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The Christian Index. THE SOUTH-WESTERN BAPTIST, THE CHRISTIAN HTnu.AT.u of Alabama. ~ of Tennessee. VOL. 55—NO. 10. Table of Contents. n First Page. Alabama Department: Denomina tl?2?l,Eiacation — :Rev - D. E. Butler; Record of State Events; Spirit of the Religious Press; Baptist News and Notes ; General Denomina tional News. Sewind Page.—Our Correspondents: Are Our Methods of Collecting Funds for Benevolent Purposes Wrong ?_A Rejoinder—Tertius ; To the Washington Association—Thomas J Ad- Re-Baptism—J. Sr. Robertson ; The Two Bidders—lda Lou M.; Baptist Sunday-schools vs, Union Sunday-schools—Sl. B. Tuggle A Letter from Florida; Hard Times and Their Remeay; Unseen—Poetry. Thiku Page.— Our Pulpit: Duties and Qualifica tions of Deacons-An Ordination Sermon delivered at Cuthbert, Ga.. January 16, 1876 By Key. J. T. Clarke—To be continued next week; etc. Fourth Page —Editorial: The Temper which is Most Fitted to be Victorious: Lawless Passion; Heme; Georgia Paptist News; Prayer and its Remarkable Answers—Rev. D. E. Butler. Se cret Sms-Rev. G. A. Nunnally. A Charge Against Ihe Index —Responsibility Assumed— An Anecdote—F.ev. J. S. Baker. The Human Will—Rev. A. J. Battle. Jf ARE -r~Special Contributions : Women Not Wanted as Evangelists incur Churches; lumanism in Georgia; The Soldier's Dream— loetry; etc. Secular Editorials : Literary Gossip; Gems beset; Georgia Newß; La- Grange; etc. Sixth Page.— Select Miscellany: Dig for it at Home—Poetry; God’s Elixer; Keeping the I ongne ; Earn Your Own Living; etc. Seventh Page. —Science and Agriculture: The Treasures oft he Air, and How we Waste Them; Grange Gossip); Intelesting Facts; etc. Eaok - —The Sunday-school: Lesson for March 12th; Appointments in the Georgia As sociation. Marriages, Obituaries. Adver- tisements. INDEX AND BAPTIST, ALABAMA DEPARTMENT. The Morgan county wheat crop is very promising. , Flat boats from St. Clair comity have recent ly arrived in Montgomery laden with cotton. There is a tri weekly hand-car mail between Eutaw and Tuskaloosa. The Baker coal mines, in Shelby county, have resumed operations. Steamboats carry cotton from Gainesville to Mobile at fifty cents a bale. The Eufaula Jfem has suspended publica tion. Eev. J. L. M. Curry, formerly of this State, was in Naples, Italy, a few weeks ago. The wife of Bev- Mr. Hardin, was recently drowned in the Locust Fork of the 'Warrior. The Alabama and Chattannocga railroad now runs trains over the Attalia branch to Gadsden. Bev. E. Y. VanHoose, of Troy, has accept ed the call to the pastoiate of the Orion Bap tist church. The Mardi Gras festivities in Montgomery were brilliant, and witnessed by a great multi tude. There are twenty-cne colored members in the Legislature—five in the Senate and sixteen in the House. Hon. J. M. MtKleroy, superintendent of public instruction, will address the Alumni so ciety ol Howard College, during the com mencement week, in June. The National Democratic Convention meets at St. Louis, on the 27th of June. The Ala bama Democratic Convention meets at Mont gomery, May 31st. For the present, trains of the western end of the Alabama and Chattanooga road, run only to Eutaw, tri-weekly. Leave Meridian on Mondays, Wednesdays and Tuesdays; leave Eutaw on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Satur days. Several new discoveries of copper ore, have been made in the neighborhood of Cleburne. Ex-Governor Smith, Biehard Wood, Stewart and Driskel, and other parties are the lucky ones. Small-pox, or a very aggravated type of measles, is raging among German emigrants in a portion of Lauderdale county. Several deaths have occurred. The following are the State Grange Fair committee: W. H Chambers, E. M. Law, J. T. Harris, S. 8. Scott, F. A. Bales, G. D. Nor ris, S. J. Harrirgton, C. C. Langdon, G. D. Johnson, M. E. Pratt, B. S. Martin, and C. S. Scott. The Montgomery Adm liter, alluding to the statement that Dr Gwin, of that city, had re ceived a call from the First Baptist church of Atlanta, to fill the pulpit made vacant by the resignation of Dr. Warren, says: Well, we think the people of Atlanta will have hard time in getting Dr. Gwin away from Montgomery. He is esteemed by all de nominations in ibis city and they will serious ly object to his leaving us. Hon. W. J. Mcßride, of Spring Hill, was or dained an elder in the Baptist church, on Sunday the 13th ult. Presbytery—Elders W. A. Ccmbie, J. J. Macon, J. A. Smith and A. N. Woithy. The occasion was one of unusual interest. —The Lawrenceville lleraid says that Mr. Ben. Folium kilied a large wild turkey recent ly. It weighed nineteen pounds net—beard eleven inches long. • —. DENOMINATIONAL EDI'CATION. One of the most important subjects with which the denomination is charged is denominational education. We hold that denominational education is a ne cessity in this country, and a very great necessity in the South. It cannot be too strongly urged upon our people, he cause the State must not teach religion. All State religion, even if it have some of the foims of gcdliness, is without the spirit, and is usually so godless that utter luin befalls the people, as in the famous Fiench revolution, and now in Prussia with the Catholics. The State has nothing to do in this regard except to protect every man in the en jojment of his faith, provided that faith is not contrary, in its practice, to the peace and well being of society. We, Baptists, ask protection, not be cause we are Baptists, but because we are citizens, for,with our view s of God’s Word, the State has no business; neith er do we ask any privileges or exemp. tions not granted to all the people, and we desire that all the people shall have every right and immunity which we enjoy. Piotect us as citizens, and, so long as we are peaceful and law observ ing, let our religion alone is Baptist doctrine, and has been since the days of John the Baptist, and onr Lord Jesus Christ on earth. When so protected, and not hindered in cur practice, we teach all men whom we can persuade to believe it, that our undertanding of the Scriptures is right; we teach our children these doctrines, and when we had slaves they were so taught, and this is a duty now with which no man, or set of men, on earth have the least shadow of a right to interfere. We claim this right, and claim the right to exercise it when educating our children in tie arts and sciences, and the two going together, make what we call de nominational education. If sem- call this sectarian be it so; and then all education is sectarian, as we have it, if rvligiotis al Jlf for /there is no religion taught in this State except by seme denominational agency, and every dene ruination before the law has exactly the same rights—no more, no less, than each of the others. The BomanCatholic and Episcopal churches are just as sectarian as we Baptists are, for they deny that we have churches just as we deDy that they have Ecrip tuial authority for their organizations. But we say to Catholics, Episcopalians and every other foim of religion in the State, teach your children your faith, it is your right, and our rights are the same. Hence Mercer University, and every other Baptist school or colleges in the State, is necessary to the maintenance of Baptist faith and practice. We need all the aid we can procure from thtm,to instruct the rising generation in the knowledge of the Word of God. This is our privikge, cur duty, and we owe it to ourselves, our country, and our glorious Ecdet mer, to discharge that duty, * If we have the truth, and enjoy these privileges, what is our duty this day ? As Baptists, what answer can we give ? Do we, in cur lives, as the world sees us, exemplify these truths and doctrines which we teach and pro fess to love. Ihen our duty is to get wisdom fre-m the Word of God first, and in preference to all other sources of infor mation, and learn what may profit us fwjm the practice and experience of others, even tur enemies. Frcm the Word of God, and the practice of of Lets, we, by this time, ought to have learned that “united we stand,” and thereby Mercer Uni versity is caused to fioutish ; divid ed, indifieient or negligent of educa tional affairs, they languish and suffer. e leg <ur brethren for a revival of ifiojts in the cause ef Missions, and a mighty effott in behalf of our denomi national institutions of leaining. In Baldwin county, a negro became offended with the overseer, and threw seme poison Id the well, The ccok, cent ary to his expecta tion, cooked breakfast With the water, and he Oitd from the effects. Mrs, Bice, who partook ol the lotd has dud, and so has Mr. Dtegan, the owner oi the premises. The rest, some seven persons, have recovered. FRANKLIN PRINTING HODSE, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, MARCH 9, 1876. Spirit of the Religious Press, i —One of our exchanges pithily, and (as all must sorrowfully admit) truthfully says: In view of the great dangers besetting young people of the present day, in the form of bad newspapers, illustrated “juvenile” monthlies and weeklies of a vile character, surreptitious ly and extensively circulated, and finding their secret way into the best homes and school houses of the land, the dullest managers of a pure periodical for the young can hardly fail to bunt' with a holy fire. If they can only do a negative good, in crowding bad reading to the wall, in taking up the children’s attention so that toul publications are unheeded, a great work is accomplished ; their mission is a bless ed one, and good citizens everywhere should rally to their assistance. # Let not parents deceive themselves. No home is too sacred or too carefully guarded for those fiendish invaders, die venders of low and dangerous juvenile publications, to ply then unholy trade. Every child is in danger for whom good, well-selected, enjoyable reading is not provided by those most directly having its best interests at heart. All dangerous publi cations do not betray their character at a glance. Often they wear the mask of graceful informa tion, -nd even piety. Do not force your child to sj nd time in reading, but look to it that all his or her reading-time be properly filled. While you blindly congratulate yourself that your boy or girl, through a fondness for books and periodicals, must necessarily be learning something, it may be well to know what that something is. Uudue intellectual stimulus for children is bad enough, but emotional stimulus is worse. In the l ands of unprincipled purveyors it opens the way to moral errors ot every kind, and by quickening an else slow growth to what! is holy, develops only precocity and vice The point of the wedge is easily inserteel, and, at first, as easily thrust back, but beware of the silent force that, having once gained an en trance, may split the peace and purity of your home. . }. —Aptly and freshly the Presbyterian fur nishes the following bit ol editorial exper ience; newspaper secrets will, occasionally, leak out: “Good-natured editirg.” says some wise man “spoils half the papers in the United States." Yea, verily. “Will you please publish the poetry 1 send,” says one; “it is my first effort;” and some crude lines go in to encourage bud ding genius. “ Our church is in great peril,” says another ; “ will you publish our appeal?” and a long and dolorous plea is inserted. "My father took your paper lor twenty years,” writes another; I think you ought to publish the resolutions passed by the session of Big Brake church when he died,” and in go reso lutions ol no interest to a majority of the refid 6rs., “I am particularly anxious that irfc views I present should go before this week,” and out go a covey of smJB contributions, to make >ll a till. 1,*!,, | l I>. ■ l.i i easily In- ii ; , , a bitter enemy to tbe as be tends an attack upon an antagoH r'iW" will fill an entire page. “I am lish a book, identifying the Great bSpof brass, iron, and clay, and I would be obliged to you to publish the advance sheets of the fifth chapter, which I herewith enclose to you-” “Why do you not publish in full E ’s great speech in the General Assembly? it would increase your circulation largely.” “If you will publish the sermon I transmit to you, I would take eight extra copies 1” "The church must be aroused on the subject of For eign Missions,” says a pastor, as he forwards the half of his last Sabbath’s sermon. And the ladies—bless their sweet smiles and sweet voices—the good-natured editor surrenders to them at once, and they go away happy, utterly unconscious that they have helped to spoil the paper. I' The Interior defines preaching as fol lows : 1. It is heralding the doctrines of God by men set apart to that special work. It is to stand as an ambassador between God and men, and, by authority of the great King, offer eternal, life by Jesus Christ. In this view preaching is lees an argument and an appeal than an announcement and an offer. If the message be rejected it does not touch the am bassador. His work is done. He has pro claimed the King’s word. 2. Preaching is telling the good nows. It is to Bland a man among men, telling the ex perience of the life, It is the answer of one man’s heart to the profound questioning of an other man’s heart. It is reproducing the Gospel from the depths of the spirit, where it has been fustd and tried and proved to I e good news of God. And that is the truest preaching, which, descending frcm the mountain of authority, lapses, with ever-ter.derer entreaty, to the val ley of the common struggles and toils of men, which makes brotherhood conquer office, and which (ran;figures the robe of the minister in tbe light oi a brother’s appeal. Ab a herald the preacher makes an offer, but as an evangel ist he gives a plea that is deepened and m phasized by bis own experience. The Gospel, therefore, should be urged, not only with the authority of a divine commission, but also with all the piathos arid tenderness that can arise fiom a human sympathy and common struggles and fears. A hera'd the preacher may be at first, but an evangelist evermore as tbe good news conquers bis own heart; en treating men, not only with the authority but the tears of Paul, to be reconciled to God. Such was the experience of Dr. Archibald Alexander, who, wb.cn rear bis end, said,“All my theology has come to this: “This is a faith ful saying and worthy of all acceptation: Christ J(sus came into the world to save sin ners.” . To proclaim that truth an.l to tell its glad tidings from a full heart to other hearts, whose deepest longing is for such a word, is the highest privilege ol sinners saved by grace. —The Smduy-school Timet says briefly but pointedly: Never depend ten tbe inspiration of the mo ment en teaching a lesson. It preparation on your part is unnecessary, so is your presence as a teacher. God can inspire the scholars directly without your intervention, if inspira tion is all that is wanted. 1. God wants you at all, it is with your best and most thorough preparation. —Tbe Independent lias the following on “ missing the point Once upon a time Christ, in passing through a_ con field, plucked the ears and did eat. Since that time there have been Christians who have plucked corn on the Sabbath, and eaten it as a religious ceremony. Once Christ, to teach md illustrate humility, washed the feet of hi: disciples. Since that time there have been Christians who have washed each other’s feet as a religious ceremony. Once Christ wore a cloak made of a single piece of cloth. Since that time certain Christians have worn seamiess garments as a religious ceremony. Oncq Christ, on riding into Jerusalem, was greeted with palms and branches. Since that time a large body of Christians have carried paints and branches as a religious ceremony.. ~ ...Many go to Jerusalem who never see Christ; many visit Calvary who never find the Saviour. They travel all around Him, and nievrr get near him ; study all about him, and K6w nothing of him. The physical geogra phT of Palestine is not Christ, as many theolo graps- seem to think ; and to see or touch his bosy, or. even to eat it, would not be to appre hj®. Him. Christ in our religion is not a physique and set of circumstances, but a mind, vwb its thought and precept; and we approach Him only in getting near Ilim in thought, and isolate him only in getting like Him in mind. the Baptist RJlecior, Morristown, Methodist brethren of Mossy Creek are getting rather shaky about the contemplated iflfbate between brethren Lofton and Boring. Yi e understand that they have passed resolu- Whe requesting Elder Boring to decline the debate. All the particulars have been settled Accept the time, and our Methodist brethren propose that the time shall never come. We sympathize with brother Boring. It is hard enough to have to defend infant baptism, and much worse to attempt to do so without the fjipport of its followers. What iB the matter, brethren ? You are not afraid, are you? i— On “Preaching the Gospel” the Baptist remarks: A good many preachers think that they preach the Gospel because they know that they "uon t preach anything else. They don’t preach Universalißiu, or Skepticism, or Daiwimsm, nor any other ism; and so they take it for granted that they are preaching the truth, the ! real Gospel, and that thev are all right. They never were more mistaken in their lives. A man may avoid these and all other heresies, and yet not preach the Gospel. There are preachers, not a tew, who don’t preach any thing ; they stand up and say their say ; but there iB no life in it; it is destitute of freshness, vigor, vitality. It does not come from the heart, the experience. The speaker does not ! feel it, and nobody else feels it. To preach the Gospel means two things; it means to preach the Gospel ; and it means to preach the Go-pel. It means something more than not to preach heresy ; tiiough, indeed, the worst heresy that the devil ever set on foot is preaching the Gospel as though it were not the Gdspel—preaching the Gospel so that nobody jtjWres whether it is true <>t not, whether you or not. fftjßf'rom the Congregational, st : publij in one of our religious IS ' 1 1 l ■ • V-1- „. Ti-I ■ to arrange your work' to„<jil. r ß ,*' W 1 BU BE e " t , however, that my people will endure and relish large doses of salvation, adminisled ‘full strength,’ and ‘hot. “A few Gospel ‘shells’ hurled among them, after the manner in which you are able to do it, may stir them.” We leave the reader to guess the school to which this pastor belongs. But we protest against the utterance of such language to the world, by a minister of any name. It would be bad enough if spoken in a whisper. This is the sort of talk which disgusts a great rnanv people with revivals, and all kinds of religious activity. It represents a far too common type of experience and style of effort. And we be lieve the barm it does, in various ways, to be very considerable. —The Baptist Weekly proves its mathemat ical eminence by the invention of the lollop ing skillfully arranged “sliding scale,” or measuring rod: The aggregate income of the inhabitants of the United States is reported at $7,009 303,- 989. This gives to each man, woman and child, an annual income of $175 25, or for each working day of the year an income of fifty-five cents each. • The membership ot our Baptist churches, as reported in our Year Book, is 1,915,300. Multiplying this by 65 cents, the income of each member, and the aggregate daily income of membership of our churches is $998,415 50. If one-tenth of this amount were devoted to the Lord, we should have a daily offering of $99,841 50, and multiplying this by 312 working days of the year, our churches and benevolent societies would be in the roval receipt of the enormous sum of $31,- 150,648. Think of this : Thirty-one million one hundred and fifty thousand, five hundred and forty-eight dollars as the yearly offering of the Baptists of the United States for Christian work, if each would only give one-tenth of his income. If to this we should add the number of attendants upon Baptist service, many of whom are as able and as willing to give as the members of our churches, the aggregate would be three fold greater. The Presbyterian gives the following ex cellent advice on tbe subject of “Giving.” It says: 1. Learn to give from liabit. This can be learned only in youth, therefore teach your children to put something in the plate when ever it is passed. 2. From a feeling of obligation and duty to God who commands it, and whose command you promised to obey. Teach this duty to your children. 3. From an ovei flowing love of God, who has given you so much. Give to Him lavish ly, as you would give to a beloved wife or child or parent, only in a proportion as much greater as your love to Him and His love to you exceed all human love. Teach this also to your children. 4. Give from love to the needy and suffer ing. As soon as you see a want, or hear of one, try to relieve it, and teach your children to do likewise. 5. Give especially to those charites for winch you are responsible. Asa member of the church of Christ it is your bounden duty to give to those missionary operations which are carried on by it and dependent on it. 0. Give in such a manlier of your money, your time and efforts, that you umy continue the work of mercy to the bodies and souls of men which cur Saviour beg: n on earth, and teach your children to imitate His blessed ex ample by ministering to the needy and suffer ing. —The Religious Herald speaks befittingly and to the point when, alluding to the difficul ties editors labor under in endeavoring to please the reading public. It says : Every person who reads a newspaper has bis conceptions of the manner in which it should be conducted. One would have it ed ited chronologically— that is, that all articles and letters should be published in the order in which they are received. Another lavors the geographical order. He would have the col umns of the paper filled with matter from the different States and districts in which the paper circulates, in proportion to the number of subscribers that they severally furnish. Some would have no secular, and others more secular matter in it. Some would have no discussions on doctrinal subjects, and others desire that much space shall be devoted to the defence of denominational principles. Many think that it is undignified in a religious paper to give any prominence to its own circu lation. Then the admirers of poetry, of Asso ciational statistics, of denominational history, and the like, all have their peculiar tastes about editing. Well, we have but one rule: It is of mate rials which come to hand, or we can draw out of our brains, with little regard to chronology or geography, to make the most interesting and profitable paper for our readers possible, and give it, by all fair means, the widest prac ticable circulation. The Congregationalist has the following in relation to the widely'extended uprising ot the people againbt that worst foe of religion and of the human race, the liquor traffic and its results, in connection with revivals: The religious revival of the winter seems to be taking, as one direction of itself, that of a temperance reformation. From various points in New England—notably Maine and Massachusetts—come news of grand awakening upon the subject, with every promise that mo mentary enthusiasm may settle down into steady-going resolution. Temperance is not the whole of religion, by any means ; but it is a very important part of it, and one very much neglected. Every one must rejoice at the evidence of an increased public attention t°_the virtue, and enlarged individual deter mination to practice it. BAPTIST NEWS AND NOTES. —Mr Spurgeon, of London, is ot only a hard worker, but he must also have a working church. When he returned from his vacation on the continent, in the early winter, he found seventy converts waiting to be admitted to his church. The additions to this church during the year 1875 were 510, making the total mem bership 4,813. —Bev. W. N. Chaudoin, District Secretary for Florida, Georgia and Alabama, under the lirection of the Home and Indian Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, has to be with ike Ocala Baptist Church, D. V., on the secur and in March, to hold a meeting of several days, in cormectlonTvuu the Bev. P. P. Bishop, if the church and com munity desire it. —A Baptist preacher, in Kansas, recently baptized forty persons, among them was a household of ten members. —The Oregon Baptist State Convention has requested its secretary to correspond with all the Baptist churches of Oregon and also of Washington Territory to obtain information in order to condense in a pamphlet the history of the Baptist denomination, and biographical sketches of the most important laborers, in Or egon and Washington Territory. —The record of Wisconsin Baptists shows a healthy and growing condition of our denomi nation in this young State. There are fourteen associations, ninety-four churches, one hun dred and thirty-two ordained ministers, and a total membership of 11,960, received by bap tism 442, otherwise 642, contributed to various objects, $110,333 69, or an average of over S9O to every member. This amount includes min isterial support. —ln Chicago, during the month of January, one hundred and seventy-two persons were ad ded to the Baptist churches— eighty of them by baptism. —The difficulty of supporting pastors and sustaining churches in the west may be inferred from the fact that 669 of the 887 Baptist churches of Illinois have less than 100 mem bers each ; 392 less than 50; 100 less than 25, and 12 have 10 and under, the lowest being —fifty four Pedo-baptist ministers have joined Baptist churches during the year 1875. —A home missionary writes thus regarding the Baptist newspapers sent by the Society to him and all other missionaries: “These de nominational workers are truly helpers of the missionary pastor. Our people need to be in formed regarding our great denominational movements. We need not only an educated ministry, but, also, an educated membership. Especially is this the case in sparse settle ments. Every church cannot receive the con stant labors ol a pastor or missionary and so each should be trained to take care of itself as far as possible. He does most for a church who succeeds in getting it to help itself.” —Rev. A. Heinrich, former pastor ofthe German Baptist Church, Louibyille, has re moved to Nebraska. —ln Toronto, Canada, there were only two Baptist churches ten yersago, with a member ship of about 500, and 400 Sunday-school scholars; new there are six churches, with 1 - 700 members and 1,500 scholars. It is doubt ed if any c : ;y of the same size can show a better record ol Baptist growth dut .'ng the same pe riod. WHOLE NO. 281 General Denominational News, The Protestant Episcopal Bishop Quintard, of Tennessee, now in England, was requested by the incumbent of one the parish churches to confirm some children in that church. The consent of the Bishop of London had first to be obtained. It was asked under the impres sion that it would be granted without doubt. To the surprise and mortification ol the curate, and the American Bishop, it was promptly re fused. An immense newspaper organ of all Catholicdom is to be established in Borne this year. It will be moderate in tone, but of ex traordinary ability, and will receive special news from those special correspondents of the Holy See—the Nuncios. The season of Lent began this year on the first of March, continuing for forty days. As the public mind is now being exercised on the subject of religion, it is the expectation that the Lent season will be attended with unusual in terest. Joan of Arc’s canonization Btill hangs fire, like the cannon that goes off slowly. Bishop Dupanloup, of Orleans, has succeeded in removing objections on the ground of her having been condemned to death by the Bishop of Beauvais. It is said that the English bishops object on the ground that she was not a martyr of piety, but of patriotism. The English Epia: opalians are very much disconcerted because the late decision of the Court of Arches admits the right of dissen ters to be called “reverend.” The former want now to discard that title altogether, and to be known hereafter as Bector and Vicar. —During the last thirty years 24,000 Sun day-schools have been organized, aided and visited in the Valley of the Mississippi, by the agents of the American Sunday-school Union. It is said that about forty-three per cent, of the families of St. Louis are destitute of the Bible. The Bible Society of that city is mak ing a strong effort to remedy this extraordi nary condition of things. —A member of the English sect called the “Peculiar People,” has been committed to trial tor failing to have medical attendance for hie child, who died of whooping cough. This sect believes only in anointing with oil and prayer, as a means of restoring the sick. Several similar trials of members of this order have occurred within the last few years. —The whole number of Popes, -from St. Peter to Pius IX, is 257. Of these 82 are mentioned as saints, not only because ot their holy hves, but on account of certain miracles wlA:li it is claimed they had been able to suffered ruw-tyrchjm; 104 uKrtymahs, atfe loß ite ' tivis oKtner parts of Italy; 1 ■ c > Frenchmen ; 6 Greeks; 7 Germans ; 5 Asi atics ; 3 Africans; 1 was a Hebrew ; 1 an Englishman. The following is the value of church property in this country, according to the cen sus of 1870: Methodists, $69,855,121; Pres byterians, $83,624,511; Catholics, $60,982,- 056; Baptists, $41,608,198; Episcopalians, $36,511,495; Congregationalists, $25,069,968. —TbeUnitarian church at Brookfield, Mas sachusetts, have substituted water for wine at the administration of tbe Lord’s Supper. —The Holy Synod of t.e Greek church, has issued a circular warning the Greeks against the'‘soul destroying and impious hetero dox teachings” of the Presbyterian mission aries. —Prof. Phelps, of Andover, in a letter to the Congregatiomlists, favors the merging of the Congregational and Presbyterian churches into one organic body. —Rev. Dr. Morgan Dix, of New York, re ceives a salary of $15,000. Drs. Chapin and John Ilall receive SIO,OOO. Drs. Storrs and Buddington, Brooklyn, receive the same. At last the Judicial Committe of the Privy Council have given final judgment in the case of the Methodist minister who was for bidden by the vicar of his parish to put up a tombstone at bis daughter’s grave with the title “Bev.” prefixed to his name. The Court decide that “Reverend” prefixed to a clergy man’s name is, and always has been, a mark of courtesy simply, and never an official title, and that under the law of England every man may take it who can get it. —According to the Congregationalisms showing the Congregational Church last year received, by ordination, one hundred and nine ty ministers; dismissed one hundred and one; lost by death sixty. There were eighty-five churches organized. —The well-known Rabbi in Baltimore has created quite an excitement in the utterance of sentiments looking towards Christianity. The charge against him is that he is a “Christian at heart, aßd will soon go over.” —Germany is the most productive fieldl abroad for labor in the Sunday-school. Twelve years ago, there were no Sunday-schools in the country ; now there are 150 schools, 4,000 eachers, and 80,000 scholars. Demoeest’s Monthly-—Among the maga zines published in this country and in Europe, Demorest’s Monthly Magazine of fashion and literature occupies a front rank. Elegant!/ illustrated, beautifully printed, edited with ability, and filled with choice reading matter, fashion plates, designs, etc. It is a publication recommending itself to every family aa a ever-welcome, high-toned visitor. “ I