment of the Home was inaugurated by Mrs. Frank R.
Logan, one of Atlanta’s best known mission workers.
She gathered about her a number of other women
who are interested in the work of saving wayward
womankind, and the movement to establish a home
was started. The Barclay Memorial, (so called in
honor of J. F. Barclay, who started a work of this
kind in Atlanta several years before his death), had a
phenomenal growth. Its quarters have been
enlarged from time to time until every inch
of available space has been utilized, and yet
there is not room enough.
An Appeal.
Following the investigation made by the
committee appointed by the Evangelical
Minister’s Association of Atlanta, it was
agreed upon by all the churches in the city
that a concerted movement should be put on
foot to raise funds for the Home. And
Thanksgiving Day has been designated as
the time when every Evangelical Denomina
tion and every individual in Atlanta will be
asked to give something toward the cause of
saving, purifying, and restoring the bloom of
womanhood to the girls and women of Geor
gia who have not had a fair chance in life to
be their best, and who will never get a
“square deal” except the Christian people of
the State rally to their rescue.
This Home is not the exclusive property
of Atlanta, but is open to the needy girls all
over the South, and Mr. Peacock, and the
women who are bearing the burden of the
work would be exceedingly grateful for any
help coming to them from any Southern city or state.
Please send contributions to Mr. E. H. Peacock,
No. 101 Marietta Street, Atlanta, Ga.
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George Stuart’s Sermons and The
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in the door, almost crowding the women out in their
mad effort to “get a taste of that forbidden fruit.”
In closing her remarks, Mrs. Gunter made an im
passioned appeal to the women of Georgia that they
should give themselves “first to God, then to the
work.”
The Blue Ridge School.
The building of the school for mountain boys and
girls at Blue Ridge, Ga., came in for a lively discus
sion, and it was agreed by the Convention that it
would be a wholesome stimulus to the work for the
ladies to have an Assembly at Blue Ridge during the
coming summer. Contact with the conditions as they
actually exist would naturally inspire interest in the
school and its ideals and it is hoped that the assem
bly will be largely attended.
Election of Officers and Next Place of Meeting.
All of the old officers of the Union were re-elected
except Mrs. Tharpe, First Vice-President, who has re
moved from the State, and is now a resident of Flor
ida. Mrs. G. H. Williams, of Dublin, Ga., was elected
to fill the vacancy. The Convention adjourned on
Friday, Nov. 11th, to meet in Rome, November, 1911.
And the delegates to the Convention returned to their
respective homes, each carrying in her heart a fra
grant memory of the cordial reception and royal hos
pitality which the people of Dawson had lavished
upon them.
