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BAPTISTS RALLY
TO STATE WORK
Big Meeting—Millions For Missions—Mobilized For An
other Victory—Great Day September 24th.
- PROF. ELMER MORRIS
GAINED 24
to
Spencer B. King.
Georgia Uapllsts are a mistily host.
Thorn arc ovor 300,000 of thorn in
Crporgla. They are militant Christians
and their records are rich with the
stories of good deeds and great gifts
for the hhIvation and betterment of
'tile people of our Slate.
Big Meetings Now On
The annual meetings of the District
Associations are perhaps the most In
teresting meetings of the year with
Georgia Baptists. To these Associa
tions the churches of each district
stolid messengers with reports of the
year's work and to these meetings
come the representatives of the many
Baptist interests, missionary, educa
tional and eleemosynary, preachers
and speakers of renown and ability,
who add much to the interest of tlie
occasion.
The people come from all the coon
try round about, itt wagons, buggies,
automobiles and Fords. Solemn mes-
aengers hearing with dignity their
commissions from their churches ;
eager, bright eyed men and women,
who anticipate the annual pleasure
%>t melding their kinsfolk and friends,
for these Associations are great so
cial as well as religious occasions,
and not a few boys and girls "a’court-
ing bent,” for the destiny of many a
Baptist couple has dated from the
meeting of the Baptist Association.
Georgia's Debt To Baptists.
The Slate of Georgia owes the Bap
fist people a great debt because of
til el r consistent championship of Ihe
elemental principles of democracy
and religious liberty. They are the
original Democrats, spiritual Demo
crats, and they have ever stood unwa
veringly for religious liberty, the in
tegrity of the individual, the freedom
of (he soul, the sovereignty of God,
the separation of Church and State,
and the education and uplift of our
people. In the parly days Baptist
men and women suffered sore pet
necution and some of them even laid
down their lives In defense of th.
fundamental principles and privileges
of hunisniiy.
They have contributed millions in
men and money to the religious prog
roes of (Borgia liy llieir aggressive
missionary propaganda. In Ihe pio
neer days Ihe itinerant Baptist
preacher with Ills horse, his saddle
hags slid Ills Bible pushed his way in
to every nooV and corner of this great
Btate, proclaiming his message of
salvation and righteousness. In the
last fifty years since Ihe Baptists
have been more definitely organized,
they have maintained missionaries,
•evangelists and teachers, who have
preached and taught, built church
liouses iti needy sections where the
cause was weak, planted and developed
churches and advanced every good
cause that would bring men to a
knowledge of God and establish right
eousness within the slate. This is
whal they term "Slate Missions'’ and
during the months of Sept, and Oct
the Baptist churches of Georgia are
called on to make devoted and gener-
,<ms contributions lo Stale Missions
•k worthy Invoslment whom religion
,-auli pal riot Ism Join hands.
■♦mi S'ate is also much indebted to
•The Baptists tor great educational ad
vantages. These people have always
_r“ Hd for nn <*I*on hook and an un
"fettered mind. Their educational prop-
criy today is wortli more than two
.pillion dollars. Belonging Immodl-
aj, V 1° ,h 0 Baptist organization are
TMercer University at Macon, Bessie
mi College for women at Forsyth
•eight secondary or high schools, and
the Mary 1». Willingham training
ifc-'-L "Nunlaln girls at Blue
iJv.uge, In adtl^lon lo these there
»ro a number of mountain schools
.supported by their ' Home Mission
Board and a number of other strong
independent Baptist institutions, such
Os Shorter College at Rome, Cox Col
lege at College Park and the l.a-
Qrange Female College at LaGrange.
in benevolent work these Baptists
are not lagging. They support more
•ban 250 orphans in a home at llupe-
ville and have an efficient Hospital in
Atla nta.
A Good Man Gone
In their various meetings Georgia
Baptists will sadly miss the familiar
form and voice of Dr. li. R. Ber
nard, who passed away on August
12th. For nearly half a century he
Bad been active in the work of this
Kreal denomination, having participat
ed in many of their most effective ad
vance movements.
He was a man of varied talents and
experience—a teacher, a merchant,
a railroad manager, a preacher and
an editor, but the crown of his life
work was l lie service he rendered as
an official of his denomination. He
was recognized by Baptists as an au
thority on law and order and efficien
cy in denominational affairs and he
was the originator of the "Schedule"
by which the Baptist churches make
• heir offerings to alt causes today.
For nine years he had been auditor
of the Georgia Baptist Mission Board.
As a Christian his sympathies were
■as broad as the multitude of God's
children. As a Baptist he was un
swervingly true to the principles of
his faith. Many had differed with
him in his day, but none had ever
onestioned ids goodness. His was a
white soul His last message was,
"The !s>rd reigns. Be faithful. It
t* worth while "
Millions For Missions-
Tho Baptist people are essentially
missionary. Their fundamental task
to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ
and to save the lost. They have stood
like granile against everything that
smacked of ecclesiasticism or religious
hierarchy. Their leaders have ever
been earnest, self-sacrificing, independ
ent preachers who have gone every
where preaching the Word.
Bast year all the Baptists of the
South gave $2,019,821.00 for all mis
sions—the greatest record they have
ever made in their history. They re
cently raised nearly $200,000.00 to pay
their Foreign Mission debt. Georgia
Baptists had a large and noble part
in the record-breaking rpcord, and this
year they have set themselves the task
of raising $300,000.00 for education, be
nevolence and missions.
State Missions is the immediate
task and interest of Georgia Baptists.
Stale Missions is Baptist mission
work in Georgia, and Sept, and Oct.
are the harvesting or rallying months
In which this great, people make large
offerings to this worthy cause. Their
slogan, "Redeem Georgia,” has been
sounded from Rabun Gap to Tybee
Bight, and the mighty host of these in
dependent, Bible-loving, God-fearing
folk is being moved by the clarion call
of this great cry to rally as never be
fore to the support of their mission
work in Georgia.
The double appeal of Christian duty
and Stale patriotism is kindling the
tires of their zeal and leading fhem to
give support to the great task of meet
ing Ihe religious and moral needs of
dear old Georgia. No Baptist church
can turn a deaf ear to this appeal and
be worthy of its name. The pressure
of other interests has caused this work
to be somewhat, neglected in recent
years. But these Baptists are the kind
that "come back" and from all reports
they are now determined to again give
their Georgia work first place, not for
any selfish reason, but because they
realize ihat. it is primary and funda
mental to the success of every other
worthy interest.
Rallying To A New Leader,
last year Georgia Baptisls made a
change in missionary leadership when
they elected Dr. Arch C. free as Cor.
Sec. & Treas. of their Mission Board.
Tills was no experiment. He was
neither unknown nor untried, for, pre
vious to accepting this office, he had
been paslor of some of the leading
churches of < lie South and the Knllst-
metit Secretary of the Home Mission
Board. • • -if iiG-M 3H
Dr. Alex. Bealer in writing last
year of Dr. (tree said, "in ail of these
places he has demonstrated his abil
ity to handle big movements and to
lead men in doing great tilings for
God, . . . Without doubt the greatest
task that has ever confronted Dr. Cree
Is the one in which he Is now en
gaged. . . . He has already demon
strated Ihat he Js the man for the
place. As a young man he had splen
did business training. . . . The clar
ion call of the Board under the new
leader, is 'Redeem Georgia,' and with
1 his end in view Dr. Cree has begun
ills work and pitched his program for
victory."
Many problems and handicaps con
fronted I lie new Secretary when ho
was called to tills work. Bui imme
diately upon entering Hie work he ef
fected readjustments ami economies
in administration that helped re
duce the expenditures of last year
about $10,000.00, as compared with the
year before; and lie is instituting fur
ther economies ihat will add to effi
ciency and in time save thousands
more. As a result of his businesslike
policies Georgia Baptists have great
confidence, in his administration.
Dr. Cree Is a man of untiring energy
and executive ability. The late Dr.
Bernard said of him that “he could
ride three different trains going in
four different directions at the same
little. lie can do three men's work any
old day; but, even then, he has to go
home and turn somersanfts to get tired
enough to sleep.”
Mobilized For Victory
Since his election, m addition to the
heavy executive work of his office. Dr
Cree has traveled over 40,000 miles and
delivered over 300 addresses. He is
now busy going Hie rounds of Hie As-
soeiational meetings and is rallying his
Baptist people and mobilizing the forces
for another victory in the great tasks
of Georgia Baptists. Growing out of
the plans and program which he has
projected, the leading pastors and lay
men of many of the Associations have
been organized into teams of two or
more to visit the Baptist churches of
Hie State, to duplicate the message
and mission of their leader and to ral
ly the great Georgia Baptist host for
another triumph in the State work this
Fall. Tile devoted Baptist women
through their Mission Societies are
also rallying to the Stale Mission task.
Forty thousand dollars must tie raised
for State Missions in Sept, and Oct.
Nearly this much was raised last Sept,
and Oct. So victory is confidently
looked for.
A Great Day: Sept 24th.
Sunday, Sept. 24th, will be a red-let
ter day in the annals of the Baptists of
Georgia, it is State Mission Day in the
Sunday Schools and also State-Wide.
Uo-To Sunday-School Day for Georgia
Baptists. The aim set for the day is
a Quarter of a million pupils in attend
ance upon tlie Sunday Schools and i
total contribution by the schools of
$15,005.00 for State Missions. AU of the
| Baptist people of Georgia and their
many friends, who are not members of
other Sunday Schools, are cordially in
vited’and urged to attend Hie Baptist
Sunday Schools on that day. Remem
ber Hie date. Be sure to attend.
Tennessee School Teach-;
er Says He Has Found j
Tanlac to Be the Best!
Medicine He Has Ever 1
Tried.
Of the thousands of letters
that have recently been reciv-
ed at the Tanlac office from
well-known men and women,
who have been benefited by
this medicine, none are more
interesting than the one received
this week from S. R. Luton
at Bumpus Mills, Tenn. This
letter which was addressed to
G. F. Willis, Atlanta, Ga.,
reads as follows:
Dear Sir: Your will find in-i
closed a testimonial from Pro-
fessior Elmer Morris, who is
one of my customers. Professor
Morris had a delicacy in'express-
ing himself and granted me the
right to give you the particulars
in his case.
He tells me that he has been a
great sufferer from chronic
stomach and bowel trouble, and
never had been able to get
anytning to give any relief. He
fell off in weight from 229 lbs.
to 170. He went to Dawson
Springs, Ky., and when he came
back he said he was no better.
I. persuaded him to try Tan
lac. He weighed on my scales
at the time he began taking it
and only weighed 170 pounds.
After taking three bottles of
Tanlac he had gained 20 pounds.
When he brought this testimoni
al to me he had gained 4
pounds more and weighed 194J
He did not want to get back
to 225 pounds so he quit taking
Tanlac.
This man is teacher in the
public schools in Stewart county,
Tenn. He lives here in one
mile of my store and bought the
Tanlac fiom me. His true post-
office is Dover, Tenn., R F. D.
No. 1. Prof. Morris’ statement
is as follows:
“I have just finished my third
bottle of Tanlac and have gam
ed 20 pounds. I just weighed
170 pounds and now I weigh
190, and never felt better in
my life.
“I have been a great sufferer
from stomach trouble for about
a year. I tried every doctor I
could get to, and went to a
health resort at Dawson Springs,
but nothing did me any good. I
decided to take Tanlac and I
found it to be the best medi
cine I ever tried.”
Yours truly,
Prof. Elmer Morris.
Tanlac is sold in Bainbridge
exclusively by Willis Drug Co.,
in Donalsonville by the Palace
Drug Co; Climax by the Climax
Pharmacy; Iron City, by Strick
land & Cordell; Brinson, by H.
B. Harrell Supply Co; Babcock,
Ga, by Babcock Bros. Lumber
Company; Eldorendo, Ga.,J, L.
Smith.
Seed? Why Yes As Usu
We Will Save The People
of the county many dollars in
buying their Fall
Garden and Field Seed
Rye, Oats and Burr Clover
..A SPECIALTY..
We have been your real seed
friends for these many years and
we will continue to be and all
you need to do is to tell us your
wants.
Bainbridge Drug & Seed
Bon Air Block
CATION CONTEST
An ovent of cosiderable inter
est sr. August 31st, was a cotton
picking in the lower part of
Turner county, between Mr. C.
H. Simmons of Rome, Ga. and
B. P. Grimes, (col) of near
Chula. The event was witness
ed by a large crowd of interest
ed spectators. The time con
sumed was nine hours and 45
minutes. The picking began at
sic o’clock in the morning and
lasted until four in the afternoon,
with fifteen minutes for noon.
In this time the colored man
picked 83o pounds and the white
man 807. The prize was $50
in cash, besides the winner re
ceived $17 bonus for his day3
work—not so bad after all to be
a cotton picker at $67.00 per day.
— Lee County Journal,
Bainbridge,
CHERO-COLA is sold
only in the original bottle,
sterilized, sealed and labeled
at the plant.
Each bottle is filled by
machinery—the syrup and
carbonated water are accu
rately measured by machin
ery, therefore you get the
same uniform pleasing fla
vor in every bottle, which
is absolutely impos-
p - rtucsuiuieiy imp<
jfc VQrybody si . ble with the
J j—S ordinary soda
KftOWS it fountain method.
ky
name
Let us do your Palm Beach
Suit, at 50 cents. The Dixie
SteamJLaundry.
You can get your CHERO-
COLA,“In a Bottle—Through
a Straw” at Soda Fountains
and other Refreshment
Stands.
Everybody knows
it by its name.