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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 ters Even • •• to mi■ tlnmls i> r h.-M . \ • i 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 IhnMing F'lrnl were “I I>■ ■M' l tic Mi -n.ii-., ag&i .'7 Tlo- •VrnAgj... 7’V. ij whn a b> i . in **i ’pa * i ... 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