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The Christian Index.
Vol. 57 —No 38.
Table of Contents.
Fibst Pagi—Alabama Department: Beset
ting Sin; A Sad Picture; Alabama News;
The Religious Press.
Second Page—Correspondence: From the
Indian Territory—W. O. T.; From Wash
ington—W. H. Robert; Re-Immersion—
J. M. Robertson ; Bowman—l. H. Gosa;
Tugalo Baptist Association—Visitor; How
Far is it to Canaan ? H.; Dr. Adiel Sher
wood—l. R. Branham; Indian Items—A.
Frank Ross.
Thibd Page—Sunday-school Lesson ; A Re
markable Clock; Gen. Hood’s Last Charge
—poetry—by Mary Hunt McCaleb.
Fourth Page—Editorials: Made and Bap
tized ; Goose and Gander; A Superficial
View; Good Bye; Dangerous Criticisms;
Snakes; The Jews in Palestine; Georgia
Baptist News; Sarepta Association.
Fifth Page—Secular Editorials, News Par
agraphs; The Other Side; If I Stop my
Paper; Georgia News.
Sixth Page—Obituaries, etc.
Seventh Page—Farmers’ Index: Farm
<Work for October, etc.
ghth Page—Florida Department; More
About the Seminoles; Another Fact Over
looked; Special Notices, etc.
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Alabama Department.
BY SAMUEL HENDERSON.
BESETTING SINS.
“Habit is a second nature,” says an
old proverb. It is more: it not un
frequently overmasters the first nature.
Vicious habits, long indulged, some
times come upon the victim like an
armed giant, and “carry him whither
he would not go.” Although he
knows full well the ruin impending
over him—although he sees the
mournful wrecks of other compan
ions in guilt scattered all around him,
pointing as with the finger of fate to
his own wretched doom—yet, as if im
, pelled by some fell spirit that possesses
him, he is precipitated on in his fatal
career, until he, too, is launched
into the gulf of eternal despair. Once
entering the current, he glides on,
amused by a thousand enchantments,
until he hears the roaring of the cat
aract before him, and the current be
comes too strong for resistance and
■ plunges him into the abyss, to swell
the number of ruined souls.
L It- worth While to look into A sub
‘fraught AU such bilaicuiable
p evil, and ascertain the source of these
“besetting sms. Os course we do not
propose to go over the entire list of
vicious habits incident to depravity,
for they embrace the whole gamut
of iniquity, transgression and sin. We
only propose to classify these sources
of evil, and leave the reader to supply
the details. The three principal
sources of bad habits are, the tongue,
the passions, and the appetites. This
is by no means an exhaustive analysis,
but it embraces all that falls within
our present purpose.
As to the tongue, of what habits of
vice is it the parent! Blasphemy, ob
scenity, abuse, prevarication, lying,
slander, exaggeration, and the like.
Take the single habit of exaggeration—
how easily, how insensibly this habit
grows on one. It begins in the very
first utterances of childhood, anil
unless checked by prudent parental
authority, it becomes a marked pecu
liarity in all the after-career of the
person. A foolish desire to awaken a
little surprise or wonder in the social
circle, induces the victim of this vice
to overstate the common occurrences
of every day life, until nobody be
lieves anything he says, unless sus
• tained by other proof. “The gift of
gab,” as we familiarly say, is a good
promoter of this wretched habit. He
must talk, and in the absence of
> -anything else to say, he will retail
’ striking incidents by the hour, manu
factured out of whole cloth, until he
is left without an auditor. Some
years ago, one of these interminable
' talkers stopped in a neighborhood
where he was a perfect stranger, and
selecting a company of men, opened
t on them and clattered away for an
hour or two without intermission,when,
pausing for a moment, the crowd dis
persed ; an old staid farmer turned to
one of his neighbors and said, “well,
there,” pointing to the stranger as he
walked off, “there is the biggest liar I
ever saw!” “Why,” answered bis friend,
“do him ?” “No,” said he,
; but there
SOUTH-WESTERN BAPTIST.
of Alabama.
they will control us. What a sorrow
ful sight to see an old man at the age
-of three-score and ten, the slave of his
; passions, giving way to every little
disappointment, boiling over with rage
a at everything that crosses his purposes,
until the wisdom and dignity we asso
ciate with age is lost in the contempt
. we feel for his whimsical freaks! Yet
this sight is not uncommon. And all
. this comes of his having yielded to his
passions until he can no longer con
trol them. Like the destiny our Lord
predicted of Peter, when he said,
“When thou wast young, thou gird-
B edst thysell and walkedst whither thou
wouldest; but when thou shalt be old,
- thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and
1 another shall gird thee and carry thee
; whither thou wouldest not.” Thus it
1 often is with our passions: they “gird
us and carry us whither we would
not.” The battles of youth must con
, quer the liberty of manhood and age.
But of all the besetting sins that
pertain to our fallen humanity, those
which originate in our appetites are the
1 most degrading. Our appetites consti
tute that part of our nature that allies
! us to the brute creation. Every time
we have to refresh our animal nature,
we are painfully reminded that it is of
“the earth earthy.” That great and
good man, Robert Leighton, had a
saying, that each time he had to partake
of food to nourish his body he could
not help feeling a sense of humiliation,
that he possessed a nature so depend
ent upon the gross things of earth for
1 its very life. For this reason, those
habits that find their gratification in
the perversion of these appetites are
of all others the most imbruting.
Can our nature, fallen and depraved
though it be, present a more degrading,
■ disgusting, revolting sight, than the
victim of intemperance, wallowing in
the mire with the swine, or maddened
into fury and wreaking his vengeance
upon wife and children, those objects
that should be dearer to him than his
own life ? A noble, rational, immortal
being, that might achieve a destiny
glorious as heaven itself, wrecked and
ruined in the cesspools of corruption
and imfamy! Young man, when the
sparkling cup is offered to your lips
by the hand of mistaken friendship,
rebuke the insidious temptation in the
stern language of the poet:
•‘Take back the bowl, take back the bowl;
Reserve It for polluted Ups;
I would not bow a stainless soul,
Beneath its foul and dark eclipse I”
, ’ A BADPICTURE.
Os all the wrecks that ever sadden
ed the human heart that is the most
mournful, where a cultivated, talented,
■ worthy human being, capable of filling
' any position in church or State with
1 honor, abandons himself to the vice
of intemperance and its attendant
evils. We have seen vast plantations
. and palatial houses in ruins, whole
forests desolated by cyclones, wealthy
, families reduced to penury, whole
households melt away by the “noisome
pestilence,” countries laid waste by
■ “grim visaged war,” but never have
we seen any sight that so penetrated
, us w’ith a sense of sadness as a rational,
immortal soul forgetting its heavenly
birth, and plucking down upon itself
■ the most wanton, self-inflicted destruc
tion for time and eternity. Over this
we may well lament with a more than
common lamentation. Cities may
■ be rebuilt after the most dire calami
! ties; countries may be restored after
the very “abomination of desolation”
has swept over them; private fortunes
may be recovered by subsequent indus
try, and even wasted health may be
brought back by long and persistent
prudence; but, alas! what shall recon
struct a wretched character and a
ruined soul ? Who is able to revive
in that mass of ruins the innocence
and manhood of other days? We
have seen the sturdy oak of the forest,
smitten by lightning and despoiled of
its leaves and branches, a monument
of ruin. Spring returned to all the
surrounding forest, but it came not to
that tree to invest it with its vernal
dress. So the poor, helpless, abandon
ed inebriate stands among men, with
! ered and blasted, “a vessel of wrath
fitted for destruction." The pit of woe
can only surpass it in those terrors be
fore which the benevolent heart shrinks
in dismay.
The Birmingham Church Fund.—
It will be remembered that soon after
our State Convention was held at Bir
mingham, last July, we submitted a
proposition to our brethren in Alabanla
j to raise five hundred dollars to aid our
church there to finish their house of
and plan a little pastor’s
BBteie on the church lot. We are glad
that the proposition Ims taken
up to this time $.‘192 ."><»
millrril dollars has Inui
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Atlanta, Georgia, Thursday, October 2, 1879.
could a more opportune benefaction be
bestowed by our brethren for the pres
ent and prospective interests of the
cause. Birmingham is rapidly advanc
ing in every element that will make it,
at no distant day, a city second in im
portance to none in the State.
ALABAMA NEWS.
There are over 90,000 white Baptists
in Alabama.
Montgomery, Ala., is erecting over
100 new buildings.
All the coal mines in Jefferson
county are doing a paying business.
The Post office at Haysville, Greene
county, has been discontinued.
The East Alabama Fair commences
at Eufaula November 3d.
Selma has organized a cotton ex
change, with Levi Lawler president.
A railroad bridge will probably soon
be built across the Alabama river at
Selma.
Corn is selling in some portions of
North Alabama at twenty cents per
bushel.
Auburn college matriculated 100
pupils on the 24th ult., and 60 more
are on the ground.
The general impression now is that
the cotton crop in Alabama has been
cut off about one-half.
Dr. J. T. Warnock, of Opelika, has
purchased a residence in Atlanta, and
will shortly remove to this city.
It is stated that the State Fair is go
ing to be the greatest triumph in the
exposition line that Alabama has ever
known.
Thos. W. Coleman, of Eutaw, has
been appointed solicitor of the seventh
judicial district, vice R. H. Clarke re
signed.
The Selma and Gulf Railroad was
sold under foreclosure at Selma last
week. It was bought by Mr. Charles
Williams, of Atlanta, for D. T. Sullivan,
President and owner of the Peninsula
road.
The Baptists of Lee county held
an association at Hepzibah church,
about eight miles east of Opelika, on
the 21st ult. The attendance was
larger than ever before—fully fifteen
hundred people being present.
Rev. J. H. Hendon has succeeded
in securing the additional amount, viz:
SSOO, to build a parsonage,
ibr his church in Birmingham. ‘ i 1
The Talladega Baptist Sunday-school
has contributed five dollars and a half
to the Birmingham Baptist parsonage
fund, in response to the call made by
Rev. Dr. Henderson.
We are glad to learn that the pros
pects for a full attendance at the Ala
bama Central Female College next ses
sion are good. Prof. Yancey deserves
to succeed.
Bro. L. W. Duke, of Kempville,
writes: “I have just closed a meeting
of four days at Claiborne, in which we
enjoyed a precious out-pouring of the
Spirit. Eight were received by expe
rience and one by letter.”
The Colored Baptists of Alabama
have, for the last year, sustained a
theological and normal school at Sel
ma, with five teachers ( and 252 stu
dents, without incurring any debt, and
have paid, also, SI,OOO on the debt on
the ground and buildings.
Uchee Creek Bridge.—The piers
for the iron bridge to be placed over
Uchee creek, Mobile and Girard rail
road, are fast nearing completion. A
gentleman tells us that they seem to
grow like mushrooms. One has been
finished, and a portion of another.
The iron work is to be made in Atlanta,
and the bridge will be ready for trains
about November 15th.
The churches composing the Pine
Barren, Bethlehem and Zion Associa
tions are earnestly requested to send
up their pledges to the State Mission
Board, to their associational meetings.
The evangelist needs his salary. He
has done, and is still doing, great good
in his field.
Mrs. James Bryant, of Lowndes
county, donated last year her colossal
fortune of natural black hair for the
benefit of the Memphis yellow fever
sufferers. It realized several hundred
dollars, and has now come back to the
original owner, by the kindness of a
Boston merchant, who was the last
purchaser, and it will now be sold for
the benefit of Gen. Hood’s children.
The Sunday-school convention of
Lee county, which met in the Baptist
church in Opelika on Thursday night
last, continued its session to Saturday
noon. The chief speakers of the occa
sion were Rev. Drs. Rivers and An
drews, and Rev. Messrs. Dill and Riley.
Capt. Cross, of Selma, was received as
a visitor, and did good work in the
convention. An executive committee
was appointed, composed of Messrs.
Riley, Andrews, Star, McGehee, Me-
Kemie, G. A. Taylor, Dill and T. C.
Pinckard.
The Religious Press.
—The two following articles are
from the Mississippi Baptist Record,
and the article on Snakes, which ap
pears on our fourth page, is from the
same source. To copy three articles
from one issue of one paper is an un
usual thing in journalism. But so
much has been said of late about the
loose morals of Mississippi, that we
thought it might be well to give a few
samples of the religious teachings en
joyed by the people of that State. The
first of the two following articles is cer
tainly very sweet and consoling; the
second is clear and sound and Scriptu
ral. The Snake article on another
page is also greatly to our mind. Here
is No. 1:
Peace in Death. —The Rev. Dr. Fuller
stood by the bed of a dying young man, who
had recently become a follower of Christ.
“My brother, do you realize that you are
soon to die ?” said Mr. Fuller. “I do," was
the reply. “Do you now feel that you love
Jesus?” interrogated Dr. Fuller. “I know I
love him,” was the firm reply. “And does
not this love to Christ give you great com
fort?” The dying saint; with emphasis,
said : “It is not my love to Christ that now
gives me peace, but it is his great love for
me. I could not risk my love to Jesus, but
since he died for me, I can risk his love for
me.” This man had the true gospel conso
lation. Nothing in us will do to rest on,
however good it may be. Underlying all
safe hope is Christ, the rock of ages. Here
we have a sure refuge in the day of trouble.
“He hath loved us with an everlasting love.”
In this love must our hope rest, if we would
not be disappointed in the time of our ut
most need. O, may we feel when we come
down to “Jordan’s wave,” that we still may
rest in the abounding love of him who hath
loved us and given himself to die for us.
—And here is No. 2 :
Predestination is against the natural dis
position or will, but not against that gracious
will which God works in the predestinated
to their- salvation. The natural heart is
against Christ, but when the Lord begins a
work of grace in his elect, he commences by
taking away the heart of stone, and creating
instead a heart of flesh ; so that the renewed
man wills against his natural will, and turns
to that which by nature he despised. Thus
God works in us to make us a willing people
in the day of his power.
The Almighty overcomes the difficulty of
our free wills by making us willing to accept
his Son. That he makes some willing and
not others, elects some and not others, is to
be set down to his sovereignty; for he will
have mercy on whom he will have mercy,
and whom Li will he hardeneth. Why he
acts thus hi as not told us, and we must
accept
be written and
’ againstWiaF <rA‘®r|l
Certainlya community that sustains
and enjoys such teachings as the above,
cannot be so wholly corrupt as has
been represented. The “Mississippi
plan,” so far as it is represented by our
extracts of to-day, we think is a very
good plan; infinitely better than the
plan observed elsewhere, of heralding
the sins of a neighbor in forgetfulness
of one’s own.
—A good man will not originate a slan
derous report concerning any person or any
people. A thoughtful, good man will not
repeat or circulate any damaging report un
less he knows it to be true. From now unti[
the close of the Presidential campaign bitter
partisans and interested politicians will make
it a business to manufacture falsehoods.
Leave to them also the task of circulating
them. Good men, North and South, can
find better employment.
With considerable regularity we copy
a paragraph of the same tenor as the
above from the Christian Advocate
about once a week. It does not seem
to do much good, but we hope the Ad
vocate will keep on saying it, and we
shall keep on quoting him. If some
of our religious journals will persist in
circulating slanderous stories, they
shall be met with persistent protest
and rebuke.
—To speak of the Christian religion as
making men too anxious for their own salva
tion to care for the well being of their kind,
is simply to ignore some of the plainest facts
of history. But, to be sure, a skeptical scien
tist in pursuit of a theory antagonistic to
“theology" must not be expected to take
much account of facts which militate against
his theory. If the facts don’t accord with
the theory —whv, so much the worse for the
facts I They are not worthy to be even so
much as noticed by a truly scientific mind.
The above is from one of our exchanges,
we don’t know which one. Certainly it
is true that the Christian religion al
ways makes men anxious for the salva
tion of others, and the fearful self
sacrifices that have been made for this
end are among the sublimest facts in
history. Christianity is always diffu
sive, and where there is none of this
spirit there is none of that religion.
But we know of a good many who
pro Jess Christianity, who, if they feel
any anxiety for the salvation of others,
never show it by anything that they
do. Well, they say that they are too
poor. Indeed, they must be very poor,
for many of them do not expend for
the cause of Christ one cent a year!
May it not bo that their religion is
poorer than their purse?
—The Presbyterian, Philadelphia, has this
note in reference to the desecration of the
Sabbath : “The deserration of the Sabbath
has reached another point in the downward
way. By a hand bill befor* us we learn that
the annual fair of the Egg Harbor City
Agricultural Society was opened on Sunday,
THE CHRISTIAN HERALD,
of Tennessee.
September 14th, and continued for two days
following. Excursion trains were arranged
by the Camden and Atlantic Railroad to run
on the Sabbath as on the other days, and on
Sunday last this deliberate violation of the
law of the State and the law of God was per
petrated, and the day of God openly pro
faned. This, as it seems to us, is the wan
tonness of wickedness. Other days in the
week were not wanting, and there does not
seem to be a shadow of a good reason why
the fair should not have been opened on
Monday rather than on the Lord’s day. It
was purely an act of defiance on the part of
the managers of the fair, while God's law
was set at naught and the hallowed day of
rest profaned.” In this connection we may
add that Rev. L. W. Bacon’s opposition to
Sunday desecration in Norwich, Conn., has
awakened the wrath of his opponents, and
they have smeared his house with mortar.
Sorry are we that these “outrages”
occur anywhere, but it is a comfort to
think that such a thing as smearing
the house of a minister of the gospel
for preaching against any violation of
the Decalogue has never occurred, so
far as we have ever heard, in any of
the Southern States.
—The first missionaries'.to any heathen
land, labor under the disadvantage of being
strangers and foreigners both to the people
and the language, and so not in full sympa
thy with those whom they would instruct
and lead to the Saviour. Their earnest sin
cerity and love for many souls may, to a
great counterbalance this disadvan
tage, but still it is a disadvantage, and one
which would not exist if with, all their
knowledge and zeal, they were one with the
people they address, born and trained up in
the same land.
So says the National Baptist, and so
say we. On the same principle the
most suitable persons to labor among
the negroes of the South are the men
who were “born and raised with them.”
Yet only last winter the National Bap
tist seemed to think that those who
have the acquaintance of this peculiar
people to make would be quite as good
as any. Our esteemed brother seems
to have made progress, on which we
congratulate him—and ourselves. Our
esteemed brethren, J. T. Robert and
D. Shaver will be the chief teachers in
the Theological School for negroes
soon to be established in Atlanta.
Good appointments, both, and good
work in the cause of Christ will be
done.
—The Watchman, (Boston) in speak
ing of the future development of Afri
ca, says, and apparently with much
complacency:
The great nation of Africa is destined
to be a mixture in which the blacks shall
predominate, while the whites dominate.
If a’e had said this it would have
been heresy. In this country The'
Watchman (judging by its usual
course) would reverse matters. Here
the whites predominate, yet, the blacks
ought to dominate; and if they do not,
it is said to be because of “frauds,’’“per
secutions” and “outrages.” Bro.
Watchman, we think you are right
about Africa, and we beg to suggest
that wherever the Anglo-Saxon race
is found in the world it is sure to dom
inate whether it predominates or not.
This is one of the inevitables, and the
world may as well be prepared to ac
cept the situation. We don’t mean
any harm by this; we mean only that
whoever goes ahead of the Anglo-Sax
on in the race of life will have to be
a very “early riser,” more so, indeed,
than the world has ever yet produced.
It may be worth while to add that we
and the great majority of our neigh
bors, except the negroes, are Anglo-
Saxons. Providence has put us in the
lead, and we have no doubt intends us
to stay there. We hope and pray that
God will incline our hearts to use our
power in such way as will promote the
good of all and the glory of our com
mon Father.
—There is significance in the fact that
well-to-do Jews in the civilized countries of
the world are turning their attention to the
improvement of Palestine as their ancestral
home, and are using concerted measures to
improve the country and the condition of
their race who still remain there. If it is
true as reported, that the Rothschilds have
a mortgage on the country for loans to the
government; and that the late Baron just
before his death requested the reading of
that eminently Christian hymn beginning
with “Jesus, lover of my soul ; ” and that
special attention is now being paid to educa
tional and industrial schemes among the
resident Jews, wo may certainly be encour
aged to give a more literal interpretation to
some prophesies than recent commentators
have favored. If, in the providence of God,
the Jews and the Armenians should pour
the tribute of their united forces into the
work of spreading a pure gospel what mighty
results would soon follow.
Our own disposition is always to in
terpret the Scriptures literally when
the sense will bear it. '•
—The admission of Utah as a State into
the Union is suggested in some of the politi
cal pafiers as a (Krnsibility in the near future,
with its abominable polygamy in uncontroll
ed existence. Such an event would be both a
disgrace and a calamity. A disgrace—in
that a community with so foul an institu
tion in the midst of it, and cherished ns one
of its dearest peculiarities, indeed as a di
vinely bestowed privilege, should lie admit
ted into a sisterhood of Chrieiian States on
equal terms of right and fellowship. A Ca
lamity—in that it'would render still more
difficult, if not im|>ossible, the abolition of
this odious relic of barbarism. For, even if
in the act of admission a condition prohib
iting polygamy were inserted, the State, once
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admitted, could amend its organic law by re
storing the darling custom, and nothing
short of another amendment to the Consti
tution of the United States would then avail
for its suppression. The mere mooting of
such a proposition as the speedy admission
of Utah is in itself a powerful argument for
the prompt, energetic and unsparing enforce*
ment of the existing 'aw against this crime,
that it may be blotted out as rapidly as pos
sible.
The Index has never favored the
“existing law” against polygamy be
cause it is ex post facto, and moreover
impracticable; but it does favor a law
far more stringent than the present
one and which shall be prospective in
its operation. The present law will
simply make martyrs of the Mormons,
thus putting us in the wrong and giv
ing them prestige,while it will not stop
their heathenish practice. As to the
desireableness of getting rid of the
infamy there can be but one opinion.
The Pulpit Use of Slang.—While
some defense may be found for the employ
ment of unwonted methods of preaching,
such as familiar and colloquial and anecdo
tal forms of utterance—partaking of the na
ture, if not, indeed, formed upon the model
of the sensational; we insist upon it that
there can be no excuse offered—or none ad
mitted if offered—fdr the use of slang and
slovenly expressions in the house and ser
vice of God. These we heir but too fre
quently, and while they are occasionally the
outcome of defective education and taste,
they are more frequently—the more’s the
pity—the affectation of young preachers who
ought not to be allowed to plead ignorance
in their defense. They probably would not
do so, but would claim ihatjthe active force of
slang phrases reaches the mind of the hearer
quicker and more effectively than expres
sions of a more sober and dignified tone.
We grant that this may be true, but they
reach (the ear of all cultured persons to of
fend it and the majority of devout hearers to
produce the impression of a levity at utter
variance with the solemnity of religious
worship.
We have heard preachers only recently
and in pulpits not out of telegraphic reach
of Chicago, use such slang phrases as “tak
ing stock,” “getting a square meal,” “going
the whole animal,” “keeping his head lev
el," “putting his foot in it,” “getting a cor
ner on brimstone,” “and then he Peter’d,"
and many others, equally coarse and unfit
for the pulpit—unless, indeed, the theory
which some would set up, is to be admitted,
that the pulpit is no more sacred than the
platform. If some young preachers we wot of
—and preachers who are not very young no
less I —would be a great deal more careful
in their utterance, the dignity of the pulpit
would not be so often lowered, and possibly
they might be more respected in it, and out
of it alike.— Standard.
Simple language in the pulpit, lan
guage that can be understood by any
bodyj is proper, and is generally the’ '
only ( language which really good
preachers use. But vulgar lan
guage and vulgar illustrations are un
becoming anywhere. We have heard
ministers in good repute so express
themselves as to shock the sense of
propriety, not to say the modesty, of a
whole congregation.
—We hold a higher view of prophecy than
that. But even on that view, and of course
much more on the one we hold, the prophet
ical teaching on the position we are consid
ering rings out loud and clear. It announces
no truth mote sharply and frequently, than
that God deals with a people for the private
character and conduct of their official repre
sentatives. He punishes a nation for the
immoralities of its rulers; he rewards it for
the uprightness and purity of the men whom
it exalts to office. Bible history and proph
ecy abound with this. Able but unprinci
pled men may appear for awhile, in their
administration of public affairs, to run a
country in a career of prosperity; but they
are all the while poisoning the national life
and gathering together the clouds of God’s
judicial visitation.— Presbyterian.
And that is j ust why we have declared
that we never will vote for any man
for office in our State of Georgia who
is a notoriously bad man, no matter to
which party he belongs, nor by whom
he may have been nominated. We
have nothing to do with politics, but
we will not cast our vote to put a man
in conspicuous position whose whole
influence tends to debauch the minds
of our people, and disgrace the tone of
public morals. If this be treason, the
world may make the most of it.
The National Baptist speaking in
proper terms of the Chisolm case in
Mississippi, says:
We repeat what we have before said. We
do not think that this is a case for the inter
ference of the General Government. The
evil must find its remedy within the State
of Mississippi, or the result will be pro
foundly disastrous to the State.
We agree with our brother in the
opinion that the evil must find its rem
edy within the State of Mississippi, and
that otherwise the result must be pro
foundly disastrous to the State.. The
best remedy that we know for all evils
is the earnest preaching of the pure
Gospel of Jesus Christ. The good
work is going on in Mississippi as well
as elsewhere; but much remains to be
done elsewhere as well as in Missis
sippi.
—There were eight accessions to the
Baptist church at Harpersville during
the late meeting.
—A Masonic hall and Baptist church
are in the course of erection at Brew
ton.
—James W. Dickinson, of Grove
Hill, has been ordained as minister by
the Baptist church.
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