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The Christian Index.
VOL. 55 —NO. 32.
Table of Content*.
Piest Page —Alabama Department: Record of
State Event*; Feet Washing; the Harvest.
Field a Golden Lesson of God’s Law—Rev.
D. E. Butler. Spirit of the Religious Press;
Cowper, the Christian Poet; General Denomi
national News; Tocooa City. etc.
Secokd Page —Our Correspondents: Sabbath-
Breaking—B. W. Whilden: Mercer Ui iv> r ity;
' Foies of an Evangelistic Tour—The church
in Lumpkin—Brunswick—South Newport—
Darien—Zion—J. A. Munday; Indian Wayside
Items—H. F. Buckner; A Note from Memphis,
S- Landrum; Notes of Travel—F. 11. Haygood;
Appalachee Association—W. H. Cocroft; Bap
tist Associations! Meetings of South Carolina.
The Old Pastor’s Dismissal—Poetry. General
Meetings: Second District Columbus. Associ
ation; Third District Fairburn Association.
" Third Page —What Constitutes an Evangelioal
Denomination—Essay read at the General
Meeting Third District Flint River Associa
tion, by Rev. E. J. Barksdale, Jonesboro, Ga.
Our Future—Poetry; etc.
Fourth Page.—Editorial: The Practiceof Prim
itive Christians—Rev. J. S. Baker. The True
Conditions of Prayer: Thanksgiving: Edito
rial Paragraphs ; Georgia Baptist News; etc—
Rev. D. E. Butler.
Fifth Page.—Secular Editorials : What is it that
Men most Want; Thinking Evil; Castelar;
The Celebration of Anniversaries ; Billiards :
The Sunday Morning Herald; DeKalb Countv
Sunday-school Convention : Golden Words by
Bishop Huntington; literary Gossip; Gcor
gia Nows ; Foreign and Domestic Notes.
Sixth Page.—Science and Agriculture: The Re
lations of Vegetable Matter to our Soils—A
Lecture read by Prof. J. E. Willet, of Mercer
(’Diversity, before the Georgia State Agricul
tural Society, at its Semi-Annual Meeting, at
Gainesville, Ga., August 8,9, 10, 1876.
Seventh Page.—The Sundav-school: Honest In
dustry-Lesson for Sunday, August 27. 1876.
Sunday-school Convention at Harmony Grove.
Eighth Page.—Publishers’ Department: Estey
Organs: The Fire on the Hearth; Southern
Musical Journal; Railway and Newspaper Di
rectory; University of Maryland. Obituaries
Advertisements.
INDEX AND BAPTIST.
ALABAMA DEPARTMENT.
A fine revival has taken place at Brenton.
Pike county will make twice as much syrup
as ever before.
Montgomery has an indebtedness of $781,-
919 37.
The fall term of the Cherokee Circuit Court
begins the first Monday in September.
Rev. C. H. Skelton, of Scottsboro, has be
come one of the editors of the Alabama Baptist.
Thirty-one additions has recently been
made to the Methodist church in Troy.
Coosa Valley has magnificent crops of corn
and cotton.
*~ Rrv. Frank (truce retiresffro® the editor
ial chair of the Birmingham Iron Age.
Cotton worms have appeared in considerable
numbers in Macon county.
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John H. Spivy, of Henry county, makes 200
bushels of Irish potatoes to the acre.
The health of Greensboro is very good this
summer.
To the 11th, Montgomery had received 70,-
828 bales of cotton this season.
The injury done by caterpillars thus far, is
slight.
Alabama will have eight students next year
in the Theological Seminary.
In Montgomery there were 181 police ar
rests in July.
Rev. Dr. Burgett, of the Government Street
Presbyterian chuich, Mobile, will probably
accept a call to Lexington, Va.
Col. Hardaway, commandant of cadets of
the Agricultural College, is travelling in the
interest of that institution.
The Huntsville New Smith says that corn
will sell as low as 25 cents per bushel in that
section by Christmas.
The Talladega Reporter says that General
Lawler writes from New York that the work
of exchanging bonds is progressing satisfac
torily.
Brother D. G. Lyon has resigned his posi
t ion on the Alabama Baptist, and will study at
the Greenville, South Carolina, Theological
Seminary.
A convention of those in favor of anew
county composed of parts of Blount, Walker
and Winston is to meet in Cullman Septem
ber 3d.
The Demopolis Journal says: From all
parts of the canebrake comes reliable informa
tion that the caterpillars are as numerous al
most as the sands of the sea.
Near White Oak, Barbour county, the 9th, a
young man named Wallace, whose father is a
Presbyterian preacher, was fatally injured by
the caving in of a well in which he was at
work.
Protracted meetings are in progress at Brun
didge, at both the Baptist and the Methodist
churches. Ten new members were baptized
by the Baptist pastor on Sunday before last.
The Troy Messenger says: The cotton in
the neighborhood of Orion is pretty generally
affected with black rust, which farmers say is
worse than caterpillars. We are glad to learn,
however, that it prevails in but a limited ter
ritory.
THE SOUTH-WESTERN ~R A PTTRT,
of Alabama.
FEET WASHING.
Sometime ago one of our subscri
bers sent us this question: “Is feet
washing a command or not?” He
also said that the subject had caused
some confusion in his region of the
country. The allusions in the New
Testament to this subject are but few :
John xiii;l., Tim. v. In John, we
have an account of the tonching ser
vice performed by the blessed Saviour
for His followers. Nothing could be
more tender and instructive. The
Lord condescended to this lowly duty,
and thereby taught aud illustfated
the humility of every genuine Chris
tian. His disciples looked on in
amazement, without the power of re
sistance until Peter, who was always
foremost in speaking, said, “Lord dost
Thou wash my feet?” And again,
“Thou shalt never wash my feet.” To
which the Lord replied in terms so con
vincing, that Peter accepted the ser
vice of his Master, and was washed as
the others.
After the Saviour was through, and
had resumed His place at the table, He
gave them a brief explanation of what
had occurred. A portion of the lesson
is in these words : “If I, then, jour
Lord and Master, have washed your
feet; ye also ought to wash one anoth
ers feet, for I have given you an exam
ple, that you should do as I have done
to you.” John xiii: 14, 15. These
verses are the texts on which the
duty and practice is founded. The
language is clear ; it cannot be misun
derstood. The duty is taught after it
had been most impressively performed ;
the example preceded the precept.
That the words ouyht and should are
to bo construed as commanding this
duty to be observed as an ordinance of
the church, we do not believe. But we
once heard a learned and pious Baptist
minister of Georgia say, in reference
to these verses, that if the language in
reference to baptism was as explicit as
these words are on feet-wasbing,
Pedobaptism would have no shadow of
support in the word of God. He did
not infer therefrom that the duty was
an ordinance of the churches, nor did
he claim that it should be done in the
house where the church met. for wor
ship, and nowhere else.
The injudicious discussion of this
subject has often produced confusion.
We not believe it to be an ordinance of
the Lord’s house.
“ If ye know these things, happy aie
ye if ye do them.” This blessing would
come if the saint’s feet were washed at
home, or on the highway, anywhere;
wherever the occasion should require.
In the example set by the Saviour, he
teaches us to perform any menial ser
vices demanded for the comfort or the
necessities os our brethren. Such ser
vice must be voluntary, and must be
done as a matter of course, “without
partiality or hypocrisy.”
There is further illustration of our
opinion of this subject afforded inV.
Tim., ebap. i: x., where a description of
the duties of saints is given, as in the
case of the widow. It inculcates the
lesson that feet-washing is not a special
church rite, but is an act proper at all
timep, and expressive of the cordial
fraternal relationship that should ob
tain among the followers and disciples
of Jesus Christ.
In these davs there are some who
would not adventure the tip of their
little finger in tbe fire for Christ’s sake;
but it was not so of olden time. When
a Roman emperor wanted amusements,
he ordered Christians to be thrown to
tbe lions. During the first 300 years of
the Christian church, there were ten
persecutions. The last was during the
reign of Diocletian, which continued
for ten years, when “ Diocletian’s fiery
sword worked busy as the lightning.”
He caused a medal to be struck, bear
ing the motto, “ The Christian religion
is destroyed, and the worship of the
gods restored.” In Spain two pillars
were erected in his honor, “ for having
everywhere abolished the superstition
of Christ, and extended the worship of
the gods."
But it was all to no purpose. Those
who had been with Jesus triumphed;
FRANKLIN PRINTING HOUSE, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, AUGUST 24, 1876.
His Gospel spread, and like the mus
tard seed became a great plant. The
Gospel increased, its enemies decreased.
The mighty emperors who persecuted
the church perished. Diocletian was
driven from his throne and died a
madman; Nero perished by his own
hand ; Domitian was murdered bv his
seivants; Hadrian expired in agony;
Severus, through his son’s treachery ;
Decius perished in a marsh ; Valerian
was flayed alive by the Persians; so
the fighters against God were all found
to be liars, and perished, all the sorts
of them. Jesus, the little babe of
Bethlehem ; Jesus, the worker iu the
carpenter’s shop, the despised and re
jected, the Man of Sorrows acquainted
grief, proves stronger than all the
kings on the earth, although they and
the rulers take counsel against Him ;
Jesus conquers because He is God as
well as man, and they who trust in Him
are more than conquerors through Him
who loved us and givethus the victory.
The harvest field is a golden lesson
of God’s law of work as the condition
of reward. All you see in the rich
landscape is the kindly wages paid by
Him to industry. The sweat of human
brows must water the earth to make
it fruitful. That sea of brown wheat,
stirred by the soft air, is transfigured
toil. The reaper is only the last of
many workers round the year; net
even the last, for is there not the
threshing-floor and winnowing, with
much besides, before it comes to bread ?
Left to themselves, our richest valleys
would soon fall back to rank wilder
ness. Patient duty is the price exacted
for all harvests, of the soil, and of all
else. Tlere is ro royal road to God’s
bounty in the fruits of brain, or heart,
or life, or nature. Spring and summer
must go before autumn ; spring with
its sowing, summer, with its waiting,
and its hopes and fears. True progress
is slow as that of the yellow ear from
the green blade. Working and wifit
ing ji.re the two poles of all healthy
profit, higher or lower. Tropical spon-i
taneousness corrupts, thrifty toil is
the one condition of true thriving.
The Marion Commonwealth says : Our farm
ing friends, especially those in the prairie, are
decidedly blue on the worm question at this
time. The cotton on the black lands, where
rains have been frequent, is poor at best, and
the early appearance of the dreaded worm
cuts off all expectations of even a half crop.
The Alabama Baptist well says:
Emigrants will find it to their advantage to
come to Alabama. It is healthy, cultivated
and well governed. There is no richer State
in the Union, whether in mineral resources or
agricultural products. The State is threaded
by railways, traversed by rivers, and the land
is cheap.
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 the desirable object.— Christian
Index of August 10.
Our neighbor is mistaken. A history of
the Alabama Baptists has been written by
Rev. Hosea Holcombe, a.td it is a valuable
work, worthy of republication and of a sup
plement bringing down the histoiy to the
present time. —Alabama Baptist.
The Eufaula Times reports the sad death of
Mr. Mellville Wallace, son of Rev. A. J.
| Wallace, of Clayton. He was cleaning out a
well, when the cutbing upon which the wind
! lass rested gave way, the bucket full of sand
and water descended on his head and fractur
ed his skull.
The recent heavy rains have unearthed or
washed bare, on the premises of Mr. A. J. Due,
West Wetumpka, some relics of a strange
people, the former inhabitants of this country,
the veritable red man. A little son of Mr.
Due, a few days since, made the discovery of
a lot of beads, interspersed with a lot of brass
wires, bent in somewhat the form a triangle.
A few bits of human bones were also found,
with the point of the lower jaw in which were
several teeth in a remarkable state of preserva
tion. There were near a quart of the beads
which mostly were white and one-fourth to
one-half inch in length, streaked with dark
red occasionally, which seemed to be natural.
A few blue were mixed in and one or two red,
similar to what is known among our people
as the blood bead. They are of a substance
seemingly hard as flint. Part of a gold ear ring
was also found. Mr. Due thinks the body must
have been buried in a sitting posture.
At a protracted meeting at Fellowship
church, six miles west of Plantersville, under
the labors of Rev. G. W. Mills, pastor, and
Rev. I. U. Wilkes, twenty-four additions were
made to the church.
Spirit of the Religious Press,
There is a deal of sound sense and practi
cal experience in the following, which we
transfer out of the Western Recorder , with inr
full endorsements as to its correctness and
point:
One of our most faithful and successful
agents writes, “There is a great deal of dissat
isfaction among subscribers about your send
ing their papers after the time is oub”
Is that so ? Why then don’t ihey say so to
us ? It costs but one cent for a subscriber to
send that information to this office. It is a
rule with us to stop every man’s paper when
he says so. We take no advantage of any
one. We keep standing on our Bth page the
terms on which the paper is sent out. We
there state plainly that all. snßkcriptions are
continued until ordered stopped. If then a sub
scriber wants his paper stopped, all that he has
to do is to pay up his account and so order it.
It is scarcely decent or respectable to order a
paper discontinued without paying up all ar
rearages.
But we have found that in nine cases in ten
those who complain thatilie paper is sent over
the time are those who don’t want to pay for
it. They ilo not object to our sending the pa
per but to our collecting the money. Some,
and they are not a lew, will take the Record r
for months and even years, and not say a word
about Stopping ; they will not even reply to a
polite dun through the paper or by letter, but
when an agent calls on them for the money
they complain that the paper was not stopped
in time! Such conduct is just about as honor
able as it would be in a man who should go to
a hotel and board one, two or three days, and
when called on for the cash, should say,
“When I came here I intended to stay only
one day, and you have let me remain two or
three days. Why didn’t you kick me out on
the morning of the second day 1”
—Says the Watchman:
A snob, in common parlance, is a vulgar up
start who apes gentility, and is continually
boasting of his aristocratic friends. The reli
gious snob is, if possible, more contemptible
than the social snob. An instance of this kind
of snobbishness has lately come to our notice,
and deserves more than a passing mention.
The Christian Advocate, a Methodist paper pub
lished in this cily gave its readers the follow
ing bit of news as an “Interesting Ceremony
“A private note from Rev. Dr. Newman, of
the Metropolitan Methodist church, Washing
ton, bearing date of Friday last, contained,
among other items of interest, the following:
‘I go to baptize Col. Fred Grant’s infant daugh
ter. The President is to stand as godfather,
and Mrs. Honore, the maternal grand mother,
is to be godmother. The ceremony is to take
place at tbf White House, and the water to be
used is from the river Jordan. I brought it
over at Mr '. Grant’s request.”
This wad two much for even Methodists to
swallow. Accordingly the New Orleans Chris
tian Advocate, also a Methodist paper, speaks
right out it .tneeting, and snubs its namesake
in this wa* tiC. ,
“ Wry iouialii’g. we should Bay, it uot won
derful—t.v /ordinary. ' Water all 'the way
from the Jordan, brought by Parson Newman,
and by hitfu applied 1 Then there is to be a god
father and a godmother, and by what ritual is
this to be done ? This makes an epoch indeed
in an eventful if not an illustrious life. “I go
to baptize Col. Fred Grant’s infant daughter.”
Blarney and toady sublimated 1”
The rebuke is well-timed, and comes with
the better grace in that it is given by a brother
Methodist.
—The Western Rccindvr in’a fine article on
“saving for old age” touching upon the wis
dom of saving money against a time of want;
saving health and saving morality, pointedly
admonishes young men to lay up a good
stock of sound religious convictions :
A good stock of sound religious convictions,
is the very best “stock” which a young man
can lay aside for his declining years. Reli
gion is beautiful in youth. But it is when the
silver hairs are whitening for tile grave that it
sheds its brightest radiance upon life. An old
man who must soon finish his career in this
wirld and yet who has little or no hope of the
next, is certainly one of the saddest of all
earthly spectacles. There is a pathos in that
desperale clinging to life which such old peo
ple often manifest, which to a thoughtful reli
gious mind, is painful beyond expression. But
an aged man whose life lias been one of use
fulness and virtue, and whose advancing years
are but the mellow autumn of a rich harvest
time of blessings for the race, and all this
crowned and glorified with the light of settled
religious convictions and the radiance that
streams through the opening gateways of the
better land —such an old age is, to our minds,
the fairest fpectacle this side of Heaven.
—The Watchman (Boston) is rapidly becom
ing one of the most pronounced political pa
pers in the country. Its issue of Angus! 10th
was specially devoted to partizan disquisitions.
At this rate it will soon be almost impossi
ble to tell whether we are infringing upon our
able contemporary’s political prerogatives in
classing it with religious papers or not.
—Dr. Graves says of Dr. Burrows : “He is
more culpable to-day than Berhends, for he
went out from us belore he violated liis avow
ed faith; but Dr. B. remains to defend infrac
tions of Baptist policy.” Since reading Dr.
Burrows’last card, we are very much of the
same opinion with Dr. Graves .—Baptist Re-
Ilector .
Under the head of “Wanted—Moral Stam
ina’’ the Examiner and Chronicle makes the
following good points—their constant consid
eration is essential :
Orthodoxy in faith, rectitude in practice—
these are the two great needs of the church of
Christ to-day. It is an old and oft repeated
charge against that church, that in its zeal for
the former it looses sight of the importance of
the latter. Too often this reproach is well
deserved. Too often churches fail to guard as
“the immediate jewel of their souls” that spot
less purily, that chivalrous sense of honor,
which should characterize them always and
everywhere.
None value more highly than we soundness
in “the faith which was once delivered unto
the saints.” It is indispensable. No church
THE CHHISTIAH HERALD
of Tennessee.
can long hope to render efficient service Jo
Christ unless it holds fast the form of sound
words in faith and lone. But important as
this is, it is not the only important thing.
Loose doctrine is bad enough, but loose moral
ity is certainly no better. The church of Christ
must be irreproachable. It must be pervaded
by such an atmosphere of morality and honor,
that the most carping critic can find no pre
text fora taunt.
For the Index and Baptist.]
COWPER, THE CHRISTIAN POET.
Milton says that a poet in his life
and person ought to be a true poetn.
This obligation Cowper has fulfilled, if
the author of Paiadise Lost means
that the poet should be the embodi
ment of his own moral or intellectual
ideas. Faith and love form the key
note of that exquisite melody evoked
by the muse of William Cowper. That
faith which fastens on God as the- su
preme author of all good —that love
which attunes the heart in sympathy
with everything noble, sublime and
beautiful in moral or phj sical nature.
The character of our author is the em
bodiment of these two ideas, or prin
ciples ; in fact they are the true kejr
note to that life whose trembling and
shattered chords have been made to
breathe the very music of sorrow and
despair. His powers as a writer were
not fully developed until he had reached
the mature age of fifty. It was about
this time that The Task, his master
piece, was given to the world. It at
once became universally popular, and
established his fame as a great and
original writer. After this he attempt
ed a translation of Homer, but failed,
so the critics say, as signally as Pope
had done before him. But this failure
did not detract from the fame he had
already acquired. His laurels are fade
less and enduring, and so long as the
English language shall continue to be
used, will the poetry of Cowper be
studied and admired. Tbe greater part
of the life of the poet was spent with
the family of the Unw'ns, first at Hunt
ingdon, afterwards s' Olney, in Buck
inghamshire. Many-yc-ars were passed
in the most peaceful avocations, and in
the society of devoted and sympathis
ing friends. How often in imagination
have we looked into that little circle of
friends gathered beneath the humble
roof at Olney ! There are Mrs. Unwin,
the ever faithful companion, lady Hes
ketb, the kind, thoughtful relation, and
Johnny, the frank, warm-hearted boy,
who has consented to lay aside his fun
anjd his pranks for a while to learn wis
doim from lips that speak it always mQst
tenderly and And there," "in
their midst, is our gentle, sensitive
poet, forgetting his miseries for once in
society so congenial and delightful.
Always shy and sensitive towards
strangers, his character seems trans
formed altogether in the presence of
these loving and sympathizing friends
Here, in the atmosphere of affection,
his genial sympathies brighten and ex
pand, and enchant all who were within
the magic circle of their influence.
Never did mortal man as richly repay
the loving care of ftiends and relations.
He felt for them the tenderest, most
abiding affection, and next to his faith
in God was his faith in human love and
sympathy. In studying the social side
of his character our admiration for his
intellectual triumphs is lost in the
stronger feeling of love we entertain
for the man himself. But this gentle,
affectionate being could become at times
the severe moralist, the stern censor of
the morals and manners of his age.
But his severest censures are reserved
for that church whose spiritual relapse
had driven more than one soul from
her bosom. In speaking of her degen
eracy, Thackeray says it was no wonder
that Whitfield cried out in the wilder
ness that the Wesleys left the insulted
temple of God to pray in the valleys
and on the hilltops. Her spiritual con
dition was indeed lamentable. Scarcely
a vestige of true life remained in her.
Her clay, cold corpse was galvanized into
artificial emotion by meaningless forms
and pompous ceremonies, but the fact
remained evident that all true growth
and life were extinct. Her ministers
were corrupt and worldly. Profane
bauds had laid hold of the Ark of the
Lord. In the language of our poet,
they had failed to be serious in a se
rious cause ; have courted a grin jvhere
they should have won a tear. There
were many who deplored this state of
things. Many Elijahs in the wilder
ness mourning over Zion’s desolation ;
many Marys who stood beside the gar
nished but empty sepulchre, crying,
“ They have taken away my Lord, and
I know not where they have laid him.”
There were none who more deeply de
plored her condition than Cowper. He
rebukes her priests in language at once
true and severe. Then in gentle accents
he paints his ideal preacher, “such as
Paul approved and owned.” There is
no sadder tale than that of Cowper’s
death. It was clouded by doubt, by
irremediable gloom. It was the hid
ing cf His power, which the Psalmist
deprecates, that drove Cowper to the
verge of despair; that rendered his
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death.hour a scene of unmitigated
wretchedness and horror. In pity we
draw the veil over the li r e that ended
so miserably, so hopelessly for the lov
ing friends whose tender sympathy
proved utterly futile to cast one linger
ing gleam of hope over the thick dark
ness that encompassed it. But for the
future life of such a man we can have
no doubt. When the last earthly
scene of wretchedness was over, when
the deep waters had been passed for
ever, who can doubt that the glories of
the upper world burst upon the enrap
tured gaze of the poet, and that the glo
rified spirit of William Cowper is now
resting in the bosom of his God ?
_ M. B. A.
General Denominational less,
—Our country has produced not a few re
markable sects, but none more remarkable than
the “Fullerites” or “Howlandites.” Their
habitat is Connecticut, and of all the queer peo
ple in that State, they ate the queerest. Ihe
sect was founded some twenty years ago by Mr.
Frederick T. Howland, a Quaker of New-Bed
ford. After his death Mr. Leonard C. Fuller
became the head of the community. Their re
ligious belief in many points is said to resem
ble lhat of the Adventists, but diflers from it
in the vital point that the reign of Christ under
the looked-for new dispensation is to be spirit
ual, not personal. They eat no flesh, and live
chiefly upon farnaceous food. While follow
ing the apostolic plan of having all property
in common, they neither many nor are given
in marriage. They wear no jewelry, and dress
with the utmost plainness. In short, mix Ad
ventism and Quakerism together, add a dash
of Shakerism, and you have the “Fuilerites”
toaT. The sect numbers about twenty!
—The statistical summary of ihe Presbyte
rian church exhibits 705 candidates for the
ministry—an increase from last year, 29 ; li
censures, 159—eight less than last year ; ordi
nations, 137—20 less than last year ; ministers,
4.744 an increase of 38 (53 came from, and
27 were dismissed to, other denominations,
making the increase from within, 12) ; church
es, 5,077 —an increase of 78; communicants,
535,210—a gain of 29,176 (48,240 were “added
on examination”); “adult baptisms,’ 15,753
—a gain of 5,107 ; “infant baptisms,”—lß,9B7
—increase, 1,293. The number of licensures
and ordinations, though less than last year,
is above the general average for five years.
The contributions reported for all purposes
were J 9 810,223, a sum equal to the expendi
ture, of tht United States Government sixty
age-
Foi the Index and itaptist.
TOCCOA CITY, GKOHGIA.
I have just made a most delightful
visit to this bea'iitiful town. I preached
twice to the people , was most cordially
received,and my Seminary cause greatly
aided. A more generous, kind-hearted
people I have never met. Rev. P. S.
Whitman, the pastor of the Baptist
church here, is one of the truest and
noblest of our Georgia brotherhood,
and is doing a great work for Christ in
that region. I was particularly im
pressed with his earnestness, intelli
gence, energy and whole-souled Chris
tian liberality. In bis quiet and se
ceded home, I spent many happy hours
in the society of himself, excellent wife,
and other friends. My stay with other
families, and repeated invitations, all
warrant the assertion that the people
of Toccoa are “ given to hospitality.”
In another article, some time, I wish to
speak of a suggestion of brother
Whitman, as to a resort for Baptist
ministers in that region. I visited the
beautiful Toccoa Falls, and enjoyed
tbe beautiful scenery.
M. B. Wharton.
Correction—Dear Index : As your types
have been taking liberties with my articles,
will you please correct the following more im
portant errors which appeared in the last num
ber? The last sentence of paragraph “1”
should read thus : “Not a single instance has
been found where (not when) the word baptise
can possibly have such a meaning i. e. pour.
In paragraph ‘3” it should be “they talk cur
rently of baptizing,’’ etc. In the last para
graph the omission of a dash has destroyed the
meaning. The sentence should be, “This pro
viso, however, is an inseparable barrier—that
one instance has not been found.” The last
sentence in the article should read thus: “I
envy not the perspicacity of the man who is
unable to find immerse as the meaning oi bap
tize, and yet is able to find sprinkle, or pour, or
pour upon.’’ J. H. Kilpatrick.
“If one subsciibes to a pastor’s salary, and is
able to pay and don’t, he should be dealt with
by the church for failing to make good his
contract.”— Prof. J. T. Avurctt, of Va.
How many of our readers would have to be
dealt with, if that was the rule in this section?
Baptist Reflector.
How about those who subscribe to
their denominational paper, and are
able to pay, and don’t ? How should
they be dealt with ?
Speaking of Mossy Creek College, the In
dex says: “Itis an excellent institution, and
tuition and board are reasonably cheap.” Do
you think $7 only reasonably cheap, when
board at Mercer is from sl2 to S2O ? — Baptist
Reflector.
Brother Reflector, do you wish us to
say that it is unreasonably cheap ?