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BOLLING JONES, IDEAL CHRISTIAN CITIZEN
ATLANTA’S NEW POSTMASTER A PRINCELY MAN FROM EVERY VIEWPOINT—HE “ROLLS UP HIS SLEEVES AND
T is a positive inspiration to see a
man like Bolling H. Jones recog
nized y the National Government
asd crowned with a high position of
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confidence and honor. To be Postmaster in
Atlanta, the most famous city of two hundred
thousand people on the American continent,
is not only a coveted “federal plum” but more
than this, it is a ‘mountain peak’ honor which
should appeal to any patriot of lofty ideals.
While already a signal winner in the com
mercial world, Bolling Jones is known in At
lanta not so much as the Secretary and Treas
urer of the Atlanta Stove Works, but rather
•as a stalwart, militant, masterful champion of
■everything that is right and the uncompro
mising enemy of everything that is wrong.
We believe Bolling H. Jones will make a
superb Postmaster, but to our thinking he
looks bravest and best standing before his
■Sunday School class at the First Baptist
church on Sunday morning as a teacher and
preadher of righteousness; or mayhap down at
some political headquarters when there is a
great moral question involved, using his brain,
his tongue and his generous purse to help
bring in through the week that reign of right-
INSTALLATION OF LINCOLN McCONNELL
Last Sunday was a memorable day at the
Baptist Tabernacle in Atlanta. At the morn
ing hour, Dr. Len G. Broughton, the beloved
founder and first pastor of the Tabernacle
Church, preached a glorious sermon to a great
congregation.
The new pastor, Dr. Lincoln McConnell, in
presenting Dr. Broughton, said: ‘ ‘ This great
gathering this morning is proof of the grip
which your former pastor still holds on your
hearts. ’ ’
Dr. Broughton received an ovation of “hand
shakes,” smiles, tears and “God bless you.”
Another magnificent congregation gathered
at the Tabernacle at 3 o’clock in the afternoon
to witness the installation of the new pastor.
It was the purpose of The Golden Age to
give a brief echo from each speech, but the
extra space given the Southern Christian Citi
zenship Congress this week makes it impossible.
It is enough to say that W. S. Witham, the
übiquitous, the inevitable, the irrepressible, the
indescribable multi-bank president and philan
thropist otherwise known as “Uncle Billy”
Witham, was the presiding genius of the oc
casion. That means that it sparkled every
time he touched it. Prominent pastors and
leaders of different denominations welcomed
the new Tabernacle pastor in three-minute
speeches that were rich, rare and racy. Hon.
Janies L. Mayson, City Attorney, spoke for
the city in a poem of eloquence, the Editor of
The Golden Age spoke in behalf of the press,
and Dr. Broughton spoke w’th great force and
feeling, declaring he had prayed to see Lin
coln McConnell come to the leadership of the
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PITCHES IN” ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF EVERY MORAL BATTLE.
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church he loved so well.
Pastor McConnell’s response was brief,
breezy and beautiful in earnest humility and
left everybody in the great congregation feel
ing that, in the providence of God, the man,
the church and the initial hour of victory
had met.
Sunday night, Pastor McConnell preached m
“Sowing the wind and reaping the whirlwind.”
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DR. LINCOLN McCONNELL,
Who Speaks Sunday Afternoon, Sept. 21, at Baptist
Tabernacle —“The Private Citizen and the Law.”
BOLLING H. JONES.
eousness which he had talked of and taught
on Sunday.
The truth is the Jones brothers are a great
“pair.” Sam D. Jones was President of a
great college for girls at Bristol before he
came to Atlanta, while Bolling Jones brought
to Atlanta’s citizenship a wide measure of
Virginia culture and a stalwart type of “Old
Dominion” manhood; and this “tiny pair”
of Jones brothers, large in form and larger
yet in heart, head and character, it is refresh
ing to see them lay their magnificent powers
on the alter of the church of God and the puri
fication of the state.
It is a pleasing coincidence that' such a
Christian citizen as Bolling Jones “comes to
coronation” the very week in which the
Southern Christian Citizenship Congress meets
in the Premier city of the South. For we can
say to the Congress, pointing to Atlanta’s
new Postmaster, “Look ye, for an example of
the things you are talking about? — There is
your man!”
“If you are a real Christian you are a par
taker of the Divine Nature. Girlie, does your
mother knew that you have this nature im
planted in you and bearing beautiful fruitage
in your daily life?”
The mayor came in for scathing criticism on
account of his loose, lawless ideas and prac
tices. He came back at McConnell—then Mc-
Connell proceeded to the easy task of near
annihilation and the feathers and general de
bris have been falling around Georgia’s capi
tal city for several days.
“THE SHADOW OF ATTACOA”
In the September number of The Westmins
ter Magagine appears the first installment of
Thornwell
Jacobs Begins
Brilliant New
Story.
The story is laid in the North Carolina
mountains, and the opening chapters are like
the boy’s apple pie—“they taste like more.”
We are sure the story throughout will sus
tain the author’s rising reputation as a pro
ducer of brilliant asd wholesome literature.
“Some church members are only little
bunches of mistletoe.”
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