Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-20
100000 FUND
To MAKE BIGGER
MERCER
Tabernacle Trustees Offer In
Urinary in Atlanta to Baptist
Convention for $4,000.

lr0T-TTRIE, GA. Nov. 20.--Chief in
t..est in the annual meeting Of the
.,aorgia Baptist convention, in session
r,ara has centered in the report of the
.ommirtee appointed last year to make
as to the future OF
Mercer university at Macon. The COM
,itree. which agreed on it's report yes
-arfav morning. presented it at the aft
.rnoon session.
The house was crowded and many
standing. eagerly listening to what the
committee might. say. There was q
n-aa2y atmosphere of expectancy and
.nuffled conversation when DR.. /. r.
christie. pastor Of the First Baptist
church Of columbus, mounted the plat
form 70 read the report.
The report stated in substance that
fl was a matter of regret that the pur-
.,ses of those wno had agitated the re-
,povai of Mercer had been misunder-
stood: that 1t had never been their pur-
nose to consider the matter Of mere To-
cation. but that they had thought only
.f one thing, and that was "a greater
Mercer for u greater people 1t stated
further that because OF the misunder-
standing arising. Atlanta and no other
city had felt at liberty TO go forward in
g. definite movement in behalf of secur-
.ng the institution, and that the commit
Ice believed great forward movement
.. raise not less than $2,0OV,O00 for en-
Irgement and endowment, should be
started not later than 1915, and that
all locations except Macon he elimi-
mated.
Sich of Relief
When this sentence was reached. a
sigh of relief could he heard all over
.ue house. for the ,sentiment was over
.rnelmingly that it would be prudent
not to attempt the moving OF the uni
velsity.
The report called on Macon to do
something really great, raising not less
nan 100000 of the $2,000,000 proposed,
md calling on the rest of the state and
ghlautnropists on the outside to round
out the amount necessary to make
Iegcer university the greatest Baptist
institution in the South.
Dl. Christie supported his report with
speech Of magnetic eloquence which
fairy electrified the convention. He
-as followed in brief speeches by DIR.
W. l.. Pickard, OF Savannah, and Will
liam b. Upshaw, of Atlanta, who de-
r,arcd How much is this the greatest
day that Mercer has ever seen ?''
Following the love feast on the uni
.gsity situation. Judge George HiIiyer,
' Atlanta read d vigorous report, ia
riug ne formation of a social service
commission tao confer with other de
nominations aIorG the line Of civic
righteousness.
Another item OF interest was a talk
ny Or. Robert Stuart MacArthur acting
pastor of the atlanta Tabernacle, pres
dent Of the BAPTIST Worlds alliance,
Ior2 me line of donominationh inter-
SIS. Ho epollo Of his recent trip 10
Russia, gt which time Tie secured an
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'.t he might secure liberty, that gov
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