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The Christian Index!
TTIIEI! SOUTH-WESTERTT BAPTIST, THE CHRISTIAIT HERALD*
of Alabama. of Tennessee.
VOL. 55—m. 26.
Table of Contents.
First Page.— Alabama Department: Record
of State Events ; Spirit of the Religious Press :
Baptist News and Notes: General Denomina
tional News etc.
Second Page.— Our Correspondents: “Alien
Immersions”—G. A. Nunnally; Dots from
Cherokee—M. B. Tuggle: Deacon Penn, in
Waco, Texas—Jas. W. Barnes: Tennessee Let
ter—W. N. Chaudoin; Romanism in Georgia—
T. B. Cooper; Ordination—M. B. Tuggle; Aber
deen Female College—Examiner; Gems Reset:
etc.
Third Page. —Special Contributions : Notes on
the Acts of Baptism, No. Xll—Rev. J. H.
Kilpatrick. Rev. W. N. Chaudoin—Amicus.
Fourth Page. —Editorial: Church-going—G.
A. Nunnally : Dr. Burrows' Orthodoxy and his
Card—D. E. Butler: Our Mission on Earth—
Jos. S. Baker; etc., etc.
Fifth Page.— Editorial: The Christian’s Light
—G. A. Nunnally. 'ln Memoriam: etc. Secu
lar Editorials ! ‘A Gentle Reminder: Buffalo
Lithia Springs—Eloquent Tribute; Mercer
University Commencement Exercises: Meeting
of Noonday Association ; Battle on the Will;
Literary Gossip; etc,
Sixth Page.— Mission Department: To the
Baptists of Georgia; The Way it Works; An
Incident in Mission Work—Rev. T. E. Skinner.
General Meetings: The Columbus and West
tern Associations.
Seventh Page.— Agriculture: The Ruta Baga
Turnip; Para Grass; Bee Hives.
Eighth Page.— Sunday-school: Lesson for Sun
day, July 16, 1876. Special Notices. Adver
tisements.
ISDEX AND BAPTIST.
ALABAMA DEPARTMENT.
The Baptists at Dadeville are trying to raise
money to complete their church.
Anew post-office has been established at
Sweet Water, Marengo county.
Rev. J. L. McCurry recently preached in
Montgomery.
In Troy, over 10,000 bales of cotton have
been received this year.
Henry Ezell and Nelson Walker, negroes,
'are to be hung in Clarke county, July 28th.
In the neighborhood of Sumterville corn is
only thirty cents a bushel.
The crops throughout the State are generally
in fine condition.
Through trains are now passing over the
A. & C. Railroad.
Alfalfa is being successfully cultivated by
the farmers of Greene county.
Rev. L. R. Gwaltney, of Rome, is to be
principal of the Judson Institute, at Marion.
In Marengo county, recently, Brad Allen
shot and killed his brother Frank.
Rev. J. C. Self, of Jasper, has been very ill.
The State Grange Fair, at Montgomery, be
gins October 21st.
Baptist State Convention meets in Montgom
ery on the 13th inst.
Daniel Carroll, who died in Calhoun county
the 16th, would have been 100 years old in
September.
In Cherokee county, the 16th, James Wea
ver was shot and killed by Lafayette Weaver,
his cousin. _
It is thought Rev. Dr. Hawthorne, of
New York, will be called to the First Baptist
church, at Montgomery.
The trustees of the Judson Institute, Marion,
have passed resolutions regretting that circum
stances have led to the severance of the rela
tions heretofore existing between them and Rev.
Dr. Sumner, and expressing their respect for
him as a Christian gentleman and minister of
the Gospel.
We are pleased to learn that the Baptist
churches of our sister city, Mobile, have been
enjoying a season revival. The Broad Street
church, under the labors of her paster, Rev.
J. S. Paulling, assisted by visiting brethren,
have been holding nightly services since the
early part of May. Deep interest manifested
by large and attentive audiences.
A. B. Watson,of Blue Ridge Spring,
South Carolina, in the Southern Culti
vator for July says :
I promised to give you the yield of my four
acre lot, sown in wheat, (see Cullivalor for
March, 1876,) and I herewith redeem my
promise. It was sown the last week in No
vember, ploughed in with the ordinary scooter
plough —125 btlfhels of cottonseed having been
jjieviouety broadcasted. Harvested with Buck
eye reaper the 29th May—threshed the 2d day
of June. Yield Hi bushels, or 40 bushels to
the acre. lam satisfied the yield would have
been much heavier, had not the frost killed a
number of spots—the most promising parts of
the field. The reaper was the first ever used
in our section, and gave great satisfaction.
They do best on land cleared of stumps and
harrowed or smoothed.
Our farmers cannot too soon substitute, as far
as possible, labor saving-machinery and ma
nures for manual labor. Such a course,
coupled with a diversity of crops, will certainly
herald the dawn of a brighter day.
—The Borne Courier says:
We regret to learn that Rev. L. R. Gwaltney
has accepted the presidency of the Judson Fe
male College, Marion, Alabama. While we
cannot but rejoice for his sake in anything that
conduces to his interest, and the interest of his
family, yet for the sake, of his church and peo
ple in this communty, we do most heartily re
gret the call that takes him from among us.
His place will be hard to fill.
For the Index and Baptist.]
OCR ALABAMA LETTER.
How the Index is Loved—No Compromise with
Error—Cnlon Female College—Agriculture.
Dear Index —Not having, for a long time,
written you from this part of the Great Vine
yard, permit me to the privilege of saying a
word or two, to the brethren who may feel
some interest in us, of Southeast Alabama.
This is the time of the year when a newsy
letter is very difficult to get up, so 1 may have
some trouble in making myself even presenta
ble, yet, had I inuch business, I would not have
time; so it goes. Although your humble ser
vant is an occasional correspondent for the
Alabama Raptist, and quite a number of its
warm friends are in our midst, yet the old
“Index,” will never lose its place in our
hearts, and as long as it advocates the good
sound Baptist principles and doctrines it does,
I hope to see it in every Baptist family in the
Southern States.
You are right, brethren ! and I and our
church at Eufaula, like your stand, on the
communion question regardless of the opinions
of D.Ds., M.Ds., or any other sort of Ds.;
contend earnestly for the faith, as once deliver
ed to the saints; it is no genuine charity tha t
will compromise with error; the inordinate
love of popularity will, most unfortunately,
often lead, even good men, into false positions;
but I can but hope that our Heavenly Father
will yet fully open the eyes of all His saints,
and the mighty Truth will prevail. Again, I
fear we have some of our good brethren, who,
had they lived in the dayß when persecution
for religious opinion’s sake prevailed, would
(well, not exactly have recanted,) first have
sort o’ crouched a little. So full of the milk of
human kindness are they, that instead of “de
claring the whole counsel of God,” they would
just drop out a little of it, so as not to give
offense, and save the good opinions of the world,
and those who difler with them of other de
nominations.
Our otherwise quiet community, has. just
passed through a week of pleasant, profitable'
stir, occasioned by the examination of classes of
Union Female College, that is yet under the
charge of our dear brother, W. H. Patterson )
of whom I wrote you last year. This year
brother Patterson has made one of the grandest
successes of his life; in the first place, entering
fully into the Gospel ministry, and taking three
country churihes in hisdliarge; and now giv
ing an evidence to the community of his judi
cious and wise management as President of a
Female College; the development of an Insti
tution in our midst, of which we may wellfell
proud. I never witnessed Buch perfection in
studies in my life as I did, hearing the exam
ination of classes by the professors; and at the
Junior exhibition the compositions were read
most beautifully, and were almost faultless in
conception ; also on Commencement day, it
was an occasion which, as we listened to the
essays by the Senior Class and graduate, we
felt a justifiable pride, (we think,) in seeing
the well directed “March of Intellect” and
heart, controlled, as it had been, by so able and
trustworthy a President, and so excellent a
faculty to aid him in his well accomplished
efforts.
On the night of Commencement day, there
was rendered by the young ladies of the college,
the drama, so beaulifuliy written by Mrs 1
Niles, of Griffin, Georgia, “The Anglo-Saxon”
—and we must say we never saw anything so
handsomely rendered in our life. It was indeed
America’s history epitomized, and so true to
nature was every part performed, without a
flaw, that the vast audience were perfectly
carried away with the excitement of the thrill
ing scenes enacted in our country’s history,
and doubtless has fixed permanently in the
minds of all present, facts which now can never
be forgotten ; so much pleased are the people,
that the Board of Trustees have been requested
to urge its repetition for the benefit of the col
lege, and of the many who could not gain ad
mission before, on account of the lack of room.
It will be again repeated on the night of July
31, prox.
Next in order will be the male schools, who
have their exercises next week, but I fear they
will have hard work to make as good a thing
as the young ladies; in fact, I never did believe
that boys were as good students as the girls,
and, in fact, they would be no account without
them.
As everybody is interested in the agricultu
ral interest of the country, 1 am happy to say,
that all around us, and away down to the
Florida line, everything is most promising; in
fact there never has been known such stands of
cotton, and the corn is simply luxuriant; the
oat cron already harvested, is the largest ever
made in this section. Although there is no
money now in circulation, we believe that next
winter we shall have a superabundance, and
we hope all those enterprises requiring it to
insure suecess, will get their due share. The
country generally all around us is in better
condition than we have ever known it. Our
hopes run high, and we feel much encouraged,
and our|gratitude to the great Giver of all good
fills our heart in thankfulness for his mercies.
J. A. B. Besson.
Eufaula, June 29th. 1876.
The Palmetto street church, Mobile, has
pledged SIOO to Howard College, and two hun
dred dollars to the Theological Seminary. Yet,
the property represented in it does not reach
SIO,OOO.
FRANKLIN PRINTING DOUSE, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, JULY 13, 1876,
Spiiil of the Religious Press.
—ln commenting upon the complaint that
many non-church-goers cannot atford to pay
pew-rent and attend church, Mr. Moody sug
gests with great pertinence that very many of
these could easily provide themselves with a
comfortable church home, and its attendant
blessings, for the cost of one cigar a day and of
the liquors they habitually drink. Very many
even of those who are avowed Christians, who
“ cannot afford ” to subscribe for a religious or
temperance paper, spend many times the
amount of such subscription for worse than
worthless tobacco, if not strong drink.
—The New York Methodist soothingly says:
The Presidential campaign it beginning.
We take the occasion to advise Christians to
keep as cool as possible. Hot blood causes hot
words, and hot words make enduring scars.
Possibly you are mistaken after all in suppos
ing that the other party would ruin the coun
try ; but if you were right in your fears, it
would still be the worst of electioneering to fly
into a passion. The man who keeps his tem
per, and holds his tongue in critical seasons,
will be most useful to the cause. If that were
not true, it would still be a bad business to im
peril your salvation to elect anybody to any
office. Keep cool and pray a good deal.
—The Working Christian (Columbia, South
Carolina,) says:
We have a decided conviction that the
“ modern dance ” has an altogether evil ten
dency, and should not be participated in by
church members or tolerated by churches.
—Rev. J. B. Kimbrough, in a letter to the
Baptist Reflector, says:
I was never more surprised than when I
read, in your last issue, that Dr. Burrows had
communed with the Campbellities. Dr. Bur
rows was the last man in the South that I
would have suspected of open communion.
He is a great man and a good preacher. I
want to speak out, and eater my most solemn
protest against his course. If he was a com
mon man I, should hold my peace. The whole
South should rise up as one man and condemn
his unrighteous act. Ido hope that the Doctor
will explain out of it, or make a public confes
sion, and promise to do so no more. Dr. Bur
rows owes this to his brethren, who are con
tending against the world, the fleßh, and the
devil, against this heresy. If sucii men as Dr
Burrows turn against us, we will have to re
double our diligence, and come to the front
with greater vim and earnestness. Such acts
should be held up to the publi condemnation
and execration of all lovers of truth and gospel
order lam glad that you have laiff hold of
it with gloves off. I hope v o u may coritumu.
to do bo. * i '
—There is a circular going through the
country, signed by many prominent persons,
urging citizens to memoralize Ccngress for the
purpose of christianizing the Constitution of
the United States by attaching an amendment
thereto explicitly acknowledging God, Christ
and the Bible. This circular says of the con
stitution :
“ This written instrument, the basis of all
our national institutions, the compact by which
we agreed to be governed as a nation, acknow
ledges no connection between our Government
and Christianity. It contains no explicit ac
knowledgment of God, of Christ, or of the
Bible. The want of any acknowledgment ot
God or the Christian religion in the National
Constitution is the most formidable weapon in
toe hands of the enemies of the Christian in
stitutions of our nation. Nor do they fail to
employ it.”
—The Biblical Recorder commenting upon
this frankly says:
Now these people propose to put the name
and acknowledgment of God in the Constitu
tion. We shall not help them. Neither will
they succeed. It’s the beginning if church and
State. This government was instituted to be
free for all men, infidels and atheists as well as
Christians, so far as the enjoyment of their
opinions is concerned, with equal protection to
ail. The constitution was framed with refer
ence to this end. Let it stand. We do not
want any more amendments. Ordinarily, it
there’s any foolishness going around, some in
considerate Baptist get’s caught in it. We are
glad 'hat we do not recognize the name of any
Baptist among the signers of this document or
the Advocates of this movement. Baptists have
suffered too much from rel gious legislation to
be caught in such traps.
—The Religious Ilcrald very tersely re
marks;
A brother writes: “I do not like aD allusion
made of late, by one of your writers, to the
colored people.” Nor do we. In almost ever,
issue of the Herald are things that we do not
like. Every person outside of a lunatic aaylum
ought to know that a paper is not responsible
for the views of its correspondents.
—The Catholic World’s prescription for our
political coiruption is somewhat remarkable
Nothing will eflect a cure, it thinks, but
“ greatly increased immigration from Ireland.”
—We cannot forego publishing the remarks
of the CongreyalionUst on religion in business
in full. They are so appropriate and strike
so forcible and directly one of the great evils of
omission of our Christian duty, that the peusal
of the article will commenAitself to the hearts
of all. We need just such admonitions daily :
Christian men must not attempt to eeparate
their regligion from their business. No doubt
there may appear, even to an honest mind, to
be some reason for trying to do it. There is a
maxim that “ business is business; ” that is, it
is not mixed with friendship or charity. So a
man may perhaps bet enacious of all that is due
to him in making a trade and may abate noth
ing. He may choose to serve his friends, or
bestow his charities, in a different manner, and
as a part of a separate transaction.
So lar, perhape, no fault need be found.
And where, exactly, the wrong begins, it may
not be easv to say. But it does begin some
where. And the beginning may be near at
band. A man must be a Christian in his busi
ness. All that this means, it is not for us now
to undertake to say. But it is for him to find
out if he will be a Christian. It is plain that
a man may not be hard, and grasping, and
selfish in his business transactions. Business,
too, with most persons, occupies so large a
share of life, that if religion and charity are
kept out of it, they will have but small space
left to cover. It is but a poor shift to grind
the larborer in his wages, and then give him a
dollar m pity. Have love for him, rather,
when you hire him, and act like k Christian
when you pay him. This will be more to the
credit of your religion in his mind, and more
pleasing, we may not doubt, in the sight of
CjOu, than much making up afterward by gifts.
The gifts, withal, afterward are apt to be for
gotton.
Ihe Bible rulejs, “ Whatsoever ye do, do all
to the glory of God.” Certainly this must
Cover the doing of our regular work, which is
the main thing we do. The question how the
management of our business can be made to
appear to be, and actually to be, thoroughly
Christian in its rules and purposes, is one of
some difficulty ; but it iB also one of indispens
able practical importance; and one of the very
hrst for each individual to lav hold of and set
tle.
BAPTIST NEWS AND NOTES.
The Ray-Ditzler debate will begin in La
Grange, Mo., July 17.
Rev. Howard Osgood, D. D., has been
elected Professor of Hebrew in Rochester (N.
Y.) Theological Seminary.
—Rev. S. W. Tindell, of Cleveland, proposes
to write and publish in book form a history of
the Baptists of East Tennessee.
—The Baptist State Convention oi Arkansas
meets with the church at Searcy, Thursday be
fore the 4th Sunday in July.
—ln New Jersey, a church paying only
S4OO salary, and without a pastor, received 47
appplications in three weeks for the vacant sit
uation. < J
—The first Baptist preacher that is certainly
known to have come to Virginia was Robert
Nordin, in 1714.
—ln twenty-five years the First Baptist
church, Newark, N. J., has expended in Chris
tian work, at home and abroad, the handsome
sum of $350,000, being an average of $14,000
a year. What a wonderful power that church
is 1 In this time it has received 1,161 by bap
tism, 620 by letter* making a total of 1,781.
Dr. Fish has been paßtor all this time.
—A correspondent of the Religious Herald,
in a recent communication to that paper, speaks
of the spiritual and intellectual feast he had
psurtakeH in hearing brother W. A Montgomery
in Lynchburg. He says:
■dfc rauid, he cannot be excelled in the
of the truths of Revelation;
eMpthe doctrines which seem to be difficult,
ann are often misinterpreted or mystified by
some of the theological writers, are, in his
hands, made as clear as the noonday’s sun. He
has devoted himself zealously to the cause of
Christ, and the work has prospered in his
hands. He took the pastoral charge of this
church August Ist, 1872, and during this time
he has baptized about 200 converts. This
church did well in selecting him as their pas
tor, and any church should rejoice if the ser
vices of such a man could be procured. He is
an A. M. of East Tennessee University, having
graduated there in 1850. The Bord of Trus
tees of this institution, at their semi-annual
meeting, June 13th, ordered that the honoary
degree of Doctor of Sacred Theology should
be conferred upon Rev. Wm. A. Montgomery,
D. D ; and it was so conferred by the Presi
dent, Rev. Thomas W. Humes, S. T. D., on the
14th inst., who said : “ I am especially grati
fied that the honor, in this case, is bestowed
upon a worthy alumnus of the institution.”
Of brother B. G. Manard the same writer
says:
Rev. B. G. Manard, who is pastor in charge
of the chapel here, and has been for nearly a
year, is doing a noble work. He mingles with
the people. Like the Master, he is ever going
about doing good, visiting the sick and afflicted,
and speaking to them words of consolation.
Hence, he is entwined in the hearts of his peo
ple. It may well be said of him, that he is
thoroughly consecrated to his work, and that he
takes delight in it. Sunday-schools in the
church and chapel are in a flourishing condi
tion.
—A Baptist church has recently been or
ganized on Little Wolf Greek, Summers coun
ty, West Virginia, Rev. J. Sweeny, pastor.
He has recently baptized a man seventy-two
years old, who had been a class leader in the
M. E church for about forty years.
—The Western Recorder says:
Rev. O. H. Morrow, of Simpson county, is
now in his ninty-sixth year. In two days during
this hot June weather he rode on horse eighty
miles, and preached two sermons without much
fatigue.
—The Baptists of Washington are making an
effort to raise $50,000 for the endowment of
Wayland Institute (colored.) The sum ot's2o,-
000 has been bequeathed to found a ladies’ de
partment, on condition that $20,000 shall be
added to it. A legacy of $12,000 has been
made, to go to the institute if it shall be per
manently established.
—The Baptist church of Newbern, North
Carolina, has doubled its membership in three
months.
The Biblical Recorder asks:
Is it wise to start the question of merging the
Home and Foreign Mission Boards of the
Southern Baptists Convention with those of the
Northern Baptists ? It seems to us that only
evil can come of it.
—Rev. R. H. Neale, D, D., recently ten
dered his resignation as pastor of the First
Baptist church, Boston, Mass. This, after a
most cordial relation of forty years’ duration,
was a surprise to his people. The desire for
repose after so many years of service is the
cause announced.
t£T Oua Revised Hymn Book is in high favor,
and the orders for it are numerous. Well, it is
a capital book—comprehensive enough, and only
15 cents per copy. Let the orders come in,
brethren ; we have a good edition on hand. Pro
vide for postage when you older by mail.
General Denominalional News.
—St. Augustine’s church, Washington, D.
C., built by colored Catholics, and under the
charge of Father Felix Barotti, a priest sent
from Rome to undertake a colored mission,
was dedicated recently.
x —The London Freeman says that the work
for Africa, to which the death of Livingstone
gave the grand impulse, goes bravely on. The
Scotch Established church, which is following
in the wake of the Free church, lias sent out
two little steel vessels, one for mission service
on Lake Nyassa, the other for the purpose of
establishing trading stations. Mr. Cotterill,
a son of of the Bishop of Edinburgh, and late
ly an assistant master at Harrow, has set sail
in company with a little band of Free Kirk
missionaries. This young man goes for the
purpose of developing commerce, but his mo
tive is distinctly religious. .
—A Wesleyan preacher in England, who
was compelled by a gate-keeper to pay toll
because he was a dissenter, contested it in a
suit of law, and gained the case under the law
that clergymen going to preach on Sundays
are exempt from paying.
—Mr. Spurgeon will visit this country in
the autumn.
—The treaty recently made between Gua
temala and San Salvador, stipulates that the
latter State shall expel the Jesuits. These are
both Roman Catholic countries with not a
bigoted Puritan fanatic in either.
—After an absence of three centuries, the
Benedictine Order returns to Scotland.
—Rev. Dr. Tyng, of St. George’s, New
York City, has been a rector sixty years.
—According to Rev. Dr. Newman Hall,
the churches of Great Britain, have lost 30,-
000 members within three years, through the
vice of intemperance.
—The Cathedral Completion Association of
Cologne, have been organized thirty-four
years, and have expended $2,000,000 in car
rying out the puruose of their organization.
—The Jews in Spain, lately petitioned
King Alfonso, to allow them the same privi
leges enjoyed by their people elsewhere in
Europe. At present, they dare not open a syn
agogue in the peninsula for fear of the popu
lar fanaticism.
—A wealthy gentleman called a few days
ago Ht the office of the Presbyterian Board of
Foreign Missions, and handed the secretary a
check for SIO,OOO.
—Rev. H. W. Beecher’s salary as pastor of
Plymouth church, Brooklyn, has been again
fixed at $20,000 for the coming year.
—The Presbyterians are building a Centen
nial church near Norristown, Pennsylvania,
and not far from Valley Forge. The spot is
of historic interest, as part of General Wash
ington’s army, while on the march to Valley
Forge, stopped there, seeking refuge from the
weather in a house upon the groi ad i. The
church will seat six hundred people, and was
to have been ready for public worship by the
fourth of July.
—The Pope’s official organ, the Osservatore
Romano, has made a discovery. It has found
that after after all, despite her heterdoxy,
England “is a highly religious nation, and as
far as Reformation permits, a Christian na
tion,”
—Less than half a century ago, the inhabi
tants of Fiji drank human blood from human
skulls. Now, thousands drink the wine of
the Christian sacrament, while 43,000 children
attend Sunday-school.
—The Tourist’s Church Guide, as an indi
cation of the progress ritualism i6 making in
England, states that vestments are worn in
251 churches; in 715, candles are placed on
the altar, and in 370 instances, the candles are
lighted at the celebration of the communion.
—The Middletown, N. J., Baptist church was
founded in 1668; Obadiali Holmes, whipped
in Boston for bis Baptist sentiments, being one
of the constituent members. She has had a
glorious history through two centuries, and
intends to retain her glory in generations to
come.
—An exchange says: “The revivals now
going on in the country are unprecedented.
There never was such a year of grace.
—Opposition to the union of church and
State in England, is organized and active. A
fund of $500,000 has been raised, and within a
year nearly a thousand meetings have been
held and a vast quantity of publications distri
buted.
—The average salary of a minister of the
United States Presbyterian church as reported
at the late assembly, is one thousand and
twelve dollars.
—An Ecumenical Presbyterian Assembly,
will be held at Edingfcurgh, Scotland, in 1879.
Men's lives should be like the day—
more beautiful in the evening, or like
summer-aglow with promise; and
like the autumn, rich with the golden
sheaves, where good works and deeds
have ripened on the field.
Butter Powder. —See advertise
ment of Armstrong’s Lincoln Butter
Powder. This article has earned an
extensive reputation in the Eastern
States.
WHOLE NO. 2226
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POME MISSION BOARD.
Marion, Ala., June 26,1876.
Mosnrs Sheldon & Company, of
New York, have placed in the hands
of the Home Mission Board of the
Southern Baptist Convention, for gra
tuitous distribution among the poor
Baptist churches of the South, twenty
five hundred copies of their Hymn
Book, the “Service of Song.” That
all who desire to share in this munifi
cent gift may have an equal opportu
nity, the distribution of these books
will be made on the day of August.
The donors say : “These books we de
sire to *have presented to such churches
only as are unable to purchase any
book.” Applicants should state, first,
that they are of the class designated ;
second, the number of members com
posing the church. The application
must be accompanied by the endorse
ment of some Baptist minister in the
Association of which the cliurch is a
member, giving the name of the Asso
ciation and the post-office address of
the minister, except in cases in which
the applicant is known to the Board.
William H. Mclntosh,
Corresponding Secretary.
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A CARD.
As I leave Atlanta to-day for my
new home with the Third Baptist
ehurch in Nashville, Tenn., I take
this method of thanking my many
dear friends in Georgia, Alabama,
South Carolina and Florida, for their
uniform kindness to me while I have
been among them.
I pray to our God for his blessing
upon them.
The Publication Society’s book's
will be still kept in Atlanta. Orders
sent to my name to Atlanta will re
ceive prompt attention, as in the past.
L. B. Fish.
Atlanta, July 10, 1876.
Appointments tor Rev. T. C.* Boykin, in Flint
River Association.
Milner, 3d Sunday in July ; Friend
ship, Monday, the 17th July’; Pleasant
Hill, Wednesday, the 19th July. There
will be other appointments which will
be made known.
E. M. Horton,
Clerk of Association.
Kingsland, Ferguson & Co.—We
call especial attention to the adver
tisement of this well known and exten
sive firm. The Phoenix Foundry and
Agricultural Works has been estab
lished for many years, and is one of
the most important enterprises in the
great West.
Farmers and planters will do well
to read concerning this Cotton Press
and Phoenix Gin. Send to K. F. &
Cos., for circulars and price list.
Farmers and Planters.— Farmers
and planters will find something to
their interest by perusing the adver
tisement of Mr. A. P. Rowe, of Fred
ericksburg, Va., relative to improved
cattle, sheep and swine.
Correspondents will please address
Rev. D. W. Gwin, D.D., No. 90 Ivy
street, Atlanta, Georgia, in future.
Life’s History; Its Smiles and Tears.
Such is the course of life, made up of sun
shine and gloom, gladness and sorrow, riches
and poverty, health and disease. To attaiu the
one, and avoid the other, is the aim of mankind.
We may dispel the gloom, banish the sorrow,
and gain riches ; but one thing we cannot avoid,
sickness will overtake us sooner or later. Yet,
happily that enemy can be vanquished, pains
and aches can be relieved; there is a balm for
every wound, and science has placed it within
the reach of all. There 1b no discovery of modem
times that has proven so great a blessing as Dr.
Tutt’s Liver Pills. They are adapted to the
cure of a greater number of diseases than any
remedy known to Materia Medica. In malarial
regions, where fever and ague, bilious diseases,
and ailments incident to a deranged liver prevail,
they have proven an inestimable boon, as a hun
dred thousand living witnesses testify.
A Health-Promoting Stimulant-
Physicians, who certainly ought to be the bt st
judges of such matters, declare that wholesome
stimulation is not only desirable but essential in
many instances. When the temporary good
effect of a sound stimulant is confirmed and
rendered permanent, as in tho case of Hostet
ter’s Stomach Bitters, by the action of tonic and
alterative principles combined with it, it becomes
infinitely more efficacious as a renovant of phys •
ical energy and a corrective of those conditions
of the body which invite disease. The Bitters
have received the emphatic sanction of medical
men who have observed the effect of that popu
lar stimulative cordial as a remedy for weakness,
nervousness, dyspepsia, constipation, inactivity
of the liver, malarious fevers, and many other
disorders. Its baßis is sound old rye, tho purest
liquor known to commerce, and itself possessing
tonic properties of no mean order.
A guarantee that auy one affected with con
stipation or torpid Liver oan be relieved by
taking regularly, by directions, Simmons' Liver
Regulator. It lias beou known to cure in hun
dreds of cases, and will do it again.
“Asa general family remedy for dyspepsia,
torpid Liver, constipation, etc., I hardly ever
used anything else, and have never been disap
pointed in effect produced; it seems to be almost
a perfect cure for all diseases of the stomach
and bowels. “W. J. McELROY, Macon, Ga.”