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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 the SOUTH-WERTERIST "8./XIIPTXST, OF At. ARAM A 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. . + , 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’ FRANKLIN PRINTING HOUSE, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, DECEMBER 12, 1878. 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. >< 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.