Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-03-16
TELLING ADDRESSES
AT THE BIBLE MEETING

Saturday afternoon the first speaker at
the Bible conference was Miss z. STAFF
ford Miller, of Australia. She is no
stranger to the people who attend these
conferences. for she has been here be-
fore. She is an enthusiastic speaker and
one who has much magnetism about
her.
She spoke from the thirteenth verse Of
the thirteenth chapter of First Corin-
thians, Now abideth faith, hope and
love, these three, but the greatest of these
is love-"
She said she loved the number thir-
teen because there were thirteen in the
old fashioned Scotch family to which she
belonged, eleven children, the father and
the mother.
Miss Miller stressed the need for faith
in the world in which we live. Withou.
it there would be stagnation on every
side.
She gave beautiful illustration for the
necessity of hope. Out in Australia
there was a drought that lasted seven
years The ground was bare of vegeta-
ton and the water courses had all dried
UP. There were no leaves on the trees.
The Australian trees do not shed their
leaves as ours do and the bare trees
were especially noticeable. The sheep
were dying by the thousands and the
! the farm houses lowing and calling pit
eously for water. They had to be killed
to put them out of their misery.
And vet the people had smiling faces
because they hoped the coming winter
would fill the water courses and moisten
the ground.
Miss Miller spoke of the love Of men
for each other and then she stressed
the deeper love of God for all the sinful
world The prayer that followed was
preceded by a song II Need Thee Every
/ Hour" sung while the men anu women
were bowed in prayer.
Rev. s. D. Gordon read the incident
of the raising of Lazarus and the &C
count of the feast in Bethany. He took as
his theme THE Revival in Bethany
He told what was meant by the word re-
vIyal and then proceeded to show the
need of a revival. There was man VINO
was dead and his friends needed him BACK
in life They prayed for Jesus. He came
in answer to the message sent to Him.
He groaned within himself at the ravages
of sin. He grieved for the sorrow OF the
sisters and yet there was no revival
! II did not come until the people put
forth their stone-moving ability.
| Mr.. Gordon stressed the need for the re-
moval of stones in the way of revivals
He called attention to the objection OF
Martha. She did not want he stone re-
moved on account of the bad odor. he
said the moving of many stones in the
way of REVEALS would make bad doors
but still they must be moved before dead
men could walk into life.
\ He stressed the need for prayer and told
| of an old father and mother who prayed
| all night for the conversion of their alb
sent boy. They would talk while and
then pray together. Then they prayed
| separately. They read the Bible and pray
ed some more. At o'clock in the morn
ing the wife said she couldn't pray any
more. She knew Charlie was either dead
or converted. She and the husband went
to bed. The next day letter was re-
ceived from Charlie telling how he hac
been convicted of sin and of how he had
prayed throughout the night. At O'Clock
in the morning he had settled the ques'
ton, had surrendered to Jesus and had
become a Christian.