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like to write unto you in answer to your letters, but 1 cannot write one half. You speak of my letters giving you much consolation, I felt to rejoice with you, in believing there is peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. O. I thought why have I found grace in thine eyes that thou shouldest take knowledge of me seeing lam a stranger ! 0, my sister, if I have fed you with spiritual food I have nothing to boast cf; for I feel poor and needy of myself, all the spir itual blessings flow from the fountain of eternal Jove. I would say remember that the few lines 1 have written to you have come from an unworthy sister, feeling the least of all saints if one at all. — My mind has been very dark and shut up most of the time, ever since I wrote my last letter to you which you said gave you so much comfort. I think if ever I enjoyed the presence of the Son of God, it was after reading your third letter, it was truly a great sermon to me. It was a feast of fat things to me as I said to you before, it made mel ody in my heart unto the Lord. O, my sister, you brought so many things to view in that glorious letter it makes my heart leap for joy while I am writing about it. You spoke of all the sons of God shouting for joy in view of the glorious gospel.— O, it is that which animates the children of God ! In view of the blessed gospel of Jesus Christ they feel to rejoice vvkh joy unspeakable and full of glo ry. They often feel like good old Simeon, they can say mine eyes have seen thy salvation, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace. Some times in view of ibis glorious gospel they feel as if they were with that heavenly host praising God, and saying glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace and good will to man, For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior which is Christ the Lord. O, there is such a fullness I cannot attain to it, it is too wonderful for me a poor worm of the dust to fathom ! O, I feel to say with you there is so much instruction and kind ad monitions contained in the gospel. I feed as if I come short of all of them when I look at self. I often feel to say with the Poet, “My soul how lovely is the place, To which my God resorts, ‘Tis heaven to see his smiling face, Though in his earthly courts,” Dear sister, after I received your last I thought I would not write until I received your next, as you said that you should write soon again. But my thoughts got to running with you, I thought I would scribble down a few of them. You wanted to know about the churches here, I will try to tell you in my next. You wanted to know if I had re ceived your letters, I have received four, I think I have received all you have sent by the reading of them. I hope you will continue to write to me as your letters are a great comfort to me in dark hours. My father and mother takes great delight in hearing me read them, for they contain such living food, salvation bv grace and grace alone. Farewell, LUCY C. WHITCOMB. ii ti—■ - Llano Cos., Texa* 14, 1860. Dear Brethren the Signs and Messenger—The time has come for me to send SOUTHERN BAPTIST MESSENGER. the srcaii remittance for so great an earthly treas ure as your correspondence is, through which we receive many spiritual communications from our very dear sisters and brothers scattered over this vast continent. Through this medium we can free ly tell of the dealings of the Lord with us. I just returned home from an old fashioned Association held near Lockhart, Texas, where I got my earthen vessel filled, where we had a feast of good things from the Lord, through the preaching of our dear brethren Stuart, Ainsworth and Malden, and the precious company of many other brethren and sis ters ; although the journey of one hundred miles over rocks and mountains, I was well rewarded, it was truly a time of rejoicing; it was said by some that this was near the last meeting of the kind thev would have, fortheir preachers are almost gone, and when I looked at our old grey headed preachers, and no young ones coming to the harvest, it makes me wonder what will become of us, we know of but two within a hundred miles of us, and them near worn out. Brethren and sisters, pray the Lord to send more laborers into this po>T of Ilis vineyard. Our preacher appears to be called home on the right and left. I see a communication through the Signs by sister Sarah Silveriooth of Mo., that broth er S. J. Lowe is now confined to his bed, and has been sick for three [years. I heard brother Lowe preach, and was well acquainted with him ; he was an able defender of the truth. I parted with him at an Association in Indiana some twelve years ago, and never knew where he was until I saw the letter from his daughter. I pray the Lord, if it is His will, that he may be restoied, and sent by the directions of the Lord to preach for us. Dear sis. ter Silvertooth, l was attached to you when a child, but my dear sister, when l read your experience it made me love you with another kind of love ; your journey through life has been so much like mine that it has strengthened my confidence with the dealings of the Lord with me. I was very young when the Lord pardoned rnv sins, if at all, it is so far back that I fear after all it was a chldish notion, I was only about 16 years old, and now about sixty, I have lived in doubts and fears ever since, and I fear shall remain so the balance of my allotted time, but the Lord is my strength. Dear sister, let me hear from you and your dear father again. When I commenced this letter I thought I would tell my experience, but I have had so much to talk about that I have taken too much time and space, and my experience is so little, it appears that it would be little interest for any Christian to read, but the little spark is some times very precious to me. Dear brethren and sisters, write on, your communication are soul cheering to us that have no other preaching. Brother editors, may the Lord strengthen you spiritually and men tally to bear up under the great labor that is put on you. Now brother Beebe, should you think this worth your attention, correct it and publish it, if not, throw it with the scraps, and I will think all is right. I wish to remain your sister in Christ till death, although unworthy, JANE LUCE. Sulphur Springs, Ark., Aug., 26,1860*. Gentlemen Editors —Please give your views through the Messenger, on the passage of Scrip ture found in Luke xxii. 36, for I told a missionary that if he would show me any Scripture that would show me where Christ* set apart any set of men to go and preach in a certain country, and pre scribe their boundery, and pay to them according to their prescribed boundary, that I would believe in their paying their men to go and preach to the heathens, and the above Scripture he cited me la* but I don’t believe he can apply that to educating moral young men, and pay them four or five hun dred dollars to go and preach to the heathens. — I don’t think he can make good doctrine apply in that way, for the Scripture says, Then said he un to them, but now, he that hath a purse let him take it, and likewise his scrip, and lie that hath no sword, let him sell his garment and buy one. I think that the sword spoken of in the Scripture is nothing more or less than the word of God. Not withstanding, I see in the same chapter where orb of the Apostles cut off a man’s oar, and I think there is some in this day and time when they hear the truth preached to them feel like their head wa*s cut off. Now I don’t learn in the Scriptures that if they had no purse or sword that the people had to make them up a purse and give it to them, and if they had no sword that the people had to give them one. But they had to sell their garments. Now, I say, if they are so anxious to convert the. heathens, I think the way for them to get this purse and sword, is to lay hold of the plow-handle,, hoe, or some occupation to get money, then if they feel like it was their duty to go and preach, now they have got their purse and sword, let them take it and go ahead, and when they enter into a church and preach, if the brethren feel it their duty to pay them something, I have no objection to that course. Please giv<?your views on the above Scripture, and correct me if I am wrong in my views, for my de* sire is to know the truth* Yours as ever, L. M. COOK. P. S. D. W. Patman please give his views on the 13th chapter and oth veise of Matthew, and oblige one that is neady, L. M. G, --■ B9*i Flint Hill, Ga., Oct. 6, 1860. Messrs Beebe & Purington : —A little good news, and I cannot refrain from giving it to you. I am informed that about 20 have been baptised into County Line church, in Campbell Cos., with in a month or so. Some from the Missionaries, and some from the Methodists, and my informant said, one was a lady 89 years of age. So mote it be, Yours, &c. W. H. AWTBEY. ■ —• ■■ -■> -U Homer, La., Oct, 21, 1850. Bro. Win. M. Mitchell, Please give your views on Infant Salvation, through the Messenger. I also wish brother S. Trott’s views on the Milleni um. In so doing, you will oblige your unworthy ‘ GEORGE SHAW.. 163