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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. ' ♦ I 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.