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The Christian Index!
VOL. 55—NO. 31.
Table or Content*.
Fibst Page.— Alabama Department: Record of
State Events: Our Faith iu Carping—Bev. J.
8. Baker; Spirit of the Religious Tress; Bap
tist News and Notes; Genera! Denominational
News.
Second Page.— Our Correspondents: "Restrict
ed Communion”—Seuex; Mixed Communion—
G. W. Cheves; Words to Women—J. L. Lovd;
Letter from Virginia; A Fine Revival—The
Lord's Work Prospering—B. F. Camp; State
Agents—B. Boykin; Ministers’ Relief Fund—B.
Bovkin: Similitude between life and a Day:
I Letter from Florida.
Third Page. —Our Pulpit : Conditions of Sal
vation—A Sermon, bv Rrv. J. B. Chevis, of
Cuthbert, Ga.
Fourth Page.— Editorial : The Practice of Prim
itive Christians: Dr. Iliden’s Article—Rev. J. 8.
Baker. Georgia Baptist News: Gems Reset; A
Life Experience—Bev. D. Ik Butler,
Fifth — Secular Department: Drudgery:
RomlSh Priestcraft; Live for Something; The
Georgia State Agricultural Society: First and
Second Baptist Churches of Atlanta; Georgia
News; Domestic and Foreign Notes; etc.
Sixth Page . —General Meetings : Third Dis
trict Flint River Association—G. J. Barksdale,
Clerk; Second District Appalachee Association
, —H. C. Fears, Secretary. The Sunday-school-
Lesson for Sunday, August 20, 1876, * Mission
Department: Good News from Our Mission
aries—H A. Tupper, Secretary. Associatioual
( Meetings; etc.
Seventh Page.— Agriculture : Georgia State Ag
ricultural Convention; Georgia Farm Notes;
The Birds; Farm Products of Western States.
Eighth Page.— Publishers’ Department; Hollins
Institute; Bells; Architecture; Iteply to "Some
body;” Abandoned; Itev. I. W. Butts; Rich
mond Female Institute; Atlantaßell Foundry;
Washington and Lee Universitv; Dr. Hol
brook’s Military School; Select School, Deca
tur. Ga.; ‘‘Blood will Tell;’’ Orphan’s Home
Report for Quarter outliug August Ist. Mar
riages. Obituraries.
INDEX AM) BAPTIST.
ALABAMA DEPARTMENT.
Anew grange has been oiganized at Lodi,
Barbour county.
Prof. S. L. Robertson has been elected prin
cipal of the Birmingham public school.
Iu parts of Lowndes, the worms have great
ly injured cotton.
Crops in North Alabama are generally re
ported good.
The crop reports from Butler county are ex
ceedingly favorable.
Since August Ist, the thermometer In Sel
ma has ranged from 76 to 84 degrees.
A protracted Methodist meeting has been
held in Dadeville.
The Calhoun county fair will be held at
Jacksonville, October 13th and 14th.
A Baptist Sunday-school Convention met in
Tuscaloosa the 28th ult.
There has’t been a symptom of yellow fever
in Mobile yet.
Mr. Alfred Battle has baen very ill at his
residence near Carthage.
The corn crop of Choctaw county will be
very short.
Cotton worms have appeared on river places
in Choctaw and Clarke counties.
Charles Lowell, of Baldwin county, was
drowned off Choctaw Point the 3d.
During a recent revival at Belmont, about
40 persons joined the Methodist church.
The Southern JEgis says there will be cool
weather about the 20th-24th.
Rev. Dr. Stillwell and Rev. T. W. White,
will begin a protracted meeting at Carthage,
the 18:h.
The salaries of teachers in the different
grades of the Birmingham public school as fol
lows : SBS, S4O, and S3O per month.
Prof. J. T. Heard, formerly of Mulberry
Academy, takes charge of Snow Hill Acade
my.
The Opelika Reformer has been removed to
Goodwater, where it is published as the Coosa
Hews.
Prof. Hogg, of Montgomery, has been elect
ed to the chair of mathematics in the Texas
Agricultural College.
Dr. Swasey has retired from the Montgom
ery Plantation, of which he has been chief edi
tor.
Col. E. H. J. Mobley,who lived near Canoe
Station, o.i the Mobile and Montgomery road,
accidently shot and killed himself a few days
ago.
Rev. Dr. M. T. Summer has been appoint
ed general financial agent for the Southern
Baptist Theological Seminary.
There is very little sickness in Tuscaloosa.
The Baptists of Troy have been holding a
protracted meeting.
Miss Bettie Clarke, daughter of Dr. Richard
Clarke, of Selma, has accepted the position of
presiding teacher in the Greensboro Female
College.
The State election passed off quietly. The
democratic ticket was victorious by between
thirty and forty thousand majority. There
were great democratic gains in South Alabama
and in the black counties.
THE SOUTH-WESTERNT BAPTIST,
of Alabama.
Om FAITH IN CARPING.
We believe that a little carping,
occasionally, at the communications
sent by correspondents to our religious
papers, is calculated to subserve a use
ful purpose, by leading them to exer
cise more care as to the substance of
what they communicate. We have
concluded, in accordance with the in
structions of an inspired apostle, to
show our faith in this matter by in
dulging in a little carping at the com
munications of certain correspondents
of the Religious Herald. The editors
of that paper will, no doubt, be able to
assign a satisfactory reason for our
exercising our carping skill on their
correspondents instead of our own.
In the Herald, of the 27th ult., one
says, referring to the disciples of A pol
ios, “ They were not rebaptized though
they were reimmersed.” If there be a
difference in the import of the two
words, relaptized and reimmersed, we
desire to know in what it consists.
In the same paper a correspondent
says, “If Pike can wield a pike as well
as a pen, I should not like to cross
lances with him.” The same thing
being predicated of him, we would not
like to employ him to weed our corn for
us, even should he offer to do the work
gratuitously ; for we should expect him
to cut up more corn than weeds, or
grass, if he undertook the work.
By the way, of this mighty man,
Pike, we do not think it would he diffi
cult to prove that he is a lineal de
scendant of those who, in the days of
the apostles, everywhere spoke evil of
those who kept the ordinances as they
had received them, preserved the order
of God’s house, and separated from all
who walked disorderly.
CONCURRENT TESTIMONY.
Iu the Herald, of the 20th ult., one of
its correspondents reports the substance
of an address delivered by its junior
editor to tfy? students yf Green Springs
Academy, Louisa county, Virginia, on
a recent occasion, from which we make
a few extracts, corroborating positions
taken by us, in our late article in The
Index, on the subject of “ Our Mis
sion on Earth.” In discoursing on
“ the conditions of success in life," he
thus proceeds:
1. If you would succeed, find your place and
stick to it. We have different taates and predi
lections, which indicate what caliing in life
we should follow ; and one should study pray
erfully and earnestly the bent of his own na
ture, in seeking to ascertain to what depart
ment he shall devote his energies. It will
often be found that the promptings of one’s
own genius will accord with providential in
dications as revealed in our circumstances and
surroundings, and by observing them we
may find to what calling we are best adapted.
Alas, that in a matter of so much moment the
great mass of young men give not a thought,
but rush into different avocations as heedlessly
as if they supposed that all men are equally
adapted to every kind of thing. Hence th:
failures that meet us in every direction, and
the turning from one business to another, only
to make more conspicuous the fact of failure.
How sad to see how many persons are blun
dering at things for which nature never de
signed them, when in other walks of life they
might have succeeded. Here is a man that un
dertakes to preachjwithout being called, and he
walks about Zion for years unable to hold the
interest of his hearers ; and, finally, after num
berless attempts, lie disappears, having done
far more harm than good ; while, as a work
er in amission Sunday-school, he might have
been a glorious success. Here is another man
who insists on being a poet, and he goes
through life a terror to all into whose way he
presses himself and his verses; and yet, as a
field hand, cultivating corn and wheat and to
bacco, be would be a success.
Among the Indians. —Brother H.
F. Buckner, of Eufaula, Indian Terri
tory, writes under date of August 4th :
“ I am camped with my wife and chil
dren, at Wewoka, 50 miles from home.
Very many Indians are here from far
and near. The arbor was well filled
the first night of the meeting. We
hope for a good meeting. There is
much sickness in camps, chiefly among
the children.”
Our Index Hymn Book is going
rapidly. All who see it praise it. Send in
your orders; 15 cents a copy by the fifty copies
or less.
—That peace is an evil peace that
doth shut truth out of doors. If peaec
and truth cannot go together, truth is
to be preferred, and rather to be chosen
for a companion than peace.
—Common sense is only a modifica
tion of talent. Genius is an exaltation
of it; the difference is, therefore, in the
degree, not nature.
FKAk'ELIS PRINTING HOUSE, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, AUGUST 17, 1876.
Spirit of lire Religious Press,
—An old subscriber writes that he will pay
his subscription for last year’s paper provided
we will first publish certain matter, declined for
good reasons. Is not that like business?—
Texas Baptist.
If that is “business,” we have a few business
people up this way. A subscriber who owes
us $7.15, and who had been dropped from our
list lor non payment, writes us that if we will
forgive him the $7.15 he will take the Recorder
another year and pay $215 for it.—Western
Recorder.
. —Everybody is pinched, and thousands of
pinches concentrate upon religious papers.
They feel the pinch of every subscriber who
delays payment or discontinues his paper.
Some papers have lost thousands of subscribers,
and suffer exceedingly from non-payment of
dues. —Baptist Union
—Here is the way to put revival meetings
into the bloom of practical effect—the Cottgre
galionalist says:
“We have heard of a church that has lately
passed through a season of revival, and that has
since that time paid its debts, and has besides
sent fora thank-offering a handsome sum to a
sister church upon which a heavy pecuniary
calamity had fallen.”
—The Evangel has charity for sleepers, and
utters the following consoling philosophy for
the benefit of preachers afflicted by the pres
ence of drowsy hearers:
As to keeping all men awake, that is simply
an impossibility. St. Paul could not do it.
Under one of his sermons a young man went to
sleep, fell out of the window, and broke his
neck. The ability to put men asleep abides,
but not the ability to repair the broken necks
of drowsy bearers. Jurymen have slept under
one of Rufus Choate's impassioned appeals.
Men and women nod in Plymouth Church,
while the pastor is thundering out his fervid
oratory. A man gave a hundred dollars for a
choice seat to hear Jinny Lind, and went fast
asleep while the Sweedish nightingale was ut
tering the impassioned words: “I know that
my Redeemer liveth.”
Some men are constitutionally dull. Some
lead an active life, and repose and quiet bring
on the spirit of drowsiness. Some serve God
and Mammon; they keep the Sabbath, but
they do double the work on Saturday that they
do on any other day in the week, so that they
are unfitted for spiritual improvement on the
Lord’s day. In spite of all this, the seed is
fruitful, and the word does not return void.
It pleases God still by the foolishness of
preaching to save them that believe.
—To the pastorless churches especially here
is an extract from an article in the Examiner &
Cfuonicle that we commend to their attention :
Churches ought to take into
! considersrioß theivuttf’that 15 ’feyasteViCss 7s
to lack a very important condition of church
life. When the Head of the Church ascended
on High he received gifts for men, among
which were “pastors and teachers.” Pulpit
supplies are not mentioned in that connection.
Without a pastor, a church is too often like a
military company without a commander, a
school without a teacher, possessed of any
amount of latent energy, but putting forth lit
tle effective force. Now and then it may hap
pen that a church is so exceptionally well
trained as to develop sufficient leadership to
keep things in a state of nearly average effi
ciincy. But even in these there is danger of be
coming weary in well doing; while in most
cases, as what ja everybody’s business is no
body’s, the loss of effectiveness is inevitable
and constant. A church without a pastor
should not cease to pray and look for one.
—The Baptist Weekly says:
In former times the wrong churches d'd
was in discarding a pastor after long service.
Jn our modern times with frequent pastoral
changes, it is only here and there that a man
stays so long witli a church that lengthened
service can be regarded as a claim for continu
ance in office. _ So that after serving several
churches, a minister in his old age can scarcely
be regarded by any one of a dozen as having
any special claim on them, and churches are
not generally very anxious to discover any
such obligations. But it will appear to Chris
tion people, rightly thinking of it, that more
of respect and, when necessary, more liberal
help should be given to a faithful man who
has spent his life in serving the churches than
such generally receive. What though lie was
never your pastor. He is a minister of Christ
and at the last your treatment of his servants
will not be adjudged within the narrow bounds
of a single congregation. It will extend far
beyond these arbitrary limits, and whatever
your action may have been, Jesus will say,
“Ye did it unto me.”
Ihe Baptist Standard gives the following
characteristic anecdote of Spurgeon, and draws
a fine moral for it:
Mr. Spurgeon once went to preach in a
church little outside of London. The dav was
wet and muddy, and the pants of Mr. Spurgeon
were plentifully covered with dirt. A good
deacon in the vestry said, “Brother Spurgeon,
let me get a brush and take off some of that
mud, you can’t go into the pulpit in that
state.” “Don’t be foolish, Deacon 1” said Mr.
Spurgeon, in his usual good-humored way,
“don’t you see the mud is wet, and if you try
to brush it off now, you will rub the stain into
the cloth? Let it dry, and then it will come
oft easy enough, and leave no mark.” There is
an admirable hint here for every one. When
evil spoken against, as we may be for the sake
of the truth, and men throw mud at us, don’t
be in a hurry about brushing it off. Too great
eagerness in this respect is apt to rub the stain
into the cloth. Let it dry, and then, by ard
by, if need be, it can be removed by a little ef
fort.
If there is a little trouble in the church, don’t
foster it by haste and hurry in doing something
Let it alone, let it dry, and it will be more
easily settled than you think now. Time has
a wonderful power in such matters, and it is
surprising how many things in this world
would be far better arranged and how many
difficulties easily got over by judiciously letting
them dry.
—The Journal and Messenger hits hard as
follows:
One #f the moral wrongs of this world is a
promise to pay, which is nothing but a pro
mise. We suspect that there exists in the
Southern churches a tendency to inflation,
the Cousequeuces of which fall with crush
ing wT.-et upon such men as Dr. Buckner,
than whom no missionary at home or abroad
is more self-denying.
The Watchman beautifully and eloquent
ly speaks of a subject upon which we took
occasion to express our sentiments in The
Index recently:
TV e are striving to enter on an age of re
fonn reform much needed on this terres
trial planet—can we not make it somewhat
more complete by reforming our funerals ;
” bite we are far from encouraging a return
to the sombre and melaucholy accompani
ments of death which disfigured the obse
qqt> of our ancestors, yet should there not
be an abandonment of the gilded pretentious
ness and trifling frippery which in our day
has become so common? There is soaie
thing subhmely dignified in death. The
calm face, the folded arms, the aspect and
attitude of repose, iudicate that he who
siocps has done forever with shams and
shows, with tinsel trumpery, and fading
finery. Let not the theatrical intrude, let
not the speculator iuvade the realm of time’s
most undissembling reality. Let modesty
and simplicity prepare the body for the
grave ; and let it be borne there in quiet un
ohtiusiveness, not with braying of trumpets
or ”Cf cumstances of worldly pomp. For
symbolic ornament, let nature’s fairest flow
ers or her ripened wheat express in dumb,
eloquent tongue the frailty of life, and at the
same time, proclaim the usefulness, if useful,
ol the one just closed and the fragrance
which it leaves behind. This is all the most
(esthetic taste should crave, aud this not
carried to ludicrous extreme ; and this is all
the most Christian heart will desire by
which to set forth its confidence iu Him,
who, caring for the humblest lily of the
field, cannot forget to transplant the soul
departed in the paradise above.
—This soothing, lofty and eloquent medi
tation is from the Advance ;
“Shall we know each other in heaven ?”
is -('question which Christians often ask
without seeming to see that it strikes at the
very foundation of our belief in the immor
tality ol the soul.
If immortality is bestowed upon us at all,
it is bestowed upon us as individuals. It is
a blessing to be granted to ourselves, not to
someone else. We receive it iu our person
al capacity. The one thing tangible in our
conceptions of immortality is that it is to be
a perpetuation of our individual conscious
ness, of those traits, of that make-up of his
tory and character by which our friends dis
tinguish us from all others. How then can
we fail to know each otaer; and if it is the
region where love becomes perfect, how can
wcjail to love each other iu heaven ?
.'’jn immortality in which our dearest
friends could not recognize us would be an
immortality in which we could not recognize
/i-q , It would be simply the cranio*
of fev. ngs ifa different state A cxioteVice.
The immortality that is not personal is no
immortality at all.
3 he writer referred to says that the condi
s of such a state are out of the region of
experience, and are consequently unthinka
ble. By this he probably means that we can
form no material or sense conceptions ot a
spiritual existence. But are there no con
ceptions save sense conceptions with which
we are familiar ? Or do they form even the
greater portion of. our mental furniture?
We are quite too apt to clothe our ideas of a
future state in the vesture of the iinagiuation.
But throwing imagination aside, and turning
the eye carefully iu upon the action of our
minds, in the region of abstract intelligence,
examining the proofs we have of the activity
of thought even before its advent upon the
arena of consciousness, we find there the
strongest ground for our hope in a future
state that we can have outside of revelation.
—On the subject of Dr. Burrow’s com
munion with the Campbellites the “Religious
Herald” comments:
With the light we possessed, we c mid dis
cern no advantage to the cause of truth or
piety in proclaiming the hasty and indiscreet
act of a good brother. Nor has calm con
sideration changed our view ot tlie case. It
is written : “Charity shall cover the multi
tude of sins.” Mark the language : charity
covers, not merely indiscretions, weaknesses,
and impulsive acts, but “sins,” aye,“the mul
titude of sins.” Now, we suppose, that in
proportion as persons are under the influence
of its lovely grace, they will be inclined to
judge their fellows kindly; and, so far as it
may be done without a breacli of faithfulness,
to apologize and “cover” their faults.
—On “Sunday-school Literature” the
Watchman comments as follows:
The Sabbath school library furnishes many
of our scholars nearly all the reading matter
which they have. This is true specially in
small villages and in rural neighborhoods,
but it is true to a great extent also among
the poor of the larger towns and the cities.
Whatever culture of mind and heart and
imagination they receive is gathered largely
from this source. If we presented to them
an occasional story as a relief from the fatigue
ol graver studier, no one could object; but
when we give them fiction for fifty-two
weeks in the year, and make this the chief
food of their souls, we do them a certain in
jury, though in some respects the impressions
made upon them may be salutary.
—ln an editorial on “Pike and the Religi
ous Herald,” and discussing the position
taken by the latter paper, The Baptists
(Memphis) says:
The position held and advocated by the
Herald is, that the people called liaptists
had no historical existence before the six
teenth or seventeenth century , that they are
only dissenters from Catholic and Protestant
churches, and received their first baptisms
and ordir aliens fiom those corrupt bodies;
and, c< ,(quently, that founders ot Baptist
churches were only rantized persons! If
this is a misrepresentation of the Herald's
position, we will willingly correct. It has
lully endorsed Pike’s positions, in addition
to Eld. Jeter’s own articles on the origin of
the English Baptists.
The Alabama Press Association have pre
sented Col. J. W. Slops, president of the South
and North railroad, a handsome gold-headed
walking cane as a testimonial of their esteem
for him as a gentlemen and an officer.
THE CHHiXSTIAxISr HERALD
of Tennessee.
BAPTIST NEWS AND NOTES.
—A pastor who has long been deterred from
taking collections for missions, by the want of
interest evinced by the leading members of his
church, was finally induced to make the effort,
was surprised to find that, as soon as his peo
ple began to give money for missions, they be
gan to ask information about them; and when
they had given once, they were ready to give
again. Let any pastor, no matter how indif
ferent or how poor his church, give them a
chance to give.
—The church at Bedford, of which John
Bunyan was pastor, was, and is, a “union’
church, which means that anything called
baptism is recognized, and that the church is
made up of Baptists and Pedohaptists. The
natural result has followed. The union egg
has again hatched out a Pedobaptist chick
en. The church is now Pedobaptist.
—The Baptist church at Chapel Hill, North
Carolina, has enjoyed a season of refreshing
from God’s presence. The hearts of his peo
ple have been strengthened for greater sacrifi
cesand more arduous work in His vineyard.
Fifty-five have professed conversion. Forty-two
have been received for baptism, among whom
are six heads of families and some young men
of promise.
—A Baptist brother in Buffalo offers SSOO
to pay for the delivery and publication of a
course of lectures on the “Best way of man
aging the benevolent work of the churches.”
—Columbian College has conferred the hon
orary degree of D.D. on Rev. Luther Rice
Gwaltney, President of the Judson Institute,
Marion, Alabama.
—They are building Baptist meeting-houses
out on the prairies with hopefulness of the fu
ture. Seven have recently been dedicated in
Illinois all free from debt, and each will seat
about three hundred and fifty persons.
—Rev. W. F. Kone received an unanimous
call to the Second Baptist church at Galveston,
Texas. He entered upon the duties of his uew
pastorate immediately.
—At the semi-annual meeting of the South
ern Baptist Publication Society, about S4OOO
profit was reported for the past six months.
- —L. B. Woolfolk, D. D., has resigned the
care of the First Baptist church, Lexington,
Kentucky, to take effect in September.
—The Western Recorder says Rev. J. W.
D. Creatb, of Texas, writes from Clarks
ville, Tennessee :
Dr. Jt-qA's dream has confused, so;n. oft) e
brethren, and Ills position on dancing is calcu
lated to do great harm among the young mem
bers of our churches. lam delighted with J.
M. P.’s review of Dr. Jeter.”
—The recent Baptist State Convention of
Alabama, was the most numerously attended
since the war.
—Alabama intends to raise thirty thousand
dollars for the endowment of the Theological
Seminary at Greenville, South Carolina.
—ln its notice of the late meeting of the Big
Hatchie (Tennesseee) Association, the Baptist
(Memphis) says :
Kind Words was recommended as tha Sun
day-school paper of Southern Baptists. The
proposed publication of 'lhc Little Baptist by
the management of the Southern Baptist Pub
lication Society received no favor, and the
project, altogether premature, is understood as
dropped.
—Says the Religious Herald:
The Evangel (organ of the Baptists ot (he
Pacific coast) does not pay expenses, allowing
nothing tor editing and managing it, and its
owners have changed the subscription price to
$3. strictly in advance, or $4 paid at the end
of the year. The competition among our de
nominational papers has been so close that the
price at which most of them are furnished is
below the cost of publication. The trouble is
that the great mass of onr people are not fond
of reading.
—Alluding to the fact that an organ for the
denomination is to be established in Mississip
pi,and the discontinuance of the Mississippi de
partment of the Baptist, (Memphis) Dr. Graves
says “No one out of the State will oppose
the move, though the great body of Baptists in
it are opposed to it. We are not, for the de
partment has cost us far more than it brought
us.”
—The Baptist has come out in a hand
some new dress, which adds greatly to its ap
pearance. It is a staunch and excellent paper,
and deserves unlimited success.
—Dr. Boyce has secured the services of Rev.
Joseph E. Carter in the interest of the Theo
logical Seminary.
—The editor of the Biblical Recorder has
had the same experience with the freedmen
that Alabama pastors have iiad. Cuffee has not
wished to hear preacing from the whites.—Al
abama Baptist.
To which the editor of the Western Recorder
(Louisville) replies:
Our experience with the colored people has
been quite different. We have been accus
tomed to preach to them more or lees, from the
commencement of our ministry twenty-five
years ago, and we find it quite as easy to get a
hearing from them now, as it was before the
war. Our trouble is that we have no time to
comply with one in ten of the invitations we
have to preach for them.
Anew Baptist church was consecrated
Sabbath before last in Lynchburg, Va. It is
called College Hill Baptist church. An im
pressive discourse was delivered by Dr. Bit
ting, upon Nehemiah, chapter 10, verse 39 :
“We will not forsake the house of our God.”
An eloquent charge to the church was deliv
ered by Rev. Dr. White of Maryland. The
News says:
This interest, under the able and indefatiga
ble superintendence of Rev. B. G. Manard, has
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grown and prospered greatly and bids fair
now that it has an organized existence, to ex’
tend its influence for good, and we predict that
its one hundred and forty-two members will
soon be more than doubled.
It is understand that Rev. Mr. Manard will
be called to the pastorate.
—Mr. David Forssell, a Baptist deacon in
Sweden, promises to contribute from $30,000
to $40,000 of the endowment of an educational
institution at Stockholm, with preparatory, col
legiate and theological departments.
—The Baptists have a Sunday-school in
the Raleigh, North Carolina, penitentiary.
Col. Heck is superintendent, and Governor
Holden is one of the teachers. The indica
tions for good are said to be of a most promis
ing character.
General Denominational News,
—Rev. Mr. Ellison, an aged minister of
Virginia, who has nine churches to take care
of, says his salary lias averaged $l5O per an
num since he entered the ministry.
—The missionary contributions of the Chris
tian Micronesians are paid in cocoanut oil.
The “Morning Star” carries the oil to Hono
lula, where it demands a good price.
—More than one thousand churches in
Great Britain use unfermented wine at the
communion service.
—From the New York Herald we learn that
an Increased revival interest is progressing
among the Jews of that city. Avery large
number have been in attendance at the Fulton
street prayer-meeting for some time past, and
have borne quite a prominent and intelligent
part in the service This company have been
led by Dr. Rosevalley. This gentleman seems
to hold a very strong grip on his nation. He
was converted under the ministry of Rev. Mr.
Hammond at Washington last winter. Rev.
Mr. Almon, Baptist, and Mr. Harris, Methodist
both converted Israelites, have rendered effi
cient service to this new method of work. On
the east side of the city, where the Jews abound,
very interesting meetings are held, and efforts
are being made to secure head quarters for spe
cial labor among them.
—The New York Episcopalian says a Bap
tist minister is the regular assistant of Dr.
Tyng.
—The Congregational churches of Massa- ■
chussetts have a membership of 86,677, which
contributed last year $407,000 to benevolent
objects. Lp
—A circulating library and public reading
room have been added to the agencies employ
ed by the Presbyterian Mission in the ancient
city of Damascus.
—The Southern Methodist Episcopal church
has appropriated SIOO,OOO to foreign missions
for the current year, and laid aside $1,500 for
one of its bishops to visit China and other
Asiatic fields.
—Two missionaries of the London Mission
ary Society at Hankow, China, have been se
verely injured by a mob, while visiting some
Christian converts in the suburbs. The mob
stone! them, and drove them back, yelling,
“Go back to Hankow and preach your Jesus;
we don’t want you or Jesus here.”
—The American Bible Society published
last year 850,470 copies of the Bible, which
makes the total number issued by the society
since its establishment 33,125,766.
—The Bible has been largely distributed
throughout the regions of the River Platte.
Every city in the Argentine and Uraguay Re
pulics have beed visited and some of them re
peatedly. Over 5,000 copies of (lie Scriptures
have been circulated in this field by the Amer
ican Bible Society alone. At first the Bible
was prohibited, denounced from the pulpit and
frequently burnt. Public opinion Is more lib
eral, and Romanism has lost its hold.
—Mr. Moody’s addresses have been printed
in the Malagasy language, the vernacular of
the people of Madagascar.
—lt is said that the Christian Chinamen in
San Francisco “are doing more Christian work
and paying more money for Christian pur
poses, in proportion to their numbers and
abilities, than any other class of Christians.
—According to a San Francisco paper the
Methodists in that city maintain a Chinese
church of forty members, a Sunday-school, and
a night school, also, a refuge and home for
Chinese women. The Presbyterians have a
Chinese mission church of sixty members, a
home for women, and an evening school of 110
pupils. The Baptists have an evening school
attended by 70 scholars, and a Sunday congre
gation of forty Chinamen. There are thirteen
other schools sustained by the churches for the
benefit of the Chinese population.
Graceful. —Yesterday, before the assem
bling of the Democratic Gubernational Con
vention, messengers from (he enterprising and
model printing house of Jas. P. Harrison &
Cos., placed hundreds of appropriately headed
and elegantly printed letter heads, with envel
opes to match, on all desks and stands in the
hall of the House of Representatives, for the
use of the delegates. It was a graceful and
highly appreciated act on the part of our
much esteemed friends, and is chronicled by
the Constitution with a real pleasure.
We clip the above notice from the
Constitution, and gladly give place to it
in our columns, as it chronicles an act
of thoughtfulness and public-spirited
courtesy that would only suggest
itself to the enterprising and gentle
manly firm above mentioned. — Com
monwealth.