The sun., 1912-07-01
'DR. MACARTHUR MAY
RETURN TO CALVARY
Pastor Urged to Leave Atlanta
Charge After Sermon in
His Old Church.
DENIES STORIES OF STRIFE
Preacher Says He Did Not Try
to Change Forms Of Ser
vice in South.

Calvary Baptist Church. Fifty-seventh
street near Sixth avenue. will do its ut
most to induce the Rev. DR.. Robert s.
MacArthur. its pastor for forty years.
to return. II was the impression yoster-
day Of both members Of the congregation
and the minister himself that the church
may be successful. A meeting is to be
held this week TO give opportunity for the
members To urge his return. Yesterday
al both services and especially in the
morning when Dr. Macarthur was present
and spoke, tho church was crowded in
every part. After the service 40 great
was the number OF people going forward
to plead tha, he return that the pastor
had to he rescued.
The argument OF officers and members
of the church is that if DIR. Macarthur can
ma ntain the work of tho Baptist Temple
at Atlanta and yet perform the duties of
president Of the Baptist World Alliances
he can do the same in Calvary. They say
| they are quite willing that he go around
the world for the alliance and will give
him all possible FREEDOM
Some Of the officers of the church s1id
yesterday that they had tried in every
! part Of the country 10 get new pastor.
They have not wanted to take from an
OF her church a man who is succeeding in
| il. merely because Calvary is stronger.
| SO they are now determined to bring about
| the return of their former pastor.
After the sermon Yesterday DIR. Mac
Arthur described he report widely printed
in the newspapers, that he had had dii-
ferences with the Atlanta church officials
as untrue. He referred To the rumor
indirectly in his sermon. Afterward he
put the case more strongly saying that he
had heard of no trouble at all up to the
time he read the report
Apart from the newspaper reports IL
has been said by Baptsts in New York
familiar with conditions in Atlanta and
amorg Baptisls of the South that DIR.
Macarthur sought to add forms to his
service as he has done at Calvary, includ-
ing vested choir. The minister said he
had not changed the services in Atlanta
nor sought to do SO.
DR.. Macarthur. speaking oi his world
work, said lie expected to go to st. Peters.
burg, there to dedicate the new Baptist
College for which Baptists Of this country
subscribed $4,000. He hopes to esta b.
lish another Baptist college in Buda-
pest and will preside over the European
section Of the Alliance. which meets next
April in Stockholm. He hopes TO go to
India and Australia. His present plans
ara to preach in fremont Temple. Bos.
, ton. during July and August and to re-
turn to Atlanta to remain from Septem
her to April when he goes to Sweden
Asked about the call from Calvary, III
, admitted he might not return TO lanta
DR.. Macarthur came to Calvary Churcl
directly from Rochester Theological
Seminary and remained forty years
Being elected president Of the Baptis
World Alliance. he resigned from Calvary
: but later took up the Atlanta work. say
ing he had some work to do in the South
and that il would be 4 convenient base.
In his prayer yesterday morning Dr
Macarthur alluded to the convention II
Baltimore. praying that all might not b'
left to men Of passion and pa RI isanship
His sermon was on the place of the Chris
tian cause. the part il takes and ought I,
take. Especially did he emphasize tn
home and what II ought to be. He SAT-
Christie ianity is responsible for hospita
. and that physicians arc an incarnation
A OF Jesus Christ. He mentioned thu
' strides in medicine and hoped the bright
eat star in John n. Rockefeller's crow
in heaven might I've for founding th'
I Rockefeller Institute for Medical Re
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