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VOL §6—NO. 4.
Table of ConltnU
Final Page.—Alabama Department: Record of
Sta'e Event* : Spirit of the Religious Press :
Bsntist News and Notes; The Missionary Field;
New Books ; General Denominational News
Second Page —Our Correspondents: Notes
on the Act of Baptism—The New Testament
Meaning of Baptise—J. IE Kilpatrick; Look
—Monitor; Extracts from A Precious Diary—
Samuel A. Burnev; In the Distance —Poetry;
Dreams of the Past —“Old Pupils ” The
Chnrches as Christ Left Them, and as Man
Made Them—Dr. Williams
Thibd Page. —Our Pnlpit: The Lord's Prayer—
A Sermon, preached in the Rome Baptist
Church. January 21st. 1877, by Rev. G. A.
Nunnally, Pastor.
Fourth Page.— Editorial: “Quid Times; Caisa
rem Vehia ?”—Bev. S. O. Hillyer, D. D. What
are our Young Men to Do?—ltev. W. T. Brant
ly, D. D. Georgia Baptist News: Appeals;
Household and Children's Department —Rev.
D- E. Butler. Editorial Paragraphs.
Fifth Paoe.— Secular Department: Literary
Gossip ; Maeanlay and Democracy; Georgia
News ; Domestic and Foreign Notes : etc.
Sixth Page. —The Sunday-school: Elijah and
Ahab —Lesson for Sunday, February 4, 1877
White Clovor—Poetry. Children’s Corner
Hiding.
Seventh Pace. —Thu Farm : The Conditions of
Success in Breeding Swine—Prof. Jones.
Eighth Page. —“ Just As I Am;” The Sabbath;
etc. Marriages. Obituaries. Advertisements.
INDEX AND BAPTIST.
ALABAMA DEPARTMENT.
Ocmulgee is the 'uatne of anew postoffine in
East Perry.
There are about eighty students at the Agri
cultural and Mechanical College.
The Shelby Iron Works are shipping 50
tons ot iron a day.
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Two men were frozen to death in Winston
county during the late cold weather.
The steamer Atlanta, with 448 bales ot cot
ton, sunk at MeAlpine’s Bind the 15th.
A Baptist fair held at the court house in
Dadeville, Christmas, netted $153.
The Methodist church in Eufaula is to be
heated with hot air.
Key. James M. Scott, a Baptist preacher,
who lives near llarpersviile, was 100 years
old January Bth.
Ur. B. H. Harrison, of the vicinity of Coker
ville, Monroe county, committed suicide re
cently.
From cane grown on two and a half acres
of land, If u. Noble, of Macon county, made
800 gallons of syrup.
The public schools of Montgomery, are in a
very prosperous condition, the daily attend
ance being 900.
William Pannell, of Blount county, was
handling his pistol, when it accidentally dis
charged and killed his daughter.
Rev. W. H. Carroll, formerly pastor of the
Baptist church in Troy, is a candidate for the
ruayorality of Opelika.
Farm hands are said to be scarce in Mont
gomery county. Some farmrs are offering as
high as fifteen dollars per month.
It is more than probable that the Legisla
ture will not adjourn until the 16tli of Febru
ary, the sixty legislative working days not ex
piring until that time.
The Tuskaloosa Times says that after com
parative tests by the most eminent authority,
it is now assured that the coal in that imme
diate vicinity is the best for the manufacture
of gas that there is in the United States, if not
in the world.
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Kev. Dr. Luke, of Minnesota, has bought a
plantation and settled near Athens, and re
tired (rom the ministry. Rev. Mr. Zeler, of
Indiana, has also purchased a place near Ath
ens and brought his family there.
The reading rooms of the Y. M. C. A., in
Selma, has a library ol nearly 1,000 volumes,
is supplied with all the latest newspapers and
magazines, and is open to the public at all
hours.
Burglars and tramps are getting to be un
comfortably abundant all over the State. A
lew Dightsago, some of them entered the resi
dence of George L. Henry, Esq., in Greenville,
administered chloroform to him and his wife
and stole what they wanted.
The annual meeting of the Grand Lodge of
the I. 0.0. F. will take place in Montgomery,
on Tuesday, February 6th. This will be the
fisst session of the body held in that city and
the subordinate Lodges are making prepara
tion to give them a public reception at the first
Baptist church on the evening of that day.
Theological Charlatanism.—The latest
Boston notion is this “announcement” tor
Sabbath service: “St. Luke’s Reformed
Episcopal Church, Wadman Hall, 176
Iremont Street—Theological curiosity. The
pastor will preach a sermon in words of one
syllable, on Sabbath morning at 101-2.”
The name of this delectable theolog
ical charlatan is not given, but intelli
gent people will scarcely find any
difficulty in guessing—it is, doubtless,
also “of one syllable,” and, though the
appellative of a very common species,
singularly proper.
the SOITTH.-WESTBRN' baptist,
of Alabama.
Spirit of ttio Religious Press,
—The Biblical Btcorder, in a candid and
thnnghtlul article on “ Novel Heading,” con
cludes that there is nothing wrong or necessa
rily hurtful in reading novels, provided core
is taker, ns to (he quality and quantity. It says:
The morality of reading novels depends a
good deal on what sort of novels they are. It
can hardly be right to read an impure book,
and many novels are impure. There is mull
ing elevating about lliem. Their teachings,
the pictures which they present, the memories
which they furbish, arc all of a debasing char
acter. Of course these are to be avoided. But
there are others (0 which this objection does
not apply. In this mattet there has been a
great improvement since the days of Fielding
and Smollett. The licentiousness of the early
novels, quite as much as anything else, arrayed
the serious and Christian pan ot the communi
ty against this sort of literature as a class. But
this objection does not lie against Scott or
Thackeray, Black or Blacfemore, or a hundred
others. We cannot think that their works are
hurtful or debasing to anyone. It ii be said
that the time could be much riore profitably
spent in some other way than in the perusal of
even such authors as these, the reply may he
made that it might also be much more un
profitßbly spent in some other way.
—The Biblical Recorder Bays the pastor of
the Churuh of the Strangers gave notice that
unless the people stopped asking him ior
money and employment, he would move to
the country. He also stated that “he did not
in ativ case furnish pecuniary assistance.”
There is great suffering in New York city,
and thousands are begging while multitudes
are out of employment. This announcement
by the good doctor was made at a most unfor
tunate time. He had just received $20,000
from his patron, Vanderbilt, and shonld have
been in a more generous and sympathetic
mood. The secular press has taken him up
a id given him a word or two of advice that
will long Be remembered, and, in all probabili
ty, do him more good. The New Yorß Sun
says:
Whatever his practice may lie, if he preaches
the gospel ot his Master he must exhort oth
ers; “Sell all that thou hast and give to the
poor.”
Why should not Dr. Deems do what he can
to obtain situations for those who are out of
employment, and thus assist them in earning
an honest livelihood and in keeping the Ten
Commandments? Is it beneath any disciple
of Christ to engage in such an unselfish and
benevolent occupation ?
We were pained to read the reports of the
reverend Doctor’s remarks, especially his
cowardly threat to flee to the country and
abandon at once the field of importunity and
of duty. His recent familiarity with the rich
would seem to have engendered ia him a con
tempt, if not a hatred, of the poor; yet he who
lights a fire on the cold and cheerless hearth
of Want, seems to us to have imbibed more of
the spirit of our Saviour’s teachings than the
suave clergyman who crooks the pliant hinges
of the knee to Wealth, that thrift may follow
fawning.
This we consider a rather rough lesson, hut
under ihe circumstances a much needed one-
The world has a right to reprove professors of
religion who do not practice what they preach.
—The Western Methodist (Memphis) decid
edly says:
On the question of preventing the pale of
spirituous liquors by church members, there is
cause for discussion and action. The liquor
traffic, wholesale no less than retail, is evil
only and continually, and it should not be al
lowed by the authorities of the church—a
member, rich or poor, who cannot he induced
to quit the liquor traffic, ought not to be al
lowed to damn his own soul and the souls of
others in the church.
—Here is something worth thinking about,
from Zion's Herald :
“ Ask the minister to set us an example,”
said one of our generous laymen t |:s (luring
the missionary meetings, “ in the missionary
contributions.” In all our churches, he re
marked, are many members whose whole in
come is less than one thousand dollars. They
a:d in supporting the minister and in the ex
liemtes of the church, and are expected to give
liberally to the various charities. The min s
ter lias twice the income in his salary; he ti-i
--no subscription to make towards the local n
pensee; let him, he urged, set us an exam i
of liberality in the charitable gifts. We
fully accord with our good layman’s requ t.
Brethren in the ministry, give an example f
the consecration of money worthy of your • -
portunity, equal to your obligation, and in the
spirit of your Master.
—The Secretary pays: It is well remarked
by that greatest of statesmen, Daniel Web-ter,
that to his mind one of the evidence of the
divine origin of Christianity was the fact that
it had been able to live behind pulpits. There
is a magnetism in the full person of a speaker
which is lost in the enclosure of many fash
ionable pulpits. That preacher has an ad
vantage who speaks from an open platform,
and speaks without manuscript.
—Here are a few practical and unvarnished
thoughts from the Golden Rule :
“ Men,” said one of Theodore Winthrop’s
characters, “ are divided into three classes,
them as grabs their chances, them as chucks
away their chances, and them as let their
chances slide;” and lie might have added that
each of the two latter classes outnumbers the
first. Boys are throwing away tiieir chances
in life every day by shirking and lazing, and
deceiving; and they are “ letting them slide,”
through heedlessness, inattention, and a latal
don’t-careativness. “ I don’t care is one of the
worst mottoes a hoy, or a man either, can have.
It is the hoys and men wno do care, and care
rightly, who win. in everyday, practical, ma
terial aflairs, as truly as in spiritual thing-, it
is they who are faithlul over a few that are
made rulers over many.
—Says the Watchman, ironically :
The *’ deliverance ” of the Synod of Phils
dt lphia.tliat immersion was “ not an immorali
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nan *!it, and the building we have
oar ihm-'gh many years tumbles in
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orator his voice; the rising
wealth. Men who have the ability to winfl
the energy to toil often fail—signally fiß
and their failure is not their fault, bill the
misfortune, nr God’s wiser purposes.
BAPTIST KFATS A\D NOTES.
—A correspondent of the Western Recorder I
gives some interesting facts concerning the
Baptist cause in East Tennessee, Of the Bap
tists of that live and prosperous city of Knox
ville the writer says :
We have two Baptist churches in this eily,
and they co-operate harmoniously in every
good work. The First church built a very
commodious chapel in North Knoxville for
mission work aud Sunday-school purposes,
and the McGhee street Baptist church has been
occupying it ever since its organization free of
rent. The First church has recently enjoyed
quite a refreshing from the presence of the
Lord. Brother Kouth, who lias been justly
styled, I think, a “great common man, has
been here, and he assisted tiie pastor for nearly
four weeks in the meetings. It is thought that
about filly souls professed conversion during
the meeting. Over twenty of the converts
united with the Baptist church. Rev. J. F.
B. Mays, D. D, is our pastor, and after three
years’ service in that capacity, he is perhaps as
highly esteemed as ever. He is a man of
much more than ordinary preaching ability.
Kev J. M. Walters is the pastor of the new
church in North Knoxville, and is doing a
good work among the people over there. Our
General Association held a very interesting
annual meeting with the Big Creek church, in
Cocke county, in October last. I think it gave
anew impulse to the mission cause, and also
to the came of education throughout our bor
ders.
—Mossy Creek College, East Tennessee, has
170 pupils and four professors. It is in a
flourishing condition.
—There are 3,000 more Baptists in Rich
mond than there are Episcopalians in the
States of Virginia and West Virginia.
—The Baptist Puhlirition Society will pub
lish Dr. Williams’ lectures on “ Baptist Church
History” next falj. the whole denomination
is to be congratulated on this course of'lec
tures. The “ Nestor of the New York pulpit”
is giving us the ripe fruits of his vast and va
ried erudition.
Rev. L- Mayer, late of Sou'll Carolina,
goes to Murfreesboro, Tenn.
—The Southwestern Baptist University, lo
cated in Jackson, has one hundred and fifty
pupils, and is doing good work. This insti
tution is rapidly becoming the pride of Ten
nessee Baptists, and is destined to exert a great
influence upon the cause of education in the
Southwest.
—A writer in the Irish Church Advocate
states that at the recent opening of a dispel in
England, seven Baptist ministers were present,
all of whom had been clergymen ot the Estab
lished church.
—Fifty cents per member is what the Bap
tists of Michigan propose to laise for Stale
Missions during the year.
—lt is claimed that Shurtleff College, Illi
; nois, is the oldest institusion of learning in the
Mississippi Valley, and the oldest Baptist
; school in the West. As the result of the Oen
i tennial movement to date, $75,000 may be
considered as secured for the college.
—The total membership of the German
: Baptist churches in the United S atez is now
j 7,516. But one of these churches is in the
Southern States and that one is in Kentucky.
—Dr. Graves has been elected President of
the Publication Society at Memphis. Brother
| Mayfield’s resignation as business manager
: was accepted.
—The Baptists in Virginia, according to
1 the statistics of last year, had 490 irdained
j ministers, 1,170 churches, 173,960 members,
j and 14,084 baptisms during the year Colored
j as well as white Baptists are includ and in this
| estimate. The present population u Virginia
| is, by the census of 1870, 1,022,j8-so that
! over one person in every six
is an actual member of a Bap^^^^kh.
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d ftniilv, and extend to them
foi the irreparable loss thev
sustained
further. That these resolutions shall
ht I upon the minutes of the church, and
Clerk lie requested to furnish to t lie
deceased a eertified copy of the same
Knox, Jr., Clerk.
phe Missionary Field,
—wTlie Rev. John Eliot, Ihe missionary to
the Undians, ih to have a monument built on
the s,>ot where he gave the red men his first
diseoiirse.
lyie expense of collecting and disbursing
the mifisionary funds of the Methodist Episco
pal Church is 2£ per cent, of the amount col
lected.
—Bulgaria has a free-school system, and
nearly all classes know how to read and write,
and are industrious and honest. Aud all this
comes from the work of English and Ameri
can missionaries.
—ln a recent letter written by Mrs. Dr.
Bond, a Choctaw lady, she speaks of woman’s
work among the tribes in the Indian Territory
as follows;
The Choctaw and Chickasaw people, we
can assure you, are glad to have the gospel of
Christ preached to them, and to hear and
to learn of the great plan of salvation. They
are glaal to have intssionaaies visit them, and
talk to the u upon the subject of religion, and
hold meetings with them.
-he ’yiciaws and Chickasaws do not live
i.i w.ls^ct- together, as many
suppose, but like the peopL in u |,y of the
Western States, they are scattered all over the
country, each family having its own separate
farm, or place. They are, as a general thing,
fanners, or stock raisers, on a small scale, and
are fast adopting the ways of the white man
They are becoming very much interested in
having their children educated, and are anx
ious to have them learn the English language.
. . . We are glad to know that the Chris
tian women of the States are taking so great an
interest in the Indian people, and are taking
steps towards aiding in the way of sending
missionaries to us. In jour letter you ask :
“ How can we best aid you ? What are your
greatest needs?” In our humble opinion, a
live, devoted, energetic minister of the gospel
and his wife, would be the most suitable and
useful missionaries for the people and the
country. They would be mutual assistants.
We need such to do strictly missionary work,
to go among the Indians and preach and
teach in diflerent places, to strengthen the
weak brethren and sisters, and to instruct the
children, to organize Sunday-schools, make
pastoral visits, etc. We would feel grateful,
and thank God, if you would send ns such a
missionary.
—For (he harvest quickly following the
seed s iwing, we have already learned to look
to Japan. In the city of Kioto, where less
than fourteen months ago the missionary fami
lies were established, three churches with
about twenty members each have been gath
ered in as many different sections of the city,
and the gospel is preached at forty places each
Sabbath by the forty students in the training
school who are preparing for the ministry.
—ln the report from the Baptist mission
station of Henthada, in Burmah, is an account
of a marvelous work in the Tharrawaddi Di
vision. In one village, several men, who had
never heard a missionary, were brought to
Christ by reading tracts, eight ot whom were
subsequently baptized. A missionary eet out
to visit them, but some miles before reaching a
village in the center of the revival district, he
was met by a number of men who professed to
be lovers of Jesus, saying, they had come to
assist the teacher; so henceforward was now
no further need of hired coolies. From that
day, for two weeks, Iroin early morn tiil late
at night, a large number of men, with the
most insatiable eagerness, were studying the
Bible and trying to learn to sing some songs
ol Zion.
—The Baptist Mimonnry Magwtine lias this
thrilling paragraph:
The last survivor gone, it will be sixty
five years next month since the original band
of A merican missionaries, designated to service
in a foreign land, sailed from this country for
India under the auspices of the American
Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.
I hat band comprised the honored names ol
Samuel Newell,Cordon Hall, Adouiram Jud
son, and Samuel Nott, with their wives, and
Luther Rice, unmarried. And now the last
survivor of these pioneers, Roxana, the widow
ol Mr. Nott, lias just gone to join the glorified
company. Mrs. Nott died at Hartford, Conn.,
on Monday, December 11, 1870, at the ad
THE CHRISTIAN HHUR _A.JL.3D
of Tennessee.
vanned age o nearly ninety-two. What mar
velous progress has been made in the cause of
foreign missions since 1812, the year when
Mrs Nott and her devoted companions started
forth to make a beginning in the face of many
formidable obstacles to such an undertaking.
She must have watched with eager interest the
ad vance made during her lifetime n this de
partnrent of Christian activity.
MEW BOOKS.
Watchman, What of the Nioht.—By the Rov.
John Camming. D. I)., F. It. S. E., author of
“The Great Tribulation,” “The Great Prepa
ration,” • The Groat Consummation,” etc.
G. W. Oarleton & Cos., Publishers, Now York.
This bonk, of 811 pages, is devoted to the
elucidation of the author’s ioea that the sixth
millenary ot the world is almost come; that
the great crisis predicted by prophecy is at
hand, when the Lord “eometli in clouds, and
every eye shall see Him.”
In his preface the author says he does not
believe that the millennial condition can soon
be reached by the means in which many pious
people believe, namely, the improvement of
the Church, the renovation of the Stat nd
the circulation of bibleß and tracts. He minks
the world is now farther e itranged from God
than at any time since the birth of the Prince
of Peace. He thinks, the setting up of Christ’s
Kingdom and the dawn of the Millenium will
not be the result of any created plan, but that
God will consummate it out of conflict aud
confusion, and that the spiritual darkness and
chaos of the day is but the precursor of the
near dawn of the jlillenium, and the immedi
ate reign of Christ on earth.
The author sees in the rapid winding up of
the existing economy of things, the approach
of the heavenly era.
Bix thousand years of soriow have well-nigh
Fulfilled Llieir tardy and disastrous course
Over a sinful world; and what remains
Of this tempestuous state of human things
Is merely as the working of the sea
Before a calm that works itself to rest.
Some of the leading points of the author’s
arguments, and the basis for his belief in his
statements that indications of Christ’s approx
imate reign on earth are numerous, are given
in the following:
We are near the great Sabbatic period.
(Heb. iv: 9.)
Six thousand years from creation (of which
the six days were a type) are almost ended.
The Gospel of the Kingdom has been
preached in nearly all the world.
The Papacy is tottering in its eternal down
fall.
Men will not now endure sound doctrine,
but after their own lusts are heaping to them
selves teachers.
Infidelity iB rampant, as are vice and crime
of every kind, ritualism and rationalism, spir
itualism and pantheism, universalism aud in
diflerentism.
The entire subject is treated under the fol
lowir g jepar.V.t: headsi
History Illuminal'tf-g Propf.tcy; The Ntg'S
Cometh ; The Morning Cometh ; The Order
an t Sequence of Events; The Crescent Wanes;
The Future of the Jews and Judea ; The Jew
Looks Eastward ; Babylon Fallen; The Gos
pel and its Grandeur ; Protestantism—lts
Growth and Glory ; Signs of the End—Pre
cursors of Judgment; The Three Unclean
Spirits; Germany Supreme in Europe; The
Great Hail Storm , The Day and the Hour;
The Roll Call; England the Tarshish of
Prophecy.
Ir. the chapter devoted to the consideration
of “The Day and Hour,” the author, admit
ting that the day and hour is not specifically
predicted in Scripture, yet he, nevertheless,
discerns in the New Testament certain periods
rapidly nearing exhaustion. Considering the
mighty efforts made by the three evil spirits—
Rationalism Ritualism —Romanism ; the j
drying up of “ the great river Euphrates” j
(commonly accepted as the symbol of the de- j
cline and death of the Moslem power) ; and
the deep unconcern of the great multitude of
mankind in their spiritual salvation, are, the
author believes, well marked conditions on
the chart of Prophecy, indicating the sudden
appearance of the Redeemer.
in his attempt to compare ancient prophe
cies with modern facts—the prophecies in the
Bible with the facts of living history, the
author declares that he has no manner of
doubt that the facts will justify the minutest
and the most magnificent prophecy, exactly
as echo responds to sound, the delight experi
enced in searching out the foot prints of the
Redeemer on eartli amply repaying him for
the labor bestowed upon 'he work.
The Mobile Register says :
The sale of the Alabama and Chattanooga
Railroad by the Commissioner of the United
States Court, on Monday, was one of the batch
of events connected witli the litigation of that
unfortunate road which is diffiiciilt to be un
derstood. The road was bid in by Judge E
11. Grandin at $600,000, for Messrs. John T.
Wilder and D. C. McMillan, of Chattanooga.
As the road is worth about $6,000,000, we pre
sume that this sale is simply one more of those
harmless and innocent amusements which
have vexed the first mortgaged bondholders so
long.
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The Montgomery Advertiser says:
We received a visit last evening from Mr.
J. E. Reimann, of New York, agent for John
G. Cullman, and received the pleasing in
formation that a large immigration may be ex
pected very soon. Mr. Reimann informs us
that he came here in the interest of 200 or 800
families, who desire to settle in this State, and
is satisfied that the passage of the bill creating
the new county of Cullman will lie taken as
sufficient proof that the people ol this State
desire immigration.
Very few negroes are emigrating from
around Ktifaula this season.
WfIOLK fvO. 2254.
General Denominational Hews,
—Signor Gavazzi says ot evangelization in
Italy: “Fifteen years ago there were only
five Protestant congregations and about 400
communicants throughout Italy, while there
are now 121 congregations, 8,000 communi
cants, and about 41,000 hearers.
—A prayer-meeting is held every morning
in connection with the Legislature of Vermont,
and the members attend in large numbers.
—According to the latest report of religious
statistics of Richmond, Virginia, every grown
up colored person is a member ofa church, and
nearly all of them are Baptists.
—Dr. Felix Adler, son of a rabbi, has giv
en up his place in a synagogue, and SB,OOO a
year, because he cannot teach Judaism. He
is now preaching a kind of theism to a small
congregation in New York.
The Universalistsreport for last year, one
general convention, 22 State conventions, 6 9
associations, 880 parishes, with4l,o29families;
656 church oiganizations, with 32,947 mem
bers; 640 Sunday-schools, with 56,463 teach
ers and pupils; 756 churches, worth, above in
debtedness, $7,465,495. Twenty-seven church
es have been dedicated or re-dedicated during
the year, and twenty-five ministers ordained.
There are 706 ordained and licensed preach
ers, 5 colleges, 2 theological schools, and 7
academies.
—Historical discourses were the lashion in
Presbyterian churches in 1876. The United
Presbyterian Church lias ordered that the his
tories of all the congregations in a particular
Presbytery be bound together, in one or more
volumes, with the history of the Presbyterr ,
and sent to the Presbyterian Historical Socie
ty at Philadelphia.
—Rev. Dr. J. L. M. Curry, of Richmond, it
is expected, will succeed Dr. Puller as pa-tor
of Eutaw Place Baptist church, Baltimore.
—The Louisiana Baptist State Convention
reports 386 churches, 112 ordained ministers,
13,772 members, an increase of 1,145, by bap
tism, the past year. Colored Batptists, 356
churches, 221 ministers, 45,548 members. Rev.
W. E. Paxton, in a letter to the Memphis
Baptist, says that “There are twenty parishes
in Louisiana in which there is not a single
white Baptist minister. About twi-thirdsof
the population of these are colored. Most of
the white population in these are nominally
Catholics.”
—A Roman Catholic Bible Society has
been formed in Belgium The Society is
organized not to circulate the word of God,
hut for the purpose of buying up and destroy
ing conie* of the “Scriptures and other had
kooWtchovfiiUcd by Protestants. *
—For 1876, the Methodist Episcopal-Sun
day-school statistics show 19,346 schools;
204,964 officers and teachers; and 1,426,946
scholars. This is a gain within a year r'f 59
schools and of 20,778 scholars; but a decrease
of 2,218 officers and teachers.
—On the occasion of Mr. Moody’s final
services at the Tabernacle in Chicago, January
16, that building was crowded to overflowing.
It was announced that a considerable sum of
money was needed to pay off the debt on
Farwell Hall, which is occupied by the Young
Men’s Christian Association, to continue these
meetings, and to meet certain other obliga
tions incurred during the services here.
A subscription was taken on the spot, and
amounted to about $67,000, which is nearly
the amount asked for.
—The Memorial Baptist church of Phil
adelphia has voted an increase of SI,OOO in
the salary of Dr. Henson,
—The Secretary of the Religions Tract
Society, London, states that his Society has
circulated 40,000,000 of publications withou
employing any paid colporteurs; while the
American Tract Society has paid $113,785 for
the circulation of only 8,621,419 of publica
tions.
—The British and Foreign Bible Society
have made arrangements with the Rev. R.
Van Eck, for eleven years a missionary of the
Utrecht Missionary Society, to translate the
Gospel of St. Mark into the language spoken
by the natives of Bali, an island of 800,000
inhabitants, in the Indian Archipelago.
—The Ohritian Advocate publishes a table
showing tbe contributions for Missions per
member in five denominations. The Congre
gationalists give $2.42; the Canada Methodists,
SI.BO j the Northern and the Southern Pres
byterians, $1.25; the Episcopalians, $122;
and the Northern Methodists, 42 cent*.
New Route to Florida.— The Macon
and Brunswick Railroad and the Atlantic,
Gulf and West India Transit Company’s Rail
road have opened anew route from and to
East Florida by way of Fernandina, Baldwin,
Jacksonville, Gainesville, Cedar Keys and all
points in East Florida via Brunswick, Macon
or Jesup, to all Northern, Western and North
western cities. This is known as the ‘‘Cum
berland Route, ’’ and oiler* first-class facilities
tor travelers and tourists, being shorter than
any other line, and including a trip by water
between Fernandina ami Brunswick in an ele
gant steamer, with first-class accommodations
For schedules and other particulars, address
| Col. Henry M. Drane, General Ticket and
I Passenger Agent, Macon, G*.