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The Christian Index.
VOL. 57—NO. 42.
Table of Confute.
First Paob.— Alabama Department: Salutato
ry—Rt. Sam'l Henderaon; Coosa Biver As
sociation ; Tuskegee Association ; Record of
State Events. General Denominational News.
Second Page. —Special Contributions: From
Our Correspondent at Rochester, New York;
Our Dead—Rev. H. C. Hornady; Hope. Gen
eral Correspondence; Conduct Proper to be
Observed by Baptists to PedobaptUta; An Ap
peal—A. T. Spalding; Notes at Several Asso
ciations, with Incidents of Travel—W. D. At
kinson; Ministers and Deacons’ Meeting; No
tice to the Bethel Association—Wm. H. Coop
er; A Sad Case—B. G. Robertson; “ X Second
the Motion;” liet it Continue So; etc.
Thxbd Page. —The Household: Words of liOve
Poetry ; What is Life; Emblems of Christ;
Take Care of the Common Duties; Religious
Intolerance in Russia; Let Your Children
Sleep Enough; Modesty; etc. Children’s De
partment; Beautiful Things; True Gentlemen;
Dean Stanley to Ihe Children.
Fourth Page. —Editorial: Pride of Intellect;
Too Pious; Imputation—Sanctification; The
Baptist Racts— H. H. Tucker. "A Place
Higher Up;” Spirit of the Religious Press—
rTw. Fuller. Baptist News and Notes, etc.
Fifth Page.— Secular Editorials; Georgia News;
Foreign Notes.
Sixth Page. —Sunday-t'ohcol Department :
Zaochaeus. the Publican—Lession Vll—No
vember 17, 1878. A Gentle Word is Never
Lost—Poetry.
Seventh Page. —The Conduct of Life—Poetry.
Eighth Page.— Florida Department. Death of
Andrew J. Dunn. In Memoriam. Obituaries.
IHECHRISIIANINDEX
ALABAMA DEPARTMENT.
BY SAM’L, HENDERSON.
Birmingham has a population of 3,238.
William J. Fuller, of Montgomery, is dead.
Rev. J. M. McCord, of Coosa county, will
attend the present session of Howsrd College.
There are ten Baptist ministers in Central
Association under forty years of age.
The Salem Association closed a very pleas
ant session a few days ago.
Two hundred baptisms were reported at
t he meeting of the Central Association.
The school population of Pike county is
5,200. |
The Good Templars of Montevallo will
give an entertainment November Ist.
A fire company has been organized at
Marion.
The total value of taxable properly in
Henry county is $1,002,343 20.
Corn is selling in Tuscaloosa at fifty cents
a bushel.
Trains are not running on the Mobile and
Ohio railroad.
The amount of tax levied in Henry coun
ty this year is $17,288 59.
There are five Sunday-schools in Colum
bus. _
Judge Geo. F. Moore, a native Alabamian,
has been commissioned Chief Justice of Texas.
Five of the stores recently burned in
Marion are to he rebuilt.
The Baptists of Columbiana have organ
ized a Sunday-school.
M. H. Yebby and daughter, have gone
from Greensboro to Chapel Hill, Texas.
The demand for duelling houses in Tuske
gee this fall is unprecedented in the history of
the town.
Mr. William Riw, a farmer living on Mul
berry river, near Blount Springs, gathered
300 bushels of corn from four acres of land.
A goodly number of the citizens of Mobile
are still erjourning with their families across
the bay.
Mr. T. H. Smith, of the Coosa River
Newt, will establish anew paper at Foit
Payne, DeKalb county.
The protracted meeting at
Evergreen closed with twenty additions to
the church.
Mrs. Howard, wife of Dr. C. C. Howard
died at her home near Autaugaville a few days
ago.
The Sunday-school of Wetumpka chnrch,
brother C. Lull superintendent, is in a pros
perous condition.
We learn that the grand jury of the City
Court of Montgomery propose to inquire into
the advisability of recommending the whip
ping post as a punishment for petty oflences.
Mr. Jas. T. Osborn, well known in Ala
bama, died of yellow fever in New Orleans,
Oct. 4th. Alice, a daughter of his is down
with it. Mr. Osborn was a printer by trade
and well liked by all who knew him.
The work on the new church building in
Seale has commenced, and the committee
call upon subscribers to pay in their sub
set iptions as early as possible, to Mr. W.
H. Washington.
The Eureka coal mines near Helena, are
perhaps worked on a more extensive scale
than any in the South. Friday, they raised
350 cars of coal, or about the same number
of tons.
THIEJ SOUTH-WESTERN B.A.IFTIST,
ow Alabama
TO THE READER.
Five years ago I withdrew from The In
dex and Baptist, as one of its contributing
editors, for reasons then given. If any one is
disposed to ask why 1 am back in the like po
sition, all I shall venture to eav, at present, is,
I am aboard the old craft again from stress of
weather, and propose “working my passage”
as best I may. This is all the apologt I shall
offer. Life is waning with us all, and, what
some of us do, must be done quickly. If there
remains any writing power in me, it is time I
was using it. I have no time to parley for “a
more convenient seasoD.” And as this paper
contains all that remains of my dear old South
western Baptist, it seems to me, on the whofe j
that it is the moet appropriate channel through
which to reach my brethren. Not a few wise
and prudent brethren—ministers and laymen—
of my State have united in urging me to this
step, so that I am here by the joint wishes of
others, as well as the deliberate volitions of
my own mind. Convictions of duty that
have literally fought their way to one’s best
judgment, are not apt to lead a man very far
wrong. All 1 shall ventnre to promise is,
that I shall seek to promote every vital inter
est fostered by my denomination in Alabama,
and elsewhere. Not one line 9hall ever ap
pear in the “Alabama Department” of this pa
per, the aim of which is other than this.
The union oj the entire Baptist brotherhood oj
Alabama, in aery good word and work, will be
the key-note of all that shall appear in my de
partment. I should despise myself if I were
to allow any personal feeling or wishes to bias
my efforts in this one grand object, to which I
have already consecrated so many years of my
life. Nine years ago, or more, some of us be
came convinced that nothing would so likely
unite the Baptists of the State in the great en
terprises which mark the Christianity of this
age, as the establishment of a State Mission
Department in our Conventional work. I re
member, with great vividness, that in the last
interview I had with the late Chief Justice
Chilton, of Montgomery, he urged the im
portance of having some of our best ministers
all the time in the field as Stale Evangelists,
as being the grandest work in which Ihe Con
vention could engage, as it would, more than
anything else we could do, revive the mission
ary spirit, and that would react upon every
other Christian enterprise. For some two
years this matter was upon the Conven
tion by several oT us, and, even then, only a
partial success rewarded our efforts; for we
had to ccntent ourselves with a mere Sunday
school Board, and one single Sunday-school
Evangelist for the whole State, for about
three years, or more; so fearful were some of
our brethren that we would cripple, rather
than promote, some other interests of the Con
vention. But the very magnitude and im
portance of the work crushed out all opposi
tion, so that, four years ago, our Sunday-,
school Board was merged into Ihe State Mis
sion Board, and its duties correspondingly en
larged ; and now we have nine or ten of our
v ery best ministers engaged as Evangelists,under
appointment of the Board. It is asserting
nothing more than the truth to say that, to the
operations of this Board, more than to any
other agency, are we indebted for the union of
the denomination throughout the State upon
the work of the Convention. I need scarceh
add, therefore, that the work of this Board will
share its due measure of attention in this de
partment of the paper.
Next to Christianity, the cause of education
should be fostered by the religious press. It
vitally touches every interest of the country,
whether material, moiai, social, or political.
If we would protect our people from that spirit
of vandalism, that communism, and the thou
sand and one other isms, under which entire
States and communities in some sections of our
country are now agitated to the very centre,
and from which we, of the South, have been so
happily exempt thus far, we must educate
them. By this is meant that their moral must
keep pace with their mental culture, since it is
only in this way that the resisting forces shall
be equal to those attacking forces which are
perpetually menacing the very integrity of so
ciety. Therefore, to the extent of my capaci
ty, and the space allowed me in this journal, I
shall seek to promote this cherished object,
whether as fostered by our own denomination,
by the State, or by others. Religion and edu
cation so vitally interpenetrate each other,
that no religious newspaper can do justice to
the one without giving due prominence to the
other.
But as we are more likely to keep a lew
than many promises, I will Ray, in a word,
that I shall seek to apply the old principle of
the old divines, called “the analogy of faith,”
to all subjects falling within the proper juris
diction of my department—that is, I shall aim
to give all these subjects the degree of atten
tion which can fairly be claimed for them.
To those of my Alabama brethren who may
think that I should have chosen another chan
nel , if I chose any, through which to address
them, I will only say that The Index and
Baptist has a considerable circulation in Al
aba ma—that not a few of our brethren take no
other religious paper—that it is one of the
oldest Baptist papers in the United States —
that it may be regarded as one of the most
firmly established papers of the country—all
these t hings added to the fact, that Dr. H. H.
Tucker, in connection with whom I was one
FRANKLIN PRINTING ROUSE, ATLANTA, GEORGIA,. OCTOBER 31, 1878.
associated in the editorial management of
it, and whom I regard as the peer of any man
on the continent for any service that demands
depth, compass, perspicuity, or force of thought*
I repeat, all these things have influenced
me more or less to take this step. Other
reasons it boots not to give, since these are
sufficient, I hope, to secure a charitable con
struction of my conduct in the premises.
Let it suffice for my Alabama brethren, one
and all, to know, that no untoward circum
stances, however embarrassing—no sense of
personal injustice, however humiliating, can
ever swerve me from those grand objects and
interests to the promotion of which I have
given about forty years of my life. Trusting
first in the mercy of our covenant-keeping
God, whose I am, and whom I try to serve, and
then casting myself upon the kindly charities
of my brethren, I offer this as, perhaps, the last
service in this capacity I shall ever be able to
give to the best of causes, and for the benefit
of those whom I love in the sweetest bonds.
Samuel Henderson.
COOSA RIVER ASSOCIATION.
This body met with the Sulpher Springs
Baptist Church, Calhoun county, Ala., embra
cing the third Sunday in September. In
many respects, it was the most inteiesting oc
casion we have had for years. The churches
reported a solid, healthy growth, showing an
increase of about one hundred by baptism.
Between three and four hundred dollars were
made up for the State Mission Board. Oyer
a hundred dollars were contributed to send
a young man to a good school or college, pre
paring for the ministry. A fine spirit anima
ted the body. The meeting was continued for
a week, and sixteen persons were baptised by
the pastor, Rev. T. P. Gwin. Dr. Renfroe
was moderator, and brother James Wilkes
was clerk. Sixteen dollars were sent to the
yellow fever sufferers at Memphis.
♦ ♦ ♦
The Shelby Guide says: Last Tuesday
afternoon about 4 o’clock, the usual quiet of
our town was disturbed by a heavy sound
as of falling brick and timber. Upon look
ing toward the grove where the beautifu'
Baptist church once stood, behold, it was in
ruins! Quite a number of the citizens
immediately flocked to the scene of disaster,
and it was thought that the brick walls on
either side had spread, the tall spire with its
heavy bell and the roof falling in the cen
ter. The walls fell outward, some of the
brick being found fifty feet from the build
ing. The organ was injured by the spire
falling upon it. The walls on each end re
mained standing. It is a complete wreck,
and carries a pang to the hearts of all to
think that this tasteful structure with its
frescoed walls and Heaven reaching spire
should become a ruin.
♦
Mr. James F. Grant, the venerable senior
editor of the Jacksonville Ilepubliean, died the
10th inst., aged sixty-nine years nine months
and ten days. Mr. Grant was the oldest
editor in Alabama, and was held in the great
est respect by all hia contemporaries, who
knew and fully appreciated the sterling qual
ities of bead and heart that made him an or
nament of his profession. He served one
term of two years as State Treasurer, for which
his incorruptible integrity and methodical
habits peculiarly fitted him. He was widely
known, and in every part of the State are true
and faithful friends to mourn the lose they
have sustained in his departure. In the ful
ness of his yearß, he put iff mortality and put
on immortality, and from the cares and la
bors of life passed to an eternity of rest and
happiness.
Dr. Teague, once pastor of the Baptist
church in LaGrange, Georgia, more recently
of Selma, Alabama, has purchased a go'-d
farm in Shelby county, on which he is “re
newing his youth,” preaching to four churches
and “in the regions beyond,” and affirms that
he has a larger surface on which to dispense
his ministry than he ever bad, and has not
enjoyed such health for years. It does one
good to enjoy a few social hours with him.
His exuberance of spirits fairly effervesces.
His preaching, too, possesses a pith, power
and fervency unsurpassed by any period of his
life.
Tiie Alpine Baptist church and congrega
tion have lately contributed s4l to the benefit
of the family of the late Dr. Wilson, who so
nobly fell at his post in New Orleans. Such
heroism, like the stars at night, shines with
all the greater brilliancy when surrounded by
the darkness of affliction and distress. May
the Good Shepherd “turn his hand upon the
little ones.”
The Alabama Baptist complains that The
Index does not reach it. We can only say
that we regret the fact, and cannot account
for it. We mail our paper regularly to the
Alabama Baptist. We are happy to add that
the weekly visits of our esteemed contem
porary never fail us. We are glad that the
mail does not fail in both directions.
Sixteen accessions have been made to the
churches of which we are pastor within the
last month or two—Alpine, Mt. Zion and
Childersburg.
As the result of a few days meeting at Syl
lacaugee, Talladega county, six additions were
made to the church—four by baptism. Rev.
W. Wilkes pastor.
tiskekCee association.
Dear Editors: I have just returned
from the annual meeting of the above named
body, at the town of Tuskiegee. Eld. Car
roll, who had been the Moderator for several
years having moved to Texas, Eld. F. C.
David was elected Moderator, and the for
mer very efficient Uerk, Eld. C. W. Buck,
was continued, and he also preached the
Introductory sermon, but I was too late
arriving to hear it, but heard it favorably
spoken of.
To me was assigned the pleasant and
responsible work of preaching to the chil
dren (old and young) at 10 o’clock a m. and
11 o’clock. I heard Dr. I. T. Ticheuor
preach the missionary sermon, and have
seldpm heard a more impressive evangelical
or able discourse. Eld. C. C. Willis, of
Georgia, preached, at night, a good sermon
on “ Helping the Truth.” I cannot speak
of the sermons at the|oiher churches, both ot
which were occupied morning and night by
brethren of the Association.
'I he Missionary feeling of the Association
was good. A considerable sum was sent up
in cash, and a larger sum pledged for the
support of an Evangelist of the State Board,
to labor in that and one or more adjacent
associations. Besides that, a good sum was
sent up for the Home Board, and something
for Foreign Board, although a special effort
had been made but recently for that work.
Some good meetings were reported, but I
did Dot learn how many baptisms had oc
curred. Eld. J. L. West was present, look
ing after the interest of the Alabama Baptist,
and tue presence of Secretary T. M. Bailey,
of the State Board, added much to the
interest of the meeting. He is particularly
severe on the “ peace churches,” whose
letters report, “ we have nothing ot interest
to communicate, only we are at peace." He
says their peace is often much like “the
profound peace of the grave yard." One
most excellent brother said he “ was going
to go home and declare war.”
The Agricultural school of the State, at
Auburn, is flourishing, under the able man
agement of Dr. Tichcnor, President, with an
able Faculty to assist him, one of whom is
the son oi Dr. P. H. Mell. About 200
students are in attcndence, and but for the
yellow fever the number would have beeu
larger.
Let me, in conclusion say, it was very
pleasant to meet Dr. Gtiggsand old Brother
Swanson, former Geoigians, and who still
love the old State too much to dispense with
the Index. And yet another noble son of
Georgia, must be mentioned, and also a
student once of Mercer, Governor and Sen
ator Ligon. He is a Methodist, but he and
family understand how to make Baptist
ministers feel comfortable. Pleasant, and
too short was my visit to Tuskeegee, with
Dr. Tichenor for my company, and Gov.
L. and wife as host and hostess. But I
forbear, though there are other men and
matte, j of which I would like to speak.
W. N. Chaudoin.
Booming Business.— ln a business letter to
us, from the Superintendent of the Daniel
Pratt Gin Company, Prattville, Alabama,
Bays:
“Although we are almost completely cutoff by
quarantine from Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas,
and nearly all of Mississippi, yet we have not
been able to fill promptly all orders from other
sections. _ For the past three months we have
been making, on an average, more than four
gins per day, and had not the quarantine in
terfered, we would have been far short in meet
ing the demand for our gins.”
Another evidence of the great popularity of
these gins.
The Huntsville Independent says: There
is perhaps not a single city in the South,
considering its size, that has entertained so
many refugees from the fever-stricken sec
tions as Huntsville has, and among the
cases that have developed a large percent,
have recovered. Mr. Clarke, the Tiucum
bia operator, whose illness was reported in
our last, died last Friday. Mrs. Nagle, a
German lady, who first fled from Memphis
to Tuscumbia and then from Tuscumbia to
Huntsville, is another victim in ou r midst
since our last publication.
Macon county will in a short time be out of
debt, due to the economical and judicious man
agement of Judge Holt, who has always had
the public interest at heart in every official
act. The warrants are now selling readily at
seventy-five cents on the dollar, but when he
went into office there was no demand for them
at all, and twenty-five cents would have been
considered a fair price. The jurors are now
paid cash, and old Macon will soon be clear
of debt.
Phillip A. Aylett, M. D,, who died in
the city of New York, October 3d, in the
57th year of his age, was a native of Dallas,
and son of Col. William Aylett, for many
years a prominent and respected citizen of
the county. Dr. Aylett was in early life de
prived of his eyesight; but, nevertheless!
after acquiring a scholastic education he
graduated with distinction, in medicine.
Washington Stevens, a colored minister, and
well known in Montgomery, has been travel
ing over the State seeking aid for the Theo
logical Colored Bchool of the colored Baptist
Church of the State. He desires the white
people to aid in this matter, and appeals to
them for contributions. All money received
will be properly accounted for and properly
applied.
Mr. R. W. Fort, a former citizen of Mont
gomery, but since the war residing in Mobile,
died near that city last Monday of yellow
fever. He was a most excellent gentleman
aud thorough business man, having been
Secretary of the Board of Trade for many
years past. His many friends thioughout
the State will learn with regret of his death.
THE CHBISTIAH HEE .A OLID
of Tennessee,
Noble Charity. —A correspondent writ
ing from New York City, describes one of
the methods pursued by the noble people of
that city for providing for the wants of the
fever-stricken people of the Southern cities and
towns:
“One of the most interesting incidents of
the day was the collection of clothing, etc,,
for the relief of Southern sufferera from the
houses of citizens. The prominent dry goods
and express firms furnished teams for the con
veyance of the articles. Ahead of these went
the telegraph messenger boys detailed for the
service, to warn the inhabitants of the ap
proach of the teams. Tne people then pre
pared their bundles and placed them in the
carts as they came along, the driver of each
vehicle being supplied with a certificate signed
by the Mayor and other officers. The offer
ings consisted of boys’ clothing, underclothing
of all kinds, for women and children, shoes,
dresses, hats, wrappers, etc., etc., in miscella
neous prolusion. In many respects the most
useful things received were blankets and
quilts.”
Subscriptions have been taken up among
Opelika merchants to defray the expenses
of an agent to Savannah and Charleston,
who will endeavor to secure lower freights
to Opelika than the hitherto extortion
ate rates that have been so injurious to
the commercial interests of that city.
Among the recent deaths at Chattanooga,
we find the nameof Dr. R. N. Barr. During
reconstruction days he was a member of the
Senate from Monroe county in this Slate.
Some years ago he moved to Chattanooga,
where he has since been successfully practicing
his profession. He was a good physician and
a bind hearted man.
Rev. S. 8. Harris and Rev. John Fulton,
both well known in Alabama as former res
idents of this State, will commence on the
2d of November the publication, in Chica
go, of a newspaper to be devoted to the
interests of the Episcopal Church, under the
title of ‘The Living Church."
Rev. Victor Both, a highly esteemed citi
zen of Mobile, and pastor of the Lutheran
church, died in that city of yellow fever. He
was unwearied in his attention to the sick,
and died at his post —a Christian hero, faith
ful to his holy calling to the last.
The Alabama Historical Society, at Tus
caloosa, has elected the following officers:
Rev. J. II Foster, president: W. C. L. Rich
ardson, W. 11. Gardner, and N. H. R. Daw
son, yice- presidents: W. Moody, treasurer;
and John Snow, secretary. ‘
The meeting of the Presbyterian Synod of
Alabama has been postponed to convene at
Livingston on Thursday before the first Sun
day iu December next, (Nov. 28t1i,) instead
of the time to which it now stands adjourn
ed.
Elder J. A. Lively, recently of Georgia,
but now,living in the Tuskegee Association,
seems to be getting on pretty lively, and
wants to see tne churches, Sunday-schools
and mission work, more lively.
The Talladega Mountain Home says: “Dr.
E. B. Teague preached at the Baptist church
Monday and Tuesday nights, will preach
there to-night, and the balance of the week.
Dr. Teague is one of the ablest ministers in
Alabama.”
Elder Z. D. Roby, the Bishop of the Tus
kegee Baptist church, is much beloved by
his people. lie is a strong and growing
man, and will hardly die soon with the blues.
Miss 11. E. Winkler, a daughter of Dr. E.
T. Winkler, of Marion, takes charge of the
art department of the Greensboro Female
College.
Mrs. Elizabeth Hammonds, who recently
died near Seale, joined the Bantisl denomina
tion iu 1808.
A considerable sum was pledged at the Tus
kegee Association, to aid a ministerial stu
dent from that body at Howard College.
Elder W. E. Lloyd, pastor of the Baptist
church at Auburn, Ala,, has offered his res
ignation, to take effect the last of the year.
The Methodist protracted meeting at Ever
green closed with twenty additions to the
church.
Property is looking up in Tuskegee and
every bouse in the place is occupied, and
some improvement is going on.
Tne Opelika Baptist church seems to be
doing well under the pastoral care of Elder
G. E. Brewer.
The Baptists of Bold Spring neighbor
hood, Shelby county, contemplate building
a church.
Mr. T. 11. Smith, of the Coosa River News,
will establish anew paper at Fort Payne,
DeK.tlb county.
The Good Templars of Montevallo will
give an entertainment November Ist.
A fire company has been organized at Ma
rion.
The total value of taxable property in
Henry county is $1,002,243.20.
Corn is selling in Tuscaloosa at 50 cents a
bushel.
The amount of tax levied in Henry county
this year is $17,288.50.
There are five Sunday-schools in Colum
biana.
The school population of Pike countv is
5,200.
M. H. Yerby and daughter have gone from
Greensboro to Chapel Hill, Texas.
Five of the stores recently burned in Ma
rion are to be rebuilt.
The Baptists of Columbiana have organ
ized a Sunday-school.
Dr. W. A. Mitchell, of Eufaula, has re
turned from Europe.
A Sunday-school Convention willjbe held
in Talladega the 9th and 10th of November.
Work has been commenced on the Catho
lic church at Demopolis.
Birmingham has a population of 3,228.
WHOLE NO. m 2,
Genera! Denominational Hews,
—The Russian Greek Church possesses 38,-
002 churches, including cathedrals; 12,860
chapels and oratories ; 18.887 arch priests,
priests, deacons and precentors ; 56,500,000
members, of which 29,000,000 are women
and 27,000,000 are men. The sums received
by the church during the year amount to
19,000,000.
—Six years ago there was but one church
la Japan, now they number thirty-five or
six. Then every Christian effort was
frowned upon by the Government. To-day
one hundred young men are studying for
the ministry in the schools of the American
Board.
—News comes from New Zealand that
five Wesleyan missionaries have been mur
dered and eaten by bush natives near the
Malicola coast. Eighty of the tribe were
killed by traders and coast natives in retalia
tion.
—There are now nine different Evangelical
bodies in Rome, viz: The Waldensians,
the Wesleyans, the Methodists, the Episco
pal Methodists, the Free church, the Pres
byterians, the Plymouth Brethren, the
American Baptists, and the Apostolic Bap
tists, numbering 700 Italian adherents in
all. The Waldensians have purchased a
site for anew church in the Piazza de Santi
Apostoli, and the American Baptists are at
this moment building a place of worship
near the Teatro della Valle, which will be
opened next month.
—*’ Calvin would not have his grave
marked, and thus unconsciously made the
fact, that he is buried at Geneva more con
spicuous than it would otherwise have
been. The old Church of St. Pierre may
really be called his monument."
—Dr. Philip Schaff says he immersed
himself ten times in the Jordon at the place
where tradition says Jesus was immersed;
but we have heard Pedobaptists argue that
the water of the Jordon was Dot deep enough
for immersion.— Central Baptist.
—The Roman Church in France has lost
its most conspicuous prelate, F. A. P. Du
pauloup, Bishop of Orleans, and also Sena
tor of France.
—A short time ago a child of Baptist
parents died at Ipswich, England. The
funeral procession appeared at the gate of
the parish cemetery, where it was met by
the curate who assailed the Baptist minister
in a most abusive and offensive manner.
—Mr. Sankey, now in Eoglaud, having
failed to induce Mr. Moody to join him
there, will begin a revival himself, with the
assistauce of English preachers, and iutends
to make a tour of the whole of England.
—According to a High Church authority,
the 22,600 ministers of the Church of Eng
land are divided as follows: 12,000 are in
the High Church Party, 5,400 in the Low,
2,500 in the Broad, and 2,700 are for the
“ most part colorless nonentities.”
The Rev. Dr. Underhill, an eminent
English Baptist, is to read a paper at the
Protestant Missionary,Conferencein London,
on “ The Results of Emancipation, social
and religious, and its Probable Influence
upon Africa.
—The two Drs. Tyng, father and son,
New York, are earnest believers in the pre-
Millennial coming of the Lord Jesus Cueist,
and have called a convention of the advo
cates of this doctrine to meet in that city
during the last week of the present month.
It is announced that Rev. Horatius Bonar,
D. D., of Scotland, will take part in the
proceedings.
Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage’s saliry has
been increased from $7,000 to $13,000 a
year. Mr. T. is reported as saying that he
would now be able to give his entire time to
his congregation.
—The Rev. Mr. Pentecost, the counter
part of Moody in the handling of a Bagster
Bible, and much of the mannerism of the
sacred desk, but a very different person in
plain statement and Scriptural exegesis, is
laboring nightly at Association Hall, Phila
delphia where large congregations attend his
preaching. The outcome w ill most likely be
another crop of bearded evangelists with
limp Bibles, and superficial experience in
their attempt to lead sinners into the “ way
of salvation,”
—The charge is sometimes made that
Young Men’s Christian Associations are
hostile to, cr at least rivals of the churches.
The contrary is asserted by the Associations,
and the action of the St. Louis branch seems
to bear out the assertion so far as it is con
cerned. A number of young men belonging
to that body left the Walnut street Presby
terian church and set up a “ Body of Christ,”
as they called it—a kind of Plymouth
Brethren organization. They baptized con
verts, set themselves forth as the true Church
of Christ, and made trouble among the
churches generally. The Association very
properly erased the names of these members
from its roll.
—The house in which John Knox, the
Scotch reformer, lived and died, is yet
standing in that part of Edinburgh known
as the old town. Extending 'over the front
is this inscription in large Roman letters:
“ Lufe God abttfe all, and yi nychtbour as
yi self.”