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BAPTIST LAYMEN’S MISSIONARY
CAMPAIGN.
Suggested by E. E. George, Chatta
nooga, Tenn.
The Golden Age would like to see
the suggested plan for a “Missionary
Campaign” that God has enabled E.
E. George of Chattanooga, Tenn., to
formulate, heartily endorsed and work
ed. It is definite and concrete. All
who have previously seen it say they
consider it the most feasible and
practical plan of missionary endeavor
that has ever been submitted by any
one in any denomination.
You will note that it does not con
template setting aside any of the pres
ent agencies, or conflicting with any
of the present plans of the churches,
but rather the unifying and correlat
ing all agencies in one big undertak
ing for the glory of Christ. It does
not contemplate introducing any new
machinery or causing any complica
tions anywhere. But it proposes a
great task that will, we believe, at
once appeal to any challenge our lay
men of biggest brains and largest
means who are sleeping over their
opportunities, and enable the already
awakened ones to enlist them.
We feel sure this plan would aug
ment and strengthen the interest in
every special campaign already
launched and insure their success.
To begin June 1, 1913. to end May
30, 1915.
Under the direction of, and in co
operation with the State Board of Mis
sions in each state in the territory of
the Southern Baptist Convention.
Object: To enlighten and enlist ev
ery man in every church in all our
denominational activities.
1. Plan of Organization: Enlarge
the executive committee of the Lay
men’s Missionary Movement, giving
each state at least one representative
•on said committee. This general com
mittee shall have general direction of
the campaign.
2. Organize a strong committee in
each state, and in each association in
each state. (Special suggestion.)
3. Make a complete survey of each
church showing the exact condition as
to its mission situation.
4. Put on a campaign in every
I can never forget my first sight
of the mountains. It was the occa-
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first bright flushes of day. And there
they were—rugged, stalwart, impreg
nable, reaching toward the skies and
sparkling with dawdrops from a fast
escaping night. As I looked out of the
window that morning, I felt my own
insignificance as 1 had never felt it
before. I thought of the centuries
they had been in building, and of the
generations to come who, like myself,
would gaze in wondering admiration at
the majestic peaks. That, my first
view of the mountains, was in north
ern Alabama. The time was some
NEWS FROM THE WORKERS
WANDERINGS IN DIXIE NO. 5
By Solon Hume Bryan.
sion of my first
visit to Georgia. I
had left Memphis
the night before,
and upon retiring
to my berth I had
instructed the Pull
man porter to call
me early. I want
ed to get a view of
the mountains as
they appear in the
church within the territory of the
Southern Baptist Convention of at
least three services, when all phases
of state, home and foreign mission
work shall be presented and discussed
by capable speakers. Stewardship and
systematic beneficence to be espec
ially emphasized. Open conferences
on missions shall be held at each place.
A definite mission program outlined
and suggested for each place. A rea
sonable missionary task to be submit
ted.
5. These state campaigns to be
carried on consecutively if possible
and shall be concluded as soon as prac
ticable.
6. Following immediately this edu
cational campaign a quiet and thorough
campaign to raise five million dollars
for our mission causes shall be car
ried through. (Special suggestion.)
7. This amount to be in addition
to the current expenses of the mis
sion boards now operating, but shall
include $1,000,000 building and loan
fund and the $1,250,000 “Judson Cen
tennial Fund.”
8. This amount to be divided as
follows: Two million for foreign mis
sions (one and a quarter million the
Judson Cenutennial Fund and three
quarters of a million for enlargement
work), two million for home missions
(one million for the building and loan
fund, one million for enlargement
work), one million for state missions,
observing the ratio fixed by the state
organizations for the three mission
causes as far as possible.
9. The campaign shall be launched
by authority of the Southern Baptist
Convention in May, 1915.
CARTERSVILLE.
The First Baptist church here has
enjoyed a gracious season of refresh
ing from his presence. To Him be
all the glory and honor. Pastor J. M.
Long was assisted by Rev. J. B. Phil
lips, of New Bern, N. C., and he in
turn was assisted by Mr. and Mrs. J.
Q. Brown, of Chicago, who had charge
of the singing, and Miss Louise Hern
don, of Macon, as personal worker.
The series of meetings began April
13, and closed Wednesday evening of
this week, April 30, and as one re-
fifteen years ago.
Today I am traveling among the
mountains of old Virginia. The tracks
of the Norfolk and Western railway,
wind serpent-like up the mountain side
of Roanoke valley westward from Roa
noke. There is an almost level stretch
from Roanoke to Salem, a distance
of six miles, then the ascension be
gins, and for nearly thirty miles it
is a gradual climb of the mountain,
until at last we reach the top. That
is at Christiansburg.
This morning the valley is all ablaze
with the verdure of a new-born spring.
The dog-wood, which flowered weeks
ago farther South, is just abloom here.
The streams, limpid, clear, rapid, rip
pling anon over projected rock, is sug
gestive of mountain trout, and causes
one to wish that he might pause by
the way for a day of sport. The cat
tle, sleek, fat, gay, browse upon the
gently sloping mountain side and in
the valleys below. Here and there
is a beautiful and well-kept country
home, with yards that are attractive
and barns that are not offensive. It
seems to me that one ought to be
The Golden Age for May 29, 1913
suit, there were fifty-six accessions to
the church. Not in many years has
there been such a gracious ingather
ing.
Brother Phillips is a strong preach
er, earnest, zealous, and exceptionally
conversant with the dear old Book of
God as he loved to call it.
The singing was helpful, adding
much to the pleasure of the service.
Two choruses were organized, senior
and junior, and one beauty of it was
they knew when and what to sing.
There were three services each day,
morning, afternoon, and evening, Bro
ther Phillips speaking at each.
Much of the present effects and fu
ture hopes of the meeting are due,
as always to the good women of the
church and others. Through the
agency of Miss Herndon, prayer ser
vices were held in all parts of the
city each afternoon in which much in
terest was manifested, the average at
tendance at these meetings numbering
one hundred and fifty or more.
A striking feature of the occasion
were the men’s prayer meetings, held
each afternoon in the store of Brother
Jack Hill, on Main street.
These begun with an attendance of
about thirty-five and increased to al
most three times this number.
Much good was done. Good seed
were sown, the word was preached
and it will not return void.
Bread was cast upon the waters,
which we shall see and know even
after many days.
MIDDLE CHEROKEE.
May 3, 1913.
THE SACREDNESS OF MOTHER
HOOD.
Dr. J. J. Hall, director of the Ameri
can Peace Society, with southern head
quarters in Atlanta, writes the follow
ing:
Editor Golden Age:
In that tender and beautiful tribute
which you paid to the lamented Mrs.
H. B. Folk, who has so greatly bless
ed the world not only by her own saint
ly life and splendid character, but also
by her noble sons and daughters, there
is a sentence which should arrest the
attention of every woman who reads
it. This is what you wrote: “And
contented and happy in a land like
this. If I owned a farm like one of
these, and knew how to intelligently
manage it, no inducement of worldly
prestige could entice me away. To me
it would be the poety of my life. And
there I’d stay. There I’d watch the
colts turn loose their young energy
in high kicks and higher jumps.
There I’d hearken to the call of the
cock in the early morn, and let the
mournful; cry of the whippoorwill
soothe me to sleep after the day is
done. There I’d get near enough to
Nature’s heart to interpret and under
stand some of the hidden secrets of
life. There I’d commune in silence
with the unknown and prepare for a
better appreciation of the unknown
kingdom which, in childhood, we pic
tured as being beyond the sky.
As it is, I must respond to the un
earthly ringing of a hotel alarm bell
at all hours of the night, and listen
to the honk-honk of the autos driven
by joy riders when I would sleep
the greater part of my time being
spent on railroad trains and in hotels.
women —true, womanly women every
where * * * have a new call to fall on
their knees and ask God to give them
children—children that they may train
for Him and His cause.” It is re
freshing in such times as these to read
such lines. A Russian lady of great
distinction once said that it was the
ambition of every, true Russian lady
to bring into the world sons who will
be as brave as lions and daughters
as pure as doves. Alas! have we not
fallen on evil days when desire for and
love of children, and the sacred bless
edness of maternity are sacrificed for
pleasure, fashion, or gold. In this rest
less and feverish age let us still stand
with uncovered heads before the true
mothers of the land.
J. J. HALL.
WORLD’S CHRISTIAN CITIZEN
SHIP CONFERENCE.
Great Crowds Expect to Throng the
Stadium, Portland, Ore. June 29.
July 6.
Interest in the approaching World’s
Christian Citizenship Conference, Port
land, Ore., June 29 to July 6 next, ap
pears to be centering in the sectional
conferences to be held during the
forenoons of the week in which the
world assembly is to be in session.
Commissions of from five to nine mem
bers each, representing different coun
tries, are now investigating the fol
lowing subjects: “Peace,” Prof. Ed
ward Krehbiel, Stanford University,
Calif., Chairman; “The Family,” Dr.
R. C. Wylie, Pittsburg, Pa., Chairman;
“Mormonism,” Prof. O. F. Davis, New
Richmond, Wis., Chairman; “Public
Education,” Rev. W. F. McCauley, Mc-
Keesport, Pa., Chairman; “Intemper
ance,” Dr. Edwin C. Dinwiddie, Wash
ington, D. C., Chairmon; “The Sab
bath,” Rev. Albert T. Moore, D.D.,
Toronto, Canada, Chairman; “Prison
Reform,” Hon. McKenzie Cleland, Chi
cago, 111., Chairman; “Capital and La
bor,” Wr. Charles Stelzle, New York,
N. Y., Chairman; “Personal Evangel
ism and Social Service,” Dr. Georg G.
Mahy, Philadelphia, Pa., Chairman;
“Social Purity,” Hon. B. S. Stead well,
La Crosse, Wiis., Chairman. The
Chairmen of each Commission will
report with recommendations as to
how best, in the judgment of the
Commissioners present conditions
can be remedied. These reports, to
gether with the various addresses to
be delivered are to be printed and
preserved in permanent form for cir
culation.
Special interest also attaches to the
“Plan of Action” in process of prepa
ration for the solution of the great
moral problems, that are indeed world
problems, with which governments are
constantly dealing and of very neces
sity must deal. This plan will con
sist of two parts—“ The Principles of
Christian Citizenship” and “The Chris
tian method of Political Action.” The
principles to be announced will have
to do with the family, the church and
the state, and will also deal with in
ternational relations. Likewise the
method of action outlined will contain
suggestions for the family, church and
state and for nations in their dealings
with another. Education, agitation,
legislation and law-enforcement are
the lines of action to be recommended.
The members of the Committee pre
paring the plan are Dr. Samuel Zane
Batten of Philadelphia, Pa., Secretary
of the Social Service Commission of
the World’® Baptist Alliance; Ex-
United States Vice-President Charles
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