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BROUGHTON URGED TO COME IN
Atlanta Tabernacle Cables Former Pastor To
Supply One Month, Hoping He Will
Then Decide To Accept Pastorate.
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|HERE is some light on the sky down at
the Baptist Tabernacle, Atlanta. The
I announcement that the church has fol-
lowed its recent cable to Dr. L. G.
Broughton, of Christ Church, London, with
a cabled invitation to supply during August
.shows spiritual enterprise and encouragement.
The Atlanta Journal of Sunday contained the
following story which all readers of Dr.
Broughton’s sermons in The Golden Age will
■greatly enjoy:
“The Baptist Tabernacle yesterday sent a
"Cablegram to Dr. Len G. Broughton, the former
pastor and founder of the Tabernacle, now
pastor of Christ church in London, England,
asking him to preach at the Tabernacle during
the month of August.
“The Tabernacle, as the public will recall,
recently called Dr. Broughton to return as
pastor, saying to him: ‘The heart of the Taber
nacle turns only to you. Will you consider a
•call?’ Dr. Broughton replied that he was ‘wil
ling to be shown the will of God.’ Since that
time the call has remained in statu quo.
“The fact that Dr. Broughton has not de
clined the call, though nearly a month has
elapsed, has encouraged the Tabernacle to hope
he is considering it seriously.
“They have an idea that if they can get Dr.
Broughton back for one month, in his old pul
pit, among his old friends, breathing once
more the Atlanta atmosphere, then maybe they
can persuade him to stay.
“ ‘We will hold Mrs. Broughton as a hos
tage if she comes with him,’ said S. C. Calla
way last night, he being the chairman of the
committee in charge of the call. ‘We want
every friend of Dr. Broughton who wants him
to come back as pastor of the Tabernacle to
write him a personal letter. We have had a
great number of expressions, and we want
them to be conveyed to Dr. Broughton in a
way that will help us persuade him to accept
the call.’ ”
■“CANDLER UNIVERSITY”—THE SOUTH
IS THRILLED.
(Continued from page 1.)
hand had shaped the nebulous dreams and
prayers and tears of his church and people
into the mightiest victory they have ever
known.
How fitting that Bishop Candler had been
chosen Chancellor to organlize the working
and building forces of the new university, and
how eager was the great congregation that
greeted him for his every word!
Methodists and Baptists Rejoice Together.
“Surely the kingdom is coming,” said I to
a Methodist friend at Trinity “when a deep
water, rantankerous Baptist like I am, can
rejoice and thank God over the establishment
of a great Methodist University. But we are
all rejoicing because it is to stand for ‘old
time religion’ and the changeless verities of
Christianity.”
Bishop Candler’s theme was “The Church
of God.” He told how it is composed of those
to whom God has revealed himself through
the miracle of the new birth, and who can
AUGUST.
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The above picture shows Professor Alexan
der Pacurar in his stripes when he was a
prisoner in the Federal Prison, Atlanta. About
five weeks. ago he was released, his term of
two years having been reduced five months
on account of good behavior.
Alexander- Pacurar is a native of Roumania
and traveled for a dozen years as a magician.
He tells the thrilling story that a short time
before he was released from prison, while he
was critically ill he went down into what
seemed to be the jaws of death, a fellow pris
oner who had been converted came and laid
his hand on his head, knelt beside him and
prayed. Pacurar also prayed; promising God
he would give him his heart if he would spare
his life till morning.
say like Peter, “Thou art the Christ, the sun
of the living God.” He declared that the
church of God, thus composed of twice-born
men and women, and who have learned to
know God, not by the intuitions of “flesh and
blood,” not by form and ceremony, not by the
empty reaches of human philosophy and learn
ing, but by a spiritual union with Jesus Christ
as Saviour and Lord —it is such a church he
declared against which “the gates of hell shall
not prevail.”
“I do not decry any human organization,”
the speaker declared in a rhapsody of sacred
eloquence, “but the church of the living God
towers above every human organization, even
as Jesus Christ towers in all of his attributes
and achievements above every other being who
ever walked this earth.”
“Where is the crop of “liberalism” —what
men has it ever produced who have been
torches of light and evangels of power in this
sin-darkened world?”
Bishop Candler closed with a touching por
trayal of the needs of humanity—how the gos
pel of Christ and the church of God meet the
needs of the world as nothing else has ever
done or can ever do; and he declared that
because he believes these great foundation
truths with all his heart he has come to re
joice with great thanksgiving over the estab
lishment of this Christian University—“whose
medicine men will carry to the sick room the
spirit of the Great physician—whose lawyers
That night he seemed in a kind of trance
and had a remarkable vision which he pro
poses to tell and illustrate next Sunday af
ternoon at the Baptist Tabernacle, Atlanta,
and on Monday night, July 27, he is to tell of
his vision and conversion to the colored people
at Big Bethel Methodist Church. Professor
Pacurar has turned down flattering offers to
go back into his old life of making money by
magic, declaring he would rather live in pov
erty and hardship and honor Christ who has
redeemed him than to live in ease and luxury
as he once did and wield no influence for
Christ and his cause.
He is a striking personality and seems des
perately in earnest in his new life in Christ.
v 11 plead the cause of the Great Law-giver,
and whose preachers of the everlasting gospel
will go forth with no uncertain message to
point lost men and women to their only hope
in the cross of Christ that towers above the
wrecks of time.”
And then Bishop Candler said with great
feeling: “The task I have undertaken is the
greatest my life has ever known; I never ex
pect to see it finished; I expect to die in the
furrow; I crave your loving prayers and sup
port; without them a hundred million dollars
would fail. It were worth a lifetime to have
been permitted to have any part in such a work
for my God though I should die tomorrow.”
When Bishop Candler sat down he and many
others in the great audience were in tears, and
Heaven bent down to kiss that mountain-peak
hour with the glory of Christian purpose and
the radiant triumph of Christian Truth.
PROHIBITION AND THE GEORGIA
GOVERNORSHIP.
(Continued from page 4.)
to the liquor interests in Georgia. And Dr.
Hardman declared in his speech at Jesup that
“the enforcement of all law, especially the
prohibition law, would be the keynote of his
campaign and his administration.
And so it is clear that law-breakers might
as well pack their grips and beer saloons and
liquor clubs “prepare to die” in Georgia.
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