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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. - _ 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. . 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. -■ 0 ■ ■ 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 WHOLE NO. 2225. 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. ? _