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JOSEPH -S. BAKER —Editor.
VOL. XIII.
TERM? —PER AN'S I'M.
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"-■='■ L -OBUH.
DirettiuiiJ to Persons Comunuciug a Religious
• •* “ *s%’ e- I
1. Remember liiat the rotpmeneeinent
Christian life is t. be!ike the “dawn
ing light, which sliinofli more mid more
itnin the perfect jlajy” Therefore when
iiie hope'bf peace and pardon dawlis m the
heath do not consider the great b t/'iuess of
liltfii-t accomplished! but only as begun.
2. Keep up as great a strife and earnest
ness in religion, ns if you knew yourself to
he in a state of nature. When’ jtersons are
under convictions of sin, they are advised
to he earnest and violent fur the kingdom
of heaven. You ought not to he less in
painest now, if you wish not tolosea sweet
and lively sense of spiritual ihiugs.
3. Do not cease to suive and pray for
the very suite things which you sought be
fore you had reason to hope vou were con
vened. Thi)ate who Irtve ’ uthyi ligljfWidl
uiostupce, have, iieverihvJfe*. need of
(i*ore. .There are very (ew requests tW
are pioper ho'an impenitent shiner,-that
are not proper for one who professes godli
ness. A i any rule, the mistake wiil tie
you no h uni.
4. Evidence of plqty is not so- much .to
he sought in high cmoti.ms of any Ujjttd, as
in ‘real humility—self-distrust—hungering
mid Uiirsiing alter righteousness, sorrow
for sin, and a continual effort, in every-day
life, lo regulate our thoughts, leelings, and ]
conduct hy the word ol (hid. It is so- in.
-nrrfmnr-iiw .m-rtrgrt't- iVl'llUl 1 tt'tie,' lll nTTr
which is to be regarded in the examination
of our evidence. The host way to know
our feelings is, to see bow tln-y influence
the conduct. *;jjy their fruits ye slia.l j
know them.” TPhvay* look iijion those as |
the be>l comfort w liieh !: nvc must ol these
Hvo e(Tacts —those that m ike you least and .
lowest and most like a child, and those that
taosl determine you to deny ynurst-lt, and ,
to spend anti he spent in the service ol yout';
Master.
0. Do not exped to find tn your own !
case. i very thing you have heald or read ol j
in the experience of others. For it may j
be that many things we hear and read of,
are. not correct feelings, and do not afford
just grounds ol eonlidettce, lo any one ;
and if they are correct experience, it may
be tile experience ol a mature Gt.rislian,
and not to be expected in the beginning ol
a religious lile. It must be remembered
that as no two countenances
so no two hearts
pall- ■(! ill m
W'-..*■ ‘ H ■ .'-*"■ H
H
THE CHRISTIAN INDEX.
j A more f„ise or more pernicious opinion
cannot easily be adopted by Christiana.—
The truth is, that the road to eminence in
gilts ami graces, and the means of attaining
them, are open lo alt who seek them, amt
it any do not attain them, it is owing to their
own sloth and inefficiency, and not to any
deficiency on the part of God in blessing
diligent efforts, it always pleases hi into
crown with success the hand of the diligent
instead of the hand of the slothful, not only
in temporal but in spiritual things. -This
thought cannot be too strongly impressed
upon the minds of those wltg are just com
inetii iug the Christian life. To §s*-
culiarly arc such promises as these directed}
“4 s| M 4td ye_aha.il ajeciye. smdi atm.ye
shall find, knock :md it
to you. Every one- that asketit receiv
eth,” <fcc.
Do not be afraid of indulging* iff. feelings
which may seem to be right, Irotn the fear
of deception. On the contrary, cherish J
such f’eelytgs anti try tn retiali .tiiein qlicn.
(Jo tot ward and do your duly, and God
wiil save you from deception while thus
employed.— /ted, It.
7'roOi thr ■ Alabama Papdis!.
“ :i Wit - ‘
Repott of the orrthe
Relations of Southern and .Northern I’ap
lists, adopted hy the Mississippi Baptist
Stale Convention, holdeti at Grenada Yal
labuslia Conniy June 2S, 1845.
Your Commiueo to take into consider:!-
t:on the recent decision ol the Uaptist
Board of Foreign Missions, located at Bos
ton, and ol the America!! Baptist Home
Mission (Society, recently convened in
Providence Rhode Island, affecting the
rights ol Southern Baptists who are slave
holders, and the proceedings of the South
erd Baptist Convention at August: t Gear- f
g]a, besides ali other documents relating tof
this subject, would respectfully report
that they have had the same under ’deliber
ate investigation and reflection, and that
they have emue to tiie following-conclu
sion :
That they, in common ■. ith the wltole
denomiuatto i in tlte South and South west,
have received the intelligence ol these de
cisions, vvhereby slaveholders are made
mol ally unequal with lion-slaveholders,
and pit that aecmtnl rendered uneligihle to
appointments as Missionaries or A vents of
•Wi-. rvnvsgn ■rsr iJiniiiihu” m isßiirfr*'tTTTßWl l } lll
with the deepest regret: that such deci
sions arc in violation of life* constitutions’
which have hound us together as one man
in henevoleiu operations, and in express
contravention of the resolutions passed all
lim Triennial Convention, held lit Philadel-1
phta id 1814, and of the Home Mission!
Society held at the same time and place,
and are in like m inner contrary lo the ex
amples of out Saviour and bis Apostles,and
entirely subversive ol the usage oAftfjt Bap
tist denomination irom the earliest period
!of history, ns well as prejudicial to the
j rights of Southern Christians.
\ <mr Committee, while making this j
getteial expression of sentiment with r6fct ,
unce to tin painful subj el, would dbfcl.itni j
themselves ami
e i:v.‘
FOR THE BAPTIST CONVENTION OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA.
PEN FIELD, GA., AC GUST 1, 1845.
Baptist State Convention now held at this
place.
T. N. WAUL, Pres’t.
Wm. Jorean Denson, Sec’y.
Ta tlte ministry and Members’of Ibe Baptist
Church in the South,
‘t he undersigned would respectfully in
lorm the Religious public, and all others
interested, but especially the lar_;e number
who so generously came forward with their
names at his first cull ibr subscribers to
Jones’ Church History, that the work is
rapidly progressing, and will be ready for
delivery by the first of September next, at
farthest; and so soon as u sufficient number
at the different points from whence they
are ordered, l - wilrjffit be amiss tu state
that the republicatioir of this history wqs
suggested to the subscriber by loflueirtml
ministers and members of the’Baptist de-t
uomnuitioti, and tt is lo me active among
j them lie has to attribute (he success in ob
| laitiing already, perhaps, the largest list of
I subscribers ever obtained tu a Southern
publication. But from the tone of the let-
I tors received on tffo subject,.many neigh
“bdrhootit atid chuV. lies have not yet had an
of giv|their, mflue.ice to
tfns bon i hern enterpnze. lie
makes this last appeal for subscribers, hop
ing that no time will he lost in sending in
the demands for tlte work, lest an insuffi
cient number of copies may be printed.
The undersigned deems it proper to ap
pend a lew extracts /rout letters received
from Baptist ministers in ;!ti* State on the
subject.
All communications containing subscri
bers must be addressed to the undersigned.
ciiakles Yancey,
k Wetumpka, Ala., July 7, 1845.
T ‘ AsrfvitLE, St: Clair Cos., Ala., )
July J
, Mr- Charles j luriceg: —Sir’—-1 received
y,our Prbspectus and Circular, for the pub-
I teat ion ol Jones’ Clititclt History. The
proposal meets my hearty approbation, and
1 tsh you mu most abundant success in
this euterprize.
You state in your Circular that you are
fixing up a Book Printing and Binding es
tablishment lor the purpose ol publishing
books, and that you think you ean publish
as cheap as at the jYurtli, Ever since 1
l "“, ,re ? li . ott
almost every tiling we eat,“ifr'n!;, wear,
smell, or look on, or use in any way, comes
Irom the A'urth. Our Bibles and hymn
books, papers and tracts, Text hooks in’
science and arts, reviews, (fee., our cloths
aud lushioiis, wigs and curls, our school
teachers and wives, all, all, are Irotn Broad
way. Why this depot..) nee? how long,
i have frequently asked, shall this state ol
things last? Niot even tlte memoirs of an
old.baptist minister can be published this
side ol Philadelphia.
Let, 1 say, tin- Methodists
concern ia the South ; the Ba^^Hv'-IPllSfl
I-C.iltoti Sudd \ ; i-.e j a
.I • U • > ‘ * • • -
i"t tic--
suriug uht uni; subscribers, hut ali who
may be tlcsiro sto become so, that tlte
Mectratjikal Erecnuon of the work will ra
ther st'was >|an disappoint tiie expecta
tions 3(5*1) W.fo may have become interes
ted in m publication*
1L jfl. D. WILLIAMS,
- General Atccnt.
Vetun.p % 7,18-45.
.v/’ it the Christian Index.
’
The Power of Gentleness —A Pnrnble.
Edit , the daughter ol Salome, had (alien
into a t olent jw.-isinu at what slie called the
ojip’inrv ;• of.kci brother J'lhatnatt, vvl.ioh
j lie: prudent mother overheard.
She 4|ed her aside into her little chamber,
oayijtjM‘AOrune, rnv daughter, ami listen
to a word of£<ifuclioii from vour mother.”
Wheni. tsy ■B<w>one, Salome thus be
gan': \(er had riveted with his
bars roll Im-H itt te and the stream, and
had ht*ig s with tent-hats and gltt
leringp-'iijlkes ;,ihe chill \ i. tls whistled
keeulyliv ; -er th. Iklls until nil nature seem
ed fixing and Mna as adamant. Not die
firi.ijte\eemed more ttnyit-hlitig
sheet in which the lake
was etWj.ed. r 'And I said, What power
can br’fak this anti cause these lim
pid’ tilters ot:ce more to bubbie onward in
their mntjecourse, or dash its dew-like spray
from tie liny cataract that full Irom tiie
itiii r|
i rcitrned, and spring had come with its
bnlmyjJreatli. Bite had breathed upon the
rock .tit) the tree, the lake and the stream ;
and till in icy waters once more flushed in
cataract once more leap
ed firtw-ha mazy height into Us little basin
of below—the trees had cast
off! encasement —the alder had
forth in all tlicii grace and
maple had clothed lieiseii'in
htlr riwfcit crimson—the crocus and the
snow-wop reared themselves from the soil,
Iwk u little while ago ribbed in frost and
sngwJ-j’
l cqnsidered what l saw, and I said.
How’iflildifc.and yet how powetfnl is gen
thqv"? m mother and tlitughier bowed
in of Israel; and, as
the soul of the parent biealbed iisell forth
oil Wfltaif of tier hasty, but affectionate
child,ithe big tear-drops, falling upon her
head,/subdued her dialed spirit into gemle-
devotion. MARCUS
To the Editor „f t / lc Christian
Dk.oi Bir. -In .1
\n-r.\y
: aud cliri*tiati brotlter would cfiecriuliy re
tract and for die appearance of
what we had shown to be an erroneous
statement. Our letter—written, as it was,
without any special regard, to logical exact
ness—tnay possibly, it each sentence were
taken separately and independently . | tin
connection and general train us thought,
have afforded one, skilled in detecting min
ute delects in composition, so ;.c apparent
opportunity Iqr cavilling. We do serious
ly floulit, however, v. lietlier any well
grounded objection can be urged against its
perspicuity; and wc hope to show, further
on, by a consideration of your criticises,
that, so tar lioiu just and logical, they
proceed, when regarded in the moat favo:a*
ble light, from a misunderstanding of tlte
o'jert and scope of our remarks.
Before proceeding to a condensed view of
your criticisms on our epistle, we must pre
miie that its main design was to show that
the I acuity have heretofore permitted, and
do now permit and invite, ministers fn.ni
the South to preach in the Chapel of the
Institution O Iter reinafks were made,
not absolutely essential to litis design, hut
still naturally arising from, and in a greater
or less degree connected ‘foil:, the consider
ation of tlte subject.
We did not, as you appear lo hate sup
posed, attempt to prove ‘his by h I’errit g to
certain individuals who had, within our
own knowledge, pleached in the chapel.
We asserted, and do still assert, that the
Faculty permit Southern ministers to occu
py the chapel pulpit, and adduced the in
sianc.es we had known as tjie basis of our
assertion, taking it for granted ihatoar indi
vidual testimony was sufficient to csta’o- i
lis/i the fuel. :
Another object of our letter was to show I
ill what way the Hamilton Literary aud 1
Theologict.l Institute does, notwithstanding
your denial oGhe fjet, confer degress upon I
its graduates. I
In glancing rapidly at your remarks on f
the letter, therefore, although we may no
tice objections not bearing directly upon ei- 5
liter of these two points, ,vc do not consul- :
er ourselves bound to prove more than s
what we have already, in our view, made 1
sufficiently clear.
We ean say. |br wo know, nothiiljj ol 1
the reasons of the •• Baptist editors in the *
State” for not noticing Vflttrartic| H „ n „..e r „.
inij like vh ws r
Publisher— BENJ. BRANTLY.
• received by the Faculty, and invited to oc-
I etipy the cfrapei pulpit.” They have ever
cordially welcomed brethren from the
, South. As we have said before, whatever
. may be their views, as individuals, on the
subject of slavery, in the government of the
Institution and in their invitations to mlcie
leis frwhi abroad to preach in the chapel,
they make no distinction whatever between
the Northerner and the Southerner.
Examine, if you please, our last cata
logue. What do you observe? Among
the names of other students from the Sooth,
you will find those of two in one of the
j theological chisses, both of whom are con
nected with slavery; yet, both of these
take part in the chapel exercises, and enjoy
precisely the same privileges as their
Northern brethren. This is itself a stand
ing proof of the incorrectness of tbe quota
tion made from your paper.
Me must still persist in calling the as
sert.on, that the “Institution has no power
to confer degrees,” another error ; for, is
not a statement, which conveys * false im
pression, an error in effect? Now, though
this Institution has not the power residing
in itself, it has, nevertheless, a delegated
potter, so to speak, inasmuch as it can,
through its arrangement with one of our
Colleges, as effectually and as really confer
these degrees as any College or University
whatever.’
To your closing paragraph we cannot
but take particular exception. To an im
partial reader it wouli? appear that the wri
ti r, after having, in his previous remarks,
done all that was possible to prejudice the
South against the Institution at Hamilton,
had added the latter with the expectation of
awakening a similar feeling in the North.
Iu one way or another, then, the remarks
tended to injure this Seminarv.
Wo regict that we are compelled to tres
pass so long upon your lime and attention ;
but it lias seemed impossible for us, con
sistently with our design, to he mote brief.
We do most sincerely hope that this will
set the matter at rest, and forever remove
all doubt as to iliecouise now, as ever, pur
sued by our Faculty in reference to the re
ception of brethren from the South.
Anxiously desiring lhat you may never
have tfccasion to hear from ns again on this
subject, te subscribe ourselves.
WM. C. DUNCAN.
GEO. AI. LAWTON. ,
July 14, 1845.
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