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TO CUBA.
Several of our Baptist brethren
left Sunday night for an excursion to
Cuba, Seven years ago a Baptist
church was organized at Havana.
Since that time the Baptists of the
South have bought a magnificent
building in the city of Havana, pay
ing §60.00,0, for the same. A year
ago the building was dedicated.
An excursion is now gotten up, to
celebrate, we suppose the seventh
anniversary of this church. This ex
cursion, we suppose is, in part, at
the cost of the Homo Board, as both
our Secretaries go on it. The Index
would not do anything to impede
the progress of the work in Cuba, but
if there is to be this annual excursion
taking ten days to two weeks of the
valuable time of both our Secretaries
besides the cost of their transporta
tion and the other expenses to be
borne by the Board we are com
pelled to say that this is not the
economy, the times and the finan
cial dbndition of our Boards demand.
If the excursion is one of pleasure
and the parties pay their own ex
penses, then we have nothing to say
against it. If it be purely a business
trip, and the board is to bear the ex
pense of the Secretaries, and others,
then it would bo well to reduce the
number of trips to a business sched
ule.
SOME BIBLE WORDS.
Very many good people are dis
turbed when intelligent, and even
reverent, criticism is offered upon
familiar words in the Bible. They
seem to think tho ark of God is in
danger whenever attention is called
either to unquestioned error in tho
text, or misconception in the transla
tion. It is almost impossible for
such persons than to regard other
wise than as irreverent any attempts
to correct mistakes in the common
version of the Scriptures. The rea
der may have hoard of tho good old
brother who said “the English spoke
of Jesus and writ by tho Apostles”
was good enough for him. But it
would be a mistake to suppose that
opposition to criticism and correction
of the sacred volume was confined
to such illiterates. Tho fiercest op
position, for example, with which
tho Canterbury Revised Version has
met, has come from a few conserva
tive scholars who cling tenaciously
to the old King James version,
seemingly for no other reason what
ever but that it is “old.”
Nor is this something “now under
the sun 4 ’’ for when Jerome, in the
fourth century, began tho prepara
tion of the Latin Vulgate, correcting
errors which had crept into tho then
received text, ho was strenuously
opposed by no less a num than Au
gustine. By this year of grace 1893,
Christians should have learned that
• the Bible has nothing to fear from
any honest and competent investiga
tion. Indeed it is tho reverent re
gard for the integrity and purity of
that word, that has led to most of
the criticism of its text and its re
peated revision. To adopt the lang
uage of I’roll. Toy, “no honest stu
dent of the Bible can object to an
lamest and careful sifting of its words,
and no believer in God can fear that
such a procedure will do harm,
x * * * * Tho ethical-religious
power of the Bible will be increased
by perfectly free, fair-minded deal
ing, and by a precise knowledge of
what it does or does not say. As its
friends we ought not to wish any
thing else than that it should be
judged strictly on its merits; for to
wish anything else is a confession of
weakness.”
But our pen was dipped not to
follow out this special line of thought
but to call attention to some words
that are frequently if not generally
misunderstood asused in tho common
English Scriptures. There are sev
eral causes for such misunderstand
ing. One is that the sense has never
been correctly given in the transla
tion. Another is that the words em
ployed to represent the original have
become obsolete, or have changed
in meaning since the sixteenth cen
tury, when King .lames’revisers gave
the socallcd “Authorized Version” to
the English speaking world. There
arc important examples of both clas
scs of passages. Wo will not men
tion tho case of the word “Baptize,”
for tho simple reason that attho
time the revision was made, im
merse” was scarcely yet recognized
as an English word. Only u few of
tho many instances of other words
will be here adduced.
In 1. Cor. 15: 33, it is said “Evil
communications corrupt good man-
nets.” A certain prominent minis
ter took this text when preaching a
sermon against obscene literature
and speech. He could not hjfve ex
amined his text closelyq else he would
have seen it bad no direct reference
to his theme. The word “communi
cation” meant rather intercourse, as
sociation, companionship. The Re
vised Version has “company.”
Eph. 4: 29 has an entirely different
word. The word “comunicate,, in
Gal. 6: 6, was ludicrously interpreted
by a brother when he said it meant
that the congregation should keep
the pastor posted in all the good
news of the community! Nor did it
occur to this brother that Paul was
enforcing (as in Phil. 4: 14-15) the
duty of the taught to provide for the
temporal support of the ministry.
It is strange that the Revised Ver
sion retains “communicate” in Gala
tians, while it gives “had fellowship”
injl'hilippians.
“Conversation” is made to do ser
vice in widely-diffcrent passages.
See Psalms, 36: 14, where the word
means upright way, course of life,
not upright speech. So in 2 Cor. 1:
12; Gal. 1; 13; Epb. 2: 3; 4: 22; ITim
-4: 12; 1 Pet. 1: 15; 2 Pct. 2: 7; 3: 11.
In all these places tho same Greek
word is found, meaning behavior,
conduct, manner of life, deportment.
In every instance the Revised Ver
sion has removed the ambiguity from
these texts. In A. D. 1611 the word
“conversation” (from the Latin “con
versari”) had this wider significance,
in which sense it is now practically
unused. In Phil. 1: 27 the Greek
word is a different one found also in
Acts 23: 1, when I’aul said: “I have
lived in all good conscience,” etc.
The Revised Version, in the margin,
gives its litc»al meaning—“behave as
citizens worthily.” The Greek noun
is rendered “citizenship” in Phil. 3:
20, we are citizens of heaven, not of
this earth. The Greek noun in Eph.
2: 12 (commonwealth) and Acts 22.
28 (freedom) is substantially tho
same word as that in Phil. 3: 20:
Still another word is used in Heb
-13; 5, meaning disposition; but in
the seventh verse “conversation’’
translates the Greek word found in
2 Cor. 1: 12 and other places.
“Convenient” is another word
worthy of some attention. Several
times in our English Scriptures it
means fitting, becoming, suitable.
This was its original significance, a
much wider sense than the modern
usage ordinarily given it. Read in
this light, the follow ing passages will
have now force: Acts 24: 25; Rom. 1:
28; Eph. 5: 4: Philemon 8. The Ke
vised Version greatly improves these
places. In our notes we had jotted
down other words, but space forbids
consideration of them just now
Perhaps we may resume the subject
hereafter.
Tho farmhands used to ask the
town boy,—“Jim, what is nonsense?”
Jim would think a minute and “give
it up”. Then they say, “why stick
your finger in a tub of water, take it
out and then look for the hole.” Jim
never thereafter forgot what non
sense meant.
When I read a lot of the latter
day’ bosh about melting all tho creeds
of christendom into one and subscri
bing that new one that either means
everything or nothing. 1 want to
perform the part of the farm hands
and say—“ Jim, what is nonsense.’’
Any of you who think that earnest
men with tho sacred inspired word
in their hands can lay aside what
they believe, stick your finger in a
tub of water, take it out and look
for tho hole.
Any just creed is no more than
tho statement of truths that have
been accredited to the mind. You can
can no more change your creed than
your skin. One’s creed may under
go change, to be sure, by investiga
tion, developements, deeper insight
into the revealed will of God et ce
tera. There might be formed an
other array of testimony which
would dislodge the former covietion
of truth and leave in its stead anoth
er creed. But no honest man can
determine at any given time that he
will relinquish the which he
then holds and publish himself tho
adherent of a different one. A man
who believes nothing may easily
change about ami profess a variety
of faiths as speedily as convenience
or pleasure might demand!
The world above, beneath, around
me, tho strange throbbing within
me,|the marvelous book in my own
language before mo form my creed
about God. 1 can no more change
the faith thus- formed than I can
chtngo the things that formed it.
The straightforwardness, the super
human inteligenee, the sublime life
of Jesus Christ the otherwise inex
plicable tragedy at Calvary, tho tin.
impeached testimony, of eye-wit-
THE CHRISTIAN INDEX: THURSDAY JANUARY 26, 1893.
nesses, the strangely sw-eet correspon
dence it bears to my own heart life:
have led me to accept the Bible as
the word of God. I ean no more
throw aside my faith in it than I
can go along the lines of scripture
incident and change the thing there
recorded.
Before my eyes almost daily there
is death. I must form some idea of
its course, its nature, its effects. I
turn to this book that has gained my
unqualified confidence and learn
what death means. That then is my
creed about death. In learning a
bout death I also must learn about
life both in this world and in the
other world. That then is my creed
about life. And thus might I go
through all the facts connected with
my Christian life and easily show
that my creed is the result of con
victions produced upon my mind
which I can no more control than I
can make a world.
This I grant, that I might lack the
information necessary to form any
belief on a given subject, or, I might
be deceived in the trustworthiness
of the evidence which my mind ac
credits, and enlightenment’ might
furnish other and more trustworthy
evidence, but any change of creed
must come with a charge of evi
dence.
It may be true that the growing
desire for the destruction of creeds
arises among such as have very little
regard Tor the Bible teaching. If
so, of course, they expect men to be
influenced by motives that could not
reach a man with a,sacred regard for
God’s revelation of II is will. It
may be that the desire for the de
struction of creeds comes from men
who wish to bring the straying creed
makers back to the simple word of
God. If this is the class, God speed
their mission and enable them to
present such clear evidence of the
inspired will of God that not one
shall be left who does not believe
and practice the creed given us by
Jesus the author and finisher of our
faith.
ROBT- J. INGERSOLL.
Tho reporters, and the preachers,
and others interested, have jriven
Air. Ingersoll ami his proposed At
lanta lecture a very thorough adver
tising.
Not only this, but a curiosity and
a desire to see and to hear him have
been excited that otherwise would
not have been felt. Worse than all,
perhaps, the opposition to his com
ing has produced a determination
upon the part of some to have him
come any how, and in spito of all
that has been said against it.
An attempt to apply the gag in a
free country, where freedom of
speech prevails, and where intoler
ance,espemally in matters of religion,
is regarded whether justly so or not
as persecution, will always provoke
a worse wagging of the jaws, and a
more tireless use of the tongue.
Had those who proposed to invite
Air. Ingersoll to lecture in Atlanta
been allowed to proceed, unnoticed
with their purpose, without so much
undue parade of protests, and ex
pressions of opinion as to the pro
priety of tho invitation, and as to the
moral or immoral effect of the lect
ure; had they been allowed to hear
him, and to pay the expense of his
coming without so much ado, the
event would have caused but a rip
ple upon the surface of Atlanta so
ciety, instead of the great wave of
excitement that has been raised by
the high wind of ♦opposition. He
would have come, lectured, and
gone, and in a little while, few would
have thought or talked about the
matter, or have attached any impor
tance to his visit. Less advertising
and fewer symposiums of opinions
publicly given, about such characters
as Air. Ingersoll, will keep them fur
ther out of sight, give them less im
portance, fewer hearers when they
speak, and still fewer followers.
Leaving his infidelity out of sight
the following utterance from his
tongue ought to keep every true
southern man from his presence, and
leave him, so far as they are con
cerned, to speak to “a beggarly ac
count of empty benches,” wherever
and whenever he may lecture. Here
is what he has to say about “Rebels,”
and their part in the late civil war.
“1 have sometimes wished that
there were words of pure hatred out
of which I might construct sentences
like snakes, out of which I might
construct sentences with months
fanged, that had forked tongues, out
of which I might construct sentences
that writhed and hissed ; then I could
give my opinion on the rebels during
the great struggle for the preserva
tion of this nation.”
in that paragraph he opens his
heart, and shows it to be occupied
by the Old Serpent. “Pure hatred,”
“sentences like snakes,” “mouths
fanged,” “forked tongues, that writh
ed and hissed,” with which to curse
“the rebels.”
Such thoughts are the inspiration
of the Old Serpent. Such words
are the expressions of his snakish
tongue.
Let every especially every
southern patriot, shun the very pres
ence of his emissary. Let the man
who desires the nature and venom
of a serpent, construct his snake
like sentences, and writhe and twist
his forked tongue, thrust it from his
fanged mouth, and hiss, and spit
forth his spiteful poison in the lone
liness Os his own pure hatred.
A MODERN FACT AND ANCIENT
PARALELL-
It has come to pass as we predict
ed. When a Life of Thomas Paine, by
Aloncure L). Conway was announced
as in press, we foretold that he would
paint the portrait of that old Diest
with a halo of light. We said it be
cause Air. Conway, a “liberal theolo
gian (as the phrase is), beginning his
career in tho left wing of American
Unitarian ism, and afterwards driving
still further afield in the direction of
English Positivism, had largely made
Paine’s infidelity his own religion.
Why, then, should not the mist and
haze of a century backward, in which
Paine stands, brighter, under the
eye of Conway, to a nimbus encircl
ing his head, or an aureole enfolding
his whole person ? It was the most
natural thing in the world that if
should; and it did. ’ Mr. C. says’
“Paine, above all, was a profoundly
religious man—one of the few in our
revolutionary era of whom it can be
said, that his delight was in the law
of the Lord, and in that law did he
meditate day and night. Conse
quently, he could not escape the im
memorial fate of the great believers,
to be persecuted for unbelief, by un
believers.” Ami so the man, whose
“Age of Reason” brandshim a ribald
and a blasphemer, enters on a new
era in which he will be honored by
Air. Conway, and his like, as Saint
Paine!
This is the wont of Error. Error
knows how to canonize her adherents
as the choice spirits of their ages-
What is infamy, she converts into
fame: fighting under her banner,
they are heroes to her, and she plaits
a wreath of glory for their brow.
Thus, after tlx> manner of Air. Con
way in the case of Paine, there were
heretics in the first Christian centu
ries, who held in reverence some of
the most impious and profligate
characters mentioned in sacred his.
tory ; who treated with the utmost
marks of honor Cain, the murderer
of his righteous brother, Cora and
Datlian, the rebels gainst the divine
priesthood of Aaron, the inhabitants
of Sodom, the freemen throwing off
the yoke of bondage to law weakly
won by Abraham, the serpent that
beguiled the father of manhood into
transgression, and Judas, the betray
er of the Saviour of sinners. Ah,
let us remember, when falsehood and
evil woo us to accept their princi
ples, what personages we must also
accept as those in whom these princi
ples have had their embodiment.
For back of every principle of wrong,
are the personages whom it has
made like itself and thereby odious
and vile. And the real question is,
Are we willing to be personages,
such as these —willing to embrace
the principle that it may make us so?
A NOBLE CHARITY.
The morning of Jan. 18th, found
the earth covered with snow, from
six to eight inches in depth. The
fearful blast, coming from the N. E.,
filled the air with a dry drift, and
brought piercing cold that made the
people of Atlanta shut tight their
doors, and gather closely around
their tires.
What blessings to those who had
them were well-built houses, warm
beds, smoking breakfasts, good
clothes, and glowing fires. By those
who acknowlcde an over-ruling
Providence in all the good gifts that
conic to them, many hearts were
lifted up in gratitude, and many ton
gues sang praises to Him, whoso
blessing upon their efforts had en
abled them to secure for themselves
and for those immediately dependent
on them, the things needful to make
life desirable and comfortable.
While there were hundreds and
thousands in Atlanta, who were thus
blessed, many others had lain under
scant covering, and leaking roofs
and on that bleak morning, crowded
I around the smouldering embers of
the last stick of wood or lump of
| coal. Alany partook of a meager
breakfast, and drew around their
aching limbs their thin and tattered
clothing. Still others, without homes’
had sheltered themselves as best
they could, while they looked out
upon the pitiless storm, without
friends, food, without fuel,
and with little or no prospect of re
lief from their suffering.
Before the morning was half gone,
thoughts of the sufferings of those
about them, possessed the minds of
two of Atlanta’s generous-hearted
citizens.
The purpose was at once con.
ceived and a plan proposed, to bring
relief to the suffering.
A note of distress was sounded,
that struck a responsive chord in the
hearts of Atlanta’s people, and be
fore one o’clock a meeting was held,
composed of several hundred of the
leading citizens, of all vocations.
I ive thousand dollars in cash and
supplies were promptly and gladly
subscribed, committees of receiving
and distributing were appointed, the
practical work of visitation began,
and by nightfall, through wind and
snow, the willing workers went on
their mission of mercy, making glad
hundreds of sufferers with food and
clothing and fuel, and words of good
cheer.
It was a noble manifestation of
charity, the outpouring of genuine
sympathy for the needy, and of
generous giving for the relief of the
wants of their fallow-man.
TV bile we would not speak of this
matter in a boastful spirit, yet, with
all our heart we commend it, and
with all tho force of our nature em
phasize it as a shining example of
unselfishness, and true beneficence.
h or the comfort of those, who thus
came to tho help of the needy, and
who propose to continue this good
work, let these words be treasured
up in memory, when troubles slial
come to them.
“Blessed is he that considered!
the poor: the Lord will deliver him
in time of trouble.
The Lord will preserve him and
keep him alive; he shall be blessed
upon the earth: and thou wilt not
deliver him unto the will of his ene
mies.
The Lord will strengthen him
upon the bed of languishin.' Thoug
wilt make all his bed in his sickness.”
I’s. 41: 1-3.
“Blessed are the merciful, for they
shall obtain mercy.” Alatt. 5: 7.
“TOLD BY A CHILD ”
No one has had more abundant
opportunity to acquaint himself with
all the moods and tenses of the mind
of the young, than our brother be
loved, Fred T. Lochhart, Esq. His
devotion to Sunday-school instruc
tion, his delight in it, and his power
to communicate that delight to his
class and his audience, together with
his protracted service as Superin
tendent of tho school of the First
Baptist church, Augusta, Ga., have
often lead us to wonder that, with
his earnest spirit and versatile intel
lect, he had made no contribution to
the juvenile literature helpful in that
department of Christian work. There
is no longer occasion for that wonder
“Told by a Child” is a work of 192
pages from his pen, a collection of
-‘Bible Biographies from Adam the
First Alan” to Joshua the conqueror
of Canaan, recounting the thrilling
stories of Abel, Noah, Abraham,
Isaac, Jacob, Aloses and
Aaron. It was written from ten to
fifteen years ago for tho benefit of
his own children, and the simplicity
and raciness which we find in such
examination as we have been able to
give it leaves us no room to doubt
his statement that they were inter
ested and profited by it. We hope
that it may receive a measure of
patronage from the Christian and
especially the Baptist and still more
especially the Georgia Baptist public:
which will induce the author to carry
out his manifest desire if not purpose
to favor u s with a similar treatment
of other biographies in the Sacred
Volume.
The Supreme Court of Mississippi
has decided that alcohol is not a
beverage. Old topers will tell you
a different story, and a truer one, if
you put them where the alcohol is
within their reach, and the varieties
of malt, vinous and spirituous liquors
are not. What human weakness and
vice makes a fact, must be recog
nized as a fact by the law which
aims to restrain that vice and weak
ness. Doubtless, it is a very foolish
act, and one not in accordance with
> the nature of things, to seek and find
i a beverage in alcohol; but the slaves
of intemperance on occasion are
guilty of it, and no matter how it
may seem to strain the distinction
j between what ought to be and what
I is, a law meant to be prohibitive of
i drunkenness is shut up to the con-
clusion that in the sense of her en
actments to that end alcohol is a
beverage.
Among English Christians there
has been for twenty-one years what
calls itself a “Christmas Letter Mis
sion.” During that time, its mem
bers have sent out six-and-a-half
millions of Christmas letters—per
sonal appeals to individuals with
respect to the salvation of the soul, —
an equal number ofc Gospel tract
cards, from three to four hundred
thousand books, booklets, etc. Not a
very pretentious organization; not a
body calling for rare mental endow
ments or for large financial resour
ces; and yet one that may work for
its Redeemer and Lord in an humble
way, and whose work for him he
may richly bless. Whether of that
Society or not, who of us in private
friendly correspondence, cannot use
his pen for Christ—writing for him
as though he through us wrote for
himself ? And may he not so own
it?
Os the Jewish peace-offering, part
was burnt on the altar, part was al
lotted to the priest, and part was
given to the officer and his friends.
Here was participation by the officer,
with the Lord, the Lord’s represen
tative, and the Lord’s people. In all
true Christian service, have we not
this three-fold fellowship ? With our
God? Our Priest—King—Christ?
and our brethren in the faith and
hope of the gospel ; i
Several of our exchanges have
spoken of Dr. W. T. Powell as the
probable successor of Dr. J. Al. Frost.
Dr. Powell and his wife decided
here in Atlanta, that they would not
give up their work in Alexico. Hence
we state positively that Dr. Powell
will not be Dr. Frost’s successor.
Rev. B. F. Hungerford of Law
renceburg, Ky., has resigned the
pastorate of the church at Lawrence
burg, and also at Buffalo Lick. He
is said to be an admirable pastor,
and some church in need of a good
preacher would do well to get him.
The executive committee of
Georgetown College has elected Prof.
J. J. Rucker chairman of the faculty
until the trustees can meet in June
to elect a successor to Pres. Dudley
Dr. A. C. Caperton is doing some
good editorial work for “The Ken
tucky Baptist” now being published
at Louisville, Ky. “The Baptist” is
newsy and sprightly.
The Ist, Baptist church of New
Y'ork have finished up their building
at a cost of $2005 and pastor I. AL
Holdeman now preaches in it.
Rev. Fred B. Hale has resigned
the pastorate of Alcperran Afemo
rial church at Louisville, to take ef
fect in Alarcli.
Rev. J. Al. Fowler of Pleasureville
Ky., has resigned his care of his
churches and is in demand by other
churches.
The Church at Belton, Tex., has
tendered a hearty call to Rev. A. Al.
Siinis to be their pastor.
Birmingham has a change now to
take from Louisville what the latter
place recently took from her.
Dr. F. 11. Kerfoot at Clarksville,
Tenn., raised §1750 for the Alumni
endowment.
Rev. B. B. Williams has moved from
Texas to Hope. Ark.
Bro, E. Nelson was recently ordained
to the ministry at Lebanon, Collin Co.,
Ky.
Rev. J. J. Maurer has been called to
the Flores Street church, San Antonio,
Tex.
Rev. R. D. Carroll has accepted the
call of the Baptist church at La Grange,
N. C.
Rev. W. B. Oliver has agreed to be the
pastor of the First Baptist church at Wil
mington, N. C.
Dr. Roby has accepted the call to tho
pastorate of the Baptist church at Opel-
Ik i. Ala.,
The church at Huntsville, Ala., i s
without a pastor, and is in search of an
under shepherd.
During the past week Dr. John A,
Broadus of Louisville, Ky., has been in
New York.
Rev. Geo. W. Moseley, a young minis
ter at Bailor University, of Texas, died
last Saturday after on illness of 17 days.
Rev. J. A. McClesky has resigned pas.
toratc of Wharton's Springs church in
Tenn., and the church is without a
pastor.
Carson & Newman College, Tenn., has
twenty young mon studying for the
ministry, who need help, and funds are
asked in their behalf.
The First Baptist church at. Fort Smith,
Ark., has a membership of 310. and at a
meeting the other day took a collection
for ministerial education, amounting to
over $75.
He will visit Edinburgh, Glasgow.
Dundee, Aberdeen mid other towns*
His subject will be “The New Acts of
the Apostles, or a Century in Modern
Missions.”
We note that a Virginia pastor, before
dismissing his congregation, asked his
deacons to go around and seojhow many
new subscribers they could secure for
their state paper. In view’ of the fact
that we have asked for a special effort
in behalf of the Index during the month
of February, we make the suggestion
that the example of the Virginia pastor
would be a good one for our Georgia
pastors to adopt sometimes at the con
clusion of their services, when a good
congregation has listened to an interest.
Ing sermon.
Dr. G. A. Nunnally reached Memphis
with his family and was accorded a most
hearty welcome, not only by his own
church, but all the ministers and people
of that city. A cordial reception was
given, at which several ministers spoke,
and in conclusion the Doctor accepted
the tender to him in feeling words and
pleasing sentences.
The Walnut Street church in Louisville
will take all collections for missions in
red envelopes: All designated funds
will go as designated. All undesigna
ted will be devided. 25 per cent, to For
eign missions, 20 to Home missions, 20
to State missions, 20 to Colportage and
Sunday-school and 15 cents to City
missions.
The Baptist church at Shelbyville at
the opening of the year had a roll
call and a, reunion. The idea seems to
have been to locate their members and
see what they arc doing. All the living
ex-pastors were invited and the meeting
proved to be a very profitable one.
The three daughters of the late Geo*
W. Norfbn, have recently completed a
beautiful stone chapel on New Broad
way and Transit Avenue, Louisville, Ky’
They will soon fully equip it for tho
work of the ministry.
We regret to note that pastor C. E.
Wright of Chattanooga fell on the ice
last Thursday and broke his arm. Our
readers will remember him as one of
the popular ministers of this state, 10,
cated at Rome, a few years back.
Rev. D. M. Ramsey of Charleston, S. C.
has accepted an invitation to deliver tho
Commencement address at the Baptist
Female College at Greenville, S. C., in
June.
“Plain John McNeill” as he prefers to
be called, lias concluded his mission in
Scotland, and after a visit to Ireland, ho
goes to Chicago to assist Mr. Moody at
the World’s Fair.
Rev. G. W. Spear for six years pastor
of Frimley Road Baptist Chapel, York is
dead. He was one of the oldest and
most respectable ministers of our de
nomination in Ireland.
Dr. M. B. Wharton of Norfolk, Va.
found on his table the other day a check
for >IOO, as a special contribution from
one of his members for foreign missions.
Rev. Dr. T. H. Pritchard has settled
down to w ork as pastor of the First Bap.
list church at Charlotte, N. C.
Dr. Pierson is going to Scotland soon
to fulfill his longstanding engagemen
to give a series of miss|pnary lectures.
One of the leading churches in Chicago
is the Englewood Baptist church. Rev.
Myron W. Haynes pastor.
The work during the four years of the
pastorate has been remarkable, the pres
ent membership increasing from 150 to
over 850. At the beginning of that time
the church property was valued at $lO,-
(XX), now it is worth. SIOO,OOO.
They have the largest and finest
church editice in Englewood. It is an
imposing structure of grey stone having a
seating capacity of 2,000. The main
audience room seats about 1,500 and is
well filled every Sunday. The cost of
this building was abimt SBO,OOO.
The Irish preacher. Daniel Mcßride, is
trying to evangelize Ireland. In aid of
this work, Mr. John D. Rockfeller has
given SIO,OOO to establish a boarding
house, acdemy and Baptist headquarters
in Dublin, Ireland.
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Clifford lilackman
A Boston Boy’s Eyesight
Saved-Pcrhaps His Life
By Hood’s SarHapurtllut—Blood PoU
soned by Canker.
Read ths following from a grateful mothcrt
“ My little boy had Scarlet Fever when 4 years
old, and It left him very weak and with blood
poisoned with canker. His eyes becamo
so Inflamed that hit sufferings weru intense, and
for seven weeks he
Could Not Open Kls Eyee.
I took him twice during that time to the Eye
and Ear Infirmary on Charles street, but thel?
remedies failed to do him tho faintest shadow
of good. I commenced giving him Hood’s
Sarsaparilla and It soon cured him. I Invs
rover doubted that ft .nved l«ta sight, even
If not his very life. You may use this tes
tim ..la! in any way yon choose, laui always
ready to sound tho praise of 1
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
because of tho wonderful good It did my son.*
Annin F. Duciutut, 2088 Washington St,
Bostt.n. Mass. Get HOOD'S.
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