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THE CARROLL FREE PRESS, CARROLLTON, GA.
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THE ANNUAL MISSIONARY SERMON
Before The Carrollton Baptist Association at Roopville,
October 21, 1910,
15V RI£V. JESSE M. DODD
Jesus Christ
of life. The
My text is the latter part of Acts turning by faith to
1-8 “And ye shall be my witness-' alone for the bread
es both in Jerusalem, and in all recent political revolution in Port
ugal is the same movement to which
Judea and Samaria, and unto the
uttermost part (literally, the last
place") of the earth. Already we
have begun to preach Christ’s gos
pel “in the whole world for a testi
mony unto all the nations, who at
our lord’s return are to be gathered
into the august presence
of the king for the judgement of
the great day. As we call ourselves
a missionary body, even the child
ren ought to understand the term
“missionary.” When Jesus appeared
to the eleven in the inner chamber
on the evening of his resurrection,
he said unto them, “As the Father
hath sent me, even so send I you,’,
or “As the Father hath made me a
the Lutheran Reformation gave
birth when Europe was plunged in
to the throes of internecine war,
that political and ecclesiastical
tyranny might die and freedom
reign. Coincident with these move
ments is the growing recognition of
the dignity of the individual, con
stitutions are being framed, parlia
ments assembled, and the rights of
all classes guaranteed. To-day the
power of Christianity and the glory
of Jesus Christ are spreading over
the face of the whole earth.
And unto us it is given unto us,
as never before to any people is
given the opportunity to spread the
missionary,
even so make I you gospel, and the hour of crisis is upon
of commercialism sweep 11s from our
ancient moorings, and our craft
be dashed upon the unfriendly rock
of materialism. Our own much loved
Atlanta, our leading southern city,
spent over a half million dollars on
automobile races, a year ago, while
250,000 Baptists gave about thirty
cents each for foreign missions last
year. Luxury, base selfishness,shame
less sin brought mighty Rome to ir
retrievable ruin. History repeats it
self. And if we are spending 93
per cent of the $225,000,000 auto
mobile investment this year for
pleasure alone, ours is the gravest
danger. Again there are dangers
without, the most threatening being
the foreigner coming 100,000 or
more a month with his heathen ideas
and godless customs—a menace to
the social, political, moral, educa
tional. and religious well being of a
free people.. The assassin of the
pious William McKinley betrays,
like the saloon keeper, in his very
name the fact that he is a stranger
to American sentiment. And as
we have already seen to-day the
foreigner feels at home rather in
the city, the center of influence and
of crime. Mr. Josiah Strong, of
the American Institute of Social
missionaries,” for a missionary to- qs! Not during the Civil War, but g erv j ce a ndperhaps the most eminent
day is one sent on a mission of sal- j today the South faces the crisis of j f ar _ see i n{ j student of social con-
... , — Lord [ her entire history. We occupy the ditions in America t0 . day)
says that
vatioh from Jesus Christ the
of life. ,
I wish us this morning to consider! of any people
the urgency of missionary work in
every land. One billion people have
never heard the gospel, “and how
shall they hear without a preacher?
and how shall they preach, except
they be sent?” Nearly 600,000,000
iof the world’s population are Catho
lics, Mohammedans, Jews and such
like. One million a month die un
saved in China, where 33,000 are
born every twenty-four hours. There
are 14,000 preachers, teachers, and
physicians in the United States to
one in China according to population,
and while we have one ordained
preacher for every 546 persons,
most strategic geographical position
on earth. Maury’s
prophecy that some day a Central
American canal would make the
Gulf of Mexico the Mediterranean of
modern times, the center of the
world’s commercial activities, is
about to have fulfilment; nearly
every trunk line from the West is
to-day seeking outlet through some
Southern port, and a score or more
of railroads are surveyed through
mountain to Southern seashore, the
building to be consummated along
with the completion of the Panama
Canal. Baltimore is the fifth ship
ping port in the United States, New
Orleans, the third, and Galveston
The Lost H.
Sergeant Channel), who was in
the habit if dropping his h’s, and
Sir Frederick Thesiger were once
trying a ca^e about a ship called the
Helen. Every time the former men
tioned the vessel I10 called it the
Ellen. Every time the other coun
sel mentioned her they called her
the Helen. At last the judge, with
a quaint gravity, said: “Stop” (n
favorite word of his). “Stop.
What was the name of the ship?
I have it on my notes the Ellen and
the Helen. Which is it?” And
the bar grinned.
“Oh, my lud,” said Thesiger in
his blandest and most fastidious
manner, “the ship was christened
the Helen, but she lost her ‘h’ in
the chops of the channel.”—Lon
don Spectator.
“Mamma, if I had a bat before I
lad this one it’s all right to say
fhnt’s the hat I had had, isn’t it?”
“Certainly, Johnny.”
“And if that hat once had a hole
in it and I had it mended I could
sav it had had a hole in it, couldn’t
1 ?”
“Yes, there would be nothing in
correct in that.”
“Then it’d be good English to
snv that the hat I had had had had
a hole iD it, wouldn’t it?”
China has only one for every 183,000 j second only to New York City.
Yet our “God is no respecter of per- And according to the vision of such
sons,” but is “Lord of all, and is seers as Mr. Richard Edmonds, of
rich unto all that call upon Him.” 1 the Manufacturers’ Record, we
In the United States there are are only at the dawn of our agricul-
90,000,000 people, 20,000,000 Protest- tural and industrial pre-eminence,
ants,) 12,000,000 various sects, and and are already becoming the richest
58,000,000 unevangelized! or, about and the dominant people of the
one third are nominally Christian earth. We are fast superseding New
while two thirds make no religious England in the manufacture of cot-
pretensions whatsoever here in our ton, the most important crop on
own so-called Christian country, earth, worth last year one billion
Chicago is the second Bohemian, dollars, and our annual cotton sup-
the third Swedish, the fourth Polish, ply to New England is almost equiv-
and the fifth German city in the alent to the total capitalization of
whole world; and the other day a all the national banks in the United
judge in that great city said that States. But the South is to-day
65 or 70 per cent of those in her spending $20,000,000 building cot-
criminal courts are between the to* mills, Likewise we are sur-
ages of 16 and 25. Texas and Mis- pacing Pennsylvania in, iron and
souri have nearly 1,000,000 foreigners steal manufacture, for of coal, the
each, and within two or three of our chief industrial factorin Great Britain
southern cities there is a population and (Germany, the South has as much
of foreigners as large each as the asGieat Britain, Germany, France
city of Atlanta. There are forty; and ' Austria together, and more
iron ore than all the rest of the
United States. We have besides 40
per cent of the timber of the coun
try, practically all the phosphate
one third of our population are in
the city already, and that without
a change forty years more will see
one half there. How urgent then
that we strengthen our forces in the
centers of influence, even as the
wisdom of our State Board of Mis
sions saw some years ago that a
church must be planted in every
county site and place of importance
And how equally urgent that our
rural churches shall continue to
raise up leaders to go before the
hosts of the Lord into the land of
promise. Many a boy has looked
wiih inspiration upon the shepherd
life of Moses and of David.
Brethren, let us return to our
churches and homes and thank God
for our heritage, that we live in the
garden spot of earth; and now as we
come to the most delightful part of
this service, let us to-day give the
largest offering in the history of the
Carrollton Assoc.ation,
THE LASH OF A FRIEND
Would have been about as wel
come to A. Cooper of Oswego N.
Y. as a merciless lung racking
cough that defied all remedies for
gears. “It was most troub'esome
at night” he writes, nothing helping
me till 1 used Dr. Kings New Dis
covery which cured me completely,
I never cough at night now. Mil
lions know its matchless merit for
stubborn cold obstinate coughs, sore
lungs, lagrippe asthma croup, hay-
fever or whooping cough. It re
lieves quickly and never fails to
satisfy. A trial convinces, 50c, $1
Trial bottle free. It’s positively
guaranteed by Fitts Drug Store
Johnson Drug Co.
Coprrisht 1909, br C. E. Zimmerman C0.--N0. 41
The
Old Cabinet
Maker Says:
That the Sideboard not only helps to £11 up the room
and adds to its appearance, but is the most useful article of
furniture in the Dining Room. We have a nice stock em
bracing all sizes and made iu a number of different woods
and finishes. They come iu a wide range of prices and if
you have room for such au article, we want you to come in
and look over our stock, for the prices and the quality of the
goods will make you buy. jt
S.C.
Carrollton,
heathen temples in the United
States, and of the professing
Christians in the empire of Texas
\ one-fourth are Catholics. How about
\ our own state? Well, some months j rock, the basis of the fertilizer m-
x ago statistics showed 850,000 un- 1 dustry, and the South is also the
saved white people in Georgia, | center of the natural gas and oil
600,000 being over ten years, while industry.
400,§00 white children are not in! Why subh abundant resources?
Sun'dV’ school, and so at least 85 Why such marvelous development?
chance. for their salvation are Because upon us as never upon any
lost. In. his grand old common- people, as I firmly believe, the God
wealth of which we proudly and of heaven has thrust the opportunity
properly boast, only one fifth of our of the centuries. After calm and
people are Christians. Some time thoughtful x deliberation I declare
ago there was a section of our state that the religious and the domestic
75 miles long and 25 wide with r.o welfare of the world is in our hands:
church, and on the opposite side of ours is the purest American blood,
the state another section half as the holiest family life, the religious
large with the same destitution, ideals, the home of orthodoxy, the
So then everywhere today men atmosphere of genuine piety. The
are in need of the gospel, the church people who are to stem the tide of
houses of worship, the Bible, the radical criticism, iconoclasm, irreli-
Christian influences and civilization, gion, and infidelity worship God
And I rejoice, my brethren, that the around Southern hearthstones. We
doors of nations and human hearts believe the Bible from the first verse
are everywhere opening wide for. of Genesis to the last verse af the
the triumphal entry of the Prince i twenty-second chapter of Revela-
of Peace. Despite criticism, despite | tion. We believe that Jesus Christ
the concentrated opposition of His was born of the Virgin Mary; and is
enemies, Jesus is everywhere being [the eternal Son of God. We know
recognized as Lord of lords and God; we know Christ; we love Him;
King of kings. When men criticize I we delight to serve Him; we stand
the methods of missions, and ques- for “the truth, the whole truth, and
tion the use of the funds, one should nothing but the truth.” The Baptist
refer them to the only reliable, denomination is the largest in the
source of information, the Secretary j South, and a half million more than
who has this work in charge. At the second largest, and a million
the Baltimore Convention Dr. Wil-1 more than the third. There are
lingham’s report said, “Eighty-eight j more Baptists in Georgia than all
cents in the dollar goes direct to J other denominations together, we
the missionaries.” Any other report 1 being 57 9-10 per cent of the popula-
is maliciously false and is satan-in-' lation. In the political and ecclesias
spired. The heathen are losing S tical unrest which the leaven of the
faith in Theft ancient religions,' gospel is creating, we are offering
which never gave a sense of peace rn m democracy, and suol liberty.doc-
with God nor calmed the troubled, t rinal orthodoxy and spiritual free-
breast. And to-day as they grope dom. Roger Williams is everywhere
In the dark they are stretching
forth their hands for the Christ
whom we preach. All the world
knows that Pope Pius trembles as
he beholds the signs of the times.
The Fairbanks and Roosevelt epi
sodes are now succeeeded by an
other, the apology which his holiness
How delicious were those pies of
boyhood. No pies [now ever taste
so good. What has changed? the
pies? No its you. Youve lost the
strong healthy stomach, the vigor
ous liver, the active kidneys, the
regular bowels of boyhood. You
digestion is poor and you blame the
food. Whats neeJed? A a com
plete toning up bs Electric Bitters
of all organs or digestion-Stomach,
Liver, Kidney, Bowels—Try them.
They’ll restore your boyhood ap
petite and appreciate of food and
fairly saturate your body with
new health, strength and vigor.
50c at Johuson Drug Co, and W . W
& W. L. Fitts.
Your kidney trouble may be 0
long standing, it may be either
acute or chronic, but whatever it
is Foley’s Kidney Remedy wil
aid you ro get rid of it quibkly and
restore your nature health and
vigor. “Cne bottle of Folend
Kidney Remedy made me well”
Said J Sibbull of Grand View Wis.
Commence taking it now, for sale
by Johnson Drug Co.
Conner & Martin carry at all
times a nice line of fresh meats, and
fish and oysters in season.
recognized to-day as the apostle of
religious liberty in America, which
boon our Baptist forefathers vouch
safed to future generations by put
ting that clause into our federal
constitution which guarantees re
ligious freedom to every citizen.
But while we may justly feel
has been compelled to make to Em- ■ proud of our history, we must give
peror William, because of aspersion,
cast upon innocent Protestants.
The infallible Pope! France, Spain,
Austria, Italy, Portugal, and other
Romish countries are refusing the
unsavory meat of Catholicism and
our thought rather to the present
and the future. Along with an un
parallelled opportunity we are con
fronted by the gravest danger. There
is peril in the very prosperity that
makes us glad, danger lest the tide
Scrofula disfigures and
causes life-long misery.
Children become
strong and lively when
given small doses of
9,
B ^
every day. The starved
body is fed; the swollen
glands healed, and the
tainted blood vitalized.
Good food, fresh air and
Scott’s Emulsion con
quer scrofula and many
other blood diseases.
FOR SACK IIY A 1,1, DRUGGISTS
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Preparation is the foundation of all success=-=be-
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We have the plow for you, the Chattanooga Line
with many improvements, all sizes from the least
to the largest. Call and see us.
WIRE FENCING 7
We learned from the poultry exhibit at our Fair that
there’s a growing interest in poultry raising, we have just
received a car of P. & R. Fencing that enables us to take
care of all your wants in this line.
BUILDERS HARDWARE
Our Builbers Hardware stock is of the right kind and at.
prices a Good Deal cheaper than cotton.
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