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VOL. VIIIJ-No. 29
Lincoln McConnell at the tabernacle
E came —he spoke—he conquered!
That tells in the compass of one sen
tence the story of Lincoln McConnell’s
first Sunday as pastor of the Baptist
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Tabernacle ; Atlanta.
It is almost impossible to describe the eager
expectancy with which the royal church found
ed under God by the great and beloved Dr.
Len G. Broughton, and which parted with him
in such sorrow' when he went to Christ church,
London, looked forward to the day when Dr
Lincoln McOonneT, the new pastor, would take
charge as their “under shepherd.”
Dr. Joe Broughton ,the enterprising anu
consecrated superintendent of the Sunday
school, had widely and wisely advertised last
Sunday as “McConnell Day.” The Sunday
school leaped to 865—an increase of nearly
fifty per cent, and new life and radiant hope
were seen on every face.
The newspapers declared that the crowds,
morning and night made it seem )ik<
Broughton was back again,” and there is a
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“That reminds me —here is a story.”
ATLANTA, GA., SEPTEMBER 11, 1913
feeling “in everybody’s bones” that Lincoln
McConnell, converted in Atlanta and “discov
ered” in At'anta, and now known the nation
over as a leader of unique make-up and
heroic mold, is the may. whom God has sent
to build on the foundation which was laid
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almost in the life-blood of Len G. Broughton.
Mr. and Mrs. George Dibble, who have long
been associated with Dr. McConnell in evan
gelistic work, have been elected as the pas
tor’s assistants. Prof. A. C. Boatman and his
well-trained choir led the happy multitude in
songs that swept al hearts toward the skies.
“This One Thing I Do.’
The following is the heart of Dr. McCon
nell’s first message as pastor:
Text Phil. 3:13-14: “This one thing I do,
forgetting the things that are behind * * "" 1
press otward the mark,” etc.
Os all living beings, man alone has the
power to carry his past over into his present.
Our “today” is very largely determined by
what we brought into it from our “yester
days” and the use we made of that material.
This “carrying over” indicates two things:
DR. LINCOLN McCONNELL,
New Tabernacle Pastor.
First, our mental caliber. People or individ
uals progress just in proportion as th* y show
capacity to see and select things worth
whi'e.
The explanation of the difference m the
“advancement” of men and nations, »s this
One race lives so completely in the iloV '
—lives so completely lives of “sense : that
they fail to develop, while another makes
proper use of the mind, studies and piofits
by past experiences, and consequently ' limbs
No man will ever advance unless he has tin
intellectual capacity to sense real values
But, again, what man carries out of bv yes
terdays depends on liis moral tastes.
The Greeks and Romans had great mtei
lects. They made much advancement; hut
they also had depraved moral tastes, and hem <
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