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BROUGHTON AND CAMPBELL MORGAN COMING MARCH 7-16 _____H.- *’ *• 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 ------- i 11 ' ■ I ifiij I t ‘ .Ffl DR. J. C. MASSEE, Chattanooga, Tenn. Who Goes to Dayton, Ohio. i 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 lipPg mßoi 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 (Continued on Page 5.) ONE DOLLAR AND FIFTY CENTS A YEAR :: FIVE CENTS A COPY