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CHRISTIAN WJffiX AND SOUTH-WESTERN BAPTIST. VOL. 49-NO. 29. A RELIGIOUS AND FAMILY PAPER, PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN ATLANTA, GA AT $3.00 PER ANNUM, Invariably in Advance. J. J. TOON", Proprietor. The Cross. To the Cross, O ! let me hasten, Weak and weary, sick and sighing; And my fainting vision fasten On the Sacrifice there dying. Cease, my burdened soul, from trying, In thy strength to gain God’s blessing; This, instead of satisfying, Only proves the more distressing. Vainly have I long been hoping, That my prayers would make me better; But am still in blindess groping, Feeling still the galling fetter. 0 I my soul, 'tis by bblibvino, Thou must gain thy long-sought healing; Feel the Cross tby guilt relieving, And to thee its peace revealing. O! I fsel the Cross approaching, Light into my dark soul stealiug: And its od’rous breath perfuming, And my wounded spirit healing. Now I feel my guilt departing; Peace, sweet peace my soul possessing, And the Cross to me imparting Its blood-fragrant, vital blessing. 0 I when Jesus we see bleeding; On the cross Iminanual dying, And His wounds for us all pleading, God we see, us justifying. Cross of Jesus I Cross of Jesus I 0 I the wonders of tby story 1 Into thee, 0, depth mysterious I Heaven empties ali its glory. At thy power all hell is shaking— Earth with songs of praise abounding; Into life the dead awaking: Harps of heaven thy glory sounding. To the Cross, 0, let me hasten: To my soul its balm applying; There, my eyes forever fasten ; Living—seeing Jesus dying. » W. H. J. LiUtviUe, N. C., 1870. Commencement Sunday at Mercer. As no correspondent of the Index is known to have been in Penfield on July 10th. some account of the exercises of this opening day of Commencement week will be proper. The audience was about as large as usual, and composed mainly of persons from the neighboring country and from Greensboro. The graduating class were seated on reserved seats in front. The music of the choir, an them, chant and hymns, was regarded as fully equal to any of their former efforts. Presi dent Tucker has, during his administration, uniformly preached the Baccalaureate sermon, taking occasion to weave into his sermon much o( the address which is usually made to the class on Commencement day. His pa ternal advice, given in the quietude of the Sabbath services, is much more impressive than when delivered in the whirl and hubbub of this the most exciting day of the week. It requires great tact and originality to produce something new and appropriate each year. The Baccalaureates of some Presidents, whose term ol office has extended over a decade or more, have become proverbially tamo and common-place. President Tucker has come up each time to the highest expectations of his warmest admirers, and no one fears that his treasury of good things will be exhausted by these annual exactions. After reading the parable of the talents, in Matt, xxv, the President announced as his text, Lukexii : 48, ‘‘ Unto whomsoever much is given,of him shall be much required,” from which he deduced the subject, The Responsi bilities of Educated Men. That man's responsibilities are in propor tion to his obligations is not proved by a vote of the whole human family, but is one of tlie clear and emphatic deliverances of our consciousness. We are not responsible for what we have not, but for what we have, which is only another way of saying that we are responsible in proportion to, what we have. If responsible according to this measure, it becomes us to pause in all solemnity and en quire whit we have. Men’s gifts of reason, thought, beauty, imagination, wealth and so cial position are essentially the same, aud differ only in degree ; for each item of which they will be held accountable in the audit of the last great day. But the text seems to be addressed to those who have much. The Faculty, students and friends of the Univer sity, who have enjoyed the priceless gift of mental and moral culture, belong to this class. We have received much. Which of us would accept brutal ignorance and savage helpless ness in lieu of our present attainments, at any price ? Let us consider, then, the peculiar gifts and responsibilities of educated men. In the first place, the educated man has in creased power of self-development. The difference between the man of forty and the child of two years old, is a difference of development. There is just as great dif ference between two men—one educated and one not. The uneducated man may improve to a certain point, rather by extraneous in ffuences than by the use of his own undevel oped powers. He knows not how to use his powers. Like a weak swimmer in a strong pushing tide, he is at its mercy and borne :along by it. But the educated man has ail ithe tide in his favor. How great the differ ence in the responsibilities of the two men! How serious a thing to be an educated man ! Responsible not only for what he is, but for what he might have been. At the last day it may be asked of him : Have you become a great philosopher? Why not? Where are the five talents given you as capital ? Where is the usury the Master has a right to de mand ? Is it in that napkin you call your diploma? With such auspicious surround ings, increased intellectual power should give increased moral power. Our educated men should be our best men. If they have not that profound humility which should charac terize a man, who knows the littleness of hu man things, then has their superior knowl edge been perverted. In the second place, the educated man has increased power over the minds of others. One who has fully met the obligations just described will be a marked man in any com munity. He may be poor, may be without -public position, but his light can not be hid. He will be respected, admired and honored by all—by the wise because they are wise, and by the foolish because they are awed in his presence. The educated man, by this in fluence, is his brother’s keeper. Thus to oue is charged the account of huudreds, of thou sands, of tens of thousands. It is a solemn and awful thing to be an educated man. The diploma of the graduate is covered over with the engraved Latin, butJike a palimpsest, the visible record overlays another not visible at first, yet vastly the most important. Un derneath the certificate of his proficiency, there lie the hidden but solemn words: “Unto whomsoever much is given, of him Bhall be much required.” Facts show that this influence is not over stated. Among savage tribes, power is held by those w’ho at least pretend to wisdom. In half-civilized China, education is valued as highly as among us, and all public offices are accorded only to those who have passed their great literary examinations. In civilized Europe, the uneducated man has no more to js3 00 1 YEAR.} PMNTING HOUSE, ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1870. Isßoo A YEAR. 1 do in shaping public policy than in effecting the changes of the moon. Among us, who train our children ? Who prepare our read ing matter? Who make our laws ? Educated men. The rabble who fill our legislative'halls have no more to do in directing public policy than the chairs on which they sit. Three ojr four of their number do all the thinking for them. A man may occupy the highest posi tion in the government, but if not a man of mind, he is a mere puppet in the hands of men of superior parts. If the minds and character of fifty men, who have shaped and directed the destinies of this country, had been differ ent, how different would have been that des tiny ! It may be said that one has held the highest executive office of whom it is said that his wife taught him the alphabet. When on the tailor’s bench, he had no influence. He was not educated. It will not be said that he is now uneducated. So when Franklin, Fara day and Hugh Miller were a printer's boy, a book-binder’s apprentice and a stone cutter, they had no influence to shape the policy of a country. But their great power came when they had been educated. Whence came our railroads, our locomotives, our steamships, our telegraphs, our astronomy, even our cooking, and our blacksmith’s bellows ? The world has not always had them. Savages have none of these things. The influence of educated men cannot be over-stated. The whole world, with its gov ernments, laws, science, arts, literature, mor als, habits and modes of life are in their hands. A part of this power is ours, and at the last dread day, we must face this account, item by item, and in the aggregate. The President then drew a vivid picture of the rendition of accounts, at the last day, by one who had been educated, but who had mis improved his opportunities and rendered up the single talents which he had kept hid in a napkin ; and the educated man, who returned his five talents, with five superadded as law ful usury. In conclusion, he reminded the class of their solemn responsibility. They had received five talents each. They should live for others. The best teaching was received under Jesus. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wis dom, and the knowledge of Jesus is the best of sciences. Copy His example. May you receive the weleome plaudit given to the faith ful steward, and may you be permitted to enter into the joy of your Lord. The above hasty synopsis can give but a faint idea of the sermon in its entirety. To appreciate the force and power, the fullness of illustration, and the fitness of expression, one must have the words and the sounding sentences and the nicely fitting paragraphs of the sermon itself. Ernest. “The Laborer is Worthy of His Hire.”—ll. 111. The Hire, and Who bhall Pay it. 1. The hire is food and raiment —enough for the dependents of the laborer, and some thing to bestow in answer to the many calls of charity. For himself, the man of God— the really consecrated man—expects no more from his labor than aliment for the inner, and clothing for the outer man. This much the slave had, unless his employer was a monster. (Remember the preacher is a hired slave— doulos—and the people he serves, ths master.) For his fqmily the preacher needs—why men tion it?— necessaries, in one word. These neeessarids are such as other families use, and cost the preacher as much as they do ’others. Besides the provision for himself and others, as mentioned, he needs to be ena bled to entertain strangers, to help the poor, and to aid the great cause of benevolence at large, setting a pattern therein for his breth ren. An officer needs more money than a private, because he has more calls made upon him, and because he ought to be an example for the privates in many respects. Where the privates should have power to beggar their officers, and were to exercise it, those offices would soon be despised and rejected. It is so with preachers. Let them be worn threadbare in purse, in family supplies and in clothes, then they are left to perish. Who does not have more respect for—take more interest in—his fat horse than his lean one, even though they are both alike his? Who will attend to the barking of a cur, when he is 1 too poor to stand on his feet? As little will men heed the exhortations of a starved out preacher. 2. Who are to pay the hire of the man of God j Nobody believes that angels of light are going to do it, for this reason, if for no other: they have never been known to do it. There is no positive evidence anywhere to be found that they have ever been specially era powered to perform such a task. Bad angels are not to be depended on in this matter, since the record fails to show that they have ever offered to assist God’s servants in any matter, or to the least extent. From the least of them, or from the greatest, preachers have no favors to hope for. What of men—those who have no love for God, and consequently none for His ministers—what will they do to feed and clothe the herald of salvation ? . Ex perience enables us to say if donations to the ministry came only from that source, the days of fine salaries for them have come to an end. Another question: If God sends men to preach—to do His work, what use is there in being concerned about the support of His agents, since He is abundantly able to do His will with all things created? It is easy to answer this question : God has supplied the wants of His people by His direct power, or miraculous agency, whenever He saw fit to do so. But it is His pleasure to honor. His people on earth with the privilege of feeding His ministers, and otherwise caring for them in His stead. God has virtually told His peo ple again and again that this duty has been entrusted to them. The Jewish priests of old were fed and clothed by their brethren, and as long as the people did their duty to the priests, so long, I think the Old Testament will show, prosperity was enjoyed in the land. As the sons of Aaron were cast upon their Jewish kindred for support, so are the true ministers of Jesus now made dependent, under God, on their lay brethren and sisters in the churches. As the agents of the Lord, these rnen come among the people. If they are treated right, or otherwise, the Lord receives that treatment as given to Himself in person! Wheu a church promises to pay its faithful servant and fails, it is the same as if the Mas ter Himself had been defrauded. What is money for in the hands of Chris tians? Is it not God’s money still, every farthing of it ? How should God’s money be used by God’s servants ? Surely for God’s glory. What so glorifies Him as the execu tion of the last commission of Jesus? Every farthing given to the support of a true man in the pulpit is given to the advancement of God’s highest glory on earth. The man giv ing it should feel that he is granted a privilege in the permission to give to such a cause, second only to that of preaching the gospel. Indeed, he is actually a “ fellow-helper of the truth.” The man is preaching in the pulpit, but his supporter has sent him there, and, in an important sense, holds him up while preaching. The preacher may win his hun dreds to Jesus, but those who sent him to preach, or enabled him to go, when the morn ing of the resurrection dawns, will find that the blessedness of having turned many to righteousness is theirs, a3 well as his. Happy AtfjL&ii'l Who vwftyld not have an interest in Sbatfcer such as This ? Who would fail to sows the seed belonging to another, wherf'the harvest is to be like this? now noticed that the preacher of the gospel is a laborer, that he deserves his reward, that his recompense is of a temporal, .Qr rather a material, character, so far as men cSybestow it on him, and lastly, that the peo plßwiKGod are to reward His ministers, and t*fli£kit Tor-Him, and out of the means, we Sf £s*His stewards. In conclusion, some earnest jwords must be addressed to both ministers and churches. 1. If the doctrine of these articles be accord ing to truth, it is plainly the duty of our min istering brethren to insist, with all boldness, on being supported while they preach. Many Christians, we may reasonably suppose, have never been shown out of the Scriptures, that it is their sacred duty to God, and at the same time, one of the most exalted privileges, to help support the gospel ministry. That the people have been so long left in the dark on this subject is, to say the least, unfortunate for those who preach. When the minister loves his holy calling, surely he is not faithful to his Master if he lets timidity prevent him from pressing home on his brethren that truth which will induce them to keep him in his work, when, otherwise, he cannot go on. When the preacher feels that he has tried to be faithful, he has a perfect right to say to his brethren, “I am worthy of my hire; in the name of my Master, and yours, I demand it at your hands, for He has it on deposit with you for the support of His cause in this place. 2. This paves the way for some closing words to our churches. In the ancient time the God of Israel, who has now become our salvation, brought the charge of robbery against his people. Let us read, (Mai. iii: 8, 9:) “ Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, wherein have we robbed thee ? In tithes and offerings. Ye are cursed with a curse : for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.” Those people had withheld from God what merely made them stewards over, aisfused it for their own selfish purposes. A'part of the tithes, as we know, went to the use of the priests, since the priests had no way of living, appointed in the law, but by the tithes and offerings coming from the people at large. It follows, then, as it seems to me, that whe© the tithes were withheld, then the priests, be ing reduced to distress, were driven to other work, or else induced to transcend their or ders in the appropriation of offerings not legitimately theirs. It is easy to see that many evils—evils constantly growing worse —would spring out of this state of things. Indeed, from what we shall presently quote from the same prophet, it would seem that all the ills which came upon Israel grew out of their having robbed God in tithes and of ferings. When they refused to give God His own, it must have been from one of the four following reasons, viz: carelessness, stub bornness, unbelief, or covetousness; or sev eral of these reasons may have operated in conjunction. Either one taken alone was suf ficient to stop the regular flow of supplies into the treasury of the Lord, and s to derange the order which had been diviTO^ I'establish ed. Either one was sufficient to open the hearts of the Jews to every species of sin. When God was refused His own, then His special people were suffered to fall under the heels of foreign oppressors. This is a signifi cant fact, full of instruction. When this hap pened, then the priests ceased, as we are per mitted to believe, almost wholly to offer sacrifices for tiie people, and religious progress was well nigh at an end. Here is another lesson for such as have a mind to learn. But we will proceed to notice what remedy Jeho vah proposed to the Israelites in their distress. (Vs. 10, 11, 12.) “ Bring ye all tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a bless ing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground ; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the Lord of hosts; and all nations shall call you blessed ; for ye shall be, a delightsome land, saith the Lord of hosts.” Can the Chris tians of this land see their situation to be like that of those to whom the above language was addressed? When we were rich. God re ceived but a few cents from us when He called for thousands of money, llis ministers were allowed not literally to starve, but many were forced to work with their hands to feed their children. The cause of missions, which is God’s cause, was feebly aided. The Lord grew angry at our conduct. He bore with our robbery till forbearance had shown us incorrigible; then the heavy judgments of Heaven came down. On us they lay for long and dreadful years. When they ended, or partially subsided, it was found that the Lord had descended in the mighty tumult and taken from us what we had so long been withhold ing from Him. Now that we have begun to recuperate in worldly things, I ask the solemn question of every one, Are we honoring God’s drafts, or are we robbing Him again? When He calls on us to keep His ministers at work, are we doing it? When He tells us to send the light of life to ihe regions of heathenism, are we doing it? When the Lord’s poor knock at our doors for help, are we glad to help them in the name of the Master? When pride or vanity prompt to indulge in useless or over expensive luxuries, do we meet those prompt ings with the reply that we dare not use our Lord’s money for such purposes? When covetousness, leagued with distrust of God’s promises, urges to the laying up of earthly treasure, do we meet the suggestion with the command of Je3us to lay up treasure in the skies, and to do it by spending His money here for Him ? If the tithes are not brought into God’s treasury, the ministers of Jesus will be among the first to feel the pressure. They cantiot work as they should unless they “give ” themselves to the work. This they cannot do when their time is required to make bread to feed their children. A half-hearted is usually a half fed ministry, and the reverse. Such a ministry will stereotype itself on the people. Ministers and people will mutually chill and formalize each other, till the death gasp of true religion is brought on. When true ministers have ceased to exist among a people, the powers of darkness as sume full control, aud the direst calamities may be looked for. True ministers will cease to be found—God will not send them—in this land, when the people called Christians re fuse to feed them out of God’s storehouse under their charge. Brethren, beloved, since we, and all we have, are God’s, suppose we try the Holy One of Israel by bringing up our stolen valua bles that are His, putting them all in His treasury, and see whether He will not pour us out a blessing that there shall not be room to contain. Ocr Schools.— “ When God rains down His grace upon a College,” says Rev. T. L. Guvler, “He fills a cistern for the whole land” The Master’s Call. Up and be dping! is brief, And life is frail as the autumn leaf. To God and thy better self be true, Do with thywight what thou find’st to do. Though the day is bright, and the sun is high, # Ere long ’twill fade from the glowing sky. While the erening shadows darkly fall, There’s time for rest, it will come to all. t The hafrest is white, and the field is wide, Aud thou at-thy ease may’st not abide. The reapers are few and far between, And Death is abroad,-with his sickle keen. • O, think of the Master, worn and faint, Whose meek lips uttered no complaint; Who toiled for thee ’mid the noonday heat, And sought no rest for His weary feet; Os a Father’s wrath who drank’the wine, And bore his cross to lighten thine. Go forth and labor’ A crown awaits The faithful serrant,at Heaven’s high gates. >’t‘ For a death ot shame the Saviour died, To open those goldefi portals wide, That souls, redeemed from the toils of sin, In His spotless robe? might enter in. Work with thy might! ere the day of grace Is spent, and the night steals on apace. The Master has given His pledge divine; Who winneth souls like the stars shall shine. The Location of Mercer University. Allow one who was a member of the Board of Trustees a quarter of a century ago, to say a few thingslo reference to the location of Mercer University. A large proportion of those who served with him then have been, we believe, transferred to higher offices in a world of spirits. The following initials will indicate the. names of some of those who have been thus promoted : B. M. S., C. D. M., V. R. T-., W. KUS., A. J , J. H., J. E. D., I. L. 8., und perhaps others. Though now laid aside by pbYerty, disease and the infirm ities of age, I still feel an unabated interest ia the prosperity of Mercer University. The general sentiment of the denomina tion would, undoubtedly, be in favor of loca ting our College at Atlanta, were it not that the Presbyterians have decided on removing their’s to that city. Two inquiries naturally suggest thomselves : 1. Does Atlanta afford advantages superior to those offered by any other location in the State ? "2. Will the location of a Pedobaptist Col lege at At(/mta militate against the interests of a Baptist Co-k*gg located in the same city ? I trust the Committee on whom will de volve the duty to select a location for our College, will consider these questions ma turely, divest themselves of all sectional and personal bias, and seek to be guided in their final decision bji ; the Spirit of Infinite Wis dom, and by a s/acere regard to the glory of God, and the best interests of all future gen erations. I trust they will not deem it offi cious in me, to lay bes »re them some of the reasons which vvN’mo me to answer the for mer of the* twi; Questions proposed in the affirmative, and tab latter in the negative. I. As to thiNi&lierior advantages of Atlan ta —1. It is dMfcd to ‘be—if it is not al ready—the larged Inland city, not only in our State, but in the entire South. 2. There is no point whence so many railroads radiate, in so many different directions. 3. None equally accessible to citizens in every section of the State. 4. A College located there will become more generally known to the pub lic than if located elsewhere, as Atlanta is not only the seat of Government, but a place of general rendezvous' for foreigners seeking a location in our State, scientific men making tours of observation, and for parties bound for the mountains, in pursuit of pleasure or health. 5. The fact of its being the seat of Government will be likely to attract students to it, and, if we have no College there, some students of Baptist parentage or proclivities will be likely to enter the Presbyterian Col lege. 6. The same fact will afford students an opportunity to form the acquaintance of officials, and other public men, which may prove of incalculable advantage to them in after life. 7. The Baptist influence in At lanta—which would, of course, be exerted in its favor—is greater than in any other town or city in our State. 8. Its proximity to the mountains would enable the professor or stu dent, whose impaired health might render a few days of relaxation necessary, to enjoy the same in a pure and salubrious atmosphere, at but little expense. 11. Will the location of a Pedobaptist Col lege in Atlanta operate to the prejudice of a Baptist one there? I think nrt. The Fac ulty of Mercer University will compare fa uorably with the Faculty of any other Col lege, in or out of the State. Nor is there any cause to apprehend that the graduating classes of Mercer University, or any other of its classes, will ever suffer by a comparison with those of any other College that may be located at Atlanta. Competition, it is said, is the life of trade. It is equally true thatan honorable rivalry in literary pursuits, is favorable to a high de gree of intellectual culture. New life is often infused into a dull and sluggish horse, by Pitching a spirited one at his side. Now men —the most cultivated men—are but anr mals after all their acquisitions of scholastic lore. They have animal instincts or propen sities, as well as the horse, the mule, the ass, or the ox. The history of the High Schools of LaGrange, if \vritten, would prove clearly the benefit of competition in institutions of learning. Our brethren, Otis Smith and Mil ton Bacon, had to compete with Pedobaptist schools, yet no schools were more prospered in their day, than theirs. I might add, per haps, no town was ever more benefited by a competition between Baptist and Pedobaptist schools, than the town of LaGrange. The physician or the lawyer, who is con scious of a professional inferiority to others, in selecting a location will seek for some dark corner, where he will be likely to meet with little or no competition. On the contrary, one who is conscious of his own ability, will prefer to locate where he will have to com pete with men of the highest orderof talents; tor there, he infers very rationally, his tal ents will be most likely to be duly apprecia ted, and his professional services suitably re warded. If our brethren on the Locating Commit tee doubt our ability to compete successfully with our Presbyterian friends, in conducting a College, let them, by all means, avoid loca ting our University in Atlanta. Let them seek a location where there will be no danger of their ever having to encounter such com petition. But if they believe we are as compe tent as others to conduct a College creditably, and believe, also, that Atlanta has the advan tages I have ascribed to it, 1 see not how they can avoid deciding to locate the College with in her bounds. So obvious are the superior advantages of Atlanta, that, I fear, if we fail to locate our institution there, a carping world will take it for granted that, in matters of literature, we are inferior to others, and know the fact so well that we fear to subject our abilities to the test of competition. If we fail to locate in Atlanta, then, 1. The world will conclude as just stated. 2. Many of the children of Baptists will be sent to the Presbyterian College, and there be indoctrin ated in the dogmas of Presbyterianism. The rules of their Synod, unless they have been changed of late years, require their profess ors to teach the principles of the Presbyteri an church. Baptists make no such require ment of their professors. No student of Pe dobaptist parentage or proclivities, who has been connected with our College, has ever charged any member of the Faculty with seeking to infuse Baptis, principles into his mind. My subject is not exhausted, but pru dence forbids my adding more at present. J. S. Baker. Female Education—ll. Almost a dozen years ago, Rev. Dr. Man ly, Sr., (now deceased,) preached, in one, the Commencement sermon of two institutions — one male, the other female—each of which has taken its place in the foremost rank of our Southern Colleges, and they themselves linked inseparably in interest, locality and re ligion—in which he had occasion to remark that “ women are«ot dead weights on socie ty;” also, that “ wherever greatness was found in man, there was one thing very evi dent—that there was a gernrpinjtheknother.” Both thoughts made a deep impression upon my mind. Never before having my mind directedetowards that point of thought, it set me thinking, and I have been thinking ever since, sometimes half forced to join with the views of the wise divine; then, again, to question their correctness altogether. His text, was most appropriate. Ps. cxliv : 12; “ That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth, that our daughters may be as corner stones polished after the similitude of a pal ace.” They may not be dead weights ; but in the present state of society, or, rather, regard for tueir education, I think it would be diffi cult to trace likeness in the figure. A stone to be polishea, is first subjected to the chizel and mall of the cutter, then to a series of rough attritions, then to the polishing process, having to pass through the hands of several distinct kinds of preparation before it is ready for ornament. Then, even after it is given over from the contractor’s hands, it must be daily washed, rubbed and dusted, in order to preserve its fine, smooth, crystal surface. Indeed, there is no stone, no metal that will admit of a polish so high that it will not tarnish by neglect. Gold, the king metal, will not. If, then, women “ may be as corner stcmes polished,” provide the way for them to be so. Instead of keeping these delicate, help less creatures as if you had a lease of your life to be their guardians, give them an op portunity to be self-reliant, self-supporting. If you neglect this now, the time may soon, and very soon, come when your daughter, your wife,,or your sister will be instructed by other and rougher hands than your own— the hands of adverse fate. You say, there is nothing for her. to do ; all places .are now filled by our sons. Make rodm for her. Push your boys out to some manual labor, and make her your accountant, your S' crotary, your amanuensis-; let h«r be your assistant in &urgery, yj physjj,c, in jaw, in merchandize, in school, hi agriculture, in mechanics, in surveying—anything that, will draw out that inner being of hers to enno bling and exalting ambition. Do you fear to do this? You brave public opinion for your own success in life ; why not for the future welfare and happiness of a child who, with out it, is likely to become a dependent upon the cold charities of the world. A higher consideration than this should move you thus to act, which is giving her an opportunity of improving the talent wiih which God has en trusted her. If she is to be the glory of man, make her a shining glory; then she,and he,and you, and all will be exalted thereby. As she now is, how many husbands stoop to confess that their wives are their glory? Are they not ashamed of them? Congenial perhaps when wedded—both equally accomplished in edu cation ; but since, his progress has been on ward, and hers backward, and he no longer finds her the gilded being of years ago. It has been but a few short years since it was admitted the mind of woman possessed the capacity of grasping and “grappling with” the sciences. vVithin my own memory, it was regarded incapable of taking in the intri cacies of mathematics. Child as I was, I be held with interest the tightly drawn tension or muscles of parents and teachers’ faces in watching the progress of the experiment, how they by degrees relaxed, until they were set at liberty in a smile of triumph. If such be true in one instance, may it not prove equally successful in many others, un til the difficulty is finally discovered not to lie in the orgauism, but in local hindrances to its exercise? 1 think we have ample reason to so regard it, if we will but take the trouble to scan history for examples, where, by for tuitous circumstances, it has been compelled to act. Miriam—what is more sublime than her song? Deboiah, Esther, Semiramis, Zenobia, Cornelia, Elizabeth, Madame de Roland, Hannah Moore, Mrs. Sigourney— who will dispute the claims of these to the highest encomiums of native talents and im proved opportunities ? Along side with education, teach her she has something to live for, which is not to dance, to dress, to gossip, to flirt, to be ad mired, to be entertained, to crochet, to em broider, to lounge, to sleep; but something real, active, noble. She cannot enjoy the luxury of self respect until she has that with in her she knows to be worthy ot it. This obtained, then she will very soon have the respect of others. Who, with any conscious pride, feels flattered by shining with a bor rowed light? Is it not humiliating depen dence to be the reflector of another’s ideas, thoughts and opinions? What other office do many wives, daughters and sisters perform, but this ? Giris must be taught to think. We of the South have lived long enough to know that wealth, arid friends, and good fortune are as precarious as life itself. There is no assurance the goods o/ to-day will be ours to morrow. While 1 am writing, intelligence of a great conflagration in Constantinople is flashed across the cable. The loss, so far, is estirna ted to be seven thousand buildings, two hun dred and fifty lives, and twenty-five millions pounds sterling in property, which, in our currency, would be one hundred and twenty five million dollars! Think of it! There, strangers to want yesterday, are to day more wretched than the most miserable rag-picker ever was; for, added to her utter destitution, is pride, a delicacy of feeling, a sense of her degradation the latter never felt, just what thousands of our countrymen have, and are now laboring under. Girls, if you are told it is unladylike to think, don’t believe it. You are told, also, when young, happy, hopeful, buoyant, pos sessing friends and wealth, that you possess a certain peculiar property called, angelic. Don’t believe that either, though I do think young girls are the loveliest objects on earth; for when adversity comes, the angel’s wings are clipped. Be not backward in asking explanation of that which you cannot understand. Do not be put off with the rebuke, “ Pshaw, you are nothing but a girl!” The reason I urge this up on you, you can see everywhere around you. You will find it in the poor house, the work- shop, the cotton factories, the corn-fields, the kitchen, washroom, school-room; you will see it jn the care-worn face, in the wrecked body, the consumptive glare, of those who but a short time since, were pampered in the softest luxury. Do it, not as a duty merely, but as an obligation you owe to God, and your fellow creatures and yourself. At this particular juncture, the South is greatly in want of oood teachers. Formerly New England supplied her, but now she looks to herself to meet this demand. In this as in other branches of social, as well as natural interests, she suffers from the dearth. It would probably be safe to say, without cast ing any reflection—l am a teacher—that there is not one in a hundred, nay more, five hun dred, of those who are filling this responsi ble position, who are in the remotest degree actually fitted to discharge its duties. In most instances, it is done from necessity, and of course reluctantly. In other cases, the .intention is good ; but deficiences innumera ble in other respects. I repeat it, good teach ers we want, and if the South does not suppfy herself, she will waive her prejudices produced by the war, and throw open her doors once again to the North ; she will draw upon Eng land, Germany, France, for it is an impera tive, personal, national necessity. Hold the position while you have it; for when once lost, it is not easily retaken. The field is wide, and is broadening. Keep your foothold. Let nothing deter you from engaging in the work with all the powers within you. It is a glorious work. If you feel that it degrades you in the eyes of your leisure loving, em broidery-working sisters, then you are not fit for the place. If you cannot look beyond the reward of the present moment, you had bet ter turn your attention to gadding, gossipping, prying, street parading and the like, for it takes strong resolution, a brave heart, and a cheerful spirit to teach properly the young young idea how to shoot. Teaching is an avocation full of anxiety and turmoil. She who undertakes it must not expect to repose on downy pillows; but it is one womar! has proved herself equal to. It was a blessed boon to her when the mooted ques tion, can she teach, was decided in her favor. Can she teach? Yes; she can do mure. She can control, she can administer, she can pre side in this capacity, and to day her schools are the first in the land. She has but “to carry the war into Africa” to get the instruc tion of youth almost entirely within her own hands; not that it is desirable or politic that this should be so, but that she may by greater exertion render her capabilities equal to the demand. VV herever she is recognized as efficient, she is even now held in the highest esteem. Her services are valued, and her talents apprecia ted, though not receiving as yet —this, it is hoped, will be remedied —salaries equal to those of professors doing the same labor. In the public schools North and West, she gets from a thousand to fifteen hundred and two thousand as principal, and in some instances qp high as four thousand dollars. Certainly .this is a new era. , All that is done in woman’s education— that is, the intellectual—resolves itseffi into the culture of the reason and imagination, and not feeling exclusively, as many contend. These two combined in proper proportion, determine, in a great measure, the power of the mind, to develop them in symmetrical proportions; that is, push the one and re strain the other, is a delicate task, but when accomplished, as it is sometimes, it is hoped, then it is we have the finest specimen of fe male intellectual superiorly. Thus equipped for life, will not society do its part, and bring her out? Will not her parents relax the hold of protection and let her go whither her genius may lead her? In the right direction —have no fears, if you all have discharged your partin bringing proper moral, religious, as well as intellectual influences, to bear. Parents, not heartlessly, but over-kindly, keep daughters from general success. No one more than myself, is a greater advocate of care and protection of girls, as exercised by fathers and mothers, but beyond a certain point it ceases to be a virtue. Girls must be trusted as boys are. The watchful eye of parental love cannot ever be upon them. If this were possible, it would sometimes be tricked, as it often is, in the very heart of home. This continued care, extended some times until the daughter has perhaps passed a half-century in training lines, works no good to a child beyond a certain age. Then, my young friends, from this day forth 1 trust you will not concentrate the whole essence and substance of your being into one word wife ; but like the chaste, the beautiful, the loving Ruth, will be found gleaning in the field of barley, if need be — but I hope it will be one of thought, pursu ing one object —the best you can, whether as helpmeet or maiden, and in the latter day you will come bearing your sheaves, and the Lord of the harvest will call you blessed. God help you so to do! Clementia. Mercer University. An up country brother, the other day, inti mated that if Mercer University was located at Macon, the Baptists would probably start another interest higher up. But will they? I think not, and for the following reasons: Ist. There was great unanimity in the de cision to remove; and even the few opposed to removal pledged their personal influence to harmonize the parties. From the known standing of those brethren, it is believed that they can do it. Every reason opposed to re moval was considered and discussed in the spirit of Christian candor, and it was decided to remove without knowing to what place. There should be equal fairness in deciding as to the place ; and then every one will be sat isfied to work tor the interests of the Institu tion, wherever it may be. 2d. While no other argument can be urged properly against Macon except its health, ex amination into the facts will convince any one that such objection will not hold; Macon is one of the most healthy cities of the South. Let facts, by which alone such questions are determined, be submitted to the gentlemen having the matter to decide, and I am satis fied that they will agree that no city has greater claim to be considered healthy. It is situated on half-way ground between the dis eases of the mountains and miasma of the low country. The climate is most excellent in winter and spring. In summer the exercises will be suspended, and those who wish can go higher up the country. From the middle of July to Ist October there need be—and, ac cording to the preseut arrangement, will be— no college exercises. That will give ample time for recreation to those who need it. According to present rates of travel, a student could, in that time, almost go round the world —could spend two mcnth* in the mountains of Colorado or the Yo Semite. 3rd. It is said the Faculty are opposed to Macon. Probably some of them are. As fine a looking specimen of manhood as the Faculty can show, was brought up in Macon; and I suppose he will not object to it on ac count of health. But if any of them are so delicate that they cannot stand the climate of Middle Georgia, of course they can be re* lieved. In deciding questions of this sort, our motto should be “measures and not men. WHOLE NO. 2499. But lam satisfied that the Faculty will ae quiesce, if it is decided to locate at Maoon. 4th. To build up an opposition College is not an easy matter. It will cost those up country brethren more money and time than they have to spare. 3d. Every man cannot have it at his own door. Baptists are independent thinkers, and lam glad they are. That independence will unite them in every good cause; and then conscious independence makes them the more steadily influenced in the right direc tion. Knowing, therefore, that there can be but one location for the University, and that every man cannot have the Institution near him, when it is decided in favor of any place, in my judgment, they will all agree. They have stood up to the Institution in a remnrka- • ble manner in Penfield, with all its discour agements and disadvantages. 6th. We must take the best offer made to us, all things considered; and if that is by Macon, fidelity to the interests of the denomi nation and to posterity demands that we shall accept it. it, brother editor, I have no personaPinterest in this thing; but I long to see the denomination ahead in education, as in other tilings. We can build up the best Institution in Georgia; we can complete our University; we can raise half a million dollars tor these purposes : we can, because we have the men, the talent, the money. Now, all 1 aim at, in this communication, is to prevent deciding beforehand, before all the facts arc brought out to the committee, where the In stitution shall be located. Bsta. The Bible. Study it carefully, Think of it prayerfully. Deep in thy heart let its pure precepts dwell! Slight uot its history, Ponder its mystery, None can e’er prize it too fondly or well. Accept the glad tidings, The warnirffcsoind eludings, Found in this volume of' heuveoly lore; With faith that’s unfailing, And love all prevailing, Trust in its promise oif life evermore. With femiit devotion, And thankful emotion, Hear the blest welcome, respond to its call! Life’s purest oblation, The heart’s adoration. Give to the Saviour, who died for us all. May this message of love, From the Triune above, To all nations and kindred be given, Till the ransomed shall raise, Joyous anthems of praise— Halleluyah ! on earth and in heaven. Duplicity. A letter from Chicago, in the Christian Reg ister, says: One of the most prominent Evangelical clergymen of this city was lately called on by one of his flock, when the follow ing conversation took place : “ Doctor, I have coine to ask*leave to withdraw ' from your church communion.” “ And why so, pray?” “Simply, because I find it impossible any longer to subscribe to the creed. I don’t be* lieve in such and such articles” (naming over several.) “Ah !is that all 1 Well, 1 don’t believe in them myself.” “You surprise me! Why, then, we must both leave the church.” “ By no means, —we must both remain, and bring the church to whore we stand.” This is monstrous; but Dr. Howard Mal coin has found a parallel for it among Bap tists : for, in the Watchman <£ Reflector, he says: " The pastor of a largo city church, well known to me, said to a friend of mino that the reason why lie did not openly avow his open communion sentiments was beoause he could propagate them more effectually in the parlor than in public.” The Dr. well adds: “ Terrible is the responsibility oi breth ren who use their official influence in this dastardly manner.to bring about a split in our ranks. Our Home and Foreign Mis sions, our Publication Society, our churches will be split into sections ; our energies will be expended in contentions, our sweet fellow ship changed into rivalries. The village that can hardly sustain its feeble Baptist church will require two, and the whole denomination become paralyzed. And all for what? To invite Pedobaptists to a supposed privilege which they do not want, and will not use.” Baptist Fidelity. —Henry Ward Beecher, at the meeting of the American Congrega tional Union, this year, in Brooklyn, said : Among the churches whose rejd flag,—red with the blood of Calvary,—has never been lowered or trailed in the dnst of defection; who, while the Congregational churches suf fered eclipse, while Presbyterianism in Eng land suffered eclipse,stood firm, testifying to the truth as it is in Jesus, —none deserves more love and more gratitude than the Bap tist churches of America. In that church the faith of our fathers has never' received a shock, nor been moved. Faithful in the field, enterprising, and for the last quarter of a cen tury with growing enterprise toward educa tion, and now affording some of the very ripest scholars in Biblical literature which t,he world knows, and thousands of ministers that are second to none in zeal and in success. Fraternity. — The Disciples of Christ (“ Campbellites”) of Ohio, at their late State Convention, adopted “with hearty unanimity and without debate,” a motion to appoint a committee to bear fraternal greetings to the, Baptists of the State at their Cenveniti-ui in Columbus next October. But do not doctri nal questions of vital character divide thte two parties, and forbid fraternity? Baptism. —Last year, the Episcopal Con vention of Georgia adopted a rule requiring lay delegates to be “ baptized persons.” Ac cording to a writer in the Church Calendar : “This was too little for most of the clergy and some of the parishes, but too much fur the laity generally. The eff >rt (this year) to substitute ‘communicants’ for ‘ baptized per-, sons’ failed from non concurrence of the two Orders, and the motion to strike-out ‘ bap - tized persons’ failed for the same reason.” Satan’s Credentials. —A man rich in Christian experience, and whose words were always weighed words of wisdom, once re marked that, “in his view, oputi profanity was not stronger proof of an unconverted heart than a desire to have just religion enough to escape perdition and no more.” “ Liberty.” —Certain Independent congre gations organized in Norway, the last few years, in their recently adopted Articles of Faith, say: “Inasmuch as the Bible has not given any specific command, at what time bap tism should be administered, —therefore wo believe in liberty of baptism,”— i.e., to bap tize, or not baptize, their children. The Mystery Explained. The late Dr. Proudfit, of New York, a short time before his death, referring to that wonderful passage in Second Corinthians — “ For we know that if our house of this talv ernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens, etc.”—exclaimed, as if he had just looked within the veil, “/ understand it now." He could say no more, and passed into the glorious reality. Similar has beeu the dying experience of other Christians; and who shall say that aU that supreme mow menfc the curtain may not have lifted to their vision, so that in an instant the dim and anx ious guesses of a lifetime were exchanged for perfect know.ledinfect bliM?