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The Christian Index THE SOTjm-WESTSK,IT BAPnHT, THE CHHBTIAN Tmm..T.-n or Alabama. - or Tin[(bss „. VOL 55-NO. 9. Table of Content*. First Page. —Alabama Department: Record of State Events; Fear Not—Rev. A. D. Nunnally; Going to Law—Rev. D. E. Butler; Spirit of the a Religious Press: General Denominational News; Baptist News and Notes. Second Page. —Our Correspondents : Are Our Methods of Collecting Funds for Benevolent Purposes Wrong—A Rejoinder—Tertius; The Goshen (colored) Baptist Church—P. F. Bur gess; Centennial Notes—W. T. Russell, Agent; Strangers in the Pulpit—J. R. Kendrick; Plainly Stated—Will Our Brethren Believe It— L. B. Fish. Mission Work—Present Condi tion —Destitute Regions—Suffering Mission aries—Wm. H. Mclntosh, Corresponding Sec retary; Letter from the Choctaw Nation—J. 8. Murrow; Rehoboth Mission; etc. Third Page.— Our Pulpit: Sin, Righteousness and Judgment—A Sermon, by Rev. J. C. Wright, of Oxford, Alabama. The Sunday school : Sunday-school Work in the Middle Association; Ime Rehoboth and Oostanaula Associations and the Sunday-school Cause; A Useful Plan; Teaching; Well Answered; etc. Fourth Page.— Editorial: Worldly Wisdom; The Watch Care of Churches—Rev. J. S. Baker. Our Next State Convention; Georgia Baptist News; First Baptist Church of Atlanta; Music a Divine Gift—Rev. D. E. Butler. Fifth Page. —Special Contributions: Notes on the Act of Baptism—Rev. J. H. Kilpatrick; | Financial Ethics—Rev. G. A. Nunnally; Love Conquers Death—Chas. W. Hubner. Secular Editorials: Legalized Gambling; ‘'People will Talk:” Georgia News; Literary Gossip; etc. Sixth Page.— Select Miscellanv : Gems Reset —Poetry; Bible Lands, their Modern Customs and Manners; Spurgeon’sChapel. Children’s Corner: Too Small to Help—Poetry; The Magic of Silence; Science and Education; etc. Seventh Page. —Agriculture : The Old Farm House—Poetry; The Timber Interest; Educa ted Farmers; How Much is a Horse Power; Household Hints; etc. Eighth Page. —The Sunday-school: Lesson for March sth. Meeting of the Board of Trustees of Mercer University. Marriages. Obituaries. Advertisements. INDEX AND BAPTIST. ALABAMA DEPARTMENT. Wheat is looking well in Jefferson county. J. T. Conally, of Marshall county, lecently committed suicide by hanging. There is a tri-weekly hack line between Warrior and Jasper. W. O; Bulger, Sr., hag been re-elected mayor of Wetumpka. Small-pox is prevailing in parts of Lauder dale county. The Cherokee circuit court begins its spring term Maiieh 6th . t Oxmoor is soon to make 250 tons of iron a week. The Sunday-school at Butler has been re-or ganized. Whittle and Bliss, the evangelists, will soon begin a series of services in Selma. North Creek post-office in Fayette county has been discontinued. Mr. David Armstrong, of Notasulga, was re cently thrown from a mule and his neck was broken, causing instant death. Rev. R. V. Jennings, late pastor of the Cumberland Presbyterian church at Selma, died near Columbia, Tenn., on February 18tb. Gertrude, a little daughter of Rev. E. B. Teague, the beloved pastor 6f the Selma Bap tist church, died on Tuesday, the 22d ult. Judge Miller has made arrangements to send the mail twice a week from Tuscaloosa to Ha vanna, in Hale county, by private conveyance. Mr. Messer, ferryman at Chancellor’s ferry, on the Coosa, was killed recently by the acci dental discharge of his gun. Mr. M. A. Sheehan has purchased the Eu faula limes. . Capt. Boynton exhibited himself last week at Mobile in his life-saving apparatus and achieved great success. -. ♦ - Gen. W. B. Bate, of Nashville, will deliv er an address in Montgomery, April 26th> when the Odd Fellows will celebrate the anni versary of the Order in America. Thomas Isbell, late postmaster at Cross Plains, has been robbing the mail, and has fled the country. A bill has passed the Legislature endorsing the settlement of the State debt made by the Commissioners. The settlement will bring the entire State debt inside of ten mil lion dollars, at a low rate of interest. The Eufaula News remarks: If there is a planter in this section who can now look cot ton in the face at ten cents per pound, and not feel an inclination to shake his fist at it, and then put more of his land in corn, mark our words: He will wish he had done so next fall. The Governor has approved the act refund ing the twenty-five dollar license tax paid last year by merchants and dealers other than com mission merchants and brokers, under para graph 20 section 102 of the Revenue lawf The bill now before Congress intended to secure the distribution of the amounts illegal ly collected by the Goverment as tax on cot ton, would give to Alabama $10,388,072. If the measure passes this amount would be giv en to the Ctate as a perpetual School Fund. FEAR MOT. “ Of whom shall I be afraid ? ” “ The law ?” “ Christ has become the end of the law for righteousness, to every one that believeth.” “ For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh—that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit,” and “ if ye be led of the Spirit then ye are not under the law,but under grace.” “ The law is our school master to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.” The chains of the law are dissolved in the blood of the Lamb, and the law-hound slave becomes the blood-bought child. The gloom of Sinai is dissipated by the light of the Cross, and the nation that sat in the region of darkness can now rejoice un der the beams of the Sun of Righteous ness. “ Of whom shall I be afraid ? ” Of Sin ? “ Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world,” for “ He hath apppeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself,” and “ the blood of Jesus Christ cleans eth us from all sin.” “ Our old man is crucified with him” and “he that is dead is freed from sin,” and “ being made free from sin ye became the ser vants of righteousness,” and “when sin abounded grace did much more abound.'' The darts of sin are well aimed, but striking the shield of Jesus, fall poi ntless at the Christian’s feet. The veteran of the Cross may carry scars, but he bears no fatal wounds. Sin may decoy, hut cannot entrap those who trust in Jesus, for the meshes of his net has been torn in pieces. He may pursue, hut cannot capture, for his dominion has been destroyed. “ Of whom shall I be afraid ? ” 'Of Afflictions? Tifcse ligU af flictions are but for a moment, and “work for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.” “All things work together for good to them that love God.” “Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth, and He scourgeth every son.” Tears may scald the cheek, but they trace lines of beauty on the soul. Sorrow may sweep over the bosom like a wild tempest; hut the storm is muffled, and a subdued melody lingers in the spirit chambers. Precious treasures are lost to earthly sight, but they re appear and shine like threads of gold in the apparel of the soul. The plague spot may be grievous to be borne, but it is the impress of tbe Divine finger and the seal of our discipleship. “ Of whom shall I be afraid ? ” Of Death ? Jesus “hath the keys of hell and of death,” for “ He hath de stroyed him who had the power of death and “ hath abolished death and brought life and immortality to light;” yea, “ death is swallowed up in victory,” and “ thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.” Death is not so much the cessation of what I am, as it is thebe ginning of what lam to be. His pres ence may cast a shadow over the present existence, but He rolls back the curtains and lets in the light of a future life. “ Life prolonged a burden proves, Heavier far than man can bear; Better crave the long shunned death, And gain sweet release from care/’ “ Of whom shall I be afraid ? ” Of God ? Hath He not “ loved us with an everlasting love ? ” Is He not the One who “ sticketh closer than a brother ? ” Hath He not promised, “ never to leave us or forsake usand are we not “ kept by His power through faith unto salvation ?” Is He not “our sun and shield,” and will He not “ give grace and glory, and withhold no good thing from them who walk uprightly?” Has He not said that nothing “ shall be able to separate us from His love, which is in Christ Jesus, our Lord ? ” Let us prove arrant cowards on all life’s battle fields ; let us surrender every title to moral heroism, but let us never dis honor God by entertaining a slavish fear for Him in our bosoms. Such fear converts obedience into a mere choice of evils—preferring present, voluntary self-denial to future punishment. “ I fear not,” should be stamped upon each Christian brow, but presumption should FRANKLIN PRINTING RODSE, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, MARCH 2, 1876. not be betrayed in a single line of the the face, while “ I trust,” should be his “ shield and buckler.” GOING TO LAW. Brother J. M. Smith, of Tennille, Georgia, writes: “Is it wrong for a brother to go to law with a brother, without first taking him to the church ? Bethany Church, in her last con ference, decided in the affirmative, and ap pointed a committee to arrange an item to that effect. We would like to know what brother Butler thinks. Please give us your views.” 1. “Owe no man anything, but to love one another.”—Rom. xiii:B. 2. If you get in debt, pay the same, or “agree with thine adversary quickly, while thou art in the way with him; lest at any time, the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge de liver thee to ihe officer, and thou be cast into prison.”—Mat. v:25. “Dare any of you having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust and not before the saints.”— I Cor. vi:l. These quotations from the Scrip tures contain that wisdom which is not of this world. Our Lord well knew that His people in this life would be the subjects of temptation, in this very way, and hence these salutary laws. If all professing Christians would be guided by the Scriptures, there would be no need of going to law ; for, says the apostle, in reference to this matter, “There is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. WRy do ye not rather take wrong ? Why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to 'be defrauded ? Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.”—l Cor. vi:7, 8. Christians ought not to go to law with any one, for when one brother sues another brother, at once, they be come adversaries, enemies; and whq can tell where the devil does not lea them, or what sins, by his power, they fyre not compelled coruTnit ? How lamenSibie is the condition 'of many precious brethren and once flour ishing churches, caused by this arch enemy of temporal and spiritual pros perity ? By so much the more is this evil aggravated when we neglect to “pay our vows” and indebtedness to God, “from whom comes every good and perfect gift.”—James i; 17. The following statement is printed for the benefit of tax paye.s, in regard to the assess ment of taxes: The law provides that the assessor Bhall make two visits to the different precincts, and remain upon the sacond trip two days at each place. All who fail to give in their property before the close of the last round will be counted defaulters, and be waited upon by a deputy or sent a written no tice. If they do not respond by the first of June, the accessor will ascertain by inquiry, the amount of their property, and assess it with an addition of twenty per cent. —A correspondent of the Baptist Reflector, writing from Carter county, Tenn., says: “I want to tell you about a good old brother, who lives in this county, whose name is Jonathan Lipps. He was born in October, 1777, being now in his 99th year. He has been a consist ent member of the Baptists 77 years. He was identified with the First Baptist church in this county, attending its session for years from a distance of twelve miles. The Montgomery Advertiser says: “ The Board of Directors of the State Fair have been in session and received reports of committees. The citizens of Montgomery responded very generally and a large amount has been sub scribed in stock and cash. A committee was appointed to confer with the Executive Com mittee of the Grangers, and the probabilities are, that we will have the grandest fair in this city next fall that has ever been in the State. Once located and in proper hands, the State Fair will beau institution of the Capital. —Rev. George Rogers, a congregational minister in Minnesota, has recently, after much study, become a Baptist. The Troy Messenger says: Rev. Allen Driskill, an aged minister of the old school Baptist church, long and well-known in this section, died on the 17th inst. of apoplexy. —The Second colored church, Richmond, Va., has recently completed anew church edi fice, at a cost of about SIB,OOO. Kind Wobds. —ln our advertising columns may be found the advertisement of Kind Words, the Sunday-school paper of the Southern Bap tist Convention, Published as it is, in Georgia, and edited by a native Georgian, whom we all know, and in whom we can confide, this paper ought to have a very large circulation in our State Sunday-schools. Its intrinsic merits enti tle it to such a circulation. Both as to reading matter, and lessons for the Sunday-school in it, it is the very paper for Baptist Sunday-schools. Send up a large subscription, to Bro. Boykin, at Macon, Ga. u Spirit of the Religious Press, —Says the Christian Intelligencer on the sacred subject of prayer: _ This is op of the high privileges of a Chris tian. By layer for others he has power with God and'prevails. They become blessed for whom he prays. In answer to prayer God sends His holy spirit, who enlightens, convicts, renews and sanctifies the souls of sinners. Now, If this be so, if the declarations of Scripture Sly confirm the truth of the above affirmations, then what ought more to occupy a Christian than prayer to God for sinners’? Nothing. Nothing so becomes us as the plac ing of ourselves in the relation of priests under Christ unto the Father, praying always with all pr„yer and supplication for sinners. —The Interior beautifully and truly says : We Siava learned that a pebble which God shall direc —an humble word whose flight He shall determine—may be better than all the panoply of science, logic or eloquence. Let us look to God for increase of faith, and then gathering pebbles from the river of God, hon or the truth by a believing advance. For we fight the Christian battle not by calculation, or counting resources, but by faith in God. The Methodist (New York) alluding to “spasmodic Christians,” says • We want working Christians who are at it three hundred and sixty-five days in the year. The converflions are so numerous this year that we li tve stopped counting. A great army is being enlisted. This great company will shape Ilie future ; and everything will depend on theii being working Christians. Pray, don’t swell the army of the people who have fits. Don’t be spasmodic. Settle down to business, to regular daily work. Get a gait you can l oep tip and jog along steadily till the journey ends. The Admit Christian Times comments on recent exposures of hypocritical scoundrels, and says: “But .we notice not only the guilt of the criminals in these things, but also the readmes- to excuse that guilt in society. This sho.ws that the evil of these crimes and lack of consci- .te is not confined to the perpetrators but is the general atmosphere among their as sociates.” —The Catholic Review, in a recent number, calculates thuß: "It seems to be merely a question of time when our numbers will preponderate over all other religious faiths. At any momc t, the Catholics move in a body, they can decide any election. They can make any party triumphant or secure its defeat. —The following severe thing is said of a certs' class of Sunday-school teachers by the PArVVn 'at Work : * nt ooiise,crated men and women t® .....ue utaci.eio, ,viiu sit Its mi.-;; their whiskers, so as to look hdndsome before the young ladies; and feminine teachers, who spend half the school hour in adjusting their fine millinery, are not fit for the revised and earn est Sunday-school of to-day.” —The Western Recorder well says: What the Christianity of the present age as it seems to us most of all needs, is to be trans lated into every-day religion. We have dog mas enough and doctrines gauged by the nicest refinements of logical discrimination. But too many of us forget that the shaping of life is of more importance than the shaping of doctrine, that holiness and not the nice bal ancing of opposing creeds is the appropriate mission of the Christian upon earth. Religion needs to be brought down from the pedestal on which men are inclined to place it until it be comes part and parcel of their every-day ex perince. Christ must be felt to be “a very present help” not only in "times of trouble,” but at all times.” —From the Christian Observer: During a recent sermon, Dr. John Hall said to his congregation : “ I hate to have this church called mine; I hate to see it in the newspapers, called Dr. Hall’s church. It is not mine; it is yours and your children’s; or rather it is Christ’s, the Lord’s.” The custom of calling churches after their ministers is a testimony of the intimate love that should exist between pastor and people, but as far as it makes the people think that theirs is a passive part in religious matters, merely to pay the preacher and listen to his sermons, it is to be deprecated. —The Interior speaks wisely and sensibly on a point that has been too often forgotten: The rich are comparatively a small number. The poor also are an unimportant part of the population. The middle class is three-fourths of all the people, and holds all the power, po litical, social, moral, and spiritual. The church that neglects that class, in an effort to compass the extremes of affluence and poverty, is planning for its ruin. Costly architecture on the avenues, missionary zeal in the slums, cannot save them. When they let go the mid dle class, they break the arm of their strength. —Sankey, the Evangelist, in the Sunday school Times, gives his ideas of singing as follows: I am persuaded that much interest may be added to evangelistic services by the singing occasionally oi some sweet Gospel hymn by a single voice. If the voice be strong enough, and the pronunciation of the words be clear and distinct, and the singer be full of faith that God will bless his message, I have no doubt that many will accept the “Gospel in the song’ who would perhaps otherwise re main unreached by the truth. I would not permit solo singing, or any other kind of sing ing, to take the place of the preaehed word • but, solo singing, properly conducted, may be a means of attracting people to the services who would not have come simply to hear a sermon in the usual way. What is most needed in all these things that they be attempted in prayer and faith, and to the glory of God. Ministers should pray for the singer* and the singing. The singers should pray for themselves and their work. Ihw may a bond of union be formed in this service which will be owned of God, and there by will the world be led to see still more and more of the power of sacred song in winning soul's to Jesus. * —Relative to the suggestion made that the Foreign Mission Journal ought to be revived, the Western Recorder remarks: We move to lay that motion on the table. Our weekly papers can do all that the Journal could do and a thousand times more. If that paper were revived the weekly papers would have to carry the Foreign Mission work and the Journal too. Besides, our weeklies need and should have the news from the foreign field, whereas the Journal would monopo lize it. —The Christian at Work holds the follow ing emphatic and true language concerning that terrible evil, debt: “ Debt I—there is no worse demoralizer of character. The sad records of defaulting, em bezzling, and dishonest failures which we meet with so constantly in the daily press are often, indeed most frequently, the result of the de moralization of debt, and consequent desperate efforts of extrication. The financial props have given way. The little debt, which at first was as small as a grain of mustard-seed, like the rolling snowball, has gathered weight and multifilied itself a thousand-fold. And still it grows, and like the fabulous hydra which Her cules was sent to kill, you no sooner strike off one head than two shoot up in its place. The struggle is severe, but in the end decisive; either confession is made of a hopeless bank ruptcy, which might and should have been avoided, or integrity is sacrificed to the tempta tion of the moment. Debt ruins as many households and destroys as many fine charac ters as rum. It is the devil’s niurfgageon the soul, and he is always ready to foreclose.” •—The Religious Herald pointedly says: “My being from the North is the cause of my failure as a preacher in Virginia,” So said a good brother to us, recently ; but he is mistaken. He failed at the North, and would fail anywhere this side of the celestial city. He was born a failure, and will die a failure. These are the men who, without meaning may be, to do wrong, misrepresent us at the North. We think of opening upon some of them pretty soon, giving names, dates, etc. —The CcmgregiUionalist puts what it calls “questionable substitutes" for benevolence through the crucible as follows: It is a question of much solicitude whether the real spirit of benevolence is on the increase, or decrease. Some of the men or women now in active life in our churches were educated, when children, to make sacrifices in order to be able to give or do something for Christ. If funds are wanted now to repair or fresco a church, build a chapel, buy an organ, or even to build a fence around a graveyard, no body must be called on to give. Oh, no! have a fair ! tableaux ! mock trial! antiquarian sup per 1 or something to eat! anything to amuse the people and to give them an equivalent for the.r money. These things in themselves un der some circumstances may be right and prop er. But do not desecrate our houses of worship, thinking we are working for the Master, and are very benevolent. True benevolence is in danger of being crushed out by these questionable substitutes. - The following excellent and practical ex tract is from the Examine r and Chronicle: Knowledge is power. That saying is just as true as if it was still fresh. The educated Chris tian, other things being equal, will exert a stronger influence than the uneducated one. His neighbors, respecting him for bis mental attain ments, will be more ready to accept his opin ion on religious matters. They will put him in public office, and as a magistrate or legisla tor he can see that unrighteous legislation is repealed, that there shall be passed laws which are favorable to the interests of religion and morality. His talents will give him a high position at the bar, cr in the medical profession, and there he will exert an influence for religion and the church. He will be placed in the editorial chair; and the newspaper columns, instead of. being filled with that which demor alizes society, will become a power for eleva ting popular views, and the press will become the ally of the pulpit. Educate a Christian, and vou will increase his ability to do good. Now we ought to have our religious men so much more highly educated than the irreli gious, that when offices of honor and trust be come vacant religious men will be chosen to fill them. We want our legislative halls, our editorial offices, our high places in the legal and the medical profession, to be occupied by Christian men. We want more Josephs and Daniels in the land. Then will the power of the church be increased. And we want to see the Baptist denomina tion furnish its full share of such men—yes, more than its full share. A Scotchman was asked why so many Scotch lawyers, physicians and other scholars, came to London and other cities outside their own land. Said he, “Auld Scotland raises so much brain she can afford to export.” So we should like to see our Bap tist churches train up so many scholarly young men that not only could we fill all the profes sorships in our Baptist colleges and schools; but that whenever in a State University, or in a college not belonging to our own denomination, or in a law school or a medical school, or in a newspaper office or in any public position, a first-class man was wanted, he might be looked for in our Baptist circles. Then would our denominational power be extended. From an educated laity many will be called by God into the ministry. Continually have men like W. K. Williams, of New York, and J. L. M. Curry, of Richmond found their way from the legal profession and other secular pursuits into the work of the Gospel. Let such sources of sup ply be maintained. —The Standard (Chicago) has received a pa per published at Nashville, Tenn., called the the Baptist Watchman. This paper in an arti cle condemning Sunday-schools says: We must say, however, that such religious institutions have no warrant in the word of God, neither is the necessity for them either expressed or implied in that Word. And that which has no divine authority shall never he connected with the church of God ; and if such a thing should be done its tendency wi.l l e hurtful to the church, and its result will be an establishment in a state of immorality or a determined opposition to the truth. The Standard’s comment on this piece of “ridiculousity" is as follows : It is also opposed to missionary work, and consequently can have but little sympathy with the Baptist denomination. It is like some of the Freewill organs, and attempts to steal our livery for use in the service of a very bad cause. Perhaps the “Year Book” did well to repudiate these people end refuse them a place in the records of the Baptists. —A great revival prevails in Shaw Univer sity (Baptist), Raleigh, N. C. WHOLE NO. 2809 General Denominational Ness, —The United Presyterians have now ten churches in Egypt, with an average of more than forty communicants in each. —ln Lancaster, Penn., a great revival is fn progress. Hundreds at a time are’rising for prayer, and no building is sufficiently large to accomodate the crowds that flock to the meet ings, —The Pope hag made an unprecedented con cession. He has granted a dispensation for the marriage of a Protestant and a Catholic; The former is a daughter of the sculptor Sto ry, of Rome. —The North Carolina Conference, of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, will cele brate 1876 as its centennial year, and has invi ted adjoining conferences to participate. The programme includes a mass-meeting, March 21, in the city of Raleigh, a contribution of $60,000 to education, and $25,000 for a Me tropolitan church in Raleigh. —Mr. Hepworth’s church in New York ia to be sold at auction. —The Southeastern congregational confer ence of Georgia has seven churches reported in a condition of prosperity. —A weekly Preacher’s Meeting exclusively for prayer, praise and testimony, is being or ganized in New York City. The Roman Catholic Bishop of Louisi ana, has ; selected a number of colored youths, and sent them over to Rome to fit them for the priesthood, and for labor among the colored people of this country. —Rev. D. B. Ray, LaGrange, Mo., and Rev. J. Ditzler, have agreed to discuss the following propositions, time and place to be selected: 1. The Baptists possess the only visible scriptural church organization on earth. 2. The Methodist Episcopal church organiza tion is a branch of the visible church of Jesus Christ. Ray affirms the first, and Ditzler the second proposition. —A colored evangelist, Amanda Smith, baa been addressing large congregations in St. Paul’s Methodist Episcopal church, Wilming ton, Delaware. She says that she was former ly a slave in Hartford county, Maryland, is about forty years of age and shows remarkahle familiarity with scripture. After leaving St. Paul’s which is a congregation of whites, she commenced a series of services in one of the colored churches of Wilmington. Four or five of the churches of that city are now open ed for meeting every night. About thirty-five ministers representing all the Protestant churches in Richmond, re cently passed resolutiohs protesting against the existence of a charter to the Southern Associa tion for the benefit of the widows and orphans ofthe Southern States, which is conducted as a lottery, and denouncing it as a great evil and as directly encouraging gambling. —Farmingdale charge, New Jersy Confer ence, claims the oldest living member ofthe Methodist church in the States, viz: Jane Ann Effingham, (widow of John Effingham) is 103 years old, and joined the Methodist Episcopal church eighty-five years ago. Dr. Schaff announces that the American Bi ble revisers have finished the Pentateuch and Psalms, and are at work on the minor proph ets. Of the New Testament the Gospel and Acts are completed, and the Epistles are in hand. The English committee with three years’ advantage in starting, have about two thirds of their work accomplished ; the Amer ican, about one-third. It is a cardinal princi ple with the revisers, to preserve the general tone of the present authorized version. BAPTIST NEWS AND NOTES. —Rev. R. B. Cook, of Wilmington, Dela ware, is the reputed author of the Baptist cen tennial Endowment scheme. —Rev. Dr. Jabez Burns, an English Baptist minister and author died in London. Three of the principal Baptist pulpits of Chicago are now vacant. —Three Baptists of New York city, have, together, given $70,000 in aid of the Baptist Centennial Endowment Fund. —The State Mission Board of South Caro lina asks that every Baptist church in that State devote one day in the month to special prayer for the Divine blessing upon the Board, and contributions to it. —The aggregate contributions of the New York Baptists last year amounted to $212,543. —Brother A. D. Phillips, who preached at the Baptist Mission Chapel in Nashville, last year, has accepted a call from the church at Gallatin, Tenn. —Rev. Edward Lewis, who is a convert from Judaism, was baptized by Dr. Burrows into the fellowship of the First Baptist church at Richmond, Va., and by that church he was licensed to preach the gospel. President Woods, of the Western Universi ty of Pennsylvania (Baptist) having raised SIOO,OOO toward an endowment, Mr. William Shaw has added another 100,000- —The Baptists have fourteen churches with in the city limits of Baltimore. They are all supplied with working pastors, and work in harmony. Four of the churches are for colored people. —Since November 30th, 130 persons have heen received into the Fourth Baptist church, Philadelphia. The debt has been reduced $7,000, and the balance of $3,000 is being pro I vided for.