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2 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