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The Christian Index
THE SOUTH-WESTERIT BAPTIST, THE CHBISTIAET HERALD
or Alabama. of Tennessei>
VOL. 55-NO. 12.
Table < f Contents.
ftBST Paoe.—Alabama Department: Record
„ of State Events; Spirit of the Religions Press;
General Denominational News; Baptist News
Notes.
Second Page. —Our Correspondents: A Hope
ful Sign of the Times ; Directory from Earth
to Heaven—R. S. Ross ; A Review of Aunt
Edith—Ela; Such is Life; Rev. R. J. Hogue.
Indian Missionary—D. B. F. ; Mr. Hard Times
~G. J. Thompson; Wanted—A Pteacher; Our
First National Thanksgiving; An Appeal from
Bro. R. 8. J. Grant. Children’s Corner: The
Little Bird—Poetry; “God Knows Me Any
how;" etc.
Thied Page. —Letter from Texas—Great Revi
val in Navasota— Interesting Details—Some
Wonderful Conversions—Penn, the Texan
Revivalist—His Work—A. R. Kilpatrick. Mis
sions: Missionaries for Africa—Deeply In
teresting Letter from West Coast of Africa—
A Stirring Appeal for Help—Action of Colored
Baptist Chinches—W. J. Davis. Work—Poet
ry ; etc.
Fooith Page— Editorial: The Board Question ;
Some Questions Answered; Georgia Baptist
News—Rev. D. E. Butler. Unwelcome Intel
ligence; The Watchcare of Churches; The
Christian’s Greatest Fear—Rev. -T. C. Baker.
“Nigh Cuts”—llev. G. A. Nunnally; etc.
Finn Page —Special Correspondence : Notes
on the Act of Baptism- Rev. J. 11. Kilpatrick.
Secular Edit< rials: The Educational Centen
nial—Rev. D. E. Butler; Northwestern Visi
tors; A Swindle Exposed; Explanation—J.
R. Callaway; Gems Reset; etc., etc.
Sixth Page. —Science and Education : Should
Girls Study Latin- Eliza Winsted. Select
Miscellanv : God—Poetry ; Studying the
Higher Branches. Sunday-Schuoi Depart
ment : Review for Sunday, March 26th, 1876 ;
Schools iu New l'otk City ; Schools in Luck
now ; Texas Sunday-Bckool Convention ;
etc.
Seventh Page.— Agriculture : What Good has
the Grange Done ; Beef—Not Pork : Georgia
Farm Notes; The Autumnal Exhibition—To
tal area of space in Agricultural Hall; etc.
Eight Page. —Our Cot respondents: The Sun
day-school Cain e in Harmony with the Mission
-of Messiah—S.: Our Washington Letter —Our
§ Regular Correspondence; Financial and Com
mercial; Marriages; Obituaries; Advertiee
■, ments; etc.
INDEX AND BAPTIST.
ALABAMA DEPARTMENT.
Corn in Dallas county is floing well.
Dale county lias prospects of a splendid crop
of corn anil oats.
Whit le and Bliss, the evangelists, are in
Montgomery.
Howard college ranks among the first liter
ary institutions in the South.
Rev. R. A. Timmons and lady, of Oxford,
Ala., are quite sick with pneumonia.
Hon. G. W. Stone, of Montgomery, has
been pointed a Justice of the Supreme Court,
vice Judge, dead.
Rev. W. J. Lemon has resigned the pas
torate of the Livingston Episcopal church.
W. J. Mcßride, of Pike county, has been
ordained to the ministry of the Presbyterian
church.
The new Perry court is to hold its
February and August terms in Marion, and its
May and November terms in Uniontown.
The Good Templar’s lodge in Birmingham
has disbanded.
The publication of th e Luxapalllan, at Fay
ette Court House, has been suspended.
The wheat crop of Limestone county is very
promising.
Through sleeping cars from Selma to Mobile
are now run regularly over the Alabama Cen
tral and Mobile and Ohio roads.
Lowndes county has a board of revenue, in
itead of her old commissioners’ court, which is
abolished.
Boiling Springs Association numbers 829
members. A considerable revival spirit has
been manifested among its churches.
At Red Hill, Marshall county, during an af
fray, Mr. Feensler was stabbed and killed by a
man named Farris.
Mr. Loxla Edwards was elected Mayor of
Opelika at a recent election.
The next convention of the Y. M. C. Asso
ciations will convene in Huntsville on the 27th
ef April.
The Ozark Stir says:
“ Frcm all parts of the county we have the
gratifying report that our farmers are planting
unusually large crops of coin this year. We
also hear that the oat crop is a very large one,
and is looking extremely well.
A Baptist church has been constituted at
Hoboken, Morengo county. Anew house of
worship has been built in conjunction with the
Masons and Patrons of Husbandry, who occu
py an upper room. Ttie church is flourish
ing- >
The Eufauia 'limee says:
“ We were shown, by Mr. V. D. Tharp,sev
eral pieces of earthen pot'ery, taken by him
self and Dr. Johnson, from an old Indian bu
rying ground about three miles north of the
town, on the plantation of Hon. E. S. Shorter.
A large gully has been washed through one of
Col. Shorter’s fields immediately on the west
bank of the river, and cuts through the edge of
amound, exhuming a large number of human
bones, besides pieces of pottery, pipes, etc.,
specimens of which may now be seen at Sir.
Tharp’s store. Some of the pieces are covered
witli designs of fish, leaves, etc., which are
quite tasielul, and exhibit considerable skill on
the part of the mound builders. We learn it
is the intention of the above named gentlemen
to open other moun.ls in this neighborhood,
and we have no doubt discoveries in relation to
to the aborigines will be made of interest to
archeologists.
Spirit of the Religious Press,
—The New York Observer exclaims:
“ What a commotion would be made to-mor
row in this city, or any other place, if all
the men and women who have done injustice
to others in business or in speech, made restitu
tion at once! What sudden exchange of bal
ances in back accounts! What hurrying to
and fro, from house to house to own up and
take back and ’beg your forgiveness!’ ”
—The New York Methodist Btrikes at the
national evil as follows:
The bieak-down of our present system of
civil service is inevitable unless we reform it.
The offices have been sold since the days of
Andrew Jackson. The payment of money for
them strikes us with a sense of honor. It
was in principle as bad, though not as dirty
conventionally, from the day when a candi
date had to prove before his appointment that
he had helptpl in the election of the Congress
man whose influence with the executive gave
him the place. The President has ceased to
make the appointments; they are usually
made by members of Congress as payment for
personal services. No such nasty system will
be long tolerated by the American people.
There is thunder in the air now.
—The Western Recorder says: “If in this
period of prevailing looseness Baptists stand
firm for the truth, they will in the end be
honored and thanked, just as they are now
honored and thanked lor having been “faith
ful among the faithless” when the grext Uni
tarian defection occuried in New England.”
—The revival in Princeton, N. J., is one of
remarkable power. The correspondent of the
New Yoik Observer says:
The work has gone foiward till less than
one-sixth of the students remain who do not
own themselves followers ol Christ. If there
is any falling off in the number of conversions
occurring horn day today, it is because the
livid from which they come is continually
narrowed by the harvest already gathered in.
Great earnestness in prayer and labor still
continues tor those yet out of Christ.
The means used have been the stated preach
ing of the Word by ministers residing here and
otners from abroad and prayer-meetings in
rooms, by classes, of the whole college, and
also in union with the people of the town.
But the means which have heen pre-eminently
blessed, and which have seemed to give the
greatest efficacy, under God, to all other means,
have been the personal persevering ex
postulations and entreaty of students with
their fellows. This personal labor is ilie most
indispensable instrumentality in all great re
vivals.
—The Methodist holds the following ringing
and unmistakable language relative to the
Belknap scandal and the general corruption
of our governmental affairs:
At every sign that a nation full of honesty
and true honor is awakening to the fact that its
public life is honey-combed with dishonesty
and dishonor, and is slowly making the great
resolve to clean the filthy sanctuaries of its
political devotion, eveiy wise and good man
will rejoice.
The leprosy has extended beyond the public
offices. What a putrid messot vulgarity were
Mr. Belknap and his two wives. At the fun
eral of the first wife it is arranged with the ac
complice that the stolen money should there
after be paid to the sister, who in time, becomes
the second wife. Do lives of open shame af
ford more vulgar exhibitions of unclean hnoian
namre ?
The usual blubbering of sickly sentimentali
ty has begun. "Fine fellow; sorry for him,
sorry for his wife.” Are you? You will say,
“No !” with a hard emphasis before the nation
can be healed. When men set their teeth
tight and draw down their laces to the manner
of fixed purpose, and begin to say, “Remove
the vile things out ol our sight,” then weshall
approach daybreak. For he is not a fine fel
low and deserves no sympathy. He has plas
tered ail over himselt and all over the woman
whom lie called wile—inflicting an insult on
every honest wile in the land—the flaming
placards ol low breeding and nasty vulgarity.
—Says the Baptist Weekly:
One of our English papers reports that a
grand evening performance, under the patron
age of the Rev. William Mayor, vicar of
Thornley, and the ehuich wardens, has been
given in Thornley Theatre for the benefit of
Thornley church. The play selected for the
occasion as East Lynn. “The whole of the
licensed viclualers,” or as we should call them
tavern keepers or modellers, are praised for
selling tickets and making the performance a
“success.” As some Episcopalians claim a
monopoly of the promise, the "gates of hell
shall not prevail ‘against the church, they may
certainly claim that in this case it was fulfilled ,
for all the “gates of hell” were used to help it.
—The United Presbyterian alluding to the
revision of the Bible, now in progress in Lon
don, says;
The Bible revisers are at work, and the pub
lic watch their progress with interest. That
they can go on in such a cause without ignor
ant protest is an encouraging sign of the limes,
anti that they desire to do the work so as to
leave the version as much in its present form
as possible, is complimentary to their sense
and judgment. All accounts agree instating
that they are very conscientions and laborious
in what they do, spending hours and days on
a single word, hunting all literature through to
justity this and that translation. While their
scholarly eflorts are being made, Christians
should be praying lor the grate of God on
those engaged in it.
Dr. Schaff thinks four years will be required
for the completion of the revision of the
Bible
—On “Scolding Preaching” 'lhe Evangel
holds forth as follows:
From Xantippe, the wife of Socrates, down
to the scuJd ol modern times, whether in petti
coats or the pulpit, the character is one ol the
most unlovely and mischievous in society. It
is unlortuuately, 100, a character tolerably com
mon.
But if a is anywhere out of place, if
he anywhere appears to a disadvantage, it he
anywheie misuses and prostitutes hi- position,
it is in the pulpit. A man in staich ol car
rion can find it, even in ihechuich. It makes
no claim to perfection. Tne divine law istbat
tares shall grow with the wheat until harvest.
FRANKLIN PRINTING HOUSE, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, MARCH 23, 1876.
A close inspection may find the tares. A sour
spirit will discover all other sour spirits.
And we know of no more pitiable spectacle
than that of a preacher, broken down by re
peated misfortunes, embittered and made bil
ious by numerous cares and crosses, and mel
ancholy, and using the pulpits as the place in
which, from week to week, he can pour out
the vials of his gall upon the patient beads of
his church.
—The Central Baptist unfolds some potent
and practical thoughts in the following para
graph on revivals:
We do not write against Revivals, nor are
we unfriendly to the use of means for the up
building of Christ’s kingdom on the earth ;
but we urge that the mission of the church of
Jesus Christ be not ignored, that the power of
the church be not denied. The church is the
building of God, the pillar and ground of
truih. It has a mission, and that mission is to
hold forth the word of life and maintain the
truth on the earth. The church is, therefore,
the converting instrumentality ordained of
Gcd, and every departure from this truth is as
much as to admit that the church is insuffi
cient for the work for which it was instituted,
and this admission leads to infidelity.
If the hundreds of our church men and wo
men who throng depots, links, and halls to
attend the services of professed non-denomina
al revivalists, would throw a tithe of the same
time and energy into our respective churches,
there would result more real conversions, the
truth would be maintained and the spiritual
[lower ot the churches would be enlarged and
made permanent.
—The Examiner and Chronicle rightfully
classes gossip among sins. It says:
Everyman is entitled to his privacy. To
stare at a person is recognized as an affront;
to point at a person in the street is the height
of ill-breeding. Every man has the right to
he unnoticed. To concern yourself, therefore,
about your neighbor’s private affairs—to tell
people about his personal matters —to direct
towards him a notice which he is not willing
to undergo, is an insult to him and a wrong.
Mind your own business, and let his alone.
“Keep thy tongue from evil and thy lips
from speaking guile.” We all need continu
ally to use the prayer, “ Set a watch, O Lord,
beloremy mouth. , Keep the door of my lips.”
—Speaking of the Moody and Sankey re
vival in New York, the Independent says that
besides their colossal meetings, nearly every
evangelical denomination has special meet
ings of its own. Men known for their rough
and vicious ways have developed into evangel
ists, and are preaching and singing with more
or less success.
—The New York Advocate , referring to the
respective duties of evangelists, pastors and
teachers, says:
Any arrangement that fails to embrace and
render practical and effective in the church all
of these three forms of ministration is fatally
defective, li is the bounder! duty of every
church, and eminently so of every minister of
Christ, to perpetually operate upon those that
are without; to call them to repentance, and
to constrain them to he “aved. The Gospel
feast must be spread lor them ; and if they fail
to appreciate the pravisions so made, the ser
vants of the Master must go out into the
“highways and hedges,” to seek out the wander
ers, and to "compel them to come in.”
—The Liberal Christian laments as follows
relative to the alleged disheartening aspect of
religious matters, saying;
There is some invisible wall that has for
five-and-twenty years reaied itself-except in the
science-led and secular world—against the ad
vance of “reason in religion.” The scientific
thinking in religion, abroad and even at home,
is wholly at <dJs with the prevailing practical
tendencies, and the higher literature of reli
gion seems to produce no sensible effect upon
the country at large in its religious predilec
tions and habits.
Commenting upon this view, ths Examiner
and Chronicle gladsomely exclaims: “Amen,
say we. The “higher literature” of rational
ism makes little headway in the invasion of
churches made up of men and women who
would sooner doubt their own existence than
the divinity of Christ and of his religion.
They have not belief, but “knowledge of the
truth.”
—The Baptist Weekly sees unmistakable in
dications of the near approach of a revival of
marvelous proportions, and urges ministers
and people to consecrate themselves anew to
the work.
—The Advocate thinks that the Methodist
church is losing its place as the church of the
poor. It says;
The heaviest item of expense in our churches
is for the support of the ministry—ranging
from fifty toseventy-five per cent, of the whole.
We presume that the average income of our
pastors will compare, not unfavorably, man
for man, with those of other denominations.
But the distribution is, in ail the churches, ex
eeedin.iy unequal. There are a few prizes
even in the Methodist pastorate, and there are
a few lucky ministers, who, to a large extern,
divide among themselves those coveted “liv
ings;” and, on the other extreme, there are
not a few who are compelled to serve lor com
pensations even less than may be earned by
the humblest mechanic or laborer. But while
the ministers are at best only well supported,
in doing even so much the people are suffering
unduly. It has become the caseihat Methodist
church-membership is no longer inexpensive ;
and (he boast of former timeß—not always
made Irom avarice—that our Gospel is free in
a double sense, is now most effectually silenced.
Our people have called tor more ministerial
services than they can conveniently pay for,
even at our moderate rales. It appears from
the statistics ol our churches that the average
annual cost per member lor the current ex
penses of the church is not less than twemy
five dollars. It may also he safely estimated
that, ot the whole membership of the church,
not more than oi e-ll ird are actual producers
earning their own livings—and the average
yearly incomes ot these are probably consider
ably be ow a thousand dollars. It must be
manifest, therefore, that many of our people
and churches are in a condition that imposes
upon them very severe buidens, and it is no
longer at all marvelous that they are becom
ing restive under them. It must not he for
gotten, however, that these burdens have heen
inmost cases self-imposed by the chuiches —
though the appointing | owers iiave readily
conceded what the people have asked.
—The National Baptist says:
The Young Men’s Christian Association had
proposed a bazar in aid of their great build
ing, on which there was needed $280,000.
But when Mr, Moody’s coming was spoken of.
they decided to put the bazar aside and to
throw all their energies into the work of the
Lord at the depot. The result was $125,000.
We don’t think the Lord left them much in
the lurch.
Suppose that a church that is in want of
money, instead of a fair ora supper, or a raffle,
should give time and labor to seeking the
Lord’s presence ami blesing, the conversions
of souls, and the arousing of believers. It is
possible that even in a worldly point of view,
they would not lose by it.
—Says the Interior :
The law should require, at least, quarterly
examinations of every nunnery, reform school,
refuge house, hospital, or oiher real or pre
tended “charity” which has charge of persons;
and the penalties attached to abuses, on the
part of their managers, be severe—round terms
in tiie penitentiary.
Commenting on the above, the Christian Ob
server remarks: As it applies to all such
places, of all denominations, it would not bear
any sectarian appearance. The Protestant
churches would welcome such a law. It could
do no harm, and might do good, for a govern
ment four times a year to visit all of our
schools, asylums and hospitals. Such visita
tion of the nunneries is absolutely necessary
for the protection of the personal liberties of
our citizens. Protestant institutions court the
light, and into the nunneries and convents
which avoid it, it should be poured.
—The .Standard sou mis ail alarm as follows :
“ Many of our feeble churches iu the West
must be disbanded it they do not receive as
sistance. And then, when better times come,
and immigration sets'll] again to the West, our
church work will have lobe built iqi Irom the
start once more. The loss to us as a denomi
nation v ill be very great if in our churcli
work we ere not in a position to take advant
age of better times when tliev come. Therefore,
our feeble western chinches should he aswted
in this, their time of distress. Let noFflie
older churches, therefore, neulcct their Home
Mission collection.”
The Watchman from the tower upon
which it stands, takes the following view i
prevailing vice aud demoralization “in high
places
This flagrant Bin in the high places of the
nation is a revelation of the tendencies of our
social life. The frauds of pubi c men, the dis
honesties of commercial life, the frequent be
trayal of trusts, are the natural results of
extravagant living. Men live beyond their
means; women long to out-shine their rivals
in dress and furniture and entertainments.
The simplicity of republican habits, and the
inward content of honest living, are sacrificed
to outward splendor and the exorbitant de
mands ot fashion. A man’s worst foes are
those of his own household, and a reluctance to
curb the costly tastes of wile and daughters
drives many a man to fraud and crime.
The Religious Herald, discoursing on tl e
subject of titles in the ministry, says of the
“D.D.
“ If the degrte were worthily bestowed—if
it invariably indicated that its possessor is
really learned, deeply read in the .Scriptures,
and eminently qualified for the ministry of the
Word —it might serve the purpose of inspiring
preachers with a laudable ambition, and be a
not unsuitable reward of a life of piety, study
and labor in the cause of Christ. Even then
It might be questioned whether the false am
bition, self confidence and jealousy awakened
by it would not outweigh all its benefits. Con
ferred, as it often is, without discrimination
on the part of and without merit on
the part of its recipient, it has ceased, in a
great measure, to excite pleasure in those who
bear it, or envy in those who are destitute
of it.”
—A Methodist preacher of Illinois has tried
the experiment of recovering his salary, or the
unpaid balance thereof, by law. He tailed
The court instructed fur the defendants, that
if they believed from the evidence that the
plaintiff went to Leroy circuit, as a minister
of the Methodist Episcopal church, to serve
as the preacher in charge of said circuit, and
that there was no other contract or agreement
as to pay for his services, as such preacher,
except the allowance made by the estimating
committee, and approved by the quarterly
conference of said Ltroy circuit, then the
plaintiff cannot recover in Ibis suit against the
defendants in this suit. The verdict was lor
the defendants. Under the rules of the Meth
odist Episcopal church a minister cannot
maintain a suit for services. The Central
remarks in this connection ; “The decision is
as it should be. Our itinerant system could
not be conducted upon any other plan. But
we have no sympathy with charges that refuse
to pay j: just allowance because they are not
under legal obligations to do so.”
Historical Tradition of the
Death of the Apostles. —Matthew
is supposed to have suffered martyr
dom, was slain with a sword in a city
of Ethiopia. Mark was dragged
through the streets of Alexandria,
Egypt, till he expired. Luke was
hung on an olive tree in Greece. John
was put into a cauldron of boiling oil
and escaped death; he afterward died
a natural death at Ephesus. James
the Great was beheaded at Jerusalem.
James the Less was thrown from a
wing of the temple, and then beaten
to death with a fuller's club. Phillip
was hanged up against a pillar at Hier
opolis. Bartholomew was flayed alive
by the command of a barbarous king.
Andrew was bound to a cross, whence
he preached to the people until he ex
pired. Thomas was run through the
body with a lance at Coromandel, in
the East Indies. Jude was shot to
death with arrows. Simon Zolotcs
was crucified in Persia. Mathias was
first stoned and then beheaded. Peter,
who was crucified, asked that he
might die with his head downward.
BAPTIST SEA’S AND NOTES.
—Rev. W. Pope Yeaman, D.D., of the Cen
tral Baptist , is to preach the regular sermon
at the approaching commencement of the The
ological Seminary at Greenville.
In Virginia, soon after the war, Dr.
Poindexter secured notes and subscriptions to
the amount of SIOO,OOO as an endowment fund
for Richmond College. Only SIB,OOO ol this
amount has been collected. Of the whole
amount p edged during the Memorial year
less than half has been collected.
The Bib’ical Recorder says: “Many of
our readers will be rejoiced to learn that the
voice of Rev. Matthew T. Yates, the great
Missionary, has been restored. ll# had a se
vere attack of sickness, cholera or something
of that sort, and with returning health his
powers of speech came back, whole as before.”
—The Baptist Reflector says: “We are in
formed that efforts are being made to move
Rev. B. G. Manard from Lynchburg to a field
of greater usefulness than the one he occupies.
We would be glad to welcome him back to
Tennessee.
In L7O the population of the colonies
was 2,500,000. There was then one Baptist
to every 432 of the population ; in 1784, one
Baptist to every 04; in 1812, one Baptist to
every 42; in 1840, one Baptist to every 31 ;
in 1872, one Baptist to every 25 ; in 1875, I
Baptist to every 22; against 1 to 432 one
hundred and six years ago.
—The effort to raise SIOO,OOO to endow
Sliurtlifl College moves, though rather slow
ly. About $15,000 have been subscribed in
Alton, where the college is located. Illinois
Baptists should arouse to the importance of
this work.
—Texas is now supporting three Baptist
paper—the Herald, published at Houston ;
the Messenger at Burksville, and the Texa-
Buptisl, at Dallas.
The Northern Baptist anniversaries are
to be held this year at Buffalo.
Rev. E. Z. Simmons, Missionary to Chi
na, is to visit our churches in Texas in behalf
of the Foreign Mission work, instead of Dr,
Tupper.
—Another Baptist chsyel will soon be
erected in Rome by the English Baptists.
Rev. O. C. Pope, the excellent editor of
the Baptist Reflector, and pastor ol Morristown
(Tenn.) church, has resigned the caie of his
church in order to give more time to the paper.
Rev. T. J. Evans is his successor.
—The revival spirit among the Baptists of
Nashville and Edgefield is more general than
ever before in the history of those cities.
—The revival in Petersburg, Va., has been
very fruitful. Brother Eaton has baptized
about seventy thus far, and the work is pro
gressing with increasing results.
—The Home Mission Beard has offered
Rev. J. E. Hutson the position of Evangelist
and agmt for Virgini i.
Rev. R. 11. Griffith is the agent of the
Theological Seminary for North Carolina.
Furman University has been endowed
with $200,000.
—The members of the colored Baptist
church in Carlersville are building a splendid
house ot worship, it being 40x70 feet. Mate
rial, brick ot the best quality. The building
is now approaching completion. The church
building will be an ornament to Carlersville
and a credit to the members and friends of the
church. Rev. Jeffrey Milner is the pastor.
—The Conferences of the Blakely Baptist
church will hereafter be held on Saturday be
fore the first Sabbath in the month.
—An excursion train will run fiom Barnett
to Atlanta, taking in Crawtordville, Union
Point, stations on the Athens Branch, Greens
boro, etc., on April the 7th. The object the
parti's have in view is to complete
the Raytown Baptist and Crawfordville
Methodist churches.
The Sunday-school exercises of those
earnest workers, brethren Boykin and Fish,
were well attended, at Union Point, Penfield
and Bairdstown.
—The Eaptist church building in Carters
viile is to be inclosed soon with a beautiful
picket fence. No doubt the ladies of that
denomination will beautify the grounds by
shrubbery, flowers, etc.
—The Jonesboro News of March 16th, says:
Elders D. L. Dutley and T. Phillips as
sisted in the morning services at the Baptist
chnrch last Sabbath. At night the exercises
were conducted by E. L. Duflfey followed
by J. Oslin. The mere presence of those vet
eran soldiers of the Cross, who have home the
heat and burden of the day, is always encour
aging.
—Mr. B. F. Ilar'ow has been [elected libra
rian of the Baptist Sunday-school at Warren
ton, vice Mr. Brinson removed from town.
—The ladies of the Baptist church in
Gainesville will give a dinner at Cochran’s
Hall during ccurt week. The proceeds will be
used by the building committee in putting the
finishing touches upon their place of worship.
One of the hardest things to do in a
Sunday-school is to convince a teacher
that he or she is not the best teacher
for the particular class they have.
Often it js known the class has out
grown the teacher, but you stir up a
botnet’s nest, if you propose to change
teachers, and so the young people de
sert the class andare lost to the school.
This occurs in every school, and re
quires some nerve to make things
light.
WHOLE NO. 2812.
General Denominational less,
—The report of Episcopal churches in this
country shows a decrease of three thousand
communicants, and of four thousand confirma
tions.
—lt isßtated in the Christian World that the
English Wesleyans were never more active
than now in aggressive evangelical work.
Their wealtheir and more intelligent members
lead forward in revival efforts,
A Catholic priest has established a mission
among the Esquimaux in the Artie circle.
He travels over an immense district with
sledges, sleeping nights under a snow hut.
It is proposed to erect in the public park at
Philadelphia a monument to Bishop White
the first Bishop of the Episcopal Church in
America. To this measure and very strong op
position was raised. The objection was that a
statute to a clergyman was not a proper work
of art to put in a public park ; that every de
nomination would claim aplace for its heroes;
that the public ground would be studded with
clerical statues, and so a sectarian feeling be
engendered and kept up. After a bitter con
test.it vras discovered that a Catholic magnate
has already been so honored. Of course the
authorities could offer no further opposition,
and the monument to the Bishop will rise to
its stately proportions.
—The new Anglican church at Cairo
Egypt, was recently conseciated by the Bish
op of Jerusalem. It is not forty years since
Christians in Cairo were obliged to live in
designated quarters and conform to certain bur.
denßome rules, while they were liable as they
walked the streets to be treated with the ut
most scorn, and to suffer all manner of indig
nities,
—The Irish Court of Exchequer has decided
that money left to priests for them to say masses
for the repose of the soul of the testator is a
private legacy, and therefore chargeable with
duty,
Notwithstanding the reiterated denials of the
ultramontane journals we learn from Berlin that
the Catholic clergy and laymen are using their
influence with the Pope to obtain sanction for
a formal submission to the Falk laws, in the
confident hope that (hough outwardly aecept
ng, they will be able to deprive them of their
efficacy against the church.
Iu AustraliS 1200 natives have been con
verted recently.
—The Church of England Missionary So
ciety intends founding a profass'irship of
Arabic in its college at Sierra Lean. Arabic
is largely spoken in the interior of Africa.
—The revival in Princeton College has been
marked for its quiet, but very effective pro
gress. Of 475 students, quite 400 are profess
ing Christians, and are exerting their influ
ence in every direction by letters and other
wise. The.e is no more cheering sign of the
times than that our colljj'' blessed with a
profound and earnest ree .yirit.
A discovery has been made that the old
est church in America is a Swedish church.
In the reign of tiustavus Adolphus, a cimpa
ny of Swedish emigrants readied Philadel
phia. Here was held the first Swedish Sy
nod. The lonely settlers founded a church in
Philadelphia and one in Wilmington. To
commemorate this event the New York Swe
dish Synod held public services in Philadel
phia recently. The closing services were in
the Lutheran church of St. John, that was
generously loaned for the purpose. Ministers
were present from Massachusetts, Rhode Is
land, New York and from the West.
The Sunday School World says :
“A teacher should never forget that
in his teachings he is to be courteous
as well as pointed, and the most cour
teous when he is the most pointed.
Any person who cannot put truth with
precision and point, and without be
coming uncivil or offensive in his man
ner, has much yet to learn as a teach
er. He must keep his eye upon, not
merely what the scholar is doing, and
the kind of truth he wishes to teach
him, but also upon the manner and
spirit iu which he teaches and the
scholar receives the truth. A sharp
and offensive manner is certain to ir
ritate and repel the scholar. Nor will
it be easy to win his confidence or gain
his respect, after exhibiting such a
spirit in attempting to instruct him.
—Some people tell you they dare
not hope. Why do not they dare to
hope ? To me it seems much more
impious to despair.
—Never yet did there exist a full
faith in the Divine Word which did
not expand the intellect while it puri
fied the heart; which did not multiply
the aims and objects of the under
standing while it fixed and simplified
those of the desires and feelings.
—lt is not work that kills men, it is
worry. Work is healthy; you can
hardly put more on a man than he can
bear. Worry is rust upon the blade.
It is not the revolution that destroys
the machinery, but friction. Eear se
crets acids, but love aud truth distil
sweet juices.
—Of all the acts of cowardice the
meanest is that which leads us to aban
bon a good cause because it is weak,
and join a bad cause becauso it is
strong.