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“CLOSE COMMUNION.”
Probably nine-tenths of onr Pedo.
baptist friends think and speak of
our so-called “close-communion” as
an unquestionable evidence of Bap
tist prejudice and bigoty. Indeed
some of our own people regard it as
indicating a narrow conception of
Christian fellowship. True, neither
of these classes, as a rule, are inform
formed as to the reasons underlying
the practice. That matters little.
Indeed it is ignorance of our argu
ment that generally gives birth to
the unfavorable opinion. The Bap
tist position, intelligently understood)
commends itself to those who
thoughtfully examine it in the light
of the Scriptures. We are led to
these reflections by reading an ad
mirable volume just from the press.
It is a book of 250 pages from the
pen of our personal friend and
scholarly brother, the Rev. J. T.
Christian, D. D., of Mississippi. It
is published by the Baptist Book
Concern of Louisville.
Dr. Christians’ previous work on
Baptism made the present volume
on “Close Communion” all the more
timely and welcome. One has but
to glance at the contents and the
copious index of authors consulted
to see that this is an exhaustive ex
amination of the subject discussed.
We say the book is timely because
there is real need of a re.statement
and defence of the Baptist argument.
Many of our members, if approachad
on the subject, could not intelligent
ly state our practice, much less give
a reason for it. We are “close .com
munionists” simply because wo be
lieve the Scriptures require us to be
just as we are Baptists because con
scientiously convinced that our pe
culiar doctrine and order are those
of the Now 'Testament churches.
The day has passed, when, before
the bar of candid and competent
judgment, denunciation of sincere
adherence to conscientious conviction
as bigoty, is mistaken for argument.
The honest man takes for granted
that a great denomination of Chris
tians, led by so intelligent and con
secrated a ministry as that of the
Baptists, has what it regards as tena
ble ground on which its faith and
practice arc based. Wo do not mean
that every honest man believes our
faith and practice to bo right; but
that such a man will not be moved
to prejudice against us by the silly
outcry of ignorance shouting “big
otry.”
We have been impressed with the
skill with which Dr. Christian mar
shals his facts and testimonies gath
ered from a wide and apparently
exhaustive reading on this question.
We believe wo can do our readers
no better service just now than to
let them peep into the volume. It
shows bow “scholars of every de.
nomination testify to our position
that baptism precedes the Lord’s
Supper.” To state this position
seems like simply stating a truism.
The thoughtful mind, familiar with
gospel teaching, says of course. The
scripture record so clearly makes
baptism the initial act of Christian
profession, that to argue for anv
other order, indicates ignorance, or
else, indifference to the Lord’s ap
pointed way. The unanimous au
thority of the early Christian “Fath
ers” is that “no one was permitted to
participate in the Lord's Supper who
bad not been baptized, and who was
not a member of the church in good
standing." Dr. Christian’s compre
hensive statement will bear the clos
est scrutiny: “Noone in all antiquity
denies that baptism and church mem
bership preceded the Lord's 5up
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per.
We are furnished with some very
readable extracts when the argument
comes to modern times. For exam
ple, take this from the celebrated
Presbyterian pastor, Dr. John Hall,
of New York City: “I think that all
evangelical churches look for bap
tized persons as communicants. The
Baptists differ from their brethren as
to the time and mode of baptism. 1
do not think Baptists and Presbyte
rians differ in any other respect as to
the terms of communion at the Lord’s
table." This is well and candidly’
aaid, and shows how hollow is the
charge of bigotry thoughtlessly hurl
ed against the Baptist practice. Lot
intelligent demurrer assail the citadel
namely our baptism.
Dr. Christian recalls the history of
the unfraternal wrangling between
the various Presbyterian bodies, and
cites this among other facts: “The
Pan-Presbyterian Council of Phila
delphia, in 1880, refused to observe
the Lord’s Suppur together, upon the
ground that the Supper is a church
ordinance to be observed only by
those who are amenable to the dis
cipline of the body, and therefore
not to be observed by separate church
organizations acting together.” Just
along there we find much that would
astonish Presbyterians of the present
generation.
And here are some wise words
uttered editorially by The Independ
ent, perhaps the most influential
Podo-baptist paper in the country:
“Leading writers of all denominati
ons declare that converts must be
baptized before they can be invited
to the communion table. This is the
position generally taken. But Bap
tists regard sprinkling a nullity—no
baptism at all—look upon Presbyte
rians, Methodists and others, as un
baptized persons.” “The other chur
ches cannot urge the Baptists to be
come open communionists till they
themselves take the position that all
who love our Lord Jesus Christ, the
unbaptized as well as the baptized,
may bo invited to the communion
table.” “We have never been dis
posed to charge the Baptist churches
with any special narrowness or big
otry in their rule of admission to the
Lord’s table. We do not see how it
differs from that commonly admitted
and established among Presbyterian
churches.”
But our author is quite rich in his
extracts relating to Methodist opin
ion and practice. In that denomina
tion we all know that “order is the
want of order”—that expediency is
the law of action ! Still most of the
Methodist standard authorities are as
positive against the admission of the
unbaptized and unconverted to the
Lord’s table, as are those of the other
denominations. John Wesley once
went so far as to write in his “Jour
nal,” concerning a certain man: “And
yet this very man when I was in Sa
vannah, did I refuse to admit to the
Lord’s table, because ho was not
baptized by a minister who had been
especially ordained! ” And Bishop
McTyeire, than whom Southern
Methodism never had a more ardent
apologist, refers to a certain occasion
when John Wesley’ “solemnly and
rather demonstratively rebaptized
five Presbyterians, who had received
lay baptism—that is, in the jargon
of apostolic succession, they had been
baptized by Dissenting ministers!”
The good Bishop, in his indignant
comments, was not as polite as ho
might have been to the founder of
his denomination. In his History of
Methodism, page 90, ho says of
Wesley:
“Following a primitive, but obso
lete rubric, he would baptize children
only by’ immersion ; nor could he bo
induced to depart from this mode
unless the parents would certify that
the child was weakly. * * * No
baptism was recognized as valid un
less performed by a minister especi
ally ordained. * * * His rigor
extended even so far as to refuse the
Lord's Supper to one of the most
devout men of the settlement, [Sa
vannah, Ga.], who had not been bap
tized by an especially ordained min
ister ; ami the burial service itself
was denied to such as died with what
he deemed unorthodox baptism.”
We have given these quotations,
not to awaken any spirit of prejudice,
but that our readers may have> their
attention directed to facts and opin
ions too easily forgotten. We are
sure every one will wish to have Dr.
Christian’s excellent book. Every
one who spends a dollar for a copy
will thank us for calling his attention
to it.
Popo Leo XIII has empowered
Bishop O’Farrell, of the Trenton,
N. J., diocese, to confer pastoral sac.
ultics as a priest of the Roman Cath
olic Church upon Rev. Father John
Zabo, the pastor of a United Greek
congregation which has sprung up in
the lower part of that city. Like
authority granted in like circum
stances to all American bishops of
the Roman communion. Now, this
Zabo, the Greek priest, is a husband
ami a father, and the telegram be
fore us says nothing on the question
whether his home life with wife and
child is to bo terminated or not.
But let that be as it may the case
furnishes no warrant for the impres.
sion that the position of Romanism
with regard to the celibacy of the
clergy is to be at all modified or re
laxed. The official expositors of Ro
manist theology and ecclesiastical
law concede that “although celibacy
is preferable to matrimony, the di
vine law does not make it necessary
for the reception of holy orders, or
forbid cither the ordination of mar
ried men or the marriage of those
already in orders,” It is the church
which makes the vow of celibacy
a condition of ordination, the church
THE CHRISTIAN INDEX THURSDAY MARCH 2. 1893.
by virtue of the powers vested in her
for purposes of discipline and devel
opment ; and so these expositors ad
mit that the present rule did not
obtain in the earliest ages of the
church, and might be abolished in
ages to come if the church saw fit to
end it. If the Pope, therefore, grants
the privilege of wedded life to Fa
ther Zabo, he is only doing in this
instance what he might do in the in
stance of the whole body of the cler
gy of it seemed good in his sight ;
and he is doing it not to be repeated
toward any successor in the pasto
rate, but simply to bridge over the
transfer of the Greek congregation
to the Roman communion. No
shadow of ground is there here for
the hope that the yoke of
the clergy’s enslavement to the
papal see is to be broken. On this
subject Dr. Schaff says : “’The first
prohibition of clerical marriage
which laid claim to universal eccle
siastical authority, at least in the
West, proceeded in the year 385
from the Roman, church in form of a
decretal letter of the Bishop Siri
cius. It is significant of the connec
tion between the celibacy of the
clergy and the interest of the hier
archy, that the first properly papal
decree, which was issued in the tone
of supreme authority, imposed such
an unscriptural unnatural and mor
ally dangerous restriction.”
A writer in the London Quarterly
Review for January says: “A story
is current that one would gladly be
lieve, how Tennyson, walking in the
garden and being asked the ever
new question, ‘What think you of
Christ?’answered after a pause, by
pointing to a beautiful flower, and
saying, ‘What the sun is to that
flower, Jesus Christ is to my soul:
He is the Sun of my soul.’ True, or
merely well-invented, the anecdote
is wholly consistent with the life-long
attitude of the poet towards the Sav
iour.” Not so, we feel constrained
to say, not “wholly consistent.” The
soul to whom Christ is as the sun,
must, in the course of fifty years of
authorship, show something of what
this writer calls “the language of
definite theological assertion,” mean
ing thereby a clear-cut conception
and belief as to what Christ is in him
self and what he is to us,—as to the
glory of his divineness, the light of
his truth, the tenderness of his re
demption, the joy of his fellowship.
The experience of such souls becomes
what men call a theology and a creed;
and these grow definite with the
growing definiteness of the exper
ience itself. Had Tennyson’s been
•‘wholly” such a soul, it would not
have been possible, as it has been, to
say of him that “he felt more of wist
ful faith than of clear conviction.”
His poems would have been less
open, if open at all, to the charge of
“drifting toward the vagueness of an
eclectic and agnostic religion.” Os
this at least, we make no question
“Deep inner conviction,” as this wri
ter alleges, may, “during more than
fifty years,” have “assured Tennyson
of the existence and the redeeming
might of Christ; - ’ but his career as
an author has not been “wholly con
sistent” with that conviction, lie
has given Christ less recognition, has
borne less testimony to him, has
shown less thought and love and trust
concerning him, than sucn a con.
viction ought to have brought forth.
But is he the only sinner or the chief
in this regard ? Oh Saviour, are not
we all guilty before thee? Give us
warmer hearts and truer.
The officers of the Christian En
deavor Society have shut out the
Seventh-Day Baptists from represen
tation on its Board of Trustees and
the programmes of its Conventions.
The reason assigned is, that these
“Saturdarians,” as the Christian
Statesman facetiously styles them,
are “at variance on a vital point with
other Churches in the Society.” This
is an unwarrantable and gross as
sumption of power. The Society
expressly disclaims being a church;
and of course, it is not an organiza
tion superior to the churches. It
can have no right therefore to sit in
judgment on a body of churches or
ganized as a Christian denomination,
and to decide where their points of
difference with other churches are so
far vital as to work forfeiture of
co-operation in action and fellowship
in spirit. To do this is usurpation and
arrogancy, Let the churches, acting
as churches, fix the limits of their
fellowship and co-operation forthem
selves : this is their right, a right ex
elusively theirs. When the Society
presumes to fix any other limits, it is
virtually claiming church ship for
itself, or rather lordship over chur
ches’ Perhaps the churches ought to
sufliceus without the Society. Cer-
tainly, no church-ruling societies are
necessary or allowable.
Scientists tell us that the recent
earthquakes in Northern Italy have
been “followed by a speedy germi
nation of seeds, a more rapid growth
of young plants, a more luxuriant
vegitation in pastures, tillable lands,
vineyards and copses, and a more
distinct greenness of foliage.” This
is a fact of interest and significance.
We associate the name of the earth
quake with images of terror; with
the rocking and rending of the solid
ground, the overthrow of the most
massive structures reared by human
masonry, the destruction of cities
through shocks that lay them in
heaps of ruins to be swallowed up
by yawning chasms or roaring floods,
and the merciless slaughter of thou
sands of immortal beings including
fair women and innocent babes. The
soul shudders as the pictures of these
things pass before it. And yet, here
the earthquake is brought to view as
favorable in its influence on the veg
etable kingdom—as promotive of
fertility and beauty in all that the
soil bears for the sustenence and de
light of man. Does this teach us
nothing by analogy? Does it not
suggest the spiritual benefit which
may come to us through the affliction
from which our timid nature shrinks’
Terrible as the affliction may be in
prospect,and still more terrible as we
may find it in experience, there may
be after all this high and holy quali
ty in it—that it furthers the soul’s
fruitfulness and the soul’s beauty in
what it brings forth to God. We
cannot pray Tor the affliction; it
would be presumptions to do that;
but if it comes we can pray for grace
to got out of it whatever blessing
may bo in it.
A secular New York paper thinks
that “we are to have another sensa
tion.” because a gentleman of Cincin
nati, after seven years of study, “of
fers to any preacher five hundred
dollars who can prove that Christ
was crucified on Friday.” The im
pression seems to us groundless.
The discussion of the question whe
ther the crucifixion of Christ occur
ed on Friday or on Wednesday has
been progressing very quietly for a
number of years; and it is not of a
nature to excite either an acrimoni
ous or an enthusiastic interest, thus
lacking the elements of both the two
forms ol /eiWtion—‘th’e gashing and
the war-like. It is not a new thing
as the N. Y., paper supposes in its
want of acquaintance with religious
literature. Our secular journals of-
in this way, see fresh perils to
Christianity, or sometimes doubt
less affects to see them, where none
are.
The biblical recorder, of raleigh,
n. c., puts it this way “The Apostle
argues the precedence of Christiani
ty over Judaism.” Yes, so he did
but the current affectation of using a
low-case “o” in spelling Christianity
makes Judaism much the larger of
the two. It is all right to discard
the old English method of beginn
ing all nouns with capitals, as in the
original United States Constitution,
but we do pathetically beg that prin
ters and proof-readers spare us the
mortification of seeing the small “c”
in Christian, while the capital “J” be
gins Judaism. Just see to what this
ill-advised typal “reform” would
lead: wesleyan, calvinist, arminian,
confucianism, baptist, presbyterian,
romanisni, and raqny more like mon
strosities in type.
The German saloon-keepers of
Chicago recently sent to Congress a
petition in favor of opening the
World’s Fair on Sundays. This is
a significant fact. In showing what
type of men desire the op ening, it
sheds a gleam of probability’ on the
moral character of the opening itself,
it puts to silence, too, the plea that
the churches, in urging the closing of
the Fair, had the sympathy of the
saloon-keepers and were ensuring
them a larger Sunday sale of liquor
These Germans undeniably knew on
which side their pockets-interest lies,
and that knowledge prompted their
petition.
A Chacago lady said, not long
since, “Modesty becomes a woman,
whatever becomes a clergyman.”
This lady was, at the time, making
a speech, as a deligate of the “Wo
man’s Club” before a Committee of
Congress, and making it in behalf of
Sunday opening for the World’s
Fair! Modesty must bo in rather a
bad plight, we take it, to need such
a champion, and the clergyman whom
she could justly rebuke ought certain
ly to be “unfrocked” as the Romish
phase and fashon arc
UTAH-
Wilford Woodruff, President of
the Mormon Church, Utah, gives,
in The Independent, his reasons w’hy
that teritory should be admitted to
Statehood.
First, the people are denied a voice
in the selection of territorial officers,
and, the administration of local af
fairs, legislative, judicial, and exe
cutive, she is under Federal control.
Second. Her population is 207,905
more than that of Idaho, Nevada,
and Wyoming, adjoining states.
Third. Value of property 8200,-
000.000.
Fourth. Mineral product for 1891,
$16,000,000
Agricultural products for 1891,
$10,000,000.
Wool for 1892, 13,500,000,p0und5.
Sugar, ” 2,500,00 ”
Salt for 1891-2 300,000 tons.
Miles of railroad, 1,292
” ” Street railroads 74.
School property worth $1,500
000.
Children of school age 75,000.
Polygamy suspended.
Pek Contra. Rev. T. C. Iliff,
Superintendent Methodist Missions,
thinks that statehood should be de
ferred, two or three years.
While population, resources, intel
ligence, peaceableness, and morality
W’ould justify state-hood, yet, many
of the people, and the chief leaders,
oppose congressional legislation, and
go to prison rather than obey the
law against polygamy. Polygamy
is only suspended, nothing more.
Rev. S. E. Wishard, Pres. Mis
sionary, thinks that with state hood
the old conditions would bo restored,
and that church rule and polygamy
would prevail.
A GLANCE AHEAD.
I think that before the sun of this
century shall set, the last tyranny
will fall, and with a splendor of de
monstration that shall be the aston
ishment of the universe, God will
set forth the brightness and pomp
ami glory and perpetuity of his eter
nal government. Out of the starry
flags and the emblazoned insignia of
this world, God will make a path for
his own triumph, and returning from
universal contest, he will set down,
the grandest,strongest,highest throne
of earth his footstool.—Dr. Talmage,
Christian Herald.
Stilted rhetoric may do very wel'
on the rostrum, but it looks badly in
print. If Brother Talmage means
simply that civil and ecclesiastical
tyranny will end with the present
century, why not say so ? But what
can he mean by “starry flags and
emblazened insignia?” And the re.
velation that God will return “from
universal ccntest’’ and then “sit
down” somewhere or other, whilst it
is eminently Talmagean, will strike
the matter-of-fact reader as being a
little curious.
DEATH OF EEV. 0- M. IRWIN.
Bro. Irwin died at the home of
his son, Chas. B. Irwin, Atlanta, Ga.
on Thursday morning, Febuary,
23.
Ho had been in feeble health for
some time and his departure was not
unexpected.
His quiet, peaceful death was the
result of a long life of consecration
to the service of the Master, of con
sistent Christian conduct, of a good
hope through grace, and of unwaver
ing faith.
He was in the seventy-ninth year
of his age. No man stood higher in
the esteem and affections of his
brethren. His was a noble life, nobly
ended.
PASTORAL CHANGES.
Ninny preachers are without pas
torates. Many churches are with,
out pastors.
Many preachers desire better pla
ces, larger fields of usefulness, larger
salaries included.
Many churches desire bigger prea
chers, and better pastors.
To stop frequent changes, and to
secure longer terms of service, to
supply churches without pastors, and
preachers without pastorates, let the
churches pass the men who are al
ready at work, and call into their
service the men who are without
work.
DEATH OF MRS- T- 0. BOYKIN
We were much surprised and
greatly grieved at the announcement
of the death of Mrs. Boykin, wife of
Rev. T. C. Boykin, State S. S. Evan
gelist.
It was quite sudden, but found
her ready. Her lamp was trimmed
and burning. She was a woman of
marked piety, and an active Chris
tian worker. Her death creates a
vacancy in the church at Decatur
that will be long felt and hard to
fill.
We tender our sincere sympathy
to Bro. Boykin in his sorrow. The
bereavement is grievous, but grace
sufficient to bear it is promised.
Obituary will appear later.
TRAMP SUFFERAGE.
Another step in the subjugation of
the United States to the Papacy is
the appointment of Satolli as Perma
nent Apostolic Deligate to this coun -
try. The great cities have already
been so flooded with immigrantsjthat
they are in the control of Catholics,
and now these forces are to be cap
tained by this lieutenant of the Pope
The centers and citadels of our po
litical powers arein the hands of the
followers of this foreign despot, w’ho
never allows religious or civil liber
ty where he is master.—Christian
Standard.
The remedy is simple, effective)
and easy of application. Let the
Congress of the United States cease
to make this a dumping ground for
the refuse of Europe; and then so
revise our naturalization laws as that
aliens must become Americanized
before becoming citizens with the
ballot in their hands. If we have
not the manhood and courage to do
this then we shall deserve to be sub
jugated.
Elder A. W. King has been called
to the pastorate of the church at
Ozan, Ark.
Bro. A. N. Couch, by request of
the church at Trenton, Ky., has
been set apart to the gospel minis
try.
Rev A. M. Bardaman has entered
upon the active duties of his new
pastorate at Campbellsville church in
Kentucky.
The Pembroke church in Ken
tucky has been blessed with a gra
cious meeting recently. Over 30
members have been baptized and
some professions of faith.
Rev. W. N. Alfred of Monroe Pa.
has accepted a call to the churches
at Sardis and Batesville, Miss., and
entered upon the discharge of the
duties of his new field.
Rev. A. V. Rowe has been elected
by the State Mission Board of Miss
ssippi, to be the corresponding,
seccretary, in place of Rev. J. T.
Christian, who recently resigned this
place.
The Arkansas Baptist states that
within a circle of six miles there are
seven Baptist churches with a mem
bership of 35G. This is dotting the
earth pretty closely with Baptist
churches.
The trustees of Georgetown col"
lege have appointed a committee,
and directed that committee to se
cure a successor to Dr. Dudley, the
late president, and to make their
nomination known to the board at its
next meeting.
Rev. J. W. Mallard of the seminary
at Louisville, becomes pastor of the
church at Buffalo Lick. Dr. Whitsitt
of the seminary has been requested
by the students, to lecture for them
on “The Present Outlook Os Roman
Catholicism In The United States.’’
If he decides to accept the invitation
they will have something interest
ing.
The West End church of Ashville, N.
C., has been organized with 67 members.
Rev. M. T. Andrews supplies Ham
mond, La., in connection with his other
work.
During a recent meeting at Benton
ville, Ark., there were 14 accessions to
the church.
It is announced, Texas Baptist and
Herald, that the debt of Baylor Univer
sitylacks only $2,500 liquidation.
’ Prof. Godet, the celebrated Biblical
scholar ot Geneva, though in his eighti
eth year, is still actively at work.
The church at Holly Springs, Miss., is
without a pastor, Bro. h. D. Miller hav
ing retired on account of poor health.
Rev. B. G. Manard, of Bristol, Tenn.,
has been on a visit to the church at
Bowie; Tex., with a view to the pastor
ate.
Rev. J. R, Hughes, of Searcy, Ark..
says the Herald and Baptist, has his
mind turned towards Texas and a Texas
pastorate.
The Black Diamond church, Win.
Prasser clerk, Puyallups, Washington,
are seeking a pastor, and desire corres
pondence.
Dr. G. W. Pickett, pastor of the Sec
ond church, Houston Texas., has with
drawn his resignation and will remain
where he is.
Stanford University. California has in
all deportments 740 ' students of which
200 are ladies. The full expense of each
student is only $23 a month.
Rev. Geo. A. Fair of the Divinity
school, University of Chicago has be
come pastor of the North Yakima
church in the new state, Washington.
Rev. Win, Corkery of Milwalkce, Wis.
has accepted the call to Tacoma City
Mission, and is an acceptable addition
to the Baptist ministerial strength
there.
The now house of worship at Olive
street Baptist church is completed. It
was used the first time. Sunday, Jan.
19th. Rev. J. M. Carroll* preached the
sermon.
S .1). Taylor was ordained to to the
full work of the ministry by the church
at Refuge, Ark., Feby. sth. He has
been called to the charge of the church
for this year.
Dr, J. T. Christian of Jackson, Miss.,
is an applicant for the consulate at Leip
sic. He is said to boa good German
scholar, well posted in public affairs, and
in every way, qualified for the office.
Lake Side College lately under the
care of Profs Woodall and Fountain,
has been closed, the furniture removed,
and the building rented out.
Sister Eliza M. Yates of Shanghai,
China, arrived at San Francisco, Cal., on
February Ist, aud she says: “I am glad
to report myself as none the worse for
the journey.”
John F. Dunn, of Ocala, Fla., died re
cently. He was the founder of the Mer
chants National Bank and was president
at his death. Ho was a man of public
spirit and much usefulness, and will be
greatly missed.
The Baptists of Orlando, Fla.,have ad
vertised for sealed bids on their house of
worship, and expect to begin work on it
soon. Pastor S. M. Hughes is encour
aged in his work. Two members were
lately received.
Dr. McVicar, of the American Baptist
Home Mission Society, lately addressed
the Baptists of Ocala, Fla., in regard to
the establishment of a colliege for the
negroes of Fla.
A committee was appointed to secure
cooperation in selecting a suitable site,
and in pushing the undertaking to suc
cess.
H. E. Barrell, of Byculla Baptist church
Bombay, states, in London Baptist, that
Rev. J. R. Hewisson has accepted charge
of an English speaking Baptist church
at Allahabad, India. He calls upon
English Baptists to contribute to Mr.
Hewisson’s support.
G. W. Hartfield, in Baptist Chronicle,
says:
“Bro. Barnett’s course in theology
has been very satisfactory in Mt. Leba
non. The Mt. Lebanon college, La., is
putting in good work now. President
Robinson is verifying all that Dr. H. 11.
Harris said about him.”
Rev. Mr. McLeod, late of Florida, a
Baptist minister, has located at Martin’s
Mill. It is probable that he will get em
ployment from the executive board of
the New Bethlehem Associations, as a
missionary is wanted—Texas Baptist
Standard.
The death is announced of Elder C.
Cornell, of the Metropolitan Tabernacle.
For many years ho has been secretary of
the Spurgeon's Sermons, Tract Society.
On Monday and Thursday evenings he
used to stand by the Tabernacle steps,
selling Mr. Spurgeon’s sermons, after
wards giving the profit to the fund for
circulating them as loan tracts.—Lonn
don Baptist.
The church at Eufala, Ala., now with
out a pastor, has recently been visited
by Rev. Mr. Johnson, of Columbus, Miss,
upon invitation. He may receive a call.
Why dont the churches which are
without pastors call those preachers
who are without pastorates’? It would
put more anxious men to work, cause
less disturbance in the churches, fewer
changes, more steadfastness, and better
results to preachers and people.
Rev. W. C. Luther tells of Sunday
school misssons in Texas, in Baptist
Standard.
There are twenty-two Sunday-school
missionaries now in the field organizing
Sunday schools. The State Baptist Con
vention meets, June 23, at Dallas, With
First Church.
It is designed to raise $5,000 for Sun
day-school missions by June 15th. In
stead of establishing a Sunday-chools
paper, Dr, Luther will continue his ed
itorial connection with the Missioning
Messenger, of which J. .M Carroll is edi
tor, and control one-third of that paper
in the interest of Sunday-schools.
An earnest appeal for help to bnild a
a house of worship in Pensacola, Fla.,
is made by the pastor, Rev. A, P. Pugh.
It is endorsed by Brother Chaudoin, and
Dr. J. Win. Joqes.
The class rooms are to seat’4oo, and
the auditorium 700. When completed
the cost will be $25,000.
Pensacola, situated on Pensacola Bay,
one of the finest natural harbors in the
United States, has a population of 12,-
000,
It is an important point, and the work
the Baptists there have in hand de
serves encouragement and material aid.
A letter from Rev. J. V. Cova, Ha
vana, Cuba, to Dr. Tichnor correspond
ing secretary, Home Board, and publish
ed in Feby. number of Our Home Field,
contains telegrams from Madrid, an
nouncing that Mr. Sagosta, the Prime
Minister of State, had refused
the request of certain Catholics
in the Spanish Capital not to allow a
Protestant church to be built there.
The minister said that such a prohi
bition was not only against tolerance,
but against “liberty of worship and con
science.”
This principle applies to Cuba as well
as to Spain.
Mr. Geo. W. Cook
Os St. Johnsbury, Vt
Like a Waterfall
Great Suffering
After the Crip
Tremendous Roaring in the Head
Pain in the Stomach.
“To C. I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass.:
“Two years ago I had a severe attack of the
Grip, which left me in a terribly weak and de
bilitated condition. Last winter I had another
attack and was again very badly off, my health
nearly wrecked. My appetite was all gone, I
had no strength, felt tired nil the time, had
disagreeable roaring noises in my bead, like a
waterfall. I also had severe headaches and
Severe Sinking Pains
In my stomach. I took medicines without ben
efit. until, having heard so much about Hood’s
Sarsaparilla, 1 concluded to try It. and the re
sult Is very gratifying. All the disagrcablo
effects of the Grip are gone, I am free from
pains and aches, and believe
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
Is surely curlnn my catarrh. I recommend tt
to all.” Gbo. W. Cook. Ht. Johnshury, Vt
HOOD'S PILLS cure Nausea. Sick H»a<!ach%
Indigestion, lilllousne is. Hold by all druggists.
Johnson grass
—AND
Seed,
We have a good supply of choice, well clean
ed .lohnsoti Grass end Melilotus Seed for sail
Correspondence -elicited
C. YOUNG ft UKO.. Selma. Ala,
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