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BILLY SUNDAY’S THANKSGIVING DAY PRAYER
0D of Our Fathers; Not since that First Thanksgiving Day have we had
G so much to thank Thee for. That we dwell together a united Chris
tian Nation from the pine-erowned mountains of Maine to the rose gar
dens of California, from the sanded shores of the Great Lakes to the warm
eurrents of the Gulf ecoast, one God, one Flag, for this we thank Thee.
‘We thank Thee that America has been chosen to lead in this struggle for
the preservation of Truth, Justice, Freedom and Liberty and the annihilation
of Autoeracy, Oppression, Injustice and Hate. ;
We thank Thee that Thou hast so blessed the ground beneath our feet
that it becomes the storehouse of the world. And that the spirit of conser
vation and sacrifice is popular throughout the land so that we.may send mil
lions of pounds of food to the millions of hungry mouths over the sea.
Because young men brought up in the comforts of home are enduring the
rigors of camp life and trench warfare without a whimper we know the spirit
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; . Billy Sunday started Thanksgiving
. ‘morning his initial “big drive™ at Camp
E Eflordon. It was his first visit to lni
. Eastern cantonment, and he liked it
% ‘SO well he says he's going back be
. fore his Atlanta campaign is ended,
E § He will have no service at the Tah
i fim.ch Thanksgiving afternoon. In
" * gtead, he plans to see Tech play Au
} SM out at Grant Field,
F§ Billy will conduct his regular serv
~_ige at the Tabernacle Thanksgiving
f; night, and he will preach on ‘“Be
l hold, 1 stand at the Door and
Knock.” |
. Out at Camp Gordon the Svunduyl
. party, headed by Billy and Ma, were
| greeted warmly by the commanding
_ officer and his staff. They then went
1 to the new $30,000 “hostess house"
f put up at the cantonment by the At
_lanta Y. W. C. A. for the use of the
. “boys in khaki.”
' Billy officially presented the house
é to the “boys,” and it was Accepted on
i their behalf by General Swift. The
. evangelist spoke at the dedicatory
| ervices in the “house.” at which Mre,
- Archibald Davis presided.
. Then he was hurried over to the
big Y. M. C. A. auditorium, where he
talked with the “boys.” Billy is as
Patriotic as the flag itself, and ho[
sure was tickled to get in touch with
"#0 many of the soldiers. Every inch
'of space in the big building was
‘thronged with boys in khaki and hun
dreds stood up in the alsles and at the
_rear of the hall.
It takes only the sight of a khakt
Uniform to get Billy started on his
- moted patriotic vein. And he sure
was in great trim Thanksgiving morn
ing. Of course, the Allies are going
;&“Hck the tar out of that bunch of’
God-forsaken cut-throats,” and it's as
as the nose on your face that
s € American soldiers are going to
keap on plugging their way throuh|
»we German lines until they get all
the way inte the Kaiser's palace in
Berlin." There isn't a doubt about
it, in Billy's opinion. And everybody
% who heard him at the cantonment was
{ fgqeed that Billy has the “right dope."
% The soldier boys cheered and yelled
L and Billy was their friend right oft
i} the bat. He invited them to come
i down to the Tabernacle and he said
‘ ‘there wasn’'t a person or a thing in
' the big building that wasn't at their
4 disposal. |
§§ At the invitation of the command
! jng officer Billy and his party “looked
= "over’ the big cantonment, Billy
shook hands with the boys, patted
® them on the back and urged them to
H‘g 0 to it” when they get to the “other
L aide.”
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Billy Sunday gave the tollowing Thanksgiving day prayer to a representative ot The Georgian for its exclusive use:
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Billy Urges a Large
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Attendance at Service
For Negroes Saturday
Billy Sunday appealed Wednes
day to Atlanta folks having ne
gro servants in their homes to
please go easy with them around
supper time and arrange so that
that they may get off a little ear
ly so they can get to the Taher
nacle in time for the service for
negroes Saturday night.
“Just eas up a bit, Atlanta”
commented Billy. “Have supper a
little earlier and get the car into
the garage before sundown, so
that your servants may have time
to get in on that 7:30 o'clock
service. It isn't often they have
a chance to get to the Taberna
cle, and it would be a nice thing
if everybody who employs negroes
would so arrange their household
affairs that their men and wom
en servants could get off earlier
than usual. 5
The negro meeting Saturday |
night will be the second Rilly has
conducted since his Atlanta cam
paign began. No white persons
will be admitted to the Saturday
night meoting, except those who
have business at the Tabernacle.
Discharge of 60 Chicago Packing
} House Employees Leads to
r Vote in Nine Cities.
(By !nternational News Service.)
CHICAGO, Nov., 29— Preparations
for the taking of a strike vote among
100,000 stockyards employees in nine
cities are being made here today un
der direction of the stockyards labor
council. Represcntatives of twelve
international unions have indorsed the
action of the council and President
Samuel Gompers, of the American
Federation of Labeor, has been in
formed of the action taken.
Because of the fact that orders for
millions of pounds of meat recently
have been allotted packers by the
United States KFood Administration
the action of the employees is re
garded with grave apprehension by
Federal authorities. It is considered
probable that Government officlals
will make every possible effort to
avert a strike.
The decision to take a strike vote
was precipitated, it is declared, by
the discharge of 60 amployees by Lib
by, McNeil & Libby. Bach of the dis
charged men is said to have made an
affidavit that he was discharged for
wearing the union button. Efforts tg
arrange conferences with the packers,
the employees declare, have been un
suocessful.
- Demands for increased wages, rec
~ognition of the union, improved work
ing conditions and other considera
tlons also are declared to figure in
the controversy.
The emplovees who will vote on the
proposed strike are those working for
- Chicago packers in various cities. The
cities involved are Chicago, Kansas
City, East St. Louis, Denver, St. Paul,
Omaha, St. Joseph, Fort Worth and
Oklahoma City.
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Miss Sara Bell, president of the Junior War Work Couneil,
which is taking an active part in the plans for the great meating
for women at the Auditorium next Sunday afternoon.
While Billy Sunday is hammering Miss. Miller's Yeoture on “Purity”
away at the men Sunday afternoon,
endeavoring to instill into their un
derstanding the principles of right
and wrong, Mis: Irances Miller will
be executing the same endeavor as
applied to the women, around at the
Auditorium, ;
Miss -Miller expects to pack the
Auditorium, and {t's perfectly rea
sonable that she should, considering
that in Philadelphia shé had to give
her lecture on “Purity” five times be
fore she could get half around among
the women that wanted to hear st,
And sne's demonstrating her faith in
Atlanta women' by giving the lecture
the fArst time in a building that seats
'between 8,000 and 9,000. Heretofore,
the lecture has been given first in a
' small building, and in larger build
ings as the crowds have demanded lit,
“But I believe that here in Atlanta,
‘where the women must have become
awakened to the responsibility rest
lln( upon them through the location
of thousands of soldiers at Camp Gor
| don, it will not be necessary to urge
the mothers and young people to
lcomc," she said.
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The Georgian
that held their forefathers indomitable at Lexington and Valley Forge has not
died out, and for this we thank Thee. -
We thank Thee for the wave of generosity that possesses the people so
that from their stores of wealth they dump fabulous sums into the coffers of
movements for the aid of the war.
We thank Thee that the Ship of State, making its way through the most
troublous seas in all history has at its helm men who love and trust Thee and
who pray daily to Thee for guidance. «
And we thank Thee, Lord, for the consciousness that Thou art guiding
America to play her part heroicall, sacrificingly and to Thy glory in the
War of the World.
We thank Thee for Haig and his smash through the Hindenburg line.
We thank Thee for Pershing and Byng, and the Italians holding back
the bloodthirsty hoard of Huns.
We thank Thee for Wilson, Lloyd George and Northeliffe and Poincare
is built along the line of one of Billy
Sunday's “men eonly” sermons, with
a more g¢onstructive outlook, and
shorn of the physical applications,
It's not only for the young school
girls, and the young society girls, and
the young business girls, but it has a
special application to mothers, which
no mother can afford to miss. That's
what the members of the Sunday par
ty who have heard Miss Miller de
:!ver the lecture in other cities say of
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A special delegation of 1,000 girls
representing the Patriotic League, will
be present, and members of the Junior
War Work Council, of which Miss
Sara Bell is president, will be ushers,
Tickets were @istributed among the
business women at the meeting of
council girls at the Y. W, (. A, Wed
nesday evening, and hundreds of
these women and girls’ who have
become interested in Miss Miller's
work sthrough the evening meetings,
and the noonday luncheons are ex
pected to be present to hear her speak
at the Auditorium Suaday afternoon
at 2 o'cleck,
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Led by Hllustrious Potentate An
drews, Men in Fezes ‘Take
Stand for God.’
By ARTHUR JOYCE.
Evangelists Chapman and Alexan
der used to feature a revival hymn
called “Sine On.”
They put an “r" into it over at the
Billy Sunday Tabernacle Wednesday
called “Shine On."
It was “Shriwers’ Night,” and, with
thelr usual way of doing things, At
lanta’s Shriners went over to the big
wooden building and just tore to
shreds the nioe. trail-hitting record
that Billy made up Boston way sever
al years ago. They went further than
this, They up and smashed the “tin
pltae™ records over at theJackson show
grounds and left more dollar notes
in those pans than have been passed
over to the campaign committee at
a single meeting since Billy started
out to clean up the devil in his seven
wceks' free-for-all marathaon.
Yaarab Temple turned out strong
for the meeting. Yaarab Patrol had
a big 'delegation and the Yaarab
Chanters were much in evidence.
Scattered throughout the big audi
torium were other members of the
mystic order wearing their fezes. Near
them were their wives, their sisters,
.’qome aweethearts—and Harry Good
yart,
There had been a lull in the trail
hitting, Billy had exhorted the men
and women in the big audience to
take their stand with God, after an
eloquent sermon on “Solomon.” He
wag suffering from a bad cold con
tracted at Toccoa last Monday, and
his voice was husky. Again he plead
ed with the choir members and the
Shriners and the ushers to start the
trail-walking for Christ. A woman
got up and led the way. Then came
a man and some more men. A Shrin
er or two got into the line. ‘There
followed a few more Shriners,
Not Fast Enough for Billy,
But they weren’t —coming quick
enough to suit Billy. He said he
wanted to make ‘*‘Shriners’ Night"
the biggest feature of the revival in
Atlanta—and he did, At least, the
“big boss" of the Shriners did.
Thére came all tpold about 50 per
sons to the ‘“penitential seats” up
front. But that wasn't anything, con
sidering, the Tabernacle was nearly
filled.
Suddenly there arose in the aud
lence a fine-looking man wearing a
fez., He eclimbed to the wooden bench
where he had been sitting. When he
‘had stood erect he took off his fez,
raised his arm and said:
| Nobles, there is no reason why
every member of the Shrine in this
audience shouldn't walk up ta the
}matfnrm and shake the hand of Mr.
LRundav after that eloquent sermon,
l.et's take our stand openly for God
!tnnight——nll of us. Il lead the way.
Come on!™ *
It was Illustreus Potentate Walter
. Andrews who spoke, and his words
were like magic., He had no sooner
got down from the bench and turned
to walk to the platform to shake Bil
ly's hands, than Shriners edged thelr
way out of the sawdust aisles on to
the “big trail” and up front to Billy
—and Christ!
On they came from every part of
the Tabernacle. Men and women,
spurred on by the admonition of the
“big boss” and the hearty response of
‘the Shriners, literally pushed each
~other aside to get quickly to the plat
form. The magic effect of the in
vitation of Potentate Andrews star
tled those in the audience. He had
done in a few words what Billy had
exhorted and pleaded with the Shrin
ers to do fifteen minutes before.
Trail Hitters Beyond Count, ‘
And before that great line of trail
hitters had finished coming t‘or‘yard‘
and just after Fred Patterson *had
shoved up his hand for Billy to grasp,
the ushers gave up in despair their
attempts to count the number of sit- |
ters on the penitential benches. There
#as no accurate count made, but it
{s a safe bet that between 1,950 and
2,000 men and women had walked the
sawdust aisles and had pledged anew
their allegiance to God!
Before Wednesday night Billy had
fondled the record he made in Boston,
when a little more than 1,300 persons
“hit the trail’ in one night. The
Yaarad Shriners went that nearly 700
better, and Fred Buse, statistician
over at the Tabernacle postoffice, will
have to get busy thday and make up
some new record sheets. The bhiggest
record for a singla meeting in the At- I
lanta campaign, before the Shriners
took it into their heads to “do thinn"l
to that book of statistics, was at the
first “men only” meeting in the Tab
ernacle. when 1248 men walked up
the sawdust alsles and grasped Billy's
hand.
It was SOME night over at the
Tabernacle and you ean bet it will
live long in the memory of Billy and
his co-workers.
It was conspicuous, too, because of
the unusual activity of the personal
workers in the audience, A man and
a young woman actually came over to
the nress tables and urged one ar two
for the Canadians and the Australians and for every soldier tramping be.
neath the Allied Flags. .
We thank Thee that there are meither mollycoddles among the young
men from the cities or the country and that the past twelve months-has dem
onstrated the youth of the nation to be men of grit and courage and iron and
stamina. .
We thank Thee, Lord, that Thou hast promised a legion of Angels to en
camp round about and protect them that fear Thee.
And we thank Thee Lord for Thy great Gift to this sin-cursed, war-rid
den world. We thank Thee more than ever before because above the smoke
and the black elouds of battle the raidiant light of the Cross still shines and
through the grief and the despair and the wretchedness and the nights of ter
ror comes the message that all things will work together for good to men and
nations who love the Lord.
W. A. SUNDAY.
‘Trail Hitters’ in Miss
Gamlin’s Meetings Are
Real Converts to Christ
By ARTHUR _.JOYCE.
If you want to see some real “trail
hitting,” go over some afternoon to
one of the meetings for boys and girls
which are being conducted by Miss
Alice Miriam Gamlin, representative
of the Sunday party, who carries on
the evangelistic extension work in the
graded schools of Atlanta.
Miss Gamlin has been in this
branch of revival work for years, and
she is conceded to be one of the
waorld's experts in this particular line.
And, by the way, Miss Gamlin thinks
Atlanta's boys and girls are among
the brightest, most manly and most
womanly she has met in all her trav
els preaching the gospel message,
And that's some compliment, since
Miss Gamlin hag traveled into all
parts of this country and into many
sections of Europe doing the sort of
work that's now engaging her atten
tion in Atlanta.
“If all the boys and girls through
out the South are as dignified, as
bright and as respectful as those in
Atlanta,” commented Miss Gamlin
Thursday, “I'd say they represent the
bast type of student to be found any
' where in the whole country. I don’t
‘say this il every city in which I
conduct these campaigns. Atlanta is
‘unusual in this respect, and I'm glad
‘to give its pupils this well-deserved
praise.”
But the “trail hitter®” I started out
to tell about. ’
Non-Christians Asked For.
At the close of Miss Gamlin’s meet
ings in the churches of Atlanta ad
jacent to the schools where are the
pupils she addresses, she extends the
“invitation.” Now ithis “invitation” is
not for reconsecration. It isn't for
boys and girls who are associated
with various churches and are mem
‘bers of Sunday schools and whom
she wants to walk o the impro
vised *“altar” and rededicate them
selves to Christ. Miss Gamlin asksi
for non-Christians to come forward—
boys and girls who don’t know Christ, ‘
who have never known him and who
want to-make his acquaintance and |
hereafter lead the Christian life. ‘
Frequently Miss Gamlin has to wait
ten minutes before one of the ]arger[
boys in the back of the room slowly
rises, with head bowed and possibiy
with tears in his éyes. She makes
it plain in her talk to the hoys and
girls just what the “coming ‘orward”
step means and she emphasizes the
importance of the decision to their
future lives.
With the “big boy" on his feet ask
ing for Christianity, there follows an
other lad who probably had been
waiting for some one to “break the
ice.” Then up stands a girl on the
other side of the room. Another girl
follows and still another. In a short
while there are possibly six or seven
or maybe a dozen on their feet—
boys and girls who, never having
of the newspaper men to come to
Christ! And Ma Sunday herself got
up from her seat on the platform and
'went down into that audience and
talked personal Christianity to men
and women. Her efforts were produc
tive, too, since she led nearly a score
of persons up the trail.
Billy was fagged out when he closed
the door of the “pit” and scrambled
bhack to the platform. Even then the
trail hitting didn’t stop. LEvery few
minutes a personal worker would walk
up the aisle leading a man or a wom
an who had been backward, but who
ultimately had made the *“decision.”
And Billy just lay on his stomach and
reached over Rhe platform to get a
good grip on the extended hands.
Remarkable “Drawing Power.”
The big choir sang all the while
the trail hitters marched up the aisles.
rß}' actual count, Billy spent 27 min
lutu in the “pit” shakifdg nds. Har
ry Goodhart said the evangelist's
“drawing powers” were remarkable
and there were Shriners in the au
dience representing the best tyvpe of
‘Atlenta’'s citizenship who were liter
‘ally captivated by the evangelist.
.~ The Yaarab Chanters, led by Frank
‘Cundell, made a great impression with
their chants. They did the “Our Fa
ther” so touchingly that Redy had
them repeat it three times, and even
then the big audience wanted more!
When Rody asked the Yaarab del
egation what song it liked the best,
one of the men in the fez shouted
“Happy Days."” Everybody laughed
and everybody joined in the great
chorus. There were several ®ther
delegations in the audience, including
representatives of the Foote & Davies
Company, the Church Home for Girls,
the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills,
which brought along its brass band,
the Epworth League and 50 business
women from St. Luke's Church.
Billy's sermon was descriptive of
the life of Solomon, his point being
that, no matter what riches and pow
er and knowledge a man may attain
on earth, all is vanity without Christ.
He pictured Solomon's Temple and
ity gorgeousness, and described in
detail its construction at a cost of
about $500,000.
J. K. Orr made a financial state
ment to the audience, announcing
that approximately SISOOO is needed
to clean up the Tabernacle expenses
He said that an average of- about
$3,700 a week had been turned into the
collection plates—an aggregate, he
said, of 3 3-4 cents per capita.
The Los Angeles permanent choir,
an offspring of the Sunday campaign
there, sent Thankegiving greetings
to the Atlanta choir. Reody read the
telegram.
been Christians, yet who seek the
“better life” and who want to know
its joys.
If the “invitation” extended by Miss
Gamlin was made more general—in
other words, if she asked for ‘‘recon
secration,” it is likely every boy and
girl in the room would walk to the
platforma. But she doesn't. She wants
to reach the non-Christians, who do
not attend church and who do not go
to Sunday school. Angd she is reach
ing them! There's a certain some-*
thing about Miss Gamlin's remarka
ble appeal; and her talk on matters
religious carries with it such a strong
lesson, that boys and girls are cap
tivated at the start., She is a good
talker and carries the punch, §ust as
do the other members of the Sunday
party. ‘
Appeals to School Pupils,
i Miss Gamlin's. meetings are being |
well attended. She talks with the |
boys in the grammar grades at school ‘
—those getting ready to enter the
higher schools. Miss Gamlin has her |
rmeetlngs in the afternoons just at
the close of the school hours and in |
j churches near the schools from which |
she draws her audience. Bometimes
the boys and girls march to the church |
in a body, led by their principal and
some of the teachers. At other meet- l
ings they just “drift in.® But they
get there. Miss Gamlin always hasl
a crowded meeting, and when several
schools join together for a ‘“get-to
gether” gathering extra chairs usu
ally have to be brought into the
church auditorium.
Miss Gamlin plans to talk person-'
ally with the boys and girls of forty
two Atlanta scheols before she leaves
Atlanta with the Sunday party. Her
meetings are for negro boys and
girls, the same ag for the white pu
pils. She has had much success in
her gatherings in negro churches, on
one oecasion her meeting having at
tracted nearly 400 boys and girls.
nOe secret of Miss Gamlin's work
is that she refers to the students al
ways as “boys and girls” ‘and “young
men and young women.” There is
no ‘“children’'s service” about the
gatherings. She.makes the boy and
girl realize their individual respon
sibility and glves them opportunity
to make thelr own decisions.
Angd it's a safe bet that if you give
boyvs and girls of the grammar grades
a chance to decide for themselves and
to show their “individuality” they're
going to listen and take interest in
what’s going on.
Miss Gamlin will have no meeting
Thursday because of the Thanksgiv
ing holiday, but she will talk again
Friday night to parents and teachers
the North Avenue Presbyterian
Church at 7:30 o’clock.
Work among the parents of the
boys and girls and among their Sun
day schoofleachers is also an impdr
tant phase of Miss Gamlin's work.
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Famous Tenor To Be Greeted by
Crowd Representing All Parts
of Georgia.
John McCormack, the tenorest tenor
of all, may have been a bit seore
about the knees Thursday, after an
all-day rabbit hunt, but he was all
right from the waist up, where the
singing apparatus is situated, He
‘was all peady to give Atlanta a
Thanksgiving night feast that would
'make them forget the football game
and the turkey.
There’ll be no Thanksgiving turkey
and fixings for Mr. McCormack,
however, He isn't one of those tem
peramental tenors, being plain Irish
instead of Neapolitan, but he knows
no min can lift a high C over a vol
uminous dinner. So he will have to
content himself with a fair luncheon
at 2 o‘clock—and then nothing more
until after his appearance at the Au
ditorium. Maybe there’ll be some
thing in the way of a spread after
that, for the tenor will have the trip
back to New York te recover in.
It is probable the famous tenor will
be greeted at 8:15 o’clock by an au
dience limited only by the inside
measurements of the Auditorium. Thei
remaining seats were .going fast |
Thursday, as hundreds of Georgians
had suddenly made up their minds to'
hurry to Atlanta for a combination
feast of football and song. The sale
will continue at the Cable Piano Com
pany’s store, No. 82 North Broad
street, until 6 o'clock, when it will be
transferred to the Auditorium box
office. If necessary, chairs will be
placed on the big stage, which will
hold 200 scats.
“Dan A. McGuirk, manager of the
local engagement, announced the con
cert would begin promptly at 8:15|
o'clock, and late comers would not
be permitted te interrunt a group of
songs.
,‘Women Are Going To Be a Big
Factor in Winning This War,’
o He Adds.
Billy Sunday may be ofl-fashioned
enough to believe in hel fire and
brimstone, but he’s new. fashioned
enough to believe in “vots for wo
men.” And he pleased m almost
exclusively feminine audierce when
he set himself clear on thii particu
lar question Wednesday afténoon.
. “Sure, I believe in suffrage, he said,
“and I believe that the woglen are
' going to be a mighty big fietor in
| winning this war. But I do yot be
' lieve that suffrage is a substifjte for
atonement through faith in’' Jesus
' Christ, any more than I beliew that
philanthropy, or social servig or
higher education are. All of \hese
l things are all right in their place: but
they aren't substitutes for the peal
thing and God isn't going to acept
'them as such.”
Billy invited the women to ccpe
down to the afierpon meetings, and
bring their knitting. Maybe he's n
ticed that the women have a habit
Idoing this anyway, and he jut
thought hesd let them know that le
'met with their approval. He sad he
didn’t at gl mind their knitting whil
they listened to him preach, beuss
he’d be blamed if he wasn’'t i) for
anything that would help to wir this
WAar:
There wasn't a large crowd preent.
Only a handful of people in the hoir,
and several hundred in the mai t
of the building. But Billy proEbly
didn't mind. Because he had abad
| cold, and he couldn't speak very bud.
He sajd he got the cold in Tacoa
Monday, when he spoke ta 10,000 go
ple in the open air, and that he yas
afraid he couldn’t accept any mre
invitations to speak in the open je
cause it ruined his voice for in&or
speaking. \
Billy's sermon was directed at pr
sons who offer various forms ),f
’philanthropy and. charity as su'bfl»
tutes for religion.
“Ites all right to give a Weary W
lie a hand out and a bath, but
want to tell you you can’t bathe |
person into heaven,” he said. “Th
broad road into the kingdom of Got
' isn't by the bathtnb. It's by th¢
blood-red robe of Jesus Christ, and
that's the only way you're going to|
get there.” \
Billy declared it as his belief that|
the world is on the verge of the\
greatest national upheaval in revivals
that it has ever known, and that the |
| church isn't prepared to receive it \
may well be prepared to be slapped in
'the face,
' “The pendulum is swinging back
again to orthodoxy,” he said, “and
you've got to be prepared to meet
conditions.”
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Needlework Guild Is
Prepared for Annual
G t Distribution
arment Distrib
| The Atlanta branch of the
} Needlevork Guild is ready for its
' annual distribution of from 5,000
- to 7,000 garments and articles of
) household linen, all brand nev,
among the 35 charitable institi
- tions of this city and vicinity.
| The gifts for ‘his year now aje
on display at the home of M%.
Ed T. Brown, No. 968 Peachtne
© street—all kinds of home-sewd
l garments; and also shoes, stocl
~ ings, sheets, pillowcases, and 41
) the rest of the things needed I
i the various homes.
‘ Last Monday the collection
| the various garments and articlg
began, and by Wednesday moy
of them were on exhibition i
Mrs. Brown's home. In a fey
days they will be assorted ang
distributed to the 35 institutions,
among them being the Buford
| Home, the Sheltering Arms, the
~ Atlanta Child’s Home, the Wes
~ ley House, and so on. i\
|e e T
- DEATHS AND FUNERALS. |
| JAMES ARTHUR HARRIS. |
The funeral of James Arthy- Harri
#O, who died Wednesday morn. sat th\
residence, No. 5 Hartford avenua, Capi
tol View, was held Thursday afterneco
at the residence, the Rev. A. C. Hendley
officiating. Pallbearers were N. A. Har
ris, J. R. Harris, J. J. Harris, Carl Dol
vin, William Ferguson and E. P. Aiken.
Interment was at Westview. H. M.
Patterson & Son, funeral directors.
J. P. BRANNON.
The funeral of J. P. Brannon, 87, who
died Wednesday morning at the resi
dence on the DeForbes road, near East
Point, was held Thursday morning at
the residence. Interment was at North
view. Hunter & Hemperly, funeral di
rectors,
MRS. MARY A, HORROCKS. a
The funeral of Mrs. Mary A. Horrocks,
who died Wednesday morning at the
residence of her cousin, Alonzo Rich
ardson, at College Park, was held
Thursday momini al the residence of
Mr. Richardson. the Rev. J. ¥. Yarbor
ough officiating. The body will be sent
‘to Philadelphia, her home, for inter
ment. Barclay & Brandon, funeral di
rectors. .