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THE ATLANTA GEORC.TAN AND NEWS,
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GREAT NEED OF THE CHURCH IS A GODWARD FAITH
” I ho Church does not need men. She is not suffering for .money; she is not impotent
because of a lack of mammon. Shelias men; she has money; she has tin* World. Yet those
things can not make her powerful, nor can they alone equip her for the work she was com
missioned to do. The Churelfs only need is a Cod ward faith, the faith that trusts itself
into Christ and brings out tin 1 power to move mountains and perform superhuman deeds.”
—DR. MARK MATTHEWS, Retiring Moderator Northern Assembly.
LACK OF FAITH DENOUNCED
AS CHURCH’S CHIEF FAILING
Dr. Mark Matthews Tells Throng
That Wealth of Millions May
Have Proved a Curse.
PROMINENT FIGURES
IN BIG CHURCH MEET
In a sermon before the opening of the Northern Assembly of
the Presbytery at the Tabernacle Baptist Church Thursday morn
ing, Dr. Mark A. Matthews, moderator, thrust aside all minor de
fects and ascribed lack of faith as the chief weakness of modern
religious movements. The great auditorium was crowded to its
capacity to hear the address.
Not until he had made a com
plete analysis of conditions did
Dr. Matthews send home his ver
dict. His climax rang with con
viction.
“The church does not need men."
declared the preacher. “She Is not
buffering for money; she Is not im
potent because of a lack of mammon.
She has men; she has money; she has
the world. Yet those things can not
make her powerful, nor can they
alone equip her for the work she was
commissioned to do. The church’s
only need is a Godward faith, the
faith that thrusts itself into Christ
and brings out the power to move
mountains and perform superhuman
deeds."
"Money May Have Been Curse.”
Dr. Matthews intimated that money
has. in many instances, dealt stinging
blows to Christianity and served to
stifle out the forward movement for
good.
"Our millions of dollars may have
been a curse to us,” he declared, “and
to-day they may be the paralyzing
influence arresting the operations of
our faith. Let us use the power of
God by which we can do the same
things Christ did. and even greater
things if we trust our faith to Him.
if he fires of hell burn low when
Christians pray and live godly lives.
The only smoke that should be seen
ascending from the Christian is that
which comes from the altar fires of
absolute consecration.”
Dr. Matthews, after an exhaustive
arraignment of the saloon and drink
ing men. declared that such condi
tions could easily be eliminated by
the church.
Sees Doom of Saloon.
"By faith, the church could disarm
the world. The accursed yoke of the
liquor, traffic could be free from
around the neck of America s man
hood And -when the church begins
to exercise faith, in 25 years from
that day this nation will be free from
the saloon.
“Bv faith and trust in Christ we
eould bring about the organization of
all the branches of the Presbyterian
Church in America. And that organ
ic union would be the product of con
viction I am not in favor of a me
chanical organic union, but I am in
favor of the organic union of all the
branches in this country, if brought
about as the result of conviction. The
only thing that keeps us apart is the
paralyzing influence of unbelief.
Day of Fa'th Not Past.
•'Faith has not lost is power,” -con
tinued Dr. Matthews, "nor has it
ceased to be the essential medium be
tween God and the child. The day
of faith has not passed. Its opera
tions mav be arrested by worldliness,
or it may be in disuse, but it is still
a part of God’s program for the ac
complishment of work Christ commis
sioned Christians to do.”
The speaker declared that the
church had taken the wrong path -to
win souls. , ,
"The church may have been looking
for power In men. in money and in
worldlv resources," hi* said. “She
ought to have been using that which
God promised.
It can to-day, If used
EASY RELIEF
FROM CONSTIPATION
The Remedy that Replaces Calo
mel—Causes No Restriction
of Habit or Diet.
by the church, accomplish all the su
pernatural results that were ever ac
complished by Christ through the re
deemed in the early period of Chris
tianity. Faith is the church’s only
need to-day.
“We should change the ground of
our objections to candidates for the
ministry who doubt or deny the diety
of Christ. They should be rejected
not alone because they doubt or deny
per se the deity of Christ, but be
cause their denial is prima facie evi
dence that they have never been re
generated.
Would Bar Unregenerates.
“No regenerated man can doubt the
deity of Christ, because you can not
doubt that which you know, and you
can not sincerely deny that which is
to you a personal fact. No unregen
erated man should be permitted to
preach.”
In closing his address. Dr Mat
thews made a strong plea for the re
turn to Godliness from which, he de
clared, the world had departed. He
asked that each one in his audience
renew his faith in Christ and God,
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Rev. W. M, Holderby, Champion
of Philadelphia's “Down-and-
Outers,” Hits Hard.
Rev. William Matthew Holderby,
the fighting preacher of Philadelphia
and the champion of the Quaker
City’s “down-and-outers,” projected
his stocky form Thursday into the
doctrinal conflict that is threatening
to rend the Presbyterian Assembly
gathered in Atlanta, and when he had
done ( there was no doubt as to where
he stood.
He has no patience with the so-
called “higher criticism” and “ad
vanced thought," and he did not hes
itate to say so. He is unalterably
opposed to the “Union Seminary idea”
and is fighting every effort, so far 8a
he is able, to re-establish this insti
tution ih its former intimate connec
tions with Presbyterianism. He is an
exponent of the conservative “Prince
ton idea” and proud of it.
Fighting Biood Aroused.
It was not difficult to picture him
doffing his coat and “squaring off”
when the subject was broached to him
Thursday morning. It was plain that
his fighting blood was up.
“1 have no sympathy with the rad-
and go out to convert those who had
not.
“The business of the church,” ho
declared, “is to evangelize the world.
That is the church’s mission and
Christ equipped her to do such super
human work.
“Is she doing it? If so, you have
the true evidence of our supreme love
for Him and our obedience to His
commandments, but do not the re
sults justify me in asking are we not
really playing at the business? Are
we not guilty of busy idleness? Are
we not merely reciting essays and
delivering sermonettes with musical
attachments? Are we not just, tink
ling cymbals and sounding brasses?
Are we not, in a perfunctory way,
bartering in charity? Is it not true
that many of us have been dealing
in occultism and blasphemous vaga
ries?”
The man holding the child is Dr. R. B. A. McBride, of Leavenworth, Hans., here for the
jrreat assembly. The youngster is Valeria Rankin Manley, of 65 East Fourteenth Street. Below
are George E' Raitt, of Pittsburg (on left), and Dr. J. K. McClurkin, of Pittsburg, chairman of
the committee on the union of Southern and United. Presbyterian Assemblies.
WEST END REVIVAL TO
LAST THROUGH SUNDAY
Revival services at the West End
Christian Church will continue
through Sunday right, with services
every evening at 8 o'clock. Rev.
John T. Hawkins, of Kentucky., is
conducting the services.
There will be a baptismal service
Friday evening.
ADVENTISTS OPEN MEET.
WASHINGTON. May 15.—Five
thousand men, women and children of
the Church of the Seventh Day Ad
ventists opened their thirty-eighth
annual convention at Takoma, Park,
near here, to-day with singing and
prayer. •
If you have anything to sell, adver
tise in The Sunday American. Larg
est circulation of any Sunday news
paper in the South.
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY AT
WASHINGTON OPENS JUNE 4
WASHINGTON. May 15.—The
American University, planned years
ago by Methodist Eposcopalians, and
provided with beautiful buildings and
grounds.on the outskirts of this city,
will be opened formally June 4 with
a college for graduate study.
Conservatism and
Radicalism Defined
Conservatism, popularly known
at this assembly as “the Prince
ton idea,” would insist, if it de
sired that a pig become a dove
and be raised from its wallow of
mire, that the pig actually be
changed into a dove.
Radicalism, or the so-called
“Union Seminary idea,” on ihe
, other hand, would take the pig
and give It a milk bath and a
massage, tie a blue ribbon about
its neck, a pink one to thef curl in
its tail, sprinkle some talcum pow
der on Its back and 'squirt violet
water over its porcine anatomy,
then say: “There’s your dove;
see it soar!”—Rev. William Mat
thew' Holderby, of Philadelphia,
described by his admirers as the
best two-fisted fighting white man
in the ministry.
leals In the Assembly,” Dr. Holderby
exclaimed, putting himself on record
at once. “The Princeton idea is that
a man must be redeemed by the grace
of God; that he must be ‘born again;’
that there must be an actual spiritual
transformation or metamorphosis.
“The Union Seminary Idea accepts
Jesus Christ in the ethical conception
as presenting a most excellent exam
ple for people to follow', but virtually
rejects Him in the supernatural con
ception.
“I’m against them!
“The Union Seminary idea would
bring about salvation by works, by
culture and by a process of develop
ment.
Regeneration Is Ignored.
“The leaders in this line of thought
go to the unconverted. They ask:
’Do you not regard the life of Jesus
as an excellent example to follow?’
“Of course, anyone must answer
affirmatively to that whether or not
he believes in the divinity of the
Saviour. Rut the unconverted say:
Yes. a.model life like that of Christ is
well enough to have for an example,
but we do not believe in some >f
these church doctrines of yours—in
the miracles, the efficacy of prayer,
etc.’
“‘Oh, that’s all right.’ comes the
reply, ‘your salvation will be brought
by your good works, by your morali
ty. by your spiritual culture.’ and
these persons are enrolled under the
banners of the Christian church when
not a word has been said of their ac
tual regeneration.''
Dr. Holderby paused in his exposi
tion Then he smiled as he illus-
trated his point:
Gives Homely Simile.
“If the exponents of the Princeton
idea desired that a pig become a dove
and be raised from its wallow of mire,
they would insist that the pig actually
he changed into a dove.
-The radicals, the higher critics,
would take the pig. give it a milk
bath tie a pale blue ribbon about Us
neck a pink one to the curl in its
tail, sprinkle some talcum powder on
its back and squirt violet water over
its porcine anatomy, then say.
“There’s vour dove; see it *oar.
Dr. Holderby is the pastor of the
Northern Liberties* Church, of Phila
delphia which Is situated in the
heart of the city’s Tenderloin. There
were 25 members when he went there
five years ago. The church, with an
historic past of nearly a century, was
near dissolution. To-day there are
1,200 members. .
“I had the Princeton idea in mind,
said Dr. Holderby, “and 1 wanted to
demonstrate its real efficacy.”
Here is a picturesque description
of the man as he ie seen by one of
his ardent admirers:
“First Class Fighting Man.”
“He is the best two-fisted fighting
white man in the ministry. .His wife
is the angel of the slums of Phila
delphia. Their church is packed to
the doors with al! the tramps, drug
fiends and derelicts of the Tenderloin.
He fills them full of beef stew' and
then talks religion to them. He has
the largest Men's Brotherhood in the
city; he has the biggest men’s meet
ings held in the city.
“He feeds and clothes those no
body else’ will have and spends $30,-
0(H) a year reconstructing men and
women. He gets them jobs and then
sits on the job to see that they make
good. These poor devils worship him
because he preaches humanity to
them and lives the part.
“He is some human being, this
man With his wife he liv.# In the
very soul center of vice and crime.
The pair are out all hours of the
day and night, watching over their
boys and girls, as they call them. He
II. P. LEADERS FOR
Penal System Denounced by
Judge McKinzie Cleland, For
merly of Chicago Bench.
"The Penal System as It Pertains
to Christianity" was the subject of
an address before the Untted Pres
byterian Assembly delivered by Judge
McKinzie Cleland of Chicago, in the
Central church Thursday afternoon.
Judge Cleland brought forth for a
strong arraignment the practices ob
served in the Jails and prison insti
tutes, asking his audience If such
methods were in conformity with
Christianity.
Formerly a member of the Munici
pal Court bench in Chicago, Judge
Cleland spoke from his own obser
vations of criminals and illustrated
his points by instances of the great
harm which he declared was being
wrought under the penal system
"It is Just as logical to place a man
in a garbage can, to improve his di
gestion,” said Judge Cleland, “as it
is to put him in Jttil to improve his
morals.
"The practice of giving prisoners
sermons on the prodigal son are no
good.
"Forty per cent of those who go
to jail go back again. I know of one
woman who has been in jail 176
times. The confinement has no effect
upon them, it does not teach them
to be better men and women. Also
there arc thousands who go to the
prisons because they are unable to
pay the fines imposed upon them.
They may be good people, who
through unfortunate circumstances
come within the clutches of the law.
“Once in confinement they are
hrought In contact wilh criminals of
the worst type. They become tainted
and go out of their prisons far worse
than before. It is the duty of the
church to fight the penal system and
I hereby move that a campaign be
inaugurated against it.”
Moderator Russall, following Judge
Cleland'* address, put a motion before
the assemblage that a resolution be
drawn up denouncing the penal sys
tem The motion carried unani
mously.
Urges Enforcement
Of 15th Amendment
WASHINGTON, May 15.—Former
Senator William E. Chandler of New
Hampshire has written a vigorous
letter to F. W. Estabrook, member for
the Granite State of the Republican
National Committee, pointing out the
proposed reduction In the member
ship of the Southern States in the
national convention of the party, and
at the same time calling for the en
forcement of the fifteenth amendment
to the Constitution.
He also has transmitted a copy of
his letter to Chairman Hllles of the
Republican Executive Committee.
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Prescribed by physicians for eighteen
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For sample of each write to Dept. 21-S,
Resinol, Baltimore, Md.
PANICS—
What terrifying possibilities are conveyed in this
one little word to the man who, in time of plenty, neg
lected to provide for the future.
The man with a Savings account faces a period of
financial depression without fear.
His hour of need is at hand—he has prepared for
it in the hour of his prosperity.
Why don’t you do likewise!
Panics are severe lessons. Don't let one come be
fore you learn to save.
We pay 4 per cent interest on Savings Accounts.
A dollar starts one here. Gall to-day.
Open Saturday afternoons from 4 to 6 in addition
to morning hours.
Georgia Savings
Bank & Trust Co.
Atlanta’s Oldest Savings Bank.
Grant Bldg.
after evf
closed up Lyons’ pi
other agency in the city had failed.
Lyons' was the hangout of all the
crooks in the city and a clearing
house for white slaves. He looks
like a scrapper.”
Going to Pittsburg.
At the recent centenary celebration
of the Northern Liberties* Church,
Mayor Blankenburg. of Philadelphia,
declared that the church had con
tributed more toward solving the vice
problem than any other agency of
which he was aware.
Dr. Holderby will leave Philadel
phia shortly to take charge of the
South Side Presbyterian Church in
Pittsburg, where a problem similar
to that in Philadelphia will be pre
sented. The new charge Is right in
the midst of the mammoth Jones &
Laugh 1 In steel plant settlement. A
population of 50.00ft is tributary to the
church. Half of these are foreign
ers.
Best Gasoline - 19c per gal.
Oil 35c per gal.
— -- -Open at Night -. 1
Day & Night
12 Houston Street
Just off Peachtree St.
NEW NAVY HYDROPLANE
MAKES ITS TRIAL FLIGHT
MARBLEHEAD. MASS.. May 15.—
The new hydroplane built for the
United States Navy Department was
given its first try out here to-day.
Aviator Fred Coffin asetyided from
the water In the harbor to test the
machine for speed and endurance.
He flew two miles to Baker’s Island
and returned, circling Marblehead
Neck.
BANKRUPT SALE
Will sell to highest bidder on Monday, May 19, 10 a. m.,
at 106 W. Mitchell Street, 14 head of horses and mules. A
lot of one and two-horse wagons and harness, office furniture
and fixtures.
T also have on sale now, cord wood, sand, coke, brick and
lumber. Will sell below cost.
E. D. THOMAS, Receiver
M. 1023
106 WEST MITCHELL STREET
ATL. 1015