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The Christian Index.
THE SOITTH-WESTEaN BAPTIST, THE CHPISTIAET HERALD
of Alabama. of Tennessee. "
VOL. 54—NO. 8.
Table of Contents.
Fiest Page. —Alabama Department: Editorial:
Noi to be Thought Of-.-Rev. J. S. Baker-
State News ; Our Church at Eufaula—Rev. M.
B. Wharton ; A Delightful Reunion—A Pros
perous Church—Eufaula Baptist; Vital Ques
tions Again—Rev. C. M. Irwin; The Star
Spltinx —C. W. Hubner ; State Mission Board
J. M. Wood; Letter from Macon —Wm. M.
Mclntosh; etc.
Second Paoe. —Communications : The New Sci
ence ; or, Pneumatology alias Spiritualism—
G. A. NnimaUv; Brunswick Again—J. M. Wood;
Sunday-school Work: Bainbridge, Whigham,
Cairo, Thomasviile, Boston—Rev.T. C. Boykin;
Children's Hosannas—A. T. Spalding; A Day at
the Mission—J. S. Murrow; Errata in Prof. Wil
let’s Rejoinder; Pedobaptism, and its Advo
cates—Fair Play. Selections: John the Bap
tist and Christ; Prevalence of Prayer—Spur
geon : etc.
Third Paoe.— Our Pulpit; Truth, Mercy, Right
eousness and Peace—A Sermon, by Rev. W.
N. Reves. of Eufaula, Ala. Mount Tabor-
Poetry. Miscellaneous: The Great Salt Lake;
Put Not your Trust in Banks. Patrons of Hus
bandry ; A Bright Future; Fifth Session of
the Georgia State Grange.
Fourth Page. —Editorial: The “ Unification
Scheme ; Our Pulpit: A Jesuit’s Defense of
Jesuitism: Rev. Alfred Webb ; News from
Our Churches : The Colored People of Geor
gia ; Write to the Point—Rev. D. E. Butler.
Infant Baptism—Rev. S. G. Hillyer. Easy
and Hard ; Light; Logical Inference ; A Mal
practice-Rev. J. S. Baker. To the Subscri
bers of the Monthly Messenger—B. G. Ma
nard. Our Hymn Book ; etc.
Fifth Page.— A Word for The Index ; Chancel
lor Tucker's Address ; A Just Complaint;
Spirit of the Religions Press—Bev. D. E. But
ler. Miss Lottie Moon's House—Miss Jennie
H. Clayton. Secular Department: What is
Frugality ; Vulgarity in Verse ; Moonshine ;
Diversified Farming; Georgia Gossip ; Eu
rope in Arms ; Domestic Notes ; Tennessee
News; etc.
Sixth Page—An Essay; Diversified Farming-
Prof. E. M. Pendleton.
Seventh Page— Farm and Household: Com
paratiV* Prices of Wool: Philosophy of Loose,
Deop Soils Retaining Moisture— Rural New
Yorker: Mingling the Milk of Different Cows;
Experiments in Com Planting: In Breeding of
Swine.
Eighth Page.— Aid and Co-operation ; Ministers
the Best Canvassers ; Women Better Canvass
ers than the Bert. Obituaries. Advertise
ments,
INDEX AND BAPTIST.
ALABAMA DEPARTMENT.
SOT TO BE THOrOBT OF.
If one one would obtain the mastery
over his own evil heart, and secure that
holiness without which, we are told in
Scripture, no one shall see God, he
shoubj cvef -remember jjliat it
woula be sinful to do, a is sinful to
think of doing.
As was stated in one of our articles,
not long since, all sin originates in the
thoughts of one’s heart. If Satan can
prevail upon a clerk in a store or a bank
office to think of the possibility of ap
propriating to his own use, without de
tection, a portion of the funds that
pass through his hands, and of the
great benefit he might derive from
the funds, if thus appropriated, he is
sure of succeeding, ultimately, in in
ducing him to commit the theft. At
first, perhaps, the tempted demurs.
His conscience whispers, it is wrong
it is betraying the trust reposed in
you by your employer —it would be en
dangering your own reputation as an
honest man, and exposing yourself to
the severe penalties of the law, in case
the theft is discovered and proved
against you.
Very true, says the wily tempter.
I do not urge you to commit the
act; but there can be no harm in
thinking how you might commit it, if so
disposed; and of the means to which
you might resort to conceal the
theft.
The too credulous soul believes the
lying spirit, revolves in his mind the
thoughts suggested, with no intention,
at first, of committing the sinful act.
Indeed, if one had suggested the possi
bility of bis committing the criminal
act, he would, probably, have replied
indignantly, as one of old, when told of
the atrocities he would commit—“ls
thy servant a dog, that he should do
this thing?” But in process of time
his mind becomes familiarized to the
train of evil thoughts that have been
passing through it. His love of filthy
lucre casts a mistiness around him,
which conceals from him, to a great
degree, the turpitude of the act he is
tempted to commit. At length, in an
unguarded moment, under some tem
porary excitement, which renders him
apparently unconscious of what he is
doing, he commits the crime, at the
thought of which he once shuddered,
and he now stands a condemned crimi
nal at the bar of his own conscience,
the bar of his country, and the bar
of his God! —an event that never
would have occurred —nor ever could —
had he, when first tempted to commit
the act, replied, it is not to be '
thought of, turned away from the !
tempter, and sought from the Saviour I
some new token of His love, to serve as
an additional bar on the door of his
heart, to secure it against the admis
sion of evil thoughts.
It is not to be thought of. Let
that be your reply, dear reader —be
thou young or old —when tempted to
indulge in draughts of that which has
converted into a bedlam so many a quiet
home, that was once as pure and peace
ful as was ever the garden of Eden;
blighted so many a brilliant prospect
of honor, usefulness, and happiness,
and spread over our moral world a
desolation far more direful than any
that was ever wrought on earth by mil
dew or blight, by floods or flames, by
war, famine or pestilence.
It is not to be thought of. Let
that be still your cry when tempted to
betray the confidence reposed in you by
some innocent fair one whose affections
you have won ; and when tempted to
enter any of the saloons of sinful folly
that are to be found, not only in every
crowded city, but in almost every coun
try town and cross road village.
It is not to be thought of. So
let our youthful church members reply,
when urged to participate in scenes of
revelry in the ball room or elsewhere,
or to do anything that would impair
their influence for good, by destroying
confidence in their Christian character;
or that would be likely to prove a
stumbling block in the way of sinners;
or a source of grief to the more pious
members of their respective churches.
It is not to be thought of. Such
should be the language of every Chris
tian, not only when tempted to do evil,
but also when tempted to neglect any
well known duty, such as attending the
meetings of the church, ministering to
the necessities of the poor, contributing
to sustain their Sunday-schools, Mis
sions (Home and Foreign), and paying
.promptly.. Ujejr PAfro*
I and printer.
KEY. VALENTINE MASON.
The last item in our article on “ Re
volting Scenes,” calls to remembrance
an incident that occurred in the life of
an old and highly valued brother, the
late Rev. Valentine Mason, who for
many years acted as General Agent of
the Baptist General Association of
Vermont.
At a prayer meeting in one of his
churches, he called on a rather diffident
brother to lead in prayer. That
brother was a single man, and was very
assiduous in his attentions to a sister
in the church, whose hand and heart
he aspired to win. When called on by
his pastor to lead in prayer he shook
his head. Elder Mason paid no atten
tion to the shake of his head, but
bowed, without appearing to have no
ticed it, and all the congregation bowed
with him. The brother was thus con
strained, much against his will, to lead
in prayer. He was much embarrassed,
offered a short prayer, and brought it
to a close with feelings of extreme
mortification.
After the close of the meeting, he
approached his pastor, and remonstra
ted with him for calling on him to pray
without having previously notified him
of his intention to do so. “ Didn’t you
see,” hfe enquired, “ how embarrased I
was?” “Yes,” replied Elder Mason,
“ I saw it, and I knew the reason of it
too. Caroline was present, and you
desired to secure her favor more than
that of your God.”
Often have we listened to prayer
that seemed to indicate, by the form of
words, or the tone of voice used, that
the speaker was thinking more of the
impressions he desired to make on the
minds of his hearers than on the re
ception with which his prayers would
meet at the Mercy Seat.
At the recent meeting of the stock
holders of the Selma, Marion and
Memphis Railroad, held in Memphis,
Col. Porter King, of Marion, Ala
bama, who has from the inception of
the project, been prominently associ
ated with the road, was elected Presi
dent, and Gen. E. W. Rucker, General
Superintendent. The control of this ;
great enterprise is now in the bauds of
the Alabamians.
Mardi Gras will be celebrated this
month in Mobile with great eclat.
FRANKLIN PRINTING HOUSE, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FEBRUARY 11, 1875.
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OIK CHIUCH AT EIFALLA, ALABAMA.
Editors Index —l have just re
turned from Eufaula, where, before go
ing to Louisville, I spent five of the
pleasantest years of my life. The
welcome extended to me after au.ab
sence of three years, was, perhaps, the
most cordial that I ever received. • All
hearts and homes were open to me.
A prettier place, a nobler people, a
finer church than Eufaula, I have never
known. Rev. W. N. Reeves is now the
pastor of the church, and no minister
ever had a pleasanter charge. The
church edifice, the handsomest we have
in the State, stands in graceful beauty,
though still without its stucco coating.
A debt of about five thousand dollars
still remains on the building, which
should be paid as soon as possible, and
from all I can learn, the church and
congregation are quite able to do it.
Brother Reeves, the pastor, says he will
give one-tenth of the whole amouut
himself. The building as it stands,
has cost upwards of thirty thousand
dollars in cash, and but few enter
prises of the kind come out with so
small an indebtedness as that which
now hangs ever the church. There is
nothing, therefore, in this feature of
the cause that should discourage any
one. Besides, the debt is not due yet.
It should be paid though, to save in
terest, and that the beautiful building
should be entirely completed. It af
forded me much pleasure to preach ou
the Sabbath to tho large congregation
assembled; to gaze on the familiar
faces of the people, and hear the sweet
voices of that splendid choir. I went
over to stay a week, but was compelled
by the solicitations of my friends to
remain two weeks, and finding that the
longer I staid the longer I wanted to
stay, had to tear myself away with
many promises and a firm resolution to
return again. If invalids of the North
and West would wish me to Yeeommencf
a winter home to them, I would name
Eufaula, Alabama, in preference to
Aiken, South Carolina, Jacksonville,
Florida, or any other section of our
“Sunny South.” M. B. Wharton. A
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A DELIGHTFUL REUNION —A
CHURCH.
Eufaula, Ala., February 4,1875.
Brother M. B. Wharton left us this
morning for a visit to your city. His
friends in Georgia, Alabama, and Ken
tucky, and throughout the South, will
be glad to know that his health is
much improved, and that the prospect
is, he will soon be able to return to the
work of the ministry, the noble work
he so much loves, and for which he is
so well fitted, and so well fitted for it
because he loves it so well, He came
on a short visit after an absence of
three years, the first visit he made us
since he preached his farewell sermon,
after a most successful pastorate of five
years. As may well be imagined, he
was most cordially welcomed by his
many friends, and it was a source of
pleasure to them to contribute in any
way possible to the enjoyment of his
visit. And his visit was the more agree
able to him and to us from the fact
that Mi’s. Wharton, (who is scarcely
less popular here and elsewhere than
her husband), accompanied him. Last
Sabbath was a beautiful day, after a
long, gloomy, rainy spell, and a large
audience was delighted to hear again
the familiar voice, and listen to the
earnest address of him under whose
ministry we sat for five years. Though
brother Wharton has lost flesh, and is
considerably thinner than formerly,
there was no indication of the invalid
in his sermon, either as to manner or
matter. He gave us a most delightful
and profitable discourse. The atten
tion was fine, and all were well pleased,
and, I trust, profited. Taken all in
all, including the sermon, the reunion,
the entire services, the audience, the
beautiful edifice, the splendid frescoed
auditorium, the occasion was one sel
dom equalled in this or any other city
or section. May our beloved brother’s
health and fife be precious in the eyes
of the Master; may he be long spared,
and may he favor us often with these
delightful reunions.
Nor is this all the good we have to
report. The prospects of our church
are brightening—
“ Tho sunshine is coming
And lighting up the day,
The clouds are breaking away.”
There is among us a spirit of cheer
fulness, hopefulness, and brotherly
lote, and the people all seem to have a
mind to work. And we are not only
working, we are looking for and prav
ing for the Spirit’s blessing upon our
labors. Brother A. P. Graves visits
us soon; brother Fish is to be with us
too, and aid us and him. Our people
all fell in love with brother Fish and
his singing, and ho alone will be a
power for good in our midst, and with
the combined labors of the mighty
preacher and “sweet singer,” we hope
for an abundant harvest through the
Divine blessing. “Finally.brethren, pray i
for us, that the Word of the Lord may
have L ee course and be glorified.”
Eufaula Baptist.
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'-Greenville, S. C., Jan. 30,1875.
Though having stepped aside from
the active labors of ministerial life for
a briefyti&son, my heart still yearns for
the Ijtojperity of the Missionary cause,
and, with your indulgence, I desire to
call attention of our Baptist breth
ren to few thoughts suggested.to my
mind:
IlDvUncing over the Herald, I find
refreshing reports from brethren—A.
B. Earl and A. P. Graves, evangelists—
of the Spirit’s outpourings in the West
and Northwest. I learn, too, that they
intend, joort, making evangelistic tours
througL the South.
Does it not behoove us, then, all over
our land, to earnestly pray that the
power of the Holy Spirit may be dis
played and felt through their ministra
tions ? That we, iu the South, may
have a repetition of the work of grace
which Las so recently swept, like a
tided wave, over portions of Europe ?
Certainly the necessity for a mighty
revolution of that kind is obvious to
every one, especially to professed Chris
tians* ; |.-
-;w ■ > ’look about us we find many
in o'djyr-.'-ry midst, seofling at the doc
trines of Revelation, “giving heed to
seducing spirits and doctrines of dev
ils—speaking lies in hypocrisy.” Sure
ly the “gates of hell” are trying to
prevail against the Church of Christ.
While Tyndaliem, infidelity and Spirit
ualhjAoutside, would fain scatter to
our holy religion, sealed with
thSod of the martyrs, formalism
in is palsying, so to speak,
of the Gospel.
Is it not high time to awake out of
sleep,—‘to go forth in the strength of
David’ljGod, and put the armies of the
flight?” May not this be a
ar in Christ, when the shout
in the camp of Israel
thy fight is come,
■L the Lord is risen upi n
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Hand prayers ascend, as
for power from heaven
that will shake our land from centre to
circumference, bringing multitudes to
Christ in 1875. Amen and amen.
J. W. P. Fackler.
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VITAL QUESTION AGAIN.
In the last issue of the Index I
wrote a phort article headed “Vital
Question.'’ Did you read it ? I offer
a few thoughts more in answer to the
question “ What is to be done ?”
Does the magnitude of the work
which our blessed Lord commands us
to do, and the little pecuniary means
we now have with which to do this
work, so overwhelm us that we hesi
tate; yea, even so appall us that we
will, therefore, do nothing? It is true
with many of our good brethren and
sisters, because they cannot give in i
largo sums, as they once did, they will
not Jive anything. To such let me
say: You remember when our blessed
Jesus was on earth, he saw the multi
tude' faint, and said to his disciples,
“Give ye them to eat.” They replied,
“We have no more but five loaves and
two fishes.” This is nothing, said
they; for so great a multitude. As the
disciples had so little food, they would,
therefore, give the multitude nothing,
although Jesus had commanded them.
We are too poor —the supply of food
is too small—We cannot give them to
eat. Just so j with us now. We are
overwhelmed with the magnitude of
the work whicl our Lord has command
ed us to do, aril say w.e are too poor to
furnish the neans needed to supply
the world—sc great a multitude with
the bread of 'ife. And because of this
inability, w will do nothing. So
argue many—not all; a few are still
willing to stare the little they have
with the fainting multitude. What is
to be done ? I answer, let us fall back
upon God, and call upon Him for such
a spiritual rerival as will not only add
to ouf uum deal strength, but such a
revival as ; ill lead every brother and
sister to bring in willingly their tithes
and offerings unto the Lord.
Baptists of Georgia, let us have a
tithe gathering between this and the
meeting of our State Convention at
Milledgcvill.: in April. Let us cease
for a time t talk about our poverty
and cor Boards, and bend all our ener
gies to v> planish their empty treas
uries, and help our missionaries in the
foreign liojc., in the home field, and !
among the Indians—to supply the |
fainting multitude with the bread of i
life. Let r:e respectfully suggest that |
we have a day of prayer and (jiving he- |
twepn this and the Convention, and us i
our: churches in the country have j
tnoKhlv m 'dings, let that day be their i
meeting in I'larch or April. Brethren j
and sisters, what say you? Pastors,'
what do you say ? I will cheerfully at
tend them as far as I can, if desired.
Who will respond to this ?
C. M. Irwin.
THE STAR SPHINX.
Ye stars 1 “ which are the poetry of heaven,”
Say, are your ghostly Ups forever sealed ?
Must your dread secret Btill remain unshriven,
Your plan and purposes be unrevealed ?
O, mocking splendors of the Infinite !
Dumb hierarchs of Heaven’s divinest creed !—.
Unveil the awful mysteries of your might—
Unfold the Book of Life, and let ub read ;
Yea! let us read by your white fires, which shone
Ere the unfabled myths of Chaos roße,
The epos of the Past and the To-come—
Fate’s Iliad, from il preface to the close.
Tho harps celestial of the shimmering spheres
A sadd’uing music breathe upon our mind;
The hopes they wake are phantoms of our fears,
And lure to what we wish, but dread to find.
Impotent, therefore, is our majesty,
0 priesfc-brow'd Stare! ye scorn our human needs;
And tho’we wreathe your shrines, and bend the
knee,
And at your blazing altars tell our beads—
Praying the stygian silence may be broken
Which, brooding, wraps your cloister solitude—
Still the charm’d word we wait for is unspoken,
And your pale vestnl lips, like Death’s, are mute.
—Charles W. Hubner. •
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STATE MISSION BOARD.
The papers submitted to our last
Convention, expressive of the views of
three members of the Committee ap
pointed the year before, to consider the
propriety of forming a State Board,
are now fairly before the public, by
their appearance in The Index of last
week. These papers are in agreement
in the following particulars:
1. That we should have a State Board
of Missions.
2. That seven men should constitute
the Board, who should be elected au
nuallv by the Convention.
3. That they should organize and
have power to employ such agencies
as the work assigned them might de
mand. The work itself to be the sup
plying the destitute regions of the
State with the gospel.
4. That the Board should incur no
liabilities which would involve it in
debt.
About these four things there is, of
course, no need of particular discussion
by members of the Committee. Be
tween these, therefore, discussion, o*n
*De properly bad u|s® vrte
£reemei.t. Those points < will, be ply.
sented in due time. But as the massif
of our brethren, and espeially those
who will probably vote upon the sub
ject. at next Convention, may not have
given the subject as much thought as
the Committee has been called upon to
give it, I propose to offer a few reasons
why we should have a State Board.
1. There is great destitution (in some
portions or our State) of Baptist
preaching. The Committee of the
Convention upon the “ State of Relig
ion,” have, frem time to time, brought
this fact prominently before us. A
vast region in South and Southeast
Georgia is very poorly supplied with
Baptist preaching. The same may be
said of Northeast Georgia. Besides
there is not an Association, in even the
favored parts of the State, but has
more or less destitution.
2. But very little has ever been done
by any existing agencies to supply this
destitution.
3. Without stopping to praise any such
agency for what it has done, or to blame
for what it has failed to do, Georgia
Baptists ought to look to this and go
vigorously forward, as fast as the Lord
will help us, to supply this desti
tution.
4. The wisdom and experience of
nearly all the other Southern States
which have State Boards to do such
work, in their respective bounds, ad
monish us to go forward. Say what
we may, the masses of Christians will
work more vigorously, and with more
heart for specific objects, which to them
are tangible and visible as nearly as
may be. A Georgian will give more
to supply the destitution in his own
State, other things being equal, than
he will for Alabama, albeit ho knows
that the cause is one, just as a
mau living in Atlanta will give
more to build a house of worship
there, than to build one in Mont
gomery. There is a home feeling and
home obligation of which we cannot rid
ourselves. While there are enough
Georgia Baptists who have the ability
to supply their own destitution, we can
not expect brethren in other States to
do it, to the neglect of their own. If
Georgians are to furnish the men
and means to do the work, and
have men of ability to manage it,
we ought to do it and not impose
upon other agencies already burdened
with work, and not complicate our des
titution with that which has no home
friends able to look after it. Our great
State has not been doing a tithe for
Home Missions of what we ought to
do.
Our people should feel the obligation
to supply our own destitution, and, in
my opinion, nothing will more effectu
ally arouse them to this duty than
the formation of a State Board. It is
foreign to my purpose to censure those
who may hone Ily differ from me, and
to criticise other agences w’hich have
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been employed to do our work. It is
desirable that the discussion should be
high-toned, simple and honorable.
There are great interests involved, and
it should be the earnest prayer of all
that we should make no mistake.
Next week I propose to notice the
disagreements, in the two papers pre
sented to the Convention. These dis
agreements involve great underlying
principles to which the attention of .
Georgia Baptists will be called.
J- M. Wood. °
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LETTER FROM MACON.
We were favored last week -i v
a visit from Dr. DeVotie. On
Sabbath he preached a tinder
and effective sermon, one that%vent
home to the heart, awakening seri
ous thought, and suggesting sole on
enquiry searching, yet comforting.
He is making an effort to relieve the
Home Mission Board at Marion. Strin
gent as financial matters are, and not
withstanding our brethren have recent
ly taxed themselves heavily to pay a
church debt, he received a good contri
bution. All when we could see re
sponded promptly to his appeal. There
were two things that are worthy of
mention. Not a member of this
church who was applied to, declined to
give ; not one gave reluctantly. Their
gifts were accompanied with expressions
of sympathy for the Board, and encour
agement to our brother, and I think he
left us with a feeling akin to that of
the opostle when he made the honora
ble record of the churches of Mace
donia, “that in a great trial of
affliction the abundance of their
joy and their deep poverty ab
ounded unto the riches of their liberal
ity.” “ The Lord loveth a cheerful
giver.” May our good brother’s heart
be comforted wherever he goes by a
like spirit. He is engaged in a most
important mission. The Board must
be relieved, or suspend its operations,
and suspension is death.
How long the Southern Baptist Con
vention will survive the loss of one of
its Boards, may be a problem which the
future alone can solve, and yet there
are some of us who thunk iv does not
Ivky a<r. aa
The dissolution of the Convent io i 7s
ifraught with evil, which,, if “ it is nfd-
dom to forecast consequences,” welted
better seek to avert by arousing in
time to a sense of the peril, than by
supineness to invoke.
When we find ourselves without an
organization to combine the energies of
the denomination in the South, for the
advancement of the kingdom of Christ,
if I should be living, I shall not covet
the reflections suggested by the de
struction of our present plans,cofessed
ly imperfect, because they are human,
but which have done so much for the
development of our churches, and the
enlargement of our beloved Zion.
Should the Marion Board be crushed,
it will be a long stride towards “aeon
summation devoutly to be” deplored.
This is not all. The honor of the de
nomination, as represented by the
Southern Baptist Convention, is in
volved. The transfer of the Sunday
school Board, with its indebtedness, to
the Marion Board by the Convention,
has increased the liabilities of the latter
to their present alarming magnitude.
This, together with the State Board
poiicy, inaugurated in some States, and
agitated in others, diminishing to a
greater or less extent the contributions
to the Board, has placed it where it is,
prostrate and struggling for fife. Shall
it live or die ? is the question. The
answer will give anew lease of life to
the Convention, or strike the first note
to its death knell. If the last, nothing
is left the denomination but the humil
iating refuge of repu my hand re
fuses to write the word, as my heart
spurns the thought that Southern
Baptists would accept such an alterna
tive. Say rather, it shall live —-God
helping us, the Convention shall live ;
its Boards shall five; the Seminary
shall five, to perpetuate to our children
the blessings they have been to us.
Let every friend of the Convention give
but a little, and the work will be done.
Give brother DeVotie a dime or a dol
lar, or as much more as God gives
you the ability and the heart to give;
or send it to the Home Mission Board,
Marion, Alabama, and “the blessing of
the Lord, (that) maketh rich, and He
addeth no sorrow with it,” be upon your
soul and your substance.
Wx. H. Mclntosh.
A Remarkable Tree.
The Australian Gum Tree sometimes
reaches the height of 340 feet, and over
fifteen feet in diameter a yard from' the
ground. It often yields planks 200
feet long without a single defect. It
is a rapid grower—one brought to Al
giers attained the height of thirty feet
in two years after transplanting The
wood is hard and presents different
colors. After the trunk has attained
the height of 100 feet, the limbs shoot
out laterally, sometimes 90 feet long,
giving the tree the appearance of an
enormous umbrella.