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The Christian Index.
the SOUTH-WESTERN BAPTIST, TBEDE CHPISTIAU HERALD S
’ 0F Alabama. - OF Tennessee.
VOL. 55—NO. 23.
Table of Contents.
First Page. —Alabama Department: Becoid of
State Events: Crime and the Family; Spirit of
the Religious Tress; Rattle on the Will; The
Index Hymn Book; Baptist News and Notes;
General Denominational News; etc.
Second Page. —Our Correspondents: Bruns
wick—An Important Field of Labor —Brother
' Atkinson—The Crops—Baptist Sunday-school
—A Kind Deed—Jas. Mcßride; A Few Macon
Items—S. Boykin; Alpharetta. Ga.—E. S. T.
Briaut; Christianity vs. Infidelity—Beverly H.
Washington.
Thikd Page.— Our Pulpit: A Good Preemption
for "Hard Times"—Extract from a Sermon by
Rev. Dr. Talmage. The Sunday-school: Les
son for Sunday. June 18. 1876; Selection of
Sunday-school" Teachers. Letter from East
Tennessee—T. J. Evans.
Focrtii Page.— Editorial; Raising Church
Funds—Rev. S. G. Hillyer : Queries Answered
—Rev. J. S. Baker. Centennial Histories of
Churches and Associations ; Georgia Baptist
News; Register of Centennial Visitors for
Baptists in Philadelphia; Centennial Christian
Homes: Brother Barrow's Appointments;
Great Preachers and Great Editors; The
Central Baptist Educational Committee of
Texas—Rev. D. E. Butler. Visitors to Our
Pulpit; etc.
Fifth Page. —Secular Editorials : Misapplied
Wealth; Southern Female College : The Doc
tors; Baptist Books: Genuine Men and Counter
feits ; Editorial Weakness ; Advertisements in
the Religious; Press; Post-Mortem Kindness :
Literary Gossip: The Quitman Reporter;
Georgia News.
Sixth Page.— Mission Department: Sincerity
Essential to Missions; Practical Missionary
Zeal: How Shall it Bo ?
Seventh Page. —Agriculture; A Visit to Gov.
Job. E. Brown’s Splendid Farm; Cotton; The
Harlequin Cabbage Rug; Co-operation in
Germany; Wages in Germany and the United
States.
Eigth Page. Obituaries : Tributes of Respect;
Special Notices ; Advertisements.
IX HEX AND _BAPTIST.
ALABAMA DEPARTMENT.
Barley is ! ting successfully cultivated near
Cullman. .-
The wheat harvest is over. The result is
very satisfactory.
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Maj. J. 11. Butts has retired from the Eu
faula Times.
The Presbyterian church Tuskegce into
be newly carpeted.
Alabama c< i <•? from a Greek word, signify
ing the ‘‘land of rest.’’
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'.lf.. ... L. '..in y ; . . ’, .
Baptist church last Susday. 1 '
There is plenty of home-made corn in
Greene.county at 40 ceub a bushel.
The South and North Road will i ;.ild a
grand union depot at the foot of Commerce
street, Montgomery.
There is plenty of work in the iron and coal
regions of Alabama. New veins are being
worked and new shafts sunk almost daily.
A religious mass-meeting will be held at
Unicn Grove chuich, Lauderdale county, be
ginninfljJuly 14th.
Rev. S. A. Goodwin of Columbus, Miss,
will preach the Commencement sermon of
Judson Institute on June 18th.
Rev. My. Sehmalzl, pastor of the Lutheran
church at Cullman, has accepted a call to a
church in Indiana.
The ladies of the Gainesville Memorial As
sociation will give a Centennial ice cream sup
per July 4th.
Alabama sends twenty delegates to the Dem
ocratic National Convention which meets in
St. Louis on the 27th inst. ■i*''
The Governor offers a reward-of -S2OO for
the apprehension of Charles B. Lowery,
charged with the murder of Archibald Harris,
in Cleburne county. •
Rev. J. E. W. Henderson, editor of the
Primitive Pathway, accompanied by Rev. J. E.
Carter, has gone upon a preaching tour in
some of the Southern counties.
The Commencemeht exercises at the Slate
University promises to be the most interesting
of any since the war.
Gen. Cullen A. Battle has been appointed
one of the private secretaries to Gov. Houston,
which is an excellent appointment.
D. C. Anderson, F. A. Bromberg, and
Price Williams, of Mobile, and H. A. Woolf,
of Marengo, are candidates for the Congress
ional nomination in the first district.
On Mr. Joe Hale’s place in Tallapoosa
county, near Fort Decatur, the remains of
Gov. John Seveir, the first Governor of Ten
nessee, are interred. He was buried 1815, and
the slab is not yet destroyed.
Rev. Basil Manly, D.D., President of the
Georgetown (Ky.) "College, will deliver the
Baccalaureate sermon at the Commencement
of the University of Alabama, on Sunday, July
2d, at 11 a.m.
A suit is now pending in the Chancery
Court at Marion, to set aside the consolidation
of the Selma, Marion, and Memphis Railroad
ol Tennessee; The .Selma, Marion and Mem
phis Railroad of Mississippi; and the Selma,
Marion and Memphis Railroad of Alabama)
made March 17, 1871.
CRIME AM) THE FAMILT.
We have received from the publishers,
Robert Clarke & Cos., Cincinnati, a copy
of the hook just published under the
above title. Price, §1.25. The author,
Hon. Simeon Nash, shows, unmistaka
bly, the intimate relation existing be
tween the family and crime, where mis
guided parents are blindly working out
for their children the path to moral
destruction. He finds the origin and
cause of crime in the misgovernment
of children by the parents, and endeav
ors to point out the proper remedy for
the evil. He argues that men are not
born criminals, but are educated to be
such by lax and injudicious home in
struction, and the deficiencies of train
ing in the paTents themselves. The
child is the subject, keenly susceptible
to the influences, good or bad, under
which it grows up in its homf. Great
prominence is given by the author to
the necessity for the early inculcation
of the principles of God’s truth and
the sanctifying spirit of Christianity.
The great responsibility of the par
ental office is dwelled upon with ener
gy. The author does not fail, either,
to make proper allusion to the influence
of food, dress and surrundings, upon
the forming character of the child, and
especially dwells upon the beneficial
effects of the reading of good, instruc
tive and entertaining books.
The author argues that it is the duty
of the State to take a deep interest in
the right training of the children born
under its jurisdiction. This interpo
sition by the State should occurr, where
[ ■.rents fail to perform their duty, or
where children are deprived of pr,vents
and ’ .ivper influences, an 1 become tR.:
L ibitum >y ti c str. *s. It i: ihe State’s
!u 7 to prevent flic education of erttu
mare, ; d xLe author points iut rvans
‘ ’ey v*QbjL.,.jve nJdtd ,tiv .an.
families, übt .-t e ci.r' tW-- i'.
To the objection that the State lias
no right to interfere in the edcation of
its people, or with the rights of par
ents, the writer insists that a truer
philosophy demonstrates the futility
and wickedness of such an objection.
He says:
"Children must be cdacal oil and morally train
ed, if they are to become more than mere ani
mals. Nature’s teaching is confined to our ani
mal nature, and has no power (o wake up in us
that spiritual life, without which humanity is
only brutish. Thecliild. then, is entitled to this
teaching and training. God has commanded us
to teach His truth to all men, aud hence tit esc
poor children who are thus found wandering in
the dark places of earth. If the children have
no parents there can certainly be no objection
to tho State taking charge of their education and
training. Nor have parents, who refuse or neg
lect to train up their children for virtue and
usefulness, a right to com; lain. They refuse to
execute their duty, whereby their children suf
fer, and has society no power, no right, to snatch
these children from the terrible results of such
parental neglect, and secure -hem that training
io which every human being is, under the Divine
law, entitled ? Is it possible that wicked parents
have n right to educate their children in vice and
crime, and the State has no power, no authority,
.is not justified hv reason and God, m protecting
itself against this wholesale manufacture of vice
aud ci ime ? I think the State has a right to in
tervene and protect these children from the ter
rible results of parental neglect and wickedness,
and itself from tho evils which ensnare from
such neglect. Every heart, not callous to hu
man sympathy, must yield a ready assent to
these Lints, and be eager to aid in carrying them
into execution.
This hook is one of those which can
not fail to set intelligent, earnest men
to thinking, and this excellent effect is
produced by no ornamental rhetoric,
but by plain statements enforced by
arguments which demand our respect,
i though we may not, in every instance,
endorse their conclusions. We consid
er this little volume a valuable con
tribution to our current literature, on a
subject of the highest importance to
society and the State.
A $200,000 Hotel.—What Dh. Pierce is
Doing.—An Important Enterprise. —Weleain
that Dr. 11. V. Fierce, proprietor of the “World's
Dispensary,” in this ciiy, has perfected tho pur
chase of a largo lot of land, on which lie proposes
to erect a largo hotel for the accommodation of
his numerous patients, coming hither from all
points of the compass. The land purchased by
the enterprising Doctor is 234 feet front on Pros
pect Avenue, running through to Fargo Avenue,
332 feet; also an adjoining lot extending from
the above to Connecticut street. It is in tho
midst of an extensive system of public parks,
fronts the old and beautiful Prospect Park, is
but a short distance from the “Circle,” in one
direction, and the "Lake Front” in the other.
The site selected is a oi e one, being both beauti
ful and healthful; is one of the highest portions
of our city, easily accessible yet sufficiently re
tired to secure quiet, and commands a pleasant
view of the lake and river, as well as of the sur
rounding city and country. We understand that,
it is the intention of Dr. Pierce to erect a hotel
at the cost of at least two hundred thousand dol
lars, where those who come to enjoy the benefit
of his treatment may find all desired accommo
dations under one root, instead of being scat
tered over tho city, as at present. We are fur
ther given to understand that our architects will
be invited to submit plans for iho proposed
structure without delay. —Buffalo K/.prass.
FRANKLIN PRINTING HOUSE, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, JUNE 15, 1870
Spiiit of the Religious Press.
—The Standard, alluding to the hearty ex
pressions of fraternal courtesy which charac"
terized the recent anniversaries of the Northern
and Southern Baptists, respectively, says :
So tar as Baptists are concerned, there is one
point of marked difference to the mutual rela
tions of the two sections, from what was the
fact in years preceding the late war. There
is no dividing question to disturb these rela
tions, or to engender among Christian brethren
feelings akin to those which then set our na
tional politics in a blaze. Previous to the war
there had been long years of heated debate be
tween Biptists South and Baptists North-
There were misunderstandings, criminations,
re-criminations, and all the bitter prejudices
and hostilities sure to follow these. The Chris
tianity of the two sections had become every
whit as warlike as their politics. That such is
not the fact now, nor likely to become the fact,
is a most eucouraging and gratifying feature of
the present state of affairs. Is it too much to
hope that in the political strifes sure to come in
no long time, with the awakening of the whole
hissing brood of bad passions, and the effort of
designing men to urge on the people of both
sections to the point of another bloody colli
sion, the Christians of the country will inter
pose the influence at their command to re
strain the tendency toward strife, and to keep
the peace? While North and South continue
to meet as they have done this year, while
hand clasps hand in Christian fellowship, and
heart touches heart in mutual Christian love,
there will be in the way of the selfish politician,
willing to sacrifice even his country to his own
ambitious greed, a barrier hard to overcome.
We pray that it may rise higher and build
itself more solidly, year by year.
—The Golden liulc is greatly excited on the
condition of our country, and the urgent neces
sity for immediate reform in the direction of
honesty, ability and purity. It exclaims :
One thing cannot be doubted, (he people are
sick of cheats and cheating ; sick of petty par
tisanship ; sick of ignorant and blatent rulers;
sick of extravagance, low morals and iniquity.
They are mad at themselves for being hum
bugged and deceived, and madder yet at the
wretches who have humbugged and deceived,
them. They are hungering and thirsting for
honest and able men in office, and for honest
men especially. A nation can be run with a
very small amount of ability, but it cannot be
. run without a goodly amount of old fashioned
*\ionesty. No platform can be found which, of
itself, will be able to meet and satisfy this pop
ular sentiment. The platform ’ must be
emphasized by concurrent conduct ami seoyet.
action or the eopie lu-v-tr will b> e. 1.
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and of tight than i dots of temporary SucctfO,
and so persuades the voters of the country
Honor, honesty and conscientious convictions
ot the right, as utiWed through the press or
from the platform, will find willing readers
ar.d applauding hearers for the next six months.
Moral forces will win in the coming contest.
God, as expressed in human conscience and
judgment, is a growing power in the land ; a
power no party that wishes success in the can
vass can afford to overlook. The “gentleman”
in politics is excellent, but the honest man is
much better. There are wrongs to be righted;
there are wounds to be healed ; there are trans
gressors to punish ; there are hypocrites to un
mask ; there is a nation to save. There is but
one way to do it; we must dare to do right.
—The Independent characterizes as ‘‘the soft
headed press” those papers which are “raising
a hue and cry about the cases of lunacy result
ing from the late revival meetings.”
The same paper relates this:
The Rev. Dr. Barclay, in an address at a late
meeting of the English Palestine Exploration
Fund, speaking of the place covered with a slab
under the dome of the Rock on Mount Moriah
in Jerusalem, into which place, if a man might
get, he might make important discoveries, re
marked : tv-'
“ I haw. often remonstrated with the keep
ers of the Mosque, and tried from time to time
to induce them to let me got down. But the
answer was : ‘-My beloved, we love you too
much to let you do that. We dq not know
what might occur to you. There,was once a
Sultan <rom Egypt who went imolthe cave of
Aiacpelah ; and there lie saw Sarar,; sitting up,
combing her hair. And she struck (him blind.’
‘Well,’ I replied, ‘you have more concern for
me than I have for mysel f.’ ‘Even so, my be
loved.’
—“Will you have the kindness to answer
through the columns of your paper, the follow
ing questions: If a member of a Baptist
church wishes a letter to Huite with some other
church of like fiitli and practice, should lie be
obliged to name the church with which he
wishes to unite? In case he does not change
his residence, can the church demand his rea
sons for taking the step ? If he refuses to give
any reason for it, has the church the right to
decline giving a letter? If a member takes a
letter from one church to unite with any other,
when will his membership with the first nam
ed terminate ? All of the foregoing questions
are based upon the supposition that said mem
ber’s Christian walk and deportment have not
been irregular or disorderly hitherto.”
The above questions were put to our able
contemporary, the Watchman, which replies as
follows:
Generally, a member desiring a letter should
name the church to which he is going, but
there may be exceptional circumstances, of
which each church should judge in a spirit of
charity. A member desiring to join another
church in the same city, usually assigns only
his desire, and a letter is granted; and we pre
sume that most churches, unless theie were
special reasons, would ask nothing more. Ifa
brother should demand a letter in an ugly and
exasperating manner, relusing to assign any
cause, bus having otherwise a good Christian
diameter, we should vote at once to give him
a letter and we should rot wait to insist on his
reasons for going. When a member takes a
letter, his membership in the clturd grunting
it ceases only wiieti he joins another ; it is the
most stupid of ail blunders, to suppose that the
mere possession of a letter relieves him Irom
any obligation whatever.
—Says the Reflector: “Rev. Dr. Warren is
succeeding admirably with his new field in
Richmond. Many of the members of the First
church expressed themselves to us as delighted
with their new pastor. By the by, brother
Burnett was mistaken about the knighting of
brother Warren. Mercer University conferred
the degree of D.D. on him at its last Com
mencement, and the honor could not have been
more worthily bestowed.”
- The Londpn Christian World says that the
growth and spread of the temperance movement
among the clergy of the Church of England
is one of the most satisfactory signs of the
times.
—The National Baptist of Philadelphia,
complains that the rage for expensive places of
woftpip in America is reducing the amount of
the .collections for evangelistic and other enter
prises ; and it is contended that “the benevo
lent enterprises of the country are pa ving for
the tall steeples.” One Baptist church is
specified which has erected a chapel costing
190,000, and has voted, with three dissenting
voices, not to take up any collection for benev
*>!<;,*re this year, but to devote all their ener
gies to the debt.
—The New York Methodist says;
Fraternal relations between the two chief
Conferences of American Methodism are es
tablished. It was done on Friday of last week,
when the fraternal messengers of the ohureh
South were enthusiastically welcomed by our
General Conference, in session in Baltimore.
There remains the work of the commissions of
the two Churches, who will doubtless meet,
talk over, and settle outstanding grievances,
whether real or imaginary. We do not
dtmbt that a*commission will be appointed by
our church, and that the result of the meeting
of the two commissions will be peace. The
end is in sight. The chief powers of the two
commissions have shaken hands in the name
! a common inheritance and a common
Saviour. Let us all rejoice that the great gulf
of separation in feeling and antagonism in ac
-1 ion is spanned by a bridge of fraternal greet
ugn. Now let the commissions fill up the
chasm.
—Tiie Independent recently gave the follow
ling receipts :
! Are.you deficient in taste? Read the best
j English pi;ct‘, such as Thomson, Gray, Gold
-'"d.lh, Pope, Cowper, Coleridge, Scott, and
■ v oru ,-.'orth.
•A.- you deficient in imagination? Read
Milton, Akenside, Burke, and Saak, spear-.-.
Are yi u deficient in the power of reasoning?
lead Ohiiliiigsworth, Bacon aud Locke.
” Are you deficient in iuch:o mi and good
, sen-.-o in the comn;,.i> affairs of life ? It ad
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saiff V v'• ' i n .l 1 ha i -il; • .
tkv.-K’* 1 I dt'
’J • Are you dC.nseiiV’ui political I-!!: "S .
dead Montesquieu, the Federalist, Web<tcr •'.
Calhoun.
Are you deficient in patriotism ? Read De
mosthenes and the Life of Washington.
Are yon deficient in conscience? Read
some of President Edwards’ works.
The Intenor says that th is recipe for making
an accomplished scholar is well enough for
those who can command the use of a select li
brary, or who have the means for purchasing
one. It contends that for persons less favored
in this world’s goods these is an excellent sub-'
stitute for the above, namely :
Read critically as to style and dignify of
thought—
For defective taste—Christ’s Sermon on the
Mount; Paul’s address to Agrippa, and the
Epistle of James.
For imagination—The descriptive passages
in Job, and generally the Apocalypse of Saint
John.
For reasoning—Christ’s refutation of the
Saducees and generally the Epistle to the
Romans. „
For judgement and good sense—Solomon’s
Proverbs.
For sensibility—The last chapters of any of
the four Gospels, ‘he book of Ruth.
For political knowledge—Study the Consti
tution of the Jewish Commonwealth before the
establishment of the kingdom.
For patriotism—The life of David, the res
toration after the Babylonish captivity.
For cultivation of the conscience—you can
scarce go amiss—Peter’s Epistles, John’s,
James’, and, above all, the wmds of Christ.
This is no ad captanduin suggestion. The
Scriptures furnish the best models and the
most suggestive materials to be found in the
English language.
Battle on the Will.—This splendid treatise;
ou the Will, by the President of Mercer Univer
sity, will soon issue from tho Franklin Printing
House, iii this city. While the articles were ap
pearing in The Index wo received many com
mendations of them, and many of our readers
expressed a desire to have the work in book
form. In obedience to tho judgment of the
brethren, and our own, this edition was prepared.
Tho subject is investigated and treated from
tho Christian’s point of observation, by and with
tho teachings of tho Word cf God.
Tho hook is a line study for classes in Moraf-
Science and Theology. Wc expect to see it bail
ed as a standard authority among all Christians.
The work is dedicated, as it should bo, to Oaf
venerable Dr. Cullen Hattlo, of Alabama. Iwffi
father of the author, now living at Eufaufa. ' ■ ]■
Our exchanges will oblige us by giving notice
of this valuable contribution to our religious lit- |
erature. It is another good book from the Fac- |
ulty of Mercer University, of which Georgia
Baptists may be proud.
Orders will be received at The Index office,
and by all Baptist preachers in the State. Price
$1 at this office.
tf-TT The Index Hymn Rook will bo ready this
week, when all orders on hand will be filled- and
any now ones that wo may be favored with.
Prico of this book is 15 cents per copy.
If any brethren fail to get tho books ordered,
they will please notify us, stating number or
dered, tho amount of mouey enclosed us, and
give P. O. address plainly.
—William Jewell College, Mo., through its
faculty and students, has pledged $2,275 to
ward endowment.
BAPTIST SEAVS AM) NOTES.
The Baptist Association recently in ses
sion in Culpepper, Va., created the following
new Home Mission Board, whose headquar
ters are located in Lynchburg :
W. A. Montgomery, President; T. W. Syd
nor, first Vice President ; J. It. Harrison, Sec
ond Vice President; C. B. Fleet, Correspond
ing Secretary ; N. R. Bowman, Recording
Secretary. Other managers—W. A. Miller,
Maurice Moore, J. A. Hamner, W. L. Bow
man, W. H. Wrenn, William Hurt, W. B.
Freeman.
The Baptists have an association among the
Creek Indians comprising thirty-two churches,
besides an association among the Choctaws,
Chickasaws aud Cherokees, and also a church
organized among tiie Seminoles.
—Seventy-nine students have been ip atten
dance in the Richmond Baptist (colored) In
stitute during the present year. Fity of the
number areqireparing for the ministry.
—Dr. Hatcher, of Grace street church,
Richmond, Va., has organized two societies,
one of boys and the other of girls, in his con
gregation, for devotional and educational pur
poses. Each consists of about seventy-five
members.
—Kentucky has fifty-eight Baptist Associa
tions —New York has only forty-five.
—The Baptist Seminary at Chicago has
now, since.the HeDgstenberg collection num
bering 9,885 botjiiid volumes and about 5,000
unbound books and pamphlets were placed up
on their shelves, a library of 19,462 books.
—The Watchman says { controversial rip
ple lias recently passed over the face of the de
nomination, quite interesting to those who
have watched its movement. It was the old
question, in a modern drt ss: Were the Ana
baptists of the sixteenth century the ecclesiasti
cal ancestois of modern Baptists? The con
troversy has brought some things to the sur
face which were previously hidden, or at least
obscured. It has awakened frekli interest in
the history of our people and of our distinctive
peculiarities. And more than this,fit has
shown that the status oi a church II not as a
link (4 :1 drain dependent on its antecedent
links, a:.l that our ecclesiastical claim uhi-'t
no he uistainrd by our patent connection with
succ ssivy links ol this continuous Chain. -V
clime’' iiky a day rather than a. ! : nk o( sue!:
a-, 'in. Bach day successive : yet there is
n .” ’toe c.. "(lection, for -.4 .’ry day is
■ " .a Cl ry . .-.at a awn. . . a ne-ar'i..
And ( "eh one, too, is as ne tr ihp sun as any
that proceeded. A church, in the New Testa
ment sense of that term, is as complete, and as
fresh, and as independent of all that pro
ceeded it, as the day is, and is as near to Him
who is “wheresoever two or three are gathered
together.”
Dr. Buckner, the able and beloved mis
sionary among the Creek Indians, was hern in
g E;tpt/iYiintssee, not far from Sweetwater." He
-has been among the Indians, as a missionary,
twenty- sevi u years.
—Rev. William Vaughn, DD , is the oldest
Baptist minister in Kentucky, having been li
censed to preach in 1810. Deacon Hayanft,
of Elizabethton, is the oldest layman in that
State. They were both in attendance at the
last General Association in Kentucky.
—Rev. S. W. Marston, D.D., Superinten
dent of State Missions for the Baptist General
Association of Missouri, has accepted the ap
pointment of General Agent for the Indian
.'igeitey of the Indian Territory.
—Twenty-six churches have been called to
recognize the Centennial Baptist church in
Brooklyn.
—The baptistry of Ravenna, a monument of
the highest importance as regards the ordinance
of Christian baptism and also interesting as a
sample of antique art, is receiving thenttention
of the Italllan government. The mosaics of
filth century which it contains are rapid!v per
ishing, and, in fact, the building itself is; In at-
to go to vain. The minister ot public
works now proposes to. have it thoroughly
restored.
—The Baptist churches in Indiana number
about 555, and tiie members, in round num
bers, 39,000. As there are not more than 385
Baptist ministers living in the State, and less
than 360 of them in the pastorate, some
churches must be destitbte of an under-shep
lierd.
—At a recent Brooklyn Baptist Social Union
Broadus, of South Carolina, made the
jij ncipal address. His subject was, “Great
Preachers.” He said that most of the work of
giving - mis was done by men who cannot be
great ; that many real!" great men are
’unknown to fame; that fame depends upon the
accidents of one’s position and surroundings ;
that great periods make great men; that good
hearers make able preachers. Di. Bright, ed
itor of the Examiner, followed, commending
Mr. Moody as the greatest preacher of the age.
Rhea’s Nursery, —The extension of Broad
street to tlie suburbs has opened up an easy ac
cess to this charming little garden, and a visit
there will repay i hose who feel an interest in
the cultivation of flowers. Besides the attrac
tive floral display in the hot houses, a very
large vegetable garden has been added, and
every variety of vegetable known to the cli
mate are here brought to perfection. The gar
den and grounds are under charge of a faithful
colored man, George Barrow, who never fails
in his attention to the visitor. We are glad to
know that Major Rhea is preparing to enlarge
his interest out-there, and mane it permanent.
Griffin Daily News.
WHOLE NO. 2223.
General Denominational dess,
—ln Spain, the Government has been hav
ing a valiant conflict with the Pope over the
grant of liberty of worship by the new constitu
tion, which the Pope declares is not only in
conflict with the Concordat, but will, if car
ried out, bring down unnumbered evils on the
country. In fact, nothing is more curious than
the facility with which the church adapts its
views about toleration to the latitude in whicli
it speaks. In England and America, it favors
tiie largest liberty ; in Spain and everywhere
else where there is the least chance of getting
the aid of the police in suppressing freedom
ot worship, it protests lustily against having
L’rotestants allowed to open their mouths in
prayer or praise outside their own houses. An
attempt in the Cortes to amend the constitu
tional provision, so as to confine dissenters to
private worship, was voted down by an over
whelming majority, which is a good sign.
There is a movement on foot among the
ultra-reform Jews of New York to hold reli
gious services on Sunday mornings for the
convenience and profit of those who do not at
tend services on Saturday. A number of the
prominent members of the Temple Emmanuel
and Temple Bethel are organizing a society
for this purpose, and propose to hire Chicker
ng Hall for a place of meeting and to engage
Dr. Felix Adler, of Cornell University, a son
of Rev. Dr. Adler, late of the Temple Em
manuel, as lecturer. It is intended to have
the services consist of a lecture and music by
an organ and choir. The orlitodox Jews are
extremely opposed to the project, regarding it
as a possible first step towards the substitution
of Sunday for the Jewish Sabbatleand the en
gagementof Dr. Felix Adler, who is known to
tie a leaner of the extreme reform party, is ta
li as earnest of an intention in that direction.
The orthodox party have tart and a weekly
newspaper of a general religious character to
counteract the teachings of the ultra-reformers,
and to prevent, it possible, the organization of
Jewish religious services on Sunday.
| Rev. Green Clay Smith, cl Frankfort,
was nominated for President of the United
States, by the Convention of Prohibitionists
recently held in Cleveland Ohio.
Rev. D. Eglint u B r, former!;.' nstorof
S• Ja les Episcopal c rch at El!eatvlvH|e,a
i mnujb ot St J,nui3. ; ■, ,yr . r ■,i r .ed
m Uii uiimbr'dity :u,d iiiiioketiuims. Ci.. court
holds secret sessions.
The United Presbyterian church of Scot
land has recently raised §50,000 to begin a
mission in Japan.
The Religious Tract Society of Great Bri
tain and a Mr. Francis Peek have together of
fered a prize of 4,000 handsomely bound New
Testaments to those children in the London
Board day-schools who can pass the best ex
aminations in the Scriptures. Upward of 50,-
000 children have competed for the prices, and
it has been found to lead not only to the read
ing of the Bible, hut to an increase of the daily
attendance at the schools. The distribution of
die books is to take place sometime during this
month, and will be a public ceremony. The
Tract Society and Mr. Peek have each given
the sum of £5,000 to make tne prize an annual
one.
—Bale, Switzerland, has been selected for
the next General Conference of the Evangeli
cal Alliance.
The Soutbern Presbyterians are now
classified into the “Pans” and the Anti-Pans,’
or those who favor participation in the Presby
terian Alliance and tiiose who oppose it,
CHILURiiS.
Children are what the mother,' are ;
No fondest father’s care,
Can fashion so the infant heart
As those creative beams that dart,
V< ith all their hopes and fears, upon
ilia cradle of a sleeping son.
His startled eyes with wonder see
A father near him on his knee,
Who w,sties all the wade to trace
The mother in his future face :
But ’tis to her alone uprise
His wakening arms ; to her those eyes
Op i with joy, and not surprise.
Ihe govei nment of the United States real
izes an annual revenue of 570,000,000 from
the sale of liquors, and it is estimated that not
less than 70,000 of our citizens annually lie
down in drunkard’s graves. Thus the govern
ment sells the privilege to kill its own citizens
at 51,000 a piece! But, back of all this ruin
ous tr.tfhe are our voters, and they are pritoa
rily responsible.
Certainly they are. And yet, “whatis
everybody’s business is nobody’s bus
iuess. The drunkard is buried, the
widow and the orphan are turned out
upon the cold charity ot the world, the
ruined home is forg >tten, the misery is
put out of public siclit, and the mur
derous work ot killing seventy thousand
human beings every year, goes on under
the pationage of the government, and
with the full consent of the people who
make and control the government. O,
day of judgment, what a terrible record
will ho unfolded when thy everlasting
sun shall redden the horizon of the
world! "VYe throw up our hand in
horror at drunkenness and crime, and
coolly pocket the profits thereof with
the other. What a shame!