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is the primary cause of ninp-tenths of the suffering that afflicts humanity. Its miseries are t -r-x. -r- m u. _ _ —_ universal sparing neither age, sex, nor condition. Gradually approaching, few realize the ex- 1 11 T n TP Q rp T AT PAINS are treated and the DISEASE PROPER f JL -LAI JLz JL vT Fu OJL I v-J |\| is not eradicated. With the ELECTROPOISE the seat of the disease is attacked and dyspepsia f with its attending evils of constipation and impure blood all eradicated completely and penna- k_ IhU/ nently. D e print a special circular on indigestion, which with our regular nfty-page book can r . be had free - ATLANTIC ELECTROPOISE CO., Washington, D. C., and Atlanta, Ga. .•Atmospheric by Absorption. MISS MARY E, WRIGHT, ; ’ Editress 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 D S PRICE’S GsgS The only 1 ure Cream of Tartar Powder.—No Ammonia; No Alum. Used in Millions of Homes— 40 Years the Standard- 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. &lxc gmtehohL 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- Our Little Ones Mrs. EMMA W. BUCKNELL, Editor, A charming, bright, and interesting weekly publication for the infant class and tho nursery. It is a most beautiful little paper, printed on the best quality of tinted, calendered paper, profusely illustrated with first-class engravings, and contains choice reading for the wee ones. One copy each quarter has a fine Chromo-Lithograph Page Printed in Several Colors. OUR LITTLE ONES is now in its twentieth year, and has attained the large circulation of .130,000 COPIES, which is a certain indication that it has met with general favor. Nothing is left undone to make Our Little Ones the best paper of its class. It is published weekly, at tho low price of only 25 cents per year in clubs of five copies or more. AMERICAN BAPTIST PUBLICATION SOCIETY. PHILADELPHIA: 1420 Chestnut Street; BOSTON : 250 Washington Street; ST. LOUIS : 1109 Olivo Street; NEW YORK : Times Building; ATLANTA : 06 1-2 Whitehall Street; CHICAGO : 122 Wabash Avenue; DALLAS: 345 Main Street. 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 In the Intermediate Quarterly for 1893, which has been greatly en larged. Nirs. M. G. Kennedy furnish es the exposition of the Sunday school Lessons of the quarter, in her pure, fresh and attractive style which is sure to win the attention of its class of readers. Much informa tion historical and other, connected 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 a quarter of a million copies per qua ter. Cures Scrofula Mrs. E. J. Rowell, Medford, Mass., says her mother has beonenredot Scrofula by the use of four bottles of ffagSteH after having had much other tro Ifjg&qtSiM atment, lAddicing reduced to qui tea )ow of health, as it was thought she could hot live. INHERITED SCROFULA. Cur ° ll my I,n, ° boy of hereditary Scrofula, which appeared all over his face, for a year I had given up all hope of his recovery, when finally I Was induced to uso A f P w fiotlles cured him, and no siiuploins of tho disease L. Mathehs, Matherville, Miss. Our book on Blood and Skin DI-.MSW mailed free. Swift Srccirrc Co.. Atlanta. On. DO YOU WANT DO YOU WANT ’ Teachers ? Schools ? Tho oldest and tho best. Tho first to bo oa tublishod in tho South. lias supplied more Teachers with positions than all other teachers’ agQhcies in tho .South coinoined. Southern School Hid Teachefs’ Agenoy Nashville, Tenn. 24deelv BUGGIESW^aGPRICE v r V Top Huggv SA.OO M 2 u Pf“ Httgfy ... 97.50 n 4 Paesenger Tup Carriage 4? .50 *’ l Man’ll Saddle 1.73 t Buggy or Cart Haman 3.03 ’aiaU Double Team Haram 19.50 &4/.OU Buggy Hircui 4.73 fko. Y MpHn, Uamptan. S Y “ Uwbly r»weJ wub ata>oUTv» I« M Gwrr lb»n the 'X) liurvf »ild but/• Wilb for f>ocsaUl<w'M. U. 8. BUCC V & CAftT CO. 1» l» r ;c'la«l»BUU,O. 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