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The Christian Index:
VOL. 55-NO. 40.
Table of Contents.
Fibst Paok.—Alabama Department : Reccrd of
State Events ; Spirit of the Religious Press ;
Baptist News and Notes ; Missionary Field ;
General Denominational News ; etc.
Bioghd Paok.—Onr Correspondents : What Ro
manism Really Means—T. T. Eaton ; The True
Ground of Hatred—W. M. Howell; Rev. A. J.
Holt—A. T. Spalding; Rev. H. M. Friar—Pre
amble and Resolutions ; Premature Ordina
tions to the Ministry; Our Female Writers —
Under Shepherd : The Re-t Remaining—lda :
Home and Foreign Missions—N. A. Bailey ; A
Life Picture—Reulali ; The Mount Vernon
Association—T. C. Boykin; Select Miscellany ;
Great London Preachers; A Cheerful Wife ;
etc.
Thikd Page.—Our Pulpit; Our Divine Libera
tor—A Sermon, by Rev. C. H. Spurgeon.
t ouaTii Page. —Editorial : Washington Associa
tion ; Georgia Baptist Association; Brass in
the Church; Hon. Thos. Shocks ; To the
Brethren of the Georgia Association; The
Lkcbx and Baptists ; Georgia Baptist News-
Rev. D. E. Buller ; Heaven ; Stopping De
bate ; Editorial Paragraphs.
Piets .Page. —Secular Editorials : Readers and
Re ding; The Yellow Ff ver ; A Sad Mistake :
The Thomisviile Fair : Book Notices ; The
Liquor Ruin ; Gems Reset; The Force of
Example ; Georgia News ; Kind Words ; News
of the Week—Foreign and Domestic ; Memoirs
of Bev. Chas. G. Finney.
Sixth Paoe, -The Sunday-sohool; Simon, the
Sorcerer—Lesson for Octol or 22, 1-76; Chil
dren’s Corner: Only a Baby’s Grave—Poetry ;
Good Morning; The Gift of Song; Science
and Education ; • ‘Partial Course Men.;’’ Illus
trations from the Field of tho Microscope ; The
Survey at Bible Towns in Palestine ; eto.
Seventh Paoe.—Agricultural; Destruction ot
Gin Houses—Georgia Grange; The Home
Fair—Georgia Grange ; Good Sense Needen —
Georgia Grange ; J lant Food in Seed Hand
Soils.
Eiohth Paoe.—The Mulberry and Geoigia As
sociations; To the Churches of the Stoue
Mountain Association —T. A. Gibbs ; To each
Pastor of the Central Association -S. Boykin.
Obituaries. Adveiti e i cuts.
INDEX AND BAPTIST.
ALABAMA DEPARTMENT.
There are 475 white pupils in the Montgom
ery public schools.
Rev. Jos. Shackelford, of Tuscumhia. v ill
soon remove to Forrest City, Arkansas.
Hon. J. D. Wall, member-elect of the legis
lature from Elmore cornty, is dead.
Anew paper is to be published in Greens
boro.
The fall term of the Elmore circuit court
sentenced six negroes to the penitentiary.
The University of Alabama opened with
do lv/ studcilts.
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f'-oswelny-iwo buildings were recently destroy
ed b; fire in Mobile.
Numerous agricullural fairs are in progress
all over the State.
Wm. Bel), ol Pike county, has a son eight
years old that weighs 210 pounds.
A frame church is to be built at Oxmxir,
Jeflerson county.
The late term of the Talladega circuit court
sent four negroes to the penitentiary.
A lodge of Odd Fellows will soon be organ
ised at Troy, Pike county.
Tl.e Sumter county fair will begin at Liv
ingston November 15th.
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Of the seventy-three indictments for all of
fences found by the late Pickens grand jury,
not more than ten ere against whites.
The prisoners in the Butler county jail at
tempted to overpower the jailer and escape the
night of the 6tb, and one of them was killed.
During the protracted meeting at Harpers
ville, there were about filly additions to the
•hurch.
Prof. Hopkins, of the Southern Ui.iversity,
takes charge of the Natural Science department
of Greensboro Female College.
Connersvtlle and Brownsville, both on the
iirmingham ard Jasper route, are the names
of two new post-offices in Jefferson county.
Brother Baber has retired from the Haynes
ville Baptist church, and Brother Golland will
fill the vacancy.
Heavy frosts occuied in many parts of the
State during the first week of this month.
Considerable ice was found in some places.
Gar excellent institutions, the Howard and
Judson, are flourishing and are enjoying in
creasing popularity.
Rev. W. C. Cleveland has removed to Sel
ma, and entered upon the pastorate of the Bap
tist church.
The Governor offers a reward of S2OO for the
apprehension of Frank Manning, charged with
killing Thomas Benson, at Jemison, August
24th.
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The season has been very favorable for cot
ton picking. Planters say much more cotton
has been picked than usual up to the month of
October, and the lint is much cleaner and rates
at a higher grade than usual for North Ala
bama, much of it reaching the grade of mid
dling.
Major Wiggs, for twenty-one years editor of
the Hmtmille Independent, has retired from
that journal, and will shortly start another pa
per. W. P. Newman & Cos. continue the pub
lication of the Independent, as before.
THE SOUTH-WESTERN BAPTIST,
Of Alabama.
Spirit of the Religious Press,
—The Banner of Holiness tells of a church
in Michigan in which a pure, unsectarian gos
pel is preached. Oil a placard over the pulpit
Is this warning or notice:
No preacher will be allowed to preach in
this church who preaches from manuscript,
who does not kneel while praying, who be
longs to any secret society, or has his life in
sured in any way.
Whereupon the Journal and Messenger com
ments as follows;
“ Tlie gospel preached in that church may
be pure and unsectarian, but the church has,
nevertheless, a clear, well defined creed —one
which, whih it is silent on the great central
truths of Christianity, has these four distinct
tenents, viz: Kneeling in prayer, no manu
script, no secret societies and no life insurance.”
—The Chrikian Advocate says:
The Rev. Dr. Mclntosh, Secretary of the
Baptist Domestic B >ard of Missions, preached
an able sermon in the First Baptist Church
Nashville, recently on behalf of the Board.
He spoke of two “savage tribes” t at sent a
Macedonian cty to the Beard to come over
and help them. One missionary has been al
ready sent—others are to follow. Dr. Mclu
tosh, after visiting everal of the principal
places in the South, proper s to visit the In
dian Territory. He isa rnest pleader for
the red man—and we wish him great success
The Christian at Work portrayß the danger
which besets the Christian path in the follow
ing graphic vray ;
The devil has a greet many servants, and
they are all busy and active ones. They ride
in the railway trains, they sail on the steam
boats, they swarm along the highways of the
country and the thoroughfares of the cities;
they do business in the busy marts ; they en
ter houses nnd break open shops; they are
everywhere, and in all places. Borne are so
vile-looking that one instinctively turns from
tneur in disgust; but some are so sociable, in
siuuating, and plausible, that they almost de
ceive at times the ver? elect. Among this lat
ter class are to be found the devil’s lour cliie'
servants. Here are their names :
“ J hkre’B no Danger.” That is one.
“Only This Once.” That is another.
“Everybody does so.” That is the third
“By and by.” That is the fourth.
When templed from the path it strict recti
tude,and “There's no dangei” urges you on, say
“Get thee behind me, Satan.” When tempted
to give the Sabbath up to pleasure, or to do a
little labor in the workshop or the counting
room, and “Only this once,” or “Everybody
does so,” whispers at your elbow, do not listen
for a moment to the dangercus counsel. It
the Holy Spirit has fastened upon your con
science tte solemn warnings of a faithful teach
er or friend, and brought to mind a tender
mother's pra- js for your conversion, do not
V '9* '*"■ MW T -I confidence,
and, tjy persuading yon- to put away serious
things, rob yon o?A’o>ir life. All lour are
cheats anu liars. They mean to deceive vou.
and cheat your soul of heaven. ‘ Behold 1”
says God, “now is the accepted time; now is
the day of salvation.” He has no promises for
“By and by.”
—The Christum at Work , for this week, con
tains the valedictory of Rev. T. DeWaitt Tal
mage, who has accepted the posit on of editor
iu-chief of the Advance, which journal wi.l
be published simultaneously in New York an!
Chicago.
The Congregationalisl says, I hat we have a
Sabbath yet, as a Boston man haH found to his
cost. While returning from Charlestown to
Boston on that day, he was injured by a Bos
ton & Maine Railroad train, and brrught suit
to recover damages. Two courts in succession
have denied his suit, on the ground that his
errand to Charlestown had been to hire a
house, which wsh neither a work of necessity
nor charily for the Lord’s Day.
The statement is made in Zion's Advocate
that President Seelye, of Amherst College, re
cently in the presence of a number of his broth
er clergymen who were discussing the form of
Scriptural baptism,said in substance: “Let us
give up our disputes with the Baptists as to
the primitive mode of this ordinance; for we
must acknowledge that baptism in the early
chuich was performed by immersion."
The Independent amuses itself and its read
ers with the following account of one of those
blunders in types, from which the best journals
cannot always escape;
"Last week we published under the title of
“Leaves,” a poem which bad attached to it a
Greak motto that should have read when
translated, “As is the life of leaves, such is
the life of men.” Our Greek editor must
have been absent when the proof came to be
read, and itappeared with the change of aßin
gle letter, making it mean, “As is the life of
fleas, such is the life of men.”
\ Northern correspondent of the Christian
Observer (Presbyterian) says that the reason
why he has not sent any subscribers is that all
the people with whom Ire had lift copies re
fused to subscribe, “because it is a Southern
paper"—‘they can't get it through their heads
that the war is over.” On this p int the 06-
sener well remarks:
“If Southern Christians wish their princi
ples declared to the world, they must suppor
their own journals. The Northern papers,
eagerly competing for Southern patronage,
have seldom a word of appreciation lor South
ern papers. And the liberality ol the North
ern people is more akin to pity than to re*
sptcl. It the principles of Souttiern Christians,
the spirituality ol the functions of the Cburcn,
and the superiority of God’s truth to the opin
ions of man, are to be maintained and extend
ed, the Souttiern people must do it through
their own literature.”
—The South-Western Advocate demolishes
with great force, in a few sentences the absurd
speculation of scientific unbelief:
These two words—“ Our Father”—failing
from the lips of the Master, dispel all false
notions about God. There is, therefore, a I
FRANKLIN PRINTING HOUSE, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, OCTOBER 19. 1876.
God, and Atheism is false. God is a personal
being to be addresser!, who watches over and
loves His creatures, and therefore Pantheism
is false- He is one God, “Father,” not Fath
ers ; therefore Polytheism is false. He is in
terested in man, and has redeemed him and
seeks to save and purify him, therefore
al< deistical ideas that God can have no
sympathy for or personal interest in man,
are false. “Our Father,” —the child un
derstands what that means, therefore all talk
about the “Inscrutable,” “Unconditioned," or
“uncaused cau ed” of modern scientific skepti
cism is nonesense.
—The following high and wise thoughts on
education and the'best agencies for promoting
and establishing its inestimable benefits are
from the Standard:
It is almost impossible to . verstate the vast
distance between the man uneducated at and man
educated. To create this difference God has
subordinated to His purpose the resources of
the universe. It has been a process of the
ages. History is but the unfolding of
methods by which God ha- been educating the
lace. All the agencies which act upon man
from within or without, to impart to him
knowledge or evoke from him action are edu
cative agencies. Homes, schools, books, trav
el, society, and the church, labor, thought,ex
perience, all are educative, and net one of
these leaves the soul as it finds it.
One of the high perogatives of each succeed
ing age, is that of eliminating from the varied
and complex forces which have been shaping
the destiny of the race, those which are health
ful, profiting by the records of disaster, aggre
gating the accumulating wisdom of the past,
and of enabling the individual to.suhject him
self, voluntarily and consciously, tothe constant
and continual operation of those better infill
ences, which operating blindly and irregularly
upon the mass, have made the race what it is.
Christian schools, forming communities per
vaded by tlie spirit of culture, presided over
by men who exemplify the ripest fruits of ed
ucation, supplied with libraries and apparatus
for illustrating and applying the best results
of the wisdom of the past, are at once the evi
dence of the educational progress of tlie race,
and the indispensable agencies for the highest
culture of the individual.
It does not admit of a doubt that to found,
sustain, enlarge, and patronize such schools, is
among tlie highest duties which devolve upon
each actual generation, and to share the quick
ening, ennobling influence to be enjoyed by an
active residence within their hallowed pre
cincts, during the plastic years of youth, is one
ol life’s most exalted privileges.
—A clergyman who had just made the
change from Unitarianmu to the Episcopa
lians, wrote a note to Freeman Clarke, headed
“St. Stephen’s Day,” and Clarke answered it
with a letter headed “Washing Day. Days
are nothing; heart is everything. Every day
is a s lint a day to you if you are doing saint’s
work, and singing on your way to glory.”
r —The Roman Catholics Openly boast" ihat'
they are educating oyer a hundred thousand
colored children in the South. An exchange
says;
The growth of Catholicism is one of the
alarming features of the times at the South.
The negro, a slave, had no interest for the
Romish Church ; the negro a free man, the
case is altered, and that Churcii will bend its
eneigy and power to securing the man who
can vote.
Tlie Churchman says:
“We have often wondered at Roman stren
uousness about abstinence from flesh-meat on
Fridays and during Lent, while not a syllable
has been said about strong drink. And one of
tlie severest reflections which a Romish priest
ever made on his own church was, that
the council of Trent put no stopper on
that, and lie blessed the fathers for il I II
Friday fasting, and Ls-nt fasting, in the Roman
church, consisted in no ridiculous avoidance
of flesh-meat, while eggs, milk, cheese and fi-h,
ad libitum, are freely accorded but in an aban
donment of ruin, whisky gin, etc., it would
amount to some l ! : n<r a'a penance and might
lead to seriou* and pi nn-inent reform.”
B.r;:si .sj a.,3 .votes.
—Rev. Dr. Burlingham has resigned the
pastoral care of Second Baptist church, St.
Louis, to take effect six months hence.
—Rev. D. T. Morrill has resigned the Dis
trict Secretaryship of tlie American Baptist
Publication Society, to take effect on the first
of November.
—A second Baptist church has been organ
ized in Charlotte, N. C., with Rev. Albert H.
Newman as pastor.
—There are more than 500,000 colored
members of Baptist churches in the United
States, of whom about 100,000 are in Virginia.
Seven institutions to educate colored Baptist
ministera have been established. All of them
are sustained chiefly by the American Baptist
Home Mission Society. It is expee'ed that the
new Corresponding Secretary, Rev. S. S.
Cutting, D D., will vigorously maintain and
enlarge these institutions.
—The Rev. 8. G. Woodrow has left the
Freewill body and returned to the fellowship
of the Baptist denomination.
—The increase of the membership of the
Baptist churches in Michigan is greater this
last year than in any previous year of their
history, and will probably exceed 2,500.
—The Rev. Charles Howard .Malcolm, D.D.,
who has been for twenty years the pastoi of
tlie Second Baptist Church in Newport, R. J.,
has resigned, and accepted the position ot
Secretary of the American Peace Association,
with a salary of $3,000. He will continue to
live in Newport.
—Rev. Mr, Morrell was ordained as a min
ister at the Petersburg Virginia First Baptist
church recently.
Florence McCarthy, a former Baptist min
ister of Richmond, Va , where he has many
relatives, now a resident of Chicago, recently
proclaimed himself an infidel, but now requests
the prayers of Christians lor his conversion.
Dr. Graves says : “The publication oj
this paper, (]%<: Bijitsf) so tar this year, lias
cost us 4-2,000 more thau we have received for
subscriptions, and ret brethren will not believe
us,”
Rev. Thitjtus I*. Dudley, of Fayette, one
of the most emmeut Baptist ministers of Ken
tucky, can show a tecord of continuous minis
terial service whirl will challenge comparison
with that of any other clergyman in any coun-
Iry- He has been preaching to Bryant’s Sta
tion church for fifty-five years; to Elizabeth,
fifty-three years; to Mt. Carmel, forty-five
years, and to Georgetown, forty-four years.
His father, Rev Ambrose Dudley, was the
pastor at Bryant s Station church—one of the
oldest in the Wen—for forty years before him,
so that the two have ministered to that congre
gation for ninety five years. Although in his
eighty-fifth year, he is hale and vigorous, and
attends to his churches as regularly as forty
years ago, preaching twice a month to each
church, they being ten or twelve miles apart,
attend'lig calls, visiting the sick of his flock,
preaching funerals, and solemnizing marriages.
—There are twelve students in the Scandi
navian Department of the Chicaso Baptist
Theological Seminary, an earnest, intelligent,
promising body ofyonng men. No man can
estimate the power lor good there is in them
under proper training.
Mr. Spurgeon says of the hundreds of
children received into hi- church, that he lias
not had a single case of discipline among them
all. What an encouragement is this to put
forth spec'al effort on behali of the young.
A congregation of Scotch Baptists arc
worshipping lemporarily in the chapel of tlie
New, York University. They differ from reg
ular Baptists not in essential matters of faith
and practice, but in a fiw curious details of
outward observances. They have, for exam
ple, a plurality of i astors, who are usually not
dependent for support on the church. In the
matter of the Lord s supper, while in substan
tial accord as to doctrine with other Baptists,
in practice they differ by celebrating the ordi
nance on every “first day of the week ”
—Rev Mr. Bickell, who labored for two
years in Richmond,Va., as a Methodist preach
er among the Germans, has joined the Bap
tists, and been called to the pastoral care of a
German Baptist Churcii in New York city.
—Rev. Geo. J. Hobday lias accepted a call
tolheSe' and Baptist church, Peter*be- Va.
PNfVAi'T Jkt ' I- TANARUS, Eaton wil do snffti'work
the dem.min ;- r j„ t l, at c j t _
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S. Missionary Field,
—Twenty five years ago the Swedish Mis
sion was begun by the Publication Society un
der ciicum tances singularly providential.
There are now, among the 4,000,000 inhabi
tants of Sweden, 234 Baptist churches, with
about 10,600 members; there are about 16,500
Sunday-school scholars. There are four local
Sunday school Unions, each supporting one or
more Sunday-school missionaries. There is
one Baptist weekly paper, with 2,000 subscrib
ers (one to every five members),(wo monthlies
and one serai-monthly. The Contributions of
the churches for home expenses and for benev
olent objects, last year, were $25,000.
—The Rev. B. H. Bad ley, American Meth
odist Missionary in India, has published an
Indian Missionary Directory and Memorial
volume. It gives the names and addresses of
960 living missionaries and ordained native
pastors in India proper, and 800 names of
retired and di ceased missionaries, with sketch
ts of the lives of the latter, and such facts
about all as could be oblained. Six mission
aries, for some inscrutable reason, asked that
their names be entirely omitted from tlie work.
The list shows an increase ol 81 missionaries
and ordained native subjects since 1871, 2G6,-
391 native Christians now against 224,258 five
years u r o, and 68,689 communicants now
against 52,816 four years ago. These figures
show a rate of gain of about five per cent, a
year.
—The late ('liver G. Ilealey of South Abing
ton bequeathed $20,000 to the American Mis
sionary Association, to be paid after his wife’s
death.
-The Cape newspapers contain lengthy ac
counts of the arrival in South Africa of the
Livingsh nia mission party. The inhabitants
of Port Elizabeth assembled to wish them
God speed, and constituted the lar est meeting
ever held in that town. Dr. Stewart, the orig
inator of the mi-sion, was nost warmly re
ceived, and the little band was heartily con
gratulated on the success with which the ex
pedition had been attended.
—Bishop Marvin, of the Methodist Church
South, is about to sail for China and Japan, to
look after the missionary work.
—lt is impossible correctiy to estimate the
results of the wide circulation of the Holy
Scriptures now going on in heathen lands.
The last repor; of the English Baptist Mission
ary Society gives several Instances of fruits
from the Bible distribution in India, which
bear upon the general subject. In the north
west of the Dacca district, which is a very out
of the way part of the country, the native evan
gelist was heartily welcomed by a Brahmin,
who said he was in the habit of reading a
Scripture portion daily, and that his late fath
er had renounced idolatry and led a different
life after he had begun to do the same. In a
THE CHRISTIAN 153J13R.AXjD
of Tennessee.
Ztueria a lady met a young women well ac
quainted with the Scriptures. Her father, a
Brahmin, had bought a Bible years before,
which he had read to her almost daily, which
had led him to give up his faith in idols. A
missionary, in his last year, found ten or twelve
Hindus who were in the habit of perusing tlie
New Testament together. Their fellow vil
lagers had excommunicated them for reading
Christ’s gospel and speaking about him; while
they insisted that they were not Christians,
but merely readers of the Christian shastras.
At a tuela a Hindu, on seeing the books brought
out, rushed eagerly forward and said: “Have
you a copy of the New Testament of Jesus
Christ ? How much must I pay ? I wil! give
you whatever you ask?” After he had paid
for the book he said, with great earnestness:
“I have been looking for a copy of this book
for years, and now, thank God, I have found it
at last.” He went away, kissing the book over
and over again. Formerly, when Bibles were
given away, tlie Hindus suspected that it was
a device of the missionary whereby to destroy
their caste. This supetstilion has now been
dissipated by the sale of the volume. Having
paid lor it, the people treasure the book care
fully ; and, while the missionaries hear ol but
few of the copies again, the results of this secret
read.ng of the BiLie in a multitude of heathen
homes will, doubtless, be found one day to have
been of vast influence in Christian’zing India.
—The receipts of the English Baptist Mis
sionary Society for the year 1875-70 amount
ed to $223,810. The debt of the Society is
$21,773.
The Church Missionary Society proposes
to appoint qualified natives from the interior
of Africa lor Christian labor among theso,ooo
Mohammedan trailers who yearly visit Sierra
Leone and Lagos on the coast.
—The Baptist Missionary Union has resolv
ed to appropriate $240,000 for the work this
year. This, with a debt ol $30,000, will make
the liabilities of the Union $270,000.
—The books of (lie American Board of Mis
sions (Congregational) close this season with a
debt of $31,050. Tlie receipts of the Board
were $458,511, against $468,020 in 1875.
The Alabama Baptist says :
Dr. Hawthorne’s location lias exercised our
contemporaries greatly According to the
Biblical Recorder he has declined a call to At
lant i. Accotding to the Indfx hehas not de
dined a call to Atlanta, but a call to Mont
gomery. According to the Herald lie will set
tle irt Richmond. We iulorm all whom it
concerns, that our eloquent brother has taken
cl;;'.>‘*e.y.C.the cjiurch at Montgomery ; ami we
hope he will labor there-for years to ■n
Tlie people, both of the clntreh and elt*, have
welcomed him most cordially to his new heid
of labor.
We cordially re-echo the hope expressed by
our contemporary The church at Montgom
ery and Dr. Hawthorne have each great reason
to congratulate themselves upon tlie eonsum
muiiou of their wish. The Lord’s cause will
receive signal benefit in that city through the
ministrations of this beloved, zealous and tal
ented minister and pastor.
From the Baptist of last week, we glean the
folic wing interesting items:
Rev. E. T. Winkler baptized seven colored
converts on Sunday October 1. Nearly fifty
ha ve been added to the colored Baptis churi h
in Marion, within the last quarter. All of
these candidates were carefully examined be
fore baptism, and we believe them to he fit sub
jects for the sacred rite.
Rev. Cornelius Thames, perhaps the oldest
minister in onr Slate, died at his home in Mon
roe county, on the night of Septemb. r 18th.
He was the father of Gapt. C. E. Thamtsof
Mobile, and grandfather ot Bro. T. B. Thames,
now attending the Theological Seminary. He
had attained the remarkable age of 95 years.
“Thou shait come to thy grave in a full age,
like as shock of corn cometh in his season.”
Speaking of the new monster cotton press
erected in Selma, the Arr/us says : “The new
cotton compress was’put in operation last week
and its work fully met the expectation of ils
builders. Its capacity i'b one hundred bales
anh' tir, and it has the power to reduce the
bales to a thickness of six inches. But on
Wednesday last, a part ol it, a great iron beam
weighing 30,000 pounds, was broken; and it
wil! probably be ten days before it is replaced.’
The Selma Times says: “Dr. Vasser re
ports anew and alarming disease that has made
its appearance in the country about Cahaba.
It is supposed that it is the remit, indirectly,of
the use of pars green on the cotton crop. The
worms are poisoned, and the partridges eat the
worms. The freedmen catch the partridges in
traps and eat them, and the result is dearth in
a horrible form— convulsions, and writhings,
and teeth-gnashing. The disease is confined
almost entirely to the freedmen.”
The No tjnformist says:
“During the recent education controversy
Churchmen have frequently insinuated, and
openly asserted, that Dissenters are indifferent
to the education of the young The best an
swer that can be given is found in the follow
ing table, which shows the number of children
receiving religious instruction in Dissenting
Sunday-schools: Wesleyan Methodist Sunday
schools, 725,000; Primitive Methodist, 335,000-
United Methodist Free Churches, 176 000-
Calvinistic Methodist, 154 000; Ntw tonnes’
ion Methodist, 73,000; Bible Christians, 50-
000; Wesleyan Reform Union, 13,000 ; Inde
pendent Methodist, 11,000; Congregational
churches, 536,000; Baptist churches, 334,000-
English Pre byterian churches, 45 000- ali
other Protestant Freechuohes, 100,000; total,
2,652,000. ' *
WHOLE NO- 2240.
General Denominational Hess.
—A Presbyterian Lay College is to be estab
lished in connection with Auburn Theological
Seminary in Western New York. It is proposed
simply to prepare lay members of the Church,
men and women, if the committee and Presby
teries choose —to become more intelligent and
efficient 'Christian workers in the common
walks of life and in those common fields of la
bor—the session, the Sabbath-school and the
benevolent association—which are always open
in every parish.
Cathode sisters, of Fond du Lac, Wiscon
sin, are nursing Savannah sick.
In his lecture on “The Rise and Progress
of Methodism in the Nineteenth Century,’’ de
livered by Bishop Doggett, at Baltimore, he
gave the follwing figures as embraced by the
two joint Episcopal Methodisms of (his coun
try : Institutions of learning, 1,076; in the
world there are now connected with Metho
dism 27,561 traveling preachers, and 61,474
local preachers; contributions annually for re
ligious purposes, $20,000,000; Sunday school
children, $3,500,500; teachers, 600,000. 16,-
000,000 people have Methodist affinities.
—A general suppression of the Catholic con
vents and monasteries throughout Switzerland,
is gradually taking place, and as a recent law
forbids the formation of any new institution, in
a very short time not one will be left in the
country.
—There are now twelve teachers and two
hundred and ninety seven pupils in the Prot
estant schools of Naples. One of the teachers,
Ragliante, was once a famous Catholic priest
known as Padre Gabrieli.
Two-thirds o f tlie 295 Congregationalist
churches in Connecticut are more than one
hundred years old. Of these 182
churches which are older than tlie nation, 21
are more than two hundred years old, 15 are
one hundred and seventy-five years old or
more,these 36 belonging to the seventeenth cen
tury; 46 have existed one hundred and fifty
years or more, and 100 others are more lit
erally centennial churches, having been or
gan zed one hundred years or more. The th ee
oldest churches are at Windsor, 1630; Hart
ford, 1636; New Haven, 1639.
- -The Witherspoon statue is to be unveiled
on Friday, October 20th. Tlie Synod ol Phil
adeiphia will be in session in Philadelphia
and hi, expected that the Synod of New J er J
sev the Rev. Dr. W
S. Phil, rof South Carolina, and Gov. Biddle
of New Jersey, will be the orators of the day.
“The Banner of Light” is the name of a
new weekly, published at Carrsville, Ken
tucky, in the interest of the Colored 4’umber
land Presbyterian Church.
-The Old South Church of Boston has
finally b.en bought for 400,000. Ii will he
used as a historical museum.
—Tlie average age of Congregational minis
ters who died in Massachusetts last year were
69 years.
—The Bishops of the English Establishment
have recently been discussing the question of
an exchange of pulpits witli the Nonconform
ists. Their opinions are adverse to the prac
tice.
The little Presbyterian church at San Fer
nando, near Cadiz, has come to be quite pub
licly connected with public affairs in Spain.
The Alcalde, having thrown every obstacle in
the way of the opening of the edifice, was
finally, on the accession of King Alfonzo, em
boldened to forbid worship in it altogether.
The English embassador took tlie matter up.
Count Bismarck made the re-opening of this
church one of the conditions on which the now
monarchy should be recognized, and Castelar
signalized the occasion by one of his strongest
speeches in the Cortiz on religious liberty. So
the little church at San Fernando, made a test
case for all Spain, now receives its hearers on
every Sabbath without let or hirderarce.
—lt is announced that anew order has been
introduced into the Catholic Diocese ol Phila
delphia—that of “Poor Clares.” This order
is a cloistered and contemplative one, and is
subject to the Superior General of the Francis
cans of Rome.
—“Shall women preach” is the qucslio„
‘hat now agitates the Methodist body rather
more than the Presbyterians are moved bv the
question of woman’s “speaking in mee'ing.”
Miss Anna Oliver is the cause of said agitation.
She is a graduate of the Methodist Seminary
at Boston, and after her graduation applied f r
admission into the ministry. She was refused
Nothing daunted, si e determined to preach U
she could find anyone to hear her. In that
she has had no difficulty. For some time she
has been pieaching in the First Place Metho
dist church of Brooklyn, “to very large audi
ences.” A large number of her hearers offered
to foim an independent church, and call her to
the pastorate. She declined the ofler, stating
that it was her intention again to apply tor ad-
Methodist mission into the ranks of the min
istry. Miss O.iver is described as a modest,
intelligent young lady, and a very pleasant
speaker.
Miss Mollie Ann Walton, of Mooresviii*,
Alabama, learning that $1,250 were needed to
purchase an engine tor the Cumberland Pres
byterian Publishing House at Nashville, has
presented the Board of Publication with that
sum.