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THE HUMAN WILL.
BY A. J, BATTLE.
NO. 11.
RELATIONS OF THE MENTAL POWERS.
We are now to investigate the rela
tions of the three cardinal elements
of the soul, viz: the Intellect, the Sen
sibility and the Will.
It is reasonable to suspect that a
close connection subsists between these,
which, though unlike in their phenom
ena, are vet powers of one indivisible
soul. To suppose that each, or any one
of them, is an independent, self-de
ttrmining or self-moving force, is to
suppose an anomaly in the system of
the universe. For, outside of man’s
soul, there abides, throughout the cre
ation of God, the unceasing relation of
dependence, of antecedence and se
quence, of cause and effect. Through
the entire framework of material things,
the filaments of influence are so inter
laced, that nothing exists insulated and
independent. In the planetary world
law reigns supreme, and one force binds
systems, suns, planets, satellites, com
ets, meteors, together, in harmonious
union. The soul and body are united
in the closest bonds. The various or
gans and members of the body are so
intimately connected, thal all share in
the influence that effects a single one.
In the social economy, the same inter
dependence and interpenetration of in
fluence exist, so that the character and
conduct of one individual affect in
some way all the rest. It is difficult,
often impossible, so to understand this
network of causes, as to “ untwist the
mystic chain,” to trace a given effect
to its cause, or to explain the bond of
connection between them. From the
prevalence of this principle of depen
dence in the outer world, we may
reasonably infer the existence of some
law of relationship governing the
powers of the soul. ’
1. What relation can be discovered
between the first and second, the Intel
lect and the Sensibility ? This much,
at least; that without some form of in
telleetual activity, there can be no ex
ercise of sensibility. The principle
, stated in the fom of a law:
Intellection is the necessary antecedent to
emofioy. F*jr convenience, Ve designate
any form of thought or knowledge, an
intellection; and any exercise of sensi
bility, an emotion. The physical sen
sations are the only exceptions to this
law, but as our discussion does not con
cern these, they may be disregarded.
Let us illustrate the law. I cannot
desire an orange, unless I knew or think
something about the orange. I cannot
love an individual, unless I have some
knowledge of the individual—cognizance
of existence and judgment of his
traits of character. The desire and
the love are emotions; the knowledge
and judgment ai;e intellections. The
latter are the conditions precedent of
the former. Whether the intellection
be the efficient cause, producing the
emotion, or only the occasion of awaken
ing the sensibility, the influence is not
a very determinate one. Do we know
in every case what particular emotion
is appropriate 1 to a given intellection p
Can we predict the degree of sensibil
ity that will be aroused when any par
ticular idea is presented ? We answer,
that we know of no law, infallibly de
termining either the kind or degree of
emotion which a given intellection will
awaken. There are, however, certain
feelings appropriate to certain judg
ments. The perception of beauty is
calculated to excite admiration, and the
contemplation of vice is naturally
adapted to kindle a feeling of disap
probation. But these results are not
invariable in actual experience. The
sensibility is the most volatile part of
our nature, and its action is notably
unsteady and incalculable. We cannot
anticipate its movement with any more
certainty, than we can calculate the
precise direction and energy of gun
powder or nitroglycerine. What ex
cites love or admiration in one may
awaken aversion or disgust in another.
And while, in the same individual, the
contemplation of an object may, to-day,
carry the feeling to ecstacy or passion,
it may to-morrow fail to stir the most
vapid emotion.
*‘ Beauty noon grows familiar to the lover,
Fades in the eye and palls upon the sense.”
* Thus, while we discern the tendency
—seeming constitutional —of certain
forms of knowledge or thought, to pro
duce certain kinds and degrees of
emotion, yet, in our experience, a given
intellection does not always excite its
appropriate emotion, nor that emotion
in its proper measure.
The question suggests itself, was
man originally—before his fall —thus
constituted ? Or is this inconsequen
tial relation a symptom of derange
ment, an effect of the fall ? May not
this loosening of the nexus between
these two great powers of the soul be
eminently the effect of the fall ? May
it not be true, that, in normal souls, in
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which no disorder has entered and
broken the original perfect harmony of
the spirit, there exists a link of con
nection between these faculties so
firm, that every form of knowledge, by
an invariable law, develops its ap
propriate sentiment and in its due in
tensity? Christ possessed a human
soul perfect in its nature. A clear,
sound, vigorous and penetrating intel
lect He surely had. A well regulated
sensibility doubtless responded to the
convictions of His judgment, and to|the
various ideas of imagination and reason.
In Him no wrong emotion, no malev
olent affection, no tumultuous passion
darkened or disturbed the bright se
renity of His.sensitive nature. Doubt
less, this was the constitution of man
as he first came from the Creator’s
hand. Doubtless thus, also, will re
deemed humanity appear in the perfec
tion of the future state.
Before concluding this subject, we call
attention to the reflex influence of the
sensibility upon the intellect. Our
emotions often set trains of thought
into action, give direction to these cur
rents, and stimulate them to quickened
activity. Ambition suggests plans for
compassing its aims. Avarice urges
the thoughts in channels entirely new.
Curiosity quickens the energy of intel
lect, and develops powers previously
unsuspected.
Injurious is often the reflex influ
ence of the sensibility on the intellect.
A wrong feeling, an absorbing affec
tion, or a violent passion casts a mist
over the intellect, obscuring its percep
tions, distorting its imaginations, and
beclouding its judgments. Through
the false medium of passionate love,
jealousy, or prejudice, our judgments
are inaccurate and unjust. Love trans
forms deformity into beauty ; jealousy
gives the color of guilt to the most in
nocent act; prejudice perverts truth
into error, or transmutes error into
truth.
2. Having thus shown a connection
between the Intellect and Sensibilitv,
we proceed to consider the position of
the Will in the economy of the soul.
This we reserve for our next number.
THE BAPTIST REFLECTOR.
This new Baptist paper was born the other
day in Morrjstqwn, Tennessee. We heartily
welcome the young paper into the ti-u
--ternity. It looks healtny, and gives promise
of being like its parents —strong as the moun
tains around it. If the Baptists did, as
the Catholics do, christen everything set apart
for religious uses, our brother, Bishop O. C.
Pope, the editor, would be a very proper per
son for that service. For Pope as he is over
his own flock, in a much larger sense is he
Pope over the sentiment) this Reflector must
scatter through the land—and particularly in
East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia.
Well, the Herald and The Index can both
very gracefully retire from that region, when
the Baptists thereof, themselves, set up a
Pope, with this new Reflector in his hands,
to shed light upon its mountains and in the
valleys. What say you, brother Herald, to
this?
If this Pope assumes the “infalibility dog
ma,” then all of us can “up and at him hut
if he grows -up gradually, as all American
Popes, and Baptist Popes, should do, then we
all must enjoy the rays reflected, be warmed,
cherished and comforted by them.
We hope that his “Riverence” as the Catholics
say, will succeed in the exercise of his powers,
in the dominions over which he presides, to
the satisfaction, growth and prosperity of all
its inhabitants. Our desire is that his reign
shall be long and peaceful. We certainly
think the Cardinals were right when they
elected this Pope. For if our views of Apos
tolic seccession are right, this Pope is in the
direct line, and none ought to question the or
thodoxy of his credentials or his ordination.
Bishop Pope is another Georgian who has
fled to the mountains. We have them now in
the extremes of that State —East and West.
Georgia expects each to do his duty.
We recommend the East Tennessee and
Southwest Virginia Baptists, every one, to
support, liberally, brother Pope and the Re
flector. , _
May the Reflector ever shine with the light
of the glorious Gospel.
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A Good Plate to Repose—The Arthives of the
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
To the Readers of The Index :
We have all heard of Boyce, Broadus, Wil
liams, Manly and Foy. Do e appreciate
them? The struggles and sacrifices of these
devoted Baptist leaders in the cause of higher
denominational learning, should become sweet
traditions in the Baptist families of the land.
The Seminary came out of the war with its en
dowment wasted. Dr. Jas P. Boyce, the untir
ing President, is working hard to perfect for the
Seminary an endowment that shall place it
on a firm foundation, and enable it to still send
forth men of culture to preach in Baptist pul
pits. Let us all place our names ®n the “Cen
tennial Dollar Roll” for its endowment. Six
noble faces adorn each of these dollar certifi
cates —Boyce, Broadus, Williams, Manly, Foy
and Whitsett. Send and get one for yourself
and each one of your family. The undersigned
will mail these beautiful certificates, post paid,
to any address on receipt of one dollar. As no
commissions are deducted, every dollar goes to
the Seminary.
John R. Kendrick,
64 Whitehall street, Atlanta, Ga.
Literature Secular Editorials —Current Notes and News.
ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1875.
INDEX AND BAPTIST.
Publication Rooms—27 and 29 South-Broad Street
jSEcuLAR Editorials.
WINNING THE GOLDEN KEY,
It seems that the intrepid Stanley,
the humble traveling correspondent of
the New York Herald, has achieved the
most notable triuulph in tbe field of
scientific discovery, that the present
century can boast of. It is cer
tain that he has discovered the sources
of the Nile—thus crowning the work
of centuries of patient investigation,
and solving a classic riddle which has
defied the intellectual acumen of ages.
Exhausted with toil and physical
suffering, the great and heroic Living
stone, expired at the threshold of the
temple upon whose shrine lay the cov
eted key which unlocks the golden
secret to the fabulous well-spring of the
Nile. In the footsteps of the fallen
pioneer, through the mystic fields sown
with the fruitful seed of his genius,
comes the stalwart, intrepid American.
Fortune places in his hand the thread
which shall guide him through the
mazes of this equatorial labyrinth, and
lo! he stands at last, this daring man
of the nineteenth century, face to face
with the revealed secret of an imme
morial Past; he can touch with his
trembling band, as a palpable thing, the
.Sphmx-dreaui of three thousand years.
Is it not a glorious goal to toil and
strive for ? His deed is his monument,
and the legend-murmuring waters of
the Nile, will give to it imperishable
existence.
Now, who shall solve the icy sphinx
riddle of the North pole ?
“ THE CONQI'ERED BANNER.”
A recent number ot tbe Watchman
and Reflector (Boston) contains “ Tbe
Conquered Banner,” with tbe following
introductory remarks : (__
“The following poem, which can hardly be
surpassed in beauty and pathos, is among the
few fine things called out by “ the Lost Cause.”
It describes, we have no doubt, the deepest
feelings of thousands of our Southern breth
ren. Mistaken or misguided as we may view
them, we can, nevertheless, feel for them the
profoundest sympathy; and this sympathy, and
the equally profound respect which their con
duct in the field has commanded from us all,
should make the union of the future cleser aud
strongor than that which it was sought to sever.
Can any one inform us as to the authorship of
the poem. Is the author still living ? ”
“ W. W. W.” is given as tbe initials
of tbe author’s name. Father By an,
now of Mobile, Ala., is the author of
“ The Conquered Banner.” It is hardly
worth while for “ W. W. W.” to at
tempt to mislead tbe public as to the
authorship of this renowned lyric at
this late day.
Deserved Compliment.—A3 Mr. C.
H. C. Willingham, editor of the Rome
Courier, retires from the position he
has so long and worthily held, to as
sume the editorship of the Cartersville
Express, his many admirers in Rome
determined to give him a good caning
before he could leave them. He keeps
the cane as an elegant specimen of
practical friendship well applied.
“Charlie” Willingham is one of the
Nestors of the Southern press, and we
rejoice to know that his faithful and
patriotic services as a journalist are
everywhere publicly acknowledged.
Success to him in his new sphere of
usefulness.
Young Men’s Library Association.
The “ Centennial Tea Party” and Fair,
held in this city in the new Markam
House last week, for the benefit? of the
Young Men’s Library Association, was
a brilliant and very successful enter
tainment. The net proceeds for the
benefit of the Library funds are esti
mated at about $2,400. Last Tuesday
the lecture season for the benefit of
the Library, was opened by a lecture
from Prof. Dimitry, LL.D., of New
Orleans, to a fine audience. The sub
ject was “ The Fitness of Creation for
the existence of Man.”
We are glad to know that the Li
brary is in 9. very prosperous condi
tion.
It belongs to every large nature,
when it is not under the immediate
power of some strong, unquestioning
emotions, to suspect itself and doubt
the truth of its own impressions, con
scious of possibilities beyond its own
horizon.
LITERARY GOSSIP.
The following extinguishing criticism on
Joaquin Miller's new book of poems, “The
Ship in the Desert,” appears in one of the
leading Boston journals:
The book is full of fine words but we have
found nothing else. Some words occur so often
as to suggest a suspicion that they may mean
something, but we have not been able to verify
the theory. “ Leaned” is a favorite, occurring,
we should guess without counting, more than
one hundred times; but we know no reason
for its use, except that there is a liquid mean
inglessness in the sound of it. We iiave very
little hope of Mr. Miller. He as
lacking the first element of a great poet—an
honest nature—and as a mere jingler of
rhymes. We Itftve sought in vain for one pas
sage of a dozen lines that combines good ver
sification with noteworthy significance.
—Milton’s house, in Westminster, is still
standing —a precious memento of England’s
sublimestpoet.
—ln Mr. Macbeth’s recently published book,
“ The Mirth and Might of Literature,” is the
following true and beautiful passage :
“The harmonies of Handel and Beethoven,
every sublimes! minster and cathedral, the
epics of Dante and Milton, attest the imperial
sway which Christ so strangely yet undeniably
puts forth over the realms of intellect. As
from the Cross comes a worship destined to
dethrone every other, so comes from that Cross,
too, a literature to outglow every other litera
ture.”
—A book on the game of chess, printed in
1474, may be regarded as the first production
of the EnglisTi press, though the first book
printed in the English tongue was the “ Recu
yell of the History of Troy,” printed at Cologne
September 19, 1471. The first press in Ameri
ca was established in Mexico, about 1540. The
first press in North America was at Cam
bridge, Mass., about 1638. The first newspa
per in the United States was the Boston News
Letter, 1704.
—A “ Dickens Musenrn” is suggested. The
plan is to have on exhibition, in a suitable lo
cality, as mar.| editions of the great novelist’s
works as can be collected, including the trans
lations which have appeared in the different
languages, as well as specimen copies ot every
sketch, and illustrated work, based upon the
scenes and characters of his books. The plan
is somewhat similar to the Shakspeare Li
brary at Birmingham, England.
—Bayard Taylor says :
The highest development of contemporary
American humorous literature is to be found
in the sketch: 1 * and poems of Bret Herte, in
which hum >r <*ts upon its only foundation—
that of Urthosard fesling. A step lower down
wewMlJl meet Mark'Twain, whose wit is l wholA
ly superficial, without any underlying current
of sentiment and thought. Lowest in the scale
come those newspaper jesters who ransack
Heaven and earth to find a theme for their
absurdities. Virtue as well as degradation,
murder as well as suflering, prayer and death
are turned into materials for their jesting.
And yet Bret Harte has written things he
should heartily be ashamed of, and whose vul
garity and sacriligious inuendo is as unpar
donable as the coarseness of the common news
paper jester that Taylor alludes to.
As an instance in proof of this assertion, we
desire to repeat a brief commentary which ap
peared in The Index last spring, called forth
by tbe appearance h( one of Bret Harte’s pop
ular humorous (?) poems, to-wit:
“We indulged in the hope that the verbal vul
garities, made to dance in rythmic measure the
verse mannerism introduced by Bret Harte, and
largely imitated, bad died, having long since
disgusted readers of taste and culture. But we
see that Bret Harte still taps the exhausted
vein, and blows the froth of his ephemeral
notoriety in the line of vulgarisms in verse.
A poem (?) of his recently publisheojbegii s with
the line, ‘ Bill was the cuss,”etc., and ends with
—“ P. 8. ’Twas Bill’s shirt, not the boss’. I
tell you Bill was one of the hosses.’
“ The body of this thing is in keeping in
suggested profanity and outspoken vulgarity.
And still this scribbler of nonsense like this is
described as ‘a representative American au
thor !’ ”
It is deeply to be regretted that vulgarity
and immorality should find such a ready
market in our country. If public taste were
of a higher order, and the multitude less in
clined to foster an clement in current litera
ture whose only purpose is to pander to the vi
cious tendencies of corrupt natures, men would
find the manufacture of such nauseous literary
ware unprofitable, and cease to produce it.
Every branch ot our literature needs weed
ing, especally the so-called humorous, and that
which imbues itself with our daily life—the
literature of our daily and weekly press. The
workers in these fields should be more consci
entious in eliminating the false from the true,
the pure from the impure, in everything ten
dered to them for publication, and should,
themselves, set a better example, in this re
spect, than they do set in the majority of in
stances.
Bible Scenes. —We begin, this
week, a series of pen pictures from an
old correspondent of The Index. We
gladly welcome her pen to our columns.
Our readers will have pleasure and in
struction when they shall look upon
these scenes, so graphically drawn
by the author. She is an ardent Sun
day-school teacher and Christian.
These contributions are the fruits
of study, and a lore of the truth con
tained in the histories of events and
localities described in the Bible.
Teachers, read each one to your
class, some morning when the lesson is
over.
GEORGIA NEWS.
—The Barnesville Gazette, of the 25th inst.,
says : “ Last Thursday night at Williamsville,
in this county, a very sad murder occurred.
The facts, as we are able to get them, are that a
Mr. Jno. Rogers and a Mr. Jas. W. Smith had
been drinking, and decided to test their power
at pulling scales, when a misunderstanding
occurred, words ensued, and Rogers stabbed
Smith, cutting his jugular vein. Smith turned
and pursued him a few steps and fell dead.
Rogers has nut been seen in the neighborhood
since.”
—The Greensboro Herald says: “ The
Young Men’s Christian Association meets ev
ery Monday night, at the court-house. The
Association is in a flourishing condition, and
destined to do a good work in our communi
ty.”
—The* Gwinnett Herald says that Joseph
Humphries, an old man about seventy-two
years of age, who has lived in Rockbridge dis
trict for many years, was committed to jail last
week, charged with several oflences.
—Miss Beatrice Bacon, of Atlanta, was se
lected by the board of trustees of the Male
Acadamy, at Lawrenceville, as the teacher for
next year.
—The Presbyterian Synod has agreed to re
fund to the city of Atlanta the $12,000 which
the latter gave to Oglethorpe College.
—Prof. Cater has been elected principal of
the Sam Bailey Institute, Griffin, for five years.
His assistant, Prof. Alangnet, was also retained
for a like period.
—At Fort Valley on the 22d ult., John
Brown, colored, was arrested for attempting to
outrage a highly respectable young lady. He
had knocked out some of her teeth and filled
her eyes and mouth with dirt. He was taken
from the custody of the sheriff and hanged.
—Dr. G. M. McDowell, of Barnesville, has
in his possession an old English Bible, owned
by his grandfather, printed in England in 1761,
just 114 years ago, for theUniverity of Oxford
“by Thomas Basket, printer to the University.”
—Father Stephen A. Batty, a native born
Georgian, is in Americus, for the purpose of
purchasing a house of worship for the Catho
lics of that place.
—Hon. J. W. Wofford has resigned his seat
as State Senator.
—ln relation to the religious revival meet
ings in Athens, the Georgian i-tays :
The revival prayer meetings recently inau
gurated in our midst by Mr. Mundy, of Atlan
ta, have changed location from the small room
in the “Cobb building” to the Second Metbo?
(list church, and finally to accomodate the im
mense crowd in attendance, to Dupree Hall.
Messrs. R. L. Moss, R. H. Bernard, Howell
Cobb, Dr. James M. Lumpkin, Major J. W.
Wallace, of Augusta, and Col. Joel Abbott Bil
lups, of Mftdison, have all done noble work in
this good cause, and the end is not yet.
—Col. E. W. Coker, a prominent citizen,
died in Fort Valley last week. He was Solic
itor General of the Ocmulgee Circuit for four
years ; filling the office with credit to himself
and the State.
—The Messrs, Flynt of Monroe county,
have offered a reward of S3OO for the capture
of J, .J. Butler who murdered Mr. Frank
Flynt in October last. This, with the reward
offered by the Governor, makes a sum of SSOO,
which will be pairbfor the capture of the mur
derer.
—John L. Conley has been appointed Col
lector of Internal Revenue lor the Fourth Dis
trict of Georgia, vice Col. Jack Brown, removed.
-M rs. Barbara Cauthorn, of Pike county,
an invalid and for many years confined to her
bed, disappeared recently, and though diligent
search was made for her, she has not yet been
found.
—The Macon Telegraph and Messenger, re
turning thanks for a fine serenade received
from the Mercer University Silver Cornet
Band, says :
The young gentlemen have made fine im
provements in their music since we last heard
them pi iy, and in a short while more they will
have one of the best bands in the State.
—Lucius B. Lovelace, Esq., one of the
oldest and best citizens of Troup, a director of
the Atlanta and West Point railroad, died last
week.
—Judge Jno. L. Hopkins, of the Atlanta
Circuit, has determined to resign.
—The Hawkinsville Dispatch announces the
death of Miss Anuie Oliver, daughter of the late
Thomas W. Oliver. The funeral services at the
Baptist church, was attended by a very large
audience. Brother G. R. McCall preached an
interesting sermon.
—Hon. Mark A. Cooper has been nominated
for Senator for the 42d district, vice Hou. John
W. Wofford, resigned.
—The office of State Treasurer was declared
vacant by the Governor, by an official order pub
lished November 26th, the teu days given to
Treasurer Jones in which to prepare anew bond
having expired without the production of the
required bond. A successor to the late incum
bent lias not yet been appointed.
H. C. Pendleton. —Mr. H. C. Pen
dleton, dealer in stoves and house
furnishing goods, Hunter street, near
Whitehall, Atlanta, is one of that class
of business men to whom the metrop
olis of Georgia is so much indebted for
its industrial progress and high mer
cantile standing.
All who are in want of substantial,
elegant and guaranteed goods in his
line, will serve their best interests by
dealing with him. He is also agent for
the celebrated “ Charter Oak” stoves.
$3 A YEAR IN ADYANCE.
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
DOMESTIC.
Vice-President of the United States, Henry
Wilson, died at Washington on the 22d uIL,
of apoplexy. He was in hiß sixty-fourth year.
He was an eminent man, in every respect,
rising from a cobbler’s bench through every
grade of public honors to the Vice-Presidency
of the Republic. His life is a brilliant exam
ple to the youth of the country, showing what
intelligence, honesty, self-culture, and a deter
mind will can accomplish. His funeral took
place with appropriate military and civic hon
ors.
—Senator Ferry, of Connecticut, died at his
residence in that State last week. His health
had been failing for several years.
—Gen. Bradley T. Johnson recently cow
hided Gen. J. D. Imboden, in Richmond, Va.
Gen. J. has been bound over to keep the peace,
and was fined S2O for assault and battery.
—A National Grange Committee has been
appointed to arrange a special marriage cere
mony for the Grangers. A resolution estab
lishing an official organ in Louisville or else
where is not f tvored. A committe was ap
pointed to memorialize Congress to establish a
Scientific Bureau on grasshoppers, caterpillars,
etc.
—Forty students were expelled from Prince
ton College for persisting in belonging to a
secret society against the orders of the Faculty.
Two-thirds of the expelled students belong to
the senior class.
—Wm. B. Astor, the New York millionaire,
died last week, at the age of 84 years. Tbe
property he leaves is estimated to be worth
forty millions of dollars.
—The Arkansas Legislature has passed a bill
taxing dogs one dollar per head.
—lce in the New York canals is thick
enough to suspend navigation.
—The effort to reorganize the Republican
party of Virginia by fusion with the Independ
ent Conservatives has proved a failure.
—Numerous laborer strikes are taking place
in the Northern States.
—The National Grange election resulted as
follows : Master, John T. Jones, of Arkansas;
Overseer, J. J. Woodman, of Michigan ; Lec
turer, H. B. Smedley, of Iowa; Steward, A.
J. Vaughn, of Mississippi ; Treasurer, F. M.
McDowell; Secretary, O. H. Kelly, of Ken
tucky.
—The official count from Oregan gives Lane,
Democrat for Congress, two hundred and sixty
seven majority.
t" or he Index and Baptist. J
“ TWADDLE.”
The Religious Herald closes its col
umn of “News and Notes,” in its last
week’s issue, as follows: “ The last
Christian Index contains a column of
twaddle about tbe Herald, over the sig
nature of an 1 Old Baptist.’ Did old
age insure wisdom, it had never been
written.” We presume that was writ
ten by the senior editor who has learned,
from painful experience, we suppose,
that it is much easier and safer to de
nounce as “ twaddle” statements made
in reference to his position and teach
ing, than to disprove them.
An Old Baptist.
For The Index and Baptist.]
BRUNSWICK. MISSION.
Editors Index —Please publish the
following contributions to the Bruns
wick Mission : $2 from a Baptist sister
in Savannah; $1 from sister N. A.
Bailey, Talladega, Ala.; $2 sent by
Rev. J. M. Wood,contributed by Rev. Dr.
Warren and Miss Kicklighter, Atlanta,
Ga.; $2 contributed by sisters Mrs. and
Miss Crawford, sent by Jas. P. Har
rison & Cos.; $29 30 from South New
port church, besides valuable presents
from sister Alice McDonald and others;
a box of valuable goods from an un
known sister in Christ at Rome, Ga.;
$5 by J. H. James, Atlanta, Ga. The
above contributors have my heartfelt
thanks. W. D. Atkinson.
November 18, 1875,
For the Index and Baptist.]
HOME MISSIONS.
Money may be left at The Index office for
Home Missions—and brethren who send by ex
press or mail, send in care of Jas. P. Harrißon <fc
Cos.; or, when remitting to The Index, send on a
little witli it for Home Missions. The book
keeper will do just as you instruct him, with all
money. W, N. Chaudoin,
District Secretary.
Good Work. —Our indefatigable
District Secretary of Home Missions,
brother Chaudoin, during nine days
past, visited Mercer University, and
eight churches, preaching in those lo
calities twelve sermons ; travelling 208
miles ; he collected for the Home Mis
sion Board, SBO 14 ; for The Index,
$9 60 ; for Orphan’s Home, $2; for
Miss Moon’s house, $1 10; for Sunday
school Evangelist, $1; besides dedicat
ing one house of worship.
Anguish is so alien to a man’s spirit
that nothing is more difficult to will
than contrition. Therefore God is good
enough to afflict us, that our hearts,
being brought low enough to feed on
sorrow, may the more easily sorrow for
sin unto repentance.