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THE ROYAL PRINCIPLE-
James speaks of the “royal law’’
of love, and Peter calls Christ’s re
deemed ones a “royal priesthood.”
Christians are indeed a royal race.
They are of royal parentage —chil-
dren of the King Eternal, and heirs
of the crown of glory that fadeth not
away ! As such, they have the royal
law by which to live. We have
called it the royal principle. The
thought was suggested by reading a
sermon recently delivered by the
eminent Methodist) pastor, Dr. J. W.
Lee, of this City. Dr. Lee said:
“Many people speak of duty as a
load and look upon religious exercise
as a sort of necessary penance. Such
people are poor starvelings and do
not partake of Christ. It is as nat
ural to pray, to sing, to rejoice, to
praise, as it is to breathe, when the
spirit feeds daily of Christ. Many
people serve God by resolution an
nually rcnewd and daily departed
from, but persons who feed on Christ
serve God, like lambs skip and play,
because they can’t help it 1 ”
We like that, for it is both poetic
and right. It is sadly true that very
many ('hristians conceive of all ser
vice for Christas “bearing the cross.”
They think of the Christian life as a
kind of galley-slave existence, in
which they must go the dreary round
of uncongenial toil. They know lit
tle, if anything, of the uplifting of
the face toward the sky ; of the holy
enthusiasm born of abiding peace in
a joyous heart. Dr. Lee’s conception
of the life of faith is a happy one.
We should ever go on our way re
joicing, realizing what a gracious
privilege God hath granted us in
that we are permitted to be labor
ers in the vineyard of his Christ.
The great trouble with far too
many Christians is, that they are try
ing to servo Christ by rule rather
principle. They are perplexed about
many things pertaining to prescribed
action. They are continually look
ing for rules and precepts regulative
of conduct. They search the Now
Testament to lind such rules, rather
than to feed on its precious truths,
which alone can nourish in thorn a
healthy and vigorous spiritual princi
ple. How frequently do wo hear
such expressions as those: “Whore
are wo forbidden to do this or that
thing?” “What is the harm in this
or that ? ” “The Bible docs not say
we must do this or that.” Such nar
row questioning knows nothing of
living except by the motes and
bounds of proscribed rules; it is ig
norant of the higher sphere of loving
thought in which the royal principle
sways the soul. Ho whose heart
has learned aright the royal law,
needs no other rule, for “love is the
fulfilling of the law.” Just here wo
recall a weighty paragraph from a
book of much repute a few years
ago, Dr. Strong’s little volume on
“Our Country.” Wo quote :
“There is always a tendency to
substitute form for spirit, rules for
principles. It is so much easier to
conform the conduct to a rule than
to make a principle inform the whole
life. Moses prescribed rules; Christ
inculcated principles! Bules for
children ; principles for men! ”
Dr. Strong wrote nothing bettor
in his entire book. I low much high
er and nobler is the Christian ideal
of life! And there is another para
graph in the same vein, which wo
clip from the Sunday School Times :
“Even the ten commandments are
not—as we well know—final, at least
not in their letter, but are designed
as a schoolmaster, says the apostle,
to graduate us into that higher life
in Christ where wo shall no longer
need to bo commanded, but where
tho inner condition may safely be
trusted to shape the outer life, and
not the outer life have to be pre
scribed by law to shape the inner
condition.”
Os course there are prescribed
forms commanded in the gospel.
The two ordinances—baptism and
tho supper—belong to the realm of
rule. They are to bo kept as the
Lord delivered them to us, both in
their letter and spirit. Yet, even in
observing these, the royal principle
is to prevail as motive and inspira
tion. Wo obey the Master in these
because wo lovo him. When one
begins to ask, “Is baptism essential
to salvation ? ” or “Is it necessary
to do just as the New Testament
prescribes? Will not a more con
venient form do as well ? ” ho has
descended from the lofty sphere of
principle, and is grovelling on the
lower piano of action; he is moved
only by the sordid thought of gain,
obeying only because of reward, and
seeking to place his convenience
above the word of his Lord.
Zeno, tho Stoic, being asked,
“wherein doos your philosophy differ
from that of others ? ” replied: “In
this, that even if there were no law
against the wrong, we would still do
the right from principle.” That
comes within whispering distance
of the Christian ideal. The gospel
knows no nobler reason for duty
than the sublime one given by Paul.
“For this is right ! ” Fill the sou;
full of love; let it feed daily on
Christ’s blessed food; living and
walking in the sunshine of spiritual
communion, with face lifted heaven
ward, and the royal principle shall
ever lead into all truth and righte
ousness.
The opponents of capital punish
ment appear to think that there is
no humanity abroad in the land but
theirs. They credit themselves with
a monopoly of all merciful feeling
on the question, as to the restraint
of crime by legal penalties. The one
conclusive refutation of their claim
is, that as an assumption of superiori
ty to the God of the Scriptures in
goodness and compassion, it must bo
groundless. But waiving that line
of thought, the claim is discredited
again and again by a great variety
of facts more or less out of harmony
with it. A fact of this kind is fur
nished by Pierre Bolkine, Secretary
of tho Russian Legation at Washing
ton, in a paper contributed to the
“Century” in defence of his country-
Ho says : “The death-penalty is in
flicted in Russia only in exceptional
cases; it is reserved for those con
victed of an attempt on the life of
the Czar, and for those found guilty
of certain other crimes committed
during what is called a state of siege;
imprisonment or exile to Siberia is
adopted for ordinary criminals, in
cluding the general run of murder
ers.” Now, if it is humanity that
forbids tho infliction of the death
penalty, why should tho country
which has virtually abolished this
penalty, abolished it in every case of
that crime for murder for which it
was divinely appointed, except one
case only-—prove to be, of all coun
tries, Russia, tho least civilized of
European lands, whoso name Siberia
has made a synonym throughout the
world for barbarity and brutalism!
In this case at least, capital punish
ment has been set aside by a type of
humanity so queer as to justify our
repudiation of its act and of itself.
Paul did not write to Timothy,
“The gift of God which is in thee
will stir thee up.” That scarcely
needed tho saying, for whatever is of
God, in the sphere of spirit, is life is
force, is power, and must and will
act. But it acts in the soul into
which it enters to abide, largely
through tho soul’s own personality
and will. So Paul wrote, “I put
thee m remembrance that thou stir
up tho gift of God which is in thee.’’
There is a mutual interaction. The
gift stirs up tho soul to will and to
work, by the sense of obligation, by
the feeling of hopefulness in labor,
by the recognition of evil to bo pre
vented or good to bo accomplished,
and by the joy of loving, pure activ
ity. Tho soul by willing and work
ing stirs up tho gift to a richer in
dwelling and a higher potency, since
its impulse is confessed as authority
and its help is trusted as power and
its fellowship is welcomed as blessed
ness. Only on the human side can
there bo failure in this interaction.
Oh, Christian brother, lot us put
each other in remembrance, as Paul
put his “son in tho gospel,” lest we
should fail just here. It is true
godly lovo not only to give, but also
to receive this warning ; lot us thank
each other for it, as Timothy thanked
his “father in the faith.” Thus, in
striving to stir each other up, wo
stir up the gift that is in us. For
this is truth for each and all: ho
who stirs, ho who only strives to
stir, another in the ways ot God, is
himself stirred by God's sweet, co
operant grace.
We do not remember ever to have
heard anyone condemn the apostle
Paul, when ho shook off the deadly
viper that fastened on his hand, for
shaking it into the fire. It is not a
hard thing to do plausibly, and there
are those who, for consistency’s sake,
ought to do it—the men who would
shield human vipers from those
severities of law against the guilty
which are (norciful kindnesses toward
society nt large. Rev. Thomas Dix
on, Jr., of New York, for example
wno has published recently a paper
on the political and social condition
of tho world » hundred years to
come. He says, in that paper, that
the sentiment of the age is against
capital punishment, that practically
it has now already collapsed, and
that it will be abolished. As though
in this matter, God hud made for the
THE CHRISTIAN INDEX: THURSDAY APRIL 20, 1893.
race an unwise and cruel law, afford
ing man one opportunity to be a
better legislator for himself than his
Maker has been for him, and to show
more than his Maker’s goodness and
compassion in tempering justice with
mercy! Better “the fire for the
viper” than this ; far better, we are
sure. The vipers ought to say so,
too, but they are the most vehement
in refusing to say it.
Here is a writer who speaks of
musicians who “attacked a nocturne
by Chopin,” and of choirs that “at
tacked Mendelssohn’s ‘Greeting.’ ’»
Not that they are brought under the
least suspicion of feeling a hostile
intent or of making a violent onset -
their delighted interest as the one
thing put beyond question. The ex
pression seems to be built on the
assumption that in proportion to the
excellencies of a musical composition,
the attempt to render it must take
somewhat the difficulty of a task and
somewhat the uncertainty of a prob
lem ; and that hero even the interest
that glows into delight, may, by
reason of more or less unfelt incom
petence, do the harmful work, in a
measure, of violent onset arid hostile
intent. Perhaps, the rendering may
be all the better for this line of
thought, for tho care it inspires and
the perseverance it actuates. And
may not a preacher feel at times that
his sermon barely “attacks” the text>
and what is grand in it, and what is
profound, and what startling, and
what melting ? May not this feeling,
too, move him to “attack” the sermon,
and to better it with more exact re
search and more patient study and
more fervent prayer ?
We met somewhere the ludicrous
conception of a girl who went to the
sea-shore for a day in the summer,
and could not bathe because “some,
tody else was using the ocean” just
then! Os course, no one could ever
question and limit the capacity of
the natural ocean in this style. It is
only tho ocean of tho love of God
and grace of Christ which wo so cir.
cuinscribe and narrow in our
thoughts as to believe that at any
time or for any reason tho soul can
not bathe therein and wash its sins
away. Oh, when we seek for mercy
and salvation it is an ocean wo are
using, an infinite ocean without shore
or shallow, enough for each,
“enough for all, enough for
over Sinner, plunge into
the cleansing, healing waves, with
out fear or hesitation; neither are
your sins too many to bo washed
away, nor are its waters too few to
wash them away; plunge now into
the Jordan for soul-leprosy, entering
a guiltier and more hopeless Naaman
than of old, emerging a Naaman hap
pier and more blessed because puri
fied consciously unto the life ever
lasting and the eternal glory.
It has been the custom in Dela
ware for many years, to make annual
distribution among tho Sunday
schools of the state, without distinc
tion as to sect, of a sum of money
appropriated by tho legislature for
that purpose. We know that there
are barely more than two thousand
Baptists in that State ; but this “little
flock” must surely have been hereto
fore of a kind contradictory to the
old Puritan saying, that “the Lord
has no dumb children.” Had they
not been dumb, how could this cus
tom have survived the outcry they
must have raised against it? We
are glad to know that tho custom is
likely to come to an end at last, and
to come to an end through Baptist
opposition to it.
Ax Infrequent Necessity. —
Hotel Clerk (to guest from Arkan
sas). —“Will you want a room with
a bath connected, sir?” Guest.—
“No, I reckon not. I won’t be in
town more than a couple of weeks;
and, besids, I took a bath only a few
days before I loft Little Rock.”—
Texas Siftings.
If this guest, from Arkansas is a
real person, tho probabilities are
that, conforming his opinions to his
tastes and habits, he docs not be
lieve in immersion for baptism.
Aversion to water is hard to con
vince on that subject.
The papers not long since, men
tioned a maiden lady of Westport
Conn., who had not missed a regular
service at her church in fifty-five
years- Great must have been the
health of body which made this
thing possible; greater still, let us
hope, the health of soul which made
it actual. It is certain, at least,
that a vigorous piety never needless
ly neglects a regular attendance on
tbs worship of God and the means
of grace. There is one psalm, if no
more, which the Christian world
will never outgrow; ono which that
world in every age will increasingly
show itself as growing up to and
into. The last generation of believ
ers, and all the generations beween
them and ourselves, will sing; “How
amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord
of hosts!"
At the World’s Fair in Chicago,
four hundred pianos will be so joined
by electric appliances that the musi
cian in playing one of them plays
all. The keys of only a single in
strument pass under his touch, but
in response to that touch the corres
ponding tones are given forth by th e
whole multitude of instruments.
How the power of the music will be
augmented by this concourse and
concord of sweet sounds! And how
would the effect be marred, if a pi
ano, or a group of pianos here and
there should prove at fault in tune
or time, and break the current of
harmony with clashing, discordant
notes! The four hundred pianos
blending their united strains in one
vast ocean-tide of music are a fit im
age for Christian fellowship accord
ing to the Scriptural ideal of it, when
“tho multitude of those that believe
are of ono heart and of one soul,”
and “glorify God, even the Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ, with one
mind and one mouth.” Fit image,
too, is furnished by the pianos fall
ing out of harmony with the rest
and spoiling in great part the witch
ing and majestic issues which the
restjwithout them would have won
and worn as a crown of blessing, for
the murmurings and disputings, the
the spirit of strife and faction, the
bitter envying and the unsparing
jealousy, which at times creep into
tho church and mingle wormwood
and gall into its fellowship. May
we not say, also, that the Chicago
musician might well put forth a hes
itant, timid stroke to the keys of
the piano before him, at the
thought that this stroke is responsi
ble, not for its effect on the single
instrument alone, but for the volume
of sound that shall be evoked from
the whole four hundred pianos? and
say, ’further, that, in like manner,
influence and especially marked in.
fluence on the part of Christians,
which is in fact power to make or
to mar fellowship among believers,
ought to be recognized tremblingly
as a solemn gift, standing before con
science with the stern and rugged
front of resjionsibility to searching
divine judgment?
We print in another column the
full report of our efficient and zeal
ous Corresponding Secretary Dr-
J. G. Gibson, He has lost no time
the past year and his report makes a
fine showing for missions by the
Baptists of Georgia the past year-
The report shows an increase for
missions.
The figures show an aggregate of
8117,842.97, which is more than any
previous year. The Board starts
the New year entirely out of debt.
The brethren are to be congratula.
ted on the work of Dr. Gibson and
his accomplished assistant, Miss Sallie
Hartsfield. She furnished the Index
tho full report, beautifully type
written, and in fine business shape.
Read the report and see what it con
tains.
Wo have in our country ono tract
of land against which no war can
ever be declared and in which no
battle can ever bo fought. It is the
land on the borders of the blue-grass
region Indiana, given to tho Ameri
can National Red Cross Society.
Forty nations have bound them
selves by treaty to hold it harmless
and holy as neutral ground. This
heritage of perpetual peace, of peace
against a world in arms, of peace
through a thousand generations,
how strange it sounds and is! But
it is only an image, and a feeble im
age at that, of the safety which walls
in every soul united to Christ, amid
all tho strifes and desolations of the
world.
How God lovos life, how in this
afiection ho fills and overfills all
spheres and spaces with it, is illus
trated by tho statement which sounds
incredible that any square mile of
the sea contains 120,000,000 fishes
of various kinds. Whore we see his
hand of creative power, wo may see
as well his heart of fatherly regard.
Oh that there may be no sin of ours,
to turn that heart from us and that
hand against us.
Rev. E. R. Carswell, of Gonzalos,
Texas,has been aiding pastor Touch
stone in a meeting at Marlin.
It is said that Rev. T. G. Jones,
lately of the First church Norfolk,
Va., will Lake a professorship in
■Southwestern Female Institute.
In his recent visit to this country,
after an interval of ten years, the
novelist, F. Marion Crawford, rece
ived the impression that the drinking
habit is declining here. We would
fain hope that he is correct in this
view. It would rejoice us if we
could look forward to such a scarce
ly of spiritous liquors as shall render
J t no longer possible anywhere on
American soil that a girl of five
years (as in Kentucky recently)
should die drunk. But we have
serious misgivings on the subject.
The trend may be different in differ
ent communities; it doubtless is so;
but we fear notwithstanding the
cheering tokens of reform in many
localities, that the stream of influence
on the whole sets in the wrong di
rection, and taking the country at
large the drinking habit grows among
our people. At any rate, the tem
perance battle can hardly be count
ed as W’on for the generation now
stepping to the front; and we see no
assured augury of victory for the
generation that shall follow. There
is as urgent a call as ever for strenu
ous effort on the part of Christians
to bring the power of the gospel to
bear upon this question, as the only
power that can work the thorough
cure of the evil, where the evil, like
all others, necessarily begins,—that
is, in the heart. Let the family, the
school, the church, the pulpit, the
press, do what they may to carry
the good work forward. Not to
recognize the sacred, inescapable ob
ligation, is it not to have no consci
ence? Not to feel the yearning, ten
der, pitiful desire, is it not to have
no heart? And to lack these, is it
not to be no Christian; nay, is it not
to be no man?
Mrs. Mary Hunt, Life Director of
the National Educational Associa
tion, reports in “Our Day” for Feb
ruary, a speech of hers before the
Woman’s Christian Temperance Un
ion Convention, at Denver, in which
occurs this statement: “N a p e 1 e o n
said, ‘Let me make the songs of a
nation, and I care not who makes
their laws.’ ” Perhaps he said it>
the countless possibilities of human
speech restrain us from peremptory
denial. But if he did say it, we in
cline to think it was by a spice of pla
giarism on his part. The sentiment
is older by a hundred years than he.
Andrew Fletcher, of Saltown, Scot
land, in a letter to the Marqnis of
Montrose, wrote: “I know a very
wise man who believed, that, if a man
were permitted to make all the bal
lads, he need not care who should
make the laws of a nation.” But no
matter who may be the author, is it
true? We donbt it: we disbelieve it.
Human nature is not so pliable that
either its enormities or even its foi
bles can be sungjaway. No people
can sing itself into order and peace
and virtue and religion. Law is
needed more than song, and grace
more than law, and in grace the per
sonal God and personal Saviour, that
the world may know the salvation
which pertains no less to the pres
ent than to the future life.
Ex-Senator J. J. Ingalls of Kansas,
has a fine article in Harper's Maga
zine for April, in which he gives
valuable testimony concerning the
success of prohibition. From very
much that is good we quote as fol.
lows:
“After futile and costly resistance*
the dram shop traffic has disappeared
from the State. Surreptitious sales
continue, club drinking and “joints”
are not unknown, but the saloon has
vanished, and the law has been bet
ter enforced than similar legislation
elswhere. In the larger towns pro
hibition is not so strictly observed
as in the rural districts, where public
opinion is more rigid; but in all lo
calities the beneficent results are ap
parent in the diminution of crime,
poverty, and disorder. Banned by
law; the occupation is stigmatized
and disreputable. If the offender
avoids punishment, ho does not es
cape contempt. Drinking being in
secret, temptation is diminished, the
weak are protected from their infirm
ities, and the young from their appe
tites and passions.”
There appears to be some misap
prehension as to the extent to which
the Jews are seeking a home in Pal
istine. Rev. Dr. Selah Merrill, for
many years U. S. consul in Jerusa
lem, says that those coming from
other lands arc mostly aged persons
who wish to die there and to be bur
ied in tho Mount of Olives, the Jew
ish cemetery, and that these generally
arc poor peasants from Russia. This
state of things, surely, puts no aspect
of hopefulness on the fervid dreams
in which certain interpreters of
prophecy indulge tracking the flock-
ing hosts that must prelude the res
toration of the sons of Abraham
(after the flesh) to the land of prom
ise (after the law).
There is a saying ascribed to Budd
ha: “All we are is the result of
what we have thought.” Is it not
true that thought moulds character ?
On the other hand, it may be said
that what we think is the result
what we have been. For, is it not
true also that character controls
thought? The two processes go for
ward together, and by their mutual
interaction make the good more se
curely good and the evil more incur
ably evil. God commands character:
bis great mandate is “Be ! Bo holy '
Be as I am!” And in order to this
he commands thought: his second
mandate, like unto the first, is “Think!
Think truth! Think according to my
Word and Spirit!”
Rev, C. H, Strickland of Sioux
City lowa, gives the Baptist and
Reflector an interesting letter about
his work and lowa matters generally
During the four years of Bro,
Strickland’s pastorate he has had
40(Baccesions, or an average of 100
per year.
The following figures will show
how lowa ranks as an agricultural
state.
“Last year the corn product was
estimated to be worth 8100,000,000;
horses, 877,000,000; cattle, 870,000,-
000; hay, butter, etc., 833,000,00 - (
oats 825.000,000; wheat 26,000,-
000 ; hogs, 829,000,000. These
> ith other items mentioned in the
agricultural report make a grand
total of about 8449,000,000.
Baptist educational interests are
prosperous. There are three schools
of high graduates, Osage Seminary,
Central College and Des Moines Col
lege. In the last there are about
forty young men and women prepar
*ng for the ministry and foreign mis
sion work.
At the First church Knoxville
there has been a considerable in
gathering'; Seventy five professions,
30 received for baptism.
At the Centennial church after a
series of meetings just closed there
were 34 professions, and 19 received
for baptism.
There are only two Baptist
hurches in Lynchburg, Va., having
an aggregate membership of 1,300.
Os this number 1,200 belong to
the First church and 600 to College
Hill church. The latter propose to
build a new and larger house soon.
The city has a population of 25,000.
Fourth St. church Richmond, Va.,
has granted Rev. H. F. Williams pas
tor, a vacation of five months on ac
count of his health. Rev. J. T.
Hart of Richmond College will take
his place during vacation.
On his last birthday, Rev. J. L. D-
Hillyer, pastor at Key West Fla., re.
ceived from tho sisters of his church
and elegant new suit of clothes, a
fine silk hat and other articles to
complete the outfit.
Rev. R. W. Norton has resigned
the pastorate of the church at Union
City, Tenn., his resignation to take
effect at once. He has been there
quite a long time.
Rev. C. G. Jones now pastor of
the First church,Chattanooga,Tenn.,
has been called to the First church
at Roanoke,Va. Bro. Jones has been
in Chattanooga less than a year.
Rev. W. H. Majors, of Tenn., and
a gradnate of the seminary at Louis
ville, has been called to the South
Church, Austin, Texas and begins
work June next.
Dr. W. A. Nelson has accepted
the call of the church at Hawkins
ville, Ga. He was formerly pastor
at Aiken, S. C.
Col. Walter Gwynn, a deacon of
the Baptist church, Sanford, Fla., re
ports our cause there in healthy
spiritual conditon,
The Central church Chattanooga
Tenn., has received eight member B
by baptism as the result of late meet
ing. Rev. R. D. Haymore pastor.
Rev. J. H.Neely formerly of Bax
ley, Ga., has moved to Toxas and
proposes to give his whole time to
preaching.
Dr. W. E. Hatcher,Richmond,Va.,
will deliver the annual literary ad
dress at Carson and Newman College
Tenn., June 17 th.
Rev. R. P. Davant formerly pas
tor First Baptist church Houston,
Texas, has accepted a call to the
church of Wharton.
Dr. J. S. Wharton, pastor at Fer
has had a good meeting in his church.
Twelve conversions reported.
The First church at Jackson Ten
nessee. as the result of the late meet
ing, has received thirty accessions
by baptism twenty by letter and one
by restoration. Others are to follow.
The church has been revived and
the community awakened to a sense
of religious responsibility. Rev.
R. J. Willingham, D. D., preached
eight days during the meet
ing. C. W. Daniel, a student of the
of University at Jackson was ordain
ed to the ministry.
Rev. Jerry R. Clark, who was pastor 1
at Millford,Texas, died of pneumonia
April 2nd. He was regarded as one
of the ablest Baptist preachers in Tex
as. If we mistake not he was the
son of the late Jeremiah Clark of
Eatanton, Ga., and a brother of Wil
liam Clark, formerly missionary to
Africa. Texas has sustained heavy
loss recently in the death of Camp
bell, Smith,Stribbling and Clark.
Rev. Thos. Spurgeon son of Chas-
H. Spurgeon has been called to
preach at Metropolitan Temple, Lon
don, for one year. The name of Rev
Jas. Spurgeon, and of Dr. A. T.
Pierson, were before the church.
The son was chosen to succeed his
father by a majority of 2000 votes.
That settles the matter for a time
at least. We pray that a double
portion of the Spirit may rest upon
the son.
Dr. J. A. Gambrell intends to de
liver his lecture on “The Great
South” in some of thenorthern cities.
The Dr. made things quite lively
by some speeches which he made at
the northern Baptist anniverseries
two or three years ago. It is pro
bable that his hearers will not sleep,
under his coming lecture.
Rev. Joseph Hilgert, pastor of a
church at Dorpat,Russia has been ex
iled to the Ural for delivering a tem
perance lecture and denouncing tho
liquor traffic as a worse evil than
cholera.
The liquor tax yields an income of
40,000,0U0 rubles to the Russian
government.
It is said that the object the Pope
had in sending Satolli to the United
States was to prevent the adoption
ot the Sixteenth Amendment to the
constitution which is designed to pro
vent the appropriation of public
money to the support of sectarian
schools.
On April 10th Rev. Jos. Walker de
livered a lecture in Grace Stlchurch
Richmond, Va., in commemoration
of his 89th birthday. It contains a
synopsis of his own official life, and
doubtless will interest Baptists of
Georgia as well as of Va. He was
once editor of the Christian Index.
Rev. W. H. Vardeman a very
highly esteemed Baptist Minister,
died at Wentzville, Mo., March 24
in his 77th year. He was a son of
the famous Jeremiah Vardeman.
C. M. Anderson, a member of tho
First Church, Memphis, Tenn.,
and a ministerial student of the Uni
versity at Jackson, died recently of
pneumonia.
Hon. Sam’l Pasco was renominat
ed for the U. S. Senate,'by acclama
ion. a few days ago by Florida leg
sture. Mr. Pasco is a Baptist.
Bro. E, B, Hatcher has been call
ed to the First church Norfolk Va.
and paid the church a visit lately,
spying out the land.
J. 11. Holcomb, senior deacon of
the Baptist church at Gatesvilte,
Texas, died recently in his sixtyeth
year.
Rev.J. M. Carroll, Baptist Mission
ary Secretary of Texas, has been laid
up for some time with a severe attack
of grip.
We are glad to learn from tho
Arkansas Baptist that the health of
Gov. Eagle gradually improves.
The Central church., Memphis
Tenn-, has lately received eleven
accesions by baptism.
The State Convention of the Tex
as B. Y. P. U., meets at Waco,April
25th.
Rev. W. F. Dorris has entered up
on his work as pastor of the Second
Church,Jackson,Tenn.
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