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The Christian Index!
VOL. 55—NO. 38
Table or Coutoqts.
First Page.— Alabama Deo&rtment • Record of
State Events; Current Thoughts—ltev. J. S.
Baker ; Spirit of the Religious Press : Mission
ary Field ; General Denominational News ;
Etc ; Etc.
Second Paoe. —Our Correspondents: Columbus
Association—J. A. Clements : Revival Work in
Florida—G. W. Hall; Two Hundred Pedobap
tist Scholars—A. S. ; Feet Washing— W. B. it.:
Lesson for Young Evangelists—Elder Brother;
Special Contributions : Womau noi Wanted as
an Evangelist in our Churches V.—Professor
Salms. ly.y
Third Page.— Our Pulpit: Missionary Sonou —
Rev. N N. Edge.
Fourth Page. -Editorial: Evidences of Con
version-Rev. J. 8. Baker; Flint River Asso
ciation—Dr. J. S. Lawton; Middle Goorgia
(Colored) Biptist Association: Georgia Bap
tist News : Etc.— Rev. D.-E. Butler.
Fifth Page. —Baptist News and Noteß : Secular
Editorials: The Ottoman Empire; Earthly
Influence Eternal; Talent and Genius ; The
Road to Ruin ; Gems Reset: For Brunswick :
A Visit to Fa!rv Land—Carl Sonthworth'iruh
ner; Georgia News : News of the Week j At
lanta A W-st Point Railroad.
Sixth Page.— The Sunday School: International
Sunday-school Lessons ; Deffinitions of Bible
Terms; Etc. ; Etc.
Seventh Page.— Agiicuhural: Hog and Chicken
Cholera—Remedies and Receipts for the Cure
of the Disease—“ Georgia Grange.”
Eighth Page —Our Cause at Slone Mountain—
Rev. J, M. Stilwell: Tribute of Respect; In
Memoriam; Obituaries; Advertisements ; etc.
INDEX AND BAPTIST.
ALABAMA DEPARTMENT.
Montgomery is healthy.
There is no yellow fever in Mobile.
The Huntsville fair begins October 10th.
There are seme cases of diptheria in Eufau
la.
Corn is selling in Eutaw at from 30 to 35
cents a bushel.
The Eufaula District Grange meets in Eu
faula October 10th.
Flouring Mills are being erected in various
parts of the State.
Under the new revenue law, taxes become
due October Ist.
The next session of the Legislature will begin
November 14th.
Montgomery has dec ared quarantine against
Savannah and Brunswick, Ga.
The three men to be hung in Henry county
November 10th are negroes.
A fine District Grange Fair wili open at
Selma, October 17th.
Pike county will make three times as much
syrup this year as ever before.
The Alabama Grand Lodge of Good Temp
lars met in Greensboro, October 3d.
The Calhoun county fair will be held at
Jacksonville the 12th and 13th of October.
A protracted meeting is in progress in the
Birmingham Presbyterian church.
The Episcopal church at Eufaula has paid
its Rector’s expenses to the Centennial.
Rev. John Fulton, formerly of Mobile, has
accepted a call to a New York church.
Anew post-office, called Buckhorn, will
soon be established at Barr’s Mill,Pike county.
C. W. Fergusson will soon begin the publi
cation of the Monday Morning Times in Mont
gomery.
The United States District Court for North
Alabama begins its next term at Huntsville
October 2nd.
St. Paul’s (Episcopal) Church in Selma has
called Rev. W. J. Kramer, of Rome, Georgia,
to the pastorate.
In the Probate judge’s office of Chambers
county 750 mortgages, representing $130,240,
have been filed this year.
Rev. W. C. Cleveland, D.D., pastor elect
ol the Selnta Baptist church expects to be
there soon after the first of October.
A nine day’s meeting with the Baptist church
in Harpersville, resulted in the baptism, by
brother Prestridge, of eleven persons.
A petition has been forwarded to the depart
ment at Washington, D. C., praying for the
establishment of a post-office at Monticello, at
the old county site of Pike.
The series of meetings with the Baptist
church in Orion, conducted by Rev. E. Y.
Van Hoote • nd Rev. J. S. Yarbrough thor
oughly revived the church. There were thir
iy.one additions, twenty-six by baptism, and
five by letter.
The Troy Messenger, alluding to the Salem
Association which convened in that place lasi
Saturday says: It is very probable that some
of the ablest divines of the Baptist denomina
tion will be in attendance. Elder J. R. Graves,
the distinguished editor of the Baptist, has
signified his intention to be present, and it is
also very likely that Elder T. E.
of Florida, who ranks as one of the finest pul
pit orators in the Slate, will be hete.
THE SOITTH-WESTERTT BAPTIST,
of Alabama.
CCKREYT THOUGHTS.
We resume our report of some of the
thought® that have passed through our
mind, while pent up in our room by
disease, and debarred by our deafness
from a free interchange of thought
with the few friends who have been
kind enough to visit us during our con
finement. We do not flatter ou se’.f
that they will attract the attention of
many of our readers; nor do we an
ticipate 1 hat any of those whose atten
tion may he drawn to them will attach
much importance to them, as we have
never been promoted to the office of a
leader in our spiritual Israel. We
rather apprehend that they will he
contemptuously rejected by the masses,
to their own injury, as wore the vatici
nation of the distinguished prophet
ess, Cassaudra, by the Trojans of old ;
and that for the simple reason that in
stead of conforming our thoughts to
their views or wills, wo have uuiformly
regulated them by our conceptions of
truth and duty, and by what we under
stand to be the thoughts of Him who
declares, “ My thoughts are not your
thoughts, neither are your ways my
ways.” (Isaiah iv : 8.) Of one thing
we are fully persuaded—if thero he a
particle of truth in what we record of
our thoughts, it will effect the
benevolent purposes of God in permit
ting us to record it. With that thought
we will console ourself, let the number
of those who sneer at us be many or
few.
THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD.
We repeat, what we have stated in
substance, on a former occasion in our
columns, that of all the knowledge at
tainable on earth, there is none4hat
can he compared, as to its value or im
portance, with the knowledge of the
only true God and Jesus Christ whom
He has sent; of which the Saviour
affirms, “ T(iis is life eternal.” (John
xvii: 3.) A knowledge of all the arts
and sciences that are taught ou earth
cannot teach one how to subdue the
enmity of his carnal heart to God; how
to expiate the smallest of his sins ; how
to impart life to one dead in trespasses
and in sins, or how to secure the least
of the many inestimable blessings that
are promised to those who acquaint
themselves with God, love, honor, fear,
obey and trust in Him. He that would
acquaint himself with the nature, ex
tent or value of the blessings promised
should, with the aid of a concordance,
turn to and study diligently all that is
said in reference to them in the sacred
Scriptures, and he will be constrained to
admit that the wealth of the uuiverse
is insufficient to purchase, or the wis
dom of the world to secure to one the
least of the promised blessings. He
would be ready to testify with David,
“ The law of thy mouth is better unto
me than thousands of gold and silver.”
(Psalm cxix: 72.)
EVIDENCES OF INCREDULITY.
That the mass of mankind do not
believe what we have affirmed, is evi
dent from facts so numerous, tnat were
we to report them, the world would be
found too small to contain a tithe of
the volumes that it would be necejsary
to write to make them generally known.
Indeed, we should be at a loss whereto
begin our search for facts to report,
they exist in such abundance in our
family circles, and in the various other
circles in which we live and move and
act in life. Wherever we go, and on
what side soever we turn our eyes, we
see men —even Christian men —devot
ing more time, labor and money in the
acquisition of knowledge for themselves
and others, that can benefit them only
for a lew days —or years at most —than
in the acquisition of a knowledge of
the only true God—His being, attri
butes, will and holy purposes—that iu
sures eternal life 1
EFFECTS OF INCREDULITY.
We have thought we clearly dis
cerned, ou various occasions, the evil
of the incredulity to which we have re
ferred. In our schools, colleges and
seminaries, the pupil is generally requir
ed to pay much mere attention to text
books provided by the worldly wise,
than to the text book provided by the
great Teacher of Israel for all who
would he wise unto salvation ; and the
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whole routine of studies adopted is
better calculated to develop his intel
lectual than his moral character, and
to acquaint him with scholastic lore,
than with the science of salvation and
the art of holy living. In many of bur
Sunday-schools, also, the pupil is made
better acquainted with the geography
of Palestine, and with the costumes
and customs of apostolic times, than
with the pure precepts of the gospel,
on which depend his eternal weal. The
incredulity and its evil effects, to which
we have referred, exist in every sect,
and in every > lass of Christians, not ex
cepting even the ministerial and editori
al fraternity, and are so abundant and
patent that one has but to open his eyes
to passing eveuts, and his ears to what
is said, to assure himself of their actual
existence. We will not, therefore, fur
ther tax our feeble energies by a con
tinued discussion of the subject.
A FEARFUL THING.
It is a fearful thing to find, in the
trying hour of death, that we hive
wholly mistaken the character of God,
and the teachings of His word. The
Saviour said to one, “If thou desirest
to enter into life, keep the command
ments.” He inquired, “Which ?” The
Saviour replied by giving a summary
of the moral law. He speaks only to
command, and commands only to be
obeyed. He requires us to do “all
things whatsoever I have commanded
you,” and teaches that he who offends
in one point wilt be held as guilty of
all.
To refuse obedience to any one law
of any government is an act of rebellion
against that government. Yet many
there are who conceive of God as a
good, easy being who will not hold
them to a strict accountability for their
violations of His law, but will allow
them to walk in their own crooked w;vvs
with impunity, provided they have no
evil intent in their hearts, and will, on
special occasions—as at new moons, and
on Sabbaths, and other festal occas
ions-join the sacred few who are
marching forward in the straight and
narrow way that leads to life eternal.
The Lord requires them to honor Him
with their substance; not only to
contribute, but to contribute liberally
and cheerfully to relieve the necessities
of the needy, and to aid in communi
cating to the ends of the earth the glad
tidings of salvation through Christ;
but they hoard up their dimes and
their dollars, and flatter themselves
that the Lord will accept of their “I3e
thou fed and be thou clothed,” as a
full equivalent for the donations re
quired for the relief of the perishing
poor around them; and an assurance
of their desire that the heathen should
be converted, as satisfactory for their
neglect to aid in sending them the gos
pel ! Many other similarly erroneous
and ruinous conceptions of God are
entertained by professing Christians, as
well as by others; but as wo cannot
refer to them without extending this
article to too great a length, and as we
purpose, at an early day, to write, for
our own benefit as well as for that of
our readers, an article on our concep
tions of God, we defer, for the present,
further consideration of the subject.
The essential truths of the Chris
tian religion transcend the ordinary
processes of logic. They lie in the
realm beyond sight and hearing. How
do we know that the Bible is inspired ?
Primarily, because it inspires us with
a strength more than human in the
hour of temptation; with a comfort
more than human in times of sorrow.
How do we know that our Christ is
divine? Primarily, because when we
come to stand before Him, as Thomas
did, all that is highest and best within
us cries out, “ My Lord and my God ! ”
The soul finds its God iu His perfect
life, His uncomplaining sacrifice, His
incomparable character. How do we
know that there is a God ? Because
we have seen Him, felt Him, talked with
Him, known His presence by that which
is more than touch of hand or glance
of eye.
—Nightly prayer-meetings are being held
in the Baptist church at Quitman, and a pro
tracted meeting iB in anticipation.
Spirit of the Religious Press,
The Churchman thinks men of one idea are
not so despicable, considering:
Much is said of “one idea” people, as if
there was a special reproach contained in the
epithet. We are inclined to think that the
possession of “one idea” is a much rarer gift
than issupposed, and that a very large part of
the human race is quite content to exist upon
the shadow ol even the slenderest of ideas,
t, foout aspiring to the possession of the sub
stance.
—The Congregational ist very pertinently
says ;
ll ng converts need to be instructed that
they have but just begun the Christian life, and
have not penetrated to its depths of experi
ence and blessedness. They have plucked a
tew grapes from the promised land They
have received a few rays from the rising sun,
whose radiance wiil more and more illumine
them. Nothing more cheeks Christian growth
than a feeling of having “already attained.”
It is not the blossoms of the spring, but the
fruit of the autumn, which gives value of a
tree. Tilt seare beautiful, hut by this is our
‘ lather glorifi d.” Self-satisfaction is nowhere
given among the fruits of the Spirit. Teach
young converts to beware that Satan thrust no
arrow here between the joints of their harness.
-—Tne Standard corc’sely says:
We suppose it to be susceptible of the com
pletes! proof that old fashioned Universalism is
pretty much ceased out of the land. As taught
by such men as Hosea Ballou and his con
temporaries, universalism stood so completely
self-convicted of absurdity, that intelligent
minds could do no otherwise than reject it.
—The following, from the Congregationalu-l ,
is full of the fine gold of wisdom ; it is practi
cal, timely, suggestive, and ought to awaken
every Christian heart to a realizing sense of
the duty all good men owe to themselves, to
their country and to their religious faitli:
Ws.may well lake notice of litis agreement
among leading and scholarly minds as to what
just uow is the pre-eminent necessity of the
times. Ex-President Woolsey, in his oration
at Harvard, made an able plea for “Honor in
Political Life,” laying it as a duly upon our
educated men to become teachers of the nob
lest ideals to the people, to show that charac
ter is worth more than talent and knowledge,
and by their life and works to do what they
can to drive all meanness and baseness out of
poD'-ics and out of life. A revival of the stan
datd of political honor in this country, was the
sentiment amplified and enforced in this ad
mi i >le address.
A, ,s*,rnui\Biil f ,och, at Brown University,
set" Vjflll the Tide of Cultivated minds in our
national history, and eloquently urged the re
vival of respect for intellectual forces, by which
the supremest men would I e brought into ac
tivity. Latest, and perhaps the most suggestive
of all, comes the speech of Charles Francis
Adams, at Amlierst, in which lie declares
“there is need of a tresh class of clergy, thor
oughly tilted for the precise conflict to which
they are cal ed. Need, too, ot a revival, and
of successors even to such as Whitfield and
Wesley, to bring it about.”
These are voices we may well give heed
to, lifted in behalf of a revival of honor, of
a broad culture, of religion. Their plea is
drawn from the decadence of public honesty
and virtue ; and what they say gains impressive
enforcement from the condition and necessities
of the nation. The pulpit a.id the rostrum
have of late been in singular accord, and both
are most urgent in affirming the need of a re
vival of righteousness throughout the land.
We cannot but believe that this agreement of
conviction and desire of thoughtful men be
tokens the dawn of a belter era. As citizens
and Christians, there open before us new du
ties, and much will depend upon the action of
both. All signs point in an increasing ear
nestness on the part of those who have at heart
the weal of the church or country. In no
fitter way could our centennial year be intro
duced than by a wide-spread revival of religi
on. This would secure the aims of all true
reformers, and would bring back anew regard
for integrity, by the quickening of the public
conscience and the kindling up of an intenser
faith in the verities of our common Christian
ity.
Among the immediate results of the state of
things now existing, should he the develop
ment of a spirit of prayer. There never was
a greater need of resorting to the latter than
now, while there are indications that the op
portunities for concert in prayer, in view of
our popular sins, were never so marked and
abundant. Its force arises now Irorn the depth
of our want. We look, therefore, to see the
united and personal employment of this in
slrumenlality in such earnestness, and by such
numbers, as to witness to the fact that the [am
ple believe help mut come to them from G< and.
Then, too, are there not supplied to the pulpit
intenalions as to the nature and direction, just
at present, of its ministrations? A religion is
now demanded that will put fresh emphasis
on the sermon on the Mount, and make the
morals of Jesus return to us in their awful
significance. It is the absence of personal
righteousness, within and outside of the church,
that calls for the presentment of the duties of
godly living, and of Christianity as a life.
Intenser beliefon the one hand, and more hon
est, Christ-like living on the other, are impe
ratively required; and the pulpit that pleads
for these with a “sympathy bordeiing, it may
be, upon passion,” will not lack believing
and profiting auditors.
The preachers who, on various platforms,
are commending to the people the practice of
virtue, and fealty to conscience, will but second
the ministers that declare the country's need
to be anew heart, a personal obedience to the
commands of God. The revival so many are
now calling for can come only through re
pentance and the doing of the divine will
—The Presbyterian has the following good
bit of pleasantness, which lakes oil one of the
most annoying trials of editorial life capitally :
“Good natured editing,” says some wise man,
“spoils half the papers in the United States.”
Yea, verily.
“Will you please publish the poetry I send ?”
says one; “it is my first effortand some
crude lines go in to encourage budding genius.
‘ Our church is n great peril," says another ;
“wili you insert our appeal ?” and a long, do
lorous plea s published.
TZHUE CHBISTIA TST TIIETFiL.A ITD
of Tennessee.
“My father took vour paper for twenty
years,” writes another; “I think you ought to
publish the resolutions passed by the session
oltlie Big Brake church when he died ” And
in go res.) j ini ns of no interest to a maiontv
of the readers.
“I am particularly anxious that the views I
present go b, fore the church this week.” Out
go a covey of small, pithy contributions to
make room for three columns from a ponder
ous I). D.
“There is an immediate necessity for the
exposure of one who is a bitter enemy to the
truth,” writes another, as he sends an attack
upon an antagonist, which will fill an entire
page
“I am about !o publish a book identifying
the great image of brass, iron and clay, and I
would be obliged lo you to publish (lie ad
vanced sheets of the fifth chapter, which I
herewith inclose to yon."
“VVhv do you not publish in full R’s. great
speech in the General Assembly? It ‘-ottld
increase your circulation largely.”
“II you will publish the sermon I transmit
to you, I will take eight extra copies 1”
“The church must he aroused on the subject
of Foreign Missions,” says a pastor, as he
forwards hall of his Sabbath service's A good
mtured editor surrenders to them at once,
and they go away happy, utterly unconscious
that they liar - helped to spoil the paper.
Miss'onary field,
—The English Presbyterians have had a
mission on the Island of Formosa for the past
twelve years. As the result of their labors
they have now thirteen churches among the
Chinese, and thirteen churches among the
aborigines, 1,000 baptized converts, and 3,000
attendants at worship. The Presbyterians ol
Canada have had a mission in the northern
part Of Formosa for five years. Their church
es number nine. The Formosan missionaries
have translated the New Testament into the
language of the aborigines, using Roman let
ters.
—There are 30 American male and female
missionaries in Syria, with 102 native assis
tants, 9 churches with 186 members; 47
preaching stations, with average congregations
of 2,155; 34 Sunday schools with 1,090 schol
ars; 61 common schools with 2,163 soholars.
3 high schools with 93 scholars, and a college
fully equipped, with 68 students.
—Through the labors of Rev. W. C. Van
Meter, a convenient and attractive parlor, with
a reading-room, has been opened at. Home,
where English-speaking Christians ai*e wel
come to “meet, talk, sing, pray and become ac
quainted.”
—The United Presbyterians have a mission
at Canton, China, under the care of Rev. J.
(.. Nevin. It appears not to be in a very pros
perous condition as prosperity is generally
reckoned. No additions have been secured
during the year.
—Rev. M. Stone, D.D., has been appointed
by the Executive Board of the Home Mission
Society, to lecture on practical and doctrinal
theology in the Freedmen schools at Washing
ton, Richmond, Raleigh, Columbia, Augusta
and Nashviile, during the coming school year.
—ln Virginia city, Nevada, Ah For, a Chi
nese missionary, has erected a chapel with
money furnished by his countrymen, one hun
dred and fifty of whom were present at the
dedication, most of them converts to Ci-risti
anity.
—The Turkish Government has authorized
the printing of the Scriptures in the Arab char
acter, with a statement of the authorization
inserted on the title page, thus forestalling any
interference with the circulation.
—About SIOO,OOO lias been given for the
new American Church ol Bt. Paul, Rome,
Italy, and the whole cost of the edifice has
been met, excepting about $12,000. For ex
ternal beauly and finish this church is said to
he superior to any ir. Rome.
—The well-known authoress, A. L. O. E.-
who lately went on a mission to the women of
India, has published her first story, entitled
“The Story of the Pink Chadder.” It is to he
rendered into all the vernacular languages of
India. A Bengal lady, herself the writer ol
a popular child’s story, will translate it.
—More than one-third of the home mission
aries of the Board of Home Missions of the
Presbyterian Church are laboring in the field
west of the Mississippi.
—The great-grandson of Dr. Carey, the pio
neer of English missions in India, has recent
ly entered into the service of the society which
Lia ancestor founded. He has become the
medical missionary of the Baptist mission at
Delhi.
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The State Grange Fair, which opens at
Montgomery on Tuesday, October 24th, prom
ises to be a very fine one. Some idea of the
fair may be derived Irom the fact that a single
premium of S3OO is offered to the Grange the
members of which shall make the largest and
besl display in merit and variety of sampl s
of field crops, amt for the largest and best dis
play in merit and variety of the products of
the garden, orchard, dairy and poultry by the
members a premium of S2OO is offered. For
the best and largest display of the products of
a single farm, a premium of SIOO is offered.
There are very liberal prizes offered for thor
oughbred stock, ranging from SSO down to
sls. For the best bull of each of the leiding
breeds, S4O is the premium; for the best
Berkshire hoar, $25.
WTTOLF, NO- 2238.
General Denominational Hews,
—Not less ilian fifty letters come to the Ful
ton street prayer-meeting daily, and it is stated
that probably this marvelous meeting has nev
er known so many conversions in any other
year as the one just closed.
—The past season has developed a good
crop of camp-meetings. Whether the camp
meetings have developed a good crop of re
sults, is not so clear. They certainly have
not in that result at which similar gatherings
formerly aimed—the conversion of Hinners.
—A commendable work is carried on by
Mrs. Spurgeon, the wife of the eminent London
clergyman She has already raised one thou
sand pounds for a “Book Fund,” to help poor
ministers whose libraries are scantily supplied.
—lt is estimated that Iwo hundred and fifty
honorary degrees are conferred hy American
Colleges yearly. By far the largest propor
tion of these are doctorates of divinity.
—The American Tract Society has sent out
proof copies of anew map of Palestine, just
copyrighted, which presents the latest discov
eries, and is pronounced to be the best adapted
to general neof all thus far issued.
—The Iferald and Presbyter, an or_>an of the
Presbyterian church gives the following sta
tistics to prove the decline of infant baptism
in that denomination : nearly 33,000 baptized
children were received into the church last
year, only 18,987 infants were baptized. There
are in the churches 535,210 communicants.
They must represent at least 150,000 families.
Hence there was one infant baptized in only
one eighth of the families of the church. Have
only one in eight of our households been
blessed with a baby during the past year? Or
is not this ordinance sadly, sinfully neglected
hy many who profess to believe in the Abra
hamic covenant?”
—The Presbyterian Preachers’ Meeting of
Chicago discussed last month “.Ministerial
Etiquette,” and paiticularly the propriety of
sharing “religious services at lunerals with
Freemasons or other secret societies.”
— Zion's Herald, speaking of the union meet
ings held by revivalists, says: “Unless the
pastors are personally alive, and earn stly
follow up their large and lively union gather
ings, the average local meetings will lose at
traction rather than gain by sucu occasional
services.”
—Bishop Janes of the M. E. church died
recently, in his seventieth year. He entered
the ministry in 1830, and was elected bishop
in 1844.
—The last Ge eral Assembly of the Presby
terian Church (South) adopted a paper estab
lishing an Institute to train young men of
color for the ministry. Some ot its provisions
are very wise, such as directing that no money
shall be spent for the present in buildings, and
also that only one professor be appointed at
first. Rev. C. A. Stillman, D D., a well qual
ified man, was called to this post.
—The Methodist ministers of Boston have
voted 40 to 8, that “we hereby disapprove of
the policy of holding camp meeting on the
Sabbath.”
The Cartersville Express of September
2Sth, has the following good notice of the
meeting of the Middle Cherokee Association,
which met with the church at Euharlee, on
the 22d:
There are thirty-one churches belonging to
the Association, nearly all of whom had dele
gates present.
Rev. Jas. G. Ryals was re-elected Modera
tor of the body by acclamation, and as usual
made a most excellent presiding officer; in
deed, he has few superiors as a presiding of
ficer.
J. D. Lawson was elected Clerk.
Tlie subject of Missions consumed the great
er part of the lime and attention of the body.
This is, in fact, the work which is proposed
to foster principally the Associational meet
ings. Scarcely a speech was made upon any
other subject.
Some churches did well for the cause of
Missions, while some others seem to have but
1 it: 1c interest in and appreciation for this form
of Christian effort.
Some visiting ministering brethren were
present, and contributed much to the pleasure
and profit of the meeting. Our Baptist friends
were glad to see them again.
On Sunday there was preaching in both the
churches and the academy.
The session of the body, which closed at
noon on Monday, was exceedingly pleasant,
and we trust profitable.
The community with which the Association
met treated the visitors with great kindness,
and may the Giver of all good bless them for
it.
The next Association will be held with the
church at Dalton.
—Brother Barrow requests us to say that he
wishes the brethren of the Sabbath-school
Committee of the Carrollton Association to
peruse their minutes carefully relative to their
duties, and to take action upon the same
Write to him at Bowdon on the success of
your schools a week or so before the Associa
tion meets, that he may, as Chairman, make
out his report r rectly.
The revival meeting in the Baptist church,
at Troy closed with thirty addition to the
church. The pastor, brother Van Hoose, has
baptized since the first Sabbath in August,
eighty-one into three of his churches, and re
ceived by letter and vouchers twenty-threr*
making in all one hundred *ud four.