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THE 'CHRISTIAN INDEX.
VOL. 56-NO. 43.
Table of Contents.
First Page.—Alabama Department: Record
of State Events ; Spirit of the Religious Press;
The Sabbath—Poetry—Charles W. Hubner:
The Mission Field; Baptist News and Notes;
General Denominational News.
&booxd Page. —Our Correspondents: A Review
of the Discussion Between the Religious Her
ald and the Mississippi Record, on Pulpit
Affiliation, No. 11-W. H. J.; Further Notice
of Dr. Campbell's Article—B. Boykin; A Lite
Worthy of Imitation—Mrs. N. A. B.; Shim
mings, Missionary and Gemral—Uncle Shad;
Sunday-school Work in the “Central''—S.
Boykin: Baptist History—Rev. B. W. Whildon.
Third Page.—Our I ulpit: Seimon by Rev. J.
H. Allen, before the Central Association, con
vened at Madison, Augnst 26th, 1877. Ad
vertisements.
Fourth Page.—Fditorials: Miracles and Proph
ecies Further Compared: A Query Anrwered—
Rev. S. G. Hillyer, D.D. Baptist Female
College; Doing Well; Macon, Georgia: Pastoral
Changes—Rev. D. E. Butler. Faith—Poetry;
Georgia Baptist News; The Sonship of Christ
—Rev. J. L. Dagg, D.D.
Fifth Page.—Secular Editorials: Poetry, Holi
days-Henry W. Longfellow; Retter Times;
‘ Original Essays;” Planting the Upas; Postal
Sayings Bauk; Wheat Exports; Cold Weather
in Texas : Slander; Miscellaneous Paragraphs;
News of the Week—Domestic and Foreign
Sixth Page —The Sunday-school: Almost I’er
snded—Lesson for Sunday, November 18th,
1877. Advertisements.
Seventh I*aoe. Children#’ Cornei: ‘-The Bili’o
Says I V ay"—Poet r\; Am t Cad's Letter to
th Little fo'ks; Nellie’s Idea of Prayer; Hap
py Young Life: New Advertisements.
Eighth Page.—Publishers’ Department : To
Agents of TnElsprx. and other Important
Notices. Secular Editorial Paragraphs : To
Our Exchanges; Crime Not a Crime; The
Press. An Appeal—Rev. W. D. Atkinson. A
New Steamship—" City of Macon.” Obituaries.!
Advertisements.
INDEX AND BAPTIST.
ALABAMA DEPARTMENT.
The new code is ready for distrl! ution.
Cullman is to hrft'e a foundry.
Anew Methodist church has been dedi
cated at Clay Hill.
The colored people of Autauga county are
talking about emigrating to Liberia.
The schools in Prattville have more than
100 students.
The Baptist (colored) State Convention is
in session in Eufaula.
A good many people will go from Pike
county to Texas this fall.
A lodge ol Knights of Honor lias been or
ganized in Greenville.
The paupers of Coosa county are not as
well treated as they should be.
j Rz J. Woodward has beat Appointed sw
perintendent of education of Clarke county.
The telegraph office is to be retained at
Gainesville.
Rising Sun post office, Walker county, has
been discontinued.
The people will demand a reduction of
taxation.
Major Charles L. Scott has retired from
the W ilcox [lndicator.
The Prattville Grange is building a Grange
hall.
There is a great deal of malarial sickness
in St. Clair county.
A telegraph ( dice has been established at
Vierna, Pickens count)’.
The new court house at Jasper will cost
only $3,500.
The sale of spirituous liquors is prohibited
within eight miles of St. Stephens, Washing
ton county.
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The Rev. Mr. Miller, of Versailles, Ky.,
has been pr< aching in the Baptist church at
Gainesville.
Thomas 11. Baily has been appointed su
perintendent of education in Washington
couDty.
Air. James Armstrong has become editor
and proprietor of the FellowCilnen, at Scotts
boro.
The Mobile city court grand jury exam
ined 345 witnesses, investigated 18? cases
and returned 89 indictments.
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In Sumpter county twenty-nine white and
forty-six colored schools were taught last
year.
About thirty families from the vicinity of
Harrisburg. Pa., have settled near Birming
ham. _
The Blount Springs Hews has been re
moved to Blcuntsville, and will be known as
the Blount County A < ics.
More than fifty persons have professed re
ligion in the revival in progress in the Bir
mingham Methodist chutcb.
The Sumpter medical society has elected
Dr. J. D. Johnson president, D-. J. C
Houston vice-president, and Dr. R. D, Webb
secretary and treasurer.
The General Baptist Association of South
east Alabama aDd West Florida will con
vene with the church at Newton, Dale
county, on Saturday before the third Sunday
in this month.
THE SOUTH-WESTERN EAPTIST,
of Alabama.
Spirit of tlie Religious Press.
“ —The introduction of the race track in
the programmes of county and State fairs will
ultimately drive all decent and consistent
church members away from them,” says a
Texas secular paper. Whereupon the Bap
tist Herald remarks: "The above, from a sec
ular paper, is a strong rebuke to church mem
bers who attend horse races. It 9hows that,
however they may view this practice, men of
the world do not consider the race ground a
suitable place for ‘decent and consistent church
members. ’ ”
To which we desire to add, that the
the professors of religion who have an itching
wish to serve the devil, ard are willing to he
seen in his retinue, need not expect to hide
their hypocrisy from the eye of non-profes
sors. Tiny cannot screen themselves from the
eye of the world. Let them be what they
seem, and seem what they are.
—ln an excellent article on "Truth vs. Suc
cess” the New York Methodist clearly points
out the danger of ministers who make eceles;-
aslical successes the sumrnum bonum of their
lives. Such a minister, in any question that
demands his action and advocacy, is tempted
to ask iot “what is truth, and what is duty?”
1 what wiil win ? How will my action in
this case affect my prospects ?” That this is a
real, and frequently a fatal temptation ib
proved by the fact that many yield to it, and,
instead of standing firmly for the truth, where
such fidelity seems to endanger popularity and
success, seek to temporize and compromise
with error ; or, by suppressing their convic
tions, and by silence, purchase immunity from
such danger. Such conduct is not more injurious
to the cause of truth than it is to themselves;
lor, by habitually subordinating duty to inter
est, they come to identify the two, and so lose
the power to discet n what is duly, cease to feel
the force of obligation and the authority of
conscience, wherever they appear to conflict
with success. The article, with force and truth,
concludes that, “the great need of the times
is men who have convictions and are not afraid
to avow them, who are able to know what is
truth and what is duty, and dare to act accord
ingly, at whatever sacrifice, pecuniary or other
wise.”
—The following from the Examiner is sug
gestive :
What a philosophy of daily life is there in
that injunction of Paul to the Corinthians:
‘‘Whether, therefore, ye eat and drink, or
whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.”
Too often the daily duties are a drudgery, and
spem petty, mean,degrading. But when we
think that even in tiejiulesl >th*ngfc we may
glorrfv God, how * our daily life elevated,
beautified, dignified by keeping such an end
ever in view.
—The Journal and Messenger says it has but
one good argument against aiding students for
the ministry. Its language isaafollows:
We know of but one goed and valid argu
ment against helping a young man who gives
evidence of a call of God to the work of the
ministry, and that is that, in some instances,
such men become so puffed up with pride aB
to want to conceal the fact that they were ever
aided, and try to suppress all reference to it.
To our mind, this is a serious objection, and it
applies to by far too many cases.
—Speaking of reverence in prayer, Zion’s
Herald, says: “Often the manner and tone
of voice are as objectionable as the matter.
The method may he described as rough,
and wanting in the mellowness and grace of
devotion. At a little distance you would
tl ink the man driving his team, rather than
saying his prayers. Such a style of adora
tion is certaiuly suited better to a heathen
than to a Christian.”
—An exchange says:
The problem of how to help young men to
a ministerial education is one which has seri
ously embarrassed the churches. It is claimed
by some that to pay the way of an impecu
nious young man through college and semi
nary makes him feel like a pauper. On the
other hand, it is alleged that but for such help
a great many young men who would become
good ministers might be pi evented from enter*
ing on their ministry. Now, the Free will
Baptists attempt to cut the Gordian knot of
the difficulty. At their recent Conference, at
Fairport, proposal was made to take from
each theologic.il student a note for the amount
expended on him, the note to be payable in
four years from the time he enters the minis
try. This is an ingenious idea, even if not a
very practical one. The chief difficulty is
likely to be the extreme improbability that
the young preacher will be able, in four years,
to make payment of his note. His only chance
is to marry a rich wife, or in some other way
outside of his regular ministerial salary, to
get money. The average salary of a young
minister is not more than enough to pay his
board bill, and to save money from that lor the
payment of notes is impossible. To compel
a young man without resources to enter on his
life work with a millstone of indebtedness
hanging about his neck, is to cast his useful
ness into the depths of the sea. It is to be
hoped that the Free-will Baptists will see
their way clear to the adoption of some plan
equally ingenious, but more practical than
this.
—Dr. Summers, of the Chris ian Advocate,
speaking if the vice of horse-racing, says
pithily’:
A gentleman—not a member of the church
—told Dr. McFcrrin, the other day, that
there ought to be an ameridmi nt to his res
olution concerning improper diversities, lie
ought to have included horsc-racing—lie
considers that worse than all the rest. And
we judge that he is not far wrong. The
truth is horse racing is a scandal and a dis
grace to a Christian country. It brings in
its train gambling, drinking, swearing, licen
tiousness, and almost every other vice. We
FRANKLIN PRINTING HOUSE, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, NOVEMBER 15, 1877.
deeply regret that any respectable, to sny
nothing of professing Christians—should
attend such scenes of dissipation. We
wish our newspapers would say nothing of
the “ Turf ” —except to condemn it. it is
only evil continually.
—Discoursing on “ Rainy Sundays,” the
Christian at I York says it is good to have
one “now and then, just to let us know
where we are in Ihe most important busi
ness of life, and whether or not we are let
ting ourselves drift into indifference.”
—Dr. Phillip Schaff, in an article in the
Independent, on “ Words of Council to The
ological Students,” gives the following;
Where philosophy ends theology begins.
The former is the knowledge of the natural,
the latter Ihe know ledge of the supernatural. l
The one if the science of reason, the other
the science of revelation. But the uatural
points lo the supernatural as the only ration
al explanation of its own existence. So the
body points to the soul which animates and
uses it as its organ ; so the house points to
the architect who built it; the law pre-sup
poses a law-giver; the creature is inconceiv
able without a Creator. Reason’s highest
function is to prove the necessity of revela
tion. Philosophy teaches that there may be
a God, and that there ought to be a God;
that man ito-t/ be immortal aud ought to be
immortal. Theology knows that there is a
God, and that man is immortal for weal or
for woe. Philosophy cannot deny the terri
ble ft ct of sin and the moral disorder ol' the
universe; but it cannot explain it and still
less to remedy it. Theology knows both
the poison and the antidote. To him who
knows from experience that he is a sinner,
justly exposed to the wrath of a holy God,
and who believes that Christ is his Savior,
who satisfies all his spiritual wants and as
pirations, the objections of infidelity have as
little weight as water upon a rock, or paper
balls upon a fort.
—The Texas Baptist Herald , in an able
editorial, discusses “ Religious Journalism, “
its character and purpose. It points out the
meat influence, for good or evil, which a re
ligious journal can compass, and.shows that
true merit alouo can give such a paper per
manent success. A religious paper’s mission,
and commanding station in the attairs of
life, are finely designated in the following
paragraph :
Religious journalism has a mission—a
mission fraught with the gravest responsi
bilities, and destined US the grandest achieve
ments. Political journals have their special
seasons of interest and a limited aim, but
the religious paper is a perpetual campaign
document, pushing for victory. Whui
wrapped in the glory of truth and the beuu
ty of holiness, it penetrates to the hovels of
tiie poor and the mansions of the rich, bear
ing only messages of love and precious com
port by day and by night, it gives wisdom,
cheer and joy, it blunts the shafts of the en
emy, and draws the poison from a thousand
stings of error. It is no iival to the pulpit,
but stands itself, among) the grandest "fend
rst#ongojit ol all pulpit# —Bt Ims been sag-'
gesteii that by the use of the telephone,.one
minister might address a hundred or a thou
sand audiences at a lime. The press lifts
anticipated this, and has become the pulpit
for its tens of thousanilaof auditors through
all parts of the land. Upon this platform
the power for good oi evil is multiplied, and
may be multiplied without limit. And every
hearer may labor to iucrease the audience
and the good.
—The Watchman, on the subject of “Com
ing in Late," gives the following brief lec
ture—it is to this point, and we hope that
those who feel the point as applicable to
themselves, will heed the admonition :
One of the New York dailies lately read a
sharp lecture to those unmannerly people who
are always late in getting to the theatre.
The evil, it observed, is oue which has been
steadily increasing for some lime. The ear
ly part of the play is genet ally acted in
dumb show, the voices of the players be
ing drowned in the rustle of silks as rhe
late comers press forward to their seats, or
in the buzz of whispered greetin gs. The nui
sance, it goes on to say, is a serious one, both
to the actors, whose attention is distracted,
and to the punctual members of the audience
who, after having taken care to reach the
theatre in good season, are utterly unable to
hear, and sometimes even, to see, what is
going ou upon the stage.
We are cot versed in the course of things
inside a theatre, hut suppose for theatre we
substitute the home of God. Are not these
criticisms equally applicable in that case?
Have they cot, indeed, far more weight, as
much more weight as tlie object of church
going is more important than that of thea
tre going? Yet who is not familiar with
the sight of late-coiners in the hoase of God f
The first ten or fifteen minutes is too often a
distracting medley of prayer and praise,
rustling of gowns, squeaking of boots, read
ing of Scripture, anil rattling of canes and
hymn books. Thus what some people, with
unconscious irreverence, call “the prelimina
ry exercises” are robbed of half their value
as acts of worship, aud those who go early
to enjoy them, and through them to gain
preparation of heart for the sermon which
is to follow, are selfishly defrauded of their
right. Further than tiiis, such conduct is
disrespectful and distracting to the minister,
and worse Mian all, irreverent to Him for
whose worst ip tie err ice is he]' 1 .
If there were any solid reasons why a
certain number of persons should be late at
every church service, tlie distmbance might
tie borne with something like equanimity.
But why should those who are able to be up
betimes on Monday morning and never miss
“the train,” find it, so difficult to get to
church promptly at half past ten on Sunday?
The cotton factory of Prattville lias one
hundred and twenty-eight looms, four thou
sand six hundred and eight spindles, thirteen
Higgins forty inch cards, and twenty-six
small thirty inch cards. It gives em
ployment to about one hundred aud thirty
hands, uses two hundred and fifteen or twen
ty bales of cotton per month, and is turning
out about an average of seven thousand
yards of osnahutgs per day. The company
clears $79 a day.
THE SABBAT a.
Nothing draws along with such a glory as
the Sabbath. Never has it unfolded without
seme witness and welcome, some song and
salutation. It has been the coronation day
of martyrs—the first day of saints. It has
been, from the first day till now, the sublime
day of the Church of God; still the outgo
ings of its morning and evening rejoice.
Let us then remember the Sabbath day to
keep it holy. Dr. Hamilton.
Hil, holv Day ! thou crowned of Heaven ;
HiJ, host-beloved of all the seven !
Row fair, from out the impurpled sky,
LPtxh forth thy Rlory-be&mins; eye !
Sjveet Peace and Love, with thee that hide,
1 V'n thy golden chariot tide,
Aji i from the welkin’s crystal sphere
Tpsir blessings scatter, iar aud near.
b?iyy be but a pleasing dr-am—
l>t fairest all the earth I deem,
Dtyiin , . purer, when thine hours
Illume her bills, her streams and dowers.
nf>w sweet the mom and evening bells >
btm green the groves, how bright the dells !
Vnfcat blissful sounds are in the trees 1
WJnit tender music charms the breeze !
F.tim the rude Spirit of the Sea
tl.y angolic ministry.
Ape w hen then oomest to his breast,
Tlpeks all his wanton waves to rest.
I'iii Nature owns, in tuneful praise,
I teUpVomgn loveliness and grace .
■yG from her wreathed altars rise
ItjrßHneeuse, and soft harmonies ;
V-'ty then should 1 refuse to bring
MTS I 'awful spiiit’s offering?
Or fad, with gladsome heart, to twine
An humble song-wreath round thy shrine ?
Wind pleasures blossom and expand
To Life and light beneath thy hand !
He." bright the hopes by thee that live 1
j IIV sweet the solace thou cmist, give !
flowers, on which the storm hath burst,
by sunshine back to life are nursed ;
Thus skies look more serenely fair.
Because the rainbow ahiueth there.
OJlissful day ! how cold and bleak
Life’s breath would blow from week to week,
How sad aud dark the Hood would bo
That rolletl: on, eternally,
Didst, thou not, on the tide of Time
A golden Isle of Solace, shine—
Earth’s Eden, in whose radiant bowers
Tin soul revives her failing powers
With draughts from Heavens’ perennial springs.
And balsam shod by angels’ wings ;
And where the world’s discordant cries,
Change to celestial melodies.
, Chaiil.es W. Hubner.
The Mission Field,
—The recent meeting of a Foreign Mission
ary Society, at St. Louis, was the occasion of
interesting discussions of this grand cause. All
the reports were hopeful and gave evidence of
the prosperons condition of Foreign Mis
sions under the auspices of the Society. An
exchange says that when opportunity was
given to all who desired membership in the
Society, the invitation met with enthusiastic
response. At this point in the exercises there
’j£urred a little episode of thrilling interest,
flfc many 4jd sent up their names and
ofoiil/ for membership Hi the SocSrty, a'wkiowla
ed sister, who had not the money to give, and
wko desired to aid in planting the pure Gospel
in foreign fields, took off her gold watch and
sent it up to be laid, as a free-will offering, on
the altar of Foreign Missions. Theannounce
ment thrilled the audience with the spirit of
sacrifice. Brother llcbbs, taking advantage of
the enthusiasm, mounted the platform and
proposed to redeem the watch and return it to
the donor. He wanted SIOO donated for that
purpose. Sooner than the names could be
written, $135 was raised and the watch re
deemed. The sister—who modestly requests
that her name be not given to the public—was
brought forward, and the President of the
Convention, Brother Isaac Errett, offered the
watch to her, but she re-donated it to the
Society, amid the cheers of an enthusiastic
audience. Brother Moore says that watch will
yield thousands of dollars to the Foreign
Missionary Society.
One hundred years ago a Moravian mission
ary baptized the firet negro convert in Sur
inam, Dutch Guiana. Now the Mission num
bers 22,130.
Henry Varley and Dr. Somerville, of
England, are laboring as evangelists in Aus
tralia, with considerable success.
—The number of native Christians in China
is from 12,000 to 13,000.
—lrt Jap,an the demand for instant and en
larged effort is without parallel in missionary
history. There are now 1,503 laborers there.
—The Reformed (Dutch) Mission Board re
ceived the first five months of the fiscal year,
beginning August Ist, $17,452.
—We find the following in the Methodist:
A Methodist clergyman mentioned to Rev.
M. li. Barnitz, an earnest anti-tobacco mission
ary, oi e member of bis church who last year
gave SI.OO for Missions, who admitted that lie
paid during the year at least SIOO lor tobacco,
and another member who gave $3.00 for B ble,
tract and mission purposes, whose tobacco bill
for the year was $200! Mr. Barnitz has made
a careful computation from the best available
statistics, which shows that the professing
Christians of A ruerica expend at least $25,000,-
000 annually for tobacco.
—ln an addresa made by Mrs. Dickerson,
of Chicago, on the subject of woman’s work in
Missions, she said: “While it is true that
many agencies are at work to Christianize
the heathen of America, if there are millions
still in ignoranee of the truth, ought we not,
as Baptist women, to do our part in carrying
the Gospel to them?” She referred fo the
inroads of Catholicism, and what the Catholic
church was doing to gain the votes of the peo
ple. She gave some statistics and illustra
tions, and argued that while Christians were
not giving a cent too much for the darkened
millions of Asia, thev were doing far too little
for those who were living in as heathenish a
state in America.
THE CHRISTIA IST ZEUEZR^XTD
BAPTIST NEWS AND NOTES.
—A Convention is to meet in Overton,
Texas, December 12th, to consider the expedi
ency of organizing a general missionary body
for Eastern Texas.
—The German Baptists have, besides the
Eastern and Western Conferences, a Triennial
General Conference, which haR been held in
Buffalo. About 200 delegates were present.
—A writer in the Watchman, speaking of
the Baptist churches in New York city, de
plores the apathy of the members in spiritual
things. A number of churches are in peril of
collapse, and only three meeting-houses are
paid for. The writer thinks the Baptists in
New York are lacking in pride, and considers
this one of the causes of these church failures.
Commenting on this, the Blibical Recorder per
tinently says:
We refer to the matter for the sole purpose
of giving it, as our opinion, that pride—pride
in the Baptist churches on Filth Avenue, and
at other points as Well —is the cause of all that
he deplores. God has so ordered that just as
soon as a Baptist church turns away from the
poor and the ignorant, and runs after the rich
and great, it dies out. And, as far as we un
derstand the matter, the Hooner the better.
—The Baptist Gleaner is the title of a pro
posed denominational pa per, to be published at
AHhville, N. 0.
—Rev. B. 11. Womack, pastor of the First
Church, Memphis, and Miss Annie S. Kirby,
of Nashville, were united in marriage Novem
ber 6th, at the residence of the bride’s mother.
—lu the Tennessee Baptist Convention, re
cently held at Chatlanooga, the question of
loaning money lo students for the ministry
came up, when Dr. J. P. Boyce spoke in op
position to the plan.
The Baptist Reflector says :
He thought our colleges were doing a good
work : and that in the future they would do a
broader and grander work. He thought the
plan of loaning money to students was un
wise, and proceeded to meet the arguments
generally used against the beneficiary plan,
lie urged that young men should he sent
into the ministry unirammeled and unbur
dened. J. F. B. Mays followed in much
the same line of thought A motion was
then made by G. C. Connor to amend the
report of the Ministerial Edncatit n Board,
by striking out so much of the report as
provided for loaning money to young min
isters. Dr. Hendrickson spoke on the amend
ment, stating that the Board submitted the
matter to the body tor an expression of its
opinion. The report was amended by strik
ing out as above. The sum ol SSOO was
raised in subscription and cash for the aid
of this Board.
—The Baptist Union for Ministerial Supp; rf
of lowa, during the ten years past, has aided,
in ] <id t, fifty young men in oljHyioing the ed
utiftfijii which should prepare them for.
their work in preaching the* gospel. The
whole amount thus appropriated, in the pe
riod named, was $7,972.96.
—The New York Baptist State Conven
tion met recently, at Troy. On the subject
of Missions, reports show that fifty-three
missionaries had labored 1,653 weeks,
preached 4,880 sermons, held 3,101 prayer
meetings, made 8,322 religious visits, and
baptized 448 persons—ls 7 more than the
year previous. The total receipts and ex*
penditures had been $9,589.14; of this, $6,-
339 bad been paid to missionaries, $2,187.77
on indebtedness, $412 for publishing and
distributing the annual report, $654.58 for
clerk hire, postage, etc. There remained an
indebtedness of $4,835.99, and, to cover
this, the amount of $5,000 was raised, or
pledged during the meeting.
—The Baptists of Missouri are a working
people. As shown by the reports presented
to the General Association at its session in
Lexington, the amount raised and expended
in missionary work during the year was
$4,374. Five missionaries had been em
ployed, who had, in the aggregate, labored
916 days, traveled 7,107 miles, pr cached 758
sermons, and baptized 165 persons. Churches
had been organized and built up, tracts dis
tributed, schools organized, and a vast
amount of unreported work accomplished.
—Ninety-one persons were baptized by
Rev. W. Shaw, the pastor of Zion’s Hill
church, LittletoD, N. C., in thirty-five min
utes. We leave our Pedobaptist exchanges
to reckon how long, at this rate, it would
have taken the twelve apostles to baptize
the three thousand converted on the day of
Pen to cost.
—Mr. Thomas Cook writes, from Rome,
to the London Baptist, that the chapel in
process of erection in the Via Pudenziaca
on the supposed site of the palace of the
Roman Senator, Pudens, Paul’s friend and
host, will be completed and ready for occu
pancy sometime in January. The chapel,
he says, is a good, solid structure, with ex
tensive conveniences for school-rooms, resi
dences lor two small families, or a staff of
evangelists and colporteurs, with a good
front shop for the sale of the Set iptures and
other hooks, and at the hack a nice garden.
The i.rr ingement of the platform and bap
tistry will be novel and beautiful. It is pro
posed to bring together at the opening the
entire staff of Italian Baptist evangelists
from every part of the country, that they
may talk over tin ir affairs, and encourage
each other in the good work now going for
ward in Italy. The cost of the chapel will
be about $15,000. The name proposed for
it is the "Evangelical Chapel of Paul and
Pudens,”
of Tennessee.
WHOLE NO. 2294
General Denominational Desk
—lt is stated that in Bell county. T . ia,,
Dr. S. J. Russel, a free-thinker, was t ike"
out by about fifty men, and for liis opinion s
sake was punished with one hundred ’rustics
upon the bare back. The mob told Luna
that lie was a good man and an able dr ..
hut that there could be no free-thinking in
Bell county, and that the next man who
dared to publicly express himself as m in
fidel, or free-thinker, would give hisiif. as
the penalty. There is great indignation jvsr
the outrage, and we hope the persons gull vr
of the crime will he punished to the tu’.ie ;
extent of the law.
—Nebraska has 86,191 Suv.day-stk.oi
children.
—Theie are only liveLmkeian chu: :a
in London—all GermnD.
—The translation of the Scripture in t.
Japanese is proceeding.
—The New Hein ides Mission of the 7 c mi
Cluuch of Scotland has nearly one thousand,
church-members, and sixty-tw o schools in
tended by about 2,000 pupils, connected -vu ...
it. Two of the islands are Christian .'.red,
and on eight others the truth is making .' •
gress steadily.
—The Old Catholic movement in Swi -
erland is not progressing, and most !!>••:Ijr
will fail.
Rev. Wallace Duncan, elected Pres. : .a;
of Randolph Macon College, has deed.: a
the position.
—The Presbyterians in North Can. id: t
number 16,544 communicants, 214 chur d.-as
and 113 ministers. The committee on ‘ Ag
gressiveness of the Presbyterian church and:
North Carolina,” reported to the late Sytt C
io Charlotte, the following recommenda’.Vu
(1) The employment of evangelists, •'.
The more frequent efforts of settled pas: n
to do missionary work outside of tiled
fields. (3) An effort to preach more pr~u
lar sermons. (4) The eldership to atteu ;
the “Church courts” and shape “the legAia.
tion of the church. (5) The more systt.auA
ic and orderly and punctual administratl. a
of the financial affairs under the control >;
the deacon.
—From the Triennial Report of the v a
gregational Council, we learn that the num
ber of churches is now 3,509, a gain of 184
in three years, mostly in the South anol W -t
Number of church-members, 350,658 —a
gain of 26,979—a yearly average of 8, >93,
against the net yearly average of 5,720 :n
in the previous three years. Number en
rolled in Sabbath-schools, 405,092 —a gain of
'3S 53S uteri*. cnn’rjbutions for the
year, over 18740f $4 -
436. The annual current expenses of the
churches are estimated at $4,000,0*00.
Churches with pastors, 980; ministers it.
pastoral service, 3,374.
—lt is now formally announced by the
Palestine Exploration Society, of England,
that the survey of Western Palestine is
completed. This survey has been in pro
gress since January, 1872, with the excep
tion of fifteen months in 1875 6. One of
the leaders of the surveying party, Air. Tyr*
whitt Drake, fell a victim to exposure and
the climate. The chairman of the Execut ire
Committee states that the new maps and.
surveys will contain thousands of names,
very many of the places in the Bible not
before identified, together with many found
in Talmudic, early Christian aud Crusading
histories.
—The American Church Missionary Sc
ciety, (Protestant Episcopal), which wilt
hereafter be merged in the Board of Mis
sions, was organized in 1860. It grew cut
of a dissatisfaction on the part of many at
what appeared to be a prevalent tendency in.
the operations of the Board to favor no
particular class of views in the church.
—The Brandenburg Consistory, Prussia,
has cancelled the call of the Rev. Mr. Hoag,
bach to the charge of the Parish of St
James, in Berlin. Air. Hossbach is knewa
as a decided rationalist, and the veto put
upon the choice of the congregation by the
Consistory has excited much remark in Ber
lin.
—The Committee of the Bonn Old Catho
lic Synod, to which was referred the further
consideration of the subject of celibacy of
priests, has made an application to the State
Alinistcr of Baden, asking what legal hind -
rances are in the way of abolishing the ob
ligation of celibacy in Baden, and what ob
jections there wou and be to such a step. The
Ministry, though not averse to the abolition
of compulsory celibacy, has replied that it
will act only in conjunction with other
States, especially Prussia.
—The Biblical Recorder says there are 30,.
000 members of Baptist churches in North
Carolina who spend the Sabbath in idleness
and frivolity, and do not go to Sunday-school.
How many are there in Georgia? Would it
not be well to send missionaries to these breth
ren ? It is a broad and needy field.
—"Well educated men can always make
themselves understood," says brother Mayfield,
of the Baptist Reflector.
Not always. Men of profoundest erudition
frequently adopt a rhetorical style, and am
plify their sentences in such a way, that jt is
as hard to discover their real meaning as it is
to find a needle in a hay-stack.