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The Golden Age
Published Every Thursday by The Golden Age
Publishing Company (Inc.)
OFFICES: AUSTELL BUILDING, ATLANTA. GA.
WILLIAMD. UPSHAW .... Editor
MRS. WILLIAMD. UPSHAW . Associate Editor
MRS. G. B. LINDSEY . . . Managing Editor
LEN G. BROUGHTON . . Pulpit Editor
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A PLUCKY GEORGIA WOMAN.
The spectacle is enough to make the nation
take off its hat! Mrs. Helen D. Longstreet,
President of the Tallulah
Mrs. Longstreet
Fights for
the “Niagara
of the South. ’ ’
established to “develop” and destroy the falls,
is contrary to the anti-trust laws of America,
and, almost single-handed and alone, this brave,
brilliant little woman is fighting the merger—
fighting to save the “Niagara of the South.”
She is creating sentiment and preparing for
a battle in the courts.
And she is paying the expenses out of her
own pocket.
It is a shame to allow it.
Everybody who believes in saving Tallulah
Falls from the destroying hand of commercial
ism ought to send a contribution for expenses
to Mrs. Longstreet, at Gainesville, Ga.
The fair, brave worker is unselfish, and the
cause is the cause of the good, the true and the
beautiful!
4* 4*
BRAVO, FRANK NORRIS!
The Devil is mad out in Ft. Worth, and so
“skeered” he is fighting with fire.
Human
Devils
Shoot
and Burn—
But He
Smiles and
Battles On.
royal Charles W. Daniel, who had
bnilded a solid foundation, without which no
reformer can fight and win. Norris began to
discover and uncover “spiritual wickedness in
high plac.es,” and municipal wickedness, high
and low, by day and night. He actually did
the “indelicate thing” to call the names of mil
lionaire malefactors right out in meeting, with
the officers who winked at their shame.
Folks fumed —their leaders remonstrated
with Norris’ deacons. Those glorious deacons
stood pat. Then they gave their pastor a vaca
tion for three months and an extra purse of
SSOO above his salary with which to regain his
strength so he could come back and do the
thing “just right.” He went —he came back
—he began anew the fight of Christian citizen
ship for cleaning up that wide-open town.
Some of their assassins shot at Norris twice
in his study one Sunday night after he had fin
ished preaching. Then they burned down the
Church and set fire to the pastor’s home.
But, Frank Norris smiles much, prays more
and preaches on in fearless fashion.
Is he “ruining the Church?”
Listen! Last year there were over four hun
dred additions, with contributions to missions
and benevolence leaping toward the skies.
Bravo, Frank Norris! May God keep your
heart, steady your arm and preserve your he
roic body and soul!
Falls Conservation Associa
tion, believes in her soul that
Georgia owns beautiful Tallu
lah Falls, and that the big
water power merger, recently
A little over a year ago our old
Baylor University friend left the
editorial helm of The Baptist
standard, after launching the cam
paign that drove race track gam
bling out of Texas, and became
pastor of the First Baptist Church
in Ft. Worth, succeeding the
The Golden Age for February 15, 1912.
TABERNACLE BIBLE CONFERENCE
The Fourteenth Annual Tabernacle
Bible Conference will convene at the Bap
tist Tabernacle, Atlanta, Ga., March Ist,
and will continue through March 10th.
Indications point to the largest attendance
in the history of the Conferences. The
Conference is interdenominational —ov.er
two thousand preachers attending last
year.
The Fourteenth Conference will be held
in New Tabernacle and Institute Building,
recently dedicated, costing over $200,000,
the seating capacity of which is five thou
sand.
The Personnel of the Conference will
equal, if not surpass, any former program.
An array of new voices will be heard.
Dr. Chas. Inwood, of London, the spe
cially appointed representative of the
Keswick Movement, will be here to
present the lines of teaching that charac
trize Keswick, the largest Bible Confer
ence in the world.
Dr. Camden M. Cobern, of Alleghany
College, Meadville, Pa., who was such a
revelation to the Conference last year,
fairly sweeping the field before him, will
again be here to speak on “Light from
the New Testament” and “Recent Discov
eries in Palestine.” He ranks as one of
America’s greatest Bible scholars.
Dr. .Robert Stuart MacArthur, Presi
dent of the Baptist World Alliance, and
known the world over as one of the few
great preachers, will be heard for the first
time on the program of the Conference.
No man has ever occupied an Atlanta pul
pit, who more continuously held the
hearts and the minds of the people than
did Dr. MacArthur, while supplying the
Tabernacle last autumn during Dr.
Broughton’s absence in England. In ad
dition to the brilliancy of his intellect and
the high type of culture which marked his
personality, he lias peculiarly endeared
himself to the hearts of the people because
of his sweet simplicity and the gracious
manner in which he adapted himself to all
sorts and conditions of men in all walks
of life, leading them out into broad-mind
ed, practical avenues of spiritual educa
tion, and, at the same time, saving the
poise against “that much learning that
maketh thee mad,” by the leavening de
posit of a beautiful philanthropy and an
unbounded Christlike spirit of brotherly
love. It will he a distinct source of grati
fication to be able to introduce Dr. Mac-
Arthur to the Conference, not only as the
“Despise Not the Day of Small Things”
There was a man in a great orchestra whose
instrument was an ordinary tin whistle such
as could be bought for a few cents; yet with
this he was one of the most important mem
bers of the organization, and in addition to
playing his part with the others, rendered most
delightful solos by the use of what is usually
regarded a plaything, because he knew how to
bring out all there was in it.
So we, though weak and unworthy, if we
leave ourselves entirely in the hands of Him
who knows how to reveal our latent possibili
ties, may be used so as to be an inspiration to
others.
“God hath chosen the weak things of the
world to confound the things that are mighty. ’ ’
When God selected Gideon, and the magni
tude of the task opened before the young man,
he exclaimed, “0, my Lord, wherewith shall
I save Israel? Behold ... I am the least in
my father’s house.” But when he went on,
relying on God’s promise to be with him, what
a wonderful result followed.
The Bible is full of similar instances —daily
President of the Baptist World Alliance,
but also as the successor to Dr. Broughton
in the pulpit of the Baptist Tabernacle, as
its future acting pastor.
Dr Howard A. Johnson, of Stamford,
Conn., will address the Conference on soul
winning and methods of personal work.
In his line he has no peer in this country.
Dr. W. W. Bustard, of Euclid Avenue,
Cleveland, Ohio, will deliver a series of
addresses. Dr. Bustard comes with a dis
tinct message, and it is expected, that
here, as elsewhere, he will receive a great
hearing.
Dr. Broughton, whose pastorate termi
nates with the Tabernacle at the close of
the Conference, will deliver a series of ad
dresses also. The character of these ad
dresses will be the result of fourteen years
of personal touch with the churches in
this, and other lands, and will embody
also personal experiences growing out of
a pastorate of fourteen years in Atlanta.
These sermons will be his last in America,
his pastorate at Christ Church, London,
opening April Ist.
Mrs. A. A. Lamoreaux, of Chicago, is a
specialist in her line in Sunday School
pedagogy. She will address the Confer
ence daily.
Music. The Conference will be provid
ed with the greatest musical program in
its history. As directors and soloists,
Prof, and Mrs. A. C. Boatman, of Atlanta;
Prof. Chester E. Harris, of Ohio; Prof,
and Mrs. Carl Fisher, of Grand Rapids.
In addition, there will be a choir of a hun
dred voices, supported by the handsome
$20,000 pipe organ recently installed.
Entertainment. Entertainment may be
provided in the neighborhood of the Tab
ernacle at SI.OO per day, or rooms may be
secured at 25 cents per night. The Taber
nacle will conduct on a larger scale than
ever a case for the convenience of the Con
ference.
The Conference opens 9 a. m., and closes
at 10 p. m., six services a day being held,
in addition to consecration meetings and
methods of study which are provided in
the various halls in the Church.
Can you afford to miss this, the greatest
spiritual feast in the South? Write us if
you are coming. We will greatly appre
ciate your announcing this to your congre
gation and friends.
For further particulars, address
REV. J. W. HAM,
Asst. Pastor Tabernacle Baptist Church.
life is filled with it, —and always we find this
usability in connection with consecration of
time and talents and means to the Great Mak
er and Giver of all.
“Not by might nor by power, but by my
Spirit, saith the Lord.”
You may be no more than a “tin whistle”
in the vast orchestra of life, but if you are in
the hands of the Great Master, the harmony
which results will help to spread the sunshine
of good cheer in the world.
I wonder if we do not sometimes miss this
honor and privilege by taking a too contracted
view of things, holding back from joining the
Church, the Young Mens’ Christian Associa
tion, etc., with the excuse, “I will not get any
thing out of it, overlooking the fact that it is
not so much what we get out of it as what we
put in that counts. The contribution of some
of God’s dollars to a good cause will help it
on, —and there is always a reflex action, by
which, in the doing good, we receive good.
“To do good, and to communicate, forget
not.” H. S. JENISON.