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8 Great Layman’s Day at Antioch u|S • 3®SB UKRRte- w; "iraST *qp~2Ljn ~s*fljh 1 fes^F' aWa®f ' z I * Jr J||||Hw|b^ lltt l I i gfy .& :"5 ■ > » -i 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 HERE THEY ARE TAKE YOUR CHOICE Brass lined, best steel knife, 50c value, or (( j | adjustable rivet, best steel sewing scissors. This offer rims thirty d ays * Send us $1.50 for New or Renewal Subscription to /) THE GOLDEN AGE, for one year, and we will make C.wLk .dr you a present of either of these just because we love our friends. /a —.... \ 1 -- ■ / OR SEND US TWO NEW OR RENEWAL ONE-YEAR SUBSCRIPTIONS, and get this set of guaranteed Wm. Rogers French grey silver tea spoons. We have only a limited number of these, so Hurry! Address 13 Moore Building, Atlanta, Ga. 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) SHE WAS SMOTHERING. Rockford, Ala. —Mrs. M. C’. 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