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The Christian Index.
THE SOUTH-WESTERN BAPTIST, THE IE HERALD”
of Alabama. of Tennessee.
VOL. 55—NO. 2'.
Table of Contents.
First Page.—Alabama Department: Record of
State Events: The Chinese Question; A Relic
of “H. E. T.”; Battle on the Will; Spirit of the
Religious Press; Virginia News aud Notes—
The Late Richmond Sensation—Rev. B. Q.
Manard; Baptist News and Notes; General
Denominational News; etc.
Second Page.— Our Correspondents : Letter
from Thomasville—W. B. Bennett; Extract
from Proceedings of First Baptist Church, At
lanta, May, 1876—R. Wm. Swann, Church
Clerk ; Letter from Texas—D. E. T. ; Letter
from Quitman —Information Wanted—Quit
man ; To the Brethren of the Carrollton Asso
ciation—Jas. Barrow; The Debt to Mother ;
From Lumpkin—Another Refreshing Meeting
—Bio. Munday’s Labors—Dr. Fuller’s Visit,
etc.—J. W. P. Fackler : To the Brethren of the
Appalachee Association—Committee ; Npteß
on the Act of Baptism—J. H. Kilpatrick.
Third Page. —Baptists of Virginia—Their
Their Leaders—Their System—
Their Achievements, etc. —E. W. Warren.
Sunday-school Department; International
Lessons—Review of the Second Quarter —Les-
son for Sunday, June 25. 1876 ; A Teacher’s
Plan for Carrying on her Work; The Sunday
school Work. Select Miscellany ; The Conti
nent of Africa; etc.
Fourth Page.— Editorial: Raising Church Funds
—No. hi —Rev. S. G. Hillyer. The Centennial
Anniversary—Rev. J. S. Baker. Baptist Mis
fortune at Richmond, Va.; The State Board ;
Georgia Baptist News; The "Sunday” Rule at
the Centennial Exhibition—Rev. D. E. Butler.
Th e Modulation of the Voice; Brother James
H. Callaway, etc.
Fifth PAge.— Secular Editorials: To Our Breth
ren and Friends; Personal; The Great Atlantic
Coast Line; Rev. B. F. Ross; Extravagance in
Dress at Female College Commencements;
Giving Satan Special Privileges; Items from
Letters to The Index; Literary Gossip; The
State Capital—Athens Watchman ; Winship
Iron Works;,Georgia News ; etc.
Sixth Page.— Mission Department : Debt of the
Home Mission Board—C. M. Irwin ; State Com
mittee-Give it a Trial—S. Boykin; Indian
Missions—H. F. Buckner; State Missions—C.
M. Irwin.
Seventh Paoe.—Agriculture: Wlioat Crop of
1876—Georgia Grange ; Rice; Splendid Wool;
Farmers’ Wives; Corn and Hogs ; Practical
Effects of the Grauge ; Sheep raising in Ten
nessee ; Fair Weather Ahead: Peanut Oil; etc-
Eigth Page.— A Tribute to the Memory of Mil
lard Seals by his fellow-members of Second
Baptist Sabbath-school, .Atlanta, Ga. Obitu
aries . Advertisements.
INDEX AND BAPTIST.
ALABAMA DEPARTMENT.
Montevallo is visited by a fruitful revival
spirit.
The small-pox lias entirely disappeared
from Prattville.
An effort is being made to establish a cotton
factory at Union Springs.
Irish potatoes are shipped from Eufaula to
the Northern markets.
A son of Rev. Mr. Bailey, the evangelist,
was drowned near Marion the 9th.
The Alabama Baptist Convention will meet
in Montgomery July 13th.
The Commencement exercises of Alabama
Central Female College, at Tuskaloosa, begin
June 25th.
The Alumni of the University of Alabama
are invited to a banquet in Tuskaloosa -on
Commencement day, July sth.
There will be a big celebration at Gadsden
the 4th of July.
The Sunday-school at Moulton has been re
organized. %
To the 10th, Mobile had this season received
371,382 bales of cotton.
The next meeting of the Alabama Press
Association will be held in Montgomery.
Hon. R. W. Cobb, of Helena, Shelby county,
has shipped immense specimens of iron and
coal for exhibition at the Centennial. A lump
of coal as big as an ordinary fort or meeting
house in the days of 1776, was a part of the
show.
Through sleeping cars are now being run
over the Mobile and Girard and Montgomery
and Eufaula Railroads, between Columbus and
Montgomery, and this route is fast becoming
a very popular one.
The Commencement Exercises of the Jud
on Female Institute, Marion, will occupy the
time from the 15th to the 21st inclusive. The
order of exercises are very inteiesting. The
sermon will be preached on Sunday next by
Rev. S. A. Goodwin, Columbus, Miss., and the
address by the Rev. E. B. Teague. The grand
concert will come ofl on Wednesday evening
tlie 21st inst.
The Howard College Commencement exer
cises passed off with fine effect. Rev. J. O.
B. Lowry, of Mobile, delivered an excellent
sermon on the excellency of Christian Man
hood to a crowded audience. The exercises
gave evidence of the high educational stand
ard of Howard College.
A distressing occurrance is related by the
Troy Messenger. Mrs. Poliy McLeod, aged
about sixty years, the widow of Bryant Mc-
Leod, left her son’B house, near Troy, to visit a
married daughter, who lived a mile off. Noth
ing more was heard of her until next morning,
when her body was found near the place from
which she started lying in the road, with her
face eaten up by hogs. Mrs. McLeod was sub
jected to severe attacks of asthma, and it is sup
posed that she was attacked while walkingand
died instantly.
THE CHINESE QCESTION.
The crusade against the Chinese in
California is assuming dimensions, and
a character of atrocity, seriously involv
ing the.interests of the people of that
section of our county. It threatens to
become a national question, as grave in
its consequences,and as likely to become
a source of international trouble, as
any that has engaged the public mind
of late. Public opinion is almost un
animously fixed, and the expulsion or
extermi nation of the Chinese popula
tion upon the shores of the Pacific, is
determined upon with a unanimity of
feeling of which the press of that region
gives unmistakable proof. The only
exception to this general exterminatory
movement is found in the San Fran
cisco Commercial Herald, an able and
influential trade paper. The grounds
for its protest may be summed up as
follows:
It admits that the presence of large numbers
of Chinese in this country is undesirable, but
tliinks that the coarse, violent and oppressive
policy against them which is so generally ad
vocated in California, will alienate the good
will of not alone China, but Japan; India and
the Pacific isles, and thus rob San Francisco of
the entire trade of the Orient, already so lucra
tive and so full of future promise. It thinks it
altogether likely that Americans are as re
pulsive to Chinese as Chinese to Americans,
so that the expulsion of Chinese front this
country would at once be followed by the ex
pulsion of Americans from China.
To us tbis argument seems to be
very good, as far as it goes. But it
does not go far enough to suit our no
tions of wbat constitutes a humane and
civilized government, claiming, more
over, as it does, the proud distinction
of being “the land of the Bible," the
bright and shining light of human liber
ty, “the land of the free, and the home
of the brave the welcome haven of re
fuge for the oppressed of every clime
and nation !
The Herald'B argument does not rise
above the level of common mercenary
motives?!* does not denounce./repres
sion and outrage,practised by the tyran
ny of the dominant many upon the
weak and the helpless few, because op
pression and outrage are crimes, but be
cause (to use a current expression) they
do not “pay ”in this instance ;itin j ures
“the trade of the Orient, already so lu
crative and so full of future promise
besides, the governments of the victims
might retalitate by an expulsion of
American residents in their respective
countries, and another source of profit
and commercial aggrandizement would
fail.
We do not hear the broad, manly,
democratic argument, tha* the Chinese
have a perfect right to emigrate to this
country ; to come and go, as it may
suit each individual’s convenience ; that
the pursuit of happiness ; the rights of
trade ; the liberty of existence ; soul
liberty and physical freedom, as long as
such freedom does not interfere with the
freedom and privileges common to all;
that, in fact, every right and privilege
of a human being demanded by our
Declaration of Independence, and
solemnly avowed by our Constitution,
is as much the guaranteed property of
a native of China as it is of a native of
Ireland, or Turkey, or any other nation
ality. We do not hear the demand for
Federal interference to uphold the law
ox the land ; no call is made for troops
to prevent wholesale murder, no indig
nation meetings are invited by whicli
public expression may he given to sen
timents in harmony with the spirit and
practice of a free and Christian people.
All the occurrences we hear of, on the
contrary, are in the interests of
mob tyranny, and point to the final
consummation of acts that make us
shudder with apprehension of their
turpitude and barbarity.
Is it possible that the Christian press
of the Pacific coast can find no better
rebuke for the prevailing savageness
against the Chinese than an appeal to
the cupidity of the people ? Is it pos
sible that the press, and other means
which represent, express, or guide pub
lic opinion, will leave us to draw the
interference that crimes against liberty
and common law, even to the extent of
a general massacre and expulsion of
a quarter of a million of human crea
tures, would be, to say the least, wink
ed at and tolerated, were it not a bad
bargain, in a business point of view,
aud liable to effect the lucrative trade
of California with the Orient disad
FRANKLIN PRINTING HOUSE, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, JUNE 22, 1876.
A RELIC OF “B. E. TANARUS”
It was with feelings of profound re
gret we read in the Alabama Baptist, not
many months since, an announcement
of the death of the distinguished and
much respected brother, the initials of
whose name we have placed at the head
of this article. Our correspondence with
him, and perusal of his “Grace of God
Magnified,” and the various communi
cations of his that appeared at differ
ent times in our periodicals, led us to
esteem him as a kindred spirit, a wor
thy brother, and one of the most influ
tial and useful ministers of our de
nomination in the South.
In looking over a lot of old papers
recently, we can e across a letter of his,
addressed to the member of our edito
rial fraternity who acted as sole editor
of The Index thirty years ago. That
letter is so characteristic of the writer,
reflects such honor alike on his head
and heart, and so manifestly corrobo
rates representations that have been
made of him as a fearless, faithful and
honest man, that we have concluded to
publish the greater part of it in our
columns:
Tuskegee, Ala., Feb. 19, 1847.
Brother: —About the time of the split between
the Nortli and South, I reviewed in the Ala
bama Baptist a short article of yours; to which
you replied in The Index. I then sent it to
the Baptist for publication ; which Mr. Has
kins refused to publish. (We omit the cen
sures he passed on Mr. 11. for his refusal to
publish his article, as lie followed them with
the declaration that lie was glad he did not
publish them, and adds) : Developments
which have since been made, together with the
openings of Providence, have satisfied me that
I was wrong. You will I trust, attribute to me
honesty of motive in what I did ; for I protest
that I was sincere. When ever I am convinced
of an error, and whenever I have done a
brother an injury, it is my duty as a Christian
and as a gentleman, to make restitution. I
now, my dear brother, ask your pardon for
everything that I have done amiss in the
whole affair. It may be possible, that the
matter was of so little importance to you, that
you have forgotten it, hut I have not. My
signature was“H- E. TANARUS.,” Talladega, Alabama.
I liavA otW isa-s-a!, for n.kin t tf.fo Lin
cession which are briefly these :
Although I am not a subscriber to The In
dex yet (I speak without flattery) 1 regard it
now as the Watchman of the South, and 1 re
gard it, further, as a true Index, to the old Bap
tist faith and practice. Now, when I see a
brother so fearlessly and industriously engaged
in defending “the faith once delivered to the
saints,” there is in that course of conduct, espe
cially in these days, a moral sublimity that I
greatly admire. 1 have no doubt that there
iH less danger of a reader of The Index being
led off by fanaticism than those of any other
journal. From this it is natural for you to in
quire, Why do you not take it then ? (He pro
ceeds to assign several very satisfactory reasons
for not being a subscriber, and clofes his letter
as follows): “Having an evident desire toknow
how you receive this apology, I shall anxiously
await an answer directed to Talladega, Ala
bama.
I have the honor to be your fetlow-laborer
in the kingdom of God.
H. E. Taliaferro.
To this we replied, that we enter
tained for him the kindest fraternal
feelings, and had no doubt the differ
ence we had entertained was ascriba
ble wholly to the difference in our sur
roundings—that we had facilities for
obtaining infoimation on subjects on
which we bad differed that be did not
possess.
A correspondent of the Alabama Baptist
compliments our esteemed brother, Rev. W.
N. Reeves, of the Eufaula Baptist church very
highly. He eminently deserves the praise.
The same correspondent speaking of the
Sunday-school attached to the Eufaula church,
says ; Our Superintendent is our young
brother Henry W. Battle, son of Gen. C. A.
Battle, and nephew of Dr. Buttle of Mercer;
although a young man, lie is developing gifts
of no ordinary degree, and as he is a true Chris
tian and a strong Baptist, many hopes are
cherished of yet seeing him fill a higher place
in the Christian church.
Battle on the Will.—This splendid treatise
on the Will, by the President of Mercer Univer
sity, will soon issue from the Franklin Printing
House, in this city. While the articles were ap
pearing in The Index we received many com
mendations of them, and many of our readers
expressed a desire to have the work in hook
form. In obedience to the judgment of the
brethren, and our own. this edition was prepared.
The subject is investigated and treated from
the Christian’s point of observation, by and with
the teachings of the Word of God.
The book is a fin*; study for classes in Moral
Science and Theology. We expect to see it hail
ed as a standard authority among all Christians.
The work is dedicated, as it should be, to tlie
venerable Dr. Cullen Battle, of Alabama, the
father of tlie author, now living at Eufaula.
Our exchanges will oblige us by giving notice
of this valuable contribution to our religious lit
erature. It is another good hook from the Fac
ulty of Mercer University, of which Georgia
Baptists may bo proud.
Orders will be received at The Index office,
aud by all Baptist preachers in the State. Price
$1 at this office.
Spirit of the Religious Press,
Our Mission, commenting on a resolution
recently passed by a church, namely, that no
collections be taken up in this church
for any benevolent object until we are
free from our difficulties, a church too, with a
membership numbering two hundred, re
marks :
Is such a course of action phasing to God e
It is easy to meet for a partial or incomplet?
worship, especially when done at the expense
of sister churches. Singing and praying are
cheap circumstantials in such worship. In
fact they cost nothing. But is not giving to
the cause of Christ an act of worship, and
equally as vital to the health and life of a
church ?The steps from such a position are in
a descending series, and.the vita Resolution to
cease from any worship, would be quite as
wise and as holy. Death must be inevitable
under either detects. Our advice to such
churches is emphatic; blot out such resolu
tions ; combine all acts of worship in one grand
whole, and do not attempt to serve God wi'h
the disavowal ot the spirit of giving. To pas
tors we say with equal emphasis—do not allow
the unholy mutilation of church life if you de
sire “to build upon the foundation, gold, silver
and other precious stones” rather than “hay,
wood and stubble.”
—Relative to Presbyterian fraternity, North
and South, the New York Evangelist contends
that the recent proceediitgs of the respective
General Assemblies does not hind either As
sembly to any action. It says :
With our best wishes and strong hopes for
fraternal intercourse, we cannot see that much
has as yet been gained. All will depend upon
the question whether tlie Southern advocates
for fraternity will be able lo bring their church
to meet ours upon perfectly equal and com
mon ground, without renewing the questions
and controversies of the past.”
The Observer is more cheerful, and says :
Letters from the South assure us that the
action of’the two General Assemblies is hailed
with great satisfaction by the churches. It is
believed that a (new era of fraternal relation
haH dawned, and that hereafter the reign of
harmony and brotherly love will he supreme
And perpetual.
—One of the most important subjects that can
engage the mind, and influence the action ol
intelligent Christian men and women is the
relation of teachers to pupils. The relation is
intimate, and tlie communion of mind between
the child and teacher so constantly established,
that • the moral and religious" condition of
Jilher slymßi h* n wstte- of prime enqui
ry with parents who have children to send to
school. On this subject the Standard speaks
conclusively as follows:
Every Christian teacher is responsible for
exerting a posive leligious influence upon his
pupils. This is a grave responsibility which
he cannot evade. His calling as a teacher lays
upon him the obligation to train the moral na
ture aB well as the intellectual; the conscience
no less than the meniory. In his private as
sociation and confidential intercourse with
young and impressible mindH, he dare not for
get that lie is a Christian, set for tlie defense
of the truth. His actions, his words, his pre
cepts will of necessity exert a profound and
lasting influence for good or evil. This is in
cident to and inseperahle from the relations
he sustains to them. He cannot escape it.
There is no middle ground. Not to exert a
religious influence is to exert an irreligious one.
In the exercises ol discipline in the school
room, in the enforcement of order on the play
ground, in the settlement of disputes and
quarrels that are sure to arise, in the adminis
tering of rebuke or punishment for theft, ly
ing, and other sins, in the necessary comments
on the lessons, in the answers given to the
numberless inquiries addressed to him, in ply
ing the minds of his pupils with motives to se
cure from them the best possible work, and in
setting before them the all-potent ideals after
which they are to strive, the teacher must ex
ert an influence that shall be religious in its
character or utterly fail to meet the require
ments laid upon him by the very nature of his
position.
—The United Presbyterian thinks that tlie
line between believers in Christ and unbeliev
ers should be a little broader or more distinctly
marked. It says:
There ought to he a decent difference in be
havior between those who are professors of
religion and those who are not. If men say
they will serve the Lord, they ought to doit,
ar.d do it in such a way that there will be no
mistake about the fact and character of it. The
line which separates the believers and unbe
lievers ought to he bo distinct that no one can
mistake it, and indeed so plain that it will ad
vertise itself tc all who can see or come near
to it. Unhappily, this is not always so, and
we find ourselves puzzled to know who are
Christians and who are not. In business and
pleasure, and in all the ordering of every day
life, we cannot depend on conduct to prove to
us the Cnristian, but we must g > to tlie church
roll and clerk of the session. Mr. Cuyler tells
of a young lady who, when asked one Sabbath
morning to go with a companion on a visit,
declined on the ground that it was communion
Sabbath in her church. “Are you a communi
cant?” he replied in astonishment; and the
reproof was so thorough that it led her to re
consider her ways and to act more consistently
afterwards.
—The Congreguliomlist, speaking of a “Sun
day excursion” that all may consistently and
agreeably enjoy, says:
Leave your business at the store, leave your
work where it stopped Saturday night; call in
your thoughts from all paths which they have
been following, and, with Sunday morning,
direct your mind into an entirely new world.
Even if you cannot go to church ; cannot even
leave your house; cannot join in any public
observance of the day, yet by means of the
right kind of a book, o'r the right kind of com
pany, or the right kind of objects of thought,
you can take yourself so thoroughly away
from the burdens and aches and the worries of
the six working days of the week, as to make
the seventh whet it was intended to be—a day
of rest for body and soul.
*■ Boston Pilot claims that Albany
(Oregon) is tlieonly place in the Unitec States
with 3,000 inhabitants which has no Catholic
church. It this be so, it indicates their activi
ty in establishing themselves in this country,
—On the subject of so called “deep” preach
ing, the Christian letelligencer critically re
marks :
What is it? How “ deep” must it be to
satisfy critical hearers? How “deep” must it
go into the hearts of the people of any congre
gation that is favored with it? From what
depths of the preacher’s own knowledge, and
wisdom, and grace, and experience, must it
come up? Jonathan Edwards was a “deep
preacher” in the best sense of the word, but we
doubt if his sermons would suit a modern au
dience. But some preachers are so “deep”
that no ordinary hearer can measure the depths
of their learning, intellect or meaning. They
have the height, and depth, and length, and
breadth of a perpetual fog. Others are like
the sea, where there are plenty of huge waves
and no soundings. But after all, is this the
right standard ? Must a minister of Jesus
Christ be “deep” in the common sense of that
word—intellectually, philosophically, ab
strusely, critically, learnedly—in order to have
the Master’s approval, and a blessing upon his
labors? Some deep wells are very dry. Many
a profund thinker, like the celebrated John
Foster, has been an utter failure in the pulpit.
Many a philosophizing theologian, like Dr.
Hopkins, of “Hopkinsian” fame, has preached
his church empty, and left behind him only a
heresy and a controversy.
For tlie Index and Baptist.;
VIRGINIA NEWS AND NOTES.
The Late Richmond Sensation.
I Dave often been asked to whom I
referred when I said that sensation was
produced in Richmond, during the ses
sion of the Convention, by a leading
D. D. communing with the Campbell
itesp I referred to Eov. Dr. J. L. Bur
roughs, -f Louisville, Ky. The Index,
and others,were disposed to discredit my
statement, but it is no longer a rumor
hut a mournf ul fact. Dr. 8., confessed j
his conduct to Drs. Boyce and Jeter !
I understand they were to say nothing
of his “departure,” provided he would
never do so again! Parties in this State
have written to the press of other States
urging the suppression of these facts —
that the mantle of charity should be
thrown around the aged offender ! I
make these statements in vindication
of myself, as an editorial in The Index
virtually contradicted my statement.
the oenxral association.
This grand body held its annual
meeting two weeks since with Culpepper
church. The attendance was large and
enthusiastic, more was done in the in
terest. of the general work of Virginia
Baptists than has been done in any
previous year. The heavy debt incur
red in the employment of missionaries,
was almost cancelled, and an impetus
given the cause in the interest of State
evangilization that promises glorious
harvests. Brother Ellyson, who is at
the head of this work, is one of the
most efficient corresponding secretaries,
and does a great work for the Master
He is no doubt the most influential
Baptist in Virginia.
There were about 200 delegates in
attendance. Rev. Dr. Brown’s intro
ductory sermon is spoken of as the most
masterly effort ever delivered before
the Association. He is a fine scholar
aud a good student. His sermon ap
pears in tbis week’s issue of the
Herald.
OUR CAUSE IN THIS CITY-
Our respective pastorates (Dr. Mont
gomery’s and mine) continue to pros
per. I baptized a Catholic lady a Lew
weeks since. Her priest and mother
threatened to “enforce the laws of the
land against me,” and went so far as
to declare their purpose to have me
sent to the penitentiary if I persisted in
baptizing thedaughter. When I assurt and
the old Catholic mother that the laws
ot the land protected me—that they
were not as they were 100 years ago—
she looked confused. The night I
baptized her, the Catholics gathered in
front of the church, but did nothing
further then swear freely. They also
gathered at the residence of the lady
after she returned home, jeered
her, and made sport in every way pos
sible.
The mother proposed to will her
daughter half of her large estate if she
would decline being baptized, and re
main in the Catholic church. The reply
Was, “Mother,l would not yield to your
wishes if you were to will me all of cre
ation.” Such was the bitterness of
persecution on the part of her home
people, that she was forced to appeal
to the city authorities for protection !
This is Catholicism! This girl is one
of the most devout and earnest Chris
tians, I ev.-r kin w. Her g- . t interest :
is the salvation of her deluded tnends
—the Catholics. Her manifestations
of interest are received with curses aud
frowns. She endures all this with a
Christ-like spirit. As she walked down
into the water to be baptized she said,
“Thank God,” as she came up out of
the water, she shouted at the top of her
voice, “Thank God, I have fought the
battle and gained the victory.” She
continued to shout and praise God af
ter going down into the dressing room.
B. G. M.
Lynchburg, Va., June 13, 1876.
WHOLE NO. 2224.
General Denominational Nsws.
—From an Ameircan point of view, the sal
aries of tlie French Roman Catholic clergy are
extremely low. The Cardinal Archbishop of
Paris is paid $12,000 per annum ; the Cardi
nal Archbishops of Bordeaux, Rouen, Cam
bria, Renes and Algiers receive $6,000 each ;
twelve other Archbishops $4,000 each ; sixty
nine bishops in France and Algiers $3,000
each. The Vicar-General of Paris receives
S9OO, the Vicar-Generals of eighteen metro
politan sees S7OO each ; those of one hundred
and Rixly-nine other dioceses SSOO each ; fif
teen Paris canons are paid only S4BO, while
six hundred and eighty other canons receive
hut $220. The 3,371 parish preasts who hold
benefices for life receive from S3OO t 05250 an
nually. Altogether the State pays about $6,-
300,000 to 30,902 incumbents, $125,000 to 334
incumbents in Algiers, and SBOO,OOO to 9 279
curates.
-England spends £215,000 upon missions
every year; Germany and -Switzerland and
Holland, £125,750 ; and America £365,000.
-The Young Men’s Christian Association
of the United States and Canada holds its con
vention on the 12th of July.
—There are now in Germany 150 Sunday
schools ; 4,000 teachers and 80,000 scholars
Twelve years ago there were none.
The Catholics having received large in
demnities from tlie Chinese Government for
property possessed by them two hundred years
ago, and confiscated at their expulsion, are
building a magnificent cathedral at Canton,
and a smaller one at Pekin.
Young Men s Christian Associations are
an important auxiliary to church work in
different parts of the world. There are 200 in
England aid Wales, 103 in Germany, 63 in'
Scotland, 30 in France, 39 in Switzerland, 5 in
Australia and 3in New Zealand. In the Uni
ted States and the British provinces in North
America there are over 1000. It is an Ameri
can institution. They are beginning to organ
ize them in China, Japan and Honolulu.
—The Presbyterians have twenty-five
churches among the Germans in America,
represented by one hundred preachers and
seven thousand five hundred members.
—Friends in England are subscribing to send
a printing press to tiff (fhv. Theophilu- Parr,
of Fernando to aid him in his ex
pressed desire “to up the laudable do
ings of his predecessors, in reducing the lan
guage of the natives, by English characters, to
written and printed form, and thus more effec
tively and permanently convey religious in
struction.”
—The Boston Episcopalians are talking of
building a cathedral or a large tree church.
—Twenty years ago there were in England
only seventeen monastries; now there are
ninety-nine.
BAPTIST NEWS INI) NOTES.
—Bro. J. B. Boone, in a communication to
tlie Biblical Recorder , in a reply to the state
ment recently made in the Recorder that Dr.
Boyce appointed Seminary men on all the
committees of the recent Southern Baptist
Convention, vindicates Dr. Boyce from the un
just charge, and states that out of twenty-two,
North Carolina committee men only six were
from the Theological Seminary, and out of thir
teen Chairmen of committees only one was a
leminary man. The total number of committee
men appointed was about two hundred and
twenty-five.
—Brother Phillips of Nashville, well says :
The Baptists can do more for the elevation
of the colored people than any other denomi
nation, and we ought to do more.
—Rev. J. A. Peters, who has charge of the
Long Lick church, Ky., has baptized during
his ministration, which covers a period of
about twenty years, 3,070 persons.
—Rev. A E. Rogers, formerly of the First
Baptist church in Chattanooga, is filling the
pulpit of the church at Martinsburg, Va.
—Bev. Dr. S. L. Helm, of Kentucky, having
made a proposition to be one of a hundred to
give $lO each, to establish a Baptist school in
the Indian Territory, other brethren in other
States are seconding the move. Bro. Thos. J.
Patillo, of Texas, promises to be one of a hun
dred in that State to give $lO,
—Tlie Baptist Publication Society has grant
ed Sunday-school papers to supply twenty-five
Sunday-schools which have already been or
ganized in the Indian Territoiy.
—Tlie Baptist statistscs of Kentucky show
the following exhibit of the denomination in
that State:
Associations sg
Churches i 241
Ordained Ministers 676
Baptized during the year 7,212
Net gain after deducting deaths aud
exclusions 4,703
Total whito membership May 1, 1876 106)822
Total colored mcmbersliir Marl. 1876 32,098
Auti-missiou Baptist ....... 5,000
Grand total in Kentucky 143.920
Say iu round numbers 144,000
Kentucky is truly a Baptist State.
—The Baptists of Kentucky do not seem to
display the proper interest in the Sunday
school cause. The report of tlie Sunday
school superintendent shows a great lack of in
terest in the work. Only seven Sahhath
schools were reported as being organized du
ring the seven months just passed, and only
$425 20 as being collected for that purpose.
But the superintendent was hopeful better
times in the future.