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2 j|)nr Corresjjonbeuts. For the Index ana Baptist.| “ A SOREHEAD BAPTIST PREACHER.” Editors Index.— May I say a few words about this exceedingly inelegant and unbrothcrly expression. It ap pears in your editorial columns as a quotation from the Religious Herald. I have read that paper but little, and thought it at least respectful and re spectable, if not sound in other mat ters. But when I read : “ A sorehead Baptist preacher is a very disagreeable thing!" lam astonished! It is not the sorehead, but Cotprcaeher, that is the disagreeable thing. It is bad enough for that brother to suffer from such a head, but far worse when he must have it heralded to the world, that, not his head, but himself, is a very disagreeable thing ! The Herald says so, (“ and the Herald is an honor able man,”) but I should be glad to know that “ Baptist preacher,” and to know why he is so very disagreeable. Does he simply disagree with the Her ald lor the Herald with him ? Does he disagree with the Bible? or why is he so bitterly complained of? Of such a one the Herald says, (“ and the Her ald is an honorable man,”) “We (does that mean editorially,) would be better off if he were dead.” Pretty bitter for brethren ! “ Well, he will not live always.” How does this ac cord with the “ New Commandment ?” It would be well for the Herald to once more repeat the Lord’s prayer, if he knows it, especially that part which says: “And forgive ms (take it edito rially, my brother, if you please,) our debts, as we forgive our debtors.” By the way, “heralds" usually proclaim for some one —for whom does the very Religious Herald proclaim ? H. For the Index and BHptiHt.l The Remarkable Revival at Cartersvllle, Georgia. Editors Index. —On the second Sabbath in September we began a meeting in our church, which lasted one month. For along time previous to the commencement of the meeting, preaching, praying, and to a large ex tent, among some of the brethren and sisters, their conversation was all with reference to the contemplated meeting. One brother and one sister went around among the brethren and sisters privately, and got the consent of as many as they could to set apart a cer tain hour, each day, to pray for God’s blessing upon the meeting. Circum stances prevented the church from commencing as soon as they desired, so that when the meeting did begin nearly all the membershipNvas revived, and the work of conversion commenced at once. The was intense ancf wide sptead, and abated but little until the close. For a while, all the business houses in the place were closed that the busi ness men might attend the prayer meeting. Even the J ews and grocery keepers closed Their houses. Fre quently, after every seat in the house was filled, and thi aisles filled with chairs and the windows crowded, and every standing place in the church filled, many would go a vay not being able to get even standing room on the outside of the windows. There was no excitement in the least, at all. The services were generally as quiet as ordinary Sabbath services, but the interest was intense. The first conversion was a young lawyer, who came up for prayers dur ing the first meeting he attended, while we were singing the last hymn previous to dismission. He arose from his seat and came forward with out a word, and kneeled down at the front seat. Immediately prayer was offered for his conversion, and the next evening he was converted and went right to work warning otl.ers. The Holy Spirit was present in great power, and of the great number of converts many presented them selves only once for prayer. Scarcely any who were converted presented themselves for prayer more than a half dozen times. After the meeting had been in pro gress for some days the pastor invited all the sisters who bad unconverted husbands to meet together one after felon. Eleven of them met in con dition with some other female mem J .■femd held a prayer meeting < spe '■ behalf of the>r husbands. to pray a celt i mr i * . f 1 "• \%'c J Bjgw''' •• ’ ■ ■ SL'g H. . Wk . . Hn THE CHRISTIAN INDEX AND SOUTH-WESTERN BAPTIST. The average age of the converts is about thirty. Out of the seventy-five or eighty converts there were eighteen husbands and seventeen wives—seven husbands and wives. In one family there was father and mother, and two grown daughters and a daughter-in-law. Among the converts were two gro cery keepers, and among the things which are no more may be recorded those two saloons. Some of these coaverts had not been in the house of God for years previous to this meeting. The whole moral atmosphere of our town is changed. Brother Ryals rendered some valua ble service during the meeting, but the most of the labor was performed by the pastor. One great element of the success of the meeting was in the per sonal effort made by the members of the church with sinners. Up to this time forty-one members have been re ceived by experience, and forty of them baptized; five we received by letter. We hope to receive others yet. Many of the converts joined the Pres byterian and Methodist churches. We were kindly assisted by the other de nominations so far as attendance and moral support could go. The ciass of converts are very val uable, many of them solid, substantial citizens, and as soon as sorxe of them were converted they became our most valuable workers. We thank God and take courage. R. B. He^ddkn. Cartorsvillc, Ga., Octobor 18, 1877. For the Index umlßavtlst. l INDORSEMENT AND COMMENTS. Editors Index— Your editorial on “Home Instruction” meets my hearty concurrence and warm approval. The views you so ably present are eminent ly correct. The Sunday-school has not reached its measure of usefulness for the very reason that parents neglect this “home instruction.” This applies specially and particularly, to mem In r of the church. In the Sunday-school work in this State I find two great brawbacks. 1. Absence of a large part of the members of the church from the Sun day.school. 2. Absence of Sunday-school children from divine service. With these two impediments re moved the efficiency of the Sunday school for good can be doubled. I think we crowd our services on Sunday too lunch in cities, and have service too infrequent in the country. If the older members of the church— the pillars and sleepers—complain of long sermons, can you expect children to spend one hour and a half in Sunday school and then sit anotln r hour and a half or t longer in church, without becoming restless ? Adults and child* ren mufct be fed, but in order that the food be nutritious, they must prop erly digest it. Someehange isnec ss ry. Let parents and children all sit togeth er during the morning service and listen to the peached word. In the afternoon let parents and children meet in the Sunday-school to study the i vritten word. It. is not the children alone who should study the Bible. Members of the church—old and young —need to study the revealed will of their Heavenly Father carefully, earn estly and prayerfully. Then the work of religious training and instruction at home will become a feature in the family which will increase the Chris tian knowledge and culture of parents aud children. More frequent meetings of country churches will greatly improve tbeir spiritual condition. There is no reason why they should not meetevery Sunday. If preaching cannot be" had, a prayer-meeting, or studying the Bible, might be profitably substituted. Stir up the church to its duty. Not only should our own children have religious instruction, but the fields white for the harvest, in our cities and in every county, should have laborers in them, working diligently for the salvation of souls, W. G. Whidby, President State Sunday-school Convention. For the liulex and Baptist.l ENDORSEMENT OF “NATHAN.” I should like very much to shake the hand .if “Nathan.” Sure, he has spo ken well for his people, and fully has he answered up what Dr. S. said ; and what “L.” used as the cause of the great neglect which our churches had manifested in the education and en lightenment of the colored people in our midst. When i read his earnest call for help to our brethren, 1 could not but ask myself whether the man of Macedonia plead so feelingly with the great apor tle :o the Gentiles, when he called upon huu for help. A -ts xvi: 9. As Ibis Nathan is “a man, ” “a man of Ethiopia,” and as he pleads thus, may we not say, surely, ‘‘Ethiopia is its hand unto God, ds x : 1 '■ el y j*-' , • ’ r£*„ Sfe fet, I ' 1 ' / . , ■ : ' i and spiritual wants. Now, they are our poor neighbors, aDd, though we may not have means to bestow upon them temporal blessings, we can give the word of counsel and sympathy, and this, which is more valuable than gold, will awaken pleasant trains, which will bring fruits to eternal life. Help! oh, help ! Let us all help Africa now! I have recently attended a Sunday school meeting and two pleasant Asso ciational meetings. The Mississippi River Association met on the 6th inst., at Rocky Creek church, St. Helena parish, Louisiana, Colonel Armaker, of Osyka, moderator, and B. S. Spencer, clerk. The Mississippi Baptist Association, the oldest general body in the State, or ganized in 1808, met with /Ton Hill church, Amite county, Miss', pastor W. W. Bolls moderator, and J. A. Bolls clerk. Pretty fair delegations, and usual routine of business attended to at each of these. W. H. Robert. Woodville, Miss,, Oct' 22, 1877. For the Index and Baptist. CONFLICTING STATEMENTS. In The Index of the nth cf Octo ber, is an extract from a jrroposed work on Baptist History, by Rev. I>. W. Whilden, which needs some atten tion. He says: “Georgia"" Baptist Association for State ofi-'-Geergia formed,” etc. It should be General, not Georgia. The Georgia Baptist Association was formed in 1784, and was a constituent member in the or ganization of the General Association (afterwards called the Georgia Baptist Convention) in 1822. This change of name from General Association to Georgia Baptist Convention, was pro posed by resolution, at the-aession in Washington, Wilkes county, in 1827, and passed at the session held at Monti ello, in 1828. Again, brother W. says : “1823 — Baptist State Convention and Baptist General Association formed, in Octo ber, at Salem church, hear Greens boro, chiefly through the, labors of Rev. J. A. Ronaldson." This statement is inconsistent with the statement that the General Asso ciation was formed in" 1822, and clashes with the minutes which state that the session for 1823 was held in Powelton. By way of parenthesis, too, brother Whilden says: “There is some in congruity in. the minutes of tht.Con vention. According to some, th& ses . sion of IS7O was the fa+ty flight q an niversary, and the session * the filty-third.” ’ 1 1 beg leave to say that copies I h:\ve, (and, 1 • a make the sessmff fif iß7Wihe j*rty eighth, and that of 1 the fifty fourth anniversary of the Convention. If there are copies of 1876 with 53 as the anniversary, how do you printers account for it? G. R. McCall. [We can only say, in reply to our brother’s question, that the Conven tion minutes for the session of rS~6 were printed at this office, and that all were printed from the same form. — Fds. Index.] For the Index and Baptist.] The Georgia Methodist Episcopal Coufereuce. Not South, but the unqualified thing itself. It met in Dalton, October 11. My purpose is not to give you a report of all its proceedings, but to write a few lines about some parts of the pro gramme. They open their annual meeting very much litre other people, with singing, reading Scripture and prayer. It is not long, however, before they get to a point we Baptists never reach. I allude to fixing the status of their ministers. They have three classes of ministers who belong to the Conference: the “efficient," the “superannuated,” aud the “located.” The efficient class are those who succeed with a “charge," and get paid for their labor ; the superan nuated class are those who might suc ceed with the “charge” of a “society,” but for bad health, or the want of a paying “charge” to which the bishop may assign them. One meaning of superanuate is “to give a pension to on account of old age or other in firmity.” Auother is, “to last beyond the year.” I do not know which of Ihese meanings the“Coufereuee” adopts when it superannuates a preacher, but I suppose it is the second, for, while I do not know positively that they do not “give a pension” to the superannuated, I do know that some of the super class are not afflicted with “old age.” Aud 1 have heard it confessed in Confer ence by the bishop, that the “other in tinuity” in the definition was more the want of a place thau the ailment of the man. The “located” class are not the preachers on a “station,” but those who have been charged with “inefficiency,” and the charge has been proven in Con ference and they have been laid aside, as I understand it, to preach wherever opportunity is afforded, feNtrtv, at each annual Conference, the list is goue over, and every dther’s name put upon one or an- U dd these list.. It is curious to a 4 see h 'iv tins Is doae. Tne I Bfeit up hst, ana ..s uoc.i..' s if there is .id bn tier Many thing agv.ust t iu.t ’ presiding elder gives an account of him, and he is also allowed to speak for himself. His speech is generally to ask to be put in the superannuated class if he has any “infirmity,” if not, and if there is no charge of inefficiency preferred against him, he is put on the efficient list by a vote of the Conference. If he is trans ferred to either of the other lists, it also is done by a vote of the brethren. So the standing of the preacher is de termined by vote of the Conference, and his field of labor, (if he be among the efficient) is afterwards determined by the decree of the bishop. If the bishop fails to assign all the efficients a field of labor, he is “liable to impeachment.” I may find time to send you some notice of the religious exercises in another communication, but this is al ready too long. R. T. Hanks. Dalton, Ga. BAPTIST HISTORY. [Hpacimeu Extracts from a proposed Work by the llev. 11. W. Whilden, Pleasant Hill, Alabama.] 1843 New Testament in Karen printed. Rev. J. G. Binney pastor of a Baptist church in Savannah, Ga., and Rev. E. B. Bullard pastor at Foxbo rough, Mass., appointed missionaries to the Karens. 1844 — At the meeting of the Trien nial Convention this year, the subject of slavery was agitated. Number of Baptistchurches in Great Britain 1,675. 1845 — Rev. Dr. Judson visits Amer ica. Southern Baptist Convention formed at Augusta, Georgia, May Btb. This arose from an unwillingness on the part of one of the Boards of the TrK ennial Convention to appoint slave holders missionaries. The meetings were at first triennial, afterwards bi ennial, now they are annual. Up to this year, for thirty years previous, the Southern Baptists had raised for For eign Missions $2i2,000. See 1875. 1846 Messrs. Pearcy and Clopton sail for China, as missionaries under Southern Baptist Convention, June 22, and arrive October 9. Duriug this year there were two Associations in lowa and 900 church members. 1847 — Southern Baptist Publication Society formed in Savannah, Georgia. 1848— Rev. Dr. Devan appointed missionary to France. Texas Baptist Convention formed. 1849 First church formed in Min nesota at St. Pauls. Cramp. 1850 — American- Bible Union June 10, originated by Baptists, though, according to the constitution of this Society, it is not a Baptist institution. New York Chronicle commenced. 1851— Furman University founded in Greenville, S. C. One hundredth anniversary of Charleston Association celebrated in November in Charleston, S.C.. f . , 1852 ■*— American baptist Register published. Yazoo Association, Missis sippi, formed. The following Associa tions in Georgia were formed : Arba coochee and Oostanaula. T. P. Craw ford and wife, missionaries Southern Baptist Convention, arrived in China on the 30th of March. 1853 The Christian Repository com menced in July by Rev. Dr. Ford. American Baptist Historical Society was formed May 6th, Philadelphia, Penn sylvania, headquarters. Object: The collection and preservation of docu ments, books, etc., on Baptist History. 1854 Death of Rev. J. L. Reynold son. He was a very useful man, both as an evangelist and pastor. He was at one time pastor of the Market street Baptist church, Petersburg, Va. He was an Englishman by birth, and a short time before his death was on his way to America from a visit to the home of his childhood, but was lost at sea, iu the destruction of the steamer City of Glasgow. (A. B. Hem. Sept. 1855 ) He was a brother-in-law of Rev. Dr. Thos. Curtis, of Limestone Springs, s. 0. 1855 Texas Baptist commenced in Anderson, Grimes county,Texas. Death of Rev. J. S. Mims, a Professor in the Furman Theological Seminary, S. C. 1856 Cherokee Baptist College, Cassville, Georgia, burnt January 4. 1857 The Southern Baptist Con vention held the s : xth biennial session in Louisville, Ky. 1858— Persecution of German Bap tists iu Europe. Minnesota Baptist Convention formed in November. 1859 Arkansas Baptist published at Little Rock. Texas Associations as follows: San Marcos and Union. Georgia Associations as follows: Mt. Yernoti and Friendship. For the Index au t Baptist. AITIMN MTSINGS. There are times and seasous in this life of urs which dispose the mind to revive impressions of sadness. The hour of twilight brings with it a sooth ing melancholy—the last fading ray of sunlight, the dim outline of surrounding obj lets ; the gradual transition from light to darkness softens the heart, opening it to all sweet and tender emd tions. Love and memory summon np the spirit of hopes long faded ; the shadowv forms of the absent and the dead gather around us; familiar tones long hushed come mingling with the low voice of the wind to our ears. Then, too. we dream of the future—we sigh for immortality, and breathe for the aspirations for the arrival of that day which knows no night. The season of the ‘.bear and yellow leaf” is fitted to awaken thoughts of sorrow. Autumu is the twilight of the year; the rich glow of summer is mel- lowed into the soft tint which betokens the dissolution of nature, and her love liest productions disappear from our view, leaving us to grieve that objects round which the delicate tendrils of affection have learned to twine, must fade and wither and pass away to be forgotten. It is painful to be so re minded that within the bright forms which glide about our pathway, as well as in the flowers that spring up beneath our footsteps, lie concealed the elements of decay. We shrink instinctively from look ing upon death, and nature, as if to tempt us to see it without a shudder, has ordered that all her fairest works shall be loveliest in their dissolution. The rays of the sun are never so rich and varied as when it is about to leave the world shrouded in darkness and gloom. The forest puts off its mod*st drapery of green, and assumes a robe of scarlet and gold, just as the prin ciple of life begins to decline. Its brilliance dazzles for awhile and then fading and falling away, it gives place to the pale shroud of winter. There are diseases too, which, while they are sapping the foundations of life, give to the cheek a richer bloom, and to the eye a brighter luster. We watch with fondness the increasing beauty of the sufferer, and forget that it is nour ished by the ministry of that tyrant who adorns but to destroy. Why is it that all the ties which hold the heart a prisoner to earth are so frail and perishable, if it be not to remind us that this world is not our home? Why is that we are endowed with such high hopes and glorious aspirations after beauty that never fades, if it be not that a brighter sphere awaits us filled with glories whose luster time ma never dim, and brings to whom love may at tach itself without one fear of separa tion ? “It is well for us that our best pleasures have an immortality like our own, that the unseen life is but a glori fication of the sun,” that the fountains of sympathy which are opened here will gush forth unrestrained in eter nity. TANARUS, J. S. C. For the Index and Baptist.] THE WORK OF GOD’S ELECT. Annexed are given the contributions of the Southern States for the spread of the gospel in the heathen lands dur ing the Conventional year ending May Ist, 1876 ; also, the receipts from May Ist to Octobei 10th, 1877; together with the remainders, which the States should respectively make up before May Ist, 1878. To supply the lack of donations in the summer, temporary arrangements were made to meet the drafts of our missionaries. Now, these obligations must be met, in addition to the current expenses ot the missions- The Board, as the servants of the churches, look confidently to them to afford the means necessary for the work undertaken by their command, and for the discharge of indebtedness contract ed in their name. Will not the pastors and all earnest workers for Jesus do what they can to realize the full sums • spected of their several States? This burden of preaching Jesus to the na tions is a blessed aud perpetual one, which the elect will rejoice to endure for Him who gave his life for them, and for multitudes of the race, until the kingdoms of this world shall be come the kingdoms of the Lord and of His Christ: States. I 1876. I 1877. Maryland $2,252.95, $282.37 $1,970.58 District of Co-1 lmnbia i 272.80, 11 00 261.80 Virginia ; 9,263 61 1,985.79 7,277.82 Went Virginia.. 476.91, 48.85 428.06 North Carolina. 2,681 03 239.42 2,441.61 South Carolina. 6,088.86 1,222.95 4,865 91 Georgia 1 7,174.70 764 86 6,409 84 Florida 1 62.78’ 1.00 61.78 Alabama 1,371.13 263.05 1,108.08 Mississippi j 1,628 QOj 603 57 1,024 43 Louisiana 499.15 127.35 371.80 Texas 1.689 62 1 108.40 1,581.22 Tennessee : 1,548.02; 344 96 1.20806 Kentucky 5,924 87 1,238 37 4,686 50 Missouri j 710.631 435.08 275.55 Arkansas ‘ 192.00 87.90 103.10 Miss Lottie Moon started on the 18th of this month for China. Will not the prayers of God’s people ascend con tinually for the safe voyage of this no ble woman ? And, will not their aims be offered with their supplications that they may be heard of the Lord ? 11. A. Topper, Corresponding Secretary. Richmond, Ya. ■ ELDER J. M. STIUVtLL. 5Y hat a shock was experienced [in out community yesterday, when the news came from Stone Mountain that this good brother was dead ! For a moment I stood still, an could only say, how sad. At first 11 ho fight the report might be untrue, hut 1 remembered an item in the last issue of the Covington .B tar, which spoke of his serious illness. At twelve o’clock yesterday liis soul took its flight to a fairer world on high. Released from worldly connections, that soul may now expand indefinitely in the presence of heavenly revelations. A good matt has departed. I cannot write his biography—the materials are net at hand. 1 only desire to bear some testi mony to the worth of this man of God. For several years our fields of labor baVe been adjacent, and occasionally we have worked together. 1 have always noticed Ins burning zeal tor the cause of Christ, and wjj’le did pensing the Word to his hearers, hts soul and body seemed all aglow with the intensity of hts ardent nature jor die s dvatbm of those whoiji* he addressed When other's pirtichefl his warm heart g ithek-d iu ffitreh precious good, arid those iu close proximity could frequently hear, in soft accerits, Words of praise find s adoration. Whenever be spoke, he was in earnest. The exhortation de livered at the First Baptist Church of this place during the session of the Association is still fresh in our miuds. Many were ■ moved by it, and doubtless eternity will show its good fruits. Ah, what a loss we have sustained 1 Society, the family circle, the church and the Stone Mountain Association are all bereaved. Society has lost one of its bright-* est ornaments; his precept and example pointed to a high-toned morality. The family circle, O, who can compute their losse! The tears and groans ail gathered would fail to give us the true loss. His form abseut from the lonely fireside, and his voice hushed from the evening ofierings. Friends, weep with that weeping family. The church of which he was a member, mourn indeed one of the most faithful expounders' of gospel truth has been laid low. He loved her ordinances, and the law of the Lord was his delight. The Stone Mountain Association has sustained great loss. Broth- -- er Stilwell was punctual in his attendance, and was always ready to do work for the &' or }' °f God and the good of the brethren. '” e ®b*ll miss him, but shall meekly bow, ‘He who doeth all things well” has satd, ’Come up higher.” We wait; may we be ready when the Father calls. We offer our sympathy to the bereaved family. „ J. M. Brittainx Gonyers, Gi., Sept 28th, 1877. * For the Index and Baptist,, AGED JIIYISTERS’ SAVING FIND. Having changed my residence from Marietta to Eatonton, Georgia, all those desiring to contribute to the above named fund, are requested to send tbeir contributions to brother A. M. York, Treasurer, Marietta Georgia. I. R. Branham. Eatonton. Ga., October, 20, 1877- fgisffllang. HOW TO LIVE A UI.VDUKD YEARS. Baron Reichenbach, who has de voted many years of deep study in the art of bed making, maintains that you must not always lie in your bed as it Is made, under penalty of abridging your life by a great number of years. If, says the Baron, a mere magnet exer • ises an influence on sensitive persons, the earth’s magnetism must certainly make itself felt on the nervous life of man. Hence he dilates on the salutary effects of the inhabitants of the north ern hemisphere lying with their heads to the north, and those of the southern with their heads to the south. For travelers of short memories we may put the rule in general terms: '’FS whatever hemisphere you may be, al ways sleep with your feet to the equa. tor, and let your body lie “ true as a needle to the pole.” In giving this rule the Baron has simply told us how to live a hundred years; for the polar direction of the body is, it appears, the utmost importance for the proper circulation of the blood, and we have Ba* ron Reichenbach's authority for stating that many disturbances in the human organism have been cured by simply placing the bolster at a different pofnt* of the compass from that it had ojjl pied before. Let such as have hitllH been in the habit of sleeping with tIRPi heads where their feet ought to be take to heart the example of the late Dr. Fischweiter, Maiigeburg, who died re cently at the age of one hundred and nine years, and always attributed his long life to the faithful observance of the pole to pole position of sleeping. The most unhealthy position, we are told, is when the body lies due east and west. Some observers assure us that to sleep in such a position is taut, rmoant to committing slow suicide, and that dis eases are often aggravated by devia tions from the polar posture. LOOKING INTO TIIE FI'TIRF. Of what can she be thinking ? fffiis fair, young maiden, just stepping out into life, with its joys and sorrows, its hopes and disappointments, its pleas ures and its pains, all yet untried, but all as certainly awaiting her as they have been the portion of every maiden since the days of her, who, created a woman, knew nothing of the sweet ex perience of joyous childhood err of trusting maidenhood. Which shall predominate—the joys or the sorrows ? Happy is it for the young maiden that she cannot see in the future. Perhaps a thought of the uncertainty that en shrouds her pathway through life casts a slight shade over the otherwise beam ing face, and deepens the expression of the sparkling eyes. Be it so. It only enhances her lovliness, and invests her with a charm peculiar to thought ful maidenhood. Many of our young read r are now at the threshold ot life, just ready to step out into this husv, worxing world. Some are ail anxiety, all ■ ugerness, hoping all things fearing nothing.! Some, a very few, perhaps, are timidly j dreading the step.* Be neither over confident nor too fearful. Do-not shrink back from the no vitable, nor advance without premedita'ion. De termine to l)e Useful as -wwl.-u-* -happy ; form a purpose in life, a good and never waver from it. Meet bravely every difficulty in your path, and at the same time enjoy, to your bean’s content, every innocent pleasure that may be extracted from atttendant cir cumstances. Buoyant with hope, as you now are, step bravely out into your place in the world, with a firm determination to do what is right uu der aSlj circumstauccs, to give all you Influence to what is good, and ad'beri Unflinchingly to it, no matter hot strong the temptation to do otherwise aud when you shall have reached th evening of life your hearts will be a fresh and as pure and as young a when you stood “at the threshold, gazing eagerly, maybe timidly, into tb open plain beyond.