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6 A “WORKING WONDER” IN CLASSIC ATHENS. (Continued from page 1). 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 " f -. / :.■' -tf.*'•••' ..: ’• ' x £>: > *-- * / ■''■t'“< HBB / <. - HBF Ct • >£ /I ‘ ■ / / OOWOBaB!W s WjlWk. :< - : «OugwM / WBL Mst'’ / ■ * JMMR WlMr* 4s BH ' Uh- MUMWrar W ■/ bbOw 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 THE GOLDEN AGE FOR JULY 31, 1913 / 1 /J . 1 Ik / Hl Hk / IE / 111 1 / If® * T / ' Wwt ~ ■ ■■ < ; Ji t. x * - z «g>* •sfilKC’! H jfe *i| W 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.” ■ •, , jfIHEHh * ■' ft \ JSt W| BL 'wfWll \ * JI Br ■ ill !|F ■, Ijfe ? ■ • ‘ " ' •■•■ ' ; •■ ’ • 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.