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The Christian Index.
THE BDUTH-WEOTSJEB- BAPTIST, j THE OHHOBmN
of Alabama.
of Tennessee.
VOL. 55—NO. 7.
Table of Coiitentti.
First Page.— Alabama Department : Record
of State Events ; Girls and Latin—Time and
Labor Wasted—Rev. J. S. Baker ; Spirit of
the Religious Press ; Baptist News and Notes;
Faith-Poetry; General Denominational
News ; etc.
Second Page.— Our Correspondents: Letter
from Northeast Georgia—W. T. Thornton;
l 'My Church'I—W. 1 —W. 51. Howell; Our Macon
Letter—Rev. S. Boykin; Bible Scenes—A Vis
ion of Faith—Bunnei; An Appeal to the Bap
tist Churches and Pastors of the South—F.
M. Law, and others. Heroines of History;
Lady Jane Grey—G. W. Best—Poetry; Bible
Study; etc.
Third Paoe.— Our Pulpit: Resisting Sin and
Temptation—A Sermon, by Rev. A. H. New
man, Rochester, N. V. District Meetings:
Minutes of the General Sleeting Fourth Dis
trict Middle Association—Concluded; Minis
ters aud Deacons Meeting Betkol Associa
tion; Meeting of the Columbia (Florida) Union
etc.
Fovßth Page.— Editorial . A Christian's Great
est Grief; He Can’t Understand It; Brief
Notes—Rev. J. S. Baker. The Saviour’s Great
Commission—Rev. S. G. Hillyer. Georgia
Baptist News; The Religious Newspaper: De
parted Friends —Rev. D. E. Butler, The Hu
man Will—Rev. A. J. Battle, D.D.; etc.
Fifth Page.— Special Contributions : Notes on
the Acts of Baptism—By Rev. J, H. Kilpat
rick; An Important Part of a Pastor’s Work;
Convention Photographs—Rev. R. W. Fuller.
Editorial : Publishing Alms and Contribu
tions; Literary Gossip; Personals; Georgia
News; etc.
Sixth Page.— The Sunday-school; Lesson for
February 20th; Sunday-school Work—T. C.
Boykin." Home Slissiohs: Annual Reports
of the Secretaries of Individual Churches; Or
phan Home Acknowledgments for the Quarter
ending February Ist, 1876—Rev. It. W. Fuller.
Children’s Corner : The Unfinished Prayer—
Poetry; “That’s How;” etc.
Seventh Page.— Select Miscellany: Science
and Religion—Rev. W. G. Cunningham, D.D.;
The Philosophy of Reform; etc.
Eighth Page.— Editorial Correspondence—Rev.
D. F '.utler; “The Will;” Northeast Georgia;
Brother Boykin’s Imaginary Reports; An Ap
peal; Notice to Our Brethren; Begin Early:
Zeal; Etc. Marriages. Obituaries. Adver
tisements.
INDEX AND BAPTIST.
ALABAMA DEPARTMENT.
Births and deaths are hereafter to be regis
tered in Selma.
The Matthews Cotton Factory will soon be
gin operations in Selma.
Howard College has now 100 students.
The Methodist ladies of Demopolis are re
, painting and refitting their church.
To the 4th, Mobile had received 286,340
hales of cotton.
An effort is being made to organize a grange
at Clanton.
Work on the new Episcopal church in
A then?, will soon commence.
The late Sumter grand jury returned 87 true
bDls. |
Mr. George Lilly died a few days ago at
Lawrenceville, Henry county.
Many improvements are being made in Eu
faula.
An agricultural club of 40 members has
been organized at Courtland.
There are 20 males and 27 females in the
deaf, dumb and blind asylum at Talladega.
Gov. Houston has appointed Gen. John T.
Morgan as attorney to represent the State in
the investigation before the United States Sen
ate of Spencer’s claim to a seat in that body.
The Eufaula Times says:
There is now little or no good land in this
county to lease the present year. All who
owned such lands had, no trouble in finding
tenants some six weeks since.
The people of Alabama have paid their
taxes more generally the present [winter than
in some time before.
The Eufaula limes says a great many fami
lies in the lower part of Barbour are on the
verge of starvation.
Rev. W. W. Saunders, a former student of
Howard College, is the successor of the Rev.
Dr. Jaeger, as pastor of the church in Walbal
la, S. C.
At a meeting of Mexican war solders in
Montgomery, an association was formed, with
Albert Elmore president, Lawson Clay and
Felix Tait vice presidents, and W. J. Reese
secretary and treasurer.
A correspondent of the Baptist, alluding to
the excellent pastor of Mount Zion church
says:
Each year that Dr, Henderson remains with
this venerable and stately old church, en
twines him more closely around the affections
of his flock. They call themselves blessed in
having a pastftr with the beautiful and sterling
blending of gentleness, grace and love, with
firmness, faithfulness, and force.of character.
The Eufaula Times says: The grangers of
the State are considering the means of secu
ring about fifty thousand dollars with which
to erect in Montgomery a suitable building for
the meeting of the State Grange and for the
use of the officers of the same. To save this
expenditure we learn that the Master of our
District Grange has been authorized to tender
the use, free of charge, of Hart’s magnificent
Hall, in this city, and as much and conve
nient office room as may be necessary, if that
organization will transfer its headquarters to
this place.
GIRLS AND LATIN—TIME AND LABOR WASTED
Our observations and reflections lead
us to conclude that time and money
expended in teaching girls Latin are
not only wasted, but worse than wasted.
Our reasons for our belief, we will as
sign in as few words as possible, that
our readers may judge for themselves
whether our conclusion is wise or un
wise.
1. The period usually allowed a girl
to pursue a course of collegiate studies
is too brief to allow her to do more than
obtain a mere smattering of the lan
guage—such as can benefit no one but
the teacher, who is paid at the highest
rates for bearing her recite her lessons.
2. If she should succeed in obtain
ing a thorough knowledge of the lan
guage, there is no probability that she
will ever be able to apply her knowl
edge to any useful purpose in after life.
It is a dead language—uot spoken by'
any nation on earth. She can, there
fore, find none with whom to converse
in that language, in her social inter
course in life.
It may be said, she may enrich her
mind by the perusal of books in Latin.
In reply to that we have only to say,
modern authors do not usually pub
lish their ideas to the world in a dead
language. The few books that are
published in Latin, in tbo present day,
are designed for persons engaged in
professions to which females are rarely
(if ever) admitted. We may be told
that there are many books still extant,
which were written in Latin when the
Latin was a living language and more
used than any other in the publication
of books. That is true, but it is equally
true, that these old Latin authors filled
their quartos and folios, for the most
part, with old,, antiquated ideas that,
however prevalent they may have been
fabi|loufl and mediaeval ugi >, JAP n<>fc
now current in the literavyvoim
The few ideas of any value that may
be found in their books may, moreover,
be obtained with a much less expendi
ture of time and labor, from the trans
lations that have been made of them
into our own language.
We may he further told, that the
study of Latin—and other dead lan
guages—benefit the student, not only
by the ideas it communicates, but also
by tbo exercise it affords to one’s intel
lectual powers. To this we reply, that
the study of modern languages—such
as the German, French, and Italian—
tend equally to call into exercise our
mental powers, and, at the same time,
open before us sources of information
far superior to any afforded by knowl
edge of Latin.
3. We are decidedly of opinion that
the time spent by girls (and by many
boys) in the study of Latin, might be
more profitably expended' in acquiring
a thorough knowledge of the higher
branches of an English education. We
have known graduates in some of our
Female Colleges, who could not, to
save their lives, work out a sum in the
simple Eule of Three.
We do not usually expend our money
for things for which we have no use.
We would, therefore, suggest the in
quiry to those girls who are ambitious
to obtain a knowledge of Latin, and to
the doating parents who foster that
ambition in them, to what practical use
can a girl apply her knowledge of Latin
after she has obtained it ?
A notable criminal event of the
past week, is the flight of E. D. Wins
low, one of the principal owners of the
Boston Daily News and the Daily Post,
leaving behind, notes, forged and gen
uine, to the amount of half a million
dollars. Some of these notes are held
by banks and other corporations, that
will not be seriously embarrassed ; but
others are held by persons to whom
they will bring financial ruin. Wins
low was a man of high respectability,
and enjoyed the greater public confi
dence, from the fact that he was a
minister, (Methodist.) He was chap
lain of two regiments during the war,
has been a chaplain in the navy, and
has served several churches as pastor.
He was, at one time, publisher of Zion’s
Herald, and lately concluded a third
term in the Massachusetts’ Legislature.
The Selma Bible Society has elected for the
ensuing year, P. G. Wood president, W. C.
Ward vice president, W. H. Raymond secre
tary, and Cornelius Young treasurer.
FRANKLIN PRINTING HOUSE, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FEBRUARY 17,’ 1876.
Spirit of the Religious Press,
Under the head of“ Hindrances,” the Stand
ard thus alludes to a great evil which threatens
the efficacy of missionary labors in some parts
of the world : “We are told that intoxicating
liquors imported from Christian oountries into
Madagascar are sadly hindering the work of
evangelization there. It has ever been thus
since Foreign Missions were instituted. In
toxicating liquors have been carried out in the
same vessels with the missionaries, the one to
do a work of ruin and death, the other a work
of life. And as all who come from Christian
lands are set down by the heathens as Chris
tians indeed, some of their most intelligent
men have been calculating as to which pre
dominates, the vices induced by the introduc
tion of liquor and immoral practices, or the
good done by the missionaries. The home
government of Madagascar would gladly do
what Chrislian governments fail to do; put a
stop to the traffic, but fear the danger of a col
lision with importing nations,”
Prominent spirits North and South are
still making efforts to conciliate and reunite the
opposite branches of the Methodist Episcopal
church, and the Christian Advocate (St. Louis)
after saying that half a dozen men made a
peaceful separation’in 1844 a discoid of strife
and confusion, notes the danger that about
the same number, having the same spirit, may
in 1876 undo the well-begun work of reconcil
iation, adds: “If such fraternity be established,
it will he by the unstifled, unyielding spirit
and voice of the God-fearing, peace-loving
men of both branches of the church—men who
have no axes to be ground, and nothing to
seek but the glory of God and prosperity of His
cause. What we mean is, of course, 'a fair,
honorable, Cliristian-like fraternity and peace,
without any direct reference fo organic union,
either for or against. Now, wait and see.”
—Alluding to the action of Dr. Behrends in
leaving his denomination to take charge of a
Congregational church, a contemporary says :
Dr. Behrends may retain the infinitely
worthier, because less ritualistic element of the
Baptist faith—that only believers can be bap
tized ; but that leaves him only half a Baptist.
By the way, it is a phenomenon not easily ex
plained that these two quite independent doc
trines should both be peculiar to the Baptist
body. It admits of a historical, but not of a
philosophical explanation.
AThi: imhOj 'of !.*
commented upon as follows by the Evangel ;
A denomination or party that apologizes
for its existence, and flitters away its princi
ples, and pushes out of sight the special truths
which it is charged to proclaim, will find its
own self-respect departing, its tremulous words
dropping at its own feet, the public ear turning
away from it in pity or disgust, its arms fall
ing palsied at its side; and its own organiza
tion dropping to pieces for want of moral co
hesion. To have, to hold and utter, strong
and positive Christian convictions, are the
things that give life and assure victory.
—Here are some true words from the
Watchman :
We find the phrase “free thinking” fre
quently occurring among the enemies of Chris
tianity, who seem to glory in it as an intellec
tual good enjoyed by themselves alone, and we
are led to inquire into its true meaning. If
free thinking denotes thinking uninfluenced
by the past or the present, no such thing ex
ists. But il the phrase merely means honest
thought, then its assumption by any class of
individuals, to its implied exclusion from
those who differ from them, is an unwarranted
impertinence. It cannot surely be employed
to describe a mode of thinking contrary to the
laws .of intellect, and yet we are convinced that
it is in this sense the phrase is reduced to prac
tice, for they who most frequently pronounce
it ignore the force of evidence and logic in
seeking to build up their religion of moon
beams and syllabub.
—The Pacific has this to say relative to the
taxing of church property:
But it is the tendency of some churches to
busy themselves with the accumulating and
segregating of property for all sorts of pur
poses, some of them very remotely ecclesias
tical. In some countries from one-fourth to
one-third of all the property has been held
thus, to the burdening and injury of the peo
ple. Any similar segregation of property
must somehow be hindered in our land. For
this no way is readier than that of taxation.”
—The new editor of The Standard and Home
Journal states that the following is to be the
platform of that paper :
As far as possible, it is proposed to avoid
controversy. Questions of mere church polity
are not within the scope of our movement. Our
organization was instituted not to discuss the
ology, or ecclesiastical polity, but to promote
spirituality, and extend the doctrine and ex
perience of entire sanctification.
—ln reference to the withdrawing of Dr.
Behrends from the Baptist denomination, and
which has been voluminously commented upon
by the religious press of the country, Rev. W.
F. Bainbridge, pastor of the Central Baptist
church of Providence, R. 1., and a class
mate of Dr. 8., preached a discourse, review
ing Dr. B’s published reasons for said with
drawal, from which we make the following
extract:
Our brother’s early training was Lutheran.
From the Lutherans he went to the Presby
terians ; from them to the Baptists; and now
from the Baptists he has sailed witli flying col
ors to make whatever port shall lie in the line
of bis present convictions.
A, year ago our brother flung himself into
the communion controversy witli the ludicrous
mistake that he iiad discovered the key to the
whole difficulty. In somewhat of the Luther
style, this young man placed himself at the
head of a supposed grand reformation. Never
was a person more thoroughly disappointed.
His position was so ambiguous that he had to
send out an explanation of his hieroglyphics, I
when it became plain to every one but himself I
that the theory was one of the most familia*
ones in the communion controversy of cen
turies.
But we have no patience with his testimony
that inno Baptist denomination he had no op
portunity to. discuss amicably his differences,
and that the.spirit of the brotherhood is so in
tolerant as tj. be practically unendurable: after
he has had very advantage to parade his dif
ferences of opinion, after our religious papers
have scatter! broadcast,.every word he had to
say on ihe lUjjecf, after edilors and reviewers
have answe-ed him with unparalleled forbear
ance.
Our brother's address shows that lie has
been run away with by his logic, on which he
has been Iwund, Mazeppa-like. His sever
ance of h^nomina> ; jnal relations will, in
all wobabffy? be o led of the Lord to the
good of the denoniin. llj on.
—Concerning the principles of the true life,
and the signs and development of grace in the
Christian's ’ eing, the Baptist Union holds the
following beautiful language:
Forgettiiift. what is behind, and stretching
for something higher and better, is the glory
of a true life; The forgetting is giving tin
ceasing to G.vig to, or to desire to he contented
with the past, as the Hebrews were exhorted
to forget-Egypt, and press towards the Prom
ised Land, and independent national life,
I aul practiced, as well as preached, this doc
trine of lorgetting aud aspiring. He had
much to Wet. His wickedness; his wonder
ful conveH ,n; his successes among ti e hea
then; his joyous experiences, crowded the past,
but lie turned away and only mentioned them as
stimulants to stretch forward for higher and bet
ter things. He had attained much, and eve y
height he Fcuched increased his hungry pro
testation that he had not yet “ attained.” The
enjoyment of what he had was great, but his
aspirations for more grace were greater. Such
is true Christian life. Thus does the grace of
God opera's on the soul, and lift us higher and
higher. Other religions and philosophies
centre malt’s thoughts in himself, or turn them
to objects below himself. The gods of the
heathen are meaner than the men who worship
them, and the ideals of atheists are inferior to
the endowments of the idealist. But the
Christian is attracted by a real life above him
self, belter, more glorious and blissful than
himself, and yet so near and helpful that lie
feels it no presumption to aspire to become
like his .Lord. There can be no continuous
progress wit out an ideal above ourselves, and
we cannot fail to rise with sucii an ideal as the
Gospel aikrrds. It is a significant feature of
Christian life tiiat grace develops and keeps
alive a mighty hunger, a buoyant hope, and
masterful, faith , and the more grace one wel
comes to the soul, the more potently is it lift
ed, the mjfire eagerly does it press forward, the
moie eiimssfully does it climb towards the
summit nWssible perfection.
heathanism in the ira-
jungles. In spite of that
city’s thousands of churches, and its numer
ous Christian appliances, the Christian gives us
a glimpse of Sabbath desecration and human
degradation as practiced on the Lord’s day. Lis
ten to this description of a Sabbath day in the
largest city of Christendom :
The main streets are thronged with the
sream of respectable church-goers, but the en
trances to the courts and alleys seem by some
mysterious attraction to draw out of the pass
ing crowds certain elements of a different char
acter. Red-nosed drunkards, wretched, ragged
women, disreputable lads, and an indescriba
ble mixture of the bad and miserable of all
ages and both sexes, pour up these dark,
dismal, dirty entrances, and disappear in the
labryinth of lanes at the back. Follow them I
You will soon find yourselves involved in a
strange maze of swarming alleys and courts
and markets, where men and women innum
erable are buying and selling, and shouting
and cheating, and smoking and drinking, and
cursing and swearing. There are rows of
costermongers’ barrows, where food and drink
sellers of all sorts are clamorously vocifera
ting, shops and sheds full of fabulously cheap
clothing, and Jewish vendors of which are cry
ing their goods at the top of their voices.
“ Blankets for ninepence,” “three pair of
stockings for sixpence,” and so on. From
25,000 to 30,000 persons come to this rag fair to
buy and sell on the Lord’s day, and in fine
weather the bird market in Shoreditch is
equally busy I It is useless to think of get
ting these thousands in their present condition
into church or chapel. One’s heart achee in
gazing on them, so completely outside the pale
of Christian influence do they seem.
The Christian Index.— We invite atten
tion to the advertisement of this sterling pa
per, the organ of the Baptist denomination in
Georgia and several adjoining States. The
Index combines the features of a religious
and a literary journal and those who are read
ers enjoy the advantages of both. It is edited
with as much ability as any paper in the
whole land, having in its editorial corps the
ablest ministers and most finished scholars (of
the South. Its worth among Baptists cannot
be over-estimated, and we really think it a ne
cessity to all who desire to fnlly understand the
doctrines they profess.
In these latter days the press is teeming
with the publications of the boldest and best
informed disbelievers—so-called scientists—
and their writings are scattered broadcast over
the country. The pernicious teachings of this
class of publications can only be met by the
religious press. To successfully resist the in
roads of infidelity, and counteract these perni
cious teachings, the religious press must be sus
tained and put upon a sure foundation, in or
der that the warfare against error and wrong
may be continued and powerful. It then be
comes the duty of church people to sustain
their organs that they may be all powerful
against evil. —Monroe Advertiser.
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The Tuscaloosa limes says some of the plan
ters in its county are apprehensive that the
freezing weather anticipated in February and
March, will damage the small grain, w'hich
has now grown to ;?ix inches or more in
height.
Rev. R. W. Whilden, formerly missionary
to Oliina, has accepted a call to the pastorate
of the]Pleasant Hill church and churches in
the neighborhood. And excellent selection
and a fruitful field.
Ihe town of Warrior is to be incorporated.
BAPTIST NEWS AND NOTES.
—The Florida Baptist has suspended publi
cation.
—The revival in Grace street church, Rich
mond, Va., has continued for several weeks.
Dr. Hatcher, the pastor, has conducted the
meetings throughout, and over two hundred
have professed conversion.
—The Baptist anniversaries are to be held
next May in Buffalo, N. Y.
—W. G. Rogers, formerly of Missouri, and
more recently agent of the Southern Baptist
Foreign Board, has been called (and has accept
ed) to the charge of the Baptist church in Dal
las, Texas.
—The Monthly Bcporlcr (Wadcsborough,
N. C.) thus rectifies a common error among
Pedobaptist writers and readers, relative to
the term “church” as applied to the Baptist de
nomination ;
The Monroe Enquirer in noticing our pros
pectus, speaks of it as in the interest of the
Baptist church. This is a common error.
Moshiem pays of the churches immediately
succeed ng theaposllcs, tha' thsv “were connec
ted by no consociation or confederation; each
church was a kind of little inde] en nt r. pill c
governed by its own laws.” Th< ..m e is true of
Baptist churches to-day. We m>e speak of
the Baptist church at Charlotte, r at Cedar
Creek, as the apostles spoke of “ the church at
Corinth,” “the church at Antioch,” etc., but
there is no such thing as “the Baptist church”
in such a sense as to include all, or any num
ber, of separate churches in a State, or in the
world. One church has nothing to do with an
other, except as they are voluntarily associa
ted together for the accomplishment of some
great work. The Bapti-ts differ from other de
nominations in this as much as on the subject
o r bap'ism, or the Lora’s supper.
—The Monthly Reporter is the title of anew
Baptist paper, published at Wadcsborough N.
C., the first number of whicli We have just re
ceived. The editors are Rev. B. G. Covington
and Rev. G. W. Harman. It is edited with
force, and is neat in appearance. It deserves
a large circulation among the brethren in that
State.
—The following “Topics for Centennial
Discourses” have been agreed upon by a large
number of ministers in several of the Eastern
States, in order to promote intelligent and ear
nest work in the Centennial commemoration :
1. The indebtedness of the Nation to Bap
tists for complete religions liberty.
2. The peculiar principles of Baptists a safe
guard of the Republic.
3. Educators and education among tließap
ti-'t-- during the past centiy-y.
Jl. Stt'.-jr," rf LJb'st de
nomination —their work amflheir liS'Sr.
5. The best attainable education of all the
members essential to the oompletest character
and efficiency of Baptist churches.
6. In the next centnry education will be,
more than ever, the ground of personal and so
cial power.
7. Baptists in the revolutionary period.
8. Baptist heroes and martyrs.
9. Equal facilities for education a debt ol our
churches due to woman.
10. The endowment of Christian institutions
of learning proved by history to be the most
enduring investment of money and the most
powerful instrument for the advancement of
Christianity and civilization.
11. The education of the laity in the Bap
tist denomination not less important than the
education of the ministry.
12. The money expended in the education of
our sons and daughters the best investment on
their behalf.
13. The influence of better education upon
the character and condition of our Sunday
schools.
14. The benefits of civil and religious liber
ty the heritage of all, and hence, the duty of
commemorative gifts the duty of all.
15. The impossibility- of permanent fruits of
missionary labors without educational institu
tions.
16. The power of the churches of the future
in their personal consecration, their evangeli
zing labors, and in the education of their sons
and daughters.
17. The special duty of Baptists to their own
institutions of learning.
FAITH.
Wliat elialt thou sing, O, Soul, gifted with song:
To whom therefore the l'ain and Joy belong ?
Sit with thine ear to that great world of sound
That rolls between the silences profound.
Thou liearest Science, crying loud and far,
“I find the deepest pearl; on farthest star
I lay my certain linger; all is mine ;
I am the True, the Only, the Divine.”
Heason, horn blind, doth (sitting unaware
Upon the “mountain’s secret to])”) declare,
“ That which I see I know, and that alone;
There is no hidden sermon in the stone.”
While Faith deep-eyed as Love, with noiseless
key
Opens the unsuspected heaven to thee.
Bro. W. S. Rogers, of Seale, in a recent let
ter to the Alabama Baptist speaks of the
church in that place as follows:
The Baptist church of this place is, by no
means in a desirable condition. Having no
pastor last year, the sheep are scattered. Some
have s' rayed off into forbidden paths, some
have fallen into apathy, some of the most
spiritually minded have suffered their interest
for the sanctuary to wane, but others have held
on, still faithful, still hoping, still praying. I
have met quite a number of the members and
find new hopes and fresh courage springing up in
their hearts. This encourages me in the work
which 1 have undertaken, under such inauspi
cious circumstances; and by the good Lord’s
help, I hope to report the church in good
plight ere long.
We sincerely trust that Bro. Rogers’ hopes
and purposes will soon be abundantly realized.
- '■ ■ —■■■■— ■
The two noted Evangelists, Whittle and
Bliss, now laboring in St. Louis with such re
markable success, will visit Mobile on or
about the 29th ot March. They will hold
their meetings in one of the large halls.
The Alabama Baptist offers a gold pen as a
premium to the lady who will procure for the
Baptist the largest number of yearly subscri
bers by the 15tli of March.
WHOLE NO. 2807.
General Denominational News.
According to the best, and latest Roman
Catll °lic authority, Sadlier’s Roman Catho
lic directory for 1876, the Catholic Church
has in tne United States one cardinal-arch
bishop, ten other archbishops, fifty bishops,
5,074 priests, 6,528 churches, chapels, and
stations, where mass is regularly said, and a
Roman Catholic population of about 6,006,-
000 persons,
—The Jesuits have, according to Apple
ton’s Cyclopedia, the following colleges in the
United States: Boston College, Boston;
College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massa
chusetts ; St. Francis Xavier’s, New York;
St. John’s, Frederick, Maryland; Loyolr*
Baltimore; Gonzaga, Georgetown, D. C..
Spring Hill, near Mobile, Alabama; St!
Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri; Col
lege of the Immaculate Conception, New Or
leans ; St. Charles, Grand Couteau, Louisiana;
St. Joseph’s, Bards'.own, Kentucky; St.
Xavier, Cincinnati; St. Ignatius, San Fran
cisco, and Sauta Clara, California. In Can
ada, the Jesuits conduct St. Mary’s College,
Montreal, founded in 1848; and they hare re
cently petitioned the Dominion Parliament,
for a restoration of the estates owned by the
Order, before its suppression iu France and
her colonies. The number of Jesuits in the
United States and Canada in 1874 was 1,062,
—At the present time, there are 124 Romish
archbishops and bishops holding office iu the
British Empire, (including dependencies.)
There are 36 Romanist peers, and 47 baron
ets. There are 7 Roman Catholics in the
Privy Council, and 50 in the House of Com
mons.
—A Sunday-school Congress is to he held
in Plainfield, N. J., from the stli to the 10th
of March, and Sunday-school workers from
all sections of the country are invited to at
tend and participate in considering:
1. The present lesson system : its successes,
defects, possibilities, future development, re
lation to the denominational systems of in
struction, the catechism, the church-year, etc.
2. How to increase the effectivehess of
Sunday-school Conventions, Institutes, and
especially of Normal Classes.
3. The Sunday-school Superintendent:
his office, difficulties, relation to the church,
j the pastor, the teacher, his duties, etc.
’’ As t<\
meetm London, ■
—Another anti-papal paper is promised
about the Ist of March, under the expressive
name of The Conflict. "
—St. Louis is all aglow with religious fer
vor, kindled through the instrumentality of
Whittle and Bliss. All the evangelical de
nominations have made common cause in
the Gospel meetings. These arc held at the
Skating Rink, a building with capacity to
hold six thousand persons.
—Sixty clergymen of Birmingham, Eng.
land, have signed a declaration stating that
“we, the undersigned clergy of the town of
Birmingham, with a view to reducing the
expenses connected with funerals, would re
spectfully suggest that no hat bands, scarfs,
or gloves, be henceforth presented to us on
such occasions.”
—The London Times has a letter from
Constantinople, which gives the details of
great suffering among the Armenian Chris
tians from the cruelty of the Turkish rulers,
and the unrestrained rapine of the Koords.
Many of the Christians are professing con
version to Islamism, in the hope of escaping
oppression.
—The Baptists are meeting encourage
ment in France. Chapels to which friends
in America and England contributed, now
supply the pastors with new advantages far
evangelization, which they use efficiently
and with encouraging responses from the
people.
—lt is announced that Pere Ilayacintk is
coming to this country in the spring.
—The ladies of the Baptist Mission, in
Portland, Oregon, report the conversion of
fourteen Chinese youths, one of whom is pre
paring for the ministry.
—The opinion prevails in certain quarters
in England, that the Jews, with the Roths
childs at the head, propose purchasing the
Holy Land of Turkey, with a view of going
there in a body. With many, the restoration
of the Jews to the land of their fathers, is re
garded as an event indicated by the finger of
prophecy.
DUTY.
The path of duty is the way to glory ;
Ho that walks it, only thirsting
For the right, and learns to deaden
Loyp of solf, before his journey closes,
Ho shall find the stubborn thistle bursting
Into glossy purples, which outredden
All voluptuous garden roses,
the path of duty is tho way to glory ;
He that evor following hor commands,
”U with toil of heart and knoca and hands,
Thro the long gorge to tho far light lias won
His path upward, and prevailed,
Shall find the toppling crags of Duty scaled.
Are close upon the shining table lamia,
To which our God Himself is moon and sun.
—Tennyson.
Frank Bradley, lately convicted in the
Montgomery circuit court, of embezzlement as
tax collector of Dallas, is now in the peniten
tiary.
A reward of S2OO i 8 offered for the arrest of
Sylvester Nelson, charged with the recent
murder of Win. Berry, in Tuscaloosa coun
ty.