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VOL. 57 —NO. 26.
Table of Contents.
Fnurr Page— Alabama. Department: Record of
State Events ; Spirit of the Religions Press;
The Characteristics of an Evangelist; The Mis
sion Field; Baptist News and Notes; General
Denominational News. Florida Department:
Indifference ; Letter from Gainsville; Words
of Cheer; etc.
Second Paoe. —An Essay: What Mistakes are
Made, and How Corrected—Rev. F. M. Dan
iel; “There is Rest Enongh in the Grave"—
Julia P. Me Who: ter. Our Correspondents:
Cravisg to be Blind —W.M. H.: "Heaven Never
Seemed so Bright Before.” Mission Depart
ment: Luther Rice and Georgia; Extracts from
the Minutes of the Georgia Baptist State Con
vention—J. H. DeVotie.
Thibd Paoe. —Home Influences: The Greater
Power—How it Moulds Chracter—Second Pa
per—By Sidney Herbert.
Fourth Paoe -Editorial: Defense of the Bap
tists and Dr. Teasdale ; Open-Air Meetings—
Rev. D. E. Butler. Evangelists—Rev. 8. G.
Hißyer, D.D. ;Church Polity—Dr. P. H. Mell;
Reply to “Brotherhood"—Dr. T. C. Teasdale;
Muscogee Bible Society; etc.
Fifth Page— “ Christian Union”—Rev. J. M.
Wood; Our Richmond Letter; Third Baptist
Cbu ch, Atlanta; etc. Secular Editorials: The
Schools; Mercer University; The Dignity of
Words; Georgia News; etc.
Sixth Page. —Children's Corner: Little by Lit
tle—Poetry; The Guild Teacher; Seeds by the
Wayside.
Seventh Page —The Sunday-School: Ministry
of John the Baptist—Lesson lll—Sunday.
July 21. 1878.
Eiohth Page— Marriages. Obituaries. Adver
tisements,
INDEX AND BAPTIST.
ALABAMA DEPARTMENT.
Tuscumbia has no church for colored
people.
Northern capitalists are investing consid
erable money in the mines of this State.
Anew county is to be formed out of parts
of Jefferson, Bitb and Tusca'oosa counties.
Cattle are being shipped extensively to
Virginia, and bring remunerative prices.
Bishop Kavenaugh will preside at the
North Alabama Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church (South), to be held at
Huntsville in the fall.
Northern capitalists have purchased the
property of the Shelby Lime Company at
Calera, and propose putting the kilns in
successful operation at an early day.
Dr. Granbcrry preached the commence
ment sermon at the College at Anburn. The
occasion was one of great interest. Colonel
Chambers has been assigned the Chair of
Agriculture in this institution.
The citizens of Tuscaloosa are just now
much exercised in regard to changing the
roadbed of the Alabama Great Southern
Railway adjacant to the town of Tuscaloosa
so as to have it run through town.
The recent fire in Montgomery promises
to bring about some litigation, in which the
Waterworks Company, the City Council,
the Insurance Companies and the parties in
sured, will be the parties concerned.
The good people of Mobile should take
steps to suppress the desecration of the
Sabbath day by the Base Ball Clubs of that
city. The papers contain a long account of
a heated base ball contest which took place
on a recent Sunday, and which was wit
nessed by thousands of spectators. At this
rate Parisian morals will be introduced into
this country very rapidly.
The Executive Committee of the Alabama
State Grarge Fair are making great efforts
to make the Fair to be held in Mobile next
October, the finest ever held in the State.
The premiums offered for the best display of
grains and farm products are unusually
good. The Fair Catalogue, containing a
complete list of the various premiums, will
be issued at no distant day. Parties de
siring any information relative to the Fair
can address the secretary, L. L. McCurdy,
at Summerfield, Dallas county, or the as
sistant secretary, R. M. Quinn, at Mobile.
A Corrupt Caube.— The Christian Union
says : “It is said that one of our sharp
penned female writers is now at Washing*
ton gathering material for a volume <>n the
morality of our public men, from the Father
of bis Country dowa. Tue revelations which
she expects to make are to be used as an ar
gument in favor of giving the suffrage to
woman.”
We trust that this announcement will have
the salutary effect of causing the few sensible
women at the North, who have been led by
demagogues to countenance this foolish
scheme, to retire at once from i>u further
discussion. When a cause has become so
weak and low as to be forced to seek mate
rial, to keep it alive, in the annals of our
country’s shame and in the history of worth
less men, it is evidence that the time has
come for all decent persons to wash their
hands of it.
Complete order reigns throughout Cuba. Af
ter years of useless and bloody struggles, which,
toward the last, degenerated into simple mnrder,
pillage and arson, the revolutionists of Cuba suc
cumbed to the Spanish government. All con
nected with the rebellion have been pardoned.
A royal decree provides that the organio, mu
nicipal and provincial laws in force iu Spain, un
der the Monarchical Constitution, shall be ob
served in Cuba.
THIS SOTJ TTrL-WESTERZsT BAPTIST,
Spirit of the Religious Press.
—The Biblical Recorder, organ of the North
Carolina Baptists, is uncompromisingly op
posed to an organic union of the Baptists,
North and South. It saya:
“Such organic union ia now being talked
about and advocated by some of our leading
brethren in the South. We are opposed to
such organic union, and expect to oppose it.
VVe have, in our opinion, good and sufficient
reasons for such opposition.”
VVe* do not think that any such union will
ever take place, nor can we see how the vital
interests of these two grand hosts of the de
fenders of the true faith could be materially
benefited by consolidation. They have, each,
their peculiar field to occupy, and can best
maintain themselves in prosperous action by
preserving their individual organizations.
—“We join with the Evening Journal,” says
the Standard, “in urging that not one of the
drunkards, without reference to party, who
disgraced the nation during the last hours ot
Congress, should be returned. ‘Not one should
escape,’ insists the Journal. ‘To he drunk on
any occasion, or anywhere, is a disgrace. A
man who allows himself to lose his head is un
worthy.’ ”
Certainly a man’s m*ral fitness for the high
and responsible position of a representative of
the American people ought to be taken into
consideration when he presents himself before
them for election, but it certainly has nof been
an appreciable element in politics for many a
year. His availability as a party man, bis
expertness in the tricks of party-craft, have
been the chief points to which attention
is paid. Let us return to the purer atmos
phere and loftier aims of the fathers of the
Republic.
—Horse racing—this crnel and demoralising
sport—seems to be increasing, instead of de
creasing, in this country. It is being helped
along, too, by professed Christians and church
members in their characters as committee
members and officers of the State and County
Fairs. This fact has long been a source of an
noyance and regret to all who desire to uphold
purity of morals, and who endeavor to rid our
public amusements of their dangerous ele
ment*. We see no consistency in denouncing
the faro-bank whilst horse racing, an equally
reprehensible branch of the gambler’s profes
sion, should bedignified as an acceptable amuse
ment on occasions whose professed purpose
is the advancement of the public good, and the
exhibition of our progress in the development
ot the industrial arts. As appropriate to our
theme, we quote the following timely para
graph from the Western Recorder:
“It is, as we believe, the imperative duty oi
Christian men to set their faces as a flint
against this whole corrupt and corrupting
business of horse racing. The young especially
should be warned against visiting such places.
‘Lead us not into temptation,’ should be the
prayer of those who are placed in circum
stances of special peril. Too much vigilance
cannot be exercised by parents in this matter.
Our land to-day contains thousands of ruined
lives whose first downward Btep in a career of
vice, dates Irom some visit to a horse race, and
from the vile associations that appear to be in
separable from this sport. There is no safety
in bad company. The counsel of Solomon is
as wise now as when it was firs* given, “Enter
not into the path of the wicked, and go not
in the way of evil men. Avoid it, pass not by
it, turn from it and pass away.’ ”
—Says the Christian Observer :
“Unconsciously and constantly, in our ob
jects of admiration and detestation, we show
what is best and worst in ourselves. Pretense
is useless. If you wonld have the praise oi
God or man, deserve it ; and it will come
wilhont seeking.”
This is true, with the exception as to the
praise of man. We often deserve the praise oi
men, but fail to receive it. Many a man’s
good deeds are appreciated at their proper
worth after his death. Still, a good man can
easily submit to the deprivation of man's
praise, if he is conscious, in his soul, that he
has the praise of God.
The mission Field.
The high price of provisions, the result of
the famine in Northern Ch'na, has cramped the
missionaries in China. Their efforts should be
nobly sustained by the contributions of the
friends of missions in the United States.
—Dr. Kalopothakes, in three weeks, circu
lated four thousand copies of the Scriptures
among the Greek soldiers.
—The distress in China, caused by the great
famine continues, and seems to be on the in
crease. It is estimated that sixty millions of
people are starving in that afflicted empire.
—A missionary among the Indians on our
frontier writing to The Standard says :
“None have suffered more inconvenience from
the grasshopper raid than the missionary pas
tors, but tbe Lord hss brought us tu-is far on
our way, and we are enoouraged to believe that,
having remained on the field, we shall reap our
reward.”
You certainly will, noble veterans of the Cross.
—The Summer Quarterly Meeting of the Wo
man's Baptist Missionaary Society oi the West
will be held in Bloomington, 111., July 11 and 12.
—The Central Baptut says, with a force of
truth which every good Baptist in the land will
gratefully acknowledge and endorse. "The life
of Dr. H. F. Buckner is full of soul-stirring in
cidents. Not one of our foreign missionaries in
the last third of a century has made more sac
rifices, endured greater hardships, done harder
work, or produced grander results that this de
voted man. Mb y God spare his life till he sees
some of his fond visions for his red children
realized,
♦ ~
Rev. J. W. P. Fackler—will he please
correspond with some of his brethren here?
or Alabama.
FRANKLIN PRINTING ROUSE, ATLANTA GEORGIA, JULY 11, 1878.
The Summer Resorts and the '‘Land of the Sky.”
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* Asheville, N. C., as seen from Beauc&tcher's Knob.
Ashville, North Carolina, has been termed the;Meecn of the North Carolina mountaineer. In the vallev where it lies, the French Broad
Kiver receives into Us noble channel the beautifi* Svannanoa, the pearl of the North Carolina Rivers. Around this growing city number
ing oyer three thousand people, are grouped many 1 noticeable hills. Gift of the valley of Hommouy Creek sombre Mount Pisgah rises like a
frowning giant; and from the town the distant s dpi til of the Balsam Range may be faintlv discerned. From Beaucatcher’s Knob, the site
of a Confederate fort, overhanging Asheville, the looker toward the southwest will see half a hundred peaks shooting skyward. Asheville
Court-house stands nearly 2,250 feet above the levof the sea ; and the climate of the adjacent region is mild, dry, and full of “salvation for
consumptives. Beautitul natural parks surround the town. Superb oaks cast their shadows on greenest of lawns ; and noble maples, ash and
“ Mount Pisgah," Western North Carolina.
walnuts border the romantic roadway. A few miles distant are excellent white sulphur springs, from which a variety of exquisite views are
to be had ; and nine miles north are the “Million Springs,” beautifully situated in a cave between two ranges of mountains, where sulDhur
and chalybeate waters may be had in profusion. "" ‘
The Indians named the French Broad the “Racing River.” And as it hurls its wavelets around the corner of some islet or promontorv one
sees how faithfully the name describes the stream. Each separate drop of water seems to be racing with the other. One can hear the’voice
of the River always crying among the cliffs, and moaning and sighing as it laps the low banks in the narrow gorge. It is the Errand center
of resort for all who seek either health or pleasure. b b 8 center
Hendersonville is the next town in importance to Asheville, west of the Blue Ridge. The people are famed for their frankness and hospi
tality ; and the scenery and salubrity are unsurpassed. Lover’s Leap, Black Mountain, Mount Pisgah, and other mountains from five thou
sand to six thousand ieet above the level of the sea, innumerable rivers and waterfalls, picturesque soenery and pleasant and health-mvim?
summer resorts, abound in this “Land of the Sky.” . * 8 8
Many other interesting and health-restoring points in North Georgia and South Carolina are reached by this route.
Tor particulars as to the best route to this beautiful land, schedule, etc., address W. J. Houston, General Passenger and Ticket Agent
Piedmont Air-Line Railway, Atlanta, Ga. * K >
THE CHARACTERISTICS OF AM A VANGEI.IST--
WHIT ARK THEYf
t Criticism on Or. Ski oner’s Letter {<uhmi.b
tory of Dr. Teasdale.
Messrs. Editors— ln a late number of
your paper I noticed a letter from brother
Skinner, of Macon, highly commendatory
of Dr. Teasdale, who has recently been witu
him laboring very successfully as an evan
gelist, and who is now with us engaged in
the same good work. Bat while lie speaks
of I)r. Teasdale as the best preacher he ever
heard as an evangelist, and vyhilehe heartiy
endorses the sentiments of his brethren who
called him the “dear, good old man,” he
yet, I fear, counteracts, to a great extent, the
good effects of his commendations by the
unfortunate and ill-chosen words used in
describing the qualifications of an evan
gelist. Indeed, the following quotation
might be construed into an attempt to in
jure, rather than to promote the usefulness
of the subject of hts letter, did not the
standing of the writer and the relations ex
isting between him and Dr. Teasdale torbid
such an idea.
These are the words referred to : “It seems
that two elements are necessary for an evan
gelist— bras* and physical endurance. He has
them.” (Italics his.) OI course no oue will ob
ject to the physical endurance, but the use of
such a term as “brass” in connection with a
venerable man, laboring as an evangelist, is in
bad taste, to say the least of it. Too well do we
all know, to what chatacters this word is ap
plied—to men having more boldness efface
than depth of mind ; more presumption than
piety; more affectation ot knowledge than
irue wisdom; more self-assurance than that
Christ-like meekness which is the fruit of the
wisdom from above, and which is as diHerein
from the vain pretentions of the man of brass as
light is from darkness, or earth Irom Heaven.
What characteristics do we expect to tiud in
an evangelist? Are they the pride, sell-con
ceit, sell-will, and presumptuous ignorance
of the man ot brazen lace, who makes a vain
show of worldly knowledge? Or, are they
meekness, temperance, brolheily kindness,
humility, self-denial, and all those graces ol
the Spirit imparted by God to those who
trust Him, but never seen in those who pre
sumptuously trust themselves? While there
may be Christian boldness, joined with hu
mility, no true Christian can be a “man of
brass,” in the ordinary acceptation of this
phrase. Tbe two characters are wholly irrec
oncilable. The one is a swaggering egotist,
magnifying self; the other is an bumble disci
ple glorilying God ; the one has but little
knowledge, or knowledge which profits little ;
the other has that divine wisdom which has
the promise of eternal life; the one seeks
honor of men; the other of God ; the one
wouid be lord over hit fellow-men.; the other
would be their servant tor Christ’s sake.
These remarks are made in no unkind
spirit, hut with the view of counteracting the
evil influence of such unguarded expressions
as those UHed in the letter under considera
tion ; for it cannot be denied that the tenden
cy is evil, giving a false idea, as they do, as to
ihe true character of a devoted minister of the
Gospel, and lostering a prejudice in the pub
lic inind which is ever ready tixavail itself oi
any preiexl to condemn revivals of religion in
general, and those who take an active part
in conducting them, in particular. Feeling
sure that brother Skinner would not encour
age such a spirit, may we not hope that he
will be more carelul in choosing his words
when writing lor the good ot the cause which
we know to be dear to him?
J. 3. W.
Atlanta, Ga., July 2, 1878.
Ford's Christian Repository for July has been
received. We have so often oommeuded thin
'e do iomination*l monthly, that we can only
add that kio July number is equal to any of its
” r /‘m rT ® fTh* editor niiDouneed what he
terms the “Silver Wedding ’ -ot the magazine.
He has had oontrol of it during 25 years of suc
cessful publication. The editor closes his an
nouncement with these words: “And now
friends, cheer us with the aid of your ii.licence
in swelling our list and extending the field of
oar usefulnesss, and in blessing our declining
years with the inspiration of continued success.”
We congratulate Dr, and Mrs, 8. B. Ford on
their acknowledged success. We can honestly
recommend this only theological and literary
magazine in the denomination to all onr subscri
bers. It deseves ageneious patronage. It contains
80 pages monthly of original reading matter.
12,65 per year, prepaid. Address 8. H. Ford,
Bt. Louis, Mo.
BAPTIST NEWS AND NOTES.
—The Rev. Dr. John Dowling, a well
known Baplist divine oi New York City, and
author of the “History of Romanism,” has
been sent to an insane asylum. His m alady
is caused by a fall similar to that which
caused the death of William Cullen Bryant.
—Rev. G. 8. Williams, the recently elected
pastor of the Central Baptist church, Nash
ville, formally assumed the sacred functions
of bis office last Sunday. Avery large au
dience was present to greet the new pastor.
Rev. T. G. Jones delivered the address of
welcome, Rev. W. A. Nelson the charge to
the Church, and Rev. L. B. Fish that to the
pastor.
—The Baptists of Connecticut number
about 21,000, and gave during the past year
to Foreign Missions $7,460 20. The Bap
tists of Missouri number about 91,000, and
gave to Foreign Missions $2,210 49.
—Make a note of this, brethren, and profit
by it. We take it from the columns of the
Biblical Recorder:
A distinguished Baptist of another State
said to me not long since, “my daughters are
Episcopalians.” “How could that be,” 1
asked, “when you and your wile are both
Baptists?” “Why you see,” rejoined he,
•* We sent them to an Episcopal school, and
they caught them.”
The same old story.
—The second Sunday in July is the day
agreed upon generally for a collection for the
Rome Chapel.
—Rev. W. Pope Yeaman, recently editor
of the Central Baptist , is reported to be a can
didate for State Superintendent of Public
Schools of Missouri.
—A number of Russian Baptists who had
already languished three years in the prison
at Odessa, for daring to express their faith
and to extend it among their neighbors by
secret prayer meetings, etc., were recently
tried by a jury and acquitted. Their ac
quittal was hailed with loud applause by the
public which filled the court room. The
Attorney-General bad demanded their exile
for three years to the mines of Siberia.
—A number of Northern Baptist minis
ters of prominence have left lor a jaunt
among the interesting scenes of the Old
World.
THE cHRISTIA IST HERALD
General Osnominational Hews.
—The Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Ne
braska has admitted to deacon’s orders a Sioux
Indian with the Christian name of Amos
Ross.
—The death is announced of the Rev. Dr.
Stirling, Galston, Ayrshire, the father of the
Church of Scotland, in the 88th year of his
ag9, and the 63d of his ministry.
—A well known gentleman of New York
will soon give $200,000 to the fund for the
erection of the long talked-of Episcopal Ca
thedral in that city.
—The Rev. Charles Garrett, Wesleyan,
has started a movement for securing “houses
of rest” for ministers whose health haß given
way from overwork and other causes. Liberal
subscriptions are forthcoming.
—ln the Episcopal Convention, recently held
in Lynchb rrg, Va., Bishop White delivered
an elaborarate annual address, in which he
earnestly deprecated the evils of round dan
cing.
—Since 1813 there have been more than
one hundred ordained clergymen of the
Church of England (including at least two
bishops) who were converted Jewß, and in
sixty years in one English Church chapel,
from 1815, there have been 780 adult Jews
and 615 children converted and baptized.
—The annual income of the clergy of the
English Establishment amounts to thirty-six
millions of dollars.
—Rev. John Wesley McCune, of Worth’s
Mills, Mercer county, Pa., a member of the
Presbytery of Erie, suddenly dropped dead
while standing near the platform, at the com
mencement of Westminister College, New
Wilmington, Pa.
The Methodist Episcopal Church in the
United States will nm celebrate its centennial
till Christmas day, 1884.
—There is a great revival sweeping through
the Methodist churches in Sweden. Tne
Scandinavian State Church is toppling to its
fail.
Remember.—Let pastors all over the
Sonlh remember that on the second HMalh
in July, the general collection will be made
lor the Rome chape). If the people pray,
and the preachers plead, and all give, the
wr-ole amount needed will surely be secured.
Coi/. Thos. F. Goode.—‘‘That a great lawyer
should succeed, says the Richmond Farmer, as
Col. Goode has doue in the business to which he
is now giving his attention, may surprise some
people. Here is the explanation: The Buffalo
Lithia Water is, beyond doubt, of very great
value, aud the more it is tried, the wider its
fame extends. Bead the certificates in the Ber
aW, of this week, aud if human testimony can
prove anything, is not the olaim made in behalf
of these wonderful Springs fully established ?
Another raason why 001. Goode has succeeded,
is his faith in printer’s ink. He avails himself
of this mighty agency, and unlike some people,
ho does not spend his strength in trying to get
his advertising done at starvation rates. His
faith in “Live ane let liae” does not desert
him when he comes to deal with type-setters.
This being true, we call special attention to his
double-column advertisement iu the Herald ."
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of Tennessee,
WHOLE NO. 2386.
REV. H. B. MoCALLUM EDITOR
Jacksonville is still without a pastor.
The cause of religion seems to be brighten
ing throughout the whole State.
Bro. Gresham, of Gainesville, lias been as*
sisting Bro. Hughs in a meeting at Pine Level
church, which resulted in six additions to the
church by baptism.
Bro. Waugh’s health has improved. The
Gainsville church has voted him a vacation if
he wants it. Take it anyhow Bro. Waugh,
whether you want it or not, it will do you
good.
Elders Sheffield, father and son, Crumps
ton and Martin, recently held a good meeting
at Elizabeth church, Levy county —result, five
additions, two of whom were from the Camp
bellites.
UVDimRKACE.
Many professing Christians, whose names
are upon the church books, are absolutely in
different to its prosperity and welfare. They
made, when they united with the church, a
public profession of faith; from their baptism
they professed to “ walk in newness,” and yet,
from that day to this, they have done scarcely
anything for the cause they profess to love-
The fire that they imgined was burning upon
the altar of their hearts has died out, and not
a spark seems to be left to awaken even a wish
for the prosperity of Zion. They have become
dead brandies, but they are neither cut away
or “burned up;” they simply hang as dead
appendages about the church, and clog the
wheels of progress. They “ have a name to
live and are dead they add nothing to the
moral influence of the church, nor do they ap
propriate a farthing to its support, or if they do
it is given for appearance only, and not be
cause it is a duty and pleasure to give. If
there was only a few of this class it would not
be a great matter, but the trouble is, “ their
name is legion,” and in some instances they
even form a majority of the church, and it
therefore becomes a grave question, “ What
shall be done with them 7” We once heard
Bro. F. C. Johnson compliment a church be
cause they had excluded a number of mem
bers; he said it was healthy sign, and if they
would go ahead and turn out about half that
were left, he then thought there might be
some chance for the church to become entirely
healthy. Some thought his remarks were
harsh and unkind, but were they not true?
Asa writer in one of our religious journals
puts it, “we need a revival of discipline.” The
churches, to fulfill their mission, must be ag
gressive bodies, and as an army with half the
soldiers stragglers or non-combattants is of
little use against a well organized enemy, so
are the churches inefficient unless their mem
bership is alive to their duties and responsi
bilities.
Let us, therefore, direct our efforts against
this evil, and endeavor to inci'e those who
have already put on Christ to active work for
Him. Let our minister’s aim to develop the
working power of the churches, and to this
end we trust they will endeavor to obtain a
more perfect organization, and instruct not
only the office-bearers in our congregations
but the private members more fully in the
duties required of them. We have little doubt
that a well directed and general effort, on the
part of all our preachers, in this direction
would soon double the effective power of the
churches.
Gainesville, Fla., July 2, 1878.
Bro. McCallum—l have been intending
for several days to give a little news for The
Index. By the way, allow me to say I think
under the circumstances, yon made a good ex
change for us in giving us the newsy Index.
I like of Dr. Mell.
Our pastor moved to his new home a few
weeks ago, and some of us took it into our
heads that, as he was unwell and seemed rather
gloomy, we would do what we could to cheer
him up and remove his gloom, so upon a given
night a goodly number of us formed a proces
sion, boldly marched up to his house, uncere
moniously walked in and made ourselves at
home. We did not go empty handed, but
each took him a present, and as they were
piled up in one corner of the room he looked
on with rather a puzzled face. Not being used
to such treatment, he was rather confused and
blushed considerably.
We stayed as long as we wanted to, and bid
ding him farewell, started home with a feeling
of happiness that we are sometimes permitted
to send “sunshine” into our ministers heart.
The church is gradually increasing in num
bers, both by letter and baptism. On the first
and last Sundays in June, our hearts were
made glad at seeing willing followers of Jesus
go down into the water. The Lord be praised,
_ 8. M.
Words op Cheer prom Florida.—Elder
C. V. Waugh, for sometime quite feeble, is
hard at workagain, at Gainesville, and recently
baptized one. Eld. E. B. Carroll recently bap
tized an interesting ft ly at Madison, Fla. At
Pine Level church, in Madison county, G. B.
aad W. J. Hughes recently baptized six per
sons and ordained Henry Martin as Deacon.
Eld. G. T. Gresham assisted in the meeting.
At Palatlakaha church, four received for bap
tism, in June. Eld. \V. J. Hughes baptized
twenty during the quarter ending June 30th,
and preached eighty-two times. His father
baptized eight and preached about as much.
Bro. Hughes is a missionary of the Horae
Mission Board, Southern Baptist Convention.
W. N. Ckaudoin, Agt.