The Southern indicator. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1903-1925, 1915-06-26
NOTES BY THE WAYSIDE,
BY REV. RICHARD CARROLL.

BY REV. RICHARD CARROLL,
AS scheduled I spent Sunday
with DR.. G.. T. Walker in Angus
ia, Ga. 1 preached at II a. M
in his new church to a great con-
gregation, At 4:30 %. m. I lectur-
ed to what DR.. Walker called a
very representative audience"
lawyers, doctors, business men
and people who represented
everything. The men voted
unanimously that they enjoyed
the lecture and were willing to
hear it again but I was not
willing to stay longer in Angus
ia. was tired and had not
much more physical force to
spare. DR.. Walkers congrega-
tion is not like the average Geor-
gia congregation I met. At IL
a. m. the people assembled for
preaching: at 8 p. m. the congre-
cation had assembled f. night
services, and at $50 theBenedic-
tion was pronounced and the peo-
pie were going home. That is
$3.50 by standard time.
[ was in Atlanta on two occas-
ions when I began preaching at
10 o'clock by South Carolina time
and 9 o'clock by Central time
There are few men that have SER
vices like DR.. Walk ker-on time,
In South Carolina T noted the
promptness of DR.. N. c.. Nix of
OrangebQrg, Rev. A. R. Bacote
Society Hill and Rev. James Kirk
land Of Newberry, and some
months ago preached for DR.. J.
J. Durham in Columbia. He
believes in ''Redeeming time"
DR.. Walker and his congrega-
tion worshlpped.i in, the Sunday
4; e; !; !; j::!: u; =
has Bee )6 toward this great
structurI4VWhich when completed
will cost thirty-fve thousand dol
lars ($35, ,00U). 1t will be an in
stftutional church. This great
man deserves such a house of
worship. for he is a great, great
gospel preacher-a deep preach
er. His sermons are high as
heaven, deep as hell, broad as the
earth-for they save unto the Ut
most them that believe. l am
always delighted to visit this, my
old friends and his congregation
or to be in his company. The
collection raised and given me af-
ter my lecture to Men Only was
certainly surprise to me. Itwas
more than expected. The men
gave every dollar he ask for and
l was more than pleased can
never forget when visiting Au-
gusta that great scholar and
teacher, that unselfsh, useful
citizen that serves his day and
generation well, the Rev. Silas
K. FLOYD. | asked a prominent
citizen. who are the leading and
first citizens of Augusta?" This
man is not member of DR.. Wal
ker' s cftlrch, but is a prominent
professional man. and his answer
was "Dr. G T. Walker and Rev.
Silas At>Floyd are the first citi-
zens Of Augusta"
DR.. Walker owes much of his
great success, both in Augusta
and elsewhere in1America. to his
armor bearer, Silas x. Floyd.
Rev. Floyd is to DR.. Walker
what Emmett j. Scott is to DR..
Booker T. Washington. In the
audience I recognized Col. Judson
w. Lyons, Prof. J. L. White,
Prof. P. H. Craig, several minis
ters of the gospel and other pro-
minent citizens. It is known
that Georgia has more "Colonels"
white and colored, tina n any
other state in the South. There |
was colonel Wilkerson who has
the distinction of being the only
colored steam boat captain in the |
city, having had charge of diff
ferent steam boats running be-
tween Augusta and Savannah for
more than l8 years. CokaWilker-
son drove me everywhe4 BSunday |
lnnd Monday brought me to the
train in his fine touring car. This