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HOPH.
BY CLARIS.
I4 this world’s cheerless gloom
’ When storm clouds do lower,
When Fate seems to threaten,
Grows darker each hour—
When Fortune, too, woes
’ , But to lead us astray, ...
Oh! -what can thus sooth us
But Hope’s cheering ray.
*if ■ When poverty comes
With its cold chilling breath,
And all things are dreary— ‘
• We think but of death, *”
Despair would hang o’er us
And darken oiir way,
Without mild comfort
Os Hope’s beaming ray.
When cast on. the wares
Os some distant sea,
Where fancy’s gay flowers’
Can nu’ee gjld the lea.—.. - m . -Vv
W hen Ocean's blue waters
May soon o’er us roll,
Submerged be our forms ■’ ■ *.
- . ’Neath the bleak Arctic pole,
Oh! what can then bless us
And light up the day
But the genial brightness
Os Hope’s kindling ray.
Whatever sore trials
Beset us in life,
Whate’er be our fortune,
With misery though rife—
The beacon of Hope,
With its faint glimm’ring light,
Will lead us on safe
Through this world’s gloomy night.
Washington, Georgia.
SELECTIONS.
Baptismal Discussion.
In the preceding remarks, I have
shown what baptism does not mean.
It does not mean pouring, nor sprink
ling, nor washing. Let us now endea
vor to ascertain what it does mean.—
The meaning of the word, I am free to
admit, is the hinge on which the issue
of the baptismal controversy, turns.—
Prove to a Baptist, that baptizo means
sprinkle instead of immerse, or sprin
kle as well as immerse, and he surren
ders at once. Prepositions, circum
stances and figurative allusions, will
avail him nothing, if the word, in de
bate, be proved equivocal.
The most usual method in searching
for the meaning of this word, is to re
fer, first, to the authority of Greek lex
icons. That is, to dictionaries of the
language from which the Scriptures
were translated. This plan I have
prescribed for myself, though I shall
do but little more, than give the pri
mary definition of the word, from sev
eral lexicons now before me, Should
any one question the correctness of the
quotations, these lexicons will put
matters right.
I begin with the lexicon ot
Dr. Jones.—Baptizo.—“ I plunge,
I plunge in water ; dip, baptize;
bury, overwhelm.” This is certainly
plain talk.
Shrevellious: Baptizo.—“Mergo, ab
lou, lavo,”
In this dictionary, you perceive, the
word is defined by Latin terms. Mer
go, the first, means to immerse ; ab
lou, the second, means to wash clean ;
and lavo, the third, means to wash.
It is apparent that the last two words
express merely the effects produced
by the first, since washing in primitive
times was effected mainly by dipping
in water. Naaman was commanded,
by the prophet, to wash, and he obey
ed the command by dipping himself.
Such words, then, as wash, cleanse,
wet and purify, are called secondary’
ara secondary definitions, are effects
of the primary meaning, which is im
merse. Hence, correctly speaking,
according to Dr. Carson, the word
baptizo hasbut one meaning.
Pasor: Baptizo—“Mergo, Lavo-.”—
Here the definition is the same as that
of Shrevellious.
Hedericus : Baptizo—“Mergo, Im
mergo, Aqua, obruo ; Abluo, Lavo.”
This is aUq the same, except that a
total immersion is more strongly ex
pressed, the by addition of two or
three words,
Parkhuret: Baptizo—To dip, im
merse or plunge in water”
This needs no remark.
Groves: Baptizo—“To dip, plunge,
immerse, immerge ; to wash, cleanse,
purify.”
Here, besides the primary meaning,
we have three secondary, which have
already been explained. Groves is a
valuable witness. Peodobaptista some
times cite him as having rendered
baptizo by sprinkle, which is a mis
take. He has given Bprinkle as one
of the meanings of bapto, but in this,
he has differed from most, if not all of
his predecessors, and hence, is proba
bly in the wrong. And were he right,
It would not subserve the cause of Pedo
baptists, since bapto is not the word
in controversy. It is never in a single
instance, used in connexion with the
Christian rite.
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Greenfield—Baptizo—“lmmerse,
immerege submerge, sink.”
This author, a. distinguished Pedo
baptist, explains himself, without am
biguity. In Mark, 7:4 ; Luke, 11:38
where the word relates to thq bathing
of the person, he follows the compioq
verson, and defines it by wash —which,
as before stated, is accomplished
dipping or bathing in water. In Mark,
1:4, and In*all those places where bap
tizo is.connected with the Christian
rite, he renders theiwOrd immerse.
How, when we reflect on the fact,
thaPfhese authors were all Pedobap-
to the* spread of Bap
tist sentiments, and who were con
strained to re .dor the word immerse,
by the lafrs of philology—not one of
them having ever ventured to translate
it by pour or sprinkle—we may con
sider the question as philologically
NoYiS theri case altered by i
the secondary or subordinate defini
tions, which, in some lexicons, succeed
the primary: all are united on the
primitive and proper meaning of the
word. This is all Baptists could expect
from the advocates of sprinkling, but
it is enough. There is no accounting
for this complete harmony of lexicons,
except on the ground that baptizo will
admit of no other meaning.
On this point, Pedobaptists know
their cause to be assailable and vulner
able, and hence, some of them have
recklessly attempted to pervert Dr.
Carson’s observations on the authority
of lexicons. Mr. Bice, in his debate
with Mr. Campbell, represents this
able critic as affirming, that all the
lexicon and Commentators are against
him, with reference to the primary
meauig of baptizo. How, as this is a
wicked misrepresentation of what Dr.
Carson did say, when his remarks are
quoted in their proper connexion, and
as this assertion of Mr. Rice has bt en
freely adopted by others, who perhaps
knew no better, I shall give you an
extract from Carson’s book, on this
point.
I read from page 56 :
But though it is always lawful to
appeal from lexicons to the language
itself, it is seldom that there can be
any necessity for this, with respect to
the primary meaning of words. In
deed, with respect to the primary
meaning of common words, I can think
of no instance in which lexicons are
to be respected. This is a feature so
marked, that any painter can catch,
and faithfully represent. ‘ Indeed, I
should consider it the most unreasona
ble scepticism, to deny that a word
has a meaning, which all lexicons give
as its primary meaning. On this point
I have no quarrel with the lexicons.
There is the most complete harmony
among them, in representing dip as
the primary meaning of Bapto and
Baptizo. *****
It is giving secondary meanings, in
which the lines are not easily discov
ered, that the vision of the lexicograph
ers is to be supected. Nor is it with
respect to secondary meanings that
they are likely to be mistaken. Their
poculiar error is in giving, as seconda
ry meanings, what are not properly
meanings at all. The same objection
that I have to lexicons, with respect
to this word I have not with respect to
it alone, but with respect to almost
all words to which they assign a great
variety of meaningt. Ido not exclude
Dr. Johnson himself from this cenure.
It apppears, then, from Dr. Carson’s
own words, that the only quarrel he
ever had with the lexicons, was in
regard to secondary meanings! In con
nexion with these remarks of Carson,
allow me to read an extract from a
lecture of Dr. George Campbell, a dis
tinguished Presbyterian :
I have heard a disputant, in defiance
of etymology and use, maintain that
the word rendered in the New Testa
ment, Baptizo means more properly to
sprinkle than to plunge ; and, in defi
ance of all antiquity, that the former
was the earliest, and the most general
practice in baptizing. One who ar
gues in this manner, never fails, with
persons of knowledge, to betray the
cause he woulddefend, and though with
respect to the vulgar, bold assertions
generally succeed as well as argument,
and sometimes better; yet a candid
mind will always disdain to take the
help of falsehood, even in the support
of truth.
These sayings of so learned a man
as Dr. Campbell, ought to influence
lesser lights to be more modest, and
less confident in their assertions.
_ TRUTH.
A Word in Season. —When Lord
Teignmouth, governor-general of In
dia, was toiling up the steep ascent of
learning and fame, an old gentleman
chanced to say to him, “Make yourself
useful and you will succeed.” It be
came the text on which the young ch
vilian preached many a discourse to
others and himself; and this following
what was useful, carried him at length
to the throne, for it may almost be
called, of our western empire. So I
say to creed; and begin at once.—J.
A. James.
From the jKeligieus Herald. .
Is the University of Virginia
’ A PBDOBAPTIST INSTITUTION?.
Univefsity of Va., Dec. 30, ’SB.
Messrs. Editors—nit may seem pre
sumptuous in “oneof my age” topro
test, and that publicly, against thlPeon
duct of persons who are older and wiser.
But “circumstances alter cases',” and
‘some such circumstances as the follow
ing may possibly excuse what might
otherwise be considered as presumptu
ous imprudence. At all events, let
mehop&that any who censure me for
presumption in the premises will at
tribute it in charity toyouthfiUi indis
cretion.
I am a student in tfiis University,
and came here under the strongest
conviction that this was not at all a
sectarian institution, but that it was a
great State University, with no secta
rian bias. Win dow, shallff that
this was a mere with no foun
dation in truth! I would rather not
venture so far. But let me cite you a
few facts, which have occurred before
my wandering sight, since I became
“a looker on here in Vienna.”
From the beginning of the session
until the present week, I, in common
with the rest of the Baptists in the
School of Moral Philosophy, have
been occasionally regaled with disquisi
tions, short but pointed, tending to
show that our views on this point were
utterly erroneous. ‘Baptism is bap
tism,’ says our learned and accom
plislied Professor, ‘and it makes no
difference whether a man is sprinkled
or immersed.’ We have heard from
the same learned source, what a great
misfortune it is to a church to be pop
ular, &c. It is so sure to get the ri
fraf into its body if it becomes popu
lar. In connection with this latter mis
fortune, from which the learned Dr.
may suppose that the Baptists are suf
fering, it may be proper to call to mind
a “great supper,” given a long time
ago, to which people who visited the
“highways aud hedges” were called,
and even pressejj to come. And again,
a great “teacher;” who was once revil
ed for consorting with publicans and
sinners, and of whom it was said “this
man receiveth sinners and eateth with
them.” Now, to all these hints, inuen
does, or whatever you choose to call
them, we listened with praiseworthy
regularity ; and it must be said, to
the credit of our distinguished and
able Professor, that lie has continued
to bring them to our attention, with
a perseverance truly commendable.
But, Messrs Editor, the past week
in the lecture room of Moral Philoso
phy, and the circumstances occurring
there have convinced us that patience
has ceased to be a virtue.
The lecturer, used, without necessi
ty, provocation, or occasion, that we
can see, language of which the follow
ing is certainly the equivalent, if not
the exact words.
“I am convinced, young gentlemen,
that various denominations of Chris
tians liave_existed from the first —even
since the days of the. Apostles. lam
convinced that sprinkling was used as
a mode of baptism. lam no less con
vinced that in the time of the Apostles
pouring teas used , yes and dipping,
and washing , and twenty other modes.
And gentlemen , he is a bigot who says
that there is only one Apostolic mode
of baptism .”
I feel hardly at liberty to call the
emphasis my own, since the italicised
sentences were so emphatically brought
out by the Professor, who is such a
fine “elocutionist and knows so well liow
to emphasise. Now Messrs. Editors,
is it right, is it just, is it in good taste,
is it creditable to make us who are Bap
tists sit and hear ourselves abused as
“bigots” in the presence of 150 young
Virginians who are liable to be influ
enced by the position and ability of
the Professor ! I will answer the ques
tion. It may seem presumption in
me, but I can say even to the profes
sor of Moral Philosophy, Rhetoric, &c.
that it was wrong, unjust, decidedly
in bad taste, and not at all creditable
to him or the institution. I would
risk my chance for graduation on the
Ethical part of the course, by saying,
and maintaining that it was wrong. I
would cite it as an example of bad
taste in the examination on Rhetoric,
and on Mental Philosophy. lam sure
I risk nothing at all in saying that the
Rev. Dr. added little credit to himself
by making this uncalled for attack on
our views. Thus much, lam free to
say, even at the risk of creating the
impression on the mind of the Dr., and
others, that it is decidedly impudent,
that the Rev. Wm. H. McGuffey, D.
D., L. L. D., and Professor of Moral
Philosophy and Political Economy at
the University of Virginia, should be
thus “assailed” by A STUDENT.
MACON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1859.
Who may be B^tfzed.
“You seem to be very -busy think
ing,” said Mrs. Roland daugh
ter Mary. “Yon have UftvJ gazing at
that field for the last five minutes.—
What are you looking at!”
■“0, -mamma, I not thinking
about; the field. I about
the baptism we saw
What a be&ntifnl sigfiF it was! I
thought the never looked so love
ly before. And, mamma,-did you see
how happy cousin Alice looked as she
came up out cf the wat^r! She wisper
ed to me as we went* into church,
‘Mary,'this is the h; ietefr day of mv
life.’ -1 think all'w x*ero baptized
this morning mjjst hr vjjslt the same.”
“I think so too, my DfpeA
“I wish that children >Aght be bap
tized, mamma ; how soon To you think
that I shall be old ?”
- “That dom off a pers&i’s
age, my dear child. Do you remem
ber what the A/postle Peter said to
those who asked, on the day of Pente
cost, what they should do !”
“Oh yes, mamma; he said, Repentj
and be baptized every one of you in
the name of Jesus Christ. Wasn’t
that it, mother ?”
“Yes you are right; and yon re
member too the answer of Philip to
the Eunuch, who asked”—
“Oh, mamma, let me tell what he
asked ; I read it in the Sunday school
lesson this morning. The Eunuch
said, ‘See, here is water, what doth
hinder me to be baptized ? And Phil
ip said, If thou believest with all thy
heart, thou inayest. And he answer
ed and said, I believe that Jesus Christ
is the son of God. Jlten they went
down both into the water, both Philip
and the Eunuch, and he baptized
him.’”
“That is quite correct, my dear;
you remember your lessons very well.
And now do you not see what is re
quired of those who come to be bap
tized.”
. “I think I do, mamma. They must
repent of their sins, and believe with
all the heart on Jesus Christ.”
“Yes, my child. And as soon as a
person truly repents and believes, be
he seven years old or seventy, he may
and ought to be baptized.
“Did you say se\£3P,years, mamma ?
Did you ever hear of a little child, on
ly seven years old, believeing in Christ
and being baptized?”
“l"es. I know a young lady who is
a sincere and devoted Christian, and
who was baptized at the early age of
seven. There were some who thought
that she was too young to become a
Christian, and to be baptized. But
she was able to convince the members
of the church of her repentance and
faith in Christ; and when others went
forward to be baptized, this little
lamb of the flock was among the num
ber. Fourteen years have since pas
sed away, and she has given constant
proof that she truly loves the Saviour.”
“She must be very happy, mamma.
She has loved God nearly all her life.
How 1 wish that I were like her !
Sometimes, mamma, it seems to me
that I love God with all my heart and,
I feel very happy when I am really
trying to please him ; but at other
times I forget all about it, and I am
as naughty as little girls who have
never heard at all about the Lord Je
sus.”
“You must pray to God, my dear
Mary, and lie will give you anew
heart filled with love to him and with
faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.”
“I do try to pray every day, mam
ma ; and this morning learned a beau
tiful the first verse seemed
made just for me. Do listen to it.
‘Now that our journey has just begun,
Our road so little trod,
We’ll come before we further run,
And give ourselves to God.’
That is what I want to do, mamma:
to give myself to God. You I am
only seven, so I think my road is but
little trod, and I want to give myself
to him now. Will not that be best l i\
It will, indeed my darling. May
God give you his grace that you may
become indeed his child—then you
can go down into the water, as the
blessed Jesus did, and be baptized
in the name of the Father, and of the
Son, and of the Holy Ghost!”—Young
Reaper.
Credulity of Infidels.— Charles the
Seeond, says Addison, hearing the
celebrated Vossius, a free thinker, re
peating some incredible stories of the
Chinese, turning to those about him,
said, “This learned divine is a very
strange man ; he believes every thing
but the Bible.”
It seems to be so easy to be good
natured, that it is a wander anybody
takes the trouble to be anything else.
Au honest man is believed withcmt
an oath, for his reputation swears for
him.
INFANT CHURCH MEMBERSHIP
Dr. Curtis, in his Lectures on Bible
Episcopacy, relates the following inci
dent as authentic :
“An aged minister”—pastor of a
Congregational church at the north—
“reproved a young member of one of
hig people’s families for an immorality.
“What right, sir, have you thus to red
prove me,” he inquired, “I never made
a profession of religion?” young
man, I baptized you in your childhood;
you are a member of my church; there
fore I have a right to reprove yon.”—
The following month was the church
meeting season, when this youth and
six or seven of his companions appear
ed there—attending quietly until the
usual business was despatched, On
On its conclusion our youth rose aud
said: “Perhaps the friends were sur
prised to him and his youg
trtrt'flreir worthy pasrtor bad told him
that he was a member of the church',
(which he did not before know ; ) he
knew that these young friends were
members if he was : and so they ought
to attend as such the church business.’
So far all seemed well—but to the as
tonishment of all present he added:
‘And now, as the other business was
disposed of, he bad a motion to put —
that our pastor be dismissed from this
church ;’ which, with his young intru
ders for a help, was carried.”
Not Bright Enough.
The English Court Journal is re
sponsible for this anecdote:—“lt is a
singular circumstance that two of the
most eminent of the lawyers of the
present century, Lord St. Leonards
and the late Chief-Justice Abbott,
(Lord Tenterden,) were the sons of
operative barbers. We do not under
stand that the late Chief-Justice ever
practiced, in the shop at least; but
certainly the ex Lord Chancellor spent
part of his boyhood in the paternal
shavingshop, in Duke street, St.
James’s. YYe have heard, in our young
days, one of the first counsel at
bar mention that, on one occasion, he
had called at the shop of the elder Sug
den, when the latter, to the course of
some familiar small-talk of which bar
bers are so fond, remarked, ‘l’ve sent
my son to be a lawyer, sir; I hope no
offense, but'l have tried him at my
‘own profession, and he hadn’t the ge
nius” for it.’”
APOTHORISMS BY~ DR. A. ALEX
ANDER.
The object of all knowledge is truth.
The essence of all moral goodness is
love.
The spring of all spiritual activity is
faith.
The foundation of every virtue is Hu
mility.
The first duty of a sinner is repent
ance.
The fountain of all blessings is Jesus
Christ.
The source of all grace and peace is
in the dwelling of the Holy Spirit.
Our own happiness is best promoted
by seeking the welfare of others.
The most effectual security against
evil is trust in God.
The most valuable riches is content
ment.
The best antidote against melancholy
is occupation.
The surest remedy against the fear
of death is the hope of heaven.
The greatest enemy of human hap
piness is sin.
The most effectual means cf obtain
ing good for ourselves and others is
prayer.
The light which must guide us in
every step of our progess is the Bible.
Prostitution of the Sabbath. —If pro
fessors of the religion of Christ receive
and pay visits on the Lord’s day—if
they take the opportunity it gives of
serving God, to go a few miles to see
a relative or friend, for which in some
cases a conveyance must be hired, an
inn resorted to for refreshment, excep
ting of course cases of necessity they
become very guilty of conforming to
the world. Or if the day be spent in
reading novels, newspapers, and hosts
of frothy periodicals,—or in a lazy
pampering of the flesh for a great part
of the day in our private habitations
neglecting the assemblies of the saints,
there is conformity to the world. The
world on this day does its own work,
seeks it own pleasure speaks its own
words; but Christains must keep it in
a devout remembrance of our risen
Saviour, learning and doing his will.—
T. Dawson.
A clergyman engaged in catechis
ing a village school, asked a youngster
“what his godfathers and godmothers
did for him ?” “ I don’t know what
they mean to do, please your rever
ence,” rejoined the lad—“they’ve done
nothing for me yet.”
Hot air from liu . ices, is sometimes
dangerously hot. Registers should
always be approached with some cau
tion. A lady’s clothes caught firo in
a church at Detroit, a few. Sabbaths
since, from standing over a furnace
register. She was greatly frightened,
but escaped injury with the loss of one
of her garments.
Resist Beginnings. —The Arabs have
a fable of a miller, who was one day
startled by a camel’s nose thrust in
the window of the room where he was
sleeping. “It is very cold outside,”
said the camel. “ I only want to get
my nose in.” The nose was let in,
then the neck, and finally the whole
body. Presentlv the miller began to
be extremely inconvenienced at the
ungainly companion he had obtained
in a room certainly not large enough
for both. “Ifyou are inconvenienced,
you my leave,” said the camel; “as
fbr myself, I shall stay where ? am.”
The moral of the fable concerns all.
When temptation occurs, we must not
yield to it. We must not allow so
much as its “nose” to come in. Every
thing like sin is to be turned away
from. lie who yields even in the
smallest degree, will soon be entirely
overcome; and the last state of that
is worse than the first.
The SouVe Prison. —l account this
body nothing but a close prison to my
soul; and the earth a larger prison to
my body. I may not break prison,
till I be loosed by death ; but I will
leave it not unwillingly, when I am
loosed.—Bishop Hall.
Whom to Marry.
When a young woman behaves to
her parents in a manner particularly
tended and respectful, from principle
as well as nature, there is nothing good
and gentle that may not be expected
from her, in whatever condition she
may be placed. Were I to advise a
friend as to his choice of a wife, my
first counsel would be, “Look out for
one distinguished for her attention and
sweetness to her parents.” The fund
of worth and affection indicated by
such behavior, joined to the habits of
duty and consideration thereby con
tracted, being transferred to the mar
ried state, will-not fail to render her a
mild and obliging companion. Star.
Early Rising.
‘The following passage occurs in
Doddridge’s “Family Expositor—
“l will here record an observation
which I have found of great use to
myself, and to which I may say that
the production of this work and most
of my other writings, is owing, nam
ely :—that the difference between ris
ing at five a seven o’clock in the morn
ng, for the space of years, supposing a
man to go to bed at the same hour at*
night, is nearly equivalent to the ad
dition of seven years to a man’s life.”
Contentment.—-it is no small com
mendation to manage a little well.—
He is a good wagoner who can turn in
a little room. To live well in abun
dance is the praise of the estate, not of
the person. I will study more to give
a good account of my little, than how
to make it more.—Bishop Hall.
Talents no Protection. —Were they
so, Bacon would never have taken a
bribe, nor would Dodd have commit
ted forgery; Yoltaire might have been
another Luther ; David Hume anoth
er Matthew Hale ; and Satan himself
might yet be in the canopy of heaven,
an orb of the first magnitude. Indeed,
high talent, unless early cultivated, as
was that of Moses, and Milton, and
Baxter, and Edwards, and Wesley, and
Robert Hall, is the most restive under
moral restraints ; is the most fearless
in exposing itself to temptation ; is
the most ready to lay itselt on the lap
of Delilah, trusting in the locks of its
strength. And alas ! like Samson,
haw often it is found blind and grind-
ing in the prison house, when it might
be wielding the highest political pow
er, or civilizing and evangelizing the
nations !—Dr. Murray.
Anecdote —A Universalist asked Rev
Mr. W.—“lf God was willing all men
should be saved ? Mr. W.—replied,
Do you believe God is willing all
men should live moral and virtuous
in this world ?” The man answered,
“Yes.” Then said Mr. W —, “Do all
men live thus ?” After a little hesitan
cy he answered, “Mo.” Mr. W—then
proceeded, “ According to your own
reasoning, the will of God is not ac
complished. But to answer your'ques
tion more fullyr-God is as willing all
man should be saved as that all should
live virtuously; but if you mean by
will, a design or determination, then I
would say, God has not detex'mined
that all men should maintain good
moral lives, for he had, they would;
nor has he determined to save all, if;
he had, all would be saved.” I
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tion of the Index, makes it one of the most value*
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of ten lines for the first, and 50 oents per square
of all subsequent publications.
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are used in the body of an advertisement. Longer
advertisements in same ratio.
Number 4.
THE THIFF PUNISHED.
A story is told of a doctor in the
goodly town of B—, not a hundred
miles from Vermont. The doctor con
stantly missed wood from his pile, and
set watch. As was expected, it prov
ed to be the work of a near neighbor,
who soon appeared, and carefully cul
ling out all dry wood, started off with
an armful. The doctor hastily gath
ered up an armful of green and
followed, tugging as fast as he could,
and j ust as the man threw down his
armful, the doctor did the same, ex
claiming, “There, you must burn green
wood a part of the time— l have to,”
and departed, leaving the thief to his
own reflections.—Bap. Tenn. Mag.
TEXTT.
We know a minister who on Friday
and Saturday wrote a sermon from
what he supposed was a passage of
Scripture, and was surprised aud some
what confused on Sabbath morning to
find that there was no such passage in
the Bible, and hence that his sermon
had no text.
Another minister read before a num
ber of his brethren a discourse from
the words:
From the Cotton Planter and Soil.
OSAGE ORANGE HEDGES.
Dr. Cloud Dear Sir:—Having visi
ted a friend of mine last Sabbath, and
examining books and papers I found
your Cotton Planter and soil, with
which I was very much taken; conse
quently I borrowed for numbers, and
have read them carefully through, and
was well pleased with their contents
indeed, tho’ I found some things in it
that was not in accordance with my
views. One was Mr. Sweet turn’s
experience and opinion of the Chero
kee rose hedge, if Mr. I*}. G. will pur
sue this plan, he can make a hedge,
and a fence. Plow the ground up as
he describes (tho’ not so deep) and
plant the cuttings three inches a part
and twelve inches in the ground and
four out, which makes the cuttings
sixteen inches long, the furrow should
be one foot deep only so as to stick
the end of the cuttings in the solid
ground, then tramp the dirt very care
fully against the bottom of the brier
so as not to bruise it, if the land is poor
I then put six inches of cotton seed on
that and a chat of dirt on that again,
then trgpip well without bruising the
brier, after which fill up the ditch en
tirely or rather raise it higher than the
level, (as it will settle) now it is planted,
how are we to cultivate it ? I cultivate
I cultivate it thus—every time I come
around working my cotton I work the
hedge, and just as nice as the cotton
—now keeping the ground level about
the hedge so as it may stand drouth.
Here is where Mr. S. G. errs, he farms
too deep and the brier is in loose dirt
at the lower end, the moisture evapor
ates and the hedge dies, it must be
stnck in solid ground, if only one-half
inch. After the hedge takes root it
must never be struck with the hoe nor
the horse’s foot or hoof in turning, for
the brier is stiff enough to be loosened
to its lower extremeties from a jar at
the top, in consequence of which it
dies, after it is one year old it is not so
tender. I can make a hedge on any
fair ground in four years; that will
turn any kind of stock. It should be.
kept clear of blackberry vines and
bushes during the first two or three
years and it will be no trouble after
that to keep them down.
If you choose to give this a place in
your book, you are at liberty, if not
throw it aside, but send me your Cot
ton Planter and Soil, as I consider the
fourth number I have worth the sub
scription money.
Y ours very respectfully,
Adams County, Miss., 1858.
J.C. H.
MINING INTERESTS OF GEOR
GIA.
Knowing the great interest felt by
all classes of our community, in the
mining operations of Georgia, we
wrote to our friend J. W. Patton,
Esq., Supt. of the U. S. Mint at Dah
lonega, requesting him to furnish the
readers of the South Countryman with
a description of the Mint and its oper
ations at Dahlonega, together with
any other information on the general
subject of mining which might be of
public utility. We take pleasure in
laying before our readers, two articles
on the above subject, one from Mr.
Patton and the other from Dr M. S.
Stephenson of Dahlonega. Both of
these articles will attract the attention
and amply repay the perusal of all
persons interested in tbe material pro
gress of the State. South Country
man. J
“The Narrow Way.” Had there
been any better, and easier way to
heaven, Jesus Christ would have cho
sen and it for himself and for his fol
‘ lowers.