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The Christian Index.
THE SOTTTH-WESTEBIT BAPTIST, THE CHRISTIAN HERALD
of Alabama. or Tknnkssm.
VOL. 56—NO. 43.
Table of Conteuta.
Hm* Page.—Alabama Department: Record of
Mate Events ; Tuskegee Association : Baptist
Sews and Notes ; Spirit of the Religions
Press ; The Mission Field ; General Denom
inational News.
Shooks Page.—Our Correspondents: A Review
of the Discussion Between the Religious Her
ald and the Mississitypi Record, on Pulpit
Affiliation—W. H. J.; A Good Meeting—Ola;
Paying the Preaaier—Aunt Edith; Hephzibah
Fogy; “An Evil '—ls the
Sur aiblo for It ?—B. Boy
kin;^Report of Rev. F. M. Haygood.
Ttilbu a Little Chiltf’—l’o try;
To of the Central Association—
B. Boyku; Ebenezer Association—T. C. B.; A
Happy Pastor and Wife—R. T. Hrnks; Child
rens’ Corner: Shall Minnie go to the Dancing
Party ?—Aunt Edith. The Stocking-Basket—
Poetry.
Fowbth Page.—Editorial: Some Queries An
swered ; Miraolos and Prophecies Compared
— Bey. 8. G. Hillyer, D.D. Doctrinal Sermons
—Bev. G. A. Nunually. Another Great Evil;
Too many Churches ; Selecting a Pastor ; Miss
Lottie Mown ; Georgia Baptist News.
Fifth Paok.—Secular Editorials : Satanic Stage
Shows ; Greek for Girls ; A Drop of Water ;
Cannot be Done ; Twenty -Second Senatorial
* Dietiiot ; Remarkable Man ; Editorial Para
graphs ; “Never all Dark”—Poetry.; News of
the Week—Domestic ; Foreign.
SriTH Paoe The Sunday-school: Paul Before
Agrippa—Lesson for Sunday. November lltb,
1877. Why Sundav-school Scholars do Not.
Remain to Preaching Service—Rev. T. 0.
Boykin. 8. S. E.
Sv.vksth Paoe.—The Farm: Work for the
Month; Ashes; Sait; The Apiary; The Poultry
laid.
Eighth Page.—Publishers Department ; South
ern Baptist Theological Seminary ; Fair at
Tbomasville, Georgia ; Memorial Exercises ;
Tribute of Respect to Mis* Julia McWhorter,
riago Notices. Obituaries. Advertisement !.
INDEX AND BAPTIST.
ALABAMA DEPARTMENT.
The spirit of revival is everywhere Apparent.
Gadsden has no temperance organization.
Daily trains now run over the A. and C.
railroad.
Rev. R. G. Ragan, of Anniston, is recover
ing from a serious illness.
I- The Daily Evening Star is anew paper at
Montgomery.
There has been this fall a great deal of fatal
sickness in Lauderdale county.
Rev, H. R. Raymond, jr., has been installed
churchy
* The Rale county cotton yield will he twen
y-five or thirty per cent, larger than last year.
•John M. Wheat has been appointed super
intedent of education in Cullman county.
Anew Methodist church has been dedicated
at Rock West, five miles from Camden.
North Alabama is a fine field, ripe for a
.Baptist harvest.
Capt. M. E. Reese is now editor and pro
prietor of the Wetumpka Ecopie’s Banner.
New corn sells at fifty cents a bushel at Tal
ladega.
An effort is being made to organize a county
in Chambers county.
There haß been a protracted meeting in the
Alpine Baptist church.
Rev. J. M. Scott died in Shelby county, aged
101 years.
There is no Young Mens’ Christian Associ
in Gadsden.
Rev. W. Franklin Kone has accepted the
pastorate of the Hun'sville Baptist church.
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DeKalb county is building anew court-house
at Collinsville.
The Gadsdon Times says the county seat of
•> Deßalb is about to be removed from Leban
on to Fort Payne.
Col. G. Joidon, formerly of Montgomery,
is general superintendent of the Texas Central
railroad.
D r . Blackford, of Blount county, has sued
the South and North railroad for 520,000 dam
ages for being put off the cars last spring.
Three entertainments, recently given in
'"Livingston, netted #2OO for the benefit of the
, Presbyterian church.
Shiloh church, near Uchee, has received
sixteen additions to its church memberahip
rsasßtly.
There were two hundred and fifty baptisms
lest Associations! year in the Central Asucia
-Vica
The mail routes from Uchee, Russell county,
and Auburn, Lee county, to Society Hall, Ala
gob county, have been suspended.
The next meeting ot the Salem Association
will take . , i with Bethel church, Saturday
before the fir-t Sabbath in October next.
The Southern Argus, of Selma, has donned a
, f hiadsomc new dress. It is the best weekly
paper in Alabama.
Col. Thos. W. Sadler has been reappointed
~ Boperintendent of Education for Autauga
oxy.
Coosa county Circuit Court, just adjourned,
aent no convicts to the penitentiary, and the
grand jury found only eight true bills.
Troy is continually increasing in population
and importance, and dwelling houses are in
good demand.
Much of the cotton raised in Coosa Valley
this year will be boated up and down the river
to market.
Graves Renfroe, E’q., son of Rev. Dr. J. J.
D. Renfroe, has gone to Southwestern Texas in
quest of health. He expects to settle perma
nently in that State.
< Dr. Sumner has just returned front the Tex
as Baptist Convention. He received there in
cash, bonds and land, $2,503.65 for theendow
i ment fund of the Seminary.
| A Mr. Kendrick, Universalist, of Dawson, i
Georgia, and who is said to have been for
many years a Baptist minister, was announced
to preach last Sunday at Troy.
The judges of the Centennial have awarded
a magnificent diploma to the South and North
railroad for the specimens of coal and iron ex
hibited by the corporation, from localities on
t he road.
Died, in Bibb county, at the residence of
Gen. J. G. L. Huey, the 10th ult., Thomas
W. Barker. Mr. Barker was born in Virginia,
but came with his parents, when ten or twelve
years old, to Greene county, in this State.
Rev. W. J. Lowry formerly pastor of the
Presbyterian church at Selma, and now f
Louisville, Kentucky, is dangerously ill, and
not expected to live. He is one of the ablest
divines in his denomination, and is greatly
beloved.
A correspondent of the Alabama Baptist
says :
I don’t believe that one in ten ofourcountiy
churches would accept the offer if a preacher
should agree to preach every Lord’s day for
them.
There must be a great fault somewhere;
either with the church, or with the preacher.
Airs. Pollie Wilson, widow of Cunningham
Wilson, one of the oldest and worthiest set
tlers, died at her residence near Alpine on the
18th ult. She has long been a member of the
Alpine Baptist chnryli, exemplify ing\every_
Tfrmo of Christian bhara\ter "Ter wnera'ii
•fas as largelWattended as t4at of any person in
the country, where she lived, for years.
Within the last three years about three liun
drd families from the hill county of the Caro
lines, most of whom were ou their way to
Texas, have settled down in the Sand Moun
tain country of Etowah and Marshall, and are
much pleased with the region. Others con
tinue to come, and they are a very desirable
and thrifty population.
Brother AlcWilliams, one of the oldest and
most beloved citizens of Wilcox county, died
suddenly of heart disease a few days ago, at the
age of seventy- four years. He served many
years as moderator, and yielded a wide influ
ence. His sterling character and Christian
elevation, as well as his high capacity as a
minister and pastor, have endeared his memo
ry to the denomination, and the entire commu
nity in which he lived and labored.
Rev. James AI. Scott, an aged minieter of
the Baptist church, died at his residence near
Harpersville, on Wednesday night, the
10th ult. He was born in Virginia the 12th
of January, 1777, moved to South Carolina in
earlv life, and came from that State to this
more than fiftv years ago. His mind remained
strone and vigorous, notwithstanding his ad
vanced age, until within a few months of his
death.
The Birmingham Iron Age gives a very en
couraging account of the activity of the mining
business :
Large quantities of coal are being mined in
all directions from Birmingham New mines
are being opened, and the old mines are work
inn to their full capacity. The supply for the
ivintpr promises to he equal to the demand
The South and North railroad is hauling by
every train, both North and South. The Ala
bama mines are now shipping to Georgia, Ten
nessee, Kentucky and Mississippi, besides to
all parts of the Sta'e,
For tho Index and Baptlir.j
'I INKKGF.K ASSOCIATION.
Dear Index —Wc have just closed one of
the most delightful associations! meetings of
Turkeegee Association it has ever been my
privilege to enjoy.
The Association convened with the Seale
Bap'ist church October 19th, 1877.
We had a good attendance, though several
of the churches were not represenied. This
was our thirty-second session, and all hough it
is sol so large a body as in ante helium days.vei
Die force ot the Association Is considerable. The
minisleria' power et the Association is 1 qual to
that ol any Association in the South, if w>- may
judge from the sermons and speeches delivered
during its past session.
The missionary work is not as general nor
extensive as in former days, hut much of this
is on account of the ptessure in financial mat
ters From Die reading of the lellers, as well ns
Inuu Die aiifunt seta up, also from the action
ot the Association relative to a missionary in
Die field, I Inqie Dial a more united and gen
eral interest is being lelt, the fruits of which I
expect to see increased.
We had some excellent preaching, which I
enjoyed to Die lull. How pleasant it is, altera
year’* bard labor, wiih our individual charges,
FRANKLIN PRINTING BOOSE, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, NOVEMBER ft, 1877.
to get off to some such place, where we can
hear preaching without doing any ourself. It
is both refreshing and sometimes encouraging.
The preaching on Sabbath was excellent.
Eld. W. E. Lloyd in the forenoon, Eld. J. H.
Campbell, of Columbus, Georgia, at 3 P.M.,
and Rev. J. T. Ticheiror at night. Nor were
the sermons delivered by Eldes. W.H. Carroll,
of Opelika ; Z. D. Roby, of Tuskegee, and E.
Y. Van Hoose (lately of Troy, but now or soon
to be of Auburn), any the less enjoyable. I
might allude to other brethren in the Associa
tion, but these were all I heard preach at that
time.
The next session of the Association will Vie
held with the Tuskegee church. Eld. C. W.
Buck to preach the introductory sermon, Eld.
J. T. Tichenor the missionary sermon.
The hospitality ol people of Seale was
unbounded and milt:, enjoyed, llro. W. S.
Rogers, the pastor . iNtVie church at Seale, is
one of our most promising young ministers,
and seems to he wielding great influence for
good among his people.
I might write incidents of the
meeting which woull tie enjoyed, but do not
wish to trespass upon your space. It seems
to me that you might increase your space al
loted to Alabama matters, and it would per
haps increase your subscription in East Ala
bama.
I neglected to say that the officers were re
elected, Eld. W. 11. Carroll, moderator, and
Eld. C. W. Buck, secretary. Eld. Carroll has
moderated for the Association eight years con
secutively. So much for doing one’s duty.
He is a good officer, but a better preacher.
BAPTIST NEWS AND NOTES.
—Airs. D. D. Davis, of Allegan, Mich., who
died Sept. 28th, bequeathed #B,OOO to Kala
mazoo College, $5,000 to the Nashville Uni
versity, #SOO to the Baptist Sunday-school
work in Michigan, several bequests to rela
tives, and the remainder of her property, esti
mated at SOO,OOO, to the Baptist church iti
Allegan.
—The arrangements for the dedication of
the monument and statue to Roger Williams
by the City of Providence gave offense to some.
The Baptists were barely mentioned by the
orator, Prof. Diman, and Roger Williams was
represented as having been connected with
them only for a brief period. Referring to
this oration, the Examiner ami Chronicle says :
But why need Baptists be sensitive about the
oration? It is something, that it did not ex
pressly disparage us. Certainly, it was a civic,
not a religious celebration—in honor of a man,
not of a sect. It might hs .'e been both just and
graceful to notice the Baptist associates of
Roger Williams, in ProvWjence end Newport;
but we do not expect, w*ew England, such
p-wsdftNtfabiV V ‘' 'vyeJijnn**" ' iiAfoK'-.
I cent how amf then from posepli Cooß.
—The Alt. Zion AssocJition, Texas, passed
resolutions at its late session, asking the
churches and Associations of Eastern Texas
to consider prayerfully the question of form
ing a general Association for the purpose of
conducting missionary operations in that por
tion of the State. In answer to this request,
the Cherokee Association, at its meeting, re
ferred the mutter to a committee, who reported
that the necessities of the section Beem to de
mand such an organization, and a resolution
was adopted calling for a convention of the
churches, to meet in Overton, on Wednesday
before the third Sunday in December. If this
organization be formed, it will constitute the
third General Alissionary Association in
Texas.
—Dr. Lorimcr, of Boston, in a recent dis
course, stated that the two Baptist Associations,
which include the city of Boston, had greatly
increased in the number of church members
during the last ten years. Ir. 1860 the Bap
tists within the bounds of the Associations were
15,399; in 1870 they were 18,027, and in 1877
19,050.
—“AH the arguments, so far as we could see,
were on brother side of the ques
tion. —”Biblical Recorder. To this the Herald
says : “We really thought we had offered
some good reasons for not being Land-mark
ers, but it seems that we were mistaken. The
argument has been all on one side, so far as
brother Bailey could see. Possibly, his sight
is not very clear, and does' not reach vtry
far.” “Yes, ‘possibly.' We think no one
will ever do better on that side, and we know
of several who think the Herald did not en
tirely fail. We are to know that the Re
corder stands with the Record." —Baptist Rec
ord. It seems about as difficult for the com
batants to decide who has whipped, as it was
some time ago for them to tell what they were
fighting about.
—A good brother, writing of the Sewannee
Association, Florida, says: “We occupy the
middle station of prosperity, having ‘neither
poverty nor riches ;’ and our charities are on
a scale of moderation. We have been practi
cally anti-Alissionary, but our last Association
awoke from its long sleep of negligence, and
now we submit placidly to the name —“Mis-
sionary Baptists.” The great cause of negli
gence in the matter of giving on the part of
our churches is due to want, of instruction
from the pulpit. If a shepherd wants his
flock to be fat, let him remember that ‘the lib
eral soul shall be made fat.’ Spiritual lean
ness and leanness in giving are closely con
nected.”
—Five persons, all French Canadians, and
converts from Romanism of recent date, were
baptized in Pulliam, Conn., on the 7t‘i insl.
—During a series of seven years, the “exclu
sions” from the Baptist denomination have
exceeded the deaths by from 4,000 to 9,000 a
year. During nine years, from 1867 to 1876,
inclusive (omitting 1871), the deaths num
bered 96,350, and the exclusions 132,120.
Spirit of tie Religious Press.
—The Baptist Weekly, while ackuowledg
ing that there fife many advantages attach
ing to long'-fSstorates, when properly
conducted, say-:
At the same time, we are not without con
spicuous exantjfies of most mortifying fail
ures of long prorates, especially in some of
our small cHief. Instances are not rare
which show not only the absence of progress
in churches timer protracted pastorates, but
an almost absence of anything like
effort in tlio lice of church extension. Some
of these long pitied pastors have shown
such an ipilPsive care for their own
churches that Vmv have evinced little or no
interests in tiK'Enterprises, and have seemed
to fear such nu convents might circumscribe
the limits of t*teir own pai ishes, and inter
fere with their pastoral pre-eminence.
—Among -jr list of excellent contribu
tions in thcJiD number of the Baptist Quar
terly is one Pfiti Rev, Norman Fox, which
treats of “George Fox and the Early
Friends.” In<discussing the causes of the
decline of UnvFiiends, he presents the fol
lowing :
But the great error of the Friends has been
the abandonment of the old Baptist princi
ple that the church should be made up of
people professing conversion, the adoption of
the system of “birth-right membership.”
When the evangelizing spirit died out, and
the Society ( cased to act on the outside
world, the of Friends as such came
to be considered members of the Society, and
the Society became, like the State Church, a
body of converted and unconverted together.
The effect was the same as that of the
adoption of the Half Way Covenant in the
New England churches. Religion came o
he considered little more than a decorous
formalism.
Tub Circumcision Controversy.—An
article on this subject from a correspondent
of theJJhri tifin Observer contains some re
markaid.—vltts and conclusions. After
referring to the charge, against Paul that he
taught the people “not to circumcise their
children,” m perhaps an incorrect and
slanderous > upon, the writer says;
But it is certain that Paul would teach the
Jews who believed,' not to practice circum
cision any mover, but to baptize the children
instead. For tie was an apostle of Him who
had said, Do ye therefore, and teach all
nations,” (disciple or proselyte, all nations )
“baptizing yam,” etc. We know lie did
baptize tie e who believed. He had cer
tainly <n cJ*r and baptism tvs the, then ordain
ed ( n. _•
ncc peviC
upou the premises. We will endorse
the conclusion down to the second “but;’’
what follows that word is, however, too
much conclusion for so little premise. The
author refers to Infant Baptism, as appeal's
from the rest of the article. Paul was an
apostle, and “be did baptize those who be
lieved;" but how, in the broad range of logic,
a man can infer from these statements that
Paul would teach the baptism of infants, we
can’t understand. The only conclusion
which can l)e legitimately drawn from the
record that Paul baptized believers, in the
absence of positive information of his baptiz
ing any other clasas, is, that he did not and
would not teach infant baptism; since this
class could not exercise belief. Again' the
same writer says:
The only matter of wonder is that we do
not read of more controversy about the
change from circumcision to baptism.
A matter of very great wondei, no doubt,
to those whM look upon infant baptism as
taking I her*! ace of circumcision. Perhaps
the absence of controversy is due to the fact
that no such change over took place.
—Rev. J. K. Mendenhall, at a recent As-
sociation in South Carolina, when called
upon to sjiow whether churches should
tolerate dancing, pointed out the significant
fact that persons noted for their delight and
activity in such pleasures arc never noted for
piety and activity in religion. Leaving out
all other questions, the fact here mentioned
should be sufficient to make Christians avoid
this seductive pleasure. Deep piety and devo
tion to t he rfqncc are never united in the same
heart and life! It isn’t necessary to say
which is the cause and which is the effect;
or to the philosophy of the question.
The two spirits are enemies. If we are
guided and controlled by one, we will not
have the influence of the other. The heart
cannot be given to Christ and to the world
too. We ‘‘cannot serve God and mammon.”
—The following words of truth from the
Cross arid Crown present one fruitful cause
of inaclivity among Christians. Preachers
should never forget to make practical applica
tion of the instruction which they give; and
more than this, they should point out to
their members, personally, such duties as
they may be fitted to perform. An impor
tant duty of tiie pastor is to utilize the pow
ers of his members. Those ministers who
succeed best in the pastorate are generally
bound to bo good organizers and overseers.
Do not allow those under your care to fall
iuto the state mentioned below :
A large amount of Christian labor and
usefulness is lost, because a large number of
Cliristiuns have no intelligent idea of how
they can do anything in the Alaster’s great
vineyard. They listen to a sermon which
impresses them deeply with the fact that a
great need of Christian labor exists, that
'the harvest truly is great and the laborers
are tew,” and they sincerely desire to becoure
‘•laborers," but this is a vague term, and un
less some practical and specific ways of be
coming a “laborer” are pointed out, they are
in danger of relapsing iuto thestate of leeling
that a Christian’s whole duty is to attend
church on Sunday, and occasionally bear
testimony in prayer meeting.
—From an excellent article in the Baptist
Teacher we copy this item, which we com
mend to the prayerful attention of parents ;
“We cannot too carefully and constantly
cultivate in the case of the scholars who are
growing up around us the habit of giving to
the cause of God and humanity. The pen
nies that are put into their hands by their
parents as they post them off to Sunday
school, and that by them are thoughtlessly
dropped into “the collection” when they
come to Sunday-school, without any consid
eration or care as to what may become of
them afterwards, will not at all suffice.
They must be taught to give intelligently on
principle, aud to the point nod pinch of real
heroic,' personal sacrifice. They should know
to what they give, and why.”
—The Standard furnishes the following re
port of an essay on “The Future of Romanism
in this country,” delivered by Prof. J. B.
White, at the recent Pastoral Union ;
The essayist thought that this subject ought
to have been assigned to a prophet. It might
be suitable for one not a prophet to indicate
something, at least, of what the Romanists are
now doing in this country, and especially in
our own State. They have divided the Uni
ted States into eleven provinces, over each of
which is placed an archbishop. These provinces
are divided into dioceses, of which Illinois has
two. Therumber of priests in Illinois is 339
Five years ago there were 272; making a gain,
in five years of 67. The churches have, in the
same period, increased from 335 to 449; an
increase of 114, while the number of outsta
tions now is 140, as against 181 at the date
named. There is no Catholic theological sem
inary in the State, properly speaking ; there
are, however, sixty-seven ecclesiastical students
in the four colleges. The essay next proceed
ed to consider briefly the relations ot the Ro
man power to Protestantism, and to the free
institutions of this country. Which of these
powers shall ultimately prevail depends, under
God, not upon any man’s prophetic foresight,
but upon the earnestness, zeal and fidelity to
avowed principles upon the one side and the
other.
The Mission Field,
—Dr. 11. A. Nelson, discussing the foreign
work, in the Journal and Messenger, says:
There are many good reasons for thinking
that the work of Foreign Missions is to go on
with greatly increased energy and success. Not
only are all parts of the world now open to those
who would preach the Gospel of Christ, but
the whole course of Bivine Providence favors
the work; and the conviction fit its ptactica
hjliiy and urgency is deepening 'J the mind of
tfll. fltfTTfthV■ncril Hi dfefrabi* art>, a
blessed thing imfcny portion of litje church to
have part in this work. Jr not the Holy Ghost
likely togiveusnart in itßomewliat in propor
tion to our real union witli Christ, and our
being filled with His sanctifying influence ? -
—Nobi,e Work of tiie American
Board. —At the recent session in Providence,
Rhode Island, a debt of $48,000 was reported.
In the short time voluntary pledges extinguish
ed the debt and placed ss3 000 into the trea.
uary. Such zeal and devotion lo the cause
promise success to the “advance movement”
for which the Board is preparing.
—As many persons joined the churches in
China last year as in all previous years. There
are eight new churches and five hundred new
members in Micronesia.
—ln China there are 140 missionaries from
American Boards and churches.
Great Events at Swatow, China. —
Rev. W. K. McKibben, missionary at Swatow,
China, gives to the Examiner and Chronicle a
very interesting account of the successful work
at that Alission. We extract from his letter
a few statements which will bring joy to all
hearts desiring the extension ol the Redeem
er’s kingdom :
An eventful week in the history of our
Alission has just closed. It i- the practice
to assemble here once in two month- all our
native helpers, the preachers and the Bible
womcn, from their various stations through
out the country, to spend a week in studying
some portion of Scripture, making reports
of progress, examining and receiving candi
dates for chut ell-membership, and consult
ing together over the many common inter
ests of the Mission. One of the. e bi-month
ly gatherings has just dispersed, and the
week was one long to he remembered tor the
large number ot inquirers who came to seek
admission to the church. We were expect
ing a great many, hut our hopes were doubly
realized. Saturday afternoon of "Commt.n
ioA Work" has always been devoted to the
examination of candidates for baptism, and
has hitherto been found quite sufficient;
but early last week inquirers were coming in
by boat loads, and it soon became appuient
that the usual half-day woul I be wholly in
adequate for giving due attention to them
al. Accordingly we began with a meeting
on Thursday morning, when twenty-five
candidates, all women, came before the
church and were examined touching their
renunciation ol idolatry and their belie! in
Jesus , , „ ~
The meeting of Thursday was l flowed by
one on Friday forenoon, when twenty-seven
men were examined; and on Saturday the
examinations were begun again at nine
o’clock and carried on through Hie day, ex
cept tor a brief nooning, till about five in
the afternoon, when tlii- part of the work
was at last completed. In all. one hundred
and four persons had offered themselves lor
church membership during the week, find
had beer examined
The number of applicants for baptism at
this communion was probably almost as
large us the number during the whole of
any previous year; the number baptized was
three times as large as at any previous com
munion, and exceeded by ten the entire
number baptized last year. This year there
have been thus fat one hundred and twenty
persons baptized. Not less than one-third
of those received last Sunday were from
villages wbero a year ago Satan had undis
puted sway.
WHOLE m. 229 i
General Denominational fleas,
—The following question and answer attire
Triennial Convention ot Free Will Baptism,
which met at Fairpsrt, New York, gives prom
ise of improvement in the ihilh and practice
of our erring brethren:
Question. Is it proper for any churei; to
invite a minister to administer the Lord'*
Supper who rejects the atonement, or to bap
tize, who has not himself been baptized .
Answer. No.
—The Council of the United Synagogue of
London are about to found a college for the
training of Jewish ministers.
—The Presbyterian Synod will meet im
Columbus on Wednesday evening, November
14th, at 7j o’clock. This Synod comprises
Bix Presbyteries in which are one hundred and
three ministers, one hundred and seventy-two
churches, and about nine thousand and iy
hundred memlters.
—The North Georgia Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South will meet
at Gainesville, Wednesday, the 28th of No -
vember.
—Rev. Dr. W. E. Munsey, a distinguished
Methodist divine, died suddenly in Jonesboro,
Tennessee, on Oetober 23d.
—The next Episcopal General Couveutk a
will be held in New York in 1880.
—Forty Roman Catholics at Watervilie,
Maine, have recently, under the preaching of
Father Chiniquy, renounced that church *n4
professed Protestanism.
—The members of Christ Church, Boston,
the oldest church building in the city, still use
the Bible, praver book, and silverware which
were presented by King George 11. in 1 i t>G .
—Eleven hundred persons were added to
the Congregational churches in Wisconsin law
year on profession of faith, and six new
churches were formed during the year. The?*
are one hundred and seventy-five minister*.
—The Jewish population of Jerusalem
amounts to about thirteen thousand souls.
—The associate editor of the Southern
Christian Advocate thinks that the only way to
insure the success of Methodism in the South
is for the two branches of the denomination to
occupy separate territory. He says: “There
can never be any good accomplished in South
ern territory by representatives from the
Church North. It is simply ridiculous to keep
a Georgia Conference df the Methodist Epis
copal church in wmtt-ofiitw
and time. Ii would be a 4 equally absurd for
us to try to keep up any organization in Il
linois, or any other State North. The very
presence of these opposing factions will injure
Methodism on both sides of the line. Whv
this foolishness ?”
—The Kansas Synod embraces 206 churches
in Kansas, seven in the Indian Territory auj
24 in Texas. Within the last twelve month*
forty new churches have been organized,
— l The Rev. A. M. Campbell, a Methodist
minister, was received into the Presbytery of
New Orleans at its last meeting.
—The Synod of New Jersey, at its sewioa
in Newark, condemned the preaching of wo
men by a vote of one hen.-red to sixteen.
—The Rev. Dr. Andrew Somerville, tor
many years foreign missionary Secretary t*
the United Presbyterian Church, died recently,
aged 70 Dr. Somerville retired from aetiv*
duties nearly ten years ago. since which tiui*
Dr. Hamilton McGill has filled the post
—Rev. John Mass, presiding Elder ofth*
Memphis District, died at his residence o*
Sunday morning, October 21.
Rev. W. W. Whitconnt, during an ad
dress before the Pastoral Union of Minnesota,
on the subject of systematic benevolence, at
tributes failure in the matter to the negligence
and unfaithfulness of th ministry. He says •
We lav this whole matter diredlv athwart
the threshold ot the parsonage. Fellow-pas
tors, do not facts, evident and inexorable, con
vict us? Confession and works meet for re
pentance alonecan give relief. Unquestionably,
we are largely accountable for this compara
tively torpid condilion of our churches in re
ference to systematic benevolence. God
knows, and we know, that we have not indoc
trinedour members into Die grace of giving, so
presenting the (acts and firures of our work
that they could see a substantial reason for
such investments.
What is charged against the preachers of
Minnessota may be said of too many in Geor
gia also. Our collections for missions especis
ally, taking into account Die numerical and
financial strength of the Bipti-ts of the State,
are so meager as to m ike he work appear lik*
burlesque. Some prolessedlv missionary A
sociations contribute less than three dollars te
each church. We cannot believe that this tor
pul coml'iion is dm* to the spirit of disobedi
ence arming Christians. The great trouble i*
thai they have not been properly ins*ruc!ed a*
to their duty in this pariicular. When th*
pastors of our churches begin to discharge,
faithfully and fearlessly, their duty, we will
not hear so much corn plaint about “stingy
cli urclies.’’
Rev James Barrow's Appointments.—
At Milledgeville, Sunday, November 4th;
Macon, Sunday, Novimber 11th; Forsyth
Wednesday night, November 14th; Thurs
day night, 15Di, at Barnesville ; Sunday,
18th, at Alt. Zion, l’ike c uinty ; Wednesday
night, 21st, at The R ck, Upson county;
Sunday, 25th, at Thomaston, Ga; Wednes
day night, 28th, at Brooks’ Station ; Tliura
day night, 29th, at Senoia.