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INDEX AND BAPTIST.
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JSecular Editorials.
memorial Ceremonies at Oakland Cem
etery.
On the 26th the weather was delight
ful and beautiful. Heaven smiled up
on the sacred occasion, and the earth
gave her most lovely gems as tributes of
the living to the chivalry that fell in be
half of the Southern cause. Thousands
assembled within Oakland Cemetery
in advance of the designated hour,
eagerly awaiting the presence of those
who were most active in planning and
conducting the details of the Memorial
ceremonies.
The procession was formed at 4 p.
m., in front of the Capitol, and marched
to the music of Ford’s band. It con
sisted of the several military compa
nies of the city, the ladies of the Me
morial Association, the orator of the
day and other distinguished guests —
the ladies and their guests being in
carriages. Gen. W. S. Walker, a vete
ran of two great wars, commanded.
Mounted officers of the police accom
panied the procession, led by Captain
Anderson, assisted by Li euts. Murphy
and White, which passed down Mari
etta to Broad streets, thence down
Alabama to Whitehall, down Whitehall
to Hunter, and by Hunter to the Cem
etery, where the same was halted in the
presence of the monument that keeps
constant vigil over the Confederate
dead.
The military companies formed a
circle around the monument, and stood
with arms stacked at its base. Within
this circle, and elevated above the
heads of the multitude, the speaker’s
rostrum had been improvised for the
occasion.
Amid silence profound, the Rev.
Dr. Spalding offered a most appropri
ate and impressive invocation, at the
close of which the orator of the day,
Judge J. F. Pou, was introduced to the
waiting thousands, and proceeded to
the delivery of a practical and patriotic
address, which we regret not being able
to publish in full. The following par
agraphs, extracted from the same, will
meet a cordial response from the brains
and the hearts of the Southern people:
The men who went forth to do battle for
the South were no poor outcasts seeking
graves to “hide their hearts.” They left the
pulpit, the siudy, the store, the workshop,
the quiet, happy country home. The hearts
that rallied around and the hands that sus
tained (he “Southern Cross” fought not for
conquest, fought not for glory, fought n'i to
gratify the hales or to humor the whims ui a
surly, luckless despot; fought not for the
assertion of some dry, passionless, technical
principle of international law. They fought
as men fight who know how fraught with
danger it is to dally witli the encroachments
of tanaticism—fought as men fight who
know by sad experience the temper of those
with whom they contend—fought as men
light who, m measuring results, lmd mapped
out the consequences of defeat—fought as
Earth’s impassioned sous,
As warm in love, as fierce in ire,
As tho best hearts whose current runs
Full of the day-god’s living fire.
In our great disaster we are not without
all remedy or assistance. By thousands now
we count fast friends of many but lately
bold, open and persistent foes. Fraud, du
plicity, tho atrocious exercise of power and
flic allurements of place, have not yet com
pletely broken down the manhood and virtue
of tlie American people. Their voice is swel
ling with a determined protest that freemen
having been made of slaves, slaves should
not now in turn lie made ot freemen. It is
the dawn ol our deliverance, at last—
The feint streak that on the dim horizon breaks.
While night o’er all tho restf hangs grim and
dark.
Dis'oyaUy is the burden and rallying cry
ol those bent on our continued degradation,
knowing, as well as they do, that history
will in vaiu be searched for the record of a
people who witli greater fealty have com
plied witli every reasonable ‘requirement of
defeat, who have suffered with such manly
fortitude,
Tho slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or so valiantly
Have takon up aims against a sea of troubles.
If to bo loyal is to despise the memory of
200,000 dead, to subscribe the doctrine that
they occupy the graves that their treason
dug for them; to regard as merely retribu
tive justice the continued political ostracism
of hundreds ol our noblest men ; to deem
magnanimous that policy which iiss dealt
upon us tlie most serious social injuries; to
bow ourselves and bless the hand that dooms
us so dear a death, then is the allegation true,
then are we uot loyal. If to be sincerely and
earnestly attached to the genius aud "spirit
of the Constitution, to desire a reconstructed
Union thorough, genuine, permanent, un
complaingly to sustain it in our just propor
tion of governmental burdens, to tavor ami
enforce tlie guarantee of equal justice ami
perfect freedom to all men ; if these things
designate and determine our loyalty, then
will the searcli for disloyal Southern men
prove as fruitless as for the true Unionist in
the ranks of our blatant and unmanly accus
ers. In every vicissitude ot human affairs,
however, the lame ot -ur noble dead, at least,
is safe. \\ Ith them the storm of life is pwjt;
after “its fitful fever they sleep well;" and
while their noble, lot ms shall gently
moulder into the native dust, their precious
memories shall find everlasting lodgmeut,
deep down in the heart of a devoted people
and an admiring world.
At the conclusion of Judge Pou’s
address, Colonel Hoge introduced Mr.
Samuel W. Small, who lead abeautilul
poem, as a tribute to the noble heroes
sleeping in Oakland.
THK CHRISTIAN INDEX AND SOUTH-WESTERN BAPTIST.
The decoration of graves was then
commerced, and a wreath or garland
rcst:d upon the narrow home of each
fallen brave e’er the shadows of even
ing dispersed the multitude who had
gathered to pay homage to true chiv
alry- ,
Georgia Newa.
A revival meeting is in progress at
the Methodist church in Carnesville.
A communication in the Augusta
Constitutionalist says:
It has been suggested that a number of
districts in Georgia, in consequence of the
devastation caused by Sherman’s troops on
their “March to the Sea,” are unable to pay
for the preaching of the gospel. These im
poverished sections offer a fine field for evan
gelistic work. Can no laborers be found to
go into this part of the vineyard ?
The Forest News says :
Wheat in this section, so we have been
told, is very promising; though, in some
localities, “rust” seems to be developing to a
small extent. Oats are doing well. Rain is
needed for the benefit of corn and cotton.
The Sparta Times and Planter says
the peach crop will be satisfactory.
A negro woman was accidentally
burned to death in Hancock county.
The farmers of Wilkinson are ex
perimenting on upland rice-
The Journal says that about half a
million pounds of old bullets and pie
ces of battered lead have been picked
up off of the old battle fields around
Marietta, and sold and shipped.
Col. T. J. Smith, of Washington
county, Master of the State Grange,
has thirteen hundred acres in corn,
thirteen hundred in cotton, and five
hundred in oats. He expects to make
five hundred bales of cotton and
twelve thousand bushels of corn.
An interesting series of religious
meetings are being held in the Metho
dist church in Newnan.
The Savannah News, with its usual
enterprise, devoted nearly four and a
half of its solid columns to a descrip
tion of the public school examinations
in that city, on the 28th ult.
The Selma, Rome and Dalton rail
road is now running a double daily
train.
The next annual convention of the
Young Men’s Christian Association
meets in Newnan.
The Barnesville Gazette says:
We learn from gentlemen in the western
; ortion of tho county that a band of hors*.
thieves passed through tint section of the
county last week. They were three or lour
in number and bad a couple or more horses
an and buggies which they had professionally
obtained, and were making their way witli
t hem. Parties were in pursuit, but as yet we
have not heard of any apprehension.
The Camilla Enterprise says;
Mr. Jaimsll. Eveiett shows us a beet,
three years old, raised in Ills garden, which
weighs 251 pounds. It lias two roots, six inches
in diameter, measuring two feet in length.
It is ol tlie white variety and is by long odds
the largest beet we ever saw or heard of.
The Hawkinsville Dispatch of the
27 th says:
We understand that, a few days ago, a bail
iff in one ot the Militia Districts of Dooly
county levied on two pones of coin bread and
a peck of meal, and after making the levy he
rented a box from a negro to leek the pro
visions up in till sale day. The above is said
to be a p< sitivc fact, and beats all the levies
we evei heard of. Tilings have come to a
pretty pass when tlie last “corn dodger” amt
peck oi meal a muu lias in his house ia levied
on.
The colored people of Madron re
cently had a grand temperance celebra
tion ; procession, regalia, etc.
Oat and wheat crops are promising
everywhere.
The Grecnsboio’ Home Journal
says :
We are pleased to learn by our friends
from the country, that not only tlie whites
but also tlie freedmtn art unusually busy in
field work—that oats and wheat are promis
ing, with a fair pmspiot of fruit. A little
rain at this time, would he quite acceptable
to corn, cotton, potatoes, etc.
We regret to learn that radical missionar
ies are already,l ke moles aid bats, making
their appearance among the freedmen, and
circulating their poisonous documents. We
Itust politics of all kinds will be embargoed
until the crops are laid by, at least
For the Index and Baptist.]
FRKATA IK LAST ARTICLE ON BAPTISM.
Dear Index —Cowper says that “ a stogie erra
tum may knock the brains out of a whole pas
sage.” As my last week’s article suffered to this
way more than usual. I must beg leave to correct
some of the more important errors.
In the first column, not quite half way. instead
of “The very sense is tho true cause of interpre
tation.” etc., read thus: "The very reverse is
the true canon of interpretation.”
In the second column, begin at the 26th line,
and read thus ; “The fact of the Spirit’s opera
tion upon the heart is undoubted; the declara
tions of Scripture," etc. About half way down
tho same column, the omission of a comma works
quite disastrously. Tlie sentence should read;
• ’ These are only figurative expressions, accom
modated to our methods of thought and speech,
just as God is said to come down, to ride, to walk.
etc.
In the third column and eighth line, instead of
“perpetuate such monstrosities,” read “perpe
trate such monstrosities.” - In the same column
fifty-seventh line. read, “falling, as in rain, dis
tilling as in dew.” etc. Just half way the same,
for “warrantable influence." read "warrantable
inference." A little further on in the same col
umn, the sentence should read, “that tlie disci
ples should be baptized witli the Spirit was pre
dicted." not "w< predicted." About the middle
of tlie fourth column instead of "this change ill
the cause of the argument," it should be, “this
change in the course of tlie argument." In the
last column, towards the close of the article, it
should read, "just lit re two sympathizing friends
of Dr. S. come, to liis rescue, and they tell me,”
etc.
* I will just add that in a preceding article I was
made to say “denionstrataule” and “demonstra
tably,” whereas I wrote "demonstrable" and
“demonstrably." J. H. K.
REPORT OF SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON MIS
SIONS.
It regrets a falling off in missionary contri
butions, and also regrets a want of hearty co
operation in the work. A continuance t.f
this state of things would be disastrous. The
Convention should exert its power and influ
ence, in view of its responsibilities. The
causes of this falling off in contributions are
the absence of a deep, all-prevailing interest
in our churches, and a want of plans in sys
tematic giving. Without these, embarrass
ments will continue; especially will there be
a want of full co-operatipn among the
churches. The passage of the following res
olutions is recommended
First—That this Convention elect annually
a Committee of Missions, to belocated in the
city of Macon; said Committee to be composed
of seven brethren, a majority of whom shall
constitute a quorum, and shall hold office
until their successors are appointed.
Second —ThattLis Committee shall have
no power to appoint missionaries, but shall
be charged with the special duty of arousing
the spirit of missions among the churches,
and securing as far as practicable the adop
tion of plans of systematic contributions, and
effecting to the full extent of their influence
the co-operation of the Baptists of Georgia
in the great work of missions.
Third—ln accomplishment of the duties
assigned to them they shall have power to
appoint a single agent, who shall receive such
salary as the Committee may consider ade
quate compensation, to be charged pro rata
upon the contributions made to the different
Boards.
Fourth —Said Committee shall also be
charged with the Sabbath School work as a
part of the work of missions, and when they
deem it advisable, shall ask the appointment
by the Home Board of the Southern Baptist
Convention of a Sabbath school Evangelist,
whose salary shall be paid by the said Board
out of funds contributed by the churches of
this State for that object. The committee shall
be charged with the duty of securing such coii
tribu'ions by the churches.
Fifth —That the Home Board of the South
ern Baptist Convention be respectfully re
quested to appoint only such missionaries to
labor within this State as may be nominated
l.y the committee raised under the foregoing
resolutions.
Card of the State Committee on Missions.
Above may be seen the action of
Georgia JBautist Convention" creat ng
the Cou. l mittee on Missions, with powers
defined, and the nature of the work to
be accomplished setforth.
1. The unity and simplicity of the
work is attempted by a single agent,
whose duty shall he to arouse the spirt
of missions—Home, Foreign and Sun
day-school—among the churches, and
thereby securing the fullest co-opera
tion of the Baptists of Georgia in the
work of Missions. The work of the
Agent is chielly that of an organizer,
and the Committee ask that the Assc
ciatious’of the entire State will co-ope
rate m such plans as he may suggest,
in order that any church in Asso
ciation may scud up their contribu
tions to the Treasurer of the Commit
tee, through their Association, with
in tructions how and where they wish
their contributions to be used.
2. That the greatest economy maybe
practiced, the Committee have secured
the services of Rev. C. M. Irwin 58 the
agent, at a j early salary of 81,200.
The fifth resolution places all form of
selecting missionaries in the State in
the power of the State committee on
Missions, but requires their appoint
ment by the Home Mission Board of
the Southern Baptist Convention, that
Board having no power to appoint any
missionary unless previously recommen
ded and nominated by the State Conven
tion. The salaries of the same fixed by
the Convention, thus securing to
the State the entire control of its own
*ork, aud at the same time fostering
and aiding a most important agency of
tho Southern Baptist Convention.
3. Sunday-school Missions are in
cluded in the management of the Con
vention, with an Evangelist selected by
them, under appointment of the
Home Mission Board of the South
ern Baptist Convention, his sal
ary to be paid by the said Board
out of funds contributed iu Georgia
for that purpose. His labors will be
confined chiefly .tut o tie the . lii.rtl.es
who have no Suuday-scnools
Th’-s, without agencies, the State
work is ooncontt ated aud simplified and
economized, aud yet does not antago
nizo hut co-operates with the Home
Miss’.ou Board of the Southem Baptist
Convention. Whut is so greatly de
sired is, that the Baptists of Georgia
should know and love each other, and
work together for Jesus. Can we not
do so ou this simple plan ? Let the
Associations answer by organizing their
churches and securing contributions
from each church, to be forwarded to
the treasurer of the State Convention
on Missions, with such instructions as
they may desire.
Our agent entered upon his labors
on the Ist of May, charged with the
direction of the work throughout the
entire State.
The Sunday-school Evangelist will
do the same. Brother Chauduin con
tinues his agency in Georgia, without a
salary, at his request.
Committee on State Missions—T. E.
Skinner, Macon ; J. H. DeVotie, Gif
fin; J. G. Ryalls, Cartersville ; J. T.
Clarke, Cuthbert; G. R. McCall, rtaw
kmsville; R. P., Lawton, Macon; R.
M. Patterson, Macon.
Agent—C. M. Irwin.
Sunday-school Evangelist, T. C. Boy
kin. T. E. Skinner, Chairman. '
G. R. McCall, Secretary,
R. F. Lawton, Treasurer.
• Why Stand Ye Hkre all the Day Idle
To tbe countless numbers of tlie unemplovod
wlio meet us at every tuna, we would sav, k'o to
tlie Arkansas Valley, in Boutli western Kansas
and become indepeudant producers. No better
country was ever opened to Settlement. No
richer "vineya and” ever invited vour labors, or
yielded a more abundant harvest to tbe faithful
husbandman. A. 8. Johnson, Laud Commis
sioner, Atchißon. Topeka aud Santa Fe Railroad,
will send you descriptive circular free.
MARRIED.
In Balacoa Valley, Ga., April 16th, 1876, by
Bev. J. J. Keeter, Mr. W. 8. Wharton and Miss
E. Crowder, all of Balacoa Valley.
OBITUARIES.
MARTIN.—Died, at her motliej’s. near Mill-
Ray, Bulloch county, April 12,1876. Mrs. Sarah J.
Martin, daughterof Mr. Robert Miller,
and grand-daughter of Rev. W. B. Williams!
aged 28 years.
She was naturally of an amiable disposition,
which won for her many devoted friends, in
whose memory she yet lives though dead. Hav
ing been partially reared in a Sabbath-school,
her character from childhood gently and sweetly
unfolded, and matured in the virtues of a true
Christian woman. She joined the Baptist church
when quite a girl, and remained a consistent
member until her death O ri'a *the nature
of her disease (which wa 1 l) shesuf
fered many months, but she bote 1.1 jafflictions
with Christian patience, and resignation to the
Divine will, which terminated in a most signal
spiritual triumph in death. Some months be
fore her death, she was kindly removed to her
mother’s house, where she received the atteution
of a kind morher and loving sisters. She often
talked freely and calmly of her approaching end,
and expressed a desire"to depart and be at rest.
By her request the family and friends present
would often sing (hat beautiful hymn, “ Oh,
Sing to Me of Hearen,” and as she nearsdher
end. she seemed to have full view of tglory
world, and would say, “Home, Sweet Home.”
and with her expiring breath she said to her
brother. “I must go home,” aqd passed away
as gently as an infant sleeps. Site leaves a hus
band and two small children, and a host of rela
tives and friends to mourn her departure ; but
in grief there is oy—joy in believing that she
has crossed the “ beautiful river,” and her soul
now rest:) in the paradise of God. May each
one heed the Divine injunction. "Prepaie to
meet thy God.” B. W. D.
ROBERTS—Died, April 23d, 1876, at his res
idence in Hancock county, of pneumonia, El
der Benjamin Roberts.
A truly good man has been removed from us ;
called from labor to eternal rest.
Father Roberts was bom in North Carolina,
on 21st of July, 1794, and removed to Georgia
when so young that he had no recollection of his
native State. He was baptized into the fellow
ship of Beulah Baptist church, February 11th,
1822. by Elder James Barnes. He was chosen
Church Clerk, March 11th. 1822. Ordained Dea
con, August 9th, 1823. Licensed to preach the
gospel, Sept. 9th, 1826. Ordained to the work of
the ministry, August 27,1829. Served one of hiß
churches (Beulah) as pastor twenty-three con
secutive years. He was elected Clerk of the
Washington Baptist Association in 1831, which
Sositiou he filled for over forty years. Well
one. good and faithful servant! We thank
God for giving us sucli a brother. “Being dead,
he yet speaketli.”
He was a man of few words ; but those, fitly
spoken and always to the point. It seemed nat
ural with Uncle Ben to be modest, retiring,
quiet. In his last hours, unable to speak above
a whisper, he said to the writer: “I do not fear
death—Jesus is my solace—Pi ay with me,” Ac.
“Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death
of His saints.”
May our Heavenly Father bring the same
“sweet solace" to his bereaved wife and clul
dren !
Dear brethren of,the Washington Association,
although our loss is great, yet we sorrow not as
those who have no hope, “tor if we believe that
Jesus died and rose again, even so them also
which Bieop in Jesus will God bring with Him."
“Asleep in Jesusl peaceful rest I
Whose waking is supremely blest;
No fear, no woe, shall dim that hour,
W Idch manifests the Saviour's powier.”
Thanks 'From the D ptha of the Heart.’
Wellington. Lorain Cos.. 0.. Aug. 24, 1874.
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A Scene in a Church*
There was a ludicrously sudden descent from
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sufferer; my miseries have all been healed, and
wliat did it V” Tlie change of tone started one
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Webster’s Unabridged.
“The best practical English Dictionary ex
tant.”—London Qitarterlg Review, October,lSTo.
From Rev. W. H. H. Murray, Boston, Janua
ry 12, 1876.
“The sermons which I have preached to my
people during the last three months, have been
the outgrowth of Bible meditation alone. I
have not made library reference in constructing
one of them. The two volumes which I have
by my side or on my knees when dictating them,
are the New Testament and Webster’s Diction
ary. The former I find to be worth more to me,
as a preacher of tho gospel to the people, than
all the books of theology in the world. And the
latter contains not only the germs, but the ex
pressed wealth, of all English literature. From
the one I get my facts and my inspiration; from
the other, I am taught exactness in definition
and precision of statement. Never until I Bhut
myself off from all other books and confined my
self exclusively to these two, did I know how
perfectly equipped for flight the mind is that has
on either side of it these wings of power.”
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