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INDEX AND BAPTIST.
REV. D. E. BUTLER Managing Editor.
EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTORS:
Rev. S. G. Hili.teb., D.D Forsyth, Georgia.
Rev. J. 8. Baker, D.D Qnitman, Georgia.
Du. J. 8. Lawton Atlanta, Georgia
Rev. T. G. Jones, D.D... .Nashville, Tennessee.
SPECIAL CONTRIBUTORS:
Rev. G. A. Niinnai.ly Monro^Georgia.
I!ev W. T. Beastly, D.D Baflimore, Md.
Rev. A. J. Batti.e, D.D Macon, Georgia.
Rev. It. W. Fuller Atlanta, Georgia.
Rev. T. B. Oooi'Kß Ogeeehee, Georgia
Rev. J. H. Kilpatrick. .. White I’lains, Georgia.
Rev. Marion Hama Decatur, Georgia.
Rev. Wm. C. Wilkes Gainesville, Georgia.
A MONOGRAPH.
NO. 111.
AN ECLECTIC FAITH.
Such is the faith which many profes
sors of religion have in the Lord Jesus
Christ. They believe so much of his
teachings as they wish to be true —so
much as is congenial to the inclinations
of their carnal hearts—and no more.
Ask them if they believe in Jesus, and
they will promptly reply, “ O yes ; we
belive He is what He professes to he —
the Christ, the Son of God; the Saviour
of all who believe in Him.” And upon
what do you base that belief ? “ Upon
His own positive declarations ! ” Very
good : hut He declares, too, that “ye
cannot serve God and mammon - ” Luke
xvi: 13: and again, “whosoever doth
not bear his cross, and come after me,
cannot he my disciple.” Luke xiv : 27.
We need not ask, “Do you believe
those declarations of the Saviour ? ”
Your daily acts, which speak louder
than words, declare that you do not.
Notwithstanding the positive declara
tions to which we h.tve referred, and
tho many kind admonitions to bo more
careful to lay up treasure in Heaven
than on earth, your chief concern is ev
idently about an increase of your worldly
wealth. As to crosses—well, you know
that you never voluntarily shoulder
one, nor hear one involuntarily laid on
you a moment after you have it in your
power to thrust it from you. Your
faith is evidently of an eclectic charac
ter. It leaves you free to discredit all
the declarations of the Saviour that
militate against the indulgence of your
carnal lusts. That is so; but is it of a
saving character P That is a question
of au all-absorbing interest. It should
be ponderd long and well.
That this eclectic faith, of which we
have written, is a very ancient one, we
are free to admit. We may affirm of it
what we cannot truly affirm of pedo
baptism, or the celebration of Easter:
that there is Scriptural evidence that it
existed even in apostolic times. It is
evident that such was the faith of those
of whom Paul affirms, in his Epistle to
Titus, chapter i: 16 : “ They profess
that they know God ; hut in works they
deny Him, being abominable, and dis
obedient, and unto every good work
reprobato.” Wo would remind the
reader that tho antiquity of one’s faith
or practice does not provo it to be of
Divine origin.
In the formation of character u
thousand insousible forces of attraction
and repulsion are at work; many of
them as subtle as the light and as im
perceptible as the air. But no influence
which can possibly be brought to bear
upon tho life can be compared to that
personal influence which one man may
exert upon another. There is not a
single life that is not surrounded by an
atmosphere of silent, almost impalpable
influences, ever acting upon every other
life that comes within its range of in
fluence. And it is impossible to tell
what strengh of will, what stoadiness
of resolution, what sweetness of tem
per, what patience, sympathy, affection,
are thus insensibly diffused on every
side—or to say how much we owe to
them,
—Did you ever look at the chauge
from winter to spring without thinking
of the Resurrection ? Not a seed, or
a tender root, deep in the ground, but
feels the returning sun, and comes out
of its grave, living and beautiful, to
rejoice in the light. We sow a shriv
elled speck, and tho earth repays us
with a beautiful flower. The seed was
nothing, but the return it has yielded
is fit for king’s gardens and palaces.
To look on the face of the landscape in
winter, one could not fancy it possible
ever to briug spring beauty out of it,
if we did not know beforehand ; and so
with the desolation and barrenness of
the grave. It looks dark and hopeless
to us, but the power that can quicken
the field, can quicken the dust of the
sepulchre.
—The true Christian is over ready
ti receive on himself tho blow aimed at
the cause of Christ.
LITTLE SINS.
A brother Cabaniss, who died in
Danville, Va., in the year 1835, if I
mistake not, was thrice asked, as he lay
on his dying bed, if he had any mes
sage to send to his absent friends and
brethren. He gave the same reply each
time to the inquiry : “ Tell them” said
he, “to beware of little sins.”
He had, at one time in his earlier
life, been led to depart from the path
of moral rectitude, by what seemed at
the time but a little sin—if a sin at
all —but he had been mercifully follow
ed by the good spirit of God, and led
back to the fold of the Shepherd and
Bishop of his soul. During the last
two years of his life—the period of our
acquaintance with him—we knew no
member of the church more active or
exemplary than was he. His benevo
lent heart led him to desire that others
should be saved from the evils he had
brought upon himself by indulging in
what were reputed little sins. Hence
his dying message to his surviving
friends.
Little sins ! There is actually no such
thing as a littl sin. Sin is declared, in
God’s unerring Word,to be the “trans
gressions of law.” Again, it is written,
“All unrighteousness is sin.” To do
what God forbids, and to neglect to do
what He commands, is alike sin; and
the wages of sin is death”—“The soul
that sinneth it shall die.” That is a
decree of tho great God, by whom
we were created and on whom we daily
d-'pend, not only for life, but for all we
enjoy in life, and to whom we shall all
bi • called to give an account of all
the deeds done in the body, whether
they have been good or evil, in confor
mity to what He has revealed of His
will or in opposition to it.
A solemn thought! A fearful day, in
deed, will that day of final reckoning he
to all the voluptuous sons of mon who
walk not according to “tho law and the
testimony”—the eternal decree of our
eternal God—hut according to the evil
promptings of their depraved carnal
hearts—substituting for the revealed
will of God, as their guide, the perverso
will of their corrupt and debased
human natures. A day of weeping and
wailing and woe will that day of reck
oning be to all such.
But to “ the willing and obedient, ”
who bow as submissively to the will of
God when he withholds as when he be
stows the good things of this life, that
day of reckoning will prove no “day of
terrors,” but a day of glorious exulta
tion—a day on which they shall not
only secure eternal deliverance from all
the ills to which flesh and blood are
subject on earth, but a day on which
shall bo consummated that eternal union
with tho Father and the Son, for which
their Saviour prayed while He sojourn;
od on earth in human form; the day
of their reception by the Heavenly
Bridegroom into His mansion of bliss
and ineffable glory, mid the harping of
angelic hosts, as He places on the brow
the crown of eternal life, and seats them
at His right hand to participate, ever
more, in all the honor and glory and
blessedness of His unending reign of
righteousness and peace.
When we began this article we
thought to furnish a synopsis of a
short sermon on “ Little Sins, ” but
find such a synopsis would occupy
more space than we deem it expedient
to allow to an editorial, in the present
crowded state of our columns. We,
therefore, reserve our synopsis for “ a
more convenient season,” and substi
tute for it a few extracts from old pa
pers iu our possession, reporting vast
resultsfrom comparatively insignificant
causes :
Great Results from Small Causes.—
Thirty years ago two boys in New Hampshire
quarrelled about a box of blacking. To get
rid of one of them he was sent to New York,
and is now one of our first shipping merchants,
a director in a bank and owner of a line of
steamers, A dispute about a tin dipper with
the steward of a steamboat, resulted in a law
suit that cost a thoiuand dollars, and laid the
foundation of a fortune of one of our million
aires, who now owns more tin dippers and
steamboats than any other one man in the
world —once a deck hand of a boat, now the
captain of the “upper ten.”
One single vote sent Oliver Cromwell to
the Long Parliament, Charles Stuart to the
scaffold, revolutionized England, and made
Great Britain free.
Four votes, in the city of New York, made
Thos. Jefferson President of the United States;
one vote gave us the Tariff of 1842 ; and one
vote made the Tariff of 1847. One vote gave
us Texas, made war with Mexico, slew thous
ands of our people, and purchased California,
turned thither the tide of emigration, and will
change the destiny of the world.
A Disparity Unparalled. —Great
anil impressive as are the instances of
ilisp irity between cause and effect, in tho
iustauces above reported, they are not
to be compared with the disparity be
tween cause aud effect in the introduc
tion of sin on earth. It is not in the
power of man fully to estimate the
amount of crime aud misery and woe
that have resulted from the one act of
disobedience on the part, of our first pa
rents, m plucking forbidden fruit from
the tree of knowledge ol good and
evil.
THE CHRISTIAN INDEX AND SOUTH-WESTERN BAPTIST.
TYNDILL.
NO. 11.
We proceed to the next topic sug
gested by the extract from Prof. Tyn
dall’s article. He says : “ What is re
ally wanted is the lifting power of an
ideal element in human life.”
In our last, we accepted this propo
sition, and endeavored to show, that
revealed religion, or a pure Christianity,
is this “ideal element in human life,”
which is needed to lift humanity from
its deep debasement. But we said,
that in order to accomplish this sub
lime result, it must have “ free play.”
This, Prof. Tyndall claims for the “ideal
element,” which he proposes. He says :
“But the free play of this power must
be preceded by its release from the
swaddling bands of the past, and from
the practical materialism of the pres
ent.” We have no idea that he con
sidered Christianity to he the warned
‘ element in human life.” But if that
had been his meaning, his language
could not have been more appropriate.
And as he did not tell us what that po
tent “ element” is, we surely are doing
him no wrong to find it in Christianity
if we can. And this we think we have
done.
“ But the free .play of this power
must he preceded by its release from
the swaddling hands of the past, and
from tho practical materialism of the
present.” As we do not know what
the writer meant by the “power,” we do
not know what “ swaddliag bands” he
referred to. But applied to Christian
ity the sentence is intelligible, and very
suggestive. Swaddling hands may rep
resent such hindrances as have been im
posed upon it by its professed friends.
Is it not true, that from the very begin
ning of revealed religion, it has been
restrained, tied up, as with swaddling
hands by the contrivances,machinations,
innovations and perversions of those
who claimed to be its champions and its
guardians? This was just what Jesus
meant when he said to the doctors,
scribes, and pharisees of His -i day:
“ Ye have made the Law of God of none
effect by your traditionß." Judaism
corftained in its spirit, the true religion.
But, alas ! its power was well nigh
crushed under tho weight of those tra
ditions of tho fathers. In tho fulnffss
of time, Christianity was proclaimed
by its Divine Founder, and His inspired
apostles. It was, indeed, a sublime
“ element in human life.” It imparted
to its followers anew nature. It wrought
miracles in the transformation of hu
man character, and in the devotion of
human conduct. It flashed like light
ning over the broad domain of the Ro
man empire, and wherever its quivering
beams were felt, it left the human heart
aglow with light and joy. It softened
the barbarity of war. It mitigated the
cruelty of rulers. It swept away the
abominations of paganism, and purified
and exalted the philosophy of the
schools. Such was “ the lifting power”
of this new “ element in human life.”
But this triumphant career did not
continue. While the apostles yet lived,
there began to appear those who “taught
for doctrines, the commandments of
men.” Hence we see the first begin
nings of those innovations and tradi
tions which have indeed fettered and
bound the “free play” of Christianity.
Well may .they be called “swaddling
hands,” for they were forced upon
Christianity while it was yet in its in
fancy, and by those who professed to
be its guardians. It is not difficult to
mention some of them. Baptismal re
generation, infant baptism, and infant
church membership ; diocesan episco
pacy, priest-craft and popery; confes
sionals, penances and indulgences; in
quisitions, racks and dungeons, etc.,
etc. These are the bands which, for
ages, and over all the nations, have
hindered the “ free play” of this “ lift
ing power.”
It is wonderful, that under the tre
mendous pressure of such adverse in
fluences, it was, not long ago, “stran
gled.” Besides these “swaddling bands”
imposed by pretended friends, it had to
encounter the most cruel and fierce op
position of open enemies. But in spite
of them all, Christianity has survived.
1 hat it has survived is a stupendous
fact illustrating its Heaven-derived
vitality. Verily, it is - indestructible,
l'he true religion, when reduced to
its last analysis, may be expressed by
two terms—repentance towards God,
and faith in His Word. This religion
has endured through nearly six thou
sand years. Its nature has undergone
no change. We may discover evolution
and development in the progressive
fulness of its revelation, but none what
ever in the nature of the thing revealed.
Like its eternal Author, it is “ the same
yesterday, to-day, and forever.” It
spoke to the heart of Abel just as it
did to Enoch, and to Noah, to Abra
ham, and "to Moses, and to David and
the prophets. It was the same voice
that was heard on the hanks of the
Jordan, and the day of Pentecost —
“ Repentance towards God, and faith
in our Lord Jesus Christ.” And through
all the ages it has been’ the only power
which could soothe the troubled con
science, and effectually free the soul
from the fear of death.
True, it has been fettered by the
“ swaddling bands of the past,” but it
is not “ strangled.” It has also been
fiercely assailed by the “ practical ma
terialism of the present,” but it is not
“ stupefied.” Millions of hearts, scat
tered around the great globe itself, still
palpitate under its warm inspirations.
And we look forward to a time when a
pure Christianity shall be completely
delivered from all restraints of every
form, when the whole race shall “ con
fess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the
glory of God the Father. In that day,
the scientist himself shall be illumined
by its effulgent light. His ample learn
ing shall, no longer, hang like a dark
cloud, casting its black shadow over all
the higher and nobler aspirations of
our nature; hut rather, it shall enfold
us like the atmosphere, clear and trans
parent, receiving into its bosom, only
to respect, to reflect, and to distribute,
the life giving beams of the Sun of
Righteousness, shining in His strength
from out the Christian’s Heaven.
GEORGIA BAPTIST NEATS.
—The Jonesboro News of May Ist., says :
Last Sabbath morning and evening, W. N.
Chaudoin preached two of his best sermons, at
the Baptist church, on the subjects of “Crossing
the Jordan” and “In Christ Jesus,” to large
and appreciative audiences. The music, in
strumental and vocal, was unusually good.
Elder Phillips proposed to close the morning
service by a general hand shaking and special
prayer, in which a large portion of the congre
gation, composed of the different Cristiande
nominations ot the place, readily and feelingly
participated.
—The Baptist church in Jonesboro, was re
cently robbed of books, goblets and other arti
cles. , ,
, —-The Baptist church at Senoia, ignore the
custom of holding monthly conferences, but
when there is business to justify a conference,
a meeting is called by the officials of the
church.
—From the Sandersville Herald of May
18th, we learn that thirty-live persons were
baptized at Holly Springs (colored) Baptist
church, on Sabbath last.
—The Sandersville Herald, and Georgian
says:
We are glad to see that C. H. S. Jackson, of
the Junior class, and L. A. Duggan, of the So
phomore, have been selected as speakers for
the approaching Commencement exercises.
Mr. Jackson is a son of Mr. A. W. Jackson of
this county, and Mr. Duggan is a son of Mr.
Joseph Duggan, formerly of this county, who
fell nobly fighting for the lost cause. We are
glad to know that Washington is so well rep
resented at Mercer.
—The Baptist church building in Dawson is
undergoing repairs. The Hawkinsville Dis
patch of May 13th, says :
Hinson Lowe, colored, on old Primitive
Baptist Elder, died on Monday last, on the
plantation of Gen. O. C. Horne, in this county.
Death was caused, it is thought, from extreme
age. He was an old acquaintance of the hon
ored and lamented Simrt Rose, one’of the pio
neers of of the Georgia Press, and could relate
many interesting incidents connected with
that gentleman’s early career in the city of
Macon.
—Rev. N. A. Bailey, of Talladega, has ac
cepted the call of the church at Quitman. It
is expected that he will assume the du
ties of the pastorate on the second Lord’s Day
in June.
Bro. W. B. Hudson, writing concerning An
tioch church in Tatnall county, says: “We
have a very interesting Sabbath-sbhool here.
We started it only two or three Sundays ago,
and have gained new scholars every Sunday
since. If we had two or three such men as
Rev. T. C. Boykin in this county, we would
get along splendidly.
GEMS RESET
How’er it be, it seems to me
’Tis only noble to be good;
Kind hearts are more tliau coronets,
And simple faith than Norman blood.
—There is no question, that it is
far preferable to remain under the in
fluence of moderate errors, than to be
bandied about for the whole of life,
from one opinion to another, at the
pleasure and for the sport of superior
intelligence.
—So, then, the year is repeating its
old story again. We are come once
more, thank God, to its most charming
chapter. The violets and the May
flowers are as its iucriptions and vign
ettes. It always makes a pleasant im
pression on us, when we open again at
these pages of the book of life.
This life is full of unsatisfied crav
iugs, and will ever be. But the strong
desire for more spirituality can be sat
isfied, only by daily persistent
effort. We desire a crown of righteous
ness, which we can have but by point
ing others to the Cross aud 'helping
them tread the thorny path. What
joy, when we shall have earned the
“ Well done, faithful servant! ”
SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONTENTION.
Proceedings of the Twenty-first Annual Session.
The Southern Baptist Convention
convened with the First Baptist church
of Richmond, Virginia, on May 11th,
and was called to order by Dr. J. P.
Boyce. After singing and reading of
125th and 128th Psalms, the venerable
Thomas Dawson, of South Carolina,
lead in prayer. The body proceeding
to organize, Rev. Dr. J. Wm. Jones, of
Virginia, put in nomination the name
of P. H. Mell, of Georgia, who had, in
past years, occupied the chair. Dr. Mell,
while acknowledging with gratitude the
kindness of the brother who had put
forward his name, and the honor which
the Convention had shown him in
former years, hoped that no one would
vote for him, and withdrew his name.
The organization was completd as
follows: Psesident—J. P. Boyce, D.
D.; Vice Presidents—P. H. Mell, of
J. L. M. Curry, of Virginia;
Hiram Woods, of Maryland; S. Lan
drum, of Tennessee. Secretaries—C. C.
Bitting, of Virginia; E. Calvin Wil
liams, of Maryland.
Dr. Boyce, on the announcement of
his re-election to the chair, expressed
his pleasure at being called to serve
his,brethren in any capacity. He
thought the duties of the position had
been made easy by the instructions re
ceived from the “Manual of Parlia
mentary Practice,” prepared by brother
Mell. He would have rejoiced to see
brother Mell again placed in the chair
which he once so ably filled. Thank
ing the Convention for the honor be
stowed by again calling him to the
chair, he called upon the brethren to
pray that he might be enabled to dis
charge faithfully the duties devolving
upon him.
Dr. Samson, of New York, at the
request of the President, made some
remarks on “The times we are in.”
He referred to Moody, the Bible reader,
as illustrating the means of promoting
the cause of religion. Dr. Lorimer, of
Bpston, also, at the call of the chair,
made a warm address on the subject of
Gospel reformation. He said the
preaching of the cross is its great dis
tinctive feature. All we need to make
the work complete is the baptism of
the Spirit. Dr. Tupper, Secretary of
Foreign Mission Board, read abstract
of report on Foreign Missions.
We notice some items of this inter
esting document:
Woman's Work.— Our Christian women of
Georgia and Virginia have contributed $2,491
60 for the Moon house in Tung Chow, and the
ladies of South Carolina $1,343 41 for the
missionary house at Canton. Our sisters of
other States have aided these objects, and done
nobly for the general work. Let the Conven
tion give an emphatic “God speed” to these
praiseworthy workers for Jesus, and commend
to. their consideration the multiplication of
missionary societies, and their more thorough
organization, with the view of prosecuting the
grand work of woman’s salvation among the
heathen. “It is stated that the Woman’s
Foreign Mission Societies of this country con
tributed last year $860,000 to Foreign Mis
sions.”
Treasurer, ls Report. —The Treasurer reports
the receipt of say $45,000. This sum is some
$13,000 above the average collections—exclu
sive of the Rome chapel fund—of the three
years past; and some $23,000, or nearly one
hundred per cent, above the average of the six
years previous. Last year, the Board reported
a debt to the Bank of Commerce of $2,218 64,
and anticipated debts amounting to some SB,OOO
or SO,OOO. These obligations have been met, as
well as the extraordinary expenditures of some
$4,600 for building purposes in Tung Chow
and Canton, and some $1,500 for the return to
this country of brother and sister Hartwell.
Thus is explained the heavy disbursements to
the Canton and Shantung Missions. As an
offsett against these large payments to China
in the last two years, must be considered, of
course, the property there, in which, from these
disbursements, have been invested some SB,OOO
or SIO,OOO. The Rome chapel fund, which is
held by the Treasurer in United States 5-20
securities, to the value of $21,794 88, has yield
ed $1,245 80 interest of which the rent at
Rome, not only of the new locale, but also ot
the Trastevere station, has been paid— amount
ing in all to $l,lOO The $3,000 credited to
bills payable were obtained according to the
direction of the Convention, on page 83 of the
proceedings of 1875. It is hoped that the
amount will be promptly returned by the
churches, whose liberality has made the year
just closed, upon the whole, the most success
ful, in a pecuniary point of view, since the
close of the war.
African Misssons Foreign Missionaries, 2;
native assistants, 3; churches, 3; baptized, 26 ;
total membership, 58. Our missionaries in
Africa, Rev. W. J. David and Rev. W. W.
Colley, are pressing the work in Lagos and
Yoruba. They appeal to the Board for an
other man. Brother Colley says: “I hope the
colored brethren will begin their work in
Africa this year, either by sending a man or
supporting one in the field'. This is their field
of labor.” From places in the interior, come
messages to the missionaries: “When are you
coming to our towns to preach Christ ?”
China Missions —Foreign missionaries, 15 ;
ordained native pastors, 2; native assistants, 15;
out-stations, 6 ; churches, 5 j baptisms, 37;
membership, 350.
Italian Misssons. —Places and preachers :
Rome, G. B. Taylor and Signor Cocorda ; La
Tour, Signor Ferraris; Milan, Signor Paschet
to; Medenna, Carpi and San Possidonio,
Signor Martinelli; Lodi, Signor Gardiol;
CivitaVecchia, Signor Cossu; Bari, Signor
Basile. Tlte elaborate communications on the
provincial churches and evangelists, which our
missionary at Rome, Rev. G. B. Taylor, is
giving to the public, and the account of them
which it is hoped that the President of our
Board, Rev. Dr. Curry, who has just visjted
Italy, will give in person to the Convention,
render it less necessary that the Board should
present a detailed description of these stations
and laborers.
The following is the Treasurer’s re
port of receipts from April 21,1875, to
May 2, 1876:
To balanoe per last report.. $ 550 00
To cash from Virginia 9,263 61
“ Georgia 7,174 70
“ South Carolina 6,088 86
“ Kentucky ' 5,924 87
“ North Carolina 2,68103
“ Maryland 2,252 95
“ Mississippi 1,628 00
•• Texas.... 1,689 62
“ Tennessee 1,548 02
“ Alabama / 1,371 13
“ Missouri 710 63
“ Louisiana 499 15
“ West Virginia 476 91
“ District of Columbia.. 272 80
“ Arkansas 192 00
“ Florida 62 78
“ New York 6100
Illinois 18 00
“ Pennsylvania 550
“ California 200
Southern Baptist Convention:
G. W. Norton, Treasurer. .$ 60 00
G. W. Norton, Treasurer,
proceeds of bequest of
Eugene Levering, de
ceased 2,287 50
G. W. Norton, Treasurer,
proceeds of bequest of
Jno. Borders, deceased.. 130 00
Bills payable 5,000 00
Rome Chapel Fund :
Interest on $18,200 U. S.
bonds, $1,092, gold sold
for 1,245 80 1,245 80
Appropriated to rent of
Chapel 1,100 00
Balance due Rome Chapel
Fund 145 80
Balance due Treasurer 228 43
$51,425 29
Rome Chapel Fund on hand,
$18,200 U.S. bonds—cost $21.794 88
Balance due Fund 145 80
$21,940 68
NIGHT SESSSION.
The Convention assembled at 8:15
o’clock to hear the introductory ser
mon. In the absence of Dr. Tichenor,
Principal, and Dr. Whit sett, Alternate,
Dr. G. C. Lorimer preached a very
interesting sermon, using as a text the
words : “The greatest of these is
charity.”
After the sermon, business was re
sumed, and the annual report of the
Home Mission Board was read by its
Secretary, Dr. W. H. Mclutosh.
During the past year the Board had
appointed fewer missionaries and ac
complished less work than usual,
owing to its ihdebtedness and the de- .
creased receipts of these hard times.
But the debt has been reduced, and the
future is hopeful. The report then
gives the names of the missionaries,
and a sketch of their labors. The re
port shows that during the past fiscal
year $19,359 81 have been received and
disbursed.
SECOND DAY.
The Convention met at 9:30. Prayer
by Rev. Dr. T. W. Sydnor, of Va.
The chair announced the standing
committees of the Convention.
On motion, a committee of one from
each State was appointed to nominate
new Boards. A warm discussion arose
on the question of allowing the com
mittees to leave the Convention during
the devotional exercises. By vote they
were allowed to retire. The devotional
exercisesrivere conducted by Rev. J. B.
Hawthorne. He said that as the spe
cial order of the day at 11 o’clock
would be Foreign Missions, these ex
ercises should have reference to that
subject. The leading thought with
him was that we should cultivate a
willingness to give not only our means,
hut our children also, to the cause of
spreading the Gospel. Rev. Dr. J. C.
Furman also spoke on the same sub
ject, and related some touching inci
dents connected with our missionary
brother, Hartwell, and his pious father.
He wrote to his son : “ Go, live, work,
stay and die iu China.”
After prayers by Drs. Williams, of
Maryland, Howard, of Texas, and Mc-
Donald, of Kentucky, business was re
sumed, and the special order of the
day, Foreign Missions, was taken up.
Rev. T. T. Eaton offered a resolu
tion to the effect that we should he
stimulated by the success of our For
eign Board, during the year, to
still greater zeal and liberality.
Excellent addresses were delivered
by Drs. Hiden, of South Carolina,
Williams, of Baltimore, and Curry, of
Virginia.
Dr. Curry said, that while he should
speak more particularly of our Italian
Mission, as he had recently had the
privilege of seeing the work there, he
trusted that he felt an equal interest in
all of our Missions and missionaries.
He wanted to say at the start, lest he
might forget it afterwards, that he had
never had any man to grow in his es
teem, admiration and love, as did the
Superintendent of our Italian work
Rev. Dr. George B. Taylor —dur-