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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.