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■BNRV H.TUCKKR, Kditor.
ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF
THE PRESIDENT.
Ar this is the first issue of our paper
which has been published since the
event about to be spoken of, we make
the following record more as a matter
of history than as a piece of news. On
Saturday, the second day of the pres
ent month, as His Excellency the
President of the United States was
about to leave the city of Washington
for a trip to New England, and while
walking with Secretary Blaine in the
ladies’ room of the depot, he was shot
in the back with a pistol by a man
named Charles Julius Guiteau. Two
shots were fired, the first of which pro
duced a slight wound in the arm ; the
second entered just below the ribs on
the right side, near the spine, and
seems to have deflected downwards.
At the second shot the President fell
as if dead, but was soon removed to a
suitable room, and when the first shock
was over was again removed to the
Executive Mansion. The wound was
one which would be technically called
a mortal’one, yet the illustrious patient
stil. lives. For several days he lay in
a condition of the utmost peril, and,
although he has steadily improved, he
is not yet out of danger; but at the
date of this writing (Monday, July 11)
the indications are favorable, and from
the first the prayers of millions have
been ascending in his behalf.
THE ASSASSIN.
The name of the would-be assassin
has already been given. He is a resi
dent of Chicago, and a lawyer by pro
fession, though his practice seems to
have been small and confined to cases
of the lowest grade, and chiefly in the
criminal courts. He is an erratic kind
of man, fond of lecturing on religion
as well as on politics, and imagining
himself to be some great person;
though of this opinion he has a mo
nopoly, as he is held in very low
esteem by all who know him. He was
once a member of Calvary Baptist
church, in New York, but was excluded
for immoral conduct. He was after
wards a member of that disgusting
herd of human cattle known as the
Oneida Community; and after this,
strange to say, he obtained the con
sent of a respectable woman to become
his wife, and she actually married
him. He is now safely lodged in jail.
His MOTIVE.
The culprit avows his motive to havfi.
been a political one. He claims
"a stalwart of the stalwarts,” and de
clares that the President’s death was
•‘a political necessity,” that it will unite
and solidify the Republican party, and
by putting Vice-President Arthur in
the chair, will prove a great blessing
to the country. But, though this is
his own statement of the motive, its
truth may be doubted. It is just possi
ble that the wild and foolish notion ex
pressed by him may have had some
influence on his mind, but it is more
probable that his motive was one of
personal vindictiveness. He had been
a persistent applicant for the office of
consul at some foreign port, and the
President had refused to appoint him.
Not following the example of two dis
tinguished Senators who committed
political suicide because the President’s
appointments did not suit them, he
made his attempt on the life of the
President himself. Those who know
him best seem to think that he was in
fluenced more by the mere love of no
toriety than by anything else. His
former wife, already spoken of, from
whom he was divorced, and who is now
the wife of another man, is one of those
who entertain this opinion. Each of
the three motives named may have had
its share in producing the result, and
with these we suggest that there may
be a fourth cause co-operating. There
is such a thing as epidemic in crime,
and not only so, but in species of crime.
Even suicide has been known to be
epidemic. In the city of Paris this
crime once became frightfully preva
lent,and various measures were adopted
to prevent it, though with no success,
until it was observed that most of the
guilty ones were women, and an ordi
dance was passed that the bodies of
such should be exposed nude to the
public. The law had the desired effect,
and suicides ceased. The disease was
a moral one, and it was cured by a
moral remedy. Os late the mind of the
civilized world has been constantly agi
tated by the efforts, too successful re
cently, to assassinate the Czar, and by
continued attempts on the life of his
successor. The murderers were promptly
executed, but in the estimation of thou
sands or millions of misguided people,
they died as heroes and martyrs.
Hence, not only has the public mind
been familiarized with the assassination
of rulers, but many have been led to
regard the crime as a virtue. It is easy
to see that so eccentric and half-crazy
a person as Guiteau may have caught
this horrid infection, and that this, in
connection with the motives named,
may have led to the shocking result.
HIS DEFENCE.
Os course the culprit will have his
trial before the proper court, and this
is just as it should be. Under no cir
cumstances whatever, and for no crime
known to human nature, should pen-
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alties be inflicted except in accordance
with the forms of law, and by the le
gally constituted authorities. Os course
Guiteau will be defended by counsel, as
he ought to be, for otherwise, his trial
would be no trial, and nothing but a
mockery, and a sham, and an outrage.
We hope that he will have able coun
sel, and that they will be able to make
it appear, to the minds of a wise and
honest jury, that the man was insane.
We can conceive of no other line of
defence. That there is some evidence
of insanity, there can be no doubt, but
whether this evidence amounts to
proof, and whether the insanity, if
there be any, is of a kind to free from
responsibility, are the very questions
to. be decided. Not having heard all
the evidence on this subject, we have
no opinion ; and if we had, we should
not express it. We wait for the jury.
One reason for hoping that the man
may be proved to be insane
is, that in that case the act is
purged of the element of crime, for a
lunatic is incapable of committing
crime. It would be an immense relief
to the minds of all, to know that the
President’s misfortune was simply an
accident, such as might have happened
to any man. The horror which seized
upon us at first, would let go its hold,if
we could be fully convinced of the ab
sence of guilt. Moreover, if the man
was really sane, his act would seem to
indicate what we may call a ferment
ing state of the public mind, and a
dissatisfaction, not only with the ad
ministration, but with the Government
itself, and a state of unrest in American
society, which do not exist. The truth
is, that the people of the United States
have not been as firmly united, and as
determined to sustain their govern
ment, at any time in the last thirty
years, as they are this very day.
Questions of the gravest import, long
unsettled, were settled by the war, and
they are settled finally. We were never
more peaceful than now. It will be
hard for our neighbors abroad to believe
this, if a citizen in full possession of his
reason has attempted to murder the
President. But if the act was that of
a lunatic, it has no significance what
ever.
In the absence of very clear evidence
of insanity, if the President should die,
the wretch ought to be convicted of
murder, as in such case he undoubtedly
will be, and when the court pronounces
sentence of death, the fifty millions of
our people will shout Amen! If the
President should not die, the guilty
man can be convicted of nothing more
than an assault with intent to murder,
the penalty of which is confinement
in the penitentiary for a term of years.
It has been suggested, that in this case
penalty ought to be visited
Htlie we cJajact to this
for two reasons : 1. If_done without
authority of law it would be no better
than lynching, which is itself war on
society and on all government; if done
with such authority,, the law would be
ex post facto, and such a law is itself a
crime, quite as great as that which
Guiteau has committed. 2. It would
show a vindictiveness and a pettish
absence of self-control unworthy of a
great people, and somewhat akin to
that of which poor Mrs. Surratt was
the innocent victim, when the people
of the United States resolved them
sevles into a rabble and murdered a
woman. And on general principles,
we should object to the passage of
such a law to operate in future, for it
is contrary to the spirit of American
institutions to protect the rights of
one person or class of persons more
than those of another. Those who live
under monarchy are apt to imagine that
there is something sacred about the per
son of a king. We are affected by no
such delusion. Where the king is the
government, an attack on him is trea
son ; but with us, the President is not
the government; he is simply a citi
zen as we all are; and the law that is
good enough for us, is good enough
for him.
WAS THERE A CONSPIRACY?
So far as we know or believe, there
is not one iota of evidence that there
was any conspiracy, or that any one
knew of Guiteau’s intentions, or had
the least suspicion of them. The act,
we have no doubt, was wholly and only
his own. Whether others were in any
degree, or in any way responsible, is a
question which we shall discuss in
another article.
A Short Baptist Sermon.—Under
this heading the Southern Churchman
publishes a travesty of a Baptist ser
mon, the object being to ridicule some
millions of pious people and their cher
ished views. We are surprised that
our respected friend and brother should
so forget his dignity. We observe also
that from carelessness, he has mis
quoted Scripture.
“And Abraham circumcised his son
Isaac, being eight days old, as God had
commanded him.” Gen. 21:4. Mark
the words, as God had commanded him.
Abraham’s act was one of obedience.
But suppose that God had not com
manded him, would there have been
any duty discharged, or would there
have been any religious value or signifi
cance in the act of circumcision? If
the Churchman, or anybody else, will
show us where God has commanded us
to sprinkle our children in the name of
the Holy Trinity, we shall be in haste
to obey; but w« must not be asked to
accept the inventions of men for the
commandments of God.
THE SILVER LINING.
The dark cloud which the hite na
tional calamity has brought over th#
minds and hearts of our people, is not
without its silver lining; and perhaps
if we had eyes to see things invisible
and future, we should perceive that no
evil has ever occurred, or can ever
occur, out of which omnipotent good
ness does not develop blessing.
The recent deplorable event which
occurred in Washington will tend more
to unite the American people than
anything else, perhaps, that could have
taken place. It may be the remedy
which the providence of God has
applied to heal the great national
wound; the blood of the President,
whether he lives or dies, may cement
together those long severed, and, resolve
alienation and estrangement into
friendship—into brotherhood. Among
our millions there is but one opinion,
but one sentiment; and if it be but
repetition, let it be repetition when we
say that there is absolute unaffknity of
thought and absolute harmony of feel
ing. For once, at least, we are all togeth
er. Thank God we have all shaken hands
at last; thank God we are all locked
in one sympathetic embrace. “The
South is solid,” and nobody objects to
it. The whole country is solid, in the
sense of being a unit. In another
sense solids have ceased to be; there
has been a general melting; fifty mil
lins of streams have become confluent
in one huge flood of patriotic, and hu
mane, and fraternal emotion. Sectional
feeling! Where is it? It is ouYbf sight
now. God grant that it may remain
so. Party feeling! Where is it? Gone,
and we hope forever. About half the
people of the United States,/lid not
desire Mr. Garfield for their President,!
but when elected he was theirs; and
now that sympathy is stirred to its
depths, he is, as it were, re-elected
unanimously—unanimously, and by '
myriad voiced acclamation. And, if
General Hancock had been elected in
stead of Mr. Garfield, we doubt not that,
under the same circumstances, he
would have been voted again into the
chair in the same way, and with equal
unanimity and enthusiasm. Should
the President recover, as we pray God
he may, he will be no longer the Presi
dent of his party, but the President of
his people; and the suffering that he
has endured will be compensated for
by the peace and joy that will follow.
There is nothing that reconciles
parted friendship more promptly or
more fully than a common misfortune.
A common danger has much the same
effect, but the tie it forms is neither so
strong nor so tender. In case of war
with a foreign power, we should all
stand shoulder to shoulder. jThe peo
ple of the South, notwithstanding all
the stereotyped nonsense ajjlrtit their
chronic disloyalty, would be strongly
relied on to display their valor, and
very recent history justifies us in say
ing that they would display it to the
admiration of the world. But the
feelings engendered by war are severe
and harsh; and it gives rise to jeal
ousies and rivalries, and even to ani
mosities, among those who fight on the
same side. But, in a common sorrow,
there are no such hateful and hurtful
elements. None but the better feelings
of our nature are aroused ; the tender
side of each is pressed to the tender
side of the other; those who saw noth
ing but harm in each other see nothing
but good; and they who imagined
themselves to be strangers and aliens
and enemies, find that they are broth
ers! While we lament the cause, let
us thank God for the result. Provi
dence has brought good out of evil, and
by the hand of the wicked has made us
a united people. So let us remain.
Let there be no more criminations and
recriminations; no more false charges
nor unkind slurs nor vicious inuendoes;
we have now a “bloody shirt” around
which we can all rally; let us take a
new departure in the way of soberness,
and truth, and peace, and love.
The series of “Mercer University
Notes” by “Ernest” comes to a close
with this issue of The Index. We
hope that our readers have not passed
them over: they are well adapted to
awaken and augment an interest
in that institution hallowed to us by
the wise counsel, the liberality and
the prayers of our fathers. May
we do as well for it, in proportion to
our light and our means, as they did
in proportion to theirs!
It is proper, in this connection, to
call attention to a change adopted at
the recent meeting of the Board of
Trustees. A Sub-Freshman Class has
been established for youths of fourteen
and upwards. The necessity for this
measure lies in the fact that academies
of higher grade throughout the State
have largely gone to wreck under the
operation of the free-school system;
and many parents find themselves un
able to secure such instruction for their
sons as would enable them to enter
college. To supply this “missing link,”
without lowering the standard of ma
triculation in the collegiate department
of the University, is the design of the
Sub-Freshman Class. Further informa
tion in the premises will be given by
Dr. Landrum, as Financial Agent of the
University, or by the Faculty, of whom
Rev. J. J. Brantly, D. D., Macon, Ga.,
is the Secretary.
The article referred to in the last
sentence of our leader to-day has been
crowded out of this issue; it will ap
pear in our next.
The editor of The Index acknowl
edges with gratitude the gift of a splen
did copy of the revised New Testament,
sent to him personally, and not to The
Index, accompanied with a compli
mentary note from the publishers,
stating that the gift was made in re
cognition of the value of an article
which appeared in eur columns defend
ing the New Version from some of the
absurd attacks which have been made
on it
This superb volume contains, besides
the sacred text, “A brief history of the
origin and transmission of the New
Testament Scriptures, and of its many
versions and revisions that have beeh
made; also a complete history of this
last great combined movement of the
best scholarship of the world; with
reasons for the effort; advantages
gained; with sketches of each of the
eminent men engaged upon it, etc.,
etc.” The copy sent us is in magnifi
cent dress; doubtless the same book is
prepared in much cheaper style. The
publishers are Messrs. Hubbard Bros.,
of Philadelphia, whose acquaintance
with the editor of The Index is limited
to the transaction above described.
—Atlanta Constitution: Dr. Gwin,
pastor of the First Baptist church,
preached asermon.takingforhis theme,
“Our Scriptual Relations to our Civil
Government," and referred with feel
ing to the attempt to assassinate the
President. The sermon was a power
ful effort and kept the attention of the
congregation from beginning to end.
The preacher eschewed all narrow su
perficial politics, deprecated all so call
ed “political preaching,” and brought
his proof texts from God’s word, as he
urged all to frown down on crime and
lawlessness, and presented purified and
righteous character and living as the
sovereign antidote of all that might
injure our government, which could
continue only by habitual repose on
God and religion. There can be no
civilization without such a fai h. When
a nation loses its faith in God it decays
and drifts on to the
“ Stygian cave forlorn,
Where broiding darkness spreads Ids jealous
wings,
And the night raven sings.’’
Merger University.—A n educa
tional meeting, with reference to the
interests of Mercer University, was held
on Sunday night last in the Second
Baptist church of Atlanta. Brother
Joseph E. Brown presided over the
meeting with grace and dignity. Ad
dresses were delivered by brother S.
Landrum, the Financial Agent of the
University; by brother William A.
Northen, Chairman of the Committee
on Education .in the -House of Repre
sentatiyes; by brother William P.
Price, Chairman of the Committee on
Education in the Senate, and by broth
er James S. Boynton, President of the
Senate of Georgia. The editor of The
Index, having been honored by an in
vitation to a seat on the rostrum, dis
missed the meeting with his heartfelt
blessing. The audience was large and
appeared to be much interested. No
effort was made to collect funds.
—Dr. Winkler, in the Christian Re
pository for July, mentions the fact
that the office of deacon was abolished
in Methodist Protestant churches, by
their General Conference, six years ago.
This was done on the ground that the
deaconship, was the outgrowth of spe
cial circumstances which exist no
longer, and that it was not constituted
as one of the ecclesiastical “orders.”
We hold, on the contrary ,that the of
fice is one of the vital needs of the
Church, and that no better work could
be done for the diffusion of Christianity
than to maintain—or shall we say re
vive!—the office in its primitive form,
with the distinct recognition of that
mission of secular benefaction on the
part of the church of which this office
is the organ and instrument!
—The New York Methodist says:
“Bishop Foster,in his’Beyond the Grave’
rejects, in toto, the notion of the res
urrection of the physical body, as con
trary to both Scripture and reason;
and no church authority has yet said
to him ‘what doest thou?’ ” Is the
Northern Methodist Church infected
with the loose doctrinal tendencies of
the times? And is that the reason why
one of its bishops is suffered without
challenge to reject the orthodox doc
rine of the resurrection, of which “all
the Methodist authorities, of the first
generations, were staunch supporters?”
—At the laying of the corner stone
of Seney Hall, Macon, Dr. Haygood
gave as “one reason why authorship at
the South has yielded such small re
sults,” the fact that there is not in all
the South one single library so amply
furnished with good books, new and
old, that a student or author can fully
investigate any large and important
subject.” We could wish that Bap
tists might have the honor of first sup
plying this great want. Have we no
men of wealth among us who will at
tempt it?
—The Dunkards are called “River
Brethren’” to distinguish them from
the Mennonites who are called “Breth
ren,” not, as we might naturally sup
pose, because they practice immersion,
but because on emigrating to America
when driven out by persecution from
Swertzman about 1729, their principal
original societies were located near the
Susquehanna river, Penn.
glimpses and hints.
—The average attendance on the
Sunday-school, recently commenced in
connection with our mission at Canton,
China, for the month of March, was
eighty-five.
—ln two counties of western North
Carolina, nearly adjoining Buncombe
county, it is said that there is not a
single Sunday-school of any denomina
tion. Should not all the denominations
feel themselves put to shame by this
fact?
—Four D.D.’s were made by Rich
mond College; Rev. R. H. Graves our
missionary at Canton, China, Rev. C.
H. Corey, President of the Richmond
Institute for colored ministers, Rev.
Thos. Hume, Norfolk, and Rev. I. B.
Lake, Fauquier county, Va.
—The Foreign Mission Board of the
Southern Baptist Convention has with
drawn the appointment of Rev. J.
Stout and Rev T. P. Bell to labor in
China, because these brethren hold
and claim the right to teach views on
the subject of inspiration not in har
mony with the doctrinal belief of our
denomination at the South.
—“Jabbernacle” is the name more
expressive than euphonious, which the
Examiner and Chronicle gives to the
Talmage Tabernacle, Brooklyn.
—Rev. G. B. Eager, pastor at Mobile,
received the title of D.D. at the recent
Commencement of Howard College,
Marion, Ala.
—Rev. E. Z. Simmons, our mission
ary at Canton,China, writes, April 29th,
that “we have members enough at
Tsing Une and Tsing Fa to organize
churches,” but she organization is de
layed until the return of Dr. R. H.
Graves.
—Judson University has added the
name of Rev. B. R. Womack, formerly
pastor of Curtis Baptist church, Augus
ta, Ga., and now editor of the Arkansas
Evangel, to the list of Doctors of Divini
ty.
—Since last August two hundred
and seventy Mission Circles have been
organized among the Baptist women of
Texas by Gen. Hawthorne. Who will
attempt a similar work here in Geor
gia? Do we not need it?
—The Georgia Baptist announces the
death at Warrenton, June 28th, of Rev.
F. D. Williams, Sunday-school mission
ary of the American Baptist Publica
tion Society for this State. He was a
student for several years in the Augus
ta Institute and Atlanta Baptist Semi
nary and possessed the confidence of
his instructors, Drs. Robert and Shaver.
—At the Baptist Sunday-school Con
vention, North Carolina, Rev. R. H.
Marsh inferred to Mt. Zion in Gran
ville county as the banner school of
the Stale. “Not only were the members
of the church, parents and children,
found there, but he had seen there the
cradle With the baby in it.”
—There are now three flourishing
summer resorts under Baptist control—
at Martha’s Vineyard, at Chautauqua
Point and on Round Island, St. Law
rence river. Please take notice that
they are all convenient to “much
water.”
—Let not the Southern Baptist mis
sion to the Chinese in California lan
guish. The Northern Methodist Church
expends SIO,OOO annually, on similar
work in that field, and we ought to
emulate their liberality.
—On the first Sabbath in July, Dr.
Shaver baptized at Decatur, Mr. R.
Jones, one ol the earliest settlers of the
town and now 82 years old.
—Rev. M. R. Fory, who died in New
York, June 4th, wrought in former
years a good work for Baptist female
education in North Carolina, and pro
jected a still better work for Virginia
which failed through lack of co-opera
tion.
—Our missionaries in China report
three baptisms recently at Canton, and
several applications for baptism at
Kuin San and Shanghai.
—We notice the almost incredible
statement in one of our exchanges, that
a Chinese boy, at a recent examination
in Pekin, repeated the whole of the
New Testament without missing a sin
gle word.
—“Local option” has carried the day
in the English House of Commons.
Can not Georgia do at least as well as
that?
—Here is a contrast at once start
ling and suggestive. In the year 1879,
the contributions of Romanists to for
eign missions were, in the United
States $15,000, and in Great Britain
$40,560 ; while Protestants contributed
in the former $2,623,618, and in the
latter $5,392,830.
—Rev. J. B. Gambrell returns to the
Baptist Record permanently, as proprie
tor and editor. We welcome him back
to the fraternity with unaffected and
intense pleasure.
—There are but two classes in Mex
ico, says a St. Louis tourist in that
country; the upper who have lost all
their religion, and the lower who never
had any.
—An exchange quotes an old divine
who “never knew but one very lazy
person who became a Christian—and
that one fell from grace.”
—A wealthy and prominent Jewish
synagogue in New York, under Rabbi
Kohler, has decided, to hold regular
Sunday services hereafter. This is
done because, in so active and keen a
centre of commercial competition as
New York, it is impossible to keep up
meetings on Saturday. Byway of
compromise, however, the Sunday ser
vices will not partake much of a reli
gious character, but will rather be a
combination of lectures and sacred
music.
—“lt is interesting to note,” said Dr.
John Hall, in a recent sermon, “that
the greatest progress of Christianity has
been by colonization,” The future, we
are sure, has a far more glorious story
to tell to this effect than lies anywhere
in the past, when the church, true to
her double mission of secular and spir
itual benefaction, becomes fully alive,
in all her members, to the thought of
subduing the world to her Lord.
GEORGIA BAPTIST NEWS.
—The colored Baptists at Cedartown
are now having a neat and substantial
house of worship erected very close te
the one burned down some time since.
—The Noonday Association will
meet on Friday before the first Sabbath
in August, at Acworth, Cobb county.
—Augusta Evening News • Rev. J.
A. Munday, who has been preaching at
Kollock street church for the last three
weeks with much effect, will begin a
meeting with the Curtis Baptist church
next Sunday morning, and continue
through the week.
—The North Georgia General Mis
sionary Association will hold its annual
meeting Friday before the fourth Sab
bath in July, at Oconee, Jackson
county.
—“Friday, June 24th, was observed
as a day of fasting and prayer by Pro
vidence church. Brother W. M. Ver
dery preaches for us this year.” For
these items we are indebted to brother
M. P. Cain, of Davisboro.
—The Second Baptist church, of
Atlanta, has ordered a supply of the
excellent “Calvary Selection of Hymns,”
published by The Century Company,
(formerly Scribner & Co.) New York.
We wish the brethren in our chur
ches to remember that they can be
supplied with this elegant Baptist
Hymn-book through The Christian
Index office.
—W. Stokes Walker, a student of the
Seminary, and a native of Walton
county, in this State, is supplying the
pulpit of the Savannah church for the
summer. The position is a trying one
for him, as he is without experience and
not ordained, but he is succeeding
very well, giving general satisfaction.
It is his purpose to offer himself as a
missionary to China.
—The Minister’s and Deacon’s and
church meeting of the Oostanaula As
sociation will meet with the church at
Kingston on Friday before the fifth
Sabbath in this month. It was thought
best that no programme be given, and
that each delegate come with such
subject and query as he may deem
proper. A large and profitable meet
ing is expected.
—Douglasville Star: The work on
the Baptist church was resumed on
last Thurday and continued for about
one day. At the present rate of work
(and pay) it will take 7 years 8 months
and 15 days to finish the work. Our
calculation is based on the estimate of
one of our best workmen, we of course
calculating from the rate worked for
the last six months.
—The Sunday-school Convention of
the Appalachee Association meets with
the church at Monroe, on the 9th and
10th on August, next. The executive
committee appointed at the last session,
have adopted for the coming conven
tion the following programme. Tus
day 9th of August 11 a.m. Ist. In
troductory sermom by Rev. J. A. Har
riss; 2 :30 p.m. 2d. Reading letters
from churches and schools and enroll
ment of delegates; 3d. Elections of
officers; 4th. Reports of former of
ficers, superintendents, pastors and
others; sth. Appointment of com
mittees ; Ist. State of the work; 2d.
Neglected fields; 3d. Business. 6th.
Address by T. J. Swanson—Our suc
cesses and failures —the future outlook
—followed by general discussion.
8 p.m. Address by T. C. Boykin—
Trained Christian workers—how can
they be secured? Wednesday 8:30
a.m. Bth. Short devotonal exercises;
9th. Address by J. F. Edens—Chris
tian benevolence —how best promoted
in Sunday-schools; J Oth. Reports of
committees. 11 a.m. 12th. Sermon
by T. C. Boykin. 2:30 p.m. 13th.
Miscellaneous business; Resolutions,
Recommendations etc. 14th. Address
by H. D. McDaniel—What has been
the apparent influence and effect pro
duced by Sabbath-schools in advanc
ing the cause of Christ during the last
fifteen years. 15th. Parting words by of
ficers and others; 16th. Adjournment.
J. E. Nunnally, G. C. Selman, S. C.
Burson, James Frazier, John Nunnally.
Executive Committee. The committee
says : The church at Monroe through
a committee extend to all a cordial in
vitation, and will be glad to meet you
all at their place of worship and at their
homes, and it is earnestly hoped,
by y.our Executive Committee that every
church and school in our Association
be represented by letter and delegates,
and, brethren all over the Association,
let us not forget that Bro. Boykin is
still in the field working in the inter
est of the Lord in building up the
waste places of Zion, and preaching
the glorious gospel of the Son of God.
Let us all bring him a contribution to
encourage him in his noble work.
