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T he Christian Index.
Vol. 5 7—No 39 .
Table of Contents.
First Page—Alabama Department: Incon
siderate and Hasty Ordinations; Lay Pow
erin Baptist Churches; Church Disdpline;
Spirit of the Religious Press.
Second Page—Correspondence: Special and
Ordinary Meeting—C.; Sermon by Rev. I.
R. Branham, D.D., of Eatonton, Ga.; Mis
sion Board Receipts; Sunday-school Les
son for November 2; The Perfect Pattern.
Third Page—Valuable Information, etc.
Fourth Page—Editorials: Remembrance of
God; Unhappy; Information Wanted; Tes
timony of Outsiders; A Brother in Dis
tress; Georgia Baptist News.
Fifth Page—Georgia Association;Flint River
Association; Secular Editorials: News
Paragraphs; State Agricultural Depart
ment: Jasper Centennial; Mrs. T. C. Boy
kin; Literary Notes and Comments; Geor
gia News.
Sixth Page—Obituaries ; New Advertise
ments.
Seventh Page—The Farmers’ Index: Sep
tember (Sop Report; The Losses of tne
War;, Digging Potatoes.
Eighth Page—Letters from Florida; Mar
riages.
Alabama Department.
BY SAMUEL HENDERSON.
INCONSIDERATE AND HASTY
ORDINATIONS.
The facility with which ordination
is procured in our denomination, has
created and is creating no little con
cern among ourjmore thoughtful breth
ren. Our peculiar views of church
government—its democratic features—
offer a t very tempting field to those
whose aspirations are above their ca
pacities ; so that it has come to pass
that we have a very large number of
ordained ministers who have no em
ployment, either as pastors or as evange
lists. For, after all, our churches have
away of sitting in judgment upon the
work of our presbyteries, as to wheth
er they will recognize and appropriate
this work of the presbyteries in their
ordinations. This ought to inspire a
little more caution among our minis
ters and churches on the subject. For
if there be wrong in the matter, the
churches share it in common with the
ministry, as they always take the ini
tiative iti every ordination.
It is not every good, man who has it
in his heart to “build a house for the
Lord,” that has the capacity, or at least
that the Lord has chosen, for that
work. The Lord may take it kindly
of such a man, as he did of David,
when he desired to “build him a house.”
But he had chosen his son, Solomon,
for that service, and so told David. So
in the matter of preaching, a man may
deserve commendation for “desiring a
good work ;” but then, what if he can
not do that work? Is it kind, is it
just, to put him in a position that will
subject him to mortification?—that
will entail upon his whole after life a
sense of the most humiliating failure?
A little candor at the right time would
have saved many a good man from the
painful consciousness that he has
missed his calling—nay, would have
made him useful in other relations for
which he had fitting capacities.
We have heard a story of Andrew
Fuller to this effect, which, whether
true or not, we only say it ought to be
true, as it has the (ring of old English
candor and bluntness: A worthy
brother, well known to him, took it into
his head that he was called to preach,
and asked his advice. The old man
heard him patiently through his
whole story, and responded about this
“My brother, there are three sources
from which a call to preach proceeds
—the world, the devil, and Christ. As
to the world, I am sure it has not called
you, for nobody wants to hear you. As
to the devil, I am equally sure he has
not called you, for you are a good man,
and he has no use for such people.
And as to Christ, I am at a loss to
know what use you could be to him as
a preacher.” We need a little of the
old-fashioned candor now.
A man may “fill the office of a dea
con well,” and yet not possess the el
ements of a preacher. We once knew
a good deacon ordained to the minis
try, and the result was the church lost
a very good deacon and gained a very
poor preacher, one that no church was
willing to receive as a pastor, and
whose occasional preaching, so to call
it, was endured because he was a good
man, rather than enjoyed because of
his ability. “Lay hands suddenly on
no man,” is a caution we should careful
ly heed.
Nor is it every good preacher that
will make a good bishop or pastor, any
more than every good lawyer will
make a good judge. There are certain
administrative capacities essential to
the pastor’s office that every worthy
preacher does not possess; we mean
those capacities that can organize and
develop the working power of churches
as well as indoctrinate them. A min
ister may be skilled “in word and doc
trine;” he may excel in the fervor
and power of his pulpit ministrations,
and, like Apollos, be eloquent and
mighty in the Scriptures, and be a sig
nal failure as a pastor. There are
multitudes of little things on which
SOUTH-WESTERN BAPTIST.
. >. of Alabama.
your successful pastor keeps his eye,
and which are essential to his efficien
cy, that the mere evangelist would
never see. There are aptitudes in the
application of the divine law to recur
ring cases that a mere preacher never
has time to acquire. They are the
result of constant contact with his peo
ple, and a patient study of the living
oracles. A lawyer maj’ know the laws
of his land as well as he knows his al
phabet, and utterly fail in the applica
tion of its principles to particular cases.
A minister may know his Bible by
heart, and signally fail in that sagacity
that discerns the contact between its
principles and practical life. If the
reader will turn to I. Tim. 3 : 1-7, he
will find that portraiture of a “bishop”
which meets the demands of the case.
It is “ perfect and entire, wanting
nothing;” and will be binding till the
end of time.
Let us conclude by saying that any
church,worthy of that name, can, after
due trial, ascertain whether any can
didate for the ministry possess, these
qualifications : Ist. A depth of piety
which temptation Cannot swerve. 2d.
A passion for souls which is uniform
rather than spasmodic. 3d. A pro
found and intimate acquaintance with
the Word of God. 4th. A home rule
that indicates|a high sense of order; and
finally, that indescribable something
we call common sense— that uncommon
capacity, if the leader will indulge in
the paradox, that always says and does
the right thing at the_right time, at the
right place and to the right person.
Such ministers will always succeed,
whether educated in the technical
sense of the term,or uneducated. And
such ministers are now the great want
of our churches ministers whose
faith, and courage and spiritual knowl
edge are such that they are willing
to imperil every earthly interest at the
call of duty. Such ministers would
soon educate our churches up to a
proper standard of efficiency.
LAY POWER IN BAPTIST
CHURCHES.
Within the recollection of many of
our brethren, say the last twenty-five
or thirty years, the Jay element in our
churches has developed into a power
of no common magnitude. It is seen
especially in our general convocations,
whether associational or conventional.
Thirty years ago, no one ever dreamed
of placing a layman in the presiding
officer’s chair on these occasions. Now,
nothing is more common. Thirty
years ago, reports on the various sub
jects were mainly prepared by minis
ters. Now, they are at least fairly di
vided between laymen and ministers.
Thirty years ago, it was seldom we
could extract a speech from our judges,
lawyers, merchants, farmers, etc. Now
they have come to the front, and
are disputing the palm with our
preachers in their fervid eloquence.
We know of churches which possess an
array of effective piety and talent in
their private members equal to every
emergency, and who promptly fill any
lack of service the pastor may not be
able to perform. They read and ex
pound the Scriptures with a zeal, abil
ity and power alike creditable to them
selves and profitable to their brethren.
And why cannot this be done in every
church ? How it would enlarge its
power and usefulness! The cause of
Christ is entitled to the very best ser
vice there is in every member of his
spiritual body, and suitable methods
ought to be adopted to call out this
vast latent power. The New Testa
ment is replete with evidences that this
is the normal condition of Zion—a
condition in which every member is
swayed and impelled by one spirit.
Whenever those occasional periods of
revival in our churches, which compass
the whole working power of all the
membership, shall become habitual
rather than spasmodic, then, and only
then, will Zion be equipped for the
conquest of the ’world.
The Best Test of Christian Love.
—There arc those who seem to suppose
that soft words, kindly congratulations,
and smooth things, are the true evi
dences of Christian love. What a
mistake! Genuine love will risk some
thing in the way of candor and plain
dealing with its object. If a Christian
errs either from the path of duty, or in
the management of his worldly affairs,
an enemy would likely be silent, and
let him go on and reap the reward of
his folly. But true friendship would
seek to “restore such an one in the
spirit of meekness;” would risk a mo
mentary alienation to save a brother.
Blind love may prove our worst snare;
but love directed by wisdom will seek
the highest good of the party who
shares it. While receiving the reproof,
the admonition, and the caution, one
may fret and chafe ; but ere long he will
thank from his heart the one who had
the courage to tell him the truth, and
save him from bis folly.
Atlanta, Georgia, Thursday, October 16, 1879.
CHURCH DISCIPLINE.
While we have never joined in that
morbid, sentimental Jeremiad that
depreciates the present in contrast with
the past, at least in the general out
look of Christian morality, we should
nevertheless stultify ourselves if we
said we did not see and keenly feel
that church discipline has become de
plorably lax. Things are now silently
tolerated that twenty-five years ago
would have excluded multitudes of
members from our churches. Much of
this is doubtless due to the general de
moralization of our country within the
past few years. The tone of personal
piety has insensibly lowered, and even
the best Christians have felt incompe
tent to “cleanse the sanctuary.” A
consciousness of personal infirmities
deters some, while others recoil from
incurring the popular odium of an hon
est effort to abate these evils.
There is a class of offences, or per
haps we should say infirmities, that do
not come under the disciplinary juris
diction of the church. These lighter
offences which do not materially affect
the Christian character of the party,
are to be overcome by the milder means
of reproof, rebuke, counsel, admoni
tion, and the like, as well as by the
persistent efforts of the person himself.
A prudent church can readily make
this discrimination. But then it will
not do to apply this mild process of
reformation to all offences. There are
offences against great organic, vital
principles of the divine law, which, we
may say, strike at the very tap-root of
the Christian profession, and which,
permitted to go unnoticed, sink the
reputation of the church to that of the
world; nay, even lower. Our Lord
seems to imply as much in His saying:
“If the light in thee be darkness, how
great is that darkness.” Or to vary the
imagery from the same great Teacher,
like unsavory salt, “it is thenceforth
good for nothing, but to be trodden
under foot of men.”
It is the glory of a Baptist church
that it can exist only to do good. So
soon as it ceases to do this, it ceases
to be. The bonds of. Christian love
ar® the only ligaments! that bind its
membership together, and whbn these
arc severed, it simply goes into disin
tegration and loses its identity. The
very perpetuity, therefore, of our
churches depends upon the mainte
nance of their purity. We boast of a
converted membership. Converted
from what to what? From darkness
to light—from sin to righteousness—
from profanity to purity of speech—
from.drunkenness k/sobriety—from dis
honesty to honesty—and so on through
the whole duality of vices and their
opposing virtues. The Churches of
Christ are grand schools of discipline
—discipline in the higher and nobler
s<mse of that term—to develop and
mature those virtues that adorn the
character of God’s elect. We degrade
the word discipline, by confining it to
the bare infliction of penalties. The
moment a man unites with a church,
he places himself under that “forma
tive discipline,” that moral training,
which is to fit him for ever-enlarging
spheres of usefulness. And this pro
cess goes on during the whole period
of his earthly sojourn.
Now, for such a body of Christians
to wink at such vices as dishonesty,
profanity, drunkenness, and such like
things, right in the face of the divine
declaration, that “he that doeth such
things shall not inherit eternal life,”
involves a dereliction too manifest to
be thought of. With what propriety
can a minister appeal to the uncon
verted to become Christians, when the
church pews are filled with men not a
whit better than they are? If our
piety does not attract them, what will
they gain by enrolling their names
with ours?
We understand that Dr. Renfroe is
to be again connected with the Ala
bama Baptist as one of its editors.
This will boa source of high satisfac
tion to his numerous friends, and add
no little to the interest of that paper.
As a writer, he has away of putting
“hooks and eyes” to his thoughts that
make them stick.
Not all who virtually accept the principle
that the end justifies the means are willing
to confess it. Some who practice it might
even be shocked at it in its naked statement.
But that does not change the fact in the case.
One may be practicing deception uj>on him
self, his wishes clouding his intellect. When,
for instance, human suffering is to be alle
viated or church work is .to be promoted,
and professing Christians, instead of giving
what is needed for the purpose, even though
this require some self-denial, resort to dances
or theatricals to get the money for the pur
pose, their consciences no doubt would often
trouble them, if they were not guided by
the thought that it is a good object that is
had in view and therefore the proceedings
cannot be sinful. Be not deceived : the end
will never justify the means.— Lutheran
Standard.
The Religious Press.
The, National Baptist makes the fol
lowing important announcement:
It is not the purpose of this paper to re
peat idle rumors; nor to give currency to
anything injurious to anyone unless there
is good reason to believe it true, and not
even then unless the public good requires it.
What precious words these are!
Idle rumors without the shadow of
foundation in truth, injurious to the
good name of us on whom the tower of
Siloam has fallen, have been industri
ously circulated by certain journals,
many c< them professedly religious!
nothing of the kind will appear in the
National Baptist, thank God! Stories
injurious to millions of people are told;
of course there is always “good reason
to believe them to be true,” for they
are always told by some “gentleman
who is perfectly reliable and who was
an eye-witness of the facts but even
these, the National Baptist (the organ
of the American Baptist Publication
Society) will not publish “unless the
public good requires it.” Thank God
again! The public good is never pro
moted by inflaming one man against
another, nor by inflaming one section
against another. So the “outrage” bus
iness will never pollute the columns of
the National Baptist. There is no Bap
tist paper in the world (of course ex
cepting The Index) in which we take
so great an interest. It represents the
American Baptist Publication Society,
which is the most powerful engine on
the globe for the dissemination of Bap
tist principles. No other paper so rep
resents this Society, and this is why
we are delighted above measure to see
that the National Baptist is really Na
tional, and that it will take no part iu
the wicked work of trying to alienate
brethren of different sections by giving
currency to slanderous reports.
We are sorry to see, however, that
the National Baptist sustains the St.
Louis church in its present attitude
of defiance. The editor, it is true,
takes painjjto say that he represents
nobody bJahijuaelf; but the people do
not doseJfcnatc between the editor
, and the which y employs *him;
and the IBtei’ (gill in
quence. W'e should be glad to see this
important and valuable journal really
Baptist as well as really National.
The Examiner and Chronicle, speak
ing of the unhappy affair at St. Louis,
says:
We very much doubt whether if the Sec
ond church were smaller and poorer, and
had a less conspicuous record of its loyalty
throughout the war for the life of the nation,
there would have been half as much intensi
ty of feeling with respect to any recent mat
tors in its history.
There it is again! Politics, politics,
politics! Our New York brother
seems to see politics in everything.
Now no paper in the United
States, not even the Central Baptist,
has denounced the heresy of the so
called Second Baptist church of St.
Louis in stronger terms than The In
dex ; yet we knew nothing of the size
and wealth of the church until we had
pronounced our opinion as to its ac
tions ; and until we read the above ex
tract we did not know that the church
was at all “conspicuous for loyalty
throughout the war.” There were a
good many “rebels” in St. Louis, and
we did not know but that the church
was composed wholly of that class.
We never even heard of Dr. Boyd be
fore, and for aught that we know, he
may have been born and reared in
Mississippi, and may have been a son
in-law and private secretary of Jeff.
Davis.
But the Examiner and Chronicle
continues in a better stiain, and one
which we like. Hear him :
The Second church, and other chruches
sympathizing with it, will have need of su
preme wisdom to do just the right thing in
the right way in this emergency, and we
hope God will give it them.
The kind of wisdom that is needed
jis “that which is from above ;” and this
wisdom is “first pure”. Mark the
; word first; then mark the word pure;
] let both words be emphatic. Let the
! church set itself right by acknowledg
! ing its wrong. Follow the apostle
.James as he continues in verse 17 of
I chapter 2 : “Then peaceable.” Mark
the word then, and mark the word
| peaceable. Follow the apostle still:
' “Gentle and easy to be entreated.”
I Listen to our affectionate entreaties,
I brethren of the erring church ; confess
your error and restore peace! This is
the supreme wisdom. May God im
bue you with it!
The following article from The
Friend's Review, a paper published by
the Quakers in Philadelphia, reprodu
ces a part of one of our editorials ac
companied with some valuable re
marks of its own. Wo think our
readers will be pleased with it. Wo
have taken the liberty to put four or
five lines in italics. Here it is:
An earnest Methodist pastor, detailing to
the writer of this the difficulties and disap-
THE CHRISTIAN HERALD,
of Tennessee.
pointments which he had experienced in the I
endeavor to interest the young people in re- •
ligious concerns, said, that he had tried spe
cial prayer meetings and revivals and other
methods, but all. seemed to be of no avail.
The flock wanted more liberty. Then, as if
longing for the prevalence in the professing
Christian church, of a better apprehension
of Gospel truths, through which, casting
aside its present so great dependence on the
outward, it would be enabled to worship
God acceptably in spirit and in truth, he
continued—that he hoped the Quakers would
hold fast the spiritual principles with which
they had been always identified, and not, as
seemed to be the present tendency on the
part of many of them, barter a valuable
possession for an increased membership.
“ You may think you are growing and prosper
ing, but you will find this appearance delusive ;
for receiving those who have no real regard for
your principles, you will find that you cannot
administer the discipline." There are, there
fore, those, besides our own concerned mem
bers, who are impressed with the belief that
the Church militant, in its contest with the
libertinism, rationalism and formalism of
this age would suffer incalculable loss were
the simple Christian principles which
Friends profess, which have been so hardly
acquired, and which there is every reason
they should continue faithfully to maintain,
to be cast aside or carelessly held as being
“ill-suited to the times.”
Since the above was written I have seen an
article, copied from a Baptist paper, the
Record and Evangelist, in which the writer
affirms that “the most serious drawback to
the progress of the church at the present
time is, that there are thousands who have
‘joined the church’ instead of Christ. These
are 'wells without water, clouds without
rain.’ Having a name to live, they are dead,
and the weight of the body of death hangs
about the neck of the church to weigh it
down, to paralyze its efforts and to sicken it
with a deadly contagion.”
If this be the state of the case, what is the
remedy ? And how is Christ’s kingdom to
be best extended? Briefly, by individual
faithfulness. As well expressed in a late
paper, The Christian Index : “The best
place to begin to reform this world is right
in the centre of one’s own heart. . . It is the I
duty of every man to see that there is one |
truly good man in the world. This [at the i
least] is a part of the share which each man
»>s bountfa’’., contribute. Now, which man !
V"J»ht to select ns ft- man whom he
MffoontHbute to the stock of the World’s '
goodness's Supnose each man selects his
neighbor. The' result would be that not a
solitary good man would be found in the j
world. All the effort would be thrown !
away ; but if each man begins with himself,
and instead of trying to set the world right,
determines to set himself right, then each
might look for a fair degree of success, and a
blessed state of society would be the result.”
Which sound advice brings us back to that
terse and memorable remark of William
Penn concerning the faithful witnesses of
his day, that “they were changed men them
selves before they went about to change oth
ers. Their hearts were rent as well as their I
garments; and they knew the power and
work of God upon them.”
“Blessed is the man that heareth me,” is I
wisdom’s promise, "watching daily at my I
gate, waiting at the posts of my doors.”
Prov. viii:34. L.
—The High Church, Ritualistic, English |
Church Times is puzzled. The phenomenon
of the survival of the “Pilgrim’s Progress”
for over two hundred years is one that it can
not comprehend. The Non conformist’s
mind would answer the question at once by
saying that it is because the book is such a
good one; but that theory would not agree
with the High Church mind, because the ,
book was not written by a bishop, nor
by one who cared for a Bishop. The I
Times can find no solution except in the ap
palling dreariness of juvenile literature be
fore the days of Walter Scott. But that is]
twice defective; the Pilgrim’s Progress” is I
not ajuvenile book; and the solution does ]
not account for its increasing popularity j
since the days of Walter Scott. Really from I
the Times’ point of view the problem ap
pears insoluble; and it may bethat the Non
conformist’s answer will stand awhile longer. •
—lhe Methodist
—Napoleon Boswell was a Confederate
soldier in some Mississippi command. He
was either sick or wounded, and his wife ]
leaving her infant daughter among strangers, ’
went in search of him, to minister to his
suffering. She was also stricken down, and
both husband and wife died, and the little ]
orphan found its way to Tennessee. She ]
has sought in vain, to learn anything res- ]
speeding her father. She does not know
from what county he went, to what com- ,
mand he belonged, or when he died. Some ]
comrade of Napoleon Boswell will confer a
great favor upon his daughter by conferring 1
with Mrs. Ora Anna Thomp<on, Trenton, ]
Tenn.
Exchange papers, by producing the above
paragraph, might aid in bringing informa
tion to an anxious daughter.
—Your new pastor, if you have one, de
serves your oonfidunce and needs your sym
pathy. Make haste to assure him ofa hearty
welcome and faithful co-operation. Do not
“wait to see what kind of a man he is;” he
is an approved minister of the New Testa
ment, or he would not be your pastor. The
kind of man you "see" in him will depend
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somewhat upon your sincere desire to see
him at his best; and sb seeing him is the
best way to get his best.
Yes! If you watch your paster close
ly, (whether he be a new or an old one)
to see what his imperfections are, and
how many there are of them, you will
find enough of them to make his min
istry unprofitable to you for the rest of
your life. On the other hand, if you
lose sight of the man, and give your
attention to his message (not to its
phraseology, or rhetoric, or to its style
of delivery, but to its essence) you will
be likely to derive enjoyment and ben
fit from it. There is much in tbp hear
er. Take heed how you hear.
A good many 7 papers seem to take «•
delight in representing the State of
Mississippi as a sort of modern Sodom,
where righteousnesss is unknown, and
where iniquity is rampant. The fol
lowing letter, from Rev. R. G. Porter, to
The Methodist (N. Y.) explains itself
and shows, we think, that there must
be some mistake, somewhere, as to the
low state of Mississippi morals. We
may add that the habit of misrepresen
tation and slander which some indulge
in, week after week and year after year,
argues as low a state of morals as can
be found anywhere. But here is the
letter:
A Southern Village.—The village (Ve
rona, Miss.) where I live, has only’ six hun
dred and forty inhabitants—big, little, old,
young, black and white. One-third of these
are colored people. The M. E. Church,
South, (white) has one hundred and
fifty-one member; the Baptist church
(white) over one hundred members; there
are twenty or thirty Presbyterians in the
town, but no organization. Most of the
freedmen belong to some church; they have
a pretty good house of worship and keep
up Sunday-schools, prayer-meetings, and
have preaching regularly. The white peo
! pie have two good Sunday-schools, and over
I 250 scholars. Each church has a good or
j gan, nice pulpits, good seats, beautiful chan-
I deliers and carpeted aisles. We have school
I buildings and grounds that cost ten thousand
| dollars, good teachers, ten months’ sessions,
and an average attendance of 175 pupils,
local patronage, fine dry goods and family
I grocery stores, two drugstores ; no gfoggery,
mo saloon, no billiald tables, no ,
i looms, one •hotel, Lme iivwy staffie, one
bank. Have lived kere ten months, have
j seen but one-man dr link, no fight, and not a
| iuss in the place in that time. Have had
] but one serious case of sickness in the town,
and only one death, and that a child killed
by the train. Not a married woman in tne
town who is not a professor of religion, and
| but five married men who do not belong to
I some church. These are all moral, sober,
| responsible, good men. Thirty grown men
j in the town pray in public, or will lead a
j prayer-meeting at any time. These are
j facts. I know personally, and by name,
! every white man, woman and child in the
| place.
j Verona, Miss., Sept. 23,1879.
j —There is a broad line between the king
j dom of Christ and the world. Very loose
notions prevail in regard to this distinction.
What in general is the difference between a
respectable worldling and rather below aver
l age church member?— Christian Advocate.
Well, the difference is so small that
we are unable to see it. How many
professed disciples are known as such
of all men? Many a one would
never be suspected of sustaining any
very close relationship to the Church of
Christ, if he were not seen sometimes
jat the communion table. If the relig-
I ion of Jesus does not show itself in
' one’s daily life, does it exist in his heart?
—The end of Bonapartism in France
| appears to be acknowledged. The cel
ebration of the Napoleonic Fete of the
j fifteenth of August was omitted in
] Paris for the first time in thirty years.
| There is not a survivor in the family
' bearing the name who has brains or
influence enough to excite the least
enthusiasm, and an imperial party
without a head is a dead body. Mr. J.
Ewing Ritchie, in an article in an Eng
] lish magazine on the rise and fall o£
the Bonaparte dynasty, make the fol
] lowing emphatic statement in regard to
| its inglorious end : “No one believes
now in its resurrection; it has been,
I stamped on by Zulu Kaffirs.”
Still we believe that a monarchical
] form of government is better suited to
the temper and tastes of the French
people than a Republican form. There
'is a superstitious reverence for the
j name of Napoleon in the hearts of the
] French masses,and should a bold, full
brained man, bearing the name, arise
I during the next generation, wo believe
] he could swing himself to the throne
of France without rnudh trouble.
“Don’t know half the value.”
“They eared me of ague, biliousness and
kidney complaint, as recommended. I hud
a half bottle left which I used for my two lit
tle girls, who the doctors and neighbors said
could not be cured. I would have lost both
of them one night if I had not given them
Hop Bitters. They did them so much good
I continued their use until they were cured.
That is why I say you do not know half the
value of Hop Bitters,and do not recommend
them high enough.”'—B., Rochester, N, T ,
See other column.