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any go od and strong things were said in be half of IONS During the Session of the Southern Baptist Convention. Subscribe to and read the Christian Index, if you would keep informed. ESTABLISHED 1821. ®lw ffihriettan Index Published Every Thursday at 57 S. Broad Street, Atlanta, Ga. J. c. McMichael, Proprietor. Organ of the Baptist Denomination in Georgia. Subscription Prick ; One copy, one year $ 2.00 One copy, six months 1.00 One copy, three months 50 Obituaries.—Ono hundred words free of charge. For each extra word, one cent per word, cash with copy. To Correspondents.—Do not use abrevia tlons; be extracareful in writing proper names; write with ink, on one side of paper; Do not write copy intended for the editor and busi ness items on same sheet. Leave oil personal ities; condense. Business.—Write all names, and post offices distinctly. In ordering a change give the old as well as the new address. The date of label indicates the time your subscription expires. 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Brother pastor, will you during the month of February bring the Index properly before your people and urge them to take it? We will appre' date anything done for us in response to this appeal, by pastors, deacons, super intendents of Sabbath-schools or lay men. ‘•The Review of Reviews” thinks that “Autobiographla, or, the Story of a Life, will be a permanent addition to the Whit, man literature,” How can that be when the Whitman literature itself is not per manent? What builds on a quagmire sinks and must sink. It is stated that a test has been made by United States authorities which re. suited in ascertaining that the granite near Lexington, Ga., will sustain greater pressure than any in the United States. Georgia therefore comes to the front on the granite question. “To help the lame dog over the stile,’’ as the saying is, may seem a small thing to do; but we should despise nothing if it only trains us in habits of kindness. To stoop in benefaction to the low, is but taking, while w e aim notatit, a high er position in excellence to ourselves. The secular press are spending much time and space uselessly predicting the Cabinet that Mr. Cleveland will form. The time for announcing his Cabinet is yet two months off. Mr. Cleveland knows as well as any man living, the prominent men of < the country. He will therefore use his own judgment in choosing his Cabinet. When editors will not do without quar relling, then papers ought to do without the editors. When papers cannot or will not do without quarrelling editors, then people ought to do without the papers. No sacrifice in either line can be too costly, if it saves us in any measure from the risk of becoming ourselves a quarrelling people. For a quarrelling people is on the way toward being a peo ple no longer. California has done well in beginning two important political reforms, by a vote 187,958 against 13,342. She has de clared that the election of United States Senators shall be by direct vote of the people. At the same time, by a vote of 161,320 against 41,038 she declared in favor of an educational qualification for voters. Both of these measures are of vital importance to a proper discharge of governmental affairs. Ex-United States Consul, Alexander Russell Webb is said to be raising funds in India for the purpose of converting America to Islamism. He has raised al ready 50,000 rupees, and is said to be receiving considerable encouragement from the Mohamedans of Bombay and Calcutta. His idea is to use the most of (he money raised to establish Islamite newspapers and lecture courses in our principal cities. The editor of the Teacher is timely in suggesting that we begin right In order to do this there will have to be some consideration of the aim we have In mind. If the aim is high the flight will be much higher than if there is no definite point of effort By study, observation, careful thought, wise plan ning, and thorough attention to details, the end sought will be likely to be reachod. But the best time to begin is the present And if each day is regarded the same as the first day, and fresh be ginnings are made, with earnest impul ses, there need not be any fear as to the result Wljc (£ljridian Dr. J. M. Frost called to see us fasv week as he passed through to the Flori da Convention. Though his eall to the pastorate of the First Church at Nash ville, and his act eptancc removes him from the Secretaryship of the Sunday school Board, ho has been elected Prcsi dent of the Board and will continue to edit the Convention Teacher. The Board contemplate electing a popular manos Dr. Frost's successor. A good brother writing ns from Nashville, says the prospects of the Board are fine and its business is to bo more vigorously pushed. • One of our exchanges credits Congre. gationalists with having ordained five women to preach the gospel, and assures us that their success in the pastoral of fice has amounted to nothing, their se verest critics being the women of tlio churches they serve. The experiment has not been restricted to that people, however; whether with greater success or with less, it must have been tried in oth er quarters, since on a single Sabbath re ccntly in Denver, Col., thirty-five pulpits were occupied by as many women or. dained as regular ministers. Among the triers of the experiment, there must have been, of course, a Wesloylan contin gent, longing, as Mrs. Hugh Price Hughes expresses it, to “restore the or iginalglory of Methodism and add to it;” this glory consisting in the fact that “be fore it settled into a dignified and re spectable church, great freedom was al lowed to women, who were made class leaders, and encouraged to pray In pub lic, and also to preach.” So we gather from hints dropped hero an J. there that the custom Is spreading more widely than one might infer from the current of events In our own quiet section. And let us thank Mrs, Hughes for reminding us, no matter how it grows, that it is the treading of a stop backward, toward a disorder tried onco before and found wanting and put away. The mission of Mgr. Satolli to this country and tho apparent eager ness of tho pope to reconcile Dr- McGlynn show that tho situation in Catholic circles in this country is very grave. Tho crisis cannot long bo delayed in any event. Tho dis trust ft Americanism in the Vatican is shown in many ways. The rup tures between the spirit of ecclesias tical medievalism and that of Amer ican freedom cannot bo more than temporarily healed. Nothing but tho constant stream of foreign catho lics who have been sent to this country has kept up the catholic church in America, The effort td engraft its gilded paganism upon a free and en lightened country must ultimately fail. The spectacle of a man who has secluded himself In a self-hn posed imprisonment in Romo, lord ing it over free American citizens in the matter which concerns them selves more than any others, would bo ridiculous if it were not so seri ous, And if Dr, McGlynn has been persuaded to ground the arms of Ills rebellion against the pope’s claim of authority, some mightier braver spir it (some native American) will take up the eause from which the sub dued priest has ingloriously retreat ed, and do for America what Luther did for Germany. He will do more. For while Luther had to blaze his own way through a trackless wilder ness, the American apostle of reform whoever he may be, will work in the concentrated light of the twen tieth century and be cheered by the sympathies and prayers of thousands of earnest and liberty-loving people everywhere, GOD GROSSED HIS HANDS. “Old blind Jacob crossed his hands that tho greater blessing might fall on Ephraim. Joseph said “your rlg|,t hand is on the younger,” Jacob said, “J know it, my son, I know it.” Joseph thought his blind father was about to make a great blunder. It bad been the custom to bestow the Patriarchal blessing and on the eldest first a double portion, Tho blind Patrljich was guided by the divine hand and though he did not see, yet well knew which was appointed of God to tho greater blessing, While this curious Incident might well illustrate other great facts in tho Divine disposition of tho affairs of His government, it strikingly illus trates the gracious provision God has made for us in tho bestownient upon us of blessing and favor while on our Elder brother tho heavy hand of suffering was laid. Christ our Elder brother, and we stand before the Patriarch of tho universe. He is entitled to all con sideration, wo to nothing, but God verily crossed his hands to lay on our unworthy heads blessings both gra cious and providential, while on him was laid tho iniquity of us all. If a Joseph should stand by, bo might well interupt tho solemn prooeoduro ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY. JANUARY 12,1893. of blind providence and grace, and say “Father your hands are crossed.” But God would answer “I know it, my son, I know it.” Oh, the un fathomable love of God! Poor worthless, helpless, sinful sinners are made the object of eternal blessings. And all because Jesus has made us his brethren, and by Divine agree ment the hand of blessing is crossed over to us, while the hand of wrath was laid on Him. Blessed Saviour, thou art worthy of honor, and praise dominion and power forever and ever. Such views of Him make service easy and suffering sweet, if by it His name may be glorified. MY WORD SHALL NOT RETURN UNTO ME VOID. Our hearts have been so cheered recently by the evidences of God’s blessing upon his word here that I thought a short history of the prog ress of the work at Saling might cheer some heart on the other side of the waters. You have all heard about Pingtu in North China and perhaps will re member that Saling is a little village eight or ten miles from the city Some seven or eight years ago, a sect called the “Laotien men” was quite nourishing there. The members had felt their lost condition and were stirring to find salvation by a life of morality. Nothing better had presented it self and tney were trying to do the best they could. About that time one of their lea ders “Dan Kung Bang” was in Mentsen, a town three or four miles from Saling, and hearing that a for eigner (Mr. Pruitt) was there and had a strange new doctrine to preach, he finished his marketing, and has tened to find him, but when ha ar rived at the inn, Mr. Pruitt had left the town.*' Later, he heard the for eigners were in the city and he went there to enquire into the new doc trine but was not permitted to see anyone. Mr. Holcomb being ill with smallpox and Mr. Pruitt caring for him. Some months passed, and Mr. Dan’s younger brother was passing through Hwang Hien and stopped to see Air. Pruitt and told him how anxious his older brother was to search into this new doctrine and asked him to go to Saling. Afr. Pruitt accordingly at his next visit called at Saling but Air. Dan was not at home. Sometime passed and Mr. Dan heard that Alias Afoon was in the city and he determined to make one more effort to see a for eigner. When he arrived at Miss Aloon’s quarters, her servant did not feel inclined to let him in and ex plained that Alias Moon was a single woman alone in the city, Mr. Dan persisted and finally the servant told Alias Moon and she invited him in. He remained with her several hours but it was all so new and strange to him he could get very little idea of the plan of salvation* He wanted her to go to Saling ana she appointed a time and he came for her. The people seemed anxious to learn the truth, but up to her third visit were still in the dark. In the fall Miss Aloon and Afrs. Craw ford visited Saling and remained sometimes trying to give the people a knowledge of the gospel. About that time Air. Dan joyfully accepted the Saviour and soon others follow ed and in the fall of 1889 a little church was organized. In Jan. 1890, some serious perse cutions arose. The people from Afr. Dan’s native village, about a mile away, came for him to go with them to the yearly worship of their ances tors. Tliis, he refused to do saying he could not worship dead men. They told him if he would not go they would carry him. He still refused and they tied his hands and feet and carried him on a pole. They bumped him on the frozen ground and children spit in his face and reviled him but he said he con tinued to feel happy as he thought : “Did not the One who was nailed to calvary’s cross suffer this I ” After they arrived at the village they beat him most cruelly and ask ed him if be was ready to “knock heads” to the ancestral tablets. He repliod, “I can still talk, but if you continue to beat me in this way I won’t be able to much longer, but as long as my lips can move, I have this to say to you, I oannot bow to that piece of paper.” After beating him until he could scarcely move and finding him firm they allowed him to go. Miss Moon on hearing of Bro. Dan’s troubles went immediately to Saling and sent a messenger to Hwang Hien. Mr. Pruitt, Mr. Bostick and Mr. League left for Saling the following week. After prayerful consideration it was decided that no attempt be made by the foreigner to carry the matter to the mandarin and have the offen ders punished. That plan had been tried again and again by the foreigners (Presby terians) near us ahd while open per. secution sometimes ceased, it always resulted in arousing enmity towards foreigners and native Christians and in retarding the progress of the gos pel of “peace and good will.” Bro. Dan and ethers were not pleased with the decision and thought the missionaries treated them un fairly. Every effort to explain was made, but they could not under stand. Bro. Dan made a visit to Tung Chow and had long talks with the Presbyterians, both foreign and na tive. Some of their native evango. lists promised him if he would join them his case would bo carried through and the offenders punished. It was a time of anxiety for the mis sionaries, but feeling that the plan pursued was in accordance with the Lord’s will wo could only pray that he was sufficiently grounded in the Baptist faith to stand firm and en duro patiently whatever the Master saw fit to send him. He seemed to waver for a while but the reason given him why the foreigner should not interfere in such oases got hold of his mind and he began to see that it was exactly in the lino with what the Saviour had foretold. More than all the Lord seems to have led him to see that fie must not trust in man’s help. Realizing thia ho has gone bravely to work and has lived down his persecution and gained the respect of th >jo who for merly persecuted him. They have qomo to see that it Gr.cc lion with the foreigner that has pro ditoed this change in him and this la much, He devotes a great deal of time to preaching and his testimony is good, To-day almost every man in the surrounding villages knows ot Dan Kung Bang. In a recent con. versatlon with him ho spoke of his former trials and said : “I was but u child then ; it was.better so.” Other members of the church are following his example and preach wherever they go. No one is hired; they till give what time they can and as they go about their dally work they preach and it would be interesting to note how much time they find they can give, They seem to feel that the work is theirs, laid on them by the Lord, and they must all do their part in giving the gospel to their fellow country men, The taunt “you are doing it for money” cannot be hurled at them because all the people know each one works for his living raid have no worldly thing to gain by their profession of faith in this new doo trine. Borne of the young women have endured much for the Alaster and are striving boldly to tell others of their Saviour, They have married in heathen families and some dis tsnee from home, but seem to be shining brightly In the darkness around them. I cannot tell of the personal life of each one but the Holy Spirit seems to be in their mllst and love and peace prevails, They are but babes in this new life and there are so many things they cannot under stand, but they seem to be trying to live up to the light which they al ready have. Alias Alcon and Miss Knight have spent many hours in their midst trying to explain the scriptures. During the pust your Mr. League has made regular trips to Saling and has tried to make plain to them many Bible truths, which every Sunday-school eoholur at homo is familiar with from his earliest childhood. At present tho people worship nt the home of Bro. Dan but are slow ly collecting material to build them a small native building for oh uroh purposes. It would bo compara tively easy to build ono for them but wo all feel they will be better for the energy thus put forth. Towards tho last the missionaries directly connected with the work there, in tend to give a little personally, but only in the same proportion as the natives. There is already the harvest from seed sowing by them. The natural growth is already beginning and with the blessing of God, we look forward to much more. About two weeks ago, Mr. League baptized an old man eighty-three and his wife over sixty years old, at llerrva Herrva Tun, a village about five miles from Saling. They had never seen a foreigner until they came to ask for baptism but had been led to accept the one true God entirely through the testimony of the native Christians and reading the New Testament. The old man’s son had been to Saling and Miss Moon had given him a Testament -Ile took it home and read it and be lieved but fearing persecution he turned it over to his father. The old man read it and although he could not understand very much he found there was a God who would forgive sins. His daughter who lives at Saling and is a Christian had talked with him a little. He and his wife both accepted the Sav iour and at the last New Year were put out in the snow because they refused to offer food to idols. In October they came to Saling to ask for baptism and the church after hearing their experience accepted them. They both desired that they might he baptized in a stream near their native village so that the villa gers might see them witness for Christ. Accordingly some of the brethren and sisters from Saling went there and not only assisted at the baptism but gave their own tes timpny of God’s great love to man to the crowds that assembled to witness. Everything passed off well and we have every reason to believe these two old people will not be the only ones in that village to accept the gospel. Is this not an evidence that God will care fqr all our efforts to spread Mp truth jn'ffife worid? X&is our> to tell of God’s plan’s to save men. We have his promise that he will bless the Word. Reports from Tung Chow and Hwang Hien are encouraging. Mr. King at Hwang Hien is alone but hoping for reinforcements. He feels that with a good working force, the work will go forward there. At Tung Chow, Mrs. Crawford thinks that during all her life in that region, there was never more cause for en couragement. Bro. Vingreu of the Swedish Bap tist Mission is with us now. He has just returned from a trip to Kiao Cheo about forty-five miles south of Pingtu where he is hoping to begin work' soon. He says there is a vast population in that region who have never heard the gospel. Send us help soon. There are so many pebple in darkness and so few to show them the light. God seems to be ready to bless the work here abundantly if each one will only do his part. Let us trust God more and work and pray for the spread of His word in North China. Florence Nightingale League. I’. O. Chefoo, N. China. Nov. 5, ’92. THE BIGHT BASIS OF MISSIONS. Its is the aim of this {taper to show that, the scriptures touching the case of the Heathen have not been quoted with discrimination,and that our appeal to the people to sup port Missions to the Heathen has not been rightly based. Its is affirmed in this paper that under any dispensation some are saved and some are lost. It is denied in this paper that any are saved by their goodness, or their works, but it is most emphatically declared that, every one who is sav ed,or may be saved,is saved through the atonement of Christs—saved as helpless sinners. It is just as true of the people of America that they are lost without the Gospel as it is true of the people of India or China, or Africa. Out of Christ one man is as truly con demned as another. Every man by nature, that is by conception, generation,birth, growth is a child of wrath. All men with out repentance and faith, without the Spirit of faith and purpose of righteousness, are exposed to the wrath of God and liable to eternal death. The expression, “The heath en lost without the gospel” is an ob jectionable one. Because its implies that every heathen is eternally lost if he should not happen to hoar the Gospel. 1 doubt that any one has a right to say that all are lost who have not heard the Gospel, that no I ono is saved who has not known Christ by name. To say that every one who has not heard the Plan of Salvation in so many words, is necessarily eter nally lost, is a hazardous thing to venture, unless perhaps by some one who may lay claim to om science and omnipresence. For if he does not know all men, that man whom he does know may be a saved man. If he has not been every where, a saved man may lurk in the place where he has not been. It is true no man can be saved, save in the name of Chirst, but it does not follow that one must be eternal ly lost, simply because he has not heard of the historical Christ. That for lack of opportunity to trust in the Christ as He is set forth in the gospel, he must perish in his sins. That God has no provision for bring ing a sinner to repentance save in a Gospel that is preached in so many words as we of America have it. Men whosay this forget that salvation is not by knowledge that is, complete knowledge such as we have, but by faith. Also that nature and Provi dence furnish sufficient knowledge tho’ dim, upon which to found faith, and through which, a purpose of righeousuess may be generated by the Spirit of God and for Christ’s sake. One my have formed within him a right disposition towards God, even when he may know very little of his personal existence, or attributes, and when he may very ignorantly wor ship him. Romans x. 2, 3 does not contradict this nor can it be argued that this chapter proves that sincere zeal in the worshipper, nevertheless exposes him to wrath. For the Jew in this chapter is going about to “es tablish his righteousness, ( , and has not submitted himself to the right eousness of God”. Whereas the heathen whom I maintain is saved, does not seek to establish his right eousness as a claim upon the divine favor, but has submitted to the right eousness of God. as far as he knows how. There is no other name given un der heaven and among men where by we must be saved, save the name Christ Jesus, but the mistake some make is, is supposing that any heath en must have as clear and full a knowledge of Christ as we have or he cannot be saved. It wculd be a daring thing for any one to say that the Spirit does not work ui’is Spirit of faith am. purpose of righteousness in many who never heard the name of Christ. Job was a Gentile who never mentioned Christ, and who, perhaps, never heard of a plan of salvation, and yet he declares “I know that my God liveth etc.,” and that “without iny flesh I shall see God.” Would any say that Cornelius was not a saved man before he heard Peter preach, and the way of life explained? He may have heard other preachers be fore Peter, but we have no evidence of this. Tho angel testified to him “Thy prayer is heard and thine alms are had in rememberance in the sight of God, before ho heard Peter. Os course, if his prayer was heard he must have been saved. Nor does Acts XI: 14, conflict with this view of tho case, for this scripture, “who shall tell thee words whereby thou and all thy house shall be saved,” does not imply that Cornelius was not already saved, or that salvation was not already begun in him. Os course salvation was in Peter’s words as truly as in the answer to his pray er. Tho one does not exclude the other. Peter's words would enable Cornelius more fully to realize his salvation. Peter added a very com forting thought, viz: “I porcive that in every nation he that feareth God, and worketh righteousness is accept ed of him;” and that, we may believe to be true, whether one has heard of Christ, or the Gospel. Only one question might arise; whether, when the Gospel of Christ has not been preached, any ever do fear God and work righteousness. He would be a bold man to deny that any ever do- Epictetus, a deformed slave of a miserable tyrant, was supposed by his contemporaries, on account of his righteous life, to have reached the acme of human goodness. It seems to mo that Socrates, bar ring some sins and infirmities, wrought righteousness and had the witness of the Spirit in him. He died ordering a Cock to be sacreficed to xEsculapius, the God of health, in to ken of his belief in eternal life, in salvation, which means wholeness health, and on his death-couch de clared that he was going to the “sure felicities of the blessed.*’ Certainly a heathen who could stand a basin of slops thrown on him by his wife and not get mad over it, quite equals in his morality and self control, any Christian of to day who might fret and swear for a much smaller offence. It is true that Socrates neglected at times to keep tho meal in the tub for bis wife, Zanthippe, for ho was a school master who taught without a fee; yet when she quarreled at him, and threw the slops on him, his only answer was “I thought there would bo some rain after so much thunder ami lightning.” It is a mistake to suppose that, be cause tho heutbous are spiritually Brother Minister, Working Layman, Zealous Siste r We arc str! vs ng to make Tlio Index the best of its kini Help us by securing a new subscriber. VOL. 70—NO. 2 lead, they are therefore eternally, if they do not hear the gospel. As the mind, the Spirit breaths where he pleases, so many may be born again whose names are not re corded in our plans of salvation. God’s word, nor work is not limited to human speech. “The heavens de clare the Glory of God. And the ex panse shows his handiwork. Day unto day uttereth speech and night unto night showeth knowledge. There is no speeca nor language. There voice cannot be beard.” Yet, “their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world.” Surely the Holy Spirit can work by these words to save men, as well as by human speech. Is it not true that He does use them to this purpose? Paul declares in Rom. 1. that, men corrupted the knowledge of God, even his power and divinity, clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made. But this state ment must be, especially and chiefly, applied to those who took upon themselves the assumption of the philosophic character, the ancient philosophers, both Greeks and Rom ans. The being and perfections of God were taught to them in the con stitution and operations of the Uni verse. Ver. 18 limits the discussion to them, since it states that the wrath of God is revealed from heav en against all ungodliness and un-, righteousness of men who hold down the truth in unrighteousness. This qualifying clause implies that, among even the heathen there were some who did not hold down the truth in unrighteousness. The Philosophers, though having a knowledge of the perfections of God, did not set forth to the people what they knew of God, but in the place of the incor ruptible God, set up an image made like to corruptible man. But, not even then, were all the people lost, no more than now is every Catholic lost, because the Pope is put in the place of God, or, because the Mass is put in the place of Christ. The spirit of faith and purpose of right eousness may be in the man even who bows down to an idol. Perhaps, no man has yet determined how little knowledge is consistent with salvation, yet we are sure by the words of Jesus that faith as small as the mustard seed, saves as efficiently as great faith. May not many hea then have this faith as small as a mnst;’”d seed, consequent upon 1,1 it. ’knowiuug.-, of God's mercy dimly seen in nature and in providence? Does not the Holy Spirit produce this faith in many heathen? Lo: the poor Indian, whoso untutored mind Sees God in cloud or hears him in the wind. His soul proud science never taught to stray. Far as the solar walk or milky way. Yet God to his huinble hope has given Behind the cloud topped hill an humbler heaven, Some far oif land in depths of woods embra ced Some happier Island in the watery wasto Ami thinks admitted t‘> that equal sky His faithful dog shall bear him company. There is some truth in poetry— even in the poetry of the Twicken ham Bard. Let us not deny even to the “Poor Indians,” a hope in the happy hunting grounds of the future. Now may not one have the in spiration of the Holy Spirit which prompts right dispositions, even when he may have no revelation by that Spirit, of the name of Christ? It is not necessary to know the doc 'trine of regeneration in order to be regenerated. And one may repent and show the spirit of faith prior to his knowledge of tbe conditions of salvation. One may speak grammar, although not having learned gram mar. And one may speak the lan guage of salvation although not having learned the Grammar of it in the schools. Knowledge is valuable, and insti tutions have their place and are use ful, but God does prefer before, all institutions, before all temples, the upright heart and pure. Calvin burnt Michael Servetus. His intention was right. His con ception of the propositions of the case was wrong. The error of Cal vin in burning Servetus proves the genuineness of his belief, the strength of bis convictions. He lielieved that a denial of the doctrine of the Trinity would work harm to the souls of men. That it were better for Servetus to die than that souls should bo lost. He believed, more over, that a Civil Magistrate had the right to put to death for. With a better light, John Calvin would have acted in a better way. His case illustrates tho truth that many may be right at heart, whose acts on many points are wrong. It is not allirmed, nor believed by mo that all the heathen without having hoard the gospel are saved, still wo may believe that, since no one is is saved by his good ness, by his perfect works, many heathen do trust as far as they know to the mercy of the All Father and are saved for Christ’s sake. If men walk according to the light given, whether caudle light, starlight, moon light or sunlight, trustingly, they are saved through the atonement of Christ. it Now, if these things be true, have we not obscured a part of the truth when we have declared that all the heathen are lost who have not heard tho Gospel as we have heard it? In our appeal to the people to support