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The Christian Index.
Vol. 57 —No. 13.
Table of Contents.
First Page.— Alabama Department: A Con
verted Church Membership; Church Work;
The Texas Baptist; Merited Prosperity;
Sunbeams; Mr. Norman S. Webo; Religious
Press.
Second Page.—The Duty of Christians—A
Layman; Letter from Baltimore—Rev. D.
W. Gwinn; Deacon James John Robert—W.
11. Robert: An Earnest Appeal-Rev. J. H.
DeVotie; Letter Iron Forsyth-H. G. H. The
Sunday school—Queen Esther—Lesson for
April 20th, 1879.
Third Page.—The Household; Duty—poetry;
A Story for whom it may Concern; The
Majesty of Prayer, etc.
Fourth Page.—Editorials: Help; Let us sup
pose a Case; Dialogue on Church Prosperi
ty ; Layman again ; Georgia Baptist Con
vention; Two Important Questions— J. H.
Campbell; The Missionary World; Georgia
Baptist News.
Fifth Page. —Secular Editorials; Georgia
State Gazetteer; The Mercerian; Sunday-
School Mass Meeting and Institute at Co
lumbus; The Department of Agriculture
and Geology of Georgia—D E Butler; A
Cluster of Poems; Literary Notes and Com
ments; Georgia News.
Sixth Page.-Children’s Corner; Father at
Play—Poetry : The Two Clerks—William L.
Williams.
Seventh Page.—The Farmer’s Index: Farm
Work; Borrowed Notes; New Advertise
ments.
Eighth Page.—Florida Department; Week
ly News and Laconics—W. N. C.
Alabama Department.
UY SAMUEL HENDERSON.
A CONVERTED CHURCH MEM
BERSHIP.
The Scriptural proofs for a converted
membership in the church of Jesus
Christ are literally overwhelming. Sup
pose a man shut up entirely to the
word of God in ascertaining the con
stituency of the church. Suppose he
had never seen any theory propound
ed on the subject. Suppose him put
just in such relations to this subject as
a little child is in its relations to the
first school book put in its hands. Sup
pose, finally, a supreme desire to know
“what God the Lord will speak” to him
from His own oracles. For this is the
spirit and these are the conditions in
which we are to receive the kingdom
of heaven. In this state of mind and
heart, he approaches the Great Teach
er. “Repent”—“bring forth fruits
meet for repentance”—are the first ut-
Urane<‘M of hb Harbinger and are re
<t toed i»y Himself aJid his disciples.
“Ye are the light of the world—ye are
the salt of the earth,” breaks from His
lips in His first sermon. All the privi
leges, rights, prerogatives—every doc
trine to lie believed, every duty to be
performed, implies that the hearts of
every one of his subjects are in the ex
ercise of spiritual affections towards
Him. Not a servioe does He require
of a single member of His church but
that necessarily involves his regenera
tion by the Holy Spirit. “Ye must be
born again—except a man be born of
the water and of the Spirit he cannot
enter into the kingdom of God,” rings
from his lips with no uncertain sound,
as He details the terms of discipleship
to the “ruler of the Jews.” “Except
your righteousness shall exceed the
righteousness of the scribes and phari
sees ye can in no case enter into the
kingdom of heaven,” falls with like em
phasis upon the ears of His audience
upon the Mount. And then summing
up the whole of his instructions in one
sentence, uttered on the eve of His de
parture from this world, He says, “he
that believeth and is baptized shall be
saved.” Indeed, we may well ask, what
position can be assigned to an uncon
verted membership in a spiritual com
monwealth? To what duties can they
be appointed? What do they add to
the “light” to illumine, or the “salt” to
save a world in darkness and death?
What is gained by any additions of un
sanctified material to this spiritual
structure, but “wood, hay and stubble”
for the fires of the great day? What is
this, but to bind a dead upon a living
body to cripple its movements and
evolve an insufferable stench?
No one, we suppose, will doubt that
the divinely inspired apostles under
stood the teachings of our Lord on this
subject. Acting under His instructions,
the first time they applied His teach
ings after His ascencion, on the day of
Pentecost, it is recorded, that “they that
gladly received the word were baptized”
—and that “the Lord added to the
church daily such as should be saved.”
And so at Corinth, Samaria, and indeed
every place they went, the same terms
are proixninded and the like results are
detailed. So also in every epistle written
to the churches by Paul, Peter, James,
Jude, and John, they arc uniformly
inscribed to the “beloved of God,” “sanc
tified in Christ Jesus,” "to the saints
which arc at Ephesus" “saints in
Christ Jesus,” “faithful brethren in
Christ,” Ac., Ac., all indicating that no
other than regenerated persons, or at
least those who were professedly so, ev
er found entrance into the Apostolic
Church. At least the divine historians
have failed to record any other kind of
accessions to any of these churches.
As to the theory that the infant off
spring of believers are entitled to the
initiatory rite of baptism—that they
SOUTH-WESTERN BAPTIST.
of Alabama.
have some undefined and indefinable
privileges in the Church of Christ; in
regard to which privileges there is a
perfect Babel of opinions among its ad
vocates, scarcely any two of them
agreeing—we have only this to say:
Luke, the inspired historian, sets
out with the avowed purpose of
recording for his friend Theoph
ilus, "all that Jesus began both
to do and to teach,” aS well as to give
a faithful transcript of the “Acts of
the Apostles.” It would be the boldest
presumption to suppose that he had
left anything out that had any
vital bearing upon the nature, doc
trines, ordinances and purposes of the
Church of Christ. And yet, in the ex
ecution of this solemn trust,* he has
failed to record the baptism of any
other than believers, real or supposed.
Thousands, nay tens of thousands of
additions to churches are referred to,
directly or impliedly in his history;
but in every instance the great fact
stands out, guarded as if by the angel
stationed at the gate of Eden, that no
unrepentant, unbelieving soul should
enter the hallowed precincts of Zion.
If an Annanias and Sapphira presume
to enter its portals unworthily, their
terrible fate is recorded at the very be
ginning as a warning to all ages. On
the theory we are combatting—the
baptism of infants on the faith of
their parents—then, if the Aposales
practiced it, there must have been as
many, (or nearly as many) children
baptized as adults. Certainly in all the
Apostolic churches, there must have
been tens of thousands of the children
of believers “grafted into Christ” by
“holy baptism!” And yet, when an in
spired writer seta himself to the task of
recording the acta and doings of the
apostles of Jesus Christ, he fails, out of
all these tens of thousands of such ca
ses to record so much as one 1 He tells
us of “men and women,” of "house
holds” that “believed and were bap
tised,” and the like ; but that any un
conscious infant was ever brought to
receive that ordinance at the hands of
any of the twelve, or any of their co
laborers, there is a silence throughout
the whole record as profound as slum
ber! Our credulity cannot compass
sueh a supposition. Let those believe
it who, can. .
< —i. —L—X—/ \
CHURCH WORK. ’
When a farmer, who deserves the
name of farmer, settles down on his
land, he goes to work. His plantation
becomes the scene of all his activities.
His whole purposes and plans settle
there. Every agency he employs, and
every lick he strikes, go to advance his
interest at that place. Now, a church
is a divine plantation. Its members
engage to keep and till it for the divine
Husbandman. Its territory is that
portion of His domain which falls to
their culture. It is to them what a
farmer’s plantation is to him. They
arc solemnly pledged to see to it that
the profit shall be such as the industry
and resources of the tenants can make
it. If they allow it to grow up in
“thorns and briers,” it is at their peril.
If it is kept in good repair, and is made
to yield rich harvests, they may expect
an adequate reward. And as a farm,
properly managed, will always present
something to do, and as it is the last
place in human industry for idleness,
so the Church of Jesus Christ will al
ways offer spheres of usefulness and
labor, and is the last place in the uni
verse for “dead-heads.”
THE TEXAS BAPTIST.
We are indebted to the editor, Rev.
R. C. Buckner, for a copy of this large,
well filled and ably edited paper. It
awakened not a few pleasant memories
in the past. The name of Buckner is
truly a household word with us. In
our sixteenth year we were baptized by
brother Buckner’s father in Madison
ville, Tenn. At the same meeting, Dr.
H. F. Buckner, brother of the editor,
was,baptized. The venerable father is
still living. It must be a source of no
little pleasure to the dear aged minister
to know that he has two sons doing
such service to the cause as our distin
guished Indian Missionary for the last
thirty years, and the editor of a large, in
fluential denominational paper in the
largest, most prosj>erouß and growing
State of the Union. Our brethren in
the older States could not take a more
spicy, newsy, readable journal from the
“Lone Star” State than the Texan Bap
tint. Dr. Buckner is treating its readers
to some interesting “Reminiscences”
among the Indians for the last thirty
years, which of itself is more than
worth the subscription.
MERITED PROSPERITY.
It always affords us pleasure to
chronicle any marked success of our
educational institutions, because they
carry with them the very hope of the
country. We understand that the Ag
ricultural and Mechanical College of
Alabama is enjoying a higher degree of
prosperity than has ever been accorded
Atlanta, Georgia, April 3, 1879.
to any like institution of learning in
our State, the attendance, having al
ready reached two hundred and seven
ty-five, and still others are crowding its
wall every week. While this prosperi
ty is in part owing, we suppose, to its
agricultural features, still the ability of
its Professors, and the administrative
capacity of the President, have much
to do in conciliating public favor. Its
discipline is as nearly faultless as one
can hope to see in any college, being
administered rather in the spirit of the
kindly, gentle, affectionate solicitudes
of a parent, than the rigid and stern
authority of a merely official trust. The
law of kindness is far more potential
than the law of prescriptions and ex
actions.
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SUNBEAMS.
We now and then receive kindly
expressions from old friends which are
quite cheering. For instance, the last
mail brings us this from a brother
whom we have known and loved for
years:
Dear Brother.—l have seen sever
al copies of the dear old Index of late,
and it has aroused all my old love for
it to such an extent that I am compelled
to ask this favor of you: If you will
send me The Index, and wait with me
until next July, I’ll have the money for
you at the Convention in Birmingham,
and I will take it as a pre,at favor. I
have no money that I can possibly
spare now. Address , P. O.
county, Ala.
Yours, etc., .
The brother shall have the paper.
The only “raid” we propose making on
Alabama, is on just such jiersons as
he. “If this be treason, make the
most of it.” Our only purpose, we
hope, is, to cheer, comfort, instruct,
and encourage onr brethren in Christ,
in all their “works of faith, and labors
of love, and patince of hope;” and we
can scarcely think that any right
minded person can object to this. We
know of nothing in the atmosphere of
Atlanta that can convert truth into
heresy. There is no law, human or
divine, written or unwritten, that in
terdicts a man from making any pa
per, by honest industry, worthy of the
/’onfide.nee of.jmol prcple I*4 <nu»aci <
where published. This we shall strive
to do, without infringing upon any
body’s rights. We are an Alabamian,
warp and woof, and expect to spend all
the remainder of our days here, and
shall give to every vital interest of our
State the best service in us.
MR. NORMAN S. WEBB.
It will gratify the travelling public
that pass over the Selma, Rome <fc Dal
ton Railroad to know that Mr. Norman
Webb has been appointed permanent
Superintendent of the road to fill the
vacancy caused by the tragical death
of Mr. Stanton. No man could have
been selected that will give more uni
versal satisfaction. We also under
stand that the most vigorous measures
are now in operation to place the best
iron bridges over all the important
streams on the road. It is the purpose
of Mr. Tucker, the President, to make
it, in all respects, a first-class road.
This will make it the most important
thoroughfare in the State. We know Mr.
Webb, and are satisfied that he will
leave nothing undone to make it all
the public can demand.
A correspondent of the Nashville
American says that the Nashville and
Florence Railroad, from Columbia, Ten
nessee, to Florence, Alabama, was char
tered some weeks ago with flattering
prospects. Eleven miles of the road
are already graded, being that part of
the old Tennessee <fc Alabama Railroad
running from Columbia to Mount
Pleasant. This has been lying idle
since the war. Chancellor Nixon was
elected President of the company. “We
are looking forward with hope to the
time when we can see the outside world.
The county will vote in May upon a
proposition to subscribe $50,000 to the
enterprise.”
We are truly gratified to learn of the
railroad prospects of Florence, the seat
of our State Normal school. The Nash
ville and Tuscaloosa road (narrow
guagc) now, as we learned a few days
since from Judge Wood, of Florence, is
being pushed forward with energy and
with a resolution that not only insures
its success but promises its completion
at the earliest possible period. This
road, passing through Russell’s Valley
and the Beaver Creek and other re
gions beyond, will open up a country
that must in time contribute very ma
terially to the prosperity of the State.
This road and the “Nashville and
I’ lorence” must bring no little trade to
Florence, and their completion, and the
completion of the Muscle Shoals canal,
will bring this venerable town speedily
to the front as one of the most impor
tant commercial places of the State.—
Montgomery Advertiser.
The Religious Press.
—Hie Christian Secretary (Hart
ford) in full view'of the fact that Dr.
Boyd invited a Unitarian
minister to the Lord's Table advertises
him thus;
In ikirnext issue we shall publish Rev.
Dr. W; W. Boyd’s lecture or discourse on
the “Claims of the Baptist Churches of
Amend* ” It is a most clear, comprehen
sive and interesting statement of the Princi
ples aril Practice of our Denomination with
die rrtAons therefor—just the document for
*ll now to read and [Kinder. We shall
print extra copies of the Secretary containing
it. Two brethren have already engaged a
hundred each, and we hope others will send
in tbeir orders foil them —s3 a hundred, and
at that rale for a less number.
All yhich will go for nothing where
it is known that Dr. Boyd does not
practice what he preaches. It is a
strange thing to put forward such a
man an this to champion Baptist prin
ciples.
—The Presbyterian Banner (Pitts
burg) Says:
The conviction last wetk at Washington,
Pa., of forty-eight of the Washington coun
ty coal miners for riot among the coal mines
along the Monongahela river, should be a
salutary lesson to all disturbers of the public
peace.
This looks- like business. When we
get to enforcing law at this rate in
Georgia we shall have more peace.
“What is the great need of France?”
said Napoleon to Madame Campan.
“Mothers!” was the lady’s prompt re
ply. But what is the great need of
Georgia? Juries!
—The Standard (Chicago) says:
What the world calls its “dreamers” are
by no means its least practical men; far
enough are they from its least useful men.
They are the men of ideal. Often they are
in advance of their age ; often they live iu a
sphere up above that sc»ne amidst which
most men pass their live-", and where they
find all their interests. But ideas are a
power.
8o we think. Ideas are a power.
Brains will tell. They may be ridiculed ;
indeed they are sure to be, un
less their possessor will follow the mul
titude instead of leading them. The
talking men get the high places, while
the thinking men are consigned to the
back seats. But when the talkers are
forgottan, the thinkers will be retnem
bryd-S &
are trying the experiment!
in oue of the Massachusetts'churches
of connecting the pulpit by telephone
with the outside world, so that people
at a distance can hear what the min
ister says. It has succeeded so well
i that the preacher’s words have been
| heard more than fifty miles away, as
I well as in the homes of his immediate
i congregation. But there is nothing
very new or strange in this. A good
preacher will always make himself
heard outside of his church walls. If
his words do not ring in the cars of the
stay-at-homes of his people, he is a
failure—telephone or no telephone.—
Sunday-School Times.
—One of the most defiant of the
I present race of English sceptics has
gone into the world where all doubts
' are solved and all truths fully ascer
tained. Professor Clifford, of Univer
sity College, London, was among the
foremost mathematicians of his time,
and in many other departments of
learning had shown himself a capable
man. But he was better known in
the literature of the day as an ardent,
determined, and sometimes virulent
opponent of the Christian faith. He
died in the island of Madeira during
the last month, at the early age of
thirty-four years. His early days gave
promise of much, but he achieved
little, even in his chosen studies, and
his life is comparatively a failure.
What his abandonment of the faith of
Christendom brought him we may
learn from his own words. Read
them:
“It cannot be doubted that theistic belief
is a comfort and solace to those who hold it,
and the loss of it is a very painful loss. It
cannot be doubted, at least by many of us in
this generation, who either profess it now or
received it in our childhood, and have parted
from it since with such searching trouble as
only cradle faiths can cause. We have seen
the spring sun shine out of an empty Heav
en to light up a soulless earth; we have
felt with utter loneliness that the Great
Champion was dead.”
These are among the saddest woids ever
written. Can anything be more utterly for
lorn than a creed which has nothing to be
lieve but an “empty Heaven” and a “soul
less earth?” Is tins the “beatific vision” to
which modern scepticism has opened its
eyes? Well, then, may every man say, “O
my soul, come not thou into the secret.’’—
The Presbyterian (Phil.)
—The Methodist Recorder has what
it calls Editems. Hero is one of them :
How little can we see, in the morning,
what special errands the Master may send
us out to do during the day. Every next
hour is a sealed mistery. We have a gener
al idea of how our life shall be spent during
n week or year; and yet every moment
brings peculiar tests of duty, new emergen
cies, op|>ortunities and possibilities, as if to
reconstruct the life by challenging original
powers out into unprecedented activities at
every step.
Little can we see, when starting on the
shortest journey, what temptations may
cross our path, what new chances shall flash
upon us for opportune words or works for
humanity or what blessing* may be *m«
THE CHRISTIAN HERALD,
of Tennessee.
bushed on the right or left to greet us for a
faithful walk.
And here is another:
Congress, in closing up its forty-fifth ses
sian, deliberately violated the sanctity of the
Sabbath day by transacting business. After
wasting days of precious lime, month after
month, and taking rest days whenevtr any
pretext warranted a recess, they trampled
upon the consciences of millions of g< od
people by their wanton transactions at the
' last. It is to be hoped that the present Con
gress may show mure regard for the divine
taw, as an assurance to the people that law
makers may be trusted to honor the laws
they make themselves. The simple juris
prudence of the New Testament might be
of real practical advantage to Congressmen,
if they would but study it a little more, and
party politics a great deal less. Policy has
ruled in Washington; shall we ever hope
that Righteousness shall reign ?
Well, yes! wo hope so! but we fear
that the good time coming is not very
near.
—The Western Methodist (Memphis)
has this to say about carrying concealed
weapons:
Just now there is an awakening of the
press of the country, religious and secular, to
a just sense of an enormous evil—the carry
ing of concealed deadly weapons. This
awakening is a result of many recent mur
ders, some of them uncommonly atrocious,and
in several instances the victims being well
known, prominent citizens. And now that
this evil in question is brought by discussion,
as well as by its direct and dreadful conse
quences, very closely and forcibly to public
attention, it may be hoped that public senti
ment will be so reformed and so developed
that we shall soon witness the vigorous en
forcement of Jaw against all guilty parties.
In behalf of every interest of society, let the
call be loud and long continued for the en
forcement of law, not only against murder,
but against the carrying of concealed deadly
weapons.
But specially we wish to make one point:
There is ground for the belief that, now and
then, even a member of Christ’s Church is
fuilty of carrying concealed deadly weapons,
n the name of Christ’s Church, let the offen
ders, every one ot them, be brought to ac
count without delay.
A church member who is guilty of
such conduct ought to be promptly
dealt with, and, if necessary, excluded.
—The Episcopal Methodist, (Balti
more) speaking of the effect of the tel
ephone, says:
The other day in Montreal an invalid
member of St. Paul’s church, dwelling a
quarter of a mile from the church, heard the
whole service by means of a telephone.
Now if this arrangement be restricted to ■
invalids, it will all be well. But what H i
k jjtw love *tw’» ea. L.
should prefer to hear the sermon at home
rather than take the trouble of going to*
church: may not the attendance upon church
services be thereby seriously diminished ?
Things may come to such a pass in these
progressive days that church wardens, trus
tees, etc., may find it necessary to restrict
telephonic connection with the sanctuary to
those who upon the certificate of the attend
ant physician in each case are pronounced i
invalid or infirm.
—The Christian Advocate (Nashville)
says:
The Rev. Dr. Abel Stevens thinks that ;
d’sestablishment is surely approaching in
England, and that then Evangelism, as op
posed to High-churchism, will have a fairer
field and a certain triumph. The tendency |
of modern thought is against ritualism and
mere sacramentarianism, and they will have
to give way.
We are glad that Dr. Stevens thinks
so, and we hope that he may be right,
but it appears to us that the tendencies ■
are the other way.
—The Baptist Weekly (N. Y.) speaks i
of an “alarming migration,” and says:
According to statements coming from New
Orleans, there is a movement among the
colored population of Louisiana and Missis
sippi, which threatens serious consequences
to the agricultural interests of these States.
As a result of the violence from which they
have so long suffered, and the terror under
which they have been living, they have been
driven to abandon their homes and seek a
refuge where their citizenship will be respec
ted and they will not be oppressed and per
seen ted.
It is our very deliberate opinion, that
in a very short time these poor crea-1
| tures will be much more anxious to get I
[ back to their old homes than they ever
I were to leave them. Quite likely that I
| time has come already. We have no
doubt that the whole movement is en
gineered by white men for political
effect.
—The Journal anil Messenger (Cin
cinnati ) has copied the whole of Ex-
Governor Joseph E. Brown’s letter on i
the education of the negroes, and on i
other matters which have resulted from I
I the war. We thank the Journal and 1
Messenger for the courtesy in allowing I
us thus to speak for ourselves to its
readers. The impression made when
we tell what wo think and how we feel
is very different from that which is
made when other people tell it. We
arc glad that the Journal and Messen
ger’s largo and intelligent circle of
readers are permitted to see us face to
face.
—The Baptist Courier (Columbia,
S. C.) has a correspondent, one of the
best pastors in the State, it is said, who
writes thus:
I am satisfied that we have been multiply
ing our numbers out es all due proportion to
our growth in other directions. Our sterility
in missions shows it. The great number of
dead, useless professors in our churches prove
it. lam further satisfied that most of our
church difficulties grow out of troubles with
unconverted members.
The Index has nothing to say on
this subject at present, but suggests to
the brethren in Georgia that a little
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close thinking might be of advantage
We should be glad for our South Caro
lina brother to tell us how it has come
to pass in that State that so many un
converted persons have become mem
bers of Baptist churches?
—The Christian Observer, (Ky.)
speaking of the length of prayers, says ;
But in saying that prayers offered in Sun
day-school should be short, we do not con
demn long prayers in church. Adults that
are not childish can join in longer prayers.
The surest way to destroy pulpit ability’is to
establish an absolute decree that no sermon
shall exceed fifteen minulea iu length ; and
a sure way of diminishing thesp rit of prayer
is to make a rule tiiat no prayer shall pass
the limit of five minutes.
And we think that the length of ser
mons and prayers should not be meas
ured by a clock, but rather by the in
terest which inspires them and which
they excite. Some of the longest ser
mons we ever heard were too short, and
some of the shortest-wore too long; and
so with prayers. Proper regard should
be paid to the fact that we are flesh as
well as spirit, but the popular cry for
brevity in everything that is holy
should not be noticed. Those who
yield to this senseless clamor, will be
come undevout in their prayers and
superficial in their preaching.
—The Baptist Battle Flag ( St. Louis)
has a correspondent (doubtless more
than one,but one in particular,) whoso
theology has the ring of the true metal.
Here is the way he puts it:
Moreover, the purposes of God in election
are unconditional. It was not because God
foresaw that some would be holy and perform)
good wo<ks that any were chosen to salvation.
If indeed that could be made to appear
(which it cannot,) then I would own that
salvation is of works, and not ot grace, and
that our getting to heaven finally, depended
upon our good works. If so, then there is a
terrible uncertainty as to whether gain's get
to heaven or not, for who dares to claim en
tire faithfulness to Jesus I
—The National Baptist (Phila.) gives
us multum in parvo thus :
It is wasted breath to argue that the col
ored people can rise, can learn, can gain
property, can stand on a level with other
races. Doing is the only proof that is worth
a straw.
Just what The Index has always
thought.
—The same excellent paper, speak
| ing of Archbishop Purcell's bankruptcy,.
;says;
xtw ‘i. -ri to U: regn-ttfciffm in-,
‘ instance, as in the case of the Freedman’s
Savings Bank, and other savings banks, is
the effect it will have in discouraging the
habit of saving among people of humble
means. They will say, (and who can won
der?) “If we eat it, anil drink it, and wear it,
we get that much out of it, at least; and we
do not have the mortification of feeling that
we have been swindled.” The failure of a
j dozen banks of issue and circulation does not
have half so injurious an effect, as the failure
of one savings bank.
In Georgia we have a very novel and
I a very peculiar, and we hope a very
effectual, remedy for the evil which the
I National Baptist fears. The State has
issued bonds bearing interest at four
, per cent, in sums varying from five
dollars to one hundred dollars. The
poor can invest in these without the
slightest risk. The only fear is that the
I rich will bu.y upall the bondk, and keep
j them out of market. Still it is thought
I that if a poor man should wish to pur
chase them in small sums as an invest
| ment, he can always get them. The
i experiment has not been in operation
| long enough to show what will be the
I result. One thing, however, has been
made clear, and that is, that the credit
of Georgia is of the highest grade, for
I the four per cent, bonds are bought
eagerly at par.
• —The Examiner and Chronicler (N.
Y.) tolls us of—
A Brooklyn minister, who calls himself a
Baptist, was a participant recently in a scene
that has furnished our Pcdobaptist brethren
with a cause for loud rejoicings. He was
summoned to a Roman Catholic hospital by
, a patient who was raised a Protestant; and
there in the presence of a Sister of Charity, a
Presbyterian and an Episcopalian, he “bap
tized’’ the invalid, using the form in the
Episcopal Prayer-Book and a bowl of water.
We leave our readers to imagine the ecstasy
into which this beautiful s|>cctacl<* of “chan
ty” and unity has thrown our Pedobaptist
friends. What we should like to know is,
What shall we call this minister in the future?
We should call him Mr. J. Hyatt
i Smith, for that is his name. But per-
I haps, after all, the case was “wholly ex
ceptional,” as Dr. Boyd, of St. Louis,
says of his exploit with the Unitarian.
These men of course have the right to
baptize and sprinkle and commune as
they please, but they have no right to
call themselves Baptists, and no Baptist
church ought to tolerate either of them
for a moment as Baptists. Let them
join with those to whoso practices they
conform.
The LaFayetto Clipper says:' Tito
Alabama and Georgia, Mills consume
six bales of cotton per day, making
three quarter and four quarter sheetings
and shirtings and cotton duck at the rate
of 150,000 yards per month. The Chat
, tahoochee Mills consumes four bales of
cotton per day and makes cotton duck
for Northern markets nt the rate of 80,-
000 yards per month. The cost of both
mills has been about four hundred and
' fifty thousand dollars.