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Atlanta baptist#*
BY DR. A. I. SPALDING.
Pastor Oxford presiding.
Second church.—Dr. McDonald
reported good service; some manifes
tation of the Spirit’s presence. Their
new building is slowly going up.
Hope to enter the basement in the
Fall. The doctor is going to Ken
tucky to aid in a meeting at Camp
bellesvilte.
Fifth church.—Dr. I. R. Branham
preached for the pastor. The Sun
day school is flourishing and the con
gregation good.
Sixth church.—Pastor E. L. Sisk
reported good congregations and
service. The prayer meetings are
extra good.
Capital Avenue church.—ln (the
absence of the pastor Dr. A. T.
Spalding preached. A good collec
tion was taken, to the joy of the
church.
Seventh church. Pastor T. A. Hig
don had good congregations and re
ports good progress. His people are
rejoicing in the prospect of enter
taining the Stone Mountain associa
tion at an early day.
Ira street.—Pastor Oxford has
been assisting Pastor Williams at a
church beyond Douglassville, in a
meeting very remarkable for its num
bers, interest and power. Large au
diences came from afar. Some very
old men were savingly converted.
Many mothers and fathers out of
Christ were seeking divine pardon.
Nineteen had already been received
for baptism, and others w'ere to
join.
At Villa Rica Bro. Speairs and
Bro. Brittain held a meeting. Three
were received for baptism.
BY DR. A. T. SPALDING.
LaGrange.—Rev. G. S. Tumlin
conducted a meeting last week at
Tatum’s schoolhouse four miles from
LaGrange. As a result of the meet
ing six were received by profession
of faith and baptism. A delegation
from the LaGrange church went out
to the Chattahoochee river to receive
the new members and witness the
baptism.
Albany.—Carroll has been aiding
Norton at Leesburg. Good meeting
and fine interest, but no accessions.
Mrs. Wheatly from Tampa has been
visiting us. Big political meeting
here on the 17th. Ben Russell
nominated for Congress. Albany
is a healthy town. Four of our
physicians are Baptists. The summer
tourists will now soon return and
we will push missions and other
work.
Dawson.—The general meeting
at Sardis was a grand one. Rev. J.
H. Corley on Sunday preached a
sermon of great power. The people
are happy in the possession of their
new church building. The county
missionary meeting Was held at Par
rot. It was a pronounced success;
crowds large, dinners well-supplied,
and the cause of Christ advanced.
Tennell will count for the centennial
work. There have been several re
vivals in the county.
Gainesville.—We have had pol
itics this week in abundance. Gen.
Gordon spoke Thursday and the
Democrats had a regular camp-meet
ing. The State Alliance held a
peaceful, dignified meeting. Pro
tracted meetings of great power are
in progress in several country
churchs near here. Good soft
peaches at forty cents a bushel are
brought to our doors many times a
day.
On the 11 inst.; Rev. F. M. Dan
el at Grittin married, Mr. C. W.
Walcott and Miss Lena Smith.
Rev. J. W. Hamner has resigned
the pastorate at Lumpkih and re
turned to his old home, Five Points,
Ala.
A meeting is in progress this week
at Locnst Grove, and the pastor, Rev.
B. J. W. Graham, is being assisted
by Rev. B. D. Ragsdale.
The church at Hartwell has ex
tended a unanimous call to their pas
tor, Rev. A. E. Keesc, to serve them
again.
Rev. C. E.W. Dobbs of Carters
ville left last Wednesday on his East
ern trip. In another column will be
found a short letter from him at
Cincinnati.
Prof. D. G. Lee, of Byron has
moved to Barnesville preparatory to
entering upon his duties as Vice-
President of Gordon Institute.
Correspondents please note the
change.
At the residence of J. H. Hall, D.
D., Newnan, Ga. Miss Marion Hall
and Mr. Jesse McKay were united in
marriage, Rev. V. A. Ham. officiat
ing.
Rev. G. Braxton Taylor left last
week* for a months stay in Virginia.
His pulpit was filled last Sunday by
Dr. J, J. Brantly of Mercer Univer
sity. Some of the local ministers will
fill his pulpit each Sabbath.
Sirs. Mary R. Garner died at the
home of her son-in-law. Capt. John
Seay in Dawson last week at the age
of 70 years. She had been for thirty
years a member of the Baptist church
and served her generation well.
Married, August 17th, 1892, at
the residence of Prof. Chas. Lane,
Atlanta, Ga, Mr. J. Manning Pool to
Mrs. Carrie Branham Means, both of
Elko, Houston county, Ga. Marriage
ceremony by Dr. I. R. Branham,
father of the bride.
The LaGrange Reporter says:
Rev. G. S. Tumlin baptized six per
sons last Sunday afternoon in the
Chattahoochee river—the fruit of a
meeting conducted by him at Tatum
chapel, in the neighborhood of Hon.
Seth Tatum.”
The Newnan Herald {says; “Rev.
R. W. Hamrick has just closed an
interesting and successful revival
meeting at Starr’s Mill, resulting in
the accession of five new members
by experience and baptism. The
pastor was assisted during a por
tion of the time by Revs. G. B. F.
Stovall and 11. S: Rees. ’
Pastor D. T. Espy has closed his
meeting with Mt. Harmouy Church
Chattooga county with two accessions
by baptism and three by letter. The
Chattooga News says: “A new church
was organized at Menlo last Sunday
by Rev. D. T. Espy, with a member
ship of thirteen. A new church
building t will be erected at an early
day and every effort made to get
the new churh on a prosperous basis.
Another new church will be organiz
ed at Chaisea in a short while, when
the old church at Mt. Harmony wil
discontinued.
We take the following from the
last issue of the LaGrange Reporter:
“President C. C. Cox, wife and lit
tle daughter have returned from
Chautauqua, N. Y., where they have
been both resting and studying since
commencement. Prof Cox spent
some time in Washington, as the
guest of his cousin, Rev. C. A. Stake
ly, D. D. He was delighted with the
capital city and speaks in glowing
terms of the great Chautauqua. We
are informed, by the way, that his
brilliant abilities and splendid schol
arship have been lately recognized
in an offer of a professorship in one
of the great universities of the coun
try. It is not probable that he will be
able to accept,as he is devoted to the
great work of the higher education
of woman.”
West End.—On thejoccasion of
administering the ordinance of bap
tism, recently before a large congre
gation, Rev. S. Y. Jameson, pastor
of the West End Baptist Church read
some selections scriptures,
of which the folißfring passages,
among many others were recited, in
support of true baptism. He held
the entire audience spell bound as it
were, for about forty-five minutes,
and the services on this occasion
were probably the most interesting
and profitable ever held before in the
West End Baptist Church. The
first matter gives authority for bap
tism, and he read from Matthew
28th 18.19.20.
“And Jesus came and spake unto
them, (The disciples) saying, All
power is given unto me in heaven
and in earth, Go ye therefore, and
teach all nations, baptising them in
the name of the Father, and of the
Son, and of the Holy Ghost, Teach
ing them to observe all things what
soever I have commanded you.”
Who should be baptised.
“And he said unto them, Go ye
into all the world and preach the
gospel to every creature. He that
believeth and is baptized, shall be
saved; but he that believeth not shall
be damned.”
.Mark 16th 15. and 1«.
■What is necessary before baptism.
“Then Peter said unto them, Re
pent and be baptized every one of
you in the name of Jesus Christ, for
the remission of sins; and ye shall
receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.”
Acte 2 88.
“The baptism of John, Whence
was it? from heaven or of men? And
they reasoned with themselves, say
ing. If we shall say, From heaven;
he will say unto us, why did ye not
then believe him.” Matthew 21st 25.
Where, and how Jesus was bap
tized.
“And it came to pass in those days,
that Jesus came from Nazareth of
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Galilee, and was baptized of John in
Jordan, and straightway coming up
out of the water, he saw the heavens
opened, and the Spirit, like a dove,
decending upon him.” Mark 19 10.
“Baptism was also administered in
JEnon, Why? And John also was
baptizing in JEnon, near to Salem,
because there was much water there;
and they came and were baptized”
John 3 23.
How the eunuch was baptized.
And he commanded the Chariot
to stand still: and they went down
both into the water, both Philip and
the eunuck; and he baptized him.
And when they were come up out of
the water, the Spirit of the Lord
c aught away Philip, that the eunuch
saw him no more: and he went on
his-way rejoicing.
Acts 8 38. 39.
Buried with Christ in baptism and
lifted up in the likeness of His resur
rection.
Know ye not, that so many of us
as were baptized into Jesus Christ
were baptized into his death! There
fore we are buried with him by bap
tism into death; that like Christ was
raised up from the dead by the glory
of the Father, even so we also should
walk in newness of life. For if we
have been planted together in the
likeness of his death, we shall be also
in the likeness of his reserection”
Romans Gth 3. 4. 5.
Who were baptized,?
“Then they that gladly received
his word were baptized: and the same
day there were added unto them
about three thousand souls. And
they continued steadfastly in the
apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and
in breaking of bread, and in prayers.”
Acts 2 41 and 42.
The ordinance'of baptism again
administered in Jordan.
“In those days came John the Bap
tist, preaching in the wilderness of
Judea, And saying, Repent ye: for
the Kingdom of heaven is at hand.
For this is he that was spoken of
by the prophet Esaius, saying, The
voice of one crying in the wilderness,
Prepare ye the way of the Lord,
make his paths straight. And the
same John had his raiment of camel’s
hair, and a leathern girdle about his
loins: and his meat was locust, and
wild honey. Then went out to him
Jerusalem, and all Judea, and all the
region round about Jordan, And
were baptized of him in Jordan, con
fessing their sins. (
Matthew. 3 1.2. 3.4.5.6.7.
These are only a portion of the
passages read by the eloquent Pas
tor, and this service, while few com
ments were made, will never be for
gotten by those of the West End
Baptist Church congregation that
heard it.
MEETINGS.
Sun Hill.—Pa stor T. J. Holmes
has closed a meeting of much inter
est at Bethany church Washington
county, with five additions by bap
tism. Brethren C. W. Durden and
Milo Massey assisited during the
meeting.
Pastor J. M. DeFoor has just clos
ed a good meeting at Old Rockdale
church resulting in 13 additions ten|by
baptism and three by letter. This is
one of the best meetings the church
has had for many years, notwith
standing the continued rains.
Rev. J. J. Hyman recently preach
ed for pastor C. W. Miner, At Har
mony church, Dooly county. The
church under his pastorate has pros -
pered. In the July meeting four
were added to the church and at the
meeting last week ten were added.
Raleigh.—Our meeting of seven
days at Salem resulted in twenty six
additions by experience and six by
letter and one by restoration. Pas
tor B. J. W. Graham preached with
great earnestness and power and the
best of feeling prevails with our mem
bership. Others are expected to
come to Christ.
Lavonia.—Pastor P. F. Crawford
has closed a ten days meeting at
Lavonia in which he was assisted by
Bro. R. A. Sublett, of Atlanta. The
Lord graciously blessed our people
reviving our church and converting
sinners. 12 additions, 10 baptisms*
Others were converted some of whom
live in other communities and will
join the church nearest their homes.
God be praised.
Lavonia.—The Tugalo Associa
tion meets at Pleasant Grove two
miles from Lavonia on Tuesday
before the 3rd Sabbath in Sep
tember. Brethren coming by rail
will be furnished conveyance from
Lavonia to the church. Come breth
ren you will be heartily received and
may God bless our work.
P. F. CIIAWFORD.
Unadilla; —We have had most
gracious meetings. At Abbeville 27
additions: Piedmont 13 ; at Unadilla
10; at Mt. Ariel 11: and membership
at these churches revived. I assisted
Brother Brewton at Elko, where 10
were added, Brother Brewton is
consecrated and a power. I also
held a few days meeting at Arabi
resulting in 4 additions. This is a
new town, but bids fare to do much
religiously and educationally. God
be praised for his goooduess.
J. J. Hyman.
Riddleville.—Our pastor spent
most of last week with Pleasant Hill
church during which time 23 were
added to the church by baptism, and
the church greatly revived. The peo
ple of Pleasant Hill community are a
church going people notwithstanding
they are farmers fodder—or anything
else in the way of business prevenst
them andthe Lord always blesses their
efforts in His cause.
Vila Rica.—Pastor W.J. Speairs
has closed an interesting meeting
at Vjjla Rica resulting in one receiv
ed by letter and three by baptism.
Dr. J. M. Brittain, of Atlanta did the
preaching much to the satisfaction of
the brethren. Dr. Dobbs of Carters
ville was expected but did not come.
The meeting has greatly benefited
the church and community, and we
hope to have Bro. Brittain with us
again.
Brother F. C. McConnell writes
us:—The Hiawassee Association has
j ust closed a delightful session. All
denominational interests received
due attention. The centennial com
mittee started its work in earncst.The
Christian Index got a handsome
list of new nam'es,and some renewals-
Rev. S. Y. Jameson rendered ex
celled service in speeches and
preaching.
The Hiawassee High School is
doing a permanent work of elevation
in this section that is being felt
along all the lines of labor. j
Raleigh.—Pastor B. J. W. Gra
ham has closed a gracious meeting
here. The church as thoroughly re
vived and twenty seven additions
nineteen by baptism and eight by
letter and restoration. For G days
Bro. Graham preached with zeal and
power. A number of ( heads of families
and leading citizens united with the
church. The young men hold a
prayer meeting of their own in addi
tion to the regular church prayer
meeting. These young men number
ing twenty or more *yc2 a power in
the community.
Milner.—Our missionary meeting
was a success in many respects. The
brethren responded promptly. Rais
ed about 825 for missions. Our meet
ing was continued eleven days, res
sulting in 18 additions 12 by expe
rience and 4 by letter and 2 by re
toration. At the close of the meet
ing, our dear pastor was called to his
sick wife, who died. The meeting
ran itself. Bro. J. Q. Buffington
preached for us one time and the
church did the balance. Pastor came
the last night of the meeting and
baptized the candidates. He is much
loved by the church, apd has our
sympathy in this sad hour.
Rev. R. A. Sublett.—Whereas,
Upon good authority Rev. R. A,
Sublett, Pastor Capital Avenue
church of Atlanta, was invited to as
sist our beloved Pastor in a series of
meetings with our church at Lavonia
and Whereas, ho remained with us
a week preaching day and night
clearly and forcibly presenting the
Gospel to the edification of the
church and the conversion of the
world therefore be it. Resolved that
we heartily appreciate the good
work the Lord enabled him to do in
our midstand cheerfully and hearti
ly commend him to churches and
Pastors in need of assistance in such
meetings as a safe, wise, prudent,
able preacher, peculiarly adapted for
such work.
Done in Conference by the Lavo
nia Baptist Church Aug. 13th., 1892.
P. F. Crawford, Pastor.
Takling Rock.—An important
meeting of the preachers and deacons
of Noonday, Hightower, Jasper, El
lijay, Mountaintown,and Notly River
Associations will be hold with the
Baptist church at Ellijay, Ga., Sept
5-10. Questions of general interest
regarding the Lords work in this sec
tion will be discussed. The propri
ety of establishing a Baptist high
school will come up.
Dr. Gibson, brethren Boykin.
Vaughan, Wynne and others have
promised to attend, while Dr. Tich
enor, W. H. Dean, J. Win Jones,
have been invited. The main ques
tion discussed will refer to Christian,
activity. Bro. N. L. Osborne writes
that his church at Ellijay will see
that all who come have homes. Let
all the preachers aijd deacons of the
above named Associations who see
this spread the news. Jerusalem
church, Pickens county, just closed a
meeting; eight additions. Clear Creek
also with ten, Talking Rock with
eight.
ASKED AND ANSWERED.
C. E. W. DOBBS, D. D.
What do you think of the propri
ety of receiving so many children
into the churches ? I fear our
churches are losing sight of our
great principle of a regenerate mem
bership. j. a. w.
• Qualification for Church member
ship is not age, but spiritual fitness.
Any child who has intelligence suf
ficient to know he is a sinner and to
sincerely repent and trust in Jesus>
is certainly old enough to become a
Christian. The promise is not that
he who understandeth shall be saved,
but he that believeth. And who
dare say that a child of ten years,
enjoying our admirable Sunday
School privileges, may not believe
with the heart in Jesus ? Wo have
known some instances of even young
er children becoming believers, whose
lives since have demonstrated the
sincerity and intelligence of their
faith. Os course we must ever have
regard to the fundamental law of a
regenerate membership ; but let us
not be wiser than the inspired word
which fixes no age limit to the Spir
it’s regenerating grace. Only let the
the churches exercise due care in
admitting children, and indeed alj
others, to baptism and membership.
Careful study of church statistics
would probably show as large a pro
portion living true Christian lives
among those baptized • when young,
as among those coming into the
church in mature age.’ Faithfully
teach the dear children, earnestly
pray for them, hope for their early
conversion, and encourage them to
confess their Lord as soon as they
trust and love him. This is our
opinion, and we think also we have
the Spirit of God. Just as we re
ceived this inquiry from J. A. W.,
our eyes fall on an appeal from an
Episcopal bishop, from which we
quote : “I must repeat most earnest
ly what I said last year, that there is
not a Christian body in the world
which has grander theories and pos
sibilities about children than we
have, and yet in practice all others
put us to shame. The Church of
Rome does ; Methodists do, and even
the Baptists sweep them in multi
tudes to their Communion at ap age
when parents with us, not half trust
ing Christ’s love and grace for chil
dren, are holding them back till they
get older, and even the pastors have
not faith enough to be bold. Dear
brethren, I beg you not to be con
tented with this. Do not neglect the
children. ... In Christ’s name
I call you to study and re-order your
work. Put it in better proportion.
Not as it now is—five-sixths, or nine
tenths of your time and energy to
the grown people—and only a little
fragment to the children.”
One of our public school teachers,
in our county institute recently held,
said that all scientists now agreed
that the human race was derived
from the simian genus of animals-
I would like to ask if such a teach
er should be at the head of our
schools ? Anxious.
That teacher simply edvertised
his own ignorance when he made
he assertion you refer to. Evolu
tion is by no means accepted by all
scientists, certainly scientists do not
regard it as yet demonstrated. Per
haps a majority hold it tentatively,
the ablest advocates of the hypothe
sis present it with modesty. They
make no such wild claim as did your
extra wise teacher. One who has
no more intelligent understanding of
the present status of the discussion
certainly should not wag his tongue
as he did in your institute. He can
scarcely be a safe guide to the chil
dren in his charge. The trustees of
that school should secure a teacher
who thinks be has a nobler origin
than an ape ! Professor Virchow,
of Germany, is confessedly one of
the ablest scientists of the age, be
ing regarded as the peer of any in
his peculiar line of scientific investi
gation. He made an elaborate ad
dress on this very question before
the last Anthropological Congress
held in V ienna, in which he said :
“Since the Darwinian theory of the
origin of man made its victorious
mark, twenty years ago, we have
sought for the intermediate stages
which were supposed to connect man
with the apes ; the proto man, the
pro anthropos, is not yet discovered.
For anthropological science the pro
anthropos is even a subject of dis
cussion. At that time in Innspruck
the prospect was, apparently, that
the course of descent from ape to
man would be reconstructed all at
once; but now we cannot even
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prove the descent of the separate
races from one another. At this
moment we are able to say that
among the peoples of antiquity no
single one was any nearer to the apes
than we are. At this moment 1 can
affirm that there is not upon earth
any absolutely unknown race of men.
The least known of all are the peo
ple of the central mountainous dis
trict of the Malay Peninsula, but
otherwise w*e know the people of
Terra del Fuego quite as well as the
Esquimaux, Bashkirs, Polynesians
and Lapps. Nay, we know more of
many of these races than we do of
certain European tribes ; I need on.
ly mention the Albanians. Every
living race is still human; no single
one has yet been found that we can
designate as simian or quasi-simian.
Even when in certain ones phenom
ena appear which are characteristic
of the apes—e. g., the peculiar ape
like projections of the skull in cer
tain races—still we cannot say that
these men are apelike.”
Bro. Dobbs :—I always supposed
I knew the meaning of “baptized for
the dead” in 1 Cor. 15:29, until I
read a strange thing the other day.
It was said that Paul referred to the
custom of baptizing a live person fo r
one who died without baptism ! Is
it possible that any reverent Chris
tian believes that the apostle would
have mentioned so absurd a custom
without condemning it ? I under
stand that the Mormons practice it,
but they do so evidently upon a mis
conception of Paul’s language.
J. W. Berry.
Wo share Bro. Berry’s amaze
ment, and yet great and good men
believe that same “strange thing.”
Even our own grand John A. Broad
us thinks (or did think when he
wrote his book on the preparation
and delivery of sermons) that Paul
referred to such a custom. Os
course he and others do not suppose
the apostle approved it. They re
gard the verse as an argumentum
ad hominem. Indeed, Gould (in the
American Commentary) says that
“the commentators are mostly agreed
now” in this interpretation. Never
theless, with all due respect to the
great names who so interpret, we
must regard the interpretation puerile
and absurd. Great men frequently
err. One consolation for us is that
many equally great men present
other views of tho passage. The
view which most commends itself to
our judgment is substantially that
advanced by the Greek Chrysostom
fifteen centuries ago, and others of
the so-called “fathers” before him*
In baptism a person declares his be
lief in the resurrection of the dead
Every baptism is an object lesson
setting forth that great truth.
There are objections growing out of
tho grammatical structure of the pas
sage, but they are by no means in
superable. Certainly the interpreta
tion “fits.” Paul is arguing the doc
trine of the resurrection, which some
of the Corinthians denied (verse 12,)
and yet they practiced a rite which
was in its very act based upon the
resurrection of Christ. Now, says
the apostie, you should either be
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