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The Golden Age
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OFFICES: AUSTELL BUILDING. ATLANTA. GA.
WILLIAMD. UPSHAW «... Editor
MRS. WILLIAMD. UPSHAW . Associate Editor
MRS. G. B. LINDSEY <, « o Managing Editor
LEN G. BROUGHTON . . Pulpit Editor
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THAT “D. D.” CONTEST.
Because our circulation is growing rapidly,
and we are anxious to give the spiciest and
Answers
Will Appear
First
Issue
In
New
Year.
Years’ subscription to a Life-
Time subscription to The Golden Age.
Here is the offer —pass it to your “Doctored”
and “un-Doctored” friends:
For the best answer on “The Good Arising
from the Practice of Conferring the Degree of
‘Doctor of Divinity’ on Preachers of the Gos
pel,” we will give a certificate of a Life Sub
scription to The Golden Age, and for the best
answer on “The Evils Arising from the Prac
tice of Conferring the Degree of ‘Doctor of
Divinity’ on Preachers of the Gospel,” we
will likewise give a Life Subscription to The
* Golden Age.
No answer must contain over fifty words,
and the envelope bringing the answer must
bear a postmark not later than Dec. 31st, 1912.
A committee of three competent laymen will be
judges.
We are giving both sides a fair opportunity
to be heard on a subject on which great and
good men honestly differ —a subject on which
there is more to be said than many would
think at first blush. The contest is open to
both sexes,; and all ages, and the first issue in
the New Year will doubtless contain a for
midable array of breezy answers. Now for the
fun. Let the “victims” be “victimized,” and
the “perpetrators” of the title rise up and
“give a reason for the faith that is in them.”
Address: The Golden Age “D. D.” Contest
Atlanta, Ga.
FOOTPRINTS OF WESLEY IN SAVANNAH.
(Continued from Page 1.)
religion. Owing to these sentiments, and a
lingering prejudice against Mr. Wesley, Hope
Hull met with violent opposition when he
came to his new circuit. Mobs were formed,
and the violence became such that he left the
city.
Among the early ministers in Savannah, we
find the names of Hezekiah Arnold, John Bon
ner, Jonathan Jackson, Josiah Randall, John
Garwin, Samuel Dunwoody. Dunwoody was
sent to Savannah by Bishop Asbury in 1806.
He taught school for a support and preached
at the almshouse, the hospital and the home
where he boarded. This year he had a visit
from the famous Jesse Lee, who was at that
time on the Sparta circuit. At that time there
was no Georgia Conference. The territory of
the North and South Georgia Conferences was
then included in the South Carolina jurisdic
tion.
In his journal of April 19, 1807, Lee says:
At night at Mr. Meyers’ I preached. I had
best to as many as possible, we
have decided to postpone the
publication of the answers on
the good and evils of the “ D. D. ”
business, and leave the contest
open until the first number in
January. We have decided also
to increase the prize from a Five
The Golden Age for November 28, 1912.
That w r as a tender, triumphant moment in
the truly masterful speech of Dr. John E.
White at the Georgia Baptist Con
vention, when the eloquent Presi
dent of the Georgia Baptist Educa
tion Board turned from the “burn
ing bush’ of his logic on fire and
said in low, reverent tones: ‘ ‘ Last
week in North Carolina I buried
“I Would
Leave You
Nothing
But
Good.”
my father. Because he had asked me to do it, I
made an address at his funeral, not a fulsome
eulogy, but I just stood there at the dear old
church where he had preached so long, and
before the great company of noble people who
had known my father as a man and preacher,
and told them what I knew about him. And
this is one of the memories I told: One night,
as a boy, I sat by the fireside and heard my
father and some of his neighbors—war-time
companions—tell over war stories and talk
politics. My boyish heart grew very much ex
cited. I showed it in my face and manner.
When the neighbors 'were gone, my father
came, laid his hand caressingly on my shoulder
and said: “My son, remember that those men
and I were in the war together. It is natural
that we should feel deeply. But when I am
gone I want you to remember all the good
things you can about your father’s life; but I
MACON IS COMING ALONG.
Verily, all efforts toward real prohibition
and law-enforcement in Georgia’s “Central
City” have not been in vain.
Sixty-Eight Who knows but that big rally at
Barrels the city auditorium a few days
Os “Booze” ago when “Bob” Broyles, the
Confiscated “trash mover,” and the Editor
In One of The Golden Age were the
Night. speakers, had something to do
with quickening Macon’s con
science and hurrying up results? Anyway, the
dispatches tell us that the sheriff and county
deputies made a raid the other night on four
saloons and captured and confiscated sixty
eight barrels of whiskey!
And the city officers meekly commented
that they “never dreamed it was there.”
Poor Things! We very much fear they are
telling “what they make soap out of.”
Gov. Brown spoke wisely, not long ago,
when he declared that the peace and order of
our counties are largely in the hands of the
sheriffs. If the city authorities are so “igno
rant,” or so criminal that they will not see
and act, then let the sheriffs arise in behalf of
their oath and the state and “do business.”
a crowded house and many had to remain out
of doors. It was a good time to many souls.”
A class of three was formed, from those who
had been Methodists elsewhere, and at the next
Conference five whites and seven negroes were
reported as members. In 1807 the Methodist
Episcopal Church was formally and legally or
ganized in Savannah. John Millen, George
Harrell and Ebenezer Starke were the first
trustees.
In 1812, just one hundred years ago, James
Russell came as preacher to Savannah, and
began the erection of a house of worship. He
was returned in 1813, when the building was
completed, and dedicated by Bishop Asbury on
Sunday, November 21, 1913. This church was
called Wesley Chapel. Asbury, in his journal,
says: “I preached twice in Wesley Chapel.
This is a good, neat house, sixty by forty feet,
and cost $5,000. Others would have made it
cost SIO,OOO. We are indebted to Meyers and
Russell for much of this saving.” The Meyers
mentioned 'here was the Rev. Lewis Meyers,
John E. White’s Honored Father
would not bequeath to you one single ignoble
memory—not one impulse of bitter prejudice.
My son, I would leave you nothing but good.
Tears filled many eyes during the speaker’s
impressive recital of his honored father’s rich
and blessed bequest, and on this beautiful
story Dr. White built a powerful argument in
behalf of absolutely eliminating all possible
prejudice and partisan strife between educa
tional institutions in the correlated “Mercer
System of Schools and Colleges”—institutions
born in one glorious aim and which should ever
be operated in the high and holy comradeship
of one common, conquering purpose.
Dr. E. J. Forrester, who fills so ably the
Bible chair at Mercer University, declared of
Dr. White’s speech and of Dr. L. R. Christie’s
speech on the “Greater Mercer Vision” (which
jwe hope to publish next week): “Those
speeches of White and Christie place them
higTi up on the list of our denominational
statesmen. ’ ’
In each remarkable and masterful address
the ideal of a vigorous Christian father lived
and blazed in the message of the son, and as
we live today in the thrilling aftermath of it
all, we feel very much like going out and
preaching a new sermon on “The Hand of the
Father Upon the Heart of the Son.”
Come along, Macon! and Augusta! and Sa
vannah! and Atlanta, Chattanooga, Nashville
and Memphis —Come on!
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DR. BROUGHTON IS “PESTERED” AGAIN.
Some weeks ago we published a letter from
our European Pulpit Editor, Dr. Len G.
Broughton, in which he privately and publicly
“fessed up” that he has a hard time resign
ing himself to the pestiferous “pestuations”
of the London fog. Now he writes the writer
that he is “pestered” again because the
prayer-meeting talks and “storiettes” which
he sent to be used during his vacation have
appeared in The Golden Age, as if they had
been delivered as regular sermons. He is
afraid his American readers will think that his
preaching ability has dropped several degrees
since he went to “London town.”
Not a bit! The thousands who have fed and
feasted on his sermons in our columns for
nearly seven years, know when Broughton is
preaching, and when he is “just talking.”
And as for those who read these talks and
stories for the first time, we are mighty sure
they will like the sample so well that they
will be all the more ready for a good square
meal a la Broughton, when it comes along.
presiding elder, and one of the leading men of
the South Carolina jurisdiction.
In 1912 there are five Methodist Churches
in Savannah —six, counting Thunderbolt. The
Savannah Methodist Churches are growing in
number and in financial and spiritual strength.
Rev. W. F. Smith, the presiding elder of the
Savannah district, is also secretary of the con
ference. He is a golden-hearted gentleman
and one of the most useful and popular men
of the Conference.
Rev. Thomas P. Ellis, D. D., pastor of the
Wesley Monumental Church, is now in his third
year at this great Church. Dr. Ellis was a
member of the last General Conference. He
is one of the strong young men of Southern
Methodism.
In the work of taking care of the Confer
ence he has fine assistance from Rev. J. B.
Johnstone, pastor of Trinity; Rev. I. M. Chris
tian, at Grace; Rev. W. M. Blitch, at Epworth;
Rev. H. T. Freeman, at Asbury; Rev. C. D.
Adams, at Thunderbolt, and also from the lay
men of Savannah.