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HENRY H.TUCKEB, Editor.
UNKNOWABLE STANDARDS.
The history of Lot, as given in the
book of Genesis, seems scarcely to justi
' fy the enconium passed upon him by
our brother Peter in the second chapter
of his second epistle. Still, we know
that the statement of facts in Genesis
is true, and also that the apostolic lau
dation was deserved, for otherwise it
would not have been given* From this
we learn that things may be true which
appear to us to be contradictory. Our
information is imperfect, and our pow
ers of thought are limited. If we knew
all of Lot’s history, and all of what was
in the apostle Peter’s mind when he
wrote of him, perhaps we should under
stand what we now accept without un
derstanding. If a man now living were
to make for himself such a record as
that of Lot given in the book of Genesis,
nochurch of our order would retain him
in fellowship, and it is not certain that
his lodgings would be outside the pene
tentiary. Some things that he did,know
ingly, and deliberately, show in a strong
light, that his standards of duty were
wholly different from anything ever
heard of among civilized peoples, or
indeed, so far as we know, among sav
ages. Still, in the New Testament he
is called a just and righteous man. It
may be that God, in his mercy, judged
him by the light that he had, and that
his responsibility was thus shortened by
his ignorance. It is well for us all that
God is more lenient in his judgment
with us than we are in our opinions of
each other. He knows all the circum
stances ; he knows how to make allow
ance for human weakness, and for the
power of temptation, and, to crown all,
his mercy endureth forever. It is a
most amazing thing that the epithets
just and righteous should be applied, by
inspiration of God, to such a man as
the record shows Lot to have been. To
our mind, the fact that this is done is
an evidence of inspiration, for no man,
left to himself, would ever have thought
of such a thing. The boldness of the
expression surpasses anything that we
remember to have read, either in the
Scriptures or anywhere else. Yet, it
may be that Lot was a better man at
heart than some of us who judge him
harshly, and that too, though our lives
may have been outwardly correct, and
wholly free from what is called out
breaking sin. To sin against light and
knowledge is a different thing from sin
ning in ignorance. The ignorance of
our brother Paul, in the earlier part of
his career, was taken into the account
of his forgiveness. 1 Tim. 1 -.13. A
mere peccadillo committed by one of
us may involve more moral turpitude
than the gross crime of Lot. Sin is
doubtless measured more by the amount
of moral restraint broken through than
by the overt act; and as we ignorant
mortals can know nothing of the
amount of this restraint, nor of the se
cret powers that operate on a man’s in
ner life, we have no means of measur
ing guilt. It may be that some whom
we esteem as saints are far from being
such in the sight of God, while some
whom we regard as wicked above other
men, are looked on with mercy from
on high. Hence, it would be well for
us to exercise our judgment of men only
so far as relates to our practical deal
ing with them, and leave the settling
of their final account to the Almighty.
It is well, too. to remember that our
own case is the one in which we have
the highest concern, and to inquire if,
notwithstanding the general purity of
our lives, we may not be, after all, re
sponsible for more sin than Lot, or even
than his neighbors.
We are in the habit of supposing
that the people of Sodom and Gomor
ih were wicked beyond anything that
i e world ever saw, either before or
r. ce. Yet our Savior seems to have
th ->n special pains to teach us other-
sin , for in no less than four places
tak he contradict the idea. Matthew
■wise ■ Matthew 11:24; Mark 6:11;
does 10:12. He distinctly declares
10 the works which were done in
Luke ■ unl had been done in Sodom, it
that if ive “remained until this day,”
Capernt nplying that the people who
woaJd m apernaum were worse than
clearly 1 ived ; n godom, though they
lived »n een a comparatively moral
they w nO . oerhaps great sticklers for
may >btervance of the law. It
people, * ? our Lord measured sin
the °h' ,w ot wholly accessible to
is eviden erlying principle of his
by stan ft to h C) that responsi
ble ; but irate with opportuni-
judgmen 8X get rid of the false
bility and Gomorrah had
ty- . .Kat Sodom vtreme of human
notion y aß t e v p thus be led one
reached we B fai udgn.ent of our
wickedn > i„bt j« here were cities
step towar ds , more
selves an our q.orc also be cities
in the tim e m»y Bigbt of God
than bodo ’ j u y j n the ida, and Ca-
now.more an d Bethea ightful de
than Chor ’^i c b such h ible thing,
pernaum, o posa ege jj neg>
nunciation w bo r eads th standing
that some mem ber in good •
aDd wl ‘°C B hrisSn church and w him> b
o f some Chr b 0 know .
the confidence tfae wo r»t oi and
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who P« nßb ®r a t destroyed the citu
brimstone th«t ot be supposed
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THE CHRISTIAN INDEX AND SOUT
such a man would necessarily be found
out. Iscariot was never suspected by
the other eleven, though their associa
tions with him were very intimate, and
though he was possessed of the Devil
from Ihe beginning. Christian educa
tion, and the restraints of civilized life,
may give such shape and complexion
to a man’s deportment as to make him
a very reputable person, while yet his
heart may be a cage of the most un
clean of unclean birds. It would be
well for each one of us to make the
apostolic inquiry : “Lord, is it I?” No
doubt the people whom our Lord de
nounced were greatly amazed when
they were compared with Sodom, to
their disadvantage. A similar amaze
ment may overtake many of the pres
ent generation at the last day.
As a practical lesson from the whole,
it would be prudent and right for us to
watch our small sins, our sins of omis
sion and of commission, for, with such
light as we have, the smallest of these
may be greater than the greatest of
Sodom. How great a sin is it to ab
sent oneself from the house of God, or
from a meeting for prayer? We do
not know. How great a sin is it to in
vent an excuse for want of a proper
liberality in contributing to the cause
of religion, or of benevolence? We do
not know. How great a sin is it to fail
in personal fidelity to the unconverted,
or in personal kindness to the poor, or
to the sick? We do not know. How
great is any sin? We do not know.
“And these shall go away into ever
lasting punishment; but the righteous
into life eternal.” Thus readeth the
last verse of the 25th chapter of Mat
thew in the common version. The un
learned are apt to suppose that the
words everlasting and eternal have dif
ferent meanings, and on this supposed
distinction an argument has actually
been framed to show that the punish
ment of the wicked is not eternal.
Every scholar knows, that the Greek
word is the same in both cases; it is
the w’ord aionion, which in one place
in the verse is translated everlasting,
and in the other place eternal. As the
same word is used twice in the Greek,
why did not our translators use the same
w’ord twice in English? Why translate
it everlasting in one place, and eternal
in the other? It was done simply for
rhetorical effect, —simply for the sake
of the rythm. King James’ transla
tors, whenever they could do so, as they
thought, without injury to the sense,
varied the expression as much as they
could. In their address to the “gentle
reader,” they distinctly declare, that
they did not “tie themselves to a uni
formity of phrasing, or to an identity
of words,” but that for the sake of
more agreeable sound, they selected
synonymous words wherever they
.could, instead of repeating the same
word. If they could have foreseen that
the text at the head of this article
would be misunderstood and perverted
by this varied translation of the same
Greek word, they would have repro
duced in English, the same repetition
of the word aionion, which they found
in the Greek. The new version reads
as follows: “And these shall go away
into eternal punishment, but the righ
teous into eternal life.” The old ver
sion has this advantage, that it has a
superior rythm and resonance; its style
is more declamatory. The new version
has this advantage, that it is exactly
like the inspired Greek; its style is
more exact; and this is just what we
want; and the argument of the un
learned, as based on this passage, to
show that the punishment of the wick
ed differs in duration from the reward
of the righteous, will scarcely be used
again. It never would have been used
at all, if King James’ translators had
not erred in the first place, in varying
expressions unnecessarily, endangering
sense for the sake of sound.
“I abstain myself from alcoholic
drink in every form,” said Spurgeon, in
a recent discourse on the miracle at
Cana of Galilee, “and others would be
wise to do the same.” This language
takes special emphasis in view of the
(alleged) fact, that seventy-eight per
cent, of the prisoners in penitentiaries
were freely addicted to liquor drinking
before their imprisonment. The neces
sity for making if emphatic is enforc
ed by the further fact, (as alleged,)
that New York expends annually sixty
millions of dollars on its barrooms and
only five millions on its churches—or,
twelve dollars for the former to every
one for the latter! And then, its em
phasis ought to be felt in a peculiar
degree in the house of God; for (as
Dr. John Hall says,) “Rumshops make
murderers, and apatlietic Christians
make rumshops.”
We are indebted to our friend and
brother, Hon. William L. Scruggs,
U. S. Consul at Canton, China, for two
Chinese books, one on Agriculture and
one on Medicine and Surgery. No
doubt these volumes are very enter
taining and instructive, but our famili
arity with the Chinese language is not
such as that we can enjoy them quite
as much as if they were printed in
English. Still we are glad to be re
membered by our friend on the other
side of the world, and should be glad
if he could see his way clear to return
to his old home and remain at it.
Jesuit missionaries in Africa are in
structed by Pope Leo “to follow up the
movements of tbe heretics and to
harass and destroy their effects.”
ABRAHAM’S PRA YER.
Abraham prayed for Sodom, yet the
city was not spared. There were not
ten righteous in the city, even judged
by the low standard according to«which
Lot was accounted righteous. Abra
ham’s prayer was so conditioned that
it cou.d not be answered. And yet
good came of it, for but for that prayer
or at any rate for other prayers of
Abraham’s, Lot might not have been
spared. The 29th verse of Gen. 19
teems to show that Lot was spared not
for his own sake, but for Abraham’s.
Here is the verse : “And it came to
pass, when God destroyed the cities of
the plain, that God remembered A
braham, and sent Lot out of the midst
of the overthrow, when he overthrew
the cities in which Lot dwelt.” So it
seems shat God gave to Abraham that
which he did not ask for, so far at least,
as the record shows. God’s goodness
often outruns our desires. Some are
often blessed for the sake of others. In
the midst of wrath God .remembers
mercy.
While the horrible tempest was pour
ed out upon Sodom, “God remembered
Abrahamand it may be that often
times when we are spared from the
pestilence or other disaster, it is because
God remembers some Abrdham whose
prayers have availed for us. And each
of us may be an Abraham for the
sake of whom, or in answer to whose
prayers, some erring saint may be par
doned, or some ungodly sinners saved.
We are bound together by many in
visible ties. Let us pray for each
other.
Sometimes it is amusing and some
times it is painful, to notice the air of
trinmph with which thoughtless per
sons in denouncing the new version,
quote the passage in the book of Re
velation, where the sacred writer says,
“If any man shall add unto these
things, God shall add unto him the
plagues that are written in this book ;
and if any man shall’ take away from
the words of the book of this prophecy,
God shall take away his partout of the
book of life.” The mistake they make
consists in the meaning which they
attach to the words this book. What
book? The expression really refers to
what John wrote, not to what King
James or somebody else may have
written, or caused to be written or
printed. If it should so happen that
in our English version of the book of
Revelation there are some things .which
John did not write, then those who ad
here to those words knowingly, are
guilty of the very thing which John
denounces. If our version differs in
any respect whatever from what was
written under inspiration, we are guil
ty, (if we adhere to it knowingly,) of
perverting the word of God. Hence,
every effort should be made to secure
for ourselves exactly what God has
said, and not what men, from inade
quate scholarship, or from oversight,
have said that he said. The new ver
sion is an effort in this direction ; its
object is to avoid the very thing which
John condemns, and those who object
may be doing that very thing. Hence,
the text quoted by them convicts them
selves, and exculpates those against
whom it is directed. It seems hard to
get people to believe that King James’
translators were not inspired. In fact,
they were no more inspired than we
are, and not half so learned, and they
had nothing like the opportunity that
we have to know the exact original
text,for th* best and oldest manuscripts
of the New Testament have been dis
covered since the last one of them
died. 1
Dr. W. P. Harrison, in the Richmond
Christian Advocate, discloses the secret
which English elocutionists have sold
at the price of a hundred guineas, and
which has enabled them to acquire
large fortunes. The secret is, this sim
ple rule—“always and everywhere
breathe through the nose.” Breathing
through the mouth, he tells us, hinders
the development of pow’er and elastici
ty in the lungs; and Catlin ascribes
many of the diseases of civilized life to
this habit. The suggestion, to say the
least, is worthy of attention. Was a
profound hygienic truth couched in the
Scripture statement that, when God
made man, he “breathed into his nos
trils the breath of life?”
A ietter from a worthy Baptist min
ister, Bullock county, Ga., represents
that section of the State as largely
destitute and a proper field for mission
ary labor. At his request we call the
attention of our Mission Board to the
matter. Views unfriendly to the work,
of the denomination for the conversion
of the world have a strong foot-hold
there ; and it is our duty to attempt by
organized effort to take that fort,as well
as the Chinese and the Italian forts
now assailed by us.
Some of the newspapers say that
Baptist ministers in Chicago are per
forming immersions for Pedobaptist
ministers. We hold the statement
somewhat in doubt. A Pedobaptist
immersion by a Baptist is a strange hy
brid ; and we hope that, according to
the law in such cases, it may prove
sterile, and have no power to perpetu
ate its kind;
Dr. Talmage says that omitting and
excepting Dr. Woolsey, he can point
to one hundred scholars in the United
States who are superior to any of the
American revisers of the New Testa
ment. Cool!
-WESTERN BAPTIST: THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1881.
Some things in the annals of our
fathers look like the progressive meth
ods of the present day, to which the
conservatism of the denomination (as
we think, justly) excepts. Go back,
for example, a hundred years, to the
infancy of the Baptist in Georgia,
and look at the case of Martha, the
wife of Rev. Daniel Marshall. “A lady
of good sense, singular piety and sur
prising elocution,” says the History of
Georgia Baptists now in course of pub
lication by The Index Company, “she,
in countless instances, melted a whole
concourse into tears, by her prayeis
and exhortations.”
The Baptist churches of Liberia have
been largely left for some years without
help from this country; and yet Bishop
Haven, in his recent African tour,
found that they were more prosperous
than the Methodist, Presbyterian and
Episcopal churches to which help has
been rendered. No adverse circum
stances can prevent the growth of our
principles, wherever those who hold
them work faithfully for their main
tenance.
Rev. M. N. Me Call, Cochran, Ga.,
was bereaved, June 10th, by the death
of his wife—a noble Christian woman,
daughter of Rev. D. G. Daniell, who
follows her mother, after the lapse of
only a few months, to the rest of the
body in the grave and of the spirit in
glory. We share the grief of our
afflicted brethren,and pray that the con
solations of God may not be small with
them.
Rev. P. A. Seguin, for fourteen years
a Romish priest, retired from that com
munion in July 1880. Two months
later, he commenced preaching in New
York, according to his measure of
light, among its 30,000 French citizens.
He has recently embraced the views of
Baptists, and was baptized May 15th,
by Rev. R. S. McArthur, into the fel
lowship of Calvary church in that city.
An American horse recently won
the Derby race; and the London cor
respondent of a newspaper in our coun
try telegraphed that ‘half of England
thought this triumph the most brilliant
of American successes.’ What a flood
of light such a fact pours on the hol
lowness and vanity of “the honor which
cometh from man!”
There is a proposition among Eng
lish Methodists, to strike out the phra
seology favoring baptismal regenera
tion from their Church ‘service.” But
the proposition is resisted by some of
the ministers, who incline to the doc
trine couched in that phraseology.
The “evangelical” view, however, will
probably carry the day.
In these days of instability and
change it is refreshing to read of a Con
gregational church in Dorset, Vt.,
where the superintendent of the Sun
day-school has held office for sixteen
years, the pastor for twenty-five, the
chorister for thirty, a deacon for forty
and a Sunday-school teacher for fifty
two.
At a recent meeting of Methodist
ministers in Philadelphia, a member of
the New Jersey Conference said that if
Romanists had done as much to break
the Sabbath as Methodists have done
with their camp meetings, all Protest
ants would have combined to put a’
stop to it.
Rev. J. T. Robert, LL.D., after a
successful tour through portions of our
State holding Ministers and Deacons’
Institutes, has been called to- Illinois
by the failing health of his daughter.
He will pass the summer months there,
and correspondents may address him
at Palatine, 111.
The Baptist Weekly announces the
death, at Columbia, S.C., June 12th,
of Rev. E. J. Goodspeed, D.D., presi
dent of Benedict Institute, in the forty
eighth year of a life, long devoted to
pastoral labor in New York, Wisconsin
and Illinois.
A single copy of the Gospel of John
led sixty families in Kioto to renounce
idolatry. What if it had been your
money which placed that Gospel in
their hands? In whose hands shall
your money place it?
The presidency of Mount Pleasant
College, Mo., has been resigned by Rev.
A. S. Worrell and conferred on Rev. J.
B. Weber of the Baptist Flag.
The degree of D.D. has been conferred
on Rev. J. C. Maples, of Mo., and the
degree of LL.D, on Rev. E. T. Winkler,
of Ala., by Baylor University, Texas.
The degree of D.D. has been confer
red by Carson College, on Rev. C. H.
Strickland, recently of Augusta, Ga.,
and now of Knoxville, Tenn..
A legacy of $250,000 has been made
to the Reformed Episcopal Church, for
the maintenance of a Theological Sem
inary in the West.
Rev. J. H. Tucker, president of
Keachi College, La„ died June Ist, and
the Trustees of the Institution are cast
ing about for a successor.
Our cause has obtained a footing in
Utah. The first Baptist church in
that territory was organized at Ogden
recently.
GEORGIA BAPTIST NEWS.
—Augusta Evening News: Elder J.
A. Munday is in this city, representing
the “Index Publishing Company," of
Atlanta, adding to the subscription list
of The Christian Index, and selling
the “Bibliographical Compendium,”
soon to be issued by this matchless
company of Southern printers.
Six years ago Mr. Munday abandon
ed the stage for the pulpit, renounced
the drama for the gospel. Since that
time he has taken some theological
training in S. B. T. Seminary at Louis
ville, Ky., and his ministry has been
remarkable successful. He will preach
to-morrow at 11 a. m. at Kollock street
Baptist church. Several years ago he
was here with a first class theatrical
troupe. Now you may see and hear
him as he occupies the pulpit, and
speaks in winning tones of a Savior’s
almighty power and infinite love.
—Columbus Enquirer-Sun, 14th: A
protracted meeting of four weeks has
been in progress at this church, and
Sunday night the house was crowded.
The pastor, Rev. A. B, (Jampbell,
preached a sermon on Baptism, and
selected his text from Roman vi.-3 4.
“Know ye not that so many of us
as were baptized into Jesus Christ were
baptized into his death? Therefore we
are buried with him by baptism into
death ; that like as Christ was raised up
from the dead by the glory of the
Father, even so we also should walk in
newness of life.”
After the sermon Mr. Campbell ad
ministered the ordinance of baptism to
four young ladies and two young men.
Since the meeting began, twenty-eight
have been baptized, two others remain
to be baptized and five or six have
united with the church by letter. The
meeting has been in progress for four
weeks, but came to the close on that
occasion. The pastor urged the at
tendance of all the members at the
meeting Thuisday night.
A very large congregation assemb
led at Mott’s Green to hear a sermon
from Judge J. D. Stewart. Rev. J. H.
Campbell’s familiar face was missed on
the occassion and he was the subject
of many inquires, but being quite un
well, was unable to attend, Judge
Steward preached a fine sermon on
the future of the soul, and stating from
high authority that it shall be well for
the righteous and ill with the wicked.
We have seldom listened to a more
earnest, zealous appeal to sinners to
flee the wrath to come, and to the
righteous to stand firm in the faith.
His sermon was delivered with power
and had a telling effect upon the
hearers. Many eyes were moistened,
before he had concluded. There were
few who thought that in the dignified
judge on the bench was combined such
an ardent, zealous worker in the Mas
ter’s vineyard. Since he came to this
city he has formed new friendships
that will last to the grave, and many
will long remember his sermon on
Mott’s Green, where his whole soul and
energy seemed to be devoted to fusing
the wayward to stop and reflect,Jest in
that awful day it shall go ill with them
and they call upon rocks and hills to
hide them from such great condem
nation.
—Telegraph and Messenger: The mis
sion in East Macon, of the First Bap
tist church, has been sustained by the
preaching of the ministerial students
of Mercer University, who have held
public worship on Sunday and Thurs
day nights, and by the Sunday-school,
under the superintendency of Hugh
Willet, Esq.
To prevent any break in the con
gregation and to increase the efficiency
of the mission, during the summer
months, Mr. Rufus E. Murrow, of the
Junior class of Mercer, has been select
ed by the missions and engaged by the
church to give the time of his-vacation
to preaching and pastofil work in this
interest.
Mr. Willet, whose labors as super
intendent have been highly successful,
will continue in this useful position.
After the excitements of our college
commencements have passed, it is ex
pected that a series of meetings will be
held in the chapel by the pastor of the
First church, assisted by Mr. Murrow.
—Rev. A. J. Cheves writes from
Montezuma, Ca.: “Our people are
somewhat awake on the temperance
question ; but as churches I fear we are
more dead than alive. No prayer meet
ings, Sunday-school slimly attended
and services only once a month, and
but little demonstration of sighing and
crying over the ‘abominations that are
in Israel’.”
—Rev. G. R. McCall, Hawkinsville,
Ga., writes in a private letter to a
friend : “I have been so engaged with
a protracted meeting that I have let it
absorb most of other things. I have
baptized 15-all Sunday-school scholars
except two —one . awaiting baptism,
others are looked for. Meeting will go
on till Sunday night.”
—Palmetto correspondent Campbell
County News: A new interest was
given to religious services at this place
on last Sabbath by the organization of
a Baptist church. By invitation Revs.
S. Harvey, T. N. and R. C. Rhodes and
G. W. Colquitt, with delegates from
several neighboring churches, met at
the M. E. church, as a council, to wit
ness and recognize the new constitu
tion. The members forming the new
church, except three dr four, about
forty in all, were formerly members of
Ramah church. A large congregation
was in attendance, and had the plea
sure of witnessing a scene which was
new even to many old people ; for, al
though accustomed to attend church
worship from our childhood, we did
not know how churches were made.
—Athens Watchman: The course
pursued by the Baptist church in ten
dering their house of worship to the
congregation of Israel for their visiting
Rabbi, Rev. Dr. Browne, to deliver a
lecture in on last Saturday evening, is
worthy of cemmendation. Our Israel
itish citizens are earnest and good cit
izens, and we are glad to see that the
day has come when it affords our
Christian friends a pleasure to offer
their church to them.
Jonesboro News: A fine congrega
tion assembled on the green banks of
Morning Creek, Sunday afternoon, and
pleasant religious exercises, of prayer
and songs of praise, were held beneath
the dense foliage of the wide-spreading
trees. The portion of sacred Scripture
read, was the third chapter of Matthew,
descriptive of the preaching of John,
the Baptist at the river of Jordan, and
concluding with the baptismal scene
of our Lord Jesus Christ. After which
Miss Lula Gilbert, a lovely daughter
of Judge J. J. Gilbert, who had pre
viously been received by the Fayette
ville Baptist church, was baptized by
the pastor, A. E. Cloud. The assemb
ly was orderly, and the occasion solemn
and impressive. •
Gainesville Eagle: Rev. J. M.
Wood, editor of the Baptist Banner,
has been elected Professor of Moral
and Mental Science, and Rev. A. A.
Marshall to the chair of Natural Sci
ence, in the Seminary. These are ex
cellent appointments, and we congrat
ulate the Seminary upon securing the
services of the gentlemen named.
—A church was organized at Palmetto
on Sabbath, sth of June. The follow
ing named brethren, with delegates
from neighboring churches, acted as
a council of recognition, viz: T. N.
Rhodes, S. Harvey, R. C. Rhodes, and
G. W. Colquitt.
The brethren and sisters (except
three or four) were formerly members
of Ramah church, and believing that
the interest of the cause authorized the
organization of a Baptist church in the
place, letters as dismission were grant
ed on their petition for this purpose.
A large congregation was in attendance,
to many of whom the scene was new,
and it was doubtless interesting to all.
—The young men of the Baptist
church* at Warrenton have organized
a prayer meeting for every Sabbath
morning.
—Sandersville Herald: The General
Meeting at Sisters’ was well attend
ed, and was highly enjoyed by the
membership present. The services in
the pulpit and the discussions during
the session were we trust edifying and
profitable. Rev. T. J. Cummins was
chosen Moderator. Revs. T. J. Beck,
J. J. Hyman and T. J. Holmes were
among the visiting ministers present.
—Columbus Enquirer-Sun: The
Ministers’ and Deacons’ meeting for the
colored Baptist churches will be held
in this city, beginning at 10 :30 o’clock
next Tuesday, 7th instant, and con
tinuing two days. It will be held
under the auspices of the American
Baptist Home Mission Society and will
be conducted by Rev. Jos. T. Roberts,
LL. ‘D., who is the President of the
Atlanta Baptist Seminary. We learn
that this prominent minister will re
main in the city during the week and
assist Rev. Green McArthur in the ser
vices now being conducted at the
First African church.
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—An.Atlanta correspondent of the
Griffin News writes : Having an invita
tion to the First Baptist Sabbath School,
we were just in time to hear the first
melodious sounds of 200 little voices
ringing forth praises to God and their
Savior. Mr. John M. Green, whose
father was a merchant and died in
Griffin many years ago, is their Super
intendent ; and a more efficient one
we never saw. He and his corps of
twenty odd teachers managed the school
in away that would have delighted the
veteran Prof. A. B. Niles, of your city.
—Rev. J. A. Harris writes from High
Shoals, June 6th: “It was my pleas
ure on yesterday, at my church at Pow
ell’s Mills, to bury ten persons with my
Savior in baptism. We have received
into this church in the past two months
some twenty or more by letter, experi
ence and baptism. A deep and I hope,
thorough work of grace, seems to per
vade a large part of the community.
May God bless the weekly visits of the
dear old Index to the hearts of all
who may read it.”
—Elberton News: Dr. D. A. Math
ews went to Atlanta on Tuesday to
arrange for material and furniture for
the new Baptist church soon to be
built here.
—Hawkinsville: Interesting meet
ings are being held at the Baptist
church—services every night and morn
ing. Rev. Geo. R. McCall, the pastor,
baptized three new members in the
river on Sunday evening, and three
more were received on Monday eve
ning.
—Rev. W. T. Cheney, pastor of the
Curtis Baptist church, Augusta, has
gone on a visit to the North. He will
spend a large part of the time while he
is away in theological studies in Phil
adelphia. His pulpit will be filled dur
ing his absence by Rev. Mr. Folk, of
Tennessee.