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For the Christian Index. ('knslilulioiiof ditmhc.s mid Associations. T!u; prevalent |>rarlicc of Churches and •\ssoeiatinns, in adopting certain articles of faith, founded (hv supposition at least) up on Scripture, U of such long standing, ami lias received the approbation of so many wise and great men, that it may appear pre sumptuous now to raise a voice or wield our pen against it. This, therefore, we will not do at this lime, but content our self bv introducing the subject to Hapti.it ivadeis, trusting that some of those who lecl capable of throwing light upon the sub ject will feel it their duty to do so. The Georgia Association, looked upon as a standard, has furnished a Constitution, j or Articles of Faith, to other similar bodies | and churches in great number. We say not aught against that Association, its doe- j trine, or its practice; we believe it an or- j tliodox hotly;—but we do dissent from the j practice of doing what others do on account ’uf their standard excellence anil knowledge. To Clinic, however, exactly to the point in view, we copy Art. IV. of the Rcliohotli Association, taken from the Georgia Asso ciation: “ We believe in the everlasting love of God to Iris people, and the eternal election of a definite number of llic human race to grace and glory: and that there was a cove nant of grace, or redemption, made between the Father and die Son, before the world began, in which their salvation is secured, and that they, in particular, are redeemed.” And now, without saying that this arti cle is not scriptural, wo would ask the question, Can it lit: expected that llaptists of almost every grade of intellect and spi ritual attainment, old and young, male and female, white and black, can come together for religions association, and consistently and understanding!y say, before tire world, in the piescneo of God, and to one another, “We believe,” Ate. as aboye? Without waiting a reply, we know they cannot, they ito not. Is this saying too much?— Go to your church members and ask them, one by one, and you will find that the state ment is true. Is there not, then, something wrong in adopting an nrliclfi which lire weak cannot understand and believe, as do the strong? Why not adopt the* scriptural language oil the doctrine of election, which till ehristiam. will believe and he taught sufficiently to understand? What would he the sacrifice? The exchange of unin spired for inspired language. What would he gained? “ Much every wav.” Dispu tations on this point would measurably cease, ami professors would cease to be lieve each other hypocrites, for disbelievin'! their \rtieles of Faith, which upon coming together they had s.ud they believed. In stead of wasting time upon the pioliabili ■ ies or improbabilities of iho soundness of our brethren, we would probably be more united in practical piety. Enough, however, for the present, Will brother linker mil ollteis throw light upon this subject? INQUIRER. For the Christian Index. Dene Ilea. linker. —ln the 17tli No. o! the (’liristi.m Index, I noticed the Que ry of bro. Vamlivere of Franklin Cos., and am sorry to say tlm brother Iras been un fortunate in the formation of his querv. In the first place, in not presenting the nature ol the crime; and secondly, the course pur sued by the church, for want of which, the remarks of the editor are liable to be irre levant, llie individual seeking information misguided, and an undue colorin ; given to the ease in the minds of the reader of your papers. Having a knowledge of the histo ry of the case alluded to, I would propose an amendment to the query. Suppose a Minister ol the Gospel was charged, on oath, with lire crime of rape, by a young woman, a'member of the Baptist Church, and he was arrested and a court of enquiry called, but before coming to trial be suc ceeds in making a compromise and stops the prosecution by giving Iris bond for a certain sum of money, lire payment of which Ire afterwards avoids bv pleading before the court that it was given while a prisoner ami therefore of no effect. The said Minister brings the ease before lire church on their tiook, liisl from report, with rape; secondly oilier iinprnpiiclics— helps me called for, from three other church es; they, with .1 coinmillee of the ehlirch, retire in company with the accused, and the accused mad • the only witness in the ease, while at the same time the eluireh knew that there was evidence at hand, a Baptist, one or more, ready and willing, yea, desirous to bear testimony against the . accused ami yet were not called upon. The accused tells his story, they return to the house, do report is made to the ehuivli hv (lie committee. The accused rises in the conference, acknowledges ilia! lie has done wrong, ami petitions Jo withdraw from the church. A tuition is made to grant his re quest which is carried. Some time thereat ter ho thus addresses the church, front which lie was permitted, to withdraw:— Brethren, you know me, and knots’ my case, 1 should ha very glad if you could feel to receive me into, the church again. Whereupon he was resulted. Not long lifter, * s set forward by the church to preaching in (he church, and afterwards occasionally to one or two other cjiurclie* in the neighborhood, lit conclusion, 1 will now adopt the latter part of bro. V’s query. “Now bro. Baker, would it Ire Gospel or der to set this man at full lHierty in his of: lice? or would it he Gospel order for any other power to have the matter torn up from the start, and try him over again for j the same crime for which he gave (ill! sat isfaction some lour years ago?” Now, bid. Baker, I have no doubt but I tlfere area good many of your readers and ! others that would like very much to have your views upon the above query. A Baptist. 1 W e deem it but an act of justice to give the above a place in our columns, though we regret that the subject lias ever been in troduced in our paper. The writer is a much respected minister of the Gospel. In a private letter, accompanying the above, lie requests out views upon, “1 The na ture ol the offence; secondly, The trial, wilhtlrawtiienland restoration; thirdly, The j right of any other power to interfere.” i In a ease like that supposed by “A BapA) list,” it appears to us, there could lie but j little diversity of opinion. All would ad mit the offence to be very heinous; the tri al fce., to be irregular and nnscripturai; j and the right of others (individuals, church- j cs or associations,) to interfere, so for as to set upon such conduct the seal of their dis approbation, absolute and unquestionable.! But let it bo observed, that -the eases sup- j posed by brother Vamlivere and “A Bap-j list” arc very ‘different in their character. Extract of u letter from a lady in Teens ’ to her j inter in Georgia. “We - have no church to go to. We have heard but two sermons in this place since we came here, (more than a year.)— I'he nearest Baptist church is 70 miles. I had no idea of, nor can you imagine the wickedness ol the people, where the Gos pel is not pieaehed. I do not think there is a place in the world where a missionary is more needed than lu re, particularly on account of the servants. Our neighbors are all slave holders, and they disregard the Sabbath, affil go to work, as on any other day. Soni ■do all their grinding, butcher- j iug. sending on errands, Air. on Sundays. \ Some will h ive a wolf chase in the morn-) ing, get home to dinner, and then have mu- j ste on the piano, by their daughters in the 1 evening. It is common hoic for ladies to I play all sorts of tunes on the Sabbath.— V on know not how it pains me to see those | who arc kind and good neighbors, going on in this way. 1 ’ When you lire enjoying; your Sabbath and church privileges, I hope you will remember this destitute country, j and p.utieularly this place. If the church- j es could realize the many blessings they j derive from tlm Christian Sabbath and the preaching of the Gospel, they would try to | semi it to this perishing people. lam al ways glad to get the Index. 1 can then j hear ol the piogrexs of the cause of our I I'lciMM-d Minium . Nov. flow do Christians in Georgia feel on j account ol the manner in which many and | even some prof ssofs of religion, spend i their Sabbath, in this gospel favored, and j enlightened country? It is truly to he la- 1 men ted that the desecration of the Sabbath i has become a crying sin even in many eota inunilics professedly religious. And among its various abuses there is perhaps none mote common than Sabbath feasting. For the Christian Index. Jan. Kith lft ft. Buotmiu: Baui.u; —1 hope you will give this sliml notice a place in the Index, that our brethren ol the Talapoosa association may see our anxiety to effect a friendly correspondence with them, (ami all liberal Baptists,) they having appointed a commit tee to meet with a committee of the United association, in order to deliberate on the ‘ subject ol < ‘hi respondenee. We respond i to our hiothreii and appoint a meeting lor \ that purpose, on Saturday before the filth j Sabbath in March next, til Bethel Church, in Campbell Comity, six miles S. E. of Canipheilton, on tno tSandtovvn road. We hope the brethren generally will at tend, and may the Lord grant.that a spirit of Christian love and fellowship shall abound in our council to the glory of God, in the promotion of his cause and kingdom; and that the grace of God may abound more and more in believers’ hearts, till all pie posterous errors shall give way, and all who bear the cross of Christ shall unite in love and fellowship on the basis of the word of God. (icorgia Association. The Executive Committee of this Asso ciation would invite the attention of the churches to the Oth and llitlr articles of the minutes ot the last session. They will he reminded, that the churches are there re commended to collect and send in funds, by the Ist ol March, to the Executive Com mittee, for the purpose of procuring reli .gious hooks, to lie sold principally within the hounds of this Association. Some of the members who there pledged them selves to various amounts to raise said fund, have already sent up their stibscrip tioils. Those who have not done so. arc invited to pay them over to two. ('. M. 1 Irwin in Bowel ton or to It. M. Samlets in 1 Vntield. It is also hoped by the Com. that the recommendation of the Association will meet the hearty approval of every member of every church, ami that a liberal contri bution will be made for so desirable an ob ject. The pastors of the churches are par ticularly invited by the Committee to inter est themselves in this subject. The Kith article requests the Ministers and Deacon's to ascertain, as far as praeti i cable, the destitution of t.he Bible in the I hounds of their respective churches and re port to the Executive Committee by the Ist of May. Jt is also hoped by the Com | mitfee llrat if there should be found any families unable to pay for a Bible, that the neighboring churches will provide the means for their supply. B. M. SANDERS, .j W. 11. STOKES, J. S. BAKER. D. O. DANIEL, C. M. IRWIN, Ex. Committee. January 25th, I*o4. From the. N. E. Puritan Stntistirs of (Iriinc ami freed. Rev. Hugh Slowed, an Episcopal cler gyman ol Manchester, England, has un dertaken to show that the proportion of crime is far less among Churchmen, than among Dissenters.•twin stated publicly, 4k’ ol 3(53* under 17 years of age, i committed'Vi one year to the jail in Mau- only 117 belonged to the church, [while 243 were dissenters. This statement, | t as we learn from the Congregational Maga-j /.me, provoked investigation, which reveal-j |ed a widely different result. The number i |of juvenile offenders, felons and others, | under 17 years of age, dfrinniittetj, to the New Bailey from October 1839, to Orto j her 184*3, is 975. Os these 457 belonged i to the Established church; 278 are Roman I Catholics; (51 profess to belong In no rftli ! gious persuasion; of 8, it is stated that their religion is unknown; 2 are Socialists; I is a Jew; leaving to Protestant dissenters, ol all sects, only 101: that is to say, about one-sixth of the total number. ’J'liis discussion at Manchester led loan examination of the creeds of criminals, in general, at some other prisons. Edwaid Dawson, Esq., of Aldelilfe Hall, obtained the returns of prisoners confined in Lan caster Castle, from January, 1812, to April, 1813. which was published in the Patriot as follows: Episcopalians, 171 Roman Catholics, lu7 Dissenters. 81 ‘File returns of the chaplains of Preston House of Correction, printed in February last, are equally unfortunate for Mr. ISto wcll’s argument; Episcopalians’ 2(5(5 Roman Catholics, 111 Dissenting, 52 Another eb iieal witness lias been sum moned from the House of Cotreetion at Kirkdalc Lone, in the same county, to give evidence on the question; anti the result of his statistics are not more favorable to the ; pre-eminent goodness of the teaching of the j church of England. At the assizes, tes sions, and special commissions of 1812, there were, it seems, 795 prisoners. The following classification will tell the result: Episcopalians, 510 Roman ( hit holies, 180 Dissenters, (53 Flic Middlesex House of Corretnioit! supplied, three or four years ago, the fol-1 lowing returns: Episcopalians, 719 Roman t latholies, 137 Dissenters, 25 The ii.isloti -Merchant. Even those who are familiar with the name ol N. K. Cobb, may be benefited by a recurrence to his example; and of the j tens of thousands who read this little sheet, I there may be many lain Ireds who have! never-heard ids mane. We copy the fol-j lowing passages from his history. 11l November, 1821, he drew up and sab-1 scribed die following document. . j .-“ By the grace of God i will never he worth more than $59,000. . j “ By tile grace of God I will give one fourth’ of the net profits of my business to ! charitable ami religious uses. ‘•Ill am ever worth 820,000, 1 will rive otto half of my net profits ; and if I am ever worth $30,000, 1 will give three fourths, an I the whole, after $50,000. So help me (kid, or give to a more faithful steward, and set me aside. X. R. Come November , 1821.” To this covenant he adhered with con scientious fidelity. lie distributed the 1 profits of bis business, with an increasing ratio, from year to year, till he reached; the point which he had fixed as a limit ofj his property, and then he gave to tin ■cause of God all the money which In earned. At one time, finding that Ids property had increased beyond $50,000, lie! at once devoted the surplus, $7,500, as a foundation for a Professorship in the New ton Theological Institution ; to which, vve i may add, lie gave, on various occasions. duriirg his life, at least twice that sum. So ; scrupulous was lie in his adherence to the covenant which In- had made, that when peculiar circumstances required him to re tain in his possession more than $50,000, ho consulted judicious friends, whether he might do so consistently with the spirit of Ins pledge, provided he always held thei surplus as really belonging to the cause ul Coil. On his death-bed, lie said to a friend, in j allusion to the resolutions quoted above,— •* By the grace of Cod, —nothing else,—bv the grace ol Cod, 1 have been enabled, un der the influence of those resolutions, to giveaway more than $40,000. llow good ; , the Kuril lias been to me!” I A number of friends to the I'ree Dro- I testing Church of Scotland met in Canon i mills Hall,at Edinburgh, on the 14th tilt..; |to hear reports from the deputations that I had recently visited England. Mr. Twee die stated the committee had divided Eng land into twenty districts, to be visited by dift'erem deputation. In spite of much j [ vituperation and opposition, those depu ■ tations had everywhere been well received. | ; Altogether a sum 0fX'25,000 bail been re alitrted from the former and recent visits, 5 and some of the deputations were still pros ecuting the work. Mr. Camllish regret j ted that their Evangelical brethren of the t Church of England did not show them | much countenance. i At Glasgow'City Hall, on Tuesday week, a public meeting assembled, to con ! sider the conduct of the Peel Ministry in | their interference with the tight of public meeting and petitioning in Ireland. Reso j Unions were passed,, condemning that in* terference as a tyrannical encroachment |on the people’s rights and piivileges, and i declaring it the duty of all. reformers to sup port the Irish people in vindicating their rights; especially as Government, if sue : rcssful in Ireland, might extend the same ! coercive measures to the sister kingdoms. The'ancient palace of Holy-rood House at piesent shows some of the splendor which formerly rested upon it when it was j the abode of royalty. For some time past die Duke ami Duchess of Hamilton, the j Marquis of Douglas, and the Princess Ma ria ol Baden, the Countess of Lincoln, with a numerous retinue of servants, have taken up their residence in the palace; ami :on Tuesday last the Marquis and Marchi ; oness of Breadalbane also arrived there, with the intention of making some consid j cradle stay. The residence ot these no j ble families, with the retinue of each, j | makes a daily stir in the neighbourhood, j | and throws some gleams of its former splendor on the long deserted CanoFgatc. Change of Clews* —The Record, of I’hiladelphiu, informs its readers that Elder Bennett has accepted an appointment from : the North Carolina Convention* having be- i conic a convert to the mission cause. Tbis-j lias led to his exclusion from the church in which lie had his membership. Elder 15. was the founder, and for some years the I editor of the Primitive Baptist, the organ i of the KehiiUeeiles in North Carolina and j other Southern slates. — Richmond Herald, j The Result. —A brother writes that a ; Methodist Preacher, in the interior of the stale, has been preaching zealously against ; Apostolic Baptism, ami that in consequence ! thereof, nineteen of his members nave ask- j ed for certificates of membership, in order to union with the Baptist Church.— Raj:. Ih corJ. Bupli it i in .V /’ Cork, —The statistics j of our churches in the Empire State, as ! just published, with the minutes of the I State Gonvenlioii, aie as follows: Forty- I one associations; eight hundred and three churclies; seven hundred anil twenty-three ordained, one hundred am! twenty-three licensed clergyman; fifteen thousand seven hundred and ninety-four baptised during j tbe year. Total number of communicants, j .Ninety seven thousand six hundred ami j nine. Mr. Girard directed by his will that no Minister ol the Gospel “should ever lie ad- ! milted for any purpose, or as a visiter, with- i in the premises” of his Oollego. The ap- j parent ill success—if not entire frustration of his scheme, seems to indicate that God is rebuking bis impiety. “Except tin lord build die bouse, they labor in vain that build it.” Newspapers. — Ilmv often have vve heard some people say, “1 would give any sum. if my children were inclined to read ami study as vvi II as others are.” Well, why ; is it that some children are’ more inclined to read than otlters? It is generally because j their parent* have taken some pains to have ! : their bouses supplied with newspapers— ; Strange it jp, tliatjsome would give so much i if their children were .studious—-yet cannot alliird to pay a small trille Jor a paper that would be the means of forming that desira ble habit. 1 know of no plan that induces , ehiidton to read like that of having papers and petiodicals come into the family; and I have also observed that children thus habit uated .are not so much inclined as others to vicious habits.— Morning Star. Machines versus Men. —lt is even so— we have seen—vve have heard a machine talk ! We heard it say, “ .Mr. .Speaker,” ; m a tone so distinct and startling, that no Speaker could have foiled to lie attracted by it ; ami then it wept on, now in German, now in English, then in Latin—and to its longues there need be no end—to utter whatever was ijpsired. Wfc assure our readers that this thing of wood and paint, coutehoue anil keys, did distinctly articu late as though having trachea, larynx, glot tis, and epiglottis; tongue, palate,-auii gums—each acting as in the living human subject. The tone alone was not natural, but die syllables and words entirely so; and there beside it sat its ingenious and pa tient German inventor, Mr - Faber, playing as on a piano on the sixteen keys —no more—which cause the utterance of all lan- guage. Tor fourteen veais this unwearying me-: ehanieian lias labored at this invention.— The letter E was that of which lie found it \ most difficult to give the sound. He devo ted to the accomplishment of that sound, seven years ! and* lie has nccoiu-. plisheil it. By long continued anatomical ‘ investigation, lie first niasletcd all the phys ! ical minulite of the organs of speech, and j then, mainly out of India rubber—prepared ’ so as to resist the changes of temperature— he imitated all these organs, and by springs ; moves the parts as they are mined in life. 1 So far as talking is characteiislic of man, lie has made a man.—.V. T'. .Imcriccin, Dyspeptic Chairs. —Among the novel ties of the day, we notice the announcement by Mr. llaisled of New York—the origina tor of the chauipooing system—of the in vention of a chair designed for the bene fit of dvspeptie persons. It is so construe led as to give the pdrson seated in it, the peculiar kind of joiling which is experi enced when riding ou • liorsekack. -The • Chair is provided with arms and cushions —may he operated by the [individual scat jedinit—nnd without noise! So that the invalid “stir up the elements” at pleasure, i nnd enjoy the luxury of a ride on horse i back, without exposure to the weather, or even leaving the room! V E NFIE LD. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1544. To Subsrribfrs. If the moneys sent us are not promptly ’ or correctly credited we will be grateful for early corrections. Owing u> tbe recent freshets in seme parts of the country, and j the consequent irregularity of the mails, we fear that vve may have sustained some loss. As some of our subscribers are two or lit tee-years in arrears, vve expected con-; i lidenily to have heard from them about the j i first of January*, We hope that such will ■ | relieve us from our anxiety by sending us i an early communication. Changes. —The correspondents of Rev. James Davis and Mr. J. V. Davis will please take notice that their present Post- j Office is Enon Grove, and address ‘ them ! accordingly. Rev. Etisiiio Kincaid. It is with much pleasure vve announce i [to our readers that this devoted missionary, ! | whose labors have been so signally blessed ; jin India, will extend his tour in the South | as far as Georgia. ll* is expected to be in Penliehl, Tuesday an.l Tuesday night, 20tli , Greensboro’, Wednesday night ; ] Madison, Thursday and at night; Bartles ville, Saturday; Forsyth, Lord’s day* 25th; Macon, Tuesday ; thenre to Savannah. Brethren from the surrounding country, | who can, would do well to attend his mee- j ting's and listen to his thrilling narrative of: scenes in missionary life. Wherever he ‘ has been, his hearers have evinced the in- : terest they felt by liberal contributions for the spread of the gospel in heathen lands. It is probable that brother James B. Tay lor, jiastor of the 3rd Baptist Church in j Richmond, Va., will accompany brother K. W ill nut the Rail Road Companies,and the proprietors of Stages on their route allow ‘ them to pass free of expense ? This priv ilege was a Horded by the Central Rail Road \ ! to tic: Methodist .Ministers who attended j the (’.inference in Savannah last .year.— 1 Methodist (‘oaf u emvs assemble annually., hut a missionary from India will not he | likely to visrl.ua once in twenty years. Ui'Ci'ipis for Indigent Ministers. From Bro. I*. A. I.awsoa $3 Ot) eid i ted to R>v. S. G, Fry, of t'-.o Western Association—o:c that wa know to be de serving. From Miss I’lpjw, of ibis place, $1,00; Rev. J. (J. West, s>„>:). Bro. D. I‘aschal sent $2,5J for brother McCall.— As another has paid for him wo shall return , the m mey when instructed through what channel to send it. We are at a bus to de cide to whose credit to apply the Inti,ls re j reived, as application Ins been ma la, at I different tim is, for an imbCr of indigent ‘ ; ministers, with whom vve are not personal ly aequ lint • I an I who-*: l*. O’s vve do not ; now rem ‘ n’> r. Fi o ititb in *to receive the he befits of these conliib itiuns it is ne- 1 cessery, l That he !>c a pious; a. live ami useful iiiinist -r, 2. That lie lie -really in needy cir.vi us'o vos; 3. Thai t lie brethren | among wh en he labor* be also indigent and ! unable to asdst him. Will brethren ac- I quaint us with such? * George Ren z and Mrs. N. Cain, $2 50 each, for brother Al’i'all. As bro. Al'G.'s ! subscription has been paid, lii money will I lie held subject to tbe nr,! •r-of tlce donors. ! An anonymous correspondent, at Bros pert j Ridge, l’ike.enmity, Ala. sent $2 00, for j the same purpose. Ad,: i *o;i in (Joicity Line C’hotoh, Tal bot, informs’ u* ih at their former pastor, brother Rowel, h s moved away, aml broth er Walton Birry been elected in his |>lac.*. [lndirect* us to send the latter, the In lex upon his ovn r >q> msihility. Here, breth ren, is a good example—follow it. We have remitted by mail to brother I McCall $2,50, contributed l>v R v. J. (j. West to enable him t i procure a pair of saddle bags. (Jib* Editorials. j They are necessarily written in haste.— We cannot seat ourself at our fireside, like many of our correspondents- and write at our leisure. We are liable to interruption every moment, and, hi consequence ol these, egery’ line that \vu write is written under apprehensions of such interruption. Sometimes we have to drop our pen in the i midst of a .sentence or a word; sometimes | just as some important idea presents “itself |to the mind- fader such circumstances, we are ever liable to commit errors; but wc ; are always ready and willing to correct j 1 errors when wade sensible of than. Our j i columns abound with evidence of this fact, j If the views of any one are, at any time misrepresented by trs, it is always done uu intentionally, and, therefore, our columns j are always open to the communications of | such as think that their views have been j | misrepresented, piovided they are couched lin respectful language. But we would : have all to know and remember, that we are not to be intimidated by threats, oi to be influenced in our course by any one man or j set of'men—not even by our Executive Committee. They never have interfered, .and we do not believe they ever will inier fere with our private rights, and dictate to us what we shall or shall not write. Were ; they to do this—to us they would do it but once: for, as we have said once before, we arc determined to bi* an independent editor, orno editor. The Executive Committee leave the risrht to displace us, if vve are tin : faithful to die trust reposed in us, hut they have.no right to shape our editorials fonts. It is due to the Committee,-as well as our-* ; self, that these facts be borne in remem -1 brattcc by our readers. Criitiftiiiy Refuted. We hare received along communication from Air. John. T. Merely, professedly it? reply to our remarks mi his pamphlet enti tled as above, which he requests us to pub-, fish. With this request we are unwilling to comply; for E Jirstice does not. require it. Mr. Alosely thinks we did him injustice', in our remarks on one of his interrogatories, which appeared to us to be a reflection V- the*, whole Baptist Denomination. We think it will he doing him ample justice to state,- j that he disclaims, any such intention amb contends, that other parts of his pamphlet! , aught to hare been sufficient to satisfy utr that he had no such intention. We receive his assurance as satisfactory on that point and exonerate him from, intentionally re | fleeting on our ‘denomination. We should 1 have been better satisfied, however, had lie informed us whet was the intention of the ■ interrogatory. 2. Much of his-communieation is a viii-* dication of himself, not from any tiling that has appeared against him in the Index, ; but from tiie charges, expressed or implied, !of Mr. Baltimore and others. As vve have ! not admitted these in our columns, justice cannot, in our opinion, require that vve ad mit Mr. Moseley’s defense. 3. By far the greater pari of Mr. Mose ley’s communication consists of statements and arguments designed, apparently, to im peach the conduct of Mr. Litlimorc ami the churches in .Mississippi. .Mr- Moseley appears to be a tnati of sense: vve therefore 1 fee! persuaded that lie will readily see, dial were vve to publish his eiumriiiuiraiion wo* should be morally bound to open our rol- ; limns to replies front .Mr, hnttimore and hi* friends. Mr. Letimore would hue to lie ; tried again in our columns, and owing ti> the. distance of the parlies Iron us, die tria 1 , ! perhaps, might luvu to lie continued for | years. It would he carried on, too,’ he lore :i triluiN:il tlnit ecitoinlv ei,u!d not hen* competent to •!•,-; !:■ on the merit* of the ’ ‘‘ :,se ere the churches tun! citizen* of M i'-i-■ i■o i, who ore persowdly : i'<jll;ii nled with t:.c parties om! with the character of the witnesses. !he testimony on ihrs east! i* as contradictory as ;( we!! ran he, llow | toe editor, or In* renders would know witom to-hclieve we ;;rent n loss toeonceive, ‘■ ‘* e repent, therefore. the expression of our unwillingness to admit the dt.-ciissinn of Mr. T.ittinmr: s guilt or iuiinrcney io our rolumns. We will only remark, that tin? virulence ol .Mr. T.itltinoreV opponent.* oui lilt; anxiety they manifest to have him arraigned in distant papers—the Phil, Oh servi,, Ala. Hapiist and C, Index, is well I ealeulated to weaken the form of their tes lliliuuy and to frustrate the deinanils ol jns tiee, it .Mr, 1,, ho indeed the eriuiinal thrv represent him to he. W mild it not lie the j height of presumption in ns, n stranger to Mr. h. ami to his “aeon, ers, to dotumnee Mr. I,ittiniorc, and thus to oondemn diet whole churches, Associations and a state Conveniioit, that sustain'liim? Is it possible 1 that Mr. Moseley. Mr. Newton, or any J other, ran expect us ,to repose more onnfi denee in the suitenfcnts of a far iiulividn als, unknown to us,.’ than in the nets of ehurelies, associations, fce that have been known to us bv character for many veaisT rite Judge of till the earth will do right, if Mr. I„ lie tlic guilty-being .Mr. Moseley ami Mr. Newton represent him to lie, hi* guilt w ill s loner or later lie made manifest; if he be innocent, bis enemies will be con loan led. (iod forbid that we should ever seek to screen the guilty, or a fiord facilities fir assailing the innocent. Mr. Moseley, in the conclusion of his communication, says, “I should for the pre sent, court rather than slum die denuncia tions of all the presses and of all the fools in the land.” “The Doctrines of liracc.” The Christian Index—a Baptist paper— says, “ we design to give a series of edito rials on the doctrines of grace.’ 1 .May we not hope the editor will keep in mind at least two important items. 1. That the Bible never says any thing a : bout doc!rim s, except in a bad sense. We have in dial book the doctrines of men and ;devi!s; but never the doctrines of grace, of Cod or of Christ.— Messenger of (Had Ti | dings. The above affords a fair specimen of the biblical knowledge of Mr. Shehane, asso ciate editor of the Messenger of Glad Ti lings, a Universalist paper published in Wetumpka, Ala. W ill Mr. S. presume to affirm that the term doctrine is used “ in a hail sense” in the following passages: “ Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doc trine ? them that are weaneiMroin the milk, | and drawn from the breasts.” Is. 28. 9. .See also v. 19 and 29. 24; 53. 1. “ And it came to pass when Jesus had ended these savings, the people were as tonished at his doctrine.” Mat. 0. 28. “ lie taught and said to them in his doc trine.” Mark 4. 2; 12. 38. *• If any man will do his will lie shall