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VOLUME SIX
NUMBER ELEVEN
MIGHTY MEMPHIS MOVEMENT
Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas Unite in Building Great Christian Hospital—Big “Baptist Forward Movement
Banquet/ 9 with Gov, Hooper and George Truett Among the Speakers.
FTER fifty years of waiting the
deed is done at last—or nearly
done. It is glorious now, of
course, to contemplate the com
ing sunburst of victory, and may
be the wasted half century will
be forgotten by the world—if not
forgiven —in the beauty and
blessing of present achievement.
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No mortal man can ever compute—for the
archives of Heaven alone can reveal, what
evangelical Christianity has missed, espe
cially that part of it represented by the Bap
tists of the Middle Mississippi Valley, by not
building in Memphis fifty years ago— why
not seventy-five?— an adequate hospital to
open its arms to the suffering in the name of
the Great Physician—giving healing to the
body and balm for the soul.
The Catholics did it—they always do—
and the percentage of gain on their invest
ment from every viewpoint, is largely the
measure of Baptist and Methodist loss.
The Glad Awakening.
But now that the awakening has come,
everybody is glad—l mean those who are
awake. The great-hearted, far-seeing lead
ers among preachers and laymen in the ter
ritory of which Memphis is the Tri-State
capital have come together in the stalwart
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beauty of unselfish fel
lowship and subscribed
about $170,000, and the
middle wing of the mag
nificent building whose
picture appears on our
front page, this week, is
nearing completion.
Fifty Thousand Dol
lars additional, with
prompt payment of
pledges already made,
will make this great in
stitution ready to begin
its beautiful and death
less mission.
Rally Day—First Sun
day in May.
To accomplish this im
mediate end, and also for
the sake of rallying the
Baptist laymen of Mem
phis into a union of
closer comradeship and
fellowship in all the
work of “the Kingdom,”
Dr. Thos. S. Potts, the
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BAPTIST TRI-STATE HOSPITAL. .
ATLANTA, GA., MAY 4, 1911
fly WILLIAM D. UPSHAW
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enterprising and highly successful Financial
Secretary of the Baptist Memorial Hospital
has arranged with the Baptist pastors of
Memphis to make the first Sunday in May a
great rally day for the hospital and Mon-
DR. THOS. S. POTTS.
day night following for the great “Forward
Movement Banquet.”
Dr. Potts showed his spirit of enterpris
ing determination in securing his speakers
for this great rally.
When George W. Truett, the “Spurgeon
of Texas,” who is in the current of a conti
nent of demands, could not be brought by
letter or wire, Potts didn’t do a thing but
get on the train and go all the way to Texas.
Finding him not in Dallas, he “took out after
him” across the plains and never turned
back till he had his man. He knew that this
wonderful Texan had led the campaign that
built the half-million-dollar sanitarium at
Dallas, and that Truett must come to Mem
phis. And then, when Potts wanted the
most prominent Baptist layman in Tennessee
to be Toastmaster at that banquet, he went
to Nashville and came back with Tennessee’s
royal young Governor in his arms. That’s
business. That is the lick that wins.
These great leaders in pulpit and civic life,
with other prominent speakers, local and
from afar, will spread the intellectual menu
after the diners have dined without any wine
at the mammoth Scottish Rite Cathedral in
Memphis.
“Get together and do things”—that will
be the slogan of the “Forward Movement
ONE DOLLAR AND FIFTY CENTS
A YEAR :: FIVE CENTS A COPY
Banquet —every Mem
phis layman catching a
new vision of what it
means to study how to
make money for “the
Kingdom”—laying busi
ness sense, energy and
enthusiasm at the feet
of Christ and His cause.
One Man Gives Ten
Thousand.
Prominent among the
consecrated laymen from
a distance will be A. E.
Jennings, of Greenwood,
Miss., whose big-hearted
gift ofTen Thousand
Dollars t o t h e hospital
electrified three states
and will doubtless show
other men of means how
to go into actual partner
ship with God—for there
are a dozen men in Mem
p h i s and surrounding
country who are
more able than Jennings
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