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The Christian Index VOL. 55-NO. 33. Table of Con tents. FIRST Page.— Alabama Department : Record of State Events; Spirit of the Religious Press ; Baptist News and Notes ; General Denomina tional News ; Notes of Travel in Georgia; etc. Second Paoe.— Our Correspondents: “Terns of Commumon’'—G. R. McCall; The Coosa. Association—T. C. Boykin : Good Meeting at Indian Creek—J. M. Stillwell; Memory; A Model Sermon—Poetry : Mount Olive Churob i—J. G. Speights ; A Pastor Wauted ; Ordina tion—Mount Fisgah Churoh, Montgomery County; Inquiry ; Is it Right to Take Up Col lections for Religious Purposes in Our Sunday schools?—C. H. Stillwell Select Miscellany: Explorations Around the River Jordan ; etc. Third Paoe.— B< arching the Scriptures : “Epis copacy Tested”—An Essay on Apostolic Suc cession—The Baptist Churches of the Present Day—Pedobaptism Considered. Fourth Paoe.— Editoiial: The Lord's Day vs. The Jewish Sabbath—Rev. 8. G. Hillyer. Mer cer University; Georgia Baptist News : The Word of God is Like Music; Revival at Greens ville, Fla.; Great and Little Sins; Trust in God is No Matter of Mere Sentiment—Rev. D. E. Butler. Letter from South Carolina; etc. Fifth Paoe— Secular Editorials : What Differ ence Does it Make; Labor and Capital; A Good Wife to a Man of Wisdom is Strength and Courage; The Drones; Judge James Jackson’s Address; A Free Tress; The Sa tanic in Literature; A Question; Last Days; Flint River Association ; Georgia News ; etc. Sixth Page. —The Bunday-school: Lesson for September 3, 1876; Sabbath-school Conven tion- etc. Seventh Paoe. —The Farm : Remedy for Chick en Cholera—Max Wier : Remedy for Hog Chol era—D. M. Barkley, M.D. Eighth Paoe.— Publishers’ Department; Trib ute of Respect; Obituaries ; Advertisements. INDEX AND BAPTIST. ALABAMA DEPARTMENT. In July, there were 151 deaths in Mobile. Diptheria is prevailing in Jacksonville. Rust is on the cotton in Clarke county. The fall term of Talladega circuit conrt begins 11th prox. Opelika will soon have anew Methodist church. The real estate of Montgomery is assessed at $4, 789, 550. k Caterpillar have appeared in Henry county cotton fields. Dr. T. J. Palmer has assumed editorial con trol of the Greenville South Alabamian. A Y. M. C. A. has been organised in Talladega. The 'name of the postoffiee at Manack, Lowndes county, is changed to Burkeville. The Supreme Court has adjourned until December. Nice beef sells in Montevallo at four cents at pound. The daily issue of the Birmingham Inde pendent will be resumed on the Ist of October. The new cotton mill in Selma will soon be ready for operation. William M. Marks, Esq., an Bged and prominent citizen ofMontgomery, is dead. Reports from the prairie counties say that the caterpillar have stripped the large cotton plantations in that region. Wm. Farnham (colored) has been locked out of his church, and threatened, for voting the Democratic ticket in Monroeville. Messrs. Turner A Simpson, of Birmingham, have patented a valuable improvement; in railroad locomotives. The protracted meeting in the Brundidge Baptist church closed after most fruitful pro gress. Forty-eight were added to the church. The Montgomery Mail says the r utlook for cotton iB very glocmy. The corn crop is the best ever made. The Rev. C. H. Skelton, of Scottsboro, has moved to Marion, for the purpose of aiding in editing the Alabama Baptist. The Public School Board of Montgomery, have elected Mr. M. C. Davis a Principal of the Public Schools in the city vice Prof. Hogg resigned. The Montgomery papers report the death of a young man of their county, named Daniel Lord, in a strange manner. He'was seining, with others, in Weaver’s mill pond, and at tempted to swim across the pond, holding two live fish in his mouth. One of the fish, a perch, worked its way into his throat and strangled him. His companions got him out of the water alive, but he died of strangulation in a few minutes. The fish was afterwards taken from his throat. —The Century of Oospel M r ork gives the fol lowing as the increase of ministers in the lead ing Protestant denominations of the country since 1776; Methodist from 20 to 20,<53; Baptist from 370 to 19,517 ; Presbyterian from 140 to 7,954; Congregational from 575 to 3,- 233; Lutheran from 25 to 2,662; Reformed German from 25 to 623; Reformed Dutch from 25 to 476 ; Episcopalian from 250 to 3,- 140 ; Moravian from 12 to 75. There are al together about 60,000 clergymen in the Uniftd States. THE SOUTH-WESTERN BAPTIST, of Alabama. Spirit of tile Religious Press, —The New York Methodist hurls these ring ing words at the selfishness of the British na tion, in connection with the terrible onslaught of the Turks upon the Christians in the rebel lious provinces: The situation is an awful one. Turkish prisons have been emptied to fill up barbarian armies; peaceful provinces have been laid waste by fanatical irregular troops. One Sul tan has been murdered and a drunkard, stag gering to the grave with delirium tremens, reigns in his stead ; every Christian in Turkey is in daily peril of assassination; the wretched government is as poor as a Sioux tribe, and as expensive as a bankrupt estate, and, to make the time one for serious thought, Servia seems to be at the mercy of the savage horde pour ing into her valleys. Christian people in this country ought to speak plainly to their English brethren. These atrocities, these indecencies, could not exist, but for English gold and Eng lish guns. There are other ways of preserving the balance of power —and if there were not, it cannot be maintained by heaping one scale with slaughtered Christians. The Christian world demands an account of imperial Britain, and a change of policy. There has been more than enough of these horrors—they have be come unendurable. The unholy alliance be tween the Turk and the Englishman must be broken. —The Christian Register makes these points: “ The Christian Giver says, ‘ the offering of swine’s flesh’ under the old dispensation would not have been more abominable than the prac tice of raising money at ‘church fairs’ by raffles, grab-bags, fish-pools, sham post-offices, ring-cakes, etc. We know of one Unitarian minister who gave notice of a church fair, but added, that ‘although the money was to be raised tor religious purposes, there would be no gambling.’” —The Western Baptist says there is a preach er in Arkansas, who has missed no appoint nient in sixteen years regular preaching, and one year walked twenty-eight miles to a month ly appoinlment. —The Baptist stringently comments on the too-prevalent sin among church members of making promises that are never kept. It holds the following powerful argument: There is one phase of dishonor among church members that is a great shame to the Christianity of the nresont day—that is, the reckless promises on subscriptions and the shameful failures to meet them. There are too many subscriptions taken at Conventions and Associations unless they were more promptly met. It is so common to make pledges, that many brethren feel that they would hardly be deemed liberal Christians if they did not subscribe as often and as much as others, and it is lo be regretted that many pledges teem to be made for mere show. It a imeliow occurs that many such pledges are. made and soon forgotten by those who made them, as though Christian obligations were as light as chaff, and promises made under what we call religious feeling had no binding force. It is scarcely expected that half the amount of such pledges will be paid. If any one thinks that such a source is not displeasing to God, let him read the account of the pledge and failure of Ananias and Sapphira io the fifth chapter of the Acts of the Apostles, and how God dealt with them. It is not a shame to churches when their subscribtions, even to their pastors, are not reliable? Church members make pledges year after year and never pay them, and yet are held in fellowship, and by many deemed honorable Christians. This has be come so common that the dishonor of it is scarcely thought of; and has it come to that, that the promise of a Christian is worthless? That the pledge of a church of Jesus Christ is not reliable ? Is it not time for a reformation? Let Christians think and act. Let the sin be blotted out, and,the standard of.Christian honor be raiseed higher. —“lt is a thing to be borne in mind,” says the Standard, “by American Christians, as well as by others, that if re'igiori has uses for art —which is tiue—still when these in any sense or to any degree become themselves to a re ligion, they are scarcely lesß false and mis 'eadinp than the Madonnas and crucifixes of Papistiy, or the wood and Btone idols of Pag anism itself —The Catholic World for August has an ar ticle on “The Next phase of Catholicity in the United States,” in which it says that church has a better chance now than in Cath olic countries. It urges, now that such pro gress has been made in building churches, cathedrals, schools and asylums, that atten tion shall now be given to colleges and uni versitee. —The Standard, briefly discussing another view of the church taxation question, re marks : Those who advocate the taxation of church property lave no idea of the amount of vol untary taxation which they assume, which but for them would be a chaige upon the property of the general public. On this sub ject the New York Observer remarks that “men of the world do not realize that our churches are vast charitable organizations. Nearly all of the public poverty is among those who will not submit to religious influence and church discipline.” The Hebrew Association of New York alone, spent $43,495 for the relief of their poor, which relieves the public treasury to this extent. So it is the country over. Christian churches spend vast sums contin ually for the same purpose, of which no ac count is made, —Relative to immersed Pedobaptists, the Baptist Weekly says: In the past lew months, in a number of in stances, persons have desired to be immersed, previous to uniting with Pedobaptist churches and Congregational, Presbyterian, Episcopal and Methodist pastors have administered the “one baptism” known to the New Testament. It seems really better than letting the con verts go to the Baptists, but it may not be so, if their churches should have any considera ble number of immersed adherents. For in stance, Dr. Landels reports, that lately the Congregational pastor of an English “Union” church called the Baptist members together, and told them that they must either cease to talk about their distinctive doctrine, or leave FRANKIIN PRINTING HOUSE, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, AUGUST 31, 1876. the church. These people preferred to keep a good conscience and left the church. While such cases prove what a mocking and delu sion it is for Baptists to hope to conciliate others, unless they abjure all rights of personal thought and speech, if shows what dangerous germs may be introduced into a Congrega tional, Episcipal.or Methodist church. There fore, our brethren who congratulate them selves on keeping these people from the Bap tists, will do well to “rejoice with rembling.” —The Standard, under the caption : “Can anybody tell us,” reads the churches a well de served lecture, which we trust will be produc tive of mnch good : We read in the Alabama Baptist, first, that “no man acquainted with the religious destitu tion in that State can doubt that it is mission ary ground.” Second —that “the work done by Rev. T. M. Bailey, one of the missionaries of the State Board, is almost incredible.” Third —that, “with all the glorious results achieved hy him, the deplorable fact stares us in the face that he has not been sustained.” Here are three facts following one another. What we want to be told is, why has this missionary not been sustained ? Were this an isolated case, it would not ap pear so singular. But there are hundreds of others the country over, where pastors have been called from their work by the authorized voice of the denomination, and put into the field under a solemn covenant and promise of a salary, and then have not been sustained! We know of political emissaries who are sent into the field to conduct a campaign, who art paid five times more than is ever promised any mis sionary. Why the money of Christians is not as readily given as that of politicians, iB what we Would like to know. BAPTIST NEWS AND NOTES. —The Baptist church in Edgefield, Tennes see, pays its pastor, Rev. W. A. Nelson, week ly and so keeps out of debt. Our Southern Mission Board has appro priated S2OO to help the Second church in Knoxville, Tennessee. —Representatives were present, at the Mis sissippi Baptist Slate Convention, from 69 churches, 18 Associations and two Ladies’ Aid Societies. Of 143 delegates, 71 were ministers and 72 lavmen. —The Baptist colleges in the West are hav ing rather a hard lime, according to a corres pondent of the Examiner and Chronic!e. Two of the professors at Georgetown College, Ken lucky, have resigned, owing to the financial condition of the Institution. Bethel College, Rnsselville, Kentucky, has also had trouble, while the South Western-University at Jack sonville, Tennessee, “has come to a stand still for want of funds," both the President and the agent having resigned. —A student of William Jewell College, Missouri, hy the name of Crouch is evangeliz ing with wonderful success during vacation. He is a native of tennesgee. He received about eighty inlo the church at Plattesburg, eighty or more at Providence, and 116 or 116 at Platte City, and is now preaching with fine success in Independence. —The Baptist church at Culpepper stands on the site, and partly on the foundation, of the old jail in which Baptist ministers were once imprisoned for preaching the Gospel contrary to the laws of the colony. —The new Broadway church, Louisville, (Dr. Burrow’s,) will he ready for occupancy in October. —The Chinese Mission work in California is being conducted hy the Baptist churches in San Francisco. Missionaries have been ap pointed, and Mission premises rented, and the work commenced under very auspicious cir cumstances. This is the plan which the Home Mission Society has for sometime urged upon the brethren in California: The responsibili ty of carrying on the work is in the hands ot those,who, being on the field, can give their personal supci vision to the work, and thus en sure a gretlsr efficiency than if the responsi bility of the work remained in a Board, 3,000 miles and more from the field of operatons. —The Baptist church at Elkhart, Indiana, has increased from 85 to 190 in twelve months. —The committee appointed by the Board of the Home Mission Society, New York, to select a Secretary to fill the place of Dr. Bishop have unanimously made choiceof Rev. Dr. Cutting. Dr. Cutting has decided to ac cept the appointment, and will assume the duties of the office early in September. —Dr. Breaker has resumed the charge of Second church, Chattanooga, temporarily. He still adheres to his determination to leave the State, but will serve the church for a few months. TF.iVVESSEE IMPTIST SEWS. Rev. L. B. Fish rites: “ I am just home from the Cumberland As sociation, which met near Springfield. It has been, organized five years, and numbers twenty five churches, and about 3,000 members. Most of the churches have Sunday-schools, and take a great many Kind Words. Two churches were received—Clarksville and the Third Nashville. Much interest was manifested re garding tl e Southwestern Baptist University. Some means were raised toward its endow ment by the financial agent, Dr. Shelton. Dr. Caperton, of the Western Recorder, Dr. Gard ner, of Bethel College, Ky., biother Chaw doin, of the Home Mission Board, were pres ent. The meetings were quite devotional, and a large number asked prayer, and some found precious rest in Jesus before the meeting closed. Maj. Jos. Hardie, of Selma, who has been in attendance on the Y. M. C. A. Internation al Convention, at Ontario, Canada, of which last year he was President, is on a general (our through the Northern States in the interest of the Association. General Denominational Ness, —Mr. Yallie Hart, of Alabama, has gone to Texas to join the revivalist Penn as a singer. —The Rev. Isaac Bird, one of the earliest American missionaries to Syria, died lately in Massachusetts, in his eighty-fourth year. —Lord Charles Hamilton has joined the Church of Rome and become a Jesuit priest. He officiates at the Pro-C athedral of Kensing ton. —After a hard struggle for more than four years, the First # Preebyterian Church of Gal veston, Texas, is now worshipping in their new and elegant chapel. —Major Cole, the Chicago Evangelist, has beeitcwnducting a very successful, though un obtrusive, revival work in Great Britain. At the beginning of the month he was at Pesth. —Bishop Quintard’s collections in England for the University of the South (Episcopal) amounted to $13,280, besides a promise from a lady of $36,000. —Rev. R. S. Duncan resumes the agency for Missouri for the Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. —The project for a conference at Geneva on the sanctification of the Lord’s day, has already gained many adherents. —The committee in charge of the arrange ments for Mr. Moody’s revival meetings in Chicago this autumn, have decided to erect an immense wigwam capable of seating 8,300 people. —The state of affairs in Spain is so vexa tious to the Pope that he has called a meeting of Cardinals. —lt is said that during the past year two thousand and forty-three French Catholics in Montreal abjured the Papal religion, —Six million dollars to ministers, and over six hundred million dollars for tobacco, are paid annually by the people of the United Btates. —A Congregalional council haß just deci ded that donations are not to be reckoned as part of the minister’s salary. The donation is a matter of grace. The salary is a debt. The paying of a debt by donations has the bad effect of causing the church to regard the pay ment as a favor, and thereby it comes to think much more highly of itself than it should. —At a recent communion in the Pilgrim Congregational church of Brooklyn, N.Y., (Dr. Storrs’) there were admitted to membership on coufosrion of faith four Turkish Armenians, a l learnt’ ” n< * a Chinaman ; besides members ‘CtqJjrcNhjU’rkm church, and representa tives Rom. the extreme Northern and South ern Slates . —An Anglican church congress is to meet in Plymouth, England, October 3-6th. The programme announces a discussion of the Bonn Conference and the old Catholic move ment, the temperance question, the slave ques tion ir. Central Africa, and the relations of church amt State. —The General Council of the Christian Union ol the United States, which met in Han cock county, Ohio, last month, has printed i;s proceedings. The Union contemplates the abolition of sectarianism, and its doctrine of union is contained in the following resolution : ‘‘Tnat all religioud associations built upon a narrower basis than that which treats all the Christians of a place as equal brethren of the one church of the place, or which presents creeds, tests and usages that exclude part of the Christians of a place, are not built after the New Testament model, and have no claims to he regarded as churches of Christ.” —A society has been formed in London for the colinization of Byria and Palestine with Christian settlers from England. —The work of the Home Mission Society among the Germans has been very successful. There are laige regions of country where the American-born population has moved away, leaving an almost pure German population. In many places in Wisconsin the English speaking Baptist churches have become ex tinct and in some instances church-edifices have been left unoccupied. These buildings could be occupied at once by the expenditure of a little money, and German Baptist churches organized and successfully carried on. —The Protestant native Christian popula tion of India, in one hundred and thirty years, will be one hundred and thirty-eight millions. —There are in the United States 69,871 Sab both-schools. with 753,060 officers and teach ers, and 5,790,683 scholars; and in Canada, 4,401 schools, with 35,745 officers and teach ers, and 271,381 scholars. The grand total of the Sabbath-school army of the continent is 6,850,869. —The Baptists have four small churches among the Scandinavians in Dakota. Two Scandinavian Baptist clergymen have lately made a Missionary tour among these churches, which has greatly strengthened them. The Scandinavians in the Territory number between 15,000 and 16,000 persons. —Nine Jewish ministers of New York city have ui ited in a card calling the attention of their people to the “growing evil of extrava gance and display at funerals.” They suggest a return “to the simplicity by which Jewish funerals were formerly characterized,” and that costly caskets and expensive floral dis plays be dispensed with. —New Zealand is quite active in Sundav school work, having a Sunday-school Union THE CHRISTIAN HERALD of Tennessee. working in co-operation with the parent so ciety at London. For the Tndx and Baptist.{ NOTES OF TRAVEL IN GEORGIA After mouths of travel in upper Georgia, among the mountains and in by-places, it has been suggested that perhaps a few jottings respecting the religious aspects of the social life in which we have mingled, might find a welcome to your columns. Always deeply interested in Sunday schools, we allow no opportunity of ex amining their workings to escape us ; consequently, though finding ourselves among Methodists, on our first Sab bath in Wilkes county, we made our way to their Sunday-school, which they keep up as an evergreen, though they have preaching only once a month. The preacher was present on that day, and we were gratified to hear from him a most earnest appeal in favor of regular and systematic contributions for Foreign Missions. He insisted that an important item in early religious train ing was the persistent cultivation of Christian benevolence, and particu larly commended to that school the support of a Bible-reader in China, as an object within the compass of their means, and worthy of their ambition. The next Sabbath we spent at dear old Behoboth, a church which for more than half a cei tury had untainted by heresy, a tower of strength and a beacon light among Baptists. We had the pleasure of attending a conference there on Saturday, and were amused and pleased to note a feature in the meeting never before brought to our notice m the conduct of the busi ness of a Baptist church. The whole of the mail membership was called, and every absentee who did not send in a satisfactory excuse, was cited to appear at the next ensuing conference and answer for his absence. We were told that absence from three succes sive meetings made a member iable to exclusion, under their by-laws. The remarkably large attendance of mail membership was highly gratifying tes timony to the beneficial effects of the rule, but the excuses presented by ab sentees and the debates on their recep tion or rejection, were vastly amusing. One young man who was absent on an excursion to the coast, was excused without debate or dissent. Another who-was attending a picnic in the neighborhood, was held amenable for neglect of duty; though the friend commissioned to present his excuse, stated to the church that the brother had a young lady under his escort. It looked to our uninitiated eye like rather a partial sentence. Then there was an overseer who, in making his arrangements with his em ployer, had reserved Sa’urdays for a crop of his own. He pleaded’ that his crop was in the grass, and he could not neglect it to attend. There was much debate on this case—some tak ing the ground that the brother had only Saturday in which to work for him self, and therefore out to be excused Others argued that he was equally work ing for himself when he worked for an employer who paid him for his time, and that he should have taken into ac count when he pitched his crop that every fourth Saturday belonged to the Lord. He was not excused. The Sabbath-school at Rehoboth was an evergreen, but as the church has preaching only two Sundays in four, it is not very entbsiastically sustained. Then there was one featuie in it that impressed us sadly. There were a large number of young people present, at an early hour, in attendance on the preaching who did not take any part in the exercises. To our apprehension this seems to be the very class most susceptible of deriving benefit from the earnest and devout study of the Scriptures. In this respect, we found a gratify ing contrast in a neighborhood school, at the distance of a few miles from Re hoboth, and sustained once a fortnight, on the evenings of the Sabbaths, when there was no preaching nearer than Washington. Nearly all the pupils in this interesting school were adults. It was a very pleasan’ and profitable Sunday evening neighborhood gather ing for Scripture studies and sacred songs, and was sustained mostly bv the effo-ts of one family. Who will imitate their example ? On the last Sunday in July, we found ourselves among the mountains, ten or twelve unles from Rome, Ga., and were invited by the lady whose guest we were to accompany her to her Sunday-school—the only religious gathering whithin our reach that day. The school assembled in a rudely con structed school house—there being no church within many miles of the place. The locality was but sparsely settled by a poor people, who could not afford any means of riding, and then there was another school, we learned, at the Ridge Valley Iron Works, at the dis tance of two miles, which drew to it. WHOLE NO. 2233. self those nearer to the Furnace than to the school house. Two features in this school, new to us, interested us somewhat, and seemed to us deserving of imitation : One was the answer by a text of Scripture instead of the usual response (present) at the call of the roll at the close of the school. Many precious texts of Scripture (ominitted to memory by members of the school, were thus re cited in the hearing of all. If this practice were generally adopted, it might do much towards correcting a neglect of pure Biblical studies, which we fear is a prevalent evil in the Sun day school of our times. The other peculiarity alluded to was the announcement on each Sab bath of a question demanding Scrip tural investigation, to be answered the succeeding Sabbath. The question proposed for that day was : “By how many names is Jesus made known to us in the Bible.” Some of the school who had investigated the subject with out any lights except the sacred vol ume itself, had counted over a hun dred names. The lady who was the moving sp.rit and mainspring of this school, and whose own library con tained more volumes, probably, than could have been found in many miles of the surrounding region, gave the number a hundred and sixty-four. While looking around in this school, I could not but be impressed by the fact how much good one intelligent and pious lady may accomplish in a community of uncongenial taste. On the first Sabbath in August, it was our privilege to be present in a Sunday-school group of a widely dif ferent character. It was in Kirkwood, and the school was composed of nearly all the residents in that refined com munity, and many from Edgewood, two miles nearer to Atlanta. To afford opportunity fov the prac tice of the music, they are to contrib ute at the county Sunday-scho< 1 cele bration, in their tabernacle, at Decal ur, on the 15th inst. The regular exorcises were partially suspended for the day,but each of the classes was called succi s sively to their feet to recite their texts, which they did with great readi ness and distinctness of articulation. How much more appropriate for the time and occasion; and how much bet’er suited to cultivate the memory, and to m&ke the childreu wise and mighty in -the Scripture, than the various black-board exercises, so popu lar with Sunday-school agents and evangelists. What impressed us most forcibly in this Kirkwood school, was the fact that the superintendent is the Chris tian patriot, soldier and statesman, Gen. Colquitt. Without previous in timation of the fact, none would have supposed that it was Georgia’s nomi nee for gubernatorial honors and re sponsibilities, who stood there with such unassuming humility among friends and neighbors, and read the lonng chap, of E:c esiastes, i o uu.ent ing with peculiarly deep and solemn earnestness on the last verse: “God shall bring every work into judgment with every secret thought, whether it be good or whether it be evil.” And then prostrating himself on his knees amid the group, prayed so fervently for the Div.ne blessing on the as sembled school, and the whole com munity represented and embraced in it. “Not many wise men, not many mighty, not many noble are called,” to be ornaments to the church on earth and heirs of glory and immortality ; but here and there we find one, illus trating the fact that the power of Di vine grace is unlimited in its sphere of operation. God bless him, and enable him to keep his garments pure and un spotted from the world in his politi cal career. If he keeps before his own mind the realities of a coming judgment day as he tried so eloquently yet simply to impress them upon us, it must certainly, we think, rescue him from the vices of base, intriguing, un scrupulous demogoguism, so prevalent in our times. We are told that the Sunday-school in Kirkwood was originated and for some time sustained by one single young lady, and that for a while it numbered only three members. She never faltered in her work nor laid aside her task, till she had enlisted many zealous co-laborers, and built up a flourishing school. The Master has called her up higher, but her work abides; and the school, while item braces most of the children of the community, is largely composed of adults. If we have any pet theory re specting Sunday-schools, it is that none are too old to be benefited by its hallowed studies and associations. The pride of Kirkwood seems to be her academy— not now in session—and we were informed that even the Sun day-school was not as methodically conducted nor as numerously attended during t a atiou as in term time, soon to commence; C.