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A “WORKING WONDER” IN CLASSIC
ATHENS.
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South Carolina church and immediately
took' charge. Soon after, John Bomar,
brother of Rev. Ed Bomar, former Assis
tant Secretary of the Southern Baptist
Foreign Mission Board, and Horace Bo
mar, the princely and wealthy young law
yer-deacon-Sunday School superintendent
of Spartanburg, who had been a deacon
in his former church, was ordained as a
minister and became associate pastor with
Mr. Neighbour and superintendent of the
Sunday School. Chas. N. Butler, better
known as “Charming Charlie,” who had
been called as associate pastor and evan
gelistic singer at the organization of the
church, accepted later, and since April
he and his talented wife have been active
ly engaged in the work.
“Orthodoxy and Orthopraxy.”
The orthodoxy of this church is as wide
as the 800k —from original sin and the
promised “seed of the woman,” to the
second coming of the Saviour, when He
shall set up His kingly reign over all the
earth. It believes in pentecost then, and
pentecost now, and in the separation of
the church and world. It stands with one
hand on the Bible and the other out
stretched to lost souls. Such churches
are lighthouses for God in any commun
ity. Its “orthopraxy” is as wide as the
world, beginning at Athens. It practices
what it believes. This human bee-hive is
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REV. ED BOMAR.
A PLEA FOR SONS AND DAUGHTERS.
Recently, at the observance of the Lord’s
Supper in a Baptist church, I saw several
young girls, between ten and fifteen, rise near
me, leave their mother’s side, and walk out of
the church. The mothers evidently expected
just that, and moved to allow passageway.
The girls, too, had the manner of one doing
what was expected of them. My heart was
saddened. These girls were all fresh, sweet,
bright school girls. They were at the most im
pressionable period. There is the precious
seed-time of life; there is life’s golden oppor
tunity.
I asked myself, “Are these mothers in ear
nest ? Are they willing that these, their daugh
ters, shall walk a path separate from their
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both evangelistic and missionary. Trying to
get folks saved at home, it is not difficult for
them to hear the perishing cry of the millions
abroad. With such churches, the question is
not how to get people to come, it is how to
make room for them.
The Eloquence of Figures.
Listen to the eloquence of these figures:
Eight months ago, 138 members; now, 550
members. Eight months ago, 160 in Sunday
School; now, over 500, with average weekly
offerings of over $16.00. Eight months ago no
lot—now a $1,900 lot, paid for. Eight months
ago no house; now a great building 95 feet by
95 feet, 30 Sunday School rooms, classified in
graded departments, with kindergarten and
nursery; part of Sunday School department
three stories high, and a church auditorium
seating 1,500 people, as beautiful as a dream,
a plant on the whole conservatively estimated
at $20,000, and paid for.
From the first, they have paid cash, and dis
counted their bills. At the dedication, 15th of
own? Do they really think or believe that
later these young hearts will turn to a better
life? How are they to turn? When will
they turn?”
Sad but true, and true as it is sad! Statis
tics tell us that few turn to Christ after boy
hood or early man or womanhood. Experience
tells us after these stages in life with the pass
ing years there comes more and yet more diffi
culty in convicting of sin and the need of a
Savior; harder and yet harder publicly to con
fess Christ. The Baptists require confession
of a changed heart and expect a changed life.
Mother, if you have sons and daughters
reaching accountable age, plead with them.
Don’t let the precious years go by. They will
need Jesus; they may not know how to find
REV. R. E. NEIGHBOUR.
June, the $4,250 needed to meet bills not
yet due was given, without urging, in less
than ten minutes, and S2OO extra for good
measure. Salaries amount to $460 a
month, but the treasury has yet to be
without a “balance brought forward.”
Where the power of God is, the people
are willing. Godliness will go its length.
Vision will conquor. Truth will triumph.
This movement promises to do for Athens
what Broughton’s Tabernacle has done
for Atlanta, and Pastor R. E. Neighbour
has proven to be a prince among men, a
mighty preacher indeed to 'gain such a
following in so short a time, in Georgia’s
most cultured city. He is a man on whom
the Divine favor rests in great measure.
The Tabernacle is not so prominently
located as some of the other churches, but
all one has to do to find it is to just “fol
low the crowd.”
A great meeting recently closed, con
ducted by Evangelist J. H. Dew of Mis
souri, in which the record for church at
tendance was broken in Athens. And
with the eloquent Neighbour preaching,
the winsome Butler singing, and big
hearted, happy-faced John Bomar stir
ring the fires, the crowds continue to
flock to this, the breeziest, .“brightest
spot in Athens.”
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REV. CHARLIE BUTLER.
him. Your csild in later years may quit the
longings for something better with the thought,
“Mother never seemed .to think religion im
portant; she never mentioned the subject to
me seriously; yet she was a Christian.” Oh,
mother! it is all too easy to put off this most
momentous of all subjects. Your own consci
ence may accuse you but consider: Do you
believe your chlid needs the religion of Jesus?
Do you really desire this religion to rule that
young life? Do you impress on his or her
heart the importance of the Christian life? Do
you tell of your own anxiety for his eternal
welfare, or have you any anxiety?
From the depths of my soul I pity the chil
dren of parents who have a name to live and
yet do not- speak of life to their children. —Ex.