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heretic hunting.
In the August number of the
Homiletic Review is a wise and well
written article on “Heretic Hunting
and Heresy Trials,” from the pen of
Rev. J. B. Remensnyder, D. D., of
New York city. It is truly declared
that theological unrest is the charac
teristic of the time. Nor should we
regret this, for unrest is the insepara
ble condition of progress. Stagnation
tion of thought is mental death. The
original thinker cannot be content to
restin a staid conservatism or a petri
fied orthodoxy. This unrest is not only
the condition of progress in religious
thought; it is, none the less, essen
tial to religious life. Dr. Parkhurst
is opprovingly quoted as saying in a
recent sermon :
“Storms in the theological world
are as essential elements as tempests
and Cataclysms in the history and
growth of the natural world. This
is a live world, and it is a growing
world. Growth is bound to produce
rupture. If something grows, some
thing has got to give way.”
This thought is illustrated in the
production of the historic creeds of
Christendom. “Theology had grown.
The Christian consciousness travail
ed with new development, richer
tnd deeper, of God’s truth. Then,
ever amid storm and conflict, a new
article of faith would be born to be
enshrined forever in the Christian
treasures.”
The writer then proceeds to show
how “the periods of stir in theologi
cal thought, as in the Augustinian
controversies, and the sharp pole
mics of the Reformation, have also
been the periods most fruitful for
practical religion. N ever was there
inore earnest personal piety, never
was Christianity a more potent so
cial and moral factor, and never did
the church make greater progress
than under these conditipns. A judi
cious conservatism is not, then, un
duly apprehensive as to theological
unrest. It places no fetters upon
the mind save those of logical pro
cess. It shrinks from no legitimate
criticism. It produces eminent the
ological thinkers. “This position is
maintained by the fact, that nowhere
has large grasp of thought and elab
orate breadth of structure been more
clearly seen than in the authors,
from whose minds and pens have
come the standard systems of con
servative theology. They bear wit
ness to mental power and freedom.
“No systems bearing such marks of
profound and patient thinking have
ever sprung from the rationalists.
Amid the throes of present struggle
there have emerged three great
structures of systematic theolo
gy, those of Hodge, Shedd and
Strong, towering high and calm over
the remaining religious literature of
the century.” The good doctor
might have added to the list the
names of our own Boyce and Dagg,
whose systems of theology are mon
uments to the piety and thought that
gave them birth. Dagg, Strong,
Boyce, a Baptist trio of whom we
have no reason to be ashamed !
Having thus prefaced his argu
ment, Dr. Remensnyder proceeds to
show up, in their true colors, those
secular and religious journals which
assume that “orthoddxy is the invet
erate foe of theological inquiry, and
that the moment an original thinker
arises, it seeks to hush him with the
cry of Heresy.” The Rev. Dr.
Washington Gladden is quoted as
having said .iat “the quickest way
to fire church enthtraiasm is not to
show it a poor sinner for it to con
vert, but a poor heretic for it to
sniff after and run down.” This is
really but a travesty of the past.
Facts show it to be a cruel carica
ture. “But when a minister, who,
in his ordination, has voluntarily ob
ligated himself to teach nothing con
trary to the Scriptures and to the
cardinal tenets of the Christian sys
tem, takes positions, and persistently
and offensively proclaims them,
which in the judgment of the Church
are subversive of the very founda
tions of Christianity, is not her duty
manifestly clear ? Can she, with fl
delity to her Lord, with loyalty to
the pure Gospel, and with conscien
tious obligations to the souls com
mitted to her care, lend her authori
ty to the preaching of dangerous
error t” *
Os (course the reader at once sees
the atvious bearing of all this on
the Celebrated Briggs case, which
has created so great a stir among our
Presbyterian brethren in the North.
Another eminent writer, the Rev. Dr.
D. J. Burrell, not long since, in the
New York Independent, well said
that “it is the right and duty of all
organizations calling themselves
Christian churches, to require in the
teachers whom they employ sound
ness of doctrine. They are bound
to go by their own judgment upon
this point, honestly exercised.
Hence we find that all Christian
churches have, from the beginning
until this time, claimed and exercised
the right of silencing, and when nec
essary excluding, heretical ministers
and members when the latter as
sumed to become teachers, either
publicly or privately, to such an ex
tent as to create dissensions and
propagate false doctrines.”
Surely there is no wrong or injus
tice to any onej in this wholesome
exercise of discipline. Yet if the
Church, after long sufierence and
remonstrance, essays to do this, she
is at once met ty the cry of heresy
hunting I Secular papers and plat
form orators join in the uproar, as if
all the rights of private judgment
were about to be overturned! The
truth is that the false teachers are
themselves the persecutors. Nur
tured in the bosom of the church,
yet they are striking cruel blows at
her very life, and then, “when she
seeks to be rid of them, they appeal
to popular prejudice to brand her as
simply organized bigotry and intol
erance !”
The very effrontery of these reck
less false teachers shows the necessi
ty of promptness in dealing with
them. The Church had need to
prayerfully study once more those
burning words of the apostle: “If
any man preach any other Gospel
unto you than that ye have received,
let him be accursed ?” A great deal
in these is made of char
ity, as though it were the first es
sence of Christianity. But the
Scriptures place one thing yet above
charity, that is, uncompromising loy
alty to God and the faith. “First
pure, then peaceable,” to the New
Testament motto. “Contend earn
estly for the faith once for all deliv
ered to the saints,” is apostolic pre
cept.
Dr. Remensnyder concludes his
timely article by calling for a cessa
tion of the clamor about heresy hunt
ing and declaring that “the Church
has always found that her greatest
minds and boldest thinkers have
been her most unflinching cham
pions. She has nothing to fear,
but everything to gain, from virile,
independent, aggressive thought.
The heretics are themselues respon
sible for- the outcry raised against
them.”
It occurs to us to add that sympa
thy is wasted when it is bestowed
upon those who insist upon remain
ing in the ministry of any denomina
tion when they can no longer consci
entiously preach the peculiar tenets
of that denomination. When one is
conscious that he has lost faith in
the fundamental doctrines . of the
church which ordained him a teach
er, ho should have the manliness and
courage of his convictions, and step
down and out of its pulpit.
STAY IN YOUR PLACE.
On a table, iu a lady’s sitting room,
rested a beautiful glass reservoir fill
ed with clear, sparkling water. It
was the home of a gold-fish. The
water was changed as often as the
life and health of the fish required.
It was well fed and received the
careful attention of the owner. Save
its contracted abode, there was no
reason for dissatisfaction or com
plaint.
A little above the table, within
easy view, and speaking distance,
was suspended a cage containing a
canary bird. It was a pretty home,
provided with perches, swings, and
vessels to hold ample supplies of
food and water. The owner was as
careful of her bird as she was of her
fish.
For some time each seemed satis
fied with his circumstances, the fish
darting about in the limpid water,
clucking and eagerly devouring the
crumbs thrown to it, while the bird
hopped from perch to perch, or
swung upon its trapeze, now and
then astonishing the listener with
its wonderful songs.
One day the fish balancing itself
near the surface said to the canary,
“1 am tired of being buried in this
bowl, and of bumping my head
against its sides, and having nothing
to eat but a few crumbs, and now
and then a worm.
I wish 1 had a pretty swinging
cage like yours, and conld jump
about in the open air, without hav
ing to be left lying, every day or
two, on the bottom of this basin
while my mistress is changing the
’ water. Indeed, I would like very
i much to change places with you.
i I wish I was a bird.”
THE CHRISTIAN INDEX: THURSDAY. AUGUST 18. 1892.
The canary bird listened attentive
ly to what the fish was saying, mean
while wisely winking his eyes, and
as soon as the fish finished its speech,
replied,
“I have been watching you swim
ming down there in that clear, cool
water, admiring your graceful move
ments, and have often wished I could
get out of this dirty cage, and
plunge into your little ocean, and
swim and bathe to my heart’s con
tent. In short, I would like to be a
fish, and change places with you.”
The owner overhearing this con
versation, determined to gratify the
wishes of her pets.
Preparing both the basin and the
cage, sec placed the fish in the lat
ter, and thebird in the former.
The fish floundered and flopped
over and over again, until fairly ex
hausted and burning with fever, was
ready to die.
The bird, thoroughly drenched,
fluttered and kicked, and struggled
to keep its head above water until
weary, and nearly suffocated, it was
about to sink to the bottom,
Both gasping for life, faintly begg
ed their owner to restore them to
their old places. She promptly did
so, just in time to save two funerals.
After that, there were no complaints
from gold-fish or canary bird.
Learn,
1. To consider your circumstan
ces, and be content to remain where
providence has placed you.
2. Work faithfully where you
are, and if you are adapted for a
transfer from a lower to a higher
place, your fitness will soon be dis
covered and a change will come.
3. Every place has its advantages
and its disadvantages. A change
may make you more uncomfortable
and miserable than to stay where
you are. Study well your fitness for
a new place before you leave the old
one.
4. Mere change of circumstances
will not make a fish of a bird, or a
bird of o fish.
A change of circumctances will
make no change in your fitness.
God knows what is best for you, and
what is worst for you. Keep your
eyes on your work, and let them
not wander to what you may think
a more pleasant place. It will shut
envy out of your mind, and fill your
heart with contentment.
THE DISCOVERY OF WOMAN.
Woman has been in the world ever
since the days of Adam and Eve.
But it pleases some hunters after fine
phrases to say that she has been here
as a sort of an “unknown quantity”
until these latter years. And now
that her agency in Christian enter
prises has been called into play in
more separate organized forms, the
hunters aforesaid shout themselves
hoarse. We of the nineteenth cen
tury, have found woman—have found
her out; and of all the discoveries of
the century the greatest is this dis
covery of woman.”
Was there, then, as century after
century came and went, never a
Timothy with a mother Eunice and
a grandmother Lois, workers for
God, witnesses to his word, and in
struments of unfeigned faith in other
souls? Or if there were such women
were they “unknown” and “undis
covered” by those among whom they
lived and who, looking on their lives
felt that look of benediction! Every
Christian generation has had these
mothers and grandmothers by the
myriad, it is they who make up, per
haps the larger, perhaps the better
part of the history of the true church
through all the ages—that history
which, as to its fulness, is written
only on high. So far as it is written
on earth, we can nowhere find the
church of the past, where we do not
find woman in an eminent degree its
glory and its strength—its glory in
what she was and its strength in
what she did. And if this household
agency of woman, this agency
through the daily beauty of a godly
life, is to be disparaged; if it is to be
thrust into the background and to
count for little or nothing; you shut
our eyes to the fact that even now it
is doing more and more valuable
work than her agency in its recent
organized forms; and if we are to
rely on these forms where it is not
and dream that they can do its work
or themselves do without it, then
were it far truer to say, “We of the
nineteenth century have lost women,
lost what is best of her; and of all
the losses of the century, the great
est and the direst is this loss of wo
man!”
These fine phrases are misleading,
the truth they hide is more vital than
the truth they aim to set forth. We
might as well say that until Carey,
“preacher, teacher, scholar, scientist,
printer and planter,” lighted the
torch of modern missions and its
rays shone away the mists settling
down over inactive generations, the
church never knew itself, that it was
then the church in these latter ages
first “discovered” itself. But who
does not see that there would be bad
theology, and bad religion too, in say
ing that?
We respectfully submitthat Christ
“discovered” woman,(if we may rev
erently so phrase his knowledge of
her), that through inspired penmen
ho put this “discovery” in His word;
and that the woman we “discover”
can be an unmixed blessing to man
kind, only in proportion as the work
she does is cast in the mould of that
word with regard to the principles
that actuate it, the sphe res that it
assumes to fill, and the limitations
that restrict it.
AN IMPORTANT PHASE OF HOME
MISSION WORK.
There is one phase of the work of
the Home Field alluded to by Dr.
Jones, and specially emphasized by
Dr. Blackwell, to which we wish to
direct particular attention. It is that
of reaching and utilizing the foreign
element in our midst, for the suc
cessful and wide extended prosecu
tion of Foreign Missions.
For more than a year one of the
former editors of the Index directed
attention to this matter, at intervals,
and sought to enlist more active and
determined effort to reach the for
eign elements at our very doors, and
to prepare them for work among
their own people.
All through the Southern States,
in city, town, and country we have
the negroes. As to them, Dr. Jones
has this to say :
“Are not the negroes in pur midst
also included in the great commis
sion, and are we not under equal ob
ligation to give them the Gospel ? Is
there any sort of propriety in send
ing the Gospel to Africa, and neg
lecting the Africans at our doors,
and in our homes ?
Our missionaries to the negroes of
the South have.no oceans to cross,
no foreign languages to learn, no
death-dealing climate to encounter,
no abject heathen to teach. But we
have at our doors a people who
speak our language, reverence our
Bible, and believe in our God, but
who are in the shackles of ignorance,
superstition and vice, which loudly
call us to the rescue.”
Converted and properly prepared
for the work, they are the people to
send, as missionaries to Africa. It
may be ip.JlaQ beginning,
to continue them under the super
vision of the white man, but the
great body of active workers among
the negroes in Africa, should be ne
gro missionaries sent from the South
ern States.
So the Chinese, within our bounds,
should be reached, and used in the
same way. There are about 300,000
in America, and many of them with
in the limits of the Home and For
eign Boards of the Southern Baptist
Convention. Let them be sought
out and brought m contact with real
Christian influence, and under the
renewing power of the Gospel, and
then sent back, as missionaries, to
their own people. So with Japan
ese, Mexicans, Cubans, Italians, and,
indeed, all the foreign elements that
God has brought within reach of our
hands, and within the sound of our
voices.
As Dr. Blackwell has well shown
in his article in our Home Field for
August, this is the Apostolic Method
for Modern Missions.
There is much foreign mission
work to be done in the home field
by all three of our Boards, by city,
town, and country churches, in the
prosecution of their local missionary
enterprises, and by individual Chris
tians, through personal effort, among
the foreigners they meet every day.
What our hands find to do, let us
do with our might.
CENTENNIAL CHILDREN’S DAY.
The special attention of Pastors,
Superintendents, Teachers, and Sun
day School Children is directed to
an article in this issue about the part
they are to take in helping to raise
the special mission fund of 1250,000.
The day set apart for a general
missionany celebration by all the
Sunday Schools in the South is Sun
day, Oct. 2nd, 1892-
On that day a collection is to be
taken of contributions previously
made, for the Centennial fund. The
Centennial Committee has prepared
a plan upon which the Contributions
are to be made. The amounts con
tributed are to be equally divided
between the Foreign and Home Mis
sion Boards.
A beautiful and instructive pro
gram for Oct 2. 1892 has also been
prepared which will greatly interest
all who participate, and much facili
tate the work of that day.
The plans, cards, and program of
exercises will be furnished free, in
any quantity needed, on application
to Baptist Mission Rooms, N 0.9,
West Lexington St., Baltimore, Md.
We hope that every Sunday
School in Georgia will take part in
this celebration, and that such a
sum will go up from their treasuries
as will not fall one dollar behind
that given by the Sunday Schools of
any other Southern State. The
time is short, act promptly.
REV. 0. D. CAMPBELL DEAD.
Last Friday the mortal remains of
Rev. C. D. Campbell were laid to
rest by those of his wife in beautiful
Oconee Cemetery, at Athens, Ga.
He was born in Clinton, Jones Coun
ty, Ga., in 1842, and died Wednes
day, Aug. 10th, at his home in Cle
burne, Texas. Our subject was bap
tized by his father in Griffin, Ga.,
and began preaching about the time
he graduated at Mercer University,
in 1860. He was chaplain in the
Confederate army, and exercised a
faithful ministry among the soldiers.
For some years he resided on his
farm in Quincy, Fla., following the
plow, and preaching in Quincy and
to churches in the surrounding com
munity. His first regular pastorate
was at Quitman, Ga., where God
blessed his work. A portion of his
time was given to the church at Val
dosta, where his efforts were equally
blessed. He was called to the
church at Athens, where he was
much loved and did an excellent
wo.tk. About two years since he
received a call from the church at
Cleburne, Texas, and accepted the
work. The Index had no knowl
edge of any trouble with him till his
death was announced. Nor do we
yet know any of the particulars of
his death. While he died in Texas,
Georgia feels that he is her’s and
mourns her loss in his death.
When he left Georgia, he was one
of our foremost and, most influential
pastors, distinguished for his intel
lectual ability, earnest piety, person
al culture and pulpit power. The
news of his death will bring sorrow
to many hearts in his native state.
The Index loses a friend, and the
tender orphans should receive the
fervent prayers of all, as they place
their all of parental love in the grave
by mother—sleeping mother.
A WORD OF CORRECTION.
It was not by Rev. Dr. Shaver,
then editing the Religious Herald,
that “Hymns for the Camp,” the
small collection for the use of “our
soldiers” in the Confederate Army,
was compiled, as was stated in the
issue of The Christian Index for
August 11th. That work was done
by Rev. James B. Taylor, Jr., whose
experiences as a chaplain in Gen. W.
11. F. Lee’s command, at once im
pressed him with the necessity of
such a volume, and qualified him to
prepare it acceptably. It was one
of the earlier manifestations of that
proclivity toward tlie practical and
that adaptation to the useful which
Dr. Taylor inherited, not only from
his distinguished father, but also
from a mother no less worthy of dis
tinction, and which has marked his
successful pastorates, since the war,
at Culpepper, Va., Wilmington, N_
C. and Lexington Va. “Hymns for
the Camp,” served the cause well
and grew in a second edition, to 127
pages with 150 hymns mostly of the
better classes. A copy of that recent
edition is in our hands, and despite
its bad type, bad paper, bad ink, bad
press-work and bad binding we han
dle it lovingly and reverently for the
sake of the times it brings back and
for its work of peace amid scenes of
carnage.'
WHY POOR?
According to Scribner’s Magazine,
the “drink bill” of Chicago is esti
mated at 11,000,000 a week, and
three-fourths of this sum—l7so,ooo
comes from the pockets of the poor.
“Poor” pockets, and yet paying a
self-imposed tax of more than *107,-
000 daily for such superfluity as
drink! It must be largely the pay
ment of this tax that makes them
poor or keeps them poor. And this
fact suggests a wider inquiry:—How
far is poverty in our country due,
not to the ways in which money is
prevented from coming into the
pockets, but to the ways in which
money after coming in is allowed to
get out of the pockets?
Now that the Associations are
being held. The Index would sug
gest that if every Association would
take upon itself to put one theological
student in Mercer University and
support him, the good results would
simply be incalculable. When all
the Associations of the year have
been held, the Index will publish
the number who decided to do so
important and great a work. There
are already several Associations
carrying one or more* boys through
mercer. The Oostanaula last year
arranged and carried through Shorter
College the past year two. worthy
young ladies. We hope others will
follow this example.
GENERAL.
Rev L.T. Hardy, died at Glade
Spring, Va. July 28th, after several
weeks illness.
Rev. L. D. Geiger, of Leesburg,
Fla., has accepted a unanimous call to
the First Baptist church of Ocala.
The Herald says Dr. M. B. Whar
ton, who is now off on vacation will
“rest by working in other directions”.
Corresponding Secretary Tupper,
of the Foreign Mission Board, has
gone to Denver, Col., to spend two
months of rest and recreation.
Rev. Joseph James Cheeseman
who was appointed superintendent
of the Southern Baptist Missions in
Liberia in 1871. has been elected
president of the republic of Liberia.
The Baltimore Baptist says Sam
Kee, a Chinaman recently baptized
at Scott street by Pastor Kemp, was
the first one to return his chapel
card with five dollars.
Rev. Geo. D. Staton, of Woodlawn,
Ala., when starting to his pulpit Sun
day morning, Aug. 7, suddenly drop
ped dead. Dr. Staton had been a
useful Baptist preacher for thirty
years.
Pastor P. T. Hale, of the South
Side church, Birmingham, Ala., has
just closed a jjood meeting in his
church. Although having no minis
terial help, the Lord revived the
church and twenty-three were added
to the membership.
JOTTINGS.
BY DR. A. T. SPALDING.
“Three days and three nights”. It
will be a long time before our relig
ious world will believe the Lord
Jesus that it was three days and
three nights that he was crucified on
Wednesday and rose from the dead
Saturday evening. That would do
away with good Friday and also
with much we read and hear about
the Sabbath: but it will come to that
in time. “Every plant which my
heavenly father has not planted shall
be rooted up.”
“Why do you speak to them in
parables?” Because to you it is giv
en to know the mysteries of the
kingdom of heaven but to them it is
not given. Blessed art thou Simon
son of Jonah, for flesh and blood
hath not revealed it unto thee, but
my father which is in heaven.
“Many prophets and righteous
men have desired to see and have
not” There were and yet are many
unsatisfied desires. Saints have often
desired to know and have cried out,
How long, O Lord, how long. At
last however the hoped for times did
come. In God’s own best time and
way all things needful will at last
come, and all good and right desires
will eventually be satisfied.
“Things hidden from the founda
tion of the world.” The Lord Jesus
revealed these hidden things. He
uttered things which had been kept
secret from the beginning of the hu
man race. He made known what
the wise for six thousand years had
sought in vain to know. And yet
there are many little ignorant ones
who deem themselves wiser than
him in whom dwelt all the fulness of
the God-head bodily—in whom were
all the treasures of the wisdom of
God.
“ No! lest while ’ye gather up
the tares, ye root up also the wheat
with them.” The King of Babylon
tried to root up what he thought
were tares but it put the three great
worthies in the burning furnace.
And the dear old head of modern
Babylon has, through his priest,
had many millions of the saints to
die, while he thought he did God
service in rooting up tares.
“Is like to yeast.” In the flour the
yeast was covered up and hidden
but nevertheless it did its work and
the three measures all were levened.
Christ’s truth will leaven the heart it
enters and will fill all the world
with the glory of God but it will
not be with outward hut inward pow
er and might.
“Is like to a grain of mustard seed”
Not because it is hot, as I once heard
a great man say, for it is not. But
though small it will become a great
thing. The little seed will become
a great tree and will give rest and
shelter.
RECEIPTS OF THE MISSION BOARD
Baptist Convention of the State of
Georgia.
From July Ist to July 31st, 1892.
FOREIGN MISSIONS.
Julyl. Previous report $ 83130
Jones Creek ch, G A Blount 5 35
North Newport ch. “ 100
Harrietta ch, J C Greer , 19 85
Ist ch, Athens, H A Lowrance 53 76
2 Lithonia ch. B D Ragsdale 300
Lithonia S S, ’’ 4 32
Decatur ch, ” g 00
” Gleaners, ” 030
1 Central Atlanta WMS, J M Brittain 200
Apple Valley ch, J W Minish 2 50
Maddison ch, S a Burney 1000
Greensboro ch, A S Seals 14 53
5 Marshalville ch, A L Moncrief 500
Covington ch, T J Swanson 3 00
Harmony GroveS S, A B Deadwyler 10 67
8 Mrs H F Furgerson. Calhoun WM S so
9 2ndchA.tlantawMS.Mrs a J Moore 350
11 West Point ch, E J Collins 633
Alcova Mountain ch, H E Burton.... so
12 W hitesville ch, C A Martin 120
Smyrna ch, G w Garner 5 00
Calhoun BS, WL Hines 11 07
Crawfordville wMS, RE L Harris 100
Reeves Station ch, w J Swain 4 00
18 Social Circle wM S. Mrs J M Gibbs. 500
Doves Creek ch, G w Deadwyler.... 3 20
* Cochran ch, P A Jessup 300
Jas R Brown for Sajfie R Brown,
missionary x 150 00
19 Watkinsville ch, w P Cambpell 100
Lexington S S, T B Moss. 2 50
J A Scorboro collected on field 340
20 Riddleville ch. J Arlio Mobley 201
21 Grove Level ch, w T Anderson 250
26 Mrs w w Knight, Mcßean 55
Brownwood ch, S A Burney 537
27 Ist ch Cartersville. B F Godfrey.... 737
Pleasant Hill ch. welborn williams 100
Greensboro ch, A 8 Seals 1 40
Mt Tabor ch, J w Ellington 58
Norwood ch. “ 200
28 Salem ch, J H Peek lls
30 Mrs a A Rayle, Anon, Ga 500
Jones Creek eh, Inez Chapman, for
wDKiug 8 19
Total 1.... Si ,214 & .
HOME MISSIONS.
Julyl. Previous report , $ 55069
Ist ch Athens, H a Lowrance 44 81
2 Lithonia ch, B D Ragsdale 400
Decatur ch, “ " 700
4 Central Atlanta wMs, J M Brittain. 200
Apple Valley ch, J w Minish 2 50
Madistftt ch, S A Burney 13 00
Greensboro ch, A S Seals 9 25
5 Marshallsville ch, A L Moncrief 500
7 Covington ch, T J Swanson 300
Harmony Grove SS, A B Deadwyler 10 67
9 2nd ch Atlanta wms,mi sa J Moore 350
11 west Point ch. E J Collins 633
Alcova Mountain ch, H E Burton.... 80
Whitesville ch, C A Martin 1 20
12 Smyrna ch, G w Garner 420
J L Bridges Indian Creek 50
13 Crawfordville wM s. RE L Harris.. 160
Reeves Station ch, W J Swain 2 00
19 watkiusvillech, wPCampbell too
Washington 8 S, I. w Sims 14 ;>6
Sunbeams, “ 626
“ WM 8, “ 1015
“ ch, " 32 90
Lexington S 8, T B Moss 2 79
Crawford w M s, Mrs K S Martin 1 00
Bethany ch, w B Crawford 4 27
20 Riddleville ch. J Arlie Mobley 100
27 Ist ch, Cartersville. B F Godfrey.... 612
Greensboro ch, aS Seals 50
Norwood ch, J w Ellington 192
30 Jones Creek wM s, Inez Chapman-. 819
Total $76191
STATE MISSIONS,
July 1. Previous report $1,571 28
Ist ch Athens, II A Lowrance 4331
w J Sullivan collected on field 1 00
G w Smith collected on field boo
2 M A Grace collected on field 20 80
Lithonia ch. B D Ragsdale 4 00
Decatur ch. “ 7 00
4 central ch Atlanta wMs, J M Brit-
tain 2 00
Winterville S S, J K Haynes n 5 00
A c Smith collected on field 25
Madison ch, S A Burney 13 00
Greensboro ch, A S Seals 14 70
AD& GB Adair WOO
5 atashallvillech, ALMoncrief -«... 300
7 covington ch, T J Swanson 263
Bio s s, W B Higginbotham 2 00
8 calhoun wM s, Mrs H F Furgerson 100
Double Branches ch, w M \ erdery 2 85
Mt. Zion ch, “ 2 77
Abilene ch, “ ITO
Unadilla s s, c A Horne 128
9 Duffy street eh. Savannah, Norton
Frierson 12 83
11 Hartwell ch, D A Perritt ,••• 711
“ SS. " 3 72
13 Smyrna ch. G w Garner 500
Hephzibah eh, Mrs c E Miller 3 st
J L Bridges, Indian creek 60
G K Mccall collected on field 3 co
T< Boykin ” ” ” ....... 1000
IS Maysville ch, IA Madden 222
A c ward 5 00
crowfordville w M s, R E L Harris 4 00
Ri'eves Station ch. w J swain 200-
Hillsboro ch, J <• Burton 2 50
14 Mt Vernon ch, L A Patillo 380
“ “ “ " (for w B
Bennett). 145
stone Mountain ch, E L wood lai
19 Antioch ch s a Bnurnoy 13a
Watkinsville ch, w P Campbell.... 200
Lexington ss, TB moss 200
Pinehurst ch, J J Hyman 4 35
Union ch, J A scarboro 9 72
W L Gieger, “ 23 70
Conner ch, “ 303
cordele oh, “ 4 52
waycrsssch, “ 500
Mt Zion ch, “ 340
Midway ch, “ 7M
Altaniaha ch, (Jessup) J A scarboro 6 84
Crawford wM S, Mrs R s Martin .. 200
20 Riddleville ch.J Arlio Mobley 100
21 Enon ss, J E Nalur 100
22 swainsboro ch, a L Brantley 30»
wayside ch, wE whitehead 100
23 Ist ch,Griftin, J H Huff 36 00
26 Mrs J G Gibson boo
1-exington ch, E I Reynolds 1163
Mrs waiter Maxwell,crawford
Bethlehem ch, w c Price 4 43
26 Hopeful ch, J H carswell 313
27 Abbeville ch,J J Hyinanfs. Georgia) 220
Ist ch Cartersville, BF Godfrey . 813
Gainesville s s, F c McConnell,
pledge 1000
Greensboro ch. A s seals 95
Elim eh, J W Ellington 26
Marshall ch, “ 57
(Continued on Bth page.)
Mr. L. B. Hamlen,
Os Augusta, Me., says: "I do not remember
when I began to take Hood's Sarsaparilla; it
was several years ago, and I have found it doe»
mo a great deal of gwod iu my declining year*.
I am 91 Years
2 months and 2d days old. and my health is per
fectly good. I have no aches or pains about mo.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
regulates my bowels, stimulates my appetite,
and help, me <• .leep well. I doubt It a
preparation ever was made so well suited t.
the wants of old people.” L. 11. Hamlen.
Elm Street, Augusta, Me., Sept. 20, 1891.
HOOD'S Pills are a mild, gentle, puiul.it.
Ml. and tfflcltut cathartic. Always reliable.
SCARLET or CRIMSON c lovefl
A BOON TO AORICULTURE.
“A God»endtpthe Cotton farmer.’’-Prof. W.
r . Massey, of the North Carolina Experiment
Station.
We Offer Pedigree Need Crop of 1892.
Fqrthe Scarlet Clover Bulletin. No 16, of
the Delaware Agrfcttlttirnl Eiperiment Sta
tion. circnlars.prices, etc.. addreM the grower*
1 HE pt.LKWAHF. FRVIT EXCHANGE.
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Hunter's New Full-Circle Hay Press.
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and lightest draft of any fulHdrele
made: parka two ch a rgeH at each revolution
of team. Noßtoppinff, turning or jerkins? team.
Capacity 20 to3o bales per hour, weighing 10Q
Ibf. each. I/oading 10 to 12 tons in a rar. n ill
work anywhere in competition with any
other, party buying one he likrß bout. Satla
faction Kuarntrnd. Write for pricea, etc. Man
ufactured and Hold by
Meridian Foundry and Machine Shops
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