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The Christian Index.
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of Alabama. B °HBISTIAN HEBAIjD'
■ ■■ ■ _ of Tennessee.
VOL. 56—NO. 1.
Table of Contents
First Paof. —Alabama Depat tment ; Record of
State Events ; Religious : An Israelite Monu
ment : Spirit ot the Religions Press ; Baptist
News and Notes ; The M sdonary Field ;Gen
eral Denominational Nows.
Second Page. —Our Coirespondents : 'Have
Faith in the Lord”—B. L. Ross ; The Way it
is Done inTexas—Georgia Traveller; ‘'Watch
man, what of tiro Night Under Shepherd :
Pictures for Examination—Viator; Paxton's
Apostolic Church —W. W ■ Landrum ; The
Colored Race—Letter from Rev. J. H. Corlev ;
Acknowledgment—Rev. 1. S. llakev; Work for
YouDg Men ; Christman Tree at Bel Air—J.
M. A.; The Bethel Association—B. J. Hogue;
% Ok-la-ho-ma-gi aphs—J. S. Jluriow; Parties—
O ; Billington M. Sauders—S. Landrum : etc.
Third Paoe.— Letter from Rome, Georgia ;
Southeastern Georgia—A Field Needing Labor
ers—E. G. Daniel; The Beile of Kentucky—
SI. B. Wharton. Our Pulpit : John the Baptist
—Synopsis of a Lecture delivered in Cavalry
Church, New York city, by Rev. Dr. William
11. Williams. The O’d Deacon’s Lament —Poe-
try. Children's Corner: Is Your Note Good;
A Clock in the Sky at Night; About a Magi
cian—Poetry.
Fourth Page.— Edit dial: Salutatory for the
New Year ; A. D. 1577 to A. D. 1777; Day of
National Prayer ; Georgia Baptist News—Rev.
D. E- Butler. The Great Question—ll6v. S.
G. Hillyer. New Books. Editorial Para
graphs.
Fifth Paoe —Secular Ed i tom is : Literary Gos
sip; Immortal, Gems Reset; A Most Efficient
Officer; Georgia Kens; Domcstio and Foreign
Notes; To the General Assembly—Greeting;
Florida, ‘‘The Flower Land;" etc.
Sixth Page.— The Sunday-school: The Kingdom
Divided —Lesson for Sunday, January 14th ;
Sunday-school work for IS76—T. C. Bor kin.
Science and Education : Educate your Daugh
ters —Monroe Female College—Geo. W.
Cheves ; etc.
Seventh Paoe.— The Farm : The Seed—Poetry;
Georgia State Agricultural Society; Farm
Book-Keeping; Horticultural.
Eighth Paoe.—Marriages. Obituaries. Adver
tisements.
INDEX AND BAPTIST.
ALABAMA DEPARTMENT.
The legislature re assembled on the 9th inst.
Coal lias recently been very scarce in Selma.
The Alabama University has now 1-10 ca
dets.
Pork is plentiful in Etowah county at (5 cents
a pound.
Rev. Z. D. Roby will pieacli once a month
in the Baptist church at Nutasulga.
Ci t'zens ol Opelika are asking to have their
city government abolished.
The citizens of Gainesville, Sumter county,
want a city court established there.
The Catholic church at Eufaula is to have
anew bell, weighing 1,000 pounds.
J. A. Bilbrohas been elected mayor of Tua
ke'egee, vhe Win. Edmonds, resigned.
8. M. Ainsworth retires from the editorial
charge of the Limestone News.
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Several farms art uud Athens have recently
t een bought by Northern gentlemen.
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R. D. Wallace, D. Arnold and R. Arnold,
of Bibb, have removed to Arkansas.
Win. Griffith, of Wills Valley, killed a six
teen months old p ; g that weighed 401 pounds
An 'Old Folk’s” concert was given at Be
rn opolis on the Ist Inst.
The Barbour circuit court costs the county
annually, $2,750, and the city court costs $5,-
250. .
Rev. J. Shackelford, of Tuscumh’a, has re
cently moved to his new heme in Forrest
City, Arkansas.
Rev. F. M. Grace, late of the Birmingham
Iron Age, takes charge of the Moulton High
School.
The ladies of the Church of the Advent,
Birmingham, netted SIOO on a supper re
cently.
Major Harvey has been continuously the ed
itor of the Greensboro Beacon for nearly thir
ty-three years.
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A little daughter of Welborn Courson, of
Pike county, was fatally burned a few days
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The Recut der is the name of the new paper
published iu Courllsnd, edited by Mij. Char
davoyne.
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Rev. Mr. Hecht, formerly of New York,
will take charge of the Hebrew congregation
in Montgomery.
The Clerk’s office at Andalusia was entered
some time since, and every indictment and
bond destroyed.
Mr, I. I. Jones, a prominent merchant of
Mobile, died in that city ol heart disease on the
28th ult.
Rev. E. Y. Van House has accepted the pas
torate of the Baptist church in Troy, for the
ensuing year.
Mr. Taliaferro, elected Speaker of the House
of the Tenne see House of Representatives,
is a son-in law of Col. J. W. Sloss, of Mont
gomery. , ,
Col. Joseph Hodgson, of the Mobile Reg's
ter, formerly State Superintendent of Educa
tion, has written a historical work called,
“The Cradle of the Confederacy, or the Times
ol Quitman, Troup and Yancey."
RtMhiu'V.
Religion has planted itself, in all the
purity of its image and sufficiency of
its strength, at the threshold of hu
man misery; and is empowered to re
cail the wanderers from their pilgrim
age of woe, and direct hem in the
path of Heaven. It has diffused a sa
cred joy in the abodes of poverty and
wretchedness ; it has illuminated the
dungeon of the captive; it has effaced
the wrinkles from the brow of tare,
shed a gleam of sacred joy to the
chamber of death, gladdened the coun
tenance of the dying with a triumph
ant enthusiasm, and diffused through
out the earth a faint foretaste of the
blessings of futurity. It is as benign
as the light of Heaven, and comprehen
sive as its span. And it is in the eye
of the Christian, that it quickens per
severance with the promises of reward,
reanimates the drooping spirit, invigo
rates the decrepitude of ago and di
rects with a prophetic ken to the re
gions of eternal felicity. Like the sun,
it gilds every object with its rays,
without being diminished in its luster,
or shorn of its power.
AX ISRAELITE MOXI JIEXT.
The magnificent monument to “ Re
ligious Liberty,” erected by the Jewish
order Be uni ßerith at Philadelphia, and
dedicated to the American people in
the name of the Israelite citizens of
America, continues to be an object of
great interest to visitors. The monu
ment is of marble, eleven feet high,
weighing fifteen tons, and cost $20,000.
The sculptor is M. Ezekiel. It con
sists of three figures, of which the
chief is a female, representing America,
bearing upon her breast a shield with
the Stars and Stripes in relief. Her
left hand rests upon the fasces, the
scroll of the Constitution and a wreath
of laurel. Her right arm is extended
in forbidding jesture, waving off all
interference. On the light, partly
sheltered by America, stands a nude
boy, symbolizing Faith, with his head
and one hand lifted appealingly to
Heaven, while the other sustains a ves
sel in wl ich is shown the undying
flame of religion. On the other side,
and at the feet of the central figure is
an eagle, with talons buried deep in the
neck of a set pent, Intolerance.
On the front of the base of the statue
is the following quotation from the
Federal Constitution :
Congress shall make no taw respecting an
establishment of religion, or prohibiting the
free exercise thereof.
On the right hand side are the
words:
In commemoration of the Centennial anni
versary of American independence.
And on the left hand side is the fol
lowing inscription :
Erected by the I. Q. B. B. and the Israelites
of tiic United States.
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Dr. Neubauer, sent by the Oxford
University to examine the second
Firkovitz collection of Hebrew man
uscripts collected from the Karaite
synagogues in Egypt and Mesopo
lamia, reports that it is of great value,
containing older texts of the Hebrew
Bible than any previously known, with
various readings dependent on the
varying traditions of the rabbinical
schools of Babylonia and Tiberias.
There are many works of exegesis,
grammar, lexicography, philosophy,
medicine, mathematics, astronomy,
etc. The collection belongs to the
St. Petersberg Imperial library.
—Among the noted literary writers,
who died during the past year, were
John Fostor, the biographer of Lar dor
and of Di' kens; Pierre M. Irving, the
biograph;r of his uncle, Washington
Irving; William B. Reed; Harriet
Martineau; Freiligrath, the German
poet; Palachy, Hungarian historian;
Mortimer Collins, an English novelist;
Count Fedro, the father of Polish
comedy, and Edwaid Lane, the trans
lator of the “Arabian Nights.”
Thomas Hubbard, familiarly known aa “Un
cle Tommy Hubbard,” in said to he the oldest
Freemason in Alabama. He is now 93 years
old, and was raised to the degree of Master
Mason in the first lodge ever organized in the
State —Helion Lodge No. 1, in Huntsville.
He is paralyzed and is near his grave. He
lives near Danville.
FRANKLIN PRINTING HOUSE. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, JANUARY 11, 15 77
Spirit of the Religious Press,
The Western Chi islian Advocate speaks Ihe
conviction of very many intelligent people in
the following comment on Ihe much abused
iiabit of advertising pulpit service:
"It seems to us certain that an established
church-going habit is not promoted by the ad
vertising system, but the contrary. And
hence, in the loDg run, the average attendance
m the churches which practise that system,
will not be as large as it would have been if
the people had rtceived no hints whatever
concerning the subject which the preacher
would discuss until lie actually began bis
discourse.”
—The following terse sentiments are from
the Christian at Work, on the important theme
of “Giving:”
“People, professing Christian people, will
do almost anything but give. While they
are making money, and everything goes on
prosperously, they give freely, and it may he
added, they give thoughtlessly. Now, what
the church stands in need of is thoughtful
giving. It is all vtry well—no, it is not at
all well—when money is abundant and times
are prosperous to write a cheek for a certain
sum in ret pc use to a church’s request lor
help, and enter the amount among the usual
expenditures, saying: ‘There I I have done
my share, and done it pretty well,’ there and
then letting the matter drop. Christians must
gej beyond this spasmoiic giving, for in just
litis thing the greatest harm results to the
church.”
—lt is urged by the Christian at Work, that
“there is a great deal of pulpit padding which
detracts from the dignity and strength of the
sermon and wearies the hearer.”
— Zion's lfcudd very pertenently reproves
scolds and scolding— it says, with fine point :
“With some, scolding is chronic. Life is
one long fret. The flesh is feverish, the
nerves unstrung, the spirit perturbed in a
stale of unrest. The physical condition and
the material surroundings may have a strong
tendency to disturb our iquanimity, and to
exasperate our feelings, but we are to bear iti
mind that scolding never did anybody any
good, and withal grows to he very uncomfor
table to the p-uly who indulges in it.”
—The National Baptist believes that the
next right step in the Way of religious enter
prise will lie in the direction ot (1) paying off
the debts which crush so many of our church
es, an 1 (2) strengthening the things that re -
main by consolidating, in not a few cases, two
feeble churches into one vigorous body.
ihe Sunday School 'limes stirs up the
drones sharply;
So in all departments of church activity.
The trouble is not that the many do not move,
hilt that the one man waits for" the others to
start. What if the others do stand still ?
‘What is that to thee?’ Gotorward all alone
Do your duty. Wait for no one while yotn
Lord calls and leads you. It you will" fill
your place, other people will he much more
likely.to fill their places. Whatever is the
lack just now in your church or Sunday
school, it will never be met by your waiting
inactively with your sluggish fellows. It may
ho supplied if you will move forward prompt
ly and in fait)).”
file New York Observer is grieved to
note the fact that a large number of (he
wealthiest Presbyterian congregations in some
of the leading cities, have pastors imported
from Great Britain.
The Christian at Work dispells a common
error as follows:
“A cotemporary advertises a church fair
‘under the auspices of the Dorcas Society.’
That’s a slander upon Dorcas. She made
garments for the poor, and did ‘good woiks
and almsdetds.’ Clearly, she did net manu
facture cauls, girdles, robes, mi-illers, tunics,
and other vestments, at the cost ol a Icy,
pence, and sell them for a talent ? What she
made, she made and gave to the poof, with
out the intei ventiou of church fairs, to devote
a mite to the poor, and a talent to paying olf,
a mortgage. If you will have church tails,
at least don’t compromise the late saintly
Dorcas by mixing her up with them. She
had nothing to do with them—they are an
outgrowth of our modern Christian civiliza
tion.
—The Tablet (Roman Catholic), in an arti
cle enumerating the signs of Die Second Ad
vent, sa<s:
“But there is another sign of the near ap
proach of that day on which the time of mercy
expires and the eternity of judgment begin- 1 ,
which, to our thinking, is more conclusive
than even those signs foretold by the Incar
rate Deity in language so oracular and oh
score. It is the extraordinary and still mul
tiplying number of apparitions of the Ble.-sed
Virgin Mary which have taken place within
the last lew years. It is as though her filial
heart, throbbing with ail unutterable and in
conceivable love for her Maker arid her God
and her maternal heart for her Divine Son and
her children in Him, forced her, as it were,
ever and anon out of the excellent glory to
show herself to the humblest of the earth, in
rock-niches, on hill-slopes, and elsewhere,
with a majestic attendance of miracles, spirit
ual and bodily, causing vast basilicas to arise
in out-ot-the-way places, and provoking
holy pilgrimages without number, in order to
convert sinners and confirm the faith of the
elect in view of the terrible trial to which
their faith is being exposed on the very thresh
hold of judgment.
Ihe St. Louis Christian Advocate thinks
that the masses, whom we are all so anxious to
reach and control, can be best reached and
controlled by following its advice, which is as
follows:
build plain, substantial chuicites near to
where the people are, with seats Iree to all, let
rich members, in real Christian humility and
charily, (eel for and worship with the wor
shipping poor. Let the ministry be clothed in
its old-time simplicity and earnestness, pre
pared to preach the gospel to the poor, and
let the Wealthier portion of the congregation
attend the services dressed plainly and neatly
as becomes the Ik, use of Gi ii, not costly, richlv
or gaudily, which is always out ol taste in such
places, anti our word for it, the masses will
soon ha reached.
ihe saute paper lias an earnest protest
against budding fine chin ches encumbered with
embarrassing debts.
—Says an exchange;
Lope de V ega wrote over two hundred vol
umes in his lifetime ; a modern mediocre poet
has given us twenty-four volumes ; but it was
only the great anti matchless Bacon who could
throw the wisdom of the ages in a little 12mo
volume cisays which were the glory of his
age and are the marvel of our own. The
thoughts of the gifted Robertson, offered us in
one volume, are preferred to the endless serits
of sermons <f great, but more voluminous
preachers. Few woids from the preacher, as
" el * f ronl the sweetheart, go the furthest.
Dt an Swift once argued for short sermons from
trie tact ihiU it was when Paul was long preach
ing. that Eulychus fell into the deep sleep
which caused him to tumble out of the win
dow. “Miracles are past now,”said the Dean;
and because they ate past, he thought hearers
should Lie careful not to sit in the window, and
preachets should preach short sermons. Be
this as it may, the sentiment and the intellect
ual requirements of the age demand brevity
and conciseness, if much study is a weari
ness to the flesh, much listening is a weari
ness to the mind. Be crisp, be concise, he
terse. Leave the interminable sermon for the
land where you will have all eternity fo’*
preaching in.
l BAPTIST SEWS AM) NOTES.
—Dr. Curry, of Richmond, is spoken of as
the successor of the late Dr. Fuller, of Balti
more.
Dr, Randolph has resigned Ihe office of
Sunday-school and Missionary Secrctaiy ol
the Publication Society, and has accepted the
call qf the Indianapolis chinch ; he will begin
his labors February 1.
—The Baptist Bejlector (Tenn.) says; “Wo
had the pleasure of shaking lire hand of Rev.
R. VV. Fuller, the agent of the Georgia Or
phans’ Home. Tit is insiiUUiut was founded
by the Baptists, and is doing a noble work in
providing for orphans of the Slate. It would
he well (or our people to turn their thoughts in
this direction. We have many orphans in our
(and that would make useful men and women
it properly (rained and cared for.”
—Statistics are given which show that
while the population of New Jersey has just
about doubled in the last twenty-five years, the
number of Baptist communicants doubled
from 1873, that is in twenty-one years
—The Nestor of the New York pulpit is
Uev. Wiliam R. Williams, D.D., of the
Amity Baptist church in West Fifty-fourth
street. For more than forty dive years he has
setved one and the same people, until now iie
stands alone in length of continuous pastorate
in that city. More than this, however, may
be said of the Amity pastor. As an erudite
scholar, t polished writer, an eloquent orator,
Dr. Williams has no superior in an American
pulpit of any denomination.
The baptismal controversy that is now
raging so hotly in England is resulting in
much good. All the associations that have
thus far met this year report large accessions
by baptism.
—The First Baptist church, Cleveland, is in
a fair way to recover the ground lost by the
defection of its late pastor, Dr. Behrende.
With great good judgment it lias called as his
successor Rev. G. W. Gardner, D. D., a name
to whom Baptists have been for years accus
tomed to look with confidence and respect.
Uev. George A. Lofton, of Memphis, has
received and accepted a call to the Third
Baptist church of St. Louis, whose pulpit was
recently made vacant by the resignation of
Rev. Rope Yearnan.
—Up to this time Dr. Shelton has raised
$21,000, of which $2,000 is in cash, for the
Southwestern Baptist University, Jacksonville,
Tennessee.
A “Sunday-school teacher's parlor” has
been fitted up by the American Baptist Publi
cation Society, Philadelphia, where a series of
lectures upon the International Lessons is
given, beginning January 2.
—The Rev. Dr. P S. Henson not only
edits The Baptist teacher, the Sunday-school
paper of his denomination, hut is the loved
and ttfieient pastor of one of the largest Bap
tist churches in Philadelphia. His church
lr.s just voted, unar.kcd, SI,OOO to his salary
for the new year. The man who does one
tiling wol is commonly the nan to do another
thing well.
—The Examiner and Chionic’x contains the
following urgent appeal in behalf of the
Greenville Theological Seminary, written by
Rev. Thos. E. Skinner, D.D., of Macon:
“I have wished to say to the Baptists in the
North, whose hearts may he inquiring, 'Lord,
whal wilt thou have me to do?’ that it would
lie opportune to aid the indigent young men
who are adjudged by the churches to he called
of God to preach the Gospel, and who have
been sent to Greenville Theological Seminary.
Some of these young men for whom Dr.
Broadus’ eloquent life pleads, have been sent
there by individuals who have pledged them a
support; others are there by the advice of
churches who meant well, but are not able to
meet their pl.dges.
How grateful one might feel, to be the in
strument in aiding these young ministers of
Jesus; thus stepping under the burden, and
lifting up the cause of the Master where others
had tried and failed. Let not the disciples of
Christ forget that some of his poor, called ol
him to preach the everlasting Gospel, need—
very much need—assists nee, that they may he
thoroughly furnished as workmen who need
not to he ashamed.
f do not know that funds sent anywhere, to
be used for the cause of Christ, would be more
highly appreciated than to the Rev. John A,
Broadus, D. D., Greenville, South Carolina,
for the aid of young ministers. So writes a
lover of all men, and especially of all Bap
tists ”
The Missionary Field,
—Of the 106 Congregational and Presbyte
rian churches of New Hampshire, 05 depend
on missionary aid.
—Mrs. Iloxanna Nott, the last of the mis
sionary band sent to India by the American
Btaid of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
in 1812, died in Harlfotd, December 11, aged
91 years.
—The Presbyterian Board of Foreign Mis
sions receives $25,000 from the estate of the
late Edwin J. Peok,o( Indianapolis, It.d.
—The foreign fields have lately received a
huge accession <.f Christian workers. The
Baptist Missionary Union lias sent out eleven
for Burrnah and South Africa, the Presbyte
rian Board six for India, China and Japan,
and the Methodist Society five for India.
—The American Missionary Society, at its
late anniversary, reported 70,000 colored chil
dren in its schools at the South. It is every
year adding to its force of teachers in the
schools.
A missionary of the American Sunday
schcool Union, laboring among his Scandina
vian countrymen in Minnesota, writes that he
has been urging Sunday-schools to more
thorough work ; so as to be places of Bible
study, and not mere singing schools, as many
on the frontier like to make them It has been
hard work, but the Lord has blessed it.
—The missions of the American Board in
Western Turkey are reported to be in a Hour
ishing condition, notwithstanding the disturbed
state of the country.
—lt is stated that Ihe Catholics haveseveral
negroes in the College of the Propaganda, in
Rome, training for missionary work in Africa.
—The American Missionary, organ of the
“American Missionary Asst ciation,” for De
cember, is filled with matter concerning the
missions to the treedmen in the South. The
editor makes the following announcement:
With the next issue of the American Mis
siomry, we shall begin to print it in new
torn), in a Southern State, and by the hands of
colored men. The form will be quarto ; the
place will he Hampton, Va., and the printers
will he the colored students of Hampton Ins i
title.
—There is a singular “plague of spirits”
worrying the Cbineese at Soochow and Woosih.
The people imagine they are the victims of
vampires and “paper men,” and sleep in clus
teis during the day for mutual protection,
spending the night beating gongs to frighten
away the demons. At Soochow, on a certain
night, a noise was heard as of the rush of mitl
tudes of feet and the i lashing of spears, and
the Cbineese war-cry of “Tsa ! tea I” The
people turned out with gongs to drive away
the demons, and after a time peace was re
stored. The Shanghai correspondent of the
London Times, who gives full particulars of
this curioas plague, says that “what renders all
these absurdities serious is, that the excitement
they produce is directed against missionaries,
who arc- accused of producing the portents by
magic arts.
I r is a noteworthy argument for the
cause of missions, and its vital relation
to prosperous churches, that anti
missi n Baptists have almost entirely
disappeared. It is seen in the light of
this fact as most perilous to set at
naught Christ’s great closing commis
sion, “Go ye into all the world, and
preach the Gospel to every creature.”
Churches best maintain their visibility
by planting and sustaining other
churches. They grow by imparting,
and die from withholding both light
and life.
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As long as you can draw a pound
God means for you to stay in the
traces. It cannot be that you think
you have paid the Lotd so fully that
there is danger of rendering Him a
surplus. A Christian has no right to
stop sacred industries until he has his
hand on the door-latch of Heaven.
November and December are as impor
tant parts of the year as May and
June, otherwise we should have had
oniy ten months in the year instead of
twelve.
The Colored Baptist Convention of Ala
bama has decided to establish a theological
chew in connection with Lincoln University, a
State institution at Marion, and to have an
many teachers’ institutes as possible, held in
different parts of the State.
Mr. Thomas Baring, of the great London
banking firm of Barring Bros. & Cos., and
Captain Jessop, of the English artuy, were re
cently the guests of Captain John C. Graham,
of Selma.
WHOLE NO. 2251.
General Denominational ta,
Rev. Dr. Pond, of Bangor, Maine, has
been preaching sixty-one years in that State.
—The following extract from the existing
Criminal Code of Russia, certainly serves to
tarnish seriously our boast that the present is
par excellence the age of charity, liberty, and
Christian civilization—it reads like a page
from the annals of Nero:
Abt. 207. Whoever endeavors, by preach
ing or writing, to seduce members of the Or
thodox Chuich to join any other Christian
community, will be punished, the first time
with the loss of some of his special rights, and
imprisonment for oneor two years in a house
ol correction ; the second time with imprison
ment in a fortress from four to six years ; the
third time with the loss of all his peisonal and
social civil rights and status, and liansportalion
for life to Tobolsk or Tomsk (Siberia,) with im
prisonment of one or two years.
Protestanism is gaining on Mohammedan
ism iu Palestine. There are now 250 Protest
ant churches it tire Holy Land, anti 7,600
children in Protestant schools.
—Bishop Smith of Kentucky authorizes the
publication of the following as his ptrsonal
conviction of the truth : “You are at perfect
liberty to publish to he world, under my
proper signature, that, guided by the same
laws of evidence which satisfy me with regard
to the cancn of Scripture, and the three orders
of the Christian ministry, I do fully ami un
hesitatingly believe that no instance of adult
or infant baptism occurred during tire first
three centuries except by immersion, save on
ly in the few cases of clinical liaptism, and to
this practice all the incidental notices of holy
scripture best conform.”
—The Christian young men of Melbourne,
Australia, have just completed a building
which cost £6,000.
—According to the Lutheran Obserrer, the
past year has swelled tire number of professed
Lutherans in this country beyond ti e number
of Presbyterians, and they now stand numeri
cally third on the list of religious denomina
tions in the United States. The number of
communicants is given at not less than 610,-
000. In the Seminaries there ate 346 students
preparing for the ministry ; pastors, about
2,800.
—The action of the Pope in appointing Car
dinal Simeoni as Cardinal Antoneli.’s successor
as Secretary of Slate is a bad omen. Simeoni
belongs to the extreme Jesuit party in the
Church. He it was who, as Papal Legate in
Spain, opposed the adoption of the new Con
stitution, and demanded the exclusion of all
forms of religion other than the Catholic.
—ln the Temple Street Methodist Church,
of Boston, there is an adult Bible class ol three
hundred members.
—The two Presbyterian churches of New
port, Kentucky, became one on October 25.
The first and second Presbyterian churches of
Piqua, Ohio, have also decided upon union.
—The Japanese have taken a sudden fancy
to religions equality, and are pushing on the
reform with characteristic impetuosity. All
religions are now tolerated by the Japanese
Government, and the missionaries scattered
through the empire, regularly minister to
some 300,000 native Christians.
One thousand eight hundred ministers
attended the Christian Convention, presided
over by Mr. Moody, in Chicago, during tie
last week in November.
—An institution peculiar to England lean
endowment for the preaching of annual ser
mons on some special topics. Many such en
dowments arc connected with the universities,
but thete are also many scattred over the
kingdom.
—Another minister is in (rouble for permit
ling women to preach in his pulpit. The
Rev. Dr. Craven, a Presbyterian clergyman
of Newark, N J., has entered a complaint
against the Rev. I. M. See, of the same church
and city, for permitting Mrs. Bobinson, of
Indiana, and Mrs. C. S. Whitney, of Hartfnrd,
to preach in his pulpit.
—The little Church of the United Brethren
or Moravians (known in the Middle Ages as
the Bohemian Brethren,) is one of the most
ancient and faithful of the Churches of Chris
tendom. Although its members throughout
the world only number about thirty thousand,
their missionary zeal and .-access have been
wonderful, especially in Greenland, Labrador,
South Africa, and the West Indies.
The Gospel of Merit.
Where there is so such rivalry as iu the man
ufacture of family medicines, he who would suc
ceed must give positive and convincing proof of
merit. This is an age of inquiry. People take
nothing for granted. They must know the whvs
and wherefores before acknowledging the supe
riority of one article over another. Among the
few preparations that have stood the test, those
manufactured by R. V. Pierce. M. I) , of the
Worlds Dispensary, Buffalo, N. V.. have for
many years been foremost. The truth of any
statement made concerning them can bo easily
ascertained, for Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy and
l)r. 1 ierce 8 Golden Modic&l Dincovory are now
proscribed by many physicians in curing obsti
nate eases of Catarrh and incipient Consump
tion. The Discovery has no equal in curing
Cough", Colds, Bronchial and Nervous Affec
tions. It allays all ir> Ration of the mucous mem
brane, aids digestion, and when used with Dr
Pierce's Pleasant Purgative reliefs readily over
comes torpid liver and Constipation, while the
favorite Prescription has no rival in the tiold of
prepared medicine in curing diseases peculiar to
females. If you wish to know thyself, procure a
copy of “The People’s Common Sense MAlioal
Adviser,” an illustrated book of nearly 10C0
pages, adapted to the wants of everybody.
Price *1.50, postage propaid. Address the au
thor B. V. Pierce. Buffalo, N. Y.