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The OhristLyn Index THE SOOTH-WBSTEBN |T\ THE OHEIBTIAN HESALD OF ALABAMA. ' ' _ of Tennessee. YOL. 55-•♦ NO. 6. Table or Contents. Fibst Page.— Alabama Depai-tment: Record of State Events; Spirit of the Religions Press; Baptist News and Notes; The Bright Forever —Poetry; General Denominational News; etc. Sbcond Page.— Our Correspondents: The Tree of Lrf,-F. C. Armstrong; Minutes of the General Meeting Fourth District Middle Asso ciation— B. L. J. Grant; “Pass Under the Bod”—lda Lou Murphy; Acknowledgements— S. Boykin; A Correction—W.JL. Kilpatrick, eto. Select Miscellany: By the Dead—Poetry; Dr. Angus on the Revision of the New Testa ment; A Cheering jßeport; The Christian In dex ; Science and Education. Third Page.—Out Pulpit: The Gospel the Only Saving Power of God—A Sermon :bv Rev. W. M. Bridges, Sugar Valley, Gfk. The Sunday- School : Saul and his Sons 81ain—Lesson for February 13; How to Raise Missionary Money —How Many Schools will Try it This Year ? T. C. Boykin ; Things l Would Like to Know T. C. Boykin. Focbth Page. —Editorial: Our Pulpit; The Growth of Character; “The Bright Forever;” The New Year; Early English Baptisms; The Offer; Our Foreign Missionaries; Georgia Baptist News—Bev. D. E. Butler. The Mod ern Judas; Bibleophile—Rev. J. S. Baker. “A Peculiar People;” “In Time;” etc. Fifth Page.— Special Contributions: Roman ism in Georgia—Rev. T. B. Cooper; The Sun day-school Cause in Harmony with the Mis sion of Messiah—Prof. Marion Sams; Wanted, Il.e Deaconess. Secular Department: Geor gia News; Domestic Notes; ex. >AGK —The Grange : Co-Operation—The Mississippi Valley TradingjCompany—lts True Position as to the Patrons of Husbandry— Circular of National Grange Executive Com mittee ; A Bad Prospect; Georgia Farm Notes: Corn—Value of Deep Ploughing ; Confidence; Factory Enterprise in Mississippi; The Cot ton Mania'; etc. Seventh Tage.— Science and Agriculture : Ento mological ; Avoid Debt; The Bog Law; Grange Gosßip; etc. Eighth Page.— Our Correspondents: Facts for the Thoughtful and Pious—H. A. Tupper- The Service of Song—W. T. Brantly; Missions —Plans, etc—C. M. Irwin; A Church Consti tuted in Emanuel County; etc. Publishers’ Department. Obituaries. Advertisements. INDEX AND BAPTIST. ALABAMA DEPARTMENT. The University has one hundred cadets. Sheep raising is attracting attention in Tus caloosa county. The diptheria is prevailing in Pickens county. VT ' ' -Negroes are leaving Macon county by the .hundreds for the west. is proposing to draii; Cypress a wamp near-that city. The veteran Commodore, Y. M. Randolph, ■lied at Blount Springs, on the 28th ult. The gale last week did considerable damage in some parts of the State. Eight negro prisoners recently escaped from Jail at Clayton. The Jews of Selma are building a syna gogue. There were one hundred and twenty-eight deaths in Selma last year. Hon. G. H. Pendleton recently visited .Montgomery. Rev. J. D. Burkhead has accepted a call to t he Presbyterian church at Huntsville. Rev. E. L. Loveless has become principal of the Alabama Conference female school at Tus keegee. A meeting of Alabama veterans of the war with Mexico was held in Montgomery on the ilPth inst. Miss Cooney Howell, of Morgan county, died, recently, from accidentally taking pois on. The Eufaula Times says the proposed com pletion of the Brunswick and Albany railroad to Eufaula, is all the talk now over in Albany. The Mobile Register thinks that the future coal market of Mobile will exceed in value that of her cotton. Nor is Alabama iron worth less in value than the coal to work it. m The bill introduced into the legislature to the City Court of Selma, was] amen ded in that body so as to increase the salary of the judge from $2250 to S3OOO, and make its payment a tax upon the county, and passed. Major R. A. Bacon has been appointed treasurer a nd auditor of the Alabama and Chat tanooga railroad, under the superintendency of *£d. Charles P. Ball. Col. Ball has also ap pointed Mr. Frank I-. Wadsworth, assistant superintendent; Major M. Grant, general freight and ticket agent; Mr. John McVev, su perintendent of the motive power and car shops; Mr.Thomas J. Hewlett, superinten d ent of telegraph and train dispatcher. Brother Bailey, Evangelist of the State Mis sion Board reports, the following collections for the past year: Cash for State Board. vm rq “ “ Poreign Board '.l 57 05 “ “ Centennial..: 7™ Fledges secured for Stats Board 27o!(X) Rev. T. M. Bailey, the very efficient Evan gelist of the State Mission Board has been re elected. No brother could perform this ar duous labcr more efficiently, and bis re-ap poinunent * merited tribute to his excellen oe in this department of denominational la bor. Spirit of tire Religious Press, —The Examiner and Chronicle, (New York) of the 27th ult., contains a most excellent ar ticle on public education. In this it is laid down as a general principle, that the State ed ucates for its own sake and not for the sake of the pupil, and, therefore, nothing should be taught at public expense which does to produce direct to the and permanence o^^^m)vernment. p a sideration of those 7h the impression that the hard earned wealth of- one citizen can be lawfully applied to the purpose ofgiving educational polish to the children of others: If, then, we examine our schools under the light of this principle, we cannot fail to dis cover many expenses which are unjustifiable. And, to be definite, all the “higher” or “extra” studies must fall under this head. For the di rect result of such studies is not to secure the existence of the State, but to provide a means of earning a living for the individual. For instance, the teaching of some of the modern languages has become a marked feature of our large city schools. Now, a modern language is meant either as an accomplishment or as a business.. If the young Miss wishes to become accomplished in French, ought not her pa rents to pay for it ? If a boy desires to be fit ted for business among Germans, who ought to pay for it? Again : when we find that schol ars in the large public schools can be taught drawing and designing at the people’s cost, it seems that we have something hardly to be jus tified. Indeed, the boy may be laying the foundations of future profit and fame as an ar tist or architect, but who should pav for it? When a public school goes so far as to add in struction in telegraphy to its many attractions (and even this has been proposed), we may begin to wonder and ask wbereunto this may grow. And yet there is not the least differ ence in principle between teaching telegraphy or book-keeping to your son at other people’s expense, and teaching German or algebra on the same terms. The New York Baptist Weekly reviews the history of a society for the prevention of cruelty to children, founded about one year since, in the city of New York; its membership constituted, in part, by many of the leading public men of that city. After a most gratify ing statement of the operations;and results of this philanthropic aesooiatifA-a tlftif should cause a blush of shame for the monsters of cruelty who need to be restrained from the oppression of helpless childhood. The writer thus concludes: The record of operations during the pat year includes some affecting cases. Our read ers will remember the rescue of the little sev en-year-old “Prince Leo” from the Tivioli Theatre in November last. Another case was discovered about the same time, of a little girl ten years old, who was found late at night in a low drinking saloon in South street, in charge of two Italian musicians, playing on castanets and dancing. She was completely exhausted, but was forced to continue her performance by her unfeeling masters. Many similar and even more distressing cases of cruel treatment have been brought to light, and the perpetrators punished by fines and imprisonment; and the managers of the society may fairly claim to have succeeded in accomplishing, to a most en couraging extent, the purpose with which they entered upon their humane undertaking— viz., “to convince those wno cruelly ill-treat and shamefully neglect little children that the time has passed when this can longer be done, in this State at least, with impunity,” —Having in preceding paragraphs present ed the subject of prayer with the importance it merits; the Christian Secretary closes as fol lows, on works: God works by means. He uses His people. It is good to pray, and to keep on praying. But there is something equally important— doing ! Prayer will be of little avail if it be not supplemented by action. It would be like an army hoping to conquer by its drums and fifes[and parades, without moving upon the enemy in the use of its furnished weapons. Sup pose all in attendance on the week of prayer meetings were to rally to the work of the Lord with a becoming earnestness, activity and self sacrifice. How soon would many of the prayers offered be answered ! What a glorious sequel to a week of prayer 1 What a blessed and wide spread revival of religion would be begun! Is not this just what God requires of His people now ? Are they not convinced that this is their duty ? Do they not hear in their hearts the voice of God as Moses repeated it to the chosen at the edge of the sea : “Go forward 1” If so, then in the words of the apostle James, to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.” —The Central Baptist says: The believer in Jesus Christ has eternal life abiding in him, and he cannot come into con demnation. This life is not an attainment, but an impartation—it is the gift of God through our Lord Jesus Chrißt. Eternal life is not a mere change in the relation of the re cipient to the divine law. It is a state of mor al being—it is a spiritual life, the result of un ion with Christ. He who believes in Christ is anew creature in him. He is invested with the Christ life. Ail of the new impulses of the bouI; all of the new views of God and eternity ; all the new motives to action, are the effects of the presence of the spirit of Christ in the mind. This spiritual life is not an inactive, but an active principle. He that was dead is made alive ; and life is active. The believer abides not in a state of passive receptivity, but the faith of the gospel in heart manifests itself by an active productivity. He that receives good becomes active in goodness. They that are dead to sin, should remain no longer therein, but putting off the deeds of the flesh should walk with Christ in all holy living, for in him they are complete, and are buried with him in baptism, wherein they are also risen with him through the faith of the operation of God who bath raised him from the dead. And he who • ” b u ß s ! n “ he quickened togeth er with him, having forgiven all Impasses. FRANKLIN PRINTING HOUSE, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FEBRUARY 10, 1876. —While commenting on the subject of lay preaching, the Christian Observer, (Presbyterian) says: The tendency of human nature is to throw off responsibility. It is so in every depart ment of life. The intelligent and the wealthy have cast the control of politics oftentimes, in to unworthy hands. Parents commit the ed ucation of their children to teachers and give themselves no further concern about it. And so in religion, the constant tendency is to cast the care of souls whollwgtfßc the ministers. But responsibility cannoWMUirown off. The LLord who has given the (marge to individ ■PiS will demand of individuals an account of it. The “wicked and slothful servant” who tried to escape the labor of taking care of his singte talent by burying it in a napkin, was ‘‘cast into outer darkness.” The parent can not cast thejresponsibility of the education of his children upon other shoulders. He whose child is not trained in “the nuture and admo nition of the Lord,” himself must answer for it. And the believer cannot cast the reßonsi bility of the salvation of souls upon the shoul ders of any man, or any class of men. —We clip the following paragraph from an editorial in the Boston Watchman on the sub ject of schools: Notwithstanding the solitary utterance of an inconsequential priest here and there, in defence of the school system, and the Jesuit ical affirmation no real injury is intended, and the loud, out-spoken declarations of a few Catholic laymen, that the public schools should be maintained, we have no faith in the clfurch of Rome. We know her to be the en emy of public sehools, and we doubt not that she will demolish them if site ever obtains political pswer sufficient for the purpose. Our only safety is in keeping power off her hands. In vain politicians may tell us there is no danger, that Rome has changed, that she no longer has a proscriptive spirit. Facts prove it lo be otherwise. As often as the real voice of Jhe ohurch is heard, it comes with the same old ring. We submit to every candid reader how much mercy and forbearance we are to expect of a church one of whose leadiug or gana puts forth a declaration like this which comes from the Tablet: “ They have as Protestants no authority in religion, and count as nothing in the church of God. _ They have from God no right of prop agandism, and religious liberty is in no sense violated when the national authority, whether Catholic or Pagan, closes their mouths and their places of holding forth.” —The Western Methodist thus photographs the real Christian: Christians are the representatives, the wit nesses of Christ. They are the life of the world. They are the light of the world. Thev i_re the responsitoriee, not only or life .and Beht, but oJUfnjny fcf p<.W ‘ TM purify Is their power. Power with God and with man is their endowment, their peculiarity, by reason of their purity. Possessing spiritual e xistence and spiritual knowledge, having faith, hope and love, being holy even as God is holy, they are endued with power in them selves and power from On High. The very essence of their being implies power. Theirs is the personal power which develops itßeif even from the presence of its possessor, and in the words of his mouth and in the works of his hands. Theirs is also the relative power, which springs from the connection between promise and prayer, and from the union of the divine with the human, so that even impo tence becomes omnipotence. Such certainly is the true theory of the Christian’s power as set forth in the Scriptures. —The Presbyterian furnishes the fol lowing paragraphs in an article reviewing the Ministers’ Convention, which closed the ser vices of Messrs. Moody and Sankey in Phila delphia : The religious feeling in the Convention was deepened, evidently, by all the services. Mr. Moody was the presiding genius of the whole Heries of meetings. His earnest spirit was in fused into all the services, and the interest rarely flagged, and when it did, was easily freshened. The presence of the great multi tude was itself an inspiration, and the songs of praise, when they were lifted by ten thousand voices, were something wonderful to hear. No one could come into such an assembly without feeling a quickening influence in his own heart, and a glow of Christian love, such as rarely is vouchsafed to the scattered and toil ing workers in the vineyard, to whom like minded associates seem oftentimes to be few, and widely separated. It ais blessed thing at times, to have the sense of Christian fellowship intensified, and to have the heart reassured, by visible demonstration, that we are sur rounded by a great company, who are striving to serve Christ and extend His glorious king dom on the earth. The best result, however, which can be hoped for from the Convention, is that it may serve to beget earnestness, and freshen faith in many places, and in Christian churches removect from the scene of this great demonstration. Kindling—a stirring in the ashes of dead fires, or striking new lights, and sending the flame afar, this is a j.ood, blessed Christian work. A freshened Christian life in all the churches would be the truest form of a revival, and would be the assurance that many sinners would be converted to God. If the fires which burned so brightly last week can only be car ried out in burning hearts to the towns, and cities, and churches around, then there will be fruit which will repay all trouble and labor, and graciouß results will soon be gathered in, which will make glad the civ of our God. The subjoined, from the Baptist Union is eminently practical: Workers are scarce. The churches are full of idlers. The chief reason is that no one sets the work in order. Members are received, and exhorted to do their duty, to be faithful, and then left to themselves, without direction or plan. If a mannfacturershould send his employes into his shop in that style, similar results would follow. There would be more idleness, waste and wrangling than work. The service of Christ is a trade, requiring skill and instruction. Leadership and organization are necessary to attain it. If pupils at school need teachers, disciples in churches need guid ance. Those pastors who know how to work, and how to set others at work, always succeed in gathering abundant harvests. Some pastors have too manv plans, begin too many schemes, and prosecute none wi'h steadiness. Otberd do all that is possible themselves, and allow the membership to sleep. Others fret and scold, exhort and en treat, but fail to lead the way to activity. Genius for and leading is not com mon, and lack it may well pray for the Spirit them with might in the inner mhn!* Pastors need to study, seek for skill tb lead, as well as wisdom to teach. ' Overse-iing is quite as important as preaching. And skill to follow is as desira ble as skill to lead. —The Liberal Christian, the leading Unitarian organ of theJdjiaitry, holds the following re markable language in a recent editorial, in which it endorses the work of the revivalists, Moody and SaMley: “ For we think the so-called orthodoxy of the country, though not true from an intellectual standpoint, is probably abreast of the general wants and capacity of the people; and that its dogmatic errors are not onljr compatible with its essential, moral and spiritual influence, but largely the condi tions of its popular efficacy. Indeed, it serins plain to us thaWjrthodox liberalism is rather an intellectual than a moral and spiritual or strictly religious influence, and that we owe no small part of the moral declension of our American ChrisUidom to its sway. The best orthodox influence is that connected with a positive dogmajjatsystem. There must needs De trellises of doctrine and skeletons of rigid opinions—creediet, in short—for the vines of re ligious feeling .to run upon and ripen their fruitß. Happy ' those who have faith enough in their hereditary creeds to teach them bold ly, and make them the stagings from which they build the moral and religious life of the people. Their firmness and fixity seem prac tically to be of more importance than their ab solute intellectual truth.” The Christian Advocate has the following touching words on the forgiving of injuries : It is supriaing how often the dark past comes up,'like a wretched ghost, to haunt a present which, but for this unwelcome visitant, might be beautiful and joyous. There are some na tures which find it very difficult to let the un pleasant past die. It will live, like the weed seeds of years ago, to take root and grow in summers where only fragrance and beauty should bloom. But the conquest of our hearts is no matter of personal culture. It comes of the grace of God. We are disgusted with the preaching of culture and good habits and at tention to one’s self-cultivation as sufficient for good working and pure living. Some of the disciples once stood amazed at their inability to cast out evil ppirits and cure diseases. They evidently thought their contact with the Mas-' ter would help them. But the Master rent all their fancied nt tious to pieces when, in answer to their questio why they could not do it, He told them that 1 ich things could only come by fastingjand pra er. In other words, He re vealed to them rare secret that it was not the forces that could W regenera tion and purification of the soul itself And forgiveness is a miracle. It comes of leaning on God for strength, and the forgiveness of sins which He works out. We need at this transitional time, |to go to God in trust that He will bestow on us this power of forgiving all the injuries of the old year, and com mencing the new with a charity as broad and loftly as the sky above us—yea, as the love that has enveloped us during all our years. —We earnestly request ever# pastor to call the special attention of his people, at latest by next Sabbath, to this paper, and make still another vigorous effort to,secure for us, at once, every additional name possible. —New York Christian Advocate. That is the way our Methodist brethren work for their papers. Will not the Baptist pastors, and many laymen also, do a little work for the Baptist papers just now ? Cen tral Baptist. Yes, will they do it? Ought they not to do it, if they earnestly desire to spread the light and power of Gospel truth.— Eds. Index.] —The Chronicle and Examiner publishes the following allusion to the question of the Bible in public schools in the recent message of Gov ernor Bedle of New Jersey, adding the sub joined comment: Free schools are safeguards of the State and nation, and should be kept completely di vorced from sectarian control or influence. It is a cardinal principle in our political encono my, and fundamental in our system of govern ment, that Church and State must be kept perfectly separate; but mistaken notions arise oftentimes in applying the principle. We should never lose sight of the fact that this is a land of Christian, or Bible character and civi lization, and that its teachings are the founda tion of our virtue and social elevation. These, it is true, may and do assume different shapes in men’s minds, in considering their relations to God, thereby inducing Buch reli gious sects and associations for worship as may be deemed necessary or better for that purpose, according to belief, but the great undisputed, underlying doctrines of duty to God and man and individual virtue, which make good citi zens, are in the Bible, and to exclude it from being read in schools is a retrogression towards heathenism. The simple reading of the Bi ble in schools is not the teaching of sectarian or peculiar religious be!ief^simply.because it is used to establish religious creeds and forms. The school should never be Bhut against the Bible. Our law is perfectly just. Its words are, “that it shall not be lawful for any teach er, trustee or trustees, to introduce into or have performed in any school receiving its propor tion of the public money, any religious ser vices, •ceremony or forms whatsoever, except reading the Bible and repeating the Lord’s Prayer." This gives the Bible a fair chance in its influence upon civil character and duty to the Creator, while an exclusion of it is a terri ble stride in making the State godless. These are no doubt sadly old-fashioned sen timents. They savor of the wisdom of the past. But somehow or other they seem to “fit in” admirably with Borne other things for which New Jersey hasgaind an enviable repu tation—her upright judiciary, her respect for labor, the stability, intelligence and thrift of her people. Can it be justly said that these things have no necessary connection with the respect shown for the Word of God ? —The Congregationalist discourses on what it calls “ Christian stealing” as follows: Is t here any sadder thing than to see a man have money, and plenty of it; such a plenty of itß;at he can thoroughly afford the glorious jtffnry of giving, and giving largely, and giv ing olten, to make his fellow men better and happier— to infuse his own volition as a bene ficent force into the mingling agencies of the coming years on away down into the far, far future—to be a worker-together with God in the most God-like function, so to speak, of God himself—to have this grand glorious possibili ty, and miss of it, and instead of expanding into a great heart and a noble and generous and God-like soul, to grow hard and grow small, and grow sneaking and stingy, and con temptible, and shrink and shrivel and weazen into a mean and miserable thief. For the Index and Baptist. 1 THE BRIGHT FOREVER. 0, the sweet, the bright Forever ! Let my mind upon it dwell; Let it visit rainbow circles— Dream the joys it cannot tell. 0, the amber tinted circlet Bending o’er the crystal deep ; O, light eternal beaming On the eyes that never weep. 0, the sweet, the bright Forever ! With its music laden breeze, Wafted thro’ the vales celestial, Kissing all the holy trees. 0, the love light ever beaming From those sinless, happy eyes ! And the soft angelic pinions Bustling thro’ the radiant skies. O, the sweet, the bright Forever! With its rainbow circled throne, Where the blessed Saviour reigneth All the loving hearts his own. When the King and Saviour speaketh, All heaven lies hushed and still, And the angels veil their faces As they wait to hear His will. 0, the sweet, the bright Forever ! With its harps and crowns of gold, With its gilded pathways stretching Where new glories still unfold. With angelic forms and voices, Thro’ the gemmed and starry space, Music, rapture, radiance, glory, Filling all the holy place. 0, the sweet, the bright Forever ! Everywhere is written Love, Not a thought, or wish, or footstep From the bright domain can rove. Onward ever to new glories, Thingß grander and eternal, Upward, upward, ever onward To joy and bliss supernal. 0, the sweet, the bright Forever ! Let our minds upon it dwell. Angel spirits we would whisper To our earthly home, farewell. We are striving, we are waiting, When 'tie finished bear us o’er To the music, radiance, glory, Of the bright Forevermore ! Griffin, Jan. 31, 1876. BAPTIST NEWS AND NOTES. —The Bapriefcs of Nketn CaVolina hjfve One hundred thousand members, white and color ed ; seven hundred and fifty churcheß, and four hundred and fifty ministers. Thirty-six stu dents for the ministry are in their seminaries. —A glorious work of grace has been in pro gress in the Mary Sharp College, Winchester, Tennessee. Over 50 young ladies had pro fessed hope in Christ, and between 30 and 40 have put on Christ. —Rose Hill Baptist church, near Island Tank, on the Port Royal Island, was recently burned to the ground. The fire is supposed to have originated from the sparks of a pass in g locomotive on the Port Royal Railroad. Scarcely anything but the records of the church was saved. —The Morristown, Tennessee, Baptist Re flector says: Brother S. A. Burnett, the clerk of the church at Big Creek, gives us the follow ing, as the results of the revival at his church in Cooke county : Received by experience, 49 ;by relation, 8; by letter, 2; making in all 59 additions to the church. This is a work of grace almost without a parallel in our section for many years. Brother Walters, from Knoxville, came in about the middle of the meeting, and rendered efficient service. Brother Gilbert did the most of the preaching during the meeting, and has greatly endeared himself to the brethren. Oh! that the Lord would visit all His churches with such an outpoaring of His Spirit! —The Baptists of Tennessee propose to raise $300,000 for the Baptist University at Jack son. —The popularity of brother T. T. Eaton, pastor of the church in Petersburg, Virginia, is universal in that city. Dr. A. J. F. Behrends, of Cleveland, Ohio, has resigned his charge of the Baptist church, because he is not in sympathy with the denom ination on the communion question. He is to be installed as pastor of the Providence, R. I. Union Congregational church. —At a meeting of the Baptist Social Union of Philadelphia, a resolution was passed call ing a Convention of the different Baptist Social Unions of the United States, to be held in the city of Philadelphia at some time during the month of June, 1876, for the consideration of such subjects as may hereafter be agreed upon. —Bev. J. Sweeney has just closed at Forest Hill, West Virginia, a meeting of seven days, with fifteen additions, seven of them Meth odists, one old brother of seventy-two sum mers, who had been a member of Methodist Episcopal church forty-two years, and a class leader and steward in that church. His grand son was baptized at the sametime. —The “ Baptist Year Book,” for 1876, is out. It gives reports from 925 Associations in the United States, in which there are 21,255 churches, with 13,117 ordained ministers, (1,815,300) one million eight hundred and fifteen thousand and three hundred members. During the past year 84,874 were added to onr churches by baptism. Probably the sta tistics of a thousand churches are not included in this exhibit, as no reports were received from some 300 Associations. Then, too, the anti-Mission Baptists are left out. A full oount would give the Baptists of the United States not leas than 2,000,000 members. WffOLE NO. 2806. General Denominational News, —Among the Episcopalians a free church association has been formed in Philadelphia, designed: 1. To maintain, as a principle' the freedomof all seats in churches. 2. To promote the abandonement of the sale and rental of pews and sittings, and, in place thereof, the adoption of the princple of the systematic free-will offerings by all the worshippers in our churches according to their ability. 3. To promote the recognition of the Offer tory as an act of Christian worship, and as a Scriptural means for raising money for pious and charitable uses. The means employed to attain these objects are: The printing and dissemination of tracts and papers ; the holding of public meet ings; the preaching of sermons; discussion in the public press; and the promotion of needful legislation. —Dr. Wm. E. Munsey and family left Jonesboro, Tenn., recently for’New Orleans. Dr. M. takes charge of a church in that city. —Something entirely new in the way of re vivals is going on at Oxford, N. Y., and may be called a “highway and hedge” revival, for everybody in this vicinity, for miles around, is pouring into the house of God—the profane, Sabbath breaking, gambling, scoffing and sceptical. Men who pay for pews stand in the aisle. Every horse and vehicle at times is taxed to roll its load to the meetings, to hear sceptics and scoffers speak and pray. Twenty “song meetings” a week, miles a part, are crowded.people of with the hardest stamp; they no Jsooner come in than they break down, and are praying men before they leave the house. Preaching cauld hardly do this, so there is hardly any. It is all singing. Mr. Patter son, a Scotchman, sings Sankey’s songs, and solos of his own, with an effect at times mar velous. No storm nor mud can thin the au dience. The songs are in everybody’s mouth. —There are in Mexico, 125 Protestant con gregations, eleven church edifices and ninety nine halls of worship. One hundred thousand dollars were spent last year in carrying on this missionary work. total population of the earth. 1,896,842 000 bnder Christian governments 685.459’, 411 Under non-Christian governments. 711 382 589 Total area of the earth by square ’ a 52,062,470 Area of Christian governments 32,419,915 Area of non-Christian lands 19,642,555 A Parish Guild has been formed recently in the church of the Messiah, Boston, which is divided.into divisions for the [care of church, Sunday-school, sewng school, employment of poor women, mission work, singing at the fu nerals of the poor, exploring poor districts of the city, etc. All these have work assigned them by the rector of the parish. Bishop Williams, the Missionary Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal church in Japan, is devoting two-thirds of hifi own small income to carry on the mission work, and he lives in a little Japanese house, hardly better than a hut, which is the best he could buy, and thi insignificant dwelling is church and school house. —The translation of the Bible into the Man darin is now complete. The importance of this achievement will be understood when it is known that this is the generally employed language of the Chinese. For the past five years Rev. T. W. Dosh, D.D., has been the pastor of the oldest Luther an church in Charleston —the church which was so long ministered to by [Dr. Bach man. For several reasons Di. Dosh has felt constrained to resign this charge and has ac cepted a call to Salisbury, N. C. He still re mains editor of the Lutheran Visitor. —Bishop Iluntingon (Protestant Episcopal), of Central New York, at a recent Protestant Episcopal convocation in Watertown, New York, spoke of the exclusion of the Bible from the public schools as “foredoomed by circum stances that are to be deplored,” and said that religious instruction in such schools could be allowed only when there was a conformity of creeds. He suggested that, under the circum stances, the duty of his church was to proyide for morejeomprehensive religious instruction in Sunday-schools, and to devote several hours each Sunday for that purpose. The Standard makes the following plain and forcible commentary on the recent official letter of the Roman Catholic Bishop of Mont pelier, addressed to his deacons and professors, in which the supremacy of the Pope, in con trolling the religious and secular education of the world, is dogmatically asserted : W e owe thanks to the Bishop of Montpelier, that he speaks boldly, that he gives us to un derstand exactly what he means, and what the Romish hierarchy mean ; to assert the subjec tion of the world to the Pope. He tells us to our face that Rome possesses the “absolute right to teach the world;” that is, to control all education, and make it subservient to the interests and advancement of the Romish church. This is the issue which is to be precipitated upon us, in America, as well. There can be no doubt of the result ot such a contest in this country. It is the liberty of the people against the tyranny and assumptions of Rome j a spir itual despotism of the medieval ages is pitted against the civilization ot the present; an at tempt to turn back the hands on the dial off time several centuries. It cannot be done. The spirit of Protestantism everywhere, rises instinctively in rebellion against the mere sug gestion, and the Bishop of Montpelier, and fthoee like him, will find their claims to eda •cate the world disallowed.