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HENRY H. TUCKER, Editor.
FOR CHRIST’S SAKE—THE OTH-
ER SIDE.
Last week we endeavored to show
that all the divine favor received by us
is bestowed for Christ’s sake; that no
prayer was ever heard except for
Christ’s sake; that no soul was ever
saved except for Christ’s sake; that no
blessing of any kind whatever, great or
small, was ever bestowed on any mem
ber of the human race, except for
Christ’s sake; in short, that but for his
sake, the whole race would have been
doomed to total and absolute perdition
from the first; and that no ray, not
even the faintest, of blessing or of
hope, could have penetrated the eter
nal darkness of our dread estate. But
this is only one side of what has been
done for Christ’s sake; this is what
God has done ; all that he has done for
us at all in the way of blessing has
been done for Christ’s sake. But there
is another side to this question. We
have looked at the divine side ; now let
us look at the human side. What
have we done for Christ’s sake? All
that we have done at all, that is accept
able to (tod, has been done for Christ’s
sake. No virtue is virtue unless the
love of Christ is at the bottom of it.
Worship is not worship unless offered
through Christ. Prayer is not prayer
unless offered through Christ. Obedi
ence is not obedience in such sense as
to be acceptable, unless its deeds are
done for Christ’s sake. There is only
one means of access to God, and that
is through Jesus Christ. What does
not pass through him does not pass at
all. Hence all of human virtue that is
regarded as virtue in heaven, while it
has been received as such by the Al
mighty for Christ’s sake, has been ren
dered by us for his sake. What God
accepts is for his sake; what we do is
for his sake. Christ is the central fig
ure ; the daysman that stands between
the parties; neither can communicate
with the other except through him; it
is the love of him thatsupplies the mo
tive of either to seek the other. Hu
man love of Christ is the counterpart
of the divine love for him. It is the
mainspring, the moving power on both
sides. Imagine a service rendered to
God, which ignores Jesus Christ, and
which has no regard either to his love
liness or to his merits. Such service is
vain. Service is not only accepted for
his sake; it must be rendered for his
sake, and if not so rendered it will not
be accepted. God looks not merely at
the deed but at the motive; and if the
love of Christ be not the motive the
deed is worthless; however good in it
self, it is vitiated for the want of that
indispensable and only element which
can make it acceptable.
Much has been done by mortals in
this world for Christ’s sake. There is
a great treasure house in heaven where
the deeds of them that trust in him
are garnered up. So precious are they
in the sight of God that not the small
est one is forgotten. Even the gift of
a cup of water which has no value, if
offered in his name, is too good to be
lost; his name sanctifies it, ennobles
it, imparts inconceivable value to it,
and it is gathered into the treasury
where God keeps his precious things,
his jewels and hie crowns. The earth
is dotted all over with temples built
for Christ’s sake ; some of them costly
and gorgeous, others ruMe cabins or
mere shanties, but all of them are
equally acceptable, if their foundations
be laid in the love of Christ. The
mere spreading of a tent or of a bush
arbor, if done in humble trust in the
merits of Jesus, and for his sake, may
be as precious in the sight of God as
the building of the grandest edifice.
Thousands upon thousands of ministers
preach the Gospel of Christ for Christ's
sake; the benighted regions of the
earth, where, the heathen sit in dark
ness and in the region and shadow of
death, have been penetrated by holy
men and holy women for Christ’s sake ;
houses and lands, fathers and mothers,
and wives and children have been for
saken for Christ’s sake; men and wo
men too have given up all to follow
him. A most touching story, tear
bringing and true, is told of Mrs. Com
stock, a missionary in Asia. She had
two lovely children whom she could
not raise among the heathen lest their J
young hearts might lie corrupted. She
wai obliged to send them home to be
educated, but the love of Christ con- 1
strained her to remain in her field of j
labor. She attended her little ones to
the sea-side, and on board the ship
which was to bear them twenty-five I
thousand miles away. She gave them i
a last agonizing embrace, imprinted on
their little cheeks her last kiss, bedew-1
ingthem with her tears; resigned her
darlings to the hands of strangers, and
to the winds and billows that were to
buffet them for five months at least,
before they could reach their destina
tion ; she stood on the shore while the
ship spread her sails and bore slowly
away. She watched it in mute agony
till it disappeared, and then turning
from the spot with bursting heart, she
exclaimed: "0 Jesus! I do this for
thee!" She laid two Isaacs on the al
tar. She has gone to her rest, and veri
ly she has her reward.
The Christian Index and South-western Baptist: Thursday, September 4, 1879.
I Thousands upon thousands have
laid down their lives for Christ’s sake.
Many have been beheaded for the tes
. timony of Jesus. Many have been
J crucified ; many have been burned at
the stake; many have been torn to
pieces and devoured by wild beasts;
some have been flayed alive, some have
been sawn asunder, and some broken
on the wheel. Oh 1 the noble army
of martyrs ! A vast army it is; their
tortures and their torments are known
to none but Almighty God; but all
that they endured was for Christ’s
sake. Millions upon millions there
have been too, who if they did not lay
down their lives for Christ’s sake, would
have done it if called on ; and did ac
tually, if we may so express it, take up
their lives for Christ’s sake; that is,
they lived for him, consecrating all to
his service, and in so doing have died
daily. Many a man’s name is enrolled
among the martyrs in heaven, who is
not regarded as a martyr on earth.
They may have led long lives free from
persecution, and died in the course of
nature, but the crucifixion of their
lusts wrung their hearts with life-long
martyrdom, from which the flames of
the Inquistion would have been sweet
relief. It may require more moral
heroism and more love-power for Christ
to live for him in times of peace, than
to die for him in time of persecution.
But God knows all his martyrs; He
has written down the names of his
witnesses; the names of them that
have lived for Jesus, are written beside
the names of them who have died for
him. Ah I the struggles with sin, and
self and Satan, that have been made
for Christ’s sake ! Oh! the conflicts
on the unseen battle fields, where souls
have agonized in mortal strife for
Christ’s sake ! God only knows them
all ! The unwritten history of this
world, is the written history of the
world to come; and when it all comes
to be displayed, it will be found not
only pint all that has been done that is
acceptable to God, has been done for
Christ’s sake, but that this is all that
has been done that would command
pure and profound homage even from
man. Nothing but that which is ab
solutely pure can stand the test of eter
nity, or bear the scrutiny of its blaz
ing light. All will disappear and van
ish into nothingness except that which
was done for Christ’s sake. What was
done for Christ’s sake, even to so small
a thing as the gift of a cup of water
will stand to everlasting ages. If Ood
does so much for Christ’s sake, we may
be sure that he will appreciate, and
value and reward, what we do for
Christ’s sake. If God does nothing
for us except for Christ’s sake, we
may be sure he will accept nothing
from us except that which is dene for
his sake. All the moral forces now at
work in this world, that are of any
value, are exerted for Christ’s sake.
Take away from every man in the
world, the love of Christ, and the only
pure fountain of light, and life, and
love and knowledge, would be dried
up. A heart without Christ in it! Oh
dreadful thing! dreadful to all, but
dreadful most of all to one’s self! A
heart with Christ in it! There is where
God sees his own likeness. That is
what he is pledged to protect; that is
what infinite love is pledged to cher
ish. Christ is God’s beloved; now if
he is also our beloved, we meet God in
him; and in him we are united for
ever. Thus is fulfilled our Savior’s
prayer: “That they all may be one; as
thou Father art in me, and I in thee,
that they also may be one in us.” That
we may enjoy this ineffable beatitude
and glory, let the love of Christ con-
: strain us, in all that we do. Let every
possession, and every power, and every
affection, and every thought, be conse
crated to Him ; let our very lives be
I laid on the altar of his love. For
I Christ’s sake! Let these words be en-
I stamped on every deed. Let them be
imprinted on every heart. If every
pulse-beat could become articulate, let
each one say For Christ’s sake. We
who serve you through The|lndex are,
we trust, “your servants for Jesus sake."
For his sake at least these lines are
written.
MERCER'S WINDFALL.
It will be remembered that several
I years ago Mr. James M. Gray, of Jones
| county, gave by will almost his entire
I estate to Mercer University, to be an
endowment fund for educating worthy
young men from that county.
The heirs-at-law of Mr. Gray con
' tested the will on various grounds, and
! the matter wont into the courts. After
1 a long suit the will was sustained, and
’ the executor of the estate, Mr. R. T.
Ross, who is also Ordinary' of Jones
1 county, has passed over to the authori
| ties of the University the sum of ten
thousand dollars of the estate. There
is still remaining to be paid at least ten
thousand dollars, which ianow in notes
and other valuable assets, which will
bo collected in time, and which may
run over ten thousand dollars. This is
quite a valuable addition to the endow
ment fund of the institution, and al
ready have some of the young men of
Jones county become the beneficiaries
of the liberality of Mr. Gray.
Mr. Ross has just had a handsome
monument erected over the grave of
Mr. Gray in the Clinton cemetery, to
be a perpetual memorial of him. The
work was executed by Mr. T. B. Artope,
of Macon.
A wise man proportions his belief to
the evidence before him.— Hume.
CHURCH FELLOWSHIP.
A good brother said to the writer a short
time ago that he intended to take his leUer
from the church to which he bel nged and
join somewhere else, giving as a reason the
fact, that he had no fellowship for one of the
members of his church. lam rather an old
fogy for this progressive age, and that may
be the reason why I think the brother guilty
of agrees inconsistency. If he takes his
letter, he expects it to be written after tlye
usual form, which contains 'the expression,
“full fellowship.” Will Dr. Tucker answer
the follow ng questions in The Index ? Is
it not wrong for the said brother to apply for
and accept his letter under such circ .in
stances ? In presenting his letter to another
•church, is he not practicing a deception 1
Sometime ago a difficulty took place be
tween two members of a Baptist church, (we
sha 1 call them A. B. and C. D.) Mutual
friends attempted to settle it but without
success. The matter was not carried before
the church, though the members, as well as
the community, anew it. Not long after the
trouble occurred, A. B. moved from the town.
Before leaving he called for his church let
ter. Brother C. D. with whom he had the
difficulty, and to whom he would scarcely
speak, voted in favor of the motion for the
granting ot the letter, knowing at the time
that it would be written, “in good standing
and full fellowship." The church knew
that when the application was made, that
very bitter feeling existed between these
two members, and that they were not in full
fellowship with each other. Now, Dr.
Tucker, will you please answer the follow
ing questions: Did not A. B. do wrong in
applying for a letter ? Did not C. D. do
wrong to vote for the granting of the letter?
Did not the church do wrong in receiving
the application and granting the letter?
Will you state also, what the church ought
to have done under the circumstances ?
X. Y. Z.
Perhaps we can reply to the ques
tions by asking others. Whatismeant
by church-fellowship ? Does it mean
that every member has unbounded
confidence in every other ? If so,
there are very few churches in the
world that arc “in fellowship,” and no
one of them could long remain so. And
how could the facts in the case be as
certained ? Every heart would have
to be probed to the bottom every day.
The church would have to spend its
whole time in serving search-warrants
on the inmost feelings of its members.
So long as no charges have been
brought, or are likely to be brought
against a member, is he not in “good
standing?” And does not good stand
ing imply church-fellowship ? Can a
church say a member is not in fellow
ship although he is in good standing?
Is not a member in “fellowship” until
fellowship is withdrawn ? and could
fellowship be withdrawn from a mem
ber in good standing? and how can
his standing Ire other than good, if from
the day he was baptized no charge has
been brought against him? m
Now take another view. mem
ber, for private reasons, “thinK hard”
of another and isso alienated infeeling
that he will have nothing to do with
him ; still he cannot see his way clear
to bring charges against him; he may
have his doubts, as brother Paul had
of the brethren in Galatia, (Gal. 4: 20.)
still he has his hopes also, and is not
ready to say that his alienated brother
is a heathen and a publican ; and sup
pose these feelings to be mutual. Must
these feelings be completely subdued,
before either of them can be dismissed
by letter? In many cases such dis
mission could never take place; and
the church would be kept in constant
broil until both parties were excluded.
In course of time a great many would
be excluded ; in short before the end
of it, all the members would be likely
to exclude one another. If members
are willing to smother their personal
difficulties and keep them in check,
judging charitably of each other, shall
i the church discourage them, and urge
them to bring all their private griefs to
notice ? Must one or both members
lie excluded every time a misunder
standing arises between any two of
them, notwithstanding the fact that
neither of them desires to make the
matter public, and that neither of them
is under charges?
Take another case. A. B. has no
confidence whatever in C. D. and be
lieves him to lie a bad man ; he has
reasons for this which are convincing
to himself, but which perhaps would
not convince others. If he were to
bring charges, he would throw the
church into great commotion and
bring great scandal on it, and would
probably be excluded himself, while
he, against whom the accusation was
brought, would be endorsed and thus
made stronger for evil than he was be
fore. Suppose now that A. B. asks for
a letter, would it be either wise or right
for C. D. to object ? What good would
come of it? If he is willing to choke
down his private feelings, and able to
do it, would it not be well to do it? It
is true that tares are a nuisance among
wheat and it is well to get rid of them
if possible, but does not our Savior
teach that sometimes this is impossible
and .that the best that can be done is to
let the tares alone until the Lord of
the harvest shall deal with them ? If
the church knows of nothing against
a member, it can properly dismiss him
by letter. If an individual has aught
against a member, of private nature,
but for which that member could not
be disciplined, would it not be well for
the peace of Zion and for the cause of
Christ for that member to keep his
feelings to himself? Is it not well
that private suspicions and private an
imosities should be suppressed ? Are
the secrets of all hearts to be made
public, and is the church to hold court
perpetually to inquire into such things?
Is it not well to follow the things that
make for peace ? Ought not a church
member eithei to bring charges against
another, or else to keep quiet about
him ? And ought charges to be
brought every time there is a collision
of interest or of opinion ? And is
there no such thing as condoning even
a real grievance ? And if A. B. knows
that his church does not agree with
him in his unfavorable opinion of C.
D., must he insist on having himself
excluded ? The best thing a church
member cast do, is to keep his own
heart and life in accord with the teach
ings of the New Testament and let
others go in peace, unless he can make
and sustain charges which would be
sufficient ground for discipline. Mat.
18: 15 gives directions for private
tresspasses; but in some of the cases
supposed by us, there are no private
tresspasses nor personal grievance of
any kind, but simply lack of confi
dence for general reasons. And there
may be cases which are not of suffi
cient importance to be brought even
before two or three, and in such cases
it is well for one so to subdue his feel
ings as to say nothing to anybody.
THE OTHER CHEEK.
The Baptist Weekly thus notices our
condemnation of the Yazoo outrage in
Mississippi:
“A Real Outrage.”—The editor of The
Christian Index has at last come to the
knowledge of “A Real Outrage” perpetrated
in the South. We had supposed from re
[torte, supported by well attested facta, that
there had been any number of such outrages
but the Index informs us that “most of them
are false?’ . "Most” of them —what a refresh
ing admission. All previous outrages, how
ever, were on republicans and have ha:dly
been worth noticing and never condemned.
But now “A Real Outrage,” “a genuine
outrage” has been perpetrated which the
Index declares “should meet the indignant
denunciation of all good citizens. It is the
one that occurred in Yazoo county, Missis
sippi, where a man named Dixon, a well
known citizen and a democrat,— think of it!
announced himself as an Independent candi
date (not as a republicrn) for sheriff. A
committee of six from an armed mob met
at his door and demanded that he should
quit the canvass or leave the county on pen
alty of death. Dixon surrendered, etc.
We respectfully submit that the tone
of the Weekly is not as courteous, nor
as kind, nor even as ingenuous as we
think we have a right to exjiect from a
contemporary towards whom we have I
always been not only polite, but frater
nal. He makes the most of the word 1
“most.” We have never claimed that
Southern society is perfect. We know
that abuses occur, and we have never
made any effort to conceal them. But
we said and now repeat, that we do be
lieve that most of the stories of Southern
outrage are false and we know that many '
of them are so. This is the remark that
brought out the shaft of our critic.
Did wisdom and justice guide that
shaft, and did love impel it? Is our
brother sure that he is right when he
says, speaking of us, “All previous out
rages however were on republicans, and
have been hardly worth noticing and '
never condemned?” An express charge
is here made by one Christian man on
another, that he sympathizes with out
rage, or at least does not condemn it,
when perpetrated on a Republican!
Does our brother really believe this?
Is it conceivable that he should actu
ally entertain such an opinion of a i
Christian brother? If not, (and we I
must presume that this is the proper I
alternative) then he has spoken hasti- j
ly. If he really thinks as he speaks,
which we can scarcely suppose to be
the case, we can only say that we hope
so to live as to give him a better opin
ion of us ; and in case he should form
such better opinion we hope he will be I
kind enough to express it.
In the meantime we declare in be
half of ourselves and of our constituen
cy, w'hich is by no means small, and
which though chiefly in Georgia, is
widely spread over half a dozen States,
that we regard crime, just as all other
Christian people regard it; the New
Testament is our standard of morals;
(is it not amazing that we should be
required to make such a statement as
this!) our Lord Jesus Christ is our pat- j
tern and exemplar; we confess with
tears that we do not follow his exam
ple as closely as we ought; outrage
perpetrated on a Democrat, or on a
Republican, or on an Indian, or on a
Chinaman, or on a Hottentot, or on a
Jew, or on a Mormon, or on a cannibal,
or on a dog, we shall always condemn,
endeavoring to do so in the spirit of
our Lord and Master. If we have ever
failed to do this we regret it, and pray
to be forgiven for the sin of omission.
In the same spirit as we trust, we con- j
demn what seems to be an attempt to
represent The Christian Index (!) |
as being in sympathy with crime of any
kind; for that too is an outrage, how |
great an outrage we will not say; we
leave that to the conscience of our !
brother, and to God. But while we
condemn, we forgive, and turn the oth
er cheek.
Editor Index: I held a week’s
meeting with Pine Bluff church, five
miles east of here, which resulted in
twenty-two additions, fifteen by experi- i
encc. I baptized fourteen of them '
yesterday afternoon, and at the same
time and in the same water, brother
Felder, the Methodist pastor here, bap
tized one person. But he said, “I bap
tize you with water, in the name” etc.
R. T. Hanks.
Albany, August 18th, 1879.
The simple believeth every word, but
the prudent man looketh well to his
going. — Anon.
REV. I. S. KALLOCH, D. D.
The person whose name and titles
are prefixed is a Baptist preacher. He
was once pastor of the Tremont Temple
Baptist church in Boston. For grossly
immoral conduct he was deposed from
the ministry and excluded from the
church. He afterwards went to some
Western place,we have forgotten where,
and was restored to the church and to
the ministry; he finally went to Cali
fornia, and, although his history was
known, became pastor of a Baptist
church in San Francisco, and our im
pression is that he still holds that posi
tion. During his pastorate he did many
things which, in our opinion, are utter
ly inconsistent with the character of a
Christian. Among other things he de
livered a lecture on some secular topic
such as the “Resources and Prospects
of California,” on Sunday night, in a
Baptist church, at twenty-five cents
admission, the funds thus raised being
to replenish his private purse. He
took a very active part in politics, op
posing the Chinese, and at last became
the working men’s candidate for Mayor
of San Francisco. In the course of the
campaign, which seems to have been
violent beyond anything we have ever
seen in Georgia or elsewhere, he was
fiercely opposed by a man named De-
Young, who brought Kalloch’s dis
graceful record to the light. To meet
this Kalloch brought counter-charges
equally damaging, and in a public
speech spoke of DeYoung, and of his
mother and of his sisters, in language
so vile and disgusting that no secular
paper we have ever seen in the United
States could afford to publish it in full.
We have seen what may be called a
skeleton outline of it; that is, the first
and last letters of the words were
printed with stars between. It is shock
ing beyond conception. DeYoung af
terwards went armed to Kalloch’s
office, called him out on false pretence
and shot him, it was thought at first
fatally, but we believe it is now thought
that he will recover. The assassin was
promptly arrested and put in jail to
await his trial. Now, on the facts .se
have to say,
1. That so far as Kalloch is con
cerned, he got no more than he de
served, and if he had met his fate some
years ago, society would have been no
loser.
2. If anything on earth could justify
murder, it would be such language as
Kalloch used, even if it were true ; we
are informed by a gentleman in this
city who is acquainted with the parties
that it was false.
3. Nothing can justify murder; nothing
can justify any infraction whatever,
whether great or small, of the laws of
the land.
4. DeYoung ought to be punished
according to law; not to avenge the
injury to the\ miserable creature
whom he attempted to slaughter,
but to convince the world that good
government will assert itself and main
tain peace and preserve order under all
circumstances and at all hazards.
Never, while we have breath, will we
give the least aid or countenance or
sympathy to lawlessness in any shape
or form. If the laws are wrong they
should be altered ; if not, they should
l>e enforced ; enforced always, on every
body, high or low, rich or poor, black
or white, Chinese or Mormon, male or
female, making no distinctions of any
kind whatever.
5. We have no wholesale denuncia
tions for the people of California on
account of the disgraceful scenes de
scribed. The same thing might have
occurred anywhere else; human de
pravity reaches to as horrible depths in
one place as in another.
6. We do not hold the people of
Massachusetts responsible for the
shameless career of Kalloch, although
his character was formed amid their
surroundings; but if the same thing
had occurred here, we well know that
there are many, yes very many, and
some from whom better things ought
to be expected, who would have point
ed to the facts as “specimens indicative”
of Southern manners and morals, and
would have made effective use of them
in the next political campaign.
7. As for the church that would have
such a man as Kalloclr for its pastor,
we have only to say that we have no
fellowship with it. We do not know
how many Southern men there are in
that church ; but if the members were
all Georgians and of our blood kin, we
would still say, with horror, “My soul,
come thou not nigh their secret.”
8. Finally: we see what a mined
race ours is without the gospel; we see
what the world needs. We appreciate
the language of the Psalmist when he
says, “Horror hath taken hold upon
me, because of the wicked that forsake
thy law.” Ps. 119 :63. Let every soul
pray, Thy kingdom come! and let every
man of God consecrate his life to the
endeavor to hasten its coming. Oh!
for the reign of the Prince of Peace!
Come, Lord Jesus, come quickly!
P. S. It would not surprise us if some
paper claiming to be religious should
copy our first remark only, omitting all
the rest, with the view of making the
impression that a Southern Baptist pa
per sympathises with murder! On the
same plan the Bible can be made to
say There is no God. From our heart,
we have nothing to say but this: 0
Lord! let thy kingdom come! Come,
Lord Jesus! come quickly! ,
—Rev. D. W. Patman, of Lexington,
is said to be rapidly recovering from a
recent attack of paralysis.
GEORGIA BAPTIST NEWS.
—Nineteen persons were added by
baptism to the church at Travis Pond
a few Sundays ago.
—A meeting of great interest is re
ported at Zion church, Rockdale coun
ty, recently. Fourteen'additions to the
church.
—A revival meeting is progressing
at the Second Baptist church of At
lanta. Prayer meeting daily at 9 /clock
a. M., and preaching at night.
—Washington Baptist Association
convenes with Long Creek church,
Warren county, on Friday before the
fourth Sabbath in this month.
—Rev. J. H. Campbell, of Columbus,
assisted Rev. Mr. Willingham, pastor
of the Baptist church of Talbotton,
during the last week, in a series of
meetings.
—The Baptist Sunday-school Con
vention of Columbus Association con
vened with Bethel church, Muscogee
county, on Friday last.
—The Carroll County Times of the
22d ult. brings intelligence of an inter
esting revival at the Baptist church of
Bowdon.
—A very interesting relegious meet
ing at Penfield Baptist church has just
closed. Rev. J. 8. Callaway conducted
the services. He is now holding a
meeting of much interest at Bethesda
church, assisted by Rev. W. N. Chau
doin.
—The religious services at the Bap
tist church of Blakely have been con
cluded for the present, owing to call of
the pastor to other portions of his
ministerial field, but on his return the
meeting at Blakely will be resumed
and continued for several days.
—We learn with deep sympathy of
the death of little Alexander Rogers
Parker, four years old, and son of Rev.
James S. Parker, of Bluffton. He died
on the 13th ult. Another chord is
binding the hearts of his parents to
Heaven.
—A protracted meeting of ten days
duration at the Baptist church of Con
yers closed on the 19th ult. There
were twenty-three accestions to the
church, nineteen of whom were bap
tized on Sunday last. The interest
prevailing with the entire community
was profound, and continued to the
close of the meeting. The services
were conducted by the pastor, Rev. J.
M. Brittain.
—The religious services at Indian
Creek church, DeKalb county, which
continued for several days, closed on
the 18th ult. The members of the
church were much revived. Eight
were baptized, three restored • and one
received by letter. The pastor, Rev.
F. M. Daniel, was assisted by Rev. J. J.
Fitts, of Missouri, and Rev. Mr. Vaughn,
of the Georgia State Board.
—lntelligence has reached us of a
glorious revival at the Baptist church
of Morgan, under the ministry of the
pastor, Rev. J. C, Bass, assisted by the
Rev. D. B. Joy. Seventeen were added
to the church by experience, three by
letter, and three by reclamation.
Christians were greatly revived and
strengthened, and a feeling of profound
interest prevailed with the people gen
erally. The services continued for
nine days, and closed on the 17th ult.
—The Sunday-school Convention of
Mount Vernon Association met with
the church at Riddleville at 11 o’clock
a. m. August 2d. The meeting was
opened by Rev. W. N. Chaudoin in a
most impressive manner. The churches
of the district were all well represent
ed. The Convention was organized
by the election of Rev. G. W. Smith as
President, G. H. Ratchford, Secretary,
and W. A. Sinquefield, Treasurer. The
following were elected Vice-Presidents :
For the Ist District, A. L. Brantly; 2d
District, Gcjorge Garbutt; 3d District,
Rev. J. C. Calhoun; 4th District, Rev.
W. A. Harrison. The aggregate num
ber of scholars was 582, and teachers,
03. A number of interesting questions
were submitted and answered. Rev.
J. M. Smith, W. A. Sinquefield, S. E.
Coleman and G. H. Ratchford were ap
pointed a committee to prepare a pro
gramme for the next annual session,
which will be held with the church at
Shady Grove, Laurens county, on Fri
day before the fifth Sunday in August,
1880, at 11 o’clock a. m. The people
of Riddleville and vicinity were cordial
and hospitable, meriting the gratitude
of all visitors.
—Brother D. G. Daniell, writing
from Walthourville, says : “Please let
me remind brethren that New Sunbury
Association meets in this place on Sat
urday before the first Sabbath in Octo
ber. Brethren coming by railroad will
stop at No. 4, A. & G. R. R., one mile
and a half from the church, where they
will be met with conveyance, if they
will notify us of their coming. Those
coming from the direction of Savannah
should arrive on Friday at 5:45 P. m.
Those coming from the direction of
Thomasville can reach here at 7 a. m.
on Saturday. It would be better to come
by the accommodation train on Friday,
which reaches our station about 2 p. m.,
thus affording a night’s rest before
work. We expect brother DeVotie, look
tor brethren Irwin and T. C. Boykin,
and hope for a number of others from
above us to cheer us by their presence.
Cannot Editor Tucker come? Come
brethren, and may the Master grant
that you may come to us in the full
ness of the blessing of the Gospel of
Christ.”—[We should be most happy
to attend, but it will be impossible.—
Ed. Index.]