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4 MOS?? HUNKY H. TUCKKR, Kditor PRAYER FOR GUITEAU. Among the millions of the human race, there is no one man who is the object of such universal execration as Charles J. Guiteau. In point of con spicuousness, he stands at the apex ; in point of infamy, he is below the basest. The whole world gazes upon him with horror and detestation. If we say of those who bear his name that they feel ashamed of him, and disgraced by him, we express with wretched tameness the abhorrence, disgust and loathing which must be felt more deeply by these than by any others. It may be said that he has not a friend upon the earth. Was there ever a man more completely isolated —more utterly forsaken—more wholly cut off from sympathy! He has committed a crime so capital that, to most men, sympathy seems like sin, and all men shudder away from him as from the Evil One. Hang him! Hang him! Hang him! is on every one’s lips; and millions are so impa tient for his execution that they can scarcely wait on the forms of law ; and if the real wish of the American people had been carried out, he would long ago have been thrust out of the world, amid hisses and curses, like a human mad-dog. We have simply stated the facts. Brethren! let us pray for him! What! Pray for that miserable wretch, before whose crime the whole world stands aghast! Yes, pray for him, even for him.. His crime is surely not greater than that of those who murdered the Lord of glory and the Prince of life, and these were prayed for—prayed for by him who, being the chief sufferer, was also "the effulgence of the Father’s glory, and the very image of his sub stance.” At the hands of man he may justly suffer death ; at the hands of God it may be that he, even he, may receive eternal life. Who dares to put limits to the possibilities of grace? Who can set bounds to the mercy of God? Shall we attempt to circumscribe the Infinite, and say to the Almighty, “Hitherto shall thy goodness extend, and no further? ” The domain of prayer is coextensive with that of the beneficence of God. Whatever is proper for him to do for fallen man, it is proper for us to ask for. Why should we hesitate to pray for Guiteau? Is he beyond the reach of the everlast ing arms? Is it impossible for God to save him? With God all things are possible. Perhaps it is not our faith that fails, for none would deny the power of God to save; it is the love of souls that fails us. Hot indignation against the assassin has dried up the streams of love that ought to flow from every Christian heart. Horror struck at the sin, we forget the soul of the sinner, or, if we remember, it is only with the spirit of vengeance. Is this right? God sees a whole world of sin, of which the crime of Guiteau is only an infinitesimal part, and yet “God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life.” If the all-holy One, against whose Person and whose Throne all sin is directed, can look on sinners with forbearance, and forgive ness, and love, ought not we, who are fellow-sinners, to pity and pray for a companion in guilt? In the sight of God there may not be that difference in sinners which appears to us. ‘‘For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is become guilty of all.” Even in our own sight, when we look within, dis tinctions begin to disappear, or to turn against us. When a man, whose con science is enlightened by the word of God, looks into his own heart, he sees that if he has not committed the crime of Guiteau, he has sinned against light and knowledge, and violated his own conscience, and broken through the barriers that the providence of God has thrown around him, and the loving restraints with which the Holy Spirit has encompassed him, and that he is the chief of sinners. Has not every saint said to himself, “If there is mercy for me, there may be mercy for any?” Guiteau is one who, like us, is made in the image of God; it is for such as he that Christ died ; his nature, vile as it is, is the same as ours; he is our brother. Shall he pass from the gal lows into eternity unpitied and un prayed for? Shall the poor, friendless, forsaken, forlorn creature be spurned out of the world without the uprising of a solitary heart in behalf of his im mortal soul? He is a man, and the eyes of mankind are upon him ; shall no eye moisten for him? Countless prayers have been offered for the President, as was proper; far more does Guiteau need them. The President, we hope, is accepted of God; certainly he is cherished by man, and certainly if he should die he will die in esteem and honor. But what an appalling horror is the prospect of Guiteau! Was there ever a man more in need of prayer? How many thousands of our people have profanely called on God to destroy his soul! And to this wicked prayer human nature responds Amen! But renewed nature, regenerate of the Holy Ghost, and imbued with the spirit of Jesus, should be at the opposite pole J THE CHRISTIAN INDEX AND SOUTH-WESTERN BAPTIST: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER I, 1881. and exclaim, "God be merciful.” The supplications of the saints in behalf of his soul should be as wide-spread as i their horror for his crime. Shall it be said that not one has remembered him iat the throne of grace? Oh, how much more honorable to Christian faith, and hope, and love, for it to be said that not one had forgotten him. In the kingdom of heaven God’s elect will surely meet with the spirit of the robber who was crucified by the side of our Lord, and, doubtless, with some whose hands were stained with the very bl xxl of the Redeemer; and it is wholly within the grasp of our faith that the assassin of the President, even if he should expire on the gallows, will be among the trophies of grace. Let not our faith outrun either our hope or our love, and let the people of God, with one accord, lay their hearts to gether, and in all earnestness, and in all sincerity, and in all tender love for a human soul, pray for the most con spicuous malefactor of earth. The cry of the Multitude: “Cru cify him! Crucify him! His blood be upon us and upon our children.” The Prayer of the Savior : “Fa ther forgive them, for they know not what they do! ” IFE ’UNS AND YOU ’UNS. When Northern writers attempt io reproduce in print the provincialisms of Southern dialect, they almost al ways represent the expressions we ’tins and you ’uns, and they 'uns, as being in very common use. We have al ways wondered at this, for having spent most of our life in this our na tive region, and being quite familiar with most varieties of dialect in use among all kinds of people,from highest to lowest, and over a large extent of territory, we never heard but one man say, we ’uns or you ’uns, and that was only two or three years ago ; and when we heard it, the sound was as strange to us, as it would be to a Philadelphian, or Bostonian, or Londoner. We feel sure too, that not one in a hundred of our readers ever heard this form of speech. We have recently discovered (or think we have) that the usage is confined entirely to the inhabitants of the Alleghany range, reaching from Pennsy vania to Alabama. The moun tain population, without regard to latitude, seems to be largely homogene ous, as if descended, chiefly at least, from a common stock. They have! mingled but little with the people of the lower country, and being thus isolated, have preserved some of the peculiarities brought from the mother country, which elsewhere among us have disappeared. IFe ’uns is not a usage peculiar to the South, as has been supposed; it is peculiar (in this country) to the mountains, whether North or South, Nor is it an Americanism ; it is com mon to this day in Scotland, and it was doubtless imported thence to our mountains, by the hardy Scotch immi grants, whose descendants to this day j bear the marks of their ancestry. Nor is the usage a modern one. This very day, in reading Tyndale’s New Testa ment, we found in Mat. 3 : 9. the fol lowing : “And se that ye ons thinke not to saye in yourselves we have Abraham to oure father." This was printed in 1526, more than three hundred and fifty years ago. So this form of ex pression has the prestige of antiquity ; it was the language of our ancestors, and had its origin in the genius of our people. The only difference between the mountaineersand ourselves is,that they are of purer stock, and have kept the traditions of our fathers which we have forgotten. Still, we rhust think that our language is improved by the disuse of this mode of speech, no less perhaps than by the change of orthog raphy. Rev. T. J. Swanson writes to us: “I greatly enjoy The Index. If I were able pecuniarily, I would furnish it for one year to every family that does not take it, in the churches to which I preach, if they would promise to read it.” There would be pastoral wisdom in such an expenditure of money; the growth of the church in enlightenment and liberality would be more than overpayment for the cost. Os course,we do not ask or desire any such line of action on the part of pastors ; but may us not ask them, for the sake of their flocks and for their own sake, to do what they can, byway of instruction and persuasion, to induce every Bap tist family to take the paper? We will try to make it more and more worthy of this general circulation. The President.—Oa Friday and Saturday of last week the President was supposed to be at the point of death, and on Sunday we were expec ting every hour to hear the news of his decease; but on that day he rallied and is now a great deal better. The change was unlocked for and aston ishing. It is now hoped that he will recover, but his recovery would be al most a miracle. The telegrams now received are very encouraging, and most persons are quite sanguine, but in our opinion the case is still in a extremely critical. This is written on Tuesday morning, August 30th. Moderi: progress in Bible lands is evinced by a new town going up near Jerusalem, a railway over the Jordan valley, a telegraph to Jaffa, a Jewish Agricultural College at Sharon and the hum of manufacturing in dustry at Bethlehem. j INCONSIDERATE CRITICISM. Innumerable criticisms are passed on the New Version, on the ground that there is not enough difference in the meaning of the changed expres sions, to justify the change. Many of these criticisms are based not on a careful investigation of the reasons for the change, but simply on the fact that the old expressions are familiar to the ear, while the new ones appear as strangers and intruders. Our partiali ties are all for the old ; our prejudices are all against the new; and thus we areapt to decide hastily, judging mere-- ly by the sound without carefully scrutinizing the sense. But such de cisions are what the lawyers call snap judgments—judgments rendered as it were inpromptu, and with insufficient investigation, or none or all, of the evidence and of the law. Three cases of this kind, mentioned by a correspondent of The Presbyterian are now before us. 1. “Be not conformed to this world,” Rom. 12:2. The New Version has it, “Be not fashioned according to this world,” and the Presbyterian writer objects; we approve. So far as the meaning of the Greek is concerned, one rendering in perhaps as good as the other. But in English, the words conformed aad transformed occurring in cluse proximity,suggest by the sound, that there is a peculiar relationship between them, and also, that a similar relationship exists between the Greek words which are thus translated. But, such, as to the Greek, is not the fact; and it is well not to suggest, even by mere coincidence of sound, that which is not true. Again, the Revisers, by using the won! fashioned, put themselves in harmony with Tyndale, and with all the earlier English Versions. The use of the word conformed was an af ter-thought and a fancy-thought of King James’ translators. Further more, in 1. Pet. 1:14, the same Greek word occurs, and in all the Versions except one, it is translated fashioned; so almost all the weight of authority favors this rendering ; and there is no reason why the word should be trans lated conformed in one place and fash ioned in the other. King James’ men avow that they sought variety; our late Revisers have sought uniformi ty, and this is better. 2. “Lest at any time we let them slip,” Heb. 2:1. The New Version has it, “Lest we * * * drift away from them.” The first expression conveys the idea of forgetting ; the second con veys the idea of neglecting ; and this harmonizes with the context, which says, “How shall we escape if we neg lect so great salvation.” Moreover,near ly all the best scholarship ancient and modern, prefers the rendering adopted by the revisers. Every change which brings the English into more exact ac cordance with the Greek, is for the better. The original text cannot be improved upon. 3. “Sin is the transgression of the law.” I Jno. 3: 4. The New Version has it, “Sin is lawlessness.” The old form is more agreeable to the ear be cause we are accustomed to it, but the new form is an exact translation of the Greek, which the old is not. More over, a very important doctrinal differ ence is involved. Our common ver sion would seem to teach, that noth ing is sin but actual transgression; that is, that sin is always an act; the New Version teaches, that sin is a state or condition; one refers to the overt act, the other to native charac ter, and harmonizes with the words of David, when he said, “Behold I was shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me,” Ps. 51; 5. The word lawlessness describes fallen man, whose disregard of God’s law is inborn, C' institutional and chronic; the words transgression of the law describe a sin gle unrighteous deed, and thus cover only a spot. As the Apostle used the strong word which means lawlessness, and thus covers the whole ground, let us have it in English. Give us not only the truth, but the whole truth, and let the English be as all-embracing as the Greek. The difference in the meaning of the two expressions, which we have compared with each other, is like the difference between a speck and a con tinent or a world. Give us the huge volume of Apostolic thought, and not the diminutive little conception of King James’ translators. The Revisers were right in each of the three cases mentioned by our Pres byterian friend, and we must think that his criticisms were not the result of careful study. A correspondent of the United Pres byterian says of the New Version: “It is safe to say that .the American Committee’s work is what has mainly created the American interest, and if the committee had been confined to the Church of England, their revised Testa ment would have created no more inter est on this side of the ocean than one of Beaconsfield’s novels.” As matter of fact the New Version has been received with very little favor in England, and hence the work of the Americans is all that has given the New Version any great currency any where ; and yet,when an edition of the book is about to be published by the American Baptist Publication Society with the American suggestions incor porated in the text, The Christain at Work says that the publication is “en tirely uncalled for, unwise, and entire ly at the suggestion, and in the inter terest, of private belief.” “Such an edi- tion,” says the C. at W. “could have no real value, for it would be after all. nothing more than a Baptist opinion.” Verily the American Revisers have struck the Christian at Work a stun ning blow. If our weekly visits to the brethren were as pleasant to them as their occa i sional visits to the Index office are to us, we might well be satisfied. We have been cheered recently by the pres ence of brethren, J. 8. Dodd, H. F. Buchanan, C. H. Strickland, I. T. Tichenor, J. H. Kilpatrick, G. A. Nun nally, S. A. Goodwin, G. R. McCall, D. E. Butler, G. F. 11 >ward H. W. Battle and others. T GLIMPSES AND HINTS. —The American and English Baptists have three centres of missionary work in Italy—R ime, Genoa and Naples, and occupy eleven cities and towns. The three English missionaries have ten Italian evangelists laboring with them, and claim a church membership of 266. —ln the sphere of moral and religious work, the man best fitted for a place is, in no small degree, least likely to hold it. Satan, scheming against the true and the r'ght, will do his utmost to prevent that man from getting the place, or t j prevent him from retaining it. —A brother inonires as to the truth of a statement that “King James’ translators coined the words, ’baptism’ and 'baptize', to avoid the use of ‘immersion’ and ‘immerse.” The statement is absurdly false. These » ords were transferred from Greek to Latin, perhaps in the Old Italic version of the second century, certainly in the revision of that version by Jerome in the fourth. They passed from that language into all later European languages—into the English, of course; and we find them in Wycliff's ver sion, A, D 1380, and in Tyndale’s, A. D. 1525. In King Janies’ time they belonged to ‘ the old ecclesiastical words" which be re quired the translators to preserve in their version. —We notice in an exchange the statement that outside of Baltimore, (which has 6,000 Baptists, half of them colored,) there is not a single self sustaining Baptist church in Maryland. —We tender sympathy to our brethren of the Baptist Sun, R nue, Ga., on the burning of the types and books of their office, entail ing a loss of some SBOO, and congratulate them on their prompt resumption of publi cation. —The Baptist church at Berlin, Prussia, received nineteen members, June s;h, by baptism. —Of the sacred writers, Dr Dagg says: “Their peculiarities of thought, feeling and style, have no more effect to prevent what they spoke and wrote from being the word of God, than their peculiarities of voice or of chirography.” —Rev. T. L. McLeod, of Kentucky, during a recent visit to bis friends in Middle Geor gia, baptized his half-brother. —Dr. Samuel H. Cox once said : “The millennium will never come till we have a new translation.’’ We may venture, at least, to say that we will have a new trans lation before the millennium comes. Mean while. let us accept the recent revision of the New Testament and every other revision,— each for what it is worfh;—thankful for every approach they make toward the fidelity and accuracy of an out and out translation. —The Macon Telegraph states that Dr. M. if* Wharton has resigned his position as United States Consul at Sonneberg, because 'hat "small manufacturing town” furnishes "little or no society,” and lacks the educa tional facilities the hope of which was one of t ie Ductor's chief reasons for going to Europe. —Deaths and removals among the mem bers, and the church debt, have constrained Rsv- J- O’B Lowry to resign the pastorate of the Coliseum Place Baptist church. New Orleans. —Rev. R-üben Jones, DD„ has been elected pastor of Shoulder's Hill Baptist church, Va., thirty-three times. The first election was scriptural, and held good through all the thirty-three years: the sub sequent elections were mere forms, neither warranted nor helpful. By the way. Rev. G R McCall of our State has beeu annually elected pastor of the same church for twenty seven years, without a single vote against him. —There are 2,230 members in the 22 Bap list churches in Denmark. —The Baptist church at Yokohama, Ja pan, has hud an accession of twenty-seven members, the present year. —lt is the happy thought of a Texas Bap list, that “the children should assemble in Convention, and discuss the best means of getting the parents into the Sunday school ” The true ideal of the Sunday-school includes the attendance both of the old and of the young for Bible study. Without the old, as scholars and as teachers, there can be but a half-school. —At the Louisiana Baptist State Conven tion, $1,048 50 were secured for ministerial education and SI2OO were pledged for the support of Prof. E M. Shaddock as Sunday school evangelist. —Many persons object to the revised New Testament on the ground that “it is not ele gant English,” and argue that it should not come into general recognition and use for this reason. They are precisely as wise as if they had been Greek-speaking Christians of the first century, and bad withstood the general recognition and use of the original New Testament, because (as everybody knows) that original was not elegant Greek. —A church, in Stewart county, Ga., is represented by the Christian Weekly as pay ing its pastor a salary of twelve pairs of woolen socks a year—a pair for each monthly visit! —American Seventh-Day Biptists, num bering 8 548, raised last year $4,000 for for eign missions.—an average of nearly 50 cents each,—and support a missionary at Shang hai, who reports nineteen converts. —A nephew of the king of the Camaroons has been converted, and applies to English Baptists for permission to labor as their miss sionary in that region. —Spurgeon’s Pastoi’s College has had 355 students in the course of twenty-five years, who, in that time, have baptized 43,336 persons. —The stated ministers of all denomina tions in Great Britain number 36,000, and the Sabbath congregations average 10,000,- 000. —Two hundred foreign missionaries have gone out from the Congregationalists of Vermont—a fact highly creditable to that people, and worth pondering, perhaps, in connection with the decline of infant bap tism among them. —The end was before the beginning,—the end caused the beginning. What we call “the consummation of all things”—that far-away epoch in “the ages of the ages”— was a thought in the mind of God ; and for the sake of that thought He wrought the work of creation. —There are six Baptist house* of worship in Philadelphia, which cost from $60,000 to SIBO,OOO each. We question whether it was right to draw such sums from the Lord's treasury for this purpose. GEORGIA BAPTIST NEWS. Eastman Times : The foundation for "the new Baptist church building is about completed. It is of concrete work, and appears to be very substan tial. Franklin News : The Baptist breth ren at Franklin have just closed a meeting, during which there was a marked revival of brotherly love and devotion to the cause of Jesus. The meeting continued a week and closed without any abatement of interest. There were eight accessions to the church by experience. Sixth District correspondent New nan Herald: The meeting at Ebenezer closed last Friday with four added to the church by baptism. It was in deed a glorious, good revival and the able, earnest sermons of the pastor made a good impression and will long be remembered by both saint and sin ner. The work on Ebenezer church for good reasons has beeu but will commence Wednesday, the 24th, and the committee hope to finish this week. It is one of the oldest churches in the county, having been constituted June 10th, 1828. This is the fourth house they have worshiped in and during the time, over fifty-three years, it has had fourteen pastors and received by baptism or letter from other churches nearly six hundred white members. In its list of pastors, who are all dead but four, are the names of some of the best in the de nomination for piety and zeal in the cause, and many of Coweta’s truest and most honored and respected citi zens were once members of this church. The male members at present are few in number and not blessed with an abundance of this world's goods, but they feel profoundly greatful to their outside friends for the liberal assist ance rendered in repairing the house. We are under special obligations to the colored Baptists of the neighbor hood for valuable assistance in repair ing the church. Turin correspondent Newnan Her ald : When my last article was penciled I was then in the vicinity of Whitewater church, Fayette countv. I also promised to give the result of the meeting then in progress. Six were added to the membership of the church, and the church was greatly revived. Rev. James Spurlin, Bishop Boykin and Dr. Phelps assisted the pastor during the progress of the meeting. On my return home I find Dr. Woolsey under good headway with his meeting at the burg. Dr. Hall, of Newnan, and Bishop Austin, of Canada, are assisting in the meet ing. The Bishop demonstrates well, and none are better prepared to attest the force of his demonstration than Dr. Woolsey himself. The meeting is largely attended, and the prospect is flattering for a good meeting. The church at its last conference licensed Mr. John Farmer to preach. Mr. F. is a young man of promise, being blessed with an easy address and a liberal education. Fourth District correspondent New nan Herald : The church at Elim held a nine day’s meeting, conducted by its able pastor, R. H. Jackson, as sisted by Rev. B. F. Amis. The meeting closed on Sunday, the 14th of August, with the following result: Received by letter, three; and ex perience and baptism ten. In short, it was a good meeting. Eastman letter in Hawkinsville Dispatch: Work on the new Baptist church has commenced in good earnest, much to the gratification of the mem bers and friends of that denomination. It bids fair to be a beautiful and com modious structure, and will add greatly to the appearance of the street on which it is located. Mr. Jesup, and a few other devoted Baptists, have been untiring in their efforts to build their denomination a house of worship, and they are doubly entitled to the thanks of those for whose especial benefit they have labored with unabating en ergy and zeal. Let the house be built, and God speed them in their worthy efforts. Warrenton Clipper: “Uncle Shad” (Rev, W. N. Chaudoin) made us a pleasant call last Tuesday. He preached an effectual sermon at the Baptist church Wednesday night. He is in better health since he moved to Florida. He is corresponding secre tary of the Florida State Board.and is traveling a short time in Georgia in the interest of that State’s Baptist building interests. Sparta Ishmaelite: The Rev. L. A. Pattillo informs us that he has re cently attended several good meetings where much good was done in reviving the churches, and adding new mem bers to the same. His first meeting was at Smyrna, were he assisted Rev. J. H. Hall, the pastor in charge, in conducting a meeting of several diy’s duration. Here were five accessions to the church, and the membership greatly revived. He next visited An tioch and assisted Rev. A. J. Hard wick in a six day’s glorious meeting. Twenty-four were added to the church, and the membership greatly revived. The next was at Friendship, where he assisted Rev. A. M. Epps for several days, and accomplished much good, as seventeen new names were added to the church roll. Union Point department Greens boro Herald: Dr. Landrum preached an old fashioned sermon in Union Point Baptist church last Sunday night, taking for his subject, “Salva vation by Grace,” emphasizing the utter inability of man to do anything meritorious or that can help him to salvation ;that grace is the beginning and the end, free, unmeritorious, but at the same time complete and full. Dr. Landrum is among our best preachers, and always has full congre gations. The Third Baptist church, Atlanta, at a cost of some S4OO, has added to its house of worship a baptistery with robing room, a pastor’s study and a room for a library. On Sabbath night week, three females and one male were baptized—the first use of the baptistery’. We note with pleasure these signs of progress under the la bors of that indefatigable worker, Rev. H.C. Hornady. There was a great revival in the Baptist courch at Auraria a few days ago, and a large number of converts were baptized on Sunday. Handsome improvements are being made in the Bowdon church-building. Hartwell Sun: The Milltown Baptist church has just closed one of the best meetings experienced in quite a num ber of years. The meeting commenced on Saturday 13th instant, and closed Wednesday 24th. Preaching conduct ed by Revs. Earle, Vernon, andMcLes ky. Great good has been accomplished —nineteen additions made to the church. But this is not all— the church has been reunited, and brotherly love and friendship has been restored be tween former members of this church. Pages might be written upon the amount of good accomplished by’ this meeting, but suffice it to say : Milltown is in unity. Behold how good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell to gether in unity! Brother James Barrow w’rites from Bowdon, August 26th : We closed to day a precious revival meeting. Our pastor being absent, brother T. J. Beck preached every day and night. He made his mark in Bowdon as a sound Baptist. Two are to be baptized this morning, husband and wife, both con verted during our meeting. Great and blessed results have fol lowed the revival meeting at Rutledge. The church -has been thoroughly re vived ; twenty persons have been added to the membership. In the absence of the pastor, ten converts were baptized by Rev. J. T. Reeves, who has been laboring faithfully and successfully for the church during this revival. Others are awaiting baptism. Bro. C. M. Irwin writes from Mt. Airy : “I have just returned from Rabun county, where the Mountain Associa tion met. Very much of the coin on the uplands of that county is burned up. No rain since April. It was sad, oh, so sad, to see the prospect of that poor people for bread, to say nothing about food for stock.” DEATH Oh A RIGHTEOUS MAN IN THE HOUSE OF PR A YER. In the providence of God, our dear brother James W. Churchill found a good place to die. Could there be a better one on earth than the house of God? There is the gate to heaven. There are assembled the members of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, there the saints meet, sing praises and speak of the hopes and juys which are promised to those that love the Lord in simplicity and truth. Last Friday night, the brethren who are members of the young men’s prayer meeting of the Third Baptist church, in this city, with a number of ladies, met as usual for service. The Scriptures had been read, pray ers had been opened for a blessing upon the meeting, for the church, for the conversion of sinners, and for the spread of the gospel in the whole earth. The preacher was commenting upon, and enforcing the truths contained in the sermon of the apostle Paul in the 13 th chapter of Acts, when the atten tion of a brother was attracted by the appearance of something quite unusual in the conduct of brother James W, Churchill. He hastened to him. called brother H. C. Hornady, the pastor, and a few others, and such appliances as could be had for his relief were us ed, but all in vain. Brother Churchill was speechless, without pulse, and with a single gasp, no struggle, or apparent suffering, had in those few moments breathed his life away. His counten ance was composed, and all about him indicated apeaceful and a happy death, amid the services of God in the place appointed for worship, prayer and praise. The audience sat spell-bound. Death was there, and the spirit of a saint, re deemed by the blood of Christ, and justified by His resurrection from the dead, had just left the house of God on earth, for that “house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.” So died a Christian pilgrim of sixty seven years. Thus passed away brother James W. Churchill, a member of the First Baptist church of this city. In the absence of brother Gwin, brother H. C. Hornady preached one of the best funeral sermons we have heard, last Sunday afternoon. The text was, “A good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith.” The text and sermon were well suited to the char acter and life of the dear departed brother. D. E. B.