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WITNESS FOE CHRIST.
Our Lord Jesus Christ is the
crowned King—Head of the church.
His last commission constituted his
disciples the guardians and witnesses
of his truth. On the Galilean moun
tain, after his victory over tho con
quered tomb, he said to them : “All
authority bath been given unto me
in heaven and in earth. Go ye,
therefore, and make disciples of ail
the nations, baptizing them into the
name of the Father, and of the Son,
and of the Holy Spirit; teaching
them to observe all things whatso
ever I commanded you ; and 10, I
am with you always, even unto the
end of the world.” When the forty
days of post-resurrection intercourse
and instruction in tho things con
cerning the kingdom were ended, he
led them by loved Bethany to Oli
vet and said : “Repentance and re
mission of sins shall be preached in
my name unto all tho nations. And
ye shall be my witnesses in Jerusa
lem, and in all .1 udea, and Samaria,
and unto the uttermost part of tho
earth.” While he yet spake the im
patient chariot came and bore him
to his throne !
The church is still tho “pillar and
ground of the truth.” What was
her mission then and immediately
thereafter, is, her mission to-day, to
disciple the nations by speaking the
truth in love ; teaching all things
that Jesus commanded. No later
commission, repealing or altering
that first commission, has been heard
from the King. The insignia of tho
ancient Waldcnses was an outstretch
ed hand holding a lighted lamp, sur
rounding which shone tho words
“lux lucet in tenebris”—-the light
shineth in the darkness. Even so
now is the church by her divine
charter the light of the world. She
must hold forth the lamp of life to
guide the nations into the truth.
The church of the living God is the
true “Liberty enlightening the
world.” Every believer, every
church of Jesus Christ, should grate
fully recognize the honor thus con
ferred. It is no mean glory to be
privileged to appear before men as
ambassadors for tho “King of kings
and Lord of lords.” Tho church
needs to awake to her grand mis
sion, never yet fully appreciated, of
witnessing for her Lord and his
truth. Her heralds should fill tho
wide world with the blessed procla
mation of his redemptive lovo and
saving grace.
In accomplishing this exalted mis
sion it is ours to bo honestly loyal to
Christ's truth. Not all the outcry
against positive truth comes from
the camps of professed infidelity.
Alas, many enrolled as soldiers of
the King are mutinous against his
truth. There is a persistent cry
against what is stigmatized as “dog
matism.” It is said that “tho age
demands practical preaching, the
moral duties of life rather than the
dry bones of theological abstraction.”
Doctrine is derided, as if the clear
statements of truth found in the New
Testament were of no more import
ance than a last year’s almanac. It
js boldly argued that “the pulpit
must reconstruct its methods and
readjust its standards ; it must draw
its inspiration and efficacy from the
moral and social relationships of
man to man, rather than from the
old dogmas of human accountability
to the eternal Lawgiver, and tho old
theories concerning our spiritual be
ing and destiny revealed in the
word.”
But wo may bo quite sure that
the cry is but the vaporing of rest
less unbelief, chafing under tho sov
ereignty of a God of positive truth
and purpose. Tho faithful preach
ing of the truth, God’s whole truth,
is yet the ordained and efficient
means of saving men. As Baptists
we have special obligations to dis
charge in this loyal proclamation of
Christ’s truth. As a denomination
we are peculiarly “set for tho de
fence of the gospel.” Our charac
acteristic doctrines are vitally impor
tant to the preservation and perpet
uation of pure Christianity’. We
hold that God is soverigu in grace
as well as in nature, and that man
is under the law of that sovereign.
We hold that the sovereign has the
right to issue his decrees prescrib
ing both doctrine and duty. In our
creed man and God have not yet
changed places in this respect, as
“Arminianism gone to seed” would
fondly dream. If tho teachings and
ordinances underlying our denomi
national organization arc of God’s
word, they must be honestly, faith
fully, earnestly, lovingly proclaimed.
We cannot be innocent if we hold
them back. We must speak, and
defend, and urge them, not as “mere
non-essentials,” but as integral parts
of the gospel, as revealed and or
dained doctrine and order. For
every truth, every ordinance of
Christ, is essential to the purpose for
which it was given by him who
made man, and who knew just what
truth man needed for his edifica
tion. Otherwise there can be no
apology for our ecclesiastical exist
ence. Baptists have a distinct mis
sion for the truth’s sake, or our’s is a
“fool’s errand.” Let us not prove
unworthy of tno trust, which, by the
grace of the King, has been commit
ted to us. Let us faithfully declare
the truth, the whole counsel of God ;
never seeking controversy for its
own sake, nor as an end, but only as
it may be a necessary means for the
defence and “furtherance of the gos
pel.”
GIVING TO GOD.
Not long since, a poor peasant in
the Austrian province of Carniola
died, and tidings came to the impe
rial court that ho had left his sover
eign his heir. The emperor accept
ed the bequest, not for its own value,
since it amounted to only one dollar
and eighty cents, but out of regard
for the spirit of loyalty to which it
gave what expression lay within the
power of a hand so nearly empty ;
and we make no question that many
a larger sum will pass from the mon
arch’s possession more lightly than
this. A heart was in it, and that
clothed it with worth; that made
the paltry, tho precious. So God
deals with us, when we give to any
cause which is His, and for tho rea
son that giving to it is giving to
Him. He accepts our offerings, not
for what they are in themselves, for to
Him they are as nothingness, but be
cause wo put our hearts’ love, put our
hearts, into them, and lay tho two on
His altar together, that no longer we
but He may have them. Oh, the
thought, that something which is
realty and truly our’s may pass from
our hands to God’s and become by
our will really and truly His ; that
this exchange of ownership may
take place between us and Him, He
acknowledging our title as before
His and accepting His as from us!
What a wonder is this, what a joy
ous wonder! Who need be with
out it, who lias so much as two mites
to give and a heart with which to
give them ?
Fasliionabio church music has one
of its strongholds among our Episco
pal friends. It is largely under the
wing of their approval and patron
age that the airs of the opera crept
into the choir, and what was meant
for the entertainment of men takes
precedence in the worship of God.
This renders more noteworthy the
fact that Bishop Nelson, in his ad
dress to the Convention of the Dio
cese of Georgia, set his face resolute
ly against this tendency. Here are
his cutting words, which we quote
because not a few of our own people
need to feel their edge :
It w ould be grotesque, were it not
pitiable, to hear the efforts which are
made to sing a “line piece” whenev
er there is any probability of a large
audience being on hand. Tho florid
music of the late Italian school is
unwittingly laid under heavy contri
bution in the compositions of Mil
lard, Danks, et id oinne genus. In
this country wo do not w ant, least
of all in a missionary diocese like
Georgia, either the straining after or
the production of the “effects” of
that school. In the opera, the con
cert hall and the parlors let the
charm be felt, not in the church of
God. Tho samples of this school
usually presented are bad enough in
La Madeleine and S. Koch’s, Paris,
and S. Michael's Munich ; they are
intolerable here. I have no ques
tion that however much people may
be pleased with Sunday concerts the
people sincerely desire plain music
which they can sing, and barring an
occasional anthem, the chants and
hymn tunes employed should be
sung so as to afford an opportunity
to tho people to join in the singing.
By all means let congregational sing
ing be encouraged.
Broken Vows.—A vow was a
purpose framed into speech to do in
the service of tho Lord something
over and above what was impera
tively demanded. Tho “utterance
of tho lips" may have been “rash,”
but shall it “logon tho soul,” Numb.
30 :8, R. V. So sacred is a promise
made to God, that it must bo kept
oven where otherwise wo are free to
neglect the thing wrapped up in it.
How much more, then, must guilt
cleave to the soul when we promise
that which is obligatory and do not
keep the promise ? Do we not thus
put a double sin into our failures
adding to the sin of disobeying com.’
inandment tho siu of violating cove
nant ?
THE CHRISTIAN INDEX: THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 3. 1892.
CALVINIST MORALITY.
One of the wise men among our
Methodist brethren has been saying
his say against his caricature of
“Calvinism.” He “says” to the ex
tent of two wide columns of the
Wesleyan Christian Advocate, our
neighbor. He dramatically pro
founds this question and answers it:
“Do the Catholic and Calvinistic
creeds meet the moral and religious
wants of humanity? They do not.”
The good brother had already in
sisted upon the practical identity of
the two creeds named, in their teach
ing concerning human depravity. If
we are not greatly mistaken the
Methodist “articles of faith” teach
the same “awful doctrine.” But lis
ten once more:
“Take those systems and place
them side by side with the Ten Com
mandments and Christ’s Sermon on
the Mount, and the reason, consci
ence and volitions of the soul, and
they will not touch at one single
point. It is impossible, by teaching
a false humanity and a false Chris
tianity, to develop a pure humanity
or a true morality.”
What the dear man means by a
“pure humanity,” we are at a loss to
conjecture. Ono would suppose
from the general tenor of his article
that it is a humanity independent of
the grace of God—able to save itself
without any “second causes;” a sort
of omnipotent humanity lifting itself
up by its own boot straps ! But the
climax is reached when his “meta
physical theologian” gravely tells his
readers this:
“My long observation and exper
ience furnish clearly, to my mind,
the fact that the Calvinistic human
ity and Calvinistic Gospel preached
in Christian nations is the great un
derlying cause of the immorality in
Christendom. When you have re
duced their humanity and Christian
ity to its last analysis there is not
only no morality in the whole sys
tem, but it is in essence opposed to
personal morality. The stream
cannot rise above the fountain.”
This takes our breath ! Our de
nominational modesty impels the
omission of Baptists from tho com
parison, but we respectfully suggest
that, perhaps this is the reason that
Methodist preaching has everywhere
produced a typo of Christian moral
ity so much superior to that found
in Presbyterian congregations! True
one would hardly discern tho finer
texture among the easy-going Meth
odist people about us. Some might
even bo so bold as to affirm, that,
for solid religious worth and char
acter, tho deluded Presbyterian de
votees of Calvinism are at least the
equals of their more noisy Arminian
brethren!
Then, there may be others who
have been guilty of reading history,
and who might rashly point to the
great sanctity of the pious Arminian
“Cavaliers,” who so religiously
fought their immoral Calvinistic
Puritan opponents in the good old
days of merry Charles! Seriously,
it has been a long time since we have
read so successful an attempt at bur
lesque as the article from which we
quote.
The Episcopal diocese, of Massa,
chusetts, asked permission of the
Episcopal Convention, now in session
in Baltimore. Md., to use the Revis
ed Version of tho Bible in connec
tion w ith tho King James version.
The Convention refused to grant the
request.
It is said that tho Massachusetts
diocese, represented by Dr. Phillips
Brooks, belongs to tho low church
wing, and (hat it is looked upon with
suspicion by the high church party.
It seems a strange proceeding in a
free country. Tho Massachusetts
diocese is without a “vine or figtree”
of its own. It can sit under no oth
er than that provided by the Conven
tion. The refusal to allow the Re
vised Version to be used is a high
handed, tyranical act. King James’
Version is itself a revised version,
made “by his majesty’s special com
mand.” ‘
It was appointed to be read in the
churches,” that, is the churches of
tho English establishment. These
statements appear on tho title page
of King James’ version. Is the
King's command binding upon
American freemen ? Is the appoint
ment of tho Church of England, en
dorsed by tho Episcopal Convention
at Baltimore, to blind-fold tho eyes,
stifle tho consciences, and forbid
American citizens to read nny ver
sion of the scriptures their judgment
may commend? Could a popish bull
strike any more dangerous blow at
religious liberty than this? That
people is in a pitiable condition, tru
ly, that have to ask permission to
' read the Bible. It is a condition
still inorc (pitiable to submit when
permission to do so is refused. A
very large majority of those who
prepared the late revision werepedo
baptists, and no change was made
without the concurence of two-thirds
of the committee having in charge
any given portion.
The real trouble lies in the fact
that the New Version is a transla
tion, and not merely a transferring
of Greek words with slight terminal
alterations, as the case in King Jame’s
version.
The interdependence in human be
ings is prominently set forth in
many ways. It is one of the com
mon observations of life. No man
can draw himself in from the fellow
ship of men and long maintain him
self in that even temperement which
is necessary to w r ell-being and hap
piness. Experience teaches that
men are dependent upon one anoth
er, if not for physical support, cer
tainly for the elements of thought
and feeling that are essential to
every soul having being. We both
borrow and loan the common prod
uct of life daily or else we are soon
beyond the power of so appropria
ting that product as to make it
serve our own purpose of life.
When we then find it stated in Ho
ly Scripture, “that none of us liveth
to himself,” we are not surprised but
recognize at once the inspired state
ment of a well established truth.
We may not hitherto have extended
this law into the domain of spiritual
life, but the transition is made very
easy by our ample acquaintance
with its operations in all the tempo
ral relations with which we have
been associated.
The Scripture setting which con
tains this inspired truism conveys at
the same time two very necessary
rules of life. The one reminds us of
the independence of individuals and
the personal responsibility of each
to his Divine Master. Therefore
we are warned against making war
on another’s conscience. Remind
ing us of tho danger of intermed
dling with the affairs of others be
yond our privilege.
The other law of life insists upon
the duty of each to assist the other
in tho performances that devolve up
on him. Helpfulness is the law of
well-regulated living. Still every
effort at helpfulness should be guard
ed against tho constant danger of
destroying individuality as well as
individual responsibility. ‘ We ought
to help each other recognize his re
sponsibilities as well as to do his re
spective duties.
Carrying this just a step farther
we shall find a field of action wide
as our capabilities ; in the pos
sible help we may render to them
who either have not recognized their
religious responsibilities or to those
who have failed to discharge those
obligations where they have known
them. In this sphere of activity the
Divine Lawgiver has appointed the
labors of His people and made their
active prosecution of it tho test of
their fidelity to Him.
Indeed His example to tho world
of true living points with unerring
certainty to this as the law of spirit
ual accomplishment. Thus the
brother of little mental capacity is
made possessor of the powers of
mind of his more talented brother
and enriched by the gifts bestowed
not on him to be sure, but bestowed
on another for him. If this is true
in any prime sense, how certainly
will every child of God find it with
in his law of life to bring to every
other fellow man, so far as he may
be able the things that make for his
peace. We are charged, my fellow
Christians with not only bringing
the knowledge of salvation to men,
but with rendering every possible
help to them in perfecting Christian
character. The weak brother is in
troduced in Rom. 14 :1, whoso re
ception is insisted upon as a du
ty we owe him, that by our brother
ly help wo may free him from his
habits of vice and superstition and
deliver him from the thraldom of
associations that arc destructive to
godliness. In the sixth chapter of
Galatians the apostle illustrates the
Christian idea of life beautifully,
“Bear ye one another’s burdens,” ...
.. . “for every man must bear his
own burden.” All help of every
kind should tend to strengthen, not
weaken, tho helped. Every charity
that fosters laziness, is a positive in
jury and in its result is not helpful
but hurtful. It is equally true in
mental and spiritual help ; men who
are helped beyond absolute need are
injured. How difficult to be help
ful !
In our day charity has ruu wild.
Ido not mean charity, either, be
cause charity never goes wild. Char
ity is the proper help to tho needy.
But we have fallen on times that do
not discriminate. It seems to me
quite as wrong to help where it will
prove hurtful as it would be to fail
to help where it is needed. Possi
bly there is this difference, the help
ing does the helper good and if he
made an honest mistake still he
would get the good. I . would not
say a word that would lessen the
charities of a single one. I would
be glad, however, if Christians might
be brought to direct their help in
such way as to deserve the name it
bears.
There are those in every town
who manage to absorb all they can
of the charity that is dispensed from
both the churches and the town
authorities, while other more de
serving ones suffer on in want with
out the little help that would enable
them to support themselves.
While the Episcopal church in
Canada was holding its late Provin
cial Synod in Montreal, the Presby
terians were holding their Interna
tional Council in Toronto.
A motion was made by an Episco
pal clergyman to send a message of
good will to the Presbyterian Coun
cil, but it met with violent opposi
tion on that to do so would
be [recognizing the Presbyterian
church.
That was a step, (in the wrong
direction) towards Christian Union
which Episcopalians profess to desire
so much.
They simply mean to say to other
churches, “come, unite with us, ac
cept Apostolic succession,” the “His
torical Episcopate,” and give up
whatever else makes you differ from
us. We will ask no questions about
New Testament teaching in regard
to church membership, ordinances, or
government. Just do this and we
shall have Union.”
Such union would result in speedy
disunion. The corning together
would be like a forced contract of
incompatible elements that would re
sult in violent explosion, and a mul
tiplication of fragments.
Rev. Washington Gladden, D. D.>
in the October number of Yhe Re
view of Reviews, suggests what he
terms “The Municipal church,” or
Town church, as the means of effect
ing Christian Union. He cites the
churches at Jerusalem, Antioch
Corinth, Ephesus, and others named
in the New Testament, as samples of
churches.” The sugges
tions and the samples show into what
gross errors men of reputed learning
may fall, what absurd and impracti
cable theories they may advocate,
ami how strangely ignorant they are
of human nature.
The churches named were located
in towns and cities, it is true, but
they were very far from being muni
cipal churches of the kind Mr. Glad
den describes. They were construct
ed strictly on the New Testament
plan. The membership did not con
sist of heterogenous elements gath
ered from denominations holding to
diverse doctrines and practices.
They were of “one mind,” of “one
spirit,” acknowledge “one Lord,”
adopting “one faith,” and accepting
“one baptism.” They were homo
geneous.
The New Testament alone fur
nishes the basis of true Christian
Union.
Union Theological Seminary.
New York, entered into an agree
ment with the Northern Presbyte
rian General Assembly, in 1870,
that its Board of Directors should
appoint all its professors, subject to
the approval of a majority vote of
the assembly.
A similar agreement was entered
into by all the Seminaries of the
reunited Presbyterian Church.
At the time this contract was
made, Union Seminary had an en
dowment of half million dollars.
Afterwards, a half million more was
secured from the reunited church.
When the appointment of Prof.
Briggs, whose news in reference to
the authority of the Scriptures are
well known, to the chair of Biblical
Theology w’as reported to the Gen
eral Assembly, that body refused to
confirm it.
A few days ago the Board of
Directors of the Seminary adopted
resolutions to the effect that the
memorial of tho Seminary to the
General Assembly in 1870, “Be, and
the same is rescinded.” The report
of the Executive Com. includes the
legal opinion of James C. Carter that
the present Board is not bound by
the action of the Board in 1870.
Now the question arises, what is
to be done with the half million dol
lars obtained under the contract of
1870? Shall it be returned to the
donors, if tho contract proves to be
illegal ?
UNKNOWN MINISTERS.
Here are words of encouragement,
fifty spoken, that should inspire the
hearts, increase the zeal, and bring
contentment to humble, faithful
workers. It was the man who took
the lowest seat at the feast who was
invited by the Master to take a high
er one. The place you occupy, may
be out of sight of the curious world,
there may be no daily papers to tell
of your wonderful, eloquent ser
mons, no mention may be made of
the throngs that crowd the church
to overflowing, no report of great
revivals, and of multitudes added to
the church, as the result of your
preaching, but if there are souls
around you to be saved and you are
earnestly, faithfully, and humbly
striving to lead them to Christ, your
labor of love is not unnoticed, and
will not be forgotton. God’s eye is
upon you. The reward is with
Jesus. He will bestow it at the
right time, and fill your soul with
joy when he speaks the words, “Well
done, good and faithful servant.”
“There are ministers in humble
places where they are scarcely heard
of from year to year. Yet in lowly
homes and simple churches they
meet the people and do a work with
out which the earth would be poor
indeed. They w ill not be spoken of
as. having achieved notable success.
They will not be pointed out as men
of commanding influence. They
will be unheralded and not widely
known. But what would the world
and the church be without these
earnest, faithful heroes, who W'ork
for Christ and for eternity ? In the
light of‘that great day for which
all other days were made,’ when
every secret thing shall be brought
to light, it will be seen that no place
was humble where there was the
opportunity to lead a single soul to
Christ. To be unheralded here does
not mean that one shall be unknown
forever. Usefulness is greatness,
and to do one’s duty in love to God
and man, in one’s own place, is to
make life a success, so that at last,
in the presence of angels and men,
all shall see that it was successful
and beautiful.”—Pres. Banner, Pitts,
burg.
The antiquarian who presides over
the news columns of the Western
Recorder does not take to modern
ideas. It does not like the way the
world wags its tail. Just now it is
troubled over Mr. Gladstone and his
foreign policy as the Premier of
England. The “jingo” policy of
Lord Salisbury was much more to
its taste. Then, too, the people of
Brazil did not ask its consent to es
tablish a republic, and it mourns the
overthrow of the throne of “good
kind, old Dom Pedro,” the scion of
Portuguese royalty, w’hose father his
own people drove away. Verily the
antiquarian was born too late.
Activity.—You have been “as
busy as a bee.” But in what way
in “stinging” with evil, or in “mak
ing honey” by works of good ? Not
mere activity suffices, but right ac
tivity, holy activity. Never boast
simply how much you do, but heed
rather the quality of the doing.
Perhaps, Satan flies as swiftly and
performs as many works as Gabriel ;
but shall not his condemnation be
only the greater for that reason ?
Gon and Light.—“ Moses drew
near to the thick darkness where
God was,” Ex. 20 :21. What mat
ters it to the soul full of faith when
seasons of thick darkness overtake
it on its path through this world, if
God, its own God, be there ? God
is light to it, heaven’s light ever
here.
An Indian wife in Sftka, on the
death of her husband, testifies her
widowhood and woe by coloring the
upper half of her face a deep black.
We presume, however, that she
does not work in fast colors, and
that she retains the art of removing
the unwonted hue where it does not
wear off rapidly enough.
At a meeting of the World’s Fair
Commission in Chicago, Oct. 18th, a
resolution offered by Commissioner
Jos. Eiboeck requesting Congress to
rescind its action in regard to closing
the Exposition on Sunday, was laid
on the table. From this it appears
that the Commission will accept the
appropriation of I 2.500,000, with
the condition annexed.
Dr. Clark. Editor Ark. Baptist, has
severed his connection with the
Boards, and will devote all bis time
to his paper.
Rev. Dr. J. M. Robertson is hav.
ing success at Jonesboro, Ark. His
church proposes to build a ten thous
and dollar house of worship.
Rev. Dr. Matt. Hilisman died at
the home of his daughter, Mrs. J. R
Dance, near Frenton, Tenn., Satur-’
day, Oct. 22, of pneumonia.
He had been an active minister of
the gospel for forty seven years,
having had charge of a number of
important pastorates in Tenn. He
was an able preacher, a sound and
fearless Baptist and has left the im
press of useful, consistent life, upon
his day and generation. He was
personally, well known to the writer
of this paragraph, having been with
him frequently, while living in Tenn.
We append hereto, with our hearty
endorsement, the following testimo
nial from the Western Recorder
“No man has been more intimately
associated with the history of the
Baptists of Tennessee or has made
more of that history than he. Born
near Knoxville, he spent his whole
life in his native state except two
years he lived in Talladega, Ala. He
was the first pastor of our church in
Chattanooga, and he has been pastor,
editor and college president in dif
ferent parts of the state, and always
successful. He was a born gentle
man, a profound theologian, a pow
erful preacher, a model father, a
wise counsellor and a lovely Chris
tian. For forty-seven years he was
a minister of the Gospel and the
fruits of his ministry are widespread
and rich. He fell asleep at the ripe
age of seventy-eight. We tender
our condolence to the bereaved
family.”
Dr. Arthur Peter has just com
pleted fifty years continued service
as a Baptist deacon. The Walnut
Street Church, Louisville, Ky., of
which he is a member, held a special
service in recognition of his faithful
work, on Sunday morning, Oct., 23.
We take the following brief
sketch of his life from the Western
Recorder. “He was born in Corn
wall, England, of Methodist parent
age. When he was two years old
the family removed to Pittsburg, Pa.,
and when he was twelve he came to
Louisville. In Oct., 1842, he be
came a deacon of the Green-street
Baptist Church of which the Rev<
T. S. Malcolm was pastor. And
from the beginning, Dr. Peter has
been always in his place wherever
he belonged, always promp’t, always
ready and always faithful.”
The report of the Committee was
handsomely engrossed and presented
ed to Dr. Peter. On accepting it
he modestly expressed his apprecia.
tion of the honor done him, and add
ed that Mrs. Peter deserved all the
credit.
It is announced in the Prcsby*
terian Banner, Pittsburg, that a num
ber of persons who had made dona
tions to Union Theological Seminary
are dissatisfied with the action of the
Board of Directors, severing its
connection with the General Assem
bly because it did not approve the
appointment of Dr. Briggs. Among
the dissatisfied donors are the follow
ing. Bussell Sage, who gave $5000;
Marcellus Hartley, who gave $ 5000;
trustee of the Fayerwcather estate,
$ 50,000 ; heir of the estate of ex-
Governor Morgan, $ 400,000.
It may not be so easy for the
Seminary to get away from the As
sembly, after all-
Miss Annie Maberry, sister of
Mrs. W. D. Powell, died at Toluca
Mexico, Oct. 16th. She was born
and raised near Murfreesboro, Tenn.,
and had been, for some years, an
efficient missionary in Mexico.
The Wesleyan Christian Advo
cate, Atlanta, Ga., says that there
are six hundred and thirty-six local
preachers of the Methodist Church
in Georgia, and 9,366 in the South
ern connection.
Mr. Chat. N. Hauer
Os Frederick, Md., suffered terribly for over
ten years with abscesses and running sores oa
his left leg. He wasted away, grew weak and
thin, and was obliged to use a canc and crutch.
Everything which could be thought of was dona
without good result, until ho began taking
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
which effected a perfect cure. Mr. Hauer Is
now in ths best of health. Full particulars at
his case will be sent nil who address
C. I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass.
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assist digestion, curs headache and biliousness.
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