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STICKING STOR YOTA WORKER
William 'Russell Olven Pays Tribute to S. P. Robertson and the "Spreading Central” —A Great and Grolving Atlanta Work,
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F Ben Perry Robertson had not
been a Baptist he would have
made a good “shouting Methodist,”
for he believes in John Wesley’s
wholesome doctrine of “All at it
all the time.”
Not merely because the “dear old
Central” was for so many years
the church home of the editor of
The Golden Age, but because that brave band,
as Pastor Motley used to say, was the “out
workingest, outgivingest set” he ever saw, and
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REV. B. P. ROBERTSON.
because the present pastor is made out of the
same kind of “lightning” and is bringing things
to pass, we gladly give space to the stirring
story written by Rev. William Russell Owen
who himself is doing great things at Central
Church.
ATLANTA, GA., FEBRUARY 2 1911
“CAPITOL AVENUE,” ATLANTA.
The Central Baptist Church, and its Pastor.
The sketch of a church’s history is often the
biographical sketch of a pastor.
The life and success of a church
is so intertwined with the efforts
of a pastor that they are insepara
ble. Likewise the history of a
pastor tells the plain story, that
had some churches not had the
pastors they have had, there
would be no history of the church.
Each state of affairs
was started in the western part
of Atlanta under the direction of the Second
Baptist Church. The movement was inspired
mainly by Mr. John 11. James, who generously
provided a building for the Mission. The Sun
day-school, of which Dr. Stainback Wilson
was the first superintendent, grew very rapid-
is bad. A church
ought to be so strong
that its internal life
ami integrity are
such that the church
has reserved for it
self a real, worthy
place in the develop
ment of the King
dom of God. Each
pastor ought to have
such a unique form
and grip in himself
of the gospel of the
Kingdom that his life
is a perennial one,
blooming in any
clime or church,
while the years go
rocking on.
The Central Bap
tist Church has had
a real history of it
self. and among its
pastor’s have been
men of fme attain
ments and marked
achievements..
Seven years ago
at the semi-Centen
nial of the Second
Baptist Church, which was the
kindly mother that put the child
upon its useful career, Rev. R. L.
Motley,for nearly eight years pas
tor, read the following brief his
tory of the Central Church::
The “Central’s” Story.
“In the year 1869, a Mission
ly, and in 1870 the church, known as The
Fourth Baptist was constituted. Among the
charter members appear the names of the Stew-
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CENTRAL BAPTIST CHURCH.
arts, Stantons. Johnsons, Culbersons, Upshaws
and Daniels. F. M. Daniel became the first
pastor, and. after serving the church for several
years, resigned to accept a call to the church
at Cartersville, lie was succeeded by A. J.
Beck in a pastorate of two years.
In 1878 a lot was secured and a new house
of worship was erected at the corner of Peters
and West Fair streets, and the name changed
to the “Central Baptist.”
Dr. F. M. Daniel was again called to the
pastorate of the church, where he remained till
the year 1884. Within the next twelve years
the church enjoyed the pastoral services of Drs.
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