Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-22
M.E.BISHOPST To
URGE NATIONAL
CHURCH TO-DAY
Appeal to Southern Members viii
Be Heard From Every Atlanta
Pulpit of Denomination.

] nedT0 an appeal Tor nClp toward the
! erection Of a representative church in
/ Washington, D c. The establish
ment Of this church has been the
I dream and purpose Of Southern Meth
/ odists for more than 80 years-a
. dream which now is near realization.
The appeal will be sounded here by
some Of the most forcibIe speakers O:
. the Methodist Church. Bishop W. A.
/ Gambler Of Atlanta, and Bishop John
. g. Kilso, Of Durham. n. c., viii speak.
while others will be some Of the
most prominent elergymen Of the
Southern church
Bishop Kilgo will speak at the First
Methodist Church. Or. John \. Moore.
who is home mission secretary of the
Southern church will be at Trinity,
DR.. George Sexton, Of Dallas. Texas,
| a notable church builder, will be at
/ St. Mark, Rev A. NJ. Hughlett. Park
| Street; Rev. w, r. Hendrix Druid
| Hills; DIR. w. p. Loyejoy. St Johns:
! Bishop Gambler Grace Church; Rev
| H. NJ. DuBose, St PauTs other spe-
cial preachers win be heard.
South in Nation Building.
ut SUBJECT on W iltu edCIl VIII De
heard to-day is THE South in the
! Building Of the Nation" Much of the
| appeal for help toward the represeu-
| tative church will have a patriotic
! force and will Call on sectional pride
THE representative church will
stand for the spiritual South ex-
! planned DIR. Sexton, secretary Of the
| commission in charge of the details
| OF the church building. who has been
in Atlanta several days working out
| plans for the series of meetings to-
! day. The Southern Commercial
! Congress is doing much for the South.
in exploiting its commercial and in
| dustrial resources; the representative
| church viii typlfy all that is best and
! highest in the spiritual life Of the
| section"
Definite steps toward the establish
| ment Of the church were taken in
| Asheville, n. c., the summer Of 1910.
! when General Conference was held.
/ building committee, representing
! every conference of the church was
! appointed, consisting Of devoted lay
| men most of them business men. The
| statement which they sent out. i'm
| mediately after their appointment. ex
I plains fully the purposes of the South
! ern MethOdists In establishing the
! representative church,
The need for such house as we
! have indicated is imperative" it said.
! of the fact we have never at anv
! time had the least doubt but the
| closer investigation that we have re
! Gently made has served TO deepen and
! intensity our conviction on the sub
iect.
! Meeting Place of Nations.
! washington City is the capital of
/ the nation and the very center of its
| political life. More than that. il is
/ the meeting place for the nations of
/ the earth. Hither come all kinds and
| classes of people, not only from every
| section Of our own country, but also
/ IRON every quarter OF the world
other churches have not been SLOW
| TO recognize this fact and to take
advantage of it.
The Roman Catholics. in particu-
| lar. who are never lacking in practical
| Sagacity have long followed the pol
| icy of intrenching themselves here bv
means of their churches. schools and
| hospitals. All the chief Protestant
| denominations are moving now to do
| the same thing
AS the second largest body of
| MethodiSts in the world we can NOT
afford TO lag behind the rest. BY ev-
| cry consideration we are bound to
| Keep pace with our brethren of other
denominations in shaping the moral
and spiritual life of the capital of our
| common country"
Church to Cost 100000.
The church, II is planned, will cost
about $500, 600, of which 100000 has
been raised. 1t is likely that at the
services to-day those who desire will
be given an opportunity to make do
nations toward the fund, but no spe-
] al of oF
| The purposes of the meetings o-day.
| DR.. Sexton announces, are purely edlI-
cational,
Southern Methodlsts have been
| looking toward the establishment of a
| representative church since 1858. when
| In General Conference a resolution To
| that end was introduced by DR.. John
/ c. Cranberry, DR. David s Daugette.
DR.. Andrew Hunter and w. w. Ben
nett four notable figures in the
/ church. The resolution was adopted
but the war coming soon after put a
| blight on the hopes They were re-
vived in 1905 when the General Con
| ference was held in Birmingham. and
when the action of 1858 was reaf-
/ hrmed
| In 1910 at Asheville. n. c., the Cen
eral Conference Board of Church Ex-
tension was placed in charge of the
work, ana building committee was
named, composed of J. c. c. Nayo.
chairman, West Virginia J. Adger
| Stewart secretary, Kentucky: Gov
ernor George w. Donaghey, Arkansas.
| Z. S. Munger, Alabama: J. f. Wall
/ Florida; Asa G. Gambler, Georgia; John
p. Scott Louisiana; hurry Carleton
| Missouri; J. L. Dantzler. Mississippi.
! J. 5. Carr, North Carolina; T p.
Howell, Oklahoma; II. P. Williams.
South Carolina; r. A Scheduled,
Virginia; John p Branch, Virginia.
| r. B. Davenport Tennessee; Jesse H,
! Jones, Texas; J. w. Slaughter, Texas.
Commission Is Named,
To take over the executive work
| of pre- building campaign repre-
sentative church commission was an
pointed, consisting of Bishop Warren
A. Gambler, chairman; Bishop e. Il
HosS Bishop John c. Kilgo. DR.. W
+. McMurry and DR.. Geo. s. Sexton
secretary.
Negotiations will be closed this
month for the purchase of a site for
the church, in the northwest portion
Of Washington, close to the hotel dis
trict and to the Centers of Washing
ton life
Considerations Of both sacred duty
and wise policy impel us to carry this
work to COMPLETION wrote four bish-
ops of the Southern Methodist Church
recently. a good beginning has been