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The Christian Index!
VOL. 55—NO 30.
Table of Contents.
FibstPaqe Alabama Department; Record of
State Events; A Graphic Letter—The Centen
nial—Philadelphia—lts Churches, etc. —Bev,
M. B. Wharton; A Wholesome Injunction; A
Good Law; Spirit of the Religious Press; Bap
tist News and Notes; General Denomination
al News.
Second Paoe.—Out Correspondents : Corree
spondenee from a Baptist Historic City—Wm.
W. Landrum; Letter from Tennessee; The
Baptiste in Dalton, Ga.—A Prosperous Church
and Sabbath-school—A Good Pastor; Letter
from Nashville—W. N. Chaudoin. Mission
Department: Are the Baptists all Dead ?
Thos. E. Skinner. To the Baptists of Georgia
—Wm. H. Mclntosh; The Universal Answer—
Thos. E. Skinner; Holding on to the Old. while
Trying the New—Thos. E. Skinner; Special
Contributions: Notes on the Act of Baptism
—No. xiii—Appeal to the Original—Pouring
Considered—Rev. J. H. Kilpatrick.
Third Paoe.— Our Pulpit : The Christian Min
istry—A Sermon, preached by Rev. D. Shaver.
D.D., Sunday. July 16, 1876, in the First Ward
Baptist Church, Augusta. Ga., at the Ordina
tion of Rev. Thomas J. Holmes.
Fourth Paoe. —Editorial: Dr. Battle’s Treatise
on the Will—Bev. S. G. Hillyer. An Old La
dy’s Faith; Stop my Paper—Rev. J. S. Baker.
Sabbath-breaking; “Sojourner Truth’f; Pomp
ous Funerals; Georgia Baptist News; Words of
Wisdom—Rev. D. E. Butler. Getnß Reset:
etc.
Fifth Page.— Fecular Editorials: The Ameri
can University of Music; A Wise and Honest
Judge; A False Idea Condemned; Literary
Gossip; The Flatform of the Georgia State
Democratic Convention; Love Divine—Poe
try; Personal; The Human Will; Georgia News;
Foreign and Domestic Notes; etc.
Sixth Page. —The Sunday-school: Lesson for
Sunday, August 13, 1876. Kind Words: Letter
from Augusta, Georgia—S- W. Bothwell; Bene
ficiary Societies.
Seventh Page. —Agriculture : Costlv Protection;
What we Must Do; Artificial flutter; The
Largest Hog in the World; Working too Hard;
Cabbage Worms; etc.
Eighth Page,— Our Correspondents : Letter
from China; The Pope’s Supremacy— Rev. T.
B. Cooper; General Meeting of Bethel Baptist
Association—A. G. Weaver, Clerk.
INDEX AND BAPTIST.
ALABAMA DEPARTMENT.
Id parts of Che claw county the corn crop is
pretty nearly a failure.
The Slate Grange Fair at Montgomery be
gins October 24th.
Corn crops are not generally good around
Sootteboro.
There is a good deal of sickness in Chambers
county.
Tallapoosa county will make“sn overwhelm
ing corn crop.”
The corn crop in South Sumter is chg short
by drought.
In Oxford ci rn is selling at sixty cents a
bushel.
Crops are more promising in Monroe coun
ty than they have been for twenty years.
The grangers of Calhoun oounty intend to
have a county fair this fall.
Cotton worms have appeared in large num
bers around Chehaw, Macon county.
Immigrants are still arriving in Cullman
and investing in real estate.
| Judge A. A. Sterrett, of Columbiana, is
dead.
The Troy Methodists have held a protracted
meeting.
Rev. B. F. Riley, of Bellville, of Conecuh
county, desires to correspond with churches in
need of a pastor.
Anew post office has been created at Bur
s on’s Store, Monroe county. Mrs. Margaret
Burson is postmistress.
In Jackson county, last week,James Stafford,
aged 13, struck his brother William with a
stone, killing him.
Solicitor H. C. Wiley, of Pike county, was
indicted for carrying concealed weapons, and
the Judge suspended him from office.
W. E. Beggs has bought the Choctaw Her
ald, and changed the name of it to Butler
Hem.
Rev. J. A. Van Hoose, Episcopal minister
at Birmingham, has been compelled to cease
his ministerial labors on acount of failing eye
sight.
Limestone county c#n boast of two white
oak trees that measure respectively twenty
seven and twenty-two feet in circumference.
A revival is in progress at Bethlehem Bap
tist church, in Chambers county. It began on
Friday of last week. Bev. C. S. Johnson is
pastor. "
The history of Alabama Baptists has not yet
been written, although a committee was ap
pointed by the State Convention some years
ago to secure that desirable object.
Chancellor Austill, is holding a special term
ofthe Cbaneery Court at Montgomery, in the
matter of the Tallassee factory.
Rev. C. W. Elkins preacli,- in the Baptist
charch at Moulton every second Sunday in
the month. Rev. J. 8. Gibson preaches every
fourth Sunday.
The Montgomery Advertiser says: “The
reports concerning the cotton worm are be
coming more gloomy every day. They are
on nearly every plantation, and as the recent
wet weather is favorable to their propaga
tion, fears of great destruction are enter
tained.”
THE SOUTH-WESTERU BAPTIST,
of Alabama.
For the Index and Baptist
A GRAPHIC LETTER.
The Centennial—Philadelphia— lts Chnrthes, ete.
Philadelphia, July 26, 1876.
I have visted the great Centennial.
It iB grand beyond description. Those
who attended the World’s Pair at Lon
the Exposition Universale at Paris, or
the Vienna Exposition, say they are
eclipsed by the wonderful display here.
The world is here represented in minia
ture, and it is not a very small minia
ture either. The buildings, which give
some idea of the magnitude of the en
terprise, are situated in the West Park,
between George’s Hill and the Schuyl
kill river. The space enclosed for ex
hibition purposes is 236 acres, on which
about 150 buildings are erected. The
main exhibition building is in the form
of a parallelogram, extending East and
West 1,880 feet, and North and South
464 feet, and covers 21 acres. It is
composed entirely of iron and glass.
The greater portion of the structure is
one story high, and shows the main
cornice on the outside at 45 feet, the
inteiior being 70 feet. Machinery
Hall is located 542 feet west of the main
building, and is built upon the same
linej thus presenting a frontage of 3,824
feet from East to West upon the prin
cipal avenue. It consists of a main
hall 360 feet wide, by 1,402 feet long,
and an annex on Ihe South side of 208
feet by 210 feet. Memorial Hall or
Art Gallery is located on aline parallel
with and north of the main exhibition
building, and faces South, overlooking
the city. The materials used in its
construction are granite, iron and glass,
no wood being used, and tie buiiking is
thoroughly fireproof. It is 365 feet in
length, 210 in width, and 59 feet in
height. It|is surmounted by a dome
150 feet high. This building was
erected by the State of Pennsylvania
and city of Philadelphia, and will re
main as a monument of the first cen
tury of the Republic. Horticultural
building is located on Landsdown ter
race, north of Memorial Hall, and has
a commanding view of the Schuylkill
river and northwestern portion of the
eitv. The design is of the Moorish
style of architecture of the twe fth
century, the principal materials being
iron and brass. It is 383 feet long,
193 feet wide, and 72 feet high in the
center. Agricultural Hall occupies a
position on the nortwest of Horticul
tural building. It is constructed of
wood and glass, and consists of a long
nave crossed by three transepts, all
being composed of truss arches of
the Gothic form. The nave is 820 feet
long, 125 feet wide and 75 feet high.
There are in addition to these central
bnildings annexes recently erected to
the main building and also Memorial
Hall. Numerous edifices have also
been erected on the grounds by Foreign
Governments, States, territories, com
panies, firms and individuals, for the
purposes of headquarteis for the Com
missioners and exhibitors and for spe
cial exhibits. These magnificent struc
tures erected at an expense of millions
are filledVith specimens of the products
of all countries on the face of th 6 globe.
The displays of the United States,
Great Britain, France, Russia, Germany
and Japan, are the largest, most com
prehensive and imposing. But Aus
tralia, South American, Asiatic and Af
rican countries are all well represented.
It 's useless to undertake to tell what
I saw. Books might be written on the
subject, and then the half not be told.
A month spent profitably in
the Art. buildin^f^me.
Spending a Sabbath in the city I
attended a Quaker church in the morn
ing. The congregation met at half
Sast ten o’clock, and all sat as quiet as
eath until three-quarters of an hour
passed, when the Spirit moved a sitter,
who arose and gave us a talk. The
following is a brief axtract: “Dear
Fr'ends : I have been impressed while
sitting here with the passage “when
two or three,” etc. How thankful we
ought to be that we are permitted to
come together and worship God silent
ly and thoughtfully. We read that
there was silence in Heaven for the
space of half an hour. How much
more proper that there should be silence
on earth when there are so nqany things
to disturb our worship,” etc., etc. At
night I heard Rev. L. P. Homberger,
pastor of Gethsemane Baptiat church,
whom I had the pleasure of spending a
month with in the Vi.ginia mountains
two years Ago. He has a beautiful
church amj large congregation, and is
greatly beloved. By the way, Phila
delphia is a city of magnificent church
ecunces, and the Baptists are not be
hind the other denominations as to the
beauty and costliness of their struc
tures. And then, the Baptists have in
Philadelphia the handsomest and most
beautiful religious book house in the
world. I allude, of course, to the ele
gant five story marble building on
Chesnut street, No. 1420, known as
the building of the American Baptist
Publication Society. Dr. Warren Ran
dolph showed me throughout the. entire
FRANKLIN PRINTING HOUSE, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, AUGUST 10, 1876.
edifice, taking pains to explain every
part. The store room is unsurpassed
in the city, and the offices and rooms
are palatial. The city is crowded, and
there is ample hotel accommodations
at cheap rates for all. Everybody who
can should go to the Centennial.
M. B. Wharton.
A WHOLESOME INJUNCTION.
Judge Emmonds, of the United States Dis
trict Court, in trial of a case at Detroit, a few
davs ago, in the course of his charge to the
jury, took occasion to condemn, in severe
terms, the tactics of criminal lawyers and
others of the profession in availing the Char
acters erf witnesses, and to say that it would no
longer be tolerated in his court, unless a foun
dation of impeaching testimony against tl e
veracity of the witness were first duly laid.
The license which counsel frequently take in
examining witnesses is most unwarrantable,
and it is well for them to understand that at
tacks on pergonal character, if not sustained
by evidence, will hurt their own side.
We are glad to see that a judicial
officer of high rank has expressed dis
approbation of an evil which, of late
years, has had increasing growth in our
courts of justice, and that he has
authoritatively set bounds to it within
his own jurisdiction*.
There are men in the legal profession
who disgrace its bright and time
honored escutcheon by language and
actions unbecoming their station,
and the dignity of justice in an impar
tial trial. In manner and in word they
are ungentlemanly. They think that
they can increase their chances for a
successful issue of their side of a case
by brow-beating and comprising wit
nesses. They take advantage of their
position to be insulting, and endeavor
to injure the character of honest men
by inuendo and disreputable hints and
inferences. To subdue this class, and
taboo their influence, is a wise action,
that will benefit the status of our
courts, and prove a wholesome injunc
tion upon the efforts of certain lawyers
who, to gain their fee, seem to consider
it necessary to ignore the Code of ethics
and good breeding.
A Good Law. —Congress has re
cently pasked A goodlaw, and we hope;
it will be vigorously enforced. It is
intended to suppress all lottery and
gift concert swindles, by not allowing
the mails to be used by the originators
of these humbugs, so far at least as it
can be done by sending all letters ad
dressed to such parties to the dead
letter office, from whence they will be
returned to the writers.
The perpetrators of such frauds,
upon conviction, will be heavily fined.
Our people are swindled out of an
immense sum of money every year by
these fraudulent enterprises, and the
government deserves praise for its wise
interference to stop the progress of this
shameful-evil.
A Self Threading Sewing Ma
chine.—The most wonderful Family Sewing
Machine now in existence, is claimed to be the
New Self “Threading American,” comment
on which so much has been made by the press
of the East, North and West. So frequent has
snch praise of this particular machine been
brought to our notice that our curiosity lead us
to an inquiry concerning its merits, and find it
possesses extraordinary advantages. It may
well be called a self-threading machine, there
being no holes in the whole machine through
which to thread. No needle guage required to
set the needle as it is self-setting, the tension
is self-adjusting. The machine may be run
backward and forwara- and does not break
thread. It never skips stiches. It sews with
a double thread lock stitch, which is famous
for giving strength, elasticity and elegance to
every kind of fabric.
As there is yet a majority of families in this
country who are not supplied with machines.
We advise them by all means to learn fully the
merits of the American Machine before buy
ing. An agency should be established here at
once. We are informed splendid inducements
are held out by the Compamy to parties hav
ing small or large capital for the sale of this
wonderful machine. The general distributing
office for the Southern States is located at Cin
cinnati, Ohio, where applications will receive
prompt atiention. Upon receipt of sample me
chiee, which has been ordered, we will be able
in our next issue to go further into details.
For the general interest of the
brotherhood of the press, we desire to
caution them against J. Weaver & Cos.,
No. 112, Smithfleld street, Pittsburg,
Pennsylvania, who style themselves
“Advertising Agents,” \Ye have un
questionable authority for believing
that they are “D. Be.”
Beware of them, and pass them
around*
Spirit of the Religious Press.
—Here are golden words that ought to be
pondered by all Christians. To follow this ad
vice isto give breath, motion, vitality to our
faith in Christ Jesus, and to personify and
put into daily life, the graciouß promises of
the gospel of peace and love. Says the Chris
tian at Work :
Almost anyone.can endure a word oi encour
agement. There is nothing more depleting in
a commercial or mechanical establishment,
where a young man is trying to do his duty,
than to meet with entire silence on the part of
his employers, save when he has done some
thing wrong, or tailed in a spec fie undertak
ing. And if men need encouragement in secu
lar service, how much more do they need it in
the service of God ? Let Christian men tell
all the joyous things they know, and recite the
most exhilarant promises of the Gospel, and
breath out of their own life anything by way of
encouragement into the hearts of those who
may he depressed and despondent. The reli
gion of the Lord Jesus Christ is the grandest
practical encouragement any men can have.
It is not a mere sentiment, or whim, or phan
tasy; it is something which a man may enter
with Iris entire physical, mental and moral na
ture. The religion of Jesus Christ is illumi
nation. There are a thousand things in life
that are very dark to us. There are many
things in our own constitution that need ex
planation. We are coming across a hundred
things in life that are beyond our capacity of
solution. How grand to come back from all
the mysteries and the unsuccessful soundings
in life to God’s Word, and to the glorious Gos
pel, and find there an explanation for every
thing. The religion of Jesus Christ is never
in all (he Bible once represented as darkness.
It is a lamp. It is a lantern. It is a day
break. It is a noontide glory. It is an illu
mination.
Commenting on the published card of Dr.
Burrows in vindication of his course in com
muning with the Campbellites of Rtchmond,
the Texas Baptist Herald says:
We differ thoroughly from Dr. Burrows as
to what he assumes to be, and says is, “a ques
tion for iny own private judgement 1” Admit
such a principle, and it will need little or no
stretching to cover a great many departures.
It is, in its narrowest bounds, open communion
with all immersionists on individual responsi
bility. Immersion is not held by Baptists to
be the only prerequisite to conlmunion, and
the individual is not left, in matters of doctrine
and practice, to his own private judgment
merely. He must show ground in the scrip
tures, for any departure from received opinion
or practice. And when far-reaching differ
ences pfevail, like this, and men persist in
them, tliey should certainly go out from us as
they have tj>e right to do. Baptists hold ukst
tenaciously the right of private judgment, but
. noHMs> marjjinay ignore or set aside their
cherAfaed faith, and still be counted one of
them. But Dr. Burrows proposes, as we un
derstand him, to offend his brethren no more.
We hope that he will come to see that his
view nlaces both the Bible and logic far in the
background, whereas they should be in the
front, and that he will not feel under the neces
sity of a different course for the sake of his
brethren merely, but for the sake of the truth
as it is in Jesus.
—The Christian Observer has a very practi
cal suggestion which ought to be universally
heeded.
What a mockery it is to see a church plenti
fully supplied with stained glass windows, gilt
chandeliers, cut glass, shades and soft cushions
and hymn-books so few and far between that
not one half of the worshipers can be supplied 1
Buy the hymn-books first, and leave the costly
luxuries that really add so little to the worship
of God, for after consideration.
—This is is what the Baptist Messenger has to
say relative to what constitutes an earnest life:
Reader, every interest requires that your life
be an earnest one. God gave you an existence
that you might do something, and so be some
body. Show to the world that you have life
in you, and that life is animated by some noble
purpose. Don’t be a drone, a mere hanger on.
Don’t be weakly and cowardly, but strong and
very courageous. Have faith. Believe in
God with your whole heart, and love Him
with all your soul. Give yourself to Him in
loving and serving your fellow-men. Seek a
true heart, one inspired by the indwelling of
the spirit of Christ. Love and pity as he did,
and as he did also sacrifice for the world in
which you live. Don’t sacrifice complaining
ly, but joyfully, and also joyfully Buffer. In
every department of life’s work fill your place.
—Upon the “ Richmond Sensation,” The
Baptist, (Memphis) remarks:
It remains now to see what further course
Elder Burrows will see fit to pursue. If he
justifies his course, let him show the grounds
to be Scriptural, and we will then commend
his act. If he confesses his error, and repents,
no one will more cheerfullv forgive than we ;
if not, we must condemn him, and warn the
brotherhood against his dangerous influence,
as it is our duty to do.
It remains to be seen what action, if any,
his church will take in this case: and, if none,
then it remains to be seen what course the Long
Run Association will take with the Broadway
church of Louisville; and, if none, then it re
mains to be seen what course the General As
sociation will pursue toward the Broadway
church and the Long Run Association. This
base calls for an open expression on the part
of every Association in the South : for it is
the thin edge of the wedge, and, if allowed to
be driven iu by a powerful church, disunion
must follow.
—We here give an extract from an editorial
in (tie United Presbyterian, which commends
itself to the minds and hearts of parents. It is
a subject of vast, of eternal importance, and it
cannot be too often comrqended upon with
prayerful spirit:
How shall careless parent* answer to God
at last for their neglected children? When
shall the religious education of children be
gin ? The answer is easy, it should begin with
their birth. It is only conscientious care of the
saiallest infant that will insure its highest
good ; and from the oststart tr.e mother should
train it up in the Nurture and admonition of
THIS ZEUELEL-A-LXD
of Tennessee.
the Lord. If it be suggested that so young an
infant cannot be educated, it is enough to reply
that we do not know at what age it will begin
Cos be impressed, and thar the only safe way is
to start with its consciousness.
The law of obedience to authority is one
that a babe will learn very early. And it is
the first lesson. If it be neglected a day it
will be at the peril of subsequent insubordina
tion. The mutiny of an infant is not a terri
ble thing save as it suggests revolt in time to
come. It is a germ of after defiance. Hence
the importance of preventing its appearance,
that the child may grow up feeling that it
knows nothing but subjection to the benificent
government that is over it.
We are convinced from extended observa
tion that nearly all parents fail, first of all, in
not teaching their children to obey. They
command and see their commands unnoticed;
they reason and are overcome by the child’s
argument; they plead and are denied their
solicitation. After that there is no telling
what lengths the child will go, or what griefs
the parents will be called to endure. The
strife between the father and boy has begun.
The serpents tooth has appeared. Far in the
distance may be seen the gray hairs going
down in sorrow to the grave, but in this first
filial perversity is the beginning of that de
plorable end. Parents, see that you are
obeyed.
BAPTIST NEATS AND NOTES.
—Rev. Dr. R. Fuller, of Baltimore, relates
the following:
A Baptist minister some years ago was in
Germany—the land of real learning—and was
requested by eminent professors there, Tiiol
uck, Neander and others, to address them, and
to explain the creed of the American Baptists.
Of course he carefully prepared an argument,
and earnestly advocated our views. When he
had finished they all Bhook hands warmly with
him ; but he felt his face somewhat/ tingling
when they said, “But why did you labor so ear
nestly to prove that baptism is immersion, and
that infant baptism is not in the Bible. Does
any scholar in America maintain the reverse!”
Poor men, they had not seen all the light that
flashes from the New World
—pr. Thomas Armitage writes, in reply to
the suggestion of a correspondent that he once
partook of the Lord’s Supper in Mr. Spur
geon’s church, that he never did such a thing
in. hie life, and that he seldom communes in
any church except the one of which he is a
member, thinking that the authority of discip
line and privilege of communion are co-ordi
nate.
—The Bum of $50,000, one-half of the de
sired Centennial fund, has been raised by the
friends of Shurtleff Baptfct college, at Alton,
Illinois.
—On the recommendation of Mr. Disraeli,
the Queen has conferred a pension of $370 per
annum on the widow oi the late Rev. Dr. Em
lyn Jones, Baptist minister, in consideration of
het late h iHrand’s services to Welsh literature.
—A new law lias been promulgated in Prus
sia by which Baptist churches can obtain rights
of incorporation in Prussia, and be recognized
as religious bodies—each church to apply for
it separately.
—Rev. J. W. David, a colored Missionary
of the Southern Baptist Board to Lagos, Cen
tral Africa, finds a few converts who have re
mained faithful for thirteen years without a
Bhepherd or teacher. They sent messengers
a ten days’ journey to inquire if they could
not again have a Missionary. Is not this ap
peal irresistible 1 “Can a Christian imagine
a little group of heathen converts meeting
thirteen years under their oft-repaired thatch
shelter, to read the Bible, and pray for help,
and not feel that they should have assistance ?”
—The Eoangel, San Francisco, has passed
into the hands of Rev. Winfield Scott. Bro.
Kalloch, the retiring editor, makes an earnest
appeal to the Baptists of the Pacific coast to
rally around the Evangel, and make it a po
tential power for the advancement of Zion.
The new editor possesses large abilities, a
warm heart, unmeasurable faith in the Baptist
church, and an energy and zeal that will not
flag in the Lord’s cause.
—The Baptists in West Virginia are build
ing more new meeting houses this year than
ever before, notwithstanding the hard times;
and the houses are of a better class than those
which have preceeded them.
The Selma Argus Bays: “Worms have ap
peared in great numbers on some plantations,
and generally fA some neighborhoods, in this
section, and the most conservative men now
feel apprehensive of disastrous results. For
the past few days there has been a great de
maud for poisons, and planters appear to be
vigororously destroying the pests. Paris green,
properly applied, has never failed to be effec
tive, and, alarmingas the reports are, we shall
hope that our fright is worse than the hurt will
be.” |
The democratic Congressional Exeuctive
Committee for the fourth district, selected
Selma as the place, and the 29th of Augfist as
the day, for holding the Congrcssianah'Nomi
nating Convention.
The, Selma Times says; “The Mathews
cotton mill, which iaexpectcd to begin opera
tions in October next, is looked to as a pip
necr in that line of things. It is a prophecy
of other establishments of like kind.
Cotton worms havq. appeared in force in
Mocon county. The eropsabout Ohehaw are
said to be ftill of thca(.
North Alabama is blessed with beautlftil
crops.
The grasshoppers are threatening Ala
bama seriously.
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Bullock county will hold an agricultural
fair this fall.
WHOLE NO. 2230,
General Denominational lbs.
—The American Hebrew Order of B’nai
Berien purpose erecting a statue of “religious
liberty” on the centennial exhibition grounds.
This will be a testimonial respecting the liber
al spirit of Protestantism. Crushed by the
Moslem and persecuted by Rome, the descend
ants of Abraham find a peaceful refuge in the
land where the Bible is an open book.
—A meeting of the Western Bishops of the
Protestant Episcopal chnrch, is to be held at
Racine college, Racine, Wis., to take steps for
the founding of a church university in the
West. The bishops of the entire north-west
are expected to attend. Ihe present institu
tions will be used as preparatory schools for
the university.
—The secularization or confiscation of the
monasteries and convents in Greece is pro
posed. There are now 13S monasteries and 7
nunneries, with 1,729 monks and 168 nuns, in
Greece. Tl.e yearly income of the conventual
property is about SIOO,OOO, and the full val
ne of the monasteries is estimated at from six
to ten million dollars.
—Two Jews have been elected to the Ital
ian Senate. This is another “foot-print in the
sands of time,”as no Hebrew ever held the hon
or before. A few years ago the Jews had no
political rights in Italy; now every right that
pertains to citizenship is theirs. The world is
still moving on.
—The German Reformed church reports a
growth during the century, of a ministry of 23
to 650, and a membership of 13,000 to 145,000.
—They have a church and society question
among the Congregationalists. The National
Council of 1874 unanimously adopted a reso
lution for the appointment of a committee of
seven members to inquire “whether the best
interests of Congregationalism do not require
the disuse of the Society (or parish) system,”
and “whether it be not the duty of the church
es as such, to assume the responsibility of see
ing that those who labor in the gospel, live of
the gospel. The committee have published a
circular asking for information of the minis
ters. The National Council holds its next
meeting in 1878.
At Moral, Mexico, a little company of
Protestants designed to huild a small adobe
church, but afterwards resolved to construct it
out of stones. They gave as the reason : “We
want to let our neighbors know that the evan
gelical religion is to be permanent in Mexi
co.”
—The English Methodists are agitated upon
the subject of lily representation. The idea fe
getting to be prevalent among them, that tJie
church should not be wholly ruled by the
priestly hierarchy, but the membership should
have a voice in its government.
—The South-western Bible Society has un
der its charge 180,000 families in Louisiana
and Mississippi; and of these, 40,000 were
without the Bible, and of 12,775 families vis
ited in New Orleans, 3,511 were found in the
same condition.
—Ten years ago there was no Methodist or
ganization in Sweeden; now, seventy societies,
fifty-six preachers in the regular work, and for
ty local preachers, thirty-one churches, and
five thousand members reported.
STONE MOUNTAIN ASSOCIATION
We are requested to state, by brother
T. A. Gibbs, that the ever-accommo
dating Superintendent of the Georgia
Railroad, has authorized him to
announce that delegates and visitors
will be passed to the Stone Mountain
Association on September 9th for one
fare ; they paying full fare going and
return free. Return tickets good for
five days.
Brother Gibbs furthermore says :
“I have [had tfie minutes of the first sixteen
sessijons of, Ihe Stone Mountain Association
bound, and I wish to have the others bound,
and lack the minutes of 1862-63. I desire
that brethren attending the Association, if they
have the minutes for the years specified, to
bring them to the Association. f>
FoAnish the Information. Clerks of
Baptist Associations in Alabama, Florida, Ten
nessee and South Carolina will please send us
time and place of meeting of their respective
Associations.
Ope lijiiKx Hymn Book is going
rapidly. All who see it praise it. Send in
your orders; 15 cents a copy by the fifty cop
ies or less.
William Harvey
Spent not less than eight long years of investi
gation and research before he published his
views of the circulation of the blood. T# him
the medical world is indebted for much of its
and“r 0 fnl?y g m^ fOUT b ° d ‘* S “ B ° faarfuJJ y and won-
To the Study of the liver, which holds bo im
portant a relation to the digestive organs, that
there is scarcely a malady that affects the orgau
isju but that it participates in it, Dr. Tutt, of
hag devoted twenty-five years. The
Irnitg of hie labors have been to furnish to the
World a mediates which has produced an entire
revQ utian in the mode of treating the disease*
that result from a derangement of that inipen
ant organ. Tntt’g Liver Tills are now regarded
as the standard remedy for disoages of the liver
and, have proven a great blessing to the invalid’.
Their* virtues are recognized by themodioal pro
fession, and physicians in all parts of the coua
try have adopted them in their practice.