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TJIK AT LA .\ 1 A ULUL'UIAA AM) MAYS,
DU. I TT HEINSEVANGELISTS
CITES HITS RAPPED AS
fir
or
Ministers To-day Inclined To Be
Indolent, Declares Moderator
of Northern Church.
The Rev. Dr. Mark Allison Mat
thews, famous Georgian and pastor
of the largest Presbyterian church in
Ameri^, if not the world, will ar
rive iii Atlanta Wednesday to take
charge .as moderator of the General
Assembly of the Presbytery which
U. S. A. (Northern church) holds its
first formal session Thursday.
Dr. Matthews, who is at the head
of the chmvh in Seattle, is a native
of Calhoun, Ga., where lie was born
September i24. 1867. Since ordained
at Ringgoll at the a^e of 19, his ca
reer has be*;n meteoric.
'Being of an analytical mind. Dr.
Matthews has devoted much of his
time to assertaining the weaknesses
of his chut?h and with the opening
of the present assembly it is ex
pected he *ill make strong recom
mendation?: which will tend to bring
about vdst fhanges in the system of
work carri«t on by Presbyterian ec
clesiastics.' i
Minsters Faults Cited.
In an extended interview published
in the Net York Sun, tho noted
' ibes the following weak-
church:
are indolent. They
8 to see that they at-
preachtT a«r
t o \i>
nesses
“Minister:
haven’t boa
tend to l>ui ness.
"40,000 e; ers of the Presbyterian
church n* g ct their duty.
"Minister; dictate two sermons
each wee* md throw them in the
fire once tmr ar preached, having
decided yea ago to have a ’barrel.’
“Minister have ‘doubts’ and at
times need l dvice , . .
"They ‘If not teach love of work
at home a' 1 at school.
"PreaehaJ should Instruct parentE
to b:T up their children.”
The Sun irticle quotes Dr.* Mat
thews in aplanation of the state
ment as fofws:
" ‘A preailer gets up in the morn
ing when h; pleases and goes to bed
at night w$n he feels like It. No
whistle renpds him of his coming
tasks. Oi of my assistants one
time rook fir hours ir. which to at
tend a filnejl. I attended one later
In 20 mini* 6 though the distance
i overed wa Just th^ same as the
other.”
'We ha\ 40,000 elders in the
efiurch Justly they loaf. They
don't do ap ruling these days. If
a member ii caught taking a cock-
tall. we dot haul him before the
ruling eldersbut we say: 'Brother
we ask you ot to do it again.' In
this*‘way thlelders do not rule.
“Eldet Do Not Work.”
" ‘Presbytoanism would grow eas
ily if the tiers worked. If the
ihi.oeo t.-am-brought in one mem
ber each wee even, the elfcirch would
grow* at thetate of 80,000 converts
a month. . 1912 only 73,000 per
sons joined e Presbyterian church.
" ‘Preacher l heard when 1 was
a hoy. kept ieir sermons in a bar
rel. 1 hav been afraid to trust
myself with i barrel. I knew that
I would dip jto it occasionally and
later dippingvould become a habit.
Before one H>vvs it. sermon writing
becomes a htl labor and is shirked
whenever poible.’ ”
Dr. Matthth declared it his opin
ion that the cnblnation of all Chris
tians into apmmon church would
never be aonplished.
” 'The worn's growing better. Hu
manity's sennent Is improving. 1
saw a Unitefitates judge Impeach
ed a short, t.e ago., A few years
ago he woulhave gone, unwhlpped
for his crim. Yet I do not think
it would be good idea for religious
work to be itibined. 1 think that
all Presbvteip churches should
come togethetthough.’"
Dr. Matting is a man of giant
stature. Hisjiurch in Seattle has
a tnembershirf 7,000 persons. There
are fifty usls on the main floor
and in the siery of the building.
Seventy-one Sers are In the choir.
Among the fmbership of the con
gregation arlinduded Japanese,
Chinese and iireans. Since 1902,
the church h paid off a debt of
$25,600. Hr. ktthews’ first congre
gation numbed 16 persons.
BLAST ROCS COUNTRYSIDE.
(Til BERT,,p. MD.. May 14.—A
great ixplosioif dynamite occurred
rAEckhart. nt. here, this morning,
kfiling two pelns, demolishing sev
eral houses aTbreaking windows in
houses within radius of half a mile.
i!L! !■ I ■ ■
SHIRKERS
Rev. W. C, Crofts Arraigns the
ern Methods of Revival Work
at Pre-Assembly Meeting.
A scathing arraignment of the
modern methods of evangelistic work
was delivered by the Rev. W. C.
Crofts before the joint meeting of
delegates to the General Assembly of
the Presbytery in the North Avenue
Presbyterian Church at 10 o’clock
Wednesday morning.
The gathering formed the pre-as
sembly of the visitors to discuss
evangelism and was attended by
many other noted speakers. The
church was thronged.
The Rev. Mr. Crofts, who is from
Rock River, took the place of the
Rev. William Russell, of Pittsburg,
who was scheduled to deliver the
principal address, but failed to arrive
in Atlanta in time to be present at
the meeting.
Charges Actual Shirking.
Mr Crofts, on taking the pupit,
opened his address with a denuncia
tion of the half-hearted manner in
which evangelistic work was carried
on. He accused evangelists of lack
of energy in soul-saving and in some
instances charged actual shirking of
the duties which they had assumed.
Dr. Crofts then took up the work
of the Presbytery at its Rock River
conference, detailing the various
methods that assembly had pursued,
and ended in recommending that such
tactics be applied to the evangelistic
work throughout the country.
"The majority of evangelistic work
ers are half-hearted.” declared Dr.
Crofts. "They do their work in a
makeshift manner and in some cases
I have discovered dowrmght shirking
of the duties which lay plainly before
them.”
Sees Room for Improvement,
"At present the majority of evan
gelistic committees, from what work
they are now doing, are accomplish
ing mighty little in comparison with
the vast amount of good they could
do if they really worked.
"At the Rock River conference an
effort was made to ameliorate these
conditions. For 27 weeks the meet
ing held forth and at the end of that
3,000 Arrive for Great Presbyterian Assemblies STAflVAHON PI!
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Delegates in Pre-Convention ‘Get-Together’ Meet ORSVES
Atlanta Homes Thrown Open to
Thousands of Visitors From
All Over United States.
Continued From Page 1.
actually. The so-celled radicals or
Progressives, whichever they choose
to call them. «re merely creatures of
the minds of that branch of the as
sembly which would keep in vog-ue
the practices of 50 years ago. There
is not the slightest chance that the
work of our home board will he cur
tailed, and I look for a complete vic
tory of the Progressive forces.’’
Dr. McKlbbin is regarded as strict
ly a conservative, being the head of
Rev Charles
Scanlan,
temperance
lecturer and
prominent
figure in
the
Presbyterian
Assemblies
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DANGER MEAT EATING
,/lVledicaI R®ps Show That Peo-
? pie Who t Much Meat Ape
' Susceptible Typhoid Fevec.
Tlte death.tt ; nf Typhoid has
been 10 per It for many years.
Even if path recovers, there is
danger—weiied constitution,
languidness, f of energy' and
other after-ifcts.
In a majot of cases typhoid
I fever is dirtv traceable to an
inactive liveritjch itas refused to
clear away t masses of meat
particles leiundigested in the
alimentary oil. This mass pu-
i trefies and s) s out death-deal-
1 ing poisons, • result" in typhoid
5 fever.
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■greatest kn,. liver stimulant.
Its action ishtle, yet effective.
It draws waito the alimentary
tract, fiushethe stomach and
bowels, was: away the undi
gested meat tides-and removes
the danger icrmentation. The
blood is purl through the re
newed activitt tlte liver.
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cause nausemd vomiting, and
there are nangerous after-ef
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" upon receipt rice, postage free.
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| Pharmacy Cdtianta.
HUMAN SIDELIGHTS ON
PRESBYTERIAN MEET
Radicals and Conservatives Getting Together, Says
Stelzle—No More Heresy Trials.
REV.
time plans for a veritable campaign
of soul-saving were inaugurated.
Schools for this purpose were cre
ated and the graduates are now be
ing sent all over the country 10
churches that can not afford to se
cure evangelists in choir revival
meetings. Already the Rock River
conference is planning for greater
and far-reaching work *0 be done at
its meeting next year.
Others who spoke at the morning
meeting were Dr. C. W. McGuire, of
Indiana; Rev. George E. Raitt, of
Pittsburg, chairman of the commit
tee of the United Presbytery of Pitts
burg, and the Rev. C. R. William
son, of Chester, Pa.
Christian Education
Conference Is Begun
The pre-assembly conference on
education which is being held under
the direction of the executive com
mittee of Christian education and
ministerial relief, will continue in
session throughout Wednesday. The
conference is being held in the First
Baptist Church, but the closing ses
sion will be held Wednesday even
ing in Harris Presbyterian Church,
and in that session representatives of
the Presbyterian Church, U. S. A.,
and of the United Presbyterian
Church will be present, as well as
those of the Southern Presbyterian
Church.
Rev. J. Knox Montgomery. D.D.,
president of Muskingum College.
New Concord. Ohio, and Rev. T. S.
Clyce, D.D.. of Sherman, Tex., pres
ident of Austin College, will be the
speakers. The subjects to be pre
sented in the addresses are “The Bi
ble in the College” and “Comity and
Co-operation.”
The two sessions of this conference
held on Tuesday were occupied with
the discussion of questions: “How
best to asuist poor boys and girls
of the church to secure a higher ed
ucation" and “How to maintain a
thoroughly Christian atmosphere in
the Christian (Church) College.”
Both sessions were occupied for
the most part with free, informa:
discussion and open conference fea
tures in which many of the delegates
took part.
The principal emphasis was placed
upon the necessity for giving the
Bible and religious services promi
nence in all of me educational work
of the church, and also to secure mm
of positive Christian character as
members of the faculty.
To Pay Fair Claims.
COLUMBUS.—To wind up the af
fairs of the Georgia-Alabama Fair
Association for the yast year Presi
dent Brooks, of the association, has
announced that he will pay all claims
against the association and begin
©reparations for the 1913 fair.
White City Park Now Open
Ponce DeLeon Rink Now
Open.
Lane Seminary, jpst as Dr. Alexan
der is regarded as an exponent of the
most conservative element. laTgely
because of his atfliliations with
Princeton, and the fact that he is a
Princeton graduate.
There will bo approximately 900
commissioners at the Baptist Taber
nacle Tuesday afternoon when the
balloting for moderator begins.
From every direction special trains
are rolling into Atlanta bearing dele
gates to the Presbyterian joint as
sembly. In addition to the specials,
each regular train carries extra
coaches to accommodate the heavy
travel Atlantaward. The delegates
come from every State in the Union
and practically every country in the
world.
Probably 400 delegates had reached
Atlanta by Wednesday morning. Be
fore night this number was expected
to have passed the 3.000 mark. Fully
4,000 delegates will be in attendance
when the joint meeting begins Thurs
day morning.
To accommodate this influx of visi
tors the people of Atlanta have
thrown open the doors* of their homes,
and every visitor will be accorded
true Southern hospitality. The local
committees, almost entirely laymen,
were worked day and night to pre
pare for the convention. Every de
nomination in Atlanta has joined with
the local Presbyterians, and delegates
are being entertained in the homes of
people of every doctrine.
When the pre-assembly conference
convened at 10 o’clock Wednesday
in the North Avenue Presbyterian
Church, the greatest convention in
the history of the Presbyterian
Church began. This conference was
under the direction of the Evangel
istic Committees of the General As
semblies with Ghairman Rev. Charles
L. Huston, of the U. S. A. Committee,
presiding.
All-Day Conference.
The conference has no bearing at
all on the actual work of the assem
blies. and the discussions were to a
great degree informal. As only a
small number of the delegate? have
yet arrived in Atlanta, but will be
reaching here on practically every
train during the day. this conference
is an all-day affair with both lumh
and dinner served in the church par
lors. A buffet luncheon was served
at noon Dinner will be at 6 o’clock
After dinner there will be a “free-
for-all” discussion.
Afternoon speakers were the Rev.
Robert R. Bigger. Presbytery of
Cleveland; Rev. W. R. Dobvns, U. F.
Assembly, St. Joseph. Mo.; Rev.
George Gordon Mahy, recording sec
retary, U. S. A Assembly’s evan
gelistic committee, and the Rev. John
R. Davis, Presbytery of Philadelphia-
The conference is a get-together
meeting. While each speaker has
been assigned a subject, still ea h
subject has been selected with the
idea of developing free discussion
along the lines of general church
work in connection with evangelis
tic work.
The fact that the three great as
semblies of the Presbyterian Church
are meeting here at once has
caused a wave of iaik relating to
the three branches uniting into one
compact body, and such a union in
the near future is being freely pre
dicted by men high in the church.
Presbyterian Merger Likely.
“Union of the branch of the Pres
byterian Ghurch int* one huge body
is something which we may undoubt
edly look for in the next few years,”
said the Rev. George Gordon Mahy,
recording secretary of the U. S. A.
Assembly’s evangelistic committee,
to a Georgian reporter. “The fact
that we have gathered In Atlanta
gives reason foT this belief. It illus
trates the fact that the various
branches of the church are getting
in closer touch with each other.
There are but a few of the very small
things that cause one branch to dif
fer from another at present. Two of
the branches sing hymns; the oth#r
branch sings psalms. Undoubtedly
some agreement could be arrived at
in this regard, and I believe that ul
timately we will see the entire body
of Presbyterians working in unison
under the same organization.
“As a matter of fact. I believe we
are approaching the time when all
Protestant churches will be aligned.
In Canada the question of all Protes
tant churches uniting is being work
ed out; the different ideas of faith are
being worked into one, and before
long we may look for one Protestant
churcb in Canada.
“Personally, I long to see the day
when all Protestant churches will be
combined into one huge body working
for the welfare of mankind and t.ho
progress of Christianity.”
Normal Institute to
Cease Session Friday
The Atlanta Normal and Industrial
Institute has announced its closing
exercises for Friday evening in Cos
mopolitan A. M. E. Church, Vine and
Found-ry Streets.
The institution, conducted for he
uplift of the negro race in this com
munity. extends thanks to the gener
ous citizens of Atlanta who have con
tributed to its support.
Rev. Richard Orine Flinn will de
liver the annual address and Rev. A.
Eustace I>ay the benediction. The
occasion will c!orc with an address by
Richard D. Stinson, principal of the
irritate.
M rs. Harriett Loudersky Rolader, 56
vf-ars old. died at her home. 28 How
ell Mill Road. Tuesday afternoon. She
is survived by her husband, T. A.
Rolader; two daughters, Mrs. M. L.
Tumlin and Miss Bessie Rolader, and
three sons, W. L., T. C. and J. M.
Rolader The funeral will be held
Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the
Sardis Church. Interment will be in
the church cemetery.
Hotels Filled With
Visiting Churchmen
The headquarter? of the local com
mittees is one of the busiest places
in the city. Rev. Jere Moore and
J. K. Orr, in charge of arrangements,
assisted by a number of prominent
Atlantans, who, typifying the spirit
that has made Atlanta respected
wherever her name is mentioned,
have shucked their coat? and are
working as registration clerks.
Every commissioner and delegate
registers at headquarters as soon as
he arrives. Five hundred commis
sioners will be given free entertain
ment in Atlanta homes of all de
nominations, and the remaining visit
ing Presbyterians will be quartered
at hotels.
Every hostelry in the city it*
crowded, and with the large number
yet to come, Atlanta hotels probably
will face the problem of handling
the largest crowd ever in the city.
By Thursday morning, when the
assemblies hold their first sessions,
it is thought that not less than 1,500
commissioners and 3,000 visitors will
be here
Lucian Knight, chairman of the lo
cal souvenir Committee, announced
this morning that his work had been
completed and the copies of the sou
venir booklet can be obtained at the
Central Presbyterian Church on
Wednesday night. The booklet con
tains about 150 pages of information
about Atlanta, Georgia and the as
semblies, and is profusely illustrated
with photogiaphs of Atlanta point-
of interest.
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
NAME STATE OFFICERS
SAVANNAH. GA., May 14.—
Knights of Columbus of Georgia, in
annual convention here, elected of
ficers, selected Augusta as the next
place of meeting and transacted other
business.
The State officers are: Deputy, C.
Morgan, Macon; treasurer, John J.
Powers, Savannah; secretary, J. J.
Tarleton, Augusta; advocate, M. C.
Garroll, Atlanta; warden, G. J. Burrus
Columbus; delegates to national con
vention, G. M. Morgan and R. A. Mc
Gill, Atlanta; alternates, M. C. Car-
roll and M. C. Powers.
Rev. H. T. Mitchelmore Declares!
Church Faces Problem of Giv
ing Pastors Living Wage.
“Many minister? of the gosp<
%hile showing their flocks the w;i\
Into Hoa\en. are finding it mlght>
difficult to provide for themselves a
respectable existence here on eath." j
This was the manner in wnich the
Rev. il. T. Mitchelmore commented
Wcdncs kiN nn th© starvation salaries]
that are driving hundreds of young
men from the ministry. Dr. Mltchei-
more is associate pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church, of Tacoma,
Wa?h., the largest church of the city,
and is in Atlanta to attend the Pres
byterian Assemblies
“How can a minister support a
family on a salary of not more than
$8 or $10 a week?” be asked. "Ip
It any wohder that many young men
are appalled by the prospect and fin
ally decide to enter some line of bu?i-
ness whore a living income is pos
sible?”
Questions Cry for Answer.
The questions asked by the West
ern minister are question that are
crying to-day with a particular insist
ence for an answer. Not only does
tin* minister have the actual problem
of actually supporting his family on
the small sum, nut meanwhile he
must try to be absorbed in his work
although constantly discouraged • by
debt and the hopelessness of file out
look.
Another serious item is that while
grocery bill?, general trade bills, etc.,
must be met and paid with wmie de
gree of regularity, many ministers
nre compelled to wait patiently until
the church treasurer gets around to
pay them.
And this $8 or $10 a week salary
is given a man after he has obtained
a professional education requiring
years of study.
“The solution must come in an ad
justment of salaries about the coun
try.” said Dr. Mitchelmore. “A
makeshift solution is afforded now* by
the poorly paid ministers engaging
in some ‘side line.’ but this solution
is obviously unsatisfactory. In some
instances, loyal wive? have pieced
out the slender salaries by rnishiK
chickens or by adopting some simi
lar plan.
“These devices, however, bring us
no nearer the needed reform. The
• hurrh muBt awake to the fact that
it owes its ministry a decent living.
There must be a general awakening
about the country. 1 am not saying
that there has been no improvement.
The reform has begun, but it must
be hastened.
“Neither as I saying that conditions
are bad everovherc. On the con
trary. in rny pirt of the country the
ministers for the most part are fairly
| well paid, but in other sections i
j know that they get salaries that a
day laborer would not be expected to
j live upon. And yet the minister ie
ompelled to dress better and his
family is obliged to maintain a more
expensive social life than the day la
borer and his family. *
Presbyterians Best Paid.
“The Presbyterian ministers prob
ably have less cause to <*omplain
than those of any other denomination.
They are known as the highest paid
of any of the Protestant ministries.
Still I know of opportunities for im
provement.
“The trouble has been that while
the cost of the necessities of life
has been mounting steadily, the sala
ries of the nation’s preachers have re
mained at practically the same level
they were fifteen years ago. There
has been some increase, but not pro
portionate to the rise in the cost of
living.
“My father got $700 or $800 as a
minister in his younger years, but
that was equivalent to $1,200 in 1913.
Starting man* recently in our re
ligious life in the West, we have not
been so bound by the small salaries
of a half century ago as they have
in the East and Middle West. In spite
of this I have encountered many min
isters who were barely able to sup
port themselves and families.
“One of my ‘kicks' is that 1 find in
so m^iny rural communities that far
mers making the equivalent of $3,000
or $4,000 a year force their ministers
to live on $300 or $400 and can not
understand why the ministers, after
a few years of futile endeavor, for
sake their calling in absolute despair.
It is a crime and a disgrace!”
To Thrash Onion Out.
That the question of a union will
be proposed during the session is re
garded as an absolute absurdity. This,
it Is expected, will first be suggested
in thof Southern Presbyterian Assem
bly and committees appointed to
meet with committees from the other
two assemblies.
Whether it will be adopted at this
session is regarded as a bit doubtful,
many of the prominent ministers in
attendance believing it would be* best
to go slowly in the matter, and, while
favoring union, to thoroughly thrash
the matter out and not perfect the
union until the next year or so. There
are many who favor an immediate
transforming into one body and of
thrashing out the various problems as
a body complete.
No Candidate for
Southern Moderator.
Everything is in readiness for the
opening session of the General As
sembly of the Presbyterian Ghurch
ifi the Fnited States, familiarly
called the Southern Presbyterian
Church, in North Avenue Church
Thursday morning at 11 o’clock.
The retiring moderator of the as
sembly, the Rev. I. S. Clyce, D.D., cf
Sherman, Tex., will preach the open
ing sermon. Following the sermon
the sacrament of tlie Lord's Supper
CHARLES STELZLE.
Dr. Mark A.
Matthews, na
tive Georgian,
now of Seattle,
“the tall pine of
the Sierras”—<
he’s about six
feet six in
height. and
weighs not much
over, will, he
doesn't weigh ns
much as a man
of his height i3
supposed to
weigh —retiring
Moderator o f
the Northern
P r e s b y t erian
Assembly, has
during the yea*.’
that he’s been
Moderator
aroused m i*n-
gllng emotions
in the minds cf
Li. men of his denomination Some
of them have come to the conclusion
that he’s a “common scold,” whPe
"thers believe him to be the greatest
.Moderator that the church has ever
had—so take your choice.
But after the last word has been
said concerning him everybody will
agree that Dr Matthews has gone
into more things and stirred up more
people than any other Moderator in
the memory of this generation This
may not be saying very much, but
most men will admit that his activity
has resulted in a good deal of serious
thinking on the part of the church
with regard to some pretty big prob
lems - and this has been worth while.
The solsolidation of the Southern
Presbyterian Assembly with the
Fnited Presbyterian Assembly seems
to hinge very largely upon whether
the United Presbyterians can agree
upon some kind of a proposition with
reference to their attitude toward
.‘■•ecret orders, the singing of Psalm?
and “« lose communion.” There’s no
doubt that n way out will be found
by tlie fine big men who are serving
on tin- committees representing the
two bodies.
It's a mighty Interesting thing In
looking back upon the history of the
church to note how r the positions
which were at one time regarded as
extremely radical by the church at
large were later indorsed and fought
for by the conservatives—after the
progressives had gone on still fur
ther. the conservatives suffering and
sacrificing for these former radical
doctrines and practices, as though
they thenmdves had originated them.
There'll be no more heresy trials in
the* Presbyterian < ’hurch—this may be
accepted as a foregone conclusion.
There may be and probably should be
differences of opinion among church
men with regard to theological ques
tions. but more and more these differ
ences are coming to be respected, so
long as yie common belief of the en
tire group of churchmen leans them
to the Master whom they unitedly
serve. Some day, out of ail this dis
cussion. the church will accept as a
“Christian” the man or the woman
who "accepts the purpose of Jesus,
and seek? to bring in the kingdom of
God.” For, after all. this is the big
thing that must dominate every man
who calls himself a “Christian.” and
it will take in a good many who are
now outside the church, and w’ho will
not come into it, because they can not
accept some of the doctrines which
they fear will be forced upon them
by the church.
Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin, of New
York, who speaks to-night at the
pre-assembly missionary conference
on “City Problems.“ is one of the
most influential ministers of any de
nomination in the metropolis. He is
pastor of what would probably be
• ailed “a rich man’s church.“ but the
fine thing about it is that Dr. Coffin
has got into it many of the kind of
folks who are called “working peo
ple.” This has been done mostly
through the way that he has regard
ed these laborer? as Just “folks.” He
hasn't segregated them and patron
ized them and made them feel that
they were an inferior lot of citizens
of different blood, but he has suc
ceeded in making them understand
that they were actually “brothers”
working in a common cause, and this,
by the way. is no small job. Dr. Cof
fin is also a professor at Union Theo
logical Seminary, in New York, where
he helps train the students to do his
kind of a job in real man-fashion.
His seven-minute address on social
service at the great missionary con
ference in Edinburg, Scotland, two
years ago, was one of the big features
of this gathering nf world lead*
Thirty-five negro commissioners
are’ in the three assemblies. As 41
invitations have come to the hospital
ity committee from local people, ne
groes, of course, stating that they wish
to entertain "negro commissioners
only,” it relieves this committee of
some embarrassment, and it ©lao^
means that the negro commissioners
will be made comfortable.
There’s a very remarkable trans
formation taking place in the sub
jects being discussed nt these As
sembly meetings. In former da /s
considerable time was consumed m
the presentation of abstract theories,
concerning theological questions and
matters of law and procedure. Now
it must be admitted that theology
and law’ are perfectly proper sub
jects to be talked about in a church
convention, and those now in session
in Atlanta will spend some time in
discussing them.
But there’s a disposition to de
part not only from these subjects,
but also from mere “inspirational
addresses.” “We’re tired of inspira
tional addresses—we want to know
how to get on the Job.’’ was the way
a Presbyterian elder put it.
And this expresses precisely what
the Assemblies are doing. Even
some of the laymen and the trained
sociologists are being Jolted by the
way that -committees and commis
sioners of the Assembly taJk about
“efficiency experts,” "purchasing
agent*,' “survey work,” “publicity
campaigns" and similar subjects.
The exhibits of the various boards
of the Church at this Assembly equal
any and excsl most of the purely so
ciological exhibitions of recent days
in any city in tho United States*.
They may not be so extensive, al-
, though this is due entirely to the lack
' of space, but in quality they have
) not been beaten. The expert staff
j men on these boards in charge of
I special departments are recognixed
I as the equal of men employed bv
z purely social service agencies. In
deed. they are often consulted as ex
perts by these agencies.
All this is a hopeful sign of the
times. While warmly sympathetic
toward the, more emotional side »f
religion known as “evangelistic
work,” these men are demonstrating
that a religion which is concern.” 1
about the hereafter may at the samr
time be Interested in the affairs »f
the here and now.
Awaiting the
Joyful Sound
The Wonderful Musie That Bursts
Forth When the Stork Arrivss.
| That funny little brassy cry that
I echoes the arrival of the new baby is
RICHMOND’S GRAND JURY
FAVORS SALARY SYSTEM
AUGUSTA, GA.. May 14.—The
Richmond Gounty Grand Jury has
recommended that the Solicitor of
the City Court and the Solicitor Gen
eral of *he Superior Court be placed
on salaries of $3,000 each, instead of
receiving fees. The county Ls losing
at least $10,000 a year, it is estimat
ed. because of the fee system in these
offices.
Lor
The modera-
- rk will then 1"
rament of t
will be adtuinistere
tor and temporary <
elected.
Several commissioners are promi
nently mentioned for moderator, but
there are no candidates. It is likely
that at least four cuminissioners will
be placed in nomination, and that
several ballots will be necessary.
Special interest centers about re
ports regarding the possibility of the
union of the churches and the basis
upon which this union might be ef
fected. Little rnoie will be done bj
this assembly. It is not likely that a
positive step toward a merger will
be taken at this time.
perhaps the most cherished remem-
i branoe of our fives And thousands of
! happy mothers owe their preservation to
health and strength to Mother’s Friend.
This is an external remedy that is ap
plied to the abdominal muscles. It re
lieves all the tension, prevents tender-
j ness and pain, enables the muscles to
expand gently, and, when baby comes,
the muscles relax naturally, the form is
preserved without laceration or other
accident.
You will find Mother's Friend on sale
at almost any drug store, as It is one of
the standard, reliable remedies that
grandmothers everywhere have relied
upon.
With Its daily use during the period
of expectation, there is no weakness, no
nausea, no morning slcknese, no pain.
ii»tres8 or strain of any kind. Its in
fluence 1s truly remarkable, as it pene
trates the tissues and renders them
pliant and easily governed by the de
mands of nature You will be surprised
at Its wonderful effect and w'hat a
grateful relief it affords
Especially to young women Mother's
Friend is one of the greatest of all help
ful Influences.
You will find this wonderful remedy on
sale at the store where you trade, or
they will get it for you. It Is prepared
by Brad field Regulator Company- 136
Umar Building. Atlanta. Ga write
them for a very valuable book to ex
pectant mothers.
1 "Law Brothers for Quality" 1
Straws!
TT'S hipli time to “get
1 busy’’ and choose
yours! A season of
“new things” in Straw
Hats—this store, as us
ual, is ready to meet
every demand. Stylish
Straws for men and
young men.
Sennits and Splits
$2.01) to $5,110
Bangkoks and Panamas
$6.00 and $6.50
Elegant New $1.50
Shirts!
\\/E direct special at-
** tention to our
window display of gen
tlemen^ $1.50 Shirts—
a modest price—but a
collection of Summer
Negligees that are styl
ish and worthy through
and through, from the
world’s foremost shirt-
makers. See them and
you'll buy them!
The New
Oxfords
A LL the new styles,
inclu ding the
popular English rubber
heel and sole oxfords—
the prices range from
$4 to $6.
, St* Our Window Display,