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BROUGHTON AND CAMPBELL MORGAN COMING MARCH 7-16
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VOLUME EIGHT
NUMBER FIFTY-ONE
AN EPOCH-MAKING GA THERING OF MEN
First Laymen 9 s Convention of Southern Baptists at Chattanooga Last Week Was a “Lookout Mountain 99 Experience
Dr, J. C. Massee’s Eloquent Welcome —John T. Henderson a Magnetic Leader.
' j~.~ ' S a far-reaching distributor of
A deathless dynamics the Laymen’s
Missionary Convention has been
the most notable gathering of
Christian business men that the
South has ever seen.
I It has been a coming together
________ of the leaders of our leaders. They
have dealt with basic principles—
with inspirational purposes and workable
plans, and the Churches and sections repre
sented will feel the impact of these wonderful
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DR. J. C. MASSEE,
Chattanooga, Tenn.
Who Goes to Dayton, Ohio.
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meetings through all the years.
That Conference on Tithing, led by H. Z.
Duke, of Dallas, Texas, where, after an hour
of gracious fellowship, nearly a thousand men
stood up declaring their purpose to give not
less than one-tenth of their income to God’s
cause, will live in memory and in deathless
fruit-bearing as the mountain peak experience
of all this epoch-making convention. —William
D. Upshaw, in Chattanooga Times.
Massee’s Masterful Welcome.
In response to a request from The Chatta
nooga Times, the Editor of The Golden Age
summed up his estimate of the great Laymen s
Convention in the foregoing statement.
Many “forward movement” plans discussed,
dealt with methods essentially related to the
work of Southern Baptists, and these will be
discussed by the denominational press, and
ATLANTA, GA.,
living echoes from our note-book given in these
pages from time to time.
This week we give our readers the master
ful and beautiful address of welcome delivered
by Dr. Jasper C. Massee, who goes from four
years of victorious work as pastor of the First
Baptist Church, Chattanooga, to the leadership
of the great “Old First Church,” Dayton,
Ohio. After Hon. W. L. Frierson’s graceful wel
come on behalf of the city, President Joshua
Levering, of the Laymen’s Convention, intro
duced Dr. Massee to speak for the Churches,
referring tenderly and beautifully to Dr. Mas
see’s work in his native Southland, and his
early going from us.
Commanding in form, gigantic in mind, gold
en of heart and eloquent of tongue, Dr. Massee
said, in part:
“On behalf of the thirteen Baptist Churches
of this city, comprising a bit more than one
fourth of the white Protestant Church mem
bership of the community, with a constituency
numbering approximately 4,000 militant saints
of the Son of God, I welcome you to Chatta
nooga. lam happy to do this in the name and
because of our common fellowship in the life
eternal. You have named in faith and conse
crated that name that is to us at once the
chiefest among ten thousand for excellency and
the most perfect bond of union. In His name
we welcome you in this golden day, when privi
lege speaks large of duty and opportunity
spells imperative responsibility. We expect
this first Baptist Laymen’s Convention to real
ize for our great brotherhood two mighty as
sets of God’s heritage to men —enlarged vision
and quickened service. We have longed for
your coming with prayer and faith and hope
and that love for you and the cause which is
the crown of them all, in the anticipation that
these days would prove to you and through you
to our brotherhood a veritable mount of vision.
“We would have you to climb, in these days
of listening to God through the voices of His
servants, to the summit of Mount Lookout, and
with glass in hand scan the far horizon of the
seven splendid states whose rich soil beckons
with imperative hand the seeker after God’s
blessed investments. We would have you tread
the boulevard that runs the whole length of
our great spiritual Missionary Ridge until your
souls thrill with the inspiration of a new world
conquest purpose, until you have come for your
self and others to some new signal point and
fling forth from it the challenge of the onward
marching hosts of God. We would have you
to catch the spirit of the German who stood
beside Dr. Holmes on one of the Alpine peaks
overlooking sunny Italy. The American, thrill
ed with a purely impersonal spirit, looked
down upon that fair land and lifting his hat
THAT WASHINGTON MIRACLE—Page Four
said: ‘Glories of the past, I salute you.’ The
German, thrilling with a mighty personal in
terest, turning from his American friend, lift
ing his hat from his head and stretching out
his hands to the fatherland, cried in his deep
guttural: ‘Glories of the future, I salute you.’
Your coming is to us an occasion of inspiration
and hope for a greater Christian future.
“There is also in our thought of welcome a
consideration of service. We have not bid you
come just to sit together in heavenly places.
We wish that upon these mountain tops of great
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DR. J. T. HENDERSON,
General Secretary Baptist Laymen’s
Convention. 1
thoughts, of holy heart-burnings, of quickened
step for your souls, there may come such set
tled convictions of duty, such enlarged, such
holy conceptions of life that every one of you
will be sent back to a new relation to God and
a lost world. To a new consecration to service
with a new passion for giving. We would
voice then this last word of welcome in those
thrilling words of Angela Morgan and bid you
consider what it means ‘to be alive in such a
day.’ ”
Henderson’s Heroic Leadership.
Years ago when John T. Henderson was the
beloved President of Carson and Newnan Col
lege, the writer, who was thrilled by his mag
netic personality and inspiring leadership, gave
him a pen-paid tribute, calling him “a living
hero,” and declaring that if we should ever
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