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-v— —— , , i —, 12 THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. UIMV. Jl I.y a. Hr*. MUD AND STARS “Two Men Looked Through Prison Bars, One Saw Mud and the Other Saw Stars.” By DR. JOHN E. WHITE, PASTOR SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH Text: "Whntnoever things are lovely and of good report; If there be any virtue and If there be any . praise, think on these things."— Phil. 5:8. (gj PROTEST that If some great I Vower rvould agree to make rao / * always think what Is true and do what Is right on condition of being turned Into a sort of clock and wound up every morning I should Instantly close with the offer." When Thomas Hurley, toward the end of his life, gave earnest expression to this sentiment he won the sympathy of good men everywhere. He wanted to be good. Let us trust, agnostic ant) father of agnostics though he was, that he did not wholly miss the comfort of the fourth Beatitude, which Ur. Me- Laren says ought to be rendered: "Blessed are the men and women that long more than for anything else to be good." Scarcely had Mr. Hurley's proposition appeared on this side of the water be fore Henry Drummond accepted Ita challenge. In hla Incomparable essay on "The Changed Life" he ventured to show that the Apostle Paul hud met the Issue and had provided a formula of sanctification for Mr. Hurley and for every other man who wanted to be good. The formula he found In Second Corinthians 3:18, "We all with unveiled face reflecting as a mirror the glory of the Lord are transformed Into the same Image from glory to glory even as from the Lord, the Spirit." That was to say. by contemplation of Christ, by steadfast thinking upon Christ, a man would grow like Him. Such Is the alchemy of thought. With the theology of this proposition, what It neglects and what Its Implies, we are not now concerned. But there Is the soundest basis in Scripture and expe rience for the principle that to an enormous extent men are what they are because they think what they do. "As a man thlnketh In the heart so Is he." To be spiritually minded Is life and peace; to be carnally minded Is death." If you think on "whatsoever Is true" you will love, honor and obey the truth; In a word, become truthful and loyal of soul. If you think on "what soever is honest" you will cherish and protect your honor. If you think on "whatsoever Is Just" you .will Increase In ■ falrmlndedness. If you think on "whatsoever la pure," unsullied flowers will flourish and wave their white plumes In your soul, and the vulgar and malodorous weeds will droop and rile for lack of soil. If you think on 'Whatsoever Is lovely and of good re port," strength and beauty will adorn your manhood and virtue and praise will flow like living waters from your life. It Is a holy philosophy of charac ter. "Think on these things." Poten tially our thoughts are more Important than our arts, our actions are externn! and occasional, reuulrlng the Induce tnent of circumstances to draw them out, but our thoughts are Internal, per sistent and spontaneous. "He that would govern his nrtlons by the laws of virtue," said Samuel Johnson, “must regulate his thoughts by those of rea son; he must keep tjulet from the re- resaes of hla heart and remember that the pleasures of fancy and the emo tions of desire are more dangerous as they are hidden since they escape the sense of observation anil operate equal ly In fivery altuutlon without the con currence of opportunltlea." The duty of right thinking la the sternest of life's duties. Our thoughts are the staple food of our aouls. We ahall aome dny learn what the best teachers are putting Into our modern systems of education, that whatever Inducea thought affects the fabric of charac ter, that education must have the no bleat and purest surroundings, since outward objects and sounds stimulate the Internal machinery to activity. One of our most able Southern educators In a recent commencement address, In which he was pleading for more attrac tive surroundings for our common schools, said that he would like to see these words written on the lintels of every school room: "Whatsoever things are lovely and of good report, If there be any virtue and any praise, think on these things." Mud and 8tars. The power of personal will, of choice of taste, of habit and of disposition Is directly the object of appeal here. These two men are representatives of contrary philosophies or life. The mud was there and the stars were there; the things lovely and of good report are here and the things ugly and of elU'are hers, i should, say the prison bars are here, tob. We all have to look and think within our limitations. Bun- yan had these two characters In his Immortal allegory—the man with the muck-rake and the man who Journeyed with the delectable mountains In view. I need not tell you that onk whs Ch'rls- tlan, the other a nameless fellow. They are types that persist In human society. How many homespun Illustrations one would And In a day’s Journey through the streets. What a multitude of mud- gazers our life affords. The cynic, the pessimist, the fault-finder, the grumpy critic and his tribe, who does not know them? But alas! they never know themselves. In varying degrees of mood the mud gazer sits on the hlrh seat of human contempt and Issues edicts of mean comment on all who pass by. He never sees a good quality In a man and never falls to see a bad one. "He Is the human owl vigilant In darkness and blind to light, mousing for Vermin and never seeing noble game," If he turns attention to politics every man Is selfish, greedy, corrupt. Every man has his praise. The government Is a nest of rascals. Presidents and gover nors are dominated by unpatriotic mo tives. If he goes to church a slight dis comfort, an Imagined neglect of the ushers, an unpleaslng anthem, too many stanzas of a hymn or five minutes too long In the sermon, will cause him to condemn the congregation which has spent 81110,000 to build a comfortable church; the ushers who are where they are because they are known to lie warm-hearted and conalilerate men; the rholr which la devoted to the prepara tion of pleasing, helpful music; the hymn that a saint saw angels through and the preacher who has labored and prayed with Sod at hla aide for the sermon, all are doomed and delivered to dullness and misery In one short breath of withering criticism. Who does this? The mud-gazer. Why? Because he Is a mud-gazer. Sometimes the mud-gazer, forgive the profanation, Is not a man. Women sometimes are found who do not look for the stars. To the credit of John Bunyan’s rhlvnlry, let It be said that hla character with the muck-rake waa man. Possibly If that other great John—John Wealey—had written the atory It would have been the woman with the muck-rake Instead. The critical habit abounds among women as well as among tnen. A t«w- REV. DR. JOHN E. WHITE. dry dress, an Ill-wrought bonnet, a distasteful color,! an Inelegant stride, though It were Madonna' herself, well Hhum out all the slant for her. Mothers may make mud-gazera of their children very enstly. They then should be very patient with the child when he thoughtlessly humiliates a cripple on the street by directing attention to the doformlty. But "one saw stars;" one thought on the things that were lovely and of good report. He was then no prisoner. His soul swept out and dwelt In the empyecum. How much liner life would be If we would live more In the sunshine! How- much more powerful our Christianity If It saw the world through the eyes of Christ! - Perfect and pure, though He was. He did'hot see the sinner In the saint, but the saint In the sinner, saw Peter In Blmnn, Paul In Saul and a lovely woman In the Magdalen. Tha Question of "Canned Meats.” Tills text la a hammer to strike with. On the anvil of truth let It ring out warning to those who are feeding the hungry appetites of souls; to the mak ers of books that drip poison; to the makers of newspapers that purvey moral fllth. Dr. Washington Gladden says that If Isaiah Were living today he would be the heart and soul of a great, clean, outspoken, radical, inde pendent, righteous 1 newspaper. Allow me. then, to Imagine that the Apostle Paul were here now to lay his hand upon these .mlghtest levers of civiliza tion, the dally newspapers. He would view with unutterable! alarm what you and I are viewing with dull hearts. He would cry In ronsterriatlon and Indig nant remonstrance against what scarcely awakens a murmur In us. He would stVetch forth pis hand In the name ofGod'and hnmartlty to stay the Inundation of stuff that reeks with Immorality and unehastlly and foul ness which our newspapers pour out almost every day on our hearth-stones for us and our children to eat and di gest. I asked an able news editor In our city recently what, In'his honest Judg ment, was the effect on my boy or on young people generally to read the newspapers of the week just passed, when a deluge of murders, adulteries and moral scandals had filled their col umns: It can have only a bad effect, of course," he said. "But the blame Is not on the news paper. It Is our business to And out where hell broke loose last and tell It first, our business to print all the news. It Is your business to decide whether your boy shall read It or not.” If that Is a true and Just statement of the case and places the responsibility fair ly .where Jt belongs, then I say "God pity the country; we are almost help less." But Is It true? Have the news- palters no responsibility? In the Anal justice that must be, Is there no moral guilt attached to the collection and dissemination of that which acta as moral poison on the minds of the young. It Is current ns, a theory of crime among newspaper men that the publication of .one gt;eat sensational crime brings on Immediate,!)- a flood of Imitative crimes. Have the newspa pers no responsibility then? By their theorj - It the newspapers were not to publish the crime or were to trent It without sensation, other crimes would not be stimulated. Here. Is the pulpit nnd the school teacher admonishing the people "whatsoever Is lovely and of good report,"think oft,these things." Here are the newspapers, not one, but seven days In the week, teaching the people "whatsoever Is abysmal In Im morality and vile In news, think on these things." There Is a wretched rcistoke somewhere. Madame Roland said: "Oh, Liberty, how many crimes are committed In thy name!" The parents of children In the city have a far more hopeless plaint: "Oh, Prog, ress, how many young minds are mur dered at thy altar!” It would not be Just to. say that the newspapers are public enemies. They are public servants. They minister a vast good. They are a moral necessity t> our civilization. But It Is true to suy that every newspaper of the mod cm city type must share with other agencies generally accounted vicious, tile responsibility for many a sorrow, many a woe, many a vice, and many a crime, for they practically monopolize the mental food Industry of the masses. The Chicago meat packers are purvey ors to the stomachs of the people; the new-papers are purveyors to the aouls of tin- people. A keen moral sense, oh. my masters, a keen, fair Justice." What Are Christians For, Anyway? "If there be any virtue and If there be any praise." Does the apostle raise a doubt? Let It be so then. .The lovely things are'worth digging after. It will require some effort often to find the loveliness. Virtue hides In hard places. But Is It not a great thing to be a man who believes It is there Jifst the same? Sir Humphrey Davis found Michael Koradag In The lad who wash ed his bottles. The beauty of It Is that In an age like ours —harsh, -compeltlve, exacting— there are men who still believe that there's more good than bad, more truth than error, more God than devil. Who can pretend to know that the man we dislike hds'more bad than good In him or the woman the world despises and casts off has sat In the depths of her woman’* soul the patience of a lovers' fidelity, a mother's tenderness, a friend's loyalty, a neighbor’s sympathy and mayhap In the casket of her Inner soul the pearl of great price, far out weighing in the sight of God her single weakness? Suppose with.acent as keen ns the cynic you begin to marrow the I search for virtue and nobleness. Take your book and Invsntory all the kind ness and gentleness and unselfishness and charity and noble-mindedness you will And in a single city block Do you think you would say the world is overwhelmingly bad? Take life broadly. Is there In the balances of Just Judgment any room for the overwhelming pessimism that permeates our preaching? Are we ready to asiert with this book of the record open before ua that Jeeua Christ Is the authority for the mood that con trols Christianity In aome of Its ten- sorioue types? He wept over Jerusa- lent. He wept but He did not despair He wept, but He did not denounce' The Bible never despairs. God's In finite hopefulness Is to be placed along side of Ills omnipotence. It Is the privilege of the- Christian to cpmpanlon with Him who traversed life limltiesaly and who said His last woeda In the tone of a conqueror. We ought-to cultivate the dominant moods of Christ. We. ought therefore to flnd sweet In every bitter, Joy In every pain light In every darknees, and the good In everything. John Mosely, summing up In his Ufa of Gladstone, says that what every body saw coloring alt Gladstone’s Ilfs and statesmanship was a kind of un- wordllness, which exposed him to de signing counsellors. But, says Mr. Mosely. who le himself an unbeliever! as If crushing the criticism In a sen tence: "What are Christians for, anv- way?" What are Christians for, any- way? What are Christiana for. If not to be as lights In dark places? What are Christians for, If not to scatter seeds of kindness and make sunshine In the world? What are Christians for, If not to live and lift above the fog? What are Christians for, If not to think of the heavenly and reflect It? What are Christiana for, If not In pilgrim In the power of an endless life and In the enthusiasm of a boundless hope? Oh. Christ, what are thy people for, If not to think no evil, rejoice not In Iniquity, bear nil things, have faith In nil things, and hope all things? In the true kingdom of God the unkind, un charitable and the Inconsiderate, the critical, the cruel and the unmerciful will be shunned even as now the vul gar and the unchaste are avoided In the companies of the refined and Hie cultivated. SAN FRANCISCO AND ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON By DR. JAMES W. LEE, PASTOR TRINITY M. E. CHURCH N O one can fall to obaerve, as he goes about In the world, the en hancement places, roads, rivers, mountain* nnd material objects of every kind, get from connection .with the lives of great men. The fact that Shakespeare was born In Stratford-, upon-Avon, llv©4 there, married Ann Hathaway there, died there, and waa burled there, Is worth more annually to that little English town than all the wheat produced year by year In the county of Warwickshire. This fact alone draws twenty thousand pilgrims every year to the place. Ayr, Scot land, la indebted to the poet Burns for thd thirty thousand tourists who annu ally visit his birthplace. Who would ever go to Concord, Mass., but for the significance given the Village by Emor- son and Thoreau and Hawthorne? Who would leave Boston to aee Ames- bury but for Whittier? People remain between trains at Newburyport to see the old church where Whitfield Is bur led. A great man has only to stop for an hour under the shade of a tree to make it immortal. General Mercer wua .shot on the battlefield of Prlncetdn, and a pyramid of cannon balls marks the spot forever. Thackeray spends a week with his friend, Andrew Low, u cotton merchant In Savannah, Qu.. and the old vine-covered Southern mansion takes on added Interest and value. Dr. J. J. Lafferty, of Virginia, was accus tomed years ago to present his par ticular friends with piallets made from the wood of a tree that grew out of the grave of "Stonewall* Jackson. The pen used by a great man to sign an important state document at once be comes of priceless value. A button from the coat of George Washington Is of more Interest thun a diamond. A pebble, worn round by the waves of Lake Galilee, la esteemed like a Jewel. A drop of water, from the River Jor dan Is worth more than a million gal lons from the Amakoa. Reflections like these passed through my mind as I stood, not many months ago, by the monument erected through public subscription In the Plaza of Ban Francisco to Robert Loufa Stevenson. It Is a granite pedestal, supporting a bronze galleon, designed by Mr. Bruce Porter. Vptm one side of it are carved the following words taken from Ste venson's own writings: "To be honest, to be kind, to earn a Jlttle and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to re nounce, when that shall be necessary, and not be embittered, to keep a few friends but these without capitulation, above all, on the same grim condition, to keep friends with himself—here Is a task for ull that a man has of fortitude snd delicacy.” Btevenson came to San Francisco from Scotland In August, 1879, but was so much shaken by the long Journey that he looked upon his arrival like a man at death's door. To recover, his health he Immediately went south, about 150 miles, and camped out by himself In the coast range of moun tains beyond Monterey. After this, he went down to Monterey, noted the world over for Its beautiful hotel In the midst of ample grounds, where he re mained until the middle of December. But ahllq there was a magnificent ho tel at Monterey, Stevenson did not atop there. He lodged with a doctor und got his meals at Blmoneau's restau rant. Btevenson describes It us having a barber shop In front und u kitchen at the back. The dining room was a little, chill, bare, adobe nlfalr, and upon the table was alwuys to be found a dlah of green peppers and tomatoes. At any time, Just hefore a meal, Bl- moneau, the proprietor, could be heard all about the kitchen rattling among the dishes. With Blmoneau Stevenson says "he played chess every day and discussed the universe." After the mid dle of December he went back to Ban Francisco and remained there until May 19, 1880, when he waa married to Fanny Van de Grift, In the house of Rev. Dr. Scott. Immediately after hts marriage he went to the country, GO miles north of 8an Francisco,, to seek health In the mountains. Here he took ! possession of all that waa left of an old mining town, and found the data for that Interesting work of his, "The Silverado Squatters." In July he left California, and with his wife returned to Scotland to visit hls father. He was therefore at this time In California not quit* a year. He returned to the United States In 18fl7 and T>y the 7th, of June, 1&98, he was back In Califor nia. Soon afterwards he sailed with hls family on the Casco for a long cruise In the South seas, where among its Islands he spent the remainder of hls life. While sojourning In Snn Francis co, before he nailed away for the last time, he and Mrs. Stevenson lodged at the Occidental hotel. The details of Stevenson’s life In Son Francisco are given to show that while he was there but a short time, It was long enough to give new Interest and color to every ■pot and hotel nnd person he met. It was long enough to awaken Interest sufficient In him to secure a monument to hls memory. Not one of the multi millionaires on Knob Hill, whose pala tial residences are now In ruins, lent an much Interest to San Francisco In all hls life as did Stevenson by a few months' residence there. Not that mil lions are counted In public esteem against a man, but more than millions or billions Is the man himself. If the man who comes ipto the possession of millions of money happens to be one wh6 uses hls wealth as Stevenson used hls genius, to bless mankind, then the millionaire will be honored not be cause of. hls money simply, but because he used It nobly. The kind of Interest 8tevenson lent to San Francisco It Is not within the power of an earthquake to break, or destroy. I wish I could awaken among our young people Interest In Robert Louis Stevenson, at this time, when so many precious moments are being wasted In reading the shallow, worthless books of Action, which are coming so constantly and multltudlnously^from the press. Stevenson was the greatest literary art ist and genius of the generation Just past. Who that has ever read It can ever forgot hls "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. DR. J. W. LEE. Hyde"—the very first of hls works to give hint world-wide‘fame? Not only hls wnrka of fiction, but hla essays are taking rank with the very finest In the language. There Is nothing more thrill ing In the whole history of literary achievement than the "South Sea Cruises" of Robert LoiUs Stevenson,' sailing leisurely from one Island to an other, meeting the king of this one and of that, forming friendships with sav ages, and amid It all, writing those wonderful stories* which reveal a new power In the English language to de scribe the weird, the \vlld and the mys tical. Think of a nfiin for years on the very verge of the grave, yet fighting death, ns If face to face with the grim monster, and while holding him at bay with one hand, using hls pen with the other to write "The Master of Bal- | Jantrae," "The Wrecker" "The South I Seas,” etc., and you can form some j conception of one of the most heroic i and Interesting characters of the age. After hls various cruises in the South ?eas, he bought for himself a planta tion of four hundred aqrfs of land In the island of ITpolo, In the Samoan group. ; Her.e, / overlooking Apia, the capital and port of the Island, he built a house nnd lived In It until he died. Having permanently settled himself, he spent hls time when not writing In Improving hls estate, and In advancing the mental, moral and political condi tions of the poor natives he found liv ing around him. He attended church, taught a Sunday school class, and held in* hls household family prayers dally. He died on .the 3d of December, 1894. On the evening before hls death, which was Sunday, he uttered In the pres ence of hls family the following prayer, which he composed for the occasion: "We beseech Thee, Lord, to behold us with favpr, folk of many families and nations gathered together In the peace of this roof, weak women, and women subsisting under the covert of Thy patience, be patient still; suffer us yet u while longer: with our broken pur poses of good, with our Idle endeavors against evil, sulTer us awhile longer to endure and (If It may be) help us to do better. Bless to us our extraordina ry mercies; if the day comes when these must be taken, brace us to play the man under affliction. Be with our friends, be with ourselves. Go with each of us to rest; If any awake temper to them the dark hours of watching; and when the day returns, return to us, our Sun and Comforter, and call us with morning faces and with morning hearts—eager to labor; eager to be happy, If happiness shall be our portion —and If the day be marked for sorrow, strong to endure It. * We thank Thee and praise Thee; and In words of'HIm to whom this day is sacred, close our oblation." By hls own direction he was burled on the Summit of Vaea, near his Island home, and after the Samoan fashion, a large tomb was built above hls grave. On either side of the tomb there Is a bronze piste. On one of them*is vvrlt- /. sk3| ( e: 3 Je j , a wll) . i Men hls ovvn requiem beneath hls name thus: Alpha Robert Louis Omega 1850. Stevenson. 1894. "Under the wldfi and starry ski Dig the grave and let me lie Glad did I Hve.and.gladly die And l laid.me down with a .This be; the verse you grave for trie; Hex-e he lies where he longed to be; Home Is the Sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill." Stevenson profoundly believed .. Ip foreign missions., "In’an address thade to the Women's Missionary Association and members of the general assembly of the Presbyterian church of New South Wales, at Sydney,—March vd8, 1893, ho -saJd at the opening of-Ills remarks: i suppose I am In the posi tion of many other persons. I had a great prejudice against missions In the South Seas, and I had no sooner co(pe here than that prejudice v?as at first reduced and at last annihilated. Those who deblaterate against missions have only one thing to do, to come and see them on the spot. They will see a great deal of good done; they will see a race being forwarded In many dif ferent directions, and I believe It they be honest persona, they will cease to complain of mission work and. its ef fects. " ‘The true are of the missionary, as It seems to me, an outsider, the most lay of laymen, and for that reason, on the old principle that the bystander sees most of the game, perhaps more than usually well able to judge—Is to profit by the great, I ought really to say the vast—amount of moral, force reservolred In every race, and to ex pand and to change and to fit that power to new ideas, and to new possi bilities of advancement.'" Mrs. Stevenson, In the Introduction to a little book entitled "Prayers Writ ten at Valllma, by Robert Louis Ste venson," says: "As soon as our house hold had fallen into a regular routine, and the bonds of Samoan life began to draw us more closely together, Susl- tala (the name the natives gave to Robert Louis Stevenson) felt the ne cessity of Including our retainers (ser vants) In our evening devotions. I sup pose ours was the only white man's family In all Samoa except those of the missionaries, where the day naturally ended.' with this homely, patrlarcIM Custom." ‘ "With my husband," continues Mrs. Stevenson, "prayer, the direct .appeal, was a necessity. When he was happy he felt Impelled to offer thanks for un deserved Joy; when In sorrow or pain, to call for strength to bear what must be borne." One of the most beautiful of Steven son's prayers Is as follows: "Lord, behold our family here assem bled, we thank Thee for this place in which we dwell; fop the I6ve that unites us;, tor. tbe„ peace accorded us this day; tor the hope with which we expect tomorrow; for the health, tha work, the food, and the bright skies, that make our lives delightful; for our friends in all parts of the earth, and our friendly helpers In this foreign Isle. Let peace abound In our small com pany. Purge out of every heart the lurking grudge. Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Hfenders. give us the grace to accept and to forgive offenders. Forgetful ourselves, help us to bear cheerfully the forgetfulness of others. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends; soften to u* bur enemies. Bless us If It may be In all our Innocent endeavors. If It may not, give us the strength to encounter that which Is to come, thnt we be brave In peril, constant in tribulation, temperate In wrath and in all change* of fortune, and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving one to another. As the clay to the potter, as the wind mill to the wind, as children to their sire, we beseech of Thee this help and mercy for Christ’s sake." That one with such wealth of mind and heart should have lit up the Soutn Seas with a new light Is not strange. Pilgrims In the years to come will climb that lonely hill above hls home In the Island of Upola, where he sleer* the last sleep, t& stand again amid tn« scenes of his closing years. CHURCH SER VICES , I’liini UAriin i— rwrnirw nun v nin streets. W. W. 1 .and rum, pastor. Hun- day school st 9:3J a. m. Morning wor ship st 11 o'clock. Evening worship lit 8 CENTRAL BAITIHT—The pastor. Rev. B. L. Motley, will preach at 11 n.iu. und 8 p.ui. snd administer the ordinance of baptism ut each service. Sunday school it 9:30 n.in. Personal Workers' Club lit 7:15 p.ui. Church prayer meeting Wednes day at 8 p.ui. JACKSON HILL *BA*PTI8T—Jackaott at. suit Fast avenue. Preaching nt 11 s.tu. and 8 p.m., by the former pastor, Or. J. J. Rennett. Sunday school at 9:30 a m. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock. Woman's Mission:! ’ — defies Thursday afternoon Kol’TII HIDE BAPTIST—Preaching at 11 n.m. and 7:3J ti.nt. by the pastor. Rev. J. H. Dunlap. Morning subject: "Some Results of True Fnltit." Evening subject: "Ihittlng on -the New Rohe," Sunday ary nn t 4 ©VI lock. B. V. P. L\ 3:30 p.t "The He will prench it* II lu tlrnce. * CAPITOL AVKNt'K BAPTIST-Preach ing by pastor. Rev. John K. ltrlggs. ut 11 n. tu. Morning stthjee?, "Some Ad- dltlount Bible Principles." Evening sub ject, "The Fast Young Man Treed, Sun day ScIiimiI. 9:30 n. tn.. and Ita men Classes. Bsracn prayer Meeting. Monday. 8 i». hi. Teachers’ Meeting. Tuesday, 8 n. m. Pray er snd Praise Meeting. Wednesday. 8 p, ro. Senior H. Y. P. 1'., Friday, H p. in, ner Woodward and Cherokee avenues. Preaching st I! a. m. and i p. m. by Rev. A. L Hunstsu. Illbie school at 9:30 n. m. Junior Baptist Young People's Union Sunday afternoon at 2:S> o'clock. Phils- then prayer service In Sunday school rooms st 6:46 p. tn. Monday afternoon nt .1 k In Stindsy schools rooms Woman's Missionary Union. Wednesdsv evening nt 6 o'clock midweek prayer service Rev. A. L. Dunntnu has Just returned from Ilrasll, In which field he has t>ecn tailoring ns a inlsalotiary for the past five years. This pastor. Wui. II. Bell. TEMPLE BAPTIST—Corner West limi ter nnd Manguiu Streets. Hr. A. C. Ward, pastor. Regular services Sunday at 11 s. in. and 7:45 p. m. Sunday School nt 9:30 a. m. Prayer Meeting, Wednesday evening st 7:46. EGLKRTON MKMOIllAlz—Corner Wash Ington mid Fultou streets. Rev. I. II. Mtb ler will preach on "The Principles of the Improved order of Red Men. Sunday school nt 9:30 n.iu. league meeting at • p.tu. Preaching at 11 a.tu. and 8 p.m. PONCE HE I.KOsT BAPTIST—Rev. Hr. C. N. Donaldson will occupy the pulpit of the Ponce Helton Avenue Baptist church, e«»rner Piedmont and l’once Be- Leon. Sunday at 11 n. m. METHODIST. GRACE METIIOIHST—At t:9> a. m . Sun ilny school. Phllnthen class and Barnes class. At 11 a. in., preaching by pastor, * * A* In,,..! I I «... *•* •.. — P- WESLEY MEMORIAL—!Corner Auburn a venue und Ivy street. Rev. Frsnk Fake*, pastor. Sunday school at 9:30 a. m. Busy V tuple's class, Young Men's Itnrscii chimi. 'ouug Ijwtlea' Phllathen class. Preaching af II a. iu. Song service at 7:45 p. in. Preaching ut Epwortlt League de votional service nt 6:45 p. m. Midweek prayer meeting Wednesday evening at & o'clock. Weekly eliureh social at 9. Teach ers' meeting at 7. Noonday prayer meeting every dny 12 to 1 o'clock. ST. LI KE METIIoniST-At Junction of Powell street nnd llereau avenue. Sunday *‘11001 nr 9 a. in. Prenchlng at 11 a. m. and * |>. hi.; by the pastor, f.’.-orge IV. Grloer. FIRST METHODIST—Junction of Peach- tree and Ivy streets. Charles E. Itowtrotn. D-D.. pastor. Sunday schot nt 9:3D a. tn. Public worship at in-.55 a. tu. and 8 p. m. The pastor will preach nt morning serv ice. Subject, "The Christian's Assets." At the evenlg service there will I* a abort address by the pastor. Subject. "Christ— The Light Giver." Juvenile Missionary So- elety nt S p. iu. Junior lllhle study tii . in. Devotional service of Kpwnrth f ue nt 7 p. in. Midweek service Weil- ly at 8 p. in., followed by quarterly conference. HT. MARK METHODIST—Corner Peach tree and Fifth streets. The pastor. Rev. Charles O. Jones, H.H.. will prench nt 11 a. m. Sunday sclimd at 9:30. Heaf mute class taught by XV. F. Crussclie. No service nt night. Prayer meeting Wednesday at TRINITY M ETIIOBI ST—Corner White- hull nnd Trinity nvcuuc. Hr. J. W. I<ee, pastor. Services nt M a. m. and 9 p. m. Sermons by the pastor. Sunday school at 9:30 a. m. Prayer meeting nt 8 p. in. Wed neaday. JEFFERSON STREET MBTIIODIST-B. E. L. Timmons, pastor. Preaching 11 a. tu. by the pastor. Sundny school st 9:30 a. nt. IlollnesM meeting nt 2:30 p. m. Prenchlng at 7:30 t>. tn. Sunrise prayer meeting Sundny. Weekly prayer 'meetIqg Tuesday nt 7:30 p. til. Holiness prayer meeting 'Ihuraduy at 7:30 p. tn. Ready workers Monday at 1:3) p. nt. Open sir meeting on Jefferson street nt 4:30 p. in. ENGLISH AVENUE METHODIST—West ern Heights. R. E. L. Timmons, pastor. Preaching nt 11 a. hi. by Rev. Georg* W„ Lewis. Sunday school nt 3 p. tu. P'csch lug at 7:30 p. m. by pastor. Prayer meet ing Wednesday at 7:3) p. tn. Young Men’i **•—'**■.» L'vl.Li. 7;30 J>, In. Sun WEST SIDE METHODIST-Rev. C. I. Put title, pastor. Sundny school nt-10 a. in. Preaching by the pastor at 11 a. m. Bp- worth Durgue at 8 p. tn. Prayer meeting Thursday nt 8 p. tn. PARK STREET METHODIST—Corner of Park nnd la*© streets. Rev. M. U Trout- man. (Htstor. Sunday seboot at 9:33 a. tn. Preaching at 11 a. hi. by the (Mistor, and nt 8 p. mi by JJev. J, JJ. Fake*. !>.!>. Prayer meeting Wednesday at 8 o'clock. BATTLE HILL METHODIST—Rev. C. L. PatrlMo. pastor. Sunday school at V) a. m Prvurbliig by the pastor at S p. tu. EPISCOPAL. (Sixth Sunday after Trinity.) CATIIEDHAL—Corner Washington ami Hunter. Very Rev. C. T. A. I Mae. dean. At 7:30 a. in., holy conimtiahm; it a. in., mornllig prayer mid sermon; 5 p. ui.. eve ning prayer and senium. Sunday school at 9:46 n. m. All other days: At 7:3a n. tn., holy communion; 9 a. tu., morning prayer; 5 n, in., evening prayer. Wednesday and Friday, litany at 10:30 a. m. .. LUKES—Peachtree, next to Peach tree Inn. opposite Alexander street. Rev. “ " tor. At 7:30 a. tn., holy . morning prayer und enltig prayer nnd n» Q-AS I.V ‘ C. It. Wllmer. com in un Ion; 11 u •riUOli: 8 p. IU.. «*VV8BIII K inon. Suiutay achol at 9:45. Friday, litany at 11. Services lu the crypt. INCARNATION—Lee, near Gordon. West End. Rev. J. J. P. Perry, rector. At 7:30 a. in., holy coiumuuloti; 11 a. ui.. morning prayer and sermon: 8 p. iu., evening prayer and sermon. Sunday school at 3:30 p. iu. Wednesday, evening prayer nt 8. Friday, holy communion; 11 morning prayer and sermon; 5 p. nu, eve- ulg prayer. Wednesday, litany at 10:30 a. in. Sunday school at 9:45 a. tu. EPIPHANY—Corner Moreland and Euclid avenues. Rev. C. A. laugston III charge. At 11 n. m., uiornlug prayer und sermon. Sunday school at 9:4*> a. iu. Friday, litany and address at 5 p. in. Corput. Sundny school at 9:30 MISSION OF THE HOLY INNOCENTS— Woods avenue, uesr West Peachtree. Sun- tiny school every Sunday at 3:31 p. nt. HOLY COMFORTER—Cor at 8. Services by the ALL SAINTS—Barnesvllle. Rev. W. J. PRESBYTERIAN. CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN—Serv ices by Loyal Cumberlamls at the Cum- herlnna Presbyterian <*hurch Sunday at 11 a. m., corner Spring and Harris streets. Preaching by Rev. J. A. Whltner, of Hay- ton, Teim., *a loyal Cumberland Prcshy. ferlnit. Three elders anti two deacons will be elected nnd nrdnlued. Congregational meeting Monday at 8 p. m. the pastor nt 11 n. m. The Christian Eli deavor Society will have charge of the eve ning service st 4 o’clock. Prayer meeting Wednesday at 8 p. nt. WEST END PRESB YTE H1A X-Corner Gordon nnd Ashby, streets. Rev. Lynn It. Walker, pastor. Sunday school nt 9:30 a. tit. Mornlug service at 11 a. in. Sermon by Itev. A. J. McKetwny. D.D., Charlotte, era' Normal class. NORTH AVENUE PRESBYTERIAN — Corner Peachtree street and North ave nue. Iter. Richard t.krme Ftinn, pastor. Atinnt* Morning worship at 11 n. tu. Evculng IIIds ! • h, l» 8 P ") Ruth sendees will lie ST. ANDREWS—Corner Glenn aud Kent, ev. Gilbert Higgs. VJK, In charge^ Eve ning prayer nnd sermon nt 8. Wednesday, many aud choir work at 8 p.* m.. .. PAULS—East Petal. Rev. Glllirrt Higgs. H.D.. In charge. Morning prayer ud sermon at 11. HOLY TIUNiTY—Decatur. Rev. C. A. bond meet* at 4 p. ro. on Sabbath and 6. p. m. on Monday. Dulles' prayer circle meets nesdny evening prayer meeting at Ip. m. ISM AS PARK PRESBYTERIAN—Preacj}. tug Sunday at 11 a. nt. by Itev. G. A. Beat- tie. Sunday school nt -9:W a. ni. Young People's Society at 7A5 p. tu. At 8 p. nt.. Rev. G. A. Jlcafric wftl prench nt the service of the Tninau ltark Prcshv- MetiiodiHt church. Regular midweek prny er meeting nt 8 o'clock Wednesday night, ege Park. ! / lloiv com- CENTRAL PIIKSHYTKRIAN—Opposite m. by the Capitol. Sunday schot at 9:.*J a. iu. Reg- *1 nlnr services at 11 a. m. and 8 p. iu. Dr. Strirkler. of Union Theological seminary. ST, * IGNATIUS—Tallapoosa. Rev. It. F.) Richmond. Vn.. aril! preach both morning DvBclle lu charge. Holy couiwuuiou and aud evculng. This la midsummer Imitation Sunday In the 8unday school. WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN—Rev. Charles It. Nesblt, pastor. Morning serv ice at II a. nt. Evening service nt 8 p. nt. Sermons by the pastor. Sundny school at 9:30 u. m. Young People's Society nt 7:15 p. in. Midweek prayer service Wednes day evening at 8. FIRST _ PRESBYTERIAN—The pnator. Itev. C. P. Bridewell, will preach Sunday nt 11 a. tu. No evening service. Sun day school and Bible classe nt 9:30 n. nt. Westutnlster League nt 7:46 p. m. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening nt 8 o'clock. BARNETT PRESBYTERIAN—Corner of Hampton street nnd Bradley avenue. J. Ed win Hemphill In charge. Service* at 11 a. tn. Subject. "Robbing God," nnd nt 7:30 p. in., "Purity of Heart aud PcrsouHl In fluence.' Sunday school nt 3 p. in. Pray er meeting Thursday At 7:80 p. m. nt 8 p. m. The reguk. ..... he held Wednesday at 8 n. ro. Hiindav Young People'* Society sundown — **-»• — CHRISTIAN. FIRST CHIUSTI AN-44 East Iluuter. Rev. II. K. Pendleton, pastor. Preaching 5* bt. snd 8 p. m. Morning theme. "Dr. Broughton and Dr. Wllmer ami !n- atitntnneouK Salvation." Bible school nt 9:30 a. in. Christian Endeavor at 6:46 p. m. WEST END CIIRISTlAX—Corner Gor don and Dunn streets. Rev. Bernard P. Smith, pastor. Preaching at 11 a. m. nnd t p. m. HOWELL STATION* CHRISTIAN—End M? r ?. tto < * nr ,,De - R**- Georg© U. Mullins, pastor. Bible school at 1 p. tu. Preaehtng at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. WESTERN heights CHRISTIAN MIS- Sunset avenue, near Kennedy afreet. Bible school at 9:30 a. m. Preaching at 11 a. ui. and 8 p. m. COLLEGE PARkThRIHTIAN—Rev. G. H. illnnant, pastor. Bible school every DmJs day at 10 a. tn. Preaehtng first Ixwd a day at 11 m. m. and 8 p. m. CONGREGATIONAL. WABJPJA STREET CONGREGATION- AL—Rev. W. II. Tl.Iman. pastor. Preach- iX*"/ .'. l * ml 7: " ► -T IMMANUEL CONG REG ATIONAL-ttev. Starr C. Williams, pastor. Preaching at J} n. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday al 9:30 s. in. CENTRAL CONG BEG AT ION AL- R‘*! Frank E. Jenkins, H.H.. pastor. lug nt .11 a. n». by Rev. R. II. H" 11 -. led rally of the Business Men* Gysp* union nt 7:45 p. tn. Sunday whom i «. ut Christian Endeavor at 6:4o l»* t MISCELLANEOUS. - THE MILLENNIAL DAtt N WBJj CLAS8 will hold Its regular week!) lug In Woodmen's hall. 122 ,! ''". I'lt street, on Sunday morning at it All interested lit Bible doctrine* «r»*_• dlalljr Invited to lie present nnd enjoy » aervlees. HT. JOHNS HERMAN F.VANUKtHAU I.I T1IERAN—forarr Porwik nn<! street*. Sunday school nt 9:30 a. > u 7 „ Ira. trill lw roDtlnrtnl nnfl \_ wr Kf. preached by the pastor. Rev. W. brecht, at 11 o'clock. t'NITE!) BRETHREN TAnKHNA'l-l'r McDaniel nnd Hightower street*. 8. HnnJelter will preach at 11 a. Ject, "The Touch that Tell*. |l ', l! ,. 1 Rlosser will preach at 8 p. ; 1 "looking One Hundred \enn Ahea 1. CHURCH OF CHRIST—W,»I »>' ^ I nu., corner Wollhnrn «trrat. *[Mf * »t 10 a. in. I'reartilnic »"'! ,»» I iwrvlraz nt It n. iu. I’rnvrr ui;'*’' 11 * dny evening nt 7:45. Tnkc " ,,r j cnr. FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST.ifS 1ST—I? Went linker ntreet. "I-"" /. ,i subject of the sermon Bfinday. J‘*J. ^ 1 11 a. tn. There will In* 2°, • \Vei- nlng service daring Joly and Ango* ^ neaday testimonial nioeGg* JJ.-rfeti Reading rooms, 812-614 English -Ann n j building. YOU NO MEN'S CHRISTIAN Tfo.V—Corner l'rr..e-nfree<■ nn‘> , I n venue. At 8 oVlm k. tbe Md' •“?, rf ( lie cntHlm'ted liv Rev. C. J. UJlver. , I o'eloek. Rev. C. C. Jnrrell. «■- odlnt ebnrcb. wit! N!? flk lrt “"' n t; Jeet of Intrrent. Ail men nra In ” attend tbene eervtran. The I vbentrn will pin) nt 1 o'eloek. I S o-eloelc f g o’elork- open from Cni’RCIt OF Ot’R FATHER ’ ""qclf." I —Corner C*to and 8firing * fr<H J l ln . Hanlrorn. pastor. The. **■’ Icea will, lie discontinued daring JJL August, while Mr. Kanlxfru h "Vhangv* • I Sundny school hoar har.lw*^ U a. m.