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

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heard an appeal for help toward the
erection of a representative church in
! Washington, D. c. The establish
ment of this church has been the
dream and purpose of Southern Meth
! odtets for more than so years-a
dream which now is near realization
The appeal will be sounded here by
some Of the most forcible speakers of
the Methodist Church. Bishop w. A.
| Gambler, Of Atlanta, and Bishop John
c. Kilgo, of Durham, N. c., will speak
while others will be some of the
most prominent clergymen of the
Southern church.
Bishop Kilgo will speak at the First
! Methodist Church, Dr. John A. 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. M. Hughlett. Park
Street; Rev. w. r. Hendrix. Druid
| Hills; DR. w. p. Lovejoy. st. Johns;
Bishop Gambler. Grace Church; Rev
II. NJ. DuBose, st. Paurs. other spe-
| cial preachers will be heard.
South in Nation Building.
The subject on which each will be
heard to-day is THE South in the
Building of the Nation" Much of the
| appeal for help toward the represen-
tative church will have a patriotic
force and will call on sectional pride.
The representative church will
stand for the spiritual South" ex-
planned DR.. Sexton, secretary of the
| commission In charge of the details
or 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 will typify 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
AsheVllle' n. C., the summer of 1910,
when General Conference was held
building committee representing
every conference of the church. was
appointed. consisting of devoted Law
men. most of them business men. The
| statement which they sent out. inn
mediately after their appointment. ex-
plains fully the purposes of tho South
ern Methodists in establishing the
representative church,
The need for such a house as we
have indicated is Imperative" ii 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 II 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
trom every quarter of the world
Other churches have not been slow
10 recognize this fact and to take
advantage OF II.
THE Roman Catholics. in particu-
lar, who are never lacking in practical
Sagacity, have long followed the poll
ICY or tntrenching 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 $4,000
Inc church, II is planned, will cost
ABOUT 100000, Of which S309, 600 has
been raised. 1t is likely that at the
services to-day those who desire win
be given an opportunity to make do
nations toward the fund, but no spe-
cial efforts at collection win be made
The purposes of the meetings TODAY
Or. sexton announces, are purely edu-
4 cational
Southern Methodists 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
9. 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-
ElNed IN lso6 when the General Con-
ference was held in birmingham. and
when the action of 1858 was reaf
frmed.
In 1910 at Asheville, N. @. the Cen
eral Conference Board Of Church EX-
tension was placed in charge of the
work, and building committee was
named, composed Of J. c. c Mayo
| N''Ait man. W est Virginia. J. Adger
Stewart secretary, Kentucky: Gov
ernor George w. Donaghey, Arkansas
X. 5, Munger, Alabama: ]. E. Wall
Florida; Asa G. Gambler, Georgia: John
p. Scott, louisiana hurry Carleton
Missouri; ]. L. Dantzler, Mississippi.
J. 5. Carr North Carolina; 4 p
Howell Oklahoma; H. p. Williams
South Carolina; R. A. SchooIfieId
Virginia; John p Branch, Virginia
K. B. Davenport Tennessee; Jesse ii.
Jones' Texas; J. w. Slaughter, Texas.
Commission Is Named.
To take over the executive work
of a pre- building campaign a repre-
sentative church commission was an
pointed, consisting of Bishop Warren
A. Gambler, chairman; Bishop r. 10
Hoss, Bishop John c. Kilgo. Or. 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 com D1pfior - ya-,.o+, &C..