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

BY REV. RICHARD CARROLL,
AS scheduled l spent Sunday
with DR.. c.. T. Walker in Augus-
ia, Ga. preached at II a. M
in his new church to a great con
gregation, At 4:3O p. 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 enioyed
the lecture and were willing to
hear it again but | was not
willing to stay longer in Angus
ia. ! was tired and had not
much more physical force to
spare. DR.. Walkers congrega-
tlon is not like the average Geor-
gla congregation | met. At IL
a. m. the people assembled for
preaching: at Sp. m. the congre-
cation had assembled tor night
services. and at $50 the benedic-
ton was pronounced and the peo-
pie were going home. That is
$3.50 by standard time.
| Twas in Atlanta on two occas-
ions when [ began preaching at
10 o'clock by South Carolina time
and 8 O'Clock by Central time
There are few men that have SER
vices like DR.. Walker-on time.
In South Carolina | noted the
promptness of DR.. N. c.. Nix of
Orangeburg, Rev. A. r. Bacote
Society Hill and Rev. James Kirk
land of Newberry, and some
months ago I preached for DR.. J.
j. Durham in Columbia. He
believes in ''Redeeming time''
DR.. Walker and his congrega-
tion worshlpped ip the Sunday
school room Creat church.
!: ! +; ! i ;;:;:; s:
has Bee Al toward this great
structure!p11{ich when completed
will cost thirty-five thousand dol
lars ($35, 00O). 1t will be an in
stitutional church. This great
man deserves such a house of
worship, for he is great, great
gospel preacher 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. | 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. twas
more than | expected. The men
gave every dollar he ask for and
| 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 we'll, the Rev. Silas
X. Flovd. asked a prominent
citizen who are the leading and
first citizens of Augusta?" This
man is rot i u:ember of DR.. Wal |
ker's ckd.c?l, but is a prominent
professionG inan, and his answer
was Or. G L. Walker and Rev.
Silas ~, Floyd are the first citi-
zens Of Augusta.
DR.. Walker owes l!.lch of his
great success, be ' IN Augusta
and elsewhere in America. 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 [ recognized Col. Judson
w. Lyons, Prof. j. l.. White,
Prof. +. H. Craig, several minis
ters Of the gospel and other pro-
minert citizens. 1t is known
that Georgia has more "Colonels"
white and colored, than 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 Is years. CoknWilker-
son drove me everywhe1eSunday
end Monday brought me to the |
train in his fine touring car. This