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VOL. 55—NO. 47.
Table of Contents.
Fihst Page.— Alabama Department; Record of
State Events: South Carolina Baptist Con
vention: Spirit of the Religions Press; Baptist
News and Notes; The Missionary Field: Gen
eral Denominational News.
Second Page.— Onr Correspondents : “Whole
sale Condemnation of Games”—T. B. Cooper;
To the Cbniches of the Central Association—
Reports from the Churches—S. Boykin, Mis
sionary Agent; Letter from South Carolina
—J. B. Chevis ; Conversion—W. M. H.
Third Page. —Special Contributions : Notes on
the Act of Baptism—Appeal to the Original—
Summary of the result—Rev. J. H. Kilpatrick:
Singular -Rev. N. A. Bailey.
Fouetu Page. —Editorial: Hour to Preach ;
Penn, the Revivalist: Fruits of the Religious
Press; Georgia Baptist News—Rev. D. E. But
ler. Death a Sleep—Rev. S. G. Hillyer. Glan
„ ’ oee Among the Papers—By an Invalid: etc.
Fifth Fagk.—Secular Editorials : Religion in
Pol'tics; Marriages, they say. are Made in
Heave i : The Blessings of Grief ; Rev. J. A.
Clemente: The Aged Pastor—Poetry; Rev. J.
A, Shivers, Agent of the Christian Index;
, Literary Gossip; Georgia News ; News of the
Week; etc.
Sixth Page.— Hie Sunday-school : Spread of
the Gospel—Lesson for Buuday, December 16,
1876. Missionary Labor ; etc,
Seventh Page.— Agricultural: Georgia Crops.
Eighth Page.— A Word about Pike—N. A.
Bailey ; Marriages ; Obituaries : Advertise
ments; etc.
INDEX AND BAPTIST.
ALABAMA DEPARTMENT.
Rev. 11. Woodsmalt, of Talladega, writes
at length to the Journal and Messenger, relative
to the recent session of the Colored Baptist
Slate Convention, which met in Talladega.
As illustrating the situation, a brief extract,
of Rev. W. H. McAlpin’s report, as State
kbssionary, is given :
is, with a few exceptions, a coniused
and bewildered state of things among out
churches and ministers. There is very little
spiritual, moral and educational advancement
The outlook upon the young of our race, pre
Rents a very dark appearance, intemperance,
immorality and ignorance seem to be binding
the race in their slavish chains. . . There
is very much false doctrine held forth from
the pulpit, and the people are drifting into
many hurtlut habits, though there are some
minis era, and some members, in all the
(hmrclies striving against this tendency. . .
Many deacons are incompetent, and the
preachers cannot instruct them.
If the Master has called all our brethren who
want to preach, we have a great many laborers
in the field ; but many of them need a great
deal ot preparation. . . Many of the young
men seem to think that the first thing in the
way of qualifications for a minister is to get a
wile. . . Many of the older ministera
fread the Bible in some sort of way, and
itfejl n great desire to acquire a more |ac
knowledge of the way of life. . . They
have eery little time for study. They have to
do the church work and support themselves.
Very tew ot our ministers h tve clear
ideas of Baptist doctrine or church usage.
They depend on\ Hting books anywhere and
everywhere Ver\ few have standard works.
.Many nave no chance to mingle with minis
ters of intelligence, and many fail to make use
of what they have.
Theßundav-school work is very much neg
leded. While there are schools in nearly all
the churches, very little interesi is manifested
in them by leading brethien. There is great
need of suitable books, and many do not even
know where to get them.
He said that there was, with all that is dark,
a bright side- Many are zealous for Christ,
deeply interested in education, and liberal in
giving. In the matter of liberality, the people
certainly deserve great praise. Nearly two
thousand dollars were collected by the
Convention during the year. Over twelve
hundred by the missionary on the field, and he
only used for salary and expenses $750. And
ye!- it has been a hard year and the people are
very poor.
A committee from the Georgia Colored Bap
tist Convention, consisting of Rev. Frank
Quarles, Rev. W. J. White and Rev. J. C.
Bryant, visited the Convention to present a
plan of union in building up a school for the
two States. They stated that the Home Mis
sion Society of New York had promised that,
if the colored people would raise $25,000, the
SocjAfv would furnish $60,000 to establish a
school' <— Borgia and Alabama. The Geor
gia Co°7f?iVion has selected Atlanta as the
place. The Convention decided that union
was desirable, and appointed a committee to
further confer with the Georgia Baptists and
the Society.
The total receipts of the Stale of Alabama,
for the year ending September 30, 1876. were
$070,943, of which $874,874 were derived
from taxes. Under the new revenue law, the
commissioners expected $1,100,000 last year.
There has been hardly any, if any, improve
ments in asstsaoien's, owing to the shrinkage
in lands.
1 lie Library ' ouimittee of the Yong Men *
Christian Association, of Montgomery, pub
lished recently, an appeal for books to replen
ish the loss sustained by the late fire.
Rev. J. D. Sampler, °f the Methodist Prot
estant church, died at Fort Deposit, November
11, aged about 52 years, lie has been a resi
dent of the Fort and vicinity, 30 or 35 years.
- -
The Rev. Father McDonough has returned
to Mobile, and has again been Vicai
General of the Diocese by the Right. Kev.
John Quinlan.
Kev. Mr. Reed, of Barbour county, a mem
ber of the Kast Alabama Presbytery, tell recent
ly and broke one of his arms.
A bill has passed the State legislature re
quiring Probate Judges to itemise their ac
eounu.
Fifty families io Dade county are selling out
and pieparing to move West this winter.
TELES BAPTIST,
of Alabama.
lT#r the Index end Baptist.]
SOUTH CAROLINA BAPTIST IOWEMIOV
Having just ret trned home from the
fifty-sixth session of this body, I have
thought it good to give the readers of
The Index some account of it.
The meeting was held with the Old
Welsh Neck Church, Society Hill. The
number of delegates was unusually
small, owing to three reasons : 1. The
troublous times in which we live. 2.
The meeting was in the extreme north
east. corner of the State. 3. The im
pecuniosity of Baptist preachers.
We had about sixty delegates, and
some visitors in attendance. Among
the visitors, I noticed Rev. 11. A. Tup
per, D.D. Cor. Secretary Foreign
Missions; Rev. W. H. Mclntosh, Cor
responding Secretary Home Missions;
Rev. L. Colby, President Benedict In
stitute, and Rev. Mr. Ha-mon, from
North Carolina.
The familiar faces of Drs. Chambliss,
Toy, Williams and J. G. Landrum were
missing.
Dr. John A. Broadus was elected
President and O. F. Gregory Secreta
ry-
A Sabbath school Institute was held
Wednesday night, and Thursday i\m.
Essays were read by Deacon B. W.
Edwards, Elder L. Broadus and O. F.
Gregory. Subjects, in the order of the
writers’ names—“ The organization of
the Individual Sabbath-school,” “The
Higher Classes,” and “ The Teaching
of the Infant Classes.”
I give you, in a few words, what Dr.
Broadus called the “ drift ” of the
speakers and essayist, concerning the
first essay :
“The Sabß-th-school is thechureh of
Christ at work—working in the direc
rection of teaching the children. As
church-work, it should be sustained by
the church, just as any other work that
the enureh does.
“The church should make appropria
tions for the school, as often as need
ed.
“The contributions of the Sabbath
school should not be taken to support
the school, but should go to missions.
“The Sabbath-school being church
work, the Superintendent should be
appointed by the church, and subject
to removal at the pleasure of the
church.
“All Sabbath-schools, to be efficient,
must keep up weekly teachers’ meet
ings, for the study of the lessons.”
This is abput the seuse of the In
stitute on ths subject. If it were put.
into general practice, what a long step
forward would our schools take ! It
will work, for it has b-en tried, and is a
success in Darlington Church, where
Deacon Edwards, the essayist, is Su
perintendent.
The second essay was listened to
with interest.
It was suggested —to get some good,
efficient Bible-elass teachers, send young
men to the Seminary for one term, to
take the English course. Another
suggestion, more practical, for visitors,
and loungers, and whittlers, and talkers
about the crop, at the doors, have an
occasional class, and try to get them
into it—put the pastor to catch these
shy ones <
Someone suggested to “ have the
pastor to teach the Bible-class.”
Dr. Broadus asked—“ Won’t the
nerve force that the pastor puts into
the lesson, be taken out of his ter
num?”
Pastois were called—the question
was answered “yes” and “no.” Su
periutendent of Citadel Square Church,
I’eacon Davis, Charleston, thought his
pastor preached better and beter every
Sunday. He, Dr. Chambliss, teaches
a Bible-classs of 60.
Brother Woodfin, of Columbia, a
pastor, said—“ When I preach a writ
ten sermon, my Bible-class teaching
helps me, puts me into good frame for
preaching. When I preach without
manuscript mv Bible class teaching
disqualifies me for the sermon.”
I will make no report of brother
Gregory, as I did not hear all of his
essay.
The introductory sermon was preach
ed by Elder Win. Henry Strickland,
from Phil. iv:4—“ Rejoice in the Lord
always , and again I say rejoice.” Tak
ing the bright side of the work of the
pastor, he gave some source of constant
and abiding j<*y and comfort to the
minister,
The appointee for the missionary
sermon, Dr. Hiden, being absent, the
work was assigned to Dr. Richard
Furman. His text was II Cor. ii:3
“ The simplicity that is in Christ.”
The many friends of Dr. F. will be
glad to learn that his health has been
so far restored that he is able to preach
again, and has, in his old age, re enter
ed the pastorate.
It was peculiarly gratifying to the
Society Hill peop) to see him, and
hear his voice again in their pulpit,
when years ago, as pastor, he was a
very Boanerges.
FRANKLIN PRINTING ROOSE, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, DECEMBER 7, 1870.
Dr. Broadus preached at 11 a.m.,
Sunday—text, Rom. ix:3. It was one
of his powerful efforts.
Dr. Tupper addressed a mass meet
ing for Foreign Missions.
His subject was, “Woman’s work to
woman ” Your correspondent has
heard Dr. T. with pleasure often
fore, but on this occasion he surpassed
himself.
Perhaps his happy effort was owing
in some degree to the fact that he was
standing on his native soil—he was
born in South Carolina. It was shown
that the Woman’s Mission work in
South Carolina, in the fifteen months
of its existerce, had raised over two
thousand dollars.
Dr. Mclntosh presented the work of
his Board, and took a collection.
A resolution was adopted requesting
the Home Mission Board, S. B. C., to
do no work, and appoint no missiona
ries in South Carolina, without first
conferring with and obtaining the ap
proval of our own State Board.
This was not to discourage Home
Missions, but to suggest $o them to
work on the frontiers, and among the
■ Indians, and leave our State Board to
look after the destitute in our own
State. While we want the Home
Board to come among us and gel
funds, we don’t want them to ap
point their missionaries in our State.
A beautiful and fitting tribute to
the late Dr. Fuller was submitted by
Dr. J. C. Furman.
A resolution wa3 passed inviting
Dr. J. P. Boyce to appoint an agent
er agents in South Carolina to solici
bonds for the completion of the coni
templated endowment of the Southern
Baptist, Theological Seminary.
A. W. Lamar, general agent foi
State Missions, submitted a good re
port.
A large number of baptisms report
ed—increasing interest in missions
and Sabbath-schools, and the mountain
country, that has so long been “ Hard
Shell,” is joining our Convention, and
learning to give to missions. He and
his Board were re-elected, and the
work goes on, Owing to the scarcity
of money, all our mission collec*ions
are reduced, hut we hope for better
times and more money; and so work on
faith.
Fearing this letter may grow two
lone-, 1 hasten to conclude.
Some features of the meeting: It
was remarkably dcvotional\ and spiritual
in its character. The singing was
cheerful and hearty, the sermons and
speeches earnest and fervent, and the
praye:s full of faith and humility.
The excitement in politics, and the
anxiety concerning our State guberna
torial issue, seemed to humble and
calm men’s minds, and constantly were
heard such expressions as this : “ Let
us not forget God reigns—He sits at
the helm. If our government is to be
usurped—if the wish of our people is
to be set aside—God will permit it—if
He permits it, it is for our good, and
we must rest on His word and love.”
The meeting was harmonious—not
one unfortunate word was uttered, not
an unkind feeling permitted to arise,
l’he meeting was au illustration of the
sweet word : of the Psalmist—” Behold
how good and how pleasant it is for
brethren to dwell together in unity,'
and when brethren took “ the parting
hand,” singing ‘ Blest be the tie that
binds,” few eyes were seen that did not
flow with tears.
The next meeting will be held with
the Greenville Baptist church.
I see that brother Chandoin thinks
someone should write on the “ Bless
ings of Fifth Sabbaths.” Yes, I sec
ond his motion, and I think we should
lay to heart the joys and blessings of
our sweet, harmonious meetings of As
sociations and Conventions.
We get our spiritual strength re
newed, our souls fired afresh with holy
zeal, and we learn to love our work
and our brethren more.
The hospitality of the good people
of Welsh Neck church was perfectly
overwhelminy. Literally speaking, it
was utterly impossible io take it in. N )
doubt the good hosts and hostesses
will hav a to eat “cold victuals ” for
ten days to come. Ah, me! to leave
such a feast aud come home to poor
Baptist preacher fare! “What a fall
was there, my countrymen! M
3uvums.
Tlffi 'fliscaloosa Gazette says : “A number
01 wagons passed through town on Thursday
last, and had inscribed in large letters upon
theii sides, ‘Going to Texas from Rome, Geor
gia.’ This was done, we pre uine, to aroi I
questions being askeJ.’ 1
The Unitvd Stales Court is still engaged in
tiie trial of cases for violation of the Internal
Revenue laws.
The Tuskaloosa gas-works “turned out s
first-class failure.”
Sixteen gin houses have been burned in Al
abama since the firat of September last.
Spirit of the Religious Press,
The Examiner and Chronicle comments on
the Young Men’s Christian Associations, giv
ing the cause which led to their organizations;
it admits that they have been, and are very
useful, and that they have been productive of
much good in large cities, not wholly uuuiixed
with evil however. But to attempt to extend
this Associations! system to the smaller cities,
and even to the villages of the land, the Exam
iner and Chronicle considers to be unwise; il
says:
1. Is there any such demand iur the Young
Men s Christian Association in our smaller
cities and villages as justifies its existence
in the great metropolis? Cannot the churches
there do the work which the Association does
in Boston, New York and Chicago? Are they
not willing lo do it? Is it not better that i hey
should do it ? Can a Young Men’s Christian
Association he maintained, in those localities,
in that state of ettervescent activity which seeais
to be its normal condition, without seriously
interfering with church work ?
2. Can such communities afford the luxury
—for. in some respects, it is a luxury—of a
Young Men's'Christian Association ? 'Almost
any village with three or four churches might
hire a suitable room as a gathering place for
the young men of the community ; have it
warmed and lighted on those evenings when
there is no service in the village churches,
furnished comfortably, but inexpensively, and
supplied with a few of the choicest religious
and secular periodicals. That wouldn’t cost
much, and might, with a little sanctified com
mon sense to munage it, be made a profitable
investment.
But to have surnpkms apartments, to hire a
secretary at the salary of the average pastor,
to lease halls for revival meetings, to publish
papets—in a word, to run things as they are
run in New York and Chicago—can villages
and smaller cities afford this ?
3. Yet again, can the churches of these
communities, without serious detriment, spare
the men whom the Associations demand 7 Are
they not already suffering from this diversion
of their spiritual forces, and lamenting that
many a young man no longer feels an intelli
gent and hearty interest in his church-home.
—The Baptist liejleclor adopts this epigram
malic style in its replies to delinquent subscri
bers: “A brother writes : ‘You will discon
tinue my pafier, it was sent lo me without my
orders.’ Now this brother’s name was sent in
by someone who doubtless thought he war
authorized to do *o, and he look the paper for
a year, and then writes the above without pay
ing for subscription. Such a man
may get to Heaven, but it will be like the
Dutchrawitt-efijr a tiffht squeeze”’"
—The •Cenhral Presbyterian, at Richmond,
tells its that the First Baptist church,
Peterebuvg, Virginia, has found tfiat the “Rev.
Morton Murrell (so-called)” is an “imposition
and a fraud,” and “expelled him from their
communion and it warns Presnylerian
churches against “too confidingly" receiving
strange preachers. ’’
—A correspondent of the Advance tells of a
church in California whose membership con
sists of seventeen women and one man. What
Quaker-meetings that church would have il
the Presbyterian interpretation of Paul’s in
junction that “the women keep silence” were
to he applied to them !
—Tiie Advance senlentiously says : "Asa
a general thing, no class of persons do so
much to extend the circulation of religious
journals as pastors of churches. And, we are
olten assured by them, no other class are so
much aided in their special work by the re
ligious paper as they.”
1 he Morning War applies the correct mean -
ure to church policy in the following :
The Christian church should be a place
where the follow rs of Christ should find a
home. To some it may seem a truism to speak
of home as a place o' rest, yet the truth is ex
emplified hy ten thou-and lives. It is a com
mon tiling to speak of the church as the spirit
ual home of all God’s children, that within its
pale they have a right lo look for a measure of
that rest of soul which Christ promised his
lollowers, yet the man of business who is per
plexed by his worldly schemes, certainly does
not look upon the church as hound with the un
natural feliets of indebtedness, as a place of
rest. It is not a very alluring proape ;t of rest
to a professional man to add to the list of his
own creditors, those of the church. But he
supreme tact is that the common p.uple, lo
whom Christ preached the gospel, are not at
home or at rest in a church, large or small,
elegant or plain, which has a debt hanging
over it.
BAPTIST NEWS AND NOTES.
—The Baptists of Connecticut number 20,
550. There have been raised this year for re
ligious purposes, $85,52. The .Sabbath
school missionary repoits 800 conversions in
the schools in the State,
—Rev. W. T. Russell, 1 >.!)., of Lalavelte
Georgia, will undertake tiie agency for Bristo j
Tenn., Female College, if satisfactory arrange
ments can be made with the Board of itegents.
—The revival at Knoxville, Tenn., is In
creasing in interest. Dr. Mays, brothers Rottlh
and Walters are labor ng with success.
—The next session of the North Carolina
Baptist Convention will be held in Durham,
on Wednesday before the second Sunday in
November, 1877.
—Dr. Boyce made an excellent address in
the interest of the Greenville Theological Sem
inary at the recent session of the North Caro
lina Baptist Convention. He also stated that
two gentlemen, in their wills, are bequeathing
$50,00 each to the Seminary. At the close o
his speech the Convention gave the Seminary,
in bonds, some $1,500,
THE CHRISTIAN HERALD
of Tennessee.
—Dr. Brandy, of the Seventh Baptist
church,” Baltimore, says that its baptistery
has been open for use every Sabbath (or the
past five weeks. On a recent Sabbath he bap
tized thirteen candidates, chiefly the fruit of a
series of services, in which he was favored with
the valuable assistance of Rev. J. E. Hutson,
the eloquent evangelist from Richmond.
—The Beligious Herald says: An item is
ktoing the round of the papers, telling that five
Virginia students have felt Crozer because
of the admissiot; of a colored brother into that
Seminary. Not one lias lelt, so Jar as we can
hear.
—Rev. D. D, Rowlands, lately of Wales, is
supplying the Second Baptist church of Rich
mond, He has crowded congregations.
The Missionary Field,
—A correspondent of the Baptist liijlectur,
(Morristown, Tenn,,) speaking of the Mission
Board of Tennessee, says:
The “Tennessee Baptist Convention,” at its
last session, located iliis Board at Nashville.
Dr. T. G. Jones is President, and Rev. M. H.
Lane Corresponding Secretary. The Board
occupies a very important and responsible po
sition. A great deal of missionary work is
needed in the State. Many of our most im
pnrtant county seatsare without Baptist preach
ing, and by a little aid rendered to earnest,
efficient ministers, churches could be establish
ed, which would soon not only sustain their
own pastors, but contribute funds for the gen
eral work. Baptist churches have been or
ganized both in Columbia and Pulaski. They
are now without preaching. In Columbia the
sisters collected money and purchased a good
lot. The brethren, some of whom are carpen
ters, went to work and erected a neat house ol
worship. These two points, by a little assist
ance, would be able to sustain their own min
isters. Neglected as they are, the children of
our brethren are uniting with other denomina
tions, and thus their inlluence is not only lost
to us, but given to strengthen the hands of
others. These serve to illustrate what is true
of many other pointß of a similar nature.
—DrB. Tupper and Pritchard addressed the
North Carolina Baptist Convention, at its re
cent aession in Raleigh, oil the subject of
Foreign Missions. A collection of $217 was
taken up.
—The American Missionary Society, at itß
late anniversary, reported 70,000 colored chil
dren in its schools at the South. It is every
year adding to its force of colored teachers in
the schools.
—-Profegsor T. J. Morgan, D.D., of Chicago,
in answer to the question : What shall we do
with the Chinaman ? writes to the Standard as
follows:
Plainly, wp must treat hiui as a man. Re
quire of him the same exact obedience toevery
law, municipal, stale or national, that we re
quire of others, and then extend to him the
same protection of the laws. We must edu
cate him. Americanize him, Christianize him.
Tims the strange visitor, who, like a spectre,
has just startled us, will prove to be a friend
and a brother, coming from the darkness and
vice of despotism and heathenism to share
with us the blessings of liberty, culture, and
“the glorious gospel of the blessed God.” We
should not slacken ourefforts to send the Gospel
to China. But now that, in answer to prayer,
God has not only thrown down the great wall
that shut us out of China, but opened wide
Chinese ports and Chinese hearts, but ha- sent
the Chinese themselves to our doors, and into
our homes, let us recognise the diviDe call to
lilt up among them the banner ol the cross,
and show ourselves equal to this great emer
gency by laying at once broad, liberal, wise
foundations for earn*st and sustained prosecu
tion of mission work among them.
—There is a Young Men’s Christian Associ
ation in Bombay, India, which has grown from
a membership of seventy when it was Btarled
last year to over a hundred and eighty. It
works largely among the crews of vessels ia
the harbor, and is accomplishing much good,
—Nine ladies recently Jett England as mis- |
sionaries to the women in India. In an ad
dress at their farewell meeting. Canon Duck- j
wortii said that a native gentleman made the j
discriminating remark to him while in India
with the Prince of Wales: “We want not
Chr.slianity from England, but Christiana,”
—The Chinese women of California, per
haps four thonsand in number, living as
heathen women live in foreign lands, were
almost forgotten, until recently a special work
has been inaugurated in their behalf. Three
years ago a band of eight Christian women
organized the “California Branch of tiie
Women’s Foreign Missionary Society.” It
has slowly increased until several score of
women from diflerent churches have joined the
ranks to do service lor the Master in this cause.
At first it was “ought only to teach the women
at their homes, as it seemed too much of a ven
ture to attempt the support of a missionary.
The second year, besides supporting a mission
ary, they opened a Horae upon a small scale,
as a refuge for those women who are kidnapped
and sold ; and with this came the need of an
other missionary to serve as matron of the
Home.
English Wesleynns have recently estab
lished a mission on Duke of York’s Island,
South Pacific Ocean, where there is a large
heathen population. The missionaries sent
there are not Europeans, but are converted
datives of the older missionary stations in the
■dands of Tonga, Fiji and .Samoa, Few
islands of the Pacific now remain which the
Gospel does not reach.
—The Clutrch Missionary Society, London,
has received in additional donation of $25,000
toward the mission in King Mtesa’g country,
Africa, which was invited through the Afri
can explorer, Mr, Stanly.
WHOLE NO. 224“.
General Denominational Ness,
' Tile Fletcher prize of SSOO, offered by the
Trustees of Dartmouth College for the best es
say upon the best meins to; counteract the
world by influences surrounding Christianity,
has been awarded to the Rev. William W.
Faris, of Grace Presbyterian “church” Peoria,
Illinois.
—A Sermon was preached in the chapel of
the Vanderbilt (University, Sunday'moiuing,
November 26, to the Medical students of
Nashville, at their special recpiest.
—Advices from Spain state that Protestant
ministers, one of them a citizen of the United
States, were recently foi hidden to hold reli
gious services by the Mayor of the village of
: Llances, near the French frontier, in tl.e
province of Santander. They were subse
quently detained, pending prosecution begun
against them, although at the prayer-meeting
they had conducted according to law onlv is
persons were preseut.
-The Central New York Methodist Con
ference, by a vote of 112 to J, adopted a report
adverse lo the lately proposed basis of frater
nity.
—The Rev. James Mitchell, of the M B
Church, and President of the Virginia Board
of Church Extension claims that by the fra
ternal adjustment the M.E. Church surren
ders $200,000 wo.th of property in Virginia.
Father Beckx, who has been General of
the Jesuits for twenty-three years, will proba
bly be soon raised to the Cardinalafe; and it is
thought that he will be the successor of Pius
IX, as Pope.
-In February, 1877, the Pope will cele
brate the octocentenary of the punishment in
flicted upon the German Emperor, Henry IV.
In the winter of 1077, the Emperor stood for
three days before the castle at Canossa in an
almost naked stale, beseeching Piqie Hilde
brand to have compassion on him. Finally
his applications were heaid, and a solemn
promise was exacted lrorn Henry to appear at
the Congress, abide by itß decision and mean
while not to consider himself Emjieror or to
act as Bucli. It is this humiiating submission,
which fed to the deposition of Henry and to
so much bloodshed, that the Vatican presses
to celebrate in February next.
—The Presbyterian church of East Hamp
ton, Long Island, was organized 1650, and the
: first three ministers averaged a pastorale of
over fifty years each, the fourth paster being
Rev. Lyman Beecher, who was settled there
in 1810.
Strong Nerves an Attainable Blessing.
There are many who have never known the
blessing of strong nerves, having been born
with weak ones. Those who have, and through
disease or some other cause, have suffered a loss
of nerve power, can. by contrast, more fully ap
preciate the magnitude of that lose. The' trua
way to repair it is to invigorate the system
through the medium of improved digestion se
cretion, and the establishment of a regular hab
it of body, three results invariably accomplished
by the use of Host etter’s Stomach Bitters, which
insures the thorough conversion of the food into
pure, nourishing blood, from which the nerves
in common with every other part of the body’
®S° n °W- g^her vi "” r ,','he grand prerequisite
of health. The great objection to sedatives and
narcotics is that they not only exert no tonio
influence, but are always followed by a hurtful
re-action Such is fai from being the case with
the (titters, the primary action of which is most
salutary, and whose after tfl'ects are beneficial
in the extreme.
Cowardly Assanl la.
When a candidate for high office ia so well
Ukod and o popular with the masses aa to make
his defeat difficult in a fair and honorable ffirht
mean and cowardly meu are not wanting who
delight m manufacturing lies and slandering
hi name. There are also those whose selfish
ness prompts them to prostitute their honor
pervert tiuth, and ignore right, for the sake of
injuring a competitor in business, whose oroe
penty they envy, aud with whose business sa
gacity they have not the talent to successfully
oompete in an honorable way. These thoughts
aie suggested by the mean, cowardly attacks
made upon me and my medicines, bv ihoae
who imagine their pecuniary prospects 'injured
by the great popularity whioli my standard med
rnines have acquired, and the oontiuutd growth
ol my professional praotice. Narrow-minded
practitioners of medicine, and manufacturers of
preparations wmoh do not possess sufficient
merit to successfully compete for popular fa
vor. have resorted to such oowardly strategy as
to publish all Boris of ridiculous rejioi'ts about
the composition of my medioines. Almanacs.
•‘lteceipt Books," aud other pamphlets, are is
sued and scattered broadcast over the land
wherein these contemptible knaves publish pre
tended analyses of my mediemes and receipts for
making them. £ouie of these publications are
given high-sounding names, pretend to he is
sued by respectable men of ednoatiou and po
sition, for the good of the people—the more
completely to bind the loader to the real object
in their circulation, which is to injure the sale
of ray medicines. - The Popular Health Al
manac ' is the high-sounding name of one of
these publications, which contains bogus re
ceipts, without a grain of truth In them. Not
less devoid of truth are those, whioh have been
published by one Dr. L., of Dotroit. in the
Michigan farmer, and by other manufacturers
of medicines, in several so-called journals of
Pharmacy. They are all prompted by jealousy
and utterly fail in accomplishing the object of
their an:hors, for, notwithstanding their free
circulation, my medicines continue to sell raoro
largely thau any others manufactured in this
country, and aie constantly increasing in sale'
despite the base lies concocted aud circulated
by such knaves. The people find that those.
inodlciuen possess genuine merit, lucomnlish.
what their manufacturer claims for them, aud
are not the vile, poisonous nostrums which
jealous, narrow-minded pliysioiaus represent
them to be. Among the large number u f pre
tendul analyses published, it is a .mjni/Uxmt fact
that no two have beeu at all aliko—couclu ively
proving the dishonesty of their authors. It is
enough fr r t.he people to know that while thou
sands, yes, I may truthfully say millions, have
taken my medicines and have lieen cured, no
one has over received injury from their use.
B. V. PIEHCH, M. D..
Proprietor of Dr. Pierce’s Medicines,
(S World’s Dispensary Buffalo, N. V.