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6, 1848.]
THE I2TDEZ.
PEN FIELD, JAN. 6, 1848. !
Propositions.— We will reduce the price of the Index from ]
82,50 to 82,00 in advance, if our subscribers will extend
our subscription list to five or even four thousand subscribers.
We will reduce it still further, to 81,00 the year, if they
will extend our list to 10,000. There ought to be that num
ber of subscribers found amongst the 60,000 Baptists in
Georgia. A. *
Another. —For 84,00 sent us, with the name of anew
subscriber, we will send the Index one year to the new sub
scriber and extend the credit of the old subscriber otic year,
provided he pays up arrearages, (if any there be,) at the
sometime.
(U* Yet another. —Further to encourage efforts, to enlarge
our subscription list, so as to enable us to reduce the price,
we engage to send our paper, sot one year, to any two new
subscribers who will send us $ 1,00 at the time of subicribaig.
Those, last two propositions to continue in force for three
months from Jan. ’4B.
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If the price of our paper is not reduced whose fault will
it be? ‘Vi
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Tub New Year. —Once more is ft our privilege to ex
tend to our readers the salutations of .anew year. The pre
sent is a joyous season to many, i The clastic mind, as it
rolls off the cares and anxietiesef the past,, rises to the con
temptation of hope’s brilliant paintings of the future. The
eyes that were lately bedimmed with tears now sparkle
with delight; the furrowed ‘orow”Ts"stKs6?bef-t, and the voice’
of lamentation and mourning, that grew deeper and sadder
as the past year rolled on to its close, is now suddenly
hushed, or, at least, is drowned for a season with the joyous
exclamation, from thousands of lips, “ A liapp/ new year!”
“ How vlclily are their 110011-tide trances hung
With gorgeous t;ij>esirio* of pictured joys !**
A happy now year do we wish you, reader, but v?e should
prove alike unfaithful to our God and to you, should weten
oourage you to indulge the delusive hope that the new year,
on which you have hut just entered, will bring with it fewer
temptations, fewer cares, less arduous labors, or lighter du-‘
ties than the past.
“ Life is war;
Eternal war with wo: who bears it best
Deserve* it leant.”
*• T. ■■■•* rIU ruiMirtii i ’iw ill pierc* tlieo l<> llu heart;
A broke a reed at lest; but olt a spear:
On its sharp point peace bleeds, and hope expires.”
Hope, we know, ever pictures the future in the brightest
colors ; she suffers no sable tint to rest on her glowing can
vass ; hut hope is a deceiver. She ‘ beckons to destroy,’
and “smiles but to deceive.’ When has a year in the re
trospect ever appeared as it was exhibited by her in pro
spective ? Never! never! Every revolving day educes
more or less of her luminous pencillings. As it has been, so
will it ever continue to be:
“The spider’* iunst attenuated thread
I- cord, i- < able, to man’s tender lie
On earthly bliss; it break* at every breeze.”
Heed not the whisperings of hope; form not your ideas
of the future from her fanciful portraiture of it, but study
the realities of life from the faithful impressions stamped in
the mind by undying memory. The one is but a fancy
sketch ; the other is a daguerreotype one is.
a sketch of life as wc wish it; the other is a truthful impress
of lift as it is.
*• Compare tha rival* and the kinder Crown.”
If we study life as it appears in the history of the past, we
shall be prepared for its duties and its trials. .Disappoint,]
mauls will not depress our spirits, or sour our tempers for
they will not oome upon us unexpectedly. We shull be led
to lay in a store of grace on which we may subsist, when 1
prevented by the adversities of life from going abroad t a look
for food.
“ Ti< irreatly wire to talk w itb otw pest houre,
And :ivk ibpnt%h:;l P-|*.ri they bore to licoven;
And liovvtln-y mi; lit navy borne more welcome news.”
We should all look back at the beginning of anew year. 1
note the errors that we have committed, study to avoid them
for the future, and labor to counteract their evil influence.
“ O, what hcajs of plain
Cry out for vengeance on us! Time destroyed
Is suicide, where more than blood is spill.”
1 f, in time past, we have been neglectful of duty, we should
resolve to apply ourselves with more diligence in’ fhture.
If tve have w ithheld from tire Lord or our lellow-men what
of our time, our efforts or our substance, was their due, we!
should resolve to be more faithful and more liberal for the
future. We should seek, Zaccheus-like, to restore four-fold
to the cause of God and a dying world for the wrongs we
have done them.
“ The man who consecrati-s his hours
By vig’roo* effort and an honest aim,
At once he draws the sting of life arid death ;
lie walks w ith nature, and her paths are peace.”
©lie intfrr.
New mercies demand new praise, new purposes of heart j
and endeavors after new obedience. We should feel this ‘
sentiment, now that we are permitted by the mercy of God j
to enter upon anew year. Why has my life been spared, j
let each one ask himself, while numbers have fallen on our
right hand and on our left ? Not that we may live in sin—
feast our bodies and starve our souls—but that we may teach
the world, bv precept and example, how to love and serve
God,
w Time wasted is existence, used w lift*.”
“ That life is long which answers life’s great end*
That time that bears no fruit deserves no name.
The man of wisdom is tlve man of yea*.”
We have entered upon anew year-Jthall wc live to see
its end ? God only knows. Wo haillfancicd’ that as we
parted from the old year we heard a vJoc of warning from.i
! those who were borne away by it—“ prepare to follow us,
for this year some of you, yea, 111.111/ of you shall die.”!
The writer may be one of the many, and you, reader, you,
too, may be one. Let us all, then, seilc to live and act as
though we know this year would be our last on earth.
44 One eye on death, and one full fixed'on heaven,
liucomes a mortal and immortal man.”
Advertisements. — Many seem to think that wo buy pa
per, pay printers, and incur the heavy expense of publishing
a weekly paper, merely that we may have the honor of pub
lishing advertisements of schools, books, and other things,
whereby they may be benefitted, “ free gratis for nothing.”
It is out of all reason—tve cannot do it —wc will not do it.
Those who wish advertisements inserted in our paper, here
after, are required to nenJ the money with their advertise
ments, or give us a guarantee that tv e shall receive it, or its
equivalent, as soon as we comply with their behest. Are we
to scatter our pennies, that they may gather them up? If
they derive pecuniary advantage from our labors, is it not
reasonable that they should compensate us for them ? or, at
least, refund what we expend for their pecuniary benefit?
We appeal to reason, conscience, and to every principle of
justice. Within the five years thut we have been connected j
with the Index, we have actually expended an advertisements , j
as we can prove by an arithmetical process, at least SI,OOO !
and we have not received, on an average, over 8100 the
year for this expenditure ! We have thus lost, besides the
time and labor expended on the advertisements, in correcting
proof, (and sometimes the MSS.,) at the lowest calculation,
$500! Duty to our creditors, as well as to aw family, re
quires that we should pursue this lenient, or rather prodigal
course, no more.
> , This article was penned previous to our sending out ac
counts fur advertising, in December. Wc make this state
ment to prevent misapprehension on the part of those to
■ whom bills have been sent.
i 03* Our correspondents must bear with us. We have
1 very many communications on band which must ‘bide their
time.’ Having but part of a week in which to prepare this
number, we are compelled to use what was left in type after
issuing our last number. In two or three weeks wo hope;
to be able to distribute to our readers the original mutter
which has been accumulating since our last issue.
;L;. We have also severul'books and minutes to he noticed.
>] The proceedings in Tennessee relative to a Southern The
( ological School will bo published as soon as we can possi
-1 bly make room for them. We shall he happy to co-operate
w ith Dr. Howell and others in their scheme.
Religious Instruction of Colored Persons. — Wc omit
ted to state, in our last number, that a comfortable frame
• ijmeeting house 30 by 40 feet has recently been erected in our
village by our citizens for the use of our colored population.
/*lt was opened for religious worship on the evening of the first
Lord’s day in last month. The congregation on the occa
sion was large, and a number of colored persons evinced, at
the close of the services, their desire to have an interest in
the prayers of God’s people. In no Northern towu or vil
li luge with which we are acquainted, do the colored people err.
t! joy more or greater religious privileges than they do irr our
[village. They receive oral instruction in the Sunday school,
and have the pr ivilege of attcnlirig preaching on every Lord’s
iday. Their teachers and preachers are white persons, who
1 are fully competent to impart the instruction they need.
1 Hearn Institution. —This institution is rising rapiifty irr
j-tlic estimation of Baptists, and wc hope in that of others. It
i is a public institution, the property of our denomination.—
I | The principal is a gentleman, a scholar and a Christian. —
Board is very moderate in the Cave Spring village; and, we
can testify from personal observation, that its citizens are as
intelligent and refined as the citizens of any of our low coun
(try villages. See the advertisement of terms, die., in Hearn
j School,
Preparatory School. —A new and commodious build
ing, for the academical departnientof our University, is now
in the process of erection. It is to be constructed after an
[approved model. Rev. T. D. Martiu, A. M., is the princi
pal in this department. Students who prepare for college in
this school, will enjoy advantages which they cannot enjoy
elsewhere. Our schools,-male and female, collegiate and
i theological, will open again on the first of February. We
hear of scores of pupils who intend coming. We would ad
vise them to be here on the first day of the session, or curlier
if possible. A few new Theological students have already
arrived.
Houses of Worship. —A house of worship we learn was
opened in Wilmington, N. C. a few Sabbaths since for the
| use of the church to which our brother A. P. Repitou minis
ters. One was also to be opened for worship in Atlanta on
last Lord’s day.
The Death of the Pious no sign of God’s Displea
sure against the Living. —The death of those who “ die
jin the Lord” is no evidence that God is displeased with tho
[living; it is rather a mark of his favor, llehold that Mon
arch riding forth through his realm, with all the pomp and
honors of royalty. He passes villa after villa, and cottage
j after cottage. lie beholds the toil of his subjects in every
section of his kingdom and in every department of their la
bors. At length he reins up his steeds, and stays his cha
riot at the door of an humble cottage. He alights, enters
‘beneath tho thatched roof of that abode of poverty, singles
out one of its inmates, and says to him, “ I have beheld thy
[labors and approved of thy unwearied endeavors to provide,
by the sweat of thy brow, an honest living for thyself and
j those around thee ; and, in the exercise of my sovereignty,
[have resolved to release thee from thy anxious cares and
[toilsome labors. Enter thou my chariot. Henceforth thou
shalt be a member of my household; thou shalt live in state
. within my court, shalt lodge in my palace, eat at my table (
[[and of the cup of which I drink shalt thou drink.” lie takes
the golden ring from bis finger and places it on that of bis
[[subject, as a seal of his favor and a pledge ot his future faith
fulness.
What member of that family would consider this a token
l of their king’s displeasure ? Who could be found in it so
I selfish as to say, “ Nay, nay, may it please your gracious
j majesty, take him not away from us, even though it be to sit
liby thy side ou the throne of thy power. We well know that
his labors here are oppiessive, and that his cures are very
many, very vexatious, and very harrassing; but we hud
rather see him toiling here, day by day, and groaning out his
,life with us, than resting at ease in your palace. We had
rather ho should remain to share our poverty, shame and
suffering, tlmn that he should depart to share with you the
riches of your kingdom and the honors of your crown.”
Who is there that would not rather say, “A thousand
thanks to your majesty ! Let him go. Dear as. he has ever
([been to us, necessary as his presence seems to be to our
[comfort, let him depart with his king. We feel that we are
[[honored in his preferment, arid are confident that the benig
[[ riant sovereign, who has bestowed on one of our number such
[an unmerited mark of his favor, will not allow us to suffer
! by that act of his kindness to 011 c whom we have loved, and
by whom we have been beloved in return.”
j Wc need not make the application ; it will be obvious to
every reader.
“ I do not believe in that one-sided equality where one side
is always down. We do not allow the scales of .1 ustice so to
hang, nor the rights ol individuals so to be weighed.”
So said Gen. Tallrnadge, in his address at the close of
the 20th Annual Fair of the American Institute. He was
alluding to the commercial relations which England and the
United States sustain to each other. He would not have our
country remain in a state of dependence on foreign countries.
He would have the people of the United States raise them
selves to an equality with the ‘ most favored nations,’ by
cultivating their own resources. Is not this sentiment as
just and us commendable when applied to the several inde
pendent States of our confederacy, as when applied todiffer
’jont nations? Is it not ns applicable to the productions of in
tellect as to the productions of our soil arid our factories t
[lf so, why is it that we have been denounced ns narrow,
minded and illiberal, when wo have urged the South to adopt
,the measures necessary to tho development of her own re
[ sources, and the fostering of her own sons of genius and her
|own institutions of learning ? Echo repeats the inquiry,
‘Why is it?’—and yet thut inquiry remains unanswered.
A Strange Soil. —A Columbus paper tells us of a “ bot
tle of wine grown” in that vicinity at the farm of a certain
gentleman. It must be a strange soil that grows bottles of
[wine, we should think,
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