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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.