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The Christian Index.
Vol. 57 —No 28.
Table of Contents.
First Page.—Alabama Department; The
Late Dr. Cullen Battle; Alabama News ;
Religious Press ; Florida Department;
Weekly News and Laconics, etc.
Second Page—Correspondence: The Sin and
Danger of a False Charity—W. H. J.; Key
to a Difficult Question —J. J. L.: The Sun
day-school; Mission Depaitment: Licensed
Ministers; Ordained Ministers.
Third Page—Household: Valuable Recipes;
Obituaries, etc.
Fourth Page.—Editorials: Are there only
Three ; Criminal Responsibility ; Impress
ion of the Saratoga Meetings; Master, who
hath Sinned ? ; Emperor and Pope ; Geor
gia Baptist News; Times of Meeting of
Georgia Baptist Associations.
Fifth Page—Secular Editorials: Editori
al Paragraphs; Legislative Summay;
How the Negro is Treated in Georgia ;
A Mother’s Journal; Providential Escape
of Brethren Skinner and Butler, and Oth
ers; St. Nicholas for August; Very many
Thanks—C. jI. I; Georgia News.
Seventh Page—Farmers’ Index : Farm
Work, The Dry Weather; Fodder Pulling;
Clover—Corn Suckers; Crop Report for
June.
Eighth Page—Look ujion this; C. W.
Motes; John Keely ; Married; Obituary ;
G. P. Guilford ; Sunday-School Conven
tion ; Flowery Branch.
Alabama Department.
BY SAMUEL HENDERSON.
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THE LATE DR. CULLEN BATTLE.
That such a man as Dr. Cullen Bat
tle should pass away, and be dismissed,
especially by the religious press, with
a bare notice of the fact that he died,
on such a date, in the city of Eufaula,
Alabama, would be an impropriety, if
not a wrong, too painful to be tolera
ted. That the Baptist denomination
should have shared the eminent servi
ces, the piety, the good name of so
worthy a Christian and Deacon for
perhaps three score years or more, and
allow him to die without some humble
tribute to his worth, would indicate a
recreancy to a sacred trust too glaring
to be thought of. As one of his old
pastors for many years, we propose to
make a modest offering to the memory
of one, whose name lingers in our heart
of hearts with all the fragrance that
piety and manly worth can inspire.
Our youngest son bears his honored
Dame, and we only hope ho will never
dishonor it; so that our little domestic
ci ’cle is a perpetual reminder of those
happy days when he was to us all that
Christian kindness, generous friend
ship, and wise counsel could be.
Dr. Battle was a native of North
Carolina, and settled in Georgia in ear
ly life, (Hancock county, we believe)
where he lived for many years. He
was on terms of great intimacy with
that noble band of men who did so
much to lay the foundation of the en
larged and enlarging prosperity of
Georgia Baptists—Jesse Mercer, Bill
ington Sanders, Charles D. Mallary,
John E. Dawson, and others. He was
one of the first and most liberal contribu
tors to Mercer University, giving to
it several thousand dollars, and contin
ued to cherish for it the most lively in
terest after he left the State. He lived
to see an honored and worthy son, Dr.
A. J. Battle, fill the position of Presi
dent of an institution, around the cra
dle of which he and his noble confreres
stood more than half a century ago;
and not one of all that number, we
venture to say, Jesse Mercer only ex
cepted, watched its progress from its
early struggles to its present command
ing position, with more of a parental
solicitude than Cullen Battle.
Between forty and fifty years ago,
(we know not the exact date) he re
moved from Georgia and settled in
what was then called Irwinton, now
Eufaula, purchased a plantation near
that place, and two bodies of land on
what are called Cowikees, and prosecu
ted his farming interests with great
success up to the close of the war, for
he owned several hundred servants.
About the year 1852, he left Eufaula
and settled in Tuskegee, the site of the
then flourisning East Alabama Female
College, to the erection of wnich he
must have contributed first and last not
less than five thousand dollars. Dr.
A. J. Battle was one of its first Profes
sors, and subseguently its President for
some years. He (Dr. B.) was also a
liberal contt ibutor to the endowment
fund of Howard College, which, alas,
was so completely wrecked by the war.
We rem-mber that when that College
building was burnt the last time, we
went before our Church in Tuskegee
the Saturday after, and asked the ap
pointment of a committee to report on
the following day, (Sabbath) as to
what the exigency demanded of us.
Dr. Battle was one of the committee of
three to prepare that paper; and we
well remember the solicitude he then
manifested to accept of that sad catas
trophe, which had so thoroughly arous
ed the sympathy of denomination
throughout the State, as the grand
opportunity to raise an amount ade
quate to place buildings there to meet
all reasonable demands. When the
report was offered and unanimously
adopted on Sunday, we asked for a sum
not less than a thousand dollars—we
SOUTH-WESTERN BAPTIST.
of Alabama.
got even more than this, Dr. Battle
heading the list with, we believe, five
hundred dollars. As editor of the
South-Western Baptist at the time, he
asked us to keep the matter stirred in
that paper, and urge the denomination
to contribute not less than thirty or
forty thousand dollars to that purpose.
This we did with our best ability. His
recent death has revived the memory
of this incident in his life, and we
gladly connect his name with that of
others in the noble wotk of placing the
splendid buildings that now adorn the
campus of Howard College, where they
now stand.
He was one of the wisest, kindest,
most sympathizing, and withal candid
Deacons with whom we were ever con
nected. A child in simplicity—a man
in every virtue—he presented that type
of piety referred to by our Lord in the
expression, “Behold an Israelite in
deed, in whom there is no guile.” Nev
er do we see the solid granite of Chris
tian manhood combined with those
gentler, amiable graces, which one has
called the “perfect womanhood of the
soul,” more completely than in our
dear sainted brother. At first sight
one would say, he was all granite, but
as subsequent acquaintance would
evolve those broad, deep sympthies
which lay behind those rigid features,
he would love the spirit no less than
he would admire the princely form of
the godly man. 0, with what mourn
ful interest do we yet recur to those
plakant interviews we had with the
deaconship of that church at our spec
ial monthly meetings with them!
Their names are household words with
us—Dr. Battle, Judge Chilton, Samp
son Lanier, General Graves, Lovett Mc-
Donald, Chancellor Mason, John Swan
son, Alexis Howard, Dr. Howard, his
son, —all of whom have passed away
but the venerable John Swanson and
Dr. Howard, now of Montgomery. No
pastor was ever blest with a more no
ble, dignified, prudent, self-sacrificing
band of deacons than we were in those
halcyon days. Often in hours of pen
sive sadness that we devote to the rec
ollections of the past, memory recalls
the sainted group, and we pause to en
joy the sweet though momentary illu
sion! Onca mpre, for the instant, in
“fancy’s wide domain,” their tones fall
gently upon our ear, and the love that
beams from their eyes thrills our heart
In hospitality, we mean all the word
can impart, we have never known him
surpassed. Every house he ever built
was constructed and furnished with
that view. The last year of the late
Dr. John E. Dawson’s life, during his
long and dreary sickness of which he
died, consumption, Dr. B. invited him
and his excellent wife to make his
house their home. This they did, and
never did a child receive more
constant attention than did that wor
thy sufferer at the hands both of Dr.
B. and his wife, for which he would
never receive one cent’s compensation.
This was only one illustration of a rule.
His benefactions to the poor were on
the like scale. We have known him,
with the regularity of the recurrence of
our Associational meetings, provide
himself with the means in advance to
lead off in every benevolent enterprise,
and then with a princely hand, dis
tribute his money among our least paid
country preachers, until he came to
his “bottom dollar.” He never grew
weary of frequent calls for donations to
worthy objects, but always hailed them
with joy.
In the management of cases of
church discipline, he was always one
to count on. Though never precipi
tate, wh.n the time came to act, he
was always prompt to say and to do
the right thing at the right time. We
could give illustrations of this, but they
would swell this article beyond the
bounds we have prescribed. But we
must mention one pleasant incident
that occurred a short time before we
left our old charge in Tuskegee. It
happened that the venerable Dr. Lov
ick Pierce, the father of Bishop Pierce,
of the M. E. Church, South, was on a
visit to our town the year after the
war. They had almost a lifetime ac
quaintance, and were greatly attached
to each other. At the same time the
aged Rev. Obadiah Echols was living
in our place. By a striking coincidence
all three of those old men were born
in the same year, and were in their
eighty-second year of age. Dr. Battle
made a dining to which he invited
these two aged ministers and ourself as
his pastor. Nothing could have been
better conceived, or carried out in a
more princely style. It was a day to
be remembered. The cheerful, genial,
animated colloquies—the intelligent,
matured, and clear expressions of Chris
tian sentiment and feeling—the occa
sional broad humor and pleasant re
partee —the recalling of former years
and incidents iu which they were
each interested—all this and much
more of the kind conspired to fix the
conviction on our mind as we sat and
listened at those venerable patriarchs,
that if they had been asked what was
the happiest period of their lives, they
Atlanta, Georgia, Thursday, July 24, 1879.
would have answered, “our eighty-sec
ond year.”
The last time we met Dr. B. was
when our State Convention was held
in Eufaula, between six and seven
years ago. We arrived on the train a
little before midnight, and found a
carriage awaiting to carry us at once
to the home of his now sainted daugh
ter, Mrs. Gov. Shorter. When we ar
rived there, though he was about eigh
ty-seven years old, he was sitting up
waiting for us, and such a welcome as
he gave us! All the kindly sensibili
ties of his heart found expression in
the tremulous utterance, the falling
tear, and the warm grasp of the hand
that greeted us once more to that hos
pitable mansion. The Sunday evening
of that occasion, we devoted to am in
terview with him and his dear yife,
who yet survives him, and of whokn it
is enough to say that she is every way
worthy of the noble husband that God
gave her more than sixty years ago.
We could crowd this article with in
cidents in his life that would interest
our older readers, but this we may not
do; we must content ourselves to meift
tion one for which the reader will pei\
haps thank us, as we have never seen,
it in print. Dr. Battle never grew
weary of talking of Jesse Mercer. Os
him, he often referred to this incident:
Either at the Georgia Association or
Convention, about the time the contro
versy between the Missionary and an.
ti-Missionary Baptists was at its acme,
Mr. Mercer was appointed to preach on
missions at 11 o’clock Sunday. At
the appointed hour he arose, introduced
the service, and holding the Bible in his
hand, and cutting his keen eye over
the vast audience, he said— “My
friends, I intend to prove to-day from
this book, that God designs to convert
the world by men and money!—l say,”
said he rising to his full height, and'
sending into his audience an entenser
glance of his eye, “I intend to prove this
day, from this book, that God designs to
convert this world by men and money!”
“And,” continued the Doctor,.** I never
saw the leaves of that book turned so
rapidly, as proposition after proposi
tion fell from his lips, each backstichA
,ed with a ‘thus saith Uie Lard.’
that when the y it! »
half dozen men rbsesim wnff
hat in hand to receive benefactions
of that immense assemblage.” The
doctor assured us tlje collection exceed
ed anything that ever a occurred up
to that time.
The doctor once published a pham
plet of some twenty-odd pages on
“Baptism and Communion,” in the
form of a dialogue between old “Aunt
A, a shouting Methodist, and “Mr
B, a staid old Baptist. The inter
view was well sustained throughout,
and certainly not without its dramatic
effect. The argument was terse, com
mon sense, conclusive, and the pam
phlet ran through several editions, had
a wide circulrtion and did no little
good. We once playfully asked the
Doctor why he did not manage to convert
old “ Aunt A.” in the conclusion ? “0,
I did not aim to do that; it would
have destroyed the effect of the whole
argument.” The Doctor was right;
for no man had a keener perception of
the fitness of things than he.
Whether we consider him as a citi
zen, a Christian, or a deacon—whether
as a master while he owned servants,
a husband or a father—whether as pos
sessing those stern qualities which con
stitute that style of manhood that nev
er compromises principle to policy, or
those amiable virtues that attract and
charm with their lovliness—whether
as a rigid Baptist that held the faith
and practice of his denomination’ with
unyielding fidelity, or as possessing
those broad sympathies that embraced
all “that love our Lord Jesus Christ
with sincerity,” Doctor Battle pos
sessed just that clearly cut, round, fin
ished Character, on which one loves to
dwell, and which, when we begin to
delineate, we know not when or where
to stop. This equipoise of all that was
manly, and noble, and Christ-like, im
pressed one with the conviction that if
any man ever deserved that portrait
ure presented in Holy Writ, “mark the
perfect man, and behold the upright,
for the end of that man is peace,” it is
our now sainted brother Cullen Bat
tle. 8. H.
Commencements at Marion of Hou -
ard and Judson.—The recent com
mencements of these institutions are
said to have surpassed in interest, any
similar occasions at Marion for many
years. The attendance was large, and
the interest was maintained to the last.
We had hoped to be present, and Ita l ,
in part, arranged to do so; but a Mid
providence interfered. We rejoice
with our friends at the continued aia’.
increasing prosperity of these
and could we reach the ears of our Al
abama brethren in adequate mensunb,
we should continue to agitate the sub
ject of endowing the Howard, as the
only means of preserving the past, and
providing for the future of the College.
ALABAMA NEWS.
—Rain is desired badly for corn.
—Eufaula is to have an ice factory
by next year.
—Miss Lucy Lamar, of Eufaula, died
Thursday.
—Hon W. H. Lawson lost his hand
some residence near* Montgomery by
fire.
—Dr. B. F. Coleman, near Union
Springs, has a fine orchard of twenty
aqjes.
—Eufaula has organized a cotton
exchange with Capt. J. H. G. Roberts
as President, and J. C. Thomas as Sec
retary.
—Enquirer: Troy has seven new
brick business houses and a brick ware
house, with capacity to store ten thous
and bales of cotton, under contract and
in course of construction. All will be
ready for occupancy by the first of
September.
—The State Treasurer in the past
three days has paid out $5,109 87 in
terest on State obligation, $1,481 00
interest on new State ponds. In this
connection we may add that W. H.
Pratt has paid out at Mobile nearly
fifteen thousand dollars in interest on
the new bonds.
—On the 2d inst., over one hundred
guests were gathered at the residence
of Mrs Penn, in Cusseta, to witness the
marriage of Mr. A. O. M. Gay, of At
lanta, to Miss Lizzie Lee Penn. The
ceremony was performed by the Rev.
T. J. Rutledge, of the North Alabama
conference.
• —A meeting of the citizens of Eu
faula is called for Thursday night to
consider the extension of the Vieks
burg and Brunswick railroad to Ozark.
—Messers Cook & Bussey lost their
grist and saw mill and about one hun
dred and fifty thousand feet of lumber
at MtCarmel, Pike county, on the night
of the 24th ult. Loss about $4,000.
No insurance.
-—At the Southern University, at
Greensboro, Mr. S. W. Goode, of Eufau
la, delivered an elegant literary address,
and Master Grogan, son of Capt. A.
frVjk.dkof Eufaula, won the first prize
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The Religious Press.
—ln a late issue we expressed the
opinion that in the death of the young
Prince Imperial, whom by courtesy we
may call Napoleon IV., we have seen
the last of the Bonapartes. Our con
temporary The Interior is of a different
opinion, and thinks that the Imperial
party of France will rally around
young Victor Napoleon with good pros
pect (if success. Should this youth ev
er coine to the throne he will be called
Napoleon V., but his chances, if he has
any, are a long way off. Here is what
The Interior says:
Th» young Prince Imperial of France was
set upon by the Zulus while out with a re
conoitering party and stabbed to death with
their lances. The event produces a profound
sensation in all the ranks of life, both in Eu
rope aad America. The royal houses all lec
ognize the event as the death of the legitmate
heir of a royal family. No matter though
Republicanism is securely seated in France,
nor that the Napoleonic star has ever been
malign ; there is always a romantic interest
attaching to a young prince in exile, especi
ally to one so clever and chivalrous as Prince
Louis has shown himself to be. Nor is this
all. H ero-worship is the popular religion of
the wer d even yet. The Bonapartes, with
all theii crimes and failures are the most re
markable dynasty of modern history, and
they are the most admired. Even France,
which now rejects their pretentions is, at
heart, proud of them. We shall have the
details of the tragic event wrought up with
all the fervor and poetry of French imagi
nation and rhetoric, and like the Cid, the
young prince may prove more formidable to
his enemies dead than while living. His
will names Victor Napoleon, son of Prince
Napoleon {Pion-Bion} and Clothilde, sister
of the king of Italy, as his heir. This prince
is about seventeen years of age, and will
henceforth be the embodiment of Napoleonic
ideas in France.
The Bonapartes have a fatalistic religion
of their own, a sort of sublimated astrology
which possesses great influence over the
family and over the psrty. Whether the
prognostications of the family prophets are
made to fit accomplished facts or not, they
fall true. Under them the “star" of Napo
leon 111. was to eat in darkness and his son
was not to succeed him. But the regal gem
still blazes high, and the dynasty is to return
to power. There is a fatal coincidence, in
deed between Hie careers of the two emper
ors and their eons. Both lost their crowns
on the battle field, and died in exile. Each
left but one child, a son, both of whom, born
in the purple, died in exile, on the verge of
manhood. The first, the son of Maria Lou
isa of Austria and Napoleon I. was named
Napofson, and titled Duke of Reichstadt and
King of Rome He was endowed with a
clear, vigorous mind, proved to be a success
ful student, entered and served in the Aus
trian army and died at the age of twenty
three, July 1832. The second, the young
'prince iu-t dead, was also a fine student and
and sensible young man. He en
teredand died in the British army, as stated,
in his fwenty second year. These tragic co
Incidences have had and will have a serious
effect on the minds of the imaginative French
mlddfo classes. The Bonapanists waited
with fiatience and confidence during the long
period between 1814 and 1848 for the return
of their favorite dynasty, and they will wait
just as patiently and work just asconfidently
for another restoration.
THE CHRISTIAN HERALD,
of Tennessee.
—Fair at Last.— The N. Y. Inde
pendent in a long article on the “Open
Communion Movement,” makes the
following fair and honest statement:
“Leading writers of all denominations de
clare that converts must be baptized before
they cau be invited to the communion-table.
This is the position generally taken. But
Baptists regarding sprinkling as a nullity—
as no baptism at all—look upon Presbyteri
ans, Me'hodists, etc. as unbaptized persons.
They regard them as being in the same con
dition as the Quakers, who reject water
baptism on principle. They regard them as
being in the same condition as the unim
mersed converts of Baptist congregations.
They feel that they could not consistently
invite Presbyterians or Methodists to the
table without inviting also their own unim
mersed converts. But this would be contrary
to the ideas of all denominations. Therefore,
the Baptist party which opposed the giving
of the invitation to communion to Presbyte
rians, Methodists, etc., whom they consider
ed unbaptized, had the moral support of these
very excluded ones. The open communion
ists, arguing for the admission to the table of
those whom they considered unbaptized, had
to argue against the position taken by the
very ones whom they wished to invite. The
other churches cannot urge the Baptists to
become open-communionists till they them
selves take the positon that all who love our
Lord Jesus Christ, the unbaptized as well as
the baptized, may be invited to the commun
ion table.
The same paper also presents the
following view which we confess had
not before occnrred to us, but it gives
poor encouragement to the so-called
open communion Baptist. He cannot
properly remain among Baptists; he
cannot go anywhere else; what is to
become of him?
Again, many ministers were deterred from
espousing the open-communion movement
by the attitude which other denominations
take toward all Baptists whatsoever. A min
ister in one Ptedobaptist church—if, by con
demning something in its doctrines or usa
ges, he loses caste in it—can enter the min
istry in some other Piedobaptist church. But
not so the Baptist. If, by denouncing say
close communion, he loses position among
the Baptists, he loses all ecclesiastical posi
tion whatever. No matter though he have
the piety of a saint and the eloqnence of an
angel, he will not be admitted into the
Presbyterian or Methodist ministry so long
as herefuses to baptize infants. Though he
have lost his standing in his own church by
his very liberality toward Piedobaptists, he
has not in the least helped his standing with
them.. “It is not-enough,” say they, “that
you will cqr**y' nit us. You must sttv'
JP>our fuyh.isl JlutlOlW^ lo( , c iher before we
will admit von to the ministry in our
churches.” Thus, by previously announcing
that “no Baptist need apply" for a position
in their ministry, even though he had lost
his former position by inviting them to the
communion, the Paedobaptist churches ren
dered the greatest service to the close com
' m union party by deterring Baptist ministers
who favored open communion from coming
out in open advocacy of the same. The
Piedobaptist churches acted as a sort of pro
vostguard, to arrest runaway Baptist minis
ters and hand them back to the close-com
munion majority.
Florida Department.
W. N. CHAUDOIN, Corresponding Editor and Agent.
WEEKLY NEWS AND LACONICS.
The first Sunday in June was a time
of refreshing at Pine Grove church,
Madison County. Bro. Harris writes,
“it was good to be there. The waters
were troubled, and on Sabbath morn
ing, our pastor. Bro. Frier, buried in
baptism, two, a father and daughter.
It was a beautiful sight—the father fif
ty and the tender daughter of seven
teen years, together entering the water.”
There is nothing more beautiful than
immersion, when performed decently,
and solemnly. Ministers, sometimes,
cast discredit upon it by a careless or
hasty manner in administering it.
We have been pained sometimes by
the way we have seen the impressive
ordinance slovened, by ministers. We
desire or intend to write more on this
subject, and also to make some sugges
tions about the manner of administer
ing the Lord’s Supper. We are com
manded, “Let all things be done decently
and in order.”
A Little Funny.—The type got
cuke money into cake money. In At
lanta they know more of cakes than of
cukes, and just thought that I spelled
the word wrong. The proof reader does
not know ’how much use is made of
the word “cukes,” in Florida—a con
traction of cucumber. They raise, sell
and eat them, but they cannot take
time in this fast age to say cucumber
every time. No, no. But, reader, you
have not sent me cuke, or cake money.
Send it on to me at Jacksonville. Cuke
money, paper, silver or gold money.
Money, money for a good paper—The
Index.
Brief Notes.—Elder J. O. Harris,
of Madison county, has decided it not
good for man to be alone and has tak
en a wife. He would not tell us about
it, but “it got out” and we congratu
late him anyhow.
Mr. Geiger, of Marion county, re
cently married Miss Emma Barksdale
lately from Georgia. We have known
her from infancy and never knew a
better girl.
Eld. G. W. Hall has been called
to serve Peniel Church, in Putnam
county, since Elder W. E. Stanton re
signed. At his first meeting, the peo-
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pie could not get in the house on Sab
-1 bath.
e Elder M. M. Wamboldt is giving
great satisfaction at Eufaula Alabama.
- The Lord send some one to Madison
e and Tallahassee, left destitute by his
• removal.
.. Elder E. B. Timmons has been
. encouraged in his missionary tours re-
i. cently, in the North St. John’s River
- Association.
Elder M. N. Strickland, has not
“ been able to attend his appointment
. recently, though his health is improv
r ing-
s The Union meeting at Paran, was
a good one, fifth Sunday in June.
J r Bro. H. M. King, was there and the
J brethren enjoyed his preaching.
Rain plentiful, and good crops about
. Putnam Hall, Putnam county.
3 Brother Hall immersed a Methodist
■ class-leader recently. There are many
I more of that class of men, who have
3 never been baptized.
3 Do not forget Brother Lietner’s ap
> peal, and send him something to erect
-a monument over Brother W. B. Cooper,
r This world has never been blessed with
. many as pure and useful men as he
was. Florida Baptists owe it to them
, selves, and to his memory, to mark his
I resting place in a decent manner.
, We cordially extend our sympathy
I to Deacon B. J. Mims and wife, of Sand
j, Point, in their sad bereavment in the
s loss of their oldest daughter, Mrs. Eva
( Brady. The Lord comfort them and
sanctify the affliction to the good of
( the living. When we saw her in the
t winter, she was well and cheerful.
1 Bro. Paul Willis will probably give a
• part of his services, by request, to the
church at Ocala.
The Orange Creek church, Alachua
county, has a weekly prayer-meeting
and Sunday-school.
In a little more than two months,
Brother Hall has had about 40 acces
sions to the two churches, and “two
precious revivals in the busy spring
time.”
Eld. Paul Willis is pastor at Fellow
ship, a church left without a pastor by
the removal of Bro. Gresham to South
Carolina. God bless tire young pastor.
, - VV.N. c.
Dear Rrothkr Chaudoin ; I just
returned a few days ago from a tour
with that devoted, dear brother, Elder
W. J. Hughs. It is enough to make
any Christian heart rejoice to see how
the Lord has blessed his labors since he
has been in Sumpter county.
The Pine Level church, in the upper
part of Sumpter county, is in fine con
dition. Brother H. has had the pleas
ure of “going down into the water,”
and baptizing happy, willing converts
every appointment there for several
months, and when I was there, the 4th
Sunday in June, a young Christian
was baptized, and when she came up
out of the water, her face was radiant
with holy joy, I felt it was good to be
there. Such a sweet joy the gospel of
God’s dear Son gives those who believe
and obey it.
This is a fine, healthy section, good
society, cheap productive lands, with
fine growing crops.
I also visited Palatlakaha church,
where bishop Hughs resides, and never
was more favorably impressed with a
church and community. I have not
met a congregation of finer looking
people in the State. This church is a
working one, as all brother H’s. church
es seem to be. What if all pastors and
missionaries would obey the teachings
of the gospel, and not merely organize
churches, but put them to work for
Christ and show them how to work!
We would not have so many churches
missionary in name and anti-missiona
ry in practice. I had the pleasure of
baptizing three more, last Sunday, at
Orange Creek church, and two others
are awaiting baptism. More anon.
G. W. Hall.
Melrose, Fla., July Bth, 1879.
In Memoriam.
Whereas, Our Heavenly Father in his
own wisdom has taken away by death from
her beloved Sabbath-school, Mrs. Emma J.
Streety, therefore be it resolved:
1. That we acknowledge the inscrutable
wisdom of him whose ways are past finding
out, and bow in humble submission to his
divine will.
t 2. That we ever hold dear in our memo
ries our beloved friend and sister, and en
deavor to emulate her love and ardent, un
tiring zeal for our Sabbath- school.
3. That we tender our deejiest sympathy
to her bereaved husband and sorrowing rel
atives in this their hour of deep affliction.
4. That the Madison Baptist Sabbath
school, by her decease, has lost one of its
warmest friends, and most devoted workers.
5. That a copy of these resolutions be fur
nished to the sorrow-stricken family, and that
the Christian Index be also requested to
publish them.
James D. Biggs, Mrs. W.B. Jordon, Mrs.
8. B. Thomas, J. W. Smith, C. W. Stevens,
Committee.
Madison, Fla., July 6th, 1879.
If one man is proved to have mur
dered another, and the jury find him
“not guilty,” what crime are the jurors
guilty of?