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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. —-■■■- ■ 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.’’ — - ■ '.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. I ?>. 'Vnm. , ■ /•] 1 tlllt. J.-, • X, 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 ■ j 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!