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VOL 56—NO. 2,
Treble of Contents
fiEST TaoE—Alabama Department : Record of
State Events; Revive the Work; Southern Al
abama Items; Spirit of the Religious Press;
Baptist Nows and Notes; Tlie Missionary Field;
General Denominational News; Now Books.
Second pAO*.tr-Oftr Gonespondonts : This, Til at
;.ud the Other--\Y. N. Oliaudom ;. Sonidthihg
Hole Abont Tobacco— Monitor; Wondernil
Development of the Yoleanio liilbienee of Da
pravity as Seen in the Atrocious Hiurdor and
Suicide Recently Enacted in DaKalb county,
Georgia—J. H. Stillwell; Letter from Madison,
Georgi*—W. B. Crawford : Ordination : "By
Way 01 Remembrance”—Wm. 11. Mclntosh;
Resolutions adopted by Abilene Church—W.
H. Jones, Clerk; The Voice of God-~H. A.
Xu, per. Missions: "Men of Israel Help”—Ot
M. Irwin. Select Miscellany; The Baugaf
Storm Wave: etc.
Third Paoe. —Our Pulpit ; The Kingdom of God
is Set Up by Christ—A Lecture by Rev. W. It.
Williams. D.D., of New York city, or. Baptist
Church History, ficienoo and Education.
Forara Paoe.—Editorial: A Divine Power ; Is
This Consistent ? True Preaching, Contrasted
Lives; Georgia Baptist News—Rev. D. E.But
ler. TnoWautofYlor.il Power—Dr. Thos. S,
Powell. Editorial Paragraphs.
Fifth Page.— Secular Editorials : liatid-Book
ot the State of Georgia; Inaugural Address of
Gov. A. 11. Colquitt; Red Letter Day ; Gov.
Smith’s Annual Ylessago; Georgia News ;
Domestic and Foreign Notes.
bixTß Page. —The Sunday-school: Omri and
Ahab—Lesson for January 21, 1877. Children’s
Corner; German Enigma—Poetry; The Mist
on the Mountains : The Child’s Teacher ; etc.
Seventh Page.— Letter from Arkansas— Area—
Navigable Rivers—Agricultural and Mineral
Resources—Timber—Prairies Healtbfulnesa
—Schools and Churches—Railway Facilities,
etc. Agricultural Notes.
Eighth Paoe.—A Motto—Poetry; Gems Reset.
Marriages. Obituaries. Advertisements.
INDEX AND BAPTIST.
ALABAMA department.
Ashville wants a prohibitory liquor law.
Our Alabama exchanges are always “full of
the snow storm.”
The Lutheran church at Cullman has anew
organ.
—...
Huntsville has applied to the Legislature
for a city court.
The snow was nine inches deep in ilibb
county.
James W. Oats, Esq-, has taken editorial
charge of the Henry county Register.
' ratn.y-e.fcht giiihouses halve been burneu ih
Alabama since the Ist of September last,
The wife of Rev. ALE. Butt, of Auburn,
has been very sick.
The Southern University, at Greensboro,
bus one hundred students.
The old Presbyterian church building in
Marion is ordered for sale.
The Episcopal church at Birmingham has
anew bell.
A supper given by the Episcopal ladies of
Hayneville netted $45.
Capt. James W. Oates takes editorial
charge of the Henry County Register.
Sleigh rilling has been enjoyed throughout
Middle and South Alabama lately.
Alabama oysters were shipped to Baltimore
recently. They came from Bon Secouraud
Pas3 Christian.
—Rev. H..R. Raymond, jr., has accepted
the pastorate of the Camden Presbyterian
church.
Col. Gabriel Jordon, of Montgomery, has ta
ken charge of the Memphis and Charleston
road as general superintendent and engineer.
la Montgomery, one hundred and eighty
four white, and five hundred and eighteen
negro, children attend the public schools.
Air. Kaufman, the postmaster at Cullman,
was killed by a train on the South and North
Railroad.
The Messrs. Roberts have purchased Rev.
F. E. Grace’s interest in the Birmingham
Iron Age.
•—• —•
Rev. E. R. Moore has removed from
Lowndes to Montgomery county, where he
takes charge of the Montgomery circuit (Meth
odist Protestant.)
In almost every part of the State there was
an unusual amount of drunkenness among
the negroes on Christmas.
Nearly all the oats sowed in the fall
throughout the State, were very materially in
jured by the continued cold weather in De
cember. _
The House Las passed the bill to pension
the veterans ef the Mexican, Black Hawk and
Florida wars, and it will doubtless soon be
passed by the Senate. _
The Montgomery Advertiser says the Tom
bigbee river was frozen over, from bank to
bank, recently. Think of a man weighing
two hundred pounds walking across a river on
ice in Alabama or Mississippi 1
Six Indians, of the Creek tribe, from the In
dian Territory, passed through Seima on their
way to Howard College, at Marion. They
were well ecucated and had pleasing manners.
They will take the theological course as Bap
tist missionaries.
THE SOTTriEi-WESTIEZREST BAPTIST,
of Alabama.
ItEYI* r UIH WORK.
There me ok .500 Baptist ministers in
Teimesfce, accusing hT lly minuted of the
last Convention, and prdhatily many not re
ported i
WUat au itivmtiiDFltttle army in this,
fighting for Tc&jWi truth and soul
liberty -!
May God bless .lit nu in all their
war*, and s?ecmo unto them a signal
victory.
Not only In good old Tennessee, but
.in every State, and in every nook and
corner of the earth, the Christian war
rior should burnish his armor anew,
and with revived energy and increased
power, do battle fa God and Truth.
Let this new yea, i.o signalized by an
advance all along the Hue, of the
hosts of Christ—individuals, families,
communities, States, uatiens, must he
captured by love, released from the
bondage of sin, and invested with the
glorious rights aud privileges of citi
zenship in God’s kingdom.
For the index aud Baptist.p ”'
SOUTHEAST ALHS.miI TO,
Blu for .Vint of time, 1 should, ere
now, have placed at your disposal a
few items in iegard to a recent visit to
Pike county. Ala. That friend of mis
sions and agents, bishop ii. Y. Van
Hoose, according tonm understanding
between us, ..carried me over a good
deal ot thecounty, to Orion in the wes
tern part, and lSi uudige in the eastern
part, and to other churches in the
county. In every sense of tha word,
I was pleased. 'The county is not a
rich one in soil, yet much of it is free
producing land, and easily cultivated
1 have seen no part of Southeast Ala
bama that seemed to be as well to do,
financially, as Pike county. The peo
pic are hospitable too, and as much re
fined and moral as is generally tiie case,
l’he churches generally have pastors,
and houses if woisiiip about in propor
tion to the ability c( the people to erect,
1 had the piea.sure*oi visutngand p-resen
ing at Troy, Brundidge, Pea River,
Shiloh, Providence and Orion churches,
and asking for missionary contribu
tions. 1 received help, and the promise
ol more at every place, and invitations
to come again.
Elder Van Hoose was bishop at
Brundidge, Troy and Orion, and has
been called to serve the last two another
year. Of all the churches I visited,
and of the pleasing recollections con
nected therewith, I would love to
wiitc, but time will not allow. But
many of your readers will be glad to
sec a brief reference to this section, for
a considerable proportion of the peo
ple are from Georgia. Among the
many I met, I now recall the names of
Wood, Copeland, Callaway, Andrews,
Roily-, Hendrick, Dewberry (son-in
laiv ol Rev. Hiram Powell, deceased,)
Cosby etc., etc., all of whom remember
kindly the old Empire State of the
South.
I rout 1 roy the following just to hand
is worthy of mention: “Both Sabbath
schools had u Christmas tree at the re
spective churches (Methodist and Bap
tist,) and ours (the Baptist) was a
grand success. AH the teachers re
collected their scholars, and all the
poor children were remernbeted. * '*
Your humble servant was not forgotten.
I was so fortunate as to get on the tree
a fine suit of clothes and a beautiful
silver goblet, Desides other tokens of
kindness. The suit was presented by
the sisters, accompanied by a list of
names of contributors, consisting of
some forty odd. E, Y. VanHoose.”
Such things show how a minister is
appreciated, an# so have a double
value. * Uncle Shad,
It will repay us a hundred-fold if wo
give some attention to making our
family altar a delight and blessing.
Onr familes will undergo great changes;
loved ones will go forth to life’s battle,
setting up in life for themselves ; oth
ers will go up to join the ranks of the
glorified ; but how precious will be the
tender associati®n of their memories
with the time of morning and evening
prayers. Like God’s servant of old,
wo will “command our households
after us;” and our children will rise
up and call us blessed.
Two things characterize every church
that is in the higaest condition of
spiritual health. The one is that they
all worship, the other that they all
work. The first appertains more di
rectly to the heart; the second apper
tains as well to the head, the hands and
purse. The fullest combination of the
two would almost realize the ideal of
chinch life in its highest form.
FIiAYKLIN i IIIN IIMI HOUSE, ATLANT.i, GEORGIA, JANUARY IX. 1x77
Spirit ef tiie Religious Press,
—“There is,” says the Transylvania Pres
byterian, “undoubtedly a change fur the better
in the style of sermonizing, adop'ed by our
best preachers, as compared with that which
prevailed thirty cr forty years ago. The mod
els that were then imitated are not considered
so worthy of imitation now as then. While
Hall ami Chalmers and others, who exhibited
like splendor of rhetoric are as much admired
a* ever by the reader, the preachers of the pres
ent day do not attempt die ambitious, imita
tion ol their long and magnificent periods.
The prevalent style is a 10 re direct and sen
tentious, and lets ornate and difluse. And the
pulpit is on tliis account gaining in power.
Men have found on! that that is the best
preacliing for the cultivated and refined,
which is adapted to win tiie ear of die uncul
tivated and illiterate. In proportion to the
thoroughness of the education of ministers,
tliis tendency to simplicity of style will in
crease. We are glad to see that the age of
bombastic declamation in the pulpit lias al
most'passed away.”
—The Congregationalist says tersely:
However useful Evangelists are, and honor
ed of God, no church is to wait for them before
reaching a high spiritual slate. Home labor
and home praying, if the labor and prayor he
of the right stamp, will bring good results.
—This is well put by the Chriseian Intelli
gencer ; “Most commonly the people who aie
latent church are in to everywhere else and in
everything else.”
—One of the great and moat pernicious
c vila of society i* thus touched up by the New
York Methodist:
We usually overlook women in counting
the drunkards; but of course, there area good
many female drunkards. The common no
tion is that they are Jouml in the degraded
classes exclusively. This is not true. Fash
ionable ladies drink more or less : and many
of them become as veritable drunkards as can
be found. The Sun recently referred to a case
in which a young girl becamr so hopelessly
atldicied to drink, that she was placed in an
asylum. Perhaps nothing elee contributes so
directly to drunken habits as the excitements
of fashionable life. The worn-out girl or
woman learns that temporary relief under ex
, hauition may be had from spirituous liquors,
P l 'l Aiegiti* which wfitti A-ndi lutcim.'
iirmfd drunkcymeeA The cure, in this case,
must be applied to fashionable society—by
reforming it.
1 here is much truth and wisdom in the
following from the Christian Register:
I here are many uusolved, but most moment
ous, problems connected with the social, moral
and political life of Americans, which require
ail the genius, scnolarship, wisdom and per
seveiance which can be commanded by our
most favored citizens. To ignore such ques
tions, to slip away from the hour of struggle,
to despise the contention which the? exche, to
scorn the zeal which is enlisted for’tbei-solu
tion, is not to become a cosmopolitan, superior
to th local virture of the patriot and the
cuizen ; it is simply to become a shirk.
—Says the United Presbyterian : “There is
no one way in which we are to do Christian
work. JXot more diverse are (liecountenances
of men than their dispositions and tastes, and
the character of their work will he according
to these. And it is well it is so. There would
bea tiresome monotony in the world if it was
going on in the sing-song way of unvaried
uniformity, and its life would inevitably tend
towards dullness and torpor.
The Catholic Minor says: “it is better to
say one Our lather slowly and reverently,
than many long prayers, uttered with the lips
indeed, but not with the heart, while the
thoughts go straying about the four corners oi
the earth.”
—lhe London Freeman, in an article dis
coursing on denominational literature, says :
A denominational newspaper is intended to
be a medium of denominational news. It is
right that our churches should be interested in
one another’s welfare, and that there should be
some source from which they may learn how
the work which is so dear to them, and for the
Bake of which they exist, is progressing among
others. The success of one should be tlie joy
of all, even as the failure or the grief of one
should be the sorrow of all. Incidents which
have been recorded in our own columns have,
as we know, led to expressions of practical
sympathy and help, and to the adoption in
in some churches of methods which have bee.)
found efficient in others, and a stimulus has in
this way been given to Christian liberality and
zeal.
—Bishop Bowman, in a recent number oi
the Central Christian Adeovate very pointedly
pays:
The circulation .of our periodicals is a sure
index of the general growth of the church in
all that is solid and enduring. There cannot be
any substantial prosperity among a people who
do not know what God is doing for the church,
and what the church is doing for the world.
If I were a pastor, 1 would aim to at least double
the circulation of the church papers among my
people, believing that this would more than
double the church power in every department.
The pastor lias no more valuable assistant
than the church papers.
—Under the title of “Prisrnntie Glasses”
the Watchman pays:
We have been struck with the tendency of
the mind to impute its own views and opinions
to the mass of mankind, especially wheie it lias
adopted some novel idea; then it looks forth
upon others through its new lens of conviction,
and beholds them tinted with its orange, its
red, its blue. Wc remember that rome years
ano, Dr. Ewer, an Episcopal minister oi New
York City, made some temporary commotion
by preachniug a series of sermons to prove that
Protest ism isa failure. To his surprise, how
ever, Pioteitbiu went on it.- way serenely un
conscious of any declcptitudc or weakness, in
a feat Ji’i.jiths the minister proclaimed himself
a Kitna.isp ami began to imitate tiie ntuw
nier.es m Humanism ; it became evident that
ins t ro -'Mitiuinn had failed, and that, look
ing ,'tt. , ~ri'U.;h the sombre looking-glasses of
lus own iniidilior, he saw what lie supposed
p 1 j ! ''r e everywhere. We heard Car
(lina. , n ong preach in Home once; and
one 11 , most confident assertions was dial
nobody , -w■ believes in Calvinism, which
is out a me tor a dead system. We have no
doubt In. oelieved this; Calvinism had per
,, ’.‘b' horn Ids own thought, and be
saw .;•• i.-ious world through die glasses of
owi a’,t!i- . .As Baptists, let us not
dream t . .. our battle for religious liberty is
won ; 1 most nations it is just begun ; nor
1 U ? '■ '"! iose •I’ll llll> fnlffc doctrines of a
sen. pn aood iii the church, ol infant bap
-1 °- '* *aat danuiation, ol baptismal regen
eration rut kindred errors, are put to flight.
r>ecaus< reninam of them remains in oui
own la; iye may lie too quick to infer
tnetr tiai.’shment. from other minds.
,4! - I‘liiletuß Dobbs, in the Sulional
ist, a. ais opinion as to one reason why
editors w. creatid as follows:
And 1 ,v, we discover the object of Provi
uence (a creation of editors. !do not
L-V'i’i .1 ‘ t atlonl to credit alt men with
1 “e’l” H lem i al *d am not compelled
, ■ (-1 that I am not a little indebted to
(■►"I" S'ves, as one o! the masons
la 1 * ’.’l" B cllr *Aianity, and the Estab
■ .u.i ..t * n England, die fact that a class of
"bom everybody might feel
■ r l ' (-V ,s ’‘ 1 ,v ‘lh entire impunity, know
it ! *V. iaofessional character precluded
nui i,. resorting to the violent measures
editor*-,/ / l in w f ou,<l etn l ,lo >’- Ami 'he
tunor ati,, „ sa f e receptacle for all die small
spi i. win it has pleased Providence to be
stow on o .ace. A man says: ”1 don’t dare
to touch ;-A> of my neighbors. For reasons
"Inch I(V I spedfy, Ido not wish to sav
Hny.k.n-4 ;.. !V Wlk , R,, , : ,. u write a letter
and blow , the editor, it lie has said, or
allowed I: , anything that 1 don’t
like, or -thing that is capable of an un
avoiao.e , nsiiuction, i can air my cheap
. , IT'I . 1 ' 1 philanthropy and oitho-
V. ox {>! 1 , , 1 call him all manner of names.
1 robably a will he'too busy to reply ; but 1
can hope t. ■< la-heye that I have made him
v mcc,, relief to me will be all the
1 ‘ N sv^al 11 delightful tiling it is to
think that ’ • one above the grade ol—well,
a iove jv. tow grade of intellect—can stop
this pa|iei'. ,
l " : ' AT NEMS ASI) SO IKS.
*' ,e ‘ iVa. I *SW,of,January Bth,
! ' av> •’ V 1 , "v jm > I"-:>■ 1 the Baptist'
i'. 1 .'!,. .f,, if emltiig :?fub.v.l,,,i, V ,;' v ■ ( irmoo
made a powerful afld affecting appeal to his con
grrgatio.i in reference to the and |toterly
stricken condition o i some of the members of
his church and congregation. He said that he
really knew families, in this city, who were
actually eufleriug for the necessary comforts of
lile; that while many were at comfortable and
pleasant homes by burning tires, and enjoying
all the luxuries of life that money could buy,
there were those probably within a square ol
them, who were seated around the dying em
bers of their last particle of fuel, and eating
their last crust of bread ; that it was true that
one-half of the world did not know how the
other half lived. The scenes which the Doc
tor pictured were indeed lamentable, and many
persons in the audience acre seen to weep bit
terly.
At the conclusion of his appeal, he asked
his bearers for a contribution for the relief of
these sufferers, and, although the congregation
was unusually small, on account of the weath
er, not an inconsiderable amount was raised,
which will be properly applied. This is a
very commendable act, and, we think, should
be imitated by every benevolent and Christian
organization in the city.”
Major Penn, the Texas evangelist, is a
strong believer in prayer. He urges sinners
to come forward for prayer, whether they feel
or not. He urges skeptics, infidels, atheists,
and all who will, to come and try it, and
promises them that if they will continue to
conic, they shall feel and shall be converted.
Since tic American Baptists commenced
the work of Foreign Missions, the Ohio Bap
tists have contributed for that object the sum
of $210,214.40.
—beveral Chicago brethren are considering
the practicability of lounding ppecial lecture
ships in connection witii the Baptist Theolog
ical Seminary in that city, in view of the in
terest am! value attaching to similar courses at
Yale, Andover and elsewhere.
—The last Canadian Baptist makes the fol
lowing encouraging announcement: We hail
with peculiar thankfulness the recent forma
tion among us of two Woman’s Baptist
Missionary Societies, one for the Province of
Quebec, having Us headquarters in Montreal,
and the other for Ontario, having its chief
officers in this city. The design of these
organizations is not to establish independent
Missions, but to act as auxiliaries of our For
eign Mission Society by seeking to promote
the Christian elevation of women in the sta
tions under its care. Girl schools are to k
maintained, zenana work is to be carried on\
and orphan children aietobe cared for and
supported ; while buildings must be erected,
arid new missionaries sent out. The work is
one which prows by its very success, and year
after year it will present ever-widening doors
of Chrisian usefulness.
—Rev. C. C. Chapin has lc.-igned the par.
torateef the First Baptist church, Paducah,
Kentucy, to accept a call to Austin, Texas.
—A notable discussion is soon to lake place,
and in anew quarter. The potiiion taken by
Rev. Dr. Landels, in hi? Glasgow speech, the
speed) which drew down upon him the wrath-
TEETHi OHHISTIAISJ a HBHAEE
of Tennessee.
ful utterances of some of hh Pedobaptist
friends, having been sharply criticised in the
English Independent , and Dr. Landels having
vindicated himself in a manly, Christian and
generally approved manner, the Independent
lias now consented to a proposition made by
the London Ereeman to open its columns to a
discussion of the questions which divide Bap
tists and Independents, “Tiie Avowal of*Per
sona! Religious Conviction—Believer’s Bap
tism.”
“TUB RICH MIX.”
Wo copy Mr. Moody’s graphic de
scription of the rich man on the hist
night of his life ;
“1 can see him there in the parlor of his
elegant mansion. It is midnight; tiie archi
tect has been there, and iie lias been discus
sing plans for his new barns; he is going to
have tiie finest bares iii all Palestine. But
while he is looking over the plans all alone,
his family all gone to bed, the doors all locked,
a stranger lays his hands on tiie latch and en
ters, in spite of the double lock, and holts, and
bars. He walks right up to the man, lays his
hand on him, and says : “Come, I must take
you away.”
“What is your name? ’’ asked tiie rich man,
in great terror.
“Death.”
Ah, death ought not to have been a stran
ger. He had seen funerals enough, per
haps he had acted as pall-bearer, and had
acted as pall-bearer, and had heard many fun
eial sermons. He is fifty years old, and he
ought to have known and been prepared to
meet him in all that time.
The man tries to bribe death to let him stay
a little longer. He wants to carry out his
plans; lie wants at least to arrange his will,
hut no, death cannot he bribed. You can
bribe these politicians and officers of the law,
hut you can’t bribe death.
The next morning lie is found dead in ids
chair. Then there is great surprise and sor
row. i’wo days after there is a fiue, imposing
funeral ; and some minister, like some of the
ministers in these days, comes and pronounces
an eulogy over him, and he hopes lie lias gone
to a hettet world. Oh, these lying funeral
sermons! How men try to make out that a
Godless iite can be followed by a death in the
Bold, and a free admittance iuio the kingdom
of Heaven.
lhe Missionary field,
' Jlav. JShn 11.., rail, f>. '.oiig per.eu*’ *
ne..cti \litu MissXms ..u.. j ( .ae A.i."" ■he
Indian Territory, died oh the Bth inat. \
—The Directory of Indian Missions shows
that the present number of native Christians is
266,391, against 224,258 four years ago; the
number of communicants is 68,689, against
52,416 in 1871. The gain is equal to nearly
five per cent, annually.
—The Church Missionary Intelligencer gives
an interesting statistical account of the great
work of the society, which this journal repre
sents, in Southern India. There are 1,054
towns and villages in which native Christiana
reside, Of these, 776 are in Tinnevellv, 107
in Travaucore and Cochin, 155 in the Telegu
country, and 16 in the Madras district. The
total cumber of native Christians is 63,258, be
ing distributed as follows: In Madras, 1,671; in
Tinnevelly, 40,111; in T'avancore, 17,072; in
Telegu mission, 3,801. Of the whole number>
12,728 are communicants.
—The Missionary Museum, scon to be es
tablished at Geneva, will contain the products
of the lands in which there are missions, the
signs and implements of their idolatry, photo
graphs of the converts, the translations of
bonks used by the missions, and all trial can it
lusirate the work arid the field.
—The American Board commenced work
among the Indians more than half a century
ago. From 1817 to 1828 one-third of its con
tributions went in this direction, and up to the
present they have organized more than lifty
churches with over five thousand members,
in fifteen different tribes. Since other societies
entered the field they have more and more
circumscribed their elforts until now the Da
kotalis are the only tribe under their immedi
ate care, and fifteen thousand dollars were ex
pended upon that tribe lust year.
—The Rev. Mr. Saker, of the English Bap
tist Mission, has labored for thirty years with
apostolic devotion at Fernando Po, West A fri
er, and is now on his way to visit England. He
has translated and published the whole Bible
in the Dual la language besides doing a vast
amount of variety and of other work.
During the past summer an English mis
sion yacht, called the Evangelist, traversed
southern coast of England and distributed Bi
bles and Testaments, in various readings, to all
of the vessels it met.
—The Congrcgationilisl says that the mis
sionaries at Ningpo, China, are getting much
discouraged by the increasing appetite of the
Chinese for intoxicating beverages. And what
is the worst feature of the case, that they have
fallen into this evil habit from the example
and influence of Christian nations.
—Rev. J. L. Phillips, one of our devoted
young missionaries in Assam, suggests the em
ployment of an elephant as an auxiliary to
hi ’ missionary labors. lie says that in mak
ing missionary tours these animals would do
more work us carriers than the half-a-dozen
natives who have to be employed, and in the
long run would cost less. An elephant sub
scription list is suggested for our Baptist Sun
day schools.
C. P. Reinhardt has planted shade trees in
front of the Birmingham Methodist church.
WHOLE NO. 2252.
Geneial Denominational News,
—The Superior Court of Massachusetts lias
decided that Israelites must be held amenable
to the laws of the State regulating the observ
ance of tiie Sabbath. The* case grew out of an
attempt to keep a store open on that day.
-The services heldfln Chicago by Mr.
Moody in memory pf tlf dead evangelist Blis.-,
were peculiarly impressive and sad.
j re l all the children of Mr.
Bliss Were killed with him and his wife in the
Ashtabula disaster was not correct. He has
two children in Chicago.
—Rev. J O. Orman, proposes to he one of
live hundred persons to give §SOO each to re
lieve the Southern Methodist Publishing
House at Nashville, from its indebtedness.
—The committee oi the London Sunday
s, bool Union announces a large increase in
the number of conversions of Sunday-school
scholars.
—A branch Evangelical Alliance has been
formed in Ireland, and is making arrangements
•or service during the present year.
—The amount of Conference collection
raised and distributed in the South Georgia
Conference was §33,093.
f ■~ oile dilierence between the Reformed and
Protestant Episcopal churches is tliis: The
I lotestant Episcopal church discourages the
use of extemporaneous prayer in the stated
services of the church, prohibiting it by can
on. Tiie Reformed Episcopal church allows
aud encourcges ihe union of extempore prayer
with its liturgy, and values meetings for social
worship, in which the laity participate, as
promoting the spiritual growth of churches.
The following are the statistics of the
North Georgia Conference: Members, 55,-
594: local preachers, 429; adults baptized,
2,906; infants baptized, 1,206 ; Sunday-schools,
571 ; officers and teachers, 3,528; pupils, 29,-
290. Thenextsession will be held in Gaines
ville. The receipts for Domestic Missions were
$4,247.42; expended $2,319.22; balance,
$1,992 20; receipts for Foreign Missions.
$3,468 61. There was a slight increase in
Domestic Missions, and Foreign Missions
were much better.
AA Liven;.- i&eU,odist minister is paid
regtjlavly e-)' ... , ; s . , . u ...
pew-holder being’provided with envelopes in
which to deposit each week the pro rata tax
for his seat.
—The Presbytery of Newark, New Jersey,
by a vote of sixteen to twelve found Rev. Mr.
Lee guilty of violating the Scriptures by allow
ing women to preach.
Recent statistics, published in the United
States, show that there has been a marvelous
falling off, by indifference, from the standards
of the Roman Catholic churcl during the last
few years; and in the Mother <’ountry, where
in 1801, the Romanists were 27 per cent, of the
populatisn, they form at present only 18 per
cent.
-The Congregationalism of England have
taaen anew departure. Their Union, at a
recent meeting, adopted with substantial una
nimity, a series of resolutions, providing for
the creation of a Central Committee or Nation
al Council of Finance. The body is to receive
the funds contributed by the churches to Home
Missions, to consider the recommendations
which County Associations make about
grants, and to appropriate such amounts as
may seem to be required.
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