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"GET A MOVE ON YOU,"
That dignified and powerful Dr.
J. G. Gibson wrote mo last week in
the language of the above vulgar
ism. Is he justifiable in the use of
such speech ? Let us see. In the
same letter be told of three district
Associations attended in one week
and three more proposed for the
next week, traveling night and day
for the success of his work. And
all the time witnessing the sad fact
that the contributions are falling be
hind. Is there any wonder that he
should write a thoughtless, lazy pas
tor “to get a move on him.”
They say that a physician who is
unable to tell what is the matter will
not be able to effect a cure. It is
also true that some times a cure is
very difficult when the trouble is
quite well known.
The diagnosis of the Baptist com
plaint requires no Solomon. We
are too open and simple to bo hard
to read.
The first and greatest trouble,
through all this part of the country,
is the fearful excitement about poli
tics. Preachers and people have
given time and thought to that sub
ject to the neglect of the cause of
Christ. There was more money
spent by Baptists the late election
for legislature than these same Bap
tists have contributed this year to
the cause of Christ. This insidious
miserable party politics has absorbed
the servants of God.
Besides the political craze, wo are
suffering from hard times. It is real.
We have been going through a tre
mendous strain on the vitals of trade.
But there has been much more said
about it than was needed. The
hard times do not affect the contri
butions to Christ’s cause in any ap
preciable degree. The money given
to religious purposes is not the re
sult of prosperity. Wo do not fol
low the apostolic injunction and lay
by as we are prospered. Our col
lections are affected by the number
and plausibility of the excuses that can
be made for not giving. Hero are a
few, viz: 1. There is a great
awakening on the subject of educa
tion. The settlement and Associa
tional High School is absorbing.
When a brother has given toward
the establishment of one of these his
conscience is made easy about any
other object of benevolence. Many
parents are sending their children to
School and they Regard that as the*
quintessence of charity. 2. 'There
has been just a little too much said
lately about “Methods of Missions.”
There are more than you think, who
are willing to let you do all the mis
sion work until you adopt their
methods, and many more who have
no method of their own but are glad
of an excuse to cease giving an ac.
count of the “methods.” There are
many who give to missions not for
Christ's sake but for very shame’s
sake. 3. It is said we talk too
much about it. A deacon in a Bap
tist Church told his pastor to attend
to his own business, when the pas
tor approached him on the subject of
giving. Os course the pastor promp
ly told the deacon that he was “at
tending to his own business.”
We may talk too much of the
wrong kind of talk. Our people
need more to know about the actual
work. Let every pastor have placed
in his hands literature that will bring
missions, the Bible, his own heart,
and Jesus Christ to-gether. Mis
sions must be lifted out of the me
chanical route. There must be a
Christly mission spirit infused.
Let ei ery lover of the cause “get
a move on him” and it may then be
possible to get a move on somebody
else.
We bad already bold two Centen
nial services in our church. At the
morning service on the 2nd of Octo
ber there was a Centennial service
for the grown folks and in the after
noon there was a service for the chil
dren. Now r we propose to mix up
all ages and sizes and hold a grand
Centennial service under the direc
tion of the Ladies Society.
After all, none of us fear that we
will do too much. May the God of
missions make bare His arm and
move the hosts of Baptists.
F. C. McConnell,
AN EVIL.
When a church member moves
from the neighborhood of his church
he should carry with him a letter of
dismission, and join, when ho stops,
the nearest one to him. There may
be some exceptions to this but they
are rare. To hold a membership in
a church some distance from one's
hotne, to reach which ho has to
pass one or more well organized
churches of the same faith aud order
is usually attended with very bad re
sults. The church in his neighbor-
hood may well suspect that he thinks
they are inferior to those that he re
fuses to leave or that he is trying to
shirk responsibility.
A member who thus refuses to
carry his membership along with
him is usually governed by wrong
motives. It is sometimes pleaded
that the graveyard at the old church
contains precious dust; or old tried
and true friends remain back there;
or it may be the old pastor who bap
tized us still lingers on the shore
holding forth the light of life. If
these or any other attractions are
sufficient to induce the removed
member to regularly attend the
meetings of his church there can be
no valid objections. But long and
continued observation shows that no
attractions, however strong, are suf
ficient to 'induce one to overcome
any considerable distance and regu
larly attend the appointments of the
church.
Our churches in small towns
usually suffer greatly from this evil.
Country members locating in town
often imagine that they cannot feel
free and easy in the town church,
and hence leave their membership
far behind them. This is a great
mistake. Our town churches like
other Baptist churches aim to glori
fy God in the uplifting of the com
munity, and generally succeed in
making incomers feel at home among
them. Seldom, indeed, have we no
ticed any neglect of country people
at our town churches. Churches
usually feel a deep anxiety to receive
members from wherever they may
come, and scarcely fail to use all
necessary means to win visitors. Let
there be no fears that town churches
will not receive country members
with hearty good will.
Pastors often discourage members
who are moving away from getting
letters of dismission under the mista
ken motive that to have their mem
bership remain is a compliment to
the church and pastor. Thus mem
bers move away with the premise
“we will come back when we can.”
At the same time perhaps there is no
hope of there visiting the old church
once a year. Many of these absent
members never return. All the en
dearments of the old church are for
gotten ; and they are lost in the
whirl and giddiness of passing scenes.
Is it not true that thousands of wan
dering homeless members might
trace 4ieir spirituaLdecline and ir
regular, and in some cases, debauch
ed lives to this source ?
That this is a great evil none will
deny. Is there a remedy ? A com
plete remedy would, doubtless, be
difficult to suggest. But the evil
may bo greatly abated.
1. By the church and pastor per
suading members who may be mov
ing away to carry letters of dismis
sion along with them, and identify
themselves with a church in the
neighborhood as early as convenient,
and thus be ready for every good
word and work.
2. Let the pastor call attention to
this evil, from the pulpit, insisting
that is inconsistent with Unit conse
cration to the cause of Christ which
the New Testament teaches to live
without church association and priv
ileges.
3. Let tho church and pastor in
the neighborhood of new coiners
speedily impure into their spiritual
condition and if found to be church
members give them no rest until they
have identified themselves with the
people of God.
Should these means bo faithfully
used there would not be so many
homeless Baptists, who claim alle
gians to no church and are restrain
ed by none, wandering, like sheep
from the fold, in desolate places.
There would not be so much anxious
inquiry about lost members “that
went out from us two years ago, and
were seen at A., and afterwards were
heard from at 8., since which noth
ing has been known of them.
A. J. Kelly.
BLASTS FROM THE "RAM'S HORN.”
There is no such thing as having
much of a growth in grace as long
as we insist on keeping onr hands in
our pockets.
The devil would rather start a
fuss between a couple of God’s peo
ple than to sell a drunkard a barrel
of whiskey.
Every man has an idea that if ho
bad been in Adam’s place the whole
earth would now be a Garden of
Eden.
Tho only people who can bo poor
in tho next world will bo those who
have not taken God’s way to become
rich in this.
When tho devil sees church mem
bers wrangling with one another lie
knows it will be safe for him to sit
down and rest.
THE CHRISTIAN INDEX: THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 3. 1892.
TEE CENTENNIAL FUND.
The Southern Baptist Convention
has twice decided to attempt to raise
during the current year $250,000 as
a special fund for permanent work,
This fund is to be divided equally
between our Home and Foreign
Boards, unless otherwise designated!
and is to be used for Bible transla
tion, chapel building and the church
edifice fund—expenses which once
incurred will not need to be repeat
ed. It is not designed that the rais
ing of this fund shall in any way in
terfere with the regular contributions
for the current work, indeed it is
proposed that these contributions
shall also be as largely increased as
possible. So far there has been lit
tle specific effort to raise this fund
except what has been done by means
of the chapel cards.
It became evident to the Centen
nial Committee that something more
than this must be done if the money
is to be raised. We have, therefore
secured the services for several
months of Dr. W. D. Powell, who
will devote himself to this work.
Dr. Powell is too well-known to
need any commendation ; and he is
singularly gifted for such service.
The Foreign Mission Board kindly
releases him from his work in Mex
ico in order that he may labor for
the raising of this permanent fund.
He is to receive no extra salary. The
Committee congratulate themselves
and also the denomination on secur
ing Dr. Powell’s services. He will
visit such points as may be desired,
on consultation with those in charge
of the work in the different states ;
and we bespeak for him the hearty
co-operation of all Southern Bap
tists. His headquarters will be in
Louisville, and his address will bo
care of the Baptist Book Con
cern.
If other leading churches would
do as the Eutaw Place church, Bal
timore, has done, they would not
need a visit from Bro. Powell, or
from anybody else.
It is the desire of Dr. Powell and
also of the Committee that his time
shall be used to the best advantage;
that he shall visit only those points
where he is most needed, and where
his visits will bo likely to yield the
best results.
If the denomination will rally to
this work, the raising of this, or
even a much larger amount, wfil be
rendered easy. May* no,# we'hope
that the Centennial of Modern Mis
sions furnishes a proper occasion,
which the denomination will recog
nize, for a supreme effort to save
the world. Fraternally,
T. T. Eaton,
Ch’m’n Con. Com. S. B. C.
DESPONDENCY.
fs so common that I think it has
come to bo regarded a misfortune
rather than a fault and a sin. So
some regard sickness and loss of time
thereby. Whereas God will hold us
accountable for loss time, in either
case, when not a necessity. For all
the time, in the latter case, when
temperance and proper caution might
have preserved us in health ; in the
former, for distrusting the good pro
vidence of God as well.
The preacher is too lengthy for
somebody who goes to chinch mere
ly to be entertained, lie is too con
scientious to be gadding around mere
ly to keep people in a good humor.
There is a John Jones or so in his
church so restless that he can neither
sit, lie or stand still a moment. He
does not see a satisfactory growth in
his people in knowledge and zeal
His ministry is not effective as he
could desire in winning souls; his
effectiveness may bo indirect and un
recognized largely, ns in tho case of
Mercer, the elder Manly m his later
years, and others whoso gifts are of
a higher order, moving the levers
that move the many. Popular min
isters are those, for tho most part,
whose effectiveness is recognized by
all, not merely by tho discerning
few’. And so the embarrassed pas
tor gives way to discouragement,
wastes time in hesitancy, or seeks
another field, as if human nature
and human untowardness were not
everywhere tho same. Most mon
who have left their ’mark on their
times have been enabled to make a
place and hold it, or to hold one
when already made. The nnivcrsiA
rule is, what thy hand finds to do,
do it with thy might. Your place is
right there. You have nothing to
do with prominences, God will open
the way for graceful change when it
becomes expedient. He will always
find a platform just broad enough
and high enough on w hich to per
form tho work he has given you to
do. Don’t disparage his providence
by murmuring or complaining, or
wasting time brooding over misfor
tune.
And you young doctor or lawyer
or teacher, hoc age, seize the first
respectable place, do your best, if
there is nothing adequate there some
will want; you you will find your
level and any struggle against the
tendency will only precipitate you
more rapidly towards the bottom.
When once you succeed, you can re
move where you please, all the re
ports that follow you, will be favor
able ; but if you fail, a single time, it
will be reported every day, that you
could not catch hold at such and
such a place, that you are a failure
anyhow. Nobody with average ca
pacity, ever fails, in any calling, who
husbands all resources, utilizes every
moment, and hopes in God and his
own strength, especially if fixed
down in a place.
The most despondent class now is
the farmer, And yet, with all its
faults, we have the best government
in the world ; labor commands higher
wages than it ever did in the history
of the country, and a dollar will
purchase more than it ever has done
in any former period. The mistake
people are making, is indisposition to
settle down and make a home. That
used to be thought of the first thing,
when a young couple married, now,
alas! becoming unusual in early life-
Everybody has turned statesman and
must attend all the barbecues and
public speakings to applaud or dis
approve, or fortify, or advise the
candidate. The wife’s pin money is
expended in this way. Men labor
six or seven months in the year in
stead of twelve, and blame God and
the government that they are behind.
Almost universal despondency reigns
among the former class. Don’t all
move to town ; settle down some
where; make a neighborhood, main
tain a school, build up a church, be
still long enough for the preacher to
teach you something, to mould and
be moulded. Farming fails because
it not attended to, is carried on hel
ter skelter, and people are losing the
idea of home. Anyway, let us not
sit down and nurse our hands, indulge
revery, and claim that no man hath
hired us, for there is much to do, in
every sphere and God is above and
his eye over us. E. B. Teague.
THE BEGINNING HERE.
He who has been in the Christian
life fifty, sixty or seventy years, has
only begun ,to sec and know’ the
beauty and blessedness of godliness-
The early svnts of the antediluvian
period, who lived to be eight and
nine hundred years old, merely be
gan to see a little of what was in re
serve for them in the boundless here
after. It is said that tho famous
musician, Mozart, exclaimed, just be
fore he died, “now I begin to see
what might be done in music.” This
great master of music caught glimp
ses of what was possible to be ac
complished in the sphere of music
Had he lived years longer he would
doubtless have felt that he was still
a mere beginner, as compared with
what was possible to be realized. As
the Christian grows in grace, as his
vision of Christ becomes broader
and keener, he realizes more than
ever, the possibilities which are
attainable. Those who have reached
great attainments in divine things,
feelthat they have only begun
to know a little of the height
and depth of the unsearchable
richesof Christ. John says, “of
his fullness have all we receiv
ed. “Yes, but we have not received
all of his fullness. We cannot in
this life. We can receive “of his
fulness,” but how little it is as com
pared with the fulness itself! It is
one thing to receive of the full ocean,
but quite another thing to receive the
full ocean itself. Only in Chris
dwells the “fulness of the godhead.”
But’should we be discouraged because
wo cannot presently receive the com
plete fulness of Christ? No, not at
all. We should be encouraged in
the thought that we cannot fully
know Christ in this life. If we could
fully know him now, he would not
be tho Christ that we need. We
need a Christ of whom and from
whom we can bo learning, during
the limitless ages. The riches of
grace which we could exhaust in an
earthly life time, would not be the
riches to forever support and satis
fy immortal souls. Tho great
undiscovered beyond, of which wo
see something here, is what beckons
us on with high anticipations of in
creasing surprise and ineffablo and
exhaustless pleasure. But let us see
to it that we are beginning tho life
which opens into the joyous eternity
C. H. Wktheube.
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THE FIRST CHRISTIAN MISSIONA
RIES.
Lesson for Nov. 13th, 1892.
Scripture Lesson: Acts 13:1-13.
Motto Text :—“That repentance
and remission of sins should be
preached in his name among all na
tions.” Luke 24:27.
INTRODUCTION.
The book of Acts naturally divides
itself into two parts at the end of
the 12th chapter. In the first part
Peter is the most prominent charac
ter, Jerusalem is the centre, and the
work is extended throughout Judea
and Samaria and some other parts!
being confined almost exclusively to
the Jews. At the beginning of the
13th chapter, Antioch becomes the
centre, Paul the most prominent
worker, and the work is extended into
foreign countries and among the
Gentiles. We are now at the begin
ning of Paul’s first great missionary
journey. Three of these journeys
he made, starting each time from An
tioch.
It has been some eight or nine
years since the gospel was carried to
Antioch. Paul and Barnabas have
labored there for sometime, and a
strong vigorous church appears to
have been built up there. The place
possesses special advantages for be
coming a great religious centre on
account of its great importance as a
commercial centre.
EXPLANATION.
I. Paul and Barnabas sent
forth as Missionaries.—Vs. 1-5.
The church at Antioch seems to be a
complete organization,and not a mere
group or loose assembly. Prophets
and Teachers are mentioned. The
specific office of a prophet is that of
teaching. His power to foretell
events was only incidental to this
main feature. Just wherein the
character or office of the Teachers
mentioned differs from that of the
Prophets is not very clear.
As they ministered. —This in
cludes the general exercises of. pub
lic worship. On fasting sec also
10:30 and 14:28. The Holy Ghost
said. —The manner of this revela
tion is not made known. Notice
that it is while they are ministering
to the Lord that the Lord makes
known his will. Paul had been call
ed to this work at the time of his
conversion. The call had already
come to them to go. The call is now
to the church to send. The church
by fasting and prayer enter upon
this task, showing their earnestness
and their dependence upon God.
The laying on of hands is not to be
understood as conferring any new
grace or power, but as public recog
nition of the divine call and a giving
of their sanction,approval and support
to the enterprise. The plan of their
journey byway of Seleucia and unto
Cyprus seems to have been indicated
by the Holy Spirit. Selucia is the
seaport about 15jniles from Antioch*
The island of, Cyprus is then about 60
miles away. While we may believe
the Holy Spirit guided them in this
direction we may note that his direc
tions are in accord with reasons
easily apparent to the human reason.
This was the birth place of Barnabas,
jt had a large Jewish population and
many synagogues, and was in the
line of travel to other places they
will visit. They preached, first in
the synagogues to the Jews. This
was the rule. When rejected by the
Jews they turned to the Gentiles,
The use of the synagogue afforded a
great advantage in all the early mis
sionary work. The word minister
used in reference to John Mark can
hardly be taken in the sense of its
present use. The possition was a
subordinate one, something of an as
sistant or servant.
11. A Hindrance and a Triumph.
—Vs. 6 -13. The preaching of the
gospel always has a tendency to dis
close the worse elements of human
character. Bar-Jesus is ready
with his magic arts and his false
teachings to oppose them. Sergins
Paulus, intclligeht and thoughtful,
would hear the word of God, but
this juggler sought to hinder. Paul
has the specisl endowment of the
Holy Spirit to deal with his opponent,
and charges his wickedness openly
upon him. Tho wickedness is of
such gross character as to call for
severe punishment, and at tho word
of Paul he becomes blind. Fit
punishment that he whose delight it
has been to deceive should himself
be blinded. Thus the hinderer is
overcome and put out of tho way.
Such overthrow awaits all who re
sist the gospel. This act of justice
so promptly displayed affords a new
evidence in support of the word they
preach, and the acceptance of tho
deputy is secured.
Tho time spent upon the island ia
not indicated but seems to be short.
Only this one convert is reported.
They did not wait till every person
on the island was converted before
they carried the gospel elsewhere.
SUGGESTIVE.
1. The church at Antioch was cer
tainly a missionary church. The
Holy Spirit called them directly to
the work. The church that does not
believe in or practice missions is un
like this apostolic church, and is not
obeying the direction of the Holy
Spirit.
2. As Paul and Barnabas are call
ed to go, the church is called to send,
and the people to whom they are sent
are prepared to hear. The Lord
overlooks no part of his work. In
all points it moves forward in har
mony.
CROCODILE WORSHIP IN INDIA.
The late Dr. Wilson, a noted mis
sionary, when traveling in the North
west Provinces, visited the Muggar
Pool, or crocodile lake, which is still
one of the sights near Kurachee. It
was formed from the water of some
hot springs within 150 square yards—
-4 ‘the space of a barn-yard pond’ ’ —
and accommodated seventy-five mon
sters of all sizes, from the baby of a
cubit long to the patriarch, Mor
Saheb, who was eleven feet long and
was marked with red lead, and wor
shipped by the Hindoos. He says:
‘ ‘ They seemed quite tame, as they
allowed us to lay hold of their tails
and turned round at the call of the
fakeers, expecting a dainty meal on
some unhappy goat. We found the
Mor Saheb asleep, but poked him up
with our sticks. He opened his jaws
about a cubit wide, and then hissed
and blew like a pair of smith’s bel
lows. He had lately had a dreadful
duel with a competitor for the cham
pionship, and as the battle was a
drawn one, and threatened te bo
renewed, he was kept apart from his
fellows. They are all of the species
crocodilus communis. The illiterate
keepers form a community of Mo
hammedans, more remarkable for the
practice of pleasantries than auster
ities.
Take life like a man. Take it just
as though it were, as it is, an earnest
vital, essential affair. Take it just
as though you personally were born
to the task of performing a merry
part in it, as though tho world had
waited for your coming. Take it as
it were a grand opportunity to do
and to achieve, ,to carry forward
great and good schemes, to help and
cheer a suffering, weary, it may be
heart-broken, brother. The fact is,
life is undervalued by a great majori
ty mankind. It is not made half as
much of as should be the case.
Where is the man or woman who ac
complishes one tithe of what might
be done? Who cannot look back
upon opportunities lost, plans un
achieved, thoughts crushed, aspira
tions unfulfilled, and all caused from
the lack of the necessary and possi
ble effort? If we knew better how
to take and make the most of life, it
would be far greater than it is.—
Anonymous.
INFLUENCE OF THE TONE OF THE
VOICE.
Few mothers understand how
wonderfully even little children are
influenced by the tone of the voice,
the touch of the hand, the very at
mosphere they breathe. How quick
ly an impatient, irritated tone begets
an impatient answer! Many mothers
do not realize this ; nor do they un
derstand how easily very little chil
dren may be taught to be orderly
and neat, to be thoughtful for others,
to enjoy being helpful to mother and
father, if only they be made partners
in the concern, and the enticing “we
will do so and so” be substituted for
the disagreeable “you do so and so.”
It is noticeable that even young
children dislike a command, while a
request or a pleasant assumption on
the part of a parent that a child will
do certain things usually is acceded
to with pleasure.—The Standard.
FLOSSIE'S FANCIES.
Flossie was spending a month in
the country, and the second evening
after her arrival she was taken out
to see the milking. “Well,” she said,
when a glass of warm milk was
handed her, “that’s the first time I
ever saw a milk wagon with four
legs.” Hens and eggs were objects
of interest to her, also, but she did
did not see a turkey until she had
made the rounds of the hennery, and
then she frightened up a great old
gobbler in the melon patch. He
made a rush for the fence, and she
fell over a watermelon. “What’s
that, Flossie ?” inquired her mother.
,‘I don’t know,” she said, as she
brushed her dress; “but I guess it’s
the kind of hen that lays watermel
ons.”—Detroit Free Press.
Catarah in the head is a constitu
tional disease, and requires a con
stitutional remedy like Hood’s Sar
saparilla, to effect a cure.
DUSTING.
There is an art in dusting which
which does not receive the attention
it demands. According to the vari
ous analyses of different observers,
the components of ordinary dust ex
hibit special characters in almost end
less variety. Mineral matters, ani
mal and vegetable debris, morbid
germs, and whatever is small and
light enough to remain for any time
suspended in the air, falls jnto the
category; and among these things
are many substances that in the air
do mischief. The spread of cholera
and exanthematous diseases has,
doubtless with truth, been attributed
to its influence. Methods of dusting,
therefore, which merely remove the
dust to another place or fill the air
with it, are not sufficient, and are not
harmless. It should be wiped rather
than brushed away, and carried off
or destroyed. Then let the sunlight
in to kill what infection may remain
—Popular Science Monthly.
HOUSEWORK AS AN EXORCISE.
To keep the complexion and spirits
good, to preserve grace, strength, and
agility of motion there is no gymna
sium so valuable, no exercise more
beneficial in result, than sweeping
dusting, making beds, washing dish
es, and the polishing of brass and
silver, One year of such muscular
effort within doors, together with
regular exercise in open air, will do
more for a woman’s complexion than
all the lotions and pomades that were
ever invented. Perhaps the reason
why housework does so much more
for women than games is the fact
that exercise which is immediately
productive cheers the spirit. It gives
women the courage to go on living,
and make things seem realy worth
while.—Medical Record.
PINEAPPLES AS MEDICINE.
In countries where the price of
pineapples is much higher than here,
the fruit is appreciated at something
nearer its true merit. Pineapple
juice has medicinal properties of the
highest order. In throat disease,
and even in diphtheria, it has seldom
failed to give relief, and, as an anti
dyspeptic it is invaluable. The un
pleasant taste victims of indigestion
experience on rising in the morning
can be got rid of by the persistent
use of this remedy, and as it goes at
once to the root of the trouble, and
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