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The Christianlndex
VOL. 57—NO. 48
Table ol Contents.
Fia st Page.— Alabama Department: Howard
College; Cjrreo.iou—Alabama Central Female
College; la it Heeded; Justice the First La v of
Morality; Onr Now Seuato-; Doubtful Kind
ness. Baptist News aud Notes. Geaeral De
nominational News.
Second Page —Special Contributions: Conduct
Proper to be Observed bv Baptists to Fedobip
tists —\V. H. J : Correspondence: Acquiesc
ence in Hoi's Will -W. J. II.; Sunday-Hello >1
Work—llev. T. C Boykin; The Ministry—No
2. —Bev. B. W. Whildeu; Bev. J. W. P.'Faok
ler— ltoy. J. H. Corley; B (solutions; Why is
it so?-H.; Tne Snnd ty-ScUool—Lesson for
Deoembar 29tb; eto.
Third Page —Our Pulpit: The Memento of Je
bus —A Seraim by Bey. B. Manly, Jr., The
Persians; Agricultural Notes; eto.
Fourth Page —Editorials' The Chief of Sinners;
The Least of Sinners; Formalities and Super
stition in ft adiug the Bible; Baptist History;
Now is the T ine—Dr. H. H Tucker. Modem
Beyivalists—Dr. B. W. Fuller. Georgia Bap
tist News.
Fifth Page. —Secular Editorials : The Late
Eleoti >n; Are w j to hayo a Large Standing
Army; Spirit of our Magazine Literature;
Kind Words; Th i Lesson of the Leaf —Poetry
—Cnas. W. Hnbner; What are they Doing in
the South Com unreal Ootivoniioa, New Or
leans; Trades Uuim Delegates; Augusta
Evening News; Georgia News; etc.
Sixth Page.— The Houaehild: At Evening-
Poetry; Go Thyself; The Battle of Life—Poe
try; Au Old Newspaper. A lvortisemeuts.
Seventh Page,— Children’s Corner: Can You?
—Poetry; The Waste Baskets; Never Do It—
Poetry. Advertisements.
Eighth Page.— Florida News: Besolutious of
Ebenezer Baptist Church. Marriage Notices.
Beading Notices; etc.
THECHRISTIAN INDEX
ALABAMA DEPARTMENT.
BY SAM’L HENDERSON.
HOWARD COLLEGE.
This College was established by the Ala
bama Baptist Convention at its session in
1841, held in the town of Talladega. The
leading spirits that moved in the enterprise
were, J. H. DeVotie, D. I’. Bestor, A. G.
McCraw, Jesse Hartwell, W. Carey Crane,
O. Welch, 11. E. Taliaferro, J. A. Collins,
etc., among the ministry ; and the two
Kings, E. D. of Marion, and Edmund of
Montevallo, W. N. Wyatt, S. S. Sherman,
Dr. Alva Holcomb, etc., among the laity.
We have quite a vivid recollection of the
reports, the discussions, the prayers, the
unrelaxing constancy of effort, that marked
*bs inception and first year’s existence of
the institution, for we were then but a youth
and (he Convention at Talladega wl9 the
second session of which we were a member.
We may furnish the reader with some
reminiscences of these days ere long. But
this is not our present purpose.
The fa'l session of the College has opened
well. There are more boarders in at
tendance that: there have been for many
years, although there is a slight falling off
in the day scholars—the local patronage.
There are nearly one hundred students en
rolled, andconstan' additions are coming in.
Of this number, there are twelve theolog
ical students—men of mature age, sterling
character, good minds, and devoted piety.
These students were actively tngaged du
ring the last summer vacation, in preach
ing in the hounds ot their respective Asso
ciations, and their efforts were greatly
blessed. Scores of sinners were converted,
and the churches much impressed in favor
of ministerial education. Thus, in a quiet,
unostentatious way, our beloved Howard is
training young men for the sacred calling,
fitting them to receive from the bands of
their aged brethren, who are passing away
all the sacred interests of the denomina
tion, to ctrry them forward to Btill higher
success, than we have been able to achieve.
Many of our ablest ministers, living and
d:ad, are among its Alumni, su 'h men as
Dr. Howard, of Galveston, Texas—Dr.
Freeman, once its President, and sub
sequently pastor of the Baptist church in
Jefferson, Texas, where he died—Rev. VV.
Wilks, one of our district evangelists—Dr.
Hawthorn, of Montgomery—Revs. J. 0.
Wright and J. B. Mynatt, of our vicinity—
the two Crumptons—to say nothing of others
of well nigh equal distinction. These are
some of its epistles, of which it may well be
proud.
The accession of Prof. Lewis T. Gwaith
ney, to the Faculty, is quite a valuable one.
He is a graduate of the Richmond College,
Virginia, and has taken a post-graduate
course in France and Germany, and is pro
nounced by competent judges to be one of
the best teachers and most thorough scholars
in this department, of which any institution
can boast He is Professor of Mathematics
and Modern Languages.
Since the days our poverty and tribulation
set in after the War, we have seen nothing
in our State that has so excited our admira
tion, as the energy and skill with which our
Marion brethren have managed the Howard.
Its endowment of $150,000, was swept
away by the war; and yet without an en
dowment, it hag done the work of an en
dowed institution. Located in the very
midst of the “black belt" as it is called, and
where our heaviest calamities fell, it has nev
er faltered or yieldedjto fear, but has battled
with the direst obstacles that everchiled the
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courage of the bravest; audit now stands,
a monument of what Cnristian philanthropy
can do, even when reduced from the most
exuberant wealth down to comparative pov
erty. We honor the men to whose wisdom,
liberality aud piety we are indebted for this
result, and trust the day is not distant when
the refluent tide of prosperity will justify
the denomination in taking measures to se
secure for it au adequate endowment. It is
a vital part of the very identity of the Bap
tists of Alabama, as the Mercer University
is oi the Baptists of Georgia.
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Correction—Alabama Central Female College.
In an incidental allusion we made to the
inception of the Alabama Central Female
College we inadvertently did no little injus
tice to an old and cherished friend, Rev.
A. T. Battle, D. D., who now so efficiently
and worthily fills the position of President
of Mercer University. We can scarcely re
gret the mistake we made, as it furni-hes
an opportunity of supplying a chapter in
the history of that institution, of some inter
est to all our readers, as well as to record
the agency and liberality of Dr. Battle in
the enterprise. The facts, as detailed to us
from an authentic source, ase these :
The whole enterprise, from its inception
to its completion in 1802, originated with,
aud was carried on through all its stages,
mainly by, Dr. Battle. During his connec
tion with our State University as Profes
sor of Greek, he conceived the idea of con
ver’ing the old State Capitol, a massive well
built, enduring structure, into a F. main
College. He at once set himself to the ta-k
of carrying out the idea, and ascertained that
it could be done by raising a sum adequate
to repair, refit and furnish the budding for
the purpose. To this end, he drafted the bill
as it passed the Legislature, giving ihe
Baptist denomination a lease on the proper
ly for ninety-nine years, provided said de
nomination would raise the sum needed to
effect these objects. lie immediately under
took this service, subscribing SIOOO himself.
Brother Edmund Prince gave S3OOO, the
only subscription that surpissed that of Dr.
Battle in amount. In this way, he got up
the first twenty thousand dollars that was
expended on the building. Dr. Mauly did,
at some stage of the work, act as a volun
taiy agent; tor we were present on at least,
one occasion in which he nude an appeal
to some of his brethren for this purpose.
It was in this way we were led into the mis
take we made. It was Dr Bittle who
planned the changes, and superintended the
purchase of apparatus, pianos and furniture,
which were required to start the College.
ludeed, he was chosen its first President,
but declined, as he did not fuel it his du'y
then to leave the University; but ho was
the the first acting President ot the B >ard
of Trustees. The late Dr. Joel BacoD.was
its first President, but he filled the position
for one ouly term, we believe. When he
resigned, Dr. Battle was again urged to
take position, having dissolved his connec
tion with the University in 1800, with the
view of making a tour through Europe.
He consented;to do so, provided they w iuld
raise $lO 000 to erect an additional three
story brick building, so as to increase its
capacity for boaders. This was done ; and
the building now standing on Ihe College
grounds is the result of that movement.
Of course Dr. Battle was aided materially
by such men as Prince, Burgin, Dr. Ed
din’s, Hester, Rev. C. Manly, Prof. J. 11.
Foster, Judge Moody and others. But he
was the moving spirit that engineered toe
whole en'erprise from beginning to end ;
and it aff >rds us no little pleasure to state
these facts, as it gives him the credit of se
curing to our denomination, perhapq the
most valuable piece of school property in
this or any other Southern State—property
that is worth to-day, if values were in their
normal condition, not less than $130,000.
It cannot admit of a doubt 'hat with such
commodious and convenient buildings, situ
ated in so healthy a region, aud in the midst
of a cultivated and refined community, with
a President and Faculty equal to any de
mand, this institution must reach a degree
of prosperity and importance that will make
it an honor to the denomination and a
blessing to the State.
Thus have wetried to pay a debt of grat
itude, in part at least, to one of Alabama’s
noblest sons, whose first services our State
enjoyed, and who is now giving to another
S ate the maturer results of his profound
scholarship and varied capacities.
IS IT WEEDED l
Several years ago, during our c innection
with our old charge in Tuskegee, and while
editor of the South- Went Baptist, we remem
ber that while sitting in the old study en
joying our morning pipe, reflecting on the
present phase of the Baptismal controversy,
an idea occurred to us of which the more
we think, the more we are satisfied is emi
nently practical and desirable. It was sug
gested, after dipping into Abraham Booth’s
celebrated work, “Pedobaptism Examined
on the Principles and Concessions of Pedo
baptist Writers.” It is this : To open an
account current with Pedobaptist authors,
and allow them to answer each other seri
atim. For instance : Place Dr. Chalmers’
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defence of infant baptism, based on the
Abrahamic covenant aud the rite of circum
cision, on the debit side, and then place Dr.
Moses Stuart’s answer to it on the credit
side. In his lectures on Romans, p. 72, Dr.
Chalmers claims Romans 4 : 9 15, as con
taining “the main strength of the Scriptural
argument for infant baptism.” In Dr. Stu
art’s work “On the Old Testament,” after
exposing the fallacy of all such arguments
from analogy, he asks, “What becomes of
the analogy then ? It is out of the question
to maintain it; at least in any tolerably
strict sense.” P. 392.
Now, with but a moderate library, aud
not a very broad range of reading on this
subject, we could, had we time, make our
opponents confute themselves upon every
important argument or passage of Scripture
on which they rely to support their hypoth
esis. Thus, where one argument is alleged
by one of their authors to support their
views both as to the mode aud subject of
baptism, we could produce another one of
iheir authors to prove it iuconclusive; and
where o ie passage of Scripture is alleged to
support their theory by one, another could
be readily found to declare that it has no
reference to the subject. And this process
could be carried on ad libitum We should
like to see such a man as Prof. Whitsett,
of our Theological Seminary, undertake
this task. Having access to an extensive
library, lie could, in his leisure hours, pro
duce something of the kind that would be
valuable, and take with the public. Pascal’s
“Provincial Letters” were proj e'ed some
what on this prmciple. “Wlnlt mi advantage
it is, fathers,” said he to the Jesuits, “to
have to do with people that deal in contra
dictions! I need not the aid of any but
yourselves to confute you.” Such a book
would at least show that Pedobaptists have
no common ground on which to base their
sentiments—that the very moment any one
of them attempts to defend his theory, either
by arguments or Scripture, they are togeth
er by the ears—and that a system so base
less, so irreconcilable with reason and Scrip
ture, must in the end go down under the
onward progress of truth. Its most potent
arguments, have been the faggot, the rack,
and the sword; remove these, and unfetter
Christianity throughout the world, aud its
doom is scaled.
Justice the First Law of Morality.'
We suppose theie is uot a man, be he
Christian or patriot, in all our land, but
that desires, above all earthly blessings, to
see our common country rise—to see every
interest vitaliz'd by the skill and industry of
our people —until we shall distance all com
petition in every useful aud noble enter
prise. Now, there is but one way to com
pass tills end. The chicanery and double
dealing of “State crafi” that marks the
character of the average politician of this
age cannot, do it; the tricks of trade, and
the thousand and one subterfuges that mar
the business transactions of the aye, cannot
do it. Whatever destroys, instead of pro
(lucig, must, in the end, work ruin to any
people. It is an ordination of Heiven that
crca'ors shall live, and that destroyers
shall, sooner or later, die. That reputation,
whether national or individual, which is
built upon those stern virtues that, ennoble,
dignify and adorn a magnanimous people*
is the only reputation that can consolidate
the two elements of stab lily and progress,
and which it is the aim of true statesman
ship to secure for the country, and the aim
of every right minded mm to recognize in
his individual aff lira. We select one of
those solid virtues as the topic for this arti
cle ; Justice.
In our translation of the New Testament,
the term rendered justice is frequently trans
lated righteousness-, so that they may be re
girded as equivalents, and we shall so use
them. This gives to justice a very broad
and comprehensive signification. Of all the
cardinal virtues that arise o”t of man’s
moral relations, there is not one so vast in
the compass of its application as this. In
deed, it is a combination of all the virtues
the sum of all duty, since to give every per
son and thing its due (which is its very es
sence), comprehends the whole of religion and
morality. Thus our Lord used it when He
demanded b iptism at the hands of John;
“Thus it becometh us to fulfill all righteous
ness” (justice). When that wisest and
greatest statesman the ancient Is
raelites ever had (Solomon) desired to ex
press everything that made a nation great,
he uses the same word: “Righteousness
exalteth a nation.”
Exaltation, character, is the object that
m ire deeply interests all classes of our peo
ple than anything else. Do we want to ex
tend our commerce with other nations 7 Do
we want, wise, wholesome, humane laws?
What will accomplish these objects so readi
iy as that high standard of morality involved
in righteousness? What, but this high
toned sentim'mt among our people, will ever
bring to the affairs of Btate our wisest and
best statesmen? Or do we want to make
our people proud of their government, and
happy in the enjoyment of all the rights and
privileges of national lreedom ? Righteous
ness, pervading all circles of influence, “as
the waves of the sea,” will do all this. In
one word, there is not an end which gov
ernment can lawfully pursue—there is not an
object which comes within the legitimate
range of individual ambition, that may not
be most certainly compassed by a rigid ad
hesion to this stern virtue. So that what
the wise man affirms is this : that rectitude
before God and man is the foundation of ail
true greatness and prosperity. Our national
character is but the sum total of our indi
vidual character. To reform the one, we
must reform the other. And to restore this
tim • honored principle—this compendium
of every moral excellence, justice, to something
like a practical ascendency over all public
and private transactions, is the grand duty of
the hour. What is our Christianity worth,if it
failt to meet such an exigency ? The Church
of Christ has been not unaptly called “God’s
moral university for the world,” and she
must not only supply the teaching, but the
examples, which are to vindicate her divine
origin, and her power to mould our fallen
humanity into the image of the heavenly.
She <s “the light of the world,” and her
commission is to extend this light into every
region and shadow of dealh, until the whole
earth shall be, filled with the glory of God.
Lkt us say, once for all, that we live
nearly two hundred miles from Atlanta
by rail; that we cannot supervise our
proofs, and that we cannot think of boring
the reader with “errata.” Btill, our patience
was tried a little by some fieaks of the
types in our article on the “Alabama Cen
tral Female College.” Who ever thought of
saying “scholastic scholarship?” Who ever
thought of saying “combines possesses,"
two words together, with identical mean
ings ? Now, we are too old to get up a con
test with a typo, for who does not know
that whoever provokes the printer comes off
second best ? We have, therefore, long since
learned to lay the whole blame on those
little freakish, frisky, fantastic types, that
sometimes play the wild with one’s best
though’s. We now advertise the reader
that if he sees anything in our department
I hat is not exactly what it ought to be, it is
not our f .ult. We aim to be intelligible.
oust NKW SUVTAOB.
Governor George S. Houston, the Senator
elect lrom Alabama, has richly earned the
honors C'mferred upon him. Four years
a m lev, elected Governor of Alabama, at
a uhie wlKi liie iiiittuces of buy Stale wore
in a most deplorable condition. Under bis
wise, discreet, firm administration, our pub
lic debt h is been reduced to an amount that
brings it within the cipacity of our people
to pay, and the whole fin incial condition of
tlie commonwealth has been put upon a
solid, safe basis. Perhaps, as an adminis
trative officer, he lias never been surpassed by
any predecessor. We have had more brilliant
meh in Alabama, but we have bad none who
surpassed General Houston in those stern vir
tues and capacities that make a reliable
statesman. It was fitting, therefore, that
bis old age should be crowned with the
honors of the highest office a grateful people
could bestow.
■ • •
Rev. David Lee.—We notice that this
venerable brother, who has been moderator
of the old Alabama Association for about
thirty years, is engaged iri furnishing for the
Alabama Biptiet some interesting reminis
cences of our departed worthies. This is
an important and grateful service. Per
haps nothing surpasses it in interest to the
living, or in duty to the dead. With as no
ble a spiritual ancestry as ever blessed any
denomination, it is a burning shame that our
biographies and histories are so meagre.
We bid our dear old friend and toother Lee
God speed in his efforts to rescue from ob
livion some memorials of oursainted fathers.
He cannot crown a long aud useful life
more appropriately than to prosecute this
work to its completion.* We know of no
man in Alabama better qualified to perform
it.
for the Index and Baptise]
Diiuliful Kindness.
I have nodoub- that Drs. Henderson, Ren
froe and Teague entertain a due appreciation
of the suggestions offered in their interest by
a late issueof the Alabama Baptist, particu
larly the generous attempt to find something
for them to do in the columns of other papers.
But there not wanting Baptists in Alab ima
who will regard this a doubtful kindness.
Much as the brethren named may consider
themselves flattered, there may be others who
will inquire how many of that class wr can
spare from the “cohort” and still remain (he
“ wonderful State.” If these brethren are to
be auctioned off, it is not improbable that
Alabama will be found among the bidders.
Seriously, nothing is lacking for a first class
explosion but that the fire shall be put to the
fuse- Alabama,
LKTTBB I*ltd3l 80,831, ALtßt.fft.
Dear Index— This is truly a solemn look
ing autumnal day, cloudy and dreary. To
look out and behold nature shedding her cos
tume leaf by lea r , rem nds those of my age, at
least, that we shall soon, yes, very soon, drop
off one by one into the grave. lam peculi
arly sad to-day ,in consequence partly of
domestic affliction, and partly of the affliction
our church has recently sustained in the r.-sig
nation of its pastor. Our beloved brother F.
C David has labored among us most faithfully
and acceptab'y for the last four years, and has
now left us to lab .r as an evangelist in the
Tuskegee, Liberty, and Talapoosa Associa
the hera :l:d
of Tennessee,
tions. It is a great sacrifice on his part to
leave his family for so many months in the
year, and a great sacrifice on their part, and
on ours, to give him up. But it is God that
chooses our changes for us, and we ought
to be content. We are not our own; we are
bought with a price, even with the precious
blood of Jesus, and however sore our lot
may seem to be, we may be sure that the
Master has good reasons, founded in infinite
love, for sending it on us. The last time our
pastor preached to us was from this text:
“ Finally brethren, farewell, be perfect, be
of good comlort, be of one mind, live in
peace, and the God of love and peace shall
be with you”—II Cor: xiii : 11. We shall
try to take the counsel of the good man, and
our prayers shall follow him wherever he
may go. The Index is my old friend, the
friend of many years, from whom I hope
never to part. Fraternally yours,
E. W. Solomons.
BAPTIST NEWS AND NOTES.
The death of the Rev. Jonathan Watson, of
E 1 inburgh, is announced. He was the oldest
Baptist minister in Scotland, and had spent
nearly forty years in Edinburgh, having been
in the ministry for sixty-four years.
—Mr. Spurgeon, the great London preacher,
is to receive a gift of $25,000 from his con
gregation at the end of this year to commem
orate the clone of a quarter of a century of
labor in the pulpit.
—The city of London has 37,000 Baptists.
—ln 1848 the total income of the Baptist
Missionary Society, England, was £21,876; in
1878 it was £42,254. In 1848, the Baptist
churches not including General Biptists,
numbered 120,000, and 21 per cent, of them
were subscribers to the mission funds; in
1878, the numbers were 215,836 and but 2J
per cent, of tiiem subscribed to the mission
funds.
—At the late Baptist anniversaries in Eng
land, one of the speakers said: “ The Baptists
can claim to be the first to have sent out mis
sionaries to foreign lands, and it had been ac
corded to them that amongst them arose the
first great apostle of religious liberty.”
—At the late meeting of the Baptist Union
in Leeds, England, Sir Henry Havelock, who
presided, said in a speech that the Baptist
Missionary Society had now some 300,000
church members in India. That is nearly as
many as there are Baptists in England.
—A statue of Ribert Hall was recently
presented to Regent Park College, London.
This present was specially acceptable as Mr.
Hall wrote the finest appeal in behalf of the
college, and took a deep interest in itssne
ccs
—The Foreign.. Mission Board of the
Southern Baptist Convention has decided to
send back Mr. Simmons and his wife to China,
and also to Bend Miss S ein, a granddaughter
ot Win. Harris, of Bedford county, Virginia,
to China, as soon as the finances of the Boa rd
will justify.
—Rev. G. W. Samson, D. D., thinks the
Baptists in Germany have a great advantage
in that the word baptized is translated, no t
transferred.
—Tiie American Baptist Publication Soci
ety is having the Baptist Year Book for 1879,
prepared.
—The Baptist Missionary Society is plan
ning to enter the interior by the Congo on the
west coast.
—The Fir-t Baptist Church of Brooklyn,
held their last Sunday service in their old ed
ifice, on Nassau street, on Lord’s Day evening,
November 17ih,the pastor, the Rev. Dr. Thom
as, delivering a very interesting historical dis
course. Oil last Tuesday evening a farewell
prayer meeting was held. Thursday evening
the new veslry room of the edifice, on Pierre
pent street, wasoccuoied for the first time—an
attractive programme of service followed.
—At the late meeting of the Maryland
Union Ass ciation, Dr. Boyce received sub
scriptions to the amount of SB,OOO towards
the endowment of the Seminary at Louisville.
—There are six hundred Biptist Sunday
schools in the State of North Carolina. Oi
this number thirty were organized this year.
—Rev. W. D. Bradshaw, of Canada, haß
accepted the call of the Byrne street church,
Petersburg, Virginia.
Dr. Moss, in the Enminer and Chronicle,
draws a distinction between ancient and mod
ern Evangelists. Without venturingan opinion
of our own upon this subject, we will let the
Doctor speak for himself:
Emngeliet is indeed an honorable New
Testament word, and named a most honorable
New Testament minister. Philip was an
evangelist (Acts xxi: 8,) and so in some part
of his work was Timothy (11 Tim. iv: 5,) and
so others were evangelists, who were associ
ated with apostles and prophets on the one
hand, and with pastors and teachers on the
o'her (Eph. iv: 11.) But these were un
doubtedly. litinerant or resident missionaries,
who sought out the scattered and the wander
ing and the destitute, carrying the Gospel to
those who would not otherwise be reached.
The modern exemplars of the New Testament
evangelists are to be found in our foreign and
domestic missionaries, especially in those
humble and faithful Christian explorers
and colporteurs and Bible-readers who labor
among the neglected and the outcast of the
sparsely settled rural regions, and of the
crowded cities. The modern “ Evangelist” is
about as near akin to Philip, of the Acts, as
Leo the Pope to Peter the Apostle. The
“ succession” can be asserted only in defiance
of fact and exegesis. If these modern wearers
of a worthy name wish to vindicate their
right to a title they now usurp, they must
forHiike the folded and shepherded flocks, and
bet ike themselves to the highways and by
ways and hedges, to seek out and supply those
who are waiting for the true evangelist.
WHOLE NO. 2348.
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General Denominational News,
—A Japanese publishing bouse, which
two years and a half ago published a na
tive translation ot the Gospel of Matthew,
is now about to publish a pocket New Test
tament with references, chapter headings,
etc ,in fine style. AChinese—Japanese New
Testament, with notes by Japanese scholars,
has already gone to press.
—The Failure of Missions. —Fifty
years ago the South Pacific Islanders were
worshipping idols, fighting and eating each
other. Now, so far from being an expense
to the Wesleyan Missionary Society that
sent them the Gospel, the Friendly Islands
contribute about SIO,OOO a year to the So
ciety’s Treasury.
—Thirty-six years ago the island of
Samoa had a population of 33,000, all of
whom were barbarians. The population
now numbers 80,000, the majority of whom
are Christians. In the Theological Seminary
are sixty students, and twenty missionaries
are sent out every year to the neighboring
islands.
—The reports from India were most en
couraging. In 1830 there were but nine
missionary societies at work in this vast
country, and probably 27,000 converts.
Now, there are not le3s than 500,000.
—Dr. Legge computed that in China to
day, as a result of Protestant Missions dur
ing the past thirty-five years, there is a
Christian community of 50,000 souls. The
latest statistics showed that to-day two hun
dred and thirty-eight Protestant missionar
ies are laboring in that empire, together with
sixty-three single ladies and the wives of
one hundred and seventy-two of the mission.
aries.
—The Bishop of Madras stated at the recent
Pan Anglican Synod in London, that 20,000
Hindoos had renounced heathenism and ac
cepted Christianity within the year.
—There are now 10,000 Christians among
the Kaffirs of South Africa, connected with
the Wesleyan Mission, where sixty years
ago all were heathen savages.
—Rev. S. H. Kellogg, D.D., of the West
ern Theological Seminary, in Allegheny,
says : “In heathen lands I have seen hos
pitals for diseased monkeys; I have seen hos
pitals for aged and decrepid crows; butveiy
little attention is bestowed on suffering bu
-- A feip’.tiJ f i; ns been -ftised for
the Protestant newspaper 6<)on to be estab- v
lished in France. Publication will be de
layed until the secured capital shall reach
$40,000
Hie English Society of Friends have
over 10,000 grown persous, mostly artisans
and farm laborers, in their Sunday-schools.
In these schools they are taught to read the
Bible and write—the copies being texts of
Seripture.
—The Chicago noon-day pra} er-meeting
iis said to be the largest in the world. Dur
ing the month of September there were
3,556 persons in attendance. The largest
number any one day was 250, the a nallest
75. Many of the leading business men are
in the habit of attending.
—A Methodist church in New England
recently lost some twenty of its young men,
drawn away by the anti church doctrines of
some Plymouth brethren who obtruded them
selves upon the church as evangelists.
—The Presbyterian Church in the United
States numbers, 507,855 members.
—Of 191 Congregational ministers who
have died during the past four years,ninety
seven had passed the limit of 70 years, and
ninety-four had not reached it, the average
being 05 years, 4 months and 19 days. The
average duration of their ministry was 34
years and 7 months.
—Mr. D. L. Moody is now in Baltimore.
He preaches everyday to crowded audiences
that are admitted to the church (Mt. Ver
non M. E. Church) only by tickets, which
are issued by a committee at the rooms of
the Young Men’s Christian Association.
—Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, D.D., has
resigned the Presidency of the Brooklyn
Lay College, on account, as he says, of his
“enlarged pastoral duties and the new Chris
tian work” which he is-about to undertake.
—General John A. Dix receives a salary
of SIO,OOO as Comptroller of Trinity cburch
corporation, New York, and his son, Rev.
Dr. Morgan Dix, receives a like sum as
rector.
—Rev. 11. B. Carpenter, an orthodox min
ister of Bridgton, Maine, has accepted a call
from the Hollis Street church, Unitarian,
Boston, on condition of being allowed to
preach his old theology and to retain his old
convictions, to which the church has con
sented.
—Bishop Wilraer, of New Orleans, is
dead. The remains lay in state in Christ
cburch in that city, yesterday, and were
visited by large numbers of all denomina
tions. The remains were sent to Baltimore
for in erment.
—At a meeting of the congregation of tho
Central Presbyterian church, Atlanta, held
on last Wednesday night, the Rev. J. T.
Leftwich, D. D., asked the congregation to
join with him in an application to the Prea
bytery of Atlanta to dissolve his pastoral re
lation to the church.