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ELOQUENT KENTUCKIAN CONING
EORGIANS who believe in sure
enough prohibition will be hard at
it for the next three months. While
they rejoice in the fact that condi
tions in Georgia are far better upon
the whole than they were before le
galized liquor shops were banished,
they still know that conditions are
not ideal and they are determined
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to clean up the state like North Carolina has
done by drivng out “near-beer” and other
shameful “dodges” of the prohibition law.
The return of Dr. George W. Young to
Georgia for a State-wide campaign for law-en
forcement will create general enthusiasm in
the ranks of the workers. The following let
ter from the ever-hustling J. B. Richards,
founder and now Acting Superintendent of the
Georgia Anti-Saloon League, tells the story
of the forthcoming campaign:
Dear Brother Editor:
I have just completed arrangements for
twenty-five speaking dates for the month of
April on Anti-Saloon League account, and will
leave tonight for a week’s campaign in South
Georgia. On my return next week will give a
full dating of all our speakers, up to and in
cluding April 30th.
Dr. George W. Young, Assistant National
Superintendent, who recently closed a month's
campaign in this State, will return on the
eighth of April to remain with us through
April, May and June. Besides Dr. Young and
Pastor of Great Methodist Institutional Church Tells of Great Atlanta Gathering—Conference Will be Held Pbery Tear,
HE late State-wide Conference on
Evangelism, under the auspices of
the two Georgia Conferences held
in Wesley Memorial Church, Atlan
ta, was attended by approximately
five hundred preachers and Chris
tian workers outside of Atlanta.
These with the local attendance
' made a great gathering. Six daily
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services for ten days were held cover
ing the varied phases of evangelism, be
sides the three daily half hour devotional
services, which also .consisted of a fre
quent presentation of a great hymn in connec
tion with the general subject of “Music in the
Revival.” Special emphasis in these services
was put on meditation on God’s word and pray
er. These were in the main conducted by Rev.
W. R. Mackay, of the North Georgia Confer
ence, Rev. J. M. Glenn, of the South Georgia
Conference, and Prof. C. S. Stanage, music di
rector of Wesley Memorial Church.
utes.
The hour from 9 to 10 during the first half
of the Conference was given to the theme of
“Training for the Revival,” with Miss Mabel
Howell, a teacher in the Scarritt Bible and
Training School of Kansas City, as speaker.
One of her addresses on “Training for City
Evangelization” so impressed the Conference
that it was requested published in the Mis
sionary Voice.
This same hour during the last half of the
Conference was devoted to the subject of En
duement for the Revival,” Miss Emma Tuck
er, of Enterprise, Fla., delivering strong and
helpful addresses.
The 10 to 11 a. m. hour was given to pas
toral evangelism. On this subject Bishop
Candler and Bishop Kilgo each delivered an
address. Dr. W. F. McMurry, Church Exten
sion Secretary, two addresses. Dr. Gilbert T.
Rowe, pastor of Tryon Street Methodist
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Church, Charlotte, ’N. C., four addresses and
Dr. W. N. Ainsworth, president of Wesleyan
Female College, one address. These were all
utterances of a very high order. Each of these
speakers had before been heard in Georgia,
with the exception of Dr. Rowe, who was
heard for the first time. It may be truthfully
said that no words spoken produced a more
gratifying impression than those of this gifted
young preacher. With the intellectual battles
connected with the “New Theology” fought
out, and with a firm grip upon a God-given
gospel that satisfies the head and heart, he
caught and helped especially the more thought
ful of the younger preachers who have their
times of confusion in their effort to stay singly
by the old but ever new authoritative message.
Bishop E. E. Hoss gave the daily Bible lec
ture at 11 o’clock, besides conducting the open
ing and closing exercises of the Conference. It
goes without saying that his appreciative hear
ers got strong meat. Some of his messages
were epoch-making in the lives of those who
heard them.
Missions were given the prominent place of
the three p. m. hour throughout the Confer
ence. Every Foreign Mission field occupied
by the M. E. Church, South, came in review
by one lately from the field. Bishop Hoss, Dr.
J. C. C. Newton, Rev. George Loehr and»Miss
Margaret Cook brought messages from the
three missions in the Orient. Bishop Candler
spoke with great power and effect on Cuba
and Mexico in two addresses. Dr. McMurry
brought burning words concerning Brazil. Col.
Nat Harris, of Macon, Ga., made an eloquent
plea for the Laymen’s Mission Movement. Dr.
Ed. F. Cook, our Foreign Mission Secretary,
delivered three addresses on “Missions and the
Revival,” which showed the work of a mission
specialist, and which put convincing emphasis
on the place of missions in modern evangelis
tic effort.
DR. GEO. W. YOUNG.
the writer, who have an average of three dates
each week, two other experienced League men
will be with us on the 23d and the 30th. This
with the holding of the Fifth Annual Conven
tion of the State Board of Trustees here on
April 19-20, following twenty-five speaking
dates during the last two months, and many
more through May and June, while Dr. Young
is with us, will be sufficient to assure the good
people of Georgia that we are camping upon
the trail of the liquor forces are seeking
to overthrow the prohibition movement,
through which our beloved State has become
the central figure of the Nation, and has pros
pered as she has never done before.
I could not close this statement without a
word touching the magnificent work done by
Dr. Young during his stay here in January and
February. There is no doubt but that he is the
greatest Anti-Saloon League leader in the
South, and never in the history of the work
here have I seen the people rally to a leader as
I witnessed while out with him during his stay
in Georgia. The Georgia League is under
many obligations to the National Executive
for an arrangement by which it is possible for
him to return for about three months more,
and we feel quite sure all good citizens of the
State will accept his coming as a distinct com
pliment to the movement in our midst.
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Sketches Quick.
Dr. Charles D. Bulla, Dr. and Mrs. H. M.
Hammill each brought their helpful messages
on the place of the Sunday School in the Re
vival. They also conducted departmental con
ferences on their special lines.
The Epworth League loomed up as aTevival
force in the four addresses by Dr. F. S. Parker,
Epworth League Secretary. The young peo
ple from the State attended enthusiastically
these addresses, and the departmental confer
ences covering the several lines of League
work, which Dr. Parker conducted. Bishop
Kilgo and Dr. W. N. Ainsworth were also
speakers on the last Sunday afternoon of the
Conference at an Epworth League mass meet
ing.
Bishop John C. Kilgo preached every night
to large congregations. His sermons were all
great deliverances on the great evangelical
verities. His fearless denunciation of sin, his
eloquent exaltation of a Savior, his summons
of the ministry back to the old paths of evan
gelistic endeavor, his call to the Church to
seek God, came with the weight and might of
a prophet of God. No conscientious preacher
who heard him will fail to do the work of an
evangelist.
Women Workers For Missions.
The work of the Woman’s Mission Society
was duly considered through four days in a
conference led by Mrs. Luke Johnson, of
Gainesville, Ga., in which she was ably assist
ed by Mrs. A. L. Marshall, Editorial Secretary
of the Board of Missions, and others.
At a meeting of the committees from the
two Conferences, it was enthusiastically agreed
that this Conference should be made an annual
occurrence, and the pastor of Wesley Memo
rial Church was authorized to make the nec
essary arrangements for the next Conference.
FRANK SILER.
Atlanta, Ga., March 28, 1911.
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