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4 ©lte ©hrietian Jndex 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- « , JW 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. 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