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THE “CHURCH” IDEA-
AVe have recently editorially con.
considered the Roman Catholic idea
of the Bible and its authority. We
Lave alio considered the Question of
’Cliristi n m.ion in the uniting of the
sects. Now, when it comes to
“practical” plans for accomplishing
this latter feat, for facetious self,
complacency commend us to our
dear friends of ‘ the church” other
wise yclept Episcopalians. Os course
every body expects the Romanists
tojcilinly oiler absorption into the
R. . tau fold as the only possible so-
Jut < f “sect .ri.inism.” But, then
“the ( hurch” is commonly supposed
to be “Protestant,” as its chosen ;
r .me implies, 'l ine we are aware !
tii"! > largo number of her adher- ,
cuts bat e long been clamorous for I
lb a erasure of the words “Brotestant '
Episcopal,” and the substitution of
the name “American Catholic,” as
the official designation of the Church.
As yet, we are gratified to say, the
effort has met with stern, and un
yielding hostility from the masses
of her clergy and laity; and we be
lieve the majority of Episcopalians
sincerely love the fundamental doc
trines of Protestantism as opposed
to Roman Catholicism. Still the
ritualistic “npist,” partry is strong
and aggressive, and will press their
peculiar views more and more vig
orously. Let us hope not success
fully.
In a late issue of the Churchman,
the leading Episcopal organ in the
country, we find some paragraphs
which cal! for serious consideration
on the part of all who love pure
doctrine. The editor is writing of
church authority, and says.
“Ths Christian Church is an au
thority whose authenticity is attest
ed in an unbroken sequence on the
the pages of history. 'The Mosaic
authorship of certain parts of the
Bible, the degrees of inspiration
evidenced.by one book or another,
the age of this or that prophecy,
may to some minds have become
open Questions. But the Holy
Orders of the Church, the use of
Sacraments in the Church, the
preaching commission of the Church
can never bo open questions. We
can trace the growth of this historic
structure with a hundred fold more
certainty than wo can trace the
growth of the historic literature of
the great book. The Church is a
fact about which there can really be
no dispute, it has features of un
changeable unity, which it is folly
to question by argument.”
Ail this is said in reference to the
suggestion that in the great matter
of union, the Scriptures must be
supreme. Theoretically at *least,
all the Protestant denominations
have accptcd the Bible as the su
preme and only infallible authority
in matters of faith and practice.
Not so; says Tiic Churchman. With
as emphatic a tone as over uttered
by tiie mitred “holy father” on the
banks of the Tiber, the Episcopal
Organ insists that ail the Christian
world shall hear and heed the voice
of “the church.” Listen;
“The Church .’s a living voice
■which has been the authentic inter
preter of the Bible from the time of
St. Pa.d and St. Peter to the time
of the Lambeth Conference. We are
very much mistaken if those who
are disunited on the Bible will not
seckind find their only link of unity
in tiie historic Church, This Church
has authority to set in their right
places the sacred documents of
which shs Is the original depositary.
The best argument for accctping
the sacreil v ol.inie and giving to it
its duo valuation will lie found in
the reflection that this volume has
ever been the oracle of the Church
which has conquered the world and
maintained one faith ai.d one order
from its very beginning. The be
lief in this church is belief in a mat
ter of history; such a belief is rap.
idly becoming the only possible
bond of unity among Christians, and
Ku-.’h a belief alone can rcttoia the
Bible to its proper place in the
minds and c< n sciences of men.”
Verily all that sounds very like it
camo from some papal “encyclical
letter,” rather than from a “Protest
ant” religious paper. Granting the
editor's premise about the “historic
church,” and the little squad of
“Episcopalians,” or “Anglo-Catho
lics,” would find themselves in un
justifiable revolt against the tradi
tional authority; for every body
knows that the Romanists and the
Greeks also for that matter, deris
ively smile at tho antics cut by “the
church,’in * claiming to voice that
authority. Certainly if “church au
thority” is to be urged, we shall have
to step over the ridiculously small
segment of Christiandom represented
Ly The Churchman. Think of the
•‘Bishop of Georgia” and his little
body claiming .supreme jurisdiction
•ver all Christians in our State.
J Does the question provoke a
smile? Well it may. No, when
we resolve to submit to “the church,”
wc shall not look to the “Lambeth
Conference,” or to the “primate of
all England” and Canterbury; wc
shall go to Rome at once.
Plainly interpreted this is what
The Churchman says: “W ere not a
foolish enough to take our ground
on a book. We arc the Church
itself, and Bibles may come and
I Bibles may go, but the Church goes
on forever. Come into the Church,
yon warring sects. The Bible isn’t
a reliable foundation. Come into
the Church.” This resolution of
the problem is not at all unique. In
childhood we heard a story about a
wolf and a lamb. The latter was
tilled with admiration of the fierce
powers of the former. lie longed
to roam the forest free and strong.
The wolf blandly assured the lamb
that his nature could be so trans
formed as to accomplish his desire.
“Come with me, I’ll teach you the
way,” smilingly said the wolf. The
unsuspecting lamb accepted tho pro
ffered tuition, but soon found to his
sorrow that tho wolf’s plan could
be successful only by his becoming
food for his teacher. Thus the lamb
became strong only by becoming a
part of the wolf! For be it from us
to hint a wolfish nature as pertaining
to The Churchman and those it rep
resents. They are, we humbly trust
of tho divine Shepherd's fold; but
wc respectfully submit that tho pro
posed plan of union is merely a
proposal to make “the church’
strong with the spiritual meat of
the sects! For tho present Baptists
certainly will decline to go into the
forest witii the tempter!
A dispatch from Chicago reported
“the Board of Lady Managers” of
the AV'orld’s Fair as putting itself on
record in favor of the Sunday open
ing of the Fair, by an almost unan.
imous vote. This fact, if we may
accept it as a fact, supplies a strik
ing commentary on tho claim that
“AVomen Suffrage” would greatly
strengthen the causes of religion
and morality in every issue submit
ted for popular dicision. It is em
phatically adverse to that claim and
entirely conclusive against it. A
correspondent of the “Bibleotheca
Sacra” for April objects to that suf
frage in view of the “uncounted army
of women, sixteen years old and up
wards, whom the saloons and brothels
and shuns of great cities could pour
forth,” to vote for the wrong, and in
view of the fact that “in Utah,* wo
man’s vote proved the bulwark of
polygamy, and she had to bo depriv
ed of it in the interest of moral pur
ity.” There is a plain and sufficient
answer to such objections, on the
ground that it is manifestly unjust
to employ exceptional and extreme
instances of moral perversion as a li
gitmate weapon of assult on the
whole sex. But nothing of this sort
can l»c alleged iu the case of the
Board of Lady Managers. To say
the very least, they are average wo
men wo deal generously with tho
sex when w e .accept them as repre
sentatives of its intelligence and its
purity, if not of its piety. And yet
tho national sor.se of the sanctua
ry of the Lord’s day appealed to them
in vain: they trampled it under foot
as really as the army of saloon bro
thel, slum women could have done.
Tho force of such a fact is seen tho
mors dearly when we remember
t’uat the Board included one hundred
and fifteen members, appointed to
tiiat position by the General Govern
ment and tho several States. Even
these guarantees of elect woman,
hood could not keep them straight:
how about the sex nt large, then?
“Broad Churchmen” retain their
hold on the diocese of Massachusetts,
by the election of their canidate
Dean Law rence, as successor to Bish
op Biooks. By the way, the reputa
tion of Bishop Brooks, while largely
deserved, was also in part factitious*
tho product of a disposition on the
part of the secular press, especially
at tho North, to w reath a chaplet of
honor and applause for tho brows of
gifted theologians, rather in propor
tion to their laxity in doctrine or cc
clesinsticism, 'lran in proportion to
their gifts. There is matter of di
version or matter of distress, as wc
may choose to view it, in the marve
lous power which the readiness of
dh incs to loosen the bands of dogma
or of discipline, puts forth in this
manufacturers of newspaper roputa.
lions, toward eking out even very
grave defects of theirs iu ability, or
scholarship, or eloquence, or godli
ness itself. It adds cubit after cubit
to their statr.ro, and performs that
task of provcbial difficulty easily.
Heuco many a reputation of this sort
THE CHRISTIAN INDEX: THURSDAY MAY 25, 1893.
| grows as rapidly as Jonah’s gourd,
only let us be thankful to die as sud
denly: for “the whirligig of time
works” other things than “revenges;’’
it works disillusion here, and as a
rule the factitious comes to be seen
as the fictitious.
Tho Krupp Gun Works at Essen,
Prussia, claim to have a machine
■ rolling iron out so thin that eighteen
hundred sheets measure only an inch
*n thickness. How wearisome the
process, how slow the putting of the
attenuated layers together; how little
the profit when it has all been done!
1 So, 0 man in the pulpit, the sub
stance of your discourse may be iron
in solidity and righteousness; and so
with a prolixity “exhaustive” rather
of the audiAce than of the theme,
you may roll it out too thin. Don’t!
please don’t. Who has patience to
count over the eighteen hundred
sheets for just the thickness of an
inch?, especially when we need to
weld them together again in order
to make use of them!
The Jews at Sinai were required
to wash their persons and even their
clothing; and this requirement was
repeated when they came 'to cross
the Jordan. It was an outward
emblem of the purity with which
the soul should deal with God; and
these two instances teach that this
purity becomes us whether (as at
Sinai) we are to receive law from
the holy sovereignty of God, or (as
at the Jordan) to receive fulfilment
of promise from his loving mercy.
Whether we would approach him as
, Judge or as Saviour, we should seek
to sanctify ourselves, presuming be
fore him as little at the Jordan as at
the Sinai of law.
The statement lies before us that
the average length of life is greater
in Norway than in any other coun
try on the globe. But certainly that
is not the country where life is most
worth living; for in such a case it
could hardly be, as it is now, more
sparsely populated than any other in
Europe. By the way, is it not
strange that these tw'o things should
be true of one and the same land?
AVhy should life least seek the region
where it is longest? Or, why should
life be longest in the region which is
least sought ?
AVhen the Jewish tribes came up
out of Egypt and when they entered,
into Canaan, the tribe of Dan held
the second rank in numbers, being
surpassed by the tribe of Judah
only; but it achieved no eminence in
the subsequent career of tho nation-
It is not men merely that constitute
force and make history, it is the kind
of men. The Baptists of to-day
may be more numerous than their
fathers but less a people of power-
Do w e weigh as well as we count?
Even innocent desires are not in
dulged w isely—perhaps, they are not
innocently indulged—unless wo have
hold them up in the light of law*
moral law, and certified ourselves of
their innocence. AVe must summon
conscience to judge. AVe must trace
their relation to* precept and prece
dent and principle in Scripture. AVe
must open our car to “hear what
God, the Lord, will speak” concern
ing them through tho monition of
the Spirit.”
AVhat if th.* univers? were mod
died after your moral character} and
no right principle were anywhere
stronger and no wrong principle
were anywhere weaker than in you!
To w ear your exact likeness—would
it or would it not be a calamity and
a curse to tho universe? Let even
blatant “perfectionists” answer, each
for himself.
No “Dead Sea” overflows: over
flow is the function of life. Only a
living church can send out streams
of knowledge and influence, tp make
the desert of earth, smitten with the
blight of sin, “rejoice and blossom as
the rose.” If you would nit, live
And then, again, if you w ould live’
act.
Tho Index knows of a good
brother iu Texas, who will make a
visit to Georgia with a view to a set
tlement as pastor. His aged parents
are residents of this State, and ho
desires to bo near them andjat tho
same time carry on his regular work.
Definite information can be obtained
on inquiry personally, or by mail, at
Index office.
A strange accident was th at which
I caused the death of Mrs. Clogb, tho
I wife of a well known Baptist mis
sionary, in Chicago, on the 15th inst.
A folding boil closed up on her and
crushed her, while her daughter stood
I by powerless to rescue her.
Julius Chambeis, in the N- Y. Re
corder, argues ffiat the great negro
, population of the South,” and more
! especially of “the rice-fields of Geor
gia, the cotton plantations of South
Carolina, and the swamps of Missis
sippi and Louisiana,” fnrnish a “field
for the in traduction into our country
of tl|e simple and trusting faiths Os
the East.” Re holds that “the mil
lions of this race in the Gulf States
are to-day in the grossest intellectual
and moral ignorance;” and alleges,
on we know not what authority, that
a million and a half of their number
are believers in. “Voodooism.” But
for this dreadful state of things there
is a remedy, he thinks; one, too, that
“ought to bo welcomed by the
staunchest Christian.” What is it,
pray? “If they could have formu
lated for their use a new creed unit
ing some of the beautiful teachings
of Gautamaand Mohammed, they
might be guided in the direction of
purer and nobler lives,” and “Chris
tianity could come later if they felt
the need of it.” Kindling as he
writes either, to the strong man’s
courage of his convictions or to the
weak man’s greater courage of his
whimsies, he “We do not be.
lieve that any man or woman who
knows the facts regarding the class
to which wi_refer, will dory that
Mohammedanism or Buddhism, prop
erly introduced and preached, would
advance the condition of that part
of the negro race.” Much might be
said in comment on this proposition
for the solution of the negro problem;
but we content ourselves with one
remark. As there is no barbarism
like tho barbarism of civilization, so
there is no moral ignorance like the
moral ignorance of culture; and the
moral ignorance of culture involved
in such a proposition is gross and
dense enough to awaken of right
regretful pity in the bosom of thous
ands on thousands of tho negro race
throughout the Gulf States, posses,
sor of that knowledge of the only
true God and of Jesus Christ whom
he has son,t which is eternal life.
Why not test the enlightening efli.
cacy of the “beautiful saying” in hi s
own case first?
Rev. J. J. Hall, D. D., pastor of
tho Tabernacle, Raleigh, N. C., gave
tho Index a very pleasant call on
his way home from Nashville. He
is an Englishman, and “one of
Spurgorttt’s'bCVs.” From him we
obtained the follow ing facts about
North Carolina Baptists, and their
work. ’'
The Baptists of North Carolina are
pressing forward in all departments
of denominational work. Dr. Tay
lor of AVake Forest College is making
an effort to increase tho endowment,
and has been encouraged thereto by
the generous aid of The Education
Society. Dr. Pritchard is full of
hope in reference to his now- field at
Charlotte. Dr. J. J. Hall has enjoyed
with his people at tho Tabernacle
Raleigh, a year of much prosperity.
Over one hundred persons have dur.
ing that time joined the church, and
about seventy by baptism. An ur
gent call comes from Norfolk, A'a.
for Brother Hall to take up the work
in that olty.A Bro. N. B. Broughton
tho efficient Sunday-school Superin
tendent of the Tabernacle is an
applicant for the office of Public
Printer at Washington. Should the
position go to him it w ould be hailed
w ith delight by hundreds of persons
outsido of North Carolina who know
N. B. Broughton as a successful
business tndn, being himself a prac
tical printer, and a man greatly
esteemed by tho people. Dr. C. T.
Bailey is still conducting The Bibli
cal Recorder. He has not fully
recovered from his severe illness,
and his many friends deeply sympa.
thizo w itli him. Dr. Landrum’s visit
was a great blessing to the Ist church
of Raleigh and has cheered the heart
of Dr. Carter the pastor, and all his
members.'
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The Highland Baptist church,
Louisville, Jy-., was organized with
30 members, cn Thursday night 4th.
The members went out, mainly,
from Broadway, East, and AValnut
St., churches,* The new house of
worship is well located, and the pros
pect is said to be bright for future
growth and, usefulness.
The 10l was bought by Dr. Manly,
Dr. Pratt, J. S. Phelps, and others.
Mrs. Dr..J.,l<. Marvin and her two
sisters had proposed to erect a neat
building at their own expense, pro
vided a. suitable lot could be pro
cured. l\c promise was kept, and
the new house of worship was dedi
cated on Sunday, May 7th, free from
debt. AVell done.
Belton, Texas, Baptist church has
extended tv call to Rev. H.F.Sproles,
D. D., of Jackson, Miss.
SCINTILLATIONS FROM THE CON
VENTION- ,
Bro. H. M. Wharton sweetened
the hours and made the air fragrant
with his heart-searching songs.
T. P. Bell quotes Dr. Broadus as
saying, that the hope of missions is
in the Sunday-school. In an ad
mirable speech on Foreign Missions,
Dr. Bell made some striking remarks,
among them we note a few:—lt is
not my loss of interest in missions
that lead me to change from the
secretaryship of the Foreign Mission
Board to the secretaryship of the
Sunday-school Board. I made the
change because I hope to work
at the base.—-Brunson . realized
that he had not received the
special Divine call to the
foreign work and came out like a
man and laid the blame on no one.—
Each of our two missionaries in Ja
pan have four and a half million
souls before them.—Paul responded
to a visionary man, many of us stand
still while a flesh and blood brother
calls.—Africa, about which so many
sneer, so many despair, and s.o many
forgot to pray there comes tidings of
hope. Newton came home not only
to recruit his shattered health, but
to plead with men, as he had pleaded
with God, to go and preach in Africa.
—The report of the South China
misssion is a sequel to the Abts of
the Apostles, in even the very words
of Paul and Silas. The Board has
appointed Jesse B. Hartwell, of Cal
ifornia, to North China. Bro. Mart
well was a missionary in early life
At an afternoon meeting in an Ala.
bama town, a plain man and his son
sat on the front bench together; this
father was called on to pray. He
prayed that they might be willing to
give their time and their money, and
then breaking down with emotion,
while the audience sobbed,he reached
out his arm and drew his son to his
bossom and said, God make us will
ing to give our children : That boy
was Jesse B. Hartwell.
“How firm a foundation,” from
three thousand throats wafted our
souls up to God in joyous song.
Dr. AV. L. Pickard, our own Geor.
gia boy, made one of his best efforts
and brought down the Convention
in a powerful speach on the Centen
nial.
Dr. Ellis said the religious Press,
with a few exceptions, has been a
mighty power in the Centennial
movement. The love of God moves
the church, like the dynamo moves
the electric car, unseen, unheard
and yet it moves.
Let all the pastors become mem
bers of the Baltimore Mission Room
Club. It costs thirty cents a year,
and you get monthly leaflets setting
forth facts about missions in a con.
cise and reliable form, just such help
as every pastor needs.
Dr: B. H. Carroll says, “the vital
radical difference between Catholics
and Baptists, is, of necessity, the con
sideration of the hour. Baptists
must bo interested in Papal fields, —
the edge of a knife is broader than
the nuetral ground between Baptists
and Catholics. If we should with
draw from Papal fields we should
only bring the battle to our doors.
The inevitable conflict must come
some where. Catholicism consists
of three elements, —Judaism, Pagan
ism, with a little Christianity sand
witched between. That which re
cedes from a spot of earth as large
as a potatoe-patch is not the religion
of Jesus. I deliberately impeach
any man of high treason against his
Lord, who denies the application of
the commission to all and every
creature. Shall an iceberg that has
been forming since the North Pole
was created melt the first time the
moon shines upon it? Did Abra
ham Lincoln lay the foundations for
Presidential honors by telling trees
to fall, break into rail cuts and split
into rails ? Truth is mighty and will
prevail when you make it prevail.
The blood of the martyrs is the seed
of the church when you make it the
seed of the church. Baptists ought
to take down their flag and stop
bragging or take the world. I should
forget tho hours when God’s Word
has been made luminous to my soul,
I should hang crape over the door of
my conscience if I feared that the
Baptist flag should wave over every
shore.
Dr. G. A. Lofton compared the
Southern Baptist Convention to a
great bird : “The Home Board is the
right wing, tho Foreign Board tbe
left wing, the Sunday-school Board
the tail. For a long time we had a
bob-tail bird, but we never intend to
suffer the tail-feathers pulled out
again.”
Dr. Lofton made tbe crest plumes
the Woman's movement. Now if ho
will make the Seminary that great
bird’s loving heart, he will have his
figure complete.
Gov. AV. J. Northen invites some
rich, friendly Baptist some where, to
establish a girl’s school in Cuba.
Dr. Montgomery, the man who
baptized Diaz, delighted the Conven
tion in a happy speech. He said that
while Diaz’s application for member
ship was being considered one of the
deacons asked what the pastor knew
about that foreigner. The pastor re
plied that he knew nothing except
he believed he was a sinner saved by
grace. He little knew what he did
the night he baptized that young
stranger.
Bro. Bagby says he does not know
a Brazilian male Christian who will
not lead in prayer when he is called
on.
Gov. Northen never looked so
great as when he lead the Conven
tion in prayer for the blessing of
God on the colored people and es.
pecially the colored preachers.
The young peoples’ movement re.
ceived due consideration and devel
oped tbe unanimous opinion that
each church ought to take its own
young people and organize them in
such work as will develop them with
out distracting them.
The Centennial movement did not
pan out as liberally as was calculat
ed, but the brethren feel hopeful
that a work has been inaugurated
which will tell in the coming years
It has been reported that Dr. J.
AVm. Jones, Assistant Secretary of
the Horae Mission Board, had been
appointed Chaplain to the Universi
ty of A'a., Charlottsville.
The Index is reliably informed
that the report is true. The appoints
ment was made and accepted several
weeks ago. He will, however, not
enter upon the duties of the office
until some time in September next
The election of Assistant Secre.
taries has been left with the two
Boards and Dr. Jones will probably
continue to do his present work un
til provision is made for a successor.
lie has been an efficient officer of
the Home Board, and the influence of
his work will be long felt.
Dr. Jones has been much associ
ated with young men, and his posi
tion at the University will be well
suited to his tastes, and afford him a
field for great usefulness. He will
carry with him the prayers and best
wishes of his friends in Georgia.
The members of the Baptist reli
gious press, in attendance upon the
Southern Baptist Convention met in
the parlors of the Maxwell House in
Nashville, Saturday afternoon, and
organized “A Southern Baptist Reli
gious Press Association.” The object
of this organization is to advance
and protect the interests of the pa
pers of the organization by organiz
ed efforts, and to better advance the
interest and progress of the Baptist
denomination. AVe will give further
notice of the movement, when the
organization is perfected.
The First Baptist Church, Char
leston, S. C., is 210 years old. Owing
to “up town growth,” this church
which is located in the lower part of
the city, has of late been much weak
ened.
For some months it was closed,
but Rev. Lucius Cuthbert, D. D.,
resigned his charge at Aiken and vol
unteered to preach for the remnant,
and is gradually collecting a congre
gation for the historic church.
So says Z. D„ in The Examin
er.
Rev. David M. Ramsey, pastor of
Citadel Square church,is a Charleston
man, a graduate of the Louisville
Seminary, and is having encouraging
success in his “home field.”
The bequest of 85000 given by Em
ma Abbott, the celebrated singer has
been received, and 81,500 of it used
in repairing the large organ, and the
remainder loaned to the “Chapel
Building Association.”
The Southern Female University,
Birmingham, Ala., favors us with an
invitation to attend their commence
ment exercises from Friday, June
2nd to Thursday, June Btb. Anin,
teresting program has been arrang
ed.
AVe tender thanks for an invita
tion to attend tbe commencement ex
ercises of Hampton Institute, Hamp
ton, A'a., embracing AVednesday
Thursday and Friday of this week’
Regret we are not able to be pres
ent.
Bev. J. T. Christian, of Miss., has
been called to tbe East church Lou
isville,Ky., and it is probable he will
accept.
Dr. McClaren of Manchester,Eng.
gives the following simple but admir
able counsel to a young minister who
had sought and received much help
in his work from the noble old man.
“I have always fonndjthat my own
comfort and efficiency in preaching
has been in direct proportion to the
frequency and depth of daily com
munion with God. I know no
way in which we can do our work
but quiet fellowship with Him; reso
lute keeping up a student’s habits
which needs some power of saying
no: conscientious pulpit preparation.
The secret of success in everythin g
is trust in God and hard work. * * *
I venture to say don’t try to be elo
quent in preaching, or mind very
much about w ords.”
The residences of Jno. Mahin,
postmaster, N. Rosenberger, attor
ney, and E. M. Kessinger, citizens of
Muscadine, la., and active prohibi
tionists, -were -wrecked by dynamite
on the night of May 10th. Their
families narrowly escaped.
It is supposed to have been the
work of saloon-keepers, who had
been prosecuted for violations of the
law.
The correspondent of The Exam
iner says th Rev. A. AV. Lamar, pas
tor at Galveston recently held a
meeting for pastor King at San An
tonio Tex., from w’hich much good
resulted. V. C. Hart conducted the
singing. The Baptists lead all other
protestant denominations in San An
tonio havingjfive churches and seven
Sunday schools.
Dr. J. L. M. Curry paid a visit to
Atlanta last week to consult with
the Chamber of Commerce in regard
to the establishment of a Manual
Training school for negroes. Owing
to the absence of some gentlemen
specially interested in the matter,
no definite action was taken.
The First and the Valence St.
churches,New Orleans,of which Rev
John Purser D. D., and Rev. D. I.
Purser are respectively pastors*
have been for some time jointly
holding meetings in the Garden dis
trict Theatre. The congregations are
large and the interest growing.
AVe tender thanks to Prest. S. AV.
Averett for an invitation to attend
the anniversary exercises of Judson
Institute, Marion, Ala., from June
3rd to June Bth. The sermon “will
be preached by Rev. P. T. Hale, D.
D., and the address on AVednesday
by Rev. J. S. Dill.
Mr. David P. Montgomery, of
Thomson, Ga., was found dead in
his field on Saturday, 14th inst. The
cause was heart failure. He was in
his 74th year, a man highly respect
ed, and a member) of the Baptist
church.
Rev. W. O. Bailey D, D., pastor
First church Houston Texas, has
been suffering from a protracted ill
ness. There are only two Baptist
churches and one mission in Hous
ton a city of 45,000 inhabitants.
Rev. J. M. C. Breaker’s health has
made it necessary for him to go to
the Sanitarium, San Antonio Texas,
where he will be for some time.
Miss. AVillie Kelly of Marengo, Ala.,
has offered herself to the Board for
theforeigu field as one of the hundred
new missionaries.
Rev. 11. AV. AVilliams pastor of the
Baptist church at Gadsden Ala., and
Miss Birdie Kittrell were married
AVednesday may 17th.
Mr. Thos. P. Miller a well known
qusiness man and a leading Baptist
of Mobile, Ala., died April 22nd, at
East Orange, N. J.
Prof J- B. AVilliamson has been re
elected president of Buckner College
Ark., for the next year.
Rev. J. M. C. Breaker pastor at
Marshall, Tex., has also been sick.
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