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Tho Woman’s Mission Societies
of the 4th district of our Woman’s
Mission Union of Georgia held their
first annual meeting in connection
with the South Georgia Convention
at Mcßae, Nov. 18th and 19th.
This district embraces over one
third of the state, including eigh
teen associations.
We have but one regret in regard
to the. meeting and that is that more
delegates were not in attendance,
especially those into whose hands
the Central committee has entrusted
the greatest share of the work, the
associational vice-presidents. How
ever, some who were absent were
present in spirit and encouraged us
with their sweet letters bearing mes
sages of love. I must speak of the
sympathy and hearty endorsemen t
which our South Georgia brethren
gave to all that we did. Weak and
> trembling but babes in the work,
we were upheld and strengthened
by these noble sons of God and j ust
as we now go side by side to scatter
the precious seed, so shall we come
again rejoicing bringing in -our
sheaves.
Nothing better could bo written
by myself in regard to this meeting
than a quotation from her who oc
cupied the chair, sister W. W. Ash
burn, of Eastman. “It has never
been my pleasure to attend a meet
ing of any kind where there existed
such perfect harmony—suffice it to
say that the hearts of every sister
present seemed to throb as one mov
ed only by the great emotional pow
er unseen, whose effect, like the
wind, moved all at His will. All
seemed to have come for one purpose
alone, that they might learn if possi
ble the best ways to work for the
development of their own home
church membership, and the spread
of the glorious gospel of our redeem
er.
It is impossible to bo present at
such a meeting and not be assured
that this is indeed and in truth God’s
own work and the production of His
spirit alone. Every step in the right
direction brings new light and new
joys, untill we realize that the hills
of Zion yield a thousand sacred
sweets before we reach its heavenly
fields or walk its golden streets.
There was no disposition to pre
sume too much nor shirk duty, there
was perfect order all through the
meeting. More than one mother
came a distance of sixty miles with
a babe in her arms and a heart set
on fire with love for the Master to
learn how to advance the cause of
the Redeemer. Now right here
allow* me to say that it is indeed a
great pity that some of our brethren
should suffer so much from fear of
indiscretion on the part of the sisters
to follow strictly in the way marked
out in the Bible. I see no reason
whatever to fear that good God-fear
ing women will ever bring reproach
on tho Master’s cause or His name-
They are of the same old lineage, to
all appearances of the women who
followed tho lamb wheresoever He
went, when He plodded the earth in
person, marking out the way in
which w’omen should forever walk
on their pilgrimmage from earth to
Heaven. Father Ryan has truly
said that:
“Far out on tho deop there are billows,
That never shall break on tho beach,
And I have heard songs in tho silence
That never shall float into speech,
And I,have had dreams in tho valley
Too lofty tor language to reach,”
In order to know truly of the Sa
viour and his followers, their coming
together with one accord in one
place, we wilj still have to hear Him
as Ho said to others in His days on
earth, “Come and see.”
> Miss Loula Morgan of Vienna,
was recommended to the Central
committee for missionary and organ
izer of Woman’s Missionary Socie
ties in tho fourth district of Georgia
which includes 18 associations. Tho
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motion received a unanimous res
ponse and the names of all present
were signed to the petition.
By request our beloved Corres
ponding Secretary and Treasurer
Bro. Gibson met with us and gave
a little talk in which he fully endors
ed and encouraged our work, saying
it was among the best of its kind in
the state. For a little over a year
I have been praying that we people
of this section would quit playing mis
sions and awake to their real meanins
of in truth sending the gospel right
from our midst to the poor perishing
heathen. My soul was made glad at
the Convention to hear the subject
brought directly before the people
and $772.00 subscribed for that pur
pose. One woman put down $120.00
for herself and husband, two other
women $75.00 each. , This looks a
little like we mean what we say—we
are really missionary. Now last but
not least was the effect of the wom
an’s meeting on three dear little girls
that were stopping at sister Davis’
where we held our meeting. When
wo would adjourn these children
took the little blue badges we left on
our table and organized themselves.
They donned their badges and, pro
ceeded to hold their meetings just
as we did. They named themselves
Lewis, Ashburn and Brown and used
these names in addressing each other
at the table and elsewhere. They
took the Chapel Cards and at last
accounts had raised $1,65. Two of
those children are enlisted heart and
sould in this . work. If God pleases
they have a much longer life than
wo before them, and can do much
for the advancement of His Cause.
They each live at different towns,
Mcßae, Lumber City and Baxley
and say they want to organize a
society of their own at home and re*
port to me.
I have left out much of the best
of our meeting, the hand-shaking
and embraces of the sisters at part
ing, expressions of love and gratitude
for what they had learned, but have
written enough for this time.
Sisters of the W. M. U., God has
sent rich blessings to our district this
Centennial year. Has He done the
same for tho other three ?
Vice Pres. 4th Dist. W. M. U.
THE KENTUCKY GENERAL ASSO
CIATION.
Held with the First Baptist Church
in Covington, one of the best meet
ings in its history. Dr. Warder,
State Secretary, made a most inspir
ing report.
There have been contributeded
for
Foreign Missions - . $10,450,70
Home Missions .... 9,550,93
State Work .... 17,000,00
The growth of the white Baptists
in the state within the last ten years
had been 32 per cent, while their
contributions to missions in the
same time have been more than
doubled. Seventy-two Missionaries
and Colportuers had been employed
in the state. Twenty-one hundred
baptisms, and fifteen hundred addi
tions by letter were the fruits of
their contributions and labors for tho
year.
The State Board after paying all
its indebtedness has $629,40 in its
treasury. The Associationai Mission,
Boards throughout the state, with
one exception, were out of debt with
funds in their treasuries. These
gratifying results were accomplished
by less than one-third of the white
membership of the Kentucky church
es. Os the 1459 churches in the
state, 808 .contributed, while 651
gave nothing. Os the 151,290 mem
bers 40,950 contributed to missions,
while 110,340 made no contribu
tions.
What a magnificent work Ken
tucky would do were all her Baptist
people earnestly enlisted in the Mas
ter’s cause.
The Centennial movement hap
taken strong hold upon our brethren
of that state. •
THE CHRISTIAN INDEX: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15. 1892.
The meeting in Louisville, Octo
ber 2nd, and following days, exicted
an interest that is widely felt, and
its results are seen in liberal contrib
utions to the cause.
Louisville churches have raised
$15,000 with fair prospect of increa
sing it to $20,000, while the pledges
made at tho Covington meeting were
nearly $13,000 more. Kentucky
will speedily raise her quota to the
Centennial Fund for permanent
work.
There are many of our State Sec
retaries that have thrown themselves
in this movement, but none of them
have been more hearty or energetic
in it than Dr. Warder.
We congratulate the Baptists of
Kentucky on the bright outlook be
fore them. They are the largest
and financially the strongest, body
of Baptists in our Southern Conven
tion.
They are moving forward steadily
to the front rank in enterprise, and
in the liberality of their contribu
tions to tho work of the world’s re
demption.
THB WORK.
If the annals of Christian work in
Cuba were written it would make a
large volume of thrilling interest. It
would tell how a little child was tho
first ready listener of tho new story
of Jesus. How persecutions and
imprisonments followed fast upon
one another, and how tho work has
grown on the beautiful island until
a large theatre was bought and a
girls school opened. Now tho Bap
tists can claim for Christ a baptized
membership, at lat est reports, 1917
a force of 22 ordained ministers,
helpers, evangelists and teachers;
average Sunday School attendance
of 679; day schools, in which 626
pupils are being instructed, not only
in general knowledge, but also in
the Word of God. The central fig
ure in this work, of course, is Diaz:
a man of perhaps thirty-five years,of
olive complexion, of intense muscu
lar power and untiring energy, a
graduate of the;University of Havana
and a skilled physician; an orator of
natural gifts and magnetic utterance
with a wide scope of general knol
edge, and abounding in pointed illus
tration, and withal a close student of
the Word of God. It ought to bo
added, tt> the honor of the Lord
whom he serves, that in a Town
where he was once imprisoned the
sheriff who made the arrest, and the
judge who tried him, have since pro
fessed converstion, and -been bap
tized. It is this that is winning Cu
ba to the faith once delivered to the
saints.
CLIMATE.
The climate of Cuba is warm, but
equable. The rainy season begins
in May or June,and ends in Novem
ber. During this season the rain
fall has been known to reach 133
inches. On account of the constant
fall the heat seldom becomes in
tense, the average temperature of
the hottest month being only about
84. In like manner the dry season,
extending from November to May or
June, and corresponding to our win
ter and spring, brings but little cold.
There ij but one record of snow,and
the average temperature of tho cold
est month is 72.
DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTRY
Cuba has long been celebrated in
song and story for her beauty. But
its magnificent possibilities’ present
themselves above all other claims.
It is about 700 miles in length, with
an average breadth of 80 miles. It
has a coast line of over 2000 miles
and possesses 200 ports. In size it
is larger than Ireland, having an
area of 43,320 square miles. Much
of this area is still uncultivated and
is covered by magnificent forests of
palm and other valuable trees. About
one-tenth of the island has been
cleared and tilled. The products
arc principally sugar, rice, coffee,
tobacco and cotton. In 1886 there
were 160 coffee, 1200 sugar, and
5,600 tobacco plantations, besides
5,000 stock farms. The chief cities
of tho island are Havana and San
tiago de Cuba, though there arc nu
merous other smaller cities and
towns scattered along the coast and
in the interior. With tho resources
at its command, it is capable of sup
porting a population ton-fold as
groat as that which now occupies it.
Under freer institutions, and with
better facilities for popular education;
above all, under gospel light and
truth, the beautiful “Queen of the
Antilles” would doubtless bo crown
ed with peace and prosperity.
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MOTHERS’ COUNSEL.
Ono of the serious mistakes made
by mothers in training their children
is in supposing that careful habits
can be cultivated in careless sur
roundings. A ragged or worn car
pet, so little valued by the mother
that grease or ink spots can be left on
it without causing comment,may be
come a moral calamity. Tying the
child up in a bib, and giving it tho,
liberty to spill its food when eating
is responsible for bad table habits in
the men and women whom we meet.
A child who is made to eat its foo’d
carefully, in a room where tho furn
ishings are respected, where a penal
ty will follow carelessness, naturally
acquires careful, refined manners.
Many a mother spends more time
repairing damages—the results of
careless habits, duo largely to the
furnishings in the tho dining-room—
than she would need to spend in set
ting a table carefully and keeping
the room in order, so that its order
and neatness commanded the respect
of tho children. Tho ounce of pre
vention is worth several pounds of
cure in the training of children, and
it is a pity that the ounce of preven
tion is not administered in the infin
itesimal doses necessary in early
chilhood, rather than in tho radical
doses necessary to overcome neglect
in matters that are never minor—
for manners and habits mark tho
man. A man may be a moral man an
eat with his knife; but ho would be
a more valuable ffian in the commu
nity if ho recognized the uses for
which the knife was designed and
applied it only to those uses. ■
ODDSAND ENDS OF INFORMATION
ON POPULAR FANCY WORK.
A dainty glove sachet is made of
heliotrope plush turned inside over
a creamsatin lining and perfumed
wadding, and forms at the lower
corners two triangie-like pockets
with fluted border to hold handker
chiefs and rare lace. Tho materials
required are: Plush, 23 inches by
10 inches; helitrope ribbon, 5 yards
green and gold ribbon, 1} yards,
and cream satin 23 inches by 16
inches.
A novel men.u card is in the shape
of a miniature screen; while a fold
ing card, with a tablet for the name
of the guest, is also new.
A comfortable, smart and econo
mical petticoat may be made of al
paca, cut exatly like an umbrella
skirt, fitting perfectly over the hips
the waist cut low and bound with
silk binding. Alternate frills of black
lace reach from the hem to the height
of eighteen inches upward. This
idea can bo carried out in any color
ing; it costshalf the price of a good
silk petticoat and wears twice as
long, besides utilizing old silk ruffles
and bits of laces.
A unique way to decorate a coil
ing is to cover with yellow Indian
matting, divided into squares by
split bamboo sticks, put on as gilt
molding is put on over paper. Around
the room, close to the sidewalls,hang
a frieze of figured Indian silk,letting
it fall loose. Then treat the side
walls like the ceiling and fiuish with
a dado or flounce of Indian or ch ina
silk.
Wo show a dainty fan-shaped
sachet which any woman would be
glad to get as a Christmas gift. It
is of white satin, veiled with em
broidered gauze, lined with scented
wadding and blue silk and adorned
with butterfly bows in blue ribbon
torsades and central bow in shot blue
white and silver ribbon.—Once a
Week.
WANTED GOOD HOUSEKEEPING.
Young women make a big blun
der if they do not learn to take care
of a home. It is a grievous social
and moral wrong when girls are
brought up helpless in household
life. How often wo see mothers
busily engaged in domestic duties,
like a slave,in order that the g’.rl may
enjoy every luxury and do nothing;
indeed, many hardly lot their daugh
ters soil their hands. No woman’
ought to marry who cannot look wel[
to tho ways of her household. In
case she may not herself be required
to work, she ought to bo able to see
whether the work done
in a proper manner. A woman is
out of her clement unless she is ac-
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quainted to a certain extent with the
sciences of bake-ology, boilology,
stitch-ology and mend-ology. There
never was a greater blunder than to
substitute good looks for good qual
ities.
Tho reason why so many mon do
not make homes for themselves in
in these days is because they cannot
afford it. Tho women are too much
averse to working, and too extrava
gant in all their tastes. We want
more frugality, industry and system;
if we could introduce these virtues
into our higher society we should
dimininish the envy, jealousy and
suicides of the single, and the wret
chedness, bickering and the divorces
of the married. Every girl ought to
be brought up to have regular domes
tie duties. Idleness should be forbid
den her. The only digniged life
is a useful life.—Labor Tribune.
(ftlTiUlrim’s ©atner
A SCHOOL-BOY’S TREASURE.
The contents of school boys’ desks
are sometimes very amusing. I late
ly read an account, says the author
of ’“How to be Happy, though Mar
ried,” that wap given by a master at
a boarding-school of what he saw
on one occasion when he had to su
perintend the opening and searching
of some forty dr fifty desks, in con
nection with a supposed theft of the
foot-ball funds. A pipe, a pistol,
and other contraband articles were
found in some desks. In one, a
tooth powder box, full of ants; in
another silk-worms and lettuce
leaves. A burst of laughter arose
when, from another, was produced a
small leather purse, containing, not
the stolen money, but a young la.
dy’s glove. “When I came to the
desk of nearly the smallest boy in
the room” says the, master, a small
parcel fell from the owner’s band.
A queer, whitey brown paper parcel
it was, bound round with string in
the most intricate convolutions and
series of knots. Os course, I had to
examine that parcel. As I put out
my hand for it, the boy hesitated.
The other felloys exchanged glances,
as much as to say that we had run
the fox to the earth at last. Even
older and wiser heads thought the
same. There stood the frightened,
anxious little boy, his blue gray eyes
filled with tears, his fair face all
marred with terror, and his soft,
wavy, flaxen hair, that gentle hands
had doubtless, smoothed this many a
day at home, all tangled now.
‘“Please don’t open it sir,’ plead
ed the child, for such he was ; ‘pray,
don’t open it before the boys.’
“Had I followed my own inclina
tion, I should have given back the
parcel unopened. But that could
not bo. With my pon-kiiife I cut
through the string, undid tho many
wraps of paper, and disclosed to
view a little pill-box, which might
well have contained the missing
money. I opened the box. There
wore no ants this time, no money
either; but, nestled in a bed of wool,
was a dainty locket, and with a
small scrap of paper, on which was
written, ‘For my dear Percy, with
his mother’s love.’ The locket en
closed a piece of a loving mother’s
hair, and tho little boy had been an
orphan only a few weeks.”—Church
Worker.
ETEOTRIO LIGHT InTHE HOLY
LAND.
A decided sensation has been
caused in Jerusalem by tho intro
duction of electric light into a now
and flourishing flour mill lately
started there. The building in which
the light has been introduced,is near
the site of Calvary and close to the
Damascus Gate. It need hardly be
said that the Arabs and Jews are
much puzzled to account for a light
in a lamp in which there is no oil,
and up to the present time, while
gazing with wonder,have been keep
ing at a respectful distance.—Pal
Mall Gazette.
THE GIRL WHO’IS EVER
The welcome guest is the girl who
knowing the hour for breakfast ap
pears at the table at the proper time
does not keep others waiting, and
does not get in the way of being
down halfa n hour before the hostess
appears. The welcome guest is the
girl who,ifthere are not many servan
in the house, has sufficient energy to
take care of tier own room while she
is visiting, and if there are people
whose duty it is she makes that
duty as light as possible for
them by putting away away her own
belongings, and so necessitating no
extra work.
She is the one who knows how to
be pleasant to every member of the
family, and who yet has tact enough
to retire from a room when some
special family affair is under discus
sion. She is the one who does not
find ehildron disagreeable,or the va
rious pets of the household things to
be dreaded. She is the one who
when her hostess is busy can enter
tain herself with a book, a bit of
sewing, or the writing of a letter.
She is the one who when her
friends come to see her does not
disarrange the household in which
she is staying,that she may entertain
them. This is one who having brok
en the bread and eaten the salt of
her friend has set before her lips a
seal of silence, so that,when she goes
from the house, she repeats nothing
but the agreeable things she has seen.,
This is the welcome guest.
A GOOD REPLY.
A clergyman was once accosted
by a doctor, a professed deist, who
asked him, “Doyou follow preaching
to save souls ?”
“ Yes.”
“ Did you ever see a soul ?”
“No.”
“ Did you ever hear a soul ?” •
“ No.”
“ Did you ever taste a soul ?”
“ No.”
“ Did you ever smell a soul ?”
“No.”
“ Did you ever feel a soul ?”
“ Yes.”
“ Well,” said tho doctor, “ there are
four of the five senses against one
upon tho question, whether there bo
a soul ?”
The clergyman then asked, “ Are
you a doctor of medicine?”
“ Yes.”
“ Did you ever see a pain ?”
“No.”
“ Did you ever hear a pain ?”
“No.”
“ Did you ever taste a pain ?”
“ No.”
“ Did you ever smell a pain ?” ’
“ No.”
“ Did you over feel a pain ?”
“ Yes.”
“ Well,” then said tho clergyman,
“there are also four of tho senses
against one, upon the question,
whether there boa pain ?” And yet,
sir, you know that there is a pain and
I know that there is a soul.—Messen
ger of Peace.
When tho scalp is atrophied, or
shinybald, no preparation will re
store the hair; in all other cases,
Hall’s Hair Rcnower will start [a
growth.
FIREWORKS IN THE OCEAN.
The ocean, too, has its living lan
terns, or phosphorescent animals,
and among these the jelly-fish and
sea-anemone are very numerous.
Sometimes they look like pillars of
fire, sometimes like stars, and some
times like fiery serpents, flashing out
red, green, yellow and lilac rays.
Many luminous sea creatures are
vety small, not larger than a spark,
but these gather in such masses that
in the Indian Ocean the water often
looks like a great sea of molten me
tal ; and a naturalist who bathed
among them in the Pacific said that
ho found himself illuminated for
hours afterward, while the sands on
which the insects were stranded at
low tide gleamed like grains of
gold.
The bottom of tho ocean is mag
nificent with its star-fish and sea
pods, some in rich purple,’ and shed
ding a soft golden-green light, while
others send out silver flashes, andi
the lamp-fish carries on its head at
night a golden light. Another fish
seems to be decorated with pearls,
and it is evidently the fashion there
to be brilliant in some way. Even
crabs, in hot climates, seem to set
themselves on fire, and, when cap
tured and teased, they blaze all over
with indignation.
A species of shark, too, is intense
ly brilliant at night, and one that
was drawn up shone like a splendid
lamp for some hours after it was
dead. Naturalists have long been
at work on this curious subject, and
the source of the illuminating power
is supposed to be contained in the
little sacs or cells in the body of
the animal.—Harper’s Young Peo
ple.
PURE, FRESH AND ATTRACTIVE
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es the exposition of the Sunday
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with the subjects of the several les
sons arc interwoven in addition to
the exposition, analysis, questions,
etc. Each lesson has an illustrative
engraving. This Quarterly has al
ready reached a circulation of nearly
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INHERITED SCROFULA.
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Scrofula, which appeared all over
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up all hope of his recovery, when finally I Was
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cured him, and no siiuploins of
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