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J. C. McMICHAEL,:: Proprietor.
I. R. BRANHAM, D. D.» Editor.
B- Y. P. U. A.
At the Chicago Baptist Social Un
ion held on Thursday evening, April
7th, the B. Y. P. U. A., had a grand
rally. The initials stand for the
Baptist Young People’s Union of
America.
Various addresses of various kinds
on various sub jects were made on the
occasion. The one delivered by
Rev. 0. P. Gifford, Pastor of Im
manuel church, Chicago, and Vice
President of the B. Y. P. U. A., was
on the question, “What it proposes
to do.”
We will let the speaker tell what
the organization proposes to do, in
his own words as reported in the
Young People’s Union of April 16th.
It is the organ of the Society, and is
ably edited by Rev. Frank L. Wil
kins, assisted by a corps of eleven
“Department Editors.”
Among the latter we find the
names of Rev. J. B. Cranfill, Waco,
Texas; Rev. Geo. B. Eager, D. D.,
Anniston, Ala., and Rev. George
Braxton Taylor, Macon, Ga.
Here is what Rev. O. P. Gifford
says the B. Y. P. U. A. proposes to
do.
First.—The reform of some things
in traditional Baptist usage. In
times past we have emphasized too
much local independency. Every
local church, like Whittier’s Island
“lifts its fronded palms in air” as
though it was the only solid place in
all the sea. There is a power in
continental affiliations. Other ec
clesiastical bodies are awakening to
the realization of the fact. Baptists
must do the same. We are united in
faith and practice away down out of
sight, but it would take an earthquake
to find the point of union in many
cases. We hope to bring about a
closer fraternity between our Baptist
churches.
Second.—The production of a new
generation of disciplined workers in
the church. The average Baptist
church rejoices in the isolation of its
democracy and is in itself an undis
ciplined democracy. The pastor is
expected to do the most of the hard
work. The membership are largely
free from a sense of duty to support
the church, regardless of their own
convenience and pleasure. The
••bnrclf is held together by the popu
larity of the pastor; if he suits the
members come—if he does not, they
stay away. This young people’s
movement, proposes to break up this
order of things. We want to train
up a class of men and women who
Will stand by the work for its own
sake, in all places and at all times.
This is an educational movement.”
The speech was altogether unre
portable and was received with
marked approval by the audience, al
though it contained many sharp and
even cutting criticisms of prevalent
church methods. In closing, Mr.
Gifford said:
“You will remember that Ilamil
car took his boy Hannibal and swore
him to eternal hatred of Rome, and
he later led the Carthagenian hosts
against the imperial City, and blanch
ed the cheeks of Rome with his dar
ing as no other man who had ever
faced her on the field of battle. We
propose to teach cur young people
what the Baptist church stands for
and to give them systematic training
that cannot be given from the pulpit,
that cannot be given to men in mid
dle life or beyond. We propose to
organize them into classes and to
supply them with a special literature
adapted to their needs so that when
they come to maturity it will not al
ways follow that when a Baptist man
marries a Congregational woman he
will soon become a Congregational
-sst, or when a Baptist woman mar
ries a Congregational man she be
comes a Congregationalist, and after
wards boasts about it as a proof of
their ‘breadth.’ The denomination
that stands for principle will
abide. The denomination that boasts
about its ‘breadth’ may furnish
amusement for the Philistines, but its
days are numbered. Our Baptist
Young People's Union is to give to
the church of Jesus Christ in the
Twentieth Century men who will
feel the responsibility of the church,
who will give of their money, who
will understand their principles, who
will stand by the church of our Lord
and Master, Jesus Christ.”
It will be noticed that the B. Y. P.
U. A. proposes .to “reform some
things in traditional Baptist usage.”
The first thing to l>c reformed is
“local independency.”
The independence of each local
church is classed among traditional
Baptjst usages.
It has been considered among Bap
tists down this way as one of the es
sential elements of the constitution of
a Baptist church, and that it was
based upon the plain teaching of the
New Testament and Apostolic prac
tice, and not upon tradition.
The proposed reformation has for
its aim the destruction or modifica
tion, in some way, of this fundamen-
tal principle of a Baptist church or
ganization.
How the B. Y. P. U. A. intends to
accomplish this end does not yet ap
pear. .It is enough that this young
ster, scarce three years old, has an
nounced its purpose to take hold of
the mature woman and to correct her
ways. This is in strict accordance
with the precocity and presumption
of Young America. She has, how
ever, befcn put on notice, and it be
comes her to take heed.
The abridgment of the absolute in
dependence of a church, means hu
man episcopacy. It means the estab
lishment and maintainance of author
ity, outside and above a church,
which is to dictate its policy, to
direct and control its action. How
ever small and unpretentious the
power assumed may be in the begin
ning, this will be the end. Let every
Baptist church that regards its inde
pendence, yea, that hopes to protect
and preserve its very existence,
awake to its danger and resist with
all its might, the threatened “re
form.”
The next point of attack is upon
what Dr. Gifford calls “the undis
ciplined democracy,” of Baptist
churches.
I n plain terms the object proposed
is the destruction of the equality, and
the stilling of the voices of some of
the membership. What else can it
mean? The curtailment of the
rights of a portion is the increase of
power and authority of the remain
der. It is but the creation of dis
tinct orders, each higher order being
clothed with augmented authority,
until we arrive at a Pope in practice
if not in name.
The independence of the churches,
and the democratic feature of church
government, and the equality of the
membership, are the matters that the
B. Y. P. U. A. are aiming to reform.
These features incorporated into
his body by the Head and Founder
of the Church, and w hich were em
bodied in every church constituted
by his inspired Apostles, and w’hich
have been preserved through nearly
nineteen hundred years, now need
the touch of the reforming hand of
an outside society hardly old enough
to leave off its swaddling clothes.
This toddler is to “give the church of
Jesus Christ in the Twentieth Cen
tury men who feel the responsibility
of the church, who will understand
their principles, who will stand by
the church of our Lord and Master,
Jesus Christ.”
The church itself has been a fail
ure, according to this teaching, in all
these respects, and must look to a
human institution to patch it up, to
paop it up, to set it on its feet, and
start it off anew, on its great mission !
Verily, children have become teach
ers in Israel.”
These are some of the legitimate
results of these human organizations
that propose to improve upon the
constitution of a New Testament
church, and to show it how to do its
work. The effect is to hide the
. church from the eye of the world, to
minify its importance, to weaken its
power, to impair its usefulness, and,
ultimately, to destroy it. Our hope
is in the promise of its builder, that
“the gates of hell shall not prevail
against it.”
DR. PARKHURST AND NEW YORK
SLUMS.
The Doctor has been stirring up
the saloon men, the keepers of baw
dy houses, and the city authorities
for conniving at the violation of law.
The authorities demanded the proofs.
He went in person, with dectectives
and police officers, all apparently as
regular customers. They drank in
the saloons, and witnessed, as ordi
-1 nary visitors, some of the low down
performances in houses of ill-fame,
. in order, from personal observation,
to get the facts required.
i Whatever may have been the mo-
1 tives of Dr. I’., and we are bound to
believe they were good, in pursuing
’ such a course, wo can not feel that
, it was improper for him to go to such
places, disguished or not, and that
the influence upon him from having
■ participated in their drunken, vulgar
1 revelries could lie nothing else than
evil. “Evil communications corrupt
1 good manners.”
He that lies down with dogs will
get up with fleas.
The man that breathes a malarial
atmosphere must expect the poison
to sweep through his circulation and
to corrupt his body. He who wal
lows in the mud will rise muddy.
1 Absorption follows contact. It is
1 safer to follow the injunction, “Ab
stain from all appearance of evil.”
The daily unavoidable contact with
evil makes it absolutely necessary for
every Christian to keep constantly by
him a large supply of spiritual dis-
THE CHRISTIAN INDEX; THURSDAY APRIL 28. 1892.
enfectants. He must “watch and
pray,” lest he enter into temptation.
“Let him that thinketh he standeth
take heed lest he fall.” Dr. Park
hurst’s purpose was to get facts. The
fear is that he may have gotten more
than he went for, —the effects of the
facts.
The Voice, which has been a
strong friend of the Doctor in his
work on this line, has the following
comments of some of his late acts.
The course of Dr. Parkhurst, in
his welfare on the slums of New
York, has been stanchly defended
by us; but the dcvelopements of
last week have come like a sudden
shock upon us, and sent us to a care
ful re-examination of the case. We
confess that we shrink from a whole
sale indorsement of his course, while
we feel as strongly as ever impelled
to indorse the man. Dr. Parkhurst
is, if ever a man was, fighting the
devil at close grips. He has met in
his crusade in behalf of law and or
der the same obstacles that beset
every one who has ever tried to secure
the enforcement of the excise laws—
namely, the demand on the part of
the authorities for more conclusive
and detailed evidence than is re
quired to hang a man for murder.
This sounds like exaggeration, but it
is the truth. More conclusive evi
dence is required in a city like New
York and Brooklyn to secure the
conviction of a liquor seller for vio
lating the exise law than is required
to convict a man of murder. Dr.
Parkhurst did not flinch. He went
after the facts and got them by per
sonal observation in the slums and
bawdy houses. To get them he fol
lowed that very questionable maxim
about doing as the Romans do. He
or his companions paid their money
and witnessed a shameful exhibition
at one of the bawdy houses, ordered
beer and drank it with the inmates,
and in general, we assume, conduct
ed themselves so as to avoid suspic
ion of their actual purposes. The
landlord of one of the houses has
since brought action to dispossess
the proprietress, and she having tak
en the case to court, Dr. Parkhurst
and his companions were summoned
as witnesses. The details were thus
brought out and spread before the
public, for which fact of course Dr.
Parkhurst cannot be held responsi
ble. How far detective work can be
legitimately carried is at times a puz
zling question. It involves almost
of necessity, if it is to be made suc
cessful, not only deceit but participa
tion in a certain sense in the evil it
self. Dr. Parkhurst’s motive would,
if anything would, justify his course.
His whole aim was one of deadly
hostility to the sin and shame with
which he placed himself in contact.
In a sense ho tempted the inmates
into indecency, but he tempted them
to do nothing that they were not in
the habit of doing nightly. The
question is a very delicate one. If Dr.
Parkhurst was not justified, it will
be difficult to justify the detective
service, which has come to be a reg
ular profession on which society has
' come to depend to keep vice and
crime within bounds. lie has, so
! far as the rules of morally are con
cerned, just as much right as any
professional detective to do what he
did. The rules of moralty are the
1 same for detectives as for preachers,
i But whatever doubt may exist on
, this point there can be none on this:
that the necessity that is laid upon
private persons, by reasons of the
laxity of police captains and the un
willingness of prosecuting officers, to
fight vice in this way, if it is to be
fought with even a chance of suc
cess, is a shameful approach of de
plorable prevalency.
DEPARTMENT OF RELIGION AT
THE WORLD'S FAIR.
Under this head, and with prefac
ing remarks, Dr. Smith of the Stand
aid has the following:
Lying before us, now, is a report
by Dr. John Henry Barrows, of
Chicago, chairman of the General
Committee on Religious Congresses,
to be held in 1893, during the great
Exposition.
1 lere arc some of the special ob
jects had in view by this Religious
Congress.
“To bring together in conference,
for the first time in history, the lend
ing representatives of the great His
toric Religions of the world.” “To
show to men, in the most impressive
way, what and how many truths the
various religions hold and tehch in
common.” “To indicate the impreg
nable foundations of Theism, and
the reasons for man’s faith in immor
tality, and thus to unite and strength
en the forces which arc adverse to a
materialistic philosophy of the nui
verse.” “To inquire what light each
religion has afforded, or may afford
to the other religions of the world.”
“To bring the nations of the earth
into a more friendly fellowship, in
the hope of securing permanent in
ternational peace.”
The Committee suggests the fol
lowing scheme of dates for the dif
ferent Congresses:
“The r.nrliment of Religions lie
held from August ‘2sth to September
3rd; the Catholic Congress trom
September sth to September 9th,
both inclusive; the Church Con
gresses, usually known as the De
nominational Congresses, from Sep
tember 7th through September 10th;
the Congress of Missions, from Sep
tember 12th through to September
17th; the Evangelical Alliance from
September 19th through September
24th; the Sunday Rest Congress,
from September 26th through Sep
tember 29th. Appropriate services
for the Sumjays during this period
will be held in the different churches
of Chicago and its suburbs. Many
inter-denominational meetings may
be held contemporaneously with the
other congresses. Thursday, Sep
tember Bth, has been selected as
Christian Endeavor Day. It is be
lieved that other days will be selected
by the Sunday-schools, the Young
Men’s Christian Associations, the
Brotherhood df St. Andrew', and
other bodies, for important meetings.
Assurances have been received that
the Lutheran churches will have im
posing demonstrations during this
time.. The Baptists are also planning
a World Conference at Chicago in
1893. The Presbyterians with whom
I have consulted, believe that there
should be a great Prespyterian Day,
in which the ablest speakers of that
denomination shall set fort the his
storic significance and achievements
of Presbyterianism.
A special Committee has been ap
pointed for a Congress of Missions.
The Baptist members of this Com
mittee are President Harper and
Rev. O. P. Gifford.
The following is a part of the
statement issued by this Committee,
setting forth the objects of the Mis
sion Congress:
“To make this exhibition as com
plete as possible, it will be .the en
deavor of those having in charge the
Congress of Missions, to secure rep
resentation from every important
missionary organization in the world.
They will also attempt to bring
together representatives from the
peoples who have been the benefici
aries of missionary effort. The
world that was made so much larger
by the discoveries of the intrepid ex
plorers of Europe has, at the same
time, been made, practically, much
smaller by the discoveries of modern
science. With the facilities now ex
isting for rapid travel, it ought not
to be impossible to secure, in connec
tion with the World’s Fair, an Ecu
menical Congress of Missions.”
RECONCILIATION.
The daily press has kept the w'orld
pretty well posted about the war
that Rev. Mr. Wadsworth has been
making upon public l vice in the city
of Augusta.
Some time last year unpleasant
feeling sprung up between him and
Dr. Lansing BurroWs, pastor of the
Green Street Baptist Church, on ac
count of some utterances of Mr.
Wadsworth. Recently Rev. Sam
Jones has been engaged in a meeting
there, and that through
the influence of n his preaching a
reconciliation has (been effected be
tween these two ministers.
The Augusta Chronicle of 17th
inst., gives the following account of
the peacable adjustment of the diffi
culties : ••• •»
“The services lAst night at the
Tabernacle were somewhat informal.
Sam Jones talked >a few moments,
and asked the pastors for short talks.
The talks from Revs. Wadsworth,
Quilian, Frazer and Timmons, were
given in line spirit and with good
effect. .
Dr. Burrows then walked up on
the side pf Rev, Sajn Jones, and put
his hand on his shoulder and said :
‘I am glad of this opportunity to
talk. I would commend you sir, and
your work in the salvation of sinners,
in the reclamation of backsliders,
and in the work that lifts burdens
from the hearts of tearful mothers. Sir
you many have given some of us bit
ter medicine. I have taken my share.
It has done me good. I want to say
to you all my brethren, that in the
long course of my ministry among
the dearest people on earth, if 1 have
done aught derogatory to the honor
and dignity of the ministry, I crave
pardon.’ i r
Continuing, he urged that the in
fluences awakened by the meetings
should not be lost,the moral sentiment
created should not be suffered to
abate, and that Christian people
should get nearer together. He con
eluded by saying: v
‘I now take my heart and put it
in my hand.’
And turning to Mr. Wadsworth ho
said:
‘Will you take it?’ Mr. Wads
worth rose and taking him by the
hand said:
‘1 will take it. In the clash of
the discussion of the past, I did not
intend to hurt you personally, but if
anything I have said did hurt you, I
am sorry, and I love you.’
As each gentleman concluded the
audience applauded loudly.
The meeting moved on in power
and great blessing to many. The
altar was crowded with penitents
and many were saved.”
It is hard, sometimes, to confess a
fault. Hard, because it makes the
proud spirit bend low with humility.
But how it calms and softens and
sweetens the soul!
It is noble to forgive an injury.
With these men confession and for
giveness were mutual. The offences
were of a public character. It was
altogether fit that the reconciliation
should have been public.
“Confess your faults one to an
other.”
“ Let all bitterness, and wrath, and
anger, and clamor, and evil-speaking,
be put away from you, with aU
malice: And be ye kind one to an
other, tender-hearted, forgiving one
another, even as God for Christ’s
sake hath forgiven you.”
When the grace of God gets pos
session of our hearts, enmity is
driven out, love rules, softens our
words, directs our acts, and makes
all believers one in Christ Jesus.
WARSZAWIAK.
The above is the name of a young
Israelite who has been converted to
Christianity.
He was brought to a knowledge
of the truth by a careful study of
the Old Testament Scriptures.
The question that specially at
tracted his attention and the answer
to which led him to accept Christ
w’as why the Jewish sacrifices had
ceased, and how sacrifice for. sin was
to be made.
The fifty-third chapter of Isaiah
taught him of a coming Messiah, and
as Philip began at the same scripture
and preached Jesus to the Ethiopian
Eunuch, so a missionary of the Free
Church of Scotland, led Warsazwiak
to see that the Messiah of whom he
had been preaching had already
come.
This young converted Israelite is
now preaching in the Rivington
Street Chapel in the City of New
York. He is preaching to the Jews
in their own language, and is said to
be a man of extraordinary power.
The Memphis Appeal-Avalanche
of April 14, contains the following
account of Rev. Wade Preston’s
change from the Methodist to the
Baptist:
Little Rock, Ark. April 13.—Little
Rock religious circles are all excite
ment tonight over the action of one
the most prominent Methodist di
vines of Arkansas, in renouncing his
faith and joining the Baptist church.
The conversion took place at the
second Baptist church in this city to
night. After the usual Wednesday
night prayer-meeting, Dr. A. B. Mil
ler, pastor of the church, stated that
he had a matter of great importance
to submit to the congregation. He
said Rev. Wade Preston, a distin
guished Methodist divine, well known
to the entire South, was present and
wished to be baptized in the Baptist
faith.
The applicant then stepped for
ward and asked the indulgence of the
congregation for a few moments. He
said he became a convert to Metho
dism when 13 year of age. At the
beginning of the late civil w’ar he
cast his lot with the Confederacy.
In 1864 he returned to his home in
Drew county, and was ordained a
minister in the Methodist church. For
many years he was stationed at the
first Methodist Episcopal church Lit
tle Rock,but at the recent annual con
ference was transferred to the White
River conference. For some time,
he said, he had been battling w ith his
conscience, and at last came to the
conclusion that he should obey the
dictates of his conscience. He felt
sure that he was taking the right
step, and hoped all would join hearti
ly in the same conclusion. The dis
tinguished divine was then escorted
to the baptismal font and baptized
by Dr. Miller. This ceremony over,
Gov. James P. Eagle stepped to the
pulpit and delivered a short address,
approving of the conversion. The
Governor was the most enthusiastic
person in the church. He concluded
his speech by saying: “This act on
the part of our brother will create a
great sensation throughout the
State.”
“Let every man be fully persuad
ed in his own mind,” and then fol
low the dictates of his conscience
enlightened by the teaching of the
Bible.—Er>. ’
To those who are growing uneasv
about the safety of the Bible, and
the Christian religion, the statements
contained in the following article
from the S. S. Times, will be reassur
ing.—En.
THE ARK AND THE ANIMALS.
BY PROFESSOR HOWARD OSGOOD, D. D.
Is our age more skeptical or unbe
lieving than many that have gone be
fore it ? Ido not believe it. On the
other hand, I believe that ’the most
careful, sober estimate will prove that
there are more persons in the world
now holding the Bible to be the ver
itable word of God and devoted to
the most sincere service of Jesus
Christ than in any previous age.
Sonic persons are greatly troubled
because so many learned men pub
lish their want of faith in the Scrip
tures as the word of God in the high
est sense. But granting that these
learned men are twice as numerous
as they are, and that their volumes i
and articles are sold tenfold more j
than they are, yet they weigh and
number very small compared to the
other side of the account. Consider
for a moment. The sales of the Bible
every year by the British and by the
American Bible Societies are millions
of volumes beyond all the books in
tended* to discredit the Bible as the
word of God. Then come the great
United Tract Societies of England
and America, and the Tract and
Book Societies of the denominations,
with their millions of annual publica-
tions. There must be large life where
so much good food is required every
year. Some of the fruit of this life
is seen in the annual addition to the
Protestant churches of our land of
over four hundred thousand persons.
There are between ten millions and
twelve millions of children in the Sun
day-schools of our land. Every one
of these agencies is increasing inpporerw r
er every year. The Bible societies
print and sell more Bibles every
year; the tract and book societies
print and sell more tracts and books;
the number of converts steadily in
creases, and the Sunday-schools mul
tiply with growing population. Have
there ever been more blessings of God
upon the mission fields? Look at the
New Hebrides, New Guinea, the Te
lugus, the Congo. The wonders of
grace seen there are as great as the
world has ever beheld.
Surely the believer in the bible as
the very word of God has no reason
for fear or doubt w’hen he looks at its
triumphs, however he may sorrow
that, at times, it seems to be “smitten
in the house of its friends.”
The spirit of the following resolu
tions is heartily endorsed by the In
dex.
There are strong reasons, however,
for believing that St. Patrick was a
Baptist, so that Dr. Henson and the
Chicago meeting may have had their
demand already met.—Ed.
POINTED RESOLUTIONS.
At a recent meeting of the Baptist
ministers meeting of Chicago, Dr.
Henson presented the following res
olutions, which were unanimously
passed, and with applause:
Whereas, the city council of Chi
cago, at a meeting held on the 16th
ult., did by resolution instruct the
mayor to “close all the officers in the
city hall on Thursday, March 17th,
1892,” and did declare the 17th of
March a holiday; and whereas, the
only conceivable reason for such ob
servance w’as to honor the memory
of St. Patrick, the patron saint of
Ireland; and whereas, the only con
ceivable reason for such observance
was to honor the memory of St.
Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland;
and whereas, many of the citizens and
tax-payers of Chicago, are neither of
Irish nationality nor of the Romish
faith; and whereas, it is utterly for
eign to the genius of American in
stitutions to discriminate in favor of
any one race or religion, Therefore
Resolved, That this conference of
Baptist ministers imperatively de
mand, that if the precedent thus es
tablished by our city council is to be
followed in the future, that St. An
drew should have a memorial day in
deference to the feelings of our Scot
tish fellow citizens, that William
Penn shall be similarly honored in
deference to the Quakers, and Roger
Williams in deference to the Baptists,
and John Wesley in deference to the
Methodists, and John Calvin in def
erence to the Presbyterians, and
Martin Luther in deference to the
Lutherans, and if there be any other
race or religion that can claim enough
voters to be an influential patron at
the polls, then the representatives of
such race or religion shall have the
privilege of naming each a patron
saint or reverend ecclesiastic in
whose honor the city offices shall be
closed once a year, if there be days
enough in the calendar to serve the
purpose.
Resolved further, and finally, That
if in the judgment of the city council
it be not expedient thus to memorial
ize nations and faiths, we urgently
insist that they shall memorialize
none, but severely let religion alone
in their official capacity and address
themselves honestly to their legiti
mate business. *
The Cumberland Presbyterian has
the following sensible remarks about
church consolidation. To “consoli
date” as some would have it, is about
as practicable as it would be to con
solidate all the different individuals
in any community into one person.
Constitutional difference in charac
ter, in habits, and temperaments,
would produce a man so utterly in
congruous that he would fly all to
pieces by the time you got him
made. Christians are spiritually one
in Christ now. That is the only
kind of unity we shall have so long
as we are, as w e are.—En.
“The divisions of the church are
never likely to be fewer than they
now are. Some of the kindred de
nominations may be consolidated, but
the tendency—and it is a healthy
tendency—is not toward uniformity,
but variety. There are in the Ro
man Catholic church in this country
the germs of two Catholic denomina
tions, the progressive and the ultra
montane. There has within recent
years sprung up a Reformed Episco
pal church, and the “high" and the
“low” and the “broad” elements in
the regular Episcopal church may
yet take organic form. The Jews
are already divided into Orthodox
i and Reformed. The dream of one
| organic body co-extensive with the
nation, embracing in it all Cnristians,
ruled by one council or assembly, or
conference, or college of bishops, is a
dream that will never be realized.
It is well that it can not be. Each
denomination is a center of life and
activity; and more is done—more
souls helped—through these multi
plied organizations than could be
done by one uniform and all-embrac
ing church. Death is uniform but
life is complex. Weakness and wav
ering faith seek for strength in or-
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ganic union; positive views and in
tense convictions of’duty and gen
uine trust inspire activity and earn
estness in winning souls and build
ing up the kingdom in the church in
w hich God has called us to serve
him. To grieve because the denomi
nations can not be consolidated, and
to go up and down the earth seeking
to consolidate the one you happen to
belong to w’ith some other,is as foolish
as it would be to mourn because their
are so many springs and brooks and
rivulets flow’ing so variously through
the land, and to attempt to abolish
them by digging one broad channel
for them through the middle of the
continent.’ The little brooks have
their mission.”
COME.
The Index will be glad to have
brethren of the editorial fraternity,
and all other brethren, so inclined,
to visit our sanctum during the ses
sion of the Southern Baptist Conven
tion.
It is in the Herald building at 57
Broad Street, a short distance from
Trinity Methodist church, where, we
are informed, the convention w’ill as
semble.
We hope to meet many old friends,
and to make acquaintance wdth many
new ones.
“The Christian Index comes to
us in new’ type and'changed form.
Editor McMichael has our congratu
lations on these improvements.”
The foregoing is taken from Young
People’s Union* personals, issue
April 16th.
Bro. Wilkins, put on your specta
cles, and examine head of first col
umn, page four, of Christian In
dex.
AN ERROR CORRECTED.
In the notice of the poem by Wm.
C. Richards which appeared in last
week’s issue, the price was stated to
be 50 cents. It should have been 15
cents. It is to be had of S. P. Rich
ards & Son, Atlanta, Ga.
MEMOIRS OF DR. SHERWOOD.
Do you wish to get a copy of this
most interesting book ?
See advertisement in another col-
umn.
IK &
Rev. James P. Stone
of Lower Cabot, Vt, formerly of
Dalton, N. H.
A Faithful Pastor
Is held in high esteem by his people,
and his opinion upon temporal as well
as spiritual matters is valued greatly.
The following is from a clergyman long
influential in New England, now
well earned rest in Cabot, Vt.:
*C. I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass.:
“We have used Hood’s Sarsaparilla in our
family for many years past, with great ben
ertt. Wo have, with confidence, recom
mended it to others for their various ali
ments, almost all of whom have certified to
great benefit by its use. We can
Honestly and Cheerfully
recommend it as the beet bleed purifier
we have ever tried. We have used others,
but none with the. beneficial effects of Hood’s.
Also, we deem Hood's Pills and Olive Oint
ment invaluable. Mrs. Stone says she
cannot do without them.” Kbv. J. P. Stone.
Better than Cold
Mr. Geo. T. Clapp, of Eastondale, Mass.,
says: “I am 82 years of age, and for 30
years have suffered with mnnlngsores on one
of my legs. A few years ago I had two toes
amputated, physicians saying I was suffer
ing from gangrene and had but
A Short Time to Live
Eight months ago as a neighbor urged me, I
began taking Hood's Sarsaparilla. The
whole lower part of my leg and foot was a
running sore, but ft has almost completely
healed and I can truthfully say that 1 am in
better health than I have been for many
years. I have taken no other medicine and
consider that I owe all my improvement to
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
It is better than gold.” “ I cheerfully
verify the above statement of Mr. Clapp,
whom I have known 30 years.” J. M. How
ard, Druggist, Eastondale, Mass.
HOOD’S PiLlO are purely vegetable.
Excursions to Europe $195.
Programmes now ready for Select Excur
sions to Europe. Bost ticb«-ting facilities.
Choicest ocean berths by lines at lowest
rates. 'Send for "Tourist Gazette.”
H. GAZE & SONS,
940 Broadway, New York.
Officially appointed International Tourist
Agents for world’s Columbian Exposition.
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NOTICE ?
T will sell your House, Farm or any other
real Ivetatcf or for
lOmarly 47# Myrtle Ave?, l^wk?ym < S. t Y.
WANTED.—Do you want to make fifty dol.
” iara per week at home? Mrs. Smith sent
six dollars to Alfred Coles for a Box or Ward
robe Lounge and allowed him to send people
who answer his advertisements to see her
lounge for which ho gave a commission which
average #3O per wook.
If you will do the same In your district send
for terms to ALFRED COLES,
Hfcbly S2O Myrtle Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y
MISS FLORA JONES. South Bend. Irifi. pays
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