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the local organization more generally.
Toronto and Milwaukee competed
for the meeting of 1894 ; and Tor
onto carried the day. On to Toronto
The State of Georgia.
by hon. w. j. northen, Governor
of Georgia.
In Southern States.
The purpose of this article is to
call the attention of investors and
home seekers to the advantages of
ferred in Georgia and in the
South.
Home seekers considering the
possibilities in change of location
and capitalists seeking opportuni
ties for investment naturally inquire
first as to the character and intelli
gence of the people, second, as to
the climate and consequent hcalth
fulness, and finally, the benefits or
profits to come, financially under
reasonably or ordinary efforts.
All these conditions will be found
in Georgia to the satisfaction of the
most exacting. The people of the
state are cultured and refined,
law abiding and progressive. The
facilities for education have more
than doubled in the last decade,
while the very rapid advance in
material prosperity marks the high
character and progressive spirit of
our people. No state with the
same population shows a better re
cord in the criminal courts or less
lawlessness among the people.
The representative people of this
state are not only cultured and in
telligent, but they are hospitable
and liberal minded. A representa
tive Georgian wherever found is
proverbial for his warm hearted
ness.
This much I have said, first, be
cause the people of this state deserve
it to be said ; second,!hose who come
among us need to know it; third,
because some people have seen fit,
for causes I will not now discuss, to
say falsely to the contrary. No peo
ple upon this continent surpass the
people of this state in whatever goes
to make up a liberal-minded, cul
tured, law-abiding citizenship.
The climate of Georgia is health
ful and invigorating; free from
unusual excesses of heat or cold.
Upon my farm in Middle Geor
gia 1 oftentimes have fair grazing
for stock during the entire winter.
It is seldom the case that our hardy
grasses in that section of
the State fail longer than
three months of the year to furnish
grazing. In climate Georgia is a
fairly representative state of the
“Sunny South.”
These primary points being set
tled largely in favor of the state, I
desire mainly to cail attention to
investments and citizenship in
Georgia. While it is true that the
state is grow ing Rapidly in wealth,
anti population, it also true that
we have much room' and many at
tractions for capital, and large and
valuable territory for new set
tlers.
As an indication of the possibili
ties in Georgia, it may be well to
say that the close of the war be
tween the states found us owning
but $120,000,000 in tax values and
that now—twenty-seven years later
—we return $475,000,000, making
an annual increase of more than
$ 13,ocx>,cxx> during the interval.
Besides these remarkable addi
tions to our tax values in real and
personal property, the manufactur
ing interests of the state have had
a most gratifying growth. In 1881
the state had invested in cotton
manufacturing $2,482,000. In 1886
this amount had steadily increased
and we had an investment of $5,-
709,000. This year we have in
vested in this industry in this state
$10,839,000, more than 500 per cen
tum increase in eleven years.
In ISBI the mining interests of
this state were returned for taxes
at SIOI,OOO. A gentleman from
Wisconsin has just invested SIOO,-
000 in mining for gold in the north
eastern part of the state. A capi
talist thoroughly familiar with gold
mining in the west has just assured
me that he knows no state with
better prospects for gold min
ing..
Northwest Georgia abounds in
iron ore and slate, while North
Georgia proper has inexhaustible
quarries of marble and granite.
Many handsome residences in
Chicago and other cities give evi
dence of the value and beauty of
Georgia marble, while along the
streets of many Western cities we
find the solid granite pavements
furnished by the enterprise and
material of this state.
No stale in the Union surpasses
Georgia in timber and woods. The
Georgia pine stands unrivaled for
its uses, whether in furnishing na
val stores or building material,
while our hard woods are abundant
and valuable and susceptibe of beau
tiful finish and high polish. Along
all these lines Georgia is rich in re
sources, and the convenience and
cheapness of railway and water
transportation, as well as the mar
ket demands, make protits easy and
sure.
Whatever may be the conditions
of the future, Georgia is today
mainly an agricultural state. While
there are great and undeveloped
possibilities in manufactures, min
ing, lumber and naval stores, I am
candid in the opinion that the agri
cultural possibilities of this state
have never yet been approached.
Under the earlier system there
was great wealth in cotton and
other lines were not investigated.
Under our present system of labor
no general changes have been at-
tempted and there are no general
results to be reported. Being as
sured by my own experience that
diversified agriculture could be made
highly remunerative in the State, I
was gratified to find similar results
with others, some of which I will
present, to the readers of the Sou
thern States as an evidence of the
productivenes »nr soil and the
value of the ps.
With Soo und gossypium
spread upon 1. of land pre
viously well prepared, Col. Geo.
W. Scott sowed on September 20th,
half a bushel of clover seed and one
bushel of orchard grass seed and
cut the following May 9,824 pounds
of well-cured hay. This patch was
immediately dressed with 400
pounds of gossypium and cut on
July sth, and made 3929 pounds
of well-cured hay. This acre was
mowed four successive years, being
top dressed after each cutting with
400 pounds of gossypium, and aver
aged six tons per acre each year.
Col. George Scott, says Georgia
is the best clover country he knows.
The first crop matures so early it is
not damaged by the spring drouth.
We are always certain of a fair sec
ond crop, and in wet seasons we
can count on three good cuttings.
In the proceedings of the State Ag
ricultural Society of New York, I
find a record of Mr. Allen B. Ben
ham’s premium farm, for which he
received SSO. 1 find reported a
clear profit of $994 from ninety
acres on this farm, or sll an acre.
I find also a record of Mr. Robert
Harvey's dairy farm, for which he
received a premium of SSO, run by
one team of horses and seventeen
cows at a profit of $817.53, or an
average of S4B to the cow. Major
Warren’s grass farm in Georgia
containing ninety-two acres, aver
aged 's6o per acre. Mr. B. W.
Hunt, of Eatonton, has a dairy farm
of eighteen cows that made net pro
ceeds in 1887, $1,329.25, and in
1888, $ 1,474, or about $75 per cow,
against New York’s S4B.
With the enormous yield of
grass and hay reported, and the
known adaptation of our soils to
grain, there is nothing to hinder
enormous yields from stock-raising
in Georgia at. these prices. We
need never buy a horse or mule
from beyond our borders. Major
W. A. Wilkins, of Burke, says he
can raise a thorough-bred colt at
$25 expense each year, and receive
for him in Kentucky markets from
SISOO to $2500. He says further,
he can raise a mule colt for sls to
S2O and sell him when ready for
market for $l2O to $l5O.
Stock-raising is rapidly becoming
one of the valuable resources of our
farms. The next ten years will
make astonishing developments on
this line. Recent experiments in
cattle feeding have brought aston
ishing results ih thV tase of- cottoh
seed. Years ago we did not consi
der cotton-seed worth the handling
for any purpose whatever. First
we found they were good for man
ure. Next we discovered they con
tained a valuable commercial pro
duct in their oil. This has been won
derfully remunerative and has en
riched largely those who have han
dled the seed. Without destroying
either of these valuable elements we
now find we can get from the cot
ton-seed fine products in beef and
mutton and still preserve all the oil
and most every particle of fertiliza
tion. Sir. J. B. Lawes is authority
for saying that one ton of cotton
seed meal fed to a steer will pro
duce S3O worth of manure.
Col. W. M. Towers, of the cotton
seed oil mills at Rome, Ga., has had
very satisfactory results in feeding
beeves on cotton-seed meal and
cotton-seed bulls, putting upon a
steer of 1600 pounds about 100
pounds of flesh per month, using no
food at all but cotton-seed meal and
cotton-seed hulls properly mixed.
An average steer is expected to
consume five pounds of cotton-seed
meal and twenty pounds of hulls'
per day.
If space allowed I could give the
remarkable results in fruit farming
in the state and the large amount
of capital already invested from the
outside in this business. Strangers
passing through our state cannot
believe these results possible from
the exhausted and worn appearance
of the land.
Upon many farms in Georgia the
continuous clean culture necessary
for the growth of cotton has ex
hausted the humus from the soil,
and but little or no vegetable mat
ter has been returned to it, but the
most remarkable feature in our ag
riculture is the wonderful recuper
ative power of the soil under judi
cious treatment. We have only to
abandon the culture of cotton,
change our crops, or, even with
continued cotton crops, furnish in
telligent and abundant fertilization
to obtain satisfactory yields and
profitable results.
Without delaying to illustrate
the recuperation under such culti
vation as would furnish vegetable
matter to the soil, it may be suffi
cient to give a notable success
made by Mr. Furman upon his
farm in Middle Georgia, while he
continued the cultivation of cotton.
Taking sixty-five acres of worn
Middle Georgia land fairly repre
senting all sections of the state, un
der usual methods, Mr. Furman the
first year produced eight bales of
cotton or one bale to eight acres.
The scond year under intelligent
improvement, he gathered twelve
bales, an increase of 50 per cent,
over the first year’s production. The
third year, under still more pro
gress, he gathered twenty-four
THE CHRISTIAN INDEX THURSDAY JULY 27. 1893,
bales, an increase of 100 per cent,
over the immediately preceding
year. The fourth year he gathered
forty-eight bales, an increase again
of too per cent, upon the preceding
year. The fifth year, the one im
mediately before Mr. Furman’s
death, he gathered eighty-eight
bales, or just 1000 per cent, increase
over the work of the first year.
Mr. Furman’s land is simply rep
resentative of the other worn lands
of the State and his experiment can
be repeated over the state under
similar conditions.
Farm lands can be bought in
Georgia at very low figures, from
five to twenty-five dollars per acre,
except in close proximity to large
cities, where they are higher.
The methods of farming are rap
idly changing. Cotton is being
abandoned as belonging more prop
erly to the states west of us, and
our farmers are giving more atten
tion to fruit, grain, grasses and
stock. One farm in peaches has
netted in one year $50,000; one
acre in Middle Georgia has pro
duced 17,000 pounds of red clover,
and no state in the Union is better
adapted to grazing and stock-rais
ing.
We will be glad to welcome to
Georgia many times the amount of
capital we have and multitudes of
good people who come to identify
themselves with our interests while
they seek for themselves satisfac
tory and profitable investments.
THE EVOLUTION OF'THE MODERN
TRAIN.
BY PROF. J. H. SIMMONS.
Not the least interesting place in
Jackson Park, Chicago, is the Tran
sportationßuilding.Forthe first time
in the history of expositions the
science of transportation has re
ceived the attention due to its im
portance. And when we recall that
the railroads alone, to say nothing
of steamboats, are worth $30,000,-
000,000 and that they represent one
fourth of the invested capital of all
civilized nations, we can form some
idea as to the magnitude of the in
terests represented in this depart
ment of the world’s greatest expo
sition.
Every method of transportation is
shown but of course the railway ex
hibit is the most important, and to
this interest is devoted a space of
more than eight acres. Here one
may see the rude locomotive and
coaches used in the early days, and
here in the space compassed by one
building one may trace all the stages
in the development of the magnifi
cent trains of today. The historical
feature is kept clearly in view, and
so impressively is the exhibit ar
ranged that a child may gain in a
few hours an amount of informa
tion which otherwise re
quire majpy month', and years. ‘ 1
In the British exhibit may be
found one of the original Stephet -
son locomotives, the “Rocket,” and
also the Trevitchick locomotive—
the first that ever drew a car. The
London and Northwestern company
exhibits a section of the actual strap
railroad on which this Trevitchick
engine ran in 1804.
In the American exhibit, magni
ficent displays are made by the Bal
timore and Ohio railr >ad, the Penn
sylvania, the New York Central,
the Chicago and Northwestern, and
other lines. These companies show
cars from the rudest and earliest
days to the present time. And what
a gulf between these early trains
and the modern vestibuled palace
—such, for instance, as the “Em
pire State Express,” the Richmond
and Danville, “Southwestern Lim
ited,” or the elegant “Memphis
Route” trains!
But in viewing these exhibits,
one is impressed not only with the
improvement in the equipment of
our modern trains, but also with
the great gain in speed since the
time of our fathers. While it is
not wholly true that distance is an
nihilated, it is true that, in these
.latter days, distance is a mere tri
fle. The writer was never more
impressed with this idea than while
on a journey, not long since, from
Washington City to the West.
Boarding the R. & D. “Limited” at
11 p. tn. on Tuesday, we found our
selves in Charlotte, N, C., early the
following morning, and in Atlanta
the same afternoon ; midnight finds
us at Birmingham, Ala.; at break
fast time we reach Memphis, and
at sunrise on Friday morning we
are in Kansas City. This trip,
made over the Richmond and Dan
ville to Birmingham, and thence by
Fort Scott and Memphis railroad
to Kansas City, has taken us through
TEN STATES IN LESS THAN SIXTY
hours, and in that time our foot
has not touched the ground 1 Truly,
it is like a dream !
We should be glad, if space per
mitted us, to speak at greater length
of the Transportation building. Not
only those directly interested in rail
roads and steamships, but everyone
may profitably spend many days in
viewing the great object lesson to
be found there. Perhaps it is not
too much to say that in no depart
ment of human industry have grea
ter triumphs been achieved than in
the work of abridging distance, and
certainly these triumphs bear signi
ficant testimony to the genius of
our age.
William Jewell College,
Liberty, Mo.
Rev. W. E Penu of Eureka Ar
kansas, has been preaching the gos
pel with great power in a series of
meetings, for pastor G. W. Gardner,
at Oxford Mississippi.
GE AN ITS AND MARBLE.
The development of the marble
' and granite quarries of Georgia are
receiving the attention and in
’ vestments of capitalists in many
parts of the state, where induce
' ments are offered.
The oldest and most widely
: known of the granite quarries is
Stone Mountain, on the Georgia
Railroad, 16 miles from Atlanta.
From these huge and inexhaustible
beds, spurs are found extending to
Lithonia and Covington, and along
the line of the railroad, quarries are
being developed, giving employ
ment to hundreds of quarrymen and
cutters.
Every year the demand for this
stone becomes greater and the
amount of capital invested increases
yearly. The stone is used for build
ing and also for street paving, the
majority of the large Southern
cities using it for the latter pur
pose.
Recently a strong and thoroughly
equipped company. The Lexington
Blue Granite Co., of Lexington,
Ga., has been organized in Ogle
thorpe county, and are quarrying a
beautiful stone, uniform in texture
and color, finely grained and of a
bluish color. The stone is suscepti
ble of the finest polish, showing up
finely from the tool and hammer,
and is a beautiful material for build
ing, monumental and decorative
work. As a test of its monumen
tal work I have just had finished by
Messrs. Patterson Bros, a beautiful
vault in this city for Col. R. F. Mad
dox, and the evenness of texture
renders it highly in demand for high
class work in this line. This ma
terial, I believe, is equal to the
granite of Rhode Island or Massa
chusetts.
There is also being developed at
Elberton, Ga., a large and inex
haustible quarry of granite about
the same texture as the Lexington
• blue granite above described.—
Messrs. Swift & Co., of Elberton,
are now shipping it South and East
in large quantities, on account of
its superior qualities and its adap
tation to building of all kinds.
The marble interests of Georgia
are, as it were, now a component
part of the great development of
the State. Millions of capital have
been invested in quarrying and
working it for the varied purposes
for which it is being used. Its
beautiful adaptation to buildings,
either in the plain ashler, quarry
facing or tooled work, it shows up
equally fine. For monumental work
it has already taken its place as a
standard among the dealers. An
other useful application is its su
perior quality for interior finish for
stairs, wainscotting and mantel
work, in large and expensive build
ings, and at this writing, Georgia
yjarble tiling is standard material
on the rharket artd universally used
from Maine to California. In plumb
ing specialties also it has been
adopted, and is now generally
used.
A ‘‘Visit to the quarries of the
Georgia Marble Co., at Tate, Ga„
where the diamond drills are rat
tling through the solid beds of mar
ble, it is most wonderful to contem
plate the exhaustless supply and
the endless variety of the produc
tion,' employing hundreds of men
and steam power in its handling
where it is being shipped to nearly
every state in the Union. The
present production of the quarries
now in operation is about two
thousand cubic feet per day.
Only those who have visited
these quarries have any conception
of the magnitude and extent of
their production.
The development of these two
great industries has brought into
our state numbors of intelligent ami
skillfull laborers, who, as these in
terests gradually increase, will be
come permanent citizens of the
great commonwealth of Georgia.
A. C. Bruce,
Architect.
ASKED AND ANSWESED.
BY C. E. W. DOBBS.
Dear Brother:—ls there any
scripture authority for tolling expe
riences as Baptists do, before being
received into the church?
Z. T. W.
There is no direct scripture au
thority for the custom. The New
Testament teaches that the churches
should be composed of a regenerate
membership. No one is seripturally
entitled to baptism and church mem
bership until “born again.” This is
a fundamental Baptist doctrine.
Hence only professed believers are
to be received by the churches.
While no prescribed form of pro
cedure is laid down in the New Tes
tament, our judgment teaches us
that in some way it is the duty of
minister and church to inquire into
the ilpiritural state of those offering
themselves for the ordinance ami
membership. In the silence of
scripture the method must be left to
the sanctified common sense of the
churches. Baptists have no uniform
usage in the matter. Some churches
require a more or less recital of
spiritural experience by the candi
date. Others require simply a pro
fession of faith in Jesus as a per
sonal Saviour, usually in response to
questions put by the minister. The
great point is to bring souls to pub
lic confession of their Lord, and it
matters not in what particular way
they make that “good confession. ”
Just here we cotne upon a paragraph
from the Apostolic Guide, the able
Kentucky organ of the Disciples.
Writing of the differences between
them and the Baptists, the paragraph
says :
“We also differ somewhat in our
method of receiving people into the
church, but this I conceive to be a
difference of small importance, as we
agree that a penitent believer is a
proper subject of baptism, and when
baptized is entitled to all the privi
ledges of the church.”
Wilson’s “Emphatic Diaglott”
closes 1 Tim, 3:15 with “congrega
tion of the living God and com
mences verse 16 with: “A pillar
and foundation of the truth and
confessedly great is the secret of
piety, etc.” Looking up Luther’s
translation I notice that he agrees
with the revised and King James
versions. Now what do our learned
brethren say? Please put this in
questions asked.
EDWARD F. RICHTER.
The “Emphatic Diaglott” is a very
pedantic production, and has no
standing as authority among scholars.
Interpreters have widely differed as
to what or to whom, the phrase “pil
lar and ground of the truth” refers.
Some have thought it descriptive of
Timothy himself, because left in
Ephesus to support and defend the
truth of God. Peter, James and
John are called pillars. (Gal. 2: 9),
and Timothy is supposed to be sim
ilarly referred to here. Others say
the phrase >s spoken of God, and
that “who is” should be supplied as
referring immediately to God- Thus
the passage would read: “That
thou mayest know how thou oughtest
to behave thyself in the bouse of
God, which is the church of the liv
ing God, who is the pillar,” etc. A
third view interprests the phrase as
referring to the church. The church
is “God’s chosen institution, by
which his truth is upborne and made
known through all ages. It is not
the author of the truth, nor the
authority on which the truth is pub
lished; but, receiving the truth from
God as given in his word, its office is
to conserve and publish it as God’s
massage to men. Without the
church, therefore, the truth unpre
served and unproclaimed, would
peri4i from the earth.” Compare
Jude 3. The fourth class of interpre
ters consider the words as referring
to the “mystery of godliness,’' as
seen in the Emphatic Diaglott, re
ferred to by our inquirer. Concern
ing this last view, Dr. Harvey (in
American Commentary) remarks:
Surely the Apostle, even in his old
age, could hardly have used such
rhetoric. The other, and older, con
struction is far more Pauline, and is
consonant with his purpose here, to
unfold the greatness of the church
and its mission, in order to impress
Timothy and the ministry of all ages
with the greatness of their charge
and the conseqent necessity of high
qualifications in those who under
take, it.” The third view above
given is, therefore, the preferable
one. As a column, with its base,
or foundation, sustains and lifts aloft
the magnificent temple displaying
its splendor and strength, and
the genius and skill of its archi
tect, even thus is each church
a column and base of the truth. So
Origen (in third century) understood
the passage. So, also Jerome and
the Latin Vulgate (fourth century).
So Westcott and Ilort.
Bro. Dobbs: Please answer the
following questions through the
Christian Index.
1. How did Joseph, or the Egyp
tians, preserve the corn in Egypt
during the seven plenteous years
and the seven years of dearth?
2. Do you believe that the sun
stood still as recorded in the tenth
chapter of .Joshua, or do you believe
that the earth ceased to revolve?
3. If Sunday is the Christian Sab
bath why is it that Christ did not
keep Sunday instead of Saturday,
as Ilis life and teachings are exam
ples for us ?
4' If Sunday should be regarded
as the Sabbath day and not as a
national holiday, then why should it
not commence with sun-down Sat-;
urday, and end at the next sun
down ?
5. Where did Sunday get its name
from ? j. B. GREGORY.
1. Evidently by means of suitable
granaries.
2. We do not find belief in thisr
event laid down among the condi
tions of salvation. The celebrated
Jewish interpreter, Mairronides, and
many others, fancy that the narra
tive is poetical, and that the sun is
said to stand still .hat day, because
so much work was done on it. Oth
ers conjecture that not the body of
the sun itself, but only the light is
suing from the sun, was continued.
So of the moon, though it is not
easy to see what need they had of
moonlight with the sun shining.
The writer of “Joshua” quotes from
the “Book of Jasher,” a book of
songs or poems in praise of good
men. It is thought by some reve
erent interpreters that we have here
a vivid poetic description, which
wag subsequently thought to be lit
eral history. Alter all possible con
jectures there seems to be here a
miracle. God has not revealed to ns
the method of the miracle, and
speculation is idle. Enough to
know that the God who made the
heavens and the earth was aule to
do according to bis will in the mat
ter. No scientific or other objec
tions can stand against faith in the
supernatural, and in the omnipotent
Jehovah. He who wrought the
miracle could as easily if he pleasd,
prevent the supposed disastrous
physical consequences of it by bis
extraordinary over-ruling and coun
teracting power.
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3. We do not regard Sunday as
the “Christian Sabbath.” We never
use that phrase. It is the “Lord’s
day, primarily and essentially an in
stitution of the gospel dispensation.
Jesus was “under the law” and
therefore, kept the Sabbath, the I
“seventh day” (Saturday) as com
manded by Moses. That law was
binding till it was superseded by the
new dispensation of grace. It has
strict observance of the “law” Christ
was not our example. He is such
only in the things pertaining to the
gospel dispensation.
4. As said in answer to no. 3,
we do not regard Sunday as the
“Sabbath.” The word was never
so used for the first eight centuries
after Christ. We believe Sunday
(the “first day of the week”)to be a
holy day to be observed by Chris
tians in commemoration of our Lord’s
resurrection. We have, no doubt it
was so instituted by the divinely in- i
spired apostles, and we receive it,
and keep it as the Lord’s day. As
to the hour from which the day is toj
be reckoned (sunset, midnight or'
early dawn) the scripture is silent;
so is early Christian literature. To
make such a matter a question of im
portance or conscience, ■ to “strain
out a gnat”—a very small specimen
of that.
5. Sunday received its name in the
recognized days of the week as used
among the ancients. It probably;
orginated in the fact that it was dedi
cated to the sun. The fact has no bear I
-ing on the “Sabbath” question. We
may use the name with good con |
science, just as we say Wednesday
without any suspicion of an inten
tention of honoring Woden, the
Saxon divinity.
A church has preferred charges
against a brother, which he emphati
cally denies to be true. lie has asked j
several times for a trial, but the;
chruch refuses to grant it, and has'
passed a resolution demanding of the
brother an acknowledgment of the
charges, declaring that nothing else
will be received, and that until ac
knowledgment is made, the church
will take no further action in the
matter. The brother wants to know
what he is to do? subscriber.
If the brother knows he is charged
unjustly, of course he cannot make
the required acknowledgment. We
can scarcely conceive of a church
being as unreasonable and arbitrary
as the above statement would indi.
cate. We would like to hear some
thing from the church’s side, before I
deciding such a case. If the atti
tude of the church is corrrctly stated,
then the innocent brother should let
the said church severely alone. Its i
fellowship is not worth having; its
condemnation can do no harm.
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