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THE GLORIOUS GOSPEL.
Notes of a Sermon delivered by Dr.J. J. Brant
ly, of Mercer University, at the Baptist
Church in Washington, Ga.
We take pleasure in reproducing the
following notes written by a correspon
dent of the Washington Gazette, of
March 17th, of a sermon preached by
Dr. Brantly, of Mercer University, in
the Baptist church at Washington :
It was our good fortune to listen, on
the first Sabbath of the month, to a
sermon of merit from the erudite
scholar and experienced Christian gen
tleman, Dr. J. J. Brantly, Professor
in Mercer University, now located in
Macon. The Doctor stands unrivalled
as a profound thinker and logical
reasoner, with extraordinary classic
lore. He commands attention, and
always rewards it, and by the remarka
ble fertility of his mind he perpetually
exhibits the same truths in various
modes. His arguments, if not always
new, are put in new forms, and his fig
ures of illustration (which are beauti
ful and chaste) have, if I may use the
expression, the freshness and fragrance
of novelty upon them. The Doctor’s
theme on this occasion was “The Glo
rious Gospel,” recorded in Ist Timothy,
i: ii. He prefaced his remarks by al
luding to the phrases that had startled
the world in past aces. Thus Luther
promulgated the truth of “justification
by faith” in the Sixteenth Century, and
it has continued to roll on with years,
and has come down to us, bringing the
blessings of a pure Christianity. The
text is one of those phrases that has
moved the world. It is a body of
truth, offered to man by God, “ who is
truth ?” This truth is a Divine cer
tainty. The Apostle Paul, a man of
vast attainments, varied experiences,
and of deep reflection, speaks of this
“Gospel of the Blessed God” as a truth
beyond contradiction. He represents
Jesus Christ as a unique person in char
acter and life ; and besides this, we have
historical proof of Christ by the in
ward evidences of religion on the hearts
of men. To offer the world a religion
we are not certain of, would not onlv
be impudence but sheer folly. The
Mahommedan and Buddhist might say,
Why expect me to change mine for one
of uncertainty ? The speaker then
proceeded to establish the authenticity
of the Gospel, its legal strength, sup
ported by right, and forcibly set forth
its glory. First, glorious, as a revela
tion proclaiming the true glory of God,
drawing aside the veil that had hidden
God from us, and revealing His true
character to us. There is an idea of
God in all human minds, just as there
exists one of right and wrong. The
laws of cause and effect lead men to
search after the beginning. The illim
itable heavens around, yea, I, myself,
owe an existence to some being higher
than I, or than the universe contains.
This first cause must be a being of
power and intellect, having memory,
conscience and will. Reason fixing her
eye upon the right and wrong within
us, we are made to view Him with ter
ror. Who gives us this law ? The
Christian knows it is given by a Being
pure, merciful and good. The ques
tion naturally comes up, Is he the same
as our Creator ? The Gospel answers
decisively, bridging over the chasm
that separates a justly offended God
and offending subjects. He can be
just and yet justify the ungodiy. Jus
tice merges in the purity and tender
ness of God. A glorious Gospel, then,
because it disperses the cloud that
covered the face of God from man, re
vealing to the soul of man jnstice re
concilable with His law. Second, the
Gospel is glorious, because it sets before
man his own greatness. This life is
but the introduction to another life
that is to go on forever. How will
man spend that after life? This ques
tion is being settled day by day, and
hour by hour, for in all homes goes up
the cry that teaches this significant
truth. If men are wont to take a large
and comprehensive survey of things in
this life, how much greater the neces
sity of nerving us to retrospect those
things that relate to our immortal life?
The Gospel makes our future life a
certainty, and thus dignifies and ele
vates our being. Third, the Gospel is
glorious, because it enables all who be
lieve to attain to the end of glory and
happiness, even though hindered by
sin and weakness. “All have sinned
and come short of the glory of God.”
This is a fact, and needs no reasoning
on. All have experienced it. We know
it. “God is of purer eyes than to behold
iniquity.” He punishes sin, not in re
venge or caprice, but because He can
not look on it with the least degree of
allowance. Jesus is sinless. He lays
down His life freely for us, and repre
senting us, took our place on the cross.
His people is a body, of which He is the
head. “I can do all things through
Christ, which strengtheneth me.” In
conclusion, the Doctor’s practical ques
tions were poiuted and probing. What
has the Gospel done forme? Amid
the clash and din of societies and asso
ciations for sending the Gospel abroad,
we are apt to forget our personal inter
ests. We are in actual contact with
the eternal message ; we know not the
moment we may be hurried to tin un
seen world. We have a serious work
to do, and should set about it now. If
the Gospel has radiated our soul with
sunshine, can we be idle ? Are we
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propagating its glorious truths? “We
are debtors both to the Greeks and bar
barians.” Other men have gone forth
to face danger ; are we helping them
by our prayers and means ? We dare
not leave the heathen as they are with
out making an effort to save them.
Q LITE BA TISFIED.
The clouds hang heavy ’round my way ;
I cannot see;
But through the darkness I believe
God leadeth me.
'Tis sweet to keep my hand in His,
While all is dim;
To close my weary, aching eyes,
And follow Him.
Through many a thorny path he leads
My tired feet;
Through many a path of tears I go;
But it is sweet
To know that He is close to me.
My God, my guide.
He leadeth me, and so I walk
Quite satisfied.
fHiSStHITS.
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COLLECTION OF MISSION MONEY.
Brethren, the way to do anything is
to go and do it. The way to raise Mis
sion money is to set about it and do it,
not wait until some Mission agent “hap
pens along,” and “raises a collection.”
It should never be left to any outside
agency to do this, the special and par
ticular du*ies of the churches—of each
church, of every church. The First
church, of Macon, has adopted the fol
lowing plan for collecting its Mission
funds: A Mission Committee, com
posed of six ladies and two gentlemen,
has been appointed, and instructed to
see every member, if possible, and ob
tain a contribution for Missions ; not
a single contribution, but stated contri
butions at regular periods, all through
the year. In this way we hope to raise
all the Mission funds our church will
be able to give. This committee is in
structed to report monthly. It is en
tirely distinct from the Financial Com
mittee of the church, the duty of which
is to devise and execute means for rais
ing all moneys for church expenses and
indebtedness. A special effort was
made on Sabbath last to raise money
to discharge a small debt of our church
and S6OO was obtained, which added
to S3OO received for tickets to a “ sup
per,” at the residence of a lady member
lately, almost liquidates the debt. Be
sides all this, the ladies of our church
have $1,200 in hand towards the erec
tion of a parsonage. And yet our
church is comparatively weak, both as
to numbers and finances. Four hun
dred will more than cover the number
of our membership.
We raise money by obtaining small
sums from many, and when this plan is
adopted all oyer Georgia, and in all our
Southern States, we shall have no more
of pecuniary difficulties bn the part of
our Boards. It is very much to be
hoped that the next Georgia Baptist
Convention will authorize and enable
its Executive Committee to act as a
State Board for Missions, and thus
arouse each church to a sense of its
duty, and urge every church to carry
out its duty in regard to contributing
to Missions. It is not 'plan we want,
so much as urging to do the thing it
self. Raise money for Missions. Let
us have some instrumentality, then,
which will arouse the churches, and
urge this duty upon them.
S. Boykin,
Macon, Ga., March 23. 1876.
INDIAN AFFAIRS.
Letter from Dr. Buckner.
Eufaula Creek Nation,
January 18, 1876.
Rev. W. H. Mclntosh, D.D., Correspond
ing Secretary Home Mission Board:
My Very Dear Brother —What
shall I say ? O ! that the Holy Spirit
would move upon the hearts of all the
Baptists in the United States to re
spond to the appeals that I send here
with from the wild tribes ! Surely, the
Lord from on high is prompting them.
What is Ashed.
They ask—they ask Baptists—they
ask for education and Christianity;
they ask in behalf of their children,
for they know that, as an arrow shot
from a strong bow, they are fast going,
and will soon be gone — gone forever!
Is there a heart so hard as not to be
moved to tenderness on reading the
enclosed appeal from those near to us,
and whom v e and our fathers have dis
possessed and crushed ?
The Lord Pleading.
Surely the Lord is pleading with us
through the mouths of these heathens
at our door, who cannot even write
their own names. Christ Jesus, the
sinner’s friend, and the poor man’s
friend, stands as an humble beggar in
his own dominions (though Lord of all)
and pleads with Baptists to send relief
to these almost exterminated. If we
possess the spirit of Christ’s religion,
that spirit links us with these miseries of
the wild tribes ; it excites to pity, and
stretches out our hands to their relief.
Whose children are we ? If the God
of love be our Father, then His influ
ence will bind us to their miseries ; if
Christ be our elder Brother, then His
religion will tune the chords of our
feelings and make them vibrate in
sympathy with the sounds of human
misery, that reach us from the Western
prairies.
The Trite Motive.
If then, my brother, we act under
the influence of the Father of the hu
man family, we need no other motive.
Let us be the agents of His plans, and
the almoners of His bounties. Those
who have thousands should give a
thousand, those who have dimes should
give a dime; many a poor widow is
ready to give all that she hath, but all
should give something, and I hope the
Board will open a book for that pur
pose, then it will be the easiest matter
for the Baptists to have at least one
Mission School among the Creeks, and
one among the Shawnees, instead of our
not having one among all the aborigi
nal tribes of this continent, as is now
the case. Tours most truly and af
fectionately, H. F. Buckner.
wild Indians’ appeal.
Shawnee Town, Indian Territory,
January 5, 1876.
Maj. I. G. Vore, Special Missionary of
the Muskohee Baptist Association:
Dear Friend —We, the chiefs, head
men and councilors of the Absentee
Band or Nation of Shawnee Indians,
in General Council assembled, feeling
thankful to you for your many acts of
kindness toward us, and relying on
your known friendship for us, address
you this letter :
Our Need.
We feel greatly our need of educa
tional facilities. Our children are
growing up around us with no chance
for an education, without which we
know that we stand but a poor chance
with those who are educated. We also
know that education, civilization and
Christianity go hand in hand. We are
old. Our time on this earth is nearly
over, but before we go to that other,
and we hope, better land, we do earn
estly desire to see some arrangements
made for the education of cur chil
dren.
What the Government is Domg.
It is true, the government aids
to a limited extent, in boarding,
clothing, and educating eight of
our children, and providing a day
school for the benefit of those of
our children who reside in the immedi
ate vicinity. This, although we feel
thankful for it, is not enough. Now,
Major, you know us, for years you
have been acquainted with us and our
people, and have been our friend.
What is Ashed.
Could you not induce some of your
Baptist friends, your Mission Board for
instance, to help us ? We want a Mis
sion school, where our children can be
boarded, clothed, educated, civilized
and Christianized; We are poor, ut
terly unable to help ourselves. We
will do all we can. We will, so far as
we can, give you all the land necessary
for a Mission school. We will ask
Congress and our friends outside to
help us, and you. Can you and your
friends help us ? Can you give us this
school? Surely, while thousands are
spent on heathens in foreign lands, a
little could be spared to educate, clothe
and Christianize those nearer home.
Help m if you can.
Done in General Council, this the
sth day of January, 1876, and signed
by mark. *
John Sparnee, chief; Joe Ellis,
second chief; Bob Deere, interpreter;
George Hood, White Turkey,Wild Cat,
Gobler, Jack Chisholm, John Deere,
Sampson, Long Gibson, Green Grass,
Cedro Cornelius, Madarda, Warrior,
Jack Ellis, Cherokee, Bull Frog, John
Tomahawk, chief of Black Bob Shaw
nees ; head men and councilors of Ab
sentee Shawnees.
We certify that we witnessed the
above signatures by mark.
Willis H. Wheeler,
Thomas Deere,
Samuel McCord.
secretary’s comments.
Of Major Yore, brother Buckner
writes : “ Major Israel G. Yore, our
missionary, was born in Pennsylvania,
has spent almost forty years here, was
baptized by me twenty years ago, held
the rank of Confederate Major as com
missary for the whole Indian Depart
ment, is a man of the strictest honesty,
business habits, quiet and unobtrusive,
but a constant worker for Jesus as a
layman without a salary.”
The fruit of anxious prayer and toil
for many years, is just ready to f all
into our hands, as if reserved to this
centennial period, to stimulate us to a
new departure, a movement forward, to
redeem the remnant of these wasted
tribes, and lead them to the blood
bought heritage of the sons of God.
These appeals are submitted to the
denomination. Shall the Home Mis
sion Board, in the name of Jesus, enter
and possess the land.
The Board invites an answer from
every one whose heart throbs with love
to Christ, and pity for the oppressed.
Let the matter be pondered and dis
cussed by our religious papers, or by
direct communication with the Board,
so that we may know what the wishes
of the Denomination are, and how far
we shall be sustained in any plan de
vised for a favorable and prompt re
sponse.
Wm. H. Mclntosh, Cor. Sec.
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OBITUARY.
Callaway.— Died in Atlanta, Ga.,
March 16th, 1876, Sarah Dennis, (nee
Eades ,) afterwards Hardeman, wife of
deacon J. H. Callaway, of Second Bap
tist church, Atlanta. Sister Callaway
was born in Oglethorpe county, Septem
ber 10th, 1811; married to Mr. Robt.
Hardemau in 1832, to J. H. Callaway,
September 24th, 1835 ; baptized into
the fellowship of Mill Stone church, by
Rev.. Enoch Callaway, in 1831. Resid
ed in Oglethorpe county till 1838;
1838-1852, at McDonough ; 1852-1866,
at LaGrange ; since, at Atlanta.
Intimately associated with brother
and sister Callaway during the whole
period of my ten years pastorate at
LaGrange,brother C. being the treasur
er, and the most active deacon of f he
church, I am profoundly touched at the
news of the decease of his dear com
panion. No two people were ever so
much to me and my family as these
dear ones. They were our joy in days
of health and prosperity, and our
greatest earthly consolation in sickness
and adversity. Sister C. ministered
long at the bedside of my first wife,
wasting with consumption. No rea
sources of affection or material com
fort were forgotten, that could in any
way contribute to allay the sufferings
of the dying invalid. One of the last
expressions of her failing strength, as
the devoted couple retired ou the even
ing before her death, was, “O those
dear, dear people.” When she was laid
in her grave, our baby boy was taken
to their home, to be nursed and tended
till he grew larger.
The amplo means of the family were
generally used to relieve the poor, bury
the .(lead, and to aid in every work of
benevolence. They had lost their sweet
little daughter, their only child, Mary
Elizabeth, a short time before, and
seemed to lavish the affection they
cherished for her upon everybody else.
The child died in 1854, having been
baptized between eight and nine years
of age, and living the few years of her
Christian life a marvel of early piety.
Several children, kindred to sister C.,
were brought up as if with their own
parents ; provided with every thing their
own means did not supply. “Ma,” was
used in addressing her with as much
affection and confidence as though she
had been their own mother, and, now
that she is gone, their hearts will ache
as though her own blood flowed in their
veins.
Not many people endowed with the
comparative influence of our dear, de
parted sister, but would have sought
social distinction, and given themselves
to worldly enjoyment. But no such
trifles occupied her heart. Enjoying
the gifts of Heaven with gratitude,
and .making her family thoroughly and
-t t*wisully comfortable, her prayers, her
thoughts, her activities were laid out
to promote the temporal and eternal
well-being of her neighbors. She loved
the house of God, and the assemblies
of the saints; to mingle her tears with
those of the affbeted, and to hear and
inspire the laborers for Christ. Her
heart was not set on riches, however
much they increased, but her treasures
were laid up on high.
Such as she was in our acquaintance,
such always, wo have learned, had she
been in earlier life—the sweet, amiable,
devoted, Christian woman. Precious
was the treasure given to her devoted
husband.
Sweetly, O sweetly, res's now the
sainted spirit on the bosom of God !
E. B. Teague.
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$20.00 ; Pulpit Bible, $15.00 ; Family Biblo, $lO.-
00; Family Bible, $8.00; Family Bible, $5.00, (or
same value of library or singing books,) to
the next five schools sending the largest amount
by November. Address simply KIND WORDS,
Maeon, Ga. jan24-tf
Agents wanted for
THE LIFE AND LABORS OF
LIVINGSTONE.
INCLUDING HIS LAST JOURNALS.
The only complete history of ills thirty years
travels in Africa. Vividly portraying his many
thrilling adventures and the wonders and wealth
of that marvelous country.
805 pages—loo rare illustrations. 12,000 copies
sold in first seven weeks. For terms and par
ticulars, address National Publishing Cos., 7
and 9 Marietta street, Atlanta, Ga. novlß.6m
A NEW HOOK ON
MOODY and SANKEY
And their Woak on Both Sides of the Sea. By
an eminent Chicago Divine, a neighbor of Mr.
Moody for three years, and an eye-witness of,
and participant in his great revival meetings in
England. Indorsed and approved by eminent
Christians. SayH President Fowler, of tho
Northwestern University : “ May God grant this
book a million readers, and many converts to
Christ. ’ Send lor circulars to V. D. RANDALL
& CO., 38 West Fourth street. Cincinnati, Ohio.
dec23.l3t
THE OFFER
The American Baptist Publication Society
wish to mark the Centennial Year
by an offer of
SST* Unparalleled Attraction!
The Churches that will introduce, during the
first half of the Centennial year, our new and
universally popular
Baptist Hymn Book,
WE WILL FURNISH
100 HYIOT BOOKS FOR 350.
This offer includes the most popular editions,
as follows :
30 Hymn and Tune Books Price, $1 00
25 Hymn Books, (Pew Edition,).... “ 125
30 Hymn Books, (Pocket Edition,). “ 75
14 Hymn Books, (Cheap Edition,).. “ 50
1 Pulpit “ 400
100
These Books, at regular prices, amount to
s9l 75.
Vv-" To small churches wo will supply
50 BOOKS FOR $25.
15 Hymn and Tune Books.
15 Hymn Books, (Pocket Edition.)
12 Hymn Books, (Pew Edition.)
8 Hymn Books, (Cheap Edition.)
■Si?" In these offers no modification whatever
will be make.
■Sii'' All other quantities will bo sold at regular
introductory prices.
SfeJT This offer is limited only to the first half
of the Centennial Year, from January 1 to June
30,1876.
■fo?" Churches ordering must state positively
that they have not got the Baptist Hymn Book
in use.
Tlie Baptist Hymn Book has already been
adopted by over two thousand churches. Send
for circulars. B. GBIFFTH, Sec’y,
1420 Chestnut St., Philadelphia.
Branch Houses—2 Trunont Temple, Boston; 76
E. Ninth street,Now York; 61 Washington street.
Chicago; 209 N. Sixth street, St. Louis. sep2t£
AGENTS WANTED FOR
THE WONDERFUL CAREER OF ” " ;
Moody & Sankey,
in Great Britain and America. By an Eminent
Divine. Has over 600 pages and 20 illustrations.
Prico $2. Best book to sell. No other com
plete. . 300 agents made first month. Selling by
the thousands. Address H. 8. GOODSPEED Jc
CO., 14 Barclay street, New York. jan2o.Bm
.AGENTS W ANTED FOR BIDPATH’S
HISTORY OF THE U S.
Embracing a clear account of the Aborigines ;
tho Norse explorations of the Eleventh Century;
a full series of progressive Maps; numerous col
ored chronological Charts (after the plan of Ly
man’s Historical Chart); tlie largest and finest
gallery of Portraits ever incorporated ill a work
of this kind, and topographical diagrams that
accurately locate every impel taut military cam
paign, battle scene, etc. These distinctive fea
tures, and its many other excellencies, make it
the most rapidly selling book ever offered to
agents. Ass BOOK FOB $3. Send for illustra
ted circular and terms. JONES BROTHERS &
CO., Publishers, Memphis and Atlanta. felo-13t
&r~l cn AGENTS’ PROFITS per week. Wilt
4)0 | QU prove it or forfeit 8300. New articlesjust
patented. .Samples sent free to all. Address W. H.
CIIIDEBTEK, 207 Broadway, New York, meh23.lt
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