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THE FAMILY CIRCLE.
I MUST DIE. ~ r -
Reader, are you accustomed to think
this as true of yourself, as it is of
t hers 2 You may be in perfect health
o-day; but has the thought,—“l am
mortal,” occurred to you ? Swift and
sudden, death has come to multitudes;
if it should come thus to you, now, are
you prepared for it ? To-day have you
thought of the end for which you were
created ? Have you remembered that
though you must die, the soul will live
forever, and that God will give to ev
ery man the just reward of his deeds,
—to the righteous, eternal life, —to
the wicked, eternal death? Let no
care, however pressing; no pursuit,
however eager, lead you to forget this
truth, —“I must die.”—and after death
the judgement.” Says a writer.
In the giddy whirl of the world, men
too little pause, to reflect that they are
mortal. On and on they delve and
toil, strive and contend, # criminating
and recriminating, throwing their
whole souls into the vortex of the world,
as if it and its objects were worthy to
absorb their whole being. Painful ob
ject of contemplation ! A few more
passing seasons, and all who are en
gaged in the exciting and maddening
strife of the world, will, one after an
ther, have silently dropped in the bo
som of the earth, no more to be seen
of men, soon to be remembered no
more on earth, plow unimportant,then
t > ihe disembodied spirit, will appear
the trifles which to-day are so much
magnified, and which by partial, inter
ested, and selfish views, are clothed
with so much consequence. 1 must
die! This short sentence, frequently
uttered and pondered upon, would go
far to moderate asperity of feeling, to
eradicate enmity from the heart, to
cool the ardor of worldy pursuits, to
abate strife and jarring discord.
CHRIST AND YOURSELF
Suppose the great day to come, and
you stand before Christ in judgement.
We will not attempt to represent the
language, or describe the doings there;
but may not something like the fol
lowing be expected ?
C. “What did you do with the tal
ents I gave you.”
Y. “I endeavored to get property,
be respectable and live pleasantly.”
C. ‘But what did you do for me ?
What to promote my cause ?’
Y. ‘I tried to be honest and blame
less; kept up my family religion; some
times took part in religious meetings :
and gave soinethiog for benevolent
objects.’
C. ‘For which did you do most, for
me, or for the world ? To promote the
salvation of men, or to please yourself
and advance your worldy interests ?’
Y. ‘That is a hard question for me
to answer.’
C. ‘Did you not know that I lon
ged for the salvation of men, as when
I poured out my blood for it; that they
were to be saved by means of the Gos
pel, and that I had directed my friends
to give this Gospel to all and persuade
them to receive it?’
Y. ‘Yes I knew all this.’
C. ‘Did you do all you could to
the knowledge and influence of spread
the Gospel among them, and save
them V
Y. ‘I meant to do as much as I could
co fiy P ‘ I Rad \ done no more than that,
what would have become o f you ?
F ou knew the heathen were peirshing
in sin, and ignorant of that Gospel
which I provided for men at the price
of my blood. What did you do for
them ?’
Y. ‘I tried to pray for them some
times, and put in yearly contribution
to the missionary cause.’
C. ‘How much was it? Was it the
amount that you thought would please
me, and do most to save the dying
world?’
Y. ‘I am afraid it was not*’
O ‘Think of what your house cost;
and your furniture, and dress and all
your delights of ambition, pride and
appetite. Did love to me and love to
immortal souls guide you in all those
expenses?’
Y. ‘I must confess that I cared too
much for self, and too little for thee
.nd precious souls. O that I had lived
more wisely, lived for eternity.’
JSow, f .while we may prepare to an
swer gladly in that great day, let us
think of these thing. How shall we
answer that last question ?—Boston
Recorder.
‘‘DO YOU THINK I AM A
HEATHEN.”
The influence of a corrupt Church
in destroying the reverenee for the ob
servances of religion, is shown in the
fact that fully nine tenths of those who
go to church in France are women.
In Germany, also, as well as other Eu
ropean states, among a large class it is
considered disgraceful to be seen at
church. We remember a German
gentlemau of refinement apd educa
tion, who on his first arrival here, was
invited to attend divine worship. He
politely complied. When time had
brought a better acquaintance he re
vealed to his frsend how much this in
vitation had astonished him. “Why, ’
said he “in Germany it is considered
almost an insult to invite a man to go
to church. Hobody but women and
servants go to church.”
The class to whom this feeling is
common is by no means small, and a
still farther illustration of their views
of religion was given, when the gen
tlemen who had invited this German
to attend in return request
ed to act as'god-father to the German’s
child. He naturally expressed his sur
prise that one who thought it so dis
graceful to attend church, should wish
to have his child christened.
“What!” was the reply “do yon think
I am a heathen ?”
WHAT IS A LIBRARY ?
While recently engaged in arrang
ing a large library, a friend came in
to lighten our labors by a pleasant
conversation.
“What is the most common idea of
a library ?” said he.
“A workshop, perhaps, in which
are all manner of tools. ’
“What is your idea ?”
“A dictionary, in which we can turn
to any given subject, and find the in
formation we desire.”
“Veryfair, both these definitions!
but I think I know one much better.
When a lad about sixteen years of age
living as a neighbor of Hr. t Mason,
and also a member of his congrega
tion, I was engaged in helping him to
move and arrange his valuable libraxy.
‘Hamilton,’ said he ‘you bear a great
name, a very great name; but it is still
more honorable to bear the name of
Christ ? —Hamilton do you know what
a library is?’ ‘Ho sir,’ —‘Well, sir, it
is an army. Ho you see those books ?
They ai*e my soldiers! lam the cen
turion. I call them down, and make
them fight for me, my boy. How you
know what a library is, which is more
than most folks do. Don’t you forget
it.’”— Am. Presb.
AN IRREVERENT REBUKE.
The following paragraph from the
Presbyterian rebukes a practice which,
we are sorry to say, is much too com
mon in our own congregations:
There is one practice prevailing in
our churches which should be at once
corrected. I allude to the preparations
which many persons make to get out
of church at the earliest possible mo
ment, by putting on shawls, coats, and
cloaks, so as not to lose a moment
in getting out. Many of the males
rise to receive the benedictien, with
their hats in their hands, ready for a
start at the earliest possible moment-
The benediction should be received
with composure and reverence, and at
a reasonable time after it closes, the
members of tlio congregation may put
on their extra garments and look for
their hats, and leave the church at a
moderate pace. It will possibly re
quire two minutes to comply with my
suggestion.
INTOLERANCE IN SWEDEN.
The “Tiden,” of Stockholm, relates
another case of religious prosecution
in that country :
“A person named Hejdenberg, of
Elftdalh, thought fit in 1856 to abjure
Lutherism, and to adopt the Baptist
form of worship, and he taught his new
creed. For the abjuration and teach
ing he was brought to trial before the
Royal Court of that town. As, how
ever, it appeared that he had not re
ceived from.the clem-y the ‘warning’
wmcn are reqnirea to be given to ab
jurers, he was acquited on the first
charge; but as, with respect to the
second, it was shown that he had on
a Sunday held a meeting and expound
ed the Scriptures, he was declared guil
ty of ‘profaning the Sabbath;’ he was
accordingly fined sixty-nine rixdalers.
He appealed to the Supreme Court at
Stockholm, but the condemnation was
confirmed. He very recently present
ed a petition to the king for pardon,
but it has just been rejected.
RELIGIOUS ITEMS.
In Philadelphia the daily prayer
meetings are continued in all parts of
the city. The “American Presbyteri
an” has reliable information of the fact
that ten thousand persons have made
a public profession of religion in that
city, and connected themselves with
the several evaugelical churches during
the season of this awakening; a num
ber, probably equal to onefifth of the
entire body of professec Christians, in
the city before.
The General Missionary Committee
of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
was lately in session in New York, and
determined to send six additional mis
sionaries to India, to increase the
work in China, und form a mission in
Salt Lake City. The entire appropri
tions for the year 1859 are $261,519.
We are gratified to learn from a
letter from Japan to the Boston Jour
nal, that a public assembly for the
worship of God has been held in Ja
panese soil. The Rev. Henry Wood
has had the privilege and honor of
preaching the first gospel sermon ever
heal’d in that dark land from the lips
of an American minister. The treaty
just made with Japan throws it open
to the spread of the gospel.
Twenty-five lunatidfe in Zurick Asy
lum at Switzerland, are the victims of
table turning and spiritrapping.
THE SUNDAY-SCHOOL TIMES,
A WEEKLY PERIODICAL
ABOUT TO BE ISSUED BY
THE AMERICAN SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION.
The signs of times the indicate an approaching
developement of the Sunday-School interest, such
has its warmest friends had hardly oped for. No
one feature of the great revival of 1858 has been
more marked, than the extent to which it has call
ed out in the Church the lay element of its power.
Never before has sueh*a practical illustration been
given to the great truth, that every one who pro
fesses to be a converted man himself, has a direct
work to do in converting others.
The Sunday-School, through its infant and juve
nile departments, its Bible and adult classes, its
teachers’ meetings, its visitations of families, its
benevolent and missionary agencies, its systemat
ic study of the Scriptures, and its diffusion of a
cheap Christian literature, presents to the Church
of Christ a field of action exactly suited to the new
spirit of activity to which she has been awakened.
It is a work, in which every man, woman and
child, who loves the Lord Jesus Christ, may find
something to do; in which there is a place for the
oldest no less than the youngest, for the wise and
the strong, no less than the weak and ignorant.—
It is, in short, an all-pervading, all-penetrating
agency, through which the Christian pastor can
multiply tenfold his power to reach the masses,
and to carry on his great work of saving souls.
The object of the Sunday School Times, will be
to help forward this great Sunday-School move
ment. It will encourage the planting of Sunday-
Schools where none now exist, and seek to im
prove those which are already established. It
will aim to promote the prosperity, not only of the
mission schools established by the American Sun
day School Union, but of Evangelical Sunday-
Schools of every name, wherever godly men and
women are found laboring together to bring the
youth under nhe influence of gospel truth.
It will discuss in a catholic, but earnest spirit,
the various means proposed for giving life and ef
ficiency to Sunday-School instruction, not neglect
ing also other kinds modes of instruction, and not
forgetting that education is one, though its means
be many. It will keep its readers apprised of eve
ry important religious and educational movement,
setting apart for this purpose a portion of its col
umns °for the publication of general religions in
telligence of the latest date.
It will of course contain reports of the proceed
ings of Sunday-School Conventions, endeavoring
to extract from them whatever useful practical
thoughts are there brought out, and to scatter
these thoughts broad-cast among the superintend
ents, teaches s, and pastors, in every part of the
land. Considerable space will also lie given to
the correspondence ofSuuday-School missionaries,
whose letters are often found to be of such absorb
ing interest. The paper will, in short, aim to con
tain just that kind of reading, with which an in
telligent Sunday-School teacher would like to be
supplied every week before meeting his class.
The Sunday-School visitor also will find it a val
uable auxiliary in his errands of mercy to the a
bode3 of'the poor. An attractive newspaper, left
behind in such a family, is always acceptable, and
is much more generally read, especially by the
male members of the family, than a book or tract
would be.
In the tone and cast of its articles, this paper
will follow the spirit of the age in seeking to be
popular. Its mission will be, in part at least,
to supplant much of the so-called “Cheap Litera
ture,” whose poisonous influences, distributed
through a thousand captivating channels, are per
petually wasting the moral strength of the nation.
Party, personal, and sectarian issues, will be
wholly forgotten in the higher service of inculca
ting those great fundamental truths underlying and
supporting every safe and salutary organization,
whether social, civil, or religious. It will, in oth
er words, be the exponent and advocate of true
evangelical union.
Above all, it will aim never to forget that the
Sunday-School is not in itself an end, but only a
means ; and the true end of a Sunday-School, and
of the Sunday-School Times, as of the people of
God in every department of their religious activi
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directly to the end of bringing men to repentance
and faith will ever form a prominent feature in
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“The Sunday-School Times” will be issued eve
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The highly popular paper fsr children, hereto
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THE SUNDAY SCHOOL GAZETTE.
It will contain no matter but that which is suit
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Mr. Packard, to whose skilful and sagacious ed
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SUf'JUISS of ifjj lilvna*tt —ill ooutiluuOy
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ELI WARREN. * CHAS. T. GOODE.
Augt 18“tf
GEORGIA FEMALE COLLEGE.
NINTH COLLEGIATE YEAR.
THE Autumnal Term commences on Monday
the 23d of August.
A uniform is prescribed for Sabbath and other
occasions, calling for full dress.
Permanence is a characteristic of this Institu
tion. Os the last Graduating class, 23 in number,
more than half had been pupils of the President
or periods ranging from seven to near eleven
years.
GEO. Y. BROWNE,
31 — President.
JOHNATHAN COLLINS!
Late Patten, Collins & Cos.,
Will continue the
COMMISSION BUSINESS
At the Fireproof Building occupied by them in
Macon, in connection with his son, W. A; COL
LINS, and respectfully solicits the business of the
Patrons of the late firm, and of Planters general
ly, pledging their undivided attention to all busi
ness confided to their care. Advances made on
Cotton and other produce in store, and orderscare
fully filled. ‘ J. COLLINS & SON.
Macon, July 14,’68. ly.
REMOVAL.
E . WINSHIP,
WILL remove to E. Saulsbury’s old stand,
next door to Strong & Wood’s, on the Ist
of October, where he will be prepared to exhibit
one of the largest and njost fashionable STOCKS
OF CLOTHING ever offered in Macon.
Aug 18-ts
RABUN & S~MITH,
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
SA VANN All, GEORGIA.
J. W. RABUN,
W. H. SMITH.
Savannah, July 10,1866 -ts
OUGHT BAPTIST CHURCHES
TO RECEIVE MEMBERS FROM
other sects on their Pedohaptist immer
sions f
A Pamphlet—By
JOSEPH WALKER,
Editor of the Christian Index.
IN which the following points are discussed, to
prove the negative of the query:
The Uniform Verdict of Common Sense.
The authority of Primitive Precedent.
The Source of Ministerial Appointment.
The Disqualification of the Administrator.
The Transposition of Ordinances.
Pastoral Duty.
Compulsion to Commune with Unbaptized Per
sons.
Imposition on Visiting Brethren.
The Introduction of Schisms.
The Ultimate Dissatisfaction with such Immer
sions.
—ALSO—
The letter of Rev. R. Fuller, of Baltimore, as
published in the Christian Index of Feb. 25, 1857,
and the Editor’s review of it.
Price per copy, 16 cents; at the Macon Book
Store, or sent by mail.
gggf“ Any person sending one dollar shall receive
seven copies.
jgf Colporteurs buying by the hundred copies
will be favored with the usual deduction.
Americus.
Macon Baptist Book Store.
JACKSON DeLOAGHE,
Treas. and Depository Ag’t.
No. 24—ts.
MAOON DRUG STORE.
E. L. STROHECKER , <& GO.
WHOLESALE and i&ail Dealers in Drugs,
Medicines, Chemicals, Dye Woods and Dye
Stuffs, Oils, Paints, and Painters’ Articles, Varn
ishes, Window Glass and Putty. Druggists Glass
Ware, Perfumery and Fancy Articles, Fine Soaps,
Hair, Tooth, and Nail Brushes, Combs, &0., &c.
Orders from Country dealers, Physicians and
Planters will receive prompt attention, when ac
companied by Cash or approved City reference.
E. L. STROHECKER, & CO.
Corner Mulberry and Third Street,
May 27, 1857--21—ts. Macon, Ga,
HARDWICK & CO.,
Factors ft Commission Merchants,
BAY-STREET, SAVANNAH, GA.
B. 8. HARDWICK, W. R. MANSTIBLD, 0. 0. HARDWICK.
Jmly 28-ts |
2D XRL XT G&* S
MEDICINES, CHEMICALS,
PERFUMERY, Ac.
A full assortment always on hand, by
ZEILIN, HUNT & CO.,
april 7—ly _ Macon Georgia.
VALUABLE BOOK PUBLICA
TIONS.
(Sent by mail for the price annexed.)
THE Great Iron Whee1,(24,000 501d)... .$1 00
History of the Baptists, by Orchard.... 1 00
Theodosia Ernest, vol. 1, 20th edition 1 00
Theodosia Ernest, vol. 2, pages 460 1 00
The Philosophy of Religion, by W. C. Buck.. 1 00
Grace Truman, by Mrs. S. R. Ford 1 00
Spurgeon’s Sermons, first, second and third
series, each 1 00
Saint and his Saviour, by Spurgeon 1 00
Our Lord’s Great Prophecy, a most valuable
work on the Prophetical Scriptures; 472
pages I 50
Stuart’s Great Work on Baptism, 2d edition.. 7 6
Three Reasons W hy I am a Baptist 40
Reasons for Becoming a Baptist, by W. L.
Slack 10
The Little Iron Wheel, by J. R. Graves, pa
per 26c. cloth. 40
A. Campbell and Campbellism Exposed, by J
R. Graves ;.. 20
Suffering for Religious Liberty. A Thrilling
Historical Tale. Also, proof that the New
port Church is the first and oldest Baptist
Church in America. In one cover 40
An Old Landmark Re-Set. Don’t fail to
read it 10
The Question of the Age, by J. S. Baker 15
Remission of Sins, by N. M. Crawford 10
Baptists not Protestants, by J. L. Waller and
“ Two Witnesses,” by Orchard in one cov
er 10
History of Communion, by Orchard 10
The True Mission of Baptists, by J. B. Jeter.. 5
Questions to the Impenitent, by Pendleton... 15
Thoughts on Christian Duty, by Pendleton.. 16
Christ or the Church, by Taliaferro 10
Ecclesiastical Unity, by A. Jones, jr 10
May Christian’s Dance, by W. C. Buck 5
Concise View of Christian Baptism, by J.
Craps, England 5
Concessions of Pcdo-Baptists to Baptist Prin
ciples, by W. H. Barksdale (in press) 10
Are the immersions of Pedoßaptists and
Campbcllits valid, a Review ot the positions
of J. L. Waller, R. Fuller, W. B. Johnson*
and others, by A. C. Dayton, (this is the
end of the controversy on tills question) in
press. Cloth 40
THEODOSIA MORE BEAUTIFUL AND VALUA
BLE THAN EVER !
THEODOSIA—voIume I—enlarged and illustra
ted—is just issued from the press of the South
Western Publishing House. To the original work
has been added the history of the conviction, con
version and baptism of Pastor Johnson. Theodo
sia’s old Minister, and the whole work is hand
somely illustrated. The value of the book, as a
denominational work, and its beauty and attrac
tiveness have been materially increased by a heavy
outlay by the Publishers, and yet nothing has been
added to the cost —price one dollar, sent by mail.
Will not parents present a copy of this edition
of Theodosia to each one of their children ? It will
be a valuable present, and who can tell the influ
ence it may exert over them, and others through
them V
Will not every Haptist sister purchase this edi
tion for her parlor, that visitors may form the ac
quaintance with Theodosia, and the circumstances
attending Pastor J ohnsou’s baptism.
Agents and Booksellers will find they can sell
double the number of this edition than any former
one.
Jggp Trials and Suffering for Religious Liberty,
and the exact History of the organization of the
Provideuce and Newport Churches, finely bound,
40 cts. 215 pages.
Jgg?” The Little Iron Wheel, new and enlarged
edition, bound for presentation, 40 cts., 321 pages.
* GRAVES, MARKS & CO.,
Febl7-tf Nashville, Tenn
MERCER UNIVERSITY.
PENFIELD, GREENE CO., GA.
Faculty.
PRESIDENT,
N. M. CRAWFORD, D.D.
PROFESSORS:
COLLEGE
S. P. SANFORD, A. M., Mathematics.
J. E. VVILLET, A. M., Chem. and Natural Philo
sophy.
H. H. TUCKER, A. M., Belles Lettres, and
Moral Philosophy.
U. W. WISE, A. M., Greek Language and Lit
-61 WILLIAM G. WOODFIN, A. M., Roman Lite
rature and Modern Languages.
Theological Seminary.
N. M. CRAWFORD, D. D., Ecclesiastical History
and Biblical Literature.
WM. WILLIAMS, D. D., Systematic and Pas
toral Theology.
Academy.
A. L. MORGAN, A. J 5.
8T UD I E S.
|2'/(e Studies in this University are
A Theological Course of three years designed for
those who are preparing for the Gospel Ministry;
A Collegiate Course of four years, equal to that
of other Colleges in the country;
A Scientific Course of three years, including,
with some additions, all the Studies of the Collegi
ate Course except the Ancient Languages;
An Academical Course, including whatever is
necessary to prepare for admission into College.
ADMISSION.
The regular time for the admission of Students,
is at the opening of the the last Wed
nesday in August.
Candidates for admission into the Collegiate
Course must sustain satisfactory examinations on
Geography; A rithmetic; English, Latin and Greek
Grammar; Cajsar; Virgil; Cicero’s Select Orations;
and Jacob’s Greek Reader; and must bo at least
fourteen year3 of age.
Candidates for admission into the Scientific
Course must sustain satisfactory examinations on
Geography; Arithmetic; English Grammar; Sim
ple Equations in Algebra; and two books in Geom
etry ; and must be at least sixteen years of
EXPENSES.
Tuition Feces. Spring Term. Fall lerm.
In Theological Seminary.-. . Nothing. Nothing.
In College $25 00 sls 00
Scientific Course 25 00 15 00
In Academy—
Preparatory Class.. 25 00 16 00
Second C1a55...... 20 00 12 00
Third Class 15 00 9 00
Elementary Class..... 10 00 6 00
Room Rent 6 00 4 00
Contingent Expenses ... 2 00 1 00
These expenses are required to be paid in advance.
From Students who lodge in the College build
ings, fifty dollars will be received as full payment
for the tuition fees, room rent, and contingent ex
penses of the year.
The price of Board in the village is sl2 per
month of washing, room rent, and fuel $3.
COMMENCEMENT AND VACATIONS.
The Commencement is held on the second Wed
nesday in July.
There are two Vacations, dividing the year into
two terms, as follows :
First Term —From last Wednesday in August to
December 15 th.
Winter Vacation —From December 16th to Jan
uary 25th.
Second Term —From first day of January to
Commencement.
Summer Vacation —From Commencement to
last Wednesday in August. S. LANDRUM,
Secretary of the Board of Trustees.
Sept 1, 1858.
HARDWARE,
IRON AND STEEL.
N. WEED, Macon, Georgia.
HAS now in store & LARGE AND COMPLETE
ASSORTMENT of
Swede’s Iron, all sizes, Axles and Springs,
English Iron, Hab. Rims Shafts,
Refined Iron, Carriage Bolts,
Nail Rods, Axle Clips,
Horse Shoes and Nails, Dash and Collar Leather
Plow and Cast Steel, Enam’d Leather & Cloth,
Scovils’ & Collins’ Hoes, Bands and Castings,
Brades’ Patent Hoes, Mechanics’ Tools,
Trace & Wagon Chains, Smith’s Bellows,
Plow Hames and Lines, Anvils and \ ices,
Cotton and Wool Cards. Screw Plates,
Gin Bands, Collins and Hunt s Axes,
Pots, Ovens and Spiders, Corn Shellcrs and Mills,
Mill and Gross Cut Saws, Sugar Boilers,
Circular Saws, Plows, Shovels, ftc.,
with a great variety of other Hardware, all ot
whioh is offered for sale at lowest market
Janaary ff***tf
THE—
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MACON, GEORGIA.
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subscriber for $2.60, or $2.00 in advance.
Discontinuance may be ordered by the subscri
bers at the olose of any year, provided all arrear
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cretion, whenever more than one year’s subscrip
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Any person who remits $lO in advance lor
five new subscribers, may receive the paper for
one year.
Any minister of the Gospel who remits $8 in
advance for four new subscribers, may receive the
paper one year.
Advkrtibemsnts at the regular charge will be
One Dollar per square of ten lines or less, for the
first insertion, and Fifty Cents for each subsequent
insertion. All advertisements not specified as to
time, will be published until forbid and charged ac
cordingly. A liberaldiscount allowed to those who
advertise by the year.
Communications should be addressed .to the
Christian Index , Macon, Ga.
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Professional and Business Cards will be in
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“ Seven lines, do 10 00
“ Ten lines, do 12 00
“ Twelve lines, do 16 00
No advertisements of this class will be admitted,
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twelve months. Advertisements of over twelve
lines will be charged pro rata. Advertisements .
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ular rates.
The Office of the Christian Index is on
Mulberry Street, over Baptist Book Store, and
next door to the Lanier House. Persons having
business with the office will find the Editor ready
to receive them during tho usual bnsiness hours
of the city.
GROVER & BAKER’S
FAMILY SEWING MACHINES,
Promote the leisure, health and happiness of home.
REASONS WHY THIS MACHINE IS UNIVER
SALLY PREFERRED OVERALL OTHERS.
1 BECAUSE it is the only Sewiug Machine in
• the world ever invented, so constructed as
to fully meet the demands of families, for general
use.
2. It is very simple and is never liable to get out
of order.
3. It makes a seam which will not rip, though
every third stitch is cut.
4. It is not a Shuttle Machine.
6. It sews with two needles, making any length
Stitch desired.
6. It sews from two ordinary spools, and thus
all trouble of winding thread is avoided ; while the.
same Machine can be adapted at pleasure, by a
mere change of spools, to all varieties of work.
7. The same Machine runs silk or linen thread,
and common spool cotton, with equal facility.
8. This Machine will sew in the slieves of a coat
with the same ease andfacility thatitsewsastraight
seam.
9. This Machine can be run to make one thou
sand five hundred stitches per minute.
10. The seams are elastic as the most elastic
fabric, so that it is free from all liability to break in
washing, ironing or otherwise.
11. The stitches made by this machine are more
beautiful than any other made either by hand or
machine. For sale by
THOS. P. STOVALL & CO.,
Augusta, Ga.
M. R. ROGERS,
Agent, Macon, Ga.
July 1 ly
Syrup Boilers and Cane Mills.
CANE MILLS of various sizes and prices, also,
Syrup Boilers, designed expressly for the pur
pose, from 30 gallons to any required size, kept
constantly on hand and made to order by
August26-tf R. FINDLAY & SONS.
SHIRTS l SHIRTS 1 !
DOZ. Linen Bosom and Marseiles Shirts
gjvl for sale cheap by
nov 26tf E. WINSHIP.
The following remedies are offered to the. public as
the best, most perfect which medical science can
afford. Ayer’s Cathartic Pills have been pre
pared with the utmost skill which the medical pro
fession of this ago possesses, and their effects show
they have virtues which surpass any combination of
medicines hitherto known. Other preparations do
more or less good; but this cures such dangerous
complaints, so quick and so surely, as to prove an
efficacy and a power to uproot disease beyond any
thing which men have known before. By removing
the obstructions of the internal organs and stimulat
ing them into healthy action, they renovate the foun
tains of life and vigor, —health courses anew through
the body, and the sick man is well again. They are
adapted to disease, and disease only, for when taken
by one in health they produce but little effect. This
is the perfection of medicine. It is antagonistic to
disease, and no more. Tender children may take
them with impunity. If they are sick they will cure
them, if they are well they wfil do them no harm.
Give them to some patient who has been prostrated
with bilious complaint: see his bent-up, tottering form
straighten with strength again; see his long-lost appe
tite return; sec his clammy features blossom into
health. * Give them to some sufferer whose foul blood
has burst out in scrofula till his skin is covered with
sores; who stand*, or sits, or lies in anguish. He has
been drenched inside and out with every potion which
ingenuity could suggest. Give him these Pills, and
mark the effect; see the scabs fall fiom his body; see
the new, fair skin that has grown under them ; see the
late leper that is clean. Give them to him whose
angry humors have planted rheumatism in his joints
ana bones; move him and he screeches with pain ; lie
too has been soaked through every .muscle of his body
with liniments and salves; give him these Pills to
purify his blood; they may not cure him, for, alas!
there are cases which no mortal power can reach; but
mark, he walks with crutches now, and now he walks
alone ; they have cured him. Give them to the lean,
sour, haggard dyspeptic, whose gnawing stomach has
long ago eaten every smile from his face and every
muscle’ from his body. See his appetite return, and
with it his health; see the new man. See her that
was radiant with health and loveliness blasted and too
early withering away; want of exercise, or mental an
guish, or some lurking disease, has deranged the inter
nal organs of digestion, assimilation, or secretion, till
they do their office ill. Her blood is.vitiated, her
health is gone. Give her these PILLS to stimulate the
vital principle into renewed vigor, to cast out the ob
structions, and infuse anew vitality into the blood.
Now look again—the roses blossom on her cheek,
and where lately sorrow sat joy bursts from every fea
ture. See the sweet infant wasted with worms. Its
wan, sickly features tell you without disguise, and
f aimuUy distinct, that they are eating its life away,
ts pinched-up nose and ears, and restless sleepings,
tell the dreadful truth in language which every mother
knows. Give it the Pills’ in large doses to sweep
these vile parasites from the body. Now turn again
and see the ruddy bloom of childhood. Is it nothing
to do these things ? Nay, are they not the marvel of this
age ? And yet they are done around you every day.
Have you the less serious symptoms of these dis
tempers, they are the easier cured. Jaundice, Costive
ness, Headache, Sideache, Heartburn, Foul Stomach,
Nausea, Pain in the Bowels, Flatulency, Loss of Ap
petite, King’s Evil, Neuralgia, Gout, and kindred
complaints all arise from the derangements which
these Pills rapidly cure. Take them perseveringly,
and under the counsel of a good Physician if you can;
if not, take them judiciously by such advico as we
give you, and the distressing, dangerous diseases they
cure, which afflict so many millions of the human race,
are cast out like the devils of old—-they must bur
row in the brutes and in the sea. Price 25 cents per
box—s boxes for sl.
Through a trial of many years, and through every
nation of civilized men, Ayer’s Cherry’ Pectoral
has been found to afford more relief, and to cure more
cases of pulmonary disease, than any other remedy
known to mankind.*Cases of apparently settled con
sumption have been cured by it, and thousands of suf
ferers, who were deemed beyond the reach of human
aid, have been restored to their friends and usefulness,
to sound health and the enjoyments of life, by this all
powerful antidote to diseases of the lungs and throat.
Here a cold had settled on the lungs. The dry, hack
ing cough, the glassy eye, and the pale, thin features
of him who was lately lusty and strong, whisper to all
but him Consumption. He tries every thing; but
the disease is gnawing at his vifcals, and shows its
fatal symptoms more and more over all his frame.
He is taking the Cherry Pectoral now; it has
stopped his cough and made his breathing easy; his
sleep is sound at night; his appetite.returns, and with
it his strength. The dart which pierced his side is
broken, e Scarcely any neighborhood can be found
which has not some living trophy like this to shadow
forth the virtues which have won for the Cherry Pec
toral an imperishable renown. But its usefulness
docs not end here. Nay, it accomplishes more by pre
vention than cure. The countless colds and coughs
which it cures are the seed which would have ripened
into a dreadful harvest of incurable diseases. Influ
enza, Croup, Bronchitis, Hoarseness, Pleurisy, Whoop
ing Cough, and all irritations of the throat and lungs
;1 i p easily cured by the Cherry Pectoral if taken in
season. Every family should have it, by them, and
they will find it an invaluable protection from the in
sidious prowler which carries off the parent sheep from
many a flock, the darling lamb from many a home.
Authenticated evidence of these facts, with directions
for the treatment of each complaint, may be found in
Ayer’s American Almanac, of which we publish three
millions, and scatter them broadcast over the earth,
in order that the sick every where may have before
them the information it contains. Druggists and
dealers in medicine generally hare them for distribu
tion gratis, and also for sale these remedies, prepared
by Dk. J. C. Atbb, Practical and Analytical Chem
ist, Lowell, Mas*.
SOLD BY
ZEILIN, HUNT & CO.,
may 8 ly Mmod, Ga