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A vast amount of labor and large expenditures of money have been devoted to the preparation of this work, and we are gratified by the assurance of many brethren that it is destined to prove of great interest and value to the Baptists of Georgia. It will not only be an authentic record of events, but a preserver of the features and the noble deeds of a noble ministry. The work will be ready for delivery in about sixty days. All who have not already subscribed are earnestly re quested to send us their orders for the book at once. It will be delivered at any period during the ensuing fall sea son, which will be most convenient to the subscriber. In sending your or ders please state at what time we shall make delivery of the book. Besides these sketches the book will contain a newly compiled history of the Baptist denomination in Georgia, from the settlement of the State down to the present time, recording much of the unwritten history of our denomi nation. This history is the result of the collation of facts and historical data from the large collection of material made with a view to this very purpose. Doubtless, in the eyes of all who wish to gain a plain and connected view of our denomination in Georgia, this his tory will add greatly to the value of the “Biographical Compendium.” A Roman Catholic church paper, printed in the German language, will soon be published in Savannah. —A very interesting and successful revival meeting is in progress at the Columbus colored Baptist church. Rev. M. B. Wharton, D.D., of Geor gia, has been appointed U. S. Consul at Sonneberg, Germany, by the Presi dent. Dr. Wharton will find his post a delightful place of residence, and the situation remunerative. On the 9th of June the centenary of the birth of George Stephenson will be celebrated at Chesterfield, England. This was not the birth-place of the father of the railway system, but was his chosen home, where he lived to the last, happy among his dogs, his rabbits and his birds, and busy in his favorite pursuits of horticulture and farming. The seizure of Tunis by the French, and the treaty forced upon the Bey, amountingvirtuallyto annexation of the Bey’s territory to France, has aroused the statesmen of Europe wittya new sen sation. Turkey and Italy are specially . interested, and the latter government considers its interests seriously threat ened by this startling procedure on the part of the French in the Tunis embroglio. Temperance men are to be “Boy cotted.” The brewers at their National Convention in Chicago, May sth, were pledged to oppose every person seeking public office who is in any way iden tified with the Temperance movement. “Is he honest? Is he capable?” has heretofore been asked when men have been proposed for office, but in the domain of King Gambrinus the test is to be: ‘ Does he drink beer?” “Will he vote for license.” The Superintendent of Immigration at Castle Garden, New York, receives every day hundreds of letters asking him to secure labor for different sec tions of the country. These demands have hitherto come principally from the West, but lately a great many have been pouring in from Southern States. Last week the first colony sent South in this manner was shipped to Routh Carolina, where they will secure places in the cotton factories. The Super intendent declares that he will do everything reasonable in the future to direct emigrants toward the South. It is stated that the Col. Cole, the wellknown Tennessee “Railroad King,” has formed a syndicate by which a through line is assured to Brunswick. He represents that his organization has secured the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia line; the Memphis and Charleston, the Rome, Selma and Dal ton, and the Macon and Brunswick. To connect the systems it will be nec essary to build the Macon and Bruns wick extension to Atlanta, and a new line from Rome to Atlanta. The for mer he promises to complete by Jan uary Ist and the latter by March Ist. Col. Cole is said to be in possession of all the lines named, and will at once proceed to the work of building the projected connections. * 1 -- - / - ’ Secular Editorials—Literature— Domestic and Foreign Intelligence. THE MAGAZINES. —lt may surprise some of the young readers of St. Nicholas, who are enjoy ing the rollicking fun of the serial for boys, “Phaeton Rogers,” now being published in that magazine, to know that its author, Mr. Rossiter Johnson, is most of the time engaged in the staid work of editing the “American Cyclopiedia.” He is already well known among older people as the editor and originator of the “Little Classic” series, and the author of some admirable magazine articles and stories. And not a few literary people remember with admiration his faithful friendship for that gifted and unfortunate poet, Richard Reals, and the kindly vindica tion of his memory which he gave the press a few years ago. The short stories which he has here tofore contributed to St. Nicholas have been specially notable for their boy spirit and the overflowing humor of the situations and the dialogue; but in the present serial he has far surpassed any thing which he has done heretofore, and no more laughable and more boy like adventures are to be found any where in recent writing than those of his inventive hero, Phaeton Rogers. Mr. Johnson’s power of caricature and of picturing character is so great that he seems to deserve the title lately given him by an admiring reader, “The Dickens of Boy-literature.” —The Magazine of Art.—The number for May maintains easily the high reputation this publication has achieved in the art-world. The con tents comprise the following engrav ings and articles : “The Symbol”— from the painting by Frank Dicksee. Treasure-Houses of Art. English Birds and their Haunts. Our Living Artists: William Q. Orchardson, R. A. “Apple Blossoms”—from the painting by M. Beyle. Children in Painting and Sculpture. The Homes of our Artists: Mr. Millais’ House at Palace Gate. The Future of our Sculpture in London. Decorative Iron Work. The Streets as Art Galleries. Pictures ol the Year. “Shepherds Discovering the Head of Orpheus.” Art Notes. All cultivated people who desire to keep abreast with the progress of Art, in Europe and the United States, can subserve their interest by subscribing for this unsurpassed publication. Year ly subscription $3.50. Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., 739 and 741 Broadway, New York. —The Popular Science Monthly for May is rich in its varied and interest ing papers, some of them very curious and instructive; the practical chapters on Eyes and School Books, on the Horace Mann School for the Deaf, and on Color Blindness, are specially im portant to the general reader. —The London Quarterly Review for April, American Edition, from The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, 41 Barclay street, New York, is to hand. Contents: The Revolutionary Party. Literary Life of Lord Bolingbroke. The Speaker’s Commentary on the New Testament. Thomas Carlyle and his Reminiscences. The Russian Land Laws and Peasant Proprietors. Sir Anthony Panizzi. . Endowments of the Church of England in 1830 and 1880. Ministerial Embarrassments. —The Edinburgh Review, April, (same publishers). Contents: The Ox ford School. Egypt Bound and Un bound. The Song of Roland. The Public Life of Mr. Herries. River Floods. The Pellagra in Italy. Remi niscences of Thomas Carlyle. Darwin on the Movement of Plants. Schlie man’s Ilios. Local Debts and Govern ment Loans. In both of these classic publications the “Reminiscences of Thomas Car lyle” are made the theme of elaborate reviews. The article in the London Quarterly opens thus: “Carlyle's merits and demerits have been so fully discussed that men’s minds are tolerably made up although far from agreed concerning blm. It is admitted on all hands that he was a man of genius, a man of energy and earnestness, who has exercised consid erable influence on his generation, butopin ions differ widely as to the amount and en during quality of that influence, as well as to whether it has been for evil or for good. His style has found no imitator—except an occasional one in Mr. Ruskin, who has or had an excellent style of his own—and it is no more likely to be reproduced than the very peculiar clats of intellect that created it and indeed needed it as the fitting instru ment, the eccentric exponent, of eccen tricity. It was emphatically the man. But his tone of thought, his mode of viewing and estimating things and persons, the phis losophy, the morality, which he preached unceasingly, have made many proselytes; and it may be well to test the soundness of his general principles and methods of judg ment, before coming to the particular appli cation of them in his Reminiscences.” The result of this minutely made “test,” as made in the London Quarter ly's retort, is concisely summed up in ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1881. the concluding paragraph of the arti cle : “That his admirers should still think it right to raise busts or statues in his honor is their affair; but they are assuming a grave responsibility. They are encouraging genius simply because it is genius, without regard to its application or direction, careless of its good or evil effects upon mankind. They are sanctioning a false philosophy. They are setting up a false standard of excellence. They are winging and pointing anew arrows aimed at the reputation of their most dis tinguished contemporaries. They are doing their best to diffuse and perpetuate a baneful influence, to give increased authority and circulation to works composed for the most part in open defiance of good sense, good feeling, or good taste: works whose all pervading tone, spirit and tendency are radi cally wrong." The Edinburgh Review, in its review of the same subject says, in the course of its remarks: “It is, and will ever remain, the honor and glory of Thomas Carlyle that he contended without ceasing for what he termed the ’dynamical’ energy of the human soul in opposition to the tendencies of a ’mechani cal’ age. His whole work was an indignant protest against the materialism of modern science, and an assertion of the spiritual dig nity and duty of man. He poured forth a torrent of scorn and invective against the vulgar passions and motives which degrade society; he poured forth, in a perpetual an them, his veneration for the higher powers to which he attached all that is noble, heroic, dutiful and true in human life. This mode of thought, expressed in highly rhetorical and eccentric language, and enhanced by a strong Northern dialect, a rugged aspect, and blunt manners, gave him the demeanor of a mystic, or, as some said, of a prophet. His influence over the younger generations of his century became considerable; his works, which had not found much acceptance when first written, became popular: and his au thority has extended beyond tbe circulation ot his writings. Doubtless, then, he pro claimed, or was supposed to proclaim, either some new truth to the world, or some old truth in a new and striking form. What was it? “Some fifty years ago, Mr. Carlyle address ed to a young man of letters, then entering upon life, a brief letter couched in the fol lowing words—we have them now in writ ing before us—‘Remember now and always that life is no idle dream, but a solemn reali ty, based upon Eternity, andencompased by Eternity. Find out your task : stand to it: the night cometh, when no man can work.’ “This oracular lesson conveys all that is best in tbe faith and teaching of Carlyle. It is not new. It is not original. He himself repeats it iu a thousand forms. But there is something in the grandeur and simplicity of the language which exalts tbe intellect and touches the heart. It is to such utterances as these that we ascribe whatever beneficial influence Carlyle has exerted on his times. Such lessons are not given in vain.” The article, however, expresses as tonishment at the exaggerated esti mate which has been formed of Car lyle’s writings and opinions, and ad mits reading the “Reminiscences” with interest tempered by regret. biography" OF BAPTIST MINISTERS. The publishers respectfully request those friends to whom “canvassing books” have been sent, but who have not used them, to return them at once to The Christian Index office, in or der that we may make them available elsewhere. Os course, if any brother wishes to retain a canvassing book,be lieving that he can secure one or more subscribers, we will be glad to have him do so, and earnestly urge him to obtain subscribers by a thorough canvass of his neighborhood. Let all who desire to secure a copy of this invaluable and beautiful book, subscribe immediately. The book with all its elegant por traits will be ready for delivery, in from four to five weeks. Nearly all of the biographical sketches have been printed. That portion of the work in cluding the “History of the Denomina tion,” and which will appear in the first part of the book, alone remains unprinted, but is ready for the press. It is hoped that every reader of The Index will order a copy of the work. Every Baptist family in the South ought to secure a copy of it. Every Baptist is interested in it. The histor ical and biographical value of the work is inestimable. In ordering copies of the book, friends can designate the time when they wish to have them delivered. —The telegraph and the railroad, two of the most powerful agencies and adjuncts of civilization, are gaining sure foothold in China. The pogress made by the spirit of the age in the last thirty years is truly wonderful. The lethargy of centuries is giving way to the energy of renewed life. The light of a new day is beam ing upon the ancient world, dispelling the vapors of superstition and the clouds of ignorance, fitting the soil of humanity for the golden seeds of knowledge from which shall spring fu ture harvests of gladness, prosperity, goodwill and peace. Owing to alleged grievances of vari ous kinds and dissatisfaction with the President’s administration, Senators Conkling and Platt, of New York, have resigned. The matter has created much sensation and excitement in political circles. NEW BOOKS. —Luke; Gospel History and Acts of the Apostles, with Notes, Critical, Explanatory and Practical. Designed for both Pastors and People. By Rev. Henry Cowles. D. D. New York: D Appleton & Co., Publishers. The author, in his preface, says: “Luke’s Gospel History and his acts of the Apostles are here brought into one volume, forming a continuous history of the rise and early development in our world of the greet gospel kingdom of our Lord. It is well to stu dy these two books in their mutual relations, beginning with the life, the labors, the teach ings and the death of the Incarnate One, and followed by the wonderful development of spiritual and moral forces, under the minis try of the apostles when tilled with the Holy Ghost, "These Notes on Luke, written previously to those on Matthew and Mark, nave been held in hand till Matthew and Mark were written, in order to facilitate the fullest ad justment of their mutual relations in the Gospel Harmony. Matthew and Mark being now in readiness, may be expected to follow the present volume without delay—thus completing my work on the entire sacred volume.” —The Land of Gilead, with Excursions in the Lebanon. By Lawrence Oliphant, author of “Lord Elgin’s Mission to China; Piccadilly,” etc. New York: D. Appleton & Co., Publishers. In every way an interesting and handsomely illustrated book of travels, by a writer of ability; a practiced trav eler who notes, with appreciative mind, the social as well as the natural char acteristics of the countries traversed. The historic and scriptural interest per taining to the places visited, give pecu liar flavor and charm to the narrative, which Christian readers will appre ciate. A political and social question, which has occupied the attention of some prominent men in Europe for some years, was the basis for the expedition, whose results are embodied in this vol ume. Immediately after the close of the Russo-Turkish war, regarding Eu ropean intervention in Ottoman affairs, or the final disentegration of the em pire as inevitable, the author conceived the idea of such colonization of the Turkish provinces as would form the nucleus of a new civilized nationality. He selected Palestine as the ground for his experiment, and the Jews as the race, of all others, less likely to arouse hostility to his enterprise and to insure its success. In his selection of the Jews, Mr. Oliphant seems to have been actuated by no particularly philan thropic motives. He was not interest ed in them further than as a means to an end. He cared nothing about the fulfillment of the prophecies pointing to their ultimate return to Palestine. His scheme was purely political and reformatory. He was convinced that there were large tracts of land in Pal estine that could be brought under cultivation with great profit, and that the Jews scattered over the kingdoms and petty provinces of Eastern Europe, where they are persecuted and impov erished, might easily be induced to emigrate thither. He believed that it would be a good thing for the Jews, as well as for mankind, and above all, that the enterprise would, from a mere ly pecuniary standpoint, pay well. The rottenness and tyranny of Turk ish government are emphatically brought out, and, though the political and reformatory plan which incited the author to undertake the trip will not easily find a practical solution, the liter ary result is of permanent value and un questionable interest. —The Christian Experience: An Inquiry into its Character and its Contents. By D W. Faunce, D. D. Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society, Publishers. The purpose and scope of this inter esting volume may be gathered from the chapters in their order: The Chris tian Experience as a Problem; The Christian Experience as a Reality ; The Christian Experience as a Renovation ; The Christian Experience iu its Limi tations; The Christian Experience as a Confirmation ; The Christian Exper ience as a Prophecy. It is a solemn, soul-touching subject, demanding our most earnest considera tion, and in this devout spirit it is discussed, clearly and convincingly, by the able author. It addresses itself to four classes of readers: first, those who do not accept as a fact what is popu larly known as “religious experience.” Secondly, those who admit the phe nomena to be true to a man’s own con sciousness, but that question whether there are any answering facts outside the man’s own mind; whether it is not all a subjective feeling, with no corresponding objective realities; a shadow of the man’s own self, rather than the reflected radiance of his God; a delusion honestly believed, but a de lusion certain to be dispelled in a more complete development. Thirdly, those who think that this Christian experi ence is fruitful in answers to certain questions about God and the soul which are agitating the minds of many thoughtful persons to-day. Fourthly, it addresses all Christians who are specially interested in any book which discusses that work of God in the hu man soul, about which they claim to have experimental knowledge. All these classes of readers will find much to reflect upon in this little volume. —The Four Gospels: Tbeir Age and Au thorship. Traced from the Fourth Century into the First. By John Kennedy, D. D. Edited, with an Introduction, by Rev. Ed win W. Rice. Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union. This little book will be useful to Sun day-school teachers and missionary laborers, giving, as it does, a clear and concise survey of the historic testimony of the early ages in support of the au thenticity and inspiration of the four Gospels—evidence which has been called forth with increased power and circumstantiality by the recent elabo rate efforts of sceptics and infidels to question the evidence. The evidence in support of the genuineness and truthfulness of the four Gospels is treated in this volume under four heads: 1. The internal evidence. 2. The tes timony of adversaries. 3. The testi mony of believers, or that derived from early Christian writers. 4. The proof from the past and present existence of Christianity, tracing its origin chiefly to these Gospels, or to the facts they narrate. The exposition is made clearly and indisputably, and the indubitable fact of the genuineness of the apostolic writings, and their holy inspiration, is impressed upon the reader with irre sistible force. “Two interesting problems,” says the London Telegraph, “which have long perplexed the scientific world, appear to have been at least definitively solved by the eminent geologist, Dr. Hahn. These questions are, first, whether or not celestial bodies, other than the earth, belonging to our solar system, are inhabited by animate beings, and secondly, whether the meteoric stones from time to time cast upon the sur face of this globe emanate from incan descent comets or from volcanic planets. That they at no time formed a part of the earth itself has been conclusively demonstrated. “Dr. Hahn has recently completed a series of investigations upon some of the huge meteoric stones that fell from the skies in Hungary during the sum mer of 1866. Thin laminae of these mysterious bodies, subjected to exam ination under a powerful microscope, have been found to contain coralline and spongeous formations, and to re veal unmistakable traces of the lower forms of vegetation. All the organisms, animal and vegetable, discovered by Dr. Hahn in the delicate stone shav ings he has thus dealt with indicate the condition of their parent world to be one of what is technically termed “primary formation.” But the presence of water in that world is proved by the fact that the tiny petrified creatures revealed by the magic of the lens one and all belong to the so-called suba queous classes of animals. They could not have existed in comets, at least if the assumption be correct that these are in a state of active combustion.” The following, refering to the efforts of South Carolina to induce immigration to that State, may offer some practical suggestions on that subject to the friends of immigration to Georgia: Dr. E. M. Boykin, the newly elected Super intendent of Immigration, has return ed from New York. He spent a week in the metropolis examining the prac tical details of the work, and will pre pare a plan of operations to be submit ed to the Board of Agriculture. In an interview with a representative of the Columbia Register he adverted to the family relation as calculated to give permanency to the settlement of im migrants in any place, and seemed to think it would be better for this State to have a large proportion of the im migrants brought here composed of families, and not exclusively of single men. He expresses a sense of the im portance of having the full co-operation of the people of the State in his efforts to introduce the most desirable class of immigrants, by giving them employ ment, offering them homes on easy terms, and in many other ways which will suggest themselves as occasion arises. With this co-operation he feels confident of being able to accomplish all that can be desired. —Compliments to American Or gans.—A dispatch from Milan, Italy, says that at the opening of the Grand Industrial Exposition, now in progress there, the American Organs made by Mason & Hamlin were played before the royal family by Carlo Ducci, of Rome, and were warmly compliment ed by the Queen in person.— Boston Daily Journal. THE INDEX PUBLISHING CO. [HAS FOR SALE: The Index Seriea of BIBLE QUESTION BOOKS, Ist grade 60 ell., 2d grade 31.00; 3d grade 31 50. CATECHISM fur Small Children. 36cls per dozen. THE GOSPEL IN ENOCH: or Truth In Um Cod Crete; a Doctrinal and Biographical sketch. 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GEORGIA NEWS. —A $250,000 hotel is to be erected in Sa vannah. —Mr. Sidney Lanier is lying seriously ill at Baltimore. The total receipts of the recent Masonic fair in Savannah foot uy $19,700. —The Methodist denomination in Dublin are preparing to build amew house of wor ship. —Locusts, in immense numbers, have made their appearance in some portions of the State. —The Grangers of Elbert county have subscribed $5,000 for the purpose ot estab lishing a co-operative store at Elberton. —A new post office has been established in Macon county by the name of Wier, between Jay, Lumpkin county, and Amicolola, Daw son county. —ln Greenville, Meriwether county, field peas are selling from $2 to $8 per bushel. Fodder is now worth $2 per hundred, and but little to be had at that price. Hay in Hogansville is selling at $2 per hundred— war prices. —The Dublin Gazette says: “Those who are wont to complain about everything, and who said the fruit crop was a failure, may cease their grumbling. The prospects now are better than we have any recollection of ever seeing before at this time of the year.” —Says the Berrien County News: “The depressed condition of many of our farmers —many more of whom will feel the pressure before the summer ends—is attributed, very properly, in our judgment, to the planting of cotton to the exclusion of provision crops.” —The Gainesville Southron says that the prospect for a very fine peach crop is good, and other fruits never promised better. It says further: “Indeed everything looks splendid for a prosperous year for our far mers. We have never seen wheat, rye, etc., look better at this time of year.” —The New Orleans Times says: “One of the results of the Cotton Exposition at At lanta next fall will be that the eyesofNorlh ern cotton manufacturers will be opened to tbe fact that cotton can be manufactured in the South at less cost and with greater profit than in the New England States.” —The Georgia Press Convention, held in Rome, was a very pleasant affair. The foU lowing officers were elected for the ensuing year : J. H. Estill, President; C. W. Han cock, First Vice-President; J. W. Burke, Second Vice-President; F. V. Evans, Corres ponding Secretary ; H. W. J. Ham, Record ing Secretary ; S. R. Weston, Treasurer. —The Hartwell Sun has been shown a ftiece of white quartz which was well sprink ed with gold. It was found in that county. It has also some particles of fine iron ore which it shows contained silver. It says there are undoubtedly many large and valu ablemines of minerals awaiting development in that county. —Says the Timber Gazette: “Dr. Barnwell has shown us a fine-sample of tobacco raized on Champney Island. It has been valued by a cigar-maker of Savannah at 35 cents per pound. Two thousand pounds can be raised to the acre on suitable land, which is equal to S7OO per acre. We think this should wake up old fogy and induce immigrants to in spect our vicinity." —Mr. B. F. Sawyer, formerly an Atlanta journalist, and later a newspaper publisher at Rome, has invented a patent bag machine which his friends claim will revolutionize the manufacture of bags. E. W. Marsh, Esq., and other Atlanta capitalists, have formed a company to operate these ma chines, and 001. Sawyer will soon reap tbe benefit of his inventive genius. —Says the Advertiser and Appeal: “An effort is being made to organize and thor oughly equip an oyster and fish company, with headquarters in Brunswick. Its mem bership will embrace leading fish and oyster dealers in Atlanta and Albany and inter vening towns to this city. The supply is inexhaustible, and one of experience states that he can get ready cash sale for all he can get.” —The Sparta Ishmaelite speaks wisely when it says: " The wealth of a State can not be judged of by the number of bales of cotton its planters produce. Some people in Georgia plunge headlong into debt, to the extent of twelve or fifteen hundred dollars, for the privilege of raising the worth of a thousand dollars in cotton. We suppose this is done because ‘cotton is king.’ ” —Says the Greenesboro Home Journal: “Three cotton mills near Augusta, Georgia, have, during the past four years, with a capi tal of $1.600 000, paid their operatives in cash $1,560,000, and their stockholders $540,- 000 in dividends, besides expending $5,673,- o<jO for the purchase of cotton and other material for manufacturing purposes. Such substantial figures as these ought to attract not only capital but intelligent laborers from points where work is scarce.” —Bays the Columbus Enquirer-Sun: "Mr. Edw. Atkinson’s latest article on cotton manufacture is, without intending it, the most powerful argument for Southern facto ries. If an investment of machinery to pre pare the crop for shipment to the mills adds only forty million dollars to the value of toe crop, and the same investment in New Eng land adds two hundred and fifty million dollars to its value there, the sooner the South manufactures the bulk of her staple the better.” —Gen. LeDuc, the Commissioner of Agri culture at Washington, has received eigh teen boxes of tea from the government tea farm in Mclntosh county. It was this tea that was sampled in New York by the lead ing tea merchants of that city, and was found to be an excellent article. The super intendent of the tea farm, Mr. Joseph Jack son, writes to Gen. LeDuc thus encouraging ly of his labors this year in Mclntosh : "We have had a most successful gathering, having manufactured double the quantity of tea we did last year, and it is of a superior quality.” —With reference to the Tecumseh furnace, the Rome Courier remarks: "The furnace at this place is making an average of twenty tons per day, and has been i tinning on the same hearth fornix years, having never been cool in that length of time, which speaks volumes for our superintendent, General Warner, and reflects no little credit on our foundryman, Mr. R. B. White. The Te cumseh Iron Company has just finished two churches, one for the white and one for the colored people, which adds very much to the place.”