The Golden age. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1906-1915, February 20, 1913, Image 1

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3E VOLUME EIGHT NUMBER FIFTY-TWO ATLANTA BIBLE CONFERENCE The Fifteenth Session of the Atlanta Bible Conference Will Open at the Baptist Tabernacle Friday Evening, March 7th, and Continue Holding Six Services Daily Through Sunday, March 16th, With Dr. Len G. Broughton of London, as the Presiding Genius. H ib- /- ■ ' ' Sil > '■ ; I .-;< " ’’ V*#:M?' . ; .<-■ ■ ' ' K 'k' ■■’■ ’ • jsHHh -J ■& ww^ 1 /'. DR. LEN G. BROUGHTON. IIIF i MW REV. RICHARD ORME FLINN. ATLANTA, GA., FEBRUARY 20, 1913 ~ • ’ R BROUGHTON will open the Con- tference with an address, to be fol lowed by Dr. G. Campbell Morgan, who comes to America with Dr. Broughton, for this Conference ex clusively. The Conference this year will eclipse any former gath- L__j__ ering, both in strength of program —J and in out-of-town attendance. Ministers and laymen from all parts of the United States are signifying by letter their in tention to attend. The mere fact of the announcement that Drs. Broughton and Morgan will be present through the Conference, is sufficient guarantee that the Tabernacle, with its 5,000 seating capacity, will be taxed to its utmost. The officers of the Atlanta Bible Conference Association, have made it one of the stipulated agreements in the program that Dr. Broughton himself speak daily during the Conference. This he has never done before, owing to the fact that it was a Conference controlled and directed by him. A year ago the ministers and laymen of the Epis copal, Presbyterian, Methodist, Congregational ist and Baptist Churches organized themselves into a Bible Conference Association, secured a charter for same, and the following officers were elected: Rev. Richard Orme Flinn, D. D., pastor North Avenue Presbyterian Church, vice-presi dent and chairman of the executive committee. John J. Egan, treasurer. H. A. Ethridge, attorney and secretary. John W. Ham, Conference secretary. The Conference is interdenominational in support and non-denominational in teaching. The expenses of the Conference being provided for entirely by the free will offerings of the people in attendance. Dr. G. Campbell Morgan. Dr. Morgan’s coming to America, especially for this Conference, is hailed with delight by preachers, teachers and laymen from all parts of the United States. He occupies a position of leadership in the world as an expositor and preacher unexcelled by any. His marked scholarship was the controlling factor in his election a year ago to the presidency of Chest nut College—the Protestant section of the schools embraced in the Cambridge Schools of England. Dr. Morgan is the author of 50 volumes on various subjects. These will be on sale during the Conference. He will speak twice daily. Dr. James M. Gray. Dr. Gray, Dean of Moody Bible Institute, Chicago, will be present during the entire ses (Continued on Page 5.) ONE DOLLAR AND FIFTY CENTS A YEAR ti FIVE CENTS A CORY ; ft! il DR. G. CAMPBELL MORGAN. 11111 l -I JOHN J. EAGAN.