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REHOBOTH MISSION.
Choctaw Nation, Ind. Ter.,
June 4, 1879.
Dear Index : During the last two
months I have had an unusually in
teresting experience in this Indian
Mission work.
I have been really anxious to write
for The Index an account of many of
the scenes I have witnessed and the
information obtained.
THE WILD TRIBES. (?)
Early in April I had a favorable op
portunity of visiting the Wild Tribes
in the western part of this Territory.
Many persons in the States have an
idea that we Indian missionaries fre
quently come in contact with all the
Indians in the United States—certainly
with all in the Indian Territory. This
is a mistake. Is it supposed that
brother Daniel, of Southern Georgia,
labors as a missionary for the people of
New York or Ohio, or even of North
ern or middle Georgia? The Sioux
Indians of Dakota, the Sho-sho-nes of
Utah, are as remote from thin Territory
as New York or Ohio is from Georgia;
and the Conianches, Wichitas and
Cheyennes are as distant from my field
of labor as North Georgia is from Sa
vannah, and here we have no railroads
to run us out West two or three hun
dred miles in a few hours. Hence it
should not be thought strange that
though I have been here over twenty
one years, my first visit to the Wild or
Plains Indians, in the western part of
this Territory, was only a few weeks
ago. There are other reasons also. It
has only been a few years that these
Plains Indians were settled on reserva
tions. Until three or four years past
they have been mostly nomadic, with
out an abiding place.
It was atrip I have desired for years
to make to those tribes and see and
hear for myself their condition. Os
course my chief motive was to see if
they are in a condition for missionary
work; if missionaries can safely and
conveniently settle among them, build
mission homes, church houses, <fcc.; if
the Indians would receive them kind
ly, not molest them, listen to the gos
pel, and treat them fairly and favora
bly. It is true I am not properly a
missionary of our Homo Board, and
my information may lack official au
thority ; but I have been here too long
and my work is too well known for
any one to suppose that I would report
anything for mere sensational pur
poses or buncombe. I have a warm
heart for all Indian mission work and
desire to see it prosper and increase,
and whenever I can help in any way,
by information or assistance, the work
in which 1 am engaged and for which
I have spent my life and all my means,
lam ready to do so cheerfully and
gladly.
I would be glad to write two or three
articles about this country and these
Wild Tribes, giving valuable and par
ticular information ; but having been
nt home only some four or five days in
twice as many weeks, and leaving to
morrow again, 1). V., to be absent a
month or more, I have not the time,
and can only state, in a general way,
what I learned.
Ist. The tribes visited.
I first visited the Kiowas, Coman
ches and part of the Apaches around
Fort Sill, about 300 miles west of Fort
Smith, Arkansas, and 85 miles north
of Red River, which is the boundary
between Texas and Indian Territory.
Next I went to the Wichitas, Cad
dos, Ke-chis and other affiliated (small)
tribes located around the Wichita
agency on the Washita River, 85 miles
due north of Fort Sill.
Next we visited the Cheyennes and
Arapahoes around Fort Reno, on the
North Fork River, about 40 miles due
north of the Wichito agency.
Next we returned by home and vis
ited the Modocs and Nez Perces, in the
northeastern corner of the Cherokee
Nation, near the Missouri and Kansas
States line.
In all these tribes there are about
eleven or twelve thousand Indians.
2d. Are they wild and hostile?
No, they are not wild, nor even dis
posed to be hostile, if allowed to live in
peace. They do not wear citizen's
costume; they live mostly in lodges or
tepees, as they are called out there,
wigwams you would call them, and
they lack much of what you call civ
ilization, but they are not wild.
They have homes in which they have
l>een living, some for ton, others a less
number of years. Some have houses,
corn-cribs, kitchens, furniture; many
have fields and raise corn, vegetables,
melons, potatoes, &e.; many have
small and some large herds of cattle
and ponies. In each of the places
mentioned where 1 visited there are
schools supported by the United S’ates
Government, where a goodly number
of their children are receiving educa
tion, intellectual and practical, and
these schools are well taught, arc pro
fitable, and the Indians are very proud
of them and manifest a groat interest I
in the success of their children. Are I
such a people wild? Are they hostile? 1
Oh, no! In my judgment, take them
as a whole, and they would not go on
the war-path under any consideration.
That there are bad and restless—yes,
The Christian Index and South-western Baptist: Thursday August 7, 1879.
wicked and lawless—young men
among them is very true, and these
break away and do mischief often, is
true, but it is contrary to the earnest
advice and efforts of the wiser and
larger portion of the tribes. Perhaps
nine-tenths of the people are peaceable
and lawfully inclined and have no dis
position to disturb anybody. It is also
true that they are often shamefully
treated by lawless whites and fearfully
provoked.
3d. Are they ready for the gospel?
That was the great question before
me. We had full and free access to
them. The military officers at the
forts kindly placed government, ambu
lances, with drivers, at our disposal,
and the agents furnished us with in
terpreters, and we went into the camps
of the Indians, into their lodges and
houses, gathering them into informal
councils or conversing with them
singly and alone, the chiefs, the com
mon people, the old, the young, and in
many cases getting free expressions
from the women, with their husbands,
brothersand fathers around. We also
visited their fields, saw them at work,
and praised them, to their great de
light. Yes, they are ready, waiting
and willing for the gospel. They as
sured us that so far from molesting any
missionary, white or Indian, who would
come among them to teach them the
religion of Jesus Christ, they would
welcome such, would protect them and
aid in building arbors, church houses,
assemble to hear the words spoken,
and give every aid and encouragement
in their power.
Such was the general expression
among all these tribes. When I first
came among the Creeks aed Semi
noles, twenty-one years ago, there was
much more indifference and even op
position to have the gospel preached in
many of the towns of those nations
than there is now among those Wild
Tribes, so-called. But can missionaries
live out there? Are there any stores?
Is there any society, any comforts for
living, &c.l Oh, yes, an abundance of
all this. A missionary can find good
boarding places at Fort Sill, where the
Kioaa and Comanche agency is. There
are I don’t know how many nice white
families living around there. The
officers’ families at the fort are choice
society—some of them good Christian
people. I preached in the chapel by
invitation, and was never more kindly
treated. There are two large, full
stores, where you can purchase any
thing, it seems to me, except fresh
oysters. Goods are not high either.
The merchants say they carry from
fifteen to thirty thousand dollar stocks
of goods. If a missionary doos not
wish to board, let him build a house
and make a home comfortable, and he
will find very excellent facilities for
doing so. There is a saw mill at each
place; wheelwrights, blacksmiths and
other artisans can be easily procured.
There is really no reason why a preach
er cannot live at any of these agencies
or adjacent thereto as safely and com
fortably and find as much to live on,
dress as fine, have as good society,
educate his children, spend as much
money and do as much, or more good,
as in the city of Atlanta. But with
the exception of Bro. John Mclntosh,
a Creek man, there is no Baptist
preacher nor of any other kind labor
ing among any of these tribes. They
would prefer Indian missionaries from
these christianized tril>es,Creeks, Choc
taws, Cherokees, &c., but they would
not object to good and faithful—de
voted—white men.
I kept a full journal of my trip, jot
ting down on the spot the conversa
tions, incidents, scenes, ic., and could
give many from my note book that
would interest, but I have not time
now. I may do so at some future day.
I beg pardon for this long article
and so hastily prepared. I have not
time to revise or rewrite.
Fraternally ami truly,
J. S. Murrow.
OLD MINISTERS.
Dear Index I wish to say a few
things through your paper (our paper?)
concerning our aged and infirm min
isters. I am not sure that our con
vention acted wisely, and I fear not
justly, towards them. They should be
eared for, and not allowed to suffer. It
is a well known fact that our churches,
especially those in the country, afford
but a present living, nothing to lay by
for old age. They do not protend or
j propose to do any more. It is also
I very well known that where a pastor
begins to grow old, especially if his
family is large and expensive, the
churches want a change; they want a
younger and cheaper man. This is a
common practice and all understand
it. The result is that old ministers are
often prematurely '• laid on the shelf. ”
What must they do? Like the unjust
steward, they are unable to work and
are ashamed to beg, and they never
have been able to accumulate anything
to support themselve in their helpless
old age. What should lie done for
them, or with them? Let them suffer,
perish? Never, never! The people
who would tolerate such a shame on
themselves would deserve to have the
gospel forever taken away from them.
These old brethren are among us, have
spent their lives for us, and wo must
help them.
On yesterday I received a letter from
one of this class, written while he lay
on a bed of affiction. When he enter
ed the ministry he was a man in com
fortable circumstances. He is desti-
tute now and cannot work, but soon
must pass away, like Lazarus, I trust,
carried by angels to Abraham’s bosom,
and like him too, I fear, carried from
the gates of plenty where he should
have been fed.
In the letter referred to above, this
brother says: “ I am fast passing away;
I am partially paralyzed, can scarcely
feed myself, and my arms and hands
give me much pain.” Such is the con
dition of one who has long served in
the ministry.
Will not the brethren of the associa
tion to which he belongs, especially
the churches to which he has preached
in years past, come to his relief?
He was once a member of the
Georgia State Senate, and belongs to
the Columbus association. Further
description is unneessary The church
es formerly served by this excellent
brother will know who is meant.
W. M. Howell.
PEN DROPPINGS.
BY L. L. V.
We once heard of an old gentleman
who avowed himself open to convic
tion, but added, “I should like to see ,
the man who can convince me.” We
fear this old man was not exceptional,
or, if so, that it is his ingenuous can
dor that renders him remarkable. Most
men claim to be open to conviction.
Indeed, it would sound strangely to
hear one admit that he is too much
under the influence of prejudice to
listen to the voice of reason. Yet how
very rare is it for one to yield to the :
force of argument and disavow what
he has previously professed. Men I
sometimes change their church rela- j
tions, and perhaps more frequently |
their party relations. But we suspect
that in most of such changes other in
fluences have more weight than the |
power of logic. "Make me believe,” I
the Pope might say, “that I am wrong,
and I will cheerfully lay aside the |
triple crown and divest myself of my ;
pontifical robesand he might be '
perfectly sincere in this professed de- [
votion to truth. But not all the logic !
of all the schools could avail one iota !
towards breaking down that ten times ;
tripled wall of prejudice in which he is
entrenched. But the vast interests;
which he has at stake do not render \
him less inclined to listen to reason |
with an honest heart and a candid ear
than are many who have nothing to I
lose by a change of opinion. So much. 1
indeed, are men prone to follow the
bent that early training gives that we
never expect them to do otherwise.
We accord him merit of honest}' so
long as he remains true to his preju
dices, but begin to suspect his sincerity
whenever he dares to thin|i fuf
Thackeray, whose opinions of human
life and motives were not always the
most charitable, has somewhere ex
pressed the idea that hypocrites in re
ligion are rare. In one aspect of the
matter he is correct; in another very
wrong. There are not, we think, a
great many persons who deliberately
join a church with some ulterior mo
tive, knowing at the time their own
unworthiness. But there are vast
numbers who, having gotten into a
church, remain there from pride, from
a regard for decency, and from almost
1 any other motive than a love of God
’ and a sincere conviction of duty, j
| These go along without performing any
flagrant sins that will render them
I amenable to discipline, and at the same
I time exhibiting no interest in the ad
■ vancement of Christianity and aflbrd
-1 ing no evidences of a growth in grace.
I They conform, without apparent scru
ple, to the fashionable forms and fol
lies of the day. In business they are
i controlled by the maxims of worldly
wisdom rather than by the teachings
of the divine word. In social inter
course they have more regard for the
; rules of Chesterfield than for the great
I law of life set forth in the sermon on
j the mount. If they disagree, they
seem to regard it a virtue to cling te
i naciously to their own opinions; and
I should they pretend to quarrel, they
appeal to the code of honor rather
than to the code of love. Perhaps we
class these amiss if we count them
hypocrites. But are they not as harm
ful?
What the Pharisee uttered will be
found on analysis, not to be any
prayer at all. It is simply a boastful
summary of his merits and a com
parison, most flattering to his vanity,
of his character with those of other
men. While there is a bold claim set
up for the divine favor and approval,
there is not a breath to intimate that
he felt any need of mercy. He seems
thoroughly satisfied with himself. Nor
does the Savior hint that his boastful
declarations arc untrue. He seems, on
the contrary, to admit that all that he
says was true. The sin because of
which he went down less justified than
the publican was his daring effrontery
in coming into the presence of the im
maculate Jehovah with proud vaunt
ings of his own goodness. High above
censure as may have l>een his charac
ter in the sight of men, he should have
felt that in the eyes of the Great
Teacher his best motives were corrupt,
his best thoughts unclean. But are
there not those of our day who much
resemble this self-lauding Pharisee?
Ay; verily have we heard utterances
from the pulpit that sounded much in
this self-same vein of glorying. Too
apt are those who pray in public to
thank God that they are not as other
men. Indeed, we are afraid Christian
people commit very much sin in this
very matter of praying in public. In
the great majority of cases, the one
who speaks the prayer is the one who
most certainly does not pray. If he
be timid and halting of tongue, he is
concerned about something to say. On
the contrary, if he be bold of speech, i
he is studious about the words and
phrases that shall please the ears of his '
hearers. Rare is it indeed when prayer
is offered in public that there is a full,!
earnest outgushing of the heart in the I
utterance of its needs. Too much of
it is made to men rather than to God.
Is it a wonder that it remains unan-'
swered? Is it a marvel that when we ;
have offered such prayers for month
after month and year after year, and
still remain unblessed, that the unbe
lieving should taunt us with the ques-'
tion, “Where is thy God?”
Should preaching the gospel be a
vocation or an avocation? In other
words, should ministers devote them
selves exclusively to the work of the
ministry? We think some should;
I others should not. All men have not
i the same gifts. There are those who
j possess in an eminent degree the gift
of preaching who have but slight
qualifications as pastors. The question
of duty must also be largely deter
mined by circumstances. All churches
do not want the entire time of a pas
tor. The minister who has charge of a
country church, should he attempt to
labor among his flock day after day at
their homes, would often be pained to
find his visits ill-timed and inconvc
j nient to those whom he proposed to
i benefit. It is more in accordance with
their wishes that he spend most of his
| time in secular business of his own,
provided he will study enough to give
them a good sermon on Sunday. City
I churches, on the contrary, bargain for
and expect to have the services of a
pastor for his whole time. It were
well if these different positions could
i be filled by those whose order of talent
exactly fit them for them. But great
mistakes are sometimes made in this
;as in other matters of life. If a man
be an eloquent preacher, it is assumed
. therefore that he will make a good
pastor, when God may have designed
him only for an evangelist. It is clearly
indicated by Paul that every Christian
should be a worker in some way, and
■he nowhere hints that there is any
; other distinction between the pastor
i and other members of the church ex
cept the difference in the tasks they
are to perform. It is a peculiarity of
Baptists—and a peculiarity which we
think a merit—that we do not regard
our ministers as a distinct caste.
There is but the faintest disposition to
consider them as priests occupying a
higher plane of holiness than one can
hope to attain without the laying on of
ordinating hands. But there would be
danger of their being so esteemed were
they generally removed from secular
pursuits and from that sympathy with
the people which business dealings be
get. Thinking, as we do, that a Chris
tian priesthood is an error, and not only
an error but an evil, we do not think a
“consecrated ministry” a desirable
thing for our denomination. Many of
our most efficient ministers of the olden
time were men who tilled the soil with
skill and success, and in the meantime
labored zealously for the spread of the
; gospel.
II7LI T IS OUR GREA TEST WORK?
We look upon our Foreign Mission
work as a grand field of Christian toil.
I Every new development and acquisi
i tion of territory, every mark of pro
gress, is noted, and we feel that the
; time when “the kingdoms of this world
I shall become the kingdoms of our
Lord and of his Christ” is near at
| hand. So do we look hopefully on our
i Domestic Mission work, and think if
i we just had half the money that is
spent in prosecuting the war with our
j red men of the West to put into the
hands of Bro. W. H. Mclntosh, how
much could be done towards civilizing
those warlike people. I would not cast
' the slightest shade over any of our
| mission fields at home or abroad, nor
depreciate in the least the honors due
I to our noble brethren that stand as our
I immediate representatives between us
j and their respective charges. But
there is one among those great inter
ests that is comparatively overshad
owed by the rest. Yet it is the equal
of any of them, and its representative
is “not a whit behind the very chief
est” of his fellow-laborers in energy,
i industry, sagacity, labors or self-sacri
fices. I refer to our Sunday-school
' work. Those others have for their ob
ject the sending of the gospel to the
heathen and the destitute of our own
country—a noble work indeed; but
this enterprise has for its object the
planting of gospel seed in the minds
and hearts of our children. Those pro
pose to gain other lands to Christ; this
proposes to hold that which is already
gained. The others strive to exter
minate idolatry; this seeks to prevent
its entrance. Those work for foreign
ers and strangers; this for our chil
dren, the offspring of our own bodies.
Not only this, but the numbers, the
probabilities of success and the rich
ness of the harvest every way tend to
enhance the value of this work. Ido
not ignore pastoral or church work,
nor do I undervalue them, for they are
the foundation of all these of which I
speak; but they need all these depart-
L.
ments of work, but none more than
the Sabbath-school. Here must be
drilled the home porkers for all depart
ments of religious interest. Out of the
Sabbath-schools will come our next
generation of pastors, foreign mission- 1
aries, corresponding secretaries, boards,,
Sunday-school superintendents, and all |
workers for all departments. Still fur
ther, there is now being made a most
vigorous effort by the Roman Catholics
to gain in America what they have lost
l in Europe. The stronghold of attack I
and our most vulnerable point is the
! rising generation. Then to fortify it is ,
■ to build on the rock of ages with the
precious materials of God’s word, and
; the best way to succeed in this, next to
j faithful pastoral labors, is through the
1 Sabbath-school. This can be made
! successful. If our pastors and churches
will make proper efforts, they can have
Sabbath-schools, not only in all the
I churches, but at many points besides;
and if there is aid needed, let them
call into service our State Superin
tendent, who can and will cheerfully
render all needed assistance. He not
only builds up new schools, but gives a
! new impulse to every one he visits,
j He has visited my churches and Sun
day-schools frequently, and the more I
I see of his work the grander it seems.
I This generation will never know the
I worth of T. C. Boykin to the churches
of the State of Georgia. He speaks of
being willing to accept a local pastor
ate. While this no doubt would be
best for himself and family, it would
be a public calamity to the Baptists of
the State, and especially to our chil
dren. This is not felt so sensibly in
our wealthy and intelligent city
churches, where talent, facilities, <fcc.,
are ample, as it is in our country and
village churches. What I have said
may be briefly recapitulated in these
words: We have no greater work ,and
no man more suitable for it than Bro.
Boykin and his work. Therefore, let
us continue him in the field and well sus
tain him. Let us remember him in a
collection when with us and in our
associational collections, that he may
not be forced to yield his present work.
Brethren, think and act in time for the
good of your churches and of your
children. W. M. Howell.
DR. LANDRUM.
He takes his Leave of his Old Church Mem
bers Preparatory to Removing to Savannah.
Georgia, where he takes Charge of his Old
Congregation.
After the sermon on Sunday morn
ing in the Central Baptist church in
Memphis a special conference of the
Church was called. The Church was
well represented. The pastor, Dr. S.
Landrum, presented his resignation, as
follows:
Beloved : Eight year! afeo you wer6
pleased to call me from Savannah, Ga.,
to Itecome your pastor. The years
passed with you have been laborious,
eventful, and, by reason of epidemics,
sorrowful ones. In 1871 we met as
strangers—now, in God’s good provi
dence, we are more than acquaintances;
wo are Christian friends. The time
has almost come when we must part.
I feel impelled, from no fault of yours,
however, but from inner convictions of
duty, and from surrounding circum
stances, to resign the pastorate of your
church —rather our church. I do,
therefore, hereby offer my resignation
as pastor, to take effect on the thirty
first of August next, and I ask that you
will accept it promptly and unanimous
ly. I have hoped, oso anxiously! to
lead you into the finished audience
room, but this' is denied me. lam
satisfied that the building is assured
to the church and city, and that the
Lord has a Joshua to lead you over into
the promised land. Treat him, your
next pastor, as you have dealt with me,
and the Lord will bless you and him.
A great responsibility is upon you as a
church, and a glorious future is before
you. Dear brethren, good-bye, till we
meet in our Father’s house.
Sylvanus Landrum.
Following this Mr. H. M. Ragan
read the following preamble and reso
lutions, which were adopted:
Whereas, our pastor, during the past
8 years, has presented his resignation,
in which he states that he is impelled
by inner convictions of duty to return
to his former church in Savannah, Ga.;
and, whereas, we are satisfied that
however deep our regrets, or whatever
inducements we might present for his
continuance with us, all would be in
vain; therefore,
Resolved, That we do hereby reluc
tantly and affectionately accept the re
signation of our pastor, Dr. S. Lan
drum.
Resolved, That we hereby express
our deep sense of his faithful services
during many years and through many
trials; that we commend him to God
and to the Christian brotherhood, hop
ing after life’s pilgrimage to meet him
in heaven.
The church next, on motion of W.
S. Taylor, proceeded to the election of
a pastor. The committee on corres
pondence reported their information in
reference to available ministers.
After special prayer, Rev. Thomas J.
Rowan, of the theological seminary at
Louisville, was unanimously called for
one year, or indefinitely, if found to be
best, the call to take effect when the
city is declared free of yellow fever. A
committee, consisting of the deacons of
the church, was appointed to communi
cate the call to Rev. Mr. Rowan and to
urge his acceptance.
Mr. Rowan, the pastor elect, is a
Mississippian. He is a graduate of
Clinton college, and has spent two years
in the theological seminar}' at Louis
ville. During last month he supplied
the Central church ver}- acceptably.
He is a promising young theologian,
and the call is a very complimentary
one. He is twenty-four years of age,
and brings to his pastorate, should he
accept, his youthful zeal and hope.
A LETTER FROM SOUTH CARO
LINA.
Dear Index : A meeting was begun
in our church on the first day of June
and closed on the 25th. Our pastor
was fortunate in procuring the assist
ance of his brother, Rev. C. H. Strick
land, of Augusta, who began his work
with us on the fifth day of the meet
ing and preached for us most accept
ably for two weeks.
When it was decided by the church
that there would be a meeting of days,
the pastor urged upon us the import
j ance of preparing for it by seeking the
■ Lord in prayer beforehand, beseeching
I him to bestow his favor upon us by re
viving Christians and converting our
. loved ones. He also insisted that we
I should prepare for the meeting by ar
ranging our business, in order that we
, should be able to attend each service,
and called upon the members of the
■ church to consecrate themselves to the
work, making everything subservient
to religion so long as the meeting
should continue.
Our meetings were held at 8 o’clock
a. M. and at 6p. m. We had Bible
readings, conducted by the pastor, for
the first few days, which were very in
teresting and instructive.
On the fifth day, as I said, Rev. C.
H. Strickland cams to us in “the ful
| ness of the gospel of Christ.” His
sermons seemed specially adapted to
the wants of the church at that time,
as well as to the unconverted. The
former had their souls fed and strength
ened by them, while the latter were
unusually impressed with the attract
; iveness of our precious religion, so
much so that many were constrained
to accept Jesus as their Savior. In the
beginning of the meeting the pastor
invited all who desired the prayers of
Christians for themselves and for their
friends to drop their written requests
. in the collection baskets at the door.
Many responded to the invitation, and
the requests were gathered up by the
pastor twice each day, and special
prayer was made for each request after
iit was read before the church. We
know that we had many direct answers
to prayer. This is a means of grace
that might be adopted by other church
es with good results. Thirteen were
added to the church by baptism and
two by letter and others were convert- ,
ed, and the Lord manifested himself to
many Christians in a gracious outpour
ing of his Spirit upon their hearts.
Saluda.
Anderson, 8. C., July 5,1879.
Mission Department.
RECEIPTS OF MISSIOn'bOARD
GEORGIA BAPTIST CONVENTION
TO JULY 31, 1879.
RECEIVED FOR STATE MISSIONS.
June 22 Previous reports $41.55.
June 22. R. J. Willingham, Talbot-
ton Church;, 3 15
June 24, J. B. Reese, Ladies aid society,
Eatonton Church, 3 00.
June 21, V. C. Norcross, 2. to.
July 2, CC Willis, Bethel Ch, Muscogt— .5 00
July 2 8 Boyken Ist Baptist ch, Macon . 20 00
July 5. W N Chandoln, Cairo church
Bowen Association „ 0 72
July 8. Indian creek, G G Hudson, F
Daniel.,, 70
July 8. central ch. Atlanta 2 50
July 8, Mercer Ass’n, N A Bally, 75 00
July 8, J J Hyman „...„..lto
July 13, Madison Bap’t ch, 8 A 8urney...1605
July 25, Zion ch. Newton, Co, W M Davis..loo
July 24, Rockdale ch, Rockdale co. Davls.o 5n
July 21,Lithonia ch, IDeKalb co, Davis 072
July 24. Woodville ch, DeKalb co, Davis .0 50
July 24; R J Willingham, Valley Grove.. .2 50
July 24. Rev J II Bparm, Mercer ass’u.... 50 00
July 24, Eutiicaloga ch, G D Harris 100
July 24, Home Bap’t ch, JS Panchen tr. 1538
July 24, Reported by J H Corley #BO
July 31, H V Hornaday ...... 025
July 30, Hpartach, W J Northern „6 00
$250 98
SABBATH SCHOOL EVANGELIST.
June 24, J B Reese, Ladles Aid Society
Eatonton 32 00
HOME MISSIONS.
June 22, Previous Report $2 45
July 24, J B Reese, Ladles Aid Society
Eatonton 3 00
July 8, Received at Treasury, Marton
, WH Mclntosh 394a
July 13, Madison Bap’t ch,B A Burney Tr. 875
July 13, Rehobotb bap’t ch, J A Harris 0 50
July 24. Zion ch, Newton Co., W M Davis. 1 00
July 24, Rockdale ch. Rockdale Co , Davis. 0 50
July 21, Lithonia ch, DeKalb Co., Davis., 075
July 24. Euthcaloga ch, G D Barris 100
$lO6 41
INDIAN MISSIONS.
June 22, Previous reports 4 70
July 13, Osceola, bap’t ch, J A Harris 125
$5 95
FOREIGN MISSIONS.
June 22, Previous reports s3l) 90
June 24. J B Reese, Ladles Aid Society
Eatonton 6 00
July 2, C C Wlllli. Mt Zion ch, 420
July », C C Willis. Bethel ch, 6 20
July 4,Airs I’M Tidwell,“ Womans Mlss’n
to Woman” 139
July 13, Madison Bap’t ch, 8 A Burney 7 75
July 13, High Shoals Bap’t ch. J A Harris.. 3 75
July 18, Osceola ch, J A Harris 1 25
July 24, Woodville ch, DeKalb Co, W M
Davis 050
July 24, Zion ch. Newton Co, for Italian
Mission, W M Davis Igo
July 24, Received at Treasury in May at
Richmond, acknowledged byH A Tupper
Coresp'g Sect’y 1186 92
July2B,’-A Sister” A J Cheves 075
July 28, Alatoona ch. A B Vaughn 2 06
July 28, Bethlehem church, Burk county,
M L Carswell no
$1252 67
INDIGENT MINISTERS.
June 22. Previous Report sll3O
Juns 24, J H Reese, Ladies Aid Society
Eaton ton (00
July 18, Mndlson, Baptist church, 8 A
Hurney Treasurer 8 75*
"s2l 05
THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, LOUISVILLE, KY.
Madison Baptist church, S A Burney $1 00
Total amount rec'd to July 81st $1648 06