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VOLUME FIVE
NUMFEE FIFIY-IWO
MILLARD JENKINS WINS ATHENS
Ttoo Y ears In ef Classic City" Crolvned With Wonderful 'Record of Grolvth and Gibing—Pastor’s Tlotto: "As We Gibe
We Libe—As We Go We Grolv”—Oberflolving Crolvds Call Tor More Room.
Sy WILLIAM D. UPSHAW.
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T has been the custom of The Gol
den Age since its beginning to seek
out and “crown the worthies,” ir
respective of name or creed, in the
fields of religious, educational and
civic endeavor. And we invite our
readers to send us stories of men
and women who have done re
markable things in the beautiful
work of making the world brighter and better.
This week it is the practical but thrilling
story of Millard A. Jenkins, at Athens, Ga.,
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MILLARD ALFORD JENKINS, D.D. ?
whose wonderful record of adding 340 mem
bers to his church in two years and raising dur
ing that time the startling sum of $28,669.67
for all purposes, makes him and his royal peo
ple deserve a place in The Golden Age “Hall
of Fame.”
Well, not “fame” so much, as the world
counts it, but a place high indeed on the sa
cred “roll of honor.”
“The Light That Shines Farthest Shines
Brightest at Home.” It is a beautiful fact that
$16,809 of this money goes beyond the borders
ATLANTA, GA., FEBRUARY 16, 1911.
of Athens —goes from a church that is bursting
its bounds and clamoring for a place to house
and teach the people that throng, the gospel.
Verily, “the light that shines farthest shines
brightest at home.”
In addition to its own work in the home
church there are two growing missions—Bax
ter Street, which is a thriving afternoon Sun
day School, and West End Church, of which
Rev. A. J. Smith is the beloved and highly
successful pastor. “Jack” Smith is a “hustler
from Hustleville” and a rousing young preach
er besides, and with the liberal support of the
Mother church is leading his enthusiastic peo
ple to a position of power in the community.
Students Hear Him Gladly.
Athens is a city of schools. At the Univer
sity of Georgia, the State Agricultural School,
the State Normal School and Lucy Cobb Insti
tute, including Commercial and Public School
students there are over three thousand “young
Americans” in Athens with larger usefulness
as their dream and Athens as their talisman.
And Millard Jenkins —2\nyway Millard Jen
kins preaches to a great company of students
from Sunday to Sunday, and hundreds are won
to Christ or deepened in their spiritual lives
and brightened in life’s ideals.
And so continuously and increasingly have
the students and the crowds from the city
come that a “more room” campaign is under
way. The pastor has appointed a committee
with instructions to secure plans for enlarging
the building, providing for eight or ten more
Sunday School rooms and an enlarged audi
torium.
Jenkins Has Inspiring Motto.
The pastor’s motto: “As we give, we live,
and as we go, we grow” fits into the key notes
of progress, evangelism, and Missions. The
success of such a program is demonstrated by
the growing work. The church has three mis
sionaries, P. Paul Medling, at Kogoshima; Jno.
Moncure, at Tuknoka, Japan, and Hal F. Buck
ner, at Yingtak, China. Two of these are sup
ported by two noble deacons, A. M. Dobbs,
and J. A. Darwin. To the other, the Sunday
School is linked by its supporting, broadening
gifts. Through two members the church has
built a chapel in Pingtu, China, in connection
with Missionary J. C. Owen’s school. Through
another member, Mrs. E. R. Hodgeson, Sr.,
nearly a score of young native preachers are
being supported at this school, who preach
regularly. The method of individualizing
members and gifts helps to bring these great
results.
The young women’s society supports a Bible
woman in China. This young women’s work
recently introduced, has a fine reflex influence
on the religious and social ideals of girls and
young ladies. They want to make their lives
count.
Bible Preachers Prove Popular.
The Athens pastor began the first of last
year a series of pulpit messages on “The Crises
of the Christian Life.” “The Gateway to God —
the Crisis of the Cross,” “Pentecost Then and
Now—the Crisis of Power,” “The King’s Audi
ence Chamber—the Crisis of Prayer.” “The Foe
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and His Forces —the Crisis of Conflict.” “The
Ring of the Coin —the Crisis of Character.”
“The Olivet Message—the Crisis of Conquest.”
“The Lord’s Return —the Crisis of Victory.”
He has been all the year on the first two —
“The Cross and the Holy Spirit.” The great
audiences that have been to hear these expos
itions of scripture on these spiritual themes,
prove that illuminating Bible preaching is pop
ular preaching after all.
It is the same kind of preaching that en
abled Spurgeon to stand in one pulpit forty
years and feed the hungry multitudes.
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