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4 HENRY H.TUCKER, realtor. WASTEDf Millions of prayers were offered for the recovery of the late President, and yet he died. Doubtless, much of what passed for prayer was mere formality, and therefore worthless, but it is -equally certain that many thousands of prayers as genuine, as sincere, and as earnest as prayers can ever be, as •cended to heaven in behalf of the wounded man. Yet he died, and of course, many will think, that all these prayers were wasted, and that they might as well not have been made. We desire to put on record our profound and solemn conviction, that no breath of prayer was ever wasted since the world began or will be while tame endures. If the President had lived, that fact would not, in the least, have strengthened our confidence in the efficacy of prayer; his death has not shaken that confidence one iota. Our faith in God’s willingness to answer prayer is based on something better than any phenomena such as we might ’witness, and which we might misun derstand or misinterpret. We build on the solid and everlasting rock of •God’s promise. For us, his word is enough without the endorsement of visible facts. We take him on trust; on trust or not at all; for a God whose word and whose promise need to be strengthened from without, is no God. So long as we believe in his existence, and in the perfection of his character, we shall rely on his word without a misgiving, even if all our own expe rience, and that of the whole world and the rest of the universe, should contradict it. There either is such a being as our God, or there is not. Our souls recoil from the latter proposition ; and if we accept the former, which we do with all our mind, and heart, and soul, then we must accept its conse quences. We are incapable of enter taining a suspicion, that any promise of God has ever failed in one jot or tittle, or ever will, or ever can. When his veracity fails, he is no longer God. It has not failed, and it is neither pos sible nor conceivable that it should .ever fail. It may be asked then, “How can the death of the President be ex plained. when many genuine prayers, for his life were offered to a God whose word is pledged to answer prayer ?” It is immaterial whether it can be ex plained or not, God’s truthfulness is not to be gauged by the human under standing. Surely that would be ar raigning the infinite One who inhabit eth eternity, before a most insignifi cant tribunal. Suppose he should say. ‘•What I do thou knowestnot now, bu thou shalt know hereafter.’’ Would not that suffice? We should ask for nothing more. We protest against subjecting the Lord Almighty to prayer-tests, whether these tests be prescribed by infidels, or by devout, but mistaken believers God needs no vouchers; his character vouches for itself. Those whose faith in him is shaken, because witnessed facts seem to contradict him, are but weaklings. It is immaterial who, or what, contradicts him. He is the Almighty. He is the eternal God. If precisely what we ask is granted, we rejoice and are thankful; if it is withheld we still rejoice, and give thanks on the remembrance of his holiness, knowing that what he with holds ought to be withheld ; and that it could not be granted without viola ting some eternal principle of right, nor without harm to the very suppli ants themselves, nor without inter fering with the inscrutable, but grand and glorious purposes of mercy to mankind. Would any insist on the specific favor despite all this? If so, his heart is far from God, and he is in capable of prayer. Would any accept tire conditions? Then he is not disap pointed, and his heart exclaims, “It is the Lord, let him do what seemeth him good.” But where does the blessing come in, if what we ask is not granted? It is immaterial where it comes in. Suf fice it to know that it comes. God is not to be tested by us, but we may be tested by him; and a faith which stands the strain of an apparently un answered prayer, may be the greatest blessing that he could vouchsafe to us. In what ways he may manifest his goodness we do not know, for those ways are innumerable, beyond our -conception, but we do know, that he •will never fail to bless those who call on his name. Every genuine prayer made for the President has been an swered, or will be. In every case, more good will be given than was asked for. We have not the faintest doubt, that in some shape or way, our people and our country will be blessed of the Almighty in answer to the supplica tions that have been made; and in this assurance we rejoice, and are happy. Unnumbered hearts have been lifted ap to God, and this is all that we care to know. In God's good time, the rest will come. The simplicity of Christian faith may be the object of admiration ■or of ridicule. Christian faith is affected neither by the one nor the other. Its grasp is like the grip on a rope of a man in the rapids with Niagara be- i THE CHRISTIAN INDEX AND SOUTH-WESTERN BAPTIST: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1881. low him. The bystanders may say what they please; he holds on. In the case of the President, the au topsy has shown what we did not know before, that he was death-struck from the beginning, and that his life could not have been spared without miracle. If we had known this we should not have prayed for his recovery, for we have no right to seek miracles; we should have prayed that his sufferings might be mitigated ; that his commu nion with God might be deepened and sweetened ; and that he might die in peace, and be prepared for his change. Otherwise, we should be like those who would pray for the life of a man who is not only sentenced to death, but actu ally hanging by the neck, or actually beheaded. We did not, and could not know the man’s condition,and we pray ed in our ignorance. But that igno rance will not prevent the divine mercy from flowing out to the hearts that sought after God. It is manifest now, that from the first, it was God’s intention to remove the President from us. If we had known this, we should not have asked him to abandon his purpose. In our ignorance, we asked what we thought was best for us; in his wisdom God has done for us that which he knew was beet for us. In what way he will make this to be one of the all things that work together for good to them that love him, we do not know. It is not needful that we should know. It iq enough to know, that God is not slack concerning his promises. We have no curiosity to know the ways and means whereby he brings his pur poses to pass. If he overrules a spec ific desire,we know that it is fathomless mercy that moves him to do it. We know too, that our specific desires are overruled by another desire within us, by one grand supreme desire, before which all other desires fade into noth ingness, and that is, that the affairs of this world and of the universe, shall be controlled not by human will or wish, hut by the wisdom, power and love of Almighty God. The will of the Lord be done. A BAPTIST HERO. There is some ferment in France, on the question of “liberty of conscience.” It took its rise in the act of an obscure Baptist, by which he asserted this lib erty for himself; walking in “the foot steps of the” Baptist “flock” through all the ages—for it has been the mis sion of our people from the first, to “trouble the waters” on that question, as though an “angel of the Lord” came down for healing. It is the custom in Romish coun tries to bear about in public procession, for adoration as divine, what is called “the Ilost” —that is, a bread-wafer, which' the priest professes to have transformed into the body and blood, with the soul and the divinity, of our Lord Jesus Christ. Worship rendered to that wafer must, of course, be, in the eyes of every true Baptist, sheer and shameless idolatry. Now, France has a law, ordaining that such a procession shall be attend ed by a military’ escort; and that law re quires every soldier in the escort, when the Host is elevated, to kneel and “present arms’’ before it, as before the Creator and Redeemer of the world! But Corporal Taquet, of Laou, (the Baptist of whom we have spoken,) felt that he could not “do this great wick edness and sin against God.” When detailed to take part in the escort, therefore, he made a respectful repre sentation of this conviction to his su perior; but without effect. His scru pies were overridden, and he was com pelled to serve. When the test came in the command to kneel, twice over he remained standing. For this insub ordination, though he had always shown himself an orderly and faithful soldier, he was confined four days in prison, and, after trial before a milita ry commission, suffered a further im prisonment of three weeks, with “par ticulars of harshness.” Even a Romish newspaper in France denounces these proceedings as “an intolerable scandal;” which may seem wonderful. But no wonder that the case of Corporal Taquet, with the similar case of a leiutenant at Auxon ne, has given rise to a movement for the repeal of the law in question, and all enactments of kin to it. No won der that there seems ground to expect the substantial adherence of three fourths of France to this movement. We thank God for these tokens of progress toward true “liberty of con science” even under the shadow of Ro manism ; for this fresh evidence that God deigns to use our denomination still, By using an obscure member of it for the futherance of vital truth, at the point where politics and religion touch, in one of the most enlightened nations of the earth ; for so conspicuous a proof how grand a thing it is that, as Nean der said, “there is a future for the Bap tists,” so we can say there are Baptists for the future. It is with sorrow that we record the death, on Sunday morning last, of Mary Lea, infant daughter of James P. Harrison Esq, the proprietor of The Index and head of the Franklin Print ing House. Our much loved friend and brother has been deeply afflicted in the loss of his children, this being the sixth that he has laid in the grave. It is comforting to konw that the little ones are “Safe in the armes of Jesus.” THE NEW PRESIDENT. We know no good of him ; it is equal ly true that we know no ill of him. We have read many gvil things that have been said of him ; but so utterly debauched is the American press, that not the slightest importance is to be attached to anything that may be said of a man during a heated political can vass. For aught we know, Mr Arthur may be the best or the worst man that could be found, to fill the high posi tion to which he is called. We know this, however; that he is constitution ally, and legally, and properly, the President of the United States. As such he is intitled to the respect and support of every good citizen. Let no man dare to criticise his administration in advance. Let him have a fair trial, with no factious opposition, and let him stand or fall on his merits. If it be said that his record shows that he is not the man for the place, we have to say that we neither know nor care any thing about his record. The past is gone; the present is all that we have to do with ; and it may be that the re sponsibilities of office, especially under such trying circumstances, will make him a wiser and better man than he has ever been. We have now the new Arthur, not the old one; let every man sustain him until he proves himself to be unworthy. Even in that case, he must be sustained, though in a differ ent sense, so long as he holds his pres ent position. He is the President. From our hearts we pity the man. He is the President of fifty millions of people, by the act of only one of them, and that one is Guiteau! He is elect ed not by a majority of ballots, but by a solitary bullet, fired by an assassin. If theparty that elected him Vice-Presi dent had known what would be the re sult, bis name would not have appeared on their ticket. Certainly it is not desir able to hold office on such conditions. He will be subjected to perpetual in vidious comparisons. Whatever he does, it will be compared unfavorably with what it is supposed his predeces sor would have done ; and no man can stand the test of such an ideal stand ard. The dead are perfect; at least our imagination makes them so; the living are all imperfect, and it is un fair to judge them by a model which our fancy creates. Yet through this ordeal the new President must pass. If Mr. Lincoln had done the very things that Mr. Johnson did, they would perhaps, have been received with favor ; certainly not with furious opposition. The President has our sympathies. We trust that his mind and his heart and his soul may be as big as his of fice, and that he will prove to be in deed and in truth the President of the United States, and not merely the pres ident of his party. As for the late President he is be-l yond the reach of our prayers. We trust that he has now become a kfng, and that he wears an imperishable crown. But the good wishes that we gave to him, we now transfer to his successor. He needs our prayers in his struggle with life as greatly as bis predecessor did in his struggle with death, and our prayers he shall have God bless the President! May his life and health be spared! May God give him grace and wisdom and strength according to his need! May he not only be blest, but be a blessing! May he so conduct the affairs of state as to promote the prosperity and real welfare of the whole country! May the Holy Spirit preside over his heart, and imbue him with motives patriotic and up'g'l and pure! May his ad ministration under divine guidance be so wise and so just, so benign and so fair, that all the people shall praise him! May his life, like the death of our late President, unite us all, so that the bitterness of party strife shall cease and sectional animosity be forgotten! May the loss of one, and the life of the other engender such kindliness of feel ing in all hearts, that we shall see that God’s blessing was wrapped up in his providence, and let the mystery be solved in rays of goodness and mercy! May God bless the man, and the coun try, not according to the poverty of our requests, but according to infinite wis dom, and power, and love! For the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ, so let it be! THE AUTOPSY. The nature of the wound produced by the assassin’s bullet was never known until a post mortem examination re vealed the facts. The ball entered on the right side of the spine, breaking the eleventh rib, passed through one of the vertebiae and lodged in the muscles of the back on the left side of the spine, just back of the heart, having scattered splinters of bone in its track. It was these splinters that caused the blood poisoning. Such a wound must neces sarily have been fatal; and but for the facts that the President was a man of strong constitution, and in sound health, and that he had the very best medical treatment, and that he enjoyed every advantage and luxury that the world affords, he would have died weeks ago. The ball was completely encys ted ; that is, the flesh had closed over it and had healed up. So the presence of the ball was not the cause of death ; it was what the ball did at the time it was discharged that produced the fatal result. Hence the removal of the ball would have done no good. Nor could it have been found ; for when the man was dead, and the operator was re- strained by no feeling of tenderness, it took the hard search of three quarters of an hour to discover its locality. Os course no such operation could have been performed while the patient was alive. The facts show the su"reme folly of those who so fiercely criticised the treatmentof the surgeons in charge, and who said that if the President had been a common man, and treated by common physicians, he would have recovered; and that if he should die, it would be because he was “killed by doctors.” Would it not be well for people to say nothing about things of which they know nothing? aUMPSES AND HINTS. —Rev. W. B. Bagby, our missionary to Brazil, reports a revival, in June, at Santa Barbara, with seventeen professions of con version, the restoration of many whq had been living far from God since goinv to that country, and six baptisms. Five persons went a hundred miles to attend the meet ing, and one of these, a lady, was baptized —Rev. Justin D. Fulton, D.D., pastor of the Baptist Temple. Brooklyn, recently baptized Bishop McNamara, of the Inde pendent Irish Catholic Church. —An Episcopal minister, of Walsall, England, invites such of bis parishioners as have the requisite ability and culture, to write sermons, which, when he approves of them, he reads from the pulpit, in lieu of sermons written by himself. Perhaps, some in our congregations who flatter themselves that they can outpreach the preacher, might be convinced of their mistake, if this cus tom were brought into general currency. Fur their sake, it might be well to try it The Baptist church at Frankfort on the Oder, is prohibited by the German govern ment from holding Sunday-schools in pri« vate dwellings, and the members are forced to build a chapel though constantly weak-- ened by emigration to other countries, and -o poor that they very seldom see bread, be ing obliged to subsist almost exclusively on potatoes. —The Metropolitan Baptist (?) church, San Francisco, Cal., has assumed an "lade pendent" position, withdrawing from both the District Association and the State Con vention. Henceforth, it alone is responsible for the irregularities of its pastor, I. S. Kai lock. —Rev. Dr. Thomas, of Chicago, a Metho dist divine, says that the orthodox doc trine of the atonement is a "butcher theo ry that any one expecting to go to hea ven through Christs merits would find himself not there; that a soul might* re pent even in hell and the idea of eternal punishment is “all bosh;” and that if the Methodist church did not throw over a good part of the O.d Testament, it would sink her.” And yet he thinks that he ought to be allowed topreach as a Meth odist minister; that the policy which would silence him is injurious to liberal culture; that it is a fruitless effort to re press the progress of enlightened thought; that it is denying men the right to think for themselves; and that he and those likjs him are harbingers of a better day to come Before we yield to such pleas for denomi national tolerance toward loose views, it is well to look at this case, and see how fat the yielding may practically and must log ically carry us. Rev. W. C. Lindsay, in the Baptist Courier, says that thirty-four of the most promising young Baptist ministers known to him, including fourteen full graduates ol our Seminary, Louisville, hold the views avowed by brethren Stout and Bell on the subject of inspiration. —A Baptist colporteur, not long since, in • ’.need a man to purchase Foster's “Story of the Biole,’ by this plea : "You are too busy to read as large a book as the Bible and to •'hink out' the meaning of many difficult passages in it; but you have time to read the Story,’ which puts the substance of the Bi ble in shorter space and in plainer lan guage 1” Alas, for the man who accepts any substitute for the Word of God—who reads anything else except as a help to read ing that. Editor Middleditch, writing from Eu rope to the Baptist Weekly, speaks of Rev Dr. Culross, of Glasgow, as an eminent au ttior and the foremost Baptist pastor in Scotland. —The Examiner & Chronicle tells of “a pastor in Maine, of whom 'it is said that, either personally, or by agents, he runs three churches, a salmon fishery, a large farm, a coal office, a teamsters' route, is a car proprietor, a road conductor, a stage coach owner, a chief partner in a public bath and a mineral spring, a holder of turn pike gates, a lodging bouse keeper, a guar dian of the poor, and a member of the board of health.” —Dr. Tupper, Secretarj’ of our Richmond Board, expects that, at an early day, West Virginia will have one representative in the foreign field; Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina and Missouri, each, two; Alabama, Tennessee and Texas, three each; Virginia, Mississippi and Georgia, each, four—a total of thirty. Shall not our gilts and prayers be enlarged greatly ? —The Baptist Messenger, Louisiana, his removed from Farmersville to Arcadia. —As if to show how fatuous open commu niouism can make men, some English Bap tists are arguing that those who hold offices in their denominational institutions may permissibly become members and deacons in Congregational churches, even when there are Baptist churches in their immediate neighborhood. —Prof. W. J. Simmons, of the colored Theo logical Seminary and Normal School, Louis ville, reports a county with eighty llcentiatis and ordained colored Baptist ministers—halt of the male membership of some churches holding the one or the other of these posi tions. This is an evil which will cure Itself, or prove the occasion ol incurable evils. —The Richmond Christian Advocate says that the gown is used in the pulpit of the London church with which the Methodist Ec umenical Conference meets, and thinks that ministers from this country aspiring to the episcopate may ‘‘alienate the votes of the eauebrake" by donning Hie “silk or sarcenet.” "If It should gel abroad that such a delegate had been beguiled into a 'coif or wrought night-cap' Ina Wesleyan vestry-room, all the waters of great Neptune's sea could not wash away the stain in the eyes of a Texas or Ar kansas circuit rider.” —ln a late lecture, George R. Wendling said: “The most notorious outlaw known In the criminal annals of the West, Frank Rande, stood, a few months ago at the bar of his cell In St. Louis, the very Impersonation of every crime, and with the air of a brag gart, said to preachers, priests and police men, to throngs of men and women, ‘1 am a Bob Ingersoll man’—and every man and woman in the land believed him!” Crime needs Infidelity to Justify- Itself to itself. Infi delity Is the mother, and crime the daugh ter. —“A trumpery old piece of furniture,which could not be sold in a second-hand store lor twenty-flvecents,’’ Is the description which Dr. Gray, of the Chicago Interior gives of the chair In Westminster Hall, In which all the English monarchs since King Joan have sat to receive the crown. —Canon Llddon. not long ago, said: “The labors of Jesus of Nazareth were frequently more like those ol a doctor of a Loudon : os pltal seeing his patients than those of an or dinary Clergyman.” And yet the Church hi.s looked on tuat example of secular benefac tion set by her Head, without recognizing In It her call to a mission of good works for the bodies as well as the souls ol men, and has been but half a church I —lt is strongly said by George^Macdonald: "Perhaps, the worst devil that a man can l.e possessed withal is, himself.” GEORGIA BAPTIST NEWS. —Warrenton Clipper: Hon. Janies Stapleton called to see us Monday. He is the wise Representative of Jefferson county. He catne home a week ago. He found Pleasant Grove, a Baptist, church near his home, carrying on a meeting with the pastor absent. The pastor, Rev. Mr. Megahee, arrived on Monday and left Friday. The meeting terminated on Saturday with fifteen additions by experience and baptism, three by restoration and one by letter. Thirteen of the fifteen were young la dies, two or three of whom were mar ried. Two young men were among the number baptized. Sandersville Mercury: Rev. J. J. Hyman was unanimously called to the pastorate of Riddleville Baptist church. He has served this church for the last seven years. There is a very interesting meeting going on in the Baptist church in Rid dleville. —Perry Home Journal: Dr. S. Lan drum, financial agent of Mercer Uni versity, was in town last week, having returned from a somewhat extended trip north in the interests of the Uni versity. He received some encourage ment, and hopes for greater things in the future. The University commen ces the next term on the last Wednes day in this month. The proximity of Macon and its excellent society make it a desirable place for the education of our youth. It is impossible to state in terms too strong the importance of a college education, under the best moral influences, for our young men. What a father invests in the best education of his son cannot be lost by the vicissi tudes of human events. We cordially commend the college at Macon to the good people of our part of the State. —Columbus Tinies : The revival at Bethesda Baptist church still continues with increasing interest, spreading over the whole neighborhood. It is said that the interest is beyond anything witnessed there for many years. There have been already sixteen additions to the .church and many others confi dently looked for. Rev. Dr. Buck of this place has been assisting the pastor, Rev. C. C. Willis, and has won a deep place in the hearts of the citizens by his earnest and faith ful work in their midst. The congre gations have and the meeting will continue over Sunday next. —Augusta Evening News: Rev. R. E. Morrow, of Mercer University, a promising young man, was ordained to the ministry at Hephzibah Baptist church on Sunday,July 24th. The pres bytery consists of the pastor, Rev. J. H. Carswell, Rev. W. L. Kilpatrick and Rev. Edmund Morris. Rev. Charles D. Stakely, of Elbert county, officiated at the Baptist church in Hephzibah on Sunday, the 28th of August. Both sermons have been very highly and favorably commented upon. The fine language used is not common ly found in one so young in years. —Rev. W. W. Roop writes from Be thesda church, Carroll county: “We have closed a series of interesting meetings at this church. The Lord has been very gracious, greatly bless ing the church; large and attentive congregations were deeply impressed during these meetings. Seven mem bers were added to the church by bap tism.” Fort Valley Mirror: The protracted meeting in the Baptist church is pro gressing quite favorably, and much in terest is being manifested. Rev. E. H. McGehee preached an interesting sermon to a good congregation on Tuesday night. Dr. A. J. Battle, of Mercer University, is assisting Dr. Ross in the meeting, and we learn that Doctors Landrum and Warren, of Ma con, will probably be down on Sun day. —Covington Star: The Madison Colored Baptist Association held its ninth annual meeting in Covington last week, commencing on Thursday morning and closing on Monday night. A large number of delegates and visi tors were in attendance, and the meet ing was one of thegpiost pleasant and harmonious ever hisld by the Associa tion. Between two and three thous and colored people attended the Asso ciation. —The report of the Columbus Bap tist church to the Association shows that at the beginning of the Associa tional year there was a membership of 447. Since that time there have been twenty-eight received by letter and thirty-three by experience and baptism. During the same period three have died and twenty have been dismissed by letter, making the present member ship 483, being a gain during the year of thirty-four members. The statistics show that the church has raised during the year $3,184,15. Os this amount $380,90 have been raised for missions and the Sunday school has raised an additional amount of $35. —The protracted meeting at the Baptist church in Talbotton continues with unabated interest. Many valu able accessions have been made to the church and the spirit of the people re vived. The pastor is an earnest and zealous worker. —Western Association.— Report of the Committee on Publications, J. G. Goss, Chairman : “We have long been fully satisfied that no family should be without a good religious newspaper —no Baptist family without a Baptist paper. We therefore recommend to all—but especially to the Baptists, The Christian Index. That organ through which our grand-fathers and grand-mothers spoke to one another and to the world, the joys and com forts of religion, pointing each other, and the wayward sinner, to Calvary— a beacon light in a dreary wilderness. “We find the denomination in Geor gia remarkably uniform, both in faith and practice. In looking for the cause, while we grant much to our denomi national college, our cherished Mer cer, still we are compelled to ascribe very much to the potent agency of The Index, visiting as it does weekly so many families, with its columns richly laden with the golden truths of the gospel. The arrangement and gen eral make-up of the paper are certain ly unsurpassed, if equaled, by any. “Therefore, if we fail to recommend other Baptist papers or periodicals, or literature of any kind, as earnestly as we do The Christian Index, it is not because we love them less, but because we love The Index more.” Dr. M. B. Wharton.—We learn that Dr. Wharton is established in his consulate, at Sonneberg, Prussia, but resides at Coburg, near at band. He does not contemplate an immediate return to America, but is fulfilling the duties of his position. He is much pleased; is pleasantly located with his family ; and finds the position of Uni ted States Consul a very high and hon orable one. While, for the time being, he has dropped the religious title ap pended to his name—he has by no means dropped his ministerial charac ter. These facts have reached us through private correspondence, the first report of his resignation proving erroneous. Rev. Dr. Thomas of the Methodist Episcopal Church is about to be tried in Chicago for heresy. He admits that he does not believe the doctrines of the church to which he belongs, but declares his determination to remain in that church. This we think is an outrage. A man has a right to change his opinions and to change his church relations, but he has no right to make a nuisance of himself by staying where he is not wanted, and where his pres ence is offensive and injurious. If we have any Baptist preachers who do not believe Baptist doctrines, we hope they will leave us, and our best wishes shall go with them. Rev. G. H. Coltharp, whose appeal in behalf of the Baptist church at Franklin, N. C., we published some weeks since, is now in our city, solicit ing funds to aid that church in the erection of a house of worship. The cause, we think, is a worthy one; and we hope that none will withhold help if it is “in the power of their hand” to render it. The true heart worships God when it gives money for his work : the giving is_ worship—as really so as prayer itself, or praise, or the procla mation of his truth. He who desires to go to heaven alone will never get there; and he who does nothing to lead others in the way of eternal life gives poor evidence, if any, that he is in the way himself. Mistake Corrected.—The Bethel Association will hold its annual meet ing at Camilla on the second Tuesday in November, the eighth of the month. DeVotie. ANNUAL MEETINGS OF BAPTIST ASSOCTAt TIONS IN GEORGIA, 1881. SEPTEMBER. 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, Zidon, 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, Mt. 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—Satur ay before 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, Mc- Bean, Burke county. Houston—Wednesday before 2d Sabbath, Drayton, Dooly county. Liberty—Thursday before Ist Sabbath, Toc coa, Habersham county. Mercer—Tuesday before 3d Sabbath, Thom asville, Thomas county. Middle—Friday before 2nd Sabbath, Cor inth, Effingham county. Mount Vernon-Friday before Ist Sabbath, Tenoell, 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. Rehobotb—Friday before 3d Sabbath, Hayne ville, Houston county. Gillsville-Saturday before 4th Sabbath, Ho mer. Concord—Saturday before 2d Sabbath, Beu lah, Douglas county. Chattahoochee—Friday before 2d Sabbath, Holly Springs, Hall county. Smyrna-Friday before 4th Sabbath, Mt. Zurich, Coffee county. Mulberry-Friday before 2d Sabbath, Mt. Moriah, Gwinnett county NOVEMBER. Bethel—Friday before 2d Tuesday, Camilla, Mitchell county.