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JOSEPH -S. BAKER —Editor. VOL. XIII. TERM? —PER AN'S I'M. “sir the Christian Index, publish ed on Friday in e;u.h week, (except two in the year), will be furnished to each sub scriber at *2 50 cents, in advance: or S3 if not paid within the year. , _7 Post-Masters, where the Index is taken, are re .{nested to forward reimtlan es for subscribers at their respective odi ous, according i,> a decision of the Post- Master General as to their right to do so. All patrons and agents are requested to notice this. Every Agent, (and all Baptist Ministers are particularly solicited to become agents,) n’kii procure and nay for five copies of the b'& entitled to a sixth*,-as a compensation for his trouble. hatters on business, or communications, must be addressed to the Editor, post paid. Advertisements maybe inserted on usu al terms, at the discretion of the Editor’. "-■='■ 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. NO- 31-