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CHRISTIAN INDEX
SAMUEL BOYKIN, EDITOR.
MACON, GA., JAN. 8, 1861.
A Full Sheet-
We issue this “week r. full sheet in ordßgSg!
publish a number of communications
came to hand. Hereafter we will continuer
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/ Obituaries.
We this week publish a number of obitua
ries that have been on file for some time, and
it was partly for this purpose we issued a
whole sheet. After this we will publish only
10 lines gratia ; and will abridge the obitua
ry to that extent, but are nevertheless willing
to publish 20 lines when 20 cents a line is pre
paid us for each extra line in writing.
Soldiers’ Edition.
Our conscience will not permit us to lose
the opportunity we enjoy for benefiting the
soldiers of our army, and so we have conclud
ed to issue a Soldier’s Edition of the Index,
beginning on the first of February next. .
This edition will be of FULL SIZE and
will contain two pages of matter especially de
voted to the soldier. We send about 3000 In
dexes to the army ; and we feel convinced that,
besides the usual denominational and editorial
matter of tho paper, we should publish for
thoir benefit appropriate miscellaneous read
ing, which cannot be done on a half sheet. —
In our Soldier’s Edition, therefore, the first
and fourth pages will consist of choice matter
culled with a special eye to the taste and
wants of our gallant armies: these pages will
embrace miscellaneous religious pieces and
other articles calculated to improve the mind
and heart, or benefit the body of the soldier.
It will be our aim to make them as interest
ing and beneficial as possible.
But this full edition will demand an in
crease of price—its oost wiU > therefore, be for
any number
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We soli c n (} te contributions of the friends of
him this edition.
are constantly
- ‘Wging us to send them copies of bur paper ;
and since Tracts and Biljles are so difficult to
obtain, we do not see to what better advantage
a generous religious public can apply the mo
ney they are willing to give for the spiritual
benefit of the soldier, than to send him an
equivalent that avails itself of the mails to go
immediately into the hands of those who are
risking all for us. We cannot do too much for
them; and we should rejoice at the opportunity
of gratifying them, and so easily supplying a
pressing demand of theirs. Let us show our
appreciation cf their services and our grati
tude,for all they are enduring and risking for
our sakes. We hope contributions will conic
in speedily and freely for this purpose, so that
our Soldier’s Edition may bo large; and we
desire Chaplains and others who particularly
desire to circulate the Index to inform us. ,
[fiisg’ INDIVIDUAL SUBSCRIBERS by
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of the two inside pages of the whole sheet.
To Christians.
And what new year words does it become
us to address to Christians ‘. What, except
that, amid the almost universal coldness and
deadness, we urge you to a strict performance
of duty, to a closer walk with God, to a loos
ening of your hold upon the world, to a hun
gering and thirsting after righteousness ! O
Christian, ho is but a poor soldier of the Cross
who permits the caics, and riches, and excite
ments of this life to choke the seed of reli
gious life in his soul, and stunt his usefulness,
and drown his spiritual affections, and destroy
his peace of mind! lie is indeed a weak
Christian who cannot, even amid the distrac
tions of war, find time for his religious duties!
He is an unprofitable servant to his ever
blessed Lord and Master, who allows his affec
tions to dry up, and his usefulness to cease,
and his profession to he spoken atrainst, thro*
idleness or careless or remissness or delin’
quency!
C hristians, since the new year has dawned
upon you, scan your own souls and faithfully
measure its forward or backward progress, in
the year just past, and vow unto your God re
newed fidelity and self-consecration; and let
not “war’s rudo alarms” nor the world’s allur
ing charms seduce you from the path of duty,
or beget coldness in your bosoms, or engender
a worldly spirit in your hearts. In your
closets seek grace from on high to overcome
the temptations of the day, and, by a diligent
imitation of sainted worthies in the schooling
of your minds and in the discipline of your
lives and in the restrainingof your affections,
seek to attain eminence in godliness and use
fulness ! •
“No cross, no crown.”
In a manner rejoice in your present trials :
but let faithfulness triumph, and prove to an
observant world that, even in war, Christians
can grow in grace and piety. O, let not these
trying times diminish the world’s respect for
religion, by your practical failure to exempli
fy it# virtues and to prove its regenerating,
purifying and elevating power!
sXoOO !
One church in Alabama, lately sent §I,OOO
to the Banner, to send papers to the army.—
Won’t four send each SSOO, to the Index for
tho same purpose ? •
New Year Reveries.
1863!
Eighteen hundred and sixty-three! _Ah‘
what tales of blood and heroism will you tell
to on-coming gonerations! What of sorrow,
suffering and distress ! What of a nation, as
as the sun ever shone on, struggling
|Br life and independence ! What of tlic an
guish that mantled many a cheek with pale
ness, and of the grief that spread wanness
over many a mother’s and wife’s countenance!
What of the blood that liberty-martyrs, God’s
gift to a heroic people, poured out so freely
upon fSe altar of honor and independence!—
What of the wintry blasts and freezing rains
endured by the gallant men that nobly kept
watch and ward over the destinies of their
land ! ’ What of the sacrifices made by patri
ots and what of the dee’ds accomplished by
noble women, and what of the faith of a na
tion tried by calamity, yet proudly defiant and
hopefully determined !
Dark hours of eighteen hundred and sixty
three, ye are buried in the past! Would that
your calamities and sufferings could be for
gotten! Would that the scenes which palled
a nation’s heart in gloom could bo remember
ed ho more! But, no! Even your defeats
shall render the future but more bright and’
glorious ! Your misfortunes shall bring into
stronger reliet the joys of successful accom
plishment ! And your grief-clad hours shall,
by comparison, make brighter still the glory
tinted days of peace and prosperity! Asa
messenger from the Eternal, you visited us
with trials : an angel of Decrees yon poured
out upon us, from the vials of wrath, destruc
tion and dismay! But, your purpose, what
ever it he, is accomplished! Your end is
achieved—your worst has been done ; and not
yet are we overwhelmed—not yet vanquished
—not even desponding.
Eighteen hundred, and sixty-three! ‘"We
cast you from, us with all your woes- Wo liail
your young Successor as the Harbinger of
good news—as the Recorder of glorious a
chievments—as the Bearer of century-renown 1
ed success.
Farewell to you! And yet, while we give
the parting hand, we thank you for your les
sons of endurance; we thank yon for nerving
us to the pitch of deathless resistance: we
thank you for opening our eyes to the foil de
signs of our remorseless foes: we thank you
even for your sufferings and deprivations; for
these have taught us how we prize indepen
dence and have proved our never-dying love
for liberty, and have manifested the scorn
that seethes in our souls for a would-be inter
meddling despot. We thadffi you for the trials
that have brought out the virtues of our people’
and shown them to be proof against misfortune
and calamity.
Ah! who would be the vassal of a sordid
North! Who would bow in bondage to the
slayers of our dearest of kin! Who wouid
kiSs the feet of a vulgar military despotism !-
Who wonld yield to the base destroyers of our
rights and property ; and cringe before the
desolators of our altars, homes and liberties!
Forbid it every principle*of honor and mau-
independence,! Le.t the sufferings and sac.-
nfices of the past—its glory and renown—in
pel us to mightier efforts to attain success !
Let the dead heroes Os 1801, ’O2 and ’O3, from
their graves admonish us, for their sake's, and
for the sake of all that is dear to the human
breast, not to give over Jthis strugglo till the
6un-light of glorious success gleams upon our
arms and streams forth from the flashing folds
of our victorious banners !
1864 !
All bail to the new year!
He comes clad in mourning but he shall put
off his weeds and yet wear the smile of glad
ness. He finds us a people stricken and dis
tressed by the ravages of war, but lie will
leave us a land smiling with hope and joy.
Sorrow endureth for a night, but joy eom
eth in the morning: the night of our sorrow
is passing away, and the glory-light of suc
cess will soon beam upon our country.
Not in vain has been all our struggles : not
in vain our sacrifices: not in vain our fixed
determination to be free. Never shall it her
said that the bones of ourglorious dead moul
der in vain—that their heart’s blood flowed
but to make us the tamer ‘in the presence of
insolent conquerors !
Never! Never!
While the incense of a hundred battle fields
ascend to heaven, a sacred holgpaust to South
ern liberty, independence and valor; while
that proud spirit which ever existed in the
Southern Cavalier’s bosom still burns and
blazes: while wives and husbands and little
ones remain tp be defended : while arms are
left to wield the sword, and unblanched hearts
to guide our councils, never will it be said that
Southerners yielded to the base invader!
But it may be that we shall have a sea of
trouble yet to pass through. Our only course
will be to go forward. He who led Israel
through the Red Sea has surrounded ns with
such difficulties as force us onward through a
sea of blood and suffering to tho promised
.land. Ahead of us still gleams that pillar of
fire which ever yet has lit up our hearts with
hope and encouragement—success and inde
pendence still lure us on to victory.
Behind us are the red-handed pursuers with
subjugation and desolation in their rear: on
each side devastation, banishment and thral
dom, worse than Egyptian bondage await ®s.
Nought remains for us but to fight for free
dom till freedom is achieved, as achieved it
will be,
For Freedom’s battle oft beguD,
Bequeathed from heeding” sire to son,
Though baffled oft, is ever won.
[Byron.
O ye Southerners, arise in your might and
let the would-be Despot see who it is he dares
attempt to subjugate ! And yet, while yous
hearts are all iron and your nerves all steel,
forget not that God is yorar help—that He it
is who will trample down your foes for you l
Go to Him in meekness and penitence and
from his Councils shall issue orders for your
enfranchisement. Let self-aggrandizement
cease, and let our country claim all our hearts.
By deeds of glory that shall rival Marathon
and Thermopylae, wrench victory from, a cruel
foe. Let 1564 prove, indeed, the year of cur
deliverance. ’Then shall wo prove ourselves
worthy sons of worthy sires, aud fit for free
.dom’s wreath of glory.
In character# of living light let 1801 he
written upon our nation’s history, as the year j
wherein we forgot all else but our country’s j
good and for her welfare surrendered all our
wealth, our comfort and ourselves.
Hail, then, 1864! To your faithfulness and
honor and valor and patriotism a nation com
mits its destiny.
The Situation—Baptisticslly
• v - ! Speaking.
The Baptists of the South have taken no
mean part in the drama of 1861, ’62 and ’63.
They have done much to arouse a patriotic
spirit of resistance to Northern invasion, and
to excite in the popular mind an undying op
position to Yankee conquest ; and of. their
name a full proportion has helped ta swell the
ranks of our armies. Indeed we might fear
lessly assert that no other denomination has,
even in proportion to its numbers, furnished
more men to battle for Southern fights ; and
the numerous obituaries of Baptist soldiers,
incontestably prove their valor. Twice, thus
far during the war, has the Southern Biennial
Baptist Convention held its sessions, once in
Savannah and once in Augusta, and each time
resolutions of the most devoted patriotism,
were pasted, and much special prayer offered
for the welfare of the Confederacy. In ail the
States East of the Mississippi, except iu Ten
nessee, the Baptist State Conventions have not
failed to assemble, and at each the .most pat
riotic action has been taken ; while tho vari
ous District associations of tho respective States
have all convened at their appointed times and
places, except where desolating war prevailed,
aud have transacted their usual business, not
one ever neglecting stated and fervent prayer
for the country. And all these religious gath
erings have beeii, for the times, numerously
attended, and large sums have been sent up
for missions and army evangelization. Cut
off, pretty much, from .intercourse with our
Foreign missions, contributions for that pur
pose have been restricted, which has di
minished the labors of the Foreign Mission*
Board, at Richmond, Va. ; but as a compen
sation for this decrease of effort, a correspon-*
ding activity has taken place on the part of
the Domestic Mission Board, stationed at Ma
rion, Ala. ,
In supporting army missionaries, printing
tracts and'distributing papers in the army,
the Baptists have been exceedingly libera], op
erating chiefly through two organizations—
the Board of Domestic missions of tho South
ern Baptist Convention ami the S. S. and
Publication Board of tho General Association
of Ya. Both of these Boards are highly effi
cient, and besides supporting hundreds of
missionaries in the army they have distrib
uted uncounted Hubi;B of tracts, papers and
Testaments in the army; and the good accom
plished by these efforts has been visibly im-‘
mensc. • i..dependent of these organizations,
many District Associations have employed
army and domestic missionaries and kept them
actively engaged in the field of labor. Bap
tist missionary operations among the Indians
of the Great West, (so very prosperous before
the war,) have been mostly broken up, and
the missionaries and their families scattered,
tho’ still under the patronage of the Board of
Dorn. Missions. The Foreign missionaries of
our Denomination in Africa and China, have
managed to sustain themselves during the war
by loans and individual exertions ; and where
health permits are Still encouragingly engage and
in bringing such as shall be saved, into the
fold of Jesus. At the opening of hostilities
the denomination was supporting in China, 6
male and 6 female missionaries and 8 native
assistants ; in Liberia 18, and in Central Af
rica 4 males and.2 females ; while at home it
was supporting 150 domestic missionaries, in
the States, 7 whit<? missionaries, wish the fam
ilies of such as were married, in tile Indian
Territory, and a large number of native
preachers- The exertions of the denomina
tion ace now very properly directed to “army
missions.” Four of our denominational pa
pers have been forced to suspend by the war
East of the Father of Waters, while six still
maintain their existence —one of which, the
Confederate Baptist, is anew paper started
since the war began. On the other side of the
Mississippi there were two Baptist papers,
one ofwhich, tho’ a half sheet, was in vigorous
existence, when last heard from, and intense
ly Southern in spirit: thus was the Louisiana
Baptist, published at Mt. Lebanon, La. The 0
papers.alluded to above are the Religious Her
ald, of Richmond, Ya. ; the Biblical Recorder,
of Raleigh, N. C.; the Confederate Baptist, of
Columbia, S. C.; the Baptist Banner, of At
lanta, Ga. ;* the South Western Baptist of Tus
kegee, Ala., aifd the Christian Index, of Ma
con, Georgia. Besides these is published the
Child’s Index, of Macon, Ga., a child of these
war times, a Baptist Sunday school paper,
which has gained in one year a circulation of
10 or 12 thousand. These papers have all ex
erted a strong and decided influence in favor
of religion, missions, army evangelization and
Southern independence.
The Georgia Bible and Colporteur Society,
which has a Depository a t Macon, Ga., has
been engaged in printing Tracts and circula
ting papers in tho army. It aids in distribu
ting Testaments and Sunday school books, and
is an organization of considerable usefulness
and efficiency.
The Baptist Theological Seminary, at Green
ville, S. C., with an able faculty, has suspen
ded for want of Students —(the army claiming
all the young men)—-and is ready to go into
operation at any time. While, as far as we
know, all the other male colleges of the Con
federacy have suspended, Mercer University
of Ga., a Baptist College, having a. noble pres
ident and an able faculty and with which arts’
connected a theological department and i\ * rgo
preparatory school, still continues its exerci
ses, owing to the liberality which providedjor |
its soetestation an adequate fund. Through-j
out the country numerous Bap. Col- .
leges are enjoying a flourishing existence. In
the churches many Sunday schools have been
j maintained; but there is a great, scarcity of \
j Suuday school hooks, a waff whi ell the Sun
day School Board of Greenville, r S. 0., a ifetv l
creation of the last Southern Baptist Conven
tion, is seeking energetically to supply, by
the publication of apro{ l ri:>
the most indispensable books wtH'bc pVrfv'tfcd.
B. Manly, Jr./D. D.. is President, and Dr. J.
A. Broaddus, Sec., of this Board. Taken al
together, our denomination has not been idle
during the war. It has sent httadredtrofniis
sietiaries to the army, aided in tjie publication,:
and distribution of thousands of pu.pgrs,- tracts
and Testaments ; though it might have done
and still should do far more. It ha*-’ increas
ed in numbers: numerous ordinations bate
occurred : revivaTsTidve been vc'fy’tfninercus:
pi aver-meetings for the country have beeji
general, especially in the cities and yet it
must be confessed that great religious apathy
has prevailed and still prevails. Whilst there
ban been much neglect in’ the support of pas
tors, many churches have acted nobly in this
respect, but it must be recollected that most
of the male church members are.in thq army.
We might'say - of oilier denominations ’that
they have acted nobly fill through the war/tin'l
are enjoying, under the cireuihfctftncvs, a reas
onable degree of prosperity and spirituality :
eachofithem still maintains denominational pa
pers ; but our immediate purpose has beeii to
throw together a few hasty remarks concern
ing our own Denomination, as a matter of fu
ture reference for the historian or antiquarian.
New Year Words for the Sol
diers.
Faithful watchmen upon ihe towers flf“lij>*
erty, for you a year “if glory haffpn-sed, And’
for you lias dawned a year of trials and suffer
ings ; hut the same indomitable spirit stud he-
i'oic patriotism which lias thn* far ied.y*,u on !
ovill still incite to deeds of v*lor and
complaining endurance. For this wo .honor
you, and for this we give such piahe as is
rarely accorded to human being’s. Nat for
hire have ye exposed your brows to the storms
of heaven, and bared your •’boeonffi to” the lead
en hail of death v but impelled by love lor
your country and your country’s hoiuir and,
safety, you have risked and endured and suf
fered, till, like Angels of IXeliveranoo, ye d,e
sorve the halo of glory over to crown your’
heads and encircle your names. Wa exiead
to you greetingsof the new year, atid inyfqte
for yoil thebeneficeni ekreof a'merciftl <?*.!.
To His keeping we commfend you, and’ oT'Rhn
beseech for you sa ety, victory, and all early
return in peace to the embraces of loved ones
at home. But, remember, that for tlios'e ioyfed
ones, There is no safety save in you* sL-tng
right arms, and that for peace there i uu hope
save in your undaunted valor, and that there
is for your country no honor nor independence
except it be won by bloody victories through
your owu matchless bravery.
Soldiers, your country is gazins*at you in
love and confidence, and reposes her destiny
into your kcepiDgl Be not faithless to the
trust; but, evor watchful, valiant and deter
mined, struggle on, that goon, in effulgent
brightness, the day of*peace and happiness’
may dawn, and your land proudly assume its
destined rank among the national brolhorhood
of earth! ’* 4
Rev. Wm. Huff.
In this number will be found a letter from
brother A. E. Dickinson, the efficient Super
intendent of the S. S. and Publication Board
of Yu., that is engaged, (,like our Domestic
Board,) in ministering so nobly to the spir
itual wants of our soldiery,-and brother I>.
gives us to understand that a continuation of
contributions is needed to maintain that high
point of usefulness that his society has attain
ed. He says:
“We have but one brother who gives his en
tire time to agency work.; Consequently, cur
reliance in the future, as it has been in the
past, must be on the voluntary contributions
of the churches, each giving as his own heart
and judgment may dictate. These things be
ing so, >vc appeal to our friends to make to
army evangelism an offering, with theopenir.g
of the new year—a cheerful, liberal offering
according as the Lord hath prospered them.”
The agent alluded to is brother lluff who is
now in Ga. visiting some of Our churches for
the purpose of making known the spiritual
wants of the soldiers, explaining the opera
tions of the society he represents and collec
ting funds for evangelizing the army. Wo
heartily commend him and his cause to the
liberality of the brethren and sisters wherever
he may go.
Rgv. S. Landrum.
We are rejoice to learn of the safe per
formance of an operation on Bro. Landrum’s
face, for what he apprehended was Cancer. A
• piece was taken out of the cheek just below
the left eye, ar.d the skin drawn over the place
We learn that it has healed up finely and like
ly to prove a permanent cure.
Change of Address
The correspondents of ltev. J. S. Baker will
please address him at Moritieellp, Fla.,.here
after.
Guilt upon the conscience will make a
feather bed hard ; but peace of mind .
make a straw bed soft and easy, JH
Nothing is hard if Jesus is enjoy
nothing is satisfactory, if he withhold ■
I
Mosaic Work.
• Tho Baptist Female School of Greenville,
S. C., is in a flourishing condition, while tho
Furman (Male) Institute has^ttpended.—See
the advertisement of Mercer Wmversitv and cf
I brother Wilkes in this number.—The Monroe
j Female University is a deservedly prosperous
’ institution.—Mormon ism is making gn ai pre
| gross in Denmark.—The Herald reports 2L3
| baptisms and conversions by the Baptist Mis
| tiiouaries in the army, for October last.—The
Herqid says, “i he church that neglects the
! poor Jbseivcs the frown of God—and will with
| er under it.”—The first native Chinese min
ister of the church of England was ordained
Hii&MSksi 25. last Easter dqy.—Baptists who
neglect to send their own religious journals
to the army are wanting.in a proper Christian
mid charitable spirit.—The Christian coipmis-
Vion of Philadelphia, besides 480,768 Bibles
aiid Testaments, granted by the American Bi
ble Society, received’ 1,500 Bibles from the
British and Foreign Bible Society ; and yet
the Philadelphia ‘Presbjteriau’ wrote bitter
things against Dr. Hoge sow# months ago, be
cause he received a grant of the Scriptures
for our country from tho British and Foreign.
Bible Society—The Eagle Manufacturing Com
pany ofCdlumbus,Ua., has given an unsolic
ited donation of SIO,OOO to the Southern Chris
tian Advocate, designed to keep it up, and to
enable it-to enlarge its dimensions.—On one
of the Sandwich islands, a most interesting
aud important morning prayer-meeting has
been kept up fur more than 25 years.—r'J'heS.
School Board.of the Southern Baptist Conven
tion has nearly ready an edition of 4,000 cop
ies of a question book for general use.—Our
City.— The OoHfederate Baptist speaks of
Richmond as “that Eden of African church
es \” This was spoken reproachfully—but if
these churches were the worst things iu Rich
mond, it would be, in comparison with what
it now is, indeed an Eden I— Eel. Herald.—
—The charitable collections of tho year,
in the Georgia Methodist Episcopal Confer
ee’.?,‘amount to near $250,000; of which $07,-
Odl were for missions, and $73,968 for the en
dowment of Emory College.—During the re
vivals ot and around Rochester, N. Y., last
year, 1,001 children from tho Sabbath schools
up lied with the churches.— The last words of
a hood Woman, The wife of a Bishop iu Eng
land died recently, aud being a woman remar
kable” forner piety and excellencies of charac
ter her last words were expected to be full of
interest, and so they were. Just before she
expired the good woman said to her atten
dants; “ Remember to give the Bishop his
warm soup every night.” —The New England
SoißiT. TheAnortal remains of Whitfield are
deposited in a vault under tho pulpit of a
.church in Newburyport, Mass., in an open
collin. The bare bones and decaying mould
<*>fuie greatly good and greatly ehquent man
are, etr to speak, “on exhibition,” and may be
“inspected and handled by any body who will
pay for the privilege.”— “Favorable <Jom
, I’AttisoN,” A “Tankeo” paper published at
Fcrnandina, Fla., says that the two schools
ior “freedmen” there “in cleanliness and gen
eral deportment in faci ity of acquisition, and
in all, save perhaps apparel, will compare fa
vdrnbly with the common schools of the North.”
Rev. S. G. Hillyer will remove to S. W.
Georgia, and teach and take charge of the Gum
I’ond church.
Rev. F. M. llaygood has resigned the charge
of tho Macon African church, of which he has
bad charge, and lias accepted the appointment,
under the auspices of the S. S. and Publica
tion Board of Yirginia, of missionary to the
hospitals in Macon.
We have had the pleasure ol turning over
to lire. Barrow, as the result of our appeals
for him, about SI2OO, and will say that more
will bv no means come amiss.
fi i
The Irish Revivalist, Henry Grattan Guin
ness, has fully identified himself with the
“Plymouth Brethren.”
Dr. Albert Barnes is recovering from a re
cent illness, though still feeble.
In the recent election for Chaplain to thtT
U. S. House of Representatives there were 11
caiididates. Among the number were—Rt.
Rev. Bishop Hopkins, Episcopal Bishop of
Vermont, and author of the “Bible View oi
Slavery,” and Rev. W. 11. (/banning, of the
Unitarian church, Washington. Bishop Hop
kins received 55 votes and Mr. Ohauuing 85,
Rev. Wm. Fiinn, recently chaplain of the
16th Georgia Regiment, has received and ac
cepted the appointment of Pres. Commission
er to Gen. Johnston’s army.
I)r. Brantly’s salary has been raised to
S6OOO by the 2d Baptist church, Atlanta.—
Well done!
Rev. S. G. Daniel will continue to serve the
Albany church, next year. Ilis health has not
been good during the past Summer and Fall.
Brd. Maihtry’s health is feeble, too.
We believe Bro. D. W. Gwin will serve the
Griffin church.
I
Rev. S. Landrum 1 as had a successful ope-
Vation lately performed on his left cheek for
what ho fearod was Cancer. He has recover
ed and we hope is permanently relieved.
Dr. J. W. Jane's has settled in Macon as
Confederate Hospital Surgeon.
We reget to learn of the death of an inter
esting son of Bro. Wm. C. Wilkes, aged thir
teen. •’ * ‘*
Foreign Iteme.
Another “large building is to be erected v at
the iffiiaectou Seminary, the fuud&eing con
tributed from the estate of the late George
Brown of Baltimore, Md.
TT” . . -T”
luc spirit is spiending in Swe
den. Anniversaries of various religious .’’and
benevolent societies have lately been held in
b.ucuholni, and the reports present a cheering
view.
Daniel -B. Warner, the newly elected Presi
dent pf Liberia, was born in Baltimore, in
1815, where he learned to read, and went to
Africa with bib father in 1823. lie is of una
duiieriited--African-ldoed, good personal ap
pearance, and nn energettft>bonetit, and sagac
ious man. lie writes good prosq, and has
been an active local preacher in the Metho
dist c'litirch for twenty years.
Rev. D. A. W. Smith, and Rex. ,J. D. Cal
burn tlieir wives, sailed in the
Washington from New York on the 3d
inst.,.as -Baptist,missionaries by way of Liv
erpool jpr Rprmjjk, ....*••■ ‘
The congca£*tionnlchurches of New Eng
land have never withdrawn fellowship from
Rev. L. Beecher, fur his belief and advocacy
of the doctrine of the” pre-existenCe of tho hu
man sou! thus testifying that this is not a
fundamental error, ip their judgment.
At the mot annual State Convention of Con
neeticut Oongregationalists, held at Hartford,
it appeared H at “infant baptism had fallen
off; in some sections of the State there had
been no baptisms in one fourth of the church
es.*”
_ Tll ° publication by the American Bible So
< io.y, of an edition of the Old Testament with
a special view to circulating among the Jews,
meets with much Encouragement from these
descendants of Abraham.
The Bible is in course of translation into the
language of the Yorubas, Central Africa, and
it is expected that the native christans will,
duringthe present year, have the whole of the
New Testament, and seven books of the Old
iestament in their own language.
The,Scotch missionorics to tho Abyssinian
Jews have been permitted to enter on their
work, by the king, with the full sanction of
tho Archbishop.- The king said to them, “Not
only among the Jews Shall ye teach, but also
among the Mohammedans and the heathen,
even among all who do not know the Saviour,
until durkne:-H is turned into light. I desire,
by instruction, to lead all into the knowledge
of the truth : but iSod only can do it effectual
ly. In outward matters I will, support you,
and be a father to you.”
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The Child’s Index.
Union Point, Ga., Dec, 5, 1803.
Mr. Editor. —Enclosed find five dollars, for
the, Child’s Index for ths year 1863. I will
keep one copy for my lirtle ones and distrib
ute the others among the chiltben of the poor.
Thomas R. Thornton.
We publish the above with pleasure as an
endorsement of our Child’s paper, and as a
good example for others to foUpw. The price
of tl;e Child’s paper has Leen raised to S2,CO
foi single copies and SI each copy when five
or more are taken.
Tho Child's Index has received recommen
detions from various Associations in Georgia,
South Carolina, Virginia and other States.—
The following resolution was adopted by the
General Association of Yirginia at its lastsos
sion:
Ilesolvcd, That we most cordially recom
mend the Child's Index, published at Macon,
Ga., by Rev. S. Boykin, as a first-rate Sunday
School paper, and as eminently worthy of the
hearty support of Baptist Sunday Schools and
families-iu Virginia, and throughout the Con.
federate States-
All those \vho desire a handsomely illustra
ted and beautifully printed Baptist paper for
children should subscribe at once.
Address • S. BOYKIN,
Macon, Ga.
’ Indexes Wanted for ’the Army.
Such appeals as tho following are made to
us frequently ; and we earnestly hope that the
many liberal friends of the soldiers, through
out the country, will make us a remittance to
meet the demand with our Soldier’s Edition :
Headquarters Army of Tennessee,)
Dalton, Ga., Dec. 28, 1863. j
Rev. S. Boykin —
Dear Sir —Having been detailed to collect
and distribute religious works for this army,
and appointed agent for the Tract Association,
I have a Depository near the Depot and Post
Office, for the purpose of furnishing Chapluir.s
and Missionaries with all the religious read
ing I can procure.
If you wish to Tiruish the soldiers with
your paper, I will he pleasod to distribute to
the Chaplains and others all you may see pro
per to send to my’ tare. Many fail to getyour
paper (and ethers) because of the frequent
change and movement of the troops. The bet
ter plan is to send them to an agent.
Very truly,
S. M. CHERRY,
, Chaplain P. 11. C. S.,
Box 17, Dalton, Ga.
Brief Mention.
“I baptized six negroes of my charge a low
weeks ago, and have three to receive the ordi
nance next Sabbath.”
J. F. SWANSON^I