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The Christian Index;
VOL. 55—NO. 43.
Tabl, if CouleuU.
First Page.— Alabama Department: Record of
State Events; Spirit of the Religious Pres.;
The Baptiste in Mobile; Baptist News and
Notes; The Missionary Field; Would You be
Young Again—Poetry; A Grand Historical
Work; General Denominational News; An
Acknowledgement
Second Page —Onr Correspondents : Feet
Washing—T. B. Cooper; A Question : Chris
tians Unsheathing the Sword—J W. Daven
port ;To the Central Association—B. Boykin ;
To Some Churches—Monitor ; Hephzibah As
sociat ou—Louisville News ; Facts about Kind
Words.
Third Page.— Special Contributions: Notes on
the Act of Baptitm—No. XVl—Appeal to the
Original—Opposition Witnesses.
Fourth Page.— Editorial: The World vs. Evau
felical Piety— Rev. 8. G. Hillyer. Texas—
astand Present; An Item—Rev. J. S. Baker.
Georgia Baptbt News; More Sensationalism;
Saul—Paul; Editorial Paragraphs.
Firm Page.— Editorial: Saving Souls; Minutes;
etc. Communications: The Santa Fee ltiver
Association—G. W. Hall; Does Dr. E. W.
Warren Save Souls—A. T. Spalding. Secular
Department: Gov. Joseph E. Brown; The
Fair at Saudersville; Latin and Greek; Col. E.
I'. Clarke; Acrostio—C. W. Hubner; Literary
Gossip; Foreign and Domestic Notes; Georgia
News; etc.
Sixth Page.— Sunday-school Department: Saul's
Early Ministry—Lesson for Sunday, November
12th', 1876; Missions ; "What has been Done ?”
—C. M. Irwin ; Woman's Mission to Woman
Societies.
Seventh Page. Agricultural : Thoughts for the
Month.
Eighth Page. —Publishers’ Department : The
Bethel Association; Marriages; Obituaries;
Tribute of Respect; Sjiecial Notices: Adver
tisements.
INDEX AND BAPTIST.
ALABAMA * DEPARTMENT.
Pollard baa bad a considerable fire.
Anew paper will soon lie issued in Greens
boro.
Montgomery is reported remarkably healthy
just now.
The Sumter county fair begins November
15th.
The Alabama river is again receding, still
there is enough water for light draught boats.
Rev. E. K. Hall of Indiana, baa taken
charge of the Birmingham Episcopal church.
Eighteen persons have recently joined the
Methodist church in Mt. Sterling
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Mr. George H. Parker has become editor of
the Alabama IVibune, which has been removed
from Birmingham to Cullman.
The Lawrence county grand jury returned
83 true bills, mostly for carrying concealed
weapons and disturbing public worship.
Rev. Frank Hal lam, of Athens, Ga., has en
tered upon the pastorate of St. Paul’s (Episco
pal) church of Selma.
Rev. Wiley W. Thomas, formerly a citizen
of Dallas county, died recently in Texas,
where he removed several years ago.
Rev. Ellison Capers, late rector of St. Paul’s
church, Selma, has gone to his new home in
Greenville, Souih Carolina.
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The Roanoke Sews says a number of the
l>eople of Randolph will emigrate to Texas
this winter.
The enterprising town of Cullman is im
proving fast, and promises to he a real little
city, and that before long.
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Rev. Mr. Baber has accepted a call to Shi
loh Baptist church, in Dallas county, where he
will preach the first Sunday and the Saturday
before in each month.
Mr. Jesse M. Green, of Brundidge, a young
man of much promise,left for Greenville, South
Carolina, to attend the Baptist Theological
Seminary theie. He is preparing himself for
the ministry.
Asa Idenso, a former citizen of Perry county,
aged 77 years, was waylaid and Bhot, in Leake
county, Mississippi, by a man named Har
well, and instantly killed. Harwell made his
escape and is supposed to have fled to Choc
taw county, Alabama A reward of S4OO is
oflered for the arrest and delivery of the mur
deierto Leake county, Mississippi.
On la-t Sabbath, Dr. Hawthorne preached
in the First Baptist church at Montgomery on
the following topics: In the morning, “God’s
measurement of man’s worthand in the
evening, “The Christian principles which
should control our conduct in the approaching
Presidential election.”
The chief attractions at the State Grange
Fair were from the Selma District. The first
premium for field crops exhibited by a grange
was awarded to Mulberry Grange, and the first
premium tor horticultural, garden, and do
mestic products exhibited by a grange was
given to Pleasant Valley Grange.
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General Lawler closed the Alabama Bond
Agency in New York on th? 23d ult., after
exchanging $3,300,000. There have been
about $1,000,000 exchanged at Montgomery,
making nearly two-thirds of Class A, which
under tiie terms of the settlement is limited to
$7,000,000. The recent complications in the
Alabama and Chattanooga railroad will not at
all affect the settlement made between the State
and bondholders. The State is saiely rid of
that great source of trouble.
THE SOTTTTT-WES , T r H3H?,TT BAPTIST,
of Alabama.
Spirit of the Religious Press,
—The New York (Catholic) defines
the duty of the Romish hierarchy and the
dogma of Roman CatLolieisui as follows :
If it were a matter of indifference whether
men believe the church’s dogmas of failli or
not, there would be Rome slight pretence of ex
cuse for complaining of her z-al to silence and
extirpate all views and opinions which differ
from those dogmas. But, inasmuch as the loss
or salvation of souls hangs on the rejection or
acceptance of those precise dogmas and no
other, instead of her zeal to obstruct heresy
being detriment il to the interests of mankind,
and encroaching upon their liberty, in no way
does she more amiably exhibit herself as the
mother of liberty and the benefactor of the
race. Indeed, with her belief it would be in
human to do otherwise ; with her divine con
scious ess she could no'. ... If, when it is
in her power, she restrains them from propa
gating their errors, it is from no unkind iness
to them (heretics,) hut out of divine charily,
and because necessity is laid upon her that she
should do so for the defence ol her children.
—The Christian Register says:
The rage for on'y young men in the pulpit
which prevailed a lew years ago has been fol
lowed by a considerable reaction in favor o
men of age and experience. Th re can be no
thing better than bright, earnest, strong, mod
est and manly youth, but mere youth does not
always imply these desirable qualities, any
more than mere age implies dullness, timidity
and b ; goted narrowness. We can name half a
score of venerable ministers as fresh, brave, tol
erant and hopefully progressive as any of their
juniors; and whenever we listen to their
words, so full of wisdom, beauty and verified
truth, we go away most deeply and gratefully
impressed. The whitened hair and uncon
scious dignity ; the ripeness o( judgement and
maturity of faith ; the generous allowance for
human errors and frailties ; the earnest allu
sion to the value of time and the swift flight of
present opportunities, melt ( thrill and awe ev
ery hearer whose sensibilities are alive and
tender. When we seek chiefly intellectual en
tertainment and graceful oratory, we may go to
younger speakers; but when we wish to be
helped in laying hold on eternal things, and
having our conversation in heaven, there is no
better way of obtaining what we need than to
sit reverently and trustfully at the feet of some
good old man who practises bis precepts and
lives his sermons.
THE BAPTISTS IN MOBILE.
Rev. Z. A. Owens, in a recent letter to the
Wextern Recorder, gives the following interest
ing facts concerning our denominational inter
ests in thaPcity :
The St. Francis street Baptist church, of
which Bro. .1 O. B. Lowry is pastor, is one of
the strongest and most influential in the city,
and probably it would not be an overstate
ment to say, it is one of the leading churches
of the Baptist denomnation in the entire South.
Bro Lowry is held in very high esteem by his
people, and is doing a good work. His church
numb rs between 350 and 100 members. Bro.
Lowry was only about twenty three years old
when he assumed care of this church. Some
of our small churches would have considered
him 100 young and inexperienced to become
their pastor. Many such fields would have
refused the services of one so youthful and just
out of school.
Bro. Paulin has resigned the care of Broad
street church. He preached his farewell ser
mon last Sunday. This is a good church, and
has one of the best locations in the city.
Palmetto street church, of which the writer
is pa-tor, is rather anew interest, having been
stalled a few years ago as a mission of the
St. Francis street church. The church is now
self-sustaining. We have a good and couilort
able house of worship, and are out of debt with
the exception of aboutsloo Weexpecl with
out much trouble, to get clear of debt this
year. We have between 90 and 100
members, very good congregations both morn
ing and night; a live Sunday-school; and
our prayer-mc'-tings are generally well attend
ed. We have received three by letter within
the past month. We feel much encouraged,
and, with the blessing of the Lord, we hope to
do a good work.
Nineteen persons were received by baptism
and two were restored during a recent excel
ent revi val in Union Baptist church, Hall
county.
BAPTIST NEWS AND NOTES.
—There are 110 Baptist churches in the
Stale of Vermont.
—Rev. J. M. Phillips, pastor of the church
in Ivebanon, has accepted the pastorate of the
First church in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
—Rev. Geo. W. Gardner,D.D., has accepted
a unanimous call to the pastorate of the First
Baptist church, Cleveland, Ohio, made vacant
by the withdrawal of Dr. Behrends from the
denomination.
—The Baptist (Memphis) says “the Tennes
see Bapti t State Convention mel with the
church in Jackson on Friday, October 20th,
and closed Monday, the 23d. The represeuta
tion was small, only one being present from
East Tennessee, and only seven from Middle
Tennessee. We must hope for better things in
future.
—The Watchman (Boston) in addition to a
masterly editorial full ol pathos and fervent
feeling on the death of that Master in Israel,
Rev. Dr. Richard Fuller, prints two beautiful
and touching tributes to his memory from the
pens of two of New England's most eminent
divines, Dr. Neale and Dr. Hogue, introdu
cing them with the remarks that they are pub
lished that the South may know how deeply
the North sympathizes with her in herloßs.
We append Dr. Neale’s article :
Editors of Watchman —l share in the univer
sal sorrow occasioned by the announcement
fiom Baltimore of the death of our dear Bro.
Fuller. I have known him for many years,
and only to admire and love hiu . His ser
FRANKLIN PRINTING HOUSE, ATLANTA. GEORGIA, NOVEMBER 9, 1870.
moil at Baltimore in 1840, before the Mission
ary Convention, I remember thrilled the as
sembly. His text was,‘‘God so loved the world
that He gave His only begotten Son, that who
ever believeth in Him luiglii not perish, but
have everlasting life. 1 ' llis plan was simple
and characteristic. 13, ,a sublime state
ment ; 2d, a conclusive argument; 3d, an im
pressive appeal.
_ I)r. Fuller was educated ai Harvard Univer
sity, and was always greatly respected by those
with whom he was there associated, and who
have since been distinguished in public lile,
such as Hot vrt C. Winthrop, Charles Francis
Adams, and my beloved and lamented physi
cian, Augu tnsA. Gould. In his childhood
and early youth he sat under ilie ministry ol
the late Rev. Dr. Win. T. Brantly, then pas
t< rat Beaufort, South Carolina. That most
excellent man had much to do in shaping the
mind of young Fuller. Ttiey loved each other
as father and son. When Richard was at col
lege, and sick at Northampton, far away from
home, his faithful prstor followed him with
letters of healthful counsel and affectionate
sympathy. The heart of the ambitious scholar
' qreciated this kindness. It had great
licence in leading him to Christ, and to the
ministry of the Gospel.
The following account given by himself of
his preaching before his pastor, is characteris
tic of both men : "I had lately entered the
ministry,and, of course, had no little trepida
tion at the prospect of standing up for the
first time before my old teacher, famed, as Dr.
Manly had told me, for his tremendous criti
cisms on young preachers. Having just left
the bar for the pulpit, 1 had no theological fur
niture, no mental equipment for my new pro
fession, nothing, indeed, except to tell what
grace had put into my heart—the simple sto
ry of the Cross. As the Sabbath had approach
ed, I was, I confess, strongly templed to essay
some touches of science and literature. The
hymn before the sermon was that of Fawcett,
‘Religion is the chief concern of mortals here
below,’ etc. I saw this produced a marked
impression upon Dr. Brantly, who sat before
me, his open brow somewhat elotinded as 1
knew with recent sorrow. The eft.ct upon
myself was electrical. The known cares and
anxieties of my loved pastor, and my own
wr cfd ambition all melted me down. Be
fore me were thousands passing into eternity.
Above me were the opening heavens and be
neath the yawning abyss ! Dialectics and dem
onstrations were at an end,and the text chosen
was/Thou art careful and troubled about many
things, but one thing is needful.’ Scarcely
had I commenced, when I saw my friend’s
countenance beaming with radiance. Presently
it was bathed in tears, and during the latter
part of the services he covered his face with
his hands and sobbed aloud.’’ It was natural
that the strong love and esteem which Dr
Fuller cherished foi the older Brantly should
be transferred to the not less distinguished
son, with whom onr departed brother has been
so happily associated in llis ministry at Balti
more. 1 sympathize tenderly with this dear
brother in h'gpresent bereavement, and pray
that as with sorrowing admiration he is
prompted to exclaim, “My Father! My Fa
ttier ! the chariot of Israel, and the horse
man thereof,” that the Lord would grant him
a double portion of His spirit, and that the
mantle of the ascending prophet may rest upon
him.
Memory recalls many pleasant personal in
terviews with our dear departed brother. I
think of his magnanimity ; his great soul ; his
conciliatory'spirit. All through the war he
was a golden link between the North and
South, and now remains a golden link between
earth and heaven. R 11. Neale.
—A San Francisco paper reports in one is
sue the baptism of ten Chinamen—three in
Sacramento, four in Los Angelos, and three in
San Francisco.
—The Philadelphia Baptist Association
held its one hundred and sixty-ninth anniver
sary, October 2-5. The body consists of eighty
ty-two churches witli 23,333 members. Their
Sunday-school statistics are: Schools, 101;
officers and teachers, 1,027; scholars, 18,732
Teachers baptized within the year, 75; Schol
ars baptized within the year, 788 ; volumes in
libraries, 42,984
—We clip the following from the Lyncli
burch (Va,) Star :
After an able and intesting sermon by Dr.
Montgomery, at the Baptist church last night,
several persons were baptized and regularly ad
mitted into full fellowship with that church.
The revival, which has been in progress at this
church for the pest iliree weeks,will be contin
ued during the present week, when it is hoped
many more nay find the way to true happi
. ness and to their God.
Just before the ordinance ofbap'ism was ad
ministered and just as Dr. Montgomery had
finished his sermon, the lights suddenly went
out, leaving thelaige audience in total dark
ness. After a short delay the gas meter was re
plenished with water and the lights were re
stored. A short delay was the only inconven
ience, but it would, we think, be good policy to
guard against a recurrence, by the substitution
of a dry meter for the one now used. It will
save a great annoyance.
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This age is a progressive one, and improve
ments aro continually suggesting themselves in
almost every department of human life. Labor
saving inventions and machinery are eagerly
sought for, to accomplish in a few hours’ t ine",
whar usually was the toil of (lays and even
weeks. The farm, the household, the workshop
the factory, all posses i unmistakable evidences
of this wonderful age of progress. It remained,
however, for the eminent house of Lord A
Taylor, well known as one of the leading dry
goods firms of New York city, to introduce vast
improvements in the old shopping method, and
to make “ shopping easy" for every lady in the
country. There is now no reasonable excuse
for ladies to fatigue themselves with travel, and
to undergo its hundred and one annoyances
when they can purchase evor.v article needed for
the wardrobe or household without leaving their
homes. Messrs. Lord & Taylor will send, on
applieation, free of charge, samples of the new
est goods for autumn and winter wear, with
prices attached to each, togother with complete
descriptive catalogues of their handsome stock
of ladies’ aud misses’ underwear. Selections
from these are readily made; orders for goods
filled by the house, and returned by
fast trains to the purchaser. This surely is a
material improvement for the slow method of
former days, as by this system time, money,
labor and annoyances are all saved. The busi -
ness standing of this eminent house makes this
announcement worthy of atteutiou, as they can
bo relied upon implicitly to accomplish whatever
they advertise to do.
The Missionary Field,
—The Loudon Baptist says :
Tiie document which was read by Dr. Un
derhill at the recent Missionary Conference in
Birmingham, last week was,doubtless an im
portant contribution to the history of modern
missions, and especially of the missions of our
own principal society.
The period selected for retrospect was that
which lies between 1851 and 1876, extending
over five and-twenty years. During that time,
as Dr. Underhill was able to slibw, the income
of the society ami its agency have a little more
than doubled. In 1851 the income of the soci
ety twenty thousand pounds ; in
1876 il is nearly forty thousand pounds In
the tormeryear we had 38 European and 118
native laborors in the field ; we have now 73
missionaries, 11 home missionaries in India,
and 222 native brethren, whom it is our privi
lege to sustain. The members ol the mission
churches amounted in 1851 to about 5,000 ;
they now rurtub r 11,000.
—The Bov. Hugh M’Neil Gumming, son of
the Key. I)r. Gumming, of London, who has
been for some years a curate in the Church of
England, has made application to the Presby
terian Church of England, through its Lon-
Presbytery, to be admitted a minister of that
church. In his letter of application lie states
that ‘‘he has found Episcopacy a despotic tyr
anny.”
Two new missionary bishoprics are to be
established in India, an 1 two clergymen who
have already been nominated will be consecra
ted as soon ns the necessary arrangements can
be made.
—Mr. \V. T. Austen, a missionary of the
American Seamen’s Friend Society, is perma
nently situated at Yokohoma, Japan. In wri
ting to The Sailor's Magazine, he states that be
fore the United Stales flagship left that port,
seven of her men had confessed Christ, and five
ore had asked prayers. In the quarter ending
August 1, the missionary had visited nineiy
seven ships, held thirty-nine religious meet
ings upon them, and had personally reached
2,082 seamen.
—N ine Presbyterian clergymen are already
ordained from among Sioux Indian converts.
—Rev. M. Van Orden, late Presbyterian
missionary to Brazil, lias been desposed from
the ministry on a charge of being a slave
holder.
—According to the Lucknow Witness the
Jesuits m-j'W ting With tfonsidv-able succe.-*;
in Chirm. ’ fey a late treaty they have oblaincd
possession of a great deal of property which
belonged to them three hundred years ago, hut
al the time of their expulsion was confiscated.
A cathedral,to cost three million dollars,is to be
built in Canton from the profits arising from
these possessions, and another, nearly equal to
this, will be built in Pekin. C hutches filled
with worshippers are said to he springing up
in all important cities of the empire. A de
cree has been obtained from the Chinese gov
ernment allowing the priests to decide ques
tions of law between th;Chinese Catholics and
those who still cling to the Chinese religion.
The priests also gather up foundlings by the
hundred, an! buy children of the poor, for a
mere trifle, to train them for the church.
—A colored Baptist association in Virginia,
sends the Treasurer of the Board in Richmond
$25 for Foreign Missions.
—The Roman Catholic Society of St. Vin
cent de Paul claim to have converted one hun
dred of the inmates of the penitentiary at
Philadelphia.
—The ancient supernatural fears which one
would suppose to last longest are all gone. A
Polynesian that minute converted will chop up
an idol, or cut down a sacred grove, or bid
outrageous defiance to a visible and as it were,
a demonstrable hell, in the shape of a lake of
volcanic fire, without an apparent twinge of
fear. The Karens become in an hour, in their
relation to the Powers of the Air, altered be
ings, and the Coles defy their old deities with
a serenity that modern skeptics have never dis
played. A scene of this kind, of almost une
qualed phturesquoness and even grandeur, has
just cccurrcd in Fiji, and as it happens, is de
scribed by the Governor, Sir Arthur Gordon,
in a letter to a private friend. Sir Arthur
is, perhaps, the most noteworthy man now in
tiie Colonial service—a man, we tear of domi
neering temper, who accumulates dislikes on
himse'f as other men accumulate money, but
for all that a God fearing, just and able man,
who thinks the poor and weak ought to have
justice, and will sacrifice not only his time hut
his comfort in the effort to insure that they do
have it. His testimony is beyond all doubt,
even if it were not backed, as in this instance
it is, by independent evidence, and he relates
thisexlraordinary story: “I wish I could give
you some idea of the intense picturesqueness
and curious events of this last month. One 1
must tell you. The Christian army was en
camped round Bukatia, a very strong place, a
vast mass of rock rising somewhat like the I
Acroeorinihus, above the river and the plain.
This town has never been taken, and was re
garded as impregnable by the cannibals. The
oracles of their gods are shouted aloud by the
priests speaking as in the god’s name, and this
night an oracle was declared. The moon
shone on the white river-mists, and threw the
great black shadow of the rock far over the
plain. Out of the stillness, from the very top
of the rock, rang out the hoarse cry of the
priest, audible nearly a mile off, ‘Fire is un
known to my house in Bukatia.’ With one
accord the whole beleagnring host shouted out
THE CBTHbISTI-ATST HERALD
of Tennessee.
in slow and measured tones the reply, ‘Wait
till to-morrow !’ And the next day Bukatia
was taken and the devil-temple burned.
Another narrator mentions the spontaneous
ness of the reply, its defiant tone, and, rolling
as it did from the lips of 1,400 men suddenly
moved to the sime triumphant, defiant ejac
ulation, its marvelously startling eflect. No
description we have ever read in history or in
fiction has more about it of dramatic grandeur
—the grandeur of intense surprise—and none
excites a deeper sense of bewilderment. Here
were 1,400 criminal savages converted, as it
were, but yesterday, all born pagans, trained
cannibals, habitual murderers—there is no
story in Dan te more lorrible than Jackson’s
history of his life in Fiji—and they, under
circumstances that might have moved old
Christians to awe-struck emotions, hurl into
the air at night and with a bloody battle be
fore them, open defiances to the gods whom
they had been bred since childhood to adore.
WOVI.D YOU BE YOUNG AGAIN’
Written by Caroline, Baroness of Nairn, in her
liith year.
Would you be young again ?
So would not I;
One tear to memory given,
Onward I’ll hie.
L’fe’s dark wave forded o’er,
All but at rest on the shore,
Say, would you plunge once more.
With home so nigh V
If you might, would you now
Retrace your way?
Wander through stormy wilds,
Faint and astray?
Night’s gloomy watchos fled,
Morning all beaming red,
Hope’s smile around us shed.
Heavenward—away!
Where are those dear ones,
Our joy and delight;
Dear and more dear, though now
Hidden from sight?
Whore they rejoice to be,
There is the home for me,
Fly—Time, fly speedily.
Come, life and light!
\ GUAM) HISTORICAL WORK.
History of the United States from the Aborigi
nal Timos to the Present Day. By John Clark
Ridpath, A.M., Professor’ of History and
Belles-Lettors, Indiana Ashury University.
Royal Octavo, Illustrated witli Maps, Charts,
Portraits and Diagrams. Sold only by sub
scription. Price, 13 00. Jones Brothers <4
Cos., Philadelphia, Chicago and Cincinnati,
Truly a comprehensive title, a subject va<t
enough for the moat (taring genius. History iH
said to be philosophy, teaching by examples
But in this work Professor Bilpatb has treated
us to a union of the two as rare aB it is charm
ing. While the. narrative of events is the main
Rurden of the work, the author occasionally
takes the chair judicial and favors us with.his
views of hidden causes aud the sequence of
events.
To condense American History into one volume
which Hball be at once comprehensive and con
venient, omitting no material fact and yet avoid
ing tediousuess is the task the author appears
to have set for himself ; and it must be admitted
that he has done it well. It is really wonderful
what an array of fact and comments can be
condensed into a single paragraph. Take as an
instance the following on the character of the
early settlers of America:
“These people, whose ancestors had been
driven into exile by the exactions of European
governments and the bigotry of ecclesiastical
power had become the rightful proprietors of
the New World. They had fairly won it from
savage mau and savage nature. They had sub
dued it and built States within it. They owned
it by all the claims of actual possession ; by toil
and trial ; by the ordeal of suffering ; by peril,
privation, and hardship ; by the baptism of sor
row and the shedding of blood. No wonder that,
patriotism was the child of such travail and dis
cipline ! No wonder that the men who from
mountain and sky and river, from orchard and
valley and forest, from the memories of the
past, the aspirations of the present and the
hopes of the future, had drank in the spirit, of
Liberty until their souls were prevailed with her
sublime essence—were now ready when the iron
heel oi oppression was set upon their cherished
rights, to draw the vindictive sword even against
the venerable monarchy of England !”
Could the re id or by wadi ig through any one
or a dozen of the bulky volumes written on that
subject, get a clearer view of the situation '/
The following ex ract from the Condition of
the Colonies, must give all who read it a higher
apprecia'iou of the sacrifices and sufferings of
those who laid the foundations of Amerioau civ
ilization:
* * * ‘ ‘The history of these American col
onies from their first feeble bogiuuiugß is full of
interest aud instruction. The people who Jai l
tlio foundations of civilization in the New World
wore nearly all refugeos, exiles, wanderers, pil
grims. They were urged across the ocean by a
common impulse, and that impulse was the de
sire to e-cape from some form of oppression in
the Old World. Sometimes it was the oppression
of the Church, sometimes of the State, some
times of society. In the wake of the emigrant
ship there waH always tyranny. Men loved free
dom ; to find it they braved the perils of the
deep, traversed the solitary forests of Maine,
built huts on the bleak shores of New England,
entero 1 the Hudson, explored the Jerseys, found
shelter in the Chesapeake, met starvation and
death on the banks of the James, were buffeted
by storms a 'ound the capes of Carolina, built
towns by the estuaries of the great rivers, made
loads through tho pinewoods, and carried the
dwellings of men to the very margin of the
f. ver haunted swamps of the South. It is all
one st jrv—the story of the human race seeking
for liberty.”
The mechanical execution of the work leaves
nothing to bo desired. Three features are wor
thy of special commenda'iou : the topographical
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General Denominational Hews,
—The Congregationalist has another editorial
on the wines of the B bte, in confirmation of
its recent statements that such an article as un
iermenied wine is not now aud was uot in the
time of Chris known in the Fast.
—The Canadian Minister of Public Works
has prohibited the running of trains on the In
tercolonial Railway on the Sabbath, except in
cases of necessity.
—Dr. 11. A. Sawtelle, of California, has em
braced strict communion again.
—The First Baptist church at Pittston, Lu
zerne county, Pa., proposes to celebrate th?
one hundredth anniversary of its organization
by a grand reunion of its former pastors, min -
isters and members on Thursday, December
21, 1876, and a cordial invitation is extended
tc them.
Mar Athanasius, the Matran, or patriarch
of the Ancient Syrian Church in Travancore,
has issued a pastoral on the lute remarkable
revival in that country. In most touching
language he thanks God for the outpouring of
the Holy Spirit, and earnestly entreats his
people to continue in prayer and watchfulnars.
“Dear children,” he says, “God alone knows
how often such a feeble and sinful man as I
am myself has prayed with tears and earnest
ness before llis gracious throne that the Holy
Spirit should carry on His work with power,
and in a special manner among us, the fallen
Church, just as he now does.”
—Dr. Talmage (Presbyterian) deplores the
sharp things written against Baptists who be
lieve that they ought not invite to their com
munion table those who have been im
mersed. Says Dr. Talmage : “They have as
much right to have that belief as thePedobap*
lists have a right to the opposite belief. We
know close communion Baptists ministers, and
we do not find that the latter are any more
genial, or earnest, or conscientious, or useful
than the former.
—The Philadelphia Baptist Association has
just held its 169.1i session. This association
has 84 churches, with 21,773 members. Dur
ing the past year 2,758 were added by baptism,
and the outlook was never brighter than at
present.
—A Japanese Baptist church has been form
ed at Nagasaki Japan. .
—The Presbyterian and Baptist churches of
Minnesota evidently and rightly believe that
religion and honesty should go hand in hand,
and that a Sate is just as wicked in repudia
ting its ytebts as a private individual. The
Baptist church and the House Presbyterian
church of St. Paul have both passed resolutions
denouncing the repudiation of the bonds of the
State in 1858. This is a novel sort of inter
ference of church with State.
—Elder J. J. Sledge, Baptist, and T. W.
Caskey, Campbellito, held a discussion at
Woodbury, Texas, recently.
—According to the Freewill Baptist Regis
ter for 1870, the total membership of the de
nomination in this country is 74,651, a gain
for the year ot 2,523 ihe membership in
Maine 18 15,248, a gain of 352
—Elder J rs. Fife, for sixty years a minister
of the Baptist church, died in Charlottsville
Va.,a few days ago, aged eighty-four.
—The new Baptist paper in Mississippi is
to be staited at Clinton. Brother Gambol! is
te be editor.
—ln regard to the new era of persecution in
Spain, the New York Observer says: “At this
moment the two anti-Christian powers in the
world are Mohammedanism and Romanism.
Both of them are engaged in a relentless per
secution of Christians, denying to them the
simplest rights and principles belonging to
them as men having conscience and soul.
The voice of the American Christians ought
to be heard as it was when Spain imprisoned
Bible readers, and Italy persecuted the Ma liai.
Then the Protestant heart of this country ex
pressed its sympathy for the persecuted, and
the Spirit of the Lord opened dungeons and
gave liberty to them that were bound. Let us
once more speak and act. We are glad to
know that a movement is on foot which will
soon give voice to American sentiment on this
subject.
AV ACKAOWLKBGMKIVT.
Quitman, G.v., October 26, 1676.
1 received a short time since, from an estima
ble sister, a letter under dato 4th inst., contain
ing a contribution of one dol ar, made by three
noble boys, her nephews, whose sympathies in
my behalf were enlisted by a report of my help
less and dependent condition. As she failed to
give lior post-oflice address,and tho postmaster’-
Ktamp on the envelope is so indistinct that no
one has been able to decipher it. I asli the
privilege of acknowledging most gratefully her
kindness, and the very unexpected token of
sympathy affordod by her nephews in this public
way. Such exprexssions of kinaness and sym
pathy would prove exceedingly oppressive were
it not for the express assurance of my heavenly
Father, that he will coustiue acts of kindness
extended to his deciples as though done to him
self, and will a ply reward them lor fho samo.
I would respectfully request of all who have
an interest at the throne of grace, that they
would join with me in fervent prayer to God
that Ho would afford to our generous young
friends, daily, gracious manifestations of His
presence with them, guide, uphold and protect
them through all the journey of life, and finally
grant them an entrance into His kingdom of
glory, through Christ our common Bedeomor.
Jos. 8. Bakkr.
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