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The Christian Index.
Vol. 57- -No 48.
Table of Contents.
First Page.—Alabama Department: Change
of Post office; “The Lost Sense” ; The
Lukewarm; Speaking Evil of Dignities ;
The Religious Press.
Second Page —Correspondence : The Koran
and Mahommedanism—B. W. Whilden ;
Mercer University Notes ; Interesting Ex
tracts; The Sunday-School—December 28,
1879—Quarterly Review.
Third Page.—Childrens' Corner: A Mother’s
Heart—poetry ; When was my sin washed
away? Help Him.
Fourth Page.—Editorials: Peace with God;
Startling and Suggestive; Line upon Line;
Merger University ; Rev. Hugh E. Cassidy ;
Rejiort to Georgia Baptist Association ;
Georgia Baptist News.
Fifth Page—Georgia Baptist hews; Secu
lar Editorials; News Paragraphs; Cancer
and Stammering Certainly Cured; Notes
on New Books; The Hero’s Bequest—poe
try by Charles IV. Hubner; Letter from
Rev. P. H. Mell, D. D.
Sixth Page—The Household: A Feather
—poetry ; Our Children ; The Balcony
etc.
Seventh Page.—Agricultural, etc.: Is Alum
Poisonous, etc.
Eighth Page.—Florida Department: Asso
ciational, and Other Matters; Queries and
Letter ; Brief Notes; Florida News. Mar
riage Notices ; Special Notices, etc.
Alabama Department.
BY HAMUEL HENDERSON.
CHANGE OF POST-OFFICE.
From and after the Ist day of De
cember, 1879, my correspondents will
please address me at Fayetteville,
Talladega County, Alabama. Be
sure to insert the name of the coun
ty, to prevent confusion, as there are
other post-offices in Alabama quite
similar in name. The Baptist Courier,
.Religious Herald, Alabama Baptist, the
Memphis Baptist, Western Recorder,
Texas Baptist, and Examiner and
Chronicle, will all take due notice of
this, and accommodate me accordingly.
Sam’l Henderson.
Alpine, Nov. 21, 1879. •
••THE LOST SENSE."
Some twenty years ago. we read an
article or two from one of the English
Quarterlies, written with great ability,
on "the lost sense.” The speculations
of the writer were quite interesting and
suggestive. The theory he expounded
was substantially this, as nearly as we
can state it at this distance of time :
That the three-fold nature of man, as
originally created, had each faculties
and powers corresponding with its na
ture—that as the body was endowed
with its “five senses” to verify natural
objects and things—as the mind had
its powers to ascertain and appropriate
intellectual truth—so the soul, in its
primeval purity, must have had some
faculty, some capacity, to verify spirit
ual existence with the same accuracy
as any one of the five sensescan verify
its appropriate objects, or as the mind
can realize any of its conceptions.
Henco» it was alleged, that before the
fall, beings from the spirit land were
just as familiarly known as any objects
in paradise, and created no more sen
sation than the birds and beasts of the
garden. This faculty, this sense, this
power to verify spiritual existences,
was lost by the fall, or, at least, sin
has so deadened it, that it has ceased
its functions. At long intervals, and
to a few persons, it has been tempora
rily restored: As, for instance, to
Abraham and Lot on the memorable
occasion of an angelic visit to Moses
in the wilderness, to Manoah, to the
servant of the prophet at Dothan, to the
shepherds announcing the birth of
Christ, to some of the disciples, and to
Mary at bis recurrection, to Jotyi on
the isle of Patmos, etc.
Now, this speculation is more curi
ous than profitable; but it may serve
to suggest some things that are both
true and profitable. It is not at all
wonderful that man, even in his fallen
and wretched condition, still preserves
some of the evidences of his high ori
gin. He is still noble, even in his
ruins. It is not strange that poets
have celebrated his nobility, and ac
corded to him powers, conceptions, ex
cellencies, which are never developed
in this world:
••Thoughts undefined, feelings without a
name 1
And some, not here called forth, may slum
ber on,
Till thia vain pageant ol a world is gone;
Lying 100 deep for things that perish here,
Walting lor life—but In a nobler sphere 1”
—Rogers’ Human Lije.
Thus much has been revealed in
God’s Word, and it appeals to our
deepest consciousness —that sin has
deadened the nerve that united us to
God, and by consequence to all pure,
holy intelligences in the universe—that
it cut off all pleasant and happy com
munication between heaven and earth ;
that all supernatural appearances,
whether fancied or real, are interpreted
as portending evil. “We shall surely
SOUTH-WESTERN BAPTIST.
of Alabama.
die,” said Manoah to his wife, “because
we hare seen God.”
A consciousness of guilt—a realizing
sense that nothing but evil can come
! from that source—invests all such
relations with terror. To re-establish
this spiritual connection—to “restore
the ruins of the first Adam”—was the
grand purpose of God in the gift of
Jesus Christ. All that He did and
suffered constitutes a fund of merit on
which the believer is permitted to draw
ad libitum. Faith in Christ is to the
Christian all that the “lost sense” is
supposed to have been to man ere he
fell, and even more. It is the “lost
sense” restored, as it restores commit
-1 mention between God and man, be
tween heaven and earth. We need no
; other “Angel of the covenant” to
assure us that God is propitious. We
, need no other agency than faith sup
plies to bring us under “the powers of
the world to come.” All that sight,
and hearing, and tasting, and smelling,
and feeling, can do for the body, faith
does for the soul. The accuracy of its
revelations is unquestionable, the
range of its exercise is absolutely
limitless, and its power with God and
man is measured only by that Being
on whom it terminates.* For let us
observe in passing, that the power of
faith depends, not on the party that
exercises it, but on the object on which
it rests. Hence, Christians are ex
horted to “be strong in the Lord and
in the power of his might.” The
. weakest saint (if there be any weak
' est) that ever offered a prayer on
earth, could make the very prince of
darkness fail, and bring to his reliefall
! the resources of godhead ; for
“Satan trembles when he sees
The weakest saint upon his knees.”
Satan knows that the prayer of faith
I lays hold of Almightiness, and sad
experience has assured him what that
Almightiness is. He knows something
of that power that hurled him and his
■ angels from heaven—that built the
' “adamantine walls” of perdition—and
I that stored away those treasures of
wrath and indignation which are to be
the portion of fallen spirits and im
penitent men for ever and ever. And
it is not strange when that power
is invoked by the prayer of faith, even
; by one who is “less than the least of
. all saints,” that he should tremble anti
Hy from the field of contest, under the
consciousness that madness itself dare
not measure arms with Omnipotence.
We may well afford, therefore, to
abandon the field of speculation, since
' we have “a more sure word of proph-
■ ecy; whereunto we do well that we
■ take heed, as unto a light that shineth
in a dark place, until the day dawn,
and the day star arise in our hearts.”
Whatever faith cannot do, we may be
: well assured that no “lost sense” could
i supply. Its achievements as recorded
in the word of God, and as verified in
the experiences of all saints, infinitely
surpass the achievements of all the
other powers of man, soul, body and
spirit. It has called back the spirit
from the other world to its clay tene
ment—it has summoned angels from
j the eternal throne to release the im
prisoned and suffering disciples—
I quenched the violence of flames—
' waxed valiant in fight, putting to
i flight the armies of the aliens. The
I possibilities of faith are as immeasur
l able as is the “all power in heaven
and earth” which has been committed
to Jesus Christ. The human mind
can think of nothing that can
I be done that has not been done.
THE LUKEWARM.
The least to be envied of all men arc
| those who are always debating and
never deciding. Decision of character
1 is the most essential element of success
in everything—the lack of it tells the
story of disaster in four cases out of
five. “Poor fellow, he had no mind of
his own!” is the standing lamentation,
the mourning ritual, said over most of
human failures. If the whole tribe of
“double-minded men” could be collect
ed, at their death, and buried in one
I grave, one epitaph would tell the story
of every life: “A succession of experi
‘ ments and failures'.” A. positive character
j no matter on which side of a question
j it is found, always inspires respect—a
negative character never awakens any
emotion—it disarms anger of its sting,
I and degrades love of its dignity.
Whether as contending with foes, or
co-operating with friends, such a man
is generally a blank.
This is substantially the character
I indicated by the “lukewarm—neither
cold nor hot,” a character no less con
' temptible among men than offensive
to Christ. He stands just on the di
. viding line between Christianity and
the world, where the worst ol both
meet, and mingle the most bitter cup
ever commended to mortal lips. On
the outskirts of Christianity, he is in
cessantly tormented with doubts and
j fears, as to whether he has ever known
I the power of Godliness, and well he
1 may be—on the outskirts of the world,
1 with a conscience aroused just suf-
Atlanta, Georgia, Thursday, December 11, 1879.
ficiently to inspire dread, and yet, with
a constant thirst for its riches, pleas
ures, and honors—what can his life
be but a strange admixture of contra
dictions? If he were a prominent sin
ner, then the very thunders of Sinai
could be concentrated upon him with
some hope of arousing his sensibility—
if he were a decided believer, then the
consolations of the Gospel would cheer
and comfort his heart. But as it is, if,
under the lashing of conscience henic
casionally comes to the sanctuary to
worship God, he goes away “unsatis
fied, unblest.” If he turns to the
world to pursue its phantoms, he re
coils from it, feeling in the deepest
depths of his soul
“an aching void,
Tne world can never fill.”
Os all characters, this is the most of
fensive to Christ. "I would thou wort
cold or hot. So then,because thou art
lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I
will spew thee out of my mouth.”
Lukewarm water is always used to
produce nausea. “Ephraim is a cake
unturned,” t. e., half baked, the most
offensive to the appetite. “0, Israel,
what shall I do unto thee! 0, Ephraim,
what shall Ido unto thee! For your
goodness is as the morning cloud, and
as the early dew, it passeth away!”
Such is the matchless tenderness and
forbearance of our heavenly Father,
that although He knows full well
the hollowness of all mere pretences
—aj though
“The painted hypocrite Is known
Through the disguise he wears,”
yet we reiterate such is the estimate
in which He holds real piety, that He
pauses over its mere show, as if He
would give us the benefit of a doubt,
and expostulates with us, with all the
tenderness of a father over his way
ward children! as if the very fact that
we were simulating something that we
are not, indicated, even in us,a convic
tion of the value of that which we as
sume to be! Yea, He would give us
the credit of this assumption, provided
our future conduct shall vindicate the
reality. Hard must be the heart that
is proof against all these expostulations
and warnings of the divine compas
sion !
Reader, are you “lukewarm?” Are
you standing on the dividing line be
tween Christianity and the world? B»
entreated to move one way or the oth
er. Take a manly stand for or against
our Lord. “Why halt ye between two
opinions? If the Lord be God, serve
Him; but if Baal, then serve him.”
Be decided one way or the other,if you
would rescue your life from the scorn
and contempt of all right-minded men.
God Himself prefers open enmity to
bald hypocrisy.
SPEAKING EVIL OF DIGNITIES.
If there is one sin which above all
other sins distinguishes the citizens of
these United States, it is the stereo
typed habit of “speaking evil of digni
ties,” traducing their rulersand public
men. It seems to be a habit indigen
ous to republican institutions. Some
twenty-five years ago, or more, during
a heated contest for the presidency
between the then political parties, an
Englishman was making the tour of
this country, and, forming his estimates
from what the papers of each party
said of the opposing candidates, he
wrote home that he supposed, from
the information derived from those
papers, that two of the most consum
mate scoundrels of our country were
candidates for the presidency of the
United States! If one did not know
that three-fourths, we had almost
written nine-tenths, of the twaddle in
dulged in by the average politicians,
whether through the press or from the
hustings, was mere gammon, coined out
of whole cloth for a special campaign,
with which to dose the credulous mul
titudes, he would conclude that Sodom
was not more corrupt on the day the
avenging fires from heaven left it in
ruins.
Now, this is all wrong. The Bible
means something by the solemn in
terdict, “Thou shalt not speak evil of
the ruler of thy people,” Patriotism
and common sense would teach the
same lesson. This wholesale slander
of our public men tends to weaken the
constituted authorities of our govern
ment —to sap the foundations of our
republican institutions—to destroy
all confidence between man and man
—and to pave the way for the utter
disruption of our whole political fabric.
The last days of the Roman Republic
were characterized by the like demor
alization of public sentiment. Even
grand and venerable senators polluted
their lips with the foulest billingsgate.
All proper weapons of defense were
thrown aside for the more effective
weapon of the tongue, which, “set on
fire of hell,” as James says, did more
fatal execution than the sword or the
dagger. All this indicated that the
very foundations of the old Republic
were rotten, and ready to give way
whenever "the man on horseback”
appeared in the person of Julius
Ceasar.
It is the saddest thing on which a
thoughtful mind can dwell, that there
is not to-day a single statesman in the
Ur ; States who can speak to the
wl to,qpuntry with any hope of being
bfard—n ( Kt onfe whose name is a con
tinual sp/il-word that will inspire the
re >t»ect »i).i confidence of all sections
»v.*l : ,I1 parties. Much of this is due,
« ■ btA'hyc, to this morbid state of
P''J?fic sentiment that gathers around
t*|xstfa;bage of our so-called politicians
to" "lap the blood of reputation.”
Is it among the possibilities that our
political parties can accord to each
other that, in the main, they are each
honest in flieir convictions? That
whole States and sections may, after
all, be animated by a modicum of pa
triotism?
The Religious Press.
it is about time that a stop should be put
to the gathering of boys and young men
around the doors of churches previous to
and after the services, starii g at girls and
young ladies, making offensive and often
vutgir remarks, and smokii g cigars. This
is not confined to village churches, but is
also found at city and country churches. The
suthoritiis of churches thus annoyed ought
to take effective measures to rid themselv s
of such ignorant and ill-m mnered pests,
though they may wear good clothes and
boast, of their connection with the "first
families.” It is bad enough to have a
spruce young man puff a volume of cigar
smoke into one’s face as he rushes alongthe
street; but it is far worse to have an entire
congregation made uncomfortable with the
odor of tobacco smoke by those outside of
the doors, during the entire services. Those
who are so indecent as to indulge in this
kind of annoyance to congregations should
be compelled to leave the grounds.
So says The Presbyterian Banner,
and so say we. In one of the Baptist
churches in Atlanta a placard is
posted up in a conspicuous place in
the vestibule, requesting “gentlemen”
Bot to smoke in that place! A similar
placard is needed on the outside, re
questing “gentlemen” not to smoke on
the pavement in front of the door, not
to block up the side-walk, nor to
g.ze rudely at women, either there or
ai >y where else, nor to indulge in con
v, ■nation and laughter afiywhere in
tTy immediate vicinity of the house of
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The Methodist has the following sentences:
“We donbt the usefulness of a habit of clip
ping, sorting and labelling every good thing,
and resorting to this mental ragbag when
one is making a sermon. Ao entertaining
discourse can be made in that way; but the
habit o f manufacturing sermons out of
shreds and patches may prevent growth into
a strong and self-reliant preacher."
These patch-work sermons are per
haps intended to produce the impres
sion that he who delivers them is a
great reader, and is so thoroughly
familiar with our literature that he
cannot speak without quoting a dozen
authors. The effect is just the opposite
of this, for a really literary man never
does anything of the kind.
' The man who does nothing toward the
support of a Church-enterprise should be
sparing of his criticisms when difficulties
arise. Only workers should be tolerated as
critics.— Christian Advocate.
Yes, brother Advocate you are
right as you usually are ; but our obser
vation is that those who criticise the
most do the least; and it is our opinion
that the man who always claims to
approve of the end, but who always
disapproves of the means, is cousin
germane to a hypocrite.
Here are three things that go well
together. Many an humble disciple,
unlearned, perhaps, and in obscure
position, wishes that be could do some
thing for the feels that he
can do nothing. The first article
shows that he can do exactly what our
Lord spent much of His time in doing;
the second shows that although he is
small, he may be great; and the third
will be like a refreshing dew to his
spirit. Here they are :
No. 1. In our Lord’s own life, it is mani
fest that he did, day by day, a multitude of
things for the mere sake of soothing trouble,
of smoothing asperities, of producing amia
ble feelings. While He instructed men,
while He inspired them,with noble heroisms
and ambitions, His life was also filled up
with a thousand email shades of goodness,
whose very nature it was to make men con
tented and happy, and Hie example is quot
ed for our imitation. “For even Christ
pleased not himseli."— Christian Advocate.
No. 2. “AH cannot become scholars; but
all may be wise unto salvation. All cannot
acquire wealth; but all may gain the un
searchable riches of Christ. All cannot
walk upon the high places of the earth: but
all may be great in the sight of the Lord."—
Anonymous.
No. 3. Quiet Lives.— Christ’s lowly
workers unconsciously bless the world. They
come out every morning from the presence
of God and go to their business or their
household work. And all day long, as they
toil they drop gentle words from their lips,
•nd scatter little seeds of kindness about
them; and to morrow, flowers from (he gar
den ol God spring up in the dusty streets of
earth, and along the hard pathsof toil on
which their feet tread. More than oace, in
the Scriptures, the lives of God’s people in
this world are compared, in their influence,
THE CHRISTIAN HERALD,
of Tennessee.
to the dew. There may be other points of
analogy,but special! , noteworthy is the quiet
manner in which the dew performs its min
istry. It falls silently and imperceptibly.
It makes no noise. No one hears its drop
ping. It chooses the darkness of the night,
when men are sleeping, and when no man
can witness its beautiful work. It covers the
leaves with clusters of pearls. It steals into
the bosom of the flowers, and leaves a new
cupful of sweetness there. It pours itself
down among the roots of the grasses and
tender herbs and plants. And in the morn
ing there’is a fresh beauty everywhere. The
fields look greener, the gardens are more
fragrant, a'l life glows and sparkles with a
new splendor. And is there no lesson here
as to ihe manner in which we should seek
to do good in this world? Should we not
strive to have our influence felt rather than
to be seen or heard? Should we not scatter
bles-ings so silently and secretly that no one
shall know what hand dropped them? The
whole spirit of the Gispel teaches this.
“When thou doest alms, let not thy left
hand know what thy right hand doeth, that
thine alms may be in secret.” We are not
to seek praise of men. We are not to do
good deeds to receive rewards from men.
We are not to sound trumpets or announce
our good deeds from the housetop.—Anon
y-nous.
“Just now, the subject of taking children
to church regularly on the Lord’s day is re
ceiving special consideration. We have an
article on thia subject on another page. In
his recent lecture at Association Hall, in this
city, Rev. John H. Vincen', whose life has
been largely devoted to Sunday school work
(of late in connection with the Chautauqua
Lake Assembly), said emphatically, that :f
children could not attend the Sunday school
and the church services, the firmer, and
not the latter, should be omitted. He said
the services of the sanctuary, even when a
child could not comprehend all that the
preacher said, would have a more important
and permanent influence on his character
than the teachings of the Sunday school.
—N. Y. Observer.
The Sunday-school is good; but it
must never be made a substitute for the
Lord’s house. Parental example and in
struction,social influence,Sunday school
teaching, and the influence of good
books and papers, are all excellent in
their way, but after all, the great in
strumentality for the salvation of this
world is the public preaching of the
Gospel.
Speaking of the death of the
Apostles, the New Orleans Christian
I Advocate says:
“How each met the final hour, we can
only conjecture from their written words, in
reference to its approach. The inspired
might have told us something, but it
does not. There is nothing in tradition
that throws a gleam upon the block of Paul
or the cross of Peter. What words they
spoke, what testimony they gave, what
hymns they sung, what prayers they uttered,
are not of record. Their faces may have
shone upon their executioners,and the peace
j of God may have burst forth into a joy tin-*
qieakab'e and full of glory. Ttieir words,
. in view of death,seem to anticipate and assure
as much. No eirthl” witness in sympathy
with their heroic faith may have been there.
But, when the tabernacles were put off, we
may be sure there was a glad release, and the
Master and the angels were present to wel
come them to the heavenly home.
How did such a one die? is a ques
tion often asked; it is much more im
portant to inquire how he lived.
“Many a Christian trusts Christ to carry
him through the valley of the shadow of
death, who does not rely upon Him to take
. him through the dread to-morrow. If you
are Christ’s you have no light to worry. He
is a safe pilot. You can trust him in the
shallow, quiet river, as well as in the sea be
yond.”—Alliance.
If Christ is.to be ours in death and in
j eternity, He is ours now; and if we are
in Him and He is in us now, we need
not be troubled about anything. “Let
not your heart be troubled,” are the
‘ words or our Lord, and we suppose we
may add to them the words “either now
. or at any other time.”
“The highest form of loyalty to any de
nomination is to exhibit its utmost spiritual
possibilities.”— Zion's Herald.
So we think; but there arc some
who seem to think that the highest
form of loyalty to our denomination, is
to hold, in check, its spiritual possibili
ties and urge, with all their might, its
distinguishing peculiarities. Well, if
men will give tithes of nothing else,
perhaps it is well for them to tithe the
mint, anise, and cummin ; but there
is a more excellent way.
So here is some comfort:
The bishop at Manchester, Dr. Frazer, is
one of the best esteemed prelates of the
Church of England, yet there are those who
do not like him; a fact which a member of
Parlinment recently used in a public meet
ing to point a neat compliment. The reason,
he said, why the bishop had so many ene
mies was that he was too learned for the
dunces of the Church, too active for the
, laggards of the Church, too self-denying for
] the self-indulgent of the Church, and too
good an example everywhere for the many
bad examples around him.
And we remember, too, that our
Lord once said, "Woe unto you when
all men shall speak well of you! for
so did their fathers to the false proph
ets.” Luke 6 : 26. We sup|«>se there
has never been a time when there were
not false prophets; and never a time
when there were not true prophets;
and never a time when the true
prophets were not traduced and de
i nouncod and never a time when some
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of the false prophets were . not
held in high esteem by many.
So we must be on our guard
against the false; try to do our
duty towards the true, and if we
happen to belong to the traduced class,
let us bear our injuries meekly, revile
not again and evil with
good.
Let no good citizen of the Southern Slates
relax in his eff >rts to abate the evils in our
midst because of the fierce sectional war
again directed against them from bitter
partisans and politico-religionists. Let us
go on rebuilding the walls of our Jerusalem
despite the Sanballats and Tobiahs No
amount of folly and malice on the part of
opposers can absolve us from our obligations
to maintain all that is good, and, as far as
we can, put down all that is wrong in our
midst. Do not forget this.— Christian. Ad
vocate.
Let the churches enforce their dis
cipline, let the courts enforce the code,
and a wonderful change for the better
would soon take place. Pastors and
church-members are responsible for
the former; judges and jurors for the
latter.
Who is to pay Archbishop Purcell’s debts,
is a question still unsettled. The appeal
sent out to the Roman Catholic churches for
aid has produced about $75,000, a sum in
sufficient to pay even the interest due to the
depositors in the Cincinnati arch-episcopal
bank. Many of the crtdiiors have been
utterly ruined, and large numbers are in
actual need of food and clothing, for a large
proportion of the sufferers by the failure of
the bank were among the working classes,
and those who had saved their deposits with
difficulty out of their scanty earnings.
Rev. Mr. Cave-Brown Cave, a clergyman
of the Church of England in Crowborough,
carried his ritualistic nonsense to such a
degree of extravagance and persistence that
he drove many of his parish into dissenting
worship. A good Primitive Methodist
ehapei was erected, and a lady of his church
is building a place of worship for a Free
English church. He denounced her as a
schismatic, and gome replies in the papers
have made cur.ous and amusing develop-*
ments. At the cottage of a poor woman
who had refused to have him christen her
child, finding her ill up-stairs he com
pelled the giil having the child in charge
to get some water, saying the child must be
christened at once. Then, as he had no
surplice, and could not act without one, he
called for a towel and put it over his shoul
ders, and then fearing the holy water he
had consecrated would be put to a profane
use after the christening, he drank it up.
He told a mother her two unchristened
infants were “little demons.” Visiting the
sick he sends all others out of the room,
and then makes himself their confessor, ttsks
s range and disquieting questions, nearly,
driving them out of their wits, and as the
keeper of their souls insists on administering
the sacrament. Many object, and then he
threatens and says if they do not receive it
from him they will infallibly “go to hell,"
etc. A physician had to forbid his visiting
his patients on account of the bad effect he
produced upon them. Conversing with a
woman who was in trouble about her salva
tion, and who said, “I have been christened,"
he replied. “Then you need not be in the
slightest trouble, you may rely upon going
to heaven; such as myself are the accredited
persons in charge of your souls, and have
power to perform this efficacious act, and to
give or withhold the comforts of the
Church.”— Christian Secretary.
The women of Massachusetts seem after
all to have but small desire to cast the ballot.
In that State women have now the privilege
of voting for school officers. In 1876 fifty
thousand votes were cast in Boston by men,
and there is every reason to believe that the
women in that city entitled to vote forschool
officers number at least as many. But when
the registry closed on Tuesday evening of
last week it appeared that only a few over
one thousand women desired to vote. It is
plain that the main obstacle in the way of
female suffrage is not “the horrid men,” but
the indisposition of women to go into poli
tics.— Presbyterian Banner.
A law lias been promulgated in Russia, a
supplement to the existing code, giving per
mission to Baptists to profess their religion
unhindered, and to celebrate the worship of
God in the bouses which, with the approba
tion of the Governor, have been set apart
lor that puqiose.
Rev. C. IL Spurgeon has been obliged,
for the sake of his health, to leave for a time
his work in London. He has gone to Men
tone again, in the south of France, for .1 win
ter vacation of eight weeks.
Did anv one ever hear of a peison, who,
because there is counterfeit money in circu
lation, would have nothing to do with
money? Why, then, reject Christianity
because there are liogus Christians in circu
lation? It is very strange that so trivial
and unreasonable an excuse should be so
often offered.— lnterior.
Be not weary in doing what God bids, or
in waiting for what God has promised. Your
work may be difficult, but persevere in
it. The day may seem long, but it will
come to an end. Look to the Savior; rest
on the promise; keep on with the work, and
in due season you willgo to your rest, if you
faint not.
Cause and Effect.
The main cause of nervousness is indiges
tion, and that is caused by weakness of the
stomach. No one can have sound nerves
and good health without using Hop Bitters
to strenghten the stomach, purify the blocd,
and keep the liver and kidneys active, to
carry off all the poisonous and waste matter
of the system. See other column,
Don’tforget to try Herrings Salve,tor piles,
tetter, itch, neuralgia, sores and ulcers, aches
and pains, it will cure every time.