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altogether demons, or perfect sakjts. —
Besides the advantage ofc qprreOt infor
mation, the secret of the #ue<se?B of I
those eminent for piety, or of tbe
downfall of those who hftVe become the
dieirs of perdition, will be %ade known
to us, thereby enaTiling us to avoid the
•qnicksapds oil which these were
‘wrecked, and to follow those, “who
thrchlgk faith and patience have inher
ited the promises.”
1 * * JI * * *
Nojck.—The above was properly No. 8 of this
interesting series.
ME CHRISTIAN INDEX.
SAMUEL BOYKIN, Editor.
TELEGRAPH POWER PRESS.
IvgAQQKT, (3--A..
Wednesday, Oct. 10, 1860.
Contents of this Number.
FI P.ST PAGE.
Prefatory Letter of Dr. Baker—ltights of Chur-*
ches, by Dr. Baker—Judson : the Modern Apostle,
by J. M. Clark—Review of Dr. Ilillyer’s Exposit
ion, by Dr. Ilolmes— Sabbath Schools.
FOURTH PAGE.
Tommy and his pets ; Little Bella’s four Texts
Dinner at the Wentworths ; The Old Sailor s haith;
A Panorama, “there Ben Only one God; A
Want ; On the Knees.
2no page.
Editorial.
To Young Converts ; Billiards and Tenpins ;
Critique on Webster’s Dictionary ; Cotton Plan
ters’ Association ; Missionary Mass Meeting at
Eatonton ; Extending the Circulation of the Index;
Gift for Missions.
Communications.
Dr. Mell Vindicates Himself; The Towaliga
Primitive Association, by Rev. J. 11. Campbell ;
Hasty Notes of a Hasty Travel, by Rev. W. N.
Chaudoin ; Letter from A. E. Vandivere.
3rd page.
Editorial Summary ; News from Bro. Bowen,
t£’c., Revival Summary ; Minutes of the Central
Association Mass Meeting.
[We regret that a long Receipt List and some
revival summary was crowded out.
To Young Converts.
It is in our heart to address a word of
exhortation to those young converts who
J*me lately and joy in be
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; •dernier.
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zeru ! how bright their
hope! how sweet their communion with
God! We say to them cultivate that
frame of mind that feeds upon the beauty
and glory of God. Let your delight in
heavenly things continue; and that it
may'be so, meditate much upon God and
his goodness: by stated and regular en
deavors of your
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■
m result in
\ \v<>! !d!y
:ir!li-it i■ MI. ••I'h*
m
. W .i t rh , t
cni'li the first- risings of
first inclination to neglect duty.
Beware of yielding too much time and at
tention to business employments. Lend,
but give not yourselves to business. Let
Christ and not the world rule in your
r* wts. Be assured that your great ad
wry will endeavor tc entrap you by
ohrase “diligent in business:” let it
B;o be |
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ness
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ed,”
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Da
iait,
it is
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shall
buuh.- -nei, men, me v ora oi unrist
dwell in you richly.’’ This is the power
ful instrument by which rtgen
erates and preserves the heart; and he
needs to look well to himself who begins
to be unaffected by the glorious truths of
the Bible.
Y our Bible and your closets, young con
verts, are your tower of safety. Study
the one for instruction and frequent the
other for growth in grace. Thus will sin
lose its power over you, and peace take
possession of you, and purity dwell with
in you, and ecstatic hope bear you onward
through the trials and conflicts of life :
thus will love to God be made to flourish
in your bosoms, and your walk become
close with Him; and, as burning and shi
ning lights, you will illuminate the church
and glorify your Father who is in heaven.
•
Queries—Billiards and Ten-Pins.
Is it right.for church members to indulge in
playing Billiards and Ten-pins at public
places ? If not , why ?
We all need amusements, and church
members are not exceptions to the gener
al law of humanity. Christianity is far
from a gloomy system, frowning on all
the joys of life. It recognizes all the true
wants of humanity, and provides for their
gratification. “Its w’ays are ways of pleas
antness, and all its paths are peace.”—
We may say that “moderate indulgence
in any form of amusement, which does
not tend to corrupt the morals, injure the
health, waste time or money, unfit one
. : , ..c. .. .UCb oi .. .. • : : <e -
votion, is nbt only proper, but a Christian
! duty. The man will Alive longer, enjoy
be|ykT health, and he consequently more
cfreerful, active, and useful, by occasion
ally unbending thus, than by toiling like a
galley-slave at his task.’’
The Christian has abundant resources
of cheerfulness in the social circle, in the
lecture room, in the exhibitions of the
wonders of nature and art; in painting,
sculpture, and music ; in good books and
‘fire-side pleasures in excursions, rides
and walks amid the lovely scenery where--
with God has adorned the world. There
is no necessity for seeking happiness in
polluting, enervating, and unholy amuse
ments.
But to our query, “Is itright for church
members to indulge in playing Billiards
and Ten-pins at public places?’’
All games of chance and playing for
money, are forbidden to Christians, and in
deed to all men, by God’s two command
ments, “thou shalt not covet,’’ and “thou
shalt not steal.’’ But Billiards and Ten
pins are not games of chance, and persons
may play without any reference so mon
ey, merely for amusement. They are not
wrong in themselves, but they may be so
in association and tendency. A family or
a few invalids, might indulge, in inclem
ent weather, in circumstances removing
all the associations of grogshops and bet
ting, in playing at Billiards and Ten-pins
without being chargeable with wrong do
ing. But this view of the subject is rath
er theoretic than practical; nor is it to
this point that our query directs us. It
is whether church members can indulge
in these amusements in “public places”
without doing wrong ? Let us ask. in
what sort ot “public places’’ are billiard
tables and bowling-saloons found ? Gener
ally, almost universally, in our cities and
villages, near the grogshop and gambling
hell. The associations of billiards and
ten-pins are intimately allied with drunk
ards and gamblers. Church members
cannot indulge here without violating the
scriptures which say: “Keep thyself
pure,” “lead me not into temptation,’’
“abstain from all appearance of evil.”
To indulge in these games in these pub
lic places will injure the Christian’s spirit
uality. The church member should vol
untarily mingle in no company, and go in
to no scene upon which he cannot im
plore the Divine blessing. Let him not
sell his “birth-right for a mess of pot
tage.” The lovers of billiards and ten
pins are not the spiritually minded, the
prayer-meeting-going members of tbe
church —they are not the glory of the
church, nor thejoy of the pastor.
Bro. F. Wilson, of Baltimore, states
that a Philadelphia Grand Jury has said
of billiard-rooms; “they are primary
schools for gamblers.’’ As the moderate
drinker is called the “drunkard’s appren
tice” because his course leads to dissipa
tion, so billiards and ten-pins have a ten
dency, direct and fearful towards down,
Bight gaming.
We have been careful in preparing the
way for our answers to the queries, out
of respect to those church members who
seem to regard their indulgence in these
games, in “public places’’ as innocent, and
consistent with their professions.
We are now prepared to answer: to
the first query, we say, No, it is not right.
To the second we answer : Ist. Because
of the bad associations of billiards and
ten-pins in “public places.” 2nd. Be
cause of the evil tendency of the games.
Critique on Webster’s Unabridg
ed American Dictionary of tiie En
glish LANGUAGE : WITH PICTORIAL IL
LUSTRATIONS.
The appearance of such a handsome
volume as Worcester’s Dictionary, noto
riously a rival to Webster’s Dictionary for
public favor, demands that due attention
should be given to bo th works. Hitherto
we have regarded Webster with pride ;
and we are loth to think that he 3tands
not at the head of Lexicographers. He
has bejpn accused of being an innovator;
it will be difficult to prove. It is
also said, sometimes, that Webster spells
according to sound without regard to de
rivation ; this is simply untrue.
The differences between Webster and
those opposed to him can be narrowed
down very considerably; for instance, he
spells counselor, jeweler, traveler, worship
ing and a few other words without doub
ling the last consonant; also, he spells
winful, instill, distill, fullness, dullness,
enroll, entlysjill, fulfill, skillfulwith two Is
instead of one ; and again, he changes
the ending re, of about 20 words, to er.
These are about the only objections to
Webster.
• Now, in regard to the first, when we
consider the standard orthographical rule
that primitives ending in a single conso
nant, preceded by a single vowel, double
that consonant when accented on the
last syllable, we are prepared to agree
with Webster when he writes galloping,
traveling,in preference to gallopping,trav
elling. We say suffering, why not level
ing ? We say reasoning, why not wor
shiping?
When the accent is on the final syllable,
it is very well to double the final conso
nant, as trepan, trepanning; begin, be
ginning, befit, befitting.
With reference to doubling the l in dis
till and instill, were it not done, ambigui
ty would follow the pronunciation, be
sides they come from the Latin root stillo,
(to drop,) which has two Is ; and analogy
requires that enroll, fulfill, skillful, dull
ness, have two Vs ; we say stillness, whv
not dullness ? The rule given above, in
reference to accent, seems to require it.
Fulfill is composed of full and fill, with
the accent on fill, how natural to say ful
fill, and thus decide the emphasis at once!
But Webster has been most blamed for
changing re into er —say caliber for cali
bre, theater for theatre, <£s. We say diam*
eter, hexameter, thermometer, why not meter
instead of metre ? It is well known that
.3ir Isaac MffiXou
ten, Pope, Bolingtroke and Seldcn Wrote
theater, specter , niter. In fact all foreign
words ending in bre, gre and tre have the
last two letters transposed when they are
introduced into our language —except
about 12 or 18. We say December —in
French Decembre, rencounter —in French
rencontre. Why have any exceptions ex
cept acre, lucre and massacre, which the
tendency to pronounce c before e like s
appears to demand ?
The truth of the matter is, Webster in
each of these three cases has analogy , fast
growing usage and the application of a
general rule in his favor.
In fact he differs from his opposers in
the spelling of about 70 words only, out
of the 100,000 in the language. He writes
woe instead of wo, plow instead of plough ,
maneuver instead of manoeuvre — defense,
offense and pretense, instead of using the
the c, cotempary for contemporary, ax
for axe, controller for comptroller, tun for
ton, stanch for staunch, practice for prac
tise, all which, upon investigation, will
not be found to be innovations.
In conclusion, we say, that for his defin
itions Webster cannot be surpassed; and
his vocabulary is, we may say, complete.
At least 7,000,000 of school books have
been published with bis orthography;
and the first publishers in the United
States give his spelling the preference.
Cotton Planter’s Association.
FAIR IN MACON.
If we rightly understand the object of
this Association it is to promote direct
trade with Europe, establish a friendly
intercourse between the Southern States
of our Union and the Continent, froe us
from the tax and dependency up the
North to w’hich we are now subject, en
courage the manufacturing and commer
cial spirit of the South and build up a
Southern Marine, that will not leave our
carrying trade at the mercy of foreign
ship-owners.
That these results, if achieved, will
plac 3 us on a lofty pedestal in the roll of
nat.ons cannot be doubted ; and hence
we are desirous to promote an association
that has such patriotic and worthy aims
in view.
In order to arouse a becoming spirit in
this matter among our people, this Asso
ciation is making arrangements for a mag
nificent Fair, to continue for three weeks,
in the city of Macon, during the month
of December next, where will be exhibi
ted the costly, curious, useful and beauti
ful fabrics of manufacturing Europe, the
various productions of our own farms and
looms, and where will be heard the elo
quent strains of appointed orators.
This is eminently a Southern movement
of civil, peaceful and national importance.
It will tend to enlarge the ideas of our
people, widen the scope of their mental
vision and prepare them for the time
which may some day come, of looking
within themselves and to themselves for
all the means and instrumentalities for
national greatness, national prosperity
and national independence.
As Macon is the spot chosen for this great
Fair, we apprise all our readers of the
fact and urge upon as many as can make
it convenient, to attend.
It is to be hoped, too, that the city of
Macon, in view of the ultimate results
likely to occur from the success of this
movement, and in view of the publicity
that will be attached to her and her name,
will act with becoming dignity and liber
ality in regard to the exhibition.
Missionary Mass Meeting at
Eatonton.
While this meeting was intended for
the mass of Christians composing the
Central Association, we are sorry to say
that few church members were there ; but
those few were of the whole souled class ;
and were a host in themselves.
A short account of their proceedings
will be found in another column, the
shape of the Minutes, which we publish
for the benefit of the Association. We
have it in our mind to bestow a repri
mand upon the non attendants; but in
consideration of the taken-for-granted
promise that they will do better next
time, we forbear. Truly, though, they
deserve a rebuke unless they were provi
dentially prevented from attending.—
There were about one dozen in atten
dance.
Bro. Sherwood presided and strictly
preserved the character of the meeting as
a missionary meeting; and we venture
the assertion that each one present will
certainly attend the remaining meetings,
unless hindered from doing so, and that
they will carry in their bosoms from this
time forth, an interest in the great cause
of missions, far exceeding any ,hey have
hitherto felt : an interest that will cause
their minds to revert to the subject with
pleasure : an interest that will cause their
hearts to expand with benevolence ; and
an interest that will animate their souls
with fervor in rendering the obedience
that is to carry out the church’s great
Commission. Happy they, who, on the
appearing of their Lord, will be found so
doing !
Extending the Circulation of the
Index.
TO FRIENDS.
It will be recollected that we “hoped’’
to be able to turn over SIOOO to the Con
vention at its next session ; and we based
the anticipation upon the expectation that
the friends of the Index would extend its
circulation. And now we appeal to. the
friends of the paper with confidence in re
gard to this matter.\JWe say to them—
to each, Help extend the circulation of the
Index. Work for it. Out of all its thou
sands of subscribers, men who have been
taking the paper for these many years,
should there not be hundreds willing to
-gaiist the f: urg you hot
willing ? And if so, cafi you not do some
thing? And if you can will you not?—
Come friends, begin and solicit subscri
bers for us. And if any one to whom you
may speak professes to be a subscriber,
ask him if he has renew ed tor the next
year, and advise such a course.
To our personal friends we appeal. —
Will they not extend our circulation ?
To P. M.’s w*e ask, cannot you do some
thing ? To Pastors we appeal—the Bap
tist ministers of Georgia—will you not
help the organ of your Convention ? An
nounce yourself as agent for the Index.—
Tell of the several valuable series of arti
cles being and to be published. Show
the “Youth’s Department.” Point to
our letters from missionaries and from
northern correspondents. Name the
many able contributors to the paper.—
And tell them, finally, that they “ought
to take it.’’
If, for a few weeks, our friends, the
friends of the Index and the friends of the
Convention and of the great missionary
cause, would thus speak, w r e would fulfill
our promise.
Many have promised us to send in new
subscribers and the money. We are
looking for them—one friend has sent 75
or 80. Will not others emulate him ?
To all who work for us we beg to hint
upon all sides,that the paper is to be con
ducted on the cash basis after this year,
and that it would be well for each one to
forward his subscription between now and
January. All this to the friends of the
Index. *
GIFT FOR MISSIONS-
When we wrote a short editorial, lately,
on the duty of supporting the undertakings
engaged in by our Boards, little (lid we
think to meet a response so soon.
Yet such is the fact. We have just re*
ceived one hundred dollars, to be divided
between the Foreign and Indian Missions,
sent to us by an Elbert county Baptist. —
May God bless him ; and may his exam*
pie incite others to similar deeds.
Such evidences of the true missionary
spirit are most encouraging to those, who
by pen and by active, life devoted labor,
are endeavoring to forward the Mission
cause and convert the heathen.
NOTICE.
The Committee of Correspondence, ap
pointed by the Second National Conven
tion of Union Prayer Meetings, have em
bodied the Address, and other transac
tions of that Assembly, in a small pam
phlet, which they desire to send to every
Union Prayer Meeting, whether in our
own, or in other countries.
All persons, either engaged or interes
ted in Union Prayer Meetings, a.o here
by requested immediately to make them
selves known to the Corresponding Sec*
retary of the Convention, Rev. A. M.
Morrison, No. 124 Fulton Street, New
fr v #
York, with the number of copies of the
pamphlet which they desire to distribute.
The distribution is intended to be gratu
itous ; but if any should prefer to remit
the extra cost of their orders, it will be
at the rate of $4 per hundred.
Foreign.
Our exchange tiles exhibit a'state of
atfairsin Europe, encouraging to the lov
ers of liberty. Garibaldi has triumphed,
so far, almost without bloodshed ; and an
nounces that the annexation of all Itlalv,
Venitia excepted, to Sardinia will be ef
fected when he will be able to proclaim it
from the top of the Quirinal.
Sardinia has invaded the Papal Terri
tory and conquered all but Rome itself,
which France seems determined to main
tain for the Pope. Austria and France
have thus far permitted Sardinia to have
her own way. France has, however, with
drawn her minister from Turin, which is
merely a diplomatic protest.
Amity prevails between Russia and
Austria. In Syria uhe French are keeping
the Mahommedans in subjection and Fuad
Pasha is severely punishing those guilty
of the late horrible massacres.
in a volcanic state.
LATER FROM MEXICO. ‘
New Orleans, Oct. 4.—A brig arrived here
to-day from Vera Cruz. She confirms the re
port of the confiscation of the bark Maria Con
ception.
The Spanish Commander threatened to bom
bard the city of Vera Cruz. Commander Tar
vis condemed his course.
The whole of the Spanish squadron, with one,,
exception, have returned to Havana.
A large specie conducta for Tampico was seiz
ed by Degollado.
G*n. Doblado, with the Liberal army, arrived
at Tacubaya.
STOkM AT NEW ORLEANS.
New Orleans, Oct. 4. —There was a very se-
vere storm on Tuesday. Fifty coal boats were
swamped, and eleven miles of the Jackson rail
road was swept away. A great many houses
and lives were lost; and sugar mills and crops
were destroyed.
MARKET REPORTS.
New York, Oct. G.—The cotton market was
active and excited to-day. The sales were 6,000
bales at an advance of i cent; Middling Up
lands at 11 a cents. Flour firm; sales
of 19,500 barrels. Wheat steady ; sales of
150,000 bushels. Corn steady ; sales of 65,-
000 bushels; mixed at 69 a 71 cents.—
Spirits of Turpentine firm, at 40 £ a cents.
Rosin dull at $1 a 1 47£ cents. Rice firm
and active at 4f a 4£ cents.
Savannah, Oct. 6.—The market this fore
noon was very quiet, and the sale® limited to
127 bales as follows, viz : 40 at 10f; 21 at 104;
9 at 10$; 17 at 10 J.
Augusta, Oct. 6. —We findlittle doing in the
market to-day. Holders are and there is
little offering. There is a tendency to higher
prices for good cotton. For Middling Fair 11
cents is asked and lOf offered and refused.
Appointments. —Mr. A. C. Bristow, Mail
Agent, has been transferred from the Augusta
and Macon to the Augusta and Atlanta route,
to fill a vacancy occasioned by the resignation
of Mr. Wm. T. Beal.
COMMUNICATIONS.
Dr. Mell Vindicates Himself:
Quotes from father Mercer, and avers that a
proper construction of his printed sentiments
sho -J that it is right and orderly for one church
to receive an excluded’member of another,when
the excluding act was one of disorder.
Dear Brother Boykin :
In the Index of last week, you cite the
name of father Mercer as authority to sus
tain your position that one church may
overrule the decisions of another, and re -
ceive the latter’s excluded member. Have
you any evidence for this ? I live in the
midst of the scene of his ministerial la
bors, and associate with numbers of those
who sat under his instructions; and they,
as well as the records leit by him, are
very much at fault, if you are right. Wai
ving all reference to facts, the following
from his pen seems to be conclusive:
“Our Lord has laid down a few plain rules of
government, and established a tribunal in his
church, at which all offences are to be tried and
decided; and from which there is no appeal. I be
lieve it \s adopted by all regular Baptists as the
doctrine of Christ, that his church is his Kingdom
on earth ; that he sits in judgment there ; and
that when a gospel church is sitting in gospel or
der, for the transaction of disciplinary business,
there is not a higher court on earth; and that
such church is arraignable at no other, or foreign
bar: because her judge is in her midst, and has
commanded her implicit obedience. Now, any de
parture from these rules, and any appeal from
this authority and tribunal, will, can do no other
than produce amongst Baptists, strifes and divis
ions.”—(Memoirs pp. 249-50.)
On p. 448, he answers the following
question in regard to a class of exception
al cases :
“Is it gospel or duty for one church to receive
persons excluded from another church simply on
account of their being friendly to benevolent in
stitutions ?”
“On the above query we have endeavored to
reflect with cool deliberation, and the result of
our thoughts leads us to answer it in the negative.
Exclusion from a regularly constituted church, is
in itself right. It is the execution of a sentence
• on the authority of Chiist, by the ouly authorized
body, and ought to be respected by all orderly
churches.”
Nevertheless, he goes on to say that he
thinks such persons may be received by
other churches on the ground that “one
act of disorder may excuse, if not justify
another,’’ and he advises “to receive such
persons not as an orderly butjw a neces
sary act,” &c. The only difference then
between him and me on this point is that
while he says, to receive such persons is a
“disorderly,” though excusable act, I lay
it down that it is right and orderly to do
so.
On page 118, of my little book, I say :
“The ‘Primitive Baptists’ have declared
non-fellowship for us because we maintain
Boards and Conventions for promoting
missions When, therefore, we
take them on their own terms, and receive
those of their members who have been
excluded for conscientiously maintaining
the same truths on whose account we our
selves have been withdrawn from, we vi
olate no church comity, we disturb no
Christian T lay down the principle
that when the grounds upon which a
church excludes a member are such as
to authorize us to withdraw fellowship
from her, we do not violate but sustain
gospel principles in receiving her excluded
member. But I say, p. 117, “But you
observe that this principle is not opera-,
tive in a case in which we receive one ex-
eluded by a church professing to be of
the same faith and order— me who was
arraigned and tried upon each charges as,
if they had been proved upon him, would
have made him, in our opinion, worthy of
expulsion.” Os course, then my published
principles would lead me to the reception
of one who had been turned, or kept out
of an abolition church for connection with
slaveholding.
Let me, therefore, delicately hint to
brother Tharp that he will have to try
again. The blow he leveled was a very
hard one, but I happened to be away from
the place on which it descended. Nobody
was hurt, I opine, unless the jarring of
the club lacerated his own hand. If he
had read this part of my book with more
care, he would have been spared the ex
cessive ‘sorrow’ with which he thought the
Publication Society afflicted him. But to
return.
lam very much mistaken if I cannot
show that father Mercer sustains me on
all points on which he has published. It
is certain that all his compeers,whom God
still mercifully spares to us, sustain me on
all material points. This I understand to
be true of such men as Mallary, Kilpat
rick, Sherwood, Dawson, &c., &c. But
w the great question after all is, What does
the Word of God say.
P. H. MELL.
Athens, Sept 27.
(This came too late for last week’s is
sue.)
For the Christian Index.
The Towaliga Primitive Associa-
tion ; Revivals at Thomaston and at Je<*erson
ville ; Ordination at Irwinton; The Rehoboth
and Flint River Associations.
Brother Boykin :
After parting with you at the Central
Association, my next service was to at
tend the session of the Towaliga (Primi
tive) Association. Bro. Lyon, pastor of
the church with which the Body met,
conveyed several of us from Barnesville
to his hospitable mansion, where we were
most kindly entertained by his interesting
family. Brethren Thompson and Fain
formed a part of our company. It is no
wonder they exert an extended and pow
erful influence among the class of Baptists
with which they are identified. They
have talents that would give them influ
ence in any connexion. I was deeply in
terested and much gratified during the
two days I was permitted to spend with
these brethren. The venerable Modera
tor, Rev. Wm. Moseley, being absent
from sickness, his place was supplied by
election of Bro. Dumas, a talented, zeal
ous and successful minister of the New
Testament.
An incident occurred during the closing
seftices of Ssbbatß forenoon, which ah
fected me deeply. While brother Dumas
was exhorting with great power, my at
tention was drawn to a lady of intellectu
al features and beaming countenance, who
was enjoying the liberty granted her in
Isaiah 12:6. Upon inquiry I learned she
was the sisiof brother Dumas, and is
blind. I could but * emeraber it is writ
ten, “It dot! not yet appear what we shall
be; but we know that, when he shall ap
pear, we shall be like him, for we shall
see him as he is.’’
The business of the Session was conduc
ted in a dignified and christian-like man
ner, and the preaching that I heard was
orthodox and forcible. The differences
now existing between the Towalagi breth
ren and those of the missionary order are
not, in my conception, of such magnitude
as to constitute a bar to correspondence
and fellowship. At least it becomes us
all to inquire whether these differences
may not be modified or removed. I shall
cousider myself “highly favored of the
Lord,’’ if I shall be able to contribute
anything towards such a result.
On Sunday afternoon I left the Towa
liga reluctantly, and proceeded toThom
aston, where a meeting of days was in
progress under the direction of Rev. J. li.
Weaver, pastor. Here I was constrained
to remain and labor until Wednesday af
ternoon following. The cases of several
young men, who were frequently on the
anxious seats, interested me deeply. The
additions to the church were not numer
ous, but it is believed the seed sown will
produce fruit unto eternal life.
Only one day’s rest at home, and I then
met brother Warren, of Milledgeville, at
Gordon, and proceeded to a meeting at
Jeffersonville. It was a sad disappoint-
ment that other ministering brethren,
who were expected at this meeting, failed
to attend. No one had better reason to
feel sad than myself, for I was suffering
from a heavy cold, which rendered it
painful and dangerous to speak. But the
Lord was “better to us than all our fears,”
and the power of his Spirit rendered the
weak instrumentality employed, efficient
for the accomplishment of much good.—
Many souls will remember that meeting,
when the preachers who conducted it shall
have been gathered into their Father’s
house. Seldom have I witnessed such an
overwhelming effusion of the Spirit. Most
of the church were evidently in a prepar
ed state, and cheerfully did all in their
power to promote the good work. About
twenty-eight whites were added to the
church, and as many more left inquiring
the way of life. My potor lungs yet suf
fer from the efforts made on that occasion.
During this meeting a dear young broth
er, of thorough education and fine social
position, was licensed to preach the Gos
pel. The Lord strengthen his heart for
this work !
My next service was at Lexington,
Wilkinson county, where I preached Sat
urdayfa*tid Sunday, and aided the pastor,
brother Barret, lato a student of Mercer
University, in ordaining brother Rivers
to the office of Deacon. This little church,
though only a year or twofold, is compo
sed of excellent material, and is a most
efficient body. I predict for it a bright
and prosperous future. Bro. Barret is
esteemed here, and elsewhere in this re
gion, as “a good minister of Jesus Christ.”
lie is yet young, and I trust a long career
of great usefulness awaits him. Bidding
these brethren farewell, Monday morning
found me at Fort Valley, where the Re
hoboth Association was in session. My
object in attending was to suggest to this
Body the propriety of offering correspon
dence to the Towaliga Association, which
suggestion, lam happy to say, was acce
ded to. Several brethren volunteered as
correspondents.
The Flint River Association, which I
have since attended at Barnesville, also
resolved to propose correspondence to the
Towalagi, and nine messengers were ap
pointed. It is earnestly hoped these
movements, which contemplate the res
toration of peace and co-operation among
the Baptists in this part of the State, will
receive from those who have influence
that sanction which their importance®e
mands. Our Association, (the Flint Riv
er) agreed also to make overtures to cer
tain brethren from whom we separated
some years ago, who were then identified
with Rev. Willis Jarrel. “Pray for the
peace of Jerusalem: They shall prosper
that love thee !”
I am nqjv laboring in a meeting of
much interest at Forsyth.
J. H. Campbell.
Sept. 26, 1860.
Hasty Notes of a Hasty Travel.
Bro. Boykin—A few weeks ago, (3rd
Sunday in Sept.,) I was at the
Middle Cherokee Association,
which convened at Cartersville. Dr. Lew
is preached a good sermon, introductory
to the business, about the wheat and tares
growing together. It was the pure coin
in my estimation. He showed how dif
ferently God acted in His administration
from what he —Lewis—would act if he
had the power. For instance, he would
kill all lazy men first thing, then the whis
key-sellers, and mne-tenths of the Doc
tors, perhaps as many lawyers, but best
of all, he would have houses built, and
furnished with looms and wheels, and he
would take all snuff-rubbers and chewers,
and idle women and put them to spinning
and weaving. Wish everybody could
have heard that or just such a sermon.
Eld. Rambaut, LL. D., was elected
Moderator, and Eld. T. 11. Stout, Clerk.
The churches were well enough represen
ted by delegates, but poorly represented
by contributions, there being nearly $175
sent up for all missionary purposes. Only
about 145 baptisms reported. Oh, I
shuddered for the churches, when I saw
how little some done, others nothing.—
Whether the discussion of the “Board
Question” has been injurious on the chur
chei tip these, 1 afifW lardy, but fear
it has. I know it has been in eome pla
ces. Allow me to say there are some
precious, large-sonled brethren in that
Assocation, and some working churches,
I left this body in session, in order toF
reach the
Flint River Association,
which was holding its meeting at the
same time in Barnesville, which point I
reached on Monday morning, the day the
body adjourned. Harmonious meeting
and a great crowd, especially Sabbath.—
Only one subject elicited much talk, and
that not a great deal, viz : Appointing a
Corresponce to the Towaliga Association,
(Primitive) which was done.
The cruel preaching committee drag
ged me off down in the woods, and-before
I got back the body had adjourned, and
I was thus cut out of making two speech
es, one for the Index and one for the Col
porteur Society, and I have not got over
it yet, and if t,hi§ article is ‘gassy’ you may
know how to account for it, and don’t
burn it up.
Left Barnesville, in company with
ble looking Tennessean, fine fellow;
T. Russell. I tell you these boys from
Tennessee are —hush, I forgot I—nothing,
only we touched at Forsyth, where a se
ries of meetings is being held, and heard
your pastor preach, “Christ is all.’* Next
day, I and my companion—not my wife
—separated, he for your city, and I made
Knoxville, Ga.,
the next scene of my labors, preaching
three times for the people, collected some
money, and sold a few books. The pres
ent “Bishop of that Diocese” is soon to
quit his Bishopric, and I hope will be suc
ceeded by our young brother
D. W. Ewin,
who is now teaching there, and is one of
the most pious, warm hearted licentiates
I ever saw. He is no ranter, though, but
a graduate of Richmond College, fine
mind, ancj good liberal attainments for so
young a man. Then at
Fort Valley,
met ray companion, and talked some, and
now here I am in Perry, and if that is not
“bobbing round” right fast for “a slow
craft,” as I am, then lam mistaken. Put
this all in, you need some fun anyhow.
Yours semi-occasionally,
W. N. Chaudotn.
A Letter from Bro. A. E. Vandi-
VERE, OF THE INDIAN MISSION.
Creek Agency, Creek Nation. (
September 10th, 1860. |
My Dear Index :
Being one of Georgia’s sons will, I hope,
be sufficient excuse for intruding myself
upon your notice. I was brought up on
her soil, have eaten of her fruits, drunk of
her clear water and breathed her pure at
mosphere ; and, besides the ties of early
association, the fact that many of my
friends and kindred lie beneath her sods
binds me closely to Georgia. Bro. Isaac
Read and myself came from very near tho
Georgia line : I came from Jacksonville,
Ala., and Bro. Read from Cedar Bluff,Al
abama ; and I understand that others aro
expected soon from the same state. I re
gret very much that brethren are so very
slow in getting their consent to enter up
on the Indian mission work : I do not
know of one now engaged in it who is dis
satisfied. Were you to ask Bro. Preston,
or Bro. Murrow, or Bro. Slover, or Bro.
Read, how they liked the work, they
would each and all reply that they are in
their glory. I need not mention Bro.
Buckner, as his sentiments, on this sub
ject, are too well known. As for myself,
when I reflect, ?t times, that lam away
here, at least one thousand miles from
dear old Georgia, I can hardly realize it;
and I am tempted, for a moment to ques
tion my motives ia coming. Doubtless
God had a purpose to subserve in sending
me here ; and I would fain hope that it is
the salvation of sinners. Permit me to
remark that I regard the Indian, missions,
as a glorious work—a cause in which ev-.
ery man in Georgia should take great de
light.
I am truly sorry to read of so much dis
sension among brethren in the States*
Were it known to the heathen, it would
greatly retard their conversion and hin
der us in our work. Ido pray the breth
ren to stop this thing. If they cannot see
alike, for Jesus’ sake try to pray alike.—
I have thought this state of confusion
about ways and means greatly in the way
of missions, and that it prevented the
conversion of the heathen.
Brethren, I am begging for the cause of
Christ: we have a great work to do and
but little time to do it in; andwe poor mis
sionaries, looking to you, as we do, for
aid, are pained when we read of such dif
ferences among you. But we do rejoice
at the apparent unity of desire and effort
in sending the Gospel to the poor Indian.
A. E. Vandivere.
A. Richardson to his old friends.
We call attention to the communication
below :
A PEACE OFFERING.
To brethren, C. D. Mallary, Henry
Bunn, Ward Hill, Adial Sherwood, John
E. Dawson, J. H. Campbell, N. M. Craw -
ford, S. G. Hillyer, P. H. Mell, J. B.
Walker, T. J. Burney, Mark A. Cooper
and Jesse M. Wood :
I propose (if the Lord will) to meet you
on the Rail Road, at Kingston, Cass coun
ty, on Monday the nineteenth of Novem-
ber next, on our way to the Southern
Union Sabbath School Convention, which
is to meet at Louisville, Kentucky, the lat
ter part of that week.
It begging would do any good, I would
beg to see your faces once more before I
leave this world of confusion.
Let us remember Lot’s wife.
Armstead Richardson..
Cave Spring, Ga., Oct. 1860.
The Tennessee Baptist,Christian Index,
South-Western Baptist and Cherokee
Banner, will please publish three times
and their accounts will be paid when pre*
sented. A. R,