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nn i r i ■ riTIrl M Study to shew thyself approved un to God , a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, righ tly dividing the word of truth. VoL 3.--No. 14. PROPRIETORS J. A. SCARBORO ,t PUBLISHERS. & CO., ANNOUNCEMENT. With this number the Re¬ porter becomes an eight page, weekly paper, it is sent forth for inspection and patronage, by 1 he publishers, who believe that it is not destitute of merit as a reli¬ gious journal. Like all things be¬ low the skies, it is imperfect, and the critic will find something that will afford him an opportunity to be charitable. It lias been, and shall be, our purpose to make the paper representative in character; a paper for all Die people, useful rather than beautiful, a practical exponent of principles, useful to man and honoring to (loci, We make no attempts to please every¬ body. If our labors are approved of God and good men, we are sat¬ isfied. It is better to fail in a good cause than to succeed in a bad one, and where principles of truth and right are involved, good men forsake policy. In conducting this work rve will always he found in line with the denomination, whose name can always ho found in large let¬ ters at the top of this page. They are right, their doctrines are precious to us, and with them Ave stand or fall. • There is room, work and succes for all who have a heart to work, and we have no time, ink or words to waste with ♦hose who may desire us to quit the field. When our Lord gets ready He will make an end of our work. Our .eplumn< .am open Jo all, t from the college president to the sun-browned toilers for bread, and all shall be fairly treated. We solicit correspondence. It shall be our pleasure to carry the ap¬ peals of all the mission hoards, missionaries, educators, societies, churches, temperance workers, etc., to the people, free of charge, and if they do not use our col¬ umns the reader may rest assur¬ ed it is not our fault. Tlie price of the Reporter is $1.00 per annum. We have been urged by many good brethren to raise the subscription to $1.50 $2.00, but Ave think best to put I he price AA'here all. can pay it. We want to reach the masses, and to do this Ave put the paper with- in reach of the poorest. Price to pastors is 50 cents. If any one desires to give us more for the pa- per we do not object, oi course; but our price is $1.00. We hope 1 hat the brethren will appreciate our ofiorts to give them a good paper at a popular price, and fiake an earnest effort at once, to greatly increase our circulation, Pastors are authorized to act as agents for the paper. Our location and facilities are very good. We have ample, mail and shipping facilities, telegraph and express offices, and the paper will reach all points as quickly from here as from the larger cities. Our material is all neAV, presses, 1ype, machinery, etc., and the pa¬ per will he printed on good paper, in the best manner. We guaran- tee good print. Our type is large and the print is very easy to read. Many avIio use glasses to read the ordinary paper can read this pa¬ per Avithout them. Our Job Printing department is ready for work and we can fill Guyton, Ga., Wednesday, August 15, 1883. ii YflbfX 4: Yi# BfQ 1 M l Wmm rz- s * . . ;2f .■ » si Mpl 'ymM% m Jglfei j-jS-s r hx ' - X it . ) r A , : .PATRICK 1IUEB MELL, I). I).. L. L 1). Pastor axd Educator. orders promptly, and as cheap as i a ny house doing the same grade of j work. \J r e print anything from a visiting card to a circus poster, and guarantee good work. We are specially prepared to print Associational Minutes, pamphlets, etc., and we hope rhat clerks of associations will not forget us. We want the work and will do it as cheaply and neatly as any reli¬ able printer. Send us the manu¬ script of your minutes and we will tell you what the work is worth. If you are not willing to give what we ask we will return the manu¬ script, or mail wherever you may direct. We will send minutes di¬ rectly to churches, when money is sent to pay postage. When prices and work are equal, we trust our ; ! biptlwen will aid.us by giving u their work. We give our business our personal attention and strive to please. Minutes are Avorth about $1.75 per printed page, for 1000 copies; for 500 cop¬ ies 20 per cent. off. Send us your work. It is our purpose to make the Baptist Reporter a welcome Avis- itor to every Baptist fireside, and to do this Ave Avill give our time and labors. There are over 100,- 000 white Baptists in Georgia that never read a Baptist paper! We cannot hope to reach the masses except through the pulpit and press,nor can Ave expect uni- ty of purpose and Avork in the de nomination until the people are instructed. With so much desti tution around us it is not necessa- ry to say that more literature is needed. If one preacher or pa¬ per cannot do the work, send two, or ten, or enough to do the Avork. Much could be said as to our purpose and plans and t he needs of our cause, but without,consum- ing space suffice it to say that we offer you a good, sound Baptist paper, of eight pages, every week in the year, for $1.00, or less than 2 cents a copy. You have a sam¬ ple copy; please examine it care¬ fully, and if you feel that 52 such papers are worth $1.00, send us $1.00 by registered letter, money order, check or draft and you will get the paper one year. Show t he paper to your neighbors and friends and sav a good word for it. and help us to put it in ten thous- and Baptist homes by Christmas, Send us your subscription to-day. _ Don’t you think this is a real handsome paper ? Good enough and cheap enough. Take it and help us to keep it good. & w ■ • v ’SIS 1 % art#**;. * jfeY? ffsW-. | V" y**.... JS SSI Na¬ % * W?m 4 mmk ' ifil M mg . m mm. mm ■'gvi' t ■Bp m YD0N1RAM JUDSON,D. D., L. L. D. Missionary a.XI) Author. Two Pictures. Through the kindness if Dr. ! Burrows, of Augusta, and Dr. Judson, of New York, we have! the pleasure of giving our readers j very good pictures of Drs. Mell j and Judson. Dr. Mell was born in Liberty county, Ga., July 10, 1814; died in Athens, Ga.. Jan. 26, 1888. He was one of the most gifted Pas¬ tors, Parliamentarians and Educa¬ tors of this age. His memory is precious. Dr. Judson Avas born in Malden, Mass., Aug 9, 1788, and died on board the French ship, Aristide Marie, afloat on the Indian Ocean, j on Apvil 12, 1 850. and his body 1 was . commited to the sMiing wave's at; 8 ./dock m Bur .evening 1 of the same day. He was the first American Foreign Missionary, and S ave over 37. years of his use¬ ful life to mission work-in India, ten years in Rangoon, two in Ava and tAventy-three in Maulmain. He baptized over 7000 converts, translated the whole Bible into the Burmese language, and nearly completed an English-Burmese Dictionary. ••He being dead yet speaketh." Ten Thousand Copies. We have printed and mailed 10,000 Reporters to the pastors and brethren for distribution in the churches, and elsewhere. May AA'e not beg the brethren Avho re¬ ceive them to put them in 1 he hands of the members of the churches? Please do Ibis much for us, as soon as possible. We want every body to know that they can get a splendid Baptist pa¬ per for $1.00 a year. We feel just like those who receive these spec¬ imen copies are going to like them so Avell that they will subscribe. Now, don’t you believ.e that this paper is worth $1.00 a year? It is large, it is neat, the paper is good, the print is good, the matter is good, there is no trash in it, and it will come to see you every week in the year. Send us a dol- mr. Somebody may suppose that our object in sending out so many sample copies is to get new sub¬ scribers. That’s it exactly, We are glad you thought of that; Ave want you. We can sustain, secu¬ lar papers; Avhy not sustain relig¬ ious papers? Try the Reporter a year; you will like it. The Reporter ought to have at least ten thousand readers. J. a. SCAU15GRO, Editor. W. L. (xKICiEK, Associate Editor. OUR ASSOCIATE EDITOR AXD •‘Seven Baptist Pillars.” Our readers Avill be pleased to learn, and A\'e are delighted to Mate, that l\.-e\. M . L. Geigei has become Associate Editor of the Reporter. He lias bad many years experience in the pulpit, mission field and newspaper work. The tripod is not new to him. lie published the first religious paper in South Georgia, and is sivelv knoAvn as a preacher, teach- er and writer. He is a regular Baptist pioneer, a stalwart preach- of Bible doctrine, a ■faithful missionary of the cross, and knows more about the destitutions of South Georgia and the needs of hour in the .destitutions than any minister of our acquaint a nice. He brings Ids varied his ripe and rich experience to the work assigned him in this journal, and our leaders Avill bind much pleasure in reading his de- partment. He will edit our Doc- trinal and Historical departments, and give us notes from the field. In addition to this, lie will repre- sent the Reporter wherever he goes, take subscriptions, contract for printing, etc., and preach the gospel every time lie has a chance. He will visit several associations (the Miller, Yew Ebenezer, Old Ebenezer, Mell and possibly oth- ers) as a representative of the Re- porter, and we bespeak for him a cordial reception, a long list of subscribers and plenty of chicken, He is engaged in evangelistic work, and Avill visit churches communities that may desire his services. He has recently pub- lished his new hook, “Seven Bap- tist Pillars," consisting of sermons on the distinctive princi- pies of the Baptist denomination, with one on “Baptist History” and one on “Feet-washing.” The sermons are among the best AA r e have seen, and better adapted to the needs of this section of Geor- gia than any Ave have seen. They are straight-forward declarations of sacred truth that leave no room for gainsaying. They must he read to he appreciated. The book contains 183 pages, is nicely print- ed, the author’s picture as a fronts- piece, price in paper covers 50 cents. Send for it. Address, Rev. W. L. Geiger, Beulah, Laurens Co., Ga., or call on him for a copy. The Reporter has been endors- ed by the Georgia Baptist State Convention, and by associations, the Baptist press and the ablest brethren in all sections. Take it. Sl.OG A Year. What do You Think? Bro. Scarboro: Zeke Johnson, in his experience, has found a great many things to say abut the deacons and other members of Ihe Baptist churches, but lias never found one who act¬ ually discontinued his Baptist pa¬ per because the editor was a pro¬ hibitionist and advocated the same in his paper. Yet . such is the fact. What- do you think about such a member Bro. Scar- boro? Your Christian opinion will oblige your friend, A. S. Oanukt. j We do not know what Zeke Johnson will say about this ques- editor's opinion is that the deacon refered to is an anti- prohibitionist. We do not want to say hard or unkind things about his action, hut we simply think the brother acted hastily or un- thoughtcdly. Or he may like to drink whisky or chew tobacco, or feels that the easiest way to get rid of Ihe said editor's argue- ments and ease his own conscience is to stop the paper. You know how it hurts to scratch an old sore., In old times they had a machine called a guillot ine Avith which they chopped people's heads- off ’ and they found a man whose ar- guements they could not answer or bribe into silence, they took him to the guillotine And chopped his head off. This Baptist deacon seems to desire to chop the said Baptist paper’s head off. The ed- it or of this paper opposes whisk v drinking and whisky selling sim- ply because .hoy aiv wrong. the same reasons 11 other evils; and if we are expected to endorse these evils in order to get that Baptist deacon's patron- age, those who expect it Aviil be disappointed. Convince us by sound argilements that prohibi- tion is wrong and Ave Avill aban- don it, but until this is done Ave hold our position. We believe with all our heart, that Ave are right, and we cannot violate our concience or stultify ourselves be- fore God for any mail’s dollar. But it was easier to stone Stephen than to disprove his doctrine, so they stoned him. We do hope that the said deacon, ivherever he may be, av i 11 prayerfully consider his act and decide the question in the light of divine truth. We desire to state here that Ave are aware that we are abused and hated by rum sellers and corrup- tionists because Ave oppose them; the Reporter has been destroyed at more than one postotlice in Georgia because the postmaster was opposed to it, but the thing that pains us more than all ibis is to learn that a Baptist deacon should practically join hands Avith our foes. May the Lord open his eyes. The Master’s eye is upon us and Ave must give account for every line in this paper. God help us to Avrite the simple truth, and pre- sent a clean paper to the Judge.— Editor.] You will find something in ev¬ ery page, every column and every paragraph to interest you. Read the articles on the 2nd page. Then read the Temperance page, and be sure to see Avhat our editor and Dr. Warren have to say about ministerial education on 4th page, Of course you Avill read the letters on the inside pages.