The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-10-12
REVIVAL FIRES ARE
TO BLAZE IN GEORGIA
A GREAT MOVEMENT is BEGUN
BY BAPTISTS TO WIN THE
STATE TO CHRIST.
BY Alex w. Bealer.

georgia Baptists, under the leauer-
ship of DR.. Arch c. Cree, the new Sec
rotary of Missions, are preparing to
light the revival fires in Georgia and
to keep them burning continuously LOT
four months by great revival cam
paign that will begin in January and
last through April, sweeping across
the State from the sands of Florida
to the mountains of Tennessee.
Think of three hundred thousand
Baptists martialed for warfare
against spiritual wickedness in hlgh
places as well as low. Think OF
thousand preachers engaged in thou
sand meetings to win ten thousand
souls and more into the Kingdom OF
Christ, and you will get some idea OF
the greatness of this undertaking.
The War To Open In South Georgia
1t will open in a NUMBER OF
churches along the Southern Dor
der of the State. These meet
ings will start in South Georgia and
last for two weeks. A multitude OF
Baptists all over Georgia will be pray
ing for them both in private and IL
public. At the end of two weeks the
battle line will move nOrthWard to
other churches and thus until the
whole state has been covered.
In the past there have been many
kinds of union meetings held in Geor-
gia and meetings that covered sections
and cities, but this is the first move
ment that has ever been inaugurated
to cover the State with reviVaIs.
A Campaign That Has Been Well
Planned
This campaign has been we'll plan
ned 1t will be conducted under the
auspices of the Mission Board Of the
Georgia Baptist Convention. The en-
tire evangelistic force of the Mission
Board made up of preachers and sing
ers, will be called into action, but
there will also be many others, since
this force is not large enough to carry
on the war. The entire CVangehstlc
force of the Home Mission Board,
about forty preachers and singers, un-
der the direction of their leader, Dr..
Weston Bruner, viii be enGaged,
In addition to these more imam 100
pastors have signifcd t2cir willing
ness to contribute generously OF time
and service to this campaign. The
! nlan is to let some of the North GeOr-
/ gia pastors come to take part in the
South Georgia meetings, and when
the North Georgia meetings are in
progress some of the South Georgia
pastors will be pressed into service.
The New Secretary An Executive
This movement was born in the
heart of DR.. Arch c. Cree. He was
elected Secretary Of the Board in the
early Spring to succeed DR.. j. j. Ben
nett. He was the Enlistment Score
tarv of the Home Mission Board OF
the Southern Baptist Convention, and
was engaged in some meetings down
in Louisiana at the time OF his cleo
ton. He took charge of the office
on the first of May and has already
demonstrated that he is the man for
the place AS a young man he had
splendid business training which has
been used to good advantage since
/ then in his ministerial work.
He was well prepared for the minis
trv when he entered it, having recelV
ed his education at Wake Forest Col.
lege in North Carolina, where he took
the degree of Master of Arts, and from
there he took course at the South
ern Baptist Theological Seminary
Louisville, KY, receiving his doctors
degree. Since then he has been pas
tor of a number of prominent church
es and the Enlistment Secretary of the
Home Mission Board. In all of these
places he demonstrated his ability to
handle big movements and to LEAD
men in doing great things for God.
A Great Task Is Now Confronting Him
Without doubt the greatest task that
has ever confronted DR.. Cree is the
one in which he is now engaged. The
Board of which he is the Secretary
is charged with raising the money
that is needed to carry on the mis-
sionary and educational work OF the
Baptist denomination in Georgia.
1t is now under the pressure OF great
needs and is overloaded with RESPONSE
bilities and indebtedness which must
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