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HENRY M. TUCKER, Editor
TO SA \'E LIFE.
Considerations which will appear
before we close this article have induc
ed us to believe that we can accom
plish a good purpose by setting forth
some things involved in the law of
murder. This law is substantially the
same in all the States, and indeed in
all the civilized countries of the world.
We give it verbatim as we nd it in
the Code of Georgia: “Murder is the
unlawful killing of a human being, in
the peace of the State, by a person of
sotmd memory and discretion, with
malice aforethought, either expressed
or implied.”
What killing is unlawful? Any
killing is unlawful which is not either
authorized or permitted by law, or
which when authorized by law, is done
in a manner, or ata time, not prescrib
ed by law. For example : The sheriff
is ordered by the proper authority to
execute a man on a certain day; if the
execution takes place before that day,
the sheriff is guilty of murder, for he
acts without authority. Until the day
appointed by the court, the life of a
man under sentence of death is as sa
cred as that of any other man. The
sheriff is usually ordered to execute a
condemned man between the hours of
ten in the morning and two in the af
ternoon. If he executes the man one
minute before ten o’clock on the day
specified, he is guilty of murder. The
man has a right to every moment of
his life until the hour specified by the
court; to put him to death before that
hour is an “unlawful killing.” If any
'Other person than the sheriff or some
one deputized by him for that special
purpose, or some one otherwise appoint
ed by law, should execute the man, the
person so doing is guilty of murder,
for he is doing what he has no legal
authority to do, and the killing is there
fore unlawful. But nothing of what
has been said applies to cases where
death may ensue from lawful efforts
to prevent escape.
There are grades of unlawful homi
cide below murder, to-wit: manslaugh
ter, voluntary and involuntary; but
all cases of unlawful homicide are con
trolled by the same general principles.
It is indeed a mere truism, yet it seems
to be necessary to say, that the least
violation of law, or the least disregard
of law, makes an act unlawful, and if
the act is a homicide, it comes under
the head of one or the other of the
three grades of crime above named.
One may be a principal of the first,
or of the second degree, in crime. He
who actually commits the unlawful
deed is principal in the first degree;
any one who aids or abets is a princi
pal in the second degree; but the guilt
is the same with both, and so is the
penalty. There may be two or more
persons guilty as principals, either in
the first degree, or in the second. If a
thousand persons are aiding and abet
ting while one man commits a mur-
der, each one of the thousand is a
principal in the second degree, and in
curs exactly the same guilt and the
same penalty as the man who alone
did the killing.
I here are two classes of accessories;
accessories before the fact, and acces
sories after the fact. An accessory
before the fact is one, who being ab
sent at the time of the crime commit
ted, doth yet procure, counsel, or com
mand another to commit a crime. The
guilt of such an accessory is the same
as that of him who committed the
crime and so is the penalty.
An accessory after the fact is one
“who after a full knowledge that a
crime has been committed, conceals it
from the magistrate, and harbors, as
sists, or protects, the person charged
with, or convicted of crime.” These
are the words of the code, but the lan
guage is loose; for one is really an ac
cessory if knowing of the crime, he
harbors, assists, or protects the crimi
nal, whether the latter has been charg
ed with the deed or not. An accessory
after the fact is punished, not as the
principal, as is an accessory before the
fact, but by fine or imprisonment, or
both.
An accessory either before or after
the fact may be convicted and punish
ed, even if the principal actor in the
crime has in any way escaped the
law.
Having said this much, which, ex
cepting our illustrations, is little else
than a reprint, in substance, of a part
of the penal code of Georgia, let us
look at some moral principles derived
from a code of higher authority than
any devised by man. What relation
does a juror sustain to a crime, when
he who committed it has escaped the
penalty of the law, by the unfaithful
ness of that juror to his sworn obliga
tion? Has he not “protected” the
Does he not thereby share
his guilt? If the crime be one of
homicide, is not the blood of the
slaughtered man on the hands, and
head, and heart, of that juror? True,
he is not indictable, and the law of
man cannot take hold on him ; but he
may be sure his sin will find him out,
and that the law of God will hold
him to account. He has incur
red a double guilt: 1. The guilt
of the criminal whom he has
“protected;" 2. The guilt of vio-
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lating his own oath. Morally, he is
an “accessory after the factand mor
rally is as guilty as an “accessory be
fore the fact,” or as the principal him
self ; he has adopted the crime and
made it his own ; and has superadded
the crime of perjury besides; not such
perjury indeed, as human law can
reach, but such as cannot escape the
eye of God. It is a fearful thing for a
juror to find a verdict of “Not guilty,”
when the evidence sustains the charge.
Men pacify their consciences by refer
ring to the law which gives to the
criminal the benefit of a “reasonable
doubt.” The word reasonable is hard
to define in language, but its meaning
is clear enough as an object of thought;
and the use of the word, as an excuse
for protecting criminals, is a mere sub
terfuge. There is no reasonable doubt,
that jurors often commit, what in the
sight of God is perjury, in the acquit
tal of guilty men. Look at the Cash
case in South Carolina where intention
al, deliberate, and malicious killing
was admitted, and where the jury nev
ertheless found a verdict of “Not guil
ty I” Did twelve men ever conspire to
commit, in a moral sense, a more atro
cious crime! Witness the Buford case
in Kentucky where a diabolical wretch
shot down a judge on account of a ju
dicial act, and was deliberately turned
loose on the community by twelve
men as God-defying as himself. There
was twelve times as much guilt in the
jury-box as in the prisoner’s cage.
More recently, a ca°e occurred in
Pennsylvania, we believe, where a jury,
anxious to perjure themselves, asked
the court to explain to them the dif
ference between murder in the first de
gree, and murder in the second degree;
and when the prisoner himself, more
honorable than his jurors, rose in his
shackles, and casting their disgrace in
their teeth, said, “May it please the
Court, this is no case of murder in the
second degree, it is murder in the first
degree ; I killed the man in cold blood,
I did it deliberately and I did it with
malice; lam guilty, and I ought to
be hanged.” The Court wasted no
time in explanations, and the coward
ly jurors sneaked off to their room,
forced to do their duty by the mur
derer himself, more worthy of respect
on the gallows, than they in their
homes.
What is the relation of a juror to
future crimes, that may be committed
by a criminal, who escapes the just
penalty of his deeds by the unfaithful
ness of that juror? A case occurred
within the knowledge of a member of
our editorial staff, where a man was
proved, beyond all doubt, reasonable
or unreasonable, to have committed a
murder, as horrible as any since the
days of Cain and Abel, and where the
jury, instead of finding him guilty of
that crime, found him guilty (despite
their oaths) of a lower grade of homi
cide, and the man was sent to the
penitentiary for a term of years. In
a short time he escaped, and in effect
ing his escape, murdered two men!
He has never been re-captured, and
now that he “has his hand in,” he may
murder others, if he has not done
so already. On whose head is the
blood of the two men known to have
been murdered? Legally, only one
was guilty, but morally, were there
not thirteen men concerned in it?
But for the shameless act of the
twelve jurors, the two murdered men
might be living to-day; there were
virtually twelve “accessories before the
fact.” Human law cannot seize them
and drag them to justice; nay, they
are sheltered behind the protection of
that very law whose majesty they
desecrated; but the voice of the blood
of the two murdered men cries unto
God from the ground. “Respectable
men” they may be called while they
are here, but before the most holy law
of God they are but fugitives and vag
abonds.
When a juror, by his unfaithful
verdict, has allowed the guilty to es
cape, what is the relation of that
juror to future crimes committed by
other men, who commit lawless deeds
because they see that law is not en
forced? The unjust escape of one
murder may prepare the way for many
other murders. Who is responsible
for these murders? Technically, those
who committed them, and none oth
ers except joint principals and acces
sories ; morally, all who had any hand
in what led to them. What led to
them? The fact that faithless juries
make it possible for crime to be com
mitted with impunity! To remove
the penalties of crime is to encourage
crime; and to encourage crime is to
commit crime; and a false verdict, in
case of crime, is the ne plus ultra of
all crimes, for it actually gives the
sanction of law to that which law
sternly condemns; and in addition, it
carries perjury with it; it abolishes
moral distinctions, putting wrong on
a level with right; it inculcates the
moral code of the pit; it reverses the
aims both of justice and of mercy;
with the pretense of humanity, it is
inhuman ; it upturns the foundations
of the whole social fabric; it contains
within itself the seeds of all possible
vices.
What ia tl e relation of a faithless
juror to human law? He is its ene
my ;he emasculates it; he commits
mayhem on it; he deprives it of its
power of defence; nay, he makes a
deadly assault upon it, for law without
penalty is no law; he stabs it to the
heart.
What is his relation to his countiy?
He is a traitor. To society? He
makes war upon it. To murderers
and other felons? He is their com
panion in guilt. To the Evil One?
He is his ally. To God? We leave
him in the hands of his Judge!
It has given us excessive pain to
write this dreadful article; but we
have done it from a sense of duty. It
amounts to a proverb, that it is almost
impossible, in any part of the United
States, to enforce the laws against the
highest crimes. Murders, in this civi
lized country, have actually become
common; executions are rare. Let it
be known that the penalty will cer
tainly be inflicted, and executions
will be even more rare than they are
now. because there will be far less oc
casion for them, and hundreds of hu
man lives will be saved every year.
The fault is chiefly with the juries;
and it is time for the religious press, at
least, to lift up its voice and cry aloud
and spare not. We have done our
duty.
The phraseology of criminal law is
different in different States, but the things
described, and the principles applied to them,
are the same in all. We have used, for the
most part, the language found in the penal
code of Georgia.
An Objection.—Mark 15 :45 in the
common version of the New Testament
reads as follows: “And when he knew
it of the Centurion, he gave the body
to Joseph.” The New Version reads
thus : “And when he learned it of the
Centurion, he granted the corpse to
Joseph.” Objection is raised, that the
change was unnecessary, because the
word body means the same as the word
corpse. Our reply is, that the two
words have not the same meaning.
The former word means, sometimes, a
living body and sometimes a dead one;
the latter word never means anything
else than a dead body. True, the con
text often shows that the word body is
used to mean a dead body, but the word
corpse is sufficient in itself, and requires
no aid from the context; it is hence a
stronger word ; -and its use makes con
spicuous the essential fact,that Jesus was
dead and when he rose,his resurrection
was not from a state of coma, but from
death. On this fact hangs our salva
tion. We are glad to have the word
which brings out the sense most fully.
We are all the better satisfied that
with because the Greek sustains,and in
deed requires it. In our ordinary Greek
Testaments, the word rendered body is
soma; and this word like our word body
may mean either a living body or a
dead one. But in the most approved
Gieek reading the word is ptrima, and
this, like the word corpse, means noth
ing but a dead body. With this text
before them, the revisers could not
have done otherwise than to translate
the Greek, by the word corpse. Hence
whether it “sounds right” to our ears is
neither here nor there. It is what the
evangelist wrote. We close with an
inquiry : Ought the Scriptures to be
adapted to our ears, or ought our ears
to be adapted to the Scriptures?
So Soon?-—A correspondent of the
Watchman classes Jefferson Davis with
Benedict Arnold, and Judas Iscariot.
Is this done to cement the brotherhood
so much spoken of in the last three
or four months? We affectionately
counsel our brother, who has spoken un
advisedly with his pen, not to say any
thing which is calculated to “sow dis
cord among brethren.”
A More Excellent Way.—-The
correspondent of the Watchman above
referred to is supposed to be a religious
man—a man full of the spirit of Jesus.
Gov. Bigelow, of Connecticut, shows
him a more excellent way, in a speech
which he recently made in Charleston,
S. C. “There is one thing that is be
yond all question. The State of Con
necticut will ever cherish the State of
South Carolina in the sisterhood of
States, and will never forget the broth
erhood of the men of South Carolina
[Loud cheering.] The people of
Charleston and South Carolina have
given us a warm and hearty welcome.
I do not know what could have been
done which has not been done to make
our visit here with you one of unalloy
ed pleasure. [Applause.] I only hope
that the time is not far distant when we
may receive a delegation from South
Carolina in Connecticut, that we may
upon our own soil reciprocate the
many kindnesses we have on this vis
it received at your hands. [Loud ap
plause.]
The only comment we have to make
is this; “Blessed are the peace makers,
for they shall be called the children of
God.”
We are not to contend for certain doc
trines to the neglect or exclusion of
others. We are to contend for all.
So says the Western Recorder and so
say we. The trouble is, that some of
our brethren do not contend for all.
They have certain pet doctrines which
they preach up with zeal and ability,
while they pass lightly over certain
other doctrines quite as important as
their pets, and sometimes vastly more
so. The rule should be to preach every
doctrine of God’s word, and to give to
each the relative prominence which it
has in the inspired record ; neither less
nor more. This and this only, is
rightly dividing the word of truth.
The Leaders of Advanced Thought
have just re-discovered some fossils two
or three thousand years old which
have often been discovered before, and
they are now trying to get out patents
for them as inventions.
GLIMPSES AND HINTS.
The London Baptist mentions the
recent baptism of “ Rev. R. W. Dux
bury, a gentleman well known through
out England as a lecturer under the
auspices of the United Kingdom Alli
ance, and a preacher with the Primi
tive Methodist body.”
At a recent quarterly meeting of
the London Baptist Association, it was
ascertained that “ a narrow majority
of the members had not used the Re
vised New Testament in church at all,
a considerable number used it occa
sionally, and five or six used it con
stantly.”
Rev. C. R. Hendrickson, D. D., pas
tor of the Baptist church at Jackson,
Tenn., died, Friday, Oct. 21st. He
was a man of power.
Rev. J. Jumper, who resigned the
chieftaincy of the Seminoles to become
the missionary of the Western Asso
ciation, Georgia, to that tribe, has
been succeeded by Alligator, who is
also a Baptist minister.
According to Rabbi Isaac M. Wise,
President of the Hebrew Union Col
lege, Cincinnati, the baptism of John
was “a bathing in the Jordan.”
Rev. A. J. Frost and Rev. G. S. Ab
bott, representatives of the two wings
of Jhe Baptist denomination in Cali
fornia, send East a telegram that the
Baptists of the State “ have struck
hands and hearts for Christ’s sake.”
Kallochism is purged away, and peace
and unity take its place.
A Foreign Mission Convention is to
be held by the colored Baptists of the
South at Knoxville, Tenn., Nov. 23rd.
Churches, Associations and Societies
are invited to unite in it.
A Massachusetts Baptist Association,
this year, brought its entire ses
sion, including the introductory ser
mon, within the limits of a single day.
Don’t patent this compress, but leave
everybody free to use it.
Brother Pruitt, a student in the
Southern Baptist Theological Semi
nary, aided by the North Georgia Gen
eral Association, avowed, at the late
session of the Hightower Association,
his purpose to become a missionary to
China.
Hon. William Stickney, a Baptist
of Washington. D. C., is dead, and not
a little public spirit and liberality died
with him.
Rev. J. 11. Curry, a Baptist paster
at Dallas, Texas, and well known to
our Alabama readers, is reported as
having written a novel. Ascensus Par
nassi.
The places licensed in London for
the sale of strong drink, if ranged in a
row, would extend a distance of sixty
two miles.
One of the King’s ministers in Swe
den has been accustomed to chase
away from his estate any tenant who
became a Baptist or opened his house
for Baptist religious meetings. But a
letter of remonstrance from an hum
ble country Baptist pastor has led to a
cessation of this persecution. One
Baptist has been elected to the nation
al Diet.
The Independent mentions, as a sur
prising thing, “how little extempore
speaking there was in the Methodist
Ecumenical Conference. Few of the
addresses were Junwritten, and a very
large number even of the five minute
speeches were read.” These things
were especially true of the American
delegates.
At the Methodist Ecumenical Con
ference, Dr. C. K. Marshall suggested
the endowment of church newspapers
as a wise measure. We incline to
think that he has, in this case, insight
as to what should be, and foresight as
to what will be.
“The History of the Christian Re
ligion to the Year Two Hundred”—-a
recent work by C. B. Waite—says:
“That the form of baptism was by
immersion, or at least by a washing of
the whole body, must be the conclu
sion from an impartial examination of
the writings of the Ante-Nicene fath
ers.” And again : “ Sprinkling with
water was a [heathen] religious cere
mony of much antiquity. This may
in some degree account for the change
of the form of Christian baptism from
immersion tojsprinkling.” We accept
the facts stated by this writer, but ob
ject to his phraseology. Immersion
was baptism itself, not merely “the
form of baptism.” It was not “the
form of Christian baptism,” it was
Christian baptism, that was changed.
In forty-seven years, the Presbyteri
ans of Ireland have lost 156,853 in
number, the Episcopalians 216,394,
and the Romanists nearly 2,500,000.
M. Rochefort, the French Commun
ist, recently “initiated three children
into the Order of Free Thought,” by
what he calls “a civil baptism.” The
Order of Free Thought is au infidel
fraternity; and if it chooses to appro
priate to itself a “baptism of children,”
we cannot object; for what one set of
men make, may not another set
of men modify and use? In his speech
on that occasion, M. Rochefort said
that “tyrants could not be destroyed
until the nations were liberated from
superstition,” and that “the French
would not have demolished the Bastile
unless they had first overthrown
Christ.” We thank him for the admis
sion that the French Revolution, which
was a “Reign of Terror,” was first a
“Reign of Infidelity.” Being the one,
it could not but become the other.
The New York “Hour" says that an
offer of SSOO a year is made to young
men who, on trial, prove to be fitted for
the work of propagating “the Gospel of
Unbelief,” as expounded by “Saint
Huxley, Saint Tyndall and Saint Her
bert Spencer.” More and more, money
is used in warfare against divine
truth ; and the adherents of that truth
must, in its defence, use money more
and more.
The Ritualistic movement in the
Church of England, according to the
historian Froude, had. for one of its
ruling factors, vanity. Thinking highly
of one’s self is a direct path to think
ing lowly of God’s truth.
Three dollars each was the average
of contribution for religious purposes,
last year, among the converts won to
Christ by Methodist missionaries in
North Ceylon. Are India and China
to teach by example the law of Chris
tian liberality to America?
It is a Jesuit maxim : “Give us the
schools, and we have the future.”
Dr. Spalding.—Rev. A. T. Spalding,
D. D., who for ten years has been pas
tor of the Second Baptist church in
this city, preached his farewell sermon
on Sunday morning last. The weather
was unpleasant, but notwithstanding
this, the congregation was very large;
under more propitious circumstances
the house would not have held the
people, and even as it was, the com
modious assembly room of the church
was so nearly full that only a few more
could have been seated. The text
selected for the occasion was 2. Cor.
13. 11. “Finally brethren farewell.
Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of
one mind, live in peace, and the God
of love and peace shall be with you.”
The separate points of the text, the
advice, the counsel, and the promise,
were discussed in the speaker’s usual
flowing and agreeable style. A most
attentive hearing was given, and kindly
feelings and tender sympathies were
excited in all. Our good brother
carries with him the best wishes of his
church and congregation for his suc
cess and welfare in his new field of
labor. We, of The Index, most cordi
ally commend him to the affection and
confidence of the flock to which he
has been called as the under-shepherd.
May God bless him, and make him a
blessing.
r Newnan Herald: Ebenezer church
o by unanimous vote re-elected Rev. J.
s B. S. Davis pastor for next year. This
vote was not given merely as a compli
ment but fully attests the cordial rela
r tions between pastor and the member
si ship. Mr. Davis is deservedly popular
- as a preacher with the entire commu
nity ; this is evident by the marked at
tention paid to his earnest, impressive
e sermons, by the ever increasing con
gregations who come to hear him. The
o confidence in him as a Christian, his
[ lucid interpretations of the Scripture,
give him a great influence for good,
( and it is the universal wish of the
church and community that he con
tinue as pastor.
—A pleasant reunion was enjoyed
‘ last week by Rev. John F. Hillyer, M.
3 D., of Texas, aged 76 years, Judge Ju
-1 nius Hillyer, of Decatur, Ga., aged 74
3 years, and Rev. Shaler G. Hillyer, D.
’ D., of Washington, Ga., aged 72 years.
3 These three brothers have outlived
5 their own generation—only ten of
1 their fellow-graduates in the State
University .surviving; but the present
■ generation claims them for the effec
tive work t]iey do in its behalf. Dr. J.
i F. Hillyer, the oldest, is, perhaps, in
personal appearance, the youngest,
possessing a most unusual measure of
elasticity and vigor for one on the
verge of four-score.
—Rev. S. P. Callaway has resigned
the pastoral care of the Baptist church
at West Point, and removed to La-
Grange, where he has charge of the
Reporter. It gives his many friends
special pleasure to know that he has
not given up the ministry, but on the
contrary expects to proclaim the un
searchable riches of Christ as long as
possible.
Mr. Callaway is one of the most pro
found and eloquent ministers in the
South—a thorough scholar, a forcible
speaker, and a successful worker. He
is admired and loved throughout the
whole western section of the State.
His work and influence have told on
the people, and many stars will stud
his crown in glory.
—Waycross Reporter: We had the
pleasure of a very pleasant and agree
able visit, yesterday, from the Rev.
Dr. Sylvanus Landrum, late pastor of
the First Baptist church of Savannah,
now soliciting contributions for mak
ing Mercer University a free institu
tion of learning, by first creating an
endowment fund. This is indeed a
laudable and philanthropic undertak
ing, one that must at a glance com
mend itself to every lover of the human
race, and its elevation. We trust that
he will meet with the most abundant '
success. Mercer is one of the grand- '
est institutions in all the land.
—Rev. C. C. Willis, pastor of Be
thesda Baptist church, Harris county, '
has tendered his resignation to take
effect immediately.
s
Rev. Charles A. Stakely, pastor of the i
Elberton church, has declined the call >
to the pastorate of the Forsyth church. I ‘
GEORGIA BAPTIST NEWS.
—The venerable Dr. J. F. Hillyer,
of Texas, preached in the Decatur Bap
tist church on the 23rd ult., from the
text, “And the angels are the reapers.”
Although 76 years old, Dr. Hillyer
preached one of the ablest sermons
preached there for years, full of unc
tion and power.
—Columbus Enquirer-Sun : Mr. W.
F. Acee tendered his resignation as su
perintendent of the First Baptist Sun
day-school last Sabbath. This action
is made necessary on account of his
iff health. He has made an efficient
officer, and the members regret very
much that it becomes necessary for
him to resign.
—Rev. J. W. Fackler has resigned
the pastorship of the Union Baptist
church, Stewart county.
—Mulberry Association, at its re
cent session, appointed as the next
place of meeting the church at He
bron, five and a half miles north-east
of Lawrenceville, in Gwinnett county,
on Saturday before the first Sabbath in
October next.
Elected Rev. J. M. Davis to preach
the introductory sermon, and Rev. G.
L. Bagwell as alternate. Rev. W. H.
Bridges to preach the missionary ser
mon, and Rev. James Williams alter
nate. Rev. F. H. Attaway to write
the circular letter, and Rev. G. L. Bag
well alternate. It also adoped the fol
lowing resolution:
Resolved, That this b»dy will not
recognize any church which will allow
any of its members to make, or cause
to be made or sell, ardent spirits.
—Warrenton Clipper : Rev. A. I.
Hartley thinks of having his arm am
putated very soon. This will be a very
painful remedy for the cancer on his
hand.
—Fairburn News-Letter: Ramah
Baptist church called Dr. Woolsey, of
Fayette county, last Saturday, but he
has not been heard from yet. The
church in Palmetto called Rev. G. W.
Colquitt, who has accepted.
—Rev. D. E. Greene preached the
introductory sermon at the ninth an
nual session of the New Ebenezer As
sociation, which convened at Block
House church in Telfair county, about
two miles above Jacksonville. The
former officers, Rev. J. T. Rogers,
Moderator, and Rev. M. N. McCall,
Clerk, were re-elected by acclamation.
Two new churches were received. The
Association has now about 42 church
es, with a total membership of over
2,000. Os this large missionary body
there was sent up to the Association,
including the Sabbath collection, for
all purposes, only a little more than
S3OO.
Union meetings were appointed for
the first district, at Mt. Carmel, in
Laurens county, and for the second, at
Rockwell, Telfair county.
—The protracted meeting at the
Baptist church in Greensboro has
closed. The result being nineteen ac
cessions by experience and immersion,
and one by restoration. A glorious
work.
—West Point Press : Rev. Dr. Z. D.
Roby, of Cusseta, Ala., delivered two
excellent sermons on Sunday morning
• and night last, at the Baptist church
in this city. The sermons have been
highly complimented by competent
judges generally.
—The Liberty, (Ala.) Baptist Asso
; ciation will meet next year at Bethle
hem church, near West Point.
—Monroe Advertiser: We were
glad to note the presence in our town
of the Rev. Dr. S. G. Hillyer, late pas
tor of the Baptist church. The Doctor
is held in high esteem by all who know
him, and never did man reign more
supremely in the hearts of a people
than did Dr. H. with the people of
Forsyth. His long stay among us was
a season of incessant labor, and its in
fluence for good will continue to live
though a thousand generations may
perish.
—McDuffie Journal: At the Baptist
church conference in this place on
Thursday evening last, Elder E. R.
Carswell, Jr., was unanimously elected
pastor. We learn that "Mr. Carswell
has also received calls to the churches
at Pine Grove and Sweetwater, but do
not know whether or not he has ac
cepted any or all of these calls.
—Jonesboro Neus : Col. J. W. Den
ton joined the Baptist church at this
place and was baptized in Flint river
Sunday.
—Rev. H. C. Hornaday writes: Our
dear brother, Rev. N. N. Edge, I am in
formed, is soon to change his place of
residence from Senoia to Canton. He
is to take charge of the Advance, a pa
per published at the latter town, and I
take pleasure in commending him to
the good people of Cherokee county
and adjacent country. He is a worthy
Christian gentleman and a good
preacher.
—West Point Press : The pastor of
the Baptist church having perfected
his arrangements to move to LaGrange,
the church, on Sunday last, called
Rev. Z. D. Roby, D. D., to fill the va
cancy. Dr. Roby is an able, progres
sive, popular preacher, and will doubt
less please his new flock highly.
—Newnan Herald : Grantville Bap
tist church has re-elected Rev. J. B. S.
Davis as pastor another year.
They have formed a new missionary
society in Germany—an Evangelical Asso
ciation on behalf of the German Protestants
in America. These Protestants run some
risk of becoming Baptists here, you know,
and must be guarded against so dire a
calamity.
