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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.