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HHS VRY H. T UCKER, Kdttor
THE HYDROSTATIC PRESS.
This instrument or machine, or what
ever it may be called, has been known
to scientists and some others for many
years ; but although it is nothing new,
yei to many of our readers a little ex
planation of it will be necessary, in
order that they may clearly understand
what we have to say about it: It con
sists of two tubes —one large and one
small —placed perpendicularly, and
connected by a third tube, which is hori
zontal, and in each of the upright tubes
there is fitted a smoothly-moving water
tight piston. All the tubes are made
of iron, and are enormously strong.
The piston is taken from one of the
tubes, and water is poured in, until
both the upright tubes are nearly full;
the piston is then replaced, and the
machine is ready for work. When the
piston in one of these tubes is pressed
down, the water forces the other piston
up. If the tubes were of equal size, a
pressure of one pound on one tube
would exactly balance a pressure of
one pound on the other; but if one
tube has an area ten times as large as
the other, then a pressure of one pound
on the small piston will balance ten
pounds on the other; and this ratio
never varies. For example, suppose
that one tube has an area of one square
inch, and the other an area of one
square foot, which is 144 square inches;
then a pressure of one pound on the
small tube will raise a weight of 144
pounds <>n the other. Or suppose the
large tube to have an area of three feet
square, which is equal to nine square
feet or 1.296 square inches, then a
pressure of one pound on the small
piston will raise a weight of 1296
pounds on the large one; and a pres
sure of 1000 pounds on the small one
would raise the enormous weight of
one million two hundred and ninety
six thousand pounds on the other.
This almost omnipotent machine is
used for various purposes in the mech
anical arts, where immense power is
needed. Our readers have all heard of
the cotton compress, by means of which
a bale of cotton is reduced in a mom
ent, to one fourth its size. This is
done, we are told, by the use of the
hydrostatic press combined with steam ;
and from what has been said it will be
seen that there is practically no limit
to the power which may thus be ob
tained. The only real limit is in the
strength of the tubes and in their im
penetrability by water. If the material
were strong enough, and also imper
vious to water, millions of tons could
be raised as easily as a pound.
This is an imperfect description, but
it is sufficient f.,r our purposes.
Now, what is the philosophy of this
almost-miracle? We cannot stop to
give a complete answer, but will only
say that it is because water presses
equally in all directions, and this it
would not and could not do. except for
the loose adhesion of the aqueous par
ticles. Should the water freeze, the
particles of ice would adhere strongly
to each other and the machine would
be utterly powerless; not like Samson
with his hair cut oft', but like Samson
with his head cut off—perfectly inert.
The moment the elements of solidity,
strength and adhesion are introduced,
omnipotence sinks into impotence—
into impotence absolute. Melt the ice,
break up the adhesion, introduce the
element of weakness, and omnipotence
leaps into the drops.
Our Baptist churches seem to be
constituted on a similar principle. If
one be pressed down here, it rises up
there; if one be overwhelmed in this
place it rises up in that. Wherever
stamped out, it springs up somewhere
else. And it multiplies itself. A few
years ago there was a handful of them .
in Europe. These were trodden under
foot, and 10l on this side the water,
there have started up more than two
millions of Baptists! They seem to
press in all directions though perhaps
not equally. They are in England,
Scotland, Ireland and Wales ; they are
in France and Belgium; they are in
Sweden and Norway, and Lapland and
Germany and Italy; they are in India
and China; they are scattered over the '
Islands; they are everywhere. They j
can never be put down. Oppression
may crush them down in localities,
but on the whole, no harm is done;
they are sure to reappear somewhere
else; persecution makes them more
zealous, and thus when driven from
one place (Mat. 10:23) they ffee to
another, making converts as they go, i
and more after they got there. Satan !
may repeat this process of putting them
down any number of times, and the re-I
suit will always be the same—more
Baptists. Let the piety of our churches
die out, and they would soon freeze
into a solid body, organized for wordly
strength and for aggrandisement, but
they would become powerless for good,
as a. frozen hydrostatic press for any
thing. Thaw them out with New Tes
tament warmth, make them real Bap
tista again, break up their grand organ
ization, make their churches as inad
hesive as particles of water, and out
of their weakness strength will rise to
make them forever invincible.
We should have said that one reason |
why water acts with such power in the
THE CHRISTIAN INDEX AND SOUTH-WESTERN BAPTIST: THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1881.
hydrostatic press, is the fact that it is
incompressible. But for this, if great
pressure were brought to bear on one
of the pistons the water instead of
forcing the other piston up, would it
self be squeezed into smaller compass.
But it cannot be squeezed. It is a re
markable phenomenon in nature
that this fluid which holds itself to
gether so loosely should be the least
compressible of substances, and that
except in very small degree no
power on earth can force its particles
nearer together or make them adhere
to each other more strongly. It resists
to perfection all such effort. It is sup
remely obstinate; it is immutable; it
yields to nothing. Under stupendous
pressure, it is water just as it was be
fore ; remove the pressure and still it is
water unchanged. Nothing can solid
ify it but a low temperature; but to
that it always yields, and ceasing to be
water quivering with measureless ener
gy, it becomes helpless as the stupid
clod, having no power but that nega
tion called, strangly, the power of
inertia.
A similar principle seems to appear
in our Baptist churches. They cannot
be compressed into a smaller compass
than they already occupy. Satan may
pound one of them with his hugest
trip-hammer, and it is like pounding
on a wave; nothing is hurt but the
machine that does the pounding. If
all the churches in the world were
pounded at once, it would make no
difference; the scattered drops would
soon find each other and become con
fluent, and thus in loosest but most
loving embrace, would flow on smooth
ly as before, and with undiminisbed
power. So long as Baptist churches
maintain their principles and their
piety, they will remain as they are, an
unorganized organization, if such a
paradox may be allowed, held together
not by ecclesiastical clamps, but merely
by inherent homogeneousness; and no
outside pressure can force them into
any form, or place or condition, other
than that, in which they were origin
ally placed by the New Testament. But
let them forsake their principles, and
their piety will grow cold, and they
will soon congeal into some kind of
solidified hierarchy, and their power is
gone forever.
We want no strength; we want
weakness, for therein are we omnipot
ent. Iron is one of the strongest sub
stances, and water one of the weakest;
but it would be impossible to construct
a vessel of iron, no matter how thick
the walls, which a few gallons of water
would not burst as if it were a bubble.
When all the hierarchies of earth have
gone to pieces, and passed away, beaten
to dust, New Testament churches will
be what they were at first, and the
earth will be filled with a Baptist
brotherhood.
Murder, Perjury and “Honor.”—
Some months ago a man in South
Carolina named Cash murdered a man
named Shannon in a duel. He was
indicted for murder by the grand jury,
and a few days ago was put on trial.
The facts of the killing were admitted.
It was not disputed that the killing of
Shannon by Cash was deliberate, in
tentional and malicious. The law was
set forth in the charge of the Court
fully, clearly and forcibly. Yet the re
sult was a mistrial! It is said that
eight of the jurors were for conviction,
and four for acquittal. If so, there are
four men in South Carolina who have
perjured themselves for the sake of
shielding a murderer from justice. We
suppose the wicked deed was done by
Cash to save what he calls his “honor;”
but it must be a strange kind of honor
which can be saved only by violating
the laws of both God and man; a
strange kind of honor which can be
promoted by committing the crime of
murder; a strange kind of honor to
have one’s name bandied over the coun
try as the name of a felon worthy of
the halter. Nor should we think that
a man would be in a good condition to
enjoy his honor when he knows that
he owes his life to the fact that four
scoundrels perjured themselves to save
him from the gibbet. Besides violat
ing their oaths, these jurors have made
themselves virtually guilty of murder
also, for in shielding the murderer they
have become accessories after the fact;
perhaps not technically, but morally,
practically and really. So there are
five of them. They are welcome to
their “honor.” Cash, of course, must
have another trial. We hope that the
next jury will be composed of men who
have due regard to the sanctity of an
oath. In that case, the gallows will
get its due.
A law is proposed in Texas to be en
titled, “An Act to prevent drunkeness
and temporary insanity produced by
intoxicating liquors from being plead
ed in justification of criminal offences
in any of the courts of the State.”
Such a law in all the States would
operate as a life-preserver. There
would be for a time more hangings
and fewer murders, but very soon there
would be fewer hangings and also
fewer murders.
Wendell Phillips, in his reply to Dr.
Crosby’s lecture on Temperance quotes
Solomon as saying, “He that spareth
the rod spoileth the child.” Most of
his audience we trust were aware that
Solomon never wrote the words attrib
uted to him by the Boston orator.
THE NEW ADMINISTRATION.
On Friday the fourth day of March
at 12 o'clock M. James A. Garfield took
the oath of office as President of the
United States. A majority of the people
of the United States did not vote for
him, nevertheless he was duly and leg
ally sleeted. It is certainly a matter
of congratulation even with his polit
ical opponents, that his title to the of
fice which he assumes is undisputed
and indisputable; for it is better* that
anybody should be President who is
constitutionally elected to that office,
than that anybody should occupy that
position, wliose title to it is imperfect,
or even doubtful. In the one case, the
evil if it be one, is nothing more than
this, that a political party is defeated ;
in the ?ther case the whole country is
defeated, and the foundations of the
government are made unsteady.
Well, Mr. Garfield is President. We
trust that there will be no factious op
position to his administration, and that
it will be judged by its merits, and
judged fairly. Let then be no anxiety
to find fault with it, and no determina
tion in advance to pick flaws. Os
course, the administration will make
mistakes; all administrations do.
Every man in his private business, and
in his domestic affairs makes mistakes.
If a man is not equal to such small
matters, how much less is he equal to
the immense and multiplied responsib
ilities of the head of a great empire!
Mr. Garfield will be like everybody
else, he will make mistakes. To these,
public attention will, of course, be cal
led, and it is right that it should be.
Yet the animus of criticism should not
be to injure Mr. Garfield, but to benefit
the country; in other words it should
be done not in a partizan spirit, but in
a patriotic spirit. This is an old-fash
ioned way of talking, we know, and it
will probably excite the wrath of some,
and the ridicule of others. But if the
counsel we give, had been adhered to
from the beginning, our past history
would have been more peaceable, and
more prosperous, and we should be
in immensurably better condition than
at present.
On the other hand we hope that the
Administration will not be partizan
but patriotic. This will be, to some
extent at least, a new departure, and
should Mr. Garfield take this stand and
be able to hold it, his name will go to
posterity as that of a gieat man,
who was a benefactor to his country.
We have nothing to predict, either of
good or of evil. We simply express
the wish, that we may have an Admin
istration so pure, so wise and so able,
so thoroughly unpartizan, and so ob
viously for the benefit of all, that it
shall command the hearty and unan
imous support of the American people.
Os course, it will be said that this is too
much to hope. Be that as itrinay, it
is none too much to wish; and we
wish it.
Good and Bad.—ln the city of New
York there is a “Society for the Pre
vention of Cruelty to Children.” Dur
ing the last year 194 casts were prose
cuted, and convictions secured in 181
of them. The number of complaints
received was 1,577, and of these 1,538
were investigated. Each case investi
gated brought an average of three
children under the Society’s notice, so
that 4,500 children received a certain
amount of care and protection. Be
sides the good which the Society has
done directly, there is no telling how
much it has done indirectly, by keep
ing evil-doers in terror. There are
many who are wicked enough and
mean enough to practice cruelty on
children who are restrained by fear. A
good scare supplies the place of virtue.
The expenditures of the Society last
year, outside of the building account,
were <514,321, and the receipts $16,010.
The subscriptions to the building fund
were $13,895.
The figures are suggestive. That so
much money should be necessary to
protect children from cruelty in New
York, seems to show that there is a
vast amount of wickedness in that city.
That so large a sum of money should
be so promptly raised to suppress the
vice, seems to show that there is a vast
amount of goodness in that same city.
In proportion to our Southern vices,
can we show as much effort to suppress
them? We doubt it.
The best proof that the Bible is not going
out of fashion is found in the impatience of
the public to see the revised New Testament,
which is announced for this month. No
work has ever been undertaken in which
there was so much interest felt as in this re
vision. The leading secular papers and
magazines of this country have devoted
much space to its consideration. If it ac
complishes nothing more, the new revision
will cause some people to read the New Tes
tament carefully who have never done so
before. Simply as a matter of information,
if for no other reason, every man who cares
for his literary standing must become ac
quainted with the revised New Testament.—
Central Baptist.
Dr. Talmage has preached a sermon
in New York in favor of the drama,
and proposes to elevate the theatre.
Some one suggests rather pungently
that it would be better for the Doctor
to elevate his pulpit.
One of our subscribers says, “I pray
regularly once a day for The Index.”
Will not all our brethren do the same?
Then, indeed, would The Index be
come a mighty power in the land.
Brethren, pray for us.
Can our esteemed brother of the
Journal and Messenger tell us how far
the slow increase of population in New
England is attributable to the frequen
cy of divorce, and to .
Well, the Lord has blessed us South
erners generally with large families.
Children are an heritage from the
Lord ; blessed is the man that hath his
quiver full of them. We are a happy
people.
THE AVERAGE~~MINISTER.
[The following article taken from
an exchange conveys our ideas better
than we ourselves can express them.
Let it be for the comfort and encourage
ment of those of our brethren in the
ministry who are not regarded among
men as “distinguished.” In the last
day it may be found that these enjoy
a distinction far superior to that of
many who outranked them in this
world.]
At least ninety-five per cent, of our
churches must be supplied by average
preachers, if at all. There are a few
positions of special responsibility, for
which God has raised up a small per
centage of eloquent men. We rejoice
in this. We want these men to be
where they can be most useful. But
now if some average church insists
upon having one of those men, and
succeeds in securing him, what is the
result? It cannot keep him long, for
there are larger and more important
churches that will want him. And
when he goes away the people will not
be satisfied with common preaching,
the congregation will run down and
there will be a sad reaction. Better
for the average church to call the aver
age minister, and to esteem him very
highly in love for his work’s sake, than
to try to get one above the average,
and not to be able to keep him.
The highly gifted and cultured men
in the church are doing a noble work
for Christ. We bless God for them.
But the most of the work must be done
by average men. They must care for
all but a few of the most prominent
churches.
What right have we to depreciate
those whose labors God approves, and
by whom He has chosen to build up
His church? . . . There is no class of
men for whom I have so much respect
and affection as for average ministers
of the Gospel. They are not sustained
in their labors by popular applause and
newspaper puffs, but by the love for
Christ and the souls of men. They
are patient, persevering, self-denying.
They endure as seeing Him who is in
visible. They lay foundations for others
to build upon. They do not estimate
themselves at so many thousands a
year, but are willing to work, even
though poorly paid and not highly es
teemed of men, knowing that their re
ward is in Heaven. It is these average
ministers who have extended the
Church over this broad continent, and
established missionary stations around
the world. Let us honor them as God
does. Let us not provoke Him to an
ger by treating them with indifference
or contempt. And if we ourselves are
but average ministers in the estimation
of the world, let us rejoice that God
has counted us worthy. For to be His
ambassador in some frontier settlement
is nobler than, to wear the crown of an
Emperor.— Dr. Babb.
The Logic of Extremes.—There is
a familiar story of a man who was fill
ing his cart with bricks. After he had
put on a reasonable number, he argued
in this wise: If my horse can pull
what are now loaded, he can pull one
more, and when that was on, he argued
that still one more could make little
difference, and so he continued io ar
gue and to add to the burden, until
the poor beast was not able to move it
at all. Then he commenced to take
off the bricks, one at a time, with the
same logic : If the horse cannot pull
this one he cannot pull that one; and
and so he kept on unloading until his
cart was entirely empty. This story is
worthy of /Esop. It shows up the
logic of men who load anything good
with false consequences, and then
move backwards until the good thing
itself is utterly abandoned.
In this way a man can argue the
cross of Christ out of the sphere of
contemplation. He can go from step
to step until he has a “crucifix” before
which blind devotees bow, and the
very material of which may have be
come an object of worship. Then he
may take a backward move until the
real sacrifice on Calvary becomes a
mental theory, with no actual ground
of historical fact.— Messenger.
A correspondent of the Christian Advo
cate, writing from St. Louis, gives a table
showing the status of religion in that city.
With a population of 353,000, it has a Pro
testant church membership of 17,939, appor
tioned among the various religious bodies as
follows:
Churches. Sittings. Members.
North Presbyterian 18 7,850 2,720
South Presbyterian 2 1,650 604
Cum. Presbyterian 8 1,000 90
United Presbyterian 1 700 250
Baptists II 5.500 2 825
Methodist Episcopal 14 6,606 2.423
Methodist E. South 7 4,374 1,447
Congregationalists 4 2,500 ' 1,217
Eng. Lutherlans 1 500 240
Christians 3 1,500 700
African Meth. Epis. 8 1,700 676
Protestant Episcopal 14 6,205 2,197
German Evangelical 10 5,000 1,150
German Lutherian 11. 5,500 1,500
Total, 97 50,579 17,939
This is not a very good showing for a
Christian city in a Christian nation, and we
fear that if the truth were known, many cf
our larger cities would rot make much bet
ter showing.—Evangelist.
MORALS IN MAINE. .
[We copy the following from the
Cincinnati Gazette, not because it
makes a bad showing for our sister
State of Maine, nor because it seems to
furnish an argument for the opposers
of the Prohibition law, but because we
are really anxious to ascertain the
causes of crime, and if posssible how
far these causes are removable. We
confess that the statements below take
us greatly by sunwise; we do not
know what to make of them. The sub
ject is one of genet al interest, affecting
the people everywhere else as well as
in Maine. We shall take it as an es
pecial kindness if our brother of Zion's
Advocate will favor us with some com
ments.]
As every one knows, pauperism and
disorderly conduct are very largely oc
casioned by intemperance ; and more
serious crimes, when actuated by pas
sion rather than deliberate villainy are
very often ascribable to it. A recog
nition of these facts does not depend
on any special theory which one may
held as to the best means of checking
over-indulgence. If drunkeness could
be absolutely prevented, all commun
ities would be far better off than they
now are. It has been claimed for
Maine that prohibition, which is en
forced there more strictly than in any
other Sta’.e, shows a gratifying approx
imation to the high average of morals
which would exist in a strictly temper
ate community. Yet some recent stat
istics show the contrary. The prohib
itory law was first enacted in 1851,
and after being repealed for a year or
two —1855-56 —has been since in force,
and for several years p ist has almost
annually made more stringent. Yet,
according to Neal Dow, there are now
130 drinking places in Portland. The
Chief of Police in the same city bears
testimony to a recent increase in their
number, while in Bangor the law is al
most a dead letter, and the First Con
gregational Church in that city has
issued an appeal to its members for
more earnest efforts in these times
when intemperance is increasing. More
over, Judge C. W. Goddard has pub
lished in the Portland Press a very re
markable statement. He declares that
insanity is steadily and rapidly increas
ing in the State in a ratio far exceed
ing the growth of population ; 18 per
cent, of the criminals convicted are
minors, and 64 per cent, under the age
of thirty. Out of 199 felons in the
State Prison only 39 are of foreign
birth, and 123 are natives of Maine.
From 1820 to 1840 only two convic
tions for murder or arson are known to
have occured, while in 1880 alone there
were seven. Divorces, which were rare
in 1851, are now more frequent than
in any other New England State. * In
1878, 478 were granted, being one man
and woman out of every 679. The
population has increased 14 per cent,
between 1851 and 1880 are from 587,-
680 to 648,945. The following State
Prison report, which was furnished
Judge Goddard by Colonel Porter,chair
man of the Board of Inspection, shows
that the increase of crime has greatly
exceeded that of population, though for
most of the period included, a prohibit
ory ’ law was on the statute books,
which for several years past has been
enforced with all possible rigor in near
ly every city and town in the State.
Percentage
1851 1880 of increase
Murderers 4 21 425,
Manslayers 1 5 400
Murder, assaults 3 7 133
Arson, etc. 4 9 125
Rape 1 9 800
Attempts to rape 1 6 500
Felonious assault 0 4
Robbery 0 4
Piracy 0 2
Total of high
crimes 14 67 379
Other felons 74 200
Total of State
Prison convicts 87 267 207
If two murderers had not been par
doned last year the assassins’ row
would have reached twenty-three.
We give these figures and facts as
we find them. We have no desire to
write up or write down a prohibitory
law. Intemperance is a gigantic evil,
and it has been interesting to watch
the results of prohibition in Maine. The
plan has been tested under excellent
conditions, for there is no State where
a majority of the people are more ear
nest supporters of total abstinence in
theory and’practice. Yet, unless very
respectable witnesses are mistaken or
deceitful, the law has merely changed
the course of the liquor traffic. It has
only driven it to secret channels. In
many places order-loving people find
it hard to procure alcoholic liquors for
proper uses while those who are an
xious to gratify a depraved appetite,
and care little about the means, are
fully supplied. In addition to what is
secretly sold in Maine, a constant sup
ply is furnished from Boston, and the
State is flooded with circulars from the
latter city, offering to forward, C. O.
D., anything that a customer may
want. Mr. Dow’s remedy is still greater
stringency of law. He wants to make
liquor-selling a felony, punishable even
with death, but thus far the Legislature
has declined to carry out his wishes.
The above statistics, unless they have
been “cooked,” certainly show that
either the enforcement of prohibition or
its failure, have been far from render
ing Maine a paradise.
There is a great deal of truth and
common sense in this complaint of an
Indiana teacher: “Now run over a
programme: Reading, writing, spelling,
arithmetic, geography or history, lang
uage, music, drawing and science. A
lesson in each ; except perhaps the
last, to be studied and recited each
day. Five and a half hours is the
average length of a school day, an al
lowance of half an hour to each study,
boths for its preparation and recitation.
Is it any wonder that pupils get a
smattering of many things and master
nothing? It is not possible for the
immature mind of a child to be spread
over so much surface, hurried so from
one subject to another, and accomplish
anything. The new way is scarcely
better than the old. That compelled
the child to spend time upon things
not needed in practical life, but the
study was a discipline for the mind.
Hours, perhaps days, were spent on
a single difficult problem, but when it
was accomplished more had been gain
ed than the answer to that problem.
Now, no pupil can spend time to work
out such a problem, or he is left behind
in the race for promotion."
To the Ebenezer Associaton.—
Brethren have failed to get their min
utes this season as promptly as usual,
because of an unexpectedly large vol
ume of printing of every character,
making it necessary to almost double
our facilities. From now on, however,
we will be equal to any demands. The
recent improvements place us much
in advance of any printing and pub
lishing house South. There will be no
mistakes or delays, but promptness in
the execution of all orders awarded us
will be the rule. Bro. Ramsey, the
efficient and beloved Clerk, is in no
way responsible for the delay in send
ing your minutes to their proper desti
nations. He did his whole duty most
promptly and never better. The whole
fault is with us.
Rev. Joseph Walker,DD.-We clip
the following from the Evening Star,
D. C.—Dr. Walker was for several
years the Editor of The Christian In
dex. We wish him great success in
his new field of labor.
Pastor Called.—At a special meet
ing of the Gay street Baptist church of
Georgetown, held last evening, the Rev.
Joseph Walker, D.D., recently of Mis
souri, but at present a resident of this
city, was called to the pastoral care of
the church. Dr. Walker is a gentle
man of culture and the author of sev
eral religious books. He has been en
gaged in the ministry for the past forty
years.
The Conqueror Conquered.—Alex
ander the Great lived more than two
thousand years ago. He was a king, a
great warrior, very rich and powerful,
and the conqueror of many nations.
Yet this great king was himself overcome
by a very little thing. What do you
think it was? Wine ? Yes ! wine con«
quered this great man. He loved wine,
he drank and drank and drank iust
as much as he wanted, and at last
died in a drunken fit when he was only
thirty-two years old. He was a young
roan when he died a drunkard’s death,
but he might have lived along and hap
py and useful life if he had shunned
that deceitful cup.
Wine is a great destroyer of bodies and
souls; and not wine alone, but all strong
drink. You can call the poison by what
name you choose—whiskey, rum, or
any thing else. The Bible says:
‘‘Wine is a mocker; strong drink is rag
ing ; and whosoever is deceived thereby
is not wise.”—&& Visitor.
Instead of becoming obsolete by the flight
of centuries the demand for the Bible is in
creasing every day. Never in the world’s
history has the demand for it been so great
as now. It is estimated that two copies of
this marvelous book are published every
minute, night and day, the year round, and
yet the demand is greater than the supply.
SOUTHERN BAPTIST~CONVEN
TION
COLUMBUS, MISS., MAY STB, 1881.
All who expect to attend the con
vention are earnestly requested to for
ward their names and post-office address
to the Committee at once.
The citizens of Columbus will open
their hearts and homes to our guests
on that occasion, but it will be impos
sible to avoid confusion and consequent
discomfort unless all comply with these
requests.
Do not embarrass the Committee by
sending word to your friends here that
you are coming to their homes; write
us that you desire to be assigned to
such friends and we will comply with
your wishes if possible.
Those who wish to stop at hotels and
prefer to pay at a reduced rate, wjll be
accommodated on conferring with the
Committee; no reduction can be had
except through this channel. Cards
of assignment and replies to applica
tions will be sent out about April 15th.
Application has been made for Ex
cursion Rates by rail etc. to Columbus.
Full particulars will be given through
the press as soon as possible.
Address: H. W. Battle, Box 51,
Columbus, Miss. '
GEOR GIA~BAPTIST~CONVENHON.
delegates and visitors, who will at
tend the Convention to be held in
Athens, commencing the 21st of April
next, are respectfully requested to noti
fy the Committee of Arrangements, or
Rev. C. D. Campbell, at an early day,
and give their post-office address.
J. S. Hamilton; Asa M. Jackson;
J. M. Herrington; W. B. Jackson; 8. C.
Dobbs; Williams Rutherford, Com
mittee.