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The Christian Index.
THIS SOUTH-WESTERN- BAPTIST, THE CHHISTIAH HEHAB3D
of Alabama. of Tennessee;
VOL. 56—NO. 42.
IhUe of Contents.
Fibst Page. —Alan&ma Department: Record of
Stste Events; Spirit of the Religious Press;
The Mission Field: Baptist News and Notes;
‘‘Fairs, Raffles and Bound Danoea;” General
Denominational News.
second Faoe. —Our Correspondents: “A Sore
head Baptist Preacher"; The Remarkable
Revival at Cartersvilie—R. B. Headden ; En
dorsement and Comments—W. G. Whidby ;
Endorsement of “Nathan”—W. H. Robert;
Conflicting Statements—G. R. McCall; The
Georgia Methodist Episcopal Conference—R.
T. Hanks : Baptist History—B. W. Whilden :
Autumn Musings; The Work of God's Elect
—H. A. Tapper, Elder 3. M. Stillwell; Aged
Aimisters’ Saving Fund—l. R. Branham.
, C Mieoellanv : How to Live a Hundred Years;
Looking into the Future.
Tams Paoe.—Household and Children’s De
partment : Philip Blair's Seoond Lecture-
Aunt Edith; The Battlefield—Poetry; “Do
mestic Economy, Useful Facts and Receipts”;
The Friends of Long Ago—Poetry.
fouura Page Editorial: Blasphemy Against
the Holy Ghost—Bev. 8. G. Hillyer, D.D.
The Sick Room—Rev. G. A. Nnnnaliy. Edito
rial Paragraphs; Georgia Baptist News—Rev.
D. E. Butler. Rehoboth Association—Dr.
Jas. 8. Lawton. Mercer University; On Both
Sides; etc.
Fifth Page. —Secular Editorials: The Ex-Pres
ident’s Prediction; The New York Herald
punished; Southern Medical Record; Good;
Sunday—Sabbath; Gambling at the State Fair;
Uniting Two Oceans; A Mighty Woi k; Literary
NotSH and Comments; A Mother s Heart —
Poetry; Domestic and Foreign Notes; Georgia
News; etc.
Sixth Page. —The Sunday-School: Paul before
Felix—Lesson for Sunday, November 4, 1877.
Tribute to the Memory of deacon George Fos
ter by the Committee appointed in behalf of
the Second Baptist Sunday School, Atlanta.
Ga. Baptize—Rev. I. H. Goss.
Seventh Page— The Verm : The Chess Plant ;
Hamlin Egyptian Cotton; Stock Raising South;
International Sheep Show ; Leghorn Fowls ;
Priceßß Short Horns.
Eighth Page —Publishers’ Department, Gamb
ling at the State Fair. Rev. Jas. B.rrow’s Ap
pointments. Advertisements.
INDEX AND BAPTIST.
ALABAMA DEPARTMENT.
The Huntsville Fair was a fine success.
Mobile has lor $20,000 secured a factory of
1 £4O spindles, which would cost $50,00 in
England.
W. F. Wilkinson, Esq., late of the Shelby
- lie, has begun the publication of a paper in
Prattville, called the Southern Signal.
Mrs. Emily V. Battey, of the New York
Sen, is in Montgomery on a visit to her sister,
Mrs. Dudley Kobinson.
The Alabama State Orange Fair commences
’’Tuisiday, October 30th, and ends Saturday,
£ 1 tr mber 3d.
'■fie Alabama Conference of the M. E.
'fjhrch South will be held in Montgomery in
December.
Unity Association will hold its next session
on Friday before the fourth Sabbath in Sep
tember next, with Pilgrims Rest church, at
Benton, on the M. and M. railroad.
Bev. W. G. Curry has resigned the charge
of the Pineville Baptist church, of which he
has for a number of years been the faithful and
much loved pastor.
Large quantities of coal are being mined in
all directions from Birmingham. New mines
are being opened, and the old mines are work
ing to their full capacity. The supply for the
■wiaifcr promises to be equal to the demand.
One hundred and thirty-six of the cadets at
the State University on matriculation, stated
their denominational affiliation as follows: 33
are Episcopalians, 37 are Presbyterians, 20 are
Baptists, 36 are Methodists, 7 are Catholics, 3
are Israelites.
The Conecuh River Primitive Baptist As
sociation convened in its fiftieth annual ses
sion, with the church at Elam, about one mile
south of Goshen Hill, in Pike county. Elder
Daniel Doiier was elected moderator, and El
der John D. Hudson clerk. Elder Moses
Helms, of Georgia, preached the first sermon
Sunday morning.
The Selma and Gulf railroad, with all its
rights, privileges, franchises, and possessions,
is to be sold at chancery sale the 9th of No
vember. When this sale is completed, and
the title to the road perfected, the extension of
the line to Pensacola will follow as a matter of
course, and this will put Selma in direct com
munication with an almost air line with the
best baibor on the gulf, and furnish an outlet
to a ready market for millions of bushels of
coal from the section above.
Bigbee Association comprises nineteen
churches, with a membership of nine hundred
and eleven. There are sixteen Sunday-schools,
with ninety-five officers, and six hundred and
fourteen pupils. In the school attached to
the Sumlerville church a novel and
useful feature is reported. They have estab
lished a “misionary hen’s nest,’’ in which
each teacher and scholar deposits one egg
each Bunday. These eggs were sold and the
proceeds divided equally between State and
Foreign Missions. The amount seDt up by
that church from this source aloDe was $10.40.
Would it not be well for all our churches to
imitate their example 7 By giving a little we
do not feel it; but in time this amounts to a
large sum.
—The Long Island Association, recently
convened in New York, repor s 709 baptisms
during the past year.
Spirit of the Religious Press,
—The thought of a mother’s love, of the ten
der care that shielded our childhood, and, like
a guardian angel protected and guided our
wayward youth, is beautifully brought out by
the following remarks of an exchange:
The love of a mother is pure, deep, stroug and
enduring. *Who has not realized and cherish
ed this ? Who does not in the ret respect de
light to contemplate the varied phases ol a
mother’s love 7 Who, after all does fully ap
preciate and prize it 7 Indeed, we are con
strained to say, with the Sunday school Maga
zine, “there ia no human love like a mother’s
love; and there is no earthly loss like that of a
mother. Asa man grows older and learns to
appreciate the blessings of life he values more
and more the wise and tender counsels of his
mother. When seemingly dead to all influ
ences for good, the recollection of a mother’s
prayers will soften his heart j and the memory
of her dear face will recall his better days and
awaken a desire for a better life. ' Hardened
and hopeless, indeed, is the man Who doe* net
cherish the name of mother with sincere ven
eration.”
—Here is a good word for the minister from
Zion's Herald :
More than any other person, he is in the
handk ol the community, especially in those
of his friends wiio are usually able to make
of him much, or little, or nothing, as they
elect. To reduce him to zero, they do not
need to make great exertion ; a word, a look,
an ominous silence at the right moment, or a
sly innuendo, gives the fatal stab to reputation.
The perishable nature of this ministerial com
■modity should warn both preacher and people
to handle it carefully. There is danger that
it perish in the using. It will not endure to
be handled roughly ; and is invariably to be
kept right side up wkb care. That ao few
ministers sutler severely in their reputation
speaks well for both the pastors and the peo
ple. That some have thrown their lives away
for such trivial considerations is Had, and
should serve as a warning to all their asso
ciates. Cherish most tenderly the jewel God
has seen lit to commit to your care.
—Life is made up of small things, and it is
precisely in these that it is most difficult to be
self-sacrificing—everyday matters which seem
too trivial to mention ; arising with the hoar
and dying with it, to give place to something
equally remarkable. The constant giving way
in trifles and trilling inclinations; sacrificing
personal wants and whims to each other. One
wishes to go here, another there, jjne wishes to
do this, another that ; two wish'for some new
bauble, or object of necessity—the purse will
admit of the gratification of one only. The
key to solve these difficulties, the only spirit
able to meet them, is that of self-saorific *.
This will go far to form beauty of character;
to render home that abode of harmony* which
all homes should be; giving up one to the
other. The spirit of self-sacrifice is one of the
great beauties of holiness. It is a spirit that
will sweeten happiness, and lighten troubles;
and when the soul is ready to wing its flight to
its eternal home, it will have the unspeakable
consolation of knowing that it has not lived
to itself; that it has left the world happier and
better in some degree than it found it; that it
has been faithful to its earthly mission. So
will it listen with unutterable bliss to the
sentence, “Well done, thou good and faithful
servant; enter thou into the joy of thy Lord !”
—"Has it ever occurred to our excellent
ministerial brethren,” says Zion's Herald,
“when dealing, with extraordinay freedom,
with the characters and talents of their fellow
preachers, that it would produce in their own
minds a very unpleasant feeling to know that
their own peculiarities, at other times, were
just as faithfully and fearlessly discussed?
That rare editorial chief, Dr. Bond, used to
say that there “was a marked difference be
tween skinningand being skihned.” One may
be an amusing process, but the other has little
fun in it. It would be well sometime, in the
large liberty of a free debate upon ministerial
gifts and weaknesses, to put ourselves in the
place of the brother that is so cheerfully
scalped, and to ask ourselves the question:
“How should you like to exchange places with
him 7” That measure we mete to others is very
likely to be meted to us in turn. Indeed, the
best authority justifies us in saying this,”
—A correspondent of the Texas Baptist pre
sents this, among other resons for condemning
the title of D.D.:
“It bus a standard, and yet it has
no standard; for it is conferred on men
holding very difleient views. As instances ;
One holds a general atonement, another a par
ticular atonement ; one denies immersion,
another sprinkling ; and hence D D gives un
certain sounds. One may be learned in Ro
man Catholic divinity, Presbyterian divinity,
Methodist or Baptist (1!!) divinity. No dif
ference what kind of diymity, so he is "learn
ed in divinity all the same. One affirms
aud the other denies. The very knowledge of
the facts affirmed and denied is the oasis upon
which D.D. is conlerred.”
Speaking of this subject reminds us of the
strange fact, that while so many condemn
this honor, precious few are unwilling to wear
it when conferred.
—The earnest words below are taken from
the address of Rev. J. T. Brown, President,
at the late session ol the Baptist Union of
Great Britain and Ireland. May God help
His people in our land to hear the voices
calling us to vigorous action :
But whether for the Uoion, or for churches,
or individuals, there is most urgent need
vigorous action. The work ilseil is ol an in
spiring giandeur; il is the Lord’s work
work lor Him, and in great part work
His own ; the motives are of au unuiea-ura
force. M.ny voices are calling us l u gj r< j
up ourselves alresh lor service. First of a ji |
FRANKLIN PRINTING ROUSE, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, NOVEMBER l, 1877.
we hear our Master saying, “For the great
things I have done for you, and the love ye
bear to Me; for My name’s sake; for the ful
fillment of My joy, rise ye, My servants, My
faithful ones, and put forth your strength.’’
Around us, ever sounding in our ears, is the
plaintive murmuring of the restless sea of life;
“the still, sad music of humanitythe pathetic
cry of multitudes ready to perish.
Sleepers wake ! a voice is calling.
The voice of the Lord from above ; the voice
of the people needing all the ministries of love.
Facts of the present day, too, join with the
motives which are of all places and all ages to
excite us to a more vigilant leal. It is no
time to stand idle in the market-place, to
saunter about the field sucking honey from its
flowers, or to take things easily when clouds,
with pestilence in their bosom, are gathering
over the land, and powers of evil are busy
doing the work of death.
—Dr. Dale hasn’t a very exalted opinion of
“sensational preachers,” as is shown by the
following extract from his first lecture before
Yale Theological School:
Sensational preachers are most commonly
mere charlatans. They have neither the fire
of human genius nor the fire of a divine zeal.
They win a transient popularity ; but they in
spire no intellectual respect, they command no
lasting confidence. Their popularity is a shame
to the church.
—The Presbyterian Banner says some plain
things about Dr. Holland, which we commend
to that gentleman’s notice:
If Dr. Holland expects, to use his own terrm
to “smash” the orthodox Church of the Lord
Jesus Christ, he has simply undertaken to do
what the devil and all the enemies of the truth
have endeavored, but failed to do in all the
ages of the past. If this is the mission he
lias now selected for himself, he will learn in
the end, what the history of centuries ought
to have taught himjbefore this, that no weapon
wielded against the Church can accomplish its
destruction, but that, on the contrary, every
snch assailant is destroyed by the recoil. Even
an illustrated magazine can ruin itself by such
a warfare. No one asked Dr. Holland to ad
vocate, illustrate or defend orthodox evangel
ical Christianity, as he evidently is not in pos
session of the qualifications to do any of these
things; but Christian people have a right to
demand that he should cease to misrepresent,
malign and caricature the Church of OhrUt, so
dear to them, and through which God has con
veyed to men all the true happiness they now
enjoy, and all the hopes which brighten their
future.
—A writer in one of our Presbyterian ex
changes is troubled over the small number of
infants “baptized’’ in the churches. He says
the facts given below “show a most lamentable
neglect of a most important duty and privi
lege.” Il is strange how people will differ
We look upoD these facts as very hopeful indi
cations that the Presbyterian brethren are
emerging Irom tlie mists and darkless which
have heretofore prevented a filear understand
ing of the truth on the subject of church mem
bership. When they come far enough into the
light to see that believers only should be bap
tized, and to see, too, that their ideas as to
what this ordinance i“, should be materially
changed, we will begin to look upon them as
nearing the right path. But here are the facts :
Any one who will take up the recently pub
lished minutes of the General Assembly, and
turn his eye in the direction of the “Statistical
Reports,” and, upon the column at the head of
which stand the words “Infants Baptized,”
will seethata large portion of that column is
blank. This blank extends over so much of
the column that we are ready to conclude that
in many of our churches infant baptism is
either going into disuse or is most sadly neg
lected. Not only do many of our smaller
churches report no infant baptisms, but the
blank appears opposite the names of churches
which report a large membership. And very
many ol our large churciies report exceedingly
small numbers of infants baptized.
The Mission Field,
—At a receDt missionary meeting at the
Baptist chapel, Snow Hill, England, Rev.
H. R Pigot, a Missionary from Ceylon, gave
encouraging accounts of the work in the
East. In alluding to the great work which
the Baptist Mission in India wa doing, he
quoted a number of statistics to prove how
rapidly the Christian religion was spreading
among the Hindoos. And on his return to
that country he was going to an entirely new
field of labor, the old district having now
raised up a sufficient number of native Chris
tians to carry on the wrk with the one
missionary now working there.
—Christian missionaries in China have suc
ceeded, amongst other things, in stirring up
the native theologians. They are going
earnestly to work to spread their peculiar
doctrines, and have adopted the same means
of spreading their creeds as the missionaries.
The Celestial Empire says proselytiDg
agencies have been formed, principally
among the Buddhists, numbers of whose
clergy seem to have instituted a sort of re
vival movement. They preach at wayside
temples and about the streets, and it is said
that the practice has even spread to the
ranks of Confederates.
—The Press Banner sums up as follows the
Mission operations of the Evangelical
Churches of the United States: 18 Foreign
Mission Boards; 83 Foreign Missions; 2,875
stations and sub-stations ; 4,000 laborers in
foreign fields, and 100,000 native converts.
aud the following pecuniary liberality in
1872, which baa not been much lessened
since, nmwithstading the financial depres
sion: Four Foreign Missions, $2,150,000;
Domestic Missions, $2,600,000.
—According to the Chinese Recorder, there
are six Missionary societies operating in Pe-
kin, which was first occupied as a mission
ary station by the London Society in 1801.
—The (Dutch) Reformed church sustains
neariy 100 domestic missions, and during
the past year 1,955 persons were added
to the roll of members in the Mission
churches.
—The Fbreign Mission Journal contains an
interesting letter from Rev. George B. Tay
lor, D.D,-, Superintendent of our mission sta
tions in Italy. We extract the following ac
count of the work in Venice:
The modern evangelical work in Venice
was begun about 1865 by Gavazzi, and soon
the Waldensians bought a palace, in which
they have gathered a considerable congrega
tion.
In August, 1876, during a visit to Venice,
I met Sig. Bellondi, then conducting an in
dependent mission to the Jews, who ex
pressed himself as convinced of the duty of
believer’s baptism, and desirous of laboring
with us. A mouth later Mr. Oocorda bap
tized there two persons who came for the
purpose Irom Treviso and Pordinone. In
December, 1876, Sig. Bellondi entered into
relation with us, and a few months alter
secured a locale, and began regularly his
labors, the American Methodise establishing
a station there about the same time. On the
night of June 3, 1877, I baptized Signor
Bellondi—this baptism and those adminis
tered by Oocorda being in the locality where
so many Christians were drowned. Sig.
Bellondi has a little band, some of whom
are of several years standing, and others,
new converts, who will now be by him bap
tized, and unite in forming a New Testa
ment church. Let the prayers of our breth
ren in America ascend in behalf of this new
and interesting station.
—The Home Mission Board, of Marion,
Alabama, is now prepared to pay balances due
the old missionaries.
MAPTIST SEWS AMI NOTES.
—Rev. Dr. Lofton, as we learn through a
letterTrotjt Dr. Sherwood, is succeeding well
in hismesLjield in St. Louis. Large congre
gations attend his services.
—The Jjtdson Association of Alabama
contributed more to the Home and Foreign
Boards this year than daring the last five or
six years.
—Rev. V\ r . A. Jarrell, of Olney, 111., closes
a conunuiufutum to the Terns Baptist with
the following announcement and request:
On the fifteenth of next month I have ar
rauggfMbr # n t*tf?en days’debate with G.
W. tjmghey, held here, t ask every
ChrifUiut .wjm reads this, to, before lie reads
another word, jaise biS heart to God, to
ore a? the fAjA-or ot Rome in this city by
that \
--•Rev. T-p. Crawford, Missionary to
ifMpess ui New Yyrk
prolong tfflPf'dahi, JTlfcli and.others, were
not. pa me* ot\individual?HJut of dynasties.—
Baptist JRc**ctbr.
This only shows that as larger bodies
attract smaller ones, Missionaries, in their
efforts to Christianize heathens, should be
careful they do not become heathens them
selves.—L B. in Texas Baptist.
—The London Baptist makes the following
mention of the Baptist Total Abstinence
Association of England:
The first year or two of the society’s exis
tence, the committee were just a trifle timor
ous, scarcely seeming conscious of their
growing strength, and were content, there
fore, to put up wtb back parlor sort of
meetings, crowded into an inconvenient
hour in some dreary, outlying schoolroom,
and not unnaturally partaking somewhat of
the dismalness of the surroundings. Last
year this was all changed, and there is
manifestly no intention whatever to retro
grade. The society now cheerily puts its
best foot forward, and makes fickle fortune
its vassal.
The Association 1 and off the week’s meetings
with a gathering on Monday evening in the
Victoria Hall, which, if it served no other
purpose, would at least convince the least
sympathetic that the Baptist Temperance
Society is no myth, but an entity that means,
whether men bear or forbear, to make itself
heard.
—The Texas Herald says of the State
Convention at Bryan: “It has never been
so strong in talent and working power as at
present, and has not shown such a spirit of
liberality and work, at any time before,
since the war. At Calvert, two years ago,
we had a most harmonious meeting, at Inde
pendence ; a year ago, we had both a harmo.
Dious meeting and a great revival of the
working spirit. But the presen t'session has
been a step much in advance.”
—Rev. G. J. Johnson, D.D., has accepted
the appointment of District Secretary of the
American Baptist Publication Society, for
the District of New York.
—The first Church of Baltimore, of which
Dr. J. W. M. Williams is pastor, expects to
enter its new marble house of worship next
month.
—A writer in the Examiner says that the
sermons of Dr. Richard Fuller, recently pub*
lished, are, in the main, superior to the famous
sermons of Robert Hall.
—The Religious Herald and Western Re
corder are quarreling again. Keep cool, breth
ren. Don’t get angry. “Give not place to wrath,”
and “be kindly affectioned one to another.”
W e want to propose a week of prayer in bes
half of the editors of our religious papers.
Judging from (heir shots at each other through
the press, they need an outpouring of that
Spirit whose fruit is “love, peace, longssuffers
ing, gentleness, meekness.”
—The tenth session of the Baptist Convene
lion of Germany, Denmark, Holland,
lan-1, Poland, Russia anil Turkey, was
Hamburg, July 17th to 24th, 1877.
the first meeting o' Ihe Convention
J. (1. Oncken could not attend, •■'j
allusion to his absence was 1
—The Triennial Conference of German
Baptißtsof North America, was held with the
Second German Baptist Churcn, in Buffalo,
New York.
—Dr. Griffith urges the establishment of a
Baptist Publication Society in Germany. The
venerable Dr. Oncken is willing to give all his
estate to this purpose, requiring only a small
per cent, on its value for his support during
the remainder of his life.
—The Rev. F. H. Kerfoot entered upon his
duties as pastor of the Eutaw Place church,
Baltimore, on the third Sabbath in this month.
—Dr. Yeaman retires from the editorial
chair of the Central Baptist, having sold his inl
- to his partner.
—Rev. W. W. Cone accepts a call from the
church at Huntsville. Ala.
—Brother Cates, in a late issue of the Bap
tist Messenger, fires a five column battery at
a Campbellite and a Presbyterian.
—A correspondent of the London Baptist t
writing from Rome, Italy, has this to say of
the Second Baptist Chapel in that city: “I
cannot forbear to intimate in this note, how
satisfectosy the works of the cimpel, etc.,
have been executed, and how little, compar
atively, there has been in the shape of extra",
save and except in the foundation, which
had to be sunk ten yards from the surface.
The estimate, £3,000, will be a little exceed
ed, but for that we have a freehold and a
group of buildings that would not be con
sidered dear at the price of £5,000 in many
English towns and cities.”
—Grace church, New York, was dissolved
on the evening of October sth.
“ FAIRS, RAFFLES AND ROUND DANCES.”
We give the following extracts, from
the proceedings of the Protestant
Episcopal Convention, assembled a
few days ago at Boston. Rev. Dr.
White, of Tennessee, offered the fol
lowing resolution :
Resolved, That the right reverend bishops
he respectfully requested to express their
opinions as to the propriety of the various
instrumentalities adop'ed for raising funds
for the support of the church.
Upon this resolution the author ad
dressed the house as follows :
Mr. President—l assure you it is with the
deepest reluctance that Iris :to address an
assembly so large, so learned, so experi
enced, and so pious, on the subject I am
about to bring before it. If a sense of duty
did not prompt me I would he silent, and I
hope, gentlemen, to occupy your uttentito
only a .few ißoments ton iua:Tr*tfiat Mas
given me muth anxiety. I have been a minis
ter of our Holy Church fur nearly fifty years.
1 am attached to its form of worship, to its
doctrine, and to everything connected with
it; and if it was necessary, gentlemen, I
would fight, although not naturally a brave
man, for every shred in the vestments and
every line in the prayer-book. But my at
tachment to the ciiurc.L does not blind me to
an evil that extensively prevails. Do you
ask, gentlemen, what is that evil ? I answer,
the improper instrumentalities that are used
to secure funds for the support of the church.
lam not Puritanical. I do not object to a
man’s kissing bis wile on Sunday, or—any
thing of a Puritanical nature ! [Loud ap
plause.] lam fond of innocent recreation
[renewed laughter], and all who know me
well will testify with what zest I enter into
the innocent amusements of the day. But,
gentlemen, I protest against the instrumen
talities adopted to sustain our church. I
must be very particular now, gentlemen, and
Itell you what I object to,I object to ice cream
entertainments,l object to voting lor the pret
tiest girl in the company, I object to raffling,
I object to waltzes, and I object to round
dances, and to everything of the kind. I
believe, gentlemen, that the evil spirit has
never invented an engine more likely to de
moralize our people than the methods now
taken to support the church. It throws
practical religion out of the question ; it ac
tually turns the young people of our church
crazy in regard to the se matters. Let me
illustrate : Three or four young men, having
no position in society, and desirous of get
ting acquainted with girls, approach some
two or three old ladies and say—“ Don’t
you want an entertainment for the purpose
of paying the minister’s salary, or the assess
ment for the bishops, or to turnish the min
ister with a carpet or some other article of
furniture? If you will make the arrange
ments we will see that the expenses are
paid.” The ladies responded in the affirma
tive. Ttiese young men meet together and bear
the expenses of the entertainment, and they
dance till two or three o’clock in the morn
ing. The effect is to demoralize the people
and to make these young people think that
religion consists in matters of this kind. I
object to these instrumentalities because 1
am an advocate of offertory. I think the
man who contributes to the church one cent
is as much a worshipper of God as the man
who makes the most ardent prayer. To
give is an act of worship. It is the ODly
way of giving recognized in the Bible, and
these lairs, entertainments and festivals, iu
my opinion, are contrary to the dignity of
the Episcopal church. We profess to be
very aristocratic in our notioos, very exclu
sive—we belong to the church. How morti
fying, then, when I pass through the streets
of the city and her outsiders say : “ Is it pos
sible f'at the Episcopal church resorts re
such methods as
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WHOLE NO. 2292
General Denominational Rems,
—Rev. Benjamin Larabee reports tha: a
great revival has swept through the churches
in Persia, such as has never been known be
fore since the missionaries went to that country.
The woi k has been conducted principally by
native preachers.
—The Executive Committee of the Inter
national Sundayschool Convention have de
cided upon Atlanta as the place of the next
session by that body. The Convention will
meet od Friday, April 17th, 1878.
—ln Rome there are 355 Catholic church
es, 14 Protestant churches, and 4 Jewish
Synagogues.
—The Enquirer, heretofore the New York
organ of Unitarianism, has been uuited with
the Christian Register, of Boston.
—The Receipts of the American Home
Mission Society, in September, were $25,307.
Of this total over SIB,OOO was from legacies.
—“Gipsy Christians” is the well chosen
name given by a prominent religious news
paper, to those people who wander from one
church to another, without any settled hab
its of permanence.
—ln ten States is comprised nearly the
whole strength of Universalism in this country.
There are 514 churches and 26,764 members.
Universalism is the strongest in Massachusetts,
which embraces more than one-fifth of its
strength. New York furnishes neariy one
fifth. It never flourished in the South.
—The First Baptist chapel in Rome is in tLe
Piazza Lucina. On the site where it is
believed once stood the palace of the
Roman Senator, Pudens, whom Paul visited
and of whom he speaks with much affection,
a freehold has been purchased, and a chapel
a minister’s residence, and two school-rooms are
in course of erection at a cost of about £3,000.
—The second week in November has been
appointed as a week of prayer by the Young
Men’s Christian Association.
—John Wesley’s sermons, in the course of
his ministry, amounted to 40,000; Mr. Whit
field’s to 18,000, and Rowlaud Hill’s to 23,000.
—“The Roman Catholics of London have
issued an appeal for subscriptions in behalf of
the suffering Turks, who have been driven
from their homes by the Russians.” Query :
How much of the money would go to the
Turks ?
—When the Queen of Madagascar issued
lies proclamation abolishing slavery in her
i dominions, 50,0.00 subjects assembled to Lear
the reading (it. it. J\xo is a thorough
temperance woman, and friend of missions.
—The Evangelical Alliance of the United
States will hold its second Biennial Confer
ence at Detroit, October 30th to November
2d. Dr. Scbaff tvill read a paper on the
history and purposes of the Alliance. Other
papers will be read by the Revs. Drs. Brown,
Buckley, Samson, it. W. Clark, President
Angell,of the University of Michigan, and
others.
—President Robinson, of Brown University,
stated at the closing meeting of the Ameri
can Board of Commissioners for Foreign
Missions, that SIOO,OOO had been raised in
Providence, within a lew months, to pay
missionary debts. Iu May, the Baptist For
eign Missionary Union raised $48,000 in that
city, to relieve the indebtedness of its treas
ury.
—Prizes are offered by the Kendall County
Fair Association, in Michigan, for the big
gest and best Sunday-schools. The total
prize money is SIOO, of which the largest
Sunday-school is to receive S3O, and so on
down, until the fifth receives only $lO.
There is little difficulty in finding out which
school is the biggest, but as to excellence,
who shall judge?
—ln reporting the proceedings of the Pan-
Presbyterian Council to the South classis of
Long Island, the Rev. Dr. Inglis, who was a
delegate from the Dutch Reformed Church,
stateu “that the American preachers filled
the pulpits of all the principal churches of
Edinburgh, aud it was generally admitted
that no such preaching had been heard
there since Dr. Chalmers died.”
—Of the 506 (Dutch) Reformed Churches
in the United States, 187 failed to
anything to Domestic Missions for 1876 rfl
1877, and of the whole number,
contributed to the Church Buildinvf;
Fur the four ni'Uiths, Irom May lsufl
her Ist, the entire rcccipt&Mfl
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