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VOL 56—NO. 5.
Table of Contents.
Filter P*.qe Alabama Department; Record of
State Events; Not Books; Gems Reset; Spirit
of the Religious Prei-s; Trusting God—Poetry;
The Missionary Field; General Denominational
News:
Second Page. —Our Correspondents; Notes on
the Act of Baptism—No. XlV—The Sacred-
Idea Theory Considered—Rev. J. H. Kilpatrick;
A Good Work Contemplated—W. M. Howell;
The Western Association —M. B Hardin :
Thoughts Expressed —P. T. Henderson;
"Raise the Fallen" —Christian Effort Success
ful—Sidney Herbert; A Babbatli at Home—
Leaf from my Journal—Rebekah; Letter from
Hawkinsville, Ga.—G. R. MoCall. Good Ad
vice.
Third Page.— Our Pulpit: “Lovest Thou Me ?"
—Sermon by the late Rev. Richard Fuller,
D.D. Household and Children’s Department
—Edited by Aunt Edith : Salutatory : How
Luther Paid Bill; “By-and-By: " Enigma;
etc.
Fourth Page.— Editorial: Christ in the Vessel—
Rev. S. G. Hillyer, D.D.; Aged Ministers'
Fund; Georgia Baptist News ; Homesteads;
Doing Good; Kind Words—Rev. D. E. Butler.
The Munster Anabaptists—Rev. Dr. Williams.
Editorial Paragraphs.
Fifth Paoh.— Secular Department; Literary
Gossip; C. P. Beeman s School; Atlanta Illus
trated; Dr. Fuller and his Agency for Mercer
University; Georgia News; Col. Campbell
Wallace: Rev. T. C. Boykin; Domestic and
Foreign Notes.
Sixth Page —The Suuday-School; Elijah and
the Prophets of llaal— Lesson for Sunday,
February 11, 1877. Select Miscellany ; A Gen
eration on the March; Answered—Poetry.
Science andEducation : The Work of Genuine
Reform; Education in the Government Acad
emies ; The History of Early Bible Times. A
Boy's Way to Success.
Seventh Page.—The Farm : A California Wheat
Harvest; Special Fertilizers; Cotton Manu
facture ;El Dorado. 1 ... — ■*■-
Eighth Page.—To the Churches of the Central
Association—S. Boykin, Missionary Agent.
Obituaries. Advertisements. • ;
IN MX AND BAPTIST.
ALABAMA DEPARTMENT.
Typhoid pneumonia is raging in the vicinity
of Newton, Dale county.
V'ev. W. N. Beeves has resigned the pasto
rate of the Eitfatila Baptist ohurch.
St. Vincent’s Catholic church was dedica
ted in Mobile recently.
Col. George’s mica mines, seven miles
from Clanton, will soon be in operation.
Kev.N. W. Williams, the returned mis
sionary from China, preached in the Baptist
church at Troy hist week.
Bev. J. Stratum Paullin, has been called to
yh-al care of the Bajttist church at Clay
ton. T j
Air. Melauchon Smith assumes sole proprie
torship and editorial control ol the Mobile
Syde.
The Alatlhews cotton mill at Selma, has al
most all .its machinery in place and will be
gin operations early in March.
Brother J. O. B. Lowry’s church in Mobile,
is prosperous, and very active in sustaining
the cause of missions.
Elder Wesley Sisk, the oldest preacher
in Jackson county, was dangerously ill, re
cently.
Big Swamp has become a wilderness, grown
up in cane and underbrush to such an extent
that one cannot cross it on horseback save at
the general crossings.
A cotlcn factory has been established in
connection with the PLumix mills, at Union
Springs, and Judge Black, the proprietor,
gives notice that there will be a public open
ing on Friday, the Oth inst.
A minister’s institute is being held in
Alarion, for the purpose of giving lectures on
leading doctrinal and practical subjects to col
ored ministers. Ministers in and about Marion,
and also two professcrs of Howard College,
have cheerfully consented to give their servi
ces to those who may attend.
The Boptid says: “Bock Mills church
gives notice that 11. J. McClorge, a licensed
minister of that church, has been excluded.
He still holds a letter of dismission and li
cense. It seems that the charges were brought
against him after he had received the letter.
The Baptist of February Ist, snys that the
church in Talladega received seven members
in its first conference for the new year, vhich
was last Saturday. Two by experience and
baptism, four by letter, and one by restoration
—influential accessions—all gtown people.
It was a delightful season—Sabbath being the
communion occasion.
It is very probable that Bev. D. D. Bow
laud, now of New Orleans, will succeed liev.
Wm. N. Beeves in the pastorate of the flrst
Baptist’church, Eulaula. Mr. Rowland is
now preaching in New Orleans to unusually
large congregations, and those who have heard
him, say he is a gentiemen of tine intel
lectual endowment and address, and is an ear
nest and most impressive speaker.
—Of Protestant churches and Missions there
are in New York City, 39(5; and of these,
278 are regularly incorporated with an average
membership of 300, which would give a total
of more than 80,000 communicants ; and these
we lake it would represent a Protestant pnpu
lalion of 300,000 to 400,000.
THE SOUTH-WESTERN B-A^UPTIST,
of Alabama.
NEW BOOKS.
A Young Man’s Difficulties With his Bible.—
By Rev. D. W. Faunoe, author of Fletcher
Prize Essay. “ The Christian in the World."
Sheldon A Cos., Publishers, New York.
These lectures were delivered from the pul
pit for the benefit of "intelligent young men
who were a good deal unsettled in their views
of religion.”
The author says: “ Kverv chapter, without
exception, has grown out of an actual conver
sation held with some young friend or else out
of some letter or message received from him.”
It is a timely hook.
The book embraces the following topics;
The Young Man’s Book ; Is the Bible Tine?
Is the Bible Inspired? Difficulties as to Mira
cles and Teachings; Difficulties as to Geology;
Difficulties from Astronomy ; Difficulties about
Historic Facts.
It is a veiy excellent book, worthy of bemg
in the hands of every young man, aye, and old
man, too, in the land. Its style is pure and
lucid, and its subject matter of the gravest im
portance to all.
We were particularly impressed with the
following paragraphs on true womanhood and
manhood, as exemplified by Solomon. The
author says;
There is also in these proverbs a picture of
true and noble womanhood. And it stands
right over against a vivid portraiture of her
whose house goes down to death. In the lat
ter sketch the wiles, the tempting words, the
whole process of allurement, are described;
and then the foily, the wretchedness, the mis
erable and accursed end of him “ YVho goeth
after her straightway as an ox goeth to the
slaughter.” Her house is the way to hell,
going down to the chambers of death.”
But the other portrait how beautiful—beau
tiful in itself —and beautiful in contrast. It is
the portrait of a noble woman—the picture of
a mother by her son. “ The heart of her hus
band doth safely trust her so that he shall
have no need of spoil.” “Sheworketh with
her hands.” The writer had no idea of a
human doll too dainty for labor and fit only
for show. “ She riseth and giveth meat to
the household.” She is domestic, and yet
while domestic when there is need for it, she is
skillful in trade. “ Bhe considereth and buy
eth a field.” She is industrious—for it is said
her hands hold the distaff.” She is charitable.
“ She stretcheth out her hands to the poor.”
But mind and heart are not neglected. “ She
openeth her mouth with wisdom.” “ Her
children rise up and call her blessed.” She
has helped and not hindered her hu-band’s
prosperity; for it is said “ Her husband is
known in the gates, when he sittith among the
elders of the land.”
I would have a young man believe in God
with a practical daily faith. I would have
him believe in good men, and keep company
with them. But next to this, I would have
1 him believe in a pure, noble wonmnlujud
There are doubtless base women. There are
frivolous creatures who live with no plan but
to see and he seen. And such a woman a
young man should avoid as he would the
plague. But there are those whom God sends
for a mail’s help and guidance. He who be
lieves in noble womanhood can find it. He
who sneers at woman’s virtue only proves
himself to be base. A true man shows the
nobili y of his nature by his high ideal ot
womanhood ; and in turn they who are to meet
that ideal have need to be careful of purity,
honor, intelligence and religion.
(JEMS RESET.
O gentle snow, descending
Upon the earth so still,
Trane figuring with thy whiteness
The stieet, the field, the hill!
O robe of Heavenly texture !
O beauty from on high !
Caught up from earth unspotted
And woven in the sky!
—The word of all words, love, will
no more express the myriad modes of
mutual attraction, than the word
thought can inform you what is pass
ing in your neighbor’s mind.
All who joy would win
Must share it; happiness was born a twin.
—He that overcometh the same
shall be clothed in white raiment, and
I will not blot out his name out of the
Book of Life, but I will confess his
name before my Father and before His
angels.
—Self government is, indeed, the
noblest rule on earth ; the object of a
loftier ambition than the possession of
crowns or sceptres. The truest con
quest is where the soui is bringing
every thought into captivity to the
obedience of Christ. The monarch of
his own mind is the only real poten
tate.
—The tetting of a great hope is like
the setting of the sun. The bright
ness of our life is gone, shadow s of the
evening fall behind us, and the world
seems but a dim reflection itself—a
broader shadow. We forward
into the coming lonely night; the soul
withd aws itself. Then stars arise,
aud the night is holy.
—The tougue cannot be too careful
ly guarded, for a careless word may
cast a very dark shadow over an
cent life.
Far better in its place the lowliest bird
Should sing aright to Him the lowliest song,
Than that a seraph strayed should take the
word
And sing His glory wrong.
—The African First Baptist church in
Bichmond, Virginia, is the largest Baptist in
America, and e\cepl Spurgeon’s church, it is
the largest Baptist church in the world. It ha*
3,735 members.
FHANKI.IN PRINTING FERRLARY S, 1577.
Spirit of the Religious PB
—The New York Methodist, on the
of suppressing licentious literature, makes "B
following vigorous and very pertinent B
marks; M
This devil's trade must be made much mil
difficult and hazardous. The law cannot enfoß
itself; there must be more organization agaiH
it. It is the greatest (we speak advisedly) e\J
of tue times—the one to be first and most zo:
oußly assailed. It there be ministers with un
itps, let them repent and reform. Ii
Christiana, by profession have soiled their
tongnes with foul stories, let them take alarm.
Let parents.consult aud organize for the saMy
ot their children. Let teachera consider what
duties these dangers lay upon their con
sciences. The foul beasts will ruin our land
and our children, if we do not combine to de
stroy them and their evil deeds.
These thoughtful remarks by the Baptist
If eddy, ou our colleges, are worthy of serious
refieclion :
Player lor colleges is ol vast importance.
Educated minds will be influential, and for
that reason there is special cause for earnest
prayer for the young men of the schools. The
churches need educated members, for with true
education there is breadth oi view and large
uesss of heart, elements often greatly wanting
in ihose who are ‘‘pillars in Zion.,’ With men
of real culture we may expect deliverance from
the narrowness and jealousy which so ollen
hamper a pastor, and that enlightened appre
ciation and co operation by which he can
make lull proof of his ministry.
We wish the following decisive action in
regard to the crime of dueling, commented
upon by the Christian Advocate, would be the
rule in all civilized States;
There never was nut one duel fought on the
soil of Illinois by her citizens. That was in
1820. One Stewart and one Bennett ar
ranged to vindicate their honor. The Beconds
agreed to make it a sham, and left out the
balls. Stewart was in the secret. Bennett
mistrusted something, and slipped a bullet
into his gun, and killed Stewart. He fled, was
pursued two years, caught, tried, convicted,
sentenced to be hung, and, in spite of all his
Iriends and all political influence, he was
hung. That one duel has lasted the Slate
ever since. We commend this case to the at
tention of the authorities. When a man tries
to kill another, and is prevented, the law has
a way ol using him that makes an example of
him. There is nothing that this country so
much needs as a few prominent examples of
the value and dignity and authority oi the
law.
—The" Presbyterian says that it is rumor
ed that the leader of the Established Ohurch of
Scotland will move the British Parliament to
pasd an act conceding the spiritual independ
ence of tb- ohut|ii, whicl\, if done, will -*move
one of the obstacles hindering the union of
Presbyterians in Scotland.
—The Congregationalist says: “To be sure
it isn’t a pleasant piece of information, but
then it must be true, for Secretary Cushing,
who gets up the statistics of the Quarterly , says
so, viz: that fifty Congressional churches die
every year on an average, one important
reason being that they have no meeting house.
—Here is a good cause for “Hard-Times”
given by the North Carolina Presbyterian :
The patent way to keep God at a distance
from our homes, to cause Him to shut up
the fountains of both His temporal and spirit
ual blessing, and thus prevent a return of better
days to the world at large and to His own
people in particular, to put ourselves, in short,
outside ol all His provisions for our present
and everlasting welfare—the patent way is to
withhold our offerings of ourselves and out
substance Irom the service of His kingdom—a
service which can no more be dispensed wild
if wc would please Him arid benefit our own
persons, then the lungs can dispense with the
breath that purifies the blood and turns what
would otherwise be currents of death into
swellings of life.
—The Independent (New York), has the
following:
What we fear most in the proposition to
confine sufferage to those who can read and
write is that the whites of the South will then
do what they can to prevent the education of
negro voters. The only hope of the South
now is in general education. But there are
already indications that the South is likely to
restrict education to the whites. We have
before ns a paper signed by nearly all the
leading white citizens of Alacon, Georgia, who
say that they jwill not vote for any candidates
who will not pledge themselves to oppose any
increase of the school tax. This followed by an
article denouncing all negro educat on, as it
makes the negroes impudent, unwilling to
work like their parents, and encourages them,
as the last election has shown, to vote against
their own interest and the wishes of the whites.
And this opportunity, as we just learn, has
been cirried out in the most reckless and cruel
form since these citizens thus expressed the-r
desire to keep the negro in ignorance. The
Lewis High School, ol Macon, is a large build
ing, erected in 1807 by the American Mission
ary Association. It accomodates the colored ,
public schools of the city, and also a normal]
school conducted by the American Missionary]
Association. Near to it is the chapel of thtJ
First Congregational church ol Alacon and fhtfl
parsonage. Two attempts had previously
been made to burn these buildings, and a tinuifl
attempt, on the night ofjDecember 15th, |Kjj
successful. The fire Department earue
looked on. They played on aeoiiph-of ItflH
situated elo.-e to tlie school-house,
while men ; hut refused to attempt
,e building Used by the negroes .m)<*j
(lists, saying that they had enough ifl
save white people's property. When
attacked the church, the Mayor
sought the Chief of tin: Fire Depart
to save it, hut In- refused. We ha vest
from the in groes who are in utter
despair over ihe los- .1 their opporuS ' “
education, arai we hive no douhnHHHH
condition is is-iiig made more
than when they were in slavery,
mem her, is in Georgia, one of
which the whiles rule, and which. HSHB
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jfl j" say that the statement eon-
nf the Lewis High School
Hi diabolically false in every par
,H firemen exerted I hem-elves to
save the
o- the supply ol water gave ut.
the torch was applied
either on that occasion,
it is too absurd and contemptible
notice.
reply is, that since emancipation
never failed to aid the colored
effort to benefit their condition,
or spiritually.
helped them build their churches,
ed to the wants of the sick and poor,
burieqHeir dead, educated their children,
given Mem employment, and, in short, ac
complped more for the African race than
a thoufand Harriet Beecher Stowes, Ireedman’s
bureau!,, interested carpet-baggers or rascally
saving^anks.
The whole system of public education in
Georgi. indeed, inures to (heir benefit equal
ly with that of the ’ whites, and almost wholly
at the v iarges ol the latter.
To complain under these circumstances,
show.- the animus of the negro nnder radical
teachings, and the terpitude and treachery of
his Northern advisers.
If anydiing could so utterly disgust our
people a to tempt them to withdraw all
material, moral and educational ansi-tame
from the manumitted children of Ham, it
would he just such conduct as this article in
the Indip ndent imputes to them.
We cannot believe it to be true, that the
negroes of Macon are “in utter misery and
despair over the loss of their opportunities for
education ” The hundreds of colored children
docking to school every day with their satchels
and hooks give the lie to any such assertion.
This is but another chapter in the huge
volume of detraction, falsehood and malice,
which has been constantly growing under the
fosteiing hands of Southern ingrates, yankee
carpet-baggers and misguided and ignorant
negro leaders. If would he well for them to
consider the possible results to the weaker
race* of this persistent cffoit at slander and
misrepresentation.
BU’TIST SEWS AAil) NOTES.
—The twenty-five Baptist churches in
Brooklyn have a membership of 9,034. Dur
ing the past year they raised $48,872 for be
nevijleirt purposes, $189,510 for all objects,
The value of church properly is $1,000,900,
and lh church indebtedness, $200,000.
Baptists are strong in Nova Scotia.
They iive un that Province 134 l churches,,
with 41,731 members. Last year 1,790 were
received by baptism. In New Brunswick
there are 145 Baptist churches, with 12,564
members; baptisms, 1,570. In Prince Ed
ward Island, 17 churches, with 1,250 mem
bers ; baptisms, 177; making a total member
ship in the 340 churches of 35,535, 3,403 of
whom were baptized last year.
Brother J. C. Hiden, of Greenville, South
Carolina, wantH the trustees of our colleges to
offer SSO and traveling expenses for com
mencement addresses, and says: “An address
that is not worth SSO, ought not to he deliver
ed at a College Commencement.”
—Bev. W. D. Mayfield, late of the Baptist
Publication Society, at Memphis, has purchas
ed a half-interest in the Baptist Reflector, and
will assume editorial duties. The | aper is to
be enlarged, and its place of publication moved
from Morristown, Tennessee, to some more
convenient locality. Brother Mayfield makes
his bow to the readers of the Rejlecloi in a
graceful salutatory in the course of which lie
says, with impressive truth : “The editor of a
religious paper has thrust upon him great and
weighty obligations. Of this we are fully
sensible. His duties are high and holy. And
no man :s equal to the work without God’s
help. We shall try not to forget this fact. We
can only pledge that, with Heaven’s blessing,
we shall seek to do our duty, and, in all we
say, to vindicate the beauty and purity and
glory of our divine religion. And in this new
field of human eflort, we shall always need the
hel i of our brethren.”
We wish the Reflector, under its new regime,
the most abundant success, and a constantly
increasing sphere of usefulness. May the Lord
bless the efforts of its conductors in the eteanal
cause of Gospel troth and religious liberty!
i—The colored Baptists have five churches
in Aashville,Tennessee, with over 1,200 mem-
As, and have neatly finished a meeting
Btse, costing about $20,000.
latest statistics made public give the
membership in the Unit'd States at
8f10,719.
H-Tlui Baptists of Ohio have contributed
to the Foreign Misssions of the
churches, and sent out fourteen mis-
hundred and liny Chinese at end
schools id S.m Francisco. About
Spjgßisand go every Sunday to the Sunday
the Baptist Year Book for IX7O it
Hi! :d that ilie avail age age* id Baptist
who died during the year is sixty -
three months.
HRi call to tile Second church, Rieh-
and will enter upon Ins new
in a few weeks.
ApM. J. Stamps has accepted tin- care
Louisville.
THE GHRISTIAET TTERAxJLID'
of Tennessee.
—The South Australian Baptist Association
held its anuual meetings in Adelaide at the
clo eof September. During the year the etim
of £827 had been raised, and several new
churches had been formed.
TRUSTING GOD.
I The following is tho last hymn written by Mr.
Bliss, and not entirely finished at the time he
met his death at Ashtabula.]
I know not what awaits me.
God kindly veils mine eyes,
And o'er oacli f tep on my onward way
He makes new scenes arise ;
And every joy He sends me comes
A swoet aud glad surprise.
Chorus— Where He may lead I’ll follow,
My trust in Him repose,
And every hour in perfect peace
I’ll sing, “He knows, He knows.’’
One step I see before me,
’Tis all I need to see,
Tlie light of Heaven more brightly shines
When earth’s illusions flee ;
And sweetly through the silence came
Hiß loving, “Follow Me.’’
Oh, blissful lack of wisdom,
’Tis blessed not to know ;
He holds me with His own right hand,
And will not let me go ;
And lulls zay troubled soul to rest
In Him who loves me so.
So on I go, not knowing.
I would not if I might;
I’d rather walk in the dark with God
Than go alone in the light;
I'd rather walk by faith with Him
Than go alone by sight.
The Missionary Field,
—Says a missionary, “Retrenchment is
very expensive;” churches waste money on
road expenses—that is, sending a man to com
mence a work, and taking him away just as it
is well started.
—The American Board, since its organiza
tion in 1810, has expended sixteen millions of
dollars and sent out to the foreign work one
thousand one hundred and forty-nine mission
aries.
—lt is estimated that in 1875 the British
Isles contributed over $6,250,000 for foreign
missions.
—The American Missionary Society has
20,000 children in its schools in the South.
—Rev. C. W. Mossell goes this month, as a
missionary of the African Methodist Episco
pal Church of this country, to Hayti.
—The Methodist, Baptist, and Presbyterian
Woman’s Foreign Missionary Societies have
raised since ISfiOan aggregate $755,311.
—Benevolent contributions of Dr. J. Hall’s
fl’resfiytcriafii church,\N“Wt one
hundred dollars per member annually.
—Bev. S. H. Calhoun, D.D., died recently
at Buffalo, New York Dr. Calhoun was
President of the Board of Foreign Alissions of
the Presbyterian Church, and labored in the
Holy Land for more than fifty years.
—ln Belgium the bitter enemy of human
progress and religious liberty is the priesthood.
They are specially bigoted and tyrannical
there, and the people are held under a terrible
yoke of oppression. The ignorance in which
they are kept, is quite incredible to one who
has not been among the people and learned it
from their own mouths. In Brussels, Liege
and others of the larger towns, encouraging
progress has been made in the Sunday-school
work, but in small places and country regions
the darkness is fearful. It is within two
years that two English ladies were stoned by
children, incited by nuns, in the streets of
Spa, because they had tried to help these little
ones toward the Saviour.
—Hereafter, the Macedonian is to be wholly
under the Woman’s Alissionary Board, and
the Baptist Missionary Magazine has parsed
into private hands.
—Seven hundred and fifty Chinese attend
the mission schools, San Francisco. About
one thousand go every Sunday to the Sunday
schools. Three hundred Chinese have been
received as members of the Protestant church
es of California, and and in addition to these
church members there are seven hundred
Chinamen in Christian associations for learn
ing Christian doctrine.
—The revolution in Alexico by which the
Lerdo government has been overthrown has
not, so far, resulted in serious injury to the
Protestant missions. The policy of the incom
ing party is supposed to be as fayorable to the
missionaries as that of the Lerdistas. The
greatest apprehension is from the Catholie
fanatics, who only await the opportunity af
forded by the disorder of revolution to rise
against the Protestants and exterminate them.
There has already been a rising of this kind
in Guanajato. The Methodist missionaries in
that town, Messrs. Craver and Siberts, were
besieged in their house in the night by a mob
of about 3,000 whose cry was “Death to the
Protestants.” The missionaries securely bar
ricaded their doors and held the fanatics at
bay until troops came and dispersed them.
Every window in the house was broken by
stones thrown by the mob.
—The voluntary contributions of the
churches in the Sandwich Islands, for the sup
port of the gospel, and for the establishment
of foreign missions in adjacent islands, have
for some years been about twenty-four thous
and dollars per annum.
--The American Baptists established mis
sions in Sweden twenty-five years ago. They
have now in Sweden 234 churches, 10,600
members and 10,500 Sunday school scholars.
WHOIE NO. 2255.
General Denominational Hews,
—A new Congregational Association has
been organized in New York and Brooklyn,
called the Manhattan Association. Drs. Wil
liam M. Taylor, R. S. Storrs, Hepworth, Rav
Palmer, Buddington, Scudder, D. B. Coe, W.
Hayes Ward, and others, including all but one
or two of the prominent clergymen of the two
cities, are its leading members. It announces
the principle of the duty of the churches to
watch over each other, and see to each other’s
purity, and the belief that the fellowship ex
tended by a council, to a church, or to its
pastor, may in like manner be withdrawn by a
council when occasion requires.
—Father Chiniquy publishes anew list of
224 names, in theJMontreal Witness, signed to
til's statement, addressed to the Bishop of
Montreal: “My Lord —We in'o; m you that b/
the mercy of God we have renounced the er
rors of the church of Rome, to follow, hereafter,
the teachings of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
—Congregationalism has attained sufficient
strength in the South to make necessary sever
al Conferences. Alabama forms one. The
churches in Tennessee and Georgia form the
Central and South Conferences. The mem
bership of these churches is gathered chiefly
from among the Ireedmen.
—The Union Theological Seminary, New
York, has just closed the fortieth year of its
existence, during which time out of 1,070
graduates, 104, or nearly one-tenth, are for
eign missionaries.
—According to the declaration of Dr. Cum
ming, of London, the Roman Catholics have
expunged the word “God” from the Psalms
when it occurred, and substituted for it the
word “Mary,” and the word “Mary” is to be
substituted in place of the word “Father,” in
the Lord’s Prayer.
—An association has just been formed in
France for the promotion of the better ob
servance of the Sabbath. Its motto is :
“France will only be saved by a return to the
sanctification of the Sunday.”
—The Jesuits expelled from Germany some
months ago have taken refuge in India. A
large number of them have joined the Univer
sity of Bombay, and an additional college has
already been founded there with six hundred
students.
—The new Constitution of New Hampshire
forbids sectarian appropriations of public
funds.
—ATrappist monastery is to be established.
at Buffalo, New York, tr,e riJen’KS who are M
inhabit it being now on their way to the 1
United States from Turkey, Ireland and
France. The Trappists are the most ascetic
of all the monastic orders. They sleep on the
floor, rise to pray at midnight, go through the
form of digging their own graves as a remind
er of death, preserve unbroken silence from
year to year, and eat only vegetables, bread
and water.
—The Baptists of Gloucester, the native
town of Bobert Itaikes, propose to ereet a
building to his memory, costing about $3,000,
and to be called “The Baptist Sunday-school
Memorial to Bobeat Raikes.”
—Bev. Lloyd Morgan, was on the 20th of
December excluded from the fellowship of the
Baptist church at Omaha, Nebraska, for “prac
tices unbecoming a Christian and a minister of
the Gospel. ”
—At the meeting of the Ohio Baptist Ed
ucation Society, held at Toledo, it was unani
mously
Resolved, That we earnestly request the pas
tors to preach an annual sermon in their
respective churches on Alinisterial Education,
and that a collection be taken in each church
for the Society.
—The Cincinnati Sunday-school Association
has recently taken a step in the rignt direction,
by establishing a “Primary Class Teachers’
Meeting,’’ for the benefit of those whose prov
ince it is to teach the little ones. This meeting
is held every Saturday afternon.
—There is an Indian Presbytery in Dakota,
composed of native Sioux. There are ine
churches, six of them having native pastors.
These churches have a membership of 757,
and they gave last year for benevolent pur
poses $992. Baptists, Episcopalians, and we
believe Methodists, are also represented
among the Sioux in Dakota.
AGENT FOR THE INDEX.
A brother writes from Barnesville,
under date of February 3d, that a man
by the name of Farar, claiming Atlan
ta as nis headquarters, has been
through there acting as agent for The
Index, the Memphis Baptist and Re
ligious Herald and also selling books.
Our correspondent wants to know
what of him ?
We announced some time ago that,
with the exception of members of The
Index corps, and Rev. F. M. Haygood,
we have no traveling agents. Persons
claiming to be agents must show writ
ten authority.
We know no such man as the one
named by our correspondent, nor have
we authorized him to act as agent for
The Index.