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With all the faithful preach ing and working that had gone be fore, the church suddenly realized that in A. B. Metcalfe they had found just the type of wise, energet ic, enterprising leadership for which they were ripe and ready. Pretty as a Dream. With the growth of spiritual pur pose and power came the conviction that the house of the Lord must be more inviting and commodious. About $3,000 spent on the building has made it look “as good as new” inside and out, and walls, windows, seats, floor and gallery—all together —make the visitor feel like saying “Whoop-ee!” and supplementing it with the doxology. It is not showy —it is just satisfying, and puts the visitor and worshiper in a wholesome humor with the church and the world. The Shorter Girls Will Come. In this large and growing congre gation great interest naturally cen ters about the fact that the large majority of the Shorter College girls will hereafter make “Fifth Avenue” their church home. The removal of Shorter across the river to the com manding eminence where the Greater {Shorter buildings are now being erected, will put that famous institution nearer Fifth Ave nue church than any other, and the assurance of such spiritual and intellectual food as A. B. A MISSISSIPPI HERO ON CRUTCHES-Page Five ATLANTA, GA., AUGUST 17, 1911 Metcalfe furnishes his congregations will make church-going a Sunday delight to the college girls. Metcalfe Always A Winner. In all his sixteen years as a pastor, A. B. Met calfe has always been a winner. Serving, An dalusia, Georgiana, Fayette and Albertville in Alabama, he humbly rejoices in the remarka- r-’ • ■ " /. ' * < ■ A ? MB ~ V wWMWM * s wWw " h MiWfwfl I ■ H ' Mm mwhmeO wWIk I i ■ iIKMrIW fc—— '.- ~ , • ,• •-* ...r t- MKm'Z '-AZr. • - 7, v . . ■:-, < . _ ' ,■ yzgf . .. Z'Z ' Fifth Avenue Baptist Church, Rome, Ga. ble record of having seen every church double in membership during his pastorate. Leaving Albertville over the tearful protest of his devoted people—because he felt his By WILLIAM D. UPSHAW, Editor. heart would literally break if he tried to work on in the home from which the lightning’s flash carried his good wife to Heaven by fire, he has begun at Rome what promises to be the best work of his life. With a beautiful family of consecrated chil dren and a loyal church following his wise and splendid leadership, Metcalfe and his roy al Roman band are going forward “conquering and to conquer.” But this plucky, progressive church is determined not to stop with its present beautiful building. More room is necessary to handle the rousing Sunday school, and a large annex is soon to be erected that will serve not only as a modern Sunday school workshop, but also be tribu tary to the church auditorium. la other words, they have practical common sense at the Fifth Avenue church in Rome —they don’t believe in lost motion or lost space. It seems positive folly to lock up thou sands of dollars in a Sunday school room which can not help out the space of the church auditorium on special occasions. While this vigor ous Roman band can not be called a church of wealth, it is rich in grace and the spirit of sacrifice, and with such a man as Metcalfe in the pulpit it will more and more become that rare combination of a “people’s church,” as well as the altar of con secrated culture. Ablaze With Missionary Zeal. It is not surprising that the Fifth Avenue church should become es sentially a missionary church when its former beloved pastor was Rev. Calder B. Willingham, who is now on the foreign field —a son of the great apostle of Foreign Missions, Dr. R. J. Willingham; and when it is also remembered that one of Pas tor Metcalfe’s daughters has already volunteered to witness for Christ in the darkness across the seas. Such preaching by the pastor and such an example by his beautiful, ac complished daughter will inevitably exert a wholesome influence among the young ladies of the congregation and the college—and through them upon the young men, for it is the consuming purpose of the pastor to offer the youth of his congregation a church life so attractive they will not be won by the siren songs of the world. ONE DOLLAR AND FIFTY CENTS A YEAR :: FIVE CENTS A CORY