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MOUNTAIN PEAKS OF SOUTHERN CONVENTION
“PROGRESSIVES” AND OPTIMISM CONTROL SOUTHERN BAPTISTS—MIGHTY FORWARD MOVEMENT SOUNDED AT EV
ERY STEP—CHATTANOOGA OFFERS GREAT AUDITORIUM AND ASSEMBLY GROUNDS ON BEAUTIFUL
“SIGNAL MOUNTAIN”—WILLIAMSON THE PREACHER-GIANT OF ST. LOUIS.
(Editorial Correspondence.)
ST. Louis may be “the Rome ot Amer
ica,” but this great “Romanized” me
tropolis of the Middle West had an
opportunity last week to learn that
“Father Phelous’ ” declaration that “Protes
tantism is dead,” lacked several thousand
miles of being true.
Southern Baptists, five thousand strong,
gathered in St. Louis last week and these con
secrated, fearless Christian men and women
threaded the great city with their vital in
fluence. With one hundred and seventy odd
Protestant pulpits in the St. Louis district fill
ed by flaming evangels of Christ and his regen
erating power, and with a telegram of C hris
tian love and salutation sent by the Southern
Baptist Convention to the great national assem
bly of Presbyterians in session in Atlanta, there
was a “gentle reminder” to the onlooking
world that “Protestantism is a lively corpse
and that Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians,
Disciples and what not are in glorious fellow
ship on the foundation purpose to carry Christ
our risen Redeemer and common Lord to a
sinning, suffering world.
Williamson’s Church an Inspiration.
What a wealth of inspiration to meet in the
great Third Baptist Temple in St. Louis 1 There
two thousand people flock every Sunday to
worship the God of their creation and the
Christ of their redemption, while Wm. J. Wil
liamson, the great consecrated giant of the St.
Louis pulpit and known as “the best loved
man in all the metropolis,” is preaching like
another Spurgeon to the hearts and consciences
of men. With Love as his slogan —love for
God and love for men—and keyed and cabled
to the saving virtues of the Book and the
Blood, Williamson is reaching the unreached,
winning men of the world, t baptizing Jews
and Catholics, skeptics and foreigners and
leading all to the high and holy fellowship
which comes from personal acquaintance with
his personal Redeemer.
Dargan Again Honored.
Dr. E. C. Dargan, who has made such a
splendid reputation for ability and business
as a presiding officer, was re-elected president
with great enthusiasm, the four vice presidents
being M. H. Wolfe, the great Texas cotton man
UNIVERSITY SENIORS BANISH LIQUOR—TABERNACLE CALLS LINCOLN M CONNELL.
ATLANTA, GA., MAY 22, 1913
By WILLIAM D. UPSHAW, Editor.
and active layman; R. P. Tigert, the brilliant
young Tennessee banker, who has done so
much for his alma mater, Union University;
A. G. Washburn, the veteran missionary to In
dians and Oklahomans, and William Ellison,
the lawyer-layman-leader, of Virginia.
The convention sermon by “Tom” O’Kelly,
as h's Georgia friends still love to call him,
was a beautiful and stirring trumpet call to
missionary consecration and showed what kind
of preaching the saints at the First church,
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Rev. Louis Warren.
Raleigh, have all the time, for T. W. O’Kelly
can do that well or better every Sunday.
Since Ti:.e Golden Age does not deal with
denominational details, we only touch such
conventions in the high places, and because of
space limitations not all of them.
Vines Cries “Forward!”
Asked for an expression concerning the
things that impressed him most, Dr. W. M.
Vines, of St. Joseph, who is being cordially
welcomed back to his native Southland by the ?
First Baptist church of Charlotte, wrote the
following:
“Dr. Dargan, by his charming personality,
good humor, quickness, fair-mindedness and
masterful knowledge of parliamentary law,
makes an ideal president. He is nearer my
ideal than any man who has occupied this
exalted position in a long time. I am impress
ed by the rising tide of progress and am con
scious that the convention is moving forward
along the path of real advancement, but I am
impatient that our people do not go forward
more rapidly. I cannot but feel that a closer
relation between our boards and a better ad
justment of our machinery would greatly ac
celerate our speed. Dr. White’s motion for an
advisory committee of seven is a symptom and
an expression of a deep need. We are not
marshaling our forces and we are too slow
to sieze progressive methods. We should cease
to boast of our orthodoxy and awake to the
fact that our conservatism is a hindrance
rather than a help. It retards the kingdom
instead of advancing the cause of our Lord.
The future is bright and I am confident that
the ultimate outcome will be glorious for our
convention and the kingdom of Christ.”
Ridley Loved the Worship.
Rev. Caleb A. Ridley, the brilliant and be
loved pastor of the Central church, which is
growing so rapidly toward the new “White
hall Temple,” was most deeply impressed with
the half hour of worship led by Dr. H. A.
Porter. Ridley said:
“To me the greatest moments of the con
vention were the few half hours given to Dr.
Porter in which his kindly heart and gentle
spirit met our hearts in holiest w r edlock and
made us all one in Jesus.”
Fred Eden Calls for “Orthopraxy.”
J. Fred Eden, Jr., of Winder, Ga., and one
of the “livest wires” among all the young
pastors of the South, gives the following orig
inal, unique and breezy story of his conven
tion impressions:
“ Was it the breezy and aggressive spirit
that we have come to think is dominant in
that Western people, or was it something
deeper, greater and more pervasive that may
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