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OCR BALTIMORE LETTER.
The Political Event of the week—Baptist
Churches in Baltimore—Second Baptist Church
in Atlanta—The Present and the Retiring
Pastors in Augusta, (la.; etc.
B AT/riMOH*;, January IS, 1876.
In political circles the most notewor
thy occurrence of the week has been
the intellectual duel in Congress, be
tween ex-Speaker Blaine and Repre
sentative Hill, of your State. It is
greatly to be regretted that the begin
ning of the centennial year should be
vexed by the revival of animosities
which all good men and good patriots
are seeking, at such a time, to h sh.
The secret, I presume, is that Mr.
Blaine wishes to be the next President'.
The Republican party, from whom be
hopes to receive the office, has of late
been largely disintegrated. Something
must be done to reconstruct its shat
tered power. This Mr. Blaine pro
poses to accomplish by preaching the
gospel of bate. The recital of the “hor
rors of Anderson ville" is, in his view,
a potent instrument for effecting his
purpose. The Republicans will experi
ence, under such preaching, a revival
of hatred for the Southern people in
general, and Jeff. Davis i* particular,
•as .responsible for these wrongs,
thus arrest the waning power of tUa
party. Assault provokes rceriminatwP
on the part of the assailed,- and l tbe
provoked utterances of indignant
Southerners are produced as proof that
the “rebel spirit” is untamed, and that
the permanence of the Union demands
another term for the Republican party,
with Mr. Blaine as chief magistrate of
the country.
I would not have alluded to this top
ic in writing to you, were it not, that a
Christian Index, may appropriately
point to wisdom and moderation in the
midst of strife. If you aTe charged
with cruelty do not retort (however
justly you might do so,) by a similar
charge against the accusers, but an
swer by such a calm and temperate de
fense as shall both shame your assailant
and Command the respect of honorable
men^wywhere. Where I called upon
to sinHirt a text, for the guidance of
my at the South, during this
year, 1 would select it from the hook
of Proverbs: “A soft answer turneth
away wrath, hut grevious words stir
up anger.” If you will be governed
by this text, the probabilities are that
the next President of the United States
will bo the man of your choice. But
if you suffer the harsh charges of your
polical opponents to rekindle the flame
k of hatefoou will render><>&
efficient, aia in maintaining their hold
on power.
The new year opens encouragingly
for our churches in this city. So far
as I know, they are all in a healthy con
dition. They are all supplied with
pastors so acceptable that in no case,
with which I am acquainted, does
either church or pastor desire any
change in the relation. Additions,
though not large, ave frequent, and we
are hoping that this centennial year
may be marked by genuine revivals. You
know' that in Baltimore the Baptists
have never been relatively strong as a
denomination. We have, however,
many noble Christian workers, men and
women, ready always to help with all
their might.
I see that the past year Inis been one
ot great financial depression with you.
But this can he endured whilst you
have had so many proofs of God’s fa
vor, in the revivals with which you have
been blessed. My heart was made glad
the ot her day to hear that during the
past year, there were 175 additions to
the Second Baptist, church in your city,
the greater part, of these by baptism.
This is far ahead of any of our church
es, either iu this city or Washington,
in the matter of annual increase. Well
may the faithful Pastor of this church
exclaim: “What hath God wrought?”
and well may the members rally around
a standard-bearer whose labors are so
signally owned of the Lord.
In Augusta, where your correspon
dent went fresh from Brown Universi
ty, and spent eight of the happiest
years of his life, I observe that anoth
er alumnus of the same college has
recently been settled—Rev. W. W.
Landrum, son of Dr. Landrum, of
Memphis. Our young brother begins
his duties in Augusta at about the
same age at which his fellow alumnus
entered on his work there, in 1840.
From what I know of him, as well as
of his ancestry, I congratulate the
church on their choice. Young, gifted,
well educated (both at college and sem
inary,) and pious, surely wo may ex
pect for him a successful aud happy
pastorate in that important field, f
was present last May at a Sunday
school meeting iu Charleston, where
our brother was called on, altogether
unexpectedly, to address the children,
and from the handsome manner in
which he acquitted himself in that
little impromptu talk, I put him down
as a young man who would “make his
mark,” and that a good one.
Whilst rejoicing in brothev Lan
drum’s settlement in Augusta, I can
not but regret the occasion of it—the
impaired health of the late pastor, Rev.
M. B. Wharton. His term of service
was I believe, less than a year, hut in
that brief period he baptized some
fifty persons, and improved the church
buildings at an expense of SIO,OOO, or
nvHo. Let us l:o"e and nvav ‘h it i*
THE CHRISTIAN INDEX AND SOUTH-WESTERN BAPTIST.
may pleas<j, the Lord to soon restore the
health of; such a workman. The har
vest is greatly in need of laborers of
such talent and energy. If his health
is not adequate to the demands of pas
toral labor he ought to be engaged
in some other work. Would not your
Index company do well to put him in
the field as special agent, to obtain sub
scriptions ?, Give him a good salary
and let him work until the active life
he must lead restores his health, (with
God’s blessing,) besides doubling your
subscription list. In these days, mer
chants here toll me that nearly all the
business is done by drumming. The
mercantile establishments which send
out no agents to recommend their
goods stagnate and decline. Those
who have the best salesman in the field,
other things being equal, do the larg
est business. It is equally true of
newspapers. It is not sufficient to
make a good paper (as you are doing,)
hut you n ust send out a man to urge
it on the people. He should not, how
ever, be a drummer—a trumpi t would
he more useful.
Theophilub.
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For the Index and Baptist.]
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
Orgnnl/xtiou f the Fourth Baptist Church—
Interesting Details —Rev. Dr. Wharto n—Rev
W. W. Landrum.
Dear Index— Believing an occasion
al word would be acceptable from the
church of Brantley, Mallory, Binney,
Jennetle, and others, whose thoughts
and works will be a seal on the letter
of its history, I do not, therefore, apol
ogize for this liberty.
To the Christian reader every ad
vance of the Master’s cause must bo an
occasion of joy and congratulation, for
it imparts new beauty to our hope, re
newed strength to our faith and adds
lustre to the glory of victory. Ou Fri
day night, of the 7th inst., a Fourth
Baptist church was organized in our
midst, to ho known as Curtis Broad
Street Baptist Church. Its establish
ment, was as much the outgrowth of
necessity as the result of active zeal
and effort to promulgate principles and
a furtherance of the cause. The his
tory of the Curtis-church is brief, but
interesting. In November of 1869, a
few members of the First Baptist
church, impressed with the need of
some moral and religious influence in
that neglected portion of our city known
as the fourth ward, opened a Mission
Sunday-school in a brick building on the
north side of Broad street, about half
a square above the Upper Market. A
year’s experience determined the effort
could be made a success. Mr. Z. Mc-
Cord, who has faithfully labored, foster
ed aud.susUiiued the school from itV
incipiency, called on Mr. David L. Cur
tis, a wealthy Baptist resident of the
neighborhood, and placed the following
facts before the capitalist;
1. The school being mission in its
character, could uot, pay usual rents,
because of its limited finances.
2. The school' was productive of
good to society, and the establishment
of a church would tend to enhance the
value of property —Mr. Curtis being a
large real estate owner in the immedi
ate vicinity.
3. Having no children, being pecuni
arily endowed, it was the privilege and
duty of Mr. C. to provide for others
who had no means of provision, and
thus promulgate the principles of his
belief and leave a monument to his
memory.
Convinced of the truth of the fore
going propositions, Mr. Curtis on the
27th of July, 1871, tiled a deed giving
to the Trustees of the First Baptist
church, that lot of land fronting eighty
feet ou south siuo of Broad street, run
ning through with equal width to Ellis
street, known as Meig’s warehouse. In
the following February a neat and com
modious cbapel was commenced, and
finished in May, on the aforesaid lot,
costing about $3,000 —which sum was
paid principally by Mr. Z. McCord.
Mr. Curtis, in his will, bequeathed
$5,000 to he appropriated for educa
tional aud religious purposes, aud the
support of a minister of the Gospel.
This fund has been held in tact by
the Trustees, and interest applied for
said purpose.
The Sunday-school, because of the
law of its growth an 1 progress, as well
as the financial maintenance and care
given by friends, patrons and workers,
is now beyond the pale of doubt and
question. The conclusion of the wholo
matter has been that on the 7th of this
month a church was organized with a
nucleus ■of thirty-five, uuder the su
pervision of Dr. M. B. Wharton and
Rev. J. S. Patterson, whose remarks
on the oeeusiou were eminently appli
cable, congratulating, advising and in
vigorating the little baud.
We liope this newly established
church will call some young, able, en
ergetic, working man to carry forth the
work in this part of the “moral vine
yard.” Dr. Wharton’s ministrations
among us have been prolific of great
good to the church and community.
He has aroused the old church from
its mental, social and moral lethargy ;
organizing the Baptist forces in our
city, he has infused a spirit iu all to
"work while it is called to-day.” Some
seventy-five, or more, have been add
ed to our membership ; after the ren
ervation of our church edifice, the build
ing of a beautiful and commodious
lecture room, he planted First Ward
aud Curtis churches, and then re
turned home to build up his own church
in its “most holv faith” A Tor ten,
months of successful labor, he placed
his resignation, so unexpected to all,
before the chnrcb, because of his health,
and goes, we learn, to aid in raising
and securing an endowment for Ae
Southern Baptist Theological Semina
ry. We sincerely regret to lose a man
so talented, noble and pious. Irrespec
tive of the highly complimentary reso
lutions, bearing cheerful testimony to
his fidelity, he made his resignation
peremptory. Wherever the Doctor
goes snay he be received with that love
and i egard which the scholar, the gen
tleman and Christian deserves.
The church has called Rev. W. W.
Landrum, of Shreveport, La. Broth
er L. has accepted the call, and soon
will enter upon his labors among ns.
We bespeak for him a cordiality which
can only be termed a hearty welcome.
Tour truly,
- Navarre.
Augusta, Ga., Jan. 10, 1876.
For the Index and Baptit.j
THE CENTENNIAL MOVEMENT.
It is with no desire to criticise, that
this subject, kindred to those diseas
ed last week, is taken up. Some lmfy
think it the height of temerity to give
expression to thoughts opposing a plan
which has been adopted by so tnaat,
and assented to by our whole dcnouiT
nation. A sense of duty is the dry
excuse which I can give for this ls
enssion. I
I do not know in whose mind tlie
Centennial idea first originated. Some
months ago, the friends of Northern
colleges commenced the movement, ajjd
very soon the plan was adopted by the
agents of our Southern institutions.
So far nothing has been gained for ps,
although much has been said and Writ :
ten, and many urgent appeals have
been made to the friends of education.
With us the movement, so far, is'ex
ceedingly slow.
In thisy ss in many other plans for
the accomplishment of similar object!*,
it seems that we have left the path of
truth. Certainly there can be no cause
for failure in the object which
strive to attain. The influencoTOf
schools and colleges, properly conduct
ed, is one of the most powerful agen
cies in the social and moral elevation
of man, and there is no labor, save
that of spreading the gospel of Jesus
Christ, more important, and more .de
serving the attention of the good land
great than the work of building up in
stitutions of learning. Indeed,) we
may say more, education is perhaps
the greatest auxiliary to the cause of
religion. Science is tiuly the “hand
maid of yligion.” Therf} can b i no
object—it is wDrtli|^mjj
b(4Pp*irts.*
not in the plan.
In the first place, the plan of taking
advantage of the centennial spirit to
increase the endowment of our colleges,
presupposes the existence of national
enthusiasm. In all candor and hon
esty, this enthusiasm does not exist
with us. With the recollections of a
civil war, in which we have been great
sufferers, still fresh iu our minds, it is
impossible, in the very nature of hu
manity, that it should exist. We have
accepted the results of the war as final.
We give our allegiance and support to
the government, and we have uo incli
nation to oppose the powers that be.
We have all the kindness of feeling
toward the National government, which
a people could be expected to have un
der the circumstances ; hut, my breth
ren, there is no enthusiasm. If this
he acknowledged, and it must he, bv
all candid minds, the very foundation
of our plan is gone.
But again, admitting that this polit
ical enthusiasm does exist, is it right
to take advantage of it to induce ac
tions which ought to proceed from a
higher and a purer motive ? Theoret
ically there may be no wrong, there
may be no intention to take advantage
of a motive different from that which
ought to actuate us in all our benevo
lent contributions. Those who seek to
raise money by this plan, call on us to
majee a thank offeriug to the Lord, in
view of the goodnoss aud mercy which
He has shown us during the hundred
years that are just past. We ought to
show our gratitude to a merciful Provi
dence. It is right that we should do
this all the while, as well as at inter
vals of a hundred years. But in the
practical workings of the plan, it ap
peals more to national pride than to a
spirit of humbk) gratitude. The oc
casion, the manner in which the sub
ject is presented, all the circumstances
combine to veil the motive which
ought to be active. In a word, to one
who stands by and beholds the scene
as it is enacted, it appears very much
as if we are doing evil that good may
come. Not that it is wrong for a na
tion to rejoice over its prosperity, but
wrong that this feeling should be used
to raise funds which should he given
only as prompted by a sense of our
duty to God.
If we would succeed in the endow
ment of our colleges, we must take
higher ground than we have yet occu
pied. We must iguore sensations, and
all means not strictly in accordance
with the teachings of God’s truth.
Great convocations at which undue
excitement is aroused aud then
taken advantage of, should cease.
Rolls of honor should be aban
doned. There is a roll ot honor
in Heaven, which embraces the names
of those who give, not from the excito
ment of the occasion, nor from a desire
‘c be applauded bv tbeir fellow-men.
but in gecret, prompted by a realization
of their relation to God and to the
work which He has left for His people
to accomplish on earth. Let us all
seek after a place on this roll,
and teach others to strive after
the same glorious inheritance. We
must stand upon principle if we
would succeed in any undertaking that
has for its object the good of man and
the glory of God. If we do not see
our work advancing with that success
which we desire, and we aie tempted
to take up other instruments than
those appointed by our Master, let us
remember that it is our duty to labor
leaving the results with God.
Tertius.
For the Index and Baptist^
THE TOWALIGA ASSOCIATION*
Editors Index —Will you illow me
space in The Index for a short com
munication relative to two queries sent
up from two of the churches composing
the Towaliga Association, for the years
1874 and 1875.
In the Minutes of said Association
for 1874, appears the following : “Re
ceived two queries from Lebanon, to
wit: ‘ Can the churches of the Towa
liga Association recognize the modern
baptism of our Missionary brethren as
valid, and maintain their position as
Primitive Baptists.’”
From Mount Pleasant, to wit: “Can
the churches of the Towaliga Associa
tion recognize the modern baptism of
Missionary Baptists and be consistent.”
The Association in reply, passed the
following preamble and resolutions:
Whereas, in regard to the queries
sent up for the consideration of this
body—
Resolved, That it is the sense of this
body, that the questions embraced in
said queries can uot he answered by us
as an advisory council.
Resolved, That it is the sense of this
body, that the various churches which
compose this union, take this matter
into serious consideration, make it a
matter of special study, and act upon
the questions in their individual capaci
ties, and report said action to this
body at its next session.
Resolved, That the uniofi of the
churches he a subject of prayer.
The above went before the churches
of said Association for the space of
twelve months, and after a year’s study
and prayer, the Association passed,
at her session in 1875, resolutions
recommending that in receiving mem
bers from Missionary Baptist churches,
that members thus coming must relate
an experience of grace, and submit to a
rehaptism at the hands of the minis
ters of said Association.
IhuN uf ii U.c .J’j'mL''feat,iff the.
State Convention, what think you of re
ceiving this Association (Towaliga) to
membership in the State Convention?
You notice that according to brother
Irwin’s report on Missions, that this
Association, together with four others
of the same order, are seeking in some
way, membership in the State Conven
tion. Now, if such a thing should
take plitee, will there not be a recanting
ou the part of the Towaliga Associa
tion ? It no recanting should take
place, it will he a paradoxical affair for
an Association to ignore Missionary
Baptist churches, and also their legular
ordained ministers, together with their
legal acts, and then seek co-operation
in the Baptist State Convention, will be
a strange figure to look at. If a union
can bo eutered into between the Towa
liga and the Convention, by all means
let it come. Why should Baptists he
split up upon questions that do not af
fect sound orthodoxy? Both parties
hold to the doctrine of “ salvation by
grace,” and they fully agree as to
the ordinances, viz : Baptism and the
Supper. They ought to unite in efforts
of usefulness, and that of having the
true Gospel preached to “ every crea
ture.” The Baptist Convention is only
making efforts to send the blessed tid
ings of salvation to the spiritual lost
of this world, heuce there could he no
sacrifice of any principle dear to any
one, in joining in and aiding in the glo
rious work had in view by the Conven
tion. H. S. R.
Turin. Ga.
Julian fissions.
For the Index and Ihiptiat.]
&EHOBOTH iKDIiH MISSION.
Anew church was constituted at Me-
Alester, ia this Nation, on the first day
of the new year, by our new mission
ary, Rev. J. A. Trenchard. The sur
roundings are favorable for a large and
rapid growth.
McAlester is the head quarters of
the coal mines of the Choctaw Nation,
and there are many people, whites and
Indians gathering about that point.
Major Ingalls, our Baptist United
States Agent for these five tribes, is
just now uuder a cloud. He has heeu
relieved from duty under charges of
defalcation. It is reported that Dr.
Marston, the Sunday-school Mission
ary of Missions, is to be the successor.
At the late Indian Mission Confer
ence of the Methodist Episcopal
church South, at this place, Bishop
Pierce, stated that an assessment for
Home Mission funds had been made
upon the different local conferences,
amounting in the aggregate to §IOO,-
000—one hundred thousand dollars.
Why cannot, or will not, the Baptists of
the South do as well ?
Some time since, the printer made
me say that twelve hundred dollars
(f1,200) was expended by the Metho
dist Board of Missions South, in this
Indian Territory ; it should have been
twelve thousand, ($12,000.) .
This is our centennial year ; who will
send us some offerings for the Indian
chapel, or for some poor, and needy,
and hard-working native Indian
preacher ? Brethren, sisters and
friends, remember this field, if you
please, in your prayers and alms.
Yours, J. S. Murrow.
THE SHELL.
See what a lovely shell,
Small and pure as a pearl,
Lying close to my foot;
Frail, but a work divine,
Made so fairily well,
With delicate spire and whorl.
How exquisitely minute,
A miracle of design !
What is it ? a learned man
Could give it a clumsy name ;
Let him name it who can,
The beauty would he the same.
The tiny cell is forlorn, •
Void of the little liviug will
That made it stir on the shore.
Did he stand at the diamond door
Of his house in a rainbow frill,
Did he push when he was uncurled,
A golden foot at a fairy horn.
Through his dim water-world ?
Slight, to be crushed with a tap
Of my finger-nail on the sand.
Small, hut a work divine.
Frail, but of force to withstand
Year, upon year, the shock
Of cataract seas that snap
The three-decker's oaken spine
Athwart the ledges of rock,
Here ou the Britain strand !
—Te nnyson.
Ulissnffi
—Rev. Tlios. M. Westrup, General
Missionary in Mexico, for the Home
M ission Society, in referring to the im
portance of the work in Mexico, says .-
“I often ask myself, how can we do
more than we are doing for the Mexi
can need of laborers is verv
great. Popery, infidelity, and supiritu'-
alisra are all around us. People will not
read the Bible, nor come to our meet
ings, nor allow us to speak to them
and theirs. It is very hard work to
combat against all this.”
—Rev. W. Hill, writing from the
Orissa Mission, mentions that he has
had the pleasure of baptising another
high Caste Brahmin, and a learned
Pundit at that. Before his conversion
he broke loose from the restraints of
caste, and ate with the Christians,
which was a heinous offense in the
eyes of his “set” —worse than to have
broken every commandment of the
decalogue. Christians at home know
very little, says Mr. Hill, of what is
involved in a high caste Brahmin re
nouncing heathenism embracing
Christianity. The fact that two of the
high castes had become converts pro
duced great excitement among the
people.
—A minister once announced to his
astonished congregation, that he was
going on a mission to the heathen du
ring the present week.
After service many of his people
gathered around him, asking him why
he had never told them before of his
intention of leaving them.
“0, friends,” he replied, “I am not
going out of this town at all!”
—The Missionaries of the London
Society, engaged on the Island of
Madagascar, are devoting very much
effort to the educating of the Malagsy
youth. They believe that in no other
way can the type of Christianity in the
future he equal to that in the past,
when so many were ready to become
martyrs for the faith. The people are
responding heartily to these efforts,
and the Queen’s Government is in
thorough sympathy with ihe work.
The normal school at Antananarivo has
350 pupils, and so great is the desire
of students to enter iuto it that the
number could readily be doubled.
—A second anonymous donation of
£5,000 has been sent to the Church
Missionary Society of England for their
mission in Central Africa, undertaken
in response to the suggestion of Mr.
Stanley after his visit to King Mtcsa.
—The appropriations of the’Ameri
can Board of Commissioners for For
eign Missions for 1876 are not to ex
ceed $475,000, the amount received
during 1875. The appropriations for
1875 were $595,000.
The regular receipts of the Baptist
Missionary Union for the first eight
months of the financial year to De
cember Ist, were $52,348.36, against
$53,219.04 during the corresponding
period of last year. The special re
ceipts for the liquidation of the debt
have been §10,907.70.
THE STATE UNIVERSITY,
Editors Constitutionalist —ln a
recent issue of your journal, we obser
ed an editorial stating that rumors un
favorable to the condition of the Uni
versity of Georgia, especially with re
ference to its decipline, had reached
you.
We beg leave to say that nothing
has occurred in the present collegiate
year which is at all unusual in the his
tory of colleges. Indeed the conduct
of the young men has been so exem
plary that no case of discipline has
been necessary.
We write you this in the confidence
that you would not intentionally do in
justice to the University.
By order and in behalf of the Pru
dential Committee.
Wm. Ti. '"iTCHn,!, Chairman.
Athens, Ga
llltstdlang.
“OLD lII'VDKED.” *
A writer in The Musical Casket beau
tifully says :
If it he true tl; .t Luther composed
that tune, if tl worship of im
mortals is carried on the wings of
angels, how often has he heard the de
claration, “They are singing ‘Old
Hundred* now."
The solemn strain carries us back to
the time of the reformers—Luther and
his devoted band. He, doubtless, was
the first to strike the grand old chorus
in the public sanctuary of his Germa
ny. From his own stentorian lungs
they rolled, vibrating not through
vaulted cathedral roof, hut along a
grander arch—the eternal heavens.
He wrought into each note his own
sublime faith, and stamped it with his
faith’s immortality. Hence it cannot
die! Neither men nor angels will let
it pass into oblivion.
You may till your churches with
choirs, with Sabbath prime-donne,
whose daring notes emulate the steeple’
and cost almost as much, hut give us
the spirit-stirring notes of “Old Hun
dred,” sung by old and young together.
Martyrs have hallowed it; it has gone
up from the dying beds of saints.
The old churches, where generation
after generation have worshipped, and
where many scores of dear dead have
been carried, and laid before the altar
where they gave themselves to God,
seem to breathe of “Old Hundred”
from vestibule to tower top—-the very
air is haunted with its spirit.
Think, for a moment, of the assem
bled company who have, at different
times and at different places, joined in
the familiar tune! Throng upon
throng—the stern, the timid, the gen-'
tie, the brave, the beautiful—their
rapt faces all beaming with the inspi
ration of the heavenly sounds.
“Old Hundred ! ” king of the sacred
hand of ancient airs ! Never shall our
ears grow weary of hearing, or our
tongues of siuging thee ! And when
we get to Heaven who knows but what
the first triumphal strains that wel
comes us may be—
"Be thou O God, exalted high."
MY NEIGHBORS.
The Raleigh, N. C., News reports that
Rev. Dr. Pritchard, of that city, refer
red in his thanksgiving sermon to a
conversation, held some years ago, be
tween Dr. Thomas E. Skinner, former
ly of Raleigh, now of Macon, Georgia,
and an anti-missionaryist. Dr. Skin
ner, he gaic], was soliciting ajd for
eign Missions, and applied to this
tlemau, who promptly repulsed him
with the reply: “I "don’t believe in
Foreign Missions, and I won’t give to
anything except Home Missions. I
want what I give to benefit my neigh
bors.”
“Well,” replied Dr. Skinner, “whom
do you regard as your neighbors ?”
“Why, those around me,” replied the
brother.
“Do you mean those who lands joins
yours ?” inquired Dr. Skinner.
“Yes ”
“Well,” said Dr. Skinner, “How
much land do you own ?”
. “About 500 acres.”
“How far down do you own ?” en
quired Dr. Skinner.
“Why, I never thought of it before,
but I suppose I own halfway through.”
“Exactly,” said Dr. Skinner, “I sup
pose you do, and I want this money for
the Chinese—the men whose land joins
yours on the bottom.”
The hardened brother had never
thought of that, and gave a good sum
foi Foreigh Missions.
A LEGEM) OF SOLOMOVS TEMPLE.
There is a beautiful tradition con
nected with the site on which the tem
ple of Solomon was erected. It is said
to have been occupied, in common, by
two brothers, one of whom had a fam
ily, the other had none. On the spot
was a field of wheat. On the evening
succeeding the harvest, the wheat hav
ing been gathered in shocks, the elder
brother said to his wife, “My younger
brother is unable to bear the burden
and heat of the day ; I will arise, take
off my shocks, and place them with
his, without his knowledge.”
The brother, being actuated by the
same benevolent motives, said "with
in hitnself, “My elder brother has
a family, and I have none ; I will con
tribute to their suppert; I will arise,
and take off my shocks, and place them
with his, without his knowledge.”
Judge of their mutual astonishment,
when, on the following morning, they
round their respective shocks undimin
ished. This course of events trans
pired for several nights, when each re
solved, in his own mind, to stand
guard, aud solve the mystery. They
did so, when on the following night
they met each other, half way between
their respective shocks, with their arms
full.
Upon ground, hallowed by such as
sociation as this, was the temple of
King Solomon erected—so spacious, so
magnificent, the wouder aud admira
tion of the world.
Alas! in these days, how many
would sooner steal their brother’s
whole shock, lhan add to it a single
sheaf.
Napoleon Bonoparte once conquer Prussia
in 1 1 'Hvs.