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2 <§nr Cumspnkttis. for the Index and Baptist.] DAILY READINGS IY THE SCR,PTIRES. Dawson, Ga., Jan. 17th, 1876. Dear Index —Will you please republish a elan for reading the Bible through in the year, y reading so many chaplers every day, and so many each Sabbath, or so many books during each month. I had a printed plan but lost it, and want it again. If you republish the plan, how would it do to request every one that reads the Bible through this year to in form you of the fact next Christmas, and then publish how many of the readers of The In dex have read the Bible, both Old and New Testament, through in 1876? A. J. H. My beloved brother Baker has refer red to me the inquiry sent to The In dex by A, J. H., on the above subject. 1, too, have lost the printed plan for daily readings, which I used to follow ; but the habit has been formed, and I will give it as best I can from memory. Begin with first chapter in Genesis, first in I Chronicles and first in Mat thew. There are 369 chapters in the New Testament and minor prophets, and the same number from Genesis to the last of II Kings ; add to these the 66 chapters in laiah, which will be de ducted from the 512 from I Chronicles to the last of Ezekiel, and you have only 16 chapters more in the middle division than in each of the other two. This is only an opproximation to accu racy. Read three chapters daily and one additional on Sabbath, and you will have finished the Bible in the year. In reading the Scriptures it is very desirable to enjoy their sanctifying power, therefore, while they should be read intellectually, they should also be read spiritually- We should learn the sacred Word to obey it; we should know more of God that we may honor Him in our hearts and lives. When we gather the gold from the inexhaus table mine, we may enrich our souls therewith. E. W. W. for the Index and Baptist.] TO THE WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION. Until a few years ago, I had no idea of the great work which Mercer Uni versity was accomplishing in Georgia, and through other Southern States. While attending the Mercer mass meet ings, usually held some night during the session of the Georgia Baptist Con vention, I had my eyes opened to the great importance of this University, not only in advancing the cause of ed ucation generally, but our denomina tional influence and power for good es pecially. At the meetings above refer ed to, the alumni tell of the position filled by such and such a one, either us a prominent politician, merchant, farmer, lawyer, physician, teacher, or minister in this or that place or State, etc., etc. This talk is carried on until one, who had not thought on these facts before, is made to fe<*l and x -djdma ‘‘purely, Me. cer University, j has accomplished venders fib the denomination and the country ! What would have been our condition without Mercer? How can we do without Mercer?” etc. Now, brethren and friends of tho Washington Asso ciation, what Mercer has been, and is, to the Georgia Baptist Convention, Washington Institute can and should be to the Washington Association. For a few years after our school was established, God blessed us most won derfully, because “the people had a mind to work.” And now scarcely a neighborhood can be found within the bounds of the Washington Associa tion in which does not live one or more representative men or women to testi fy that “we should not come down, for we aro doing a groat work.” We have already sent out many pupils from the Washington Institute, among all the professions, especially teachers, male and female, of whom we are proud. Brethren, can we afford to give up our Associatioual School? Shall wo not still strive to make Washington Institute a valuable tributary to our beloved Mercer, and the Georgia Bap tist Female College wherever located ? To my mind, the times demand that a school of high order should be estab lished iu every Association. While we pray God’s blessings upon each and every common school in the land, yet we are fully convinced that small com munities are not able to keep up per manent educational facilities sufficient to meet our demands as a growing, God-loving and God-serving people. Brethren, will you give this subject one serious thought ? The strength of such institutions is expressed in one word, viz : co-operation. We have al ready a school of this order within our bounds. Shall we give it up ? A high school in every Association iu the State would inspire a desire for still greater attainments in knowledge that would fill our colleges with students. With these lights before us, may we all re member that “ as Baptists, and mem bers of the Washington Association, we pledged ourselves,” by resolution at the last session, “to work for our beloved Institute, to foster it with our tenderest care, and strive each to add one pupil to the number of students in attendance at said Institute.” Brethren, in the year 1876, this cen tennial year, we will decide for or against the Washington Institute. Shall we give up this grand project for " blessing the young,” and through them our churches and the country ? May all say : "Never” !! Your broth r in Christ, Thos. J. Adams. THE CHRISTIAN INDEX AND SOUTH-WESTERN BAPTIST. For the Index and Baptist.] The Proposed State Inebriate Asjlnm for Geor gia—The Legislature—lts Doty. Brother Editor— ln your issue of January 20th, you notice the report of the committee to be submitted to the Legislature, on an “Inebriate Asylum,” and comment thereon. I read the no tice and comments with pleasure, and am gratified at the movement; but still, I could not keep down my thoughts on the subject while reading the article, and I here give them to you. The Legislature of Georgia proposes to build an asylum for drunkards ; is this a charity work, or a debt due these unfortunates ? I think the State owes them a home more than she does the insane. To the insane it is a work of mercy ; to the drunkard it is a partial discharge of an obligation. Should the State, by legislation, authorize a band of robbers to destroy the proper ty of any of her citizens, she would be under obligation to restore the proper ty or its equivalent in money. But the State does authorize a band of heart less men, destitute of conscience, and regardless of the rights and well-being of others, to rob men of their reason and of their money without giving them value received, women and chil dren of their natural protector, and homes of their happiness. When these ireatures become wrecks, made so by those who are fostered and protected in their nefarious work by the State, is it not the duty of the State te pro vide them a home? But again, does it pay the State to legalize those cess pools of vice, and authorize the establishment of drunk ard factories all over the State, and then build homes to stow away the manufactured article? Will the in come from licenses equal the expendi ture in providing and maintaining the asylum ? Again, what is this movement but an attempt, on the part of the State, to compensate, in some degree, for the great evil she inflicts upon her citizens in legalizing the liquor traffic? What is this but a confession of guilt in being particeps criminis in the work of drunk ard making ? She cannot plead the es tablishment of lunatic and blind asy lums as being of similar character. These latter instutions are tho result of the great heart-throb of humanity, providing for the relief of wretched ness the State did not cause; the for mer a provision for wretchedness that might have been prevented. One is the work of mercy; the other, an at tempted restitution to the wronged sufferers. If I give to the relief of one who has been accidentally injured by himself or others, it is an act of chari ty ; if I wantonly or maliciously injure one in person, and then pay the ex pense incurred in curing him, I have only performed, in part, my duty. 1 may compensate him for his time lost, ana expense of his recovery, but jjever for tip suffering ▼jMlTrefl 'in cons<4' quence of iny act. The State may, in part, compensate the poor outcasts by providing them a comfartable home, but never for the desolation of hearts, and the misery and woe entailed upon helpless families by its legalized whiskey business. Once more, is not tho Legislature be ginning at the wrong end of its work ? Would it not be wiser, cheaper, and more humane to close up the factories than to build homes for the handiwork of saloon-keepers ? Would it not be better to dry up the fountain ; then there would bo no need of reservoirs to receive its foul stream ? It is trying to abate an evil by providing a place for the ripened fruit of the poisonous tree instead of cutting down the suc culent stalk itself, and thus stopping its feculent growth. I would respectfully suggest to your honorable Legislature, to cease traffic in g in human wretchedness by legaliz ing rum selling, and then the need of an inebriate asylum will soon pass away. If men will continue in the criminal work, let them be outlaws rather than fostered by State legisla tion. I verily believe every legislator who votes to license the liquor trade, will bo hold accountable at the bar of Eternal Justice, for all the evil done under the licenso. N. A. Bailey. Talladega, Ala. For tht l Index and Baptist.j 01K STATISTICAL TABLES —AS EARN EST AP PEAL. Eds. Index. —Evidently it was not the design of our Lord, in establishing His churches upon earth, that they glory iu their numerical strength. If such had been His design, He would have incorporated into their constitu tion some plan for collecting their sta tistics. As it is, it is next to impossi ble to get an exact estimate of their numbers. The only means of forming a statistical I able is through the min utes of the various associations—a hu man arrangement; and, necessarily, very incomplete. There are mauy members dismissed by letter, and not counted by any church; many churches belong to no association, and many which do, failing to report themselves in their associations, are not included in the general estimate; while it has been demonstrated an almost impossible thing to collect all theso minutes. They hare a wav of hiding themselves, or their owners have a way of forgetting that they have them, or where they havo laid them, or that they are need ed,—at least, notwithstanding my pri vate notes, and public calls, even with you to help me, (for which I thank you) they fail to make their appearance. In view of these stubborn facts, am I not right in saying it was not the de sign of the Master to encourage us in glorying in our numbers ? If the difficulty of doing a thing were evidence that such thing is sinful I should be compelled to believe that, to make a correct statistical table of Baptists is sinful. But this cannot be, since the Bible gives records of the numbers of God’s people, both definite and indefinite. I shall continue, there fore, the work of perfecting the statis tical table of the Convention minutes, and, with emphasis, repeat the request to brethren to seud me their associa tion minutes. Of the members of the Convention I need the minutes of the Appalachee, Carrollton, Cave Spring, Central, Clarksville, Friendship, Georgia, Liber ty, Mercer, Mt. Vernon, New Ebenezer, New Sunbury, North Georgia, Pied mont, Tugalo and Western. Of thoo* not members of the Convention, I need all except the Ellijah and Hightower of the whites, and the Southwesterly Middle Georgia and Walker of thl colored. Brethren, clerks of Associations and members thereof, agents of Boards ana Conventions, editors and contributor pastors and people, male and female, one and all, please remember I need, must have, the minutes of Associations of all kinds, of white and colored, of Missionary, anti-Missionary andomis-. sionary, and that your aid is most ur gently solicited in supplying them*. Give this aid and we can settle the mooted question, pronounced by some “extravagant pretentions and wholly unfounded” that ihere are more Bap-_ tists in Georgia by 25,000 than mem bers of all other Protestant denomina tions put together. G. R. McCall. H&wkiuaville, (la., For the Index and Baptist.] GEAIS BESET. —Every hour of time wasted in youth, is ominous of misfortune in the future. —The curse of a sensuous life, is the aversion it engenders for useful em ployment. —Do this above all things: Be true to God, and thy own soul. —A brave resolve is nature’s health ful plan to strengthen our souls, and power doth make the man. —Faith to this glorious thought holds fast for aye: God is, will be, when worlds have passed away. —ls not a sympathetic heart, an ever cheerful nature, made strong by health, a treasure-mine worth having ? —Old age is never homely when it] possesses a soul that can show itself without a mask. H. . //f' ♦ 0/tvtY * * it • •- Fur tbs la lex and Baptist.] OUR FOREIGN MISSION WORK. In The Index, of the 10th instant, we find some “ Facts for the Thought ful and Pious,” presenting the needs of our Foreign Mission Board under a most alarming aspect —§10,000 de manded for present pressing emergen cies, notwithstanding the recent extra ordinary retrenchments by the cutting down, or even the entire relinquish ment of salary on the part of our de voted missionaries. Other sources of information assure us that our beloved Foreign Secretary and one of his clerks have, for the present, suspended their own salaries also. The field of our operations abroad is white to the harvest, and consecrated men and women are offering them selves for the work, but the treasury is ornpty, and they cannot be accepted and employed in the service. What is to be the end of all this ? Must our mis sionaries be recalled and our fields abandoned? We can see but one al ternative —they certainly must, unless Southern Christians rally with anew and unwonted zeal to the rescue. Now, we have no fears respecting the final success of Christ’s cause. His Gospel will certainly be preached in all the world; the heathen will be given to Him for His inheritance, aud the uttermost parts of the earth for His possesssion. These glorious facts are assured to us by the infallible testimony of inspired prophecy, and almost every note of intelligence from far off lands proves that the day of their accomplish ment is rapidly approohing. If we forsake the fields of Christian enter prise on whose threshold we have been lingering, other laborers from other sections, and of other households of faith, will enter in and reap the har vest of souls for our Redeemer. But can we willingly consent to this? A little self-denial on our part —just a very little, would relieve all embarass ments, and obviate the danger of the relinquishment of the work. Is it too much to ask that self denial be practiced in gratitude to Him “ who though He was rich, for our sakes became poor, that we, through His poverty, might be made heirs to an inheritance incorruptible and unde filed” and immortal, in the “ city whisli hath foundations.” Ten cents from 100,000 Baptists would supply the amount. Of course, these could not all be reached; but are there not 10,000 Baptists who will read this appeal, or who may be influenced by those who will see it, and who can by a little self-denial, send on to Richmond, to our brother Tupper, the small sum of $1 for Foreign Missions, for their Redeemer’s sake. C. Jlirate Ulisskns. __ For the Index and Baptist.] ANNUAL REPORTS Of the Secretaries of Individual Churches, to the Executive Committee of their Associa tion—(sDch as may occur before very long.) REPORT NO. 11. Dear Bro. Keepatem, Secretary Executive Committee —Our church has prospered during the last year, hav ing increased in numbeis from 400 to 450, most of whom were received by I baptism, as you will see by the statis tics sent. The total amount collected in our church this last year, for all purposes, was as follows : For pastor, $2,500; for church expenses, $500; for Associational purposes, SIOO ; for Do mestic and Indian Missions, $225; for Foreign Missions, $200; for our own Sunday-school, $150; for State Sunday school work, SSO; for State Missions, $75. Besides these, our members have been liberal towards the endowment of Mercer University and the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and have aided the Orphans’ Home, and the Old Preachers’ Board. I know our church has not done its full duty, but we feel, thoroughly, that it is incumbent upon us to aid in spreading abroad the glo rious Gospel of our Lord and Saviour. ,Our pastor has sought assiduously to ‘train the cnurch to give regularly and systematically to the Mission and the Sunday-school canse, and our Treasurer has obtained pledges from nearly every ■ member, in behalf of missions, and Las collected nearly all of them. Our object is to raise funds to aid in sup porting our great missionary operations systematically and without spasmodic violence. In years past by, we used to take up one or more collections annu ally, for missions, and would occasion ally raise a collection for agent, visit ing us, but we have now adopted a bet ter plan . each member is requested to state how much he or she will give annually to missions, and the Treasurer collects the various amounts during the year, and forwards the funds quarterly, as directed by the church.* Our Sunday-school is flourishing, having been visited by the State Evan gelist and Superintendent, of Sunday school work for the State several times through the year. We have in the school 400 scholars and 50 officers and teachers. I should not omit to men tion that our church has built one mission chapel, at a cost of $1,500, and supported a large Sunday-school iu it. But, as our usual contributions to God’s cause have been only about $lO, on an |yrage, we feel that we have not done plan for 'raising missionary money is not the best possible; when we learn a better one, we will adopt it. Yours in Gospel bonds. Abram Constant, Church Clerk. To these two fictitious reports which might be made by individual churches to the Executive Committee of their Association, might be aoded various others, describing different plans for raising money for Mission purposes, as every church has its own plan, which with most churches amounts to no plan at all. Our object should be to dis cover and practice the best plan. Hith erto, I have written these articles with out consulting any one, simply publish ing my owl views as evolved by a con sideration of our denominational ma chinery, and by the urgent need for organized co-operation and for some generally adopted method for raising mission funds systematically in all our churches. My plau has been to appoint a State Board of Missions, (note the phrase well,) not a Board for State Missions. This Board should endeavor, by the paid services of acompetent secretary,to arouse every single church in the State to its full duty in the Mission work aud Sunday-school work. But he should operate through the Assoc:a tions and their Executive Committees, and these Associations and their Ex ecutive Committees should endeavor to reach every church, and every single member in each church. The State Board of Missions, by its Secretary, should, of course, seek the co-operatiou of each pastor, and endeavor to estab lish in each church the best possible plan for collecting, regularly and sys tematically, funds for the Mission and Sunday-school work. If we can thus get each church to collect its own Mis sion funds, and to give liberally, the necessity for other regular paid Mission agents in the State of Georgia will be obviated, and, therefore, just so much money saved for Missions themselves. I now take the liberty of respectefully calling on brethren C. M. Irvin, W. N. Chaudoin, and any other brother who knows of a good plau by which a church may, or can collect funds for Missions, to state it in The Index, or, what is better, to give in detail that plan which has been adopt ed in some church, aud which has proved most easily successful and the most self-perpetuating. For, be it remembered, the use of organization is to obtain from members of individual churches the funds need ed to carry out the great commission. Now let us have the best plan for a church to adopt, and then let our Con vention appoint a Board for Missions, which shall, as the agent of the great Mission work, seek to secure the adop tion of that or some systematic plan in each church, and actually obtain the money which it is the duty of the churchs to contribute to the Mission cause, each one according to its abili ty- I have written quite enough for one man on this subject of general interest, and may write more, if I fael like it, but I now call upon the brethren who feel an interest in this subject, to take hold of their pens and let us hear what they have to say, before our Conven tion meets in April, at Thomasville. S. Boykin. Macon, Ga. For the Index and Baptist.] “MY DREAM.” “ ’Mid the blue waves, by circling seas embraced,” lies a chosen spot of fairest land. I pushed my little barque quickiy toward the shore, for I was weary and would rest. I landed, and so delighted was I with the beautiful island and the joyous inhabitants, that I sunk my little barque in the deep waters, determined there to take up my abode for the remainder of my life. After a few days I began to explore the island. The king sent a guide to show me over the fertile plain thickly strewn with choicest flowers. The guide was very aged ; his hair bore the traces of many winters snows, and his tallform, which had once been majectic, l was now bent with the weight of four score years. I imagined that his pale brow bore the imprint of sorrow, and I said to him, “ Father, you look as though you had seen something of sor row. Tell me, if it is possible that there is any suffering in this land of beauties.” A mournful smile crossed bis noble features. “ Follow me, my son, and you will see.” I followed, and lo! in the grassy center of the isle, concealed amid their native rocks, I saw two streams very near to each other, but, strange to say, their waters never met or mingled. “What a contrast!” I murmured, wondering the while, what my wise guide could mean. Gazing awhile on the two streams, I then looked up and saw his eyes resting fixedly on my troubled brow. “ I will explain my son,” he said, in low musical tones. “ You,, see that black, repulsive stream —its name is Sorrow. All who drink of its waters must surely suffer from its effects. Even the land through which its treach erous waters glide, is ruined and blasted. O, how unlike the pure, transparent stream flowing so near. My son, we call these twin streams. That mty seem strange to you, but it is true, tha: they flow their entire course near to gether—so very near, as you see. This other one is called Joy. It bubbles over golden sands, and the impeding stjuix's .with, pleasant music seem its progress to detain for other lands, and all its banks are wreathed with flowery bands —ambrosial fragrance shed in grateful dew. All who taste its waters receive the most delightful effects.” “ Then,” said I, “ why will they touch the dark waters of Sorrow ; why not drink only from this lovely stream which you call Joy ?” “Ah, my son, listen to me! ‘Mor tals are not allowed to drink un uiingledfrom that current bright.’ Our island has many different streams and fountains, from which all the inhab itants drink promiscuously, according lo their”tastes. There are fountains of wealth and knowledge and power and fame and ambition. But thelearned men of the place tell us that the waters of these two streams are mingled with every other on the isle. ’Twas a long time before they found it out, and they tell us it is some wondeful freak in nature for which they can give no rea son. Many will not believe it, and in their thirst after power and wealth, they drink deeply of their waters, never believing, until taught by bitter experience, that in these fountains very many drops of sorrow have found their way. ludeed, those who choose the other streams, and are fortunate enough to find the bright current mingled with theirs, find, alas, that it has not come alone; they discover some inky trace of the darker stream in every draught, how bright so e’er it seems.” “And is there no relief, no help, no remedy,” I asked; "no way in which you may rid ourselves of this murky stream? “ No, my son; not in the way you think. One way there is, but few can be per suaded to adopt it. They prefer strug gling on with their own sorrows, trust ing in their own strength. The true way is this—to place our trust in the Creator of a crystal river, which is at the very utmost part of our island, and to get which you must incur numerous dangers ; but, once there, an angel of light, clothed in beautiful raiment, who, having guided you over the rough places on the way, gives you of the River or Life freely. It is called the River of Life because once having tast ed its waters, it is said you live eternal ly thereafter, iu perfect happiness ; and those who have been there assert that these two streams flow on and on, un til as they come nearer and nearer the river, the muddy stream becomes bright and the bright one becomes brighter, until they both emerge into this clear .beautiful stream,and lose their own identity. |But few will consent to brave the danger to have their bur. dens of sorrow lifted off; others are too busy, and others will not believe in its existence. You see in me, my son, a monument of the lives of the many. In my youthful ambition I drank eagerly of all the fountains, yet what did I gain ? True, I gained fame, knowledge, power, wealth; bat, alas, you see me now, bent down with the bitter sorrow drained from all these cups. And now lam going, thus late in life, to set out for the shining river, hoping to reach it, if life be spared me. Ore good deed would I do before I go —I would advise you, as you have just now begun life in this place, to join me, and go first to th‘s river of life, then the other streams will lose their power to harm you.” “Come ! come!” he said pleadingly, and, as he took my hand, behold, by our side appeared a beautiful being, clad in raiment of purest white, with the wings and face of a seraph. “This is the angel who presides over the river of life," said the old man. I looked and the angel-hand beckoned me on, and the seraph lips murmeredthe word “ Come.” Then I awoke—for I had been dreaming. And now, as I recall the dream, I can trace, very distinctly, a vivid reality about it. Yes, it is true, most true, that sor sow mingles with every pursuit, and joy, also—sometimes very little joy. It is true, also, that one is always either followed or preceded by the other. ’Tis true, too that we have a water of life, from which we are invited to drink freely ; and a beautiful thought it is, too, that faith in God brightens our deepest sorrows, and il luminates our sweetest joys. Yesterday I was ambitious, hoping for fame through the power of my in tellect. I murmured to myself “knowledge is power;” and so it is. But I never thought to strive for any knowledge of “the one thing needful.” I was vain and grasping, and said to myselfr “wealth brings homage and dis tinction;” and for it I determined to seek, thinking it would make me happy, never once entertaining a thought of the true “soul’s wealth”—religious faith, hope and joy. Now, I am mindful That neither joy nor sorrow, Is our destined end, or way ; To strive that each to-morrow, Shall make us better than to-day should be the motto of my life ; and, though I do not think it necessary to give up all my ambitious prospects, yet I am determined, first of all, to seek the “one thing needful.” Lead on, angel guide; where you lead I will follow. G. W. Montgomery, Ala. TUREE FRIENDS OF MINE. I. When I remember those friends of mine, Who are no longer here, the noble three, Who half my life were more than friends to me. And whose discourse waslise a generous wine, I most all remember the divine Something, that shone in them, and made ns see The archetypal man, and what might be The amplitude of Nature's first design, In vain I stretch my hands to clasp their hands; I cannot find them. Nothing now is left But majestic memory. They meanwhile Wander together in Elysiau lands. Perchance remembering me, who am bereft Of their dear presence, and, remembering, smile. u. In Attica thy birthplace should have been, Or the lonian Isles, or where the seas Encircle in their arms the Cyclades, So wholly Greek was thou in thy serene And childlike joy of life, Philhelene! Around thee would have swarmed the Attic bees; Homer had been thy friend, or Socrates, And Plato welcomed thee to his demesne, For the old legends breathed historic breath ; Thou sawest Poseidon in the purple sea, And the sunset Jason’s fleece of gold ! O, what hadst thou to do with cruel Death, Who was so full of life, or Death with thee, That thou shouldst die before thou hadst grown old ! hi. I stand again on the familiar shore, And hear the waves of the distracted sea Piteously calling aud lamenting thee, And waiting restless at thy cottage door, The rocks, the seaweed on the ocean floor, The willows in the meadow, and the free Wild winds of the Atlantic welcome me ; Then why shouldst thou be dead, and come no more ? Ah ! why shouldst thou be dead, when common men Are busy with their trival affairs. Having and holding ? Why, when thou hadst read Nature's mysterious manuscript, aud then Wast ready to reveal the truth it bears, Why art thou silent ? Why shouldst thou be dead ? rv. River, that stealest with such silent pace Around the City of the Dead, where lies A friend who bore my name, and whom these eyes Shall Bee no more in his accustomed place, Linger and fold him in thy soft embrace, And say good light, for now the western skies Are red with sunset, and gray mists arise Like damps that gather on a dead man's face, Good night! good night ! as we so oft have said Beneath this roof at midnight, in days That are no more, and shall no more return. Thou hast but taken thy lamp and gone to bed ; I stay a little longer, as one stays To cover up the embers that still burn. v. The doors are all wide open ; at the gate The blossomed lilacs counterfeit a blaze, And seem to warm the air ; a dreamy haze Hangs o'er the Brighton meadow like a fate, And o’er their margin, with sea tides elate, The flooded Charlos, as in the happier days, Writes the last letter of his name and stays His restless steps, as if compelled to wait. I also wait; but they will come no more, Those friends of mine, whose presence satis fied The thirst and hunger of my heart. Ah me ! They have forgotten the pathway to my door ! Something is gone from nature since they died. And summer ia not summer, nor can be. —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. —The Macon Library, under its new librarian, Mr. Charles Herbst, is pros pering finely; out of debt, money on hand and sixty new members added in six weeks.