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Tw > volumes, eat h wi’h about 41 classical songs, of a* knowledgvd reputation . Piano Classics, Vols. I and 2. Two large volumes, full music situ, con taining 41 and 3! piece- retja ( lively, Only the b“»t composers are lepresetitvd. Young People’s C assies, Vois. I and 2. Each volume contains about 50 pieces of easy bu effective music. Any volume, postpaid, in caper £1; boards 11.25 Cloth Gilt |2. OLIVER DITSON CO., Bjsloo. C. H. DiTSOI & CO. 1, f. DUSON ICO 867 Norsdway N. Y.rrnOng.tt s,'u««tl’htl ' SOI TH EKNBAPT I ST Theological Seminary, Lot isviti.K, Kr. WESSION of ohrht mouths begins first day of October. Ail studies elective; s parate irraduation in each subject. Many atte'id one svssiiHi. choosing their studies. Degree of Ei glish Graduate ( rh. G.\or oi Electie Graduale fib. B.) otter obtained in two sessions; that of Full Graduate (Th. M often throe, including a vry wide ran/e of scholarly u»»rk Many special studies if desired. Studcnts2;u», v ith a Instructors. Tuition and rooms fret*; no fee* of any kind. If h»dp i» needed for board, ad dress Rfv. William H. Wiiitsitt; (or <ata- Jogues ui other n t •rnuitioii. Km John A. taoADUR. Louisvilh*. K). 2t>m.iyl7t* SUMMER HOMES IN VIRGINIA. Mineral Water for cure of Dyipepaia, Lung Throat, Heart ana Female troubles. Hay F< Ver, el<-. Semi for circulars with torma, &e Rivnoke Rd Sulphur Spring*, l/ik« Spring ami Hot"1 Lucerne, F. J. t'HAPMA.v, ISmayt't Salem. \ a- WASH IB CTRN A Guitars, Mandolins and Withers . ejiLMOvS 1 n volume and quality el tone are 9 the licet In the World. Fully taananted. Nild by *ll leading deal- TLA*--\rn. Beautifully illustrated. des erlptlve catalogue with p.irliait-ot Hinuua artlat* Mailed Free. I YON 4 HEALY, CHICAGO, I CURE FITS! Wh«n 1 say ©lira ] do not inwun tnrrrljr to stop them for a time aud than have them return acain. I mean a radical cure. I Lave made the d.tease of FITS, KPI LRPST or FALLING BiCILNEM a l.fe.l<>n« study. I warrant tny remedy to cure the want cammi. ILutaw others have faded l« t>u reason Lir n-4 n » nwwlvinf a cure. Bend at once fcr a Ire tUae and n Fnw* B >tUe of my infallible remedy. Give Ka prow and i’uet Olticn. n. a. boot, m. c., is* v..ri t»u, n. y. ASKED AND ANSWERED. KEV. C. E. W. DOBBS. “Is it true as reported in this com munity, that the Louisville Theologi cal Seminary intends to make all its graduates Doctors of Divininity? A brother who atended the Conven tion in Atlanta says he heard Dr. Broadus say so. ,t. c. m.” Oh no; the good brother mis understood Dr. Broadus. What the honored President of our Southern Baptist 'Theological Seminary did announce was that the board of trustees of that institution had estab lished four titles. Th. G., Th. 15., 'l'h. AL, and Th. I). These titles will be given to the graduates hereafter. The first (Graduate in Theology) w ill be conferred on those who complete the English course of thelogical study. The second (Bachelor in Theology) will be be stowed on those . who have been I known heretofore as Eclectics. The (Master in Theology) will be given to 1 all full graduates, while the fourth title (Doctor in 'rheology) will be won only by those who not only be come full graduates, but who, in ad dition, spends in the seminary at last one full session of eight months in study, and who has passed in at least oi the live special classes out | side of the general course, and who • furthermore and specially present to the faculty an elaborate ami satis factory thesis showing ‘new and valuable research, or original and valuable thought, upon some topic of theological inquiry. Dr. Broadus, in making the announcement said : “If some brethren shrink from the idea ot giving the title of Doctor, because of their dislike to the honorary D. D., they may observe two differences— this is not a D. D., but a different title ; and it will not be honorary but 9 will represent a large amount of thorough work and real attainment. a Perhaps one way to check the fashion of loosely giving the honor ary D. D., will bo to have another title that really means something.” i Keally there can be no valid objec tion to the seminary granting these ■ titles that does not equally apply to the literary degrees A. B. and A. AL i given to graduates in our literary col leges. > T- “AVhat is Baptist usage in a case like this? A •member has been ex- > eluiled front bis church for dancing and general worldliness, lie moves into another community, where he lives for years. Becoming awakened to a sense of duty he wishes to be ( restored to church fellowship. The church where he lives will not re f ceive him without a letter front his . former church. That church, on be- ■ i applied to, declines to grant a { letter, but refers the whole matter to "■ 1 i . N the church within whose bounds he lives, on the ground that his general . character and fitness for church .. membership is better known by that , church. i„ w. it.” * “Baptist usage” is a variable thing. Some churches would rather this ( poor fellow would die out of church { fellowsnip than receive him without the regular red tape process of secur ing a letter from the excluding church; some Baptists would not hear to granting him a letter unless he i should undertake n long and ex pensive journey to make some hu i miliating confession in person. Com mon sense says the brother ought to be welcomed by the church where he lives without any further ado, if ’satisfied of his Christian character and earnest desire to serve his [Lord. ’ “I am satist) al that immersion is THE CHRISTIAN INDEX: THURSDAY. JUNE 2. 1892. the Bible baptism, and my predilec tions are all in favor of the Baptists, but I confess I shrink from close communion. Please give a short reason for the practice. Inquirer.” Our young friend needs only to do some careful thinking to see that “close communion” is not an arbi trary Baptist custom, but the legiti mate consequence of the belief ex pressed by herself in her note of in quiry. She will see at once the folly of demanding that the unbaptized be admitted to the communion. It seems almost absurd to urge that the first duty of a converted soul is to seek membership in the church. The Scripture record shows conclusively that those who believed at once were baptized and added to the church. (Acts 11;41.) The divine order is faith, baptism, church membership, communion. We have no more right to put communion before baptism than we have to put baptism before faith. Christ the head of the church has fixed the order. He puts the breaking of bread after baptism. Ad mitting that only immersion is bap tism. Admitting that only immer sion is baptism, logically we are com pelled to limit communion to the immersed. “Close communion” is no evidence of a lack of charity or want of confidence in the Christian character of others who have for saken the one baptism of the Bible, it is simply loyalty to Christ and His truth. “I am in trouble. I feel that God has called me to preach, but lam too old to go to college, and the churches where I live are not willing to hear an uneducated ntan. j. m. c.” This troubled brother is very old —he is 23! Think of it! And yet enjoying single blessedness! Well> in his case wo cannot find it in our heart to blame very loudly the chut dies where he lives. Seriously our young brother mistakes when he supposes he is too old to secure such an education as will fit him for the great work to which he feels called. We thank God that Baptists have never fixed any arbitrary standard of education as a bar in the way of those whom the Master calls into his ministry. Still everybody knows that only they who are competent to teach will be listened to in this day of general, education. Our dear brother is advised to put himself in correspondence with Dr. Nunnally, or some good high school principal at once. Get ready to enter school next fall by all means. “What is the force of the words ‘renewing of the Holy Ghost’ in Tit. 3:5 ? Is it the same as regenera tion? _ G. D.” 'l'he passage reads: “According to his mercy he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and re newing of the Holy Ghost.” The mass of commentators interpet the phrase “washing of regeneration” of baptism. I do not so regard it. Rather the apostle means that piri tual cleansing from the guilt of sin wrought in the soul when it is born of God. In regeneration the soul is “washed by the Spirit of our God” (I Cor. 6:11). So also is to be un derstood the phrase “born of water” in John 3:5. The subsequent clause —“renewing of the Holy Ghost”— marks an advance of thought. It is that “renewing of the mind” by which the regenerated soul is day by day transformed into the image of the Lord; or in other words, it is the progressive sanctification of the believer by the gracious work of the Holy Spirit. The Greek verb for “renewing” (anakainosis) is found in only one other place—Rom. 12:2 where it unquestionably denotes the work of satisfying grace in the soul. Regeneration introduces the soul in to the new spiritual world of grace; the “rowing is the gradual conform ing of the child of God more and more to that new spiritual world in to which he has been introduced, and in which he now lives and moves. Thus our salvation is all of God. He carries forward the work his grace begins. (Phil. 1:6). Born babies in Christ, we are to grow through the daily “renewing of the Holy Spirit” into the fulness of spiritual manhood. “On the hand, Pond's Extract, re commended, indorsed prescribed bv the most eminent members of the medical faeuty, has grown aud grown into public favor’ ever onward; its re pution worldwide and weli establish ed; its virtues indisputvqlo. The I verdict of the people, the experience 1 of every household, have nwarden it the highest rank in the list of curative agencies, because of its inherent worlh mid that docs all it proposes to do.” OUGHT THE STATE TO ESTABLISH A SABBATH DAY? In discussing this question let us leave out of view entirely, for the present, its relation to'the subject of religion. It may be difficult to do this, because the Sabbath and re ligion have been so long asso ciated together, in our minds, and in our affections, that it may seem almost impossible to sepa rate them. But let us try. If we can, let its picture to ourselves what would be the condition of things, if there were no rest days provided for mankind, —no legal holiday, no weekly Sabbath. In such a case, the monotonous din of business would never cease from early dawn till late at night. The rattling wheels, the trampling horses, the rushing crowds, the roll ing cars, the pulling engines and the flying shuttles would continue their discordant sounds through the pass ing months almost without a pause. What would become of the toiling millions of our race. “The song of the shirt” would become far more doleful than it now is, if there were no Sabbaths. The clink of the ham mer upon the anvil would be like a funeral knell, if there were no rest day. Even the whistle of the plough man would cease in the field, and the merry song of the milk maid would die on her lips if there were no Sab bath. 'Then, there is the type set ter, has he any Sabbath ? If he has, what would he take for it ? Ask the clerks and book-keepers, ask the teachers and other professional men, what they would take for the Sab bath. Nay ask Governor Northen himself,—ywith all his honors upon his brow, what he would take for the Sabbath, not as a religious in stitution, which, of course he loves» but simply as a rest from the cares of his high position. I think all these classes would say: “oh give us a Sabbath.” The want of a rest day is attend ed with frightful evils. Intelligent physicians testify that continuous la bor through successive days, without rest, will soon break down the strong est constitution. Prostration and a sense of weakness will follow. To remedy these, the laborer often re sorts to artificial stimulants, which afford only a transient relief, to be followed by an aggravation of his infirmities iindMe Vnd in all the hor rors of the or opium habit, and at last in premature decay ami death. Surely these facts are enough to show, that, things being as they are, a rest day, apart from all consid ations of religion, is demanded by the wants of mankind. Its benefi cial effects are far reaching and wide spread. Among these effects may be mentioned the fact, that its right observance promotes good health, longevity and domestic hap piness. True, pleasure seekers, gor mandizers and revelers, with all those who pander to this gratification, may not appreciate its benefits; —nay, they may even denounce its restraint as an infringement of their freedom. To this class of people a Sabbath would not be ;t rest day, ami of course it would be of no advantage to them. But in this argument we are con cerned for those who would appre ciate and observe it. To them the Sabbath would prove itself to be an unspeakable blessing. The toiling millions cannot do without it. In the foregoing views, I know I have not done the subject justice. I have given only a few general ideas, when the subject deserves to be set forth with elaborate details. The limits of this paper must ex cuse my brevity. But if the thought ful and candid reader will consider the foregoing statements, I think he will agree with me in drawing the following conclusion. Even if there were no God, no religion, no hereafter, in the present condition 'of the world, it would be come the duty of any parental gov ernment, which aiins at the well-be ing of its people, to provide for them a common rest day and to encour age its observance by prudent and judicious legislation. If this propo sition be tenable, then the question at the head of this article is answer ed. The State ought to establish a Sabbath day, by legislative enact ment. Take notice, the subject has been discussed, thus far, apart from all religious ideas. We have consider ed it only as a question of secular statesmanship. Do our laboring people need a day of rest ? If so, how are they to get it? The indi vidual cannot provide it for huus;lf. Were he to suspend lalmr one day in seven, or even one day in ten while other laborours, in the same calling, continued at work, he would full behind them in his earnings. This he is not willing to do, —it would place him at a disadvantage. By assuming to take so? himself an occasional rest day he might be thrown out of employment altogther. The individual therefore is certainly helpless in this matter. And it is equally true that a class of laborours cannot, without great inconvenience, and troublesome complications, pro vide for itself a stated rest day. In a word, there is no way to meet this great want, but by the common con sent of the people expressed, for them, by the authority of a parental government. And this would give them a rest day established by Law. Such a law need have no relation whatever to any system of religion. If any sect thought proper to cele brate their religious services on the common rest day of course they could do it. But if, for any reason, they preferred another day for that purpose, they would be perfectly free to adopt it. In such a law, there would be no union of Church and State, no dan ger to soul liberty, and no such ab surd requirements and restrictions as are charged, by some, upon the Sunday laws of New England enact ed more than a hundred years ago. All that such a law w’ould be ex pected to do, would be to give the weary rest, over all the broad field of commercial labor, from the Exec utive office down to the shop of the humble barber. Some may object to such a law because there are some cares which would demand labor to be done on the rest day. Os course this is true —works of necessity and of mercy must be done, —but these exception al cases could easily be provided for in the statute, without affecting in any appreciable degree, its wide spread benefits to the masses of the people. I think I have fairly shown that Sabbath legislation is not the bug bear which some affirm it to be. I think I have shown that if we had no religion at all, it would lie the duty of the State to give to its peo ple a legal rest day. I now propose the discussion of the Christian Sab bath, and its relation to the 4th com mandment, and to the State. This 1 will try to give next week. S. G. IIILLYER. 73 Wheat St., Atlanta. DISTANCES"TO WASHINGTON. From St. Louis to Washington the distance is 894 miles, from Cincinna ti to Washington 553 miles; from Chicago to Washington 813 miles. 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