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POSTALGRAMS
Pastor W. H. Geistweit, Third Church, St.
Louis, has recently had George W. Truitt with
him in a meeting in which there were 150
additions to the church.
Dr. R. K. Maiden, editor of WORD and
Way has the sympathy of the denomination
because of the loss of his noble wife who has
gone to her reward, ^
Dr. Sam J. Porter’s success at Oklahoma is
almost excelling his wonderful record at San
Antonio. He has just begun bis fourth year
there. The Oklahoma State Baptist Conven
tion met with the First Church on November
Wth.
Take yonr state paper and SOUTHWIDE BAPTIST
jt news of eighteen other states.
Nineteen Baptist Sunday Schools in Dallas,
Texas, had a total attendance of 8,594 on a
recent Sunday.
Couwell’s Temple Baptist Church, Philadel
phia, has just celebrated -the six thousandth
delivery of Dr. Russell H. Conwell’s lecture,
“ACRES OF DIAMONDS.” Dr. Conwell
was presented with a purse of one thousand
dollars. .At the end of each month, Dr. Con-
well pays his bills and then gives away all he
has left. His income from his lecture on
diamonds has (proved it a diamond mine.
Brains are worth mbre than stones.
Take your state paper and SOOTHWIDE BAPTIST
for news of eighteen other states.
Missionary R. Cecil Moore and family will
arrive in Valpariso, Chili, this week.
The Brazilian Baptist Convention will be
held at Rio Janeiro. Onr own Dr. W. E.
Entzmenger is their best known leader in
literary and editorial lines.
Rev. Cndd H. Wary, a most energetic pastor,
has accepted the church at LaGrange, Texas.
“University Churches” are becoming deserv
edly popular. The denomination is giving
them enthusiastic support at Austin, Texas,
Minneapolis, Minn., Chapel Hill, N. C., and
Baltimore, Md, At the latter place the
preacher par excellance. A. C, Dixon is the
pulpit supply for four months. He is to sup
ply while they call a pastor. We fear that
those who come to be sampled will look a little
cheap by the side of Dixon. It is not a good
time to sell Brethren.
During the twelve years precceding phohi-
bitioD 125,000 drinking men were theated in
Keely institutes in the West. Nearly all the
institutes have now been closed because of
prohibition. Does it prohibit?
First Church Knoxville Tennessee is soon
to begin work on its proposed $250,000 build
ing. It will be so located as to serve both the
University of Tennessee student body and the
central down town section of the ciiy. Dr.
Fred Brown is full of consecrated enthusiasm
regarding it. A great university church in
another state tried to win him away from
Knoxville, but he will remain.
The unique, John Dean, formerly fellow
pastor with John Straton of New York, has
accepted the pastorate of First Church, Pasa
dena, California.
Missouri Baptist Convention mot with the
church at Mbbberly, E. V. Lamb, the pastor,
became known and loved throughout the South
while evangelist of the Home Board. His
addresses on personal work are of real worth.
They should be widely read.
When Broadway Baptist Chur ch of Knox
ville completes it contemplated educational
building it will have one of the largest plant
for religious wors in the state.
The Baptist General Convention of Texas
meets in Dallas next week. “Texans never for
get Dr. Gambrell’s saying: “Texas Baptist
Convention is twice as large as Southern Bap
tist Convention of which it is a part.”
Tremont Temple pulpit, Boston was filled
during the entire month of November by Dr.'
John W. Ham of Atlanta. Such self propelled
and God propelled geniuses in ministerial suc
cess as John W, Inzer jf Chattanooga, and
John W. Ham of Atlanta, cause the preacher
making brethren to gasp.
Dr B. B. Bailey of Alexandria, Louisiana,
has fallen asleep after a brief illness. Beauty
and depth with clarity made his sermons like
mountain lakes. They will be missed.
Take your state paper and SOUTHWIDE
BAPTIST for news of eighteen other states.
Rev. ,T. J. Wester has resigned at Sinton,
Texas, and accepted the church at Pearsal.
Rev. Joe W. English, who has “more preach
in him to the inches” than any man in West
Virginia, has just concluded a ten days Bible
school in his church at Elkins.
El Doradd, Ark. Baptist church of which
the editor was pastor a'few years ago, Is
building a 1150,000 temple. The editor was
in ElDorado while the contract was being
drawn. That church has as noble a band of
deacons as bless the earth. Thomasville.
Georgia has a like loyal band.
Dr. John E Briggs, pastor of the Fifth
Baptist church, Washington, D. C,, continues
to grow in power and usefulness in his great
church. ' One hundred and four persons were
baptized by him into the membership of the
Fifth Baptist Church in the thirteenth year of
his pastorate. The Sunday School averaged
760 for the year.
At a recent meeting of the Columbian As
sociation. Washington, D. C., it was decided to
employ a Superintendent of Missions to work
with, the Mission Committee in establishing
Sunday schools and churches in different parts
of the District of Columbia.
■R e t , B. P. Robertson. D. D., has
clc^d his pestoral work at Paducah,
Ky., and is now pursuing a special course of
study in Atlanta. He is now open to call to
another pastorate. Dr. Robertson has held
some important pastorate in the South. Some
good church ought to lay hands on him speedily.
He may be addressed at 241 Pormevalt St..
Atlanta, Ga.
Rev.’.A. T.,'Allen of Diiriington County, S.
C., has accepted a call to the pastorate of the
Edgefield, (S. C.) Baptist Church. He enter
ed upon his new work last week.
The Baptist World Alliance.
The Baptist World Alliance has received a
unanimous invitation from the Swedish Baptist
Board to hold the third Baptist World Con
gress in Stockholm in July, 1923, Those who
were present at the European Baptist Con
gress in Stocjiholm in 1913 have such delight
ful memories of Swedish hospitality that they
will look forward with eager expectations to a
second visit. Baptists in Sweden are strong
in numbers and influence, so that they are well
able to entertain even the large number of
delegates certain to accept the invitation.
Stockholm itself will prove an irresistible
attraction. It is easily accessible and is one
of the most beautiful cities in the world, and
these facts will help to swell the attendance at
the congress. Altogether, the third Baptist
World Congress should surpass both its pre-
dece.ssors in numbers, interest, and usefulness..
Baptist Work “Do Move.”
Dr. R. J. Bateman, pastor of the First
Baptist Church, Asheville, N. C., not only
preaches to a packed house, morning and even
ing, but also meets a large'audience of men in
a Bible class at the Majestic Theatre every
Sunday morning. Some of Dr. Bateman's
recent sub;ects before his class have been
Constructive citizenship” and “the Detective
of the Soul.
Visitors to the city who attend the meetings
each Sunday at the Majestic have been heard
to state that they have paid large admission
fees to hear lectures that were not nearly sa
good as the addresses delivered by Dr. Bate*
man.
The Sunday School of the First Baptist
Church has grown to such numbers that, not
only has Dr, Bateman's Bible class been crowd
ed out of the church, but other classes of the
school have been forced to secure other quar
ters. You will hear of some big building
enterprise going on at the First church some
of these times.
Baptist Affairs at Hollins, Va;
Besides teaching the BibU course in Holjins
College, Dr. Geo. Braxton Taylor is pastor of
three of Virginia’s finest churches: -Enon,
located near the college; Troutville, five miles
away in a prosperous and growing railway
town; Cove Alum, in a fine rural community.
As might bo expected under such leadership
kingdom work in Dr. Taylor’s field is going
forward with speed.
There was an imposing sight at Enon church •
a few Sunday mornings ago, when the Fresh
man class of Hollins College, 187 in number,
attended services in bod'y. Next Sunday even
ing the Junior Class will attend the services en
masse.
For about nine months, the Sunday School
at Troutville has had an increase of 100 per
cent in attendance over that of'last year.
Cove Alum church, with but few ihore than
fifty members, takes its stand in the ranks of
those who are a,hundred per cent plus in
pledges and gifts to the 75-Million Campaign.
That fine little church not only over subscrib
ed its quota in the campaign, but so far ha»
overpaid its pledge to the campaign fund.
Take the Southwide Baptist to get South
wide Baptist news. That is the paper’s busi
ness, to serve Baptist news to all the Baptists,
Rev. A. E. McDowell, of Kingstree, S. (^.
has entered upon his new pastoral work at
Eustis, Fla;