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VOL. 55—NO. 49.
Table of Contents.
First Page. —Alabama Department: Record of
State Events; Spirit of the Religious Pi ess ;
Baptiot News and Notes; The Missionary
Field ; Our Saints—Poetry: In Memory of El
der L J. Harrison, Deceased; The Great Val
ue of Grass; General Denominational News.
Second Page.— Oui Correspondents: Christ’s
Chuieli Discipline—Persia; Log-Rolling—Eph
raim: “Tie ail Do Fade as a Leaf"— F. C. A ;
Day of Thanksgiving and Prayer for Sundas-
Schools —T. 0. Botkin; Monroe Female Col
lege— M. B. Wharton: This, That and the
Other—W. N. Cliaudoin. Bit graphical—E. R.
Carswell, Sr. Missions ; A Reminder —C. M.
Irwin; To the Brethren of the Stone Mountain
Asi ociation—A. T. Spalding; An Acknowledg
ment—J. S. Baker.
Third Page. —Our Pulpit: The Mission of the
Baptists—A Sermon, by Rev. Henry M- King.
Fourth Pagf.— Editorial : The Right Use of
Money; Central Association; Missions in Geor
gia: Rev. E. W. Warren, D.D.; Georgia Bap
tist News—Rev. David E. Butler. Glances
Among the Parers—By an Invalid. A Remi
niscence—A. li. Seago." Editorial Paragraphs-
Fifth Page.- Our Coriespondents: The Bogus!
Mission; Queries for the Gei eiTl
Meeting of the Beihet Association. Secula**
Department: Persona’; Centennial Silver Wed
ding; Literary Gossip; Georgia News; Foreign
and Domestic Notes; etc.
* Sixth Page.— The Sunday-School: Quarterly Re
view—December 24. 1576.
Seventh Page.— Agricultural: The Georgia
State Grange Kosolvtions adopted by the
State Grange at its Session in Atlanta, Geor
gia, December 12, 14 14, 1876.
Eighth Page. Obituaries. Spocial Notices.
Advertisements.
INDEX AND BAPTIST.
ALABAMA DEPARTMENT.
The Slate Grange met in Montgomery, on
the 12th inst
—
The recent ladies’ festival in Birmingham
netted $l4O.
The 29th nit., 25 white persons left LaFsy
ette for northwest Texas.
There is not a practicing physician in Cov
ington county.
The Tuscumbia 'limes has suspended publi
cation.
Rev. Dr. Teague preached in the Birming
ham Baptist church, on a recent Sunday.
The Alabama Conference of the Methodist
church met in Greensboro, a lew days ago.
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There have been eight men killed in Talla
dega county this year,
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Prof. Fonville has lieen elected to the facul
ty of Howard college.
The Cullman furniture factory is in full op
eration.
Prof. Mitchell has resigned the presidency
of the Moulton High School.
The population of Selma is 8,000 —3,500
whiles, and 4,500 colored.
The farmers of Tallapoosa have put in an
increased acreage of wheat and oats.
A reduction of the rates of taxation is being
advocated generally.
There has been a revival in the Methodist
church at Talladega.
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A little son of Monroe Hudson, of Madison
was recently killed by a falling trie.
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The North Alabama Confeience of the
Methodist church met in Huntsville the 13th.
Father McDonough has been appointed by
Bishop Quinan, vicar general of the Catholic
diocese of Alabama.
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Rev. K. D. Shock has been called to the
pastorate of the Cumberland Freibyterian
church at Scottsboro.
John Pet pies, Charles Gregory, J. L. Ruf
fin, and others, of Elmore cuunly, have recent
ly removed to Texas.
December 10th, the steamboat Bigfoot was
wrecked ten miles above Eufaula. Passengers
and crew saved. Cargo lost.
Rev. Dr. Hooker has been formally in
stalled as pastor of the Broad Stteet Presbyte
rian church, Selma,
The thermometer was at fourteen degrees
in Selma, one day among the recent cold
weather.
Prof. Carl Nelson, an accomplished scholar
and gentleman, has been elected principal of
the Institute at Orion, Pike countv.
Dr. W. T. Brown, M. J. Harris, James K.
Appleby, 11. \V. Rowland, and Mrs. Steward,
were among the recent removals (run Cham
bers county to Texas
The citizens of the southern part of Mont
gomery county, have sent a petition to the
Legislature to change their county line so as
to annex a territory three by twelve miles to
Pike county.
Mrs. Lyon, who is in jail at Seale, for the
murder of her husband, is described as being
in a wretched slate. She says that frightful
visions haunt her, and when in this condition
she utters frightful shrieks, and someone has
to be with her constantly. Meinika, the man
who did the deed, maintains a stolid indiffer
ence, and seems to be wholly ignorant of the
extent of his acknowledged crime.
THOU SOUTH-WESTERN BAPTIST,
of Alabama.
Spirit of the Religious Press,
—On the communion question the Baptist
Beacon says:
The Lord’s Supper is a positive institution,
and assnchevery question connected with its
observance is to be determined by the reveal
ed w ill of its founder, lie alone has the right
to fix tlie terms of communion and the
qual ficationsof participants.
—The New York M ihoiiist tersely says:
The suit must not lose its savor. Chris
tian men are under the strongest bonds not
only to ktep the peace, but to create an at
mosphere of peace for other people to
breathe. The agitations of the time cannot
be stilted by craft or vehemence. Sobriety
of temper and of judgment are demanded of
us all, most especially of all Christians. More
prayer, more watchfulness, more faith in
Goei are r> quired it every one of us who
bear Christ’s ni me.
—The following from the New York Cat/i
olic World shows how we should be taken
care of if political power should pass into
the hands , f the Homisli priesthood, as in
Spain:
While the State has rights, she has them
only by virtue ami by permission of i lie su
perior authority, anti that authority can only'
be expressed through the church—that is,
through the organic law infallibly announc
ed and unchangeably assorted, regardless ol
temporal const quences.
—The Canadian Baptist uses the following
pertinent language:
We do not ui> frequently hear the ex pi cs'
sion, “I give my‘mite’ to this cause.” This
comtnou allusion to ihe widow’s mite is used
as an apology for real stinginess. Her mite was
to her, her all. It was for her a princely sum.
Such au amount the writer never knew but
a single Christian, in many years, evirLto
equal. A humble mechanic in a Baptist
church subscribed and sold his home for the
Master’s cause. That was a mite to him. It
was all he had on earth. Belore the final
Judge we believe saints will stand among the
countless redeemed ones, as kings now above
the millions of subjects.
—Wc take the following from the Chris
tian Register , as expressing the view which
Unitarians in general take ol foreign missions.
“An appeal for heroic and self sacrificing
efforts on behalf of remote and unfortunate
men meets with some response in every gen
ous-heart; and yet, in the present state of
public sentiment, the work of Foreign Mis
sions seems to need more dramatic presenta
tion than Unitarian ministers can consistent
ly give. Wc do not think it is necessary for
the heathen to accept certain theological dog
mas to esewe perdition Men of every lk.ee
who are obedient to the most spiritual laws
of which they have any knowledge, will be
‘saved’ whether they ever hear anything
about Christianity or not. And it becomes
a serious question whether all the strength
and money that we can spare will not be
better expended in making nominal Christ
ians real Christians.”
—Oh the above the Watchman (Boston)
comments as follows :
A theology which creates indifference to
ilie condition of remote and unfortunate men
cannot lie the theology of Christ, who left
heaven, ami died that he might rescue suelt
men. Moreover, a theology that creates in
difference to the heathen is not (lie kind that
creates great conc< rn for the inert ly nominal
Christians at home. The Missionary Union,
before sending forth its laborers, usually asks
them if they believe the heathen to be lost.
All missionary societies sprang out of the
conviction that impenitent men everywhere
need Ihe Gospel in order that they may be
saved from eternal sin and woe. But for this
conviction we do not believe that -our mis
sionaries would he sustained a year. The
history of Unitariunism in respect to missions
presents a good illustra’ion in point. Wc
will not say that every doctrine which kind
les the zeal of those who accept it is true;
Mahometanism could be proved divine on
such ground. But wo do maintain that every
doctrine which promotes indifference to the
spiritual state of men is false.
—An important Congress of the Episcopal
church was recently held in Boston. The
Watchman alluding to the prominence given
to, one of the subjects under discussion, says:
One of the most interesting sessiot sof the
Episcopal Congress was devoted to the dis
cussion of “Morals in Politics.” It was a
good index to the public feeling at tire present
hour. Horticultural Hall was crowded w ith
eager listene s. The discussion was broad
and earnest and able, anil,with one or two ex
ceptions, the speakers enforced the opition
that Episcopal ministers ought not only to
perform the duties of citizens, hut also to dis
cuss in the pulpit the great moral principles
which create and govern obligations to the
State. Such bold opinions ate new to he lea !-
irs of thought in the Episcop ,1 church. We
conlcss our own surprise at hearing them
advanced by conservative men both among
the clergy and the laity. Archbishop Leigh
ton’s famous remark, “ When so many pi each
to the times, surely one poor divine may be
permitted to preach to eternity,” lias been
the practical canon for the Episcopal pulpit
in this country, no less than in England, in
happy forgetfulness that the complete failure
of the Archbislu p’s life was a striking com
ment on the Ullacy of the canon. But,
hitherto, tire Episcopal pulpit bus been dis
tinguished from all others by an unbiokon
silence ou political topics, whether in their
moral or Chiistiau relations.
—The Christian Standard “tel s ils exper
ience,” editorially in its reply to a helligrrcnt
correspondent, thus : “But there is one curi
our fact in this and similar cases: the editor’s
style and manner are so dear and logical’
until he hits somebody, and then, all at onec>
to the hitce, saiil style aud manner become
as foggy as the banks of Newfoundland.”
How many in the editorial class have had a
like experience ?
—The Episcopal Bishop of Albany is
dissatisfied with the kind of music now
fashionable in tire church, lie calls it “a
wretched elcgradalion of church music,”
intended to draw a multitude of listeners
FRAXKUH PRINTtXG HOUSE, ATEAXT-A, GEORGIA, DECEMBER 21. 1370.
who c, me to have their ears tickled by the
same kind of music they are accustomed to
in the opera and concei t halts.
Under the head of "Wanted—Better
Preaeliii g” the Baptist Weekly says;
One of the great needs of our time is better
pi or tilling. With the growing intellgince
< f the people there is an imperative need for
an abler prest ntation of the Gospel. In pro
portion as (lime who sit under its ministra
tions advance iti knowledge, it becomes im
pottant that tl.ose who occupy our pulpits
should give evidence of increasing resources;
and ( niy as this relative growth is maintained
between the people and the preacher cun we
anticipate p, rmanence and usefulness in the
pastorate. For a minister to neglect study,
and so fail to make the most careful
preparation for li is pulpit, is an omission for
which no excuse cau be offered. The
opportunities afforded for thorough study
and the resources now at the command of
all who are disposed to read and who have
the ability to tliink, make inferior pulpit
efforts a just ground for dissatisfaction.
baptist mats AND IVOTBS
—The annual report of the Board ol Mana
gers of the Baptist Education Society shows
that during the year, 27 Theological, 28 Col
iegiate, and 36 Academic and Preparatory
students have been aided. The receipts of
the Society have amounted to SII,OBO, while
the expenditures have been if 14,360.
Rev. W. I. Knapp, who for yearß past
has bten engaged in evangelistic work in
Madrid, Spain, part of the time under the
auspices of tlie American Baptist Missionary
Union, finds the recent acts of intolerance such
as to practically ciose his work there. He
proposes to return to America.
—The Virginia Baptist Historical Society
has been organ'zed, with Dr. J. B. Jeter
president.
—The English Baptists have a “sttslenation
fund” for the express purpose of aiding weak
churches to support their pastors. Over $65,000
has been distributed during the six years of
its life. During the last year the number of
applications was < ne hundred and eighty, and
notone was rijected, and over $15,000 were
distributed among them,
—The Illinois State Convention reported
$7,866 received for general purposes, and a
total of $9,578 received for ail purposes.
—Speaking of the Centennial work among
the Baptists of South Carolina, Rev. J. L.
Reynolds, D. I).-gays.: “South Carolina baf
never yet failedio do her whole duly, fu-d, in
this work, she mu t now excel even her for
tner self.”
Re v. Joshua Hickman has been appointed
to the office of Corresponding Secretary oi the
Missouri Baptist General Association.
—The Indiana Baptist Convention has ap
pointed Dr. Stout to prepare a history of the
Baptists of that State, and Drs. Boothe ami
Palmer to assist him in the woik.
—Rev. A. P. Graves, evangelist, is laboring
with great success in Pittsburg, Pa., 500 or
more have given credible evidence of conver
sion.
—The lowa Free-Will Baptist Yearly
Meeting has advised against ordaining any
person to the Gospel ministry who uses tobac
co.
—Baptist pastorsaridsuperb tendents sliuti it
see to it now that the literature in their schools
is of the right sort. The country is being
flooded with circulars urging this or that “un
denominational” paper or book upon Baptist
schools. We i ught to be too sharp to catch at
any such bait, at least while we have that of
our own which is much better. The teaching
of the pulpit and of the pew should be in har
mony.
—The only “open communion” paper in the
country, the Baptist Union, makes the follow
ing very suggestive announcement :
The speedy suspension of the Baptist Union
now seems inevitable. Six years ago it started '
on its race. Last year it just paid expenses,
and we started out with 1876 hoping fir in
creased prosperity. Hopes have not been
realized. If those who <we us for the paper
would pay up, we should be entirely relieved
from embarrassment. But the y seem either to
lack the ability or the conscience to do it. A I
few friends have volunteered to advance a
hundred dollars apiece to tide us over. If a
hundred of them would do it, our wants would
be met, but without speedy relief the paper
will cease existence.
—The Courier .Journal speaking of the
reconstructed Broadway Baptist church
building in Louisville (Dr. But rows’) says:
“It is a thing of exquisite beauty.
Everyth ng is liuished with most excellent
taste, presenting a picture of delightful
harmony. In every particular the alterations
made have t.elded beauty to the place, while
the elevated semi-circular seats are an im
prove mi nt of incalculable value-.”
Ihe cost ol reconstruction has been over
$30,900. ihe otgan, which was itjured by
the fire, has been reconstructed by the orgi
nal builders, Johnson & Son, of Westfield,
Me S3 , with some additions at a cost of sl,~
000. It is said to be one of the sweetest and
purest toned instruments in the West.
Pnucipia of Political Hcienc-e. Upon a reverent
moral, htetal and progressive f< mutation]
By It. J. Wright. Profeisi rof Ethics, Jlcta
-I’lV V .BI C“ *nd hhurch History, in the Christian
Biblical Institute. Thud edition, rtvir.ee>.
It-J, Wrjglit, Taoony, Philadelphia, publish -
1 his is a veiy comprehensive „ork,
of great interest to all students of
Political Science. The author’s stile
is clear, anal} ticui, exact, and the num
erous divisions and sub-divisions of the
book are arranged very orderly and
SjtsbeHKrtioally. The metaphysics of
Sqjf’Al Si lence are illustrated in a veiv
scholarly tnanm r, anti the many
theories which have leen advanced, for
ages, by authorities on these subjects
are well stated. Tho chapters on In
ternational Law are interesting, and the
author's arguments on the basis of
general principles are forcible and
lucid.
In binding and general make up the
boipks is up to tho usual good standard
of works, issued from the Lippincott’s
press.
The Missionary Field,
—ln the city of Tokio, Japan, tin thousand
people are said to attend the missionary
churches. The changes going on in that pop
ulous empire are full of encouragement to
Christians.
—The bea my of the United Presbyterian
M ission Board is in a very embarrassed condi
tion. It has a debt of over $22,000, in conse
quence ofwhich tie Boaid is not able to send
the missionaries, Messrs. Johnston and Har
vey, back to Egypt.
Bishop Brown, of the African Methodist
Episcopal Church, is about to visit Ilayti, to
organ'ze a missionary work there.
—The American Baptist missionary union
reports 350 mission churches planted in Eu
rope, with a membership of more than 31,000.
—There are five hundred colored preachers
in die Baptist Home Mission schools of tire
Stfuh.
—The Rev. James Bickford writes to the
English Wesleyan papers, that the King ol
Tonga recently appoiu'ed by proclamation, a
public holiday in commemoration of the jubi
lee of the entry of the Rev. John Thomas, as a
servant of God and Methodist missionary, into
hit dominions.
-: The missionary society of the Evangelical
As"-ciation (German Methodist) reports re
ceipts for the year, of $65,807; expenditures,
$8'.,275. The book agent reports a capital of
$328,124, and profits for the year of $41,686.
- • The pioneer Woman’s Missionary Society
wa ,’ to ‘ Union Society” of the United States,
1 (fcPtvas (T/ganized in ISttv. l>enom'u<tiontd
societies followed, and now there are l< ur
principal ones, the Baptist, Ihe Presbyterian,
the Cc ngregalii.nal and the Methodist. The
grand total of money collected by these five
societies is $1,563,568. The first of these de
nominational societies was organ’zed in 1868,
and the last in 1871.
The Board of Missions ol the Protestant
Episcopal Glturch received during the past
year $295,000, expended $309,451, and is in
debted $72,705.
—The Protestant Churches of the world
maintain, collectively, 1,559 missionary sta
tions and 2,132 missionaries, at an annual ex
penditure of nearly $8,000,000.
A singular fact noted by Protestant mis
s onarieH in Japan is that the upper classes are
more ready to receive the tmlhs of Christianity
than the lower classes are.
—A Methodist camp meeting was held in
Lucknow, India, in September, with beneficial
results. Calcutta, Allahabad, Cawnpore, Ba
reilly, and other places, were represented by
attendants.
OUR SAIPTS.
From the eternal shallow rounding
All unsure and starlight here,
Voices of our lost ones sounding,
Bid us bo of heal t aud cheer,
Through the silence, down thospacoe, falling on
the inward ear.
Know we not our dead are looking
Downward, as in sad surprise,
All our strife of words rebuking
With their mild and earnest eyes ?
Shall we grieve the holy angels, shall we cloud
their blessed skies ?
Let ns draw their mantels o’er us,
Which have fallen in our way;
Let us do the work before us
Calmly, bravely, while we may,
E’er the long night-silence cometh, and with us
it is not day.
—John Whittier.
in Mental y of l Ider L. J. Httri'lsur, Dcieasctl.
iieport of Com mittee on Deceased
Ministers, made at the nineteenth an
nual session of the Mount Vernon
Baptist Association, held with Hines’
church, Emanuel county,Georgia,Sep
tember 29th auand
Dkak Bkethhen— AVe, your Committee,
are pained to have to Wcord the death of one
(four most faithful and devoted Ministers, to
wit: Elder Lewis J. Harrison, who departed
this life on Monday evening, September 18tb,
1876, at his residence in Laurens eounly, Ga.,
aged 39 years, 2 months aud 1 day. We, your
committee feel that indeed a great man in Is
rael has fallen. Dear brethren, wilt all die
reverence ar.d gratitude in our hearts, to our
Heavenly Father for llis past favors in sparing
his life, together with ihe lives ofail the Min
isters of our Association so long, let us
bow witlr humble submission to the Divir.e will
in this ILb r.filiciing Providence over us, ynd
kiss the rod that sorites us.
Brother Lewis J. Harrieyn, .nj born in
Washington county, Ga., July 17th, 1817. lie
received rjuite a limited education in youth ;
he was diligent in business; Ire professed con
version in early youth, made public that pro
fession, and was baptized into the church at
Limestone, in the year ; he removed his
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membership from Limestone to New Bethel
Baptist church, in the veer ; i-bout
which lime he commenced exercising a public
gift, which hecontirued to do with great ear
nestness and per everenee till he was called to
ordination, which took piece in the year 1858
He was engaged in serving churches from ids
ordination until forced hy declining health in
the fall of 1875, to resign Ilia charges as pa -
tor but filled his seat in his own church, even
to the last meeting before his death.
The life of brother Harrison, in every de
partment, was consistent with his high calling
and profession.
Asa citizen he was true to every trust re
posed in him ; as a neighbor, he was kind, ob
liging and forbearing; as a husband, he was
affectionate and devoted ;as a father, lie was
kind and forbearing— yet faithful in i istruet
ing and admonishing his children, ever en
deavoring to train them np in the nurture and
admonition of the Lord ; as a church member,
lie was ever seeking to advance her interest ;
as a Minister, he was ever faithful in evidence
of which we refer to the fact that while serv
ing the church at New Bethel for a term ot
twelve ye-irs, at a distance of thirty miles,
he missed but three meetings, being Provi
dentially hindered.
He also served the church at Shady Grove,
as a supply, a term of 14 years, never failing
to be present unless Providentially kept
away. IT sides his stated and occasional
labors with other churches, ever ready to
discharge his duties as a Minister, pr* aching
the unsearchable riches of Christ wherever
God in His providence called him and as an
evidence of our high appreciation of his
faithfulness and integrity, lie was occasion
ally elected Moderator of this body, and at
othir tiuus Cleik.
Rut brother Lew is is no more amongst us.
lie has gone from his labors below to bis
reward above. He has fought the good
light; he has kept the faith and has finished
his course, and wc doubt not that lie now
wears the palm of victory and of righteous
ness.
lie leaves behind ail aged and ulUictcd
companion, two sons and two daughters,
several grand children an-1 many relatives
and friends to mount their loss, which is his
eternal gaiu. These surviving friends—anil
especially his bereaved widow and children
—have the sincere condolence and sympathy
of this body.
Dear brethren, in view if the loss we have
sustained as a tody, and his own immediate
chut eh, and the loss sustained by his family
in the death of brother Hatrison,
Resolved , That we suspend business and
unite in prayer, that we may all, like him, be
faithful unto death, and thus be prepared to
reunite w ith him w here parting is uo mure.
Respectfully submitted,
J. M. Smith, j
■J. M. Donaldson, {. OominitJ.ee,
f. J. PiiELKB, )
Tlie Great Y'aiue ol (traits.
Mr. Ckas. Seymour, in a recent ad
dress to the Wisconsin State Board of
Agriculture, says :
British ugrictilUtre is almost perfection.
Taking the farmers of Great Britain as our
instructors, we may derive some valuable hints
from their experience. Of the fifty millionsof
acres under cultivation in the United King
dom of Great Britain, less.than twelve millions
of acres are devoted to “white crops” or cer
eals, while over twenty-six millions ofacres are
kept in permanent pasturage; six millions of
acres under clover and rotation grasses ; and
six millions of acres devoted to turnips and
other vegetables. England, Wales, Scotland
anil Ireland have about two and three-fourths
millions of horses, ten millions of cattle, arid
over thirty millions of sheep. Repetition ol
white or grain crops is not permitted. In
stead of the old process of restoring or testing
land by keeping it fallow every fourth year,
which was i quivalent to the permanent with
drawal of one-quarter ol the tillable land
from cultivation, the turnip crop, with its
broad leaves that shield the soil from the rays
of tire sun, and with its nutritious roots that
are fed, before ripening, to cattle and sheep, is
resorted to us the most tifeciual method ol
benefiting both land and stock; as biennial
plants derive their chief nourishment from the
air, and do not exhaust the soil, if used before
they ripea.
Forty two acres in over one hundred acrcx
in England, and sixty-four in every one hun
dred acres in Ireland, ate pasture. England
imports only five per cent, of meats consumed.
The capacity of land, when kept up to its
utmost productiveness in densely populated
countries of Europe, is demonstrated in the
ability ol many tillers of English soil, besides
paying heavy rents, to support a large family
on the products of six acres of land ; and in
Germany, two acres of land yielded a similar
a'i omit of subsistence; while in France, where
the long and narrow ribbon-like farms are
cultivated almost as carefully as gardens, the
capacity of land has reached Western creduli
ty. The French farmers seem to enjoy great
benefits from the culture of the sugar beet;
undone farm that is owned by Monsieur De
Candaine, located on ihe Touraine, valued at
two millions of francs, or about four hundred
thousand dollars, with sugar, linen and woolen
factories thereon, sends to market annually
one thousand head of fat cattle. The annual
income of this farm is five hundred thousand
francs, or about ore hundred thousand dol
lars. Doubtless, upon investigation, it would
be found that beets and oil cake contributed
largely to the production of the marketable
cattle, while the cattle and sheep contributed
to the pioduction of the materials used in the
factories; and that grass instead of grain was
the commanding crop of that valuable farm.
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A ?r line Remedy tor a Pr- infill Disense.
The pangs endured by the rheumatic are at
tributed by scientific pathologists to the contact
of a certain abnormal acrid element in the bluod
witlr the sensitive covering of the muscles and
joints, liostotter's Stomach Bitters, being a
superb blood depureut, is admirably calculated
to expel this impurity, and by removing the
euuse to allay the pain and feverish symptoms
which it produces. That it is a most successful
remedy for rheumatism, neuralgia and gout as
wed as a reliable means of counteracting those
dr-oas s, is a fact amply evidenced by voluntary
certificates emanating front those whom it has
cur ed, ami attested by medical practitioners of
high repute. It is likewise a sovereign curative
of dyspepsia, constipation, liver complaint, uri
nary troubles and general debility, as well as
the moat popular aud successful antidote to
malaria extant.
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General Osminational less,
—A miracle, so surpassing all ordinary
modern miracles, has been reported from Mu
n'ch, Germany, that it deservesspec'al record.
An elderly nun in lie Sei vite Convent at
Munich hud suffered for two years fri m
a spinal and nerve us complaint, so that .-lie
was quite crippled, and had been given up as
incurable. She had ceased to pray for recovery,
and had resigned herself to her fate. She was
wheeled in a chair whenever she received
the Holy Communion, or went out ot her cell.
On September 18th, she had thus been wheeled
to the altar, and on her return felt herself so
weak that she begged the sister in attendance
to leave her awhile before puffing 1 er back on
her couch. She opened her book of devotion
at the usual place, where there was a marker
in tne shape of a cross, formed of two shreds
of cloth from the garments o'a Je-uit father
who was shot in 1871 hy the Paris Commune.
The nun had always reverenced this relic, hut
never thought of any miraculous virtue con
nected with it; now, however, she seemed to
hear a voice saying, ‘‘Take and eat.” With
and fficulty she loosened three threads from the
cloth and swallowed them, when immediately
she felt a ereepi ng movement in her back, ami
she was I ealed. She rose from her chair and
walked to the church, where s! e gave thanks
and rejoiced. This is quite a niw .-lyie of
miracle, and w.ll eclipse the power of Lourdes
and Marpingen, for one has only to lay in a
stock of Jesuit old doilies, and miracles with
out end ensue.
There are 100 religious denominations
scattered throughout the United States.
—Methodism which originated in Oxford,
in 1729, is about to erect its first chapel in that
town.
—Among the preachers who have been in
vited to deliver sermons in the University
course at Cornell, during next w’nter, are Dr.
William Adams ajpd Dr. Ups it of the Presby
terian church, Bishops Beekwi li and Hunting
don of the Protestant Episcopal Church,
Bishop Foster and Chancellor Haven of the
Methodist Episcopal church, Dr. Wayland
Hoyt and Prof. Strong of the Baptist church,
Dr. Bellows and Rev. Freeman Clarke of the
Unitarian church, Dr. W. M.Ti ylor of Broad
way Tabernacle, Prof. Fisher of Yale College,
Rev. Dr. Thomas K Beecher of the Congrega
tional church, and Dr. Dili yea of the Dutch
Reformed church. The Ithaca ( N. Y ) Jour
nal after announcing these invitations says :
“We are informed that tire only reason why
the above list does not include representatives
of the Roman Catholic church is that an invi
tation to the Roman Catholic bishop of this
diocese was declined, though in ail entirely
kind and polite manner.”
Eleven conferences of the Methodist Prot
estant Church have concurred in calling a
general convention for 1877, to consumate a
union with the Methodist Chutch.
—Tire High School f or the science of Juda
ism, founded a* Berlin in 1873, lias publi-hed
its second annual report. The lectures are
given gratuitously, and are accessible to ma
triculated students of Ihe University of Berlin.
Students of Protestant tin ology Imp ent them
also.
—George Muller, so widely known as the
“Man of Faith,” is preaching on the Continent
eight or ten times a week, to audiences of tw
to three thousand. At present he is laboring
in Switzerland, and loudly called to Germany.
He is over 70 years old.
—The Rev. James A. Duncan, D.D., has
been re-elected President of Randolph Macon
College,and has accepted.
—Cardinal Lucca, the successor of Antonelli,
used to be Nuncio at Munich and at Vienna,
He is a man of refined mind, well read, and
versed in political affairs ; and is said to have
retained the friendship of illustrious men in
Germany, who keep him informed of wlrat is
passing in German and Austro Hungarian af
fairs.
Cloud Banners of the Alps,
Among the most exquisite scenes which de
light the eye of the European traveler are those
wonderful roso colored cloud-banners, floating
from the Alpine cliffs. But it is only in the sun
light that nature hangs out these beautiful
tokens. So it is only in the glow of health—the
sunlight of our inner being—that nature reveal*
those physical cloud-banners, the '‘rosy cheek”
and “cherry lip," to praise which every poet of
the earth has invoked tire Muse to aid him. But
they are as rare as the cynical Hood coucoivcd
Cliristiau charity to be. Woman, eager to re
tain this chain), resorts to French art and rouge.
The cffoct is similar to that which would be pro
duced by substituting auctioneers' flags for the
delicate glowing cloud banners of the Alps. 1:
woman would aid Nature instead of adopting
ai t. would seek health instead of vainly trying
to mask disease, she would not only win the
greatest charm of womanhood—health—but she
would avert much misery both from liorsslf and
others. Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Proscription has
received the highest praise from thousands of
palo, delicate, suffering women. One bottle
often affords more relief than mouths of treat
ment by caustics and other medicines. It is
harmless in any condition of the bystem, and ita
use often renders the modest invalid exempt
from that most trying of ordeals—a personal
consultation with a physician. It is the duty of
evoiy woman to become familiar with the causes
and symptoms of the many diseaees to whioli
her peculiar organization renders her liable, and
also to learn the proper means of preventing
these maladies. The People's Medical Adviser
contains an ex ensive treatise upon “lonian
and her Diseaso* ” The Author also advises
courses of domestic treatment, which will often
render the services of a physician unnecessary.
Every woman should read it. A copy of the
Advireroan be obtained by addressing the Au
thor, Dr. B. V. Pierce, at Buffalo, Ni. Price
$1.50 (postage prepaid t Favorite Prescription
is sold by Druggists.