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good.
It is stated in the press dispatches
that one of the subjects discussed at
▼the catholic conference in New York
was the “advisibility of placing at
Washington a duly accredited rep
reserifiFivo of the Vatican.” What a
figure such a “representative” would
Sio sure!
with the public school ques
-1 the antagonisms between
I and Irish adherents,' the
is in this country are having
a time of it. It is a great point
I gained where these and kindred mat
ters are discussed openly. If foreign
prelates imagine they can muzzle the
American press they will learn some
thing when they it.
It is stated the expensed of a stu
dent in the new Chicago University
are $34.00 a week. It is further
Baid that the color line is ignored.
es of the professors will go
just the same, but we cannot help
thinking that the money spent there
migh| given practically free
to a dozen or more of our
belt ’denominational colleges.
To emphasize the respect of our
nation for the gentler sex, “it lias
been said that to travel with the
greatest comfort in the United States
one must be either a railway king
or an unprotected t woman.” That is
only dealing with the queen by the
same rule as with the king; and
doesn’t Her Majesty conspicuously
deserve it?
The murder of Rev. J. R. Moffo t,
a Baptist pastor in Danville, Va., by
a saloon-keeper in that city adds
another honourable name to the long
list of martyrs to the temperance
cause. He was an excellent man,
but the assassin had no respect for
the his character. It
was a sad fate to be shot down in
the darkness by a rum-seller for dar
ing to oppose his nefarious business!
but every great victory has been
won by sacrifices. Let us hope the
day is at hand when this great curse
of drink shall be blotted out.
Bro. Moffet leaves a wife and two
children who have the sympathy of
every good man and woman who
hears the story of their sorrow.
“Vengeance is mine, I will repay
saith the Lord.”
George Parsons Lathrop, with
his wife, Hawthorne’s daughter, has
become a Romanist. According to
the Catholic Mirror, he travelled to
the Church byway of Agnosticism,
seeking escape from “the religious
unrest which prevails in New En
gland,” the Mirror tells us, “because
Puritan Protestantism is barren and
unsatisfactory.” Os course, as an
Agnostic he was noteven a believer ;
but he has gotten bravely over that
infirmity of faith and is now a proph
et lie 'predicts that within the
next century “we shall see millions
of New England converts to the Ro
man Catholic Church.” His faith,
it seems, has exchanged the infirmity
which not all the evidences of truth
could persuade to believe, for the in
firmity which believes where there
are absolutely no evidences of truth
to persuade it. He is still in the
Slough of False Doctrine, having
simply struggled across the stepping
stones of revealed teaching from the
miry places of unbelief to the miry
places of superstition.
The chronic restlessness of the
ministry is not confined to the Bap
tists, if we may judge from the fol-
Kristian
1 B
lowing, from an editorial letter in
the New York Observer: “Almost
every mail brings me the tale of one
who is dissatisfied with his place or
who wishes change simply for its
own sake. * * Such change and
seeking after change are not losing
to gain nor dying to live; they have
nothing in common with self-sacrifice
or consecration, and are only the
selfish movements which result from
and reveal unstable souls.” That
is pretty severe. And yet is it not
borne out by the facts ? The condi
tions do not seem to vary greatly in
the short pastorate from what they
are in the long. The preacher who
stays is no more devout, no better
preacher, no more beloved than he
who goes. Permanence in the pas
torate is even of more importance
to the church than to the pastor,
and churches ought not to suppose
that a change of pastors is a panacea
for the evils that afflict our church
life-
The “Homiletic Review” for No
vember contains an article by Rev.
Camden M. Cobern, Ph. D., of Ann
Harbor, Mich., on “How to see some
thing of Europe, Egypt and Pales
tine on Two Dollars a Day.” The
writer thinks that there are many
young students and ministers who
would not fail to take a year
for foreign travel if they knew how
cheaply it could be done. And this
article is written to let them know.
He seems to be a man of what Dr.
Wayland called “our native inborn
gumption.” But send for the Re
view and read and judge the article
for yourself, asking withal the judg
ment of brethren who like Dr.
Broadus have the benefit of person
al experience in the promises. The
travel may be of great service to
you, and you ought to take it if you
may, unless special obstructions in
pose.
Formalism carries in its hand no
remedy for sin. Outward rites can
not reach and rectify inward evils.
It is an idle drcam that Ceremonies
can cleanse the soul. Less absurd
was the act of Sir Walter Raleigh’s
servant who, when her master was
introducing the use of tobacco in the
garden at Myrtle Grove, his home in
Ireland, saw smoke issuing from his
mouth, supposed that he was inter
nally on fire, and emptied a pail of
of water over him, as if the stream
applied to the skin without could ex
tinguish a flame burning only deep
within ! And quite as absurd was
the idea of Ben Jonson, the poet,
when, because he wanted to be in
perfect readiness for the resurrec.
tion, he caused himself to be buried
standing upright, as if the posture of
the body could fit us for the day
that determines the eternal destiny
of the spirit! Ah, sin is a thing of’
the heart, and so its remedy must be
a thing of the heart: it is Love
whose other name is God working in
the heart, and winning tlio heart to
Himself, and making the heart like
himself. The two great questions
for us are, how does the Gospel
affect our heart ? and how does the
heart thus affected affect our life ?
THE THREE HEBREWS IN THE
FIERY FURNAOE.
The far away ancient servants of
God put to shame our meagre little
faitii. They clearly illustrate what
simple faith is. They stood before a
man whom they knew to be able to
destroy them. They trusted in God
whom they believed to be able to de
liver them. But so far as we know
there had been no intimation given
them of the deliverance God intend
ed for them. They trusted him in
the purest and simplest manner pos
rfible. They intended the conse
quences should ail be left with Him,
This is faith and this alone is faitii.
It was a matter of no concern to
them whether they were delivered
at all or not. They concerned
themselves with being faithful to
God in the hour of sorest trial. How
sadly we need to learn that it is
ours to bo faithful and his to work
wonders. Muy Ibo pardoned us a
fault finder, “There is so much of
the religion of our day that has en
tirely reversed the ancient order.
The religionists now require God to
be faithful and they propose to work
the wonders. So seldom do people
ask themselves if they faithfully
represent God.
They seem only to enquire wheth
er it will succeed.
ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY. DECEMBER 1, 1892.
We undertake to raise money for
the Lord’s cause. Wo do not ask is
this God’s way. We only ask will
this get the money.
I venture to say that in a large
number of instances where money
lias been raised for Christian pur
poses the cause of Christ has been
injured more than it has been ad
vancad. Every trick and device in
my judgment that excites giving
without the right motive is injurious
chapel cards, bricks, etcetera includ
ed.
We enter on a campaign of soul
saving like some army-general begins
a seige. Wo are determined to get
them. If one sot of manipulations
will not bring them another is insti
tuted, we are determined to do it
some way, anyway.
Now I know that missiles will fly
around my unhallowed head. You
are willing to sit back on your dig
nity and let the world bo lost. No
you only call me that. I am not that
at all. lam simply willing to do
God’s work in God’s way. Ho says
that the money necessary for his
work should be given by his people
straight out without coaxing and
feeding and bleeding.
You would not get half enough!
O yes you would.
Lets go bact to original ideas. We
read how they sold their possessions
and brought the money and laid it at
the apostle’s feet. But we fail to get
it that way after we have filled the
papers with appeals and ransacked
the earth from land to sea. Let’s
have a revival and turn out all the
members of the churches who do
not love the Lord’s cause then reor
ganize our missions on a solid money
basis and run them like all the Lord’s
work ought to be done on a ready
cash system. t
And when we undertake a pro
tracted meeting suppose we preach
the Gospel and allow the Lord some
hand in the conversions.
How hollow much of our work be
comes! Hero wo are straining, in
the eyes of the world, at the unpar-'
alleled effort to raise two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars and poli
ticians are expending ten times that
amount on the elections. I heard
one Baptist say that he would freely
give a thousand dollars to secure the
election of a certain United States
legislator. About that time his
church held its centennial meeting
and that same Baptist gave five
dollars to make Jesus the king of
the whole earth. We need remod
eling. If the furnace that yawned
before the faithful Hebrews were
possible now adays I fear greatly
there would be a sparse family walk
ing without the smell of fire on their
garments. These faithful men of
God stood before a nation of Idola
ters, and so far as they could see
when they were consumed in the
flames the true knowledge of God
would bo blotted out of that nation
still they simply trusted and stood
firm. Better that all th© nation
should remain * Idolaters than that
they should be faithless. But God’s
way was the successful way. Their
faith was worth more than all the
works they could have performed.
They exercised faitii, God worked
the wonders. As long as our inter
ests both at home and abroad are
tackled upon human inventions and
untrustful plans, wo shall halt and
limp and scotcli and vamp and puff
and blow. Counting numbers to
our shame and running to and fro
to make a proselyte, that shall be a
poor little deformed hunchback like
ourselves, advising the Lord how be
ought to have written scripture and
how he ought now to make converts
to the religion of Jesus.
• Omega.
THE MAJORITY ARGUMENT,
Many people are strongly impress
ed and influenced by the fact that
the majority of the people of a cer
tain place or section of the country
are in favor of a certain thing. It
matters but little what the tiling fa
vored is, if there bo many more to
adopt it than there are against it, it
is argued that it must be right. But
it should be remembered a multitude
in favor of a certain thing, or plan
or system docs not make it right nor
true. God told Noah that he would
bring a flood upon tho world, but
tho overwhelming majority of the
people took issue witli tlio statement
and did not bcliovo it. Tlio fact
that they did so, did not mako their
position a safe ono. The sequel
proved that the majority were deci
dedly on the wrong side of tho ques
tion. Numbers did not constitute a
valid argument. At tlio time of the
Reformation, the great majority of
the people were against Luther and
against the truth. They prided
themselves on their numbers, but
the multitude were on tho side of
falsehood, darkness, death and ruin.
When Christ entered upon his earth
ly mission, with a mere handful of
disciples, the scribes and Pharisees
doubtless thought they had the bet
ter position. The majority argu
ment was in their favor; but they
were wrong and Christ and the mi
nority were right. And to-day
among denominations, the majority
argument carries much weight with
many. A certain denomination out
numbers, by magy thousands, some
other denominations, and many in
the larger ono conclude that they
must be more nearly right than the
others, because they seem to be more
highly favored of God. They look
to their millions of adheruots and
say, “Seo how God has prospered us!
He favors the majority.” But a
mere increase of numbers does not
signify God’s approval. If tho
Catholics should outnumber all other
denominations in this country, it
would not denote that God favored
them in preference to others, nor
prove that theirs was tho true relig
ion. The prophets of Baal outnum
bered those of Israel at one time,
but this did not truly argue that tho
former were right and the latter
wrong. Majorities, in themselves,
do not constitute righteousness. Let
us not be misled by majorities, nor
deceived by numbers.
C. H. W ITIIERBE.
Written for the Christian Index.
Leesburg, Fla.—Now that our
Associations have about closed
their work, I will say to tlio readers
of tho Index, who may feel an in
terest in our work in Florida a few
words.
The tidings frAi ■'».*.««« in u-tings
disclose a wide spread financial de
pression throughout the State. Such
a condition as the present lias not
been experienced since my first com
ing here, twelve years ago. Yet, 1
am glad to say our mission work has
not partaken of this depression.
That is to say, the financial condi
tion of our State Board of Missions
is as good, (if not better,) than it
was at the same time last year. Our
people have not begun curtailing at
the Lord’s end. This is very en
couraging. The attendance at these
annual gatherings have not been as
large as usual, and perhaps, the col
lections at them have been corres
pondingly small, yet the collections
in the churches have been larger.
Considering the fact tliaf a large por
tion of our territory is mission
ground, we think we arc doing fair
ly well.
As a reading people we will com
pare favorably with any other por
tion of our favored land. Not less
than one tenth of our membership
are regular subscribers to the Flori
da Baptist Witness, besides quite a
number of other papers are taken in
in the State. Among these I am
glad to number the Index. It is a
welcome visitor to a number of
homes of ex-Georgians, who dwell
in our Sunny “Land of Flowers” and
semi-tropical fruits. In Leesburg,
where I now reside, Kentucky is
largely represented. We have a
number of these in our membership,
and they are workers for the Master
that need not be ashamed of them
selves or their labors. But this J
can also say of those who are from
other States.
Wo are at Methodist headquarters
as their Conference College is locat
ed here, and the Coinference paper
is published here. We, however,
do not propose to be overshadowed
by them. We will hold our banner
aloft and waive it for the Truth and
for God.
Tho elections arc over and tlio
people are settling down to their
peaceful pursuits, and quiet reigns
throughout the State. Not a single
vote was east in this State for Mr.
Harrison. His was so hopeless a
case, the Republicans had no electo
ral ticket out and lienee those who
would have voted for him could not.
Tho Third Party made a short fhin K
and, I suppose, exhausted itself so
completely that it expired on the
Sth in st. At least I saw tlio other
day what purported to be its grave.
It was at Rochelle, near Gainesville,
Fla., on the F. S. Rail-road. Near
the depot, beside the track there
was a little mound of earth at the
cuds of which were head and foot
boards. On tho foot-board were the
words, “Born in 1890.” On the
head-board, “The Third Party, Born
1890, Died Nov. 8, 1892, Without
hope !” I did not see any mourners
around. I suppose they had retired
to enjoy their grief alone. It was a
very small grave. It had of course
so to be. It was a two years’ in
fant !
I have just finished tho third
book of a series, written by C. A. L.
Totten, of LT. S. A. and Professor in
Yale University, and entitled “Our
Race.” The object of the author is
to prove the Anglo-Saxon race to be
tho last Ten Tribes of Israel. He
brings to bear astronomy, mathemat
ics, history and tlio Bible to prove
the identity. Os course I am not
competent to decide as to the cor
rectness of his positions. He seems
to mako out the case pretty clearly.
His position is that Queen Victoria
is a lineal descendant of King Da
vid, as tho throne of David was
transferred from Jerusalem on the
deposition of Zedekiah by Nebuchad
nezzar, through Zedekiah’s youngest
daughter, Tea Tophi, to the British
Isles, whore the ten tribes had set
tled after their deportation by the
Assyrians. The books are worthy
of the study of our learned profes
sors as well as all of our ministers.
If his positions are true, they w ill
revolutionize the interpretations of
prophecy heretofore given to the
public. I only hope they are true.
More anon. N. A. Bailey.
THE DECADENOUOF THE COUNTRY
AND COUNTRY CHURCHES.
The ambition to build up country
communities and establish country
homes and make society, has just
about disappeared in our southern
country. We shall soon, at present
rates, have no use for tlio word
“home,” as understood by our fathers
and grand-fathers. They settled
down often to stay for life, in the
country; built a church and a
school-house, and procured a post
oflice ; and the people never thought
of lowering their crest to town or
city. Now, everything is for sale;
everybody is trying to get to town,
to find society, or to make some
sort of a change. Consequently lit
tle interest is felt in anything where
they do not expect to stay. The
old idea of being still and building
up competency, if by slow degrees,
is scouted. The prospect is too dis
tant. They who seek fortune, wish
the “golden stream to be quick and
powerful ;” tlie rest despair of any
thing but protracting a miserable
existence they do not know how.
At best, they fall into tile old epi
curean philosophy carpe diem : pro
pose to snatch a little education for
the children- book education, as the
means of making money solely ; cul
ture and intellectual independence
arc loft out of the calculation.
The result of this, is a decaying
country | population ; dilapidated
school-houses and church-houses, or
shanties built for a time and not for
permanence ; annual calls of pas
tors ; efforts at religious booms, and
denunciations of the government be
cause it don’t print money enough to
supply everybody. Pastors are call
ed on a whim very often ; when one
is needed there is little prayerful
lookout for a man of proven charac
ter and solid merits. Docs he en
tertain ? Does his manners please?
Is he a nice fellow ? Are the many
questions. Now all this must be
changed. Stable men will have to
be chosen; permanent neighbor
hoods established ; society made >
the pastor settled down and pro
vided witli farm products instead of
money largely ; the school secured
and sustained, or the country pres
ently will be a waste, howling wil
derness.
Agriculture must not, cannot be,
an abandoned occupation. It lies
at the bottom of every other. The
character of our country must be
produced in the country, not in the
town. Varied crops, in a country so
well adapted; homes, permanent
homes; relations fixed enough for
the indoctrination of the churches
and the instruction of the young, is
tho remedy. T. B. Teague.
Written for the Chkhtain Index,
FROM MISSOURI.
Missouri Baptists arc a progressive
people. At the mooting of tho Gen-
eral Association in Lexington, reso
lutions concerning our Colleges of
the most revolutionary sort were in
troduced, laid over until tho meeting
in Carrolton which if adopted will
cause our educational interests to bo
founded on a different basis altogeth
er as concerning tlio General Asso
ciation and consequently to com
mence anew.
Speaking of tho educational inter
ests they were never - brighter than
at present. Wm. Jewell takes on
additional life under tlio superinten
dency of President Green. Now to
those who are able to road tho signs of
the times it is believed that no effort
should be abated in regard to Wil
liam Jewell College. That if we
meet the demand of tlio times there
must be at least one million of dol
lars given to the institution in
tlie near future. That we occupy
tlio location and God has blessed
us with a beginning of which we
are not ashamed, and now manifest
ly duty bids us go on unto perfec
tion. Is it true we have the loca
tion ? Let us cast our eyes over the
map of the United States and we
will see we occupy a position which
stated in the language of another,
“The west is to govern the East and
and Missouri is to govern the West,”
and if we are equal to these changes
that are rapidly adjusting themselves
to this end should not Missouri Bap
tists at least be have pre
pared an institution adequate to this
state of affairs- Now after years
of endeavor in which there has been
toil of body and soul the tides begin
to flow toward us, let nothing be
done to retard, but.everything to ad
vance the interests of William
Jewell.
We boast of our schools and well
we may for surely no state furnishes
better, if as good and I am sure as
a denomination we stand first in this
state on this subject.
Yours, etc.,
T. M. S. Kenny.
Booneville, Mo.
.
STONEWALL JACKSON.
REMINISCENCES OF HIS LIFE AS A
PROFESSOR.
Stonewall Jackson as a Lieutenant
during the Mexican war, and as a
“Bellona’s Bride groom” in Confed
erate timesis reasonably well known
to tlie reading world. Tlie “Life’
by Dr. Dabney is in many respects
worthy of the illustrious subject, and
of tlie able and accomplished author
Bet this “life,” and all the other
‘lives,’’are mainly devoted to tlie task
of depicting the Christian ■warrior;
and as this is tiie character in which
he was most fully himself, it was
natural and proper that the biogra
phers should concern themselves es
pecially with this manifestation of
tlie man.
Still, as a matter of fact, it is
known that Jachson spent a con
siderable portoin of his life in
the position of professor of
natural philosophy and artillery in
the Virginia Military Institute at
Lexington, and it must be manifest
to the observant reader that this por
tion his life-has received scant meas
ure at tlie hands of the biographers.
This, however is not duo to any
neglect on the part of these writers;
for they well understood that all in
telligent readers would desire to
know how Professor Jackson lived;
how and what he taught his classes;
what he said and did in tho lecture
room: indeed, anything which would
throw any light upon the character
and conduct of tlie man who said so
little and did so much.
But tlie truth is that there was
precious little to tell about this per
iod of General Jackson’s life. A bi
ography of a great literary man is
lie apt to little more than a review of
his works; tlie biography of a
thinker finust often be simply an
account of his thinking and its resnlt
and tlio biography of a teacher, even
though ho be a prince in his profes
sion, will not often present much
that is very new, or very striking to
tlie non-professional reader -
But Jackson’s life as a teacher was
singularly and exceptionally monot
onous. Ho seldom open his mouth,
except from absolute necessity. As
Dick Taylor said, “If silence is gold
en, Jackson was a bononza.” Ho had
his text-books, and prescribed tho
lessons,and at the appointed time lie
heard them; and this was about all of
it. Discussions in the class-room
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were unknown, and oven explana
tions were very infrequent, and
when they did occur they usually
left the matter where they found it.
The text was the one great thing
which ho came to hear, and we came
to say—if we could; and most of us
commonly couldn’t when tlie said
text was Bartlett’s Course of Natural
Philospby.
Poor Allen! He was my room-mate
during my first year (1854.5) and
with Williams, Patton, Slaughter
made up room No. 13. Where are
they now? Williams, Patton, and
Allen were all of the same class; all
occupied tho same room; all gradua
ted the same day; were all young
lawyers; all colonels of Virginia reg
ments, and all all fell at Gettysburg:
and Slaughter had been disabled for
life before the sad day on which oui
room-mates fell.
When I was in tho third class, I
used to see Allen tugging over “Old
Jack,s” terrible lessons in Bartlett’s
Optics; and one day I opened the
book, and found on the fly leaf tho
following stanza, which I suspect
was Allen’s own:
“’Tis said that Optics treats of light,
Eut oh! beliove it uot, my lark;
I’ve studied it with all might,
Aud still it’s loft mo in the dark.”
Major Jackson was perfectly at
home in the long and intricate equa
tions and other mathematical formu
lae w’hich make up so large a part of
Bartlett’s “Mechanics,” “Optics and
Acoustics,” and “Spherical Astrono
my,” and many of his pupils often
expressed the belief that thero was
not in the three volumes an equa
tion or a formula which “Old Jack”
could not repeat by heart.
And yet, with all his accurate and
minute knowledge of tho course,
there was very little teaching done
in that departmeet, unless teaching
be made to mean the prescribing and
hearing of lessons. Teaching, in the
modern sense of tho term, was not
Jackson’s forte. His silence was
phenomenal; had no turn for expla
nation; no talent for putliii”' thintrs
• .. A? ”
in various points of vi< ■>/
adapt them to the various ment.:’
conditions of his pupils. During
the war, he was greatly praised for
keeping his plans to himself; but I
doubt if he could have explained his
plans, if he had done his best.
Though I drilled under him for
three years, and recited to him daily
for a year and a half; I never saw him
laugh outright. A very q&iet, sub
dued sort of smile was tlio nearest
tiling to laughter that I ever saw
him indulge in; and these smiles
were very infrequent, and commoly
occured only when outrageously lu
dicrous things took place in his im
mediate presence.
If Fulkerson put on a collar made to
order out of some three quarters of
a yard of linen, and then convulsed
tile class with laughter at tho grave
but irresistibly ludicrous way in
which ho would wear that collar in
the class-room, Major Jackson would
smile, knowing as he did, that tho
collar was tlie single visible article
of a cadet’s wearing apparel of
which tho regulations did not
rigidly prescribe the form aud sub
stance.
If Davidson Penn—a portent of
mischief—put on an uncommonly se
rious face, and asked, apparently in
good faith, “Major, can a cannon bo
so bent as to mako it shoot around a
corner?” tlio professor of artillery
would show not tho slightest sign of
merriment or of impatience, but
would, after a moment of apparently
sober reflection, reply,, “Mr. Penn, I
reckon hardly.”
M o could never decide whether
his gravity on such an occasion was
real or assumed. f '
I have often wondered if Jackson
managed to preserve his gravity
when wo read a certain excuse hand
cd in by Hambrick. We had been
at artillery drill, and 1 lambrick
along with tlie rest - of us third-class
men and “Plebes,” had to perform
the rather troublesome duty of pull
ing tlie cannon. Jackson had given
command, :i favorite one witli him,
“Limber caissons, pass your pieces;
trot, inarch;” Hambrick had failed
to trot at command, and was report
ed by Jackson. TJic next morn
ing the following excuse was
handed in: “Report Cadot 1 lam
brick, not trotting at nfcCHlery drill
Excuse—l mu a natural pacer."
If Major Jackson did laugh when
ho read this, none of us over found
it out, as tlie document was probaly
road privately. J, 0. Hiden.