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HENRY H. TUCKER, Editor,
••GETTING TO HE A VEN."
If I can only get to heaven that’s all
that I care for; and all that anybody
ought to care for. After I get there,
what difference will it make to me
how I got there, or how anybody got
there, or what happened in this life,
or what’either I or anybody else be
lieved, or said, or did? The preachers
waste their time in talking about non
essentials. The truth is, that non-es
tials are virtually and practically non
entities —mere nothings; and it is
■pitiful to see men excited about such
wretched trifles. If a man is only
sure of heaven,how perfectly contemp
tible are all those things so much
talked about, which have nothing to
•do (as the preachers themselves ad
mit) with his getting there; and after
he gets there, who will ever think of
them? And what good would come of
giving them a thought?
Such talk as this is often heard in
private life, and sometimes, what
amounts to nearly the same thing
is heard from the pulpit. To all who
speak in this way, we have simply to
say, that the sentiment which possess
es them is one which gives strong ev
idence that they are not on the way to
heaven, nor in such state of mind that
they would enjoy it if they were there.
Their spirit is wiercenary; they
Tvork for pay; their religion, so far as
they have any, is like the labor of a
hireling, who despises his work, but
performs it for a consideration.
Their spirit is selfish ; they have no
thought of anything outside of their
own interest; the will of God they
care nothing about; the truth of God
they have no regard for; the welfare
of others does not concern them ; with
them self is the universe; it engrosses
their whole thought, and every other
person, and thing, and interest, is ex
cluded ; it is a practical annihilation
(subjectively) of all in this world, or
in the world to come, except self.
Their spirit is an ungrateful one.
God, who so loved the world as to give
his only begotten Son for its salvation,
is not thought of; Christ who died for
us, and gave himself for us, and bare
•our sins in his own body on the tree,
is forgotten ; the Holy Spirit is not a
comforter, nor a companion. The sal
vation which they suppose to be offer
ed is grasped at with greed enough,
but with no thanks to him who offers
it, and with no regard to his wish or
pleasure. If he has said anything, we
can afford to disregard it, so we only
get to heaven. If he claims our affec
tions, we can afford to refuse them, so
we only get to heaven.
It is a self deluding spirit. No such
salvation as they dream of has ever
been offered, or is possible. The heav
en of their hopes is a fictitious heaven;
no such heaven exists. They desire
to be freed from the penalties of sin,
and made happy, while yet they have
no appetite for the things which are
essential to happiness, and from which
alone it springs. The heaven of the
Bible is a reality; the heaven of their
imagination is a phantom. The joy
of the blest is based on the eternal
principles of right; the joy they an
ticipate is based on nothing. Nay,
they hope for a heaven, which is the
very antagonism of the heaven which
God has provided for the people whom
he loves, and who love him.
It is a disobedient spirit. Such com
.Tnands as must be obeyed in order that
we may get to heaven, are obeyed not
for the pleasure we take in obedience,
but for what we expect to gain by it.
Other commands we can afford to dis
obey, and even laugh at, and ridicule,
for after we get to heaven, what differ
ence will it make whether we have
obeyed them or not? If God has com
manded a non-essential thing the folly
is on his side in commanding it, and
the wisdom is on our side in disregard
ing that which practically amounts to
nothing.
It is an irreverent spirit; for it makes
light of the holy words which proceed
from the mouth of God; it makes a
jest of the most solemn, the most sa
cred, the mostawful, and the most sub
lime things of tune, or of eternity.
It is an unbeli ving spirit. There
may be much of Divine truth revealed
io men for their instruction, and com
fort, and edification, and growth in
grace, which is not essential to salva
tion. The man who treats all this as
if it were a trifle, shows want of confi
dence in the wisdom, or in the truth of
God, or in both. Surely this spirit is
not compatible with that faith with
out which it is impossible to please
him. The spirit which, in this indi
rect way, treats the word of God with
-contempt, will grow as all spirits grow,
and when it has attained its full
growth, it will make short work, and
call God a liar.
This hastily sketched analysis shows
the elements of which that spirit is
composed which says, “I care for noth
ing so I get to heavenit is mercena
. ry, selfish, ungrateful, self-deluding, 1
disobedient, irreverent and unbelieving, | <
Is one thus possessed likely ever to get
there? His whole being is the strongest
possible antithesis to the charactcrof the I
saints, who work not for pay but for i
love; whose self is crucified; whose j
THE CHRISTIAN INDEX AND SOUTH-WESTERN 3APTIST ! THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1881.
souls are running over with grateful
emotion ; who obey not because they
must, but because»they may; who
diligently seek to know the will of God,
because they rejoice to do it; who are
filled with loving wonder and delight,
with holy surprise and rapturous ad
miration, in view of the sweet, and
precious, and glorious disclosures of
wisdom and mercy set forth in the
sacred oracles; who believing that any
word that comes from God is of infi
nite value, seize it, and appropriate it,
and try to incorporate it into their very
being, so as to identify themselves, so
far as possible, with the embodiment
of all beauty and loveliness, and holi
ness, and excellence. Surely they who
are last described give thrilling evi
dence that they are on the way to the
pearly gates, and that when they en
ter there, they will be at home! Just
as surely, those whose character is the
opposite of all this, have turned their
backs on the heavenly city, and with
every breath they draw, are nearing
1 the place prepared for them, where
they too, will be at home! If the two
should exchange homes, both would
, be equally miserable, for to the saints
absence from God is perdition indeed,
and heaven is hell to him who has not
' heaven in himself.
;
> THE -COLORED MAN.”
) We have too much respect for a
- Negro to call him a “colored man.” If
- | he is not called a Negro it would be
> i better to call him a black man, for
l ■ this is at least descriptive, which the
. i phrase “colored man” is not. For one
• would naturally ask, What color? It is
; moreover impolite, if not insulting to
i “call a man out of his name.” This
; careful avoidance of the real name im
plies that there is something of dis-
> credit if not of disgrace attached to it,
• and those who practice it are acknowl-
- edging tacitly if unwittingly that they
I speak of a degraded people—of a peo
s pie so low in the scale of humanity
that their very name is unworthy of
i being pronounced. It is remarkable
■ too that those who claim to be the
greatest friends (?) of the Negro,never
call him by name. Whenever they
come to that word, they shun it as a
black leprosy and resort to a silly and
meaningless circumlocution, calling
him, with a display of outward respect
which implies inward contempt, a col
ored man ! This senseless appellation
is a mere nickname, a left-handed com
pliment and a reproach. We have
never offered this indignity to the Afri
can race ; we have always called them
Negroes ; and their own pride ought to
prompt them to speak of themselves in
the same way.
We confess however to have been
faulty in one particular; we have usu
ally spelled the word with a small “n.”
We followed the fashion, but the sash-
■ ion is wrong, and we shall follow it no
more. We have just read an article
written by a Negro for a Negro paper,
. published in Philadelphia, from which
. we copy an extract.
; I have just finished reading your issue of
' July 28tli, and in that issue (as in every
1 issue.) you use the noun “Negro” but spell
, it with a small *n;” why is this thus? I
i only went to school eighteen months, but I
learned in that short time that the word
negro was the name of a race of people of
over 165,000,000 in number, and consequent
ly a noun. I can't understand why the
most of our “big” men spell this word with
a small “n,”
Even such men as Mr. Douglass make this
same mistake. In his recent article in the
North American Review, he spells Teutonic,
Caucasian, Jew, Saxon, Norman, European,
Irish, American, Mongolian, Chinaman,
Turk, German, Hibernian, and Hebrew
with capital letters, but when he comes to
the poor negro he uses a small “n.”
We stand corrected; the Negro is
right; and hereafter we shall always
give the Negro his due in a capital N.
Strange to say the Negro editor of the
paper in question refuses to be correc
ted and adheres to the small “n.” He
prefers to be called an “American.”
An American he may be as to citizen
ship, but as to race, Negroes must be
Negroes, and instead of being ashamed
of thtir name, they ought to be asham
ed of themselves for having been
ashamed of it.
It is amusing to observe that the
Negro writer above quoted, while
rebuking others for spelling the name
of his race with a small “n,” falls into
the same error himself in two instances.
We shall profit by the tuition of our
teacher as well as by bis failure to use
the proper letter in the spelling of his
own name.
Covington Star: The protracted
meeting at the Baptist church last
week, resulted in the addition of two
to the church—Luther and Lillian
Brittain—son and daughter of Elder
J. M. Brittain, the pastor. They were
baptized in the church baptistry on
Saturday night. The ceremony was
unusually impressive.
Relative to the above meeting Bro.
Brittain writes: We have just closed
an interesting meeting at Covington.
The church was very much revived,
and we have reason to believe that some
good was done in the community. We
had only two accessions during the
meeting. It was my sweet privilege
to baptize my two oldest children. The
scene was unusually interesting, and
the vast congregation present seemed
to be very much impressed. For this
evidence of God’s loving kindness we
are very grateful.
Greensboro Herald: There is an in
teresting revival meeting in progress
at Baird’s church. Dr. Mell and Rev.
Mr. Straton are conducting it.
A CHAPTER FROM TYNDALE.
Very few of our readers have ever
seen any other version of the Scrip
tures than the one in common use.
Not merely to gratify their curiosity,
but for more serious purposes, we pub
lish below a chapter from Tyndale’s
New Testament. It will be observed
that some of the expressions are pecu
liar, and that the spelling is very ec
centric. At the time this book was
published, our language had not crys
tallized into its present shape, and the
orthography was unsettled. It will be
seen, however, that in this rude Eng
lish the sense is as clearly conveyed as
in the more polished language of the
present day. Tyndale’s Testament,
which appeared in the year 1526, was
the first translation from the original
Greek ever published in the English
language.
Previous to this, in 1380, the Bible
had been translated into English by
John Wiclif or Wyckliffe; but this was
fifty years before the art of printing
was invented, (about 1430,) and the
book was circulated only in manu
script. A few copies of this manu
script still exist. The book was first
printed in 1731, and has been reprint
ed since. But this was not a transla
tion from the Greek ; it was translated
from a Latin version known as the
Vulgate. Thus it was a translation of
a translation; and everyone must
know that every translation impairs,
somewhat, the force of any composi
tion, and opens additional sources of
error. Tyndale’s may be regarded as
practically the first version of the
Scriptures published in the English
language, as it was actually the first
translated from the original tongue. It
is the basis of the version now in use;
and, indeed, every translation into
English since Tyndale’s day, has been
little more than a revision of his work.
It was prepared under great persecu
tion, and Tyndale, the Christian schol
ar, and hero, and martyr, the father of
the English Bible, was rewarded for
his marvellous labors by being first
strangled and then burnt near Ant
werp, A. D. 1536, when in his sixtieth
year. Wyckliffe, his predecessor, died
a natural death (1384), but his bones
were afterwards dug up and burnt,and
the ashes were thrown on a dunghill.
But here is the chapter:
THE THIRDE CHAPTER.
In those dayes Jhon the baptisercam
and preached in the wildernes off iury
saynge: Repent the kyngdome of
heven is at honde. This is he of whom
it is spoken be the prophet Esay which
sayeth : The voyce off a cryer in wyl
dernes prepare the lordes way and
make hyspathes strayght.
This Jhon had his garment offcam
els heer and a gerdell off a skynne
aboute his loynes. His meate was lo
custes and wyld bony. Then went
out to him Jerusalem and all and
and all the region rounde aboute Jor
dan and were baptised of hym in Jor
dan knoledging their synnes.
When he sawe many off the phari
ses and off the saduces come to hys
baptism he sayde vnto them : O gene
ration of vipers who hath taught you
to fle from the vengeaunce to come?
brynge forthe therefore the frutes be
longynge to repentaunce. And se
that ye ons thinke not tosayein your
selves we have Abraham to oure fath
er. For I say vnto you that God is
able off these stones to rayse up chyl
dren vnto Abraham. Evennowisthe
ax put vnto the rote of the trees: soo
that every tree which bringeth not
fforthe goode frute shalbe hewne doune
and cast into the fyre.
I Baptise you in water in token of
repentaunce but he that cometh after
me is myghtier than I: whose shues I
am not worthy to beare. he shal bap
tise you with the holy gost and with
fyre which hath also his fan in his
hond and will pourge his floore and
gadre the wheet into his garner and
will burne the chaffe with everlastynge
fyre.
Then cam Jesus from Galile into
Jordan to Jhon ffor to be baptised off
hym. But Jhon fforbade hym saynge:
I ought to be baptysed off the: and
commest thou too me? Jesus answer
ed and sayde to hym : Lett hyt be so
nowe. For thus hitt becommeth us to
fulfyll all rightewesnes. Then he suf
fred hym. And Jesus as sone as he
was baptised came strayght out of the
water: And lo heven was open vnto
hym : and he saw the spirite of God
descende lyke a dove and lyght vpon
hym. And lo there cam a voice from
heven sayng: thys ys my deare sonne
in whom is my delyte.
ANOTHER SURRENDER.
The N. Y. Independent speaking of
the change by which sprinkling was
substituted for baptism and the bap
tism of infants for that of believers,
has these remarkable words—remark
able for their frankness:
This, we suppose, may be considered as
settled, that, if a change in anything is good,
it is according to the mind of Christ. The
only question is whether an ordinance ap
pointed by Christ is so sacred that no change
can be good. It appears to us that in the
mind of Christ the ordinance is only a means
to an end. The end is all that Christ cared
for when on earth, or cares for now. If any
ordinance of his,or if his method of perform
ing it, fails to meet in the best way the end
he had in view, he would, if he were on
earth, modify it. And we should judge that
what he would do, if he were with his
Church, that Church has the right to do, al
ways holding fast to the great purpose which
was to be gained by his Word and bis wor
ship.
We repeat this extraordinary de
liverance sentence by sentence with a
comment on each.
Tris, we suppose, may be considered as
settled, that if a change in anything is good,
it is according to the mind of Christ.
Who is to decide that a change in a
positive precept is good? Who has the
authority to change the law of Christ?
“He that hath my word, let him speak
my word faithfully.” Is it faithfulness
to change the word?
The only question is whether an ordinance
appointed" by Christ is so sacred that no
change can be good.
And this is no question at all. We
are not prepared to argue on any such
subject. Will our Presbyterian and
Methodist exchanges come to our re
lief? “What is the chaff to the wheat,
saith the Lord?”
It appears to ns that in the mind of Christ
the ordinance is only a means to an end.
It appears to us, that the mind of
Christ is best expressed in his own
words; "Go teach . . . baptizing."
The end is all that Christ cared for when
on earth, or cares for now.
One great end that he cared for
then, and cares for now, is exact obe
dience. “If ye love me, keep my com
mandments.”
It any ordinance of his, or if his method
of performing it. fails to meet in the best
wav the end he had in view, he would, if he
were on earth, modify it.
If, if, if! Oh that word if I If the Son
of God ; i/ the Eternal Word that was
in the beginning with God, and that
was God, — if he made a mistake in se
lecting the best means to accomplish
his end! We have nothing to say and
call on our Pedobaptist friends again
for help.
And we should judge that what he would
do, if he were with his church, <that church
has the right to do, always holding fast to
the great purpose which was to be gained by
his Word and his worship.
Here it is assumed that he would
substitute sprinkling for baptism and
infants for believers as the subjects of
it, if he were with us, because these
are improvements; and this implies
that he actually erred in his first teach
ings, and has learned by experiment,
how to amend them. How does the
Independent know that Christ has dis
covered his mistake? and that if he
were with us he would correct it? For
our part, we prefer to be guided by
what he has said and commanded,
rather then by what men presumptu
ously imagine he would say and com
mand, if with increasing light, he had
the opportunity.
Now beloved brethren of the Pedo
baptist world, who love our Lord Jesus
Christ in sincerity, see where your
champions are leadingyeu! They have
abandoned Scripture ground altogeth
er, leaving us Baptists in undisputed
possession of it. They have made ab
solute and unconditional surrender of
the whole sacred territory, and have
put themselves outside the pale of
Scripture argument. Os course, they
would not have taken such position
unless they were in extremity, and
could do nothing better. Are you
willing to abandon the word of God,
and go with them? If not, you must
either occupy ground acknowledged
by your own champions to be unten
able, or else come to us. Perhaps you
will say that the Independent does not
represent your ablest defenders. Re
member then, that that journal has
only followed the lead of the late Dean
Stanley, whose eulogy has been penned
by ten thousand writers, and who is
confessedly one of your most learned
men; and remember too, that he fol
lowed the lead of Neander, and we may
say of the whole school of German
theologians. The weight of Pedobap
tist authority and scholarship, taken
as a whole, is with the Independent,
and largely so; though in this coun
try there are not many so frank and
bold as he. In short,there are two theo
ries, the Bible theory and the develop
ment theory; those who hold to the
former ought to come to us; the ad
herents of the latter are at home with
the Independent, and with Dean Stan
ley, and with the German neologists.
There is no half way ground. Dear
brethren of the Pedobaptist world, may
God grant you grace to see and do the
right.
Rev. A. Van Hoose writes from Se
noia : I closed a very interesting meet
ing at Greenville last Sabbath. It
commenced on the night of August
4th. On account of rain and wind it
did not really commence until Satur
day the 6th, and lasted until the 14th.
On the last day eight were baptized and
one left to be baptized at my next ap
pointment. Bro. Harris, of Greenville,
was with me all the meeting and did
good service. Bro. J. H. Hall ,of New
nan, also preached four excellent ser
mons and did good service in other
ways,
Bro. J. B. S. Davis writes from New
nan : Recently the church at Grant
ville has been greatly revived and
blessed and fifteen added by experience
and baptism. The church also at Eb
enezer, in this county, has enjoyed a
season of refreshing, and four added
by experience and baptism.
Rev. J. H. Corley, pastor of the Bap
tist church at Fort Gaines, has accept
ed a call from the church at Shorter
ville, Ala., and it is quite probable that
he will remove his family from Dawson
to that place.
GLIMPSES AND HINTS.
—Rev. 8- Landrum, D.D., has returned to
the State from bis Northern trip. He found
it impossible to secure funds for Mercer
University from abroad, for luckof time and
personal acquaintance; and it is his convic
tion that the Baptists of Georgia must them
selves sustain and endow their College. He
thinks that the income of the University
must be supplemented by regular church
collections until the endowment is secured.
—The First Baptist church, Galveston.
Texas, has called Rev. A. T. Spalding, D.D.,
of Atlanta, as pastor- We do not think that
he will accept the position tendered him,
although, so far as we know, he has not
spoken on the subject.
—Georgb Macdonald represents “fluency
of speech’’ as “the crowning glory and ruin
of a fool.”
—The tendency in Germany. Joseph Cook
tells ns,. is’ toward evangelical doctrine.
Rationalistic Heidelberg has 24 theological
students, while of the evangelical institutions
Berlin has 280, Halle 504 and Leipsic 438.
—Alexander Carson says: “If God avows
the whole Scriptures as his word, a falsehood
as to anything will aftect the revelation.
The Bible must not utter a philosophical
lie, nor a historical lie, more than a relig
ious lie. If it lies on one subject, who will
believe it on another? If it lies as to earthly
things, who will believe it about heavenly
things?”
—Spurgeon has a “Book Fund,” manaced
chiefly by bis wife,for thegratuitous distribu
tion of religious works among ministers of
all denominations, who are too poor and too
poorly paid to purchase them. The con
tributions to the Fund in 1880 amounted to
$6,202 46; and volumes were sent to 22 Pres
byterian, 130 Episcopal, 154 Independent,
258 Baptist and 317 Methodist ministers.
—The Texas Bapt’st Herald reports “more
of the revival spirit in that State than for
several years past.” This is true of Georgia
also, we think, and, in fact, of the South
generally.
—The conscience should be sensitive to
right and wrong. The Christian stiould seek
the influence ot the Holy Spirit to make it
so, and strive, by continual, prompt obedi
ence, to keep it so. It should be as sensitive
and delicate as the scales for weighing gold
in the Assay Office at New York, which,
when brought to a balance with two pieces
of paper of equal size, find that balance dis
turbed by the weight of a mere name written
with a lead pencil on one piece.
—Dr. Crosby, in a recent sermon, spoke of
Americans as ‘a nation of hypocrites.”
Alas, if the Judge so regards us!
—lt is not the will, but the effort, which
God takes for the deed—at least wherever
the effort lies within the power of the hand.
• —Rev. T. H. Pritchard writes to the Bib
lical Recorder trom Pniladelphia: “The
truth is the Baptists of this country, North
and Soutn, are unalterably fixed in tne
principle of restricted or scriptural commun
ion ; and I am assured that no man wtio is
suspected of unsoundness on thispointcould
be called to any respectable Baptist church at
the North. In some sections the churches
are sounder than their pastors, but there has
been and still is a healthy reaction going on
among the ministers." More than twenty
years, then, have only served to confirm the
belief that Northern’Baptists are sound on
this question, for the avowal of which we
encountered some obloquy in certain quar
ters.
—Mr. McArthur, mayor of London, a
Methodist, refused permission to dance to a
company’ of twelve hundred persons, who
assembled, on a recent evening, at his home,
to do him honor. By this act he honored
himself more than they did or could have
done.
—The Committee of Arrangements for the
national celebration of the British surrender
at Yorktown a century ago, have placed the
religious exercises of that occasion under the
control of two Romish prelates,—the bishop
of Richmond and the archbishop of Balti
more. They are sharply criticized in the
newspapers for this action, and thecriticism
we think is just.
—lt is the Texas Baptist State Convention
that supports Rev. W. M. Flonrnov as mis
sionary to Mexico. Dr. O. C. Pope has made
himself personally responsible for his salary.
—Andrew Fuller, who so powerfully in
fluenced Baptist theology, was ignorant of
Hebrew and Greek; and some men, for that
reason, dismiss him with a sneer. But this
ignorance, attached itself also to Thomas
Aquinas, “the angelical doctor” of Roman
ists, “whose summary of divine knowledge
was solemnly laid open on the altar at the
Council of Trent, together with the Bible
and the pontifical decrees, as being of co
ordinate authority to inspire and control the
decisions of the assembled Fathers, and who
has been proclaimed” by Leo XIII, the
present Pope, “as the champion in whose
name and by whose weapons the aberrations
of modern sceptical thought may be most
effectually corrected."
—The late Empress of China, in her will,
said: “I was, ot all others in the palace,
the most economical and the least careful as
to my dress.” She was queenly in this, at
least.
—The Independent says: “Immersion is
more frequently used by Methodists in New
England than elsewhere; and infant baptism
in some sections of New England is com
paratively rare, showing the prevalence of a
strong Baptist influence.” Well: New Eng
land claims to be the most thoroughly edu
cated section of our country—the section of
highest “culture;’’ and it may be a signifi
cant fact that just there infant baptism most
declines and immersion most prevails outside
of Baptist churches.
—There is an Episcopal minister in Lon
don with only two parishioners, and his
annual pay is $3,700.
—The London Quarterly tells us that, "on
an average, two earthquakes occur every
day in some part or other of the globe;”
ascribes them to “discharges of terrestrial
electricity accumulated in the bowels of the
earth;" and expresses the hope that men of
science may yet be able to “turn these inter
nal supplies of electric force to the use of
man in lighting, warming, locomotion, etc.,
and, not improbably, to devise some means
of averting the fearful calamity of the earth
quake shocks in years to come!"
—“Hay Fever” is regarded by many as a
disease of modern origin. What will they
say, as to “the early summer edition of hay
fever,” which is getting into the papers under
the name of “Rose Cold ?”
—The Chicago Evangelist says that,during
a doctrinal discussion in the Synod of Glas
gow, Rev. Daniel McAskill caught Rev.
Laughlin McArthur by the throat and
almost strangled him before the other di
vines could interfere.
—The contributions of Northern Presby
terians, the past year, to all purposes, in
cluding the support of the churches as well
as missionary and benevolent gifts, amount
ed to $8,674,281,—an increase of $313,253,
and an average per member of $14.92.
—The Wesleyan Conference, England, ha*
diiected the proof texts from the New Testa-,
ment in their Church Catechisms to be con
formed to the recent revision; and this
revision is regularly used in the pulpits of
twenty leading Presbyterian churches in
New York city.
GEORGIA BAPTIST NEWS.
Augusta Evening News : At a meet
ing of the Calvary Baptist Church the
resignation of the pastor, Rev. E. R.
Carswell, Jr., was tendered and accept
ed. Rev. Mr. Carswell has been serv
ing the church as pastor during the
past and the reason prompting
his resignation is the inability to pay
the salary promised. The members
deeply regret to part with one who has
served them so faithfully, and who has
ever walked worthy of his “high voca
tion,” and kept himself unspotted from
the world.
Mr. Carswell has talents of a high
order, is a genuine Christian, and we
predict for him a field of much useful
ness in his chosen profession.
Bro. E. B. Waters, of Benton, made
us a pleasant visit on the third. Bro.
Waters came to Atlanta for treatment
of his eyes under Dr. Calhoun, and has
been greatly benefitted. He is one of
our most zealous workers.
The Athens Banner says: “Rev. J.
A. Munday, of this city, has just re
ceived a call to the pastorate of Kol
lock Street Baptist Church in Augus
ta, and has the same under advise
ment. This is the church at which
Mr. Munday conducted such a success
ful revival this summer, preaching
there for several weeks in succession.
The membership and congregation
were deeply impressed with his piety,
earnestness and ability, and as their
present pastor is about to dissolve his
connection with them, they have uni
ted in calling Mr. Munday. If he
shall accept the call we are sure he
will be able to affect great good for that
people in the name of the Master. He
has not yet signified his intention.”
Correspondent of Walker county
Messenger : Last week we had a revi
val at New Prospect. It was conduct
ed by Revs. Tucker and King. The
well attended meeting lasted eight
days, and several were added to the
church, some by letter, and five by
baptism. Four of them were immers
ed by Mr. Tucker. To-day after bap
tizing, all went to the house and listen
ed to one of the best sermons. Then
the right hand of fellowship was giv
en, and the meeting closed.
The protracted meeting proposed to
be held at the Baptist church, LaFay«
ette, has been postponed, owing to
sickness in the family of the pastor,
Rev, H. W. Moore.
Barnesville Gazette: It is cause
for gratitude that so many in our
community have recently professed
faith in Christ and publicly
announced their intention of living
the Christian life. The meeting which
has recently been in progress at the
Baptist church, under charge of Dr.
Battle has resulted in this great good
to our community. And while a large
number of the candidates for member
ship were young, their course has been
marked by considerateness and calm
deliberation that showed their general
intelligence, and convinced every one
that they were not influenced by mere
youthful feeling. Last Friday morn
ing while the early beams of the sun
yet fell tenderly upon the earth, and
while all things were in harmony with
the freshness of the early morning, a
goodly company met under the spread
ing shade of trees just in the rear of
the Baptist church for the purpose of
witnessing the ordinance of baptism
administered to those who had recent
ly presented them themselves for
church membership. Here gathered
about their beloved pastor, his people
gladly heard from his lips as with a
new power and an added brightness,
the reason for their faith in this ordi
nance of Christ. Baptism was then
administered to twelve candidates in a
most solemn and impressive manner.
It was beautiful indeed to see there the
tender, pure faced boy; the blooming
countenances of those just entering
young womanhood; the serene brow
of the matron ; the calm face of age,
each disappearing for a moment as
they were thus “buried with Christ in
Baptism” and “arose to newness of
life.”
Dr. Battle has accomplished a great
go rd in our midst by l ie eloquent and
powerful appeals to the unconverted,
and his forcible presentation of the
truths of the Gospel. He his been as
sisted in his faithful labors by Rev. Mr.
Mcßride, of Macon, Rev. Mr. Moncrief,
and Mr. Medlock, of The Christian
Index. The words which fell from
the lips of these good men as they
broke to the people the bread of life,
will long live in the hearts of many of
their hearers, and the fruit of their la
bors will be seen long after they have
departed, and we trust will produce a
rich harvest for the garners of the
Lord.
Rev. L. A. Patillo writes to the Spar
ta Ishmaelite : It was my pleasure to
be with Rev. S. A. Leonard, pastor of
Oconee church, in Putnan County’
Services began on Monday, 19th, and
continued up to Monday night. We
had a gracious time; 16 were added
to the church, and we left a large num
ber inquiring the way of eternal life.
Bro. Leonard is an earnest preacher,
and he is fully in the hearts of the
people. Methodist and Baptist preach
ed, praised, prayed and rejoiced togeth
er. We had large congregations and
everybody seemed to enjoy every ser
vice. I found the people very kind
and hospitable. It was my pleasure to
see several young men come out on
the Lord’s side.