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The Christian Index.
VOL. 57—NO. 30.
Table of Contents.
First Page. —Alabama Department: Record of
State Events; Spirit of the Religious Press;
Baptist News and Notes; General Missionary
Baptist Association o( North Georgia; General
Denominational News; etc.
Second Paoe. —Our Correspondents : Young
Men's Christian Association—F. T. L ; Evan
gelism-Rev. Adiel Sherwood; Pope Pius IX;
General Meeting First District Second Georgia
Baptist Association—G. R. Moor, Moderator;
A Woi and for Our Indigent Ministers. Rev. A. J.
Beck.
Third Page. —Home Influences: The Greater
Power—How it Moulds Character—Part First
—Second Paper—By Sidney Herbert.
Fourth Page, — Editorials: Church Polity—The
Church—lts Form of Government—Dr.' Mell;
Georgia Baptist News; Paragraphs.
Fifth Page. —Secular Editoiials: The Interna
tional Exposition at Paris; Scientific Observa
tions of the Eclipse; A Valuable Work; Water,
or Nitric Acid; The Era '‘Congresses;” The
1 arliani ntary Elections in Germauv; Geor
gia News: Femaie Students in the Universi
ties; An Interesting Island; The Chinese
Question; The State Horticultural Society;
etc.; etc.
Sixth Page. —The Indian Mission Field—Rev.
;j.S. Murrow.
Seventh Page. —Willie’s Rule—Poetry. The
Sunday-Sokool: The Widow of Nain—Lesson
Vll—August 18, 1878. Sabbath-School Meet
ing at Powder Springs, Ga.
Eiohth Page. —Florida Department. Marriages.
Obituaries. Advertisements.
INDEX AND BAPTIST.
ALABAMA DEPARTMENT.
A woolen factory is to be built at Milltown.
The corn crop in Hale will be the best for
years.
Isabella Fennell, aged 10 ( j, died in Deca
tur.
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A protracted meeting is in progress in the
Baptist church at Dadeville.
The Union Sabbath school at D.iviston,
Dade county, has 75 scholars.
A protracted meeting has been in progress
at the Methodist church, Uanesville.
The church at Larkiusville, Jackson county,
is being renovated.
A protracted meeting is in progress at Rock
Spring.
Dr. Bolling Jackson, formerly of Wetumpka,
was recently killed in Arkansas.
TbSte will be a Grange fair at Eufaula, com
mencing November 12th.
A little son of Dr. Moreliead, of Pickens
ville, was burned to death by kerosene.
The new Baptist house of worship in Talla
dega is one of the handsomest in the State.
The Tu-cumbia AVr'A Alabamian : “gays the
corn crop in this vicinity is the finest we have
ever seen."
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The degree of D. D. was conferred on Rev.
W. C. Hearn, of Huntsville, by the A. & M.
College.
A board of examiners will meet in Tusca
loosa November 13th, to select a cadet for
West Point.
Dr. B. F. Hendon, pastor of the Sumterviile
church, is earnestly recommended for mission
ary t a the Bigbee Association.
The missionary tours of brother H. A.
Williams are productive of great good. lie is
the right man in the right place.
For the first time in ten or eleven years,
thanks to Solicitor Tompkins, there are no
lotteiies running in Mobile.
The Methodists of Scottsboro have
bought the old “Brick church,” and will re
fit it.
The next regular meeting of Providence Bap
tist church, Chambers county, will be pro
tracted.
The survey of Mobile Bay will be begun
early in August, under the supervision of
Maj. A. N. Damrell, Government engineer
in that section —appropriation SIOO,OOO.
John 8. Collin-*, county Superintendent of
Education for Jackson county is a defaulter to
the amount of $5,000. He has fled from the
State.
The Union Meeting of the First District of
the Liberty Baptist Association will convene
with the church at Providence, Chambers
county, an Friday before the third Babbath in
August. _
The Baptist church building at Midway,
has, by the energy of its members, and the
work and effective method of brother Paullin
for raising funds, been completed. It is now
one it the moat beautiful village churches in
t lie State. f
The law authorizing the hiring out of State
and county convicts, will no doubt be a bone
of contention in the next Legislature. An
effort will be made to repeal the law on the
ground that it interferes with honest labor.
A rope factory with a force of twenty hands
has been in successful operation in Union
Springs, for the last two years. Seed cotton is
bought at the factory, and is shipped to var
ious cities in the South and West in the form
of rope and twine.
THE SOITTE-WESTERN BAPTIST,
Mr. H. E. Allen died recently atLaFayetie,
aged 64 years. He had been for many years
a consistent member and deacon in the Baptist
church, and was universally respected by all
who knew him.
“The Baptistß of Alabama are engaged in a
grand work,” says the Baptist, “the work of
State evangelizition. There is a general de
sire and determination all along the line to
“go forward.” We hope—we expect to haye
not less than fifteen missionaries in the field
this fall. Brethren in the ministry, brethren
in the laity, let us bestir ourselves, for the
time has come to “awake out of sleep.” The
work will be done, and whoever fails to do his
part, must stand ofl and see it done by others.”
The Selma Argus says:
Prof. Comstock, representing the govern
ment, is now in this section investigating the
cotton worm. It will be rembered that
through the influence of Senator Morgan,
$5,000 was appropriated by the last Congress
tor this purpose. Prof. C. has spent several
dys in the Canebrake in consultation with the
more intelligent planters, and examining the
worm as it is now found in occasional places,
and expresses himselt as very confident that a
remedy can he found for this pest. He will
spend some weeks in this part of the State,
making Selma his headquarters.
According to the reports of the Alabama
State Mission Board, the various Associations
throughout the State heartily indorse the work
of the Board. Sevoral brethren acting as mis
sionaries, having visited during the year seven
hundred and seventy churches, accomplishing
a very great amount of good. The Board is
now operating in thirty-three Associations, and
reaching out in its work to a destitution, espe
cially on the southern border, never before met
by Alabama Baptists. Brother T. M. Bailey
eloquently says : “Ten thousand dollars should
be given the coming Conventional year, by Ala
bama Baptists, for the evan.olization of their
own State. Shall wo have it ? Brethren, let us
go up aud possess this goodly laud of ours for
Christ, for wo are able. Let us take for our
motto : “A Baptist church in every community
—meeting every Lord's day—its membership
putting forth personal efforts for tho salvation
of men, aud giving of their means for extension
of the Redeemer’s kingdom.”
Religion on the Wave.— Undor this caption
the Boston correspondent of the The Standard
alludes to an eccentric independent clergyman
of that city, Rev. Henry Morgan. Having re
turuod from a brief visit to Europe;he applied for
permission to preach oil Boston Common, The
writer continues:
For somo leason his request was ne t granted,
bo on Sunday last he advertised that his services
would he held at Lowell's Grove, and that the
sti. amcr Stamford would carry the people down
at so much a head. It was a jolly time. The
steamer was crowded, and the people got a Sun
day sail, a Sunday lecture, and frolic for only
thirty-five cents. This is certainly anew depar
ture in the religious line, and a queermixture of
religion, pleasure and business. If Mr. Murray
had tliougt of this ho might have made liis for
tune out of it.
As our comment ou this proceeding in puri
tanical Boston, wo quote the utterance of the
famous Madame Roland, slightly altering the
words to suit the case :
“O IMigion, how many crimes aro committed
in thy name!”
A couple of revolutionary leaders
in Mexico attacked a town the other
day with a band of three hundred fol
lowers, and were defeated. The coun
try is continuously in a state of politi
cal fermentation. One party is in
power to day, and out again the next.
The government forces, and the
wealth of the country is at the inerey
of any bandit leader who may happen
to have more fellows with guns and
knives in their hands than the rival
bandits of any of the neighboring prov
inces. It claims to be a “Republic”
but it is, in fact, the best example of
an irresponsible despotism on earth—
mob tyranny is the very worst form of
tyranny, and you might as well expect
to change the nature of a tiger by
hanging a label around his neck mark
ed “sheep,” as to change the political
characteristics of this paste-board
“Republic” with its garniture of blood,
pillage, and ruin.
We see no hope ahead for the dis
tracted country. The trouble is the
people are altogether unworthy ot
freedom; tho spirit from which this
sacred principle springs is wanting;
there is no soil within which to culti
vate the precious fruits of liberty ; the
miasma of ignorance, superstition,
priestcraft, ndolencc and licentious
ness will not permit the germ to un
fold the fruit to ripen. It is a sorry
spectacle. Where is the “Berlin Con
ference” that will interfere for the good
of civilization ?
Ilian Sciiool. —We take pleasure in call
ing attention to the advertisement of the
Kirkwood High School, for boys. This ex
cellent school will open for the fall session,
August 19th. It is governed by the military
system, and charges have been reduced.
Parents desiring to have their boys thor
oughly instructed, should communicate with
the principal, Mr. Chas. M, Steel, and ad
dress him at Atlanta.
of Alabama
FKANKLIN HUNTING HOL’SE, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, AUGUST 8, 1878.
Spirit of tlw Religious Press,
—Commenting upon the results of the
Peace Conference at Berlin, the Biblical Re
corder says:
We regard the establishment ot religious
liberty in Turkey and its oppressed provin
ces, the giaudest triumph civilization and
religion have gained for ' centuries. All
right-minded men must rejoice in this sig
nal triumph of the higher and nobler prin
ciples of statesmanship, over the sordid pol
icy of Earl Beaconstieid and Lord Salisbury.
England’s protectorate of Turkey must
prove a blessing to its benighted people, aud
her occupation of Cyprus will lead to the
extending of her civilization to a greater
part of the world now lyiug waste.
We cannot see how the term “sordid” can
be applied to the policy of Beacousfield
when, as our cotemporary admits, the re
sult will prove a blessing to benighted peo
ple, and result iu the extension of civiliza
tion.
—The New York Methodist treuchently
remarks:
There is no shorter road to unhappiness
than a habit of envying those who seem
more prosperous than ourselves. It is a
habit that has no uses, yields no increase of
success; it never yet gave au ounce of
bread or an atom of pleasure; and, on the
other hand, an immense aggregate of pain
is accumulated by it in every generation.
It is a vulgar habit, but those who indulge
in it are apt uot to know its unseemliness;
and many a one escapes tlie sense of his
own baseness by giviug it another name,
lie believes that human injustice has
thwarted the divine bountifulness toward
him, and regards every apparently prosper
ous man as a robber of himself, and such as
he.
This feeling is shared by a great number
of intelligent men —men capable of appre
ciating the tendencies of such unhappy feel
ings. Now, when we consider the effects of
this bail habit upon the illiterate, unthinking
masses, upon the mobs who generally com
pose the substrata of the “strike” move
ment, can we wonder that Communism
flourishes to the extent t does, with all its
lawless and destructive purposes against the
peace and well-being of society ? Envy is
the mother of many of our grossest evils.
The Congregationalist has this timely
warning :
Perhaps there never was a time when it
would pay better for Christians scrupulously
to avoid puttiug lu the way of the foolish
the least stone of stumbling, over which
they arc sure to full, and sedulously to cul
tivate the graces, aud abound in the good
works, equally sure to lead candid observers
to take knowledge of them that they have
been with Jesus, aud so to glorify the Father
who is in heaven. An urgent need of these
times is fewer stumbling-blocks and more
lodestones; more gold with the Divine coin
er’s imprint, and fewer counterfeits.
—We heartily indorse what 2 he Standard
has to say in regard to baptism and salva
tion :
“He that believeth and is baptized shall be
saved, and be that believeth not shall be
damned.” While baptism of itself is not a
“saving ordinance”—no ordinance is saving—
it is nevertheless, very clear that Christ and
the apostles put it into very close, and, may
we not say, essential relation to salvation ;
and do Christians in general, put the stress
upon it, which we find it beais in the Bible?
Baptism when intelligently performed, is an
act of obedience, the first one laid upon the
believer, and whatever obedience to Christ
has to do with salvation, baptism has. It is
also an open avow al of faith in Christ, it is
taking a stand tor Christ, before the world;
separating ourselves visibly bom the world,
as a manner of life. Ii is tnnigiug our man
hood, our consistency, our loyalty, our good
faith —all that is noblest and truest in us,
and pledging them to fidelity; and we know
the help which comes to one from such a
pledging as this, we know what forces one
gathers around him by taking a stand; and
then it brings one by bis church relations
into associations, under influences, puts re
straints upou him, lays responsibilities open,
calls him to those Christian works and into
those Christian walks, which have in them
the essence of salvation—for, undo stand,
salvation is not something ready made aud
put upon us from without, but au experience
worked out from within—“ Work out your
own salvation.” While, therefore, baptism
is uot ot itself saving, it has certain very
practical and vital relations to salvation.
There is no way in which a believer can so
iffeclually “make his calling and election
sure,” as to be baptized and live con
scientiously up to the vows which baptism
involves; to gather the helps and come under
the inspirations which Christian baptism
brings.
— The Interior , speaking for the Noith
west, says :
We hear that the farmers in many parts
have been offering $2.50 and board per day
for harvesters, without being able to get the
required help at that price. The thousands
of tramps have had an opportunity to work
at good wages and have rejected it. There
never was as good wages as that offered be
fore in this or any other country. A dollar
will buy as much bacon, flour, potatoes and
cloth for men’s or women’s wear, as it ever
would in any time iu the past. When tood
aud clothing were as low before as they are
now, which was only once, and that about
the year 1843, then a good mower aud crail
lcr would work for $1.50 a day. The trumps,
taking up the cant of political demagogues,
are tlircarening to destroy the machinery of
the farmers. It is time to take decided meas
urea with the tramp. Vagabondage lias
reached the magnitude of a crime in its an
tagonism to the peace and security of soci
ety, and should lie so measured, and rctri
bntion dealt out to it.
Yes, it is high time for every community
in the country to take strong measures for
the suppression of vagabondage. There are
good laws upon our statute books, but they
are no better than dead letters, because they
are not enforced. By our negligence and
want of earnestness, we are allowing the
rank weeds of disorder and social degrada
tion to overrun the land. The strong hand
of the law must interfere iu this matter, to
prevent disaster to our social and' political
fabric. The man who will not work at any
price when work is i ffered him, but preters
to loaf, should be treated as an outcast, as a
conspirator against the peace and well-being
of society—he should be made to choose
between two alternatives—honest labor for
his own benefit, or forced labor in the cliain
gang for the benefit of the public. This is
no time to trifle with the fundament il prin
ciples of our government —our lethargy on
this subject becomes criminal in view of the
fact, that it encourages the growth of a class
of human fungi whose morbid prolificness
will, eventually, poison and destroy our lib
erty and the fairest of its fruits,
—Here are golden words from Zion's Her
aid :
Send the children to school, even if the
meals are simpler, the garments cheaper,
and the personal indulgencies more limited.
Send them to the academy, even if their
absence makes the home lonely and the labor
heavier. Send them to college, or ask aid
from some society. Let them go to the pro
fessional seminaries, even t lieu go the send
ing of them is felt every day in the family
treasury. The hour demands the best talent
raised to its highest power. You may not
be able lo perform any marked personal ser
vice-in the Master’s field, or give any great
gifts into Ilis treasury ; but, if you can give
a thoroughly educated Christian youth—
young man or woman—to the work of the
Lord, the donations of tens of thousands of
dollars could uot balance such a gift in the
scales of Eternal Wisdom.
BAPTIST NEWS AM) MOTES.
—The Central Baptist (St. Louis) says :
It was proposed to take special collections
for State Missions iu July. How niauy
churches have'collectcd ? Who is to blame
if the collection has not been taken? The
field is suffering, the missionaries are labor
ing faithlully; God is blessing their labors,
but they are not paid.
It is a shame that these faithful laborers,
all over the country, are not paid honestly
and promptly by the churches that employ
them. Is not the laborer worthy of his
hire ? What sort of an example is this that
Christian people are setting the world ?
—We are exceedingly glad to learn that
Dr. Lofton, of St. Louis, lias entirely re
covered Irom his recent illness, produced by
prostration during the terribly hot weather
ir that city. Long may lie live, an honor to
our denomination 1
—Notwithstanding there are 1,000,000
Scandinavians in this country, the Chicago
Baptist Theological Seminary is the only
institution in this country which has a Scan
dinavian department.
—A correspondent says :
Many of our churches iu lowa are feel
ing the increasing depression of the mill
stone tendency of church debts. The life
blood of a church is sapped when large
sums of money must bo expended in the
payment of interest.
The same is true of many churches in the
South. It is a bad plan for churches to go
into debt, just as it is for an individual to do
so. “Owe no man anything,” should be the
motto. It will prevent trouble, disappoint
ment and demoialization.
—Spurgeon says that the Lord more than
answered his mother’s prayers for him.
That she prayed that the Lord would con
descend to make him a preacher, and that
He had more than answered her prayers,
for He had made him a Baptist preacher.
He also tells that his mother would often
make him cry. She cri cd and prayed so
earnestly fur him that he was forced to cry.
—A very ably written tract ou the “Sub
jects of Ilapti-m,” by J. G. Fee, and re
cently published in New York, alludes as
follows to the evil ol infant baptism—the
point made is undeniable:
Infant baptism occasions tlie neglect of a
positive personal duty—tlie petsnnal profes
sion ol repentance and faith by baptism.
The command is, “ Repent and lie baptized,
every one of you.” The baptism is as per
sonally enjoined as repentenee is—as much
a personal duty; and the penitent has no
more right to neglect the baptism, because
the parent has had the minister to baptize
him, titan he has to neglect prayer because
the parent has had the minister to pray lor
him. Repentance, prayer, baptism, each
and all, are personal duties, and we have no
more right to neglect the one than the other.
And then we have no right to neglect the
honor of Christ by this appointed means of
professing him. We have no right to omit
before society this voluntary putting on
Christ. We have no right to omit the per
sonal good that will come to our own souls
by a voluntary public confession of Christ.
Personal duties cannot be done by proxy.
Infant baptism supplants personal duty aud
the diviue order. Though devised for sup
posed good it is evil.
—The Rev. Dr. Winkler, of Marion, Al
abama, is expected to supply at the War
burton Avenue church, Yonkers, N. Y.,
during August.
—Washington—Lee University, of Vir
ginia, has conferred the degree of D.D., on
Elder T. T. Eat ,n, of Petersburg.
—Jtung Gwoon Jew, connected with the
Chinese Mission that Las been organized in
connection with the Baptist church at Sa
lem, Oregon, was recently ordained a min
ister of the Gospel. “Gwoon Jew,” says
The Evangel, “ was five years in one of the
best mission schools in China; has been over
two years a diligent student of the Bible in
Oakland, California, and on this examina*
THE CHRISTIA TT HEB A HID
tion showed himself thoroughly versed in
Bible doctrine. The examination was very
satifactory, and the Council were unani
mously in favor of his ordination.”
—A correspondent of The Standard fur
nishes the following interesting news from
the church at Helena, Arkansas:
The Baptists have passed through great
trials here. Their first house was destroyed
during the war, their second was torn down
by a storm, and their present one was begun
without counting the cost, and therefore re
mains unfinished ; though the basement is
finished and makes a commodious audiencc
room. They have been pastorless for two
years, except brief supplies, and the congre
gation had divided with other churches, the
membership having dwindled to forty four.
The prayer meeting had been suspended for
two years, and tin y had almost given up the
ship. On the 24th ot May, the Statu Evan
gelist began a series of meetings which con
tiuued twenty days—resulting iu fifty con
versions and forty-three additions to the
church, aud the building up of the largest
congregation they have ever had in Helena.
They have called Rev. W. A. Clark to the
pastorate, and he has accepted, and will be
gin the work the first of October.
General Missionary Baptist Association of North
Georgia.
Supplementary to our editorial of last week,
relative to this Association, we give the names
of the brethren composing the Executive Com
mittee: W. C. Wilkes, J. E. Rives, J. B. Rich
ards, M. V. B. Lankford, D. S. MoCurry, C, C.
Bell, A. J. Logan, Samuel Harben, T. E. Ken
nerly. It was earnestly recommended to the
churches that collections be made quarterly, in
any way that may suit, for Foreign, Indian, aud
Home missions. The contributed amounts to
be forwarded Lo Rev. William C. Wilkes, Chai.-
man Executive Committo, Gainesville Ga.
As heretofore stated, the next tension of the
Association will he held witli the Gumming
church, beginning ou Friday before tho fourth
Sabbath in November, Rev. J. E. Rives is lo
preach the introductory sermon, Rev. T. E.
Kennedy, alternate; Rev. W. C. Wilkes to preach
the missionary sermon, Rev. D. M. Breaker,
‘alternate. It is earnestly hoped that every
Association in North Georgia wrli be represent
ed by delegates at the session in November.
The following Declaration, and Constitution,
were uuamimously adopted by the body:
DECLARATION.
Whereas, the Lord's people are commanded
to "go into all the world and preach the gospel
to every creature,” “and to work while it is
called to-day;” and
Whereas, the New Testament clearly teacheH
that the church is Iho Lord’s instrumentality
for evangelizing the world; therefore,
Resolved, That in order to give efficiency and
Power to our labors and contributions in the
Missionary work, according to New Testament
principles, wo do unite ourselves in a General
Association.
CONSTITUTION.
1. The name of this body shall he “The Gen
eral Missionary Baptist Atsociation of North
Georgia ”
2. It shall be composed of delegates from
Associations, or churches, as lotions: Each
Association shall be entitled to five delegates,
irrespective of number, and to olio additional
delegate for eveiy five hundred over the first
thousand. And any church not represented
through her Association, may sond one dele
gate.
3. The objects of this General Association
shall bo to uuite the labors of Baptists iu preach
ing the gospel everywhere, to assist weak chur
ches in our own bounds, aud to aid woithy
young men in preparing for the ministry.
4. The officers of this body shall be a Moder
ator, an Assistant Moderator, a Secretary, and a
'.treasurer who shall bo elected annually by baU
lot, and shall perform the duties usually devolv
ing upon such officers, and shall hold office un
til their successors are duly elected.
5. Noue of the proceedings or decisions of this
body shall ever be bindiug upou the asHuciaiious
or churches.
6. An Executive Comuiittoe, consisting of
nine members, five of whom shall be a quorum,
shall bo elected annually, whose duty it shall be
to attend to ihe business of the General Asso
ciation during its intermission.
7. This body shall mate rules and appoint
committees to accomplish any objects named.
8. This body may correspond by letter, or bv
letter and messengers with similar associations
and conventions.
9. This body shall meet annually at such time
and place as may be agreed upon at tho previous
meeting'
10. This Constitution may be altered or
amended at any regular meeting by a two-thirds
vote of the members present.
To their vital and essential faith in
Christ—which is, indeed, the mysteri
ous, but irrefragable band of their urn
ion to him, Christians will add the se
ven pure graces indicated bp the Apos
tle Peter, which in their bl ight succes
sion to each other, and in their abso
lute inter-dependence, may be, not in
aptly, likened to the seven colors of the
rainbow. As the latter are all necess
ary, both in their essence, and in their
exact order, to the formation of a ray
of perfect light, so the former are equa
lly essential in tlr mselves, and in their
place, to the developnmt of a Chris
tian character, that shall shine without
distortion, when viewed through the
pure medium of Divine truth.
Hart Collegiate Institute.— This in
stitution of learning for young ladies, at
Richmond, Virginia, offers very excellent,
and especially desirable features. It will be
opened for students ou the fourth Tuesday
in September (24th). The plan proposed
commends itself particularly to parents and
guardians. See advertisement, and address
John Hart, M. A., Richmond, Va.
Wo aro glad to learn that the prospocts of the
mission in charge of Brother A. J. Holt, in the
Indian Territory, have never been so encourag
ing as now. At a harmoueous council of the
trilies recently held, the chiefs addressed broth
er Holt m speeches ox; receive of love and con
iidonco.
of Tennf.ssef,
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General Denominational News.
—The Union of American Hebrew Congre
gations, lately in session in Milwaukee, had
under consideration a project of great impor
tance to the Jews throughout the world, and
of possible great benefit to the United Slates.
This is a proposition to purchase lands in the
Western and Southern States, with a view to
affording a place of refuge and a means of
livelihood for the oppressed Jews of other
lands. It is proposed by this means to encour
age the immigration to America of the Israel
ites of Russian Poland, the Danubian princi
palities, and other countries where they now
labor under heavy civil and political disabili
ties. The suggestion finds much favor al
ready, and the Reformer and Jewish Times say
that the example set by the Russian Mennon
ites might be followed with advantage by the
Russian and Eastern Jews. The plan before
the Milwaukee Convention also suggests the
settlement on these lands ol the children
brought up in the Jewish orphan asylums,
who now, on leaving the institutions, too fre
quently serve only to BWell the already large
army of the unemployed in our chief cities.
—The Modoc war cost the government more
than four times the amount contributed in this
country for Foreign Missions during the year
■oi its continuance.
—The Episcopal vicar of Winchcombe,
England, on a recent occasion buried two
.children with one service, except that in the
case of one, who was the daughter of Wesley
an Methodists, he omitted the words, “in the
sure and certain hope,” but turned towards the
grave of the other child, whose parents were
church people, and repeated the sentence ia
which they occur in its integrity. The vicar’s
discrimination being published he denied the
story. Whereupon four persons, who were
present, signed a declaration declaring his
denial a lalsehood.
Moravian missions, now found in the
snows of Lapland; and among the Kaffres and
Hottentots, were begun among the slaves in
the West Indies, a station having been estab
lished in Si. Toomas in the year 1732,
—Mr. Edison is now engaged upon a mega
phone, an instrument by which he expects
deaf people to hear ordinary conversation. He
has it so far perfected that by applying lubes
to his ear he can hear a man conversing at the
distance of a mile. His intention into pro
vide an apparatus that will be suitable for
use in churche° and leclnre-rcom-
The learned Max Muller closes his noted
“Lecture on the Veda,” before Ihe Leeds
Philosophical Association, with the declara
tion that as one of the results of such a careful
and impartial comparative study of the Orient
al religions, we shall learn to appreciate
better than ever what we have in our own re
ligion. No one who has not examined patiently
and honestly ihe other religions of the world,
can know what Christianity really is, or can
join with such truth and sincerity in the words
of St. Paul, 1 1 am not ashamed of the Gospel
of Christ.’ ”
Mr. Moody feels the need of rest and study,
after five years of constant work, and has made
arrangements to go to Baltimore in October,
and spend the winter there.
—Knowles Shaw, the evangelist, who was
killed recently in a railroad accident near
McKinney, Texas, had just closed a meeting
at Dallas with 112 additions, and was to hold
one at McKinney. The evening before he had
said he did not wish to outlive his work ; that
he hoped to have death suddenly, while in
harness working for the Master. At the time
of the accident he was in conversation with
two ministers, and had said, “It is a glorious
thing to rally people to the cross of Christ.”
These were his last words. At the funeral in
Dallas, the entire population were present,
and all business suspended.
The Reformed Episcopalians have now
eighty regularly organized churches, and fifty
missionary stations. Ol these, eight are in
Chicago and Philadelphia each; four in
Brooklyn, two in New York, and one each in
Boston, Washington, D. C.; Louisville, Ky.;
Memphis, Tenn., Jacksonville and Tallahasse,
I‘la.; and in Montreal and other places. In
the United States and Canadas they have 100
ministers and 9,000 communicants.
Intelligence from India shows a remark
able increase in the number of converts. The
Bishop of Madras reckons about 80,000 bap
tized natives in his diicese, though there were
not 00,000 in 1862. In China some progress
is made, but in Jay an there are only eighty
eight native Christians.
The Southern Presbyterian Church has
just published its statistical report, from
which it appears that it has 12 Synods, 65
Presbyteries—an increase of 2; 1,117 minis
ters and licentiates—an increase of 2; 145
candidates—a decrease of 21; 1,873 churches
an increase of 43, and 114,578 communi
cants—an increase of 2,028. The number of
members added on profession was 6,875.
The total of contributions was $1,030,971, a
decrease of about SBO,OOO.
—lt is but a few years since the first Pro
testaut missionary went there, and now nine
Protestant denominations have missions in
Mexico, employing in (he aggregate 98 mis
sionaries.
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