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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. ■ ■ —————— ■ = 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 ■MI T ■ 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- Whole No. 2378 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?