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4 INDEX AND BAPTIST. BEV. D. E. BUTLER Managing Editor, EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTORS: Bet. 8- G. Hillteb., D D Forsyth, Georgia. IRiv. J. 8. Baker, D.D Quitman, Georgia. ©a. J. 8. La wtos Atlanta, Georgia. lUv. T. G. Jones, D.D....Nashville, Tennessee. SPECIAL CONTRIBUTORS: Bev. G. A. Nunnallt Monroe, Georgia. Bev. W. T. Bbantly, D.D Baltimore, Md Bet. A. J. Battle, D.D Macon, Georgia. Bet. It. W. Fuller Atlanta, Georgia. Bev. T. B. Cooper Ogeecbee, Georgia. Bev. J. H. Kilpatrick. .. White Plains, Georgia. Bet. Marion Hams Decatur, Georgia. Bev. Wm. C. Wilkes Gainesville, Georgia. When we have troubles we ought to take them to Christ. “Casting all our care upon Him,” we are only doing what He wishes us to do; and there need be no fear that we will burden Him too heavily. He who bears up the world, who bore our sins in His own body on the tree, can sustain any load we may heap upon him. We think we can take God’s will and be submissive to it, and acquiesce in it; but when it presses hard upon us, then is the proof. It was admirable in David that when he began one of his mournful psalms, ho knew that he was going to groan a good deal, so he said, "There is one matter we will set right before we get out of trim. Truly, God is good to Israel.” Happy is the man who finds delight in external nature, who sees and is moved by beauty in trees and fields, in brooks and clouds. He is happy, for the sources of his enjoyment are easily and abundantly at hand. Nature gives him perpetual and ever varying pleas ure. As man is placed amid such #nd tess variety of natural objects, adapted to give him pleasuro and instruction, every principle of self-advantage should lead him to the cultivation of his powers of observation and appre ciation of what is about him. The eye that catches not beauty and inspiration from the external world, is like that which is unable to get wisdom or de light from the printed pages of books. It is equally man’s duty and privilege to cultivate bis perceptions, so that he may obtain the utmost good from the printed records of others’ thoughts, and the unconventional creations of nature around him. ►- • Live the truth. Begin to-morrow with something you understand, with the neat and demonstrable facts of re ligion, and livo them. For instance: You believe in the power of prayer. Pray, then. You tell us it can per form wonders. Show us these won ders in your own life. Get close to the throne, livo there, and that life ■will shine through you. You attach much importance to right faith. So do wo; but the best kind of faith is that which comes out of a man in words seasoned with grace, in deeds clothed in righteousness. The blessed end of right believing, is right living ; do not bo satisfied when a man can sav his catechism without faltering; lead him on to live his catechism without stumbling. And do not disparage any more such choice fruit as common honesty, truth telling and good neigh borhood. They are all truths of life that are worth everything as proofs that the kingdom of God is indeed among men. All nations have considered music a divine gift, sublime in the temple, and cheering at the family hearth; of national festivities the brightest orna nament, and in solitude the insepara ble companion, the faithful friend of in&n. As its origin was, by all nations, looked upon as divine, so its true abode was with the gods; and when man, passing through the gate of death, had to leave behind him all earthly possessions, music alone fol lowed him into the mansions of t‘e blessed, into eternity; its charm was sought in the Elysium and Walhalla, as well in Odin’s Hall, as in Mahom med’s Paradise. In the creeds of all nations, music has boen eternalized, by the rougher Scandinavian, as well as the more refined Greek ; and, accord ing to the Chi istian doctrinos, music will be everkiting ! “There shall be beard a great voice of a multitude, as the voice of many waters, as the voice of. mighty thunderings, singing Hallelujah, glory, honor and praise unto the Lord.” That instrument will make no music that hath but some strings in tune. If, when God strikes on the Btring of joy and gladness, we answer pleasantly, but when He touches upon that of sor row and humiliation we suit it not, we are broken instruments that make no melody unto God. THE CHRISTIAN INDEX AND SOUTH-WESTERN BAPTIST. WORLDLY WISDOM. We question whether any one appre ciates more highly than we do, the ben efits of a collegiate education, or more sincerely desires to aid in securing an adequate endowment to all our col leges ; but we painfully fear that the extra efforts made to excite an interest in our colleges, and secure an endow ment for them, may lead us to err in two respects, if in no more. 1. In di verting, from objects of paramount im portance, the funds that are necessary to secure them; 2. In leading some good brethren, especia'ly among our young ministers, to set an undue esti mate on college lore, and rendering them more ambitious to be educated for the ministry, in our theological schools, than to be educated in the ministry, while faithfully laboring in the vineyard of their Lord and Saviour. The reiterated appeals of our Mis sionary Boards, the cries for help from our missionaries in home and foreign fields, the wails that daily reach us from destitute churches, impoverished ministers, and the various benevolent institutions that are scattered through out our land, afford unequivocal evi dence that the first of the fears ex pressed above is not groundless. Our second fear is founded upon our knowl edge of human nature, the teachings of inspired apostles, and the testimony of history, sacred and profane. Had Paul not been fully aware of the evil of exalting human wisdom above the wisdom of God, and of the natural tendency in man to confide in the former more than in the latter, it is not credible that he would have written as he has done in his first epistle to the Co rinthians, disparaging the one and ex alting the other. Were it not likely to be deemed presumptuous in us, we would advise alike the teachers and the taught in our schools and colleges to study diligently and daily, the first and second chapters of the epistle to which we have referred. Innumerable facts might be reported to prove that there is danger of over estimating human wisdom, and prizing more highly the expositions and criti cisms of the learned than the simple teaching of God’s word. If such an overestimate should not subject one to the loss of his soul, it will certainly impair his influence for good, and his happiness in life. That we are not singular in the views we entertain on this subject, the following extracts will evince. Tho learned and pious Carson asks, (vol. vii. p. 25): “How many learned Christians have spent all their lives in Scripture criticism, yet have never advanced above the lower forms in the school of Christ? How many poor, weak minded, illiterate men have been distinguished for depth and accuracy of views of Divine Truth? One of the mightiest intellects that ever lodged in the breast of men was possessed by Dr. Samuel Johnson, yet though he died as a Christian, his attainments in the school of Christ were among the lowest of all disci ples.” The same author, speaking of Bibli cal literature in Germany, ays: “ With all its boasted perfection, what has it done in Germany? With all the noise about Hermeneuties, the people are perishing for lack of knowledge; and the writers who can expound the Scriptures with all the phraseology of a learned barbarism, are as sap less aßa tree blasted by lightning.” Presbyterians are often charged with setting an undue estimate on human learning. Hear what Hetherington, one of their ecclesiastical historians, says on this subject: “ Every intelligent observer will at once admit, that in the middle classes of society ex ists the greatest amount ol piety, morality, un bounding integrity, and manly independence of character. * * * * Learning forms but a very unsafe criterion; for there are too many proofs that a man may be very learned, and yet be irreligious, and immoral, and profane.” Dr. Cummings, alluding to perver sions of Gospel truth by the learned, very truly remarks: “ Their unanimous testimony does not weigh one straw in comparison with one single text from God’s own most blessed word.” We might fill columns with similar extracts from the writings of men dis tinguished alike for their learning and piety, but forbear. Be it ever remem bered, that for the system of divine truth revealed in the Bible, we are in debted to the wisdom of God, and not to the learning of men; and its preserva tion and diffusion throughout the earth is ascribable, not to any human agency, but to the power and wisdom of God. Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord, (Zech. iv: 6.) The first and chief corrupters of the Gospel, as we have before contended, were the “schoolmen” of old. Colleges have done much more, in day* past, to fetter the human mind, than ever they have done to emancipate it from sin. Human learning never was designed to teach us what to do, but to aid us in carrying out the revealed will of God. If bridled and attached to the chariot of the Gospel, and guided in the Vay of truth and holiness, It may do much to aid in transporting saints to their home in glory ; hut, if allowed, like an unruly horse that will have its own way, takes the bit in his teeth and re fuses to yield to the guidance of the check-rein, it will involve all who fail to see and escape from the impending evil in time, in a general “ smash up”— the result of which will be the perma nently maiming, if not the murder, of many an immortal mind. 6ur counsel to one and all is, to receive and employ human learning as a servant, but sub mit to it as a ruler, never— no never ! OCR NEXT STATE CONTENTION. Its Work, and oor Doties as Baptists. As the day approaches when the Baptist Convention of tK<Y State of Georgia shall meet, it is well for us to consider, in advance, somewhat of the subjects which are to claim our atten tion. Every brother, when there, must have a great interest in the proceed ings, and each one ought to be bur dened with the Gospel, and the wel fare of the educational enterprises of the denomination. Missions, at home and abroad, with Mercer University and other agencies, furnish the main subjects for consideration. The Assocations have already elected their delegates, and it remains for the Missionary Societies, now, to raise their annual contributions, and elect their delegates. This business of the Societies is of vital importance at this time. The sums of money to be sent up by them, will add much to the receipts for the current year. To raise the money, let none overlook the day of small things. Every one can give a little. Everybody can give something. Everybody can get some one else to give a little, and every lit tle swells the aggregate. Preachers, deacons, clerks, superintendents of Sunday-schools, teachers, scholars, choir, rich, poor, members of the church and congregations, every one, personally, ought to be called on by someone else, and the privilege af forded for a contribute to jjlory of God and the salvation c* .sou'-#', We never knew a bettor time for missionary sermons, such as were preached thirty years ago. Appeals made to the heart, conscience, and un derstanding, will open the pocket; while an address, simply for money, usually closes the purso and leaves the heart hard, and the affections cold and dead. “Him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin." “The knowledge of duty increases the obliga tion to perform it, and the neglect of known duty is sin.” t Many persons are forming plans and laying up money for a visit to Philadelphia daring the summer. “Go to now, ye that say to-day or to-mor row we will go into such a city, and continue there” —“whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow;” “for that ye ought to say, if the Lord we shall live and do this or that." If Any of these, so arranging, are Baptists, they must not forget what the apostle means in the above quotations. They should ease their consciences and “do good.” Let them lay up in the treasury of the Lord “liberal things” for Zion ; then, ‘‘if the Lord will,” go to the Centennial or anywhere else. “Will a'man rob God”—“but ye say wherein ?” “In tithes and offerings ;” see that this is not done, but bring “all the tithes unto the storehouse”— “that the Lord may open yon the win dows of Heaven, and pour you out a blessing,” etc., etc. “And all nations shall call you blessed ; for ye shall be a delightsome land.”—Ma'l&ch viii:B, 10, 12. 0 eternity ! eternity ! how deep and vast! how great and terrible art thou! Is man to exist in eternity ? 0 yes, most certainly. His being dies not when his body to death ; his spirit returns to the Creator. Judgment and eternity are beyond death, and man must meet the one and dwell in the other. What should engage our at tention and time most ? So to use time with its vast opportunities and bless ings as to secure a blissful eternity; to live here day by day as in the light of eternity, and just on its brink—soon to launch away—so to repent of sin, to believe in Christ, to watch and pray, to live and act as for eternity. How wise! How safe! FIRST BAPTIST CHCRCH, ATLANTA. On Sabbath last Rev. E. W. Warren D.D. preached an impressive sermon from 6th chap ter Hebrews, 10th verse —“For God is not un righteous to forget your work and labor of love which ye have showed toward His name, in that ye have ministered to the saints and do minister.” The preacher’s object was to urge upon the followers of Christ the duty to work- God was not so unjust as to forget the work which bis disciples did. Jesus does not pay you to sit down and do nothing, but when you do work God will not forget it Some have more ability than others —ac- cording to the talent or means with which you are possessed so does God require the same ra tio of work at your hands. Why that paraly sis upon the Christian soul ? It is because he does not, nor will not work. Work.while it is called to-day, the night cometh when no man can work. Nor does God forget your labor of love. If there be any labor it is the labor of love. The Christian loves his fellow-man—would minis ter to his bodily comfort —but loves his soul in finitely more. The Christian is more than a philanthropist. Are you performing any labor of love? Do you earnestly pray for your fellow-men ? Are you ministering to his wants bodily and spirit ually ? If so God will not forget you. Which you have showed towards His name. If ye have done the least matter to assist the disciple of Christ, it is an act of worship. “As much as ye have done it unto the least ot these ye have done it unto me.” This is ministering to His saints. Will you see that young brother, who has once been an ornament to the church, forgetting his first love and not warn him of his danger ? If you do not you are not minis teriDg to the saints; if you do, that is doing it unto God. The poor, worn and beggared woman is your sister; feed, clothe, and comfort her heart; that is ministering to the saints. But the family of the Lord is extensive ; it covers the whole world, and God’s work is not circumscribed. Remember our old brother in the low country, his head frosted with the years of many winters. He is going about doing good. Too poor to meet with his brethren as would be his delight when they meet in convention, but, blessed be God, not too poor to tell to those around him the love of Jesus. Old brother Daniel is minis tering to the saints of God. But again, the missionaries across the waters are ministering to the saints —and where they do minister to the heathen, it is our duty to min ister to them. So many failures (financially ) among our very best brethren, have embarrassed the mis sion work, therefore we who are still blessed with some means, must renew our efforts; we must come up to the help of the Lord against the mighty. The gifts we make the Lord will not make us any poorer. Give and it shall be given unto you again. Yes, this very church can give. Can I not now pause and ask, will you give to the cause of Christ? Just give half you have spent the past week for personal gratification, and it will he a large gift. God has made promises and, He will fulfill them. In the day of judgment every good work will he remembered—our works will follow us even to Heaven; that good work of the pious young man will go with him to Heaven. These good works are the educators of the soul. The pious, con-ecrated Christian will be happier in Heaven than the man who has not dedicated himself to the work. It is true all will be happy in Heaven but he that has not been educated in this glorious werk of consecration will not have the same capacity. Every vessel will be filled, but some will be large, and some small. Let us all be large vessels, capable of containing much of the love of God. He that loves God most here, will love Him most in Heaven. After the sermon was over, the Doctor staled to the church that he desired all the members to remain for the purpose of at tending to a matter which deeply concerned himself and the church. On motion, Judge Peeples was called to the chair, and Deacon Swan drew slowly from his pocket a letter, and read the resignation of the pastor. While 'his was being done, most of the church, and many of the congre gation, were in tears. Judge Peeples stated that he would never consent to accept the resignation, but inasmuch as he was fully aware that his beloved pastor had positively determined to accept a call to the First Baptist church at Richmond, Va., he was compelled to acquiesce. Bro. Norcross moved that the letter be received, but not accepted until some future day. Dr. Warren then stated that as his decision was final, it would be far better for the church to act at once. The motion was then put, and but few voted either way. It was, indeed, a hard struggle for that people to give up the pastor they had for five years honored and loved. Bro. Warien advised the church to go imme diately to work and supply his place, and by no means to wait for months to choose a pas tor. He urged upon them to pray earnestly to God to send them a man who would lead the flock. He then stated that he would set the example to them, and thus praying that God would direct them in a choice, after a fervent prayer the congregation was dismissed. Personal. —We had a call yesterday from Rev. F. M. Haygood, who is traveling in the interest of The Christian Index. He will remain in Macon a few days and then will vis it every point to be reached by the Southwes tern and Muscogee roads. Mr. Haygood rep resents one of the ablest and best denomina tional papers published in the South, and he deserves a warm reception at the hands of the Baptist denomination —every family of which should have The Index, —lelegraph and Mea tenger, February 25iA. THE WATCH CARE OF CHCRCHES. We received a letter from a highly esteemed brother, some three months since, propound ing several queries relative to the receivin g of individuals under the watch care of our churches. We can assure him truly that our de lay in answering his enquiries has not been oc casioned by a want of respect for him, or by a feeling of indifference in reference to the sub jects on which he solicits an expression of our views, but by the extreme lassitude of our physical and mental frame, and a spirit of pro crastination, that too often interrupts us in the discharge of our duties to our own grief and serious injury. We shall now proceed to give our views, in as brief terms as we well can, but we wish it to be distinctly noted, that we give them only as the views of an in dividual, who has "a humiliating conscious ness of his own liability to err, and not by au thority of The Index, or by that of any of our colleagues. Question I—“ Ought Baptist churches to re ceive a Baptist under the watchcare of a church? If so, under what circumstances?” Answer. Under circumstances, to be stated hereafter, we think they ought. The word “ought” implies obligation, or duty, and as there are no express insructions given in the word of God, in reference to the receiving of individuals under the watchcare of our churches, we deem it necessary, in order to justify the answer we have given above, to make some remarks in reference to the only source from which a knowledge of our Chris tian duties can be derived. That the word of God is our only infallible and all sufficient rule of faith and practice is generally admitted by all Christian denomina tions, not excepting even Roman Catholics; but there is a wide difference in the interpreta tion of that rule by different religious denomi nations. All churches, whose origin may be traced back to the Roman church, teach that the Scriptures are to be interpreted only as construed by the ecclesiastical authorities. They do, therefore, as did the Pharisees of old, make void the word of God by their tra ditions, making the interpretation of their spir itual fathers, and not the literal word Ood, their rule of faith and practice. That this is a serious error we are fully persuaded our read ers will be free to admit, without any train of reasoning on our part to prove it such. But if Pedobaptists stretch the rule so as to include.within it their heresies, it is equally true that some Baptists so contract it as to exclude from our routine of Christian duties many im portant acts which we cannot omit without proving unfaithful alike to our Lord and Sa viour, to our own souls, and to our fellow man. They do thi3 who contend that for ev ery Christian duty there must be a “Thus saith the Lord” —that is, an express precept, or an undisputed apostolic precedent. Were this the case, it might be said ol them as the apostle John said of the acts of Jesus: “If they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written.” There are various objects specified which we are required to labor to promote, and va rious principles laid down -vhich we are to respect in all our acts, at all times, under all circumstances, but the means by which we are to promote the object specified are not always prescribed. We are left free to exercise the intellectual powers with which we have been endowed, in devising the means necessa ry to secure the objects for whi( h we are to la bor with this restriction only: that we violate no established principle of God’s word ; such for instance as the principle of justice, mercy and humility, the proper observance of which we are taught in Mic. vi: 8, constitutes the whole duty of man. We invite particular attention to what is affirmed in our last paragraph, and to the facts to which we shall now refer, in illustra tion and confirmation of the truth affirmed. 1. We are expressly commanded to preach the gospel to every creature. This command imposes an obligation upon every true believ er to aid, as opportunity and ability are af forded, in spreading abroad the glad tidings of salvation through Christ Jesus. To do this effectually it is absolutely necessary that Christians should act in concert —in other words, that they should be organized into lo cal churches. That apostolic Christians so understood the command is evident from the fact, that wherever a sufficient number of con verts were made to the gospel preached, they wee organized into local churches. This is a fact that no one will dispute; but in vain may we seek for a solitary precept to organize be lievers into local churches, or for any instance in which a formal constitution of a church was reported to have been affected by a pres bytery, called for the purpose of examining into their orthodoxy, and deciding whether they are worthy to be recognized as a church of Christ or not. The fact that church organi zations are necessary to enable us to carry out the commission imposes on us the duty to enter into such organizations. (Hence they greatly err who teach that one can serve God as ac ceptably out of a church as in one.) 2. That believers are required to assemble themselves together for religious purposes is evident from Heb. x: 25. It is also expressly required that, in their assemblies, every thing be done decently and in order (1 Cor. xiv : 40.) Now as due order cannot be preserved in a public assembly without rules of decorum, written or unwritten, it is as evidently our du ty to adopt and govern ourselves by such rules as if we were expressly required to do so. Hence the adoption of rules of decoum by a church, so far from being contrary to the teachings of the sacred scriptures, as some good brethren, both in and out of the ministry have affirmed, appear to us to be in strict accord with them. 3. The case of the foolish and wicked ser vant who buried the talent committed to him by his lord, and sought to restore it to him on his return, to which we have referred on for- mer occasions, and of which we have a full ac count in the gospel by Matthew and Luke, af fords scriptural evidence of the truth of our pro position, that a command to effect a specified object imposes an obligation to use the means necessary to secure the accomplishment of that object. The ser vant who was condemned, as reported by Mat thew, for not having put his lord’s money to the exchangers, or, as reported by Luke, for not having put it into the bank, was simply re quired to improve the talent given him: “Occu py till I come.” This was equivalent to a com mand to make a profitable investment of it. For failing to do this he was justly con demned and punished. These general remarks are designed to pre - pare the way for more explicit answers to the queries of our correspondent, which we defer to a future issue of our paper, for the want of time and space to say more at present. GEORGIA BAPTIST NEWS. —Rev. W. W. Landrum, the successor of Dr. Wharton in the pastorate of the Greene street Baptist church, Augusta, has already made a fine impression. His first sermon in that city is highly spoken of. The Constitu tionalist says: “He speaks fluently and ex temporaneously, and uses few gestures. His enunciation is good, his bearing dignified, and the language employed is clear, forcibly and appropriate. The impression he made was a very favorable one, and we trust will be las ting.” —The Domestic Mission Board, of the Tu galo Baptist Association, will meet in Carnes ville, on Tuesday, 11th April next. —The Franklin Register, alluding to the fact that Rev. I. R. Ivie, ot that place has ac cepted a call to Providence Baptist church, Madison county, says: “This is a large, influ ential and growing church, and they acted wisely in their selection of an “under Shep herd.” Mr. Ivie is a zealous and very ac ceptable minister, and we have no fears but that the church will thrive under his minis try. —Brother Daniel Meadows who died last December near Grantville, was nearly ninety seven years old. He joined the Baptist church in Wilkes county in 1802. His vener able wife, who died in 1873, was over ninety two years of age, and was baptized in 1806. Their bright and useful Christian lives were blended, as man and wife, for the period of seventy-three years, six months and four days. —The Sabbath-school attached to the Bell wood church, near Atlanta, is in a very flour ishing condition. Rev. G. R. Moor, an effi cient pastor, and an able minister, has assum ed the pastoral duties of this new church, which promises to be a most fruitful field of Christian labor. —Brother R. T. J. G. writing from Egypt, under date of February 17th, informs us that he has resigned the mission work, but not the charge of his church. He wili visit Atlanta for medical treatment. He says the Lord has been very gracious to the six Baptist churches in his county. During last year Power’s church had 18 additions, New Frovidence 16,, Springfield 9, Turkey Branch 22, Corinth 24; and Eiim 2. —The Macon Telegraph and Messenger makes the following tru* and appreciative comments on Chancellor Tucker’s magnificent discourse from the text: “For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all,” which he delivered on a recent Sabbath in that city, at the First Baptist church: This great sermon was called for a second time in Atlanta, by request of the bar of that city, and if it were the only production of the learned divine, would be sufficient to place him in the very front rank of pulpit orators. It was first a massive, logical and powerful contrast between human law and the decrees of the Omnipotent Ruler of the Universe, then the superior justice of the latter was vindicated, and finally that crowning act of clemency and mercy which gave the world a saviour and vicarious mediator, set forth in language of rare sublim ity and tenderness. The style of the Chancellor is terse and vig orous, delivery graceful, and his sentences brief, nervous and otttimes epigrammatic. We have never seen any single effort in the pul pit or elsewhere, fortified and illustrated by a grander array of irresistible logic. And yet it may be truly said there were portions of the discourse, when the speaker depicted the passing love of the blessed Redeemer, replete with pathos, and impassioned tendernesss. The attention of the large congregation was com pletely rivited upon him for one hour and ten minutes, without the least appearance of flagging. We refrain from any reproduction of this remarkable sermon, because it would emascu late its future effect upon those who may be privileged to hear it, and it ought to be re peated in every community and city of the State. —A new Baptist colored church (“Spring field”) was constituted at Iceville last Sunday, by Rev. W. M. Grant, Rev. James Baker and Deacons W. Bonner and Allen Peters. The sermon was preached by Rev. W. \I. Grant. The membership of the chuich is thirteen. Its prospects are very good. The church will be served, for the present, by Rev. W. M. Grant. —Brother James Barrow, writing from Bowden February 20th, says: “Our monthly meeting closed yesterday, with fine results. On the preceding Saterday we listened to a delightful sermon from our new pastor, Rev. John Scott, of Alabama, on the subject of the Good Shepherd. Ten members were then received by letter. On Sunday morning we had a large increase in our Sundav-school. Brother Scott is a good and efficent pastor. May the Lord bless him.” Brother B. also says that the prospects of Bowden College are excellent. Profi A. C. Reese, of Carrolton, the new Principal, is an experienced and competent teacher. He will give a series of lectures on the first Sabbath in the month for the benefit of young people. Whittle and Bliss, the evangelists, are ex pected in Montgomery about the middle of March to hold a series of meeting* under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A.