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The Christian Index.
SOTTTIEi "WESTIHERIDT 33-A-3PTIST, TIEUE CECDE^ISTUA IsT TT'HiR, a t t~>
of Alabama. of Tennessee.
VOL. 55---NO. 25.
Table of Contents.
First Page.—Alabama Department: Record of
State Events; Spirit of the Religions Press:
Battle on the Will: Baptist News and Notes-
General Denominational News : Difference
Between Baptists and other Denominations
The Four Periods of Missions—Rev T. E.
Skinner: Aged Ministers’ SaviDgs Fund;
i Brushy Creek Church, Burke county, Ga.; Ap
pointments of Rev. T. C. Boykin; Middle Asso
ciation.
Second Page —Our Correspondents: Letter
from Ca ifomia—Pleasant Memories—Labor
ing for Jesus—Church and Home Connections
—The State—California Baptist College—The
Christian Index —J. L. Butch; Items from
Our Brunswick Correspondent—W. D. Atkin
son; Notes from Richmond. Virginia—E. W.
Warren ; Mercer Commencement—Observer ;
Letter from Florida — The Index in Florida—
A Reminescence of the War—What can be Ac
complished—Mißsiou Work—Crops, etc.—G.
W. Hall; To Jarrett and Palmer, Managers of
the Fast Train Across the Continent—Addison
Jones ; Wait and Hope; Facts am’ Faces —G
A. Nunnaily; Sweet Memories Awakened—W.'
N. Chaudoin; Excluding Members —A. J. Kel
ly: To My Brethren in Georgia—W. N. Chau
doin ; Rev. Rufus Bush ; To Young Tithe Giv
er—W. N. Chaudoin.
Third Page —Our Pulpit: Knowing and Serv
ing God—From Sermons by the Monday Club.
The Sunday-School: Lesson for Sunday, July
2. 1876; Sunday-School for Colored People.
Children’s Comer: The Old Path and the
False Leader—Mauard; “’Can We be Saved if
we do not send the Gospel to the Heathen ?”
—W. M. Howell; The Issue of Infidelity—Rev.
T. T. Eaton.
Fourth Page.—Editorial : Dr. E. W. Warren’s
Prophecy—Rev S. G. Hillyer: Installation of
Dr. Gwin as Pastor of the First Baptist church;
Georgia Baptist News: Hon. Samuel Jefferson
Burney: Gems Reset—Rev. D. E. Butler; etc.
Fifth Page.—Aged Ministers’ Fund —Rev. D. E.
Butler. Facts and Faces—Bev. G. A. Nun
nallv; That •’Prophecy”—Rev. E. W. Warren;
Letter from Virginia—T. T. Eaton; "He was a
Good Man"—Rev, W. T. Brantly. Secular
Editorials: Mercer University Commence
ment: Monroe Female College Commencement;
The Christian Index Hymn Book: Summer
Resorts; Georgia News: Foreign and Domestic
Intelligence; etc.
Sixth Page.—Mission Department: Mission
Committees in the churches—Rev. T. E. Skin
ner ; Interesting Missionary Tour in China—
Miss L. Moon.
Seventh Page.—Agriculture : Winter Pastures
—C. W. Howard; Condition of the Cotton
Crop ; Honey—How it is Gathered, and what
it Is—General Remarks—H. L. Long.
Eighth Page.—Marriages. Obituaries. Adver
tisements.
INDEX AND BAPTIST.
ALABAMA DEPARTMENT.
Stilus will receive this season, nfjmty tiionr
aml bales of cotfon, representing five million
dollars
Rev. Hardie Brown, of Florence, has been
made a D. D.
There is a good deal of coun erfeit money in
circulation in Macon county.
The Baptists of the Muscle ' i.oal.s Associa
tion, will celebrate the 4th at Dish's Spring,
near Moulton.
A post office has been estab -hed at Hobo
ken, Marengo county.
There was an average attendance last year of
440 in the white schools of Mo; tgomery.
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Nettleboro post office ha- b on established
in Clarke county, on the Lower Peachtree and
Grove Hill road. Mrs. Jack R. Nettles is
postmistress.
A religious mass meeting will be held at
Union Grove church, Lauderd 1e county, the
3d.
The Montgomery county grange meets with
Pintalala Grange, July 12th.
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By the explosion of a boiler at Robinson’s
Mill, near Perote, Bullock county, Fayette
Brooks and George Williams were killed.
Anew post office has been established at
Tallahatta Springs, Clarke county. Matthew
Goodman is postmaster.
North Creek post office, Fayette county, lias
been re-established. David Berry is post
master.
James D. Hartsfield was drowned at Deca
tur, the 11th.
The cotton caterpillar has been discovered
in Montgomery county.
It is proposed to erect an iron furnace near
Gadsden.
The jail at Linden was burned the 10th.
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John W. Whitt, of Cherokee county, is sen
tenced to six months’ imprisonment, and fined
SIOOO for illicit distilling.
The widow Beesly, of Cherokee county, was
recently killed by a fall from her horse.
A county grange was organized in Cham
bers county the sth.
Baugh, Kennedy & Cos., cf the Kennedale
cotton and wool factory, have failed.
The grangers ofCalhoun county will hold a
fair in Jacksonville this fall.
John Warren, the oldest man in Hale, died
the 14th, aged 07.
J. J. Darby has become associate editor of
the Troy Enquirer.
John Murray, of Vance’s Station, Tuska
loosa county, is 93 years old.
The wheat crop ol Lauderdale, turned out
tolerably well.
Spirit of the Religious Press,
—The New York Methodist says: It is said
that the employment of Chinese as shoemakers
at North Adams is about to be abandoned after
six years’ trial. It can hardly be called a fail
ure, for in that case the North Adams contract
or would not have persisted for six years. But
very clearly the American workman is piefer
red at the rates for which he is now willing to
work. There are just such complaints coming
from California of the social indigestibleness
of the Chinese. But we must not neglect to
state that all the anti-Chinese writers wholly
overlook a real, though not large, work of
evangelization done among the Chinese by
Christian denominations. It is quite absurd
to say that the Chinese wholly resist our civi
lization.
—The Watchnun says: We most heartily
congratulate the General Assemblies of the two
sections of the Presbyterian church in Ameri
ca, on the steps which have been taken towards
the restoration of fraternal feeling between
their representative bodies. Their leaders
correctly interpreted the Christian feeling of
this country. The people are tired of
everything in our ecclesiastical relations which,
in the remotest degree savors, of sectionalism.
They cannot understand why North and South
should be words of division in denominations
holding to the same doctrinal views, when they
have been buried out of sight in the fiercer
arena of politics. With the people we fully
sympathize, and, therefore, hope that the Pres
byterian movement may be carried to success
ful accomplishment, and that it may prove
the precursor to other weddings of the same
kind.
—The London Methodist says of the Lay
representation question :
We claim for Methodism what every other
Protestant Church in Christendom possesses—
the presence of its laity in its highest assembly.
We think that its 2,000 ministers have no
right so to monopolize the Conference as to
leave its 400,000 church members without a
solitary representative. We believe there is
no Divine that asserts such exclusive privileges
for the ministry ; and there ought be no human
law to that effect. The day is not far distant
when it will be abrogated. " Hitherto, all the
hard words we have heard have been on the
other side. So still let it be. We again
counsel steadiness, sobrie'y, patience, prayer.”
—The Baptist Weekly under the significant
title of “ A Sign of the Times,” sayß:
Recently the Rev. S. H. Tyng, Jr., D.D., ol
New York, thiough ihe courtesy of the First
Baptist church, ol' th ; r*y, ’tUJ :hei Y buptistery
lor the immersion of eight recent converts
The services were opened with singing* the
hymn ; “Rodk of Ages, cieft for me.” Prayer
was offered by Rev. T. D. Anderson, D.D.
The Rev. Dr. Tyng then read the account of the
baptism of the Eunuch, in Acts viii; and, in a
short address, be returned thanks to the First
Church for the opportunity afforded of admin
istering the ordinance “according to the great
principle and early practice of the apostolic
church,” and declared his conviction that as
soon as one comes to a knowledge ol Christ,
water should he used as an emblem ot ins laith
in Christ.
Ti e Rev. Mr. Dnnn, pas!or of the Presby
terian church, of Boston, anticipating the evi
dent tendency of the times, has made provision
tor the exigency which has lorced Dr. Tyng to
avail himself of such an accommodation, bv
putting a baptistery in his new house of wor
ship. For this piece of prudent forethought
he has received a very severe criticism Iroin
one of the Presbyterian organs which practi
cally places a regard for Presbyterian order
above the observance of a divine ordinance.
—The Texas Ba/ilist Herald, deploring the
tack of energy displayed in the Missionary
cause in that Slate, very truthfully remarks,
and the remarks are applicable elsewhere :
There are hardly ten, possibly not five, rea
sonably well-sustained Missionaries in the
whole State. Are we to leel satisfied with the
tacts as they stand ? Are there not more than
a hundred destitute places that ought to be
occupied? Are there not more than a hun
dred minister’s in the State giving their time
to secular pursuits tor a living, who would be
glad to enter upon this work with even a very
moderate provision to meet the necessities ol
their families? The harvest is truly great, and
the laborers few. They are not few, however,
because they cannot be found, for those willing
and ready to labor are abundant; hut there are
lew because not employed It is very easy
for men and women who give their whole time
and energy to provide for themselves and their
families tosay that, if a man is called to preach
the gospel, it is his duty to preach without re
gard to the temporal necessities of himseif or
his family. When men are converted they
are as much called to spend and be spent in the
promotion of the gospel, as are thus, who are
called to preach the gospel. Those who are
not called to preach are nevertheless called to
hold lorih the Word of Lite, by sending the
preacher to proclaim the gospel. Highten and
itensify the obligation of the minister to preach
tiie gospel as you may, and the obligation to
send men out and support them while they
preach, is no less. It rests witli our churches,
missionary organization, arid with individual
members to meet ibis obligation or to hold
themselves responsible for not doing so.
“ L,” the correspondent of the Alabama
Baptist, in concluding on account of the reeeu:
Commencement exercises of Howard College,
which were of standard excellence, utters
sentiments which we most cordially endorse.
He says;
We think that the college may felicitate
itself on the character of its graduates. So
long as it continues sending out such men, so
long will it be the first institution in Alabama.
Its past year has been one of unusual prosperi
ty. The Centennial movement, for its endow
ment, will extend the interest already felt in
its behalf. Another year, there is great en
couragement to believe, will be an improve
ment on this.
Thus our noble Howard, the college of the
Baptists of Alabama, goes on growing in effi
ciency and in favor with Ihe people. With
its unsurpassed faculty, it could nut do other
wise. Let the Baptists of the State endow the
college, and they will have still greater reason
for gratitude to those men in whose prayers it
was founded, and to that God whose hand has
FRANKLIN PRINTING HOUSE, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, JUNE 29, 187(5.
sustained it and given it a place abreast of the
leading colleges of the land.
Battle on the Will. —This splendid treatise
on the Will, by the President of Mercer Univer
s.iy, 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 fine 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 the
venerable Dr. Cullen Battle, of Alabama, the
father of the author, now living at Eut'aula,
Our exchanges will oblige us by giving notice
of this valuable contribution to our religions lit
erature. It is another good hook from the Fac
ulty of Mercer University, of which Georgia
Baptists may be proud.
Orders will be rece?ved at The Index oftico,
and by all Baptist preachers in the State. Price
#1 at this office.
BAPTIST NEWS AND NOTES.
—The colored Baptist church in Granite
ville, S. 0., of which Rev. George Barnes, of
Augusta, is pastor, was destroyed by tire on
Wednesday night, May 31. Work of an in
cendiary.
—The Journal and Messenger advocates a re
turn to triennial meetings, instead of the an
nual convocation of our Northern Baptist
brethren, both on the score of economy, and
because the boards really do all the work.
—The Louisiana Baptist Convention will
convene with the First church, in Shreveport
on Friday, July 7th, and the Sunday-school
and Ministerial Institutes on Wednesday and
Thursday preceding.
—Rev. John Powell, for many years pastor
at McMinnville, Tenn., lias accepted the care
of Bernard street church, St. Louis, and en
tered upon his labors.
—The Baptist church of Jackson. Miss., has
built a parsonage at a cost of $2,090. Its
pastor is Dr. Zealy, fate of Houston, Texas.
—The Centennial effort of .be South Caro-
Jtr* B*>*!<■ h vai* ',>T
suWerintions—one half will go to the Theo
logical Seminary and theother half to Furman
University.
—The Baptist State Mission Board of South
Carolina employs ten missionaries, supplying
eleven churches, and the destitute of three
counties besides. . Rev. A. W. Lamar is the
efficient corresponding secretary.
—Rev. T. Jenkins, of Ohio, is translating
Dr. Dale’s woik on Baptism into the Welsh
language.
—The Baptisls of South Carolina have sub
scribed about $190,000 to endow Furman
University.
—ln 1784, there were in Kentucky four
Baptist; churches and five Baptist ministers.
Now, there are in that State 1,400 Baptist
clinches, wilh 144,767 members
—At rile first meeting of the English Bap
tist Missionary Society, Rti years ago, only
twelve ministers were present, whose united
contributions were $65. Its annual meetings
are now largely attended and its income is
about t.,0-iiundrtd and fifty thousand.
—lt is stated that the colored Baptist
church ir. Williamsburg, Va., has contributed
during the last year, in addition to the salary
of its owm pastor, over six hundred dollars
for mission purposes. This is more than has
been given by all the other churches in town.
—Dr. Howard Malcom, in the Baalist
Weekly, sayr of the Lord’s Supper: “ How
dare mortals be liberal with what is not
theirs? The Lord’s Supper is not ours. If
1 invite you to dine with me, and you say to
a friend or two, “Come with me, I am going
to dine with Bro. Malcom,” would riot 4>h ~
be impertinence and imposition?”
It is known that the Women’s Cenionwiiq
Committee paid 45,000 in gold tc Wagner lor.-an
original composition, which is to bo performed
at the opening of die Exposition on the 10-th
ir.st. There was a lively competition on the
part of the music publishers in the United
States to obtain the right to publish tho piar*
score of this march. By reason of quick wit and
a long purse it fell to John Church and Cos,, of
this city, somewhat to tbo surprise and chagrin
of the big dealers in the East.
The manuscript copy of this march, arranged
bv Theodore Thomas, arrived here a week ago
yesterday, Saturday. The published printed
copies, seventeen pages, are now on their way to
Philadelphia, to he ready fer the opening, a feat
in the publishing of music rarely equaled.—
CtncinaU CO.) Commercial. it
Rev. \V. R. L. Smith, formerly pastor of the
Palmetto street Baptist church of Mobile, Ala. (
who has been attending the Baptist Theologi
cal Seminary,at Greenville, S, C , for the last
two years, is again filling the pulpit of his
church. Fie will, however, let urn totheSem
ir.ary September Ist.
The ministers and deacons’ meeting of the
second district of the Mussel Shoals Associa
tion, will meet at Enon on Friday, July 28tb,
next.
The Centennial Fourth of July.
—ln conformity with long established
usage, no paper will be issued from
this office next week.
General Denominational Hess,
The British Government grants annually
over five millions ol dollars for the support of
Roman Catholic objects at home and in the
colonies. The Catholics would be unreason
able to expect from “the Bulwark of Protest
antisrp” a more liberal support than this.
Mr Moody will begin extensive revival
services in Chic go next October. He says
that tisr (wo years and two months he had
preached an average of four sermons a day,
and he felt that he ought to have rest, but it it
was thought best he would begin work at once.
A petition signed by over 1,000 names will
soon be sent to him from New Haven, Conn.,
asking him to labor in that city.
Tile corner-stone of the new Church of the
Paulist Fathers, in New York, was laid a few
days ago. The cost of the new edifice will ex
ceed $500,000.
Mr. Baird lately gave £500,000 to the Es
tablished Church of Scotland. He will now
give an equal sum to the Free Church.
The Congregational Union, in session at
Montreal, passed a declaration that the civil
power has, and ought to have, nothing to do
with religious teaching.
The-Toronto ministers have adopted lesolu
tions against Sunday funerals, except in cases
of absolute necessity.
At the opening of anew Roman Catholic
church in Bradford, Eng., to the erection of
which a number of Protestants had subscribed,
Monsignor Capel remarked that it was right
for Catholics to receive such contributions, but
they could not in return give to Protestant
churches, because they believed the fundament
al principles of Protestantism to be wrong.
Not alone the poor degraded receive mis
sion help in London, but there are missionaries
for the public homes in the fashionable West
End, and'for the private hotels and restaurants
In some of these places regular services are
held for gu ts and employees, and about
two thousand persons per month are spoken
with by each hotel missionary.
A corresp indent of The Interior describes a
meetir.i of' ‘nstian workers held at Oroomiah,
TV: i Ml, toil. . , , , , ’
U ' -im t-ed * F -WW dofa, and upon the
as KiaffV, . j'rning prayer meeting was con
ti rie4*tr’bm 0:30 a. m. to 12:30 p. m. Several
attempts were made to close it, but the interest
was too great, although some present had not
yet breakfasted.
Little boquets with texts attached have been
distributed to the railway officials of London,
by Miss Maepherson, and her Bible-flower mis
mion helpers.
Nine distinct tribes of the Indians, in Indian
Territory, have had Sunday-schools organized
aiming them during the past year, by one
zeal us missionary.
Wtthin tint last ten years, 14,000 Sunday
schools have been supplied with Bibles by the
American Bible Society.
The Sixth National Convention of the Na
tional Reform Association met in the
Academy of Music, Philadelphia, on the 28th
of June. The dr sign of this Society isto main
tain existing Christian features in the Ameri
can 'Government, such as durSabbuth laws and
the Bible in the schools, and to secure a Re
ligious Amendment to the Constitution
of the United Stales. The sessions ol the
Convention will continue for three days,
and addressers will be delivered by the Hon.
Felix R. Bruiiot, Dr. Miner, of Boston, Prof.
Stoddard, of Wooster University, Dr Edwards,
and others.
Dill'cicmc Between Baptists ami ether Beminii
iiatiunn.
Dr. H G. W. ston, President of
Crozer Theologii.ul Seminary, speaking
upon the necessity for enlarging the
operations of ‘he American Baptist
Publication Society, stated:
The difference between the Baptists and
other <-tsiominati( ns is radical, and can
not he reconciled without a radical change.
While the cry of others is. tliiongh the church
to Christ .through ordinances to Christ, we
stand upc. the declaration. "I am the way,”
and (here Is none other. We take Christ for
Christianity. Christianity with us is not con
nected with anything that went before Christ;
it is not the continuance of the Old Testament
dispensation; it is not an enlargement of the
Mosaic statutes. It is unique, of itself; from
all eternity it was concealed in the mind of
Christ. Weiiold Christ before all ordinances;
in Christ and Christ in us ; the ordinances but
symbols And out of this has grown the most
wonderful fact to which the world has ever
witnessed, the unity of faitli anil worship
which exists in Baptist churches. And a pe
culiar characteristic is that the laity are sound
er in the faiih than the ministry. Another
ground of our soundness in the faith results
from the intelligence of our people. Our
principles demand intelligence, and flourish
iiest where thire is most intelligence. But it
must lie intelligence based upon religious
truth.
From what he said, the inference was
plain that no denomination more 'han ouis
needs a denominational lilerture, such as is
provided by the Publication Society. And he
valued our denominational newspapers. To
those who furnish them we owe a debt of grat
itude. But we also need more book* ;we need
anew statement of our peculiar doctrines.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society,
of Talladega, has published a very touching
and well merited tribute of respect to Mrs. X.
A. Bailey, their beloved Corresponding Secre
tary, on the occasion of her recent departure
for Georgia.
For the Index and Baptist.]
THE FOl'R PERIODS OF MISSIONS,
The novelty and romance of Missions
have passed away. This was the first
period of missionary enterprise. Then
came its “heroic age,” when every mis
sionary was esteemed a hero requiring
special grace beyond liis fellows. This
was the second period.
The underlying foundations of the
two periods above named, of course,
failed in due time. They were built
upon sand, and consequently we have
to m tea third period, known as the
“played out” or “old story” period,
through which it is to be hoped we have
nearly passed, and are now entering
upon the fourth period, in which, with
healthy and efficient progress, “Mis
sions shall be prosecuted, not frouq
novelty, or sympathy, or spasmodic im
pulse, but from an abiding sense of ob
ligation, founded on the love of Christ
and the will of God.” ( Knowlton .)
Judson was truly a great man, but
we would not have regarded him or
Rice as heroes, quite so much, had they
lived in this period, instead of the
“heroic period.”
Many men were Henrv Clay whigs,
not because they espoused the opinions
of the great leader, but because thev
were dazzled by his heroism. When
Clay failed or died, so did they, because
they had no principles separated from
the great orator. So when Judson and
Rice and others died, the missionary
Baptists died, practically, in many
parts ; their principles were not longer
lived than the heroes who illustrated
them.
But anew day dawns upon tbe people
of God. Our fathers are dead, but their
principles are immortal. No matter
who works, or who neglects to work,
in the conversion of the world, the
principle holds good that Missions
shall be prosecuted from an abiding
sense of obligation, founded on the love
of Christ and tlqe will of God.
Why'do I love Christ ? Because He
first loved me.
Why do I engage in the work of
Missions ? Because Jesuu said unto
the disciples, and through them direct
ly to me, if I am a disciple, “Go ye into
all tbe world and preach the Gospel to
every creature ”
This is the true apostolic succession.
Baptists ought to claim it.
T. E. Skinner.
Forthe Index aud Baptist.]
AGED MINISTERS’ SAVINGS FUND.
If a brother or a sinter is naked, and destitute
of daily food, and one of you say to them: De-
I>art in peace, be warmed and be tilled, what does
it profit? Jaa. ii:ls, 16.
At the last session of the Georgia Baptist
Convention, the undersigned were appointed
Trustees of ths Aged Ministers’ Fund. As the
agents of the Convention, and in behalf of the
brethren who are to be the beneficiaries of this
fund, we rail upon the Baptists of Georgia for
help. These old brethren are not strangers to
you. They are within your bounds. They
have spent the vigor of youth and the strength
ot manhood in laboring for the salvation of
souls in your midst. Age and infirmity are
upon them. They have laid up no earthly
treasure. They must he partakers of your lib
erality or suffer. No object of the Convention
appeals more strongly to our Christian love.
They are in a peculiar sense the representa
tives of Jesus. In relieving their necessities,
we relieve the need ot Christ. Inasmuch as
ye did one of the least of these my brethren
ye did it to Me —Math, xxv: 40. In feeding,
them, w'e teed Christ; in clothing them, we
clothe Christ. We appeal to all who love the
Saviour, to minister to His wants in the per
sons of these old brethren. You shall not lose
your reward. “The Lord’s work is its owu
wages.” “Whatsoever good thing any man
uoeth, tiie same shall he receive of the Lord.”
Eph. vi : 8.
We rail upon the pastors, and preachers,
throughout the State, to exert themselves, vi
gorously, in this good work. The day may
come when you yourselves will need the help
of your brethren.
We request every pastor, or church, to ap
point at once, some energetic brother or sister,
who will collect funds for this cause, and re
mit once a month directly to Bro. A. W.
York, Treasurer of the Board. As soon as the
appointment is made let the name of the per
son be reported to us.
Remember, brethren, that we can accomplish
nothing without your errnest, active co-opera
tion.
W. R. Gignilliat,
A. W. York,
I. R. Branham.
Marietta, Cobb county, (la.
Fir the ludtx and iiaptist.J
BBISHY CKKKk CHl’Hill, BIHkK fpi'Yl V, 0.1.
About a year ago the records of the
Baptist church, at Brushy Creek, Burke
county, Georgia, were destroyed by
fire. This is one among the oldest
churches in the Hephzibah Associa
tion. In 1815, tins as the largest
church in the Association, numbering
two hundred and twenty.eight. (See
foot note, Benedict’s History of the
Baptists, page 731 of the edition of
1856.) It is now ono of the smallest,
numbering by the minutes of the As
sociation for 1875, only twenty-eight—
just a loss of two hundred in thirty
years. The colored membership num
bered about one-half. Their with
drawal will account for, perhaps, the
loss of at least one hundred. The
balance have died or moved away,
leaving but a few to keep house for
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God. Of this few, a number appear to
be utterly indifferent, never attending
the church meetings, or taking aDv in
terest in its welfare.
I write this public notice that I may
obtain assistance, as far as possible, in
reproducing the church record. At
the earnest solicitation of a few, in and
out of the church, I consented to
preach for them one Sabbath each
month for this year.
I have repeatedly, from the pulpit at
Brushy Creek and elsewhere, begged the
brethren and friends to furnish me, in
writing, certain statistics that might be
in their possession. I called and
waited, and waited and called* and up
to date, not owe single item have I re
ceived from anybody. If I can obtain
such information as is within the
knowledge of private individuals, 1 1 an,
with the statistics of our Association
for the last seventy years, redeem from
entire oblivion, much that may be of
interest to posterity.
I, now, most respectfully and affec
tionately request that all persons,
whether Baptists or not, who can do
so, will give me the names of any who
have died in the membership of Bushy
Creek church, stating, as near as pos
sible, the time when they joined the
church, and the date of their death.
I also request all who are now mem
bers of the church, to send me their
names, and the dates, as near as they
can recollect, of their baptism. Espe
cially is this request pressed upon those
who have relations who have diei, or
who are living in the fellowship of the
church.
Now, brethren, if, in addition tu the
heavy tax already laid on iny shattered
health, I am willing to undergo the
fatigue of riding and preaching in or
der to keep old Brushy Creek aave,.
will you not help me, as requested?:
We shall see.
You can leave communications with,
brother Jethro Thomas. Waynesboro,
Ga., or Brother James Jordan, Sfella
ville, ‘Ga., or you can communicate
with me' by letter at Hephzibah, Ga.
E. R. Carswell, Sr
Appointments of Rev. T. C. Boykin. Sunday-
School Evangelist, in the Second ltistrUl of the
Stone Mountain Association.
Union Grove. Saturday and Sunday
morning, July Ist and 2d ; Macedon ia,
Sunday afternoon ; Philadelphia, Mon
day, July 3d ; Pleasant Hill, Tuesday,
July 4th.
It is earnestly hoped that these meet
ings will he largely attended by old and
young, and that a just enthusiasm will
be excited in the Sunday-school cause.
Come one, come all! J. H. Bonn,
Chairman S. S. Committee Second District.
Agricultural, College CciiMEh ce
ment. —The fourth Annual Commence
ment, of the North Georgia Agricul
tural College, atfDahlonega, beginr
Sunday/July 2d. Extensive prera.i..
tions have been made to insure the
gratification of the public, and the ex
ercises will doubtless be most interest
ing. We return thanks for a cordial
invitation on the part, of Hon. W. P.
Price, President ot the Board, and J.
W. Woodward, Secretary, to attend.
For the Christian Index.|
MiDDLK ; ISSOCUTIOV.
A ministers and deacons’ metting
will be held with the Little Buckbead
church, beginning Friday, July 7th.
On Saturday morning the celebration
by the Sabbutk-school of this*chureh
will take place. -•
PItOGB'AMME '* K
1. Introductory sermon—Rev. H. E.
Cassidy.
2. Ri ciproeal duties of church num
bers— Rev. G. L. Jackson.
3. The Communion Question—Rev
T. B. Cooper.
4. Relation of church members to
the Temperance reform—Rev. W. C.
McCall. p,
Encouraging Symptoms.
The cheering glow diffused throughout the
system by Hostetler s Stomach Bitters, the elas
ticity of mind and body which they impart, and
the disappearance which they cause of those
vague, uneasy feelings so difficult to describe
are most incouraging symptoms to the despond
ing invalid. Tiie sensation of returning health
is a most delightful one, and to enjoy it, those
afflicted with dyspepsia, liver complaint, consti
pation, intermittent or remittent fevers, lack of
vitality, sleeplessness, rheumatic, nervous and
urinary troubles, should avail themselves with
out delay of this invaluable tonic and corrective.
Besides being specifically adapted to the eradi
cation of these melodies, it is wondrouslv effec
tive in all diseases involving a diminution of vi
tal power on account of its properties as a een
eral invigorant. b
A Beautiful Head of Hair.
ltaven tresses, glossy, black whiskers or
moustache are ornaments desired by all and
admired bv everybody. The want of something
that would restore Hub indispensable adjunct of
beauty, when old age or disease has robbed us
of it, has long been felt. After many fruitless
efforts, scionoo has at last produced it. Chem
istry has furnished an agent that acts like magic
It is Dr. Tutt’s Dye. the wonder of the age
It imparts a perfectly natural black or brown
color, and leaves the hair soft and glossy, and is
free trom the offensive odor found in the old
preparation. It is the greatest dhscoverv of
modern times. ? _