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4 HENRY 11. TUCKER, Hditor. RESPONSIBILITY FOR CRIME. The overt act of cri me is alway s the ex pression of an inward guilt on the part of him who commits it; it may be, and often is, the expression of guilt on the part of many who had nothing to do with the overt act itself, and who perhaps never heard of it and never thought of it. If there were only one man in the world, and if there never had been but one. then, if he were to do wrong, the guilt would be all his own. But if there were two men or more in the world, and if one of them were to fall into sin, it would be proper to inquire whether his guilt was shared by his fellows. He may have been incited to his evil deed knowingly and wilfully by others; or he may have been led to it by the unconscious influence of others who excited his passions; or he may have merely carried out in prac tice, theories promulgated by others who never thought of giving them effect; or he may Have been free from restraints which others 'might have thrown around him if they would; which they would have thrown around him if they had done their duty, and which would have been effectual in keeping him from the evil. In any such case, the man who commits a crime has not a monopoly of guilt; on the contrary, every one whose influence for evil reached him, or whose influence for good failed to reach him when it might have done so, is partaker in his sin. All are guilty together; not in equal degree, it is true, but still, all guilty. The final act in which wide spread guilt culminates is not the re sult of a solitary force; it is the result ant of many, of perhaps innumerable moral forces, for each one of which, some one else besides the chief actor is , responsible; and among these guilty ones may be many who would be amazed beyond utterance if informed that they were particept criminis. Every crime is the product not merely of the individual depravity of him who commits it, but of a certain state of society, for which every member of it is in part responsible. Every case of murder, burglary, arson, rape, forgery, perjury ; nay, every case of petty steal ing, lying, slander, or sin of any kind, is chargeable not only to him who is the last actor in the scene, but to all those whose influences directly or in directly led to it, or whose influences, if properly exerted, might have pre vented it. Os these there may be many thousands, not one of. whom has the least suspicion that the slightest taint attaches to him, or that he has the re motest connection, in any way what ever, with the crime committed. Each one of us may be surprised in the judg ment day, to find how many enormous sins he is partaker in, of which, never theless, he perhaps never heard before I A man makes a careless and improper remark in the hearing of a little boy, which gives a wrong direction to his thoughts. Long years after this, the the boy now himself a man, commits an awful crime, which is nothing more than the fruitage of the careless re mark. How shall the guilt be divided between the speaker and hearer? We do not know ; God only can adjust the accounts; but we do know that he who sowed the seed is, to some extent and in some way, responsible for what grew from it. Some sin of omission may be just as bad. The not planting of a good seed may be as fatal as the plant ing of a bad one. When I see a poor wretch hanging by the neck to a gibbet, am I sure that I am wholly innocent of the crime for which he suffers? How do I know but that if my whole life had been such as the law of God requires, some wave of personal influence circling around and away from me, might have reached that man and restrained him from his great transgression? How do I know but that someof the miserable creatures confined in jails and penitentiaries, would now be at liberty, enjoying them selves and glorifying God, if I had done my whole duty? Let me look at the character and conduct of those around me. They are, to some extent, what I have made them. How stands my ac count with them before God? Perhaps, on the other side of the world, some one is worshipping idols, who, but for my neglect, might have ceased idolatry ; is not his sin my sin? Am not I wor shipping the idol by proxy? He sins in ignorance; an excuse which cannot be made for me. In short, if the thought be carried to its widest generalization, we may say, that every man is responsible, not only for the sins which he recognizes as his own, but for all the sins of the whole world, so far as his influence led to the commission of them, or so far as he might have prevented them. Every man is his brother’s keeper, and every man is the brother of every other man. Whether ethnologically or not, mor ally the human race is a unit; conse quently, any sin committed anywhere on the whole earth is matter of per sonal concern to every one of us. The fact that sin .is in our world at all is enough to excite our deepest interest and our profoundest solicitude. To fail of this interest and of this solici tude, in the least, is sin ; to fail of it in such degree as to be indifferent to it is THE CHRISTIAN INDEX AND SOUTH-WESTERN BAPTIST: THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1881. greater sin; and thus, instead of di minishing the amount of evil in the world, we increase it. We ought to sympathize with those whose crimes have led them to disgrace and punishment. Perhaps some of that penalty ought to be ours. We ought never to do a thing or say a word which might tend in the remotest way, directly or indirectly, to lead others to wrong. We ought never to lose an opportunity to do good. When we confess our sins, we should remem ber that those recognized by us may not be the ten thousandth part as many as those for which, in some degree, God will hold us accountable. WIVES SLANDERED The newspapers are teeming with extravagant laudations of Mrs. Gar field’s conduct and bearing since the great misfortune which befel her hus band and herself at the hands of the assassin. Doubtless she has exhibited a proper tenderness and solicitude; doubtless she has rendered every service in her power; doubtless she has borne up under her sorrow with admirable fortitude. Not for the world would we detract from the merit of the lady, but we cannot partake of the gush. What woman would not have done the same? All this is represented as something extraordinary. If this be so, what a comment is it on the character of our wives! We are not willing that any one woman in this world shall be exalt ed at the expense of all the others. The truth is that Mrs. Garfield’s deport ment is not extraordinary; it is just what might be expected from a true woman. How long has it been since hundreds of thousands of our women saw their fathers and husbands and brothers and sons pierced by bullets and torn by shells under circumstances a thousand times as dreadful as those under which the President suffers ? And did they not bear it with a heroism such as we supposed was not in human na ture? The wife of the President de- I serves no more credit for womanly vir tue than the wife of any other man, or than the same woman would, if her hus band were not the President. The dispo sition to magnify the virtue of personsin political position is one which we have imported from Europe. We happen to remember, that during Prince Albert’s last illness one of his daughters was very devoted in her attentions to him, and the English papers made a great ado about it, as if it were a wonderful thing. There was no wonder about it. The Princess was a woman ; she loved her father, and she acted out her noble and tender womanly instincts just as other women do. It may astonish people who live under kings, to see that members of the Royal family are actually human; but for American citizens to be thrown into spasms of rapturous admiration because the Presi dent’s wife does just exactly what she would have done twenty years ago when she married the schoolmaster, strikes us as somewhat absurd. We i admire and honor the lady in question, i not because she is at all different from 1 other women, but because she is just i like them ; and this is just what might I have been expected ; and such applause i as this is all, we doubt not, that the i good lady would either expect, or desire, < or enjoy. i From the fact that the attendance , on Missionary Anniversaries now, as compared with twenty-five years ago, , is small, some are inclined to argue that • the evangelization of the world is los ing its hold on th« churches of the , land. But this conclusion is forbidden by the fact that, as a rule, there is a steady increase in the amount of con tribution to this work among all de nominations. The great body of pro- ( fessed Christians were never so gene- , rally and earnestly favorable to mis sions as at present; and those who stand aloof from them were never more widely and grossly out of harmony with the better “spirit of the age.” , I A Coincidence. —In the National Baptist (Philadelphia) of July 14th, there is an article with the heading, “The Silver Lining.” In The Index of the same date there is an article with the Same heading, and both articles are on same subject. The coincidence was purely accidental. We are glad to be in the good company of Dr. Way land. Rev. C. H. Corey, President of the Richmond Institute for colored preach ers and teachers, and the recipient of the degree of D. D. from Richmond College at the recent commencement, is a native of New Brunswick and a graduate of Acadia College, the Bap tist institution in that province. “To be as good as our fathers were, we must be a great deal better, singe we have greater privileges and far more light,” is the pithy remark of a writer in the Christian Register. At the present date (Tuesday July 19‘.h), His Excellency the President is rapidly improving and sanguine hopes are entertained of his complete recov ery. The Law condemns, but does not save. The Gospel is the only thing that condemns the sin and saves the sinner. The New Version is far more popular in the United Strtes than it is in Eng land. WHO SHOT THE PRESIDENT f So far as we know, there is no evi dence of conspiracy; yet thousands of persons had a hand in that bloody deed. Charles J. Guiteau was the man who pulled the trigger, but how came he to do it? Ho declares himself that party zeal inspired the deed. Who inflamed that zeal to this fierce intensity? 1. His own party. They have been selfish, mercenary, mendacious and unscrupu lous in every way. None of them, so far as we know, have committed mur der in furtherance of their plans, but they have not hesitated to assassinate reputation whenever it suited their purpose, and this may be just as cruel and just as wicked as the shedding of blood. 2. The opposite party, and, indeed, all parties which have done anything to engender the spirit from which such animosities take their rise; and we do not know that one party is either better or worse than another. 3. The press of the country that has aided one or the other of these parties, partly by false representations or by unfair statements of facts, and partly by personal abuse of political oppo nents, and by stirring up sectional strife. 4. The people who have sus tained the press in its appeal to party feeling and to evil passions. 5. The upholders, in theory on in practice, of the unwholesome and vicious doctrine that every time there is a new admin istration of the government, there must be a new deal of the hundred thousand offices, and that these are to be bestowed ' as rewards of party services. But the parties named are not the i only guilty ones. Those who deprive the law of its power, are equally to blame, for, by removing the obstacles to crime, they make crime easy. And | who are these? 1. Jurors who, despite ■ their oaths, have so often turned loose • malefactors upon the community, that j there is but little probability of penalty = for crime, and almost the certainty of i escape from it. 2. Governors of States ! whoj after criminals haye been convic- i ted, have abused the pardoning power by setting the convicts at liberty. 3. The people who have, without just reason, signed petitions, asking Gov ernors to do this very thing.. 4. The people whose maudlin sentiment has made heroes and martyrs of those who have suffered the just penalty of their evil deeds. All these may be fairly considered accessories to the assassination of the President, not because they anticipated what has happened, but because they wrongfully did what helped to make it happen. His blood is on the hands of all who helped to shed it. But we have not exhausted the cata logue of the guilty ones. Men are to blame for what they have not done as well as for what they have done. The Christian people of this country who have subordinated their religion to their politics, and who have adhered to the men of their party, regardless of their morals, must share the guilt of Guiteau. So, also, must preachers and other Christian people who have failed to do their whole duty in com municating the blessings of the gospel to their fellow men, and in illustrating its principles by their lives. It is easy to believe that, if every professing Christian had done his best, such a state of society would have been super induced, that a crime like that of Gui teau would have been impossible. It is not impossible that the Presi-1 dent himself may have had some hand in bringing about that very state of public feeling and public morals,which, acting on the mind of a man of weak head and vicious heart, has resulted so unfortunately for himself. If our view be correct, that no crime is sporadic, but that on the contrary every crime is the outgrowth of certain conditions, which conditions are af fected more or less by every citizen, then who shot the President? Guiteau was, in a certain sense, a representa tive man. True, out of the fifty millions of our people, there is probably not one, certainly not many, who would have encouraged his murderous deed, or who would have failed to prevent it, if possi ble. The act does not represent the feelings of the American people, nor perhaps of any one of them except Guiteau himself. But it does repre sent a condition which would not have been morally possible, if the people of the country had abstained from the wrong, and adhered to the right. What were the conditions that made Guiteau possible? We have named some of them ; there may be others. But they are all of the same character; the evil, if local in its final development, is con stitutional in its origin, and the Ameri can people have cause to be ashamed, and to be overwhelmed with mortifica tion and grief, that their bldod is so vitiated as to produce an excrescence so horrid and so vile. The following highly entertaining letter has been received by the editor of the Nashville Christian Advocate : Mb. Editor: —I am highly pleased with a portion of your work, but I am truly sor rowfully ashamed of any person or persons that has not got no more sense than to pre tend to think that there are thousands of worlds flying through the air thick as gnats, Ac. Now, Mr. Editor, you have no grounds for vour arguments, only poor, weak, foel ish man’s say so. God does not say so; his word does not say so either. Any person who does not have more sense than to think that the world turns over or around, or that the sun stands still has not got but very lit tle, and is not fit for any business at all whatever. Please refer me to tbe passage of scripture that tells you any such things. God pity any one that has got no [more] sense than to believe man in preference to God Almighty. J hope to hear from you soon. Respectfully, A Truk Belibveb in Scbiptcbe. If our brother, Rev. John Jasper, the negro Baptist preacher in Rich mond, who maintains that “the sun do move,” should die, he will have a worthy successor in the pious writer of the above letter. We learn from the papers that brother Jasper is alarming ly ill. Now he knows only in part,but his knowledge will increase when he opens his eyes in the heavenly world. The knowledge of Jesus is the best of sciences, and in this knowledge our humble brother is not wanting. The Presbyterian Banner has this to say of him : But this same Mr. Jasper is no common man. He has a congregation of four thou sand colored people for whose benefit he la bors most assiduously, and his personal character is above reproach. During the severe illness from, which he is recovering, he had the sincere sympathies and best wishes of all classes of people. Mr. Jasper’s death would be a great Iqjie to Richmond, where he is looked upon Mr a great power for good among the colored people, who have the most implicit confidence in him. GLIMPS.ES AND HINTS. The Oxford editions of the Revised New Testament, we are told, passed through the hands of fifteen of the best proof-readers in England. And yet, in the copy before us, I Cor. 3 : 5, stands: “What then is Apollos? and' what is Paul? Ministers through whom ye Lord believed, and each as £e gave to him.” According to the Belfast Witness, a Presbyterian organ, infant baptism has not been publicly performed in some of the Irish Presbyterian congregations for a generation. That’s right: why should it have more space in the church than it has in Scripture? Allen B. Magruder, of Virginia, whom we know as a man of culture, ability and reputation, accepted, some two months ago, the general, indis criminate challenge of Col. Ingersoll, the infidel, to an open discussion on the divine authority of the Bible. But the Col. is silent, and seems to have beaten an ignoble retreat from his accepted challenge. The Western Recorder thinks that Rev. Dr. Boyce, in his feeble state of health, needs a year’s rest/in Europe and the East. The police court at'Berlin, Prussia, imposed a fine on a Baptist pastor of that city, not long since, for the offence of offering prayer at a funeral in one of the cemeteries. Rev. A. Binga, colored Baptist pas tor at Manchester, Va., on a recent af ternoon, baptized 164 converts in James river, in the presence of some 5,000 spectators. De Pressense, of the French Free Church, becomes Professor of Church History in the Baptist Theological School at Paris. As regards baptism he is nearly in accord with our denom ination. . The American Baptist Publication Society will issue an edition of the re vised New Testament, with the render ings of the American committee in corporated, by Dr. H. G. Weston, in the text. Rev. W. D. Thomas, D. D., has ac cepted the Chair of Moral Philosophy and Rev. A. B. Brown, D. D., the Chair of English in Richmond College. They will fill these positions ably and brilliantly. Rev. B. Manly, D. D., at Leipsic, is informed that no child is allowed to en ter the public schools, who cannot ex hibit a certificate of baptism in infan cy. A small Swedish Baptist church in Minnesota, contributed to Home Mis sions last year, an average of $3.75 per member. What .Baptist church in Georgia gave as much? Rev. W. 0. Bailey, who died in Nashville, Tenn., July Ist, at the age of nearly eighty years, baptized over ‘three thousand persons during a min istry of more than half a century, chiefly in Virginia. It is said that the Jews are now con verted to Christianity at an increasing rate of a thousand a year. Oh, that it were a thousand a day! Death is often a disenchanter of the infidel, and the .prismatic bubble of scepticism bursts when the wind from the grave blows on it. This truth is illustrated in the case of M. T.ittre, the distinguished French expounder of Comtean atheism, who, just before his death, applied for baptism,and received it. The injunction of Paul to “young women,” (as it stands in the old ver sion, Titus 2:5,) that they should be “keepers at home,” may have been dis tasteful to some of that class. What will they say, then, of the revised ver sion, according to which the apostle requires thetn to be, not keepers only, but "workers at home” ? That but a small proportion of the -students in an institution are graduat ed, may admit of two very different explanations. The high standard of scholarship may cause it—which is wise ; or it may be caused by incompe tent methods of instruction—which is otherwise. , Arab criminals in North Africa dread to be put to death by beheading. They believe that the prophet (Mo hammed) draws true believers into the blessed life by the hair of the head ; and how this needed help can be ren dered when the head and the hair are both gone, passes their comprehension. The colored Baptists of Texas and their friends in that State have paid $2,500 for the property at Marshall, purchased as the site of Bishop Col lege. The American Baptist Home Mission Society is erecting a SIO,OOO building for. that institution, which aims to diffuse the benefits of higher education among one-tenth of the col ored population of the country. The Immanuel Baptist church, Chicago, (the new organization taking the place of Michigan Avenue church,) has a creed which consists exclusively of carefully selected and arranged texts of Scripture. A writer in an exchange thinks that the church thus gets rid of “binding men’s consciences by human interpretations.” But is there not a decisive interpreting of Scripture as a whole, in the selecting and arranging of texts from it as a basis and outline of doctrinal belief? Hungarian law (as we gather from an exchange) reckons one’s birth from the date of one’s baptism ; and a wo man arrested for theft, six months af ter she was baptized as a professed convert to Christianity, escaped pun ishment on the plea that, under this reckoning, she was legally an infant, and not responsible for her actions. Here truth and right and justice, in the human sphere, were sacrificed to an absurdity. But is it not an absurd ity still greater to take the date of one’s baptism and reckon from that one’s spiritual birth? And is it not certain that there will be for the sake of this greater absurdity no sacrifice of justice and right and truth in the divine sphere? Dr. John Cumming, of London, an eloquent advocate of the doctrine that the second coming of Christ will pre cede the Millennium and that the Millennium therefore will include a personal reign of Christ, died July 7th, at the age of 70 years. The Canadian Baptist says there is every probability that Rev. A. H. New man wifi accept the professorship ten dered to him in the Toronto Baptist Theological Seminary. He is now as sisting Dr. Castle in the selection of books for the library of the institution. GEORGIA BAPTIST NEWS. —A Sabbath-school has been recent ly organized at the Baptist church in Nashville, Berrien county,under favora ble anspices. —Senoia Farm and Home: Dr. W. J. Mitchell preached a most excellent sermon in the Baptist church on Sab bath. We have never seen so large an audience at church in Senoia before. Many were unable to get in the house. He also preached at night. —There will be a meeting of the ministers and deacons of the Washing ton Association held at Sparta, com mencing the Friday before and includ ing, the fifth Sunday in this month. —Watkinsville Advocate: The Bap tists of Watkinsville will soon build them a neat and commodious house of worship. Look out for the subscription list, and help in the good work. Sim ply as a matter of pride, if for no higher reason, every man in Watkinsville ought to contribute something. —During the Female College exer cises in Madison, Rev. “E. R. Carswell, of Augusta, delivered upon the Canterbury Revision of the New Testament, urging the importance of its general acceptance. —Referring to a recent “open air meeting” .held on Mott’s Green, the Columbus Enquirer-Sun says: Rev. J. H. Campbell, the originator and con stant and earnest advocate of the meet ings, was present and took part in the scriptural lesson. We regret to see him quite feeble, though his zeal is unabat ed. When unable to preach himself he always provides for excellent ser mons. Some of the ablest discourses we have heard in the city we heard at these meetings: May God strengthen his venerable servant for his good work’. —To-morrow the Sunday-school Con vention of the Stone Mountain Baptist Association will meet at Zion church, Newton county. The following is the programme: 11 a. m. Introductory sermon; Rev. J. M. Brittain. Text: Dent. 6th chapter, 6—9 verses. 1: 30 p. m. Organization and enrollment of delegates; reception of visitors; reports of officers of the Convention; appoint ment of committees—l. on state of the schools; 2. enlargement of the work ; 3. nomination of officers; 4. recom mendations and resolutions. 2 :30 p.m. Address by T. A. Gibbes, Social Circle: Uncultivated fields; how to reach them. General discussion. 8-J 5 p.m. Ser mon; Rev. Eugene Jewell. Text: Psalms, 119th chapter, 9th verse. Sat urday—9 :30 a. m. Reports of Com mittees ; election of officers. 10 a. m. Address by Rev. T. C. Boykin, State Sunday-school Evangelist: The Sphere of our Convention’s Work; How to en large it and make it more profitable. 11 a. m. Address by Rev. W. D. Win burn : Our Sunday-schools; How to improve their management and extend their influence. General discussion, led by W. R. Webster. 1:30 p. m. Miscellaneous business; Address by N. F. Cooledge, Norcross: Our Teaching; How to make it more efficient and suc cessful. Address by W. L. Goldsmith : Our Parental Obligations; How to feel them more keenly and discharge them more faithfully. General discussion, led by W. R. Webster. 8 :15 p. m. Ser- mon by Rev. J. C. Burton. Text: 2 Timothy, 3d chapter, 15th verse. Sun day 9 :30 a. m. Sunday-school exercises conducted by Rev. T. C. Boykin. 11 a. m. Sermon by Ret. T. C. Boykin. Text: Ephesians, 6th chapter, 4th verse. 1:30 p. m, Sunday-school ex perience meeting. 8 :15 p. m. Howto interest the uninterested of all classes —G. G. Hudson, followed by J. F. Kel lam and all who wish to offer a sug gestion. Parting hand by the Presid ident. Adjourment. -—A young men’s prayer meeting has been organized at the First Baptist “church in Columbus. —Sandersville Mercury: Rev. T. J. Adams, the much beloved pastor of the Baptist church in Sandersville, has moved here with the intention of mak ing it his future home. His many friends made it a pleasant occassion for him and one long to be remember ed, by extending <o him not only a cordial but a substantial welcome, they came laden with gifts, and expressing their heartfelt gladness at his coming to sojourn among them, and showed that he was one whose presence would ever be welcome to their hearts and homes. The presents were numerous, valuable and serviceable, and their di versity so great that it is impossible to particularize. These were the free and-spontaneous offerings of grateful and generous hearts and as such were gladly received. Mr. Adams is a high toned Christian gentleman and a min ister of great ability, kind and court eous, and is quite an addition to the social circle of our growing city. —Rev. J. E. L. Holmes, of Danville, Va., has accepted the pastorate of the Savannah Baptist church, and will en ter upon his duties on the Ist of Oc tober next. Brother Holmes is a grad uate of Richmond College and the Southern Baptist Theological Semin ary. He has traveled abroad, and has been for seven years pastor at Danville, Va. It is believed by Dr. Curry and others that he has special qualifica tions for the duties demanded of the pastor in Savannah. He is yet young, and we trust he may have a long and prosperous pastorate in our sea-board city. —Macon Telegraph and Messenger: The members of the First Baptist church have presented to Mr. J. W. Nisbet, their accomplished bass choir singer a handsome leather trunk and satchel, in token of • their high esteem for him as a man, and in appreciatioh of his faithful labors in the choir. Mr. Nisbet, it will be remembered, leaves for Europe with Dr. Wharton on the 16th inst. Macon will lose, for a time, not only a good citizen but a fine musician, —Rev. C. D. Campbell, of Athens, will preach the dedication sermon at Hebron on the first Sabbath in August —so an esteemed brother at Cedar Hill informs us. The General Meeting of the Second District of the Western Association will convene on Friday before the third Sunday in August, at Long Cane. A. R. Callaway is appointed to preach the introductory. ANNUAL MEETINGS OF BAPTIST ASSOCIA TIONS IN GEORGIA, 1881. AUGUST. Noonday—Friday before Ist Sabbath, Ac worth, Cobb county. Ellijay—Friday before 4th Sabbath. Zion HIU, Gilmer county. Lawrenceville—Saturday before 4th Sab bath, Providence, Fulton county. Clarksville—Friday before 3d Sabbath, Ma cedonia, Lumpkin county. Coosa-Friday before 2d Sabbath,LaFayette, Walker county. North Georgia—Friday before 3d Sabbath, Mt. Hermon, Murray county. Hightower-Friday before 2d Sabbath, Un ion Hill, Forsyth county. SEPTEMBER. Appalachee—Tuesday before 3d Sabbath, Bethabara, Oconee county. Columbus—Saturday before 4th Sabbath, Bethlehem, Harris county. Flint River—Saturday before 4th Sabbath, Hollonvllle, Pike county. Oostanaula—Friday before Ist Sabbath. Bethel, five miles from Adairsville. Sarepta—Friday before 4th Sabbath, Union, Madison county. Stone Mountain—Friday before 2d Sabbath, Rockdale, Rockdale county. Washington—Friday before 4th Sabbath, Bethlehem, Washington county. Western—Saturday before 3d Sabbath, Wes tern, Heard county. Tallapoosa-Saturday before 2d Sabbath, Floyd Creek, Bartow county. Tugalo—Thursday before 3d Sabbath, Zldon, Franklin county. Second Georgia—Friday before 3d Sabbath, Zion church, DeKalb county. Jasper-Friday before Ist Sabbath, Jerusa lem, Pickens county. Middle Cherokee—Friday before 4th Sab bath, Tunnel Hill. OCTOBER. Baptist Union—Saturday before 3d Sabbath, Macedonia, Bullock county. Bowen—Saturday before 2d Sabbath, ML Pleasant, Decatur county. Carrollton—Saturday before 4th Sabbath, Aberllne, Carroll county. Cave Spring-Friday before 2d Sabbath, Poplar Spring, Chattooga county. Central-Tuesday before Ist Sabbath, Elam, Jones county. . Ebenezer—Saturday before 4th Sabbath, Gordon, Wilkerson county. Fairburn—Saturday belore Ist Sabbath, Be thesda, Campbell county. Friendship—Thursday before Ist Sabbath, Americus. Georgia—Thursday before 2d Sabbath, Shar on, Columbia county. Hephzibah—Friday before 3d Sabbath, Me- Bean, Burke county. Houston—Wednesday before 2d Sabbath, Drayton, Dooly county. Liberty—Thursday before Ist Sabbath, Toc coa. Habersham county. Mercer—Tuesday before 8d Sabbath, Thom- . asvllle, Thomas county. . Middle-Friday before 2nd Sabbath, Cor inth, Effingham county. Mount Vernon—Friday before Ist Sabbath, TennelL Washington county. New Ebenezer—Saturday before 3d Sabbath, Block House, Telfair. New Sunbury—Saturday before 4th Sabbath, Brunswick, Ga. Piedmont—Friday before 2d Sabbath, Con solation, Appling county, Rehoboth-Frlday before 3d Sabbath,Hayne ville, Houston county. Gillsville—Saturday before 4th Sabbath, Ho na er. Concord—Saturday before 2d Sabbath, Beu lah, Douglas county. Chattahoochee—Friday before 2d Sabbath, Holly Springs, Hall county. Smyrna-Friday before 4th Sabbath, ML Zurich, Coffee county. Mulberry—Friday before 2d Sabbath ML Moriah, Gwinnett county. NOVEMBER. • Bethel—Friday before 2d Sabbath, Camilla. Mitchell county.