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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. ->---4 —1 W- 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.