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The Christian Index.
VOL. 55---NO. 45.
Table of Content*.
First Page. —Alabama Department ; Record of
State Events; Spirit of the Religious Tress;
Baptist News and Notes- Eufaula Association:
The Missionary Field ; To my People —Lewis
Pass ; The Bible; 'General Denominational
News.
Second Pare —Our Correspondents: “Tbe Great
Question” —B. L. Ross; To the Central Asso
ciation—What the Churches are Doing—Sam'l
Boykin: Carrollton. Georgia—W. N. Chandoin;
Letter from Tuunel Hill, Gaergia— J. C.Head;
Duty of Parents to their Children —Jas. H.
Cantrell; Orphane Home Acknowledgments
for Quarter ending November 1, 1876—R. W.
Fuller: Parting between Friends; Death
of Dr. E. R. Jones, of Madison; etc.
Third Pare. —Our Pulpit: Our Duty to our
Children A Sermon, preached before the
Flint River Association, on the fourth Sabbath
of last September, by Rev. E. M. Hooten, Mil
ner, Ga. Children’s Corner: Listening-
Poetry; Costly Clothes; "Not Yet.”
Fourth Paor. —Editorial: Baptists : Observing
the Sabbath ; A Christian "Jolli6cation”; Geor
gia Baptist News—Rev. D. E. Butler. Glances
among the Tapers—By an Invalid; The Sun
day-school Institute at the First Baptist
church, Atlanta : Editorial Paragraphs.
Fifth Pare. —Secular Department: Ego; Per
sonal ; "The Trntli of Fiction;" Literary Gos
sip ; Georgia News ; Domestic and Foreigu
Notes; Corulield Preachers; Indian Relics, etc.
Sixth Pare.— The Sunday-School: The Vision of
Peter—Lesson for Sunday, November 26,
1876. To the Committee for the Promotion of
Sunday-school Work in the Central Baptist
Association —A. M. Marshall. Select Miscel
lany: “The Ninety and Nine"—Sunny South;
Awaf from the Fold—Sidney Herbet.
Seventh Pare. —Agricultural: Notes and Hints:
A Good Manure; The Agricultural Bureau; etc.
Eighth Par*.— Publishers’Department. Lot
tie’s Testimony. Marriages. Obituaries. Ad
vertisements.
INDEX AND BAPTIST.
ALABAMA DEPARTMENT.
Cholera morbus is epidemic about Welurnp
ka.
The corner Btone of anew Methodißt church
at Oxmoor, was laid recently.
The Colored Baptist State Convention met
in Talladega on the 15th inst.
Rev. A. J. Kynard baa been re-elected pas
tor of Mars Hill church.
Kev. B. F. Riley, the new paitor of Snow
Hill church, is laboring very successfully and
acceptably for the brethren.
There are now in attendance at the Univer
sity of Alabama, one hundred and twenty five
cadets, with almost a certainty of the number
reaching one hundred and fifty before the end
of the year.
The Huntsville Advocate says: “Worthy
Deputy Master, Msj. J. W. Eldridge, informs
us that the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry
is decidedly on the rising ground in this coun
try, and bids fair to work good.
There was a storm which passed up the Ca
liaba Valley, above Highland, several days
ago, which blew down houses, fences and trees
in its track. The Baptist church at Bridgton
wae completely demolished.
The Troy Messenger says : “Another man,
Mr. William Fossett, disgusted with his ex
change of Alabama lor Texas, returned on
Monday night. He says there are a great
many in Texas who are more anxious to gel
back to Alabama than they ever were to get
where they are—but they are unable. It is
folly to sacrifice land and other property here,
to go on a quixotic venture tor wealth in
another State.
The Wilcox Hem says : “Kev. Benj. J.
Sxinner, of Pine Apple, preached a very lor
cible and eloquent setmon laat Sunday night,
to a large and attentive audience, in the inter
est of Howard College endowment. This is a
subject in which every Baptist in Atabami
should leel personally responsible, and strive
to secure the endowment. It is a pleasant
work, and almost any one can engage in it.
The Alabama C onference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church has been divided into the
Alabama Conference and Central Alabama
Coulerence. The former embracing the white
members, the latter the colored. The firbt
session of ot Colored Conference was lield at
Uuntsville a few days ago, presided over by
Bishop Levi Scott. Rev. A. S. Dakin acted
as Secretary. The Coulerence was hugely at
tended by preachers from abroad, esi>eciaUy
lrom Central and South Alabama.
Brother W. S. Rogers, in the Alabama Bop
list, alluding to the recent meeting of the Eu
faula Association, says: “Someb-dy wanted
us to sever our connection with the Alabama
Baptist State Convention, and cast our lot
with the General Association of Southeast Al
abama, but we did not do so. We had rather
see them connected with the State Convention.
The heartiness with which our Methodist
friends bore a part in entertaining the body,
was ahead of anything I have seen yet.”
Mr. Byrd Lyon, aged sixty-ffve years, was
shot and instantly killed at his residence near
Crawford, Alabama, lecentiy, while at his well
drawing water. He was struck in the ueuk,
which was broken. The deed was committed by
some unknown person, but is supposed to have
been a negro. Three or four negroes have been
arrested upon suspicion, and one who had
some misunderstanding with Mr. Lyon about
the gathering of the crop, proved an alibi.
TEE SOTJTH-WESTERIT BAPTIST,
or Alabama.
Spirit of the Religious Press,
—The Western Recorder inquisitively re
marks :
The Hartford Herald says that a spelling
school meets regnlarl at the Beaver Dam
Baptist church, Ohio county, every Thursday
night. That is very well. It is important to
know how to spell. But please tell us now
when and how often the prayer-meeting is
held in that church.
—Ou the subject of the Presidential election,
the Watchman (Boston) says :
After an exciting and bitter campaign, the
country has-elected the Democratic National
ticket. Our institutions have again demon
strated their stability and greatness, by leading
our i>eop!e, though heated almost to fanaticism
in the furnace of a violent partisan canvass,
to record their decision at the polls in a calm,
law-abiding spirit. In this we rejoice thiß
morning, that North and South, East and West,
have once more displayed before the nations
of the earlh the deep-set and abiding love of
order, which animates the American people,
Those who fear a reaction in the policy of
the nation from a Democra'ic administration,
may console themselves with the fact that
Congress has supreme control of such policy,
that the country has Democratic pledges,
North and South, for its substantial mainten
ance, and that the victorious party will have
a strong opposition in both houses, in one a
majority, to watch that it is true to its promi
ses. It is just as well that no dominant school
of politics should be overwhelmingly strong
in the administration of government. As
Macaulay says in his History of England, “the
wisest men of both parties are nearest the com
mon frontier, while the extremes of one are
bigoted dotards, and the extremes of the other
are shallow empirics.” If this principle is
to be accepted as applicable in our case, then
the next Congress will be under the eontiol of
a few independent, patriotic men, who will Bee
to it that the affairs of the nation are not ad
ministered in the interest of a party either
sectional or commercial. Possibly this new
phase in our national histoiy may teach the
people a much-needed lesson —that political
problems are many-sided, are always complex,
and should never be approached in a spirit of
violent agitation.
There is no reason to look with despondency
to the future of our country. Our people are
honest, thev want honest government, honest
money, and equal rights, honestly administer
ed, for all under the law. Had the now trium
phant party professed less, it would never have
been exalted; and if it shall come short of
this, popular indignation will speedily remand
it to the shades of merited privacy. We may,
therefore, expect a prudent and < onservati ve
policy in the approaching administration ; and
may we not hope, without counting at all on na
tive purity, that surrounded as it will be by
jealous eyes, It may also be distinguished for
integrity and economy.
—The Cumberland Piesbyterian says: In the
First Cumberland Presbyterian church, Nash
ville, Tenn., three violins, a clarionet, cornets,
trombone and bass viol have been added to the
choir, and a large organ. It makes an excel
lent orchestra, and great crowds fill the church
every Sabbath. Whether it will result in
spiritual edification, or merely entertainment
and gratification, remains to be seen,
—The New York Methodist , commenting on
the vicious “Pride of Appearance” now so ap
parent in American social life, pointedly says:
A great deal of economy is possible in the
region we are looking into; and these econo
mies would enable us to purchase books, sub
scribe for newspapers, maintain churches, and
found colleges. There are too many palace
cars, first-class hotels, and the display in the
average parlor is above the means ot its mas
ter. We have made progress in dress, but
even there the pride of appeaiance is still
the enemy of contentment and well-be
ing. Above all these appearances, superior
to all these shams, the fact stands, that our real
manhood and womanhood do not depend on
the figure we cut. It is not the glory of our
country that all seem equally rich on a railway
train, but that wealth is no index of worth.
Our best public opinion honors intellect and
foodnesß in humble homes and plain clothes,
fthat public opinion is properly enlightened
it will honor them no less in second-class
cars and modest hotels.
—The Christian Observer says: Rev. A. J.
Baird, D.D , the pastor of tbe First Cumber
land Presbyterian church in Nashville, writes
in defense of the band he has lately introduced:
We do not seek “sensation.” Our music
brought to the church a hundred and fifty to
two hundred people more than usual. This is
ail our house will hold.
For t'e same reason, we suppose, Dr( Tal
mage, of Brooklyn, had Tupper.the Proverbial
Philo.-opher, read a poem in his pulpit on Sun
day morning. We think that the proper way
for ministers and their flocks to fill their
churches is to preach and live the gospel.
—The Congregatiorudist says, eententiously,
“Ministers who think it useless for them to
make much effort in preparing to preach, must
not be surpri ed if their people conclude that it
it is useless to make much effort to come and
hear.”
—The Examiner and Chronicle thinks that
when it comes to disparagement between the
learned and the unlearned in the ministry, the
former class present quite as good a record:
“It is our experience, alter pretty wide observa
tion of tire ministry, that for liberality and cour
tesy of feeling, for genuine brotherly kindness,
and the most ready and hearty sympathy with
all their brethren, none surpass ihe better edu
cated class.”
Rev. W. 8. Rogers, in tbe Alabama Baptist
of November 18th, says in regard to Associa
tions! missions: “It seems to me that the
Baptists ot Alabama ought to coine to some
decision as to whether they will operate
through the State Mission Board, or let each
Association do its own missionary work. The
FRANKLIN PKINTING HOUSE, ATLANTA, CEOHGIA, NOVEMBER 23, 1876.
question has two sides to it. The brethren see
the great destitution right at their doors, and
will give more to support a missionary for
their own Association. State evangelists or
missionaries find it difficult to visit sections at
a great distance from rail roads, and fail to
bring brethren so located into sympathy with
the Board. On the other hand, but few Asso
ciations are able to employ a missionary. If
one is able and does so it has a tendency to
wean their sympathies away from our other
enterprises, and is such a tax that they have
nothing left for other missions, and weak As
sociations have to go wanting as well as all
other enterprises. It is my humble opinion
that we can do more to develop and evangelize
the State by spreading through a State Board.
The fact that the question ot an Associations!
missionary was mooted in the Tuskegee Asso
ciation, also in the Centennial, has led to these
reflections.”
Gov. Houston’s message to the legislature is
devoted principally to State affairs. It refers
to the great eaonomy instituted in all Stale de
partments, and calls special attention to the
fact that State obligations, which were Bold at
60 to 70 cents on the dollar in 1874, now com
mand 92 and 93. This he attributes to the
confidence the people have in the Government
of their own choice. The penitentiary, which
cost the State a large sum of money under pre
vious administrations is now a source of con
siderable revenue to the State. Immigration
is tending this way, a fact on Which he con
gratulates the State; the public schools are
prosperous and increasing in usefulness.
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Brother J. P. Collier, describing the recent
session of the Z'on Association with Friend
ship church, Bullock county, in a communica
tion to the Alabama Buptist, relates the follow
ing interesting incident of the meeting :
A Query —“ Should we receive members from
Antimißsionary churches without re-baptizing
them,” was sent up from Indian Creek church,
and while discussing the propriety of using
the word “Rehaptize,” two members of the
Methodist church became converted, and on
Monday night applied to the Friendship
church for membership and were baptized
Tuesday morning. They staled to the church
that while the subject was being discussed,
their eys were opened on the subject of bap
tism, and they were convinced they had never
keen baptized, although they had been im
mersed, one, by a Presbyterian, and other by a
Methodist minister.
BABTIST NEWS AND HjOTKS.
—The Petersburg (V.) Index says : Last
night a special meeting was held at the First
Baptist church, after the usual religious servi
ces, to consider the case of the Rev. Morton
Murrell, who some three or four weeks since
joined that church under false pretenses. The
officers of the church reported resolutions
recommending his expulsion, which were
adopted. Considering the unbecoming con
duct of this individual before snd since his
connection with the church in this city, there
is no doubt of the wisdom of the First church
in withdrawing their fellowship decidedly and
promptly.
—For their Centennial fund the Baltimore
Baptists have raised $10,400.
—The Law Department of Baylor Univer
sity is to be opened as soon as seven students
are made certain.
—The Baptist Stale Convention, in New
Hampshire, has aided twenty-two churches the
past year, to the aggregate amount of $2,750.
The number of admissions to these churches
was 133. The receipts for the year, including
interest on investments, were $3,000.
-t->A correspondent of Ford’) Christian Re
pository writing of the great London Baptist
preacher says: We may add that Charles H.
Spurgeon has as little of the orator, so called,
as any man we ever heard. His words and
his manner would have just as much fitness
were he talking to a fe.v friends in his parlor
or study, and we heard him praying in public
that God would “remove the orators from the
pulpit who darken Divine truth with human
eloquence,” and that he “give us men who
will talk to the people as Jesus did”—to which
we ret ponded with his brethren, Amen.
—Elder C. L. Thornton has been appointed
General agent to circulate the works of the
Southern Baptist Publication Society, Mem
phis, Tenn., in Texas.
—Some progress has been made towards
raining tbe $500,000 for the Southwestern
Baptist University, the amount needed in or
der to secure the property offered by the city
of Jackson, of buildihg and grounds for the
school. Hopes are entertained that the amount
will be secured.
—Kev. L. M. Berry, so-well known to Ken
tucky Baptists, is now laboring as an evan
gelist in Missouri.
—But little has been done during tire past
year for State Missions in Tennessee, except
the passage of resolutions, a thing quite too
common in other States.
1 here are two associations in Colorado—
the Rocky Mountain, embracing the north
half of the State, and Southern Colorado, the
south half. The Hrst numbers ten churches,
to which there were added thirty-seven by
baptism, and a net increase of forty-eight mem
bers. The other lias eleven churches and a
net increase of thiriy-four.
—Rev. K. O. Brady, of the Swedish
Baptist church, is making a brief visit to
America iu leiialf of an endowment fund for
an institution of learning for the Baptists of
Sweden, to be located at Stockholm.
For the Index and Baptist. I
KFF4TLA ASSOCIATION— MINISTER-.
Dear Index—Not wishing to be too long
in my comments upon upon the Eufaula As
sociation, I reserved for another letter some
remarks, upon some of the young ministers of
the Association—especially so, becau-'e some
of them are partly Georgians.
I shall not speak of Elder \V. N. Reeves, of
Eufaula, who i>- still progressing ; of Elder A.
H. Borders, a true son of Georgia, and an un
assuming, pious man; of Elder Jesse Robson,
a solid Baptist, a good man, who formerly
preached in South Georgia ; of J. S. Paullin,
that cheerful, versatile man, who does believe
it good for a preacher to be alone ; nor of El
der . Joel Simms, I lie “Senior Deacon” of the
ministry of that body. Of these, I say, I will
not speak at length.
Elder Wm. H. Patterson is a Georgian
by birth and education, being a graduate of
Merc- . University. He is well known to
many in Georgia, where his relatives mostly
live now, but for a number of years has been
teaching in Eufaula, and still does. He has
recently been ordained to the ministry, and is
now doing effective service. He has the care
of three country churches to which he preaches
monthly, and the remaining Sabbath is always
employed, for the people love to hear him,
have confidence in him, and call for his ser
vices. He is a good preacher, a growing
man, and his brief pastorates have not been
without success.
Elder Wm. 11. Norton is of two States—
yes, little Billie Norton,” now occupies two
States, 1 He is a native of Georgia, a graduate oi
Mercer University, and spent some time at the
Theological Seminary. He preaches three
Sabbaths now, two in Alabama and one in
Georgia. There are few young men of more
promise of real usefulness. Humble, retiring
to fault nearly, not sensational, but strictly
evangelical, very earnest, studious, a purely
Bible man. not ambitious for place, but thinks
he only wants to be more useful, a lover of
Jesus and of souls, and I hope the Lord will
give him a good wife, which will make him a
better pastor—pretty good now.
Elder W. S. Rogers isanative of Eastern
Alabama, and lives at Seale, on the Mobile ami
Girard railroad. He is the pastor at Seale,
Hurtville, on the same road, and two other
churches, to whom he devotes all his time, and
they Jipport him and family. Bro. Rogers is
not u’Jjhduate I believe, but has attended the
Seminary a year or two, and is a sound,
thinking, growing man, in lull sympathy with
our enterprises, and thus seeks to develop his
churches. He is a warm-hearted man, loves
the woak, and is a prudent, well-balanced man,
and his churches love him and they prosper.
W. N. Chaudoin.
The Missionary Field,
—Already the mission work in Madagascar
is yielding fruit in the shape of active efforts
to extend the gospel to the regions beyond.
The Queen and Prime Minister joined the so
ciety which was organized at the January
meeting of-Malagasy churches, in the province
of Imena. Two chiefs and a prince of the
Bara tribe were present, and told of the degra
dation their people, and asked that mission
aries might be sent. The preachers were
chosen, means for their support provided, and
they returned with the Bara chief to preach
the gospel to those in darkness.
—The progress of missions in the South Sea
Islands has been remarkable the past year.
-Secretary Clark of the American Board
says the progress of missions the past seventy
years exceeds that of the first seventy of the
apostolic age.
—lt is a singular fact that, although two
thirds of all the Baptists in this country are
found in the Southern States, the Baptists of
the North raiseprobably more than ten times
as much as their brethren of the South for be
nevolent purposes. The white Baptists of
Virginia last year did not give more, on a av
erage, than fifteen cents each to foreign mis
sions.
—Bishop Crawthcr, of the Negro Missi< ns,
contradicts the current statements that Mo
hammedanism is more attractive than Chris
tianity to the heathen tribes of Central Africa.
—At the last stated meeting of the Board of
Managers of the American Bible Society, pro
vision was made for extend ng the Society’s
work in South America by the appointment as
Agent for Braz : l of the Rev. A. L. Blackford,
who has long been engaged in the service of
the I resbyterian Board as a missionary at
Rio de Janeiro. The receipts for October
were $30,701.82; copies of Scripture issued
44,572.
—The sneering question is continually
ringing in the car, “What have missions
done ?” Africa sends back a response from
130,000 church members ; Asia from 120,050;
Europe, with Scandinavia and Germany, 53,-
000; America, 22,000; Polynesia, 70,000 ; the
West Indies, 150,000, making a grand total of
500,000 gathered out the darkness of idolatry
and heathenism.
—The work of the American Board iu Ja ■
pan continues to move forward. It was ex
pected that anew church would be organized
at lliog.i about the beginning of August. Hi
ogo is a laige town one mile west of the lor
eign concession, Kobe, where a floursahiug
THE CHRISTIAISr HERALD
of Tennessee.
congregation has for some time existed. The
few Hiogo Christians want a church “standing
by itself;’’ by which they mean that they wish
to pay their own incidental expenses and
chapel rent. From the Island Shikoku, re
cently visited by one of the missionaries, the
news is likewise encouraging. Some who
heard the preaching have taken down their
god-shelves and destroyed them. In the old
sacred capital, Kiyoto, the work moves more
slowly. The medical missionary, Dr. Taylor,
meets with much opposition on the part of of
ficials, and has been baffled in several attempts
to open dispensaries and preaching places.
Still, the gospel is now preached at four pla
ces in Kiyoto, on every Sabbath, to upward of
250 people. Mr. Atkinson writes to the Mis
sionary Ilerahl: “The central government
does not seem to trouble itself about Christian
ity in the empire. It can evidently be taught
anywhere, provided the local authorities are
agreed. The one hinderance is the twenty
five miles treaty limit. We go outside of this
limit only on passport for a trip, or as con
nected with schools or government works.”
—The first Protestant minister and the first
Catholic priest in Australia were English con
victs, in about the year 1796.
(From Atoka (Clioetaw NatloD) Vin licator, Nov. 1.
TO MY PEOPLE.
At an early age I was left an orphan,
losing not only my father but my eld
est brothers At that early age, 1 was
wholly unprovided for, but my God
took care of me. He looked after and pro
vided for me in my youth, and when I
grew into manhood, He called me to
testify of His goodness and greatness.
For twenty-five years I have labored
in his service, and a kind and generous
Master I have found Him. Had I
served worldly masters as faithfully
my fields might have been larger, my
cattle more numerous, my house and
larder better furnished; but all these
comforts would be small when com
pared with the comforts and happiness
which my Master holds in reserve for
His faithful servants, when their labor
is ended.
I am now growingold, waiting—and
trying to wait patiently—for my Mas
ter’s summons to that beautiful land
of rest. Gladly will I answer that
summons. Death has but one pain for
mfe, and That is caused by knowing that
I will leave so many of my people un
converted.
Oh, my people'! Would to God that
I could be the humble instrument of
turning some more of you to God, be
fore that last summons! Would to
God I could die with the knowledge
that you were awakening to Eternal
Truths! That you were all seeking
salvation. Then, how pleasant would
be death! It would be a short sleep,
with a glorious awakening! A removal
to a country where care, sorrow and
death cannot dwell! Yet scarcely a
removal if all my people were with me.
It would be as one delightful dream
that never ended. If my Master can
not grant me such a death, my last
prayer will be that he may grant it to
some who follow me.
Lewis Cass.
The Bible.
How conies it that this little volume,
composed by humble men in a rude
age, when art and science were but in
their childhood, has exerted more in
fluence on the human mind and on the
social system than all other books put
together? Whence comes it that this
book has achieved such marvelous
changes in the opinions of mankind—
has banished idol worship—exalted
the condition of woman —raised the
standard of public morality—created
for families that blessed thing a Chris
tian home —and caused its other tri
umph by causing benevolent institu
tions, open and expansive, to spring up
as with the wand of enchantment?
What sort of a book is this, that even
the wind and the waves of human pas
sion obey it ? What other engine of
social improvement has operated so
long, and lost none of its virtue ? Since
it appeared, many boasted plans of
ameli ration have been tried, and fail
ed —many codes of jurispiudence have
arisen and run their course and expir
ed. Empire after empire has been
lauched on the tide of time, and gone
down and expired. But this book is
still going about doing good, leavening
society vith its holy principles, cheer
ing the soriowful with consolation,
strengthening the tempted,encouraging
the penitent, calming the troubled
spirit, and smoothing the pillow of
death. Can such a book be the off
spring of human genius? Does not
the vastness of its effects demonstrate
the excellency of the power to be of
Cod ?
WHOLE NO. 2245
General Denominational Deis,
—Abyssinian Christianity has fallen into a
very degraded state. Their worship is a mix
ture of Christianity and Judaism. The Abva
sinians have a Bible in ancient Ethiopic.
They woiship the Virgin Mary and the saints,
and include the old Jewish patriarchs and
prophets in their calendar. They observe the
seventh day as the Sabbath, and their priests
marry. They do not recognize the Pope.
The Lutherans are strong in Kansas.
There are about 20,000 of them in that State,
including German, Swedish and Norwegian
Lutherans.
In Australia there is a remarkable relig
ious revival in progress, residting in the con
version of large numbers. And from New
Zealand the tidings are received of great re
ligions awakenings.
—Jewish silver shekels have lately been
found near Jerusalem, belonging to the time
of Simon Maccabeus, B. C. 144. On one side
they have the cup of manna, and on tbe other
the budding rod of Aaron.
Lpwards of 80,000 names have been ap
pended to a memorial in England, signed bv
women only, for the inspection and registra
tion of nunneries in that country.
—St. Peter’s Protestant Episcopal Sundsv
school, of Brooklyn, numbers over six hun
dred scholars; takes no vacation, summer or
winter; and for twenty years back it has sent
annual! v over thirty of its pupils as candidates
for church membership through confirmation.
—Rev. M. W. Jacobus. D.D., of the Wes
tern Theological Presbyterian Seminary, in
Alleghany City, died a few days ago.
—The Southern Presbyterians are about to
open an institute at Tuscaloosa, Ala., for the
training of colored men for the ministry.
—At the recent annual conference of the
British Evangelical Alliance, reference was
made in the report to the persecution of con
verts to Christianity in Turkey. Efforts to
get an audience with the Sultan had failed.
The committee reiterated the charges against
the Porks of cruelty to Christian converts,
both native and foreign.
—There is anew religious sect in Russia
which makes it a matter of faith that a man
shall marry on ooming of age; shall be subject
t* his wife, and confess to her once a week.
—There are five hundred and forty monas
teries and convents In Russia, the revenues of
which amount to $6,500,000.
The work on the Boston Tabernacle for
the Moody meetings has commenced. The
building will cover an area of 40,000 feet and
will seat 6,000 people, with inquiry and re
ception room*. The coat will be about *3O -
000. ’
—At the recent laying of the corner
stone of a chapel in London, “Mr. Spurgeon
recounted his effectual way of securing pure
air in a church where the windows were so
rarely opened that it was found difficult to
raise them. “It was so close and hot," he
said, “that I asked every gentleman near
a window to smash a pane or two- There
was soon a very grand smash, but then
the beautiful fresh air streamed in. I
paid the bill afterwards like an honest
man; but it was much better to do that than
bear the cruelty of preaching in such an at
mosphere, or forcing people to listen when
they were more disposed to sleep.”
—The Richmond Whig says: “A wealthy
and liberal-minded gentleman of this ciiv has
promised the Main street Methodist church
that if that congregation will raise as much as
$12,000 towards building their new church he
will guarantee that an edifice to cost not less
than $40,000 will be put up. Aa it will not
be difficult for this church, with their indefati
gable pastor, to raise the amount required, it
will not be long before a handsome church
will be in course of construction on the lot
recently presented to them, corner of Pine and
Franklin streets.”
—Rer. \Y. B. Rankin assumes the work of
District Superintendent for the American Bi
ble Society in Texas, with head quarters at
Austin, Texas.
—The Protestant pastors of Chicago have
united with Messrs. Moody and Banker in a
call foi a “Christian Convention,” at the Tab
ernacle, November 22d and 23d, to discuss
topics in connection with the revival.
Brooklyn Life Insurance Com
pany.— VVe call the attention of our
readers to the advertisement of the
Brooklyn Life Insurance Company,
New York, in this issue of our paper.
The assets of this excellent and reli
able Company amount to two and a half
million dollars. The Company is well
known in Georgia, and it has for its
general agent one of the best, most
competent and reliable Christian gen
tlemen in the State, Mr. Thomas J.
McGuire.
The statements made by Mr. McGuire
may be implicitly relied upon bv the
public, and we tale sincere pleasure in
bringing the claims of the Company
Mr, McGuire so ably represents, to the
notice and patronage of our people.