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The Christian Index.
VOL 56 —NO. 10.
Table of Content*
First Fags.—Alabama Department; Delegatee
and Correspondents to the Georgia Baptiat
Convention ; Missions : “All will be Well! ”
—H. A. Tapper; Interesting Letter from
China—J. B. Hartwell; Letter from Gaines
ville—W. C. Wilkes; Baptist Statistics for
1876. The Bright Side; Baptist News and
Notes; General Denominational News; etc.
Seookd Pagi.—Our Correspondence : Notes
on the Act of Baptism—No. XXII—Rev J. H.
Kilpatrick ; The Bible—How to Bead it in a
Year—F. Brown; Onr Virginia Letter—B. G.
M.: Woman not Wanted as an Evangelist in
our Churches—No. IX ; Is the Pastor at his
Post—ls the Watchman on the Wall?—Profes
sor Sams.
Third Page.—Our Pulpit: The Baptists of tho
Commonwealth and Protectorate; etc.
Fourth Page. —Editorials : The Baptist Con
vention of the State of Georgia; Missions—
Rev. D. F. Butler. “Lent;" Conditions of a
revival; We Stand Between—G. A. N. ; An
Excellent Society; Georgia Baptist News ; etc.
Fifth Page.—Secular Editorials; Fraud vs.
Blasphemy—G. A. N.; North-east Georgia
ns Scenery and Resources; State Agricultural
Society Meeting at MiUedgeville—Rev. D. E.
Butler. Sophistical “Bosh;” Gems Reset. Ac
knowledgment—T. C. Boykin ; Call for Pray
er by Board of Foreign Missions; Prayer for
the Country; “All Will be Well;" etc.
Sixth Page.—Sunday-school International Los-
Bon for March 18, 1877. Science and F.duca
tion: A Description of the Telephone; Nature
—Poetry. Household and Children’s Depart
ment : A Fine Story for All—Aunt Edith. Se
lect Miscellany: Our dear Departed Ones; etc.
Seventh Page —The Farm; Georgia Agricultu
ral Society; Georgia Farm Notes; Advertise
ments.
Eighth Page.—Reading Notices; Advertise
ments.
INDEX AND BAPTIST.
ALABAMA DEPARTMENT.
The Female Academy building at Lowndes
boro was burned recently.
The wheat crop of Tallapoosa is very prom
ising.
Rev. Geo. R. Gather, of the Ashville -.Rgis,
has entered upon the practice of law.
Citizens of Montgomery have contributed
$l3O to rebuild Union Springs Institute.
An effort is to be made to remove the county
seat of BlouDt to Blount Springs.
The Shelby Iron Works ship 50 lons of pig
iron a day.
The post office at Briarfieid has been dis
eontinswd.
• . A —t r-
Gnntersville has anew Presbyterian church
nearly completed.
Work will soon be commenced on anew
Presbyterian church at Columbiana.
The “News” is the name of a handsome
new paper at Blount Springs, of which L. H.
Matthews and A. L. Brooks are editors.
Miss Eliza Whitfield, sister of Prof. Whit
field of the Slate University, was accidentally
burned to death on the 25th ult-
The next meeting of the Southern Dental
Association will be held in Montgomery April
the 10th.
A vote will be taken in Blount county, April
6th, on lemoving the county seat to Blount
Spring*,
Mrs. Lizzie Copeland, formerly of Decatun
now of Columbia, Tenn., has sued the M. & C.
Railroad for SIO,OOO damages for the death of
her husband, recently killed on the track at
Jonesboro.
Dr. Hawthorne, of Montgomery, is doing a
great and blessed work for the Lord in his
church. Brother J. W. Hale, forwarding sub
scription to The Index, for sister M. H. Hale,
gives the tollowing glad tidings under date of
March sth : “Heretofore she has been the only
member of my family that was a member of
the church, but now, I am happy to say, four
of us are members of the Baptist church of
this place, two of my children haviDg united
several weeks ago, and on yesterday it was my
good fortune, with several others, to be buried
into the church with Christ in baptism.
Dr. Hawthorne, in a very quiet way, is cer
tainly accomplishing wonderful good, having,
in the past five weeks, received by letter and
baptism, between eighty and ninety members,
and all without the least show of excitement,
not even calling upon men, as is usually
the custom, to come up to be prayed for. Hi*
whole aim seems to be to impress upon his
congregation the necessity of being prepared
to meet their God, and his whole argument is
such that his audience is compelled to think
about his discourse, and to reflect on a here
after.”
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Delegates aad Correspondents to the Georgia
Baptist Contention.
Delegates and Correspondents, who
exp ‘Ct to attend the Georgia Baptist
Convention at Gainesville, in April
next, will please notify the pastor, Rev.
W (J. Wiikes, or the undersigned com
inittee of arrangements, or any one of
them, as early as practicable, that suit
able arrangements may be made for
their accommodation.
W. T. Thornton, |
W. L. Gordon, i n ...
M. D. Hudson; j" Committee.
A. J. Kelly, J
Gainesville, Ga, March 8, 1877.
TEIIEJ SOUTH-'WESTEIbIT BAPTIST,
of Alabama.
fissions.
R*y. TV E. Skinner, Macon, Editor and Chair man
Cointfiiuee on Missions.
Rev. C. M. Irwin, Atlanta, Agent for the collection
of lands for Mission and tiunday-sohool work.
Rev. T.C. Boykin Atlanta, Sunday-school Evangelist
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“ALL WILL BR WILL. 9 ’
To the Baptist Pastors of the South :
An earnest worker for Jesus, writes
to us: “Send out an appeal to the pas
tors. If they will only lead for For
eign Missions, all will be well."
This is one of a number of requests
which have recently been made by
private church members, that pastors
should be urged to call upon the peo
ple to meet the necessary demands of
our missionaries. Before us are sev
eral communications of pious men and
women, begging that we would stir up
their pastors on the subject. The
concurrence of such petitions from
four States, far separated from each
other, is striking and suggestive Are
we to conclude that the people are
getting ahead of the pulpit on the sub
ject of fidelity to the great commission ?
We rather conclude that our pastors
are mistaken, when they fear to urge
their churches to perform their plain
duty to the Master and to the nations.
Churches are healthier and happier
when they look beyond themselves and
labor for “the regions beyond.” Many
despise this work, but God’s people
are blessed, and they know it, in pro
portion as they obey the great faith
testing commission. Can a louder ap
peal be made to pastors, excepting
Christ’s command itself, than the cry
of earnest workers for Jesus, that ap
peals should be made to their pastors?
We make no other. A few facts sub
joined, will be weighed by our brethren
who, as good soldiers of Jesus Christ,
are to lead God's people in this war
fare of faith:
1. To the 12th of February the re
ceipts for Foreign Missions have been
$16,839.18.
2. To the same date, last year, the
receipts were $26,652.16.
3. The expenditures for our missions
to t2ih of February have been some
$28,000, accepted, amount
ing to sorai o'. *
4. The average contributions of
States on which we largely rely, have
fallen short of last year’s donations
over 100 per cent.
5. Twenty thousand dollars must
and may be raised before the Conven
tion in New Orleans, for Foreign Mis
sions. This was done last year in the
same period of time.
6. Some may make a wrong use of
these facts and figures: but the wise
and godly pastor will ponder them,
pray over them, stir up his people,
raise funds for us, and “all will be
well.”
Treasurers, agents, societies, and
others who have funds for the Board
of Foieign Missions, should remit the
same immediately.
H. A. Tupper,
Richmond, Va. Corresponding Secretary.
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MTFRRSmG LETTER FROM CHINA.
Fearful Famine—Our Missionary Ilftrts— ip
peal from Ber. J. B. Hartwell.
Editors Index — Below I send you
an extract from a letter just received
from my dear Bro. Timothy Richard,
of the English Baptist Mission in
Chefoo, China, giving some account of
the fearful famine that prevails in the
northern provinces of that country.
Accounts that I receive from the native
Christians in Shantung, are of the same
purport.
“The thing of greatest importance
in China this year, is the fearful famine
with which we are being visited all
throughout the north, Shantung, Chili,
Shansi. We do not know much about
Shensi and Kansuh. And we hear by
the last news from Corea, that there is
much suffering there also.
“People have emigrated from Shan
tung to Manchuria, from the beginning
of summer, in thousands upon thou
sands. Since the beginning of the
autumn, the people in the district of
Ching Cheu Foo, which seems to be
.he centre of suffering in Shantdng,
move away in whole families some
eastward to Chefoo, Hwang Hien,
Piugtoo, Laiyang, where the crops
have been a little better than with
them, although even they had only
about a half crop, some southward to
Ichowfoo, moving down to Nanking,
Soo Chow and Shanghai. There thou
sands have arrived, some time ago,
and meat-sheds and soup kitchenshad
to be gotten up at once. Others re
main with almost blank despair. About
Tientsin, I hear similar reports of suf
fering on every hand.
“There is nothing but a wide and
lasting wail arising from the millions
of sufferers. And we are now only in
January. What can they get to live
on till the fifth moon, when the wheat
FRANKLIN PRINTING HOUSE, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, MARCH 15, 1877.
gets ripe? I cannot give you any ad
equate idea of the suffering, even if I
tell you that the officials of Ching Chen
Foo authorized, months ago, the sale
of children, both boys and girls; and
this has gone to such an extent that
there is now a large portion of the
people engaged in this revolting busi
ness. But what can the poor do? ”
My dear brethren, will not such suf
fering move the sympathies of our
people, and incite to earnest prayer in
behalf of the starring suffereis, whose
souls, as well as their bodies, are per
ishing? While these things are going
on in China, our brethren in the South
are sending to our Mission Board only
about one-fourth of the amount of
their usual contributions. What are
our missions to do ? Will not the
churches make an increased effort, and
show to our loving Savior that, though
our times seem out of joint, though
oppressed with political and social
troubles, we love him still, and are de
termined to sustain His cause?
I receive from Pastor Woo, every
now and then, accounts of persons
baptized by him in Tung Chan. A
late letter announced the baptism of
T’sai Tsong Min, also called “Paul
Howes,” a pupil sustained by our sister
Mary Howes, of Macon, Ga. Previous
letters spoke of the baptism c 4 two
other boys in the school. Pastor
Woo’s own son had applied for bap
tism, but his case was deferred. There
are also a number of very hopeful en
quirers. Fraternally yours,
J. B. Hartwell.
Lithonia, Ga., March 1, 1877.
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A Letter from Gainesville, Ga.
Dear Index —As the Baptist Con
vention of the State of Georgia will
meet in this city on tho 19th day of
April next, it may be gratifying to all
concerned to know what kind of a re
ception the delegates and messengers
will receive.
AMPLE PROVISION
Will be made, in our opinion, for the
largest representation that the State
Convention has ever had. From fifty
to one hundred delegates and viaitiDg
brethren from North-east Georgia,
inanjr of’who A have never
session of the body, are expected hero
on that occasion. Accommodations
are being made for a largernumber than
usual from North-west Georgia. We
are also expecting correspondents from
East Tennessee, south-west Virginia
and from about Spartanburg, and
Greenville, South Carolina. The citi
zens of all denominations are anxious to
give the Convention a cordial reception
and a bountiful hospitality.
THKCHURCHBS
Of the Chattahoochee Association, sev
eral of them, representing eight hun
dred or more Baptists, met with the
Gainesville Baptist Church last Satur
day, upon an invitation to do so, agreed
to prepare and to bear a communication
to the Convention, giving that body a
cordial Christian greeting, and assuring
it of their sympathy in the missionary
and educational enterprises of the Con
vention. They will come, not as dele
gates from any Association, Church or
Society seeking membership, but as
visiting brethren to witness the deliber
ations of the Convention.
On last Sunday night, members of
the church, aided by good citizens of
our city and by members of other de
nominations, formed
A MISSIONARY SOCIBTY,
Of twenty-five or thirty members.
This is the first missionary society ever
formed in the Baptist Church in Gaines
ville. Another meeting will be held
next Sund <y night, when we hope our
number will be doubled. Our wish is
to raise funds enough to entitle our
Society to one delegate or more to the
Convention. We think it probable that
Coriuth, Hopewell, etc., will form aux
iliary missionary societies and give us
material help.
There is good reason to believe that
the brethren and people of tho city and
county will raise from $4,000 to $6,000,
to enable the Convention to accept the
offer of the city council of $20,000 to
induce the Baptists to locate here
A STATE FEMALE SEMINARY,
Of high order under the auspices of the
Convention. Think of it brethren.
The greatest offer ever made to the
Baptiat Convention by any town or
city in Georgia! This the writer will
prove, he thinks, in his next letter.
Wm. C. Wilkes.
March 7 th, 1877.
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Aekuowledsment.
From a lady in Savannah, through
Rev. S. G. Hfllyer, D.D., of Forsyth,
$3,00 for the support of students at the
Southern Baptist Theological Semi
nary. With thanks.
John A. Broadus.
Greenville, S. C,, March it, 1877.
BAPTIST STATISTICS FOB 1876.
{the Baptist Tear Book, just
, we get an interesting review
enominational statistics for
ae number of Associations in ,
is 66 ; number of churches,
dained ministers, 609; total
lip, 81,062. Arkansas has
itions, 982 churches, 455 or
nisters, and a total member
-4,192. Florida Las 15 Asso
ciatio#s, 259 churches, 173 ordained
ministers, and a total membership of
17,745. Georgia has 108 Associations,
2,440 churches, 1,188 ordained minis
isters, and a total membership of 199,-
870. Kentucky has 68 Associations,
1,596 churches,,B7l ordained ministers,
ami a total membership of 156,749.
Louisiana has 28 Associations, 690
churches, 411 ordained ministers, aud
bei total membership is 51,934. Mary
land has one Association, 45 churches,
31 ordained ministers, and the total
membership is 6,372. Mississippi has
47 Associations, 1,435 churches, 692
orijjiined ministers, total membership,
98,030. Missouri has 69 Associations,
1,443 churches, 871 ordained ministers,
and a total membership of 90,364.
North Carolina has 57 Associations,
1,442 churches, 793 ordained ministers,
afid the total membership is 136,956.
South Carolina has 29 Associations,
893 churches, 521 ordained ministers,
and total membership, 103,820. .Ten
nessee lias 47 Associations, 1,162
churches, 739 ordained ministers, and
a total membership in tho churches of
101,241. Texas has 49 Associations,
1,150 churches, 628 ordained ministers,
aud a membership of 62,836. Virgin
ia has 27 Associations, 1,215 churches,
570 ordained ministers, and a total
membership of 176,286. West Vir
ginia has 13 Associations, 362 churches,
1201 ordained ministers, and a total
jjfcnbership of 24,187.
For an the ire have
the following total figures:
Number of Associations, 1,005; an
increase over the preceding year of 80.
Churches, 22,924; an increase of 1,669.
Ordained ministers, 13,779; an increase
of 662. Additions by baptism, 109,-
684; an increase of 21,810. Additions
by latter 41,098; an increase of 8,583.
Additions by experience, 7,269; an in
crease of 2,609. Additions by restora
tion, 10,391, an increase of 2,315.
Diminutions by death, 15,727; an in
crease over 1875 of 2,959. Diminutians
by latter, 41,505 ; an increase of 6,988.
Diminutions by exclusion, 24,629 ; au
increase of 7,068. Diminutions by
erasure, 4,940 ; an increase of 1 221.
Total membership, (1876) 1,932,385.
Total membership (1875) 1,815,300.
Increase of total membership from
1875 to 1876, 117,085.
These are very gratifying results'
and clearly show the strong vitality of
our denomination in this country, and
the South stands out, in bold relief, in
every element of success aud increasing
proaperity. What a glorious army
these almost two millions of staunch
Baptists make for the conquest of the
world for Christ 1
'I UK BRIGHT B.DK.
Look on the bright side. It is the
right side. The times may be hard,
but it will make them no easier to wear
a gloomy and sad countenance. It is
the sunshine and not the cloud that
gives beauty to the flower. There is
always before or around us that which
should cheer and fill the heart with
warmth and gladness. The sky is blue
ten times where it is black once. You
have troubles, it may be. So have oth
ers. None are free from them ; and
perhaps it is well that no“e should be.
They give sinew and loue to life, forti
tude and courage to man. That would
be a dull sea, and the sailor would
never acquire skill where there is noth
ing to disturb its surface. It is the
duty of every one to extract ail the
happiness aud enjoyment ho can with
in and without him ; and above all he
should look on the bright side. What
though things do look a little dark ?
The lane will turn and tho night will
end in broad day. In the long run the
great balance rights itself. What ap
pears ill becomes well—that which ap-
tiehej hezr^jlodb
of Tennessee.
pears wrong, right. Men are not made
to hang down their heads or lips, and
those who do only show that they are
departing from the true paths of eom
,mon sense and right. There is more
virtue in one sunbeam than in a whole
nemisphere of clouds and gloom.
Therefore, *e repeat, look on the bright
side. Cultivate all that is warm and
genial—not cold and repulsive, the
dark and morose.
BAPTIST NEWS AIYD SOILS.
—The Louisville churches are enjoying a
revival season. The Broadway church has
received numerous additions, and Dr. Burrows
has been preaching a series of admirable ser
mons on "Church Prosperity.”
—The Pilgrim church, Lexington, Ky.,
lias adopted the cash system, and gives its
pastor a check every Monday morning for his
week’s salary.
—At a recent meeting held in New York to
promote Foreign Missions, Rev. R. S. Mac-
Arthur said, he considered that a church that
was not a missionary body had no right to the
glorious name of Christ. The want of a mis
sionary spirit arose from the want of knowl
edge. If every minister would throw his soul
into the missionary concert, the angels would
shout for joy. He did not want the small sal
ary process tried on him. He believed pas
tors should be able to give, and did not wish to
be deprived of the privilege. Better than
“feeling”, of which we hear so much, is doing,
giving, living.
—Revival influences of remarkable power
are noticeable. The results of the winter cam
paign all over the land promise to be among
the grandest that have been reported for
years.
—An Illinois Baptist church sets an exam
ple which other churches would do well to
follow. They announce that, afler earnest
efforts to reform delinquents, “in order to be
right with God, and before men, the church
has withdrawn fellowship from over twenty
five of its membership.” No wonder they re
port a revival and many conversions!
—The Texas Baptist Herald says: “Rev. J.
E. Bligh, who has lelt himself forced by cir
cumstances into secular employment, has turn
ed over his credentials to his church. We
regret' the felt necessity of such a step, but it is
certainly art oXauple worthy ofynll commen
dation . ”
—lt is rumored that Dr. A. H. Burlingham
has been called to the pastorate of one of the
largest churches in Chicago.
—Rev. 11. S. Duncan, Agent of the South
ern Board of Foreign Missions moves to
Montgomery City, Mo., where his correspond
ents will please address him.
—The Second church, of Chattanooga, by a
unanimous vote, invited Bro. W. W. Simpson
to fill their pulpit during the absence of Dr.
Breaker, who goes on a begging tour for the
church.
—A “Teachers Parlor" has been opened in
the new building of the Baptist Publication
Society, which stands on Chestnut street, Phil
adelphia. It is handsomely carpeted, and
furnished with chairs, tables, books and maps,
and to ail persons. The beginnings of
a complete library are also to be found there.
On Tuesday evening of each week the Sun
day-school lesson for the succeeding Sunday is
taught.
—Rev. P. S. Henson, D.D., not only edits
the Baptist Teacher, but is also the efficient
pastor of one of the largest Baptist churches in
Philadelphia. His church has recently voted,
unasked, an additional SI,OOO to his salary.
—Elder W. D. Mayfield has gone to Nash
ville, Tennessee, where he expects to settle and
open a publishing house for Happy Home and
the Baptist Reflector, a half interest in which
he has purchased.
—The Rev. Emory J. Haynes, lately pastor
of the 7th Avenue M. E. Church, Brooklyn,
lias just joined the Baptists. He is expected
to assume the pastoral charge of the Washing
ton Avenue Baptist church.
—B. G. M., of Lynchburg, Va., in a recent
letter to the Mississippi Baptist Record, alludes
to “Pikeism” as follows:
This heresy is far from being as popular in
this State aH you might suppose. The author
of these articles evidenced more presumption
than brain ; dogmatism than logic. The Her
ald's quasi endorsement did not increase the
popularity of the paper, nor the Pike articles.
Evidently the author of these articles has been
seeking lor popularity rather than the glory of
the Master and His truth. Indeed, much of
the latitudinarianism of the age is a bid to be
classed among the charitable —the liberal.
Hence many of our churches have “itching
ears” for the “beautiful,” the rhetorical, the
“eloquent,” in the pulpit, instead of that which
is the Gospel as it is in Jesus. It is the sacri
fice of Baptist consistency for Pedobaptist
praise. Those who have the grace to be honest
and the nerve to maintain such honesty, are
charged wilh bigotry —with heinj Islmiatlites
in our Israel. We lake no “Pikeism” in this
city, and yet our churches prosper.
—The Newnan Herald says: “A
Sabbath school was organized at Home
wood school house on last Sabbath,
composed of twenty-two scholars, all to
£ cite in the New Testament.
Dr. Divine was elected superintend
ent, aud Rev. John Haisten, assist
ant Supeiiuteodeut
WHOLE NO. 2260
General Denominational News.
—The French Government has authorized
an expenditure of $400,000 upon the restora
tion of the Rheims Cathedral. The present
building was begun in 1212. The organ,
which was erected in 1481, is still well pre
served.
—The “restoring” of the Wesleyan Metho
dists, “to communion with the Church” o
England, is a dream of some Anglican
toasties. With a view to enabling his younger
clergy to work intelligently in that direction,
the Bishop of Peterborough has invited his
candidates for orders to study the life and
history of John Wesley.
—From Mr. Spurgeon’s pamphlet entitled
“The Metropolitan Tabernacle, its History
and Work," we learn that the edifice cost
£31,332, and was opened free from debt. It
accommodates 6,000 persons. At the close
of 1854, the number of it* members was 513 ;
in 1859, 1,332; in 1864, 2,937 ; in 1869, 4,047;
in 1875, 4,813. Connected with it is a Pas
tors’ college, on which £5,000 annually are
expended, and an orphanage, in which 250
boys are clothed, fed, and instructed.
The congregation also supports Sunday-
Bchools and missions, and employs 45 colpor
teurs.
—The Universalist Register gives the sta
tistics of this denomination for 1876 ; “Minis
ters, (women 21), 706 ; churches, 656; church
members, 32,947; families, 41,029; Sunday
schools, 640; teachers and pupils, 59,463;
value of church property above indebtedness,
$7,465,495; ministers ordained during year,
25; church edifices dedicated, 27.
The Universalista publish twelve periodi
cals ; and have two theological seminaries,
five colleges and seven academies, witli 99
teachers, 1,036 scholars, and property to the
value of $2,385,000.
The practice is growing among Universal
ists, in certain sections, of administering the
Lord’s Supper once a quarter, to the entire con
gregation."
—One of the most hopeful ieatures of the
great religious movement inaugurated by Mr.
Moody, is the fact that so much dormant
Christian energy is called out by it, and or
ganized into most eflective action.
In 1875 the Roman Catholic bishop of
Salford, England, with aeven priests, arrived
in this country, having as their special object,
the promotion of missions among the freed
men. They are bound by their vows to
minister to negroes only. They freely and
openly declare themselves the opponents of all
Protestant missions at the South.
—Cardinal Manning has issued a mandate
compelling parties to mixed marriages, in
England, to content.thempeives with the Cath
olic service, and to omit the Protestant. He
also gives the church absolute control over the
education of children;
—lt is reported from London that a league
has been formed by the Ritualists, for the
purpose of agitating in favor of the disestab
lishment of the English Church.
—The German correspondent of the Mora
vian says, the Moravians of Germany still
maintain their system of exciusivism.
—A correspondent of the New York
Observer . writing from England, says: “The
signs are not wanting, at present, of a wave of
Rationalism passing over this country. Mr.
Dale, of Birmingham, read a paper lately at a
Congregational Union in England, in which he
announced that Calvinism had ceased to exist
as a creed among the Independents, and that
most of its ministers had either become Re
storationists, or believers in the theory of
eternal existence only in Christ. The Baptist
body is, in the main, sound—thanks to Spur
geon; but the Church of England is honey
combed all over with Ritualism, or worse.”
—A startling admission was made, by a
prominent Unitarian pastor, in a sermon be
fore a UnitariaH Conference lately. He said:
“We need missionary work, and a pronounced
Confession of Faith. Unless we have these,
our doom is sealed, and in thirty years we
shall be dead, without any one to attend the
funeral.”
MonthlyPeayer-Mbetingfoe the
Success of the Gospel. —Suppose all
the brethren, who contemplate a visit
to Gainesville at the meeting of the
Convention, gather such facts as they
may be able, touching monthly concerts
of prayer, for the conversion of the
world ? We must not be ashamed of
the facts. Get them, and let us know
what they are. Wo venture the asser
tion that, in any church where prayer
meeting exists, for this purpose, there
the spirit of missions is alive, and sin
ners are converted. This information
will add much to the interest when
discussing the report of the Macon
committee.
—A Sunday-school has been organ
ized in the new Methodist church, in
Whitesburg, with eighty-two schol
ars; prospectsj favorable for one
hundred scholars.