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The Christian: Index T*™ - ' • vHL. 57— NO. 47. Table of Coutenu, First Page.—Alabama Department: Immortal ity ; A Questionable Poiley ; Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama; Hev. J. 0. Wright Kev. Samuel Hendereou. Spi lt of the tieligioue Press ; Baptist News and Notes ; General Denominational Newa. Second Page.—Special Contributions : lioatora tiouista—Kev. S, G. Hillyer Purity of deart— G. Eternity—Eternal— Everlasting - hev T.B. Cooper. Geuerai Correspondence: Tne Minis try—Hev. b. VV. Whilden; Blackshoar Church aud its Pastor, la the Bible lieal.y the Text Book of our Sabbath-Schools—C. U. Stilweil; Hev. J, VV, P. t ackier—i\ B. Cooper; Suuday- School Convention of Bethel Association—W. H. Cooper. The Sunday-School: The Saviour’s Last vV or via—Lesson Xl—December 22, 1878. Third Page,—Oration, pronounoed by Col. Charles C. Jones, Jr., on the 3ist October, 1878, upon the occasion of the Unveiling aud Dedication of the Confederate Mouumeut erected by the Ladies’ Memorial Association of Augusta, in Bro and Street, in tne City of Augusta, oa. Obituaries. Fourth Page.—Editorial: The Mainspring ; George Y. Browne ; A Proper Question and a Good Answer Mistiited to Each Oilier; Long Artilces—A New View ; The Auudote; Prom Dr. Taylor—Dr. ti. H. Tucker, lhe Dea h Power of Mere lieiigioua Forms—Dr. It. W. Fuller; etc. Fifth Page.—Secular Editorials ; Whisky iu Politics; A Good Law; The South to Her Sons; Puii'ical Preaouiug; Unitea States Currency ; Personal ; ueoigia Newa ; etc. Sixth Page.—The Houaehold ; Under the Daisies—Poetry; Childreti in t. liurch; Thanks giving—Poetry; Willie s Faith. Seventh Page. Ciniiirou’e Corner: Iu the Ham—Poetry; Tne Clock at Strasbourg, Wcrk for It. Eighth Page —Thomas J Perry; Death of itev. Wilkes Flagg. Obituaries. Advertise ments. THECHRISTIaN L\dL\ ALABAMA DtPAR.MENT. BY SAM’L HENDERSON. IHMiIiICALITY. In nothing does the gen us of an artist rise to such transcendent excellence, as in Un happy moment he selects in which to transfer the human face to canvas. He seeks tc seize upon that moment, (and it may be but a moment,) in which that com l bination of features plays upon the coun tenance, which most exactly portrays the character he is painting, so that tin* char acter is, so to say, eternized upon his'ease l to interest c mnoisseures for centuries. His last touches giye to his work a changeless aspect. Whatever vicissitudes maysnark the subsequent career of the original, the yeinr- Clauds H the fl'.lsh of Dealt o , and manly vigor caught by the artist at the instant he portrayed it. Wrinkles may gather upon the brow aud streak the face of bis patron —his eye may loose its lustre— many winters may thin and whiten his hair —his very form maybe palsied by age—and disease may throw over his countenance the ghastly hues of death itself—so that scarcely a lineament tnay remain to identify him with the portrait of the artist; yet lliut portrait remains to tell its story of the halcyon days of his life, as well as to com memorate the genius that produced it. Is it not seen thus in that process by which the “image of the heavenly”—the seal ol immortality—is impressed upon the human soul ty the Spirit of the Lord! Tne di vine Spirit, so to speak, seizes tnat happy instant in which the penitent believer stands in that relation to the adored Re deemer iu which the cmvas stands to the subject of the painter, and transfers the holy image trom the divine Original to the hu man recipient, by which he is made ‘‘par taker of the divine nature’’—“changed into the same image"—and t hat impress, blessed be God, remains forever! The pulsa tions oi an endless life give to its visage the flush of immortal youth and beauty. The body, the taheri acle in which it dwi Its, may he remanded to mary sad changes. The eye may grow dim, the face may he “furrowed o’er with years,” the step may lose it< elasticity, and the whole frame may totter with the weight of four-score years ; buts ilt the soul, drawing its life and vigor from the great fountain of ali life, contin ues to “ flourish in immortal youth,” taking on, ever and anon, new lines of beau ty aad uew supplies of strength, uuti) fitted for its final destiny among the blood washed throng. Borne years ago a gentleman of culiure and taste visited a private museum in tne Old World, and among other objects of in terest that arrested his attention, were two portraits,suspended side by side. The one was a young woman, in the very bloom of yiuih. Not a wrinkle marred the counte nance. It combined ail the elements of young life in their loveliest form. He was entranced as he g .zed upon it, and pro nounced it a master piece of art. The oth er was an oid lady, shrivelled, wan, decrep it, just ready to siuk into the tomb under caies of tour-score years. Yet that old hag gard woman was the child of the youthful beauty at her side 1 W hat a contrast I It was as if the mother aud the child had Changed places 1 But tue mystery is solved when we are told that the artist had trans fered the one to canvas in the lovely hey day of life, and delayed his task until age, disease aud care bad exhausted their iorces upon the other May we not learn a lesson from this, also, 'F* fcu FOE 1 J .'"FT-"WEnOT IP>Jk "RTTFIT, JOMMI worth remembering? That young, attrac tive face is the same to day that it was a century ago. It will be the same a century hence that it is to-day. The form it rep resents has long since mouldered away; hut art has given it a kind of immor tality that knows no decay. And is not this true of the ‘‘inner man that is renewed day by day?” How transporting the thought that ‘‘that whioh is born of the Spir it” never grows old 1 that its “youth is renewed like the eagle’s”—that the sun of its existence ever mounts higher and higher— and that, in this respect, uutike the youthful portrait, its beauty, its glory, its powers, will expand with the ceaseles cycles of eter nity ! while its day tenement may be fitly represented by the old, decrepit form re ferred to, as dying daily aud ready to fall imo the tomb. It is thus, dear reader, that art supplies us with an impressive illustration of our immortality. The productiousof such meu as Raphael aud Michael Angelo have come down to us, and possess the same freshness and interest that they did with their con - temporaries, aud this interest will go ou for coming centuries indefinitely. And will it • *he so with the works of the Divine Ar n ,in chang.ng us from glory to glory, u - ti! tie- pn cess shall be completed? Yes, far beyond the time when sun and moon an 1 stars shall cease to shine—far beyond that last catastrophe that shall consign the uni verse to >uins—these living torms of moral beauly, these happy spirits and bodies as well, fashioned like unto the matchless form of the 800 of God —the wonder of angels and the joy ot His heart —shall constitute the crowning glory of all God’s handiwork! Immortality! How the very word sends a wave of sweet sensibility to every Christ ian heart! What honor, what glory shall gather upon that Name that has brought this immortality to light, and made it the priceless herit.ge of every believer! How it gilds the bright hereafter with a radiance more brilliant than a thousand suns 1. Who can measure the heights of bliss, of sublime distinction, to which that nature may at tain in tiie eternal world, which has been taken into an alliance with the divine Me diator! Our faith staggers under the vast ness ol the conception ; so that nothing short ot a divine assurance can verify the amazing truth: “It dotn not yet appear what we shall he; hut we know that we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He v.” This seals the pledge—this guarantees every thing that Omnipotence can give, and that immor tal being can receive. The plenitude of the infinite God cannot do less—the capac ity of his saints can take in no more. A QUK<TJO,SABI.iI POLICY. Dr. Talrnage has undertaken to dis-ect the depravity of the city of New York, as a kind of Sunday entertainment for the gathering crowds that throng his church, attr oted, we suppose, by the kind of instincts that bring a flock of <arrion ciows to a dead carcass. The star of Mr. Beecher is on the wane, and Mr. Talrnage doubtless supposes that somebody will fill the vacated nitch, and lie is possibly aiming for that “ mark of the prize.” That he will re: wh it, is at least among the possi bilities. He already has the crowd, and what is still better, h s salary within the past few weeks i.as jumped from seven or eight thou sand dollars to twelve thousand ; so that lie is on the high way to his reward. He devotes a poition of each week in visitmg the various cesspools of inqility in the city, taking a kind of diagnosis of the sit mtion. The discoveries thus made, furnish the entertainment for the next Sunday. All he has to do is to spin out the nauseating doses through the season, and no doubt he can readily command the material o do this, giving just such variety to tire fare as will keep the public appetite up to fever heat. This done, his apotheosis is assured, and he receives the plaudits of the admiring multi tudes who formerly crowded at the shr.ne of the late Henry Ward Beecher. But seriously, what good can come of this hashing up a mess of garbage from the sinks of ii iquity of this modern Babylon every Sunday morning? Is the church henefitted ? Is the world improved ? Is the cuise of mor ality subserved ? Have not the crimes com mitted in open day, and in defiance of law, sufficiently shocked and deadened the moral sense of the public, without checking on the darkness of night to supplement the horrid spectacle by its more horrid revelations? It is somewhat to the honor of human nature that many of the more revolting, corrupting, imbruting forms of vice, seek the covert of darkness for their perpetration. What pa rent wou'd take his children to these sinks of sin to educate their moral feelings and senti ments? And can the moral standard of Christianity be elevated by full length poriraits of the most degrading vices, presented from the pulpit every Sabbath ? (Jan such garbage supply the spiritual nourishment a sincere Christian needs? Many of our young men have been ruined by reading those details of crime furnished iu the yeilow-ieaf literature of the age. Can the effect be different when retailed from the pulpit instead of the press ? “Familiarity breeds contempt,” so that when crime ceases to shuck, it has destroyed the last power that can check or reform it. If Mr. Talrnage would address himself to FKAxNKLIiN PRIKTIM HOI3SE, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, DECEMBER 5, 1876. the laskof reforming, instead of denouncing— if like another Howard, lie would seek to restore aud alleviate, rather than to expose and criminate—he would do church and State some service, even though it might not greatly increase his salary. His reward would not be the less, because it came in the tears of gratitude from the reclaimed victims of vice that he might be the instrument of saving. Agricultural and Mechanical lullrge of Alabama. It is not a little creditable to our State, and to the ability of he Faculty as well, that this institution has sprung iutojsuch vigorous life so soon as to lead every College in the State in the number ot its pupils. Situated in one of the healtniest locations in the State, and in the midst of a ictiued and cultivated community, accessible by rail from all directions, it oilers rare advantages to our people, in the thoroughness of its in structions, as well as in the broad range of practical subjects which are embraced iu its curriculum. It supplies a long felt want especially in our Agricultural interests, aud the change already effected in many localities, by its ageucy, is most happy. By the proper combination of manures, cheaply produced, aud adapted to the different qualities of soil, and improved implements of preparing aud cultivating it, in many instances one-half of the labor has yielded double what the same acreage has yielded under the old system. Tnis plan pur-ued with vigor, it will not he many years before our noble old State will he brought hack to more than its virgin power of productiveness. But to do this, our formers must be educated, and put upon a par with the learned professions. Tins will dignity labor—it will bring to the cultiva *inn of our lands a class of tanners whose capacities will enable them to use intelli gently all agencies necessary to produce the largest results with the least amouut of labor. One of the most important factors in labor is, aud ever will he, its intelligence; so that by increasing this, you increase its value. Scientific farming is the grand, ab sorbing necessity of the time iu these South ern States. Our climate and soil, our mineral and manufacturing capacities, cannot be surpassed on the continent. They consti tute a princely domain, the possibilities of indefinite wealth. Give us the skill and the industry to develop these vast resources, and we are independent. The disciplinary regulations of the Ag- Tieu.rvtral and Mechanical College are as nearly perfect as we nave seen. All its teg uialions move on in the utmost harmony. The habits of system and order here engen dered are ol iuealeu able importance to the young men who share its benefits. Much ot this administrative capacity is due to its President, Dr. Ticheuor, who in the most quiet, unostentatious manner, lays his de termining hand upon every department ol the institution so gently, audyetsoettective ly, that its movements are like those of well regulated machinery. Of course his influ ence is largely supplemented bj that of an able corps of professors. The new members of the Faculty—>lell, Mixon, aud Cham bers -have brought into the College a still h’gher degree of efficiency, we understand, so that its lulure promises to su pass its past brilliant career. Already abo.u two hundred and fifteen students have been enrolled fer the present term, and it is thought that tins number will he materially enlarged by January. It is, therefore, with no little State pride that we call attention to this institution, as indicating that the cause of education iu our State, especially that style of education we most need, is so rapidly advancing. No citizen of Alabama has any just, reason for sending his children or wards out of the Slate to he educated. We have institutions for hoih sexes which are fully equal to all the demands which the most exacting can make. The advan tages of this course are too obvious to re quire any detail ou our part. Rev J. O. Weight.—This brother Jelt wtiat is called the “eoiton belt” of Alabama, six or seven years ago, purchased a piainain n in the neighborhood ot Oxford, and has oc cupied himself since in farming and preaching, according to the demands of eaeii set vice. Brotner W. is one ot our most cultivated and best preachers, a graduate ol tue Howard, and was, for about twenty years, the popular and useful pastor ol several churches in tfouih Alabama We do not know when we iiave list ened to • sermon so rich in thought, so lucid in style, aud so conclusive in argument, as his late introductory sermon before the Coosa R vtr Association, The topic, “ The Coming ot the Son oi Man,” was handled wiih decided ability, and we siiould be more than gratified it he would furnish the manuscript to The Index and Baptist, for w are persuaded that although the editors might not agree wuh everything said in the sermon, they would pub lish It with pleasure. It abounds in "seed thoughts,” and will make the reader do some thinking. We notice that brother W. is contributing some articles lo the Alabama Baptist winch are quite taking, both in the topics discussed, and >n bis manner of treating them. Surh men have no right to bury themselves in sol itude. There is too milch honest work to be done in this great world ot ours to allow any such agencies to be idle. A“ our brother wields ‘ ,ie pen of a ready writer,” we irun he will*not be wanting in his duty in this respect. WenhouM like to hear from him, occasion - ly, in the Alabama Department ot thin p iper. This he could do without inter tering with existing obligation* elsewhere. Spirit of the Religious Press, —R. W. Dale, an English minister, who delivered a c<mrse*of lectures at. Yale Col lege, not long since, has been evidently impressed by the religious freedom of this country. The liberty enjoyed during his short stay here, has brought out iu strong contrast, the bondage of a National Church establishment. His views are thus presented in ; c Nineteenth Century : In E,gland l am reminded wherever I go that the State is hostile to uiy religious opinion, and practices. Though 1 am a minister of religion, tli civil government lias placed me ami my family uniter the spiritual charge of the Vicar <• Edgbaston; that excellent geutle ifliii is my pastor ami religious teacher. 1 am uov obliged lo hear him preach, hut the Stale has thought, it necessary to entrust him with ti, ‘duty of instructing me in Chris tian iru h, and celebrating tor my advantage thoChistian s.tci aments. The law is against nn'. It tolerate., m , hut it condemus me. It balks, though it das not bite, it de scribe.- me as being among the number ot those people in divers parts of this realm, who, " following their own sensuality, an I iiving without knowledge aud due fear of GoiL do wilfully aud schistuaiically abstain ancPfcmse tocome to their parish churches." It lias provided a Book ot Commou Prayer that “ every person within this realm may certainly know the rule to which he confoim in public worship.” I am permitted lo break the rule, but the rule stands. I, is the policy of the State to induce the country to accept or to retain religious doctrines which seem to me to he erroneous, and an ecclesiastical polity which seems to me lo he unfriendly to the free and vigorous devel opment ol the religious life. The position of a Non-conformist in this country is, to say the least, not a pleasant one. Itis re ligious work is carried on iu the presence of a government which condemns his creed, cond- tuns his modes of worship, condemns his ecclesiastical organization, and sustains the authority of a hostile Church. In die United Stales 1 breathed freely. I was under the flag ot a foreign government, bur the law had nothing 10 say against my religious belief or my religious practices, an i there was no national institution estab lished wbh the direct intention of maintain ing religious belieis and practices which I r-iec’. ~ . • —'** ••‘Warn >.vite attention to some Umuglus,‘taken from the Presbyterian din ner, on “ religion not mere paarivily.” Many professing Christians seem to imagine that it they have been converted, their wools, religious life has been condensed iuto that act. It is, chiefly, by a recurrence to this event, that they banirir doubts, which after wards arise, concerning their spiritual well being, or that they keep alive the hope of their final salvation. Now it. is true, that every Christian, iu conversion, can adopt, in their highest sense, the last words of Daniel Webster, “I live.” The convert now lives as he never lived before. Eternal liie has been breathed into his soul. But if the energies of this life aie allowed to lie dormant, if its graces are not brought into active piay, like all other forms of life, under similar conditions, it will decay, until its pulsations axe scarcely discernible: It is sad lo contemplate this large com pany of nominally Christian people, who yet have relapsed into the ways of sell-seek ing, aud whose spiritual vitality Ims all departed. They are no longer ‘ living epistles ” in the Fauliuc sense, aud only a relerence to the church records would give satisfactory evidence that the thought of persona! religion had ever been seriously co itemplated by them. Such people need to he converted over again. This passive, negative sort of reli gion, which prompts to nothing good even it it lead lo nothing positively had, is simply no religion at ali. They need to he impressed with the tiutti that religion means some tiling; that it is real, positive,practical; that it lias a meaning lor them personally, aud is designed to mnodel and control their conduct iu every relation, making them more conscientious and upright, more un suitisn and pure. It means daily living in the spirit if the Master; a Consistent exam ple, both in refraining from evil, and in the cultivation of holiness, together with a becoming icligious activity. It means gen uineness of character, aud an applies ion of Mew Testament principles every duy, and everywhere, whatever he the vocation. —Pastors who are anxious to see the steady improvement of their people in spirituality anil benevolence; Christians who desire to en large meir religious information and increase their usefulness; all good citizens who are in terested in the welfare ol their community, would do well to read with care the following exiract riioi ihe Journal and Messenger: ■‘ol lhe people who contribute to the pas tor's salary, two-thirds of it tones trom those who read the church papers. It any one has any inclination lo doubl, we have not lhe slightest objection to a careful exam tuition, and, it our s'atements are not true, we will, as gracefully as we can, hut truthful.y, retract. Ol those most loyal to the pastor and his projects lor good, through a series of five years, the proportion wiii not be lessened Ot his best workers in the Sabbath-school it is as arest. Ami wnen you come to giving to carry on the missionary work of the Church, iu us varied branches those who do not take the Chinch papers give comparatively nothing. “We can tell, when we lake Church collec tions, who take lhe Church papers. They are those that give iu proportion to ability, and tbuie who are without, donut give according to ability or enlightened gtalitude." r IS) HERA X_i3D of TF.ymEssRF, The Central Baptist quotes from the Western Watchman, a Roman Catholic pa per, some ravings agaiust the Baptists, in which tue writer does not allude, iu very respectful terms, to his “mother Church.” But the invectives against the Baptists will serve to remind every reader of Bunyans’ amusing reference, in Pilgrim’s Progress, to Pope. “Though he he yet alive, he is, by reason of age, and also of the many shrewd brothers, that he met within his younger days, grown so crazy and stiff iu joints, that he can now, do little more than sit in his caves mouth, griuuiug at pilgrims as they go by, aud biting his uails oeeause he ennuot come at them : "m “ l he little girl who indignantly told her papa that she did not know what possessed her mother to briug him into their tauiily, was not more ignorant and f r less impu dent than this Baptist association. Why, the Baptist sect, and all other sects, are the illegitimate offspring of Catholic corruption. Their father is the devil. The ancestors of the Baptist sect have this iu their lavor, that they were poor in this world's substance, as they were poor iu religious training, and both poverties begot tne present nontie script thing we Cali, for the lack of a better name, the Baptist church. Corruption is naturally foreign to the church, poverty is naturally foreign to society, the devil is a foreigner outside his own dominions. The Baptist is, then, an essential, übiquitous, aboriginal, a priori foreigner. We will say no more about this absurd sect n i ,v, lest we should give them offense.” BAPTIST Ys.WS A\ YbUIS. Bethel Seminary (Sweden) has sent out forty-three Biplist preachers. Rev. Allred Sluer, English Bietist mis sionary with the Camerons, West Africa, has translated the Bible into the language of the people, and reports upwards ot 2,000 con verts. —At the late meeting of the Bap ist Union in Leeds, England, Sir Henry Havelock, who presided, saal in a speech that the Bap tist Missionary Society has now some 300,000 church members in India. This is near ly as many as there are Baptists in England. Baptist doctrine has been preached in India less than a hundred yean.; it has been preached iu England for more than a thou sand years. —Mr. Spurgeon is only 45 years old, and yet it is greatly to be feared that bin work is almost finished. He has worked too con stantly and too intensely, and mis grown pre rri.f ureiy old Toe losuc of a late address oi %u.„en It fore Baptist at Leeds was "Drive On." It seems he has driven on too last, and now this most remark aMe man ol the ege finds that he would have been able lo live longer, aud work longer too, if hail taken more rest. —Mr. Spurgeon is to receive a gift of $25,- 000 from his congregation on the completion of his twenty-five yearn of ministerial labor, Decemb.-r 31, There are 1503 Baptis s in the Cherokee Nation, almost tue-tenth of the entire tribe, fifty-two of whom are ministers, including their chief. —The First German Baptist church ot Boston was organized on Oei. 13, wan twenty one members. l'be Rev. Frank R. Morse his resigned the pastorale ol the Tabernacle Bapiist Church at Albany, N. Y., with tlie intention of assuming that of the church in Brooklyn recently vacated by Dr. Ruin batu. —A colored church in Maryland, in its letter to the Maryland Baptist Union Asso ciation, communicated the following: “Our church is poor, but has been able, during the year, to pay its pastor (Bro. Hicks) two dollars and t-eventy-lire cent*.” Brother Hicks arose, af er the letter had been read, and gravely added : ‘That is a mistake. According to my count, it was $2.25, and not $2.75.“ —L have never known a Baptist ninister to noil his church and join another denomination who had not become offended ;rom some cause. The same is almost true o; the laity. Western Baptist. —lt is the opinion Dr. Broadus that “our missionaries in China have had more conversions in proportion to the number ol laborers than ali our Southern Baptists have had in the same time. —We see it stated that the colored Baptists of Kentucky have decided to establish a nor mal and theological school at Loutsville, and have appointed an agent to ra ie $25,000 for that purpose. —Eider Geo. Eager has been cilled to the pastorate, of the First Church, Nashville. Ur. W. T. Brandy, pastor of the Seventh Baptist church, of Baltimore, has become one of the associate editors of the Religious Herald -Dr. Win. It. Williams, pastor of Amity church is to have an assistant psUor iu the person of Rev. Wm. Rnmpstone. —Rev. E Z. F. Golden, who has ably and acceptably tilled the pulpit of the Second Baptist Church, Macon, for the pas two years, has received and accepted a call to the Baptist church of Thoina*ville The prices of some articles are eigh teen per cent, lower than before the war Corn has not been so low since 1845, ex’ cepting In 1861; cotton not so low in twenty-three years, antlj mess pork nos since 1844. WHOLE jNO. 2347. General Denominational News. —Among the British Indian troops, late ly quartered at Malta, the Jewish World states that there ate some black Jews, mem bers of a community existing on the coast ol Malabar They claim to be descended from the Jews sent by King Solomon to India to collect ivory aud precious stones. They differ from other Jews iu many of their religious services, aud only observe the Sabbath and the Passover.” —A Hindoo scholar has become a Swes denborgian, and the ferveut disciple has published a book in exposition of the works of his master, and in defense of his tenets. The name of this oriental convert to the New Jerusalem Church is Rig Bauadoor Dadora Pandurung. —An Armenian of imposing manner and appearence has visited Beirut claiming to be the Christ. —lu the South Sea Islands the Free Church of Scotland have had a mission-ship for twenty-three years. Their present ves sel is the Dayspring. It costs $1,250 a year to keep her in mission work. Children have always supported it by mite contri butions. —The minister of the Established Church ot Garlocli, Scotland, preaches to three fam ilies, numbering a doz-m hearers, while the minister of the Free Church has a cougre gttion of 900. —The great London Missionary Society reci nlly held a meeting in that city. They report quite a successful work iu Chiua, India, and Japan. Malayan Polynesia, was represented as being almost entirely chris tianized. There are in all Polynesia about 08,000 communicants, aud about 340,000 nominal Christians. Public morality is good, the Sabbath strictly observed, family worship is almost universal, aud the Scrip tures are read by all. —Upwards of 1,200 churches in Great Britian now use the unfermented wine, the' true “fruit of the vine,” and free from alco hol, for communion purposes. —The Presbyterian Church of Ireland reports 5 Synods, 27 Presbyteries, 559 con gregations, 644 ministers, and 100,110 com municants. The Church raised last year 750,000 for alb purposes. Eighteen of the ministers ar-'missionaries in Europe and Asia. —The Jew an. MIL Margate Roths* tffiT’lS’.'it ti A-jrp’iwa ... or-rmissLits. man Catholic Church, as a preliminary to her marriage with the Due de Guicho. —lt is a significant fact, and one hopeful lor the future of a great people, that some of the leading statesmen and thinkers of France have lately given it as their opinion that the hope of France lies iu a Protestant ism based on an open, undiluted Bible. —At Raleigh, N. C., the Episcopalians have an institution lor training colored young men toi the ministry. It is endowed with about ID6 acres of land iu the outskirts of the ciiy, and some $20,000 in money. There are accommodations for 100 pupils. —The Je,\B first settled in America about tin year 1650. Front that lime until the beginning of the present century ouly six congregations had been established. At preseui r. is estimated that there are at least 200 congregations, and between 250,000 and 600,000 Jews iu the United States alone. —At a recent communion of the Chinese Presbyterian church at Oakland, Cal, tliirtheen united, six being on profession of their faith. Deputations of Christian Chin amen from San Francisco, Sacramento, Saa Jose and Sau Leandro* were present, and a Christian Chinaman played the organ. The Church has now twenty-uine members. —The largest Sunday-school in the world is at Stockport, a town iu England with a population of only 5:1,0It. The school building cost SIOO,OOO, and has about 90 teaching rooms. Since its opening, 5,084 teachers, and 90,804 scholars have been registered. —The Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church of New York city, Dr. John Hall’s, give last year for Home Missions|s29,26o—sßoo more tliau the 160,000 Presbyterians ol the four States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and luwa. —Rev, Dr. 8. H. Tyng, jr., is being taken to task for not admitting the New Jerusa lemite speakers to take parijin Jibe Second Advent Convocation. Col. Thos. F. Goode.—-‘That a groat lawyer should succeed,” says tue Richmond /Jerald “as Col. Goode has done in the business to whioh he is now giving his attention, may aurpi ise s roe people. Hera is the explanation: The Buffalo Lithia Water is, beyond doubt, of very great value, and the more it is t ied, the wider its fame extends. Bead the certificates iu the ller abl of this weak, and if human testimony can prove anytniug, is not the claim made iu behalf of these wonderful Springs fully established? Another reason why Colonel Goods has succeed ed, is his faith in printer’s ink. He avails him self of this mighty agency, and uulike some pooplo, he does not spend his strength in trying to got his advertising done at starvation rates. His faith in ‘live and let liva’ does not desert him when he comes to deal with type-setters. This being true, we oall special attention to hi* double-column advertisement in the Herald.” U.