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The Christian Index T3EHE3 SOUTH-WESTERIT BAPTIST, THUS CiTT'R.TPi'T'T A ~KT TTTHT?, A T .TAB of Alabama. of Tennessee. VOl. 55—NO. 17 Table of Contents. Fibst Page. —Alabama Department: Editorial— The Promised Presence of Jesus; Little Words are the Sweetest; Estimating Piety—Rev. J. S. Baker. Spirit of the Religiouspress; Bap tist News and Notes; General Denominational News ; Book Notices; Literary Gossip. Second Page. Our Correspondents: Letter from South Carolina—The Index—Bev. Dr. Gwin, of Montgomery—A Season of Revival— Rev. L. H. Shuck, D. D.; Dry Rot in the Church—No. HI. ; More Godly Zeal Needed Among the Baptists on the Coast—L. Price; Letter from Texas—Penn, the Evangelist’s Work; The Holy Scriptures; Exit of the Israel ites from Egypt—lda Lou Murphy; The Im poster •■Rev” Samuel Annear; Letter from Texas—The Index—lts Correspondents—Rem iniscences—Penn. the Revivalist—Outlook. Missions: The Schools for Colored Teachers and Preachers; etc. Science and Education : “The Will Considered as a Moral Power and a Therapeutic Means;” Virginia Educational Ap propriations; etc. Third Page.— Special Contributions: Romanism in Georgia—Rev. T. B. Cooper. The Suuday- Sohool: Letters to the Evangelist; Sugges tions to Babbath-scbool speakers: etc. Chil dren’s Comer: The King of the Hobbledygob linß—Poetry; How to Make Sunshine. ' For the Ladies—The Art of Skeletonizing Leaves. Fourth Page. —Editorial: Rev. Mr. Lofton’s Cen tennial Poem—Rev. T. G. Jones; Moral Dis tinctions—Rev. S. G. HiUyer; Proceedings Fifty-fifth Auuual Session * Georgia Baptist State Convention—Dr. J. S. Lawton. Fifth Page. —Editorial: Pastors’ Conference—Dr. J. S. Lawton; Preaching at the Convention — Dr. J. S. Lawton; Book Notices: Prize Sermons; Premium Bibles; A Good Appointment, etc. Sixth Page.— Select Miscellany: In the Vale- Poetry; Poetry as an Educator—Jesse Clem ent; The Pastor’s Support—Zion’s Advocate; Editorial Work—Bev. E. P. Tenny; Centenni al Poetry; Gems Reset. Seventh Page.— The Farm: Bees—The Swarm ing Season—How to Hive a Swarm—lnterest ing Detaik—Questions Concerning Bee Cul ture,—Georgia Grange; Grafting; etc. Eighth Page. —Secular Editorials : Memorial Ceremonies at Oakland Cemetery; Georgia News. Communications: Errata—Bev. J. H. Kilpatrick ; Card of the State Committee on Missions. Marriages. Obituaries. Adver tisements. INDEX AND BAPTIST. ALABAMA DEPARTMENT. The Oat crop of Dale counly is very prom ising- The Horticultural Fair at Mobile, was a success. W. C. Hearn, of Birmingham, is conva lescing. Robert Weems, of Etowah county, is in his hundredth year. The Presbytery of TusknloOsa will roeet-ift Eutaw, May 4th. 1 y* is plenty of corn insoo' e parts of Hale county at 40 cents a bushel. George Shaver and his son Rufus, of Chero kee county, were drown in Terrapin creek the 14tb. A lodge of Good Templars has been organ ized in the vicinity of Chapel Hill, Chambers county. The ladies’aid society of Tuskalooea has re cently sent $95 to the Tuskegee Orphan’s Home. A convention of the Granges of Wilcox and adjoining counties will be held in Camden, Mav 3d. The ladies’ aid society of Marion has been supporting four childien at the Tuskegee Or phans’ home. Tom Wheeler, a desperate character, was shot near Wheelerville, Mobile county, recent ly, by an unknown party. Col. J. W. A. Sanford will deliver the ad dress before the literary societies of the South ern University, at Greensboro, in July. The revival at Marion continues with excel lent results. The services consist simply of prayer-meetings at the church every night. The next session of the State Baptist Con vention will be held in Montgomery, with the First Baptist church, Thursday, July 13th. The dead body of a young man named B. L- Guy was recently found about one mile from Demopolis. His mother lives near Cofleeville, Clarke county. In an affray in Moulton, the 14th, Elijah Parker was killed, and James Parker, James Aired, and Alexander Aired were dangerous ly wounded. The ladies of the Memorial Association of Selma have now in the hands of trustees about $13,000 raised through their efforts for the erection of a monument. Major Jos. Hardie has given the Association an acre of ground near the city, to which it is proposed to re move the remains of the confederate dead buried here, and on which will be e.ecled a monument to the memory of these martyrs of the Lost Cause. The Texas Baptist Herald says the church in Dallas is making headway under its pastor, Eld. G. W. Rogers, —The Chinese Baptist Mission School in San Francisco has eighty pupilp, with six American and three Chinese teachers. —Dr. Gwin of Montgomery will preach the Commencement sermon at the Baptist The> logical Seminary. THE PROMISED PRESENCE OF JESUS. Matt, xxviii: 20. “Lo, lam with you alway, even unto the end of the world, Amen 1” The great object for which we should live and labor is the extension of the Redeemer’s kingdom, with a view to the advancement of His glory in the salvation of souls. To enable us to derive all the benefits possible from the promise of the Saviour, which we have prefixed to this article, there are sever al inquiries which should be seriously considered. 1. To whom is the promise made ? It is made to all who are endeavor ing to extend the reign of Christ, either in their own hearts or in the hearts of others ; and whether they act in their individual character, as solitary inern beis of Christ’s kingdom, or in their associated capacity, as churches of our L@rd and Saviour. 2. What is implied in the promise ? It implies divine guidance, ability to perform our duties, support under trials, protection from enemies, comfort in dark seasons of adversity, grace to help in every time of need, success to the feeblest of our efforts in His cause, and a peaceful transit from time into eternity, when we shall have completed the labors allotted us on earth. 3. What is necessary to secure to us the fulfillment of the promise ? We must keep ever in view the chief end of our creation, (which was to pro mote the glory of God, as we learn from Is. xliii: 7 ; I Cor. x : 31) and la bor to accomplish it. The glory of God is the light of Heaven ; (Rev. xxi: 82) and shoulc. be allowed to shine unob structed along our pathway through life. We should not allow that light to be eclipsed by the intervention of any worldly object. If we suffer ourselves to be influenced by a view of our own personal interests, or by those of our local churches, or by the supposed in terests of the denomination with which we are , instead of by the glory of God, we shall walk in dark ness, and be liable to. stumble and fall iuto sin, and there is no promise in the Word of God to the sinner, (the im penitent sinner.) “If I regard in iquity in my heart,” says David, “the Lord will not hear my prayer” —Ps. lxvi: 18. All the promises of God are made to the friends of Jesus ; and they only are recognized as friends who are found keeping His commandments. (Jno. xv: 14.) The promises of the Word of God, even the one promise prefixed to this article, are worth more than all the wealth of the universe. They procure for us what gold and silver cannot purchase. Little words are (he sweetest to hear; little charities fly furthest and stay longest on the wing; little flakes are the stillest; little hopes the fond est, and little farms the best tilled; little books are the most read, and little songs the dearest loved. And when nature would make anything es pecially rare and beautiful, she makes it little—little pearls, little diamonds, little dew drops. Agar’s is a model prayer, yet it is but a little one, and the burden of the petition is but for little. The sermon on the Mount is little. Life is made up of littles ; death is what remains of them all. Day is made up of little beams, and night is glorious with little stars. In estimating their piety men are apt to select awrong standard. They each say, “I am not as bad as such a one. He gets drunk, or he swears, or he neg lects to discharge some other duty. I would not do as he does.” Now, it should be remembered that our neigh bors are not our guides so far as holy living is concerned. Christ is our model. If we would live holy lives, we must set Christ always before our face. He is perfect and no one else is. We may be as good as our neighbors, and fail to do our duty. Nay, we may be faY better than any of our neighbors and still be vile sinners in the sight of God. —Some characters • are like some bodies in chemistry—very good, per haps, in themselves, yet fly off anU re fuse the least conjunctiou with each other. FRANKLIN PRINTING HODSE, ATLANTA, G Spirit of the Religious Press, —The Church Journal sava; “Reverend” is an adjective of admiration, and has no official value whatsoever. Its almost universal absence from the title pages of books written by English clergymen, shows their understanding of the word and its use. Its abacence from the title pages of works by our own clergymen shows an unequal un derstanding of both among ourselves. A man is not necessarily “reverend” because he is a clergyman. He may be a very “rev erend sire,” and be layman. There is really quite as much modesty in a man’s writing him self “the Learned,” “the Pious,” or "the Ven erable,” as the “Reverend” John Smith. —The Pittsburgh Advocate says: The Methodist suggests to the General Con ference the consideration of the six months probation. The Church South sometime ago abolished it; and we have been informed by intelligent preachers of that body that no change recently made lias operated so benefi cial as this. It might be well to leave the whole matter of probation to be determined by the pastors and the leaders. Persons joining would then become candidates for admission, and would be formally admitted whenever in the judgment of the pastor and his official ad visers it is prudent and expedient to do so— some earlier and others later, according to cir cumstances. The “six months” rule was probably useful once. But in most cases it is not ueeded now, and in some instances acts very injuriously. Let us have a “revision.” —The Biblical Recorder trenchantly re marks : Dr. J. Wheaton Smith mentions that during a recent visit to Havana, “the Sabbatii was celebrated by an early mass, which was followed hy a cock fight at 10, bull fight at 3, and bat masque in the evening.” That’s just the way it is in all Catholic countries. The Christian Sabbath is unknown where the Pope holds sway. —The Journal and Messenger, taking a philo sophical view ol the critical situation of our country, morally considered, discourses as fol low* : We hear much about the “public con science” and many deprecating allusions to its present low and seared condition. All this as though the great body called the “public” were a sentient being possessed of a mind and con science wholly distinct and apart from the in dividuals which compose it. The public con science is composed of individual private con sciences, and any commentary, therefore, upon the former equally aflects the latter. As the laws of the country cannot be mucli ahead of its public opinion, neither can what we call public conscience elevate much above the plane of private morality. Much has been done for the elevation of the lower- and more degraded •) msc. but it weld appear that the 'lime has no* rimie, in which measures looking toward the purification of the higher classes should be inaugurated. The public conscience ’s determined by the men who fill its offices of trust. These men are elevated from the peo ple and by the people. It comes at last, there fore, to a question of private conscience. The Work to be done is the elevation and enlight enment of the individual conscience. Nothing can do this so efleetually but the religion of Jesus Christ. When we labor for the Master, let us remember, that we strive not only for the godly walk and conversation of the indi vidual, but we labor also in the grand cause of a pure government and of an enligthened pub lic conscience. —On the ever open question of choirs, the Western Advocate remarks: With a well-conducted, well-behaved church choir, we never had a disposition to find fault. But we insist that, if possible, it ought to be composed of members of the church, who feel a deep interest in sustaining spirituality of wor ship, and as a matter of course, the most per fect propriety of deportment in the house of God. At least, none but those who respect the Bible, the religion of Christ, and the church as divine institutions, should be permitted to rep resent the congregation in offering praise and worship to the Almighty. Let all impure per sons be set aside. Let the congregation, at all events, worship in spirit and in truth. Let there be no mockery of lip-service ; no sham homage; no hallelujahs sent up by those who elsewhere always bow the knee to Baal. In fidels and profane sewarers should not be hired by Christian churches to mock Christ with their hypocrisies. > —The Methodist Recorder boils with “right eous indignation” at the effronteries of medical advertisers who head their harangues with a deluding paragraph, worded in a pious man ner, conspicuously setting forth the names of Beecher, Moody and Sankey, etc. The reader begins an article of honest in formation, as he supposes, and has gone into it a square or two when he finds himself pierced by the concealed barb, and 10, it is not a thought for his soul at all, but a decoction for his liver! All such advertising is an out rage on good taste, and a shame upon Chris tian decency. To parade the names of the evangelists before the eyes of the Christian world as tabs to sell patent medi cines, is a violation of all the rules by which the profession of healing is made honorable. No modest physician ever resorts to trickery. We protest against the use of the religious or secular press for any such purpose. Publish ers themselves, contracting for patronage through advertising agents, are deceived ; and editors are made to appear as indorsers of ar rant humbugs I —“Reaching the masses" has become a very trite and rather meaningless phrase. Com menting upon its flippant use the Interior tart ly gays : “How shall we reach the masses?” This question suggests perfumed ringlets; a large finger-ring with a green glass “jewel” in it; a switch cane with an oreide head, and tokens of that sort. Who are the “masses” so snobbish ly referred to? One unfamiliar with the latest literature of cant, might suppose these “masses” to be Borne sort of soulless, unintelligent crea tures, not approachable by the ordinary avenues of language and reason, it would not natur ally be inferred that reference was made to the great body ol self-r specting artisans, laborers, merchants and professional gentlemen who are church members. ORGIA, MAT Af, 1876. —The Watchmen, speaking of the terrible evil of licientious literature afflicting our coun try, and poisoning the minds of the young, and commending ihe splendid efforts of the so ciety in New York which makes it a duty to ferret put and suppress those venomous publi cations, truly says: But a society located in the city of New York is not able to protect our homes from the insidious enemies of virtue; it may point out the evil, but it cannot destroy wholly that against which it ears. God has made the pa rents the guardians of the family; and if they are. unfaithful, there is no power on earth which can take their place. How shall they protect their ofl.pring against this insidious' peril ? They should siudy to win the confidence of their children, aid the child should be trained trom infancy to have no secrets which they may not share. They should listen to its stories of daily experience, and draw it out by pleasant questions and genial answers. They should converse with it and mak* it a companion, so that the habit of its life shall be a yearning for their sympathy, in all its thoughts and pur suits. And if thfse sacred confidences should embrace matters of the greatest delicacy, they should not be checked. Then the father and mother, knowing minutely the imaginations, the emotions, the deeds of the child, are able to guide it wisely. They should watch its associations, and keep them pure. Tl.ey should permit it to visit only those .whese influence is salutary, and they should invi e to the home so many of the innocent in ;keirt, that the child shall not be tempted to stik the company of others in order to enjoy the sports natural to its period of life.; By providing it with good playmates, they will wean it effectually from evil: and by pointing out to it the difference between the two classes, they will inspire it with a horror of all that is low and vicious. But, chiefly, they should know what the child reads, and should provide it with such books as are helpful to its moral growth. We believe there are few parents who concern themselves greatly with this ma’ter; most men and women suppose juvenile literature to be beneath their study ; and they remain pro foundly ignorant of that which is shaping the destiny of those dearer to them than life. The mother’s care extends to the food, the clothing, the manners of her flock ; but not to the litera ture on which the soul is fed. Perhaps few are capable of providing it a list of books at once interesting and pure. Yet no office which the parent fulfills is more necessary than this; and none incur greater guilt than those who neglect it. —Concerning the purpose of the managers of the Centennial show at Philadelphia to des ecrate the Sabbath by keeping all the doors open, and allowing all the saloons and those addenda of fairs to be in full blast on the sacred day, the Churchman reasons as follows : In P .;:i place no law of courtesy can stretch iff t’,;/extent of requiring any land to give up its itional usages. There will be visitor) (rons . \<r here, perhaps, police reg ulations ars and certainly some to whom such regulations will be eminently disa greeable. There will be those, also, lo whom plurality of wives is a matter ol religious per mission; but the State of Pennsylvania need not therefore suspend its laws against bigamy. There will be no compulsion to enforce active com pliance with American ways; but the rules of hospitality certainly do not mean abandonment of those ways. The distinction is a perfectly plain one. The stranger is not expected to con form to, nor yet to disturb the order he finds here. He is to be allowed all the liberty of fol lowing his own usages which is consistent with the preservation of those of his entertainers. BAPTIST NEWS AM) NOTES. —The Apostolic Times thus refers to a state ment in the Baptist Union, in which the latter “inters” that if “Moses were now living, he would be a ‘liheral Baptist This inference is not only illogical, but un just to Moses. When God commanded Moses to build a tabernacle, “Sei, saith He, that thou make all things according to the pattern showed thee in the Mount,” and he did it. He ventured on no improvements of his own, This is but one evidence of many which prove that Moses was scrupulous about following divine models. It is unjust, therefore, to this venera ble servant of God to “infer” that if he were now living he would have any less regard for the “pattern of heavenly things” than he had in tbe days of old. The Baptist Seaside Meeting will take place in the grounds at Ocean Grove, N. J., July llth-20th. The use of the grounds has been courteously tendered free of charge by the Ocean Grove Association. Among the emi nent brethren who have promised to take part in this meeting are Drs. Fuller, Brantly, Ed dy, Armitage, Fulton, Spalding, Pritchard, Everts, Burrows, Cheney, Boardinan, Henson, J. Wheaton Smith, Pearson, Rambaut, Mac- Arthur, Phelps and Dickinson. —The “Baptist Vineyard Association” have issued a circular announcing that the Second Annual Religions Gathering will take place at Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, August 12th—20th, 1876. —The Baptists have an association among the Creek Indians compsising thirty-two churches, besides an association among the Choctaws, Chickasaws and Cherokees, and also a church organized among the Seminoles. —ln Scotland, the Baptists have more than doubled in the past six years. They have now seventy churches. —The Baptist cause in Nashville and Edge held is unsually prosperous. —On the basis of contributions to the For eign Mission Board, Kentucky isienlitled to 56 representatives in the Southern Baptist Con vention at Richmond. —The Centennial circulars sent out by Dr. Simmons, of New York, have this sensible and just suggestion : “While giving for Centen nial purposes none should fail to give the usual amounts to the ordinary benevolent so cieties.” lieneral Denominational Hass —The widow Van Cott ended her revival services in Troy, N. Y., recently, when a collec tion was taken up for her benefit. Altogether over $-100 was raised, and <ghe had labored there over four weeks. Thus her pay—be sides the reward of knowing she had been the instrument of saving souls, and that, she said was beyond estimation—was a little more than SIOO a week, and found. She was lodged and fed in the house of brother Hillman, the lead er of the famous Troy Praying Band, and on Sunday evening, while she was preaching her farewell sermon, burglars entered her room and stole her own and daughter’s jewelry. The loss was about equal to the sum she had re ceived for her services. Thus she has gained nothing pecuniarily by her labors in Troy. But she still has what she said was “beyond estimation,” the reward of knowing that she was the instrument of saving souls—five hun dred of them according to the reports. Of course the good widow is abundantly satisfied with the compensation. —An address signed-by 294 persons has been handed the Catholic Bishop of Montreal Its signers say they desire to be considered “no longer members of the church of Rome in which they were born.” The chief reasons as signed for this action is that “in the Mass the Bishop adores and causes others to adore a God made by your own hands which consti tutes the grossest as it it is the most wicked of idolatries.” —Church work is undergoing an entire change in the Dominion of Canada, owing to the prominence of the lay element. Cottage meetings are held, Bible readings are given, the gospel preached in halls, on the Btreet, and in country school houses to an extent that makes the former state of the church look like a respectable death. —ln the year 1700 there were three minis ters in this country bearing the Presbyterian name; in 1776, one hundred years ago, there were 133 ministers; now all the different Presbyterian branches number 8,000 ministers, 9,000 churches, and 1,000,000 members. —The missionary Union is supporting 140 American missionaries—men and women—in Asia. The number of living members in the more than 300 mission churches, Burmah, ot Hindoostan, Assam, China, Siam and Japan exceeds 25,000. —ln Hardwick, Mass., the old custom still remains of levying a “minister tax.” The members of the congregational (society are reg ularly assessed on the basis of the town valua tion, and the tax bills are presented in due form.. Tlje society tax last year was $4 16 on SI,OOO, while the town tax was sl7 90 on SI,OOO. A society tax of this sort is still col lectable by legal process. But each man can decide for himself whether he will be a mem ber of the society or not. The same custom still holds in Ashby, the rate of taxation in the Congregational society being 90 cents on SI,OOO, and in the Unitarian $1 on SI,OOO. —lrish statistics show that there has been a a slight decrease inutile Catholic population, and a slight increase among Presbyterians and Episcopalians since 1861. —A Sunday-school Conference is announced to be held at Sea Grove, beginning June 25th. —After all that has been said about untaxed church property, the New York Herald pub lishes a table showing that less than 18 per cent, of all the untaxed property, and less than four per cent, of the entire property in that city, is occupied by churches, —The debt of the Methodist Episcopal Board is now $150,000; but it is supposed that the Conference, soon to meet, will greatly re duce it. —The Spanish Epoca declares that the Cor tes will approve the principle ot religious tol eration. The Vatican will be compelled to ac cept it. But the Espana says it is authorized by the Papal Nuncio and the Archbish of To ledo to deny the statement that the Vatican ever granted Senor Sagasta’s Ministry the least concession in relation to liberty of public worship. —While the ordinance of baptism was being administered recently to several believers, at a certain place, there was a christening not far distant in which the chief actors were a minis ter of Methodist persuasion, and a little child of four years. With all due solemnity the min ister dipped his hands in the bowl, and re turning it, placed it upon the head of the child, at the same time repeating the baptismal for mula. The child who had been watching the proceedings, much puzzled, turned to its moth er who stood beside it, and innocently asked : “Ma, is he doin to tomb ray hair?” It is needless to say that the solemnity of the ser vice was spoiled. —Christian Messenger. State Missionary Baptist Con vention. —The annual session of this body will commence at Columbus, Georgia, on Thursday before the fourth Sunday in this month. The usual courtesies will be extended delegates and visitors by tbe tailroads. Let there be a full attendance, as it is the most important meeting yet held. Rev. Frank Quart,es, President. WHOLE NO. 2817. BOOK NOTICES. The Baptist Trophy; a Centennial poem on religious liberty by Rev. G. A. Lofton, Cen tennial agent of the Baptist church: By the courtesy of the author, we have Wen indulged in advanced sheets of this work and from a careful reading of it are pleased to in dorse it as worthy at least of the denomination in whose interest it is published, and in be half of whose educational Centennial scheme it is a special plea. The author, who is one of the noblest of his order—a gentleman whom to know is to love—in a preface that bespeaks the independence and manliness of his charac ter, bars us from any indulgence in criticism of his work, for which he disdains any high place, and which is, he says, merely the result of hours of leisure, snatched from the arduous labors of his Centennial commission. He neither claims profoundly nor the honors of a laureate. He simply designed a discus sion of Baptist principles and history, from the stand-point of religious liberty, in the form of popular verse, and this he has carried out in a spirit that will commend itself to all—whether Baptists or not—who believe in soul liberty who are opposed to priestly control, to reli gious dogmatism, to tolerance and intolerance, to bigotry and the mischievous interference with conscience and private rights too often characteristic of religious people. Mr. Lofton has invested his Centennial brochure with a very wealth of enthusiasm. He believeß in his church, ib profoundly convinced of the truth of its history and the correctness and soundness of its polity and doctrine, and fairly revels in the “perfect law of liberty.” He traces the growth of his church through all the stages of the persecution to which it was subjected until at last victory was achieved with the success of the united colonies contend ing with the mother country for independence. Thus devoted to his church, Mr. Lofton doe3 not forget his country. He is nothing so much as an American and patriot, and recalls with pride that the struggles by the Baptist for religious freedom—for soul liberty— went hand in hand with the efforts of all the colo nists for civil liberty, and he records the fact with an evident hearty pleasure, that none who may object to his work on the score of its being purely denominational, can find fault with. There are many passages we fain would copy, did space permit, breathing as they do sentiments that the freest thinker might heart ily and unreservedly indorse. But for these we must refer our readers to the book itself, which will finds its way to the public weli printed from the press of the Southern Bap tist publishing house of this city, sometime during this week. Of course every Baptist will make it a matter of love and duty to pos sess a copy of the Trophy, speaking so earnest ly as it doe-s of the past and for the future of a church that all must concede played a promi nent, if not a leading part, in the battle of civil and religious liberty. We harve received an advance copy of tliis book. We cordially indorse the above, from the Memphis Appeal, in reference to Bro. Lofton’s valuable and opportune contribution literature. We have no doubt that every Baptist family will gladly secure a :opy wf the work which expresses in noble language Ae peculiar history and trials and triumphs of our denomination. The price will be 50cts. in paper cover, and 75cts. bound in cloth. LITERARY GOSSIP. —A series of translations from the sacred books of the world has been un dertaken by Prof. Max Muller, to be arranged as follows: 1. From the books of the Bramins (Sanscrit); 2. The Buddhist (Pali Sanscrit) ; 3. The followers of Zoroaster (Zend); 4. The followers of Confucius (Chinese); 5. The followers of Laotse (Chinese) ; 6. The followers of Mohammed (Arabic). He will be assisted in the translation by many distinguished Oriental schol ars. —A ch id in a library values those books most which have gilt edges; a book collector prizes the rarest edi tions ; but a' lover of reading for its own sake neither cares for gilt edges nor rare editions, only for tbe ex cellence of the matter and the accuracy of the text. So is our value for men and nature affected by the artistic spirit. To it, vulgar show is tbe gilt— edged book ; the extraordinary is the rare edition; what it values is often very humble and poor to eyes that can not lead it.. It can see majesty and diguity in many a poor laborer; it can detect meanness under the mantle of an emperor; it can recognize grandeur in a narrow house, and pettiness in the palace of a thousand chambers. —Tbe author of a fine article on the life and writings of Sainte-Beuve, suc cessfully refutes the epigram of the author of “Lothair,” and which the amhoress of “Infelice” so spitefully hurls at second-hand, against her ex pected critics: “To-morrow 1” exclaims Mr. Phoebus to Lotlmir, “to-morrow the critics will com mence. You kuow who the critics are. The men who have failed in literature and art.” This is certainly not true of the liter ary critics of our time, who comprise an ab solute majority ot the most successful au thors, e.g., Scott, Southey, Moore, Hallam, Sydney Smith, Gifford, Brougham, Milman Lockhart, Lord Stanhope, Lord Houghton’ Mill, Carlyle, Froude, Macaulay, Lyttou! Moreover, success in criticism, like that of Jeffrey or Sainte-Beuve, is success in lit erature. The Northern Methodists are build ing a church in Dalton.