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J. R. BOOTH,
Caught Cranking His Car to Go to a
Laymen’s Meeting.
Beautiful old Antioch church in El
bert county, Georgia, enjoyed a great
Layman’s Meeting Sunday, October
12th. Dinner on the grounds (and it
was adinner of dinners) and three
services crowned the day with joyous
work. Hundreds of people came from
all parts of the country, Love’s Creek
church, and their beloved pastor, Rev.
B. W. Bussey, came almost in a body.
The Editor of The Golden Age first
spoke to the large Sunday school of
which the genial bachelor —farmer
and merchant, Silas Booth, is the en
terprising Superintendent. Then at
the regular service, with people
standing and seme unable to get in
the house, the theme was “The Lay
man in Partnership with God”; and
in the afternoon, the subject was
“Religion in the Home the Basis of
Church and State.” Many came in
tears and resolute purpose agreeing
to build family alters unto God. J.
R. Booth, country merchant and far
mer at Nickville, near Dewy Rose,
and the leader of the Laymen’s
movement in that section, was walk
ing the heights in joy over seeing
men reached who had hitherto been
less about the things of God.
Booth is a ‘steam engine in trousers’,
speaking with forceful, home-made
eloquence nearly every Sunday at
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NEWS FROM THE WORKERS
THE GOLDEN AGE FOR WEEK OF OCT. 23
some church in that section, stirring
the laymen to active, Christian duty.
Robert Lewis Barksdale, the plucky
and gifted blind singer-evangelist and
lecturer, simply walked off with the
hearts of the people. His beautiful
solos touched and blessed all hearts.
Sunday night we had a big temper
ance rally at Dewy Rose. Verily it
was a golden day of work and wor
ship.—W. D. U.
TREASURER MULLINS IS A
“DADDY”
Everybody who goes to the beauti
ful, progressive city of St. Peters
burg, Fla.., sees and admires A. Tru
man Mullins, the little real estate
man whose cripple form only adds in
spiration to his hustling qualities.
Truman Mullins is also a prohibition
leader of contagious enthusiasm and
has been refreshingly helpful to the
Editor of The Golden Age during two
prohibition campaigns. Being of a
romantic turn of mind —having a lov
ing as well as a fearless heart, Tru
man Mullins is now a proud though
diminutive “daddy.”
In a recent letter to the Editor he
discourses thus hilariously about “dot
babee of hees?”
“I want to tell you that the most
wonderful event of my life happened
on the 12th of August. We call him
“Richard Truman” and he laughs and
crows with delight as if his daddy’s
name was Woodrow Wilson. My dear
friend he is as perfect a specimen of
see. Seems to be the model from
humanity as one could ever expect to
which the ancient sculptors put their
classics into marble.
“Feel older? Well, I guess not. I
feel younger and my friends say that
I look it. And how could this be
helped? With the animation in that
lump of humanity that is soon to call
me “daddy”, I tell you, Mr. Upshaw,
the laws of the Universe would have
to be reversed if I were to feel other
wise.”
Why certainly- Amen! So with
every daddy about his own first born
—even the Editor of The Golden Age.
Printed Gospel of Itself The Power
of God Unto Salvation
By Our Special Correspondent, CHARLES A. LEONARD.
Laichowfu, North China,
Aug. 15, 1913.
We are often impressed with the
fact that the printed gospel can of
itself change the heart of a man and
bring him to a saving knowledge of
Christ whether there is a believer
near to explain the word or not.
At our last meeting of the church
here when the evangelists were re
porting their month’s work one of the
evangelists, Mr. Lin, gave a most
striking instance in point. He said
the case was one of the most remark
able he had seen in many years. A
man some sixty years old and of un
usual intelligence, about five months
ago bought from someone a large
print copy of the Gospel of John.
While the evangelist, Mr. Lin, was
preaching in his village the old man
disclosed himself as one who under
stood the messege, saying: “I know
that Jesus carne down from heaven,
from God, and have the book that
tells about him.” Then he told the
evangelist of having a gospel of John,
“Yoa-fu-yin,” which means ‘John’s
Good News. “I read it constantly,”
he said, “but there are some things
that Jesus says which I do not under
stand. Can you tell me, sir, what he
means when he says ‘I in the Father
and the Father in Me?’ This the
evangelist explained. When the en
quirer asked: “What was the name
of the pool to which Jesus sent the
blind man. I have forgotten.” This
and other things Mr. Lin explained
and discussed with the old man, who
was amazed at the knowledge of the
evangelist and pleased at this oppor
tunity to understand the truth,
“How do you know these things,”
he asked. “Every chapter and verse
you know where to find, and their
meanings! How long have you been
acquainted with the book?” Mr. Lin
told him of his own experience and
asked if he had found the “flavor” of
this book different to others, the
classics. “I read no more the books
of this world,” he answered. “My
whole time is spent on this one.”
When told that there are other sa
cred writings that he would be glad
to send him some of these he said:
“You need not trouble yourself about
that; I do not care for others. John
is good enough for me. I read it all
my spare time, and believe in Jesus.
You need not exhort me to trust Him.
For nearly five years I have read
about Him in this book and trust
Him.” Later a complete New Testa
ment was sent to him, and he has
been invited to come into our church
services.
More than 35,000 portions of scrip
ture have been sold in this field the
past five months. Who can estimate
the fruits that will come from such
a sowing of the Word?
OUR EDITOR IN TENNESSEE.
Believing that many of our readers
will be interested, we make the an
nouncement that our Editor begins
this week a series of engagements in
Tennessee covering over a month.
From Sunday, Odtober 19, to Sun
day, November 2, he is to be en
gaged in a meeting with Rev. W. H.
Royals, pastor Os the First Baptist
Church, Paris, Tenn., the singing be
ing led by Rad O. Bell, the popular
choir leader and assistant pastor of
the Central Baptist Church, Atlanta.
On Sunday, November 9, Mr. Up
shaw opens the winter course of Sun
day meetings for the Young Men’s
Christian Association tin Nashville,
Tenn., the Sunday following he
speaks at the Y. M. C. A., in Mem
phis, and cn Sunday, November 23,
he opens the winter course for the
Y. M. C. A., at the City Auditorium in
Chattanooga. The following com
ments clipped from the letters of two
leaders concerning Mr. Upshaw’s
work last year, make us humbly
thankful that God continues to sanc
tion his work by making his words
a means of salvation to perishing
souls.
C. J. Jackson, State Secretary of
Tennessee, says:
Nashville, Tenn.,
Oct. 18, 1913.
Mr. Vernon T. Grizzard,
Gen. Sec’y, Y. M. C. A.,
Memphis, Tenn.
Dear Mr. Grizzard:
I wish to congratulate you upon
having W. D. Upshaw, Editor of The
Golden Age, Atlanta, Ga., with you
(Continued on Page 16)
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