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From an excellent and timely ser
mon, by Eev. J. F. Conover, of Kala
mazoo, on the frivolity which charac
terizes the age, we make the following
trenchant extracts :
“This is a frivolous age. It not
only turns away from serious things,
but it speaks of serious things as
though they were not serious, and
even, at times, turns them into bur
lesque. It turns away from serious
things, I say. How soon with us it
forgot the ghastly battle fields, the
hospitals, the prisons, tne sorrow and
bereavement of war. The scorched,
impoverished, decimated South has
gone riot in all the costly and exagger
ated folly of Mardi Gras.
We have touching tales of poverty
there, and so are the more astonished
to know that the costumes for Carni
val Rex, Momus and Pantaloon, were
imported from Paris, regardless of ex
pense. The popular writers are those
who deal most in drollery and extrava
ganza. It is the day of the opera
bouffe. The current style of the press
is jocular; and there are some who
think the popular preacher is nothing
without his joke. Is it not true that,
as a people, we turn from serious
things ?
But, as I have said, we also speak of
serious things as though they were
not serious. There are offences
against law and against society, which
have come to be considered almost
venal from the euphemistic or flip
pant manner we speak of them. “Ir
regular,” “sharp,” “gallant,” have
come to stand for fraud, swindling and
lechery. It would scarcely be an ex
aggeration to sav that there is a liter
ature of irreverence, a class of writers,
whose capital is the sport they can
make of sacred characters, events and
associations. In the celebrated case
of ministerial scandal, which has
rolled its smirching tide of unclean
drift, floated from many unsuspected
quarters, over our country, during the
past year, how many of the main facts
and incidents have formed the subject
of caricature, jest, pun, or humorous
narrative ! For a time the case was al
most obscured in these ; but yet what
more serious and inexpressibly sad,
than to see an eminent religious teach
er in such toils ?
But this frivilous spirit has shown
itself in another way, which only a few
years ago would have been deemed in
creditable. There are some things
that have always been deemed serious,
and kept out of the realm of the
jocose and flippant. Among these is
death. It was not deemed possible in
former times that spor ( t could be made
of death. But it is done now. Ycu
will find hundreds of paragraphs in the
daily press that do it—horrible jesting
over fatal accidents, playful narratives
of deaths by violence, lamentable and
brutal witticisms in accounts of public
executions. You have read these with
sorrow and disgust ! But there must
be some wl o value such wit and hu
mor, and laugh at it, or a regular sup
ply would not be furnished. What
must be the moral structure of that
man who can laugh in the stern and
pallid face of death, and make sport of
the incidents of the grave!
The larger class of persons, in any
given community, are those who have
no definite or earnest purpose. Of
course they do not take a serious view
of life. They wish to make a reasona
bly good living, and enjoy themselves.
They are not particular about what oc
cupation they are in, so that it is rep
utable. They are at some pains to se
cure a pleasant, social life, and so, if they
are young, they have a care to dress
well, and secure proper introductions.
If they are older and have a family,
they have a care that the house be
well furnished, in addition to dress,
and that their entertainments be well
spoken of.
They may or may not attend church ;
if the latter, we may be sure that the
attendance is irregular. They do not
participate in anything of public inter
est. They do not promote popular ed
ucation, benevolent associations, art,
or musical exhibitions—which do so
much to refine a community—the
founding of public libraries, or those
sagacious business enterprises which
are, in truth, public benefactions ; in
that they make so many persons self
helpful, and diffuse so much of com
fort among the people. They do no
body intentional harm, and they do
nobody intentional good. They have
no higher idea of life than such a de
gree of personal success as can be ob
tained without much labor or restraint.
With these, to live is to" eat, drink
and be merry.
There is another class who have had
advantages far above the ones just
spoken of. They have had education,
travel, good society and refined homes.
They might make great use of the
abundance they have ; but because they
are not compelled to work, they will
not work. They are rich nobodies—
the useless loungers of the world. So
ciety is everything to them. When
outside the whirl and glitter of its fes
tivity, they are almost wearied to
death of themselves. Dress, riding,
parties, the club-room, the theatre, the
flirtation, the summer tour—this is
life. And how many are there • who
envy such a life, and imitate it, and
exhibit a lamentable aptness in the
THE CHRISTIAN INDEX AND nSOUTH-WESTERN BAPTIST.
ruses and straits, that the poor, who
would imitate the folly of the rich, are
always forced into.
Ulission geprimtni.
Committee on Missions.
Ret. T.,E. Skinner, Macon.
Rev. J. H. BeVotik, Griffin.
Rev. J. F. Ryals, Cartersville.
Rev. J. T. Clark, Cuthbert.
Rev. G. R. McCall, Hawkinsville.
R. F. Lawton, Esq., Macon.
Dr. R. M. Patterson, Macon.
Rev. T. E. Skinner, Chairman.
Rev. G. K.,McCai.i, Recording Secretary.
R. F. Lawton Treasurer.
Rev. C. M. Irwin. Agent for the collection of funds
for Mission and Sunday-school work.
Rev. T. C Boykin Sunday-school Evangelist.
All communications should be addressed for the
present to Rev. C. M. Irwin, at Atlanta, care of The
Index.
1
A Card of Mission Committee.
At a recent session of the Georgia Baptist Con
vention. "A Committee of Missions” was appoint
ed. located in the city of Macon. This committee
is charged with the responsible duty of promoting
the interest of all the Missions in which the Geor
gia Baptists are engaged, to-wit: State Missions,
Home and Foreign Missions, and the Sunday
school work in the State. To meet the action of
the Convention, and maintain unity, simplicity
and economy in the work assigned them, the
committee have appointed Rev. C. M. Irwin sole
agent for Missions in the State. Thus, without
so many agencies, the work is concentrated, and
simplified, and economized, and yet does not an
tagonize. but co-operates with the Home and
Foreign Mission Boards of the Southern Baptist
As the work of our agent is chiefly that of an
organizer, we beg every Association, every pastor,
every church, and every Baptist in the State will
co-operate with him in such plans aH he may sug
gest, and help him to arouse in the State the
spirit of Missions. Give us your earnest prayers
and influence, and all the material aid you can;
we shall then he able to report to the next Geor
gia Baptist Convention that contributions to our
Mission work have been largely increased, and
that our Sunday-school work still prospers, and
that every destitute place in our State has been
supplied with the Gospel.
The Committee take great pleasure in saying
they have appointed Bro. T. ('. Boykin Sunday
school Evangelist for the State, and beg the
hearty co-operation of every pastor and church
with him in his noble work. Committee.
TO PASTORS, CHURCHES. AND EVERY BAP
TIST IN GEORGIA.
I beg your earnest co-operation in the work to
which I have been appointed by the “ Committee
of Missions" of the Georgia Baptist Convention.
I ask your forbearance for any mistakes I may
make, and your earnest prayers that success may
attend my efforts. As it is made my chief duty to
inaugurate some plan of systematic contributions,
to be adopted by the churches where they have
none, I respectfully suggest the following :
1. Let cacli church appoint a Mission Commit
tee. of two, four or more brethren and sisters, to
take charge of contributions for our Mission
work. This committee then becomes the agent
of the church, to call upon every member, and
see how much each will give weekly, monthly or
quarterly, for Mission and Sunday-school work:
and said committee will be expected to make a
monthly or quarterly report of the amount con
tributed and collected to the church in conference,
and what disposition lias been m&deof thesefunds.
The funds tliuH collected should be disposed of ac
cording to the instructions of the donor, or of the
church, where no specific instructions are given.
These reports should he recorded on the church
book, and the amount given dining the year
should be reported to then - Association, and
printed in the minutes. This plan every church
can easily adopt. I beg the pastors and the
churches, where they have not done so. to adopt
this or some similar plan, and work it faithf ully.
What our missionaries need is regular contribu
tions. forwarded to them without fail. To do
this the churches must send their contributions
feglllarty. The churches cannot send, contribu
tions regularly unless they sysAmatically collect
hem regularly.
2. As most of our churches are hi the country,
allow me to suggest, and. at the same timit. most
earnestly entreat that the churches spend a part
of the Sunday morning of each monthly meeting
in prayer for the Divine blessing upon our Mis
sion work. I suggest that the city and town
churches meet for this purpose the first Sunday
night in each month, or at such time as they
think best. I again most affectionately ask pas
tors and churcher not to overlook the suggestions
and requests above made. If every Baptist in
Georgia will “ stand in his (or her) place,” and do
what they can, success will surely follow in our
efforts to systematize the collection of Mission
funds. O, Brethren and Sifters, do you love
Jesus ? Then show it bv keeping his command —
“ Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel
to every creature.”
Address me for the present at Atlanta, care of
Index. C. M. IRWIN,
Agent of Missions for Georgia.
P. B.—The more speedily and effectually to
carry out these plans, I beg {hat eaeli church that
has a plan for the collection of funds for the va
rious objects mentioned, will at once communi
cate with me through their pastor or clerk. And,
as these Mission Committees are appointed by the
churches, pleasewrite me, giving the names of the
committee and their post-offices. I beg to hear
frequently, and solicit their correspondence,
hoping tliey will inform me of what is being
done m regard to collections for Missions.
For the Index anil Baptist
COiVTU I BI TKINS —TEiV CENTS.
Vine Cottage, May 16th, 1876.
Kev. C. M. Irwin— Dear Sir: —l notice your
appeal to the Baptists for missions in The In
dex, and I have taken the liberty to write you,
that I might make a suggestion.
You remember Dr. Tucker’s great success
in calling for small contributions for the Mem
phis and Shreveport sufferers? Suppose you
follow this plan. Call for ten cent contribu
tions through The Index, and I doubt if there
he one who will not respond. Many persons
would give if they thought small amounts ac
ceptable. May God’s spirit breathe upon the
call, and awaken a response in every Christian
heal t. Truly yours, Lila.
I cheerfully give a place to the above
communication. How many Baptist
in the State will accept the “ suggestion ”
and forward ten cents for Missions to
brother E. F. Lawton, Macon, Ga.,
Treasurer of Mission Committee ? The
writer says, “I have no doubt if there
be one who will not respond.” “Small
amounts” will always be acceptable ;
send them on regularly and constantly.
I trust the brother Treasurer will be
able to report to the Committee at the
meeting in July, thousands of brethren
and sisters have responded to the sug
gestion in this letter. Mention wheth
er your contribution is for Foreign Mis
sions, Home Missions, or State Mis
sions. C. M. Irwin.
For the Index and Baptist
WOMAN’S WORK IN MISSIONS.
I wish to call the attention of the
sisters in Georgia, to the encouraging
report submitted at the late session of
the Southern Baptist Convention on
“Woman’s Work in Missions.” There
are numbers of these societies in
Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia,
Kentucky, and other States. It is de
sirable to have them in every church,
with monthly or annual meetings en
couraged by the pastors. This is
specially so in Georgia where we have
four of our own noble sisters laboring
among the heathen in China. I sug
gest that the attention of our sister
hood be at once given to this work;
that the societies already existing may
engage with new interest in the blessed
work, and that societies be at once
organized in those churches where
they do not now exist. I suggest also,
that the funds raised by these societies
in Georgia, be appropriated to the sup
port of our Georgia women now in
China, namely, Miss Lotta Moon, Miss
Lou Whilden, Mrs. N. B. Williams and
Mrs. J. B. Hartwell. The societies will
please report to me as soon as organ
ized, and the funds may be sent either
to me, care of Christian Index, At
lanta, or to Major R. F. Lawton, treas
urer, Macon, Georgia.
C. M. Irwin,
Agent Georgia Baptist Missions.
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International Sunday - School Lessons.
BRIEF SUMMARY.
THE APOLTLES IN PRlSON—Lesson for Sun
day, Jitne Ith.
Bible Lesson—Actß v:l2-26.
Golden Text— “lf a man suffer as a Chris
tian, let him not bo ashamed, but let him glorify
God on this behalf.—l Pet. 4:16.
ANALYSIS OF BIBLE LESSON.
i. Rower and dignity of the apostles, vs. 12,13
ii. Progress of the faith, verse 14.
nr. Miracles multiplied, verses 15,16.
iv. Imprisonment aud delivery, vs. 17, 21.
v. Investigation, verses 21, 26.
EXPOSITION.
I. Power and Dignity of the Dis
ciples, vs. 12, 13. By the hands, as
the medium conveying miraculous
power, even as afterward a shadow sim
ply, becomes a medium of the same
power, verse 15.
All with one accord, not all the be
lievers, it being improbable that so
many woulo assemble at once, in this
place, but all the apostles, the same as
are referred to in the preceding clause.
From day to day, the apostles, or their
representatives, were found in Solo
mon’s porch.
And of the rest, that is, not belonging
to the apostlei, unbelievers ; not as Al
ford says : “believers or believers.”
But the people magnified them, as a
general thmg the people were true to
Jesus. As proof texts see Luke viij:
40 ; xiii :17 ; xviii: 43; John vii : 31,
Murk xii: 37. So were the people trqe
to the apostles, magnifying their work*
and holding the arm of official hostility
back fr.’.in inflicting murderous blows'
11. Progress of the Faith, v:I4
And believers were the more added to the
Lord, from day to day, from week to
week ; the historian ceasing now to give
the number. Whether this gradual
addition to the Lord is the normal con
dition of church growth, as not a few
good men affirm, or whether the little
principle of the church, the little sta
bility and firmness of its purpose, make
periodical religious excitements desira
ble, is a fair question for discussion.
Asa millennium draws on, as Dr.
Finney says, “it is probable that these
periodical excitements will be un
known.” It is very desirable that the
church should attain to a state of hab
itual and steady obedience to God;
that spasmodic religion, sooner or later,
should be done away with forever.
Since, for Christians, once in two or
three or a dozen years to wake up, rub
their eyes, bluster about, vociferate a
little, and then go back to periodic
sleep, is a most lamentable evidence of
unsteadiness; the exact opposite to
which was his experience, who said,
“My heart is fixed,” Ps. lvii :7. Mul
titudes both of men and women, marking
an equality of the sexes under the
Gospel, the like of which is observable
in no qfher system of ancient philoso
phy - Cal. iii: 28.
111. Miracles Multiplied, vs. 15,
16. That at the least, the shadow of
Peter passing by might overshadow
seme of them, indicating the extent to
which the people carried their confi
dence in the apostles, and particularly
in Peter, who was the greatest of their
number, and bad pre-eminent, energiz
ing power. As for the shadow being
the medium of miraculous power, we
may use Alford’s words, “ God may
work with instruments, or with none,
as He pleases.” He may work with a
shadow, as well as with a hand. See
verse 12; chapter iii: 7. He may work
with “ handkerchiefs ” or “ aprons as
well as with hands or shadows. See
chapter xix : 11, 12. “ The instrument,
if any, used by God, depending on His
purpose in the miracle, the effect to be
produced on the recipients, beholders
or hearers. Without His special selec
tion, and enabling, all instruments are
vain ; with these, all are capable.”
IY. Imprisoned and Delivered,
vs. 16-21. Then the high priest, An
nas, (chapter iv :6) rose up, excitedly,
as if something now was to be done.
All that were with him, that is in opin
ion as a Sadducee. See note 11. Filled
with indignation, particularly at tho
preaching of the resurrection. Laid
their hands on the apostles, the leaders of
them. Common prison, public prison,
so to be kept securely. But the angel
of the Lord, rather an angel. See Psalm
xxxiv: 7. By night. By night an
angel shut the lions’ mouths, Daniel
yi ; 13-23. By night Jesus walked out
to His imperilled disciples, on the sea;
Matthew xii 22-27.
When all is dark to us God sends us
’ uessengers of love. The bow is in the
loud. At evening time it is light.
. Ind said * *go * * speak all the words
"f this life, “the resurrection life, which
’he badducees deny;” tile power of
vhich Paul afterward longed exceeed
itagly to know, Phil. 3:10. What is this
power, the power of His resurrection ?
Entered into the temple early and taught,
worship beginning in the Orient often
before sunrise, at an hour when most
people who claim to be worshippers in
the Occident are asleep. In this connec
tion we recall a verse, not unhappily,
jet falsely interpreted. “Those that
seek me early shall find me,” Prov.
8:17. A verse that- does not mean
seeking early in life at all, but simply
with that earnestness and zeal which
are indicated by rising early in the
morning. The idea being similar to
that in Jer. 7:l3.— Dr. Broadus, p. 71.
God’s Word elsewhere teaches the ben
efits of early piety, but this Proverb
does not.
V. Investigation, vs. 21 26. Call
ed the council together, in the ordinary
session chamber at some distance from
Solomon’s Porch. And all the Senate,
the eldership not belonging to the San
hedrim, hut venerable in hostility as it
was in years. Senate is from the Latin
Senatus; Senex, meaning an old man.
Sent to the prison, not knowing that the
apostles were then in the porch of the
temple, teaching the doctrines of Chris
tianity. When the officers came, i. e.,
the officers of the Sanhedrim. The high
priest, rather “the priest” by way of
eminence. The captain, the Governor.
Chief priests, heads of priestly courses.
Doubted -where unto this would grow, and
well they might, not knowing how this
would operate on the public mind.
Went and brought them without violence,
a prudence that was not at all wonder
ful, considering what had happened.
For they feared the people, growing
strongly in favor with the followers of
Jesus. Seech, iv :21. Lest they should
have been stoned, of which severe judg
ment they felt a kind of conscious des
ert. Notice, however, that the guilty
Sanhedrim had its fear; not the im
prisoned apostles. The guilty are the
cowardly.
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A Card from the Treasurer of Mercer
University.
Makers of Contribution Notes to Mercer Uni
versity, will confer a double favor by remitting
at tbe earliest possible day, interest and install
ments now due, and past due. TheTieasurer
will then he able to do what ho is expected to per
form, viz : pay promptly the salaries of tho
Professors at Mercer and the TeaclierH in tho
Mercer High School. His post-office is Wash
ington, Wilkes comity, Georgia.
JOHN T. WINGFIELD,
sep23tf Treasurer of Mercer University.
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LODGINGS FOR BAPTISTS
AT
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mHE Amorican Baptist Publication Society
-*■ haviug roceived numerous inquiries about
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have decided to fill one or two of their large
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