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The Christian Index.
VOL. 55—NO. 13.
Table of Content*.
First Paob— Alabama Department: Questions
for Conscientious Christians—liev. J. 8. Baker.
Record of State Events-. Dr. Benfroe’s Sec
ond Philippic—Rev. J. S. Baker. Some Ques
tions—Rev. S. G. Hillyer. Spirit of the Reli
gious Preßs; Baptist News and Notes; General
Denominational N®we; Waiting—Poetry.
Second Page Our Correspondents: Letter
from Columbus, Georgia—Adolphus; Gems
Reset; Firmness of Character- -J. M. Robert
son; ‘‘Jesus Lover of My Soul”—Lila ; Reply
to Tertius; A Reply to “Girls aud Latin-
Time and Labor Wasted—W. G. M.; A Moody
and Sankev in Texas—Jas. W* Barnee. Early
Printing in America; etc.
Third Page.— The Glorious Gospel—Notes of a
Sermon delivered by Dr. J. J. Brantlev, of
Mercer University, at the Baptist church in
Washington, Georgia; Quite Satisfied—Poe
try. Missions: Collection of Mission Money—
B. Boykin; Indian Affairs—Wm H. Mclntosh,
Corresponding Secretary Dome Mission
Board. Obituary—Mrs. J. H. Callaway.
Fourth Page Editorial: Gnosce Teipsum—
“Know Thyself;” Religions Liberty; Anec
dotes of* Craumer; A Significant Emblem
Rev. J. S. Baker. Life aud Death are in the
Power of the Torgue ; the Christian Warfare ;
Dalton Baptist Church; In the Right Direction:
Delegates to the Convention at Thomasville ;
Goorgia Baptist News—Rev. D. E. Butler.
Raising Funds for Missions—Rev. 8. G. Hillyer-
Butler aud the Baptist Churoh—Dr. J. S. Law
ton. stone Mountain aud the Baptist Female
University; etc.
Fifth Page Special Contributions : Notes on
the Act of Baptism—No. Vl—Rev. J. H-Kil-
Satrick ; To the Delegates to the Georgia
aptist Convention ; etc. Secular Editorials:
"Tertius—His Rejoinder;” Letter from Mem
phis; Death of Miss Lizzie DeVotie; Baptist
Female University; Crawford Higli School;
Rev. M* Daniel; Death of Bro. F- M. Polhill;
In Hcmoriam : Rev. F. M. Haygood ; Correc
tion ; Georgia News.
Sixth Page— The Sunday-School; The Ascend
ing Lord—Lesson for April 2d; The Advan
tages derived trom the International Lessons—
Dr. Randolph; Macon Sunday-school Nows—
-- Boykin, Secretaiy; Some of the Difficulties
Sabbath-school Teachers meet with in their
Labors—A Teacher. Children's Corner : The
Orioles.
■kventh Paoe.— Agriculture : Cultivation of
Clover; Georgia Faim Notes; Care of Or
chards ; etc.
Bioth Page. —Our Correspondents: Letter from
Memphis, Tennessee—S. Landrum ; Letter
from Montgomery, Alabama—Nomad; Geor
gia Baptist Female S< miuary—B. G. Hillyer;
Baptists of Georgia—H. A. Tapper; Appoint
ment. of Sunday-school Meetings—T. C. Boy
kin; Marriages; Obituaries; Advertisements.
INDEX AND BAPTIST.
ALABAMA DEPARTMENT.
Mr. J. M. Macon has taken the editorial
control of the Clayton Courier.
Unusually large crops of corn are being
planted throughout the State.
The manufacture of iron at Oxrnoor, has
proved a grand success.
Pool, the uiurdertr of Dr. W. G. Mustin, in
1870, in Pickens county, has just been arrested.
—A post route from Elba to Cross Trails in
Cofite county, will be established.
—Whittle and Bliss, the evangelists, will not
Tisit Eufaula.
Thomas H. Keel, residing near Scottsboro,
is the father of 22 children—l3 boys and 9
girls.
Fifteen young M.D’s. secured their diplo
mas at'tiie recent Commencement of the Medi
cal Department of the University of Alabama.
When completed the Methodist Protestant
house of worship in Montgomery will be one
of the finest edifices in the State.
The Haynesville Examiner says that Messrs.
Fariss and McCardy have hired fifty peniten
tiary convicts as laborers upon their farms.
A larger per cent of homemade fertilizers is
being used in Alabama than in any season
heretofore.
The Montgomery Bulletin says: “Ye old
est inhabitant,” Mr. Neil Blue, came to this
sity March 14,1819, just filly-seven years ago,
and he looks as if he was good for fifty-seven
years more.
The Troy Messenger says:
The time lor holding the Chancery Court
for this District has been changed from the
first Monday in June to the first Monday in
May.
The Tuscumbia Forth Alabamian says:
Wheat, of which there is a large breadth sown,
although most of it is late, fs looking remarka
bly well. Winter oats were never more prom
ising, and the crop planted within the past
month is coming up well.
Whittle and Bliss, the evangelists, are in
Montgomery. The Mobile Register of the 18th
inst. contains the following:
Messrs. Whittle and Bliss conducted their
forewell meeting last night, before the largest
congregation ever gathered in Mobile. The
Government-street Presbyterian church is the
largest of the Protestant churches in the city,
and has a maximum capacity fur nearly a
thousand persons. Last night not only every
aeat, but every square foot of space in the
aisles, in the galleries, upon the stairs and in
the vestibule, was occupied, and hundreds were
compelled to go away without being able to
gel so far as the top step looking to the vesti
bule- We are sure that fifteen hundred peo
ple were within those walls, and hall as many
were turned away, unable to get to the door.
—The memorial volume of the late
Dr. S. G. Howe will be printed in
raised letters for the use of the blind.
A fund is to be raised to defray the
expense, and each subscriber of $5 will
receive a copy of the volume printed
in ordinary type. The volumes in
raised type, will be distributed among
the blind asylums of the world.
THE SOUTH-WESTEHU BAPTIST,
of Alabama.
QUESTIONS FOB CONSCIENTIOUS CHRISTIANS.
1. Is it not morally wrong to attach
more importance to the observance of
the outwart ordinances of *he Gospel
than to the cultivation of the graces
of the spirit within us ?
2. Are we not ordinarily more scru
pulous in conforming to the rules pre
scribed ia the sacred Scriptures for the
regulation of our outward acts, than
we are iu conforming to those prescrib
ed for the regulation of our moral af
fections ?
3. Will the strictest conformity to
the one class of lead to our justi
fication in the day of judgment for
one neglect to conform to the other
class ?
These are important questions. They
involve alike the glory of God and our
eternal welfare, aud, therefore, should
receive our serious and prayerful con
sideration. To these several questions
allow us to append a statement of a
few facts.
Fact 1. It is as clearly revealed in the
Word of God, that the Lord wills our
sanctification, (See I Thess. iv: 3,) as it
is that He wills that they who believe in
Jesus should submit to the ordinance
of baptism. The commands “Be ye
holy,” (Leviticus, six: 2 ; xx: 7,) etc. ;
“Beye therefore perfect, even as your
Father which is in Heaven, is perfect,
(Matt, v; 45,) are as explicit as the com
rn&nd to repent, believe and be baptized.
This is a fact which we presume no
one will dispute. We, therefore, proced
to report
Fact 2. We are much more active
and persistent in our efforts to induce
believers to submit to the ordinance of
baptism as instituted by our Lord and
Saviour, than we are in our efforts to
induce them to labor for the sanctifica
tion of their souls. For proof of this
fact we need but refer you to the vol
umes in our libraries, and to the
columns of our religious periodicals.
Fact 3. The Holy Spirit who teaches
us, through Paul, that there is ‘"ore
Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God
and Father of all,” etc., teaches us,
also, that the Lord requires us to
“walk worthy of the vocation where
w:th we are called, with all lowliness
and meekness, with long suffering, for
bearing one with another, in love en
deavouring to keep the unity of the
Spirit in the bond of peace,” and en
joins on us to be “kind one to another,
tender hearted, forgiving one another,
even as God for Christ’s sake hath for
given you.” See Eph. iv.
' Fact 4. Brethren who lovingly and
bolfly contend together against the
world for “one Lord, one faith, one
baptism,” will sometimes fall out with
one of t heir own number, who presumes
to question whether the baptism re
ferred to by Paul, was water baptism
or a baptism of the Holy Spirit, and
will denounce him as a semi-baptist, a
stranger and alien in our Baptist com
monwealtb, more to be hated, abhored
and shunned than a papist or an open
in fidel! They thus ignore all that the
Spirit teaehesof meekness,forbearance,
forgiveness, brotherly love, etc.
In conclusion, a*low us to ask :
1. Are these things so?
2. Should they be so ?
As we condemn ritualism, in plain
English and unequivocal terms, in
Roman and Episcopal churches, most
assuredly should we studiously avoid
manifesting, in ourselves, anything
having a ritualistic tendency.
Should auy of our readers find any
difficulty in answering any cf the fore
going questions, we would most respect
fully urge them to obey, without delay,
the Saviour’s injunction : “Search the
Scriptures; for in them ye think ye have
eternal life : and they are they which
testify of me.” John v: 39.
—The manuscript of Kinglake’s
beautiful “ Eothen,” was offered to a
score of publishing houses in vain;
nil refused the work. The author in a
fit of despair, finally gave the manu
script to an obscure bookseller, who
published the book at his own expense.
—Thackeray’s “Vanity Fair,” first
written for Colburn’s Magazine, was
refused by the publishers on the
ground that the work had no interest!
FRANKLIN PRINTING HOUSE, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, MARCH 30, 1876.
For the Index and Baptist..:
DR. RENFROE’S SECOND PDILIPP.C.
A Controversy Declined—Reasons assigned—A
Proposition—Our former articles—Expected
anon.
Dear Index.— I have just read, in the Al
abama Baptist, of the 16th inst., another phili
pic of our good brother Renfroe against us of
The Index. Of course, I know not whether
any of the resident members of your staff of ed
itors will condescend to notice it or not. As
one of the parlies personally implicated, I Bhall
decline to reply to the article referred to, and
beg leave to assign my reasons for so doing.
1. I am unwilling to deprive our belligerent
brother of any enjoyment he may derive,
while on his wearisome journey through life,
from the contemplation of the spirit manifes
ted in his attack on us; feeling well assured
that the only gratification he will feel, as he
looks hack upon it from the spirit world, will
be induced by the reflection that he has been
devorced from it in articulo mortis , (in the
hour ol death) and will be reunited to it — never
more.
2. The reason assigned in Scripture why we
should not answer a fool according to his folly,
appears to me an equally good reason why we
should not reply to the diatribes of an angry
and erring brother, however wise be may be in
his own conceit, or in that of others.
3. I believe that a controversy with one who
deals as freely in personalities and evil insin
uations ns does our highly esteemed brother,
Dr. Renfroe, would be far more likely to prove
injurious than beneficial to the cruise of either
our colleges or that of our Redeemer. Vastly
would I prefer to suffer wrong in person, prop
erty, or reputation than to do a wrong to either
of the two.
While I decline to engage in a paper con
troversy, which would not be likely to interest
or benefit the public, I will say to Dr. R., I am
willing to discuss with him, in a fraternal, pri
vate, correspondence, as long as nty failing vi
tal powers will permit, any points on which
we may be so unfortunate as to differ, whether
they relate to facts or doctrines.
My articles sent to the Alabama Baptist, in
reply to Dr. R’s. assault on “The Index and
its correspondents,” were not two replies, as
Dr. R. designates them, but one reply, divided
into two articles for the convenience of the
printer. As the articles have not been relurn
to me, though I requested their return in case
their publication should be declined, and en
closed money with which to prepay the pos
tage, I presume Dr. Winkler will, ataconven
ient season, admit them to his columns, as an
act of justice to those whom tie pet mined to be
assailed and defamed in his paper by insinua
tions of a most dishonorable and damaging
character.
Jos. S. Bakek.
Quitman, Ga., March 22, 1876.
P. S. It will be seen, by the date above, that
we did not see Dr. R’s. article for nearly a week
after its publication in the Baptist, lienee the
delay in our notice of it.
For the Index and Baptist.l
SOME QUESTIONS.
Chilton Cos., Ala., Feb. 18,1876.
Messrs Editors —I will write a few lines to
you about the doctrines that are preached in
this country. In the first place there are some
preaching that baptism is essential to salva
tion. Brethren, what do you think of it? In
the second place we hear some, who profess to
be able preachers, who preach that we are not
sinners by nature; and, again, we hear men
preaching that our forefather, Adam, when he
was placed in the Garden of Eden, had not
the power given him by our Heavenly Father
to resist the temptation wherewith he was
tempted. Did onr Saviour, who bled and died
on Calvary, or his apostles, preach such doc
trines as these? Brethren, you who are able
to comment upon these subjects, please give us
some instruction, that, we may be saved from
being led captive by such errors.
Brethren, our country looks as if it isbecom
ing desolate of the pure gospel, though there
are yet some faithful ministers among us.
i he doctrines referred to are getting more
prevalent in our country in these latter days.
, >‘t that God would enlighten our minds;
and He would stir up His per pU to rnue
holy i al *'or him.
Wouit. i at God would hasten tne time
when sin and wickedness would take their
flight, and the religion of our Lord Jesus
Christ would reign triumphantly to the ends of
the earth I F. M. Langston.
Id answer to the above letter we can only
aay that we do not hold baptism to be any
more essential to salvation than is obedience to
any other command of Christ. If one wilfully
refuses to be baptized, he shows a spirit of diso
bedience so marked that we cannot believe him
to he a Christian any more than if we were to
see him wilfully guilty of drunkenness or pro
fanity. But if one should make an honest mis
take as to what baptism is, and in a spirit of
obedience should do what he believes the Sav
iour has required, his life being in other res
pects consistent with his Christian profession,
we have always held that such an one would
be saved.
On the second and third points we assure our
brother, that we have always believed that men
are “by nature sinners,” and that Adam was
perfectly free, i. e. had the power to obey or dis
obey.
We are sorry that our brother is troubled
with these errors of which he complains. But
we are glad that be is aware of them; and
hope that, with (he aid of those who see as he
does, he may exert a wholesome influence in
maintaining the truth.
—A powerful revival is in progressat Oregon
city, and a number have united with the Bap
tist church there.
Spirit of the Religious Press.
—The Evangel, the Baptist organ of Cali
fornia, admits that it has not paid expenses
during the past quarter. It says;
“ Its editors get nothing for their service;
and in addition to doing their work for noth
ing, they have put their hands into their pock
ets, and paid a deficiency of several hundred
dollars. The Evangel is a necessity, and five
hundred additional subscribers, with the
money advanced, would make it self-support
ing. ’
The Christian Union is idyllic on the sub
ject vf country homes. Its strictures are true,
and its advice apropos. It says:
Country homes! Ah, yes! Remember
them, young man and young woman from the
country, when next ycu hear that afflicting
phrase whispered behind your back: “He,”
or "she,” is so “countrified”—all because your
shots are not tighter than the skin of your
feet, because your gloves will button, and your
clothes are made for comfort! Remember,
liter., what country homes of the right sort
mean. They mean cleanliness and quiet.
Rood to live your own life and think your
own thoughts. Immunity from a thousand
ache i and pains that haunt your city friends,
and. consequently, longer and happier life.
The.; mean plenty ol blue sky and all the sun
shine you want; and tree, sweet winds and
pure waters, and a world of other lovely things,
for which the city can furnish no equivalent.
Think of these things, and perhaps you won’t
mini so much being called “countrified.”
Bit this being outwardly countrified (when
the ifcrm is well deserved), wh.ch has so much
to do with everybody s reprobation of the ep
ithet, is not a thing which conies exclusively
of li'ingoiitof the city. It is simply one form
und i which bad taste, or want of taste, of in
telligence, of a sense of the fimess ol things,
man tests itself, He who exhibits had taste in
the i juntry, will not change his nature hy go
ing io the city. The vulgar are alike vulgai
in ill places, and amid all surroundings.
Thfeaieas many opportunities lor cultivat
ing 'rue refinement in the country as there are
in the city. It all hinges upon a person’s own
deg' ‘eol intelligence and self-respect. A true
gentleman is neither country bred nor city-bred.
A true lady is at home anywhere. Both are
cosu opolilan. But there is no such stickler
for ;ood taste in externals aH nature. You
may read her lessons at every hour of the day,
in e ery changing hue and every fleeting shad
ow, root dawn to dark. And if to be countri
fied means, among oilier things, to be in bar
men y with nature, then let us glory in it 1
- Ihe Baltimore Episcopal Methodist says:
j oe Pope really seems lo have a hard time
of No weapon formed for his defence
sect- to prosper. Everything on which he
pr< i ounces l,j H benediction begins at once to
wilt r. Don Carlos, the Spanish Pretender,
W:. ■ -nee cheered by the blessing of Pio Nono,
an j'lov he is in Lond< n, a royal fugitive, and
h'-'V'ray is scattered and defeated. In France |
. seems to be beyond
it'll 'p* shi hi lily of assault, by (be voles ol the
pcup.e. Priest and prelate joined against it,
but the late elections clearly prove that the
people have passed out of the hands of priest
and prelate. and mean to perpetuate the French
Republic Whether the Roman Church s ands
or not. TliVe is really no fir-t-rale power left
in Europe \o stand up for the Papacy, as
many powersi-tood for it at the beginning ol
this century.
—The Texas Baptist Uerald says:
Elder D. K. Moreland, who went fromGeor
gia to Texas, hag a school of seventy-live
scholars at Prairie Blossom, and is also pastor
of the church there.--- Index and Baptist. Have
you any more such Georgians left ? if so send
them out. Such men as brother Moreland
give your State a good reputation.
—The Chuiclmun believes that “the bland
man who is equally the Wend of all sects,
schools and parties, and wha regards one as
good as another, is the friend of none, and re
gards them all as of little value.’’
—On the serious subject of the influence of
the extremely popular literature furnished by
the monthly magazines, the Watchman re
marks :
The monthly magazine is a recognized pow
er in society; and there are few families whose
younger members are not diligent readers of
the Atlantic , ol the Galaxy , of Lippincatt, of
Scribner, or of Harper. Han the Christian,
zealous for the religious and moral culture of
those around him, allies, or enemies, in these
periodicals? We believe in general their in
fluence is wholesome; but they are not above
criticism ; and every pastor and parent and
teacher should scan them caretully, to oppose
them when they contain poison.
In our judgment they have too much fic
tion. And if we inquire concerning the qual
ity of this fiction, we shall survey it sometimes
with serious misgivings. We know, that in
many instances it is of a high order, and that
several of our greatest romances appeared first
in this form ; but all intelligent readers will
agree with us that as a mass it is crude and
poor, contributing nothing to the mind or the
heart, but tending rather to the dissipation of
thought, tlie formation of incorrect literary
tastes, and the exhaustion of the better emo
tions.
The Standard, stating it as a truism that
if our republic is to live, there must be a re
turn to republican simplicity and honesty,
says:
There is, just now, an appeal, emphatic and
repeated, on the part of the secular press, ad
dressed lo Christian ministers and churches,
pressing home the inquiry whether those who
represent both religion and morality are do
ing their whole duty in behalf of public and
private virtue, and the interests in general of
law, order and decency. For our own part, we
recognize the justice of this appeal, and would
desire to pass it on, lending to it, if that were
possible, a louder note. It is our happiness to
chronicle, every week, the conversion of liun
hreda through the instrumentality of revival
labor. It is pertinent to ask if those who come
thus into the churches, so come with a sense
of the responsibility that is on them to repre
sent, personally and in their testimony, along
with “ whatsoever things are tiue,” in the
samedegree and for the same reason, “ what
soever things are honest, whatsoever tilings
are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatso
ever things are lovely, whatsoever things are
ol good report.” Is it thoroughly understood
by them that those “old-fashioned virtues” be-
THE OIEHIRiISTI.AISr HZEKs-A-LID'
of Tennessee.
long to genuine Christian character and Chris
tian life, quite as much as those things which
are ordinarily characterized as Christian ex
perience t Is the church, thus, preparing itself
to serve as the source of purification to the
State, and to save the nation by plucking i* out
of these deeps of corruption into which so
many influences and causes tend to plunge it Y
What dishonor to American Christianity, if
American Republicanism proven failure!
Those dispatches from Washington, there
fore, which so many Christians read daily, are
sermons more pointed and pressing than any
which are spoken in pulpits. Let us, osChrist
tians, give a more earnest heed to them.
—The London Baptist humorously says:
A*clever American Baptist, who writes un
der an assumed name, and in a satirical vein,
liasa fling at the extravagances to wliLli or
gan-playing is carried in the New World.
Amongst other arguments in favor of the ex
isting state of things, lie remarks —and tbe sly
humor should hit pretty hard in certain
quarters this side the water —“The organ en
ables Hie organist to spread himself. It is well
understood that tbe church exists for the choir;
that the prayers and the sermon are merely
intended to give the choir a chance of getting
their breath. And the choir exists for the
organist. And what would the organist be
without an organ?” Again, “it fr<qticntl
happens that there is something in the words
of the hymns to jar on the sensibilities of a re
fined audience. How can persons of culture
endure to hear such lines as
Come, ye sinners, poor and needy.
Weak and wounded, sick and sore ?
Now the organ just blots out the words, and
saves all damage to the feelings of the hearer.”
The following paragraph reads almost like a
piece of history, yet we would fain hope such a
custom is r.ot very general: “For a good while
it has been customary to play during the or
dinances of baptism. And now in ilie more
aristocratic churches, the organ plays during the
a< ministration and dislr.bution oftliecoinn u i
ioii, solemn zing the minds of the participun -
with passages trom the best orperas, rendered
in a subdued tone.” We have ail heard of the
queer old Scotch polemic who, true to his na
uonal traditions, set his face sternly against t|ie
new-langled introduction to our chapels, and
silenced all who did not think with him hy a
grimly-argued sermon irotn a well-known pas
sage in Revelation, from which he deduced
that the organ was the great beast and the har
monium Ihe little beast of the apocalyptic vis
ion. Yet though one may smile at such op
position, wc are not sure that we should not be
won over almost to sympathize witli it it once
we had cause to lear our churches would be
ever likely to follow the Transatlantic system
of organ-blowing.
—Commenting on the “polar wave” of offi
cial cornption now sweeping over our country,
the Biblical Recorder remarks:
But these things have an end, and we be
lieve that the end is near. The people are not
wholly corrupt. The masses have not sunk
into the slough ofdishoDosly and fraud. There
is a large and influential element of pure
Christianity yet 'eft. Public opinion which
iiss'ouWculo me storm,‘ will il-e ns*mT migin.
Justice, which is unusually silent and power
less, not only amid the clash ol arms, but for
sometime alterwards, comes surely though
slowly to punish evil doers and restore things
to their proper relations. Already there are
indications that we have touched bottom and
that henceforth we are to look for better
things. Public opinion is asserting itself.
The law is showing that it can take hold on
men in high places. The press is beginning
to cry aloud. All the signs point to healthier
state of morals both in public life and private,
at no distant day. Even the extremes of vil
lainy to which men have gone are helping to
hasten the time of reform. Above all, God
rules. The Judge of all the earth will do
right.
—The Baltimore Episcopal Methodist has
fears that a revo ution in this country is im
pending, and says:
A political system supported by fraud, and
•nvitingin a multitude ol instances downright
bribery and ballot-buying has wrought out its
direful Sections of this nation whose
every interest belongs to peace and good neigh
borhood, have been estranged from each other.
Bloody and relentless war has swept over the
land, and there are still hundreds ol thou
sands whose personal interests are involved in
aggravating every prejudice of section, and
arousing every sentiment ol revenge, even if a
new war should he the result. VV e ask, in the
presence of that blessed benediction of peace
makers, shall these things continue forever?
Where are the five or six millionsof professed
believers in the Lord Jesus Christ, the Prince
ot Peace? Do these men, who acknowledge
their obligations to the Gospel of Christ, re
cognize llre claims of their country? Are
there not honest men enough to fill the offices
of the State and National Govei nment ? Are
there not honest men enough in this country
to take the lovernment out of the hands of
rogues and plunderers?
BAPTIST NEWS AND NOTES.
—The Centennial church, in Brooklyn,
New York, of which Rev. J. D. Fulton, D.D.,
is pastor is reported as being in a happy and
prosperous condition. Conversions are con
stantly occurring.
—The Creek Indians are to have a Baptist
mission school. The site has been selected.
—The Baptists of North Carolina have
100,000 members, white and .colored, 750
churches and 450 ministers; 36 students are in
their seminaries.
There is a gracious revival work in progress
at Wake Forest College. Several have made
a profession of religion and the number of en
quirers was increasing at the last advices.
—The English Baptist Mission has been es
tablished in Delhi for over thirty years aud
has greatly prospered.
—ln a recent sermon Mr. Spurgeon ex
pressed his opinion of the clerical vestments
worn by the Anglican clergy, as follows:
“Why could not a man dress like a gentleman,
and not like a woman?” He believed that
the time would come when all these things
would be put in a museum, and when our
grandchildren were told that preachers wore
that kind of a dress, they would not believe
it.
WHOLE NO. 2813.
WAITING.
EX CHAS. w. HUBNEB.
Bead, darling, dead ? Nay, thou art only sleep
ing,
As infants slumber on the mother breast-
And I, that stand so sadly here, and wreping
Should smile o’er one whom angels sang to
rest. °
O heart, be mute, thy tender vigil keeping—
Disquiet not with sighs a sleep so blest ?
Whilst vet the (Earth the geiming flowers en
tombetb,
And the sweet. South assails her frozen pates
She may not open them; but still he cometli,
And gentlv knocks, and sighs, and sings, and
—waits;
For well he knows, when Spring her reign re
sumeth,
The flowers will bloom, the swallows seek their
mates.
And so let me, subduing vain regretting,
Iu patience wait till we meet again!
All pam, all fear, all—but our love, forgetting,
My soul shall see thee, eveimoio Ihe same;
For though Affection’s sun hath here its setting.
Doth not her golden orb to Heaven remain ? *
General Denominational Hess,
—The Methodists in Italy are now publish
ing a weekly paper.
Messrs. Hall and Cree are visiting sever
al important cities in Terns in the interest of
the Young Men’s Christian Association.
—Tlie Tremont Sunday-school has 1,160
members, which makes it the largest Sunday
school in New England.
—Revivals are reported in the west of Ire
land. Three hundred have professed conver
sions.
—Rev. Frederick S. Fisher has sued the Epis
copi.Llmr h at N.tick, Ma s., to recover $475
ai rears of a salary.
—Dr. Behreuds, it is announced, is to be
come pastor of the Union Congre-alional
church, in Providence, R. I.
—The Pope of Rome has issued a letter
summoning the Czar of Russia to the “judg
ment bar of God,” to answer for his persecu
tion of Catholics in hjs dominions,
—The Bishop of Colorado has fourteen mis
sionaries actively at work. Denver has one
self-supporting parish, and one nearly so, and
two mission stations.
The latest stuistics of the Moravians in
in this country show that the communicants
are 8,930 ; non-communicants over thirteen
years of age, 1,576; Children, 5.156. The lar
gest church is in Bethlehem, Penn., the de
nominational head quarters, numbering 150.
—The missionartes in China, ot all evan
gelical denominations, are to hold a confer
ence at S’ anghia, beginning May 10th,
next. One of the topjps_^h|c'.. will, attract
much attention, will probably be the Ira 'sta
tion of the New Testament in the literary
style, and with such accuracy that all can em-
ploy it.
—The comroi lee of the Presbyterian Alli
ance, at their recent session in New York, vo
ted to request the Edingburgh committee to
postpone the meeting of the Alliance from Ju
ly 4th, 1870, louch time in 1877 as may be
convenient to themselves.
—ln 1850 there were 30 Jewish synagogues
in the country valued $418,600 with seats for
18,371 worshipers These have increased to
nit less than 300, owning pioperty to the valu of
$10,000,000 and capable of seating 120,000.
—lt is announced that the authorities have
permitted the Christians to put bells upon the
church of (lie Holy Sepulchre. The sound of
church bells has not been heard there since the
twelfth century, when Saladin took possession
of Palestine.
—ln lowa, a few days ago, happened a re
markable occurrence, well illustrating the ab
surd influence which religious belief has upon
the actions of certain individuals. The pa
rents of a child were divided, one being a
Catholic and the other a protestant. The con
troversy was first over its baptism, neither
would yield, and the Gibe died. The mother
wanted a priest to conduct the burial services,
the lather a minister. Neither would consent
to the other’s wishes, and it was buried with
out any religious services. Then over the
new little grave the husband and wife bade
each other farewell forever, and separated.
—The Abbotts of Mt. Miliary in Ireland,
Sept Funds in France, and Mariastern in Tur
key, all monasteries of the Trappist order of
Monks, have decided to purchase land in Ma
ryland to establish a house in the United
States, and have appointed as their agent Bro.
Francis de Sales. The order of Trappist is
the severest in the Catholic Church. Perpet
ual silence is one of their vows, an ddispensa
tion is given lo speak only when necessity de
mands it, or to those few of the brothers who
fill offices lo tl e monastery which demand oc
casional conversations. They are not allowed
meat, eggs, butter, cheese, fish or oil. They sleep
on narrow b.da of straw, raised a few inches
from the ground. They dig and refill from
time to time their own graves as a reminder of
their mortality. They arise before dawn, and
after prayer and meditation betake themselves
to their respective employments. Among
them are blacksmiths, shoemakers, tailors,
carpenters, farmers, dairymen and mill
wrights.
We refer the reader to the advertisement of
“Cutler’s Pocket Inhaler and Carbolate of
lodine Inhalant” in another of this
paper, and udvise any who may be suffering
from Catarrh or lung difficulties to send for a
circular containing testimonials to the great
excellence of this remedy from the highest au
thority, physicians, clergymen and laymen.