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SOUTHWIDE BAHTIST ^Page 7 99 “THIS AND THAT HERE AND THERE (By Frank Willis Barnett) ' It was a score of years back that like friend Mays I had a call to start a denominational pa per. I am not sure in my o\mi mind how the call came, but somehow in my subconscious thinking I am led to believe that it was a personal one. -0— One of the good things which came early into my young manhood was an acquaintanceship with Dr.S. B, Gambrell, which latter ripened in to a friendship which.only ended at his death. He was my mentor in many things, and a wisr conselllor, but I did not always heed his advice Had I done so this could not have been written. —0— On leaving Vanderbilt I went^tq Mississippi to live. My brothor Samuel T. Barnett being the president of The First National Bank of Vicksburg, and the owner oI the Capital State Bank, (now the Mississippi Bank) of Jackson. It was at the latter place .1 first had the 'privilege of meeting our great Southern Baptist leader, —O— Having said this much I’ll devote the re- mam ler of my remarks in praise of your dar ii'.g, for believe me it. is a' big risk you are u idcr aking to make a paper for the whole boinh. \ou will have to have coo rage, yon will have to have persistence, you will tjave to b.sve many things, but the one article you can not do without is money, mqpe,y and heaps of It. Go to it and tna.y .your bank balance never fail you on a Saturday night. Southwide Baptist News Continued Besides religious matter SOUTHWIDE It was through his son, thd brilliant writer whose tragic death was always a gre.at sorrow in the life of his fond father who saw in him a bright and useful career. We became friends and shared in common many literary men and women who had left their mark on the pages of litera ture. He had already done some fine work in both the weeklies and the monthlies. -0— Ilis boy^s friendship for me was always a tie between us, and so knowing that he had harl ex perience in running a denominational paper 1 wrote him for advice, and got it in his own quaint way. It was to tiie effect that if he had to do it over he Ijclieved he would leave it undone, or word.s to the same effect. It »vas a clear admoni tion not to soil my fingers with denominational ink, and yet later he got back into the fascinat ing game of being a religious editor. -O— BAPTIST, carries some secular items, NEWS- RECORD mosf. wiilely influential weekly in the Bluei'idge Mountains hak been assimilated and we serve its coustituenc.v, giving the paper a more cosmopolition character than most re: ligious journals and putting it on a sound busi ness basis. W« begin with a thousand old subscribers and a thousand short term subscrioers prepaid bv churches and individuals, added to this 2000, many sample copies will be issued, so that, counting several readers lo the cop.v, there are five or, ten thousand readers to be gin with. . . . Our advertising columns show that the, best, denominational and business .concerns believq in us. Dr. Ch.is. Fox Anderson, of Lexington, Ky., will deyot'* hiseniirn time lo evangelistic work beginning .Tan. 1. Dr. Anderson i.s very high- Iv ("ommended by* such a noted evvangelist as Rfv. 'f'. T Mar'in.qf Mississippi, Dr. Anderson is well equipped for his work. He attained eminence as a physician and surgeon. He gave up his profession to become a minister of the gospel. He is a graduate of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and has since taken a special ronr.fcp in the Baptist Bible. In stitute. He will have associated with him (he gospel singer, Mr. R A. VValker, of Memphis, Tenn. British and Canadian Note$. F. A. Bower. Baptist Affairs in Canada. Baptist interests in the city of Quebec are increasing with intensity and power. The long and faithibl pastorates of Marsh and btobo are bearing fruit. Baptisms have been f-raqueut of late and an ever widening oppor tunity for a gracious work belongs to our Bap tist people. Where superstition, ignorance and bigotry prevail to such a degree as in this old historic Province, only patience and per severance can win the day. -0-^ Dr. Ot C^y. Wallace, for many years pastor m Monacal, will assume his new charge at Eutaw Place Church Baltimore on December first There is general regretat his departure, not only among the Montreal breth:en, but among Canadian Baptist throughout the Pro vinces By his scholarship and temperment he was peculiarly fitted for this strategic place in that ancient'citidel of Komanism. The Bap tists of Baltimore are of course elated and de lighted at the return of Dr. Wallace to the city where he was once before a pastor. -0— Do not mi.ss a single number of the South v.iiic B.iptist \(>u vvi>h lo Uuuw what is irning on among Soutberu Baptists, It will tell you. Through his first. an"iiHl report, as corres- i landing Secretary of State Mis.sinr.s. for North Carolina, Dr, Ctiarles E. Madry made 'a fine iinpres.>.it)D on the Baptist State Convention in He knew full well that nothing he could say I -Mount. He has bud out a large pro would prevent me from making the irreai orih Ca^olini F^apt.ists for the next venture in becoming the proprietor of a religi-lail seenn wise and practical, ous weekly. It was iil the blood and the onl.vj ® jNorth Carolina Baptists some- relief would come from spilling ink as an edi-! " ® them how to make the journey, tor. Sitting in the “editors “ea.sy chair’ha,s{ bad its lure not only for youtig men but many! ■''’^Charles E. Brewer. Prcsidentof Mere- of the older brethren have been caught up in ‘V’*’elected president of the the same vision. fSuie iVacbers’ Assemhly of North Carolina ^ I at i s annual sns.-ion in Raleigh last week. _0— Knowing what I know is the reason I am net going to warn you that their are breakers ^ ahead; and by the way, if the voyage was to be ' without danger there would be no insistent do- ti sire to make it. All tliat I can wish for you , j ,i , r\ r> t> n in your porilious undertaking is that you may ■ ^ t recent death of Dr. B. B Bailey, mem- have as the French say so politely, “bon Home Board evangelistic force, vovace.” May you steer clear of ihe fiuancial '"-f sincere sorrow to bis iiosts of rocks on which manv a worthy denominatomal 'hroughout the South. is a new paper, and like a new broom, viuihwide Baptist sweeps cl6an all Bap- news in the South. Dr. Henry Alford .Porter has recently re turned from the United Baptist Convention of the Maritime Province, held .at Fredericton, N B , where he conducted the devotional hour at each .session. Although back on liisofvti native New Brunswick soil and almost within hailing distance of his birthplace, Dr. Porter was not without honor among his brethren. He was heard with peculiar pleasure and satisfaction by pvety one. Dr. Porter has a vounger brother m the Provinces, Rev. Frederick S. Porter, who is rapidly coming to the front although not so widely known as his distin guished hroBier of Atlanta, to whom we have just referred. Having made a remarkable record with the Overseas Canadian force.s, he is now reckoned among our most brilliant’and promising men. -0— I I\» I.HI ■ - .• - . w V- - • , - , , craft has been wrecked, and may you psesp-, being submarined by the terror of all.religiou.s editors, “ye delinquent ” For seventeen years I piloted my bark on the tempestuous waves of religious indiff*^r- ence which each week threatened to engulf it, and in spite of the high seas might stiil have been afloat and in command had it not been for the high price ot white paper; but that is another story. But old pal if the Southwid.- Baptist keens its head above water as long as ■did the Alabama Baptist under my control, you •will not have a dull lime. There will be plenty work to do and an abundance of excitement to 'keep you awake at the helm. • llte Baptist State Convention of South Carolina will convene iti Greenville, Decem- bt-r, 6, 8. 112,000 were baptised into the churches of the Northarn Baptist Convention last year. The New Jersey Baptist Convention is tak ing a ieaf out of ilie Presbyterians’ book. It passed the following resolution at its last ses sion, lecommeuding, “ The convention will de cline to engage or continue to employ any missionary, or aid an^ ciiurch in the support of a pastor, who after January 1,1922, may be ordained without having met the requirements of the convention.’^ Rev. Lew Wallace, following in the footsteps of bis father, Isaac Wallace, a great preacher of sainted moinqry, is conducting successful evangelistic ca'miiaigns in Nova Scotia The conversion of the Wallace boys forms an interesimg chapter on the eflicacy of prayer. On a certain night the father and mother invrted a few friends to their home to pray for their two sous,.both out of Christ. That night as^Lew was passing a church at Orange, N. J. he left his fellows and decided to go in to prayer meeting. There he was met by good o!a Deacon Dindo who led him to Christ. After going tiome that night he wrote immediately to his brother William, then a student at Aaadia College in Nova Scotia, and begged him to settle the matter of his salvation. But Wiliiam had that very night also found Christ and had written Lew at Orange not to delay longer, put to yield to Christ at once. Both young men became able preachers of the gospel, William, as will be recalled, having successfully sltepherded the First Church at U>,ic, ,md N. y„ ,nd ,l,e K,e« Baptte at Brooklyn, N. Y. -O- Rev. Z. L. Fash, pastoroftheeditorof South- wide Baptist while he was American Couhsul in Canada, was recently elected President of the Maritine Baptist Conxention. Dr. Fash has a habit of preaching conci.se, well prepared sermons of eiliciency and beauty. French Broad Church, Asheville, under Pastor McKaugham’s leadership, is increasin^^^ils' mem bership and improving its building.
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