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


| 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
| odists for more than 80 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. NJ. Hughlett. Park
| street; Rev. W. r. Hendrix. Druid
Hills, Dr. w. p Lovejoy. st. Johns;
| Bishop Gambler Grace Church; Rev.
II. M. 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 1.-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
/ Of hl oh,
| 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
dusttial 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
Asheville. n. c., the summer of 1910
| when General Conference was held
A 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-
plains fully the purposes of the South
ern Methodists in establishing the
/ representative CnurCh.
The need for such a house as we
nave indicated Is imperative" II said
| OF the fact we have never at any
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, IT 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
from every quarter of the world
Other churches have not been slow
to recognize this fact and to take
advantage of 1t.
The Roman Catholics, in particu-
lar, who are never lacking In practical
sagacity, have long followed the pol
icy or intrenching themselves here BY
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. it is planned, will cost
about 100000, of which 1909 900 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-
cial efforts at collection will be made.
The purposes of the meetings to-day.
Dr. Sexton announces, are purely edu-
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
Z. Cranberry DR.. David S. DauEette.
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-
yived in 1905 when the General Con-
ference was held in Birmingham. and
when the action of 1858 was reaf-
firmed.
In 1910 at Asheville, N. c.. the Cen
eral Conference Board of Church Ex-
tension was placed in charge of the
work, and a building committee was
named, composed of ]. C. c. Mavo,
chairman. West Virginia; ]. Adger
Stewart secretary, Kentucky; Gov
ernor George w. Donaghey, Arkansas.
X. 5. Munger, Alabama: ]. E. Wall
Florida; Asa G. Gambler, Georgia; John
?. Scott Louisiana; hurry Carleton,
Missouri; ]. L, DantzIer, Mississippi.
]. S. Carr, North Carolina; T p.
Howell, Oklahoma; H. P. Williams,
fSouth Carolina; r. A. Scheduled,
Virginia; John p Branch, Virginia
K. B, Davenport Tennessee: Jesse n.
Jones, Texas; J. w. Slaughter Texas.
Commission Is Named.
To take over the executive worl,
of pre-building campaign a repre-
sentative church commission was an
pointed. consisting of Bishop Warren
A. Gambler. chairman; Bishop E. u.
Hoss, Bishop John C. Kilgo, DR.. W.
F. 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