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- 1 , /y x r) £ 19 (librz '■•n _ „ • <| 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. A 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 J. 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 Hit i OffißllWmSO - ■aM ' t'.W|| sw ’ £• J adShfl! ii mtJvr ■Hr ** nx ' *s.* - Bak Hirx«t > -■ • Kr BAPTIST TRI-STATE HOSPITAL. . ATLANTA, GA., MAY 4, 1911 fly WILLIAM D. UPSHAW Jh 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 (Continued on Page 4.)