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CHRISTIAN INDEX SAMUEL BOYKIN, Editor. Macon, Ga., October 21, 1864.- Standing Rules. SEE TERMS ON FOURTH PAGE. The Editor is not connected with the Bap tist Depository. Inquiries for books must be addressed to Rev. F. M. Haygood, Agent, and not to the Editor. “ 1. Always give your Post Office, when re mitting money. 2. Give both offices when requesting a change of office, and write plainly. 3. Let business communications he entirely separate from obituaries or any other com munications. Correspondents need not be surprised if obituaries written on the back of a business letter never see the light. 4. Let obituaries not exceed ten or twelve lines: if longer, 20 cents per line of eight words must be sent. If this is not done, the correspondent must not be offended when he sees his communication abbreviated. 5. Money may be sent by mail or Express at our risk. Seal the money carefully, when mailing, and tell no one, not even the Post master. 6. All old currency, including $5 bills, are taken by us at two thirds of the original val ue only. Increase of Price. We find that we can no longer afford the Index at its present price, so in common with the Southern Christian Advocate and other whole sheets, we raise our price. We have been losing money on the Index, hoping that the Churches would give us a large circulation at a low price; but finding that they do not do so, and being unwilling longer to bear the loss of publishing the paper, we have conclu ded to adopt the. present schedule of prices : Three Months $ 5 00 Six Months.. 10 00 Twelve Months 29 00 This invites subscriptions for a short period ; and if the brethren do not prefer to continue after subscribing for three months or six months, they can stop. We expect to keep up the Index. Our supply of paper is large, and we can get as much as we will need. Orphan’s Association. * The Trustees of the Georgia Association far the support *f Soldiers’ Orphans, will meet in the City of Macon on Wednesday, November 9, next, at 10 o’clock, A. ML, in the lecture room ot the Baptist Church. Business of importance will be before the Board. N. M. CRAWFORD, President Board of Trustees. Penfield, Oct. 12, 18G4. OTHER PAPERS, Both secular and religious, will please no tice the above, and, for the sake of the sol diers’ orphans, give it circulation. As to the Trustees themselves, we hope to see them all present, as business of impor tance will be laid before them. To the Ladies. We Call your attention to the advertisenient in this number for a teacher and governess. Those deeming themselves capable will please address, not the editor of this paper, but Rev T. E. Langley, Powers,-Ga. SUNDAY SCHOOLS* ALL WINTER. All Baptist Sunday Schools in Georgia which intend to continue to meet throughout the Winter, are requested to inform Rev. Dr. W. T. Brantly, Augusta, who wishes to pub lish a list of them in the Index. Please give name of school, county or town, and Associa tion. ts A Sure Road to an Honorable Peace. The people of this country are tired of war. All want peace, and all are anxious to know how a just and honorable peace can be secured. After four years’ experience of most horrible warfare, that man must be a minister of cru elty who does not desire peace- And while our people would detest the man that would think of accepting any other than a righteou# and honorabfe peace, yet they would at the same time abhor the man who would neglect every fair and reasonable means to secure peace on proper tdrins. Now, the Bible tells us plainly how such a peace can be secured. “ When a man’s ways please the Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.”—Prov. 10 : 7. This truth is applicable to nations as well as to men, for the principles of God’s government are the same, wether the subjects be commu nities or ’individuals. Here, then, we have pointed out a condition upon which peace is certain. Other conditions may or may not bring peace, but* whenever the ways of this nation please the Lord, peace is sure. This condition is neither mysterious nor impracti cable. As we have God’s revealed will in our midst, we can soon learn, if we do not al ready know, what will please Him. And we can conform our ways to His pleasure. He never requires impossibilities. Whatever He commands He will give grace to perform. If we feel our insufficieucy, we have only to ask and we shall receive. Hence, if -we fail to obtain peace, it will be our own fault. It will be because we will not accept it upon the terms which God proposes. And whata.fear ful responsibility the refusal involves! The terms are most reasonable, honorable and just. No man can say aught against them. To have our ways please the Lord is the highest honor and greatest privilege of man. To refuse peace on this condition, then, is to make our selves responsible for all the slaughter, all the tears, all the misery and woe, caused by’a con tinuance of war. And who among us is so blood-thirsty, so'fiendish, so lost to all feel ing for the suffering of our land, as to say, “ Rather than make my ways to please the Lord, the war may continue icdeflnitely ”? “ But,” says one, “ I am but an individual, and my ways will not determine the ways of the nation.” Hold,* my friend. You might, with the same propriety say, “As my influ ence and conduct will not determine the fate ot this Confederacy, I will not do my duty as , a citizen, but will turn traitor and do all I can against my country.’ You can do as much towards determining ti# general result in the one case as in the other. “ But,” says anoth er, “the sins of the government, and not the sins of individuals, cause war and delay the return of peace.” But the assertion is un warranted. The Israelites were beaten at Ai because’of the sin of one individual. And, lie who dares to displease God while we are in this terrible war, is just as guilty and assumes just as fearful a responsibility as did Achan. He is doing all he can to bring God’s curse upon his country’s armies. Achan did no more than this. But, admitting that the sins of the government are the cause of continued war, what are you doing to reform the gov ernment ? By your own individual sins you sanction the sins of the government, and en courage all in authority to continue in sin. Every individual sinner is aiding and abet ting the sins of the government. Whenever the individuals composing the nations cease from sin, the government will cease from sin also. It is true that we have laws which are con trary to the laws of God, and that many sin ful things are done by authority and order of the government; but all these things are so because the people are willing to have them so, and they will continue just as long as the people uphold the men who enact sinful laws and encourage government officials in sinful deeds. Every man who does not do all in his power to correct the sins of the government and its officials is responsible for those sins: Now, reader, do you desire peace—a certain and an honorable peace ? If so, show your desire by your works. Resolve, at once, upon having all your ways to please the Lord, and and do all in your power to have your coun trymen do the same. Let your efforts in “Hbs direction be as vigorous as your desires for peace are ardent. And be firmly resolved that, if this horrible war must continue, none of the responsibility of its continuance shall rest upon you. Let no one excuse himself by saying that the peace thus secured may not be such as we desire. It will be just such as God’s infinite wisdom and goodness shall dictate, and, there fore, such a peace as shall be aeceptable to all but those who are enemies to God and opposed to all good. Those who are not willing for God to decide upon wliat terms this war shall be brought to a close, may rest assured that they are wrong, and that peace upon any terms which God does not approve would result in no permanent good to either section. Oh, when will the people of this Confederacy bring the cause of their bleeding country to the throne of mercy, and submit the adjustment of their national difficulties to the arbitrament of God and Heaven.— Observer. Salaries of Pastors. W o are glad to find a secular journal, the Sentinel, of Richmond, advocating a liberal support of pastors, saying as follows : “No men render the country more impor tant service at all times; and during this fearful struggle, who have more powerfully upheld everything that was good ? How un requited their services have commonly been, is better known than practically regarded.— Does it not then become every good patriot— saying nothing to the Christian—to take up this question now in its proper bearing, ‘ Can your pastor live ? ’ ” And the question, at this time, is one that we bring home to the consciences of every Bap tist Church member that reads our paper, de siring them to look at the matter candidly, prayerfully and unselfishly. Too many pastors have that degree of mod esty which prevents their broaching the sub ject to their churches: they say, with sup pressed feeling and subdued sarcasm, “ They know as well as I do that I can’t live on such and such a sum.” And they will suffer or resign, before they will complain ; and indeed, complaining is not the remedy for this evil. Asa cotemporary remarks, It wounds the self-respect of a high-minded minister to be driven iflto the attitude of com plaint, - and, besides, complaint does not reach the difficulty, which lies deep-seated in the coldness ot piety, in the lack of broad views of Christian duty, and in a deadened sense of personal obligation.— So. Pres. We, therefore, of our own .free will, and in justice to the noblest class of our t community, take up the subject to impress it upon the minds of Baptists. We ask them if they are providing an adequate support for their min isters, for the coming year? A clerical friend from the country, lately on a visit to us, ob served that he served three churches, and ex pected.to receive S3OO or S4OO for, the year for his services (1!) We acknowledge that our eyes expanded into a gaze of astoniement, and for the benefit of our denomination, we assert that these are Baptist churches. Well, is there anything wc can say to reach the consciences of church members in regard to this matter ? The extract given above fur nishes us a text for a SHORT SERMON on the causes which prevent churches from adequately sustaining their ministers. 1. Coldness oj piety. It may be laid down as an axiom, that the piety which permits the Pastor to struggle on amidst want and suffer ing ; that silently and coldly witnesses his en durance of privations ; that with indifference beholds him endeavoring to live on a meagre and insufficient salary, is a piety benumbed, lifeless, undeserving the name. The warm hearted Christian will provide a suitable sup port for the pastor, each reader apply the rule to himself ana guage his own piety. 2. Lack of broad views of Christian duty-. They who preach the Gospel must live of the ospel—it is the duty of the beneficiaries to afford that living. The Gospel—religion in • 3 g . reat 1 fullncss of universal benevolence to mankind— must be disseminated :it not only benefits the individual hearer; but its good effects ramify all through society, throughout the land, all over the world. It is heaven’s appointed means for preserving mankind from putrefaction and corruption : it is the ordained method for rescuing immortal souls from de struction: it is that which is to bring in the glorious millennial period: and it is the duty of Christians to spread religion—to sustain and disseminate the Gospel. 3. A deadened sense of personal obligation. The Christian who fails to aid in spreading the Gospel, and especially ,the one who neg lects'to support his pastor in an adequate man ner, is indeed dead to his personal obligations, Every Christian duty is a duty for individuals. Christianity knows nothing of any other kind of obligation. Christian obligation is a per sonal, individual matter ; and each individual should at onee assume his just proportion of effort in the sustenance of his pastor. No one should wait for another to take The initiative for no one can expect another to do his duty— that other is responsible for himself. You are responsible for yoxirself and for your duty; if you do not perform your duty fully and com pletely, it is because you are dead to a just sense of your personal,obligation. What a poor Christian is he who is willing to remain in a state that evinees coldness of piety ; that shows the narrowness of his views of Christian duty ; and that mani fests a torpidity in regard to his own p&rsonal Christian obligations! USE. . 1. Church-members should at once awake to a sense of their condition and responsibility, and institute a rigid inquiry into their capac ity for supporting their minister, and should seek to do unto him as they would have him do unto them in like circumstances. 2. Churches should take immediate steps to raise their pastors’s salary proportionate to the cost of living. 3. The consequences will be greater ferven cy om the part of the preacher, more tender ness of heart on the part of the members, greater spirituality among our churches, and the advancement of religion among the peo ple at large. Obstacles to Prayer. All Christians have found it difficult to “pray always,” to “ pray without ceasing.” They sometimes wonder if these expressions are to be understood literally, and half con clude they are hyperbolical. The distance be” tween what the devotions of the heart are and what they ought to be is amaziugly great.— When wo measure ourselves by the Divine standard, we fall almost infinitely short. Some of the obstacles in our way may be briefly al luded to and the remedy suggested. 1. A sad and criminal neglect of the heart. The wise man said, Keep thy heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life. The heart is permitted to “ wander, to leave the God we love,” to fix its thoughts, affections and aspirations on something inimical to a holy devotion. The spirit of prayer is gone, and the soul left indisposed to devotion, love, praise, supplication. 2. We do not see that our prayers prevail. We desire some tangible, sensible evidence that we are heard, and that we will swered. In the absence of this, the tempter asks, What, good is there in prayer? what profit is there in calling upon the name of the Lord? The heart becomes/discouraged, its spiritual energies weakened and somewhat paralyzed. Prayer is restrained and religious zeal abated. Meetings are abandoned, the means of growth in. grace neglected, and sii pineness and lethargy take possession of us. Our hearts lose their joy, the Church fails to receive our pious influence, and we withhold from men the light of our religious fervor. 3. There are so few who now attend with devout hearts and feelings the meetings prayer and devotion. Once the seats were full and the songs cheering and the prayers dcvq~ tional. Now, alas! here and there scattered over the house may be seen the familiar face of one of the many who, in times past, were glad when they said, Let us go up to the house of the Lord. “What is the use for me,” says the discouraged Christian, “ to continue my fidelity, when so many who are equally bound with myself by the sacred ties of grati tude and holy vows, have gone back? Can it do any good for me to bear this great burden alone? Is it my duty to do so? Taey have yielded to the tempting snare of worldlincss, and are laying up in store for many days to code. Can I counteract the evil influence they are exerting, can I check this mighty tendency to worldliness? ” “ Many more obstacles might be enumerated, but let these suffice ? What is to be done ? Must our heart grow cold, must our devotional meetings be neg lected, and the cause of Christ and of soulß suffer ? If not, what must be done ? Let every Christian resolve as follows : 1. I will labor to cultivate a higher type of Christian excelllence, drink more frequently of the wells of salvation, so use the means of grace that, by the aid of the Divine Spirit, a deeper experience of grace shall be realized in my heart. 2. I will not suffer the unfaithfulness of others to make me less attentive to all my du ties. If tney become worldly, it is a reason why I should be more spiritual; if they neg lect our meetings, it is an additional reason why I should be always there. As fqr me and my house, we will serve the Lori. 3. Knowing my own weakness, that jwith oul the divine help I can do nothing, I> will simply do my duty, at all times and undejr all circumstances, endeavoring to be constrained by the love of Christ, and I will leave all the consequences with Him to whom all powet and grace belong.’ I will pray in faith and labor believingly, knowing that all things are possi ble to them that believe. Relying upon the Divine help and blessing, I will go forward, albeit alone and amid trials and bearing bur dens—for my Savior has said, Be ye faithful even unto death, and I mill give thee a crown of life. W. Social Prayer for the Country. “Wife and. I have little prayer meetings for the. country every evening at twilight.” Such were words of a good brother who wrote to us on business from Southern Geor gia. We ’commend this plan to all other Christiahs. But few attend the public prayer meetings held in behalf of the nation. Some are too remote from them, as is often the case with our country brethren ; some cannot hold these meetings with any regularity ; others, though in our towns and cities where these meetings are regularly held, are engaged in government business which does not admit of their being absent. Under all these circum stances, prayer may still be held. An hour should be appointed for special prayer for the Divine blessing upon us. When possible, let .site twilight hour be selected. It seems pecu liarly appropriate, if “ two or three ” —the husband and wife,.or other members of the family—may retire in secret, or together unite in audible bupplication. If but one member of a family be religious, ;let that one have a time set apart for invoking the Divine inter position-in our behalf. Let every Christian in all the South pray daily for God’s help.— “ Call upon me in the day of trouble, and I will answer you.”’ W. New Religious Papers. We feel proud. Our Confederacy, we feel, is under the guardian care of Providence; for at what appears to be the very crisis of our fate—when the destiny of our Republic is trembling in the balance, dependent upon the valor of our brave but outnumbered sol diery, three denominational papers have start ed up suddenly to shed athwart the gloom of the land the beneficent rays of religion. We allude to the Church Intelligencer, (Episcopa lian, published at Raleigh, N. C.) the South ern Presbyterian , (Redivivus , and published at Augusta for $lO per half year), the Pacifi cator, (an organ of the Roman Catholic Ohurch, Messrs. P. Walsh and L. F. Blome, editors. Price, sls per annum.) Must it not be a good divinity ” which is thus shaping our ends in a manner calculated to produce beneficial re sults ? Let the people of our Confederacy support their religious press well, and the blessing of heaven will rest on our cause. Georgia Association. We intended going to the Georgia, but a business trip to Columbus prevented; a short note from a brother, however, gives us the fol lowing items from that Body : “We haveiiad a pleasant and harmonious session. Bro. Mell was elected Moderator and bro. Calloway Clerk. We had as visitors brethren Brantly, Wharton, Cohen, Jewell and your editorial brother Ells (he did not arrive till Sabbath, owing to indisposition). The amount sent up from the churches was only Bro. Brantly, in behalf of our Greenville Sunday School Board, took up a collection of SI,OOO on Sabbath. Bro. Bur gess preached us a good old fashioned Gospel doctrine sermon for the introductory.” We doubt not that a fuller account will soon J I’OtVol* US. >’ Personal. Rev. J. A. Preston has been appointed army missiodary of the Apalachee Association, and has been spending a few days in this city. The correspondents of Rev. A. L. Moncrief will please address him at Montpelier, Ga., hereafter, instead of Coloparchee. Rev. Jno. J. Hyman, the efficient chaplain sometimes mentioned by our army correspon dent, is in Georgia, for a shert time on sick furlough. It will be seen from Bro. Wharton’s com munication that he purposes entering vigo rously upon his work. Let all aid him ; for Georgia has not half done her duty in regard to army colportage. of Rev. J. M. Wood will please address him at Zebulon, Pike county, Ga. The; Confed. Baptist tells of the death of Rev. Thos. Mason, probably the oldest Bap tist minister in the State of S. C. Dr. Livingstone, the famous African trav eler, is not dead. lie contradicts the report ftimself. Rev. Dr. Guthrie, of the Free Church of Scotland, has resigned his pastoral caarge, hie physicians having forbidden him ever again to appear in a pulpit or on a platform. Private Jesse Jenkins, ot the 30th Georgia Regiment, has lately been released from a Yankee prison. He respectfully asks the pa pers of Georgia to publish this notice, that his wife and family who Vere exiled from Atlan ta, may know that he is remaining in Macon to be informed of their present location. Mrs. Rose Grecnhow, well known in the Confederacy for her sufferings injits cause, having been for many months confined in the political prison at Washington, was drowned a few days since near Wilmington, N. C., while landing from a sinking steamer. She was returning from England, where she had been to make arrangements for publishing a book, which had already appeared. Brig. Gen. Lowry, of the Army of Tennes see, is a Baptist minister. A letter to the Co lumbus Swn, dated Jonesboro’, Ga., ‘Sept. 15, says: “We have had the pleasure of listen ing to a very impressive and truly eloquent sermon from Brig. Gen. Lowery. The Gen eral is a man of superior acquirements, and is always heard with increasing interest. A faithful soldier of the cross as well as of liis country, devout and brave, he unites, mere than any living man perhaps, those cardinal virtues of mind and heart which combine to make the noble, true, conscientious Christian warrior. Brief Mention. The following resolution was passed unan imously by the Georgia Baptist Association at its late session at Pine Grove Church in Co lumbia county : Resolved, That it is the firm belief and con viction of this body, that the institution of marriage was ordained by Almighty God for the benefit of the whole humas race, without respect to color; that it ought to be main tained among all classes of people in all coun tries and in all ages till the end of time; and that consequently the law of Georgia, in its failure to recognize and perfect this relation ship between our slaves, is especially defective and ought to be amended. glg;lt is said of the family of the present Pope, that none of them have ever been in any office or employed in any mission, so that it cannot < be said that the elevation of Cardinal Mastai to the supreme dignity has made any addition to the forunes of his family. On a late occasion the Holy Father, when urged to consent to his photograph being taken on some cards, which it was intended to dis tribute at a charitable meeting at New York, is said to have written on the cards the follow ing sentence with his own hand : “ Mitte gla dium tuum in vaginam, et Deus pacis erit te cum.” “ Put up thy sword into its sheath, and the God of peace shall be with thee.” Camf<!hase. —A prisoner writes that they have preaching daily and prayer-meetings frequently, well attended, and profitable to all. Religious Herald. —We regret the absence of this paper, owing no doubt to the impress ment of its hands for military purposes. It is a paper we prize highly, and is one ot our fa vorite exchanges. Bro. Shaver, its principal editor, is almost unsurpassed as such, and as a scholar and writer has no superior in all the religious press South. There is a dignity and stateliness in his stylo, coupled with strength and perspicuity, and accompanied by a large ness of mental grasp and accurateness of com prehension that excite admiration and almost envy. State of the Churches. QUINCY, FLA. Wo have recently organized a Baptist Church at this place. There has not been one in existence here before in a number of years, although the point is one of first im portance to the cause in this State. Our pros pects are not very encouraging, for it is said repeated efforts have been made to maintain a* organization here, always resulting in fail ure. “ Nevertheless, at thy word we will let down the net.” Who can say but that the same result, and the same transition from doubt and despondency to astonishment, will take place now that occurred in the case es the apostle (Luke v). Many difficulties pre sent themselves to us, but the faith of tile brethren seems to be unwavering. You have seen an account of the Federal raid on Marianna. It will be of sad interest to Baptists to know that our brother, Rev. D. P- Everett, was a sufferer from them, having lost some fifteen or twenty negroes, as I have been informed by various members of our county military organizations. Their force is estimated at about 650. Blame seems to be attached to the commandant of the post, who was guilty of negligence, if nothing worse.— So, at least, the rumors run; I do not vouch for their truth, as it is always the disposition of men to blame somebody when disaster happens, even though every one has done his full duty. In bonds of Christian fellowship, I remain, very truly, your brother, CIIAS. D. CAMPBELL. Quincy, Fla., Oct. 7, 1804. MT. ENON, MITCHELL COUNTY, GA. I have often thought of giving you, accord ing to your request, a shert note relative to the state of religion among us. Our church (Mt. Enon), as you perhaps know, is located in the north edge of Mitchell county, in three fourths of a mile of Gum Pond post-ofiiee.— Our white membership is small. We have a large number of colored members. The con gregations are in like proportions. Our white congregations would he larger, but many are absent irrtho army. We have a good Sabbath school. The negroes attend every service in considerable numbers, but one Sunday in each month is devoted especially to them, when the cengregation is very large. Up to the present date we have baptized twenty-five, received by letter about ten, making a total of thirty five. We have bad no protracted efforts, but have relied only upen the regular ministry of the Word. Our brethren, I think, are much in terested in the prosperity of the church. Al though our location is in a sparsely settled country, our weekly prayer-meetings are very well attended. Yours, fraternally, S. G. IIILLYJR. Bro. has just closed an interesting session at Troy. Two hundred and forty wqre baptized into our churches (twenty-six in number) during tlio year. We are supporting two missionaries in the army, and one in our own midst, for the benefit and cemfort es the afflicted, and the supply of our weak churches, whoso ministers are in the army, with the male membership, <fce. We also support one native Indian preacher. We do our work as au Associa tion, without any Conventional Board. Our foreign missions go to the Convention, of course, inasmuch as we are not able, after do ing so much at home and in the army, to sup port a foreign missionary. We therefore send, through the Convention, our funds for foreign missions. I agree with you that we must have a board or agency of some kind to do our foreign mission financiering. Excuse me ; I have just been reading your articles. The Lord bless thee aud thine! PARK. Outpourings of the Spirit. The Christian Sun of Petersburg says : The many gracious revivals which are re ported in almost every State of the Confeder acy, is aground of great hope to us. There is a turning to the Lord, and God is pouring out upon his people the spirit of prayer and revival. Could our armies just have a little season of quiet, we should witness a pracious revival all over the land among soldiers and citizens. South Carolina. The Confederate Baptist contains reports of the following revivals in Baptist Churches. At “ Harmony,” a most interesting series of meetings were held, in which some were re ceived for baptism aud others deeply interest ed, and the hearts of God’s people much re freshed. “The very minute you entered the 1 house, you could see in every countenance that God was tlere. An unction from od high seemed to have touched almost every heart, and we have se.dom felt so much of heaven upon earth.” On James Island a revival among the Ist S. C. Cavalry resuited in the immersion of 5. Four joined the Methodists and one the Pres byterians. At Antioch Baptist Church, Orangeburg District, 29 willing converts were buried with Christ in baptism on Sabbath, Sept. 18. E Dill, writing to thejsame paper, says : During the latter part of August I attended a protracted meeting at Tyger Church, some 20 miles north of Greenville C. H., which re sulted in 41 additions to the Ohui#i. After the.close of this gracious meeting, we held a series of meetings with Pleasant Hill Church, some five miles cast of Tyger Chureb, which resulted in an addition of 27 members. He observes— God has been graciously visiting many of our churches in the upper part of the State with refreshing seasons from His holy pres ence. The above named churches are under’ the fostering care of Rov. S. T. Dill, . who labors with much love and zeal in the cause of Christ, and whose labors have been, much appreciated and blessed. North Carolina. A revival among troops at Wilmington, con ducted by Bro. G, B. W. Dunn and Bro. Tour noge, resulted in the conversion of 18. At Pleasant Grove Church, Anson county, in the first part of September, a meeting ot 8 days was held, which resulted in near 30 con versions and 20 baptisms. On Tuesday of the meeting, at intermission, it was suggested that the brethren and sisters take the penitents to the silent grove and spend the hour in conversing anil praying with them. The result was, the penitents be came so deeply convicted, they were unable to get them back to the Church. Succeeding in getting them together in a cool shade, where the earth was well carpeted with nature’s verdure, the evening was spent in the silent old field, where nothing, save prayer, thanks giving and praise to Gnd, was heard. During this time 14 or 15 mourners were happily con verted to God. A protracted meeting of 9 days was held at Green Spring Church, Anson county. The result was near fifty conversions and the bap tism of forty. At Cano Creek Church, a meeting was con tinued lor a week after the session of the Sa , lem Association. At the close of-the meeting there were 25 or 30 conversions. Eighteen joined the Church by experience aud baptism and eight by letter. ( “A. Church-member, from Car . thage, N. C., says to the Biblical Recorder : ‘ Our cnurch at Bethlehem, Moore county, has recently been blessed and increased by tiic addition of twenty-one converts, (seven col ored), the result ol'a protracted meeting con ducted at a settlement school horn eby our zealous and earnest;young brother, W. A. Bar rett. Alasaha. At Salem Church, Monroe county, a meet ing of some days duratiofi was held— “ The Church has been greatly revivod; sinners were awakened, mourners were com forted, and eternity probably will only unfold the great good to the people resulting from this meeting. There were added to the church 32 willing converts, and the entire congrega tion, whieh was very large,” aside from the professor, came forward lor prayer day and night, and appeared to be anxiously inquiring the way to life. True, every non-professor did not come forward for prayer every time au opportunity was given ; but at times, all came that I could see. I think I never Lave wit nessed a more serious meeting.” So writes Bro. Geo. L. Lee. Ho adds: “ It has been my pleasure to baptize into the fellowship of Salem church, during the last few years about 200 persons. The pres ent year at all my churches about 150.” For the Christian Index Theatres. llow astonishing it is, that amidst the con fusion, suffering aud lamentable condition of our country, people will attend theatres! Just think of it!—theatres going on in the midst of soldiers who are dying hourly. Do you suppose such is in unison with their feelings ? Would you not feel happior if you would give the two or three dollars that you spend almost every night at theatres to some poor soldier who l§ far away from home, who is constantly needing something and has not the means of procuring it? Look at New Oilcans, Atlanta and other places, where there were so many theatre-going people. What thriving places they onco were! Is it at all astonishing that such places are in the hands of the cruel in vader ? Such gayetics as dancing and theatres must be done away with before the Lord will havo compassion upon us. He is doing a good work to humble us. With some, the work is ac complished : others, again, are gay, worldly minded, and even hard-hearted, treating reli gion with the coolest indifference. I close by saying, it is very astonishing that there are theatres in the South during this groat struggle. It is truly astonishing that such aro patronized. SOUTH. Telegrams. Mary M. Clark.—Tho Spellers arc sont, and $3.50 remain. A. D. Cohen—Keep the money till you seo mo.