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The Christian Index!
TIELE SOUTH-WESTERN BAPTIST, THE CHRISTIAN HERALD
OF Alabama - of Tennessee.
VOL. 55—NO. 8.
Table of Contents.
Fmsrr Pagb.—Alabama Department: Record of
State Events; Spirit of the Religions Presß;
Baptist News and Notes; “Bear Up”—Poetry;
General Denominational News; etc.
Second Pagb. Onr Correspondents : Daily
Readings of the Scriptures—Rev. E. W. War
ren, D.D.; To the Washington Association—
Thos. J. Adams; the Proposed State Inebriate
Asylnm for Georgia—Rev. N. A. Bailey; Our
Statistical Tables—Rev. G. R. McCall; Gems
Reset—Chas. W. Hnbner; Our Foreign Mission
Work ; Home Missions; “My Dream;” Three
Friends of Mine—Poetry.
Thibd Pagb.— Our Pulpit: God—A Sermon, by
Rev. W. A. Bißhop, Carthage, Alabama. Dis
trict Meetings : Minutes of the General Meet
ing of the First District of the Friendship As
t sociation; etc.
FocßTn Page.—-Editorial: Zeal—Rev. S. G.
Hillyer. Geogia Baptist News; Good Humor;
Ministerial Support; Don't be a Grumbler—
Rev. D. E. Butler. The Human Will—Rev. A.
J. Battle. The Iniquity of Public Worship;
Truths Felt Out—Rev. G. A. Nunnally, etc.
Fifth Page—Secular Editorials: An old Practice
Resumed—Rev. J. S. Baker; State Inebriate
Asylum; Repeal It; Literary Gossip; Correc
tion; Y. M. 0. A.; "The Solitaire'’ Georgia
Minerals; Personal; Georgia News; News of
the Week—Foreign and Domestio.
Sixth Page.—The Sunday. school: Lesson for
February 27; Christians and the Sunday-school
Work; The Bunday-school Congress. Drink
ing a “Jordan” Dry; The Old Canoe—Poetry;
Science and Education; Mission Items; etc.
Seventh Page.—Agriculture : Poor Lands; Rice
Growing Abandoned in North Carolina—A Re
sult of the War; 100,000 Bushels of Com Rais
ed on one Farm; Cotton Culture in California;
Texas Onions.
Eighth Page.—Special Contributions: Notes
on the Act of Baptism—Rev. J. H. Kilpatrick;
The Pastor’s Salary—Barnabas. Marriages.
Obituaries. Advertisements.
INDEX AND BAPTIST.
ALABAMA DEPARTMENT.
The daily union prayer-meetings in Mobile
continues with unabated interest.
Judge James L. Evans has been appointed
Clerk and Register of the Selnta City Court.
Rev. J. H. Van Hoose has become rector
of the Birmingham Episcopal church.
The post-office at Coxville, Etowah county,
has been discontinued.
Many people in the upper part of Henry
eounty are in great destitution.
Sylvester Nelson has been tried for killing
Wm. Berry, in Fayette county, and acquitted.
Greene county planters are preparing for
more cotton than usual this season.
h German emigrants are prospecting in Col
bert county.
It is maintained that a dog law would give
$270,000 to the public schools of Alabama.
Enfaula is enjoying fresh fish at unprece
dentedly low prices.
A Grange has been organized at Demopolis,
with J. C. Webb master and ,W. V. Eddins
secretary.
The “dog law,” now before the Legislature,
is earnestly desired by the farmers.
Hon. J. M. McKJeory, superintendent pub
lic instruction, will address the Alumni So
eieey of Howard College during the com
mencent week in June.
Superintendent Ball, ol the A. and C. rail
road, has condemned the road between Eutaw
and Tuscaloosa, and forbids the running of
trains over it until it is put in good order.
In Blunt county, 26th ult., Wm. Kyle’s
wife, daughter and one son were killed by a
deaf and dumb and insane son about 18 years
old. _
The Third Annual Fair of the Mobile Ag
ricultural, Mechanical and Horticultural As
sociation, will be held in Mobile on the 25th
ol April next. .
The Troy Messenger of the 17th, says
farming operations are going briskly ahead in
this section. We hear of some who intend to
begin planting corn next week.
Mrs. Mary Talbot has become one of the
teachers of the Baptist High School in Troy.
The Messenger says that this school is improv
ing in numbers constantly, and has excellent
prospects.
It is said that the proprietors of the guano
cave in Conecuh county have made prepara
tions to work it, and that some gentlemen have
gone to begin operations.
A quantity of the deposit was used last year
on the farm wherein the cave is located, and
the results are reported as about equal to those
obtained from the best of commercial fertili
zers. _
The Grand Encampment of Alabama at
their meeting at Huntsville elected as officers:
G. H. Sporman, G. TANARUS.; T. J. Scott, G. H. P.;
T. R. Powers, G. S. W.; Amos Cory, G- J. W.;
D. W. McGanghey, G. J. W.; R. E. Jones,
G. J. S.; W. A. Shields, G. J. R; A. E.
Patterson, G. I. G.; J. R. Johnson, G. O. G.;
R. Berry, G. M. The Grand Lodge at the
M me place elected: John R. Thompkins, of
Mobile, Grand Master; D. W. McGuaghey, o!
Mobile, Deputy Grand Master; Geo. H. Spor
yn.n of Eufaula, Grand Warden ; W. A.
Shields, of Mobile, Grand Secretary; J. H.
Sloss, ofTuscumbia, Grand Treasurer pro
tem ; R- L. McKee, of Selma, Grand Marshal;
T. J. Scott, of Montgomery, Grand Conductor;
John T. Patterson, ol Huntsville, Grand Her
ald.
Spirit of tile Religious Press,
—The New Yo:k Methodist, commenting
upon the plan suggested, that the U. S. Gov
ernment be authorized to employ agents to
search the mails for obscene literature,'and pre
vent its transmission through the post-offices,
objects to the plan on the ground that- the
remedy would be worse than the disease;
that liberty of correspondence is fundamental,
and a part of the freedom of the press. It
says : “Any checks that are consistent with
liberty we should earnestly favor, but we
should not reason that the smallest responsi
bility attaches to the Government for sins
committed by the use of a free post-office. The
power that is asked for is certain to beabused.
The evil must be reached in other ways.
Liberty has evils of its own, but it is worth a
hundred fold more than the best despotism.
The people who would like to suppress sin by
main fort e, believe that they would suppress
only sin. Pius Ninth believed that he sup
pressed only sin while ruling the most vicious
and ignorant population in the Italian Penin
sula. Despotism may mean well in its
sources; it becomes wicked aud corrupt long
before it reaches the masses under it. You
must meet sin chiefly by moral and religious
restraint; a little can he done by a free coun
try through its laws, and that little we shall
always favor. But we are not willing to sac
rifice, or even to put in peril, a free corres
pondence and a free press whatever. Parents,
teachers and ministers must correct the tastes,
protect the ignorance, and promote the purity,
of lads and lasses. They cannot invent a ma
chine to do their work, or lighten it, or make
it easy. It is a mighty task, a war in which
there are no truces, a laboring day that never
ends, a burden to be borne by each one of us
while life lasst, to be borne by somebody so
long as sin exists in the world.
—The Churchman thinks that if any clergy
man is compelled to combine the work of a
preacher and that of a man of affairs—and the
necessity ought to be inexorable to permit this
—he owes to this Order and to the Church at
large, that he should not do business with his
title as part of his capital stock. We have
seen an insurance agent preach on Sunday,
and solioit the congregation on Monday, and
if he did not wear his surplice, he made un
mistakable use of his clerical character as an
endorsement.
—The Presbyterian has a piquant and a pic
turesque way of putting things, as ihe follow
ing, for instance; /
No body understands how to kill a conver
sation, or a prayer-meeting, oria church quicker
than a good, energetic controversialist. How
efiectualiy his presence acts as a check upon
the flow of talk, of feeling, of social life. He
switches the trains of conversation off the
track. He casta the apple of discord into the
meeting for prayer and conference. When,
he gets up to speak you know what is coming,
and turn to the hymn-book, or put your head
down in despair. He rides his hobby right
through a church, splitting the people like a
marshal in a procession, and leaving a broad
wake of dissension behind him.
—The Northwestern Advocate trenchantly
says:
All this modern haste to be rich whicn has
so robbed the land of its innocence comes of
the greenback era, when money was plenty be
cause forty cents deluded us into believing
that they were equal to a gold dollar. We are
approaching a specie basis, and when we re
sume it will be well to also put our business
morals on a specie basis.
—The Journal and Messenger says: Spur
geon’s church is often cited by the advocates
of open communion, and pointed to as an il
lustrious example of a church where the
Lord’s table may be approached with the “ut
most freedom.” A visitor thus describes how
“open” it is:
Not only strangers, but every church mem
ber,; has admission to the. communion table
only by ticket. Having euppliad ourselves
with this “prerequisite,” we duly essayed an
entrance at the “open door.” But, alas! we
were halted by one of the elders, with almost
military rudeness. “Our ticket” surrendered,
we were questioned as to our qualifications for
the supper in such a manner that had not our
sense of propriety, and perhaps something of
God’s grace, come to our rescue, we should
have turned indignantly away. Asa teacher
of religious truth for over a score of years, we
hardly felt like sitting among the catechumens
even of Spurgeon’s cultivated congregation.
We felt that this was a closeness which was
far more exacting and far less scriptural than
the most restricted communion •of regular
Baptist churches.
—The Baptist Teacher reflectively remarks:
The late Rev. Andrew Fuller, the great
Baptist preacher, was in the habit of going al
most every year to Scotland to advocate the
claims of the Baptist Missionary Society upon
the liberality of the “canny” and somewhat
hard-headed Scot. On one occasion after his
return from the land o’ cakes, a friend asked
him how he succeeded. “Very poorly, very
poorly,” was the reply. “A man can do noth
ing in that country without a monkey.” Per
hapH Mr. Fuller was at the moment somewhat
in the “blues,” and was therefore ready to say
harder things than at other times he would'
have approved of. Yet after all it was so not
far from the point, only he need not have con
fined his remark to Scotland and Scotchmen.
There are too many everywhere who need to
be tickled and amused into something like lib
erality toward any religious or benevolent
enterprise. In short, they ruußt in one way or
other have their “ monkey. ”
—The Interior speaking of pulpit themes
and short sermons, says that no ex cathedra
length for sermons can be fixed, because a ser
mon is not a thing of inches and hours. The
question of length or brevity depends upon the
state of religion, the pertinence of the subject,
in training of the people, and, above all, the
FRANKLIN PRINTING ROUSE, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FEBRUARY 24, 1876.
training, capacity, grasp and invention of the
preacher. * * * * Prolix consolations,
tedious counsel, long-drawn exhortation, pass
away on the air and utterly fail. And much
of preaching must partake of that character so
long as there is trouble, perplexity and inde
cision in the world.
How vain, therefore, to apply a measuring
stick to sermons 1 The man who runs every
sermon in the same mould as to weight and
length, had better betake himßelf to running
regulatinn army bullets, or some other mono
tonous occupation. And the .people, who put
their minister through on an inflexible time
table, ought to have a wooden preacher, one
they can wind up and set to the minute. Then
let them go to sleep till the machine runs
down and the Jrammer strikes which sends
them home to dinner.
—The same paper aptly remarks on tne
“art of talking;”
When we consider that we all are and per
force more or less must be talkers, as the neces
sity is universal so the grace of it should be
most eagerly sought. It is quite within reach
-of any one who is more anxious to benefit
than to shine; who is willing to say pleasant
things that may not he original, and as wil
ling to listen though there be no great person
al gain in it; and above all who is imbued
with a purpose at once earnest and charitable
to give something of good and receive it from
all with whom we meet.
—ln regard to the manner in which the Bi
ble should be read, Good Words says:
Let prayer not only precede and follow
your perusal of inspired truth, but let it ac
company it. In a passage of singular pathos,
Mr. Wesley has given us a picture of himself
as he occupied himself in his most retired
hours with the Book of God before him. It
is the embodiment of much sacred wisdom and
simplicity of spirit; so I adduce it: “Here,
then, lam far from the busy ways of men. I
sit down alone; only God is here. In his
presence I open, I read His book; for this
end, to find the way to Heaven. Is there a
doubt concerning the meaning of what I read ;
does anything appear dark or intricate—l lift
up my heart to the Father of Light: ‘Lord,
is it not thy Word ? II any man lack wisdom,
let him ask of God. Thou givest liberally,
and upbraidest n< t. Thou hast said, If any
be willing to do Thy will, he shall know. I am
willing to do, let me know Thy will.’ I then
search after and consider parallel passages of
Scripture, comparing spiritual things with
spiritual. I meditate thereon with all
the earnestness and attention of which my
mind is capable. If any doubt still re
mains, I consult those who are experienced in
the things of God, and then the writings
whereby, being dead, they yet speak.”
—The Independent has the following con
cerning the persecution of tire bodies of the
dead by the Romish church;
treal. borne of their people have been gettiiig
married under the laws of the kingdom, with
out asking the priests to perform the ceremo
ny. Civil marriage has satisfied the parties,
but not the church. And now it is to be pun
ished by expelling the dead bodies of those
who died in such sin from the consecrated
ground where now they lie buried. The
bodies of all persons who died before February
9, 1875, and who were only civilly married,
are to be dug up and removed from consecrated
ground. One decision of the “Spiritual
Court" upon a case of this kind has already,
it is said, been approved by the Minister of
Public Worship Now this will be plainly at
tended with great trouble and expense. It
would seem far better to send for the Bishop
of Montreal, and let him curse them as they
lie. His last job seems to have been a great
success, as Mrs. Gttibord must be very uncom
fortable, because of it. We recommend the
Bishop to the Spanish ecclesiastics; for, as one
of our exchanges says, what’s the use of dig
ging, when a top-dressing of the Bishop would
do as well ?
A correspondent of the Detroit Michigan
Free Press, who is one of a party of business
men from the Northwest on a recent trip to
the South, writes in the highest terms
of his experience and impressions in Ala
bama. He alludes to Huntsville as follows:
This is as beautiful a country as the sun ev
er shone upon. The lands, though somewhat
worn, are still fertile and producing good
crops with little or no cultivation. Planta
tions, within three to four miles of the city,
can be bought at from fifteen to twenty-five
dollars per acre, or can be leased for a nomi
nal rent, with the privilege of buying. Hunts
ville is a beautiful city of 6,000 population,
five churches, two female seminaries, gas, wa
ter, etc. It has many beautiful residences,
oak forest trees and lancy shubbery. The cli
mate is delightful; the thermometer to-day
stands at sixty in the shade. The court house
square is filled with negroes, cotton bales and
cotton buyers —a novel sight to a Wolverine.
Our party has received untiring courtesy
and attention since our arrival, from every
body.
How to Make Money. —Under this
head the Macon Telegrayh and Messen
ger has the following to say :
The Eufaula Fern says the Alabama
Grangers are considering how to raise fifty
thousand dollars to build themselves a hall in
Montgomery. The easiest way we can think
of is some arrangement to cut down the cotton
acreage just about fitly per cent. If all the
Grangers and planters could agree to that, we
think they would soon have money enough.
Such a reduction in area, we suppose, would
reduce the aggregate product from twenty to
thirty per cent., because under it, the one-half
would be made to do largely increased work;
and, in fact, in the course of two or three
crops, would bring up the gross product to old
figures, so that it might be necessary to reduce
again. It seems to us that an agricultural
league ought to be competent to protect its
members from Belf-destruction by a foolish
over production—a thing in which every one
of them has an equal and a vital interest. If
it can’t do that, what’s the use of it? We see
the manufacturing and mining interests success
fully combine to check ruinous over-produc
tion, and it ought to be equally practicable
among cotton planters.
BAPTIST NEWS AND NOTES.
"-The Baptist Reflector (Morristown,
Tenn.) says; “Our venerable brother, Rev. J.
S. Baker, of Georgia, is in extremely feeble
health. When he goes beyond the Beaulah
land the world will miss him.”
—The Index, noticing Dr. E. W. War
ren’s departure from Atlanta, for a “short vis
it” to Richmond, Va., suggests that it would be
well, for the First Church to keep him at
hofqr. There may be real danger of his be
ing appropriated by some pastorless church in
the Did Dominion.— Baptist Reflector.
Brother Kincannon, pastor of the Baptist
chunh in Bristol, Tennessee has resigned.
Bin article in the Religious Herald begins
wi Ithe question ; “Who was Rev. Edmond
Bi Lord ?” The writer says lie knows noth
ini;*>'v him but what is gathered irom his cor
respondence with Dr. Rippon. Bro. W. H.
Davts, of Georgia, who sometimes writes for
the Herald ran give much information con
cerning Botsford, as he preaches to a church
named after Botsford, and organized by him,
over one hundred years ago. Botsford was
well-known by the Baptist pioneers of Geor
g- Baptist Reflector
—The church at Greenville, N. C, is at
present without a pastor. It is an inviting
field for a man who will be content with a
Brail! salary.
—Rev. W. C. Lindsay has resigned the pas
torate of the churi h at Barnwell, 8. C., and
wilt devote himself to centennial labors in
that-State-
A Richmond, Va., correspondent of the Bal
timorean says that a prominent citizen of that
place, having made profession of religion un
der the influence of Dr. Hatcher’s splendid
preaching at the Third Baptist church, de
sired to join the Protestant Episcopal church
but believing immersion to he the only true
scriptural baptism he insisted on (hat mode of
baptism. To satisfy the candidate’s conscience
respect, the Rector of Grace Protestant
Episcopal church consented to perform
the ordinance in the mode desired, but op
posed the open air and the river’s side. This
difficulty, however, was obviated by the large
Christian charity of the Rev. Dr. Bitting,
of the Second Baptist church who kindly ten
dered his Episcopal brothe. the use of the
“baptistery” of the Second church.
—The State Mission Board located in Mem
plJf has secured Eld. J. H Caßon as general
missionary agent for Middle and West Ten
net'&e. We rejoice at the appointment.
jd G. W. ttudgers has accepted the pas
of tire churi-fi u Dallas, Texas, and
—Eld. Mayfield says the GraTOPiiitzler De
bate will he ready for delivery in April.
—On January .'list, a church of fourteen
members was organized at Flatonio, Texas.
Others expect to unite soon. Bro. A. S. Bun
ting becomes pastor.
Carson City the capital of Nevada, has a
population of about 6,000. It has a Baptist
church of sixteen devoted sisters, but no man
of God to go in and out before them.
—There are 5,289 Baptists in Chicago.
—A Baptist church in Kentucky, with
three hundred and fifty members, in a good
farming district, and with a convenient post
office, only takes one copy of a Baptist journal.
—New York Baptist State Convention has
54 missionaries in the field.
—The fifty-second Baptist church in Phila
delphia has just been organized.
—The report of the London Baptist Associa
tion states that ten years ago sixty-four
churches united to form the Association, and
that the number had risen to one hundred and
thirty-one. The additions by profession last
year were 3,236, against 2,727 the year before.
The total membership is 32,351, against 30,-
272 last year. The work of church extension
was going forward encouragingly.
—ln the whole of Canada there are 55,000
members of the Baptist churches, 33,000 of
whom belong to the Lower Provinces, and
22,000 to Ontario and Quebec. Now the rate
of increase of membership has been growing
larger for a number of years, and last year in
the lower Provinces the increase was nearly
nine per cent., while in Ontario the increase
from baptisms alone was over 14 per cent.
—All the students of Richmond College,
except six, have professed religion.
—Rev. J. W. M. Williams, D.D., of Balti
more, went to Philadelphia to hear Moody,
and says he did not see that he used the Bible
any more than a majority of sensible preach
ers. Hence he enters his protest against the
declaration that Moody teaches ministers a
lesson in that he preaches more from the Bi
ble. Dr. Williams says he heard of four per
sons who had joined Baptist churches as the
result of the Philadelphia meetings.
The old Philadelphia Baptist Associa
tion includes eighty-six churches, and twenty
one thousind seven hundred and seventy
three members. There were added by baptism
during the year, nine hundred and forty-four.
Its oldest church was organized in 1688. At
the time of the Revolution the Association in
cluded seven churches.
Dr. Nathan Bishop, who serves the Amer
ican Baptist Home Mission Society, as Cor
responding Secretary, without salary, makes
an ofler to the Baptists of New York State in
view of the lamentable decrease in the receipts
of the Home Mission Society tor the past eight
months. He and Mrs. Bishop will give $20,-
000, their Centennial oflering, to the Home
Mission Society, provided the Baptists of
New York State will raise their annual contri
butions to the Society during the present finan
cial year to 40,000.
—The Second Baptist church of Chat
tanooga was dedicated according to appoint
ment. The dedication prayer was offered by
the Paßtor, Rev. Dr. D. M. Breaker, after
which the sermon was delivered by Dr. Mays,
of Knoxville. The collection was not so
large as we expected, but the financial pressure
may account for this. Dr. Breaker has been
laboring very earnestly and successfully in
his field, and lias collected quite a number in
to the church. —Baptist Reflector.
—The Religious Herald, speaking of the re
cent revivals in Grace street church, Rich
mond, says:
The results of the meeting have been glo
rious. In a forty years' residence in the city,
though we have known more general revivals,
we have not seen a more pervasive and pow
erful work of grace in any one congregation.
It is impossible to estimate accurately the
number of conversions in the meeting. The
pastor has the names ot more than two hun
dred persons who professed to find comfort in
believing. Of this number he has baptized
about one hundred and forty, many are ex
pecting to be baptized, some i ive connected
themselves with other Baptist churches, sever
al have been carried by their predilections in
to Pedobaptist churches, and not a few were
visitors in the city. It is fair to estimate that
two hundred and fifty persons have made a
profession of repentance, and much precious
seed has been sown to yield a future harvest.
The work has not yet ceased ; and we hope it
may not for months to come.
"BEAR UP."
Cease, oh lips ! that vain repining,
Stay, oh heart! that weary sigh ;
Clouds have still their silver shining :
Better days may yet be nigh.
Grief hath gems that joys know never, —
As the stars we fondly scan,
But for night were hidden ever :
Bear up, Brother! like a man.
If thy dearest friend deceive thee,
Mourn not o’er the traitor blow;
If thy chosen one should leave thee
For another, let her go,
Yet think not all friendship’s hollow,
Or all love deserveß thy ban,
Be not blinded by thy sorrow,
Try and bear it, like a man.
Life hath joy as well as trouble,
Men are better than they seem,
Love is not an empty bubble,
Happiness not all a dream;
Though thy lot might well bo brighter.
Others mourn a drearier span,
Tears will make it none the lighter,
Try and bear it like a man.
Grovelling folly, wrong and error,
Clearer shews from suffering’s height;
Only in griefs faithful mirror
Can we see ourselves aright.
Hidden off ’neath piles of sorrow
Lies Bomo loving God-like plan ;
Wait then for a brighter morrow,
l j he.^rtip,
Commenting on the “crop lien law” the\fo
bile Register says:
The passage by the Senate of the bill repeal
ing the lien Jaw, to take effect twelve months
hence, seems to meet with general approval
from the press of the interior, the section prac
tically most interested. It is the sentiment of
our country exchanges that the effect will be
far better than if the repeal became immedi
ately active; and they seem prepared to unite
in a call upon progressive and intelligent far
mers to get ready for the cash system next
year. The inauguration of such a system
would be followed by great and very gener
al advantages; not the least of them being
enforced prudence and economy.
The Fhie on the Hearth.—The open
Stove Ventilating Company, No. 107 Fulton
street, New York, have conferred no mean
boon upon domestic life by the introduction
in our homes and plades of business of “The
Fire on the Hearth” stove, which is a most in
teresting, valuable and economical combina
tion of the open fire and warm air furnace.
This stove resembles the good and popular
“Old Franklin," but is higher and entirely en
closed.
A perfect combination of stove and open
fire has long been a desideratum among manu
facturers ; an invention which would give all
the good features of both these means of heat
ing rooms, with the absence of any of the ob
jectionable features peculiar to each. This has
been accomplished to perfection in this patent,
and science has thus contributed another im
portant and permanent adjunct to domestic
comfort and convenience, and to the enhance
ment of the public health. All the scientific
and technical journals are unanimous in the
praise of this excellent heating apparatus, and
the voice of those who have proven its merits
give to this their unqualified endorsement.
The prices for “The Fire on the Hearth”
range from sl4 to $45, according to size, inclu
ding nickel plated trimmings.
Send for circulars.
—A recent letter from Yokohoma, says that
though Christianity is making no great ad
vances in Japan, Buddhism is losing its vota
ries. In one district alone, seventy-one tem
ples have been turned over to the laity since
1873, and, within the last five years, no less
than seven hundred have been converted into
dwelling-houses and adapted to other uses.
The younger generation of Japanese seem to
find that the Buddhist religion, with its wor
ship ol idols, is incompatible with the teach
ings of modern civilization.
—Several Protestan’s in Corrunna, Spain,
asked permission of the governor to open a
chapel in that town. He positively refused.
After waiting a few days they opened the chap
el without license, and hundreds attended the
services. The governor telegraphed to Madrid
for instructions. The reply is reported to be.
“ Let them be. It can’t be helped.”/
WHOLE NO. 2808.
General Denominational Ness.
The committee appointed by the last Gener
al Conference of the M. E. Church, to prepare
a code of ecclesiastical jurisprudence, and re"
port it to the session of May, 1876,'have(met and
agreed upon the following: 1. Parish Court;
2. District Appellate Court; 3. Annual Con
ference Corn t; 4. Appellate Court, as at pres
ent constituted ; 5. A Supreme Court, to have
jurisdiction in the trial of Bishops and other
officers of the General Conference.
—Dr. Curry, Methodist, of New York, dis
approves of the present Sunday-school system
of the Methodists. He aiso condemns camp
meetings and considers camp-meeting commit
tees, “ a curse to the Church everywhere.”
—The Young Men’s Christian Association
in the United States, publish 17 periodicals,
and owns fifty-six buildings, valued, with buil
ding funds, at about $300,000.
—On Christmas day, a Methodist meeting
house was opened for worship in Rome. It
stands in the Via Poli near the fountain of
Trevi, and is described as a simple but grace
ful Gothic edifice, capable of seating 250 per
sons. The communicants number 90 persons.
At the opening service the church was crowd
ed, some 300 being present morning and even
ing.
’’'—Last year’s circulation of the Bible in
Spain, amounted to over 50,000 copies, and in
Portugal, too, the sales amounted to over 8,000
copies.
—Adviceß from Rome state that Cardinal
Simeoni has been instructed to quit Madrid,
if the Cortes approves the proposed clause in
the Constitution relative to liberty of wor
ship.
—The late Mrs. Lucretia Creighton, who
died in Philadelphia rcently willed $1,500,-
0(50 to endow a college in Dayton, Ohio, for
the education of indigent young men who de
sire to prepare themselves for the Chatholic
ministry.
Forthe Index and Baptist-!
F. SI. UAYGOOD’S LETTER.
To the Baptists in Georgia and adjacent States:
I have accepted an agency for The
Index ; I desire to do much in its in
terest ; I also hope to preach as I go ;
I ask and beg the co-operation of all
who love our Heavenly Father.
Conyers, Georgia, is a little city
by the railroad, with three Baptist
churches—one anti-missionary, the
other missionary—Rev. J. M. Brittain
is the, acceptable pastor. Rev. A. J.
Beck Is pastor at Decatur, aiuUßew.
M. Stillwell is pastor at
tain and at Lithonia. Each of theSJr
four churches named above, hare
Sunday-schools.
I expect next to visit Macon, Rey.
nolds, Butler, Geneva, Columbus, Fort
Valley, Marshallville and other places
in Southwest Georgia. More Anon.
F. M. Haygood,
Index Agent.
Conyerß, Ga., Feb. 19, 1876.
For the Index and Baptist.)
NOTICE.
Treasurers who have funds on hand
for the Board of Foreign Missions,will
please forward at once.
H. A. Tupper,
Corresponding Secretary, Richmond, Va.
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