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SMITH, THE RAZOR-STROP MAN.j
A SPECIMEN OP HIS LOGIC.
Every body, from Nova Scotia to Texas, from
Cape Cod to ‘he great city of St. Louis, and perhaps
along (lie “far West” to California knows the “Hanot j
strop Man.’’ Welf, here he is to the life. Some editor,
without whereabouts, (lor we find it in an!
exchange p ip£* r Jrithout credit.) reports the following!
4i . peeefy’ as at a private interview. “We,”:
editor of the Wata&ian, have, oft and again, seen the
“Razor-strop hands with biro, conversed,;
heard his ov ■ sfo#y nr private and his cutting, wittvl
.speeches in ft* die, and attest ilie-iollowing to be gen-j:
ume—'“iio.Jk>HUerfeit.” ’
vV e hav^/ uyirr! from him these same pithy remarks,Jj
and can aAuJp our perm >ce fri ends, “There arr"a
ntjTrt /• i•. “ He re U is.
because it is a good creature of God. Well, grant that; 1
it is; so is Castor oil, and so is vinegar a good creature
of God; but is that a sufficient reason fur a person t<>
drink it three, four or a dozen times a day? A dog
isa good creature of God; but suppose a dog gets mad,
And bites a man or a woman, would you let him alone ;
because, as you say, he was a good creatine? Would
you he satisfied with cutting offhis ear or his tail; or
would you knock him on the head and pilch „him
headlong into the street? Now, alcohol is more than a
mad dog, lor a bite from a mad dog only destroys life,
while a bile from alchy destroys reason, reputation,
life and everything else, besides dragging down the
family of the bitten man to poverty and want.
But alchy doesn’t bite a mouthful, al first. When
he first snapped at me, he only tickled me a little: i
liked it first-rate, and was anxious to get another, arid
still another bite. The old rascal of a tyrant kept a
nibbling away at my heels, as though he didn’t mean
to harm me; while I, like a poor tool, kept coaxing him
oil. until at last he gave me a “snap” in earnest, and
took the elbows right out of my coal! Next, lie took
the crown out ol my hat, the shoes off my feet, the;
money out of my pocket, and the sense outol my head,!
until at last I went raving mad through the streets,
perfectly a victim to alchiphobia. But I signed the :
pledge and got cured; arid 11 there is any man who
has been bitten as I was, let him lake this teetotal
medicine, and I’ll warrant him a speedy cure.
But allowing that alcohol is a good creature of God.
are there not other good creatures too, such as heel,
pork, puddings, pies, clothes, dollars arid fifty others of
“the same sort?’ Now. shall a man cling to the one j
good creature, and leave the ninety and nine untouch
ed? Shall a man drink whiskey because it is a good
creature ol God’s, and go without good food, a good
home, a good hat, a good iut wallet, a good handsome
Wile, and good, well-dressed children? No. sir-red —
As for me, give me good bee I and pudding, good pork .
and sausage, good friends, a good bed, good clothes, a
good wile and good children, (or bad, rather than miss,
and I’ll try to make ’em good,) and old king alchy may
go to Texas, for all 1 care.
Some say that wine is a “good creature” because our
Saviour once turned water into wine. Very good! but:
then he did’nt turn rum,gin, whiskey, logwood, coculus
indiftus and cockioaches into wine, like some people
do. He turned water into wine. Now, if any wine-ji
bibbing apologist will take a gallon or a barrel of pure
water, and by praying over it, or in any other way,
will turn it into good wine, without mixing any other
! Editor.
SBWtekl, Georgia, Thursday, July 12, 1849,
*** *' m *l |e hoy as will go in fora swig of it!-
S|h wine must he good and I go in for that kind, and’,
jjtfoihing else. But as fur your nasty, filthy, drunken;:
M®* which is soltl in your grogshops, it’s a base coun
terfeit, and it’s a blasphemous libel on our blessed
Saviour to liken it to the,pure beverage he made.
Now, you, such as prefer one good creature of God’s l ;
pßßjfhe test, go ami drink rum or whiskey until you;
get picked as hare ns a sheep’s back,after it has crawl-!;
[fMlpßnugh a brier patch; but you as prefer the ninety ;j
limine g Mid creatures, go right straight and sign the
\\mp. Thousands have been saved bv putting their :
i|Bt|oies to that precious document and still is there room!!
‘./or rc “few more ol the same sort:” \
PIONEER INCIDENT.
■Jji-Mnong tho early pioneers, it was no unfrequent
ease* that children carried oIF by Indians, and raised to
savage life, were afterward met, as enemies by their
|uh|, associates —in some cases’ near relatives. One!
tcntarkable case ol this kind was that of young Ward!
■|°fKentucky. Another occurred in a family named
White, in Wythe county, western Virginia,and is thus
msfrated to me,
s|sl|pbn White lived on Walker's creek one of the trib
;U%!es °f the Great Kanawha; Wvthe county, and
went out w th George Rogers Clarke on one of his
against the Shawnees. The General being
j||HK|nt ol intelligence as to the future plans of the’
eneusy.and desirous of obtaining information, sent out|
by himself to bring him ail Indian. White!
, wetWout and alter two days unsuccessful huvit, return
edjftitliout one.
f : general still being determined to have an In-
L While out tho tune, saying, “Tak^
jj^ra
i wo men, and started with the determination of havingli
ian Indian if he went to Canada for him.
i Alter a day’s traveling they struck on a faint trail,i|
‘which, by the middle of the third day, took them to an!
; Indian village. White cautiously crept up to recon- [j
jnoiter, and discovered a large muscular Indian, sitting!
Jon a log with his hack toward the whites, and facing J
the Imhau encampment, engaged in mending a mocca
sin. The Indian was partially concealed by a tree j
under which he was sitting, from the view of the vil- 1
i c
lagers.
White at once (though fully aware of tho danger of !
‘be attempt) determined to carry that Indian to ChirkoJ!
and leaving his companions, root thinking it prudent”
for the three of them to proceed for fear of discovery,!
lie crept softly up behind the Indian, who sat perfectly;;
: unconscious of danger, till he felt the grasp of White on! \
his throat, and saw a pistol presented at his head.—i
| White in a few hurried words, in the language of theji
tribe, told him that if he made any noise or resistance!)
he would shoot him instantly through the head, but !
if ho went with him quietly he would promise lie);
should return to his tribe. The Indian submitted toil
Ins late, and White carried Inin in triumph to Glarke,!)
who immediately on seeing him, said,
“This is rio Indian.”
Inquiry being made ol the prisoner who and whence)
he w is, lie said,
“I wap horn of white parents, and when I was aj
small boy, the Indians attacked the settlement and;,
killed all the family save my elder brother (who es-L’
c.aped during the onset.) and look me prisoner.”
lie described the place from which he was taken.; |
During the recital, the countenance of Ids captor ap-j,
peard very much agitated; be ask him several abrupt
questions.as to his early remembrances, and finally j .
cried out:
“Jam your brother 1 '’
j AH circumstances went to confirm the truth of this 1 J
assertion, eveiyto the similarity of person. The exiled,
was restored to society, and lor many years W in the l ,
Legislature of Kentucky , but still so far retained hisj,.
old habits and predilections as to spend months at a\\]
time in the woods.
If jj
A SMOKING DISCIPLE.
I fell in with several such lately, and they seemed ji
so much interested and delighted in the matter, and |i
(Withal were so regular and systematic about it that I :
thought, perhaps this belongs to discipleship. Know-J|
THE TRUTH IN LOVE.
JAMES T. BL4LX, Printer.
ing that I had an old volume that gave the earliest and
,most accurate account of the disciples, and that had
kept the run of them for about four thousand years,
I hastened to look into it. I found a good deal about
smoke, such as “a smoking furnace,”“a smoking moun
tain,” and even about “a bottle in the smoke.” but as
’ for a smoking disciple, or a disciple in a smoke, as may
be seen in our days, l could not find any'account of
I any such thing.
) Not being willing to give the matter up, I consider
ed that some of the old saints lived hard upon a thou
sand years, and that if they were like some of the
! modern ones, they would like something to while away
the time; so 1 looked again, but I could not find a
Patriarch with a pipe in his mouth; not one? But
smoking ;s a very great comfort to a body, they told
line, and as I knew the prophets were often in trouble, I
thought to be sure 1 should find as much as one with a
cigar—but I did not find him. And the Apostles, they,
too had great need of consolations, for they were often
in cold, arid hunger, and thirst, and stripes, and prison.
&.c., and I looked sharp, but could not find so much as
a tobacco box among them !
THE SULPHUR REMEDY.
The following illustration of Dr. Bird’s theory, to say
the least vis curious.—
Montreal, June 13,1549.
Dear Kir, —I have received yours of this date, and
have no hesitation in corroborating what you say as to
my having visited the cholera sheds in 1833 and 1834,
for (lie purpose of seeing that the attendants and nurses
did their duty to the poor sufferers or patients. I
wc'nl among them without fear, tavkwe. impregnated
my b aly with sulphur,VUng to mv *A v ®?^Jo!<tt>hot/6
‘assured me that after being thirty-five years tnlirdia
on the medical department, to the hea'd of which he
jliad been raised, lie had never known an instance of
[any person being seized with cholera who had put his
body into that state; and that, even after the disease
| had seized them, by dosing them with sulphur atid
charcoal in the powdered state, it very generally ope
rated as a cure. I may add that my family and a
vast number of my friends and acquaintances, who fol
lowed this presciption, all escaped the malady, while
about a tenth part of the population of this city were
carried off by it. There are hundreds living here who
lean corroborate what I here state. During the nine
teen years that I gratuitously visted the emigrant sheds,
administering to the comfort of the sick as far as in
my power, I uniformly kept myself in said state, bv
which, under the protection of God, 1 have been pre
served in life, while multitudes of persons not a tenth
part so much exposed to the various infections pre
| vailing there were carried off.
I remain, ver.v respectfully, your humble servant
’ ADAAI FERRIE.
To Alex. Urquhart, Esq. ,
Liebig. —Liebig was distinguished at school as a.
(“booby,” the only” talent then cultivated in German
Softools being verbal memory. On one occasion, be
ing sneenngly asked, by the master, what he pro
posed to become, since he was so bad a scholar, and
he answering, that he would be a chemist, the whole
school burst into a laugh of derision. Not long ago,
Liebig saw his old school master, who feelingly la
‘merited his own former blindness. The only boy in.
the same school who ever disputed with Liebig the
station of“bonby,” was one who never could learn his
lesson by heart, but was continually composing music*
and writing it down by stealth in school. This same
individual, Liebig lately found at Vienna, distin
guished and conductor of the Imperial
Opera Ifoust;. His nalne is Renting, it is to be hoped
that a more rational system of school instruction js
now gaining ground. Cart anything be more absurd
and detestable tlian a system which made Walter Scott
and Justus Liebig “boobies” at school, and so effectu
nliy concealed their natural talents, that, for example,
i Liebig was often lectured before the whole school on
diis being sure to cause misery and broken hearts to
Ihis parents, while he was all the time conscious, as
,the above anecdote proves, ofthe possession of talents
similar in kind to those he has since displayed.—
‘Scientific American,
Number 28,