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2 OUR PULPIT. THE NATION'S BIN AND DUTY. A SKIIMOS I'llKACIIKI) IN THE FIRST BAI' tist cnuitcn, Atlanta, ga., by KEV. J. B. HAWTIIOHNE, l>. I>. Text. I*a. “Woe unto the wicked, it ■halite ill "ith him; for the reward of hie hand* shnll be given him." Thia is what God commanded his prophet l*aiah to any to the people of a reprobate and wicked nation in the die tant peat, and it is the substance of what he requires me, and every other Christian minister in thia land, to say to the people of this nation. The minister who shrinks from this grave responsi bility, and who has not the nerve to de clare vhat God has demanded him to speak, is unlit for his high vocation, and should step down and out. The God who spoke to Isaiah is the same God who s]a .iks to you and to me. He is “the satin yesterday, to-day and for ever.’’ lie is a ruler. He not only ex ists eben where in a limitless universe, but lie reigns; he sits upon a throne and admhiist' rs laws. We are more than und<r law, we are under a living, per sorua, supreme Lawmaker. THE LIVING LAW-I.IVKII. W(- live in an age of science, and science magnifies law. It talks loudly and [unceasingly about what law does. But why are many scientists• <> reluctant to recognize and prods’ Zie grander and inure solemn I’ behind all law is a Law g' .ge? When mensayth.it ~ seu-perpetuating * and self-iegulating; when they say that nature determines the courses of the stars ami controls the seasons, ami shapes and guides all the atlairs of men, do they not ascribe to it intelligence ami will? And can anything have, in telligence and will without personality? Verily, all things are governed; but govi rnment without a governor is un thinkable, A man may boast of being a law unto himself, and of having his own way about things in this lite, but when an earthquake comes and shakes his dwelling from its foundation, or when a cyclone comes and lays his home and neighborhood in ruins, or when pes tilence comes and takes away his chil dren, ami spreads over a whole city alarm and lamentation, bereavement anil death, he finds himself confronted by another will immeasurably stronger than his own, and which it is folly anil madness to resist. Oh! thou self-willed, God-rejecting man, hear me! There are circumstances of which you are not a master. One of them is the death-chill that comes and freezes the life current in your child, ami another is the stop - ping of yosr own pulse and breath. We know not only that God exists, and that be rules the world, but we are taught both by nature and revelation, the eternal principles upon which his administration is conducted. “nmuTKorsNKSs and ji moment are the habitation of this throne - ” His government is based on principles that are inherent in his own character. He recognizes certain immutable and ever lasting distinctions between right and wrong. In dealing with men, he com mends and rewards the right, and con demns and punishes the wrong. “Say to the righteous, it shall be well with him.” Woe to the wicked; it shall be ill with him.” “The Lord knoweth the way of the righteous, but the way of the ungodly shall perish.” “Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things; I will make thee ruler over many things.” “But cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness; there shall be weep ing and gnashing of teeth.” v Now . in the light of God's righteous v iliitfacter aipf us look out upon this troubled'nation, and see what is the fundamental cause of her unrest. I be lieve, that in dealing with a people, (rod’s ministers cannot improve upon the methods of the old prophets. They not only preached against sin, but they located it;pointed to it, in the most di rect and fearless manner, and told the guilty why they suffered, and what they would still sutler, if they did not repent. God helping me, 1 will try to follow the prophets. I do not believej that wicked men are to be benefited by tell ing them how much wiser, and better and more progressive they are than their fathers were. I do not believe that moral diseases can be cured by flattery. This country needs to be puriiied rather than glorified. 1 can afford to speak plainly and faithfully, because I have but little to lose. I am not, and never will be a candidate for political or social favors; 1 covet nothing but an abiding sense of fidelity to him whom 1 call “Master” I am NEITHER OPTIMIST Noli PESSIMIST. Jf 1 were either of these 1 would be unfit for the work of a Christian teacher, and unworthy of leadersnip in any un dertaking tin the public good. 1 try to see, and 1 do see, both the good and the evil in the world, 1 uphold and ap plaud the good, and 1 reprobate and smite the evil. In doing this, I know that I am following the wisest and holi est Being that ever ministered to man kind. 1 see what is meritorious in the people of this country. They are intelli gent, enterprising and philanthropic. They know how to do grand things, and they have the energy and courage to do them. No people are more responsive to human suffering, though some of their methods of responding are very queer, and very incompatible with the spirit of disinterested benevolence. It is a very crooked sort of philanthropy which says, “Give me an oyster supper, or a ticket to a musical festival, or to a lecture on the Passion Play, and I will give you twenty-five cents for the Brun swick sufferers.” Notwithstanding these inconsistencies, I recognize and appreciate the fact that the American people excel all other people in kindness to the suffering and needy. And this kindness is not limited to the unfortunate of their own country. The poor and distressed of other nations will testify that their philanthropy is as broad as the earth. But in giving them full credit for all that is good, I am not blind to the fact that, as a people, they are very unrighteous, and that their vices vastly ougbtweigh their virtues. 1 have not time this morning to enumer ate their sins, but if you wish to know what is their (most radical and charac teristic sin, I tell you plainly and em phatically, it is dishonesty. A DISHONEST NATION. From the base to the apex of Ameri can society there is visible to every eye a selfish, grasping, materialism. Every where men are reaching after and ap propriating to themselves things which do not legitimately belong to them. They steal, but so indirectly and inge niously, that the law - , as we have it in terpreted and administered, fails to over take them. In every community of this country there are people, who, by some species of deception, manage to get hold and lay up, or consume, or waste, a good share of what other people have honestly toiled for. What article of food is there on the market that is not adulterated by some degrading mixture? Is not that dishon esty? Is it not theft? Is not the man who sells me adulterated milk, or adul- terated butter, without letting me know it is adulterated, dishonest? Is he not a tlieif according to the law of God re vea'e I in the sacred Scriptures? The merchant who deceives me as to the quality of his goods, or gives me short mearure, is a thief. The same is true of the mechanic who builds my house or puts into it materials inferior to those named in his contract it is true of the lawyer who advises his client to sue w hen he knows that his claim is spuri ous, and that it is impossible for him to recover. It is true of the doctor who continues to visit and prescribe for ids patient, when lie knows that his patient no longer n eils medical attention. It is true of the legislator wdio accepts certain substantial favors from a great business corporation, with the under standing that it will have his support when called for. It is true of the news paper man, who, when he cannot find exciting news to give to the public, makes it,—coins it out of his own fertile brain. Go to New York or Chicago and visitone of those places where men gam ble in grain, or meat, or railroad stocks, and you will find an army of men, who while they would not suffer their re spectabiliy to be challenged, look one another in the face and say and do things which they know to be dishonest and villainous. The brilliant audacity of our great commercial centres is imitated in cities as small even as Atlanta. Yes, it is at tempted in our rural villages and insight of country graveyards, where sleep the ashes of a noble ancestry —men who feared God and kept his command ments, The .State makes a distinction between THEFT AND Flt A I'll, but God's government knows no such distinction. The man who swindles me out of a dollar and the man who picks my pocket stand on the same moral level. 'I he State makes a distinction be tween the bandits who combine and rob a country store, or village bank, and those financial wreckers of Wall Street, who combine their forces, ami by a single blow crush a railroad, in which thousands of people have invested the fruits of their honest toil. But tried by the law of the Bible, the men who rob a bank are no worse than the men who steal a railroad. Recently a certain class of sociologists and moralists have devoted themselves largely to the inves tigation of crime; its source, its statis tics, and its correction. But it seems to me that these men leave out of their calculations the thousands on thous ands of respectable unpunished crimes. The vagrant thieves, who are caught and sent to the chain-gang, are not more numerous than the gentlemanly thieves, who haunt the lobbies of leg islature, municipal chambers, and the bribable courts, and who go into the marts of trade, and by a sort of financial jugglery, get the fruits of honest men's labor without paying much for them. The politician who gets into office by bribery, falsehood, or ballot-box stuf fing, is a thief, and the virtuous element of society should rise up and brand him accordingly. The merchant who gets the trade of a community by slandering his competitors, is a thief. The news paper publisher who gets the patronage of a city or State government by claim ing a larger circulation for his paper than it has, is a thief. The contractor who gets a municipal job by dividing his profits with thecommittee charged with letting out the work, is a thief. But these are respectable thieves; and they are respectable only because they are UNWIIII'I’KD OF JUSTICE. I repeat it then, the great characteris tic sin of this country—the great Ameri can disease is dishonesty. What is the remedy? My prescription is to poi .t out the popular mistakes which have invited and fostered this iniquity, and then lift ijo agajust* it the. evoKlastiug principles of Bible morality, find the old-fashioned safe-guards of personal integrity. If men, who are leaders in business, politics, and social life, will not regulate their conduct by a high code of morals, their exanude will be pleaded by men less prominent, as a license for every species of crookedness. I sometimes step into a commercial convention where men prominent in the great world of trade, are discussing commercial measures. 1 sometimes visit a political convention, where a paity platform is made and candidates for political office are nominated, and in eith er place 1 am impressed by the fact that there is very little insistence upon fealty to high ethical principles. “Will it pay?” “Is it popular?” “Will it win?” These are the consider.tions which de termine the fate of almost any measure that comes before one of these conven tions. How seldom in such a place do we heal it said: "This is right, and let us stand by it whether w e win or lose.” Or, “ That is wrong, and let us oppose it at any cost.” How seldom do we see one brave enough to rise up in the midst of this deafening clamor of calculation and profit, and say, “Sink or swim, sur vive or perish, let us doour duty.” If the merchant ortho banker in com mercial circle, or the political leader in caucus or convention or legislative hall, will not hold himself to a high standard of ethics, it is no wonder that the pen niless and hungry tramp does not hold himself to it, when fortune favors him with an opportunity to rob a hen's roost, or raid a melon-patch! If the manufacturer's conscience does not de ter him from defrauding his customers with spurious goods, would it be strange if conscience did not deter his confiden tial clerk from running away with the contents of his money-drawer? UNDESERVED SYMPATHY. In looking carefully into the influences that have promoted the grow th of dis honesty in this country, 1 am disposed to believe that an indiscreet and ill-ad vised sympathy for certain classes of thieves lias had much to do with it. A man who has stood high in commer cial and social circles embezzles money to the amount of fifty thousand dollars. He is arrested and sent to prison. Presently, tender-hearted people, un mindful of the public weal, go abroad from street to street and from house to house, to awaken sympathy on his be half. They carpet his cell and decorate it with the loveliest and rarest flowers. They send him the best meals which professional caterers can i rovide; they write beautiful and pathetic articles about him for the newspapers, and do their utmost not only to brighten but to shorten his term of punishment. Now, while sympathy for a poor crim inal is commendable, such manifesta tions of it as I have described, are often productive of great mischief. They render the criminal less sensitive to his crime, and inspire thousands of shallow minded people to say, “ Well, after all, theft is not so disgraceful: and convicted thieves have a very good time.” Do not cite the divine pity in vindication of such conduct. God's government is not unqualified pity. It is pity balanced with justice. It is severity tempered with mercy. Theft is a crime, and justice, good gov ernment, and the best interests of so ciety, demand that we shall make the thief feel that his crime is DISGRACEFUL AND DAMNABLE. There is another and a very common mistake that has done much to encour age dishonesty. It is the idea that if a THE CHRISTIAN INDEX: THURSDAY FEBRUARY 8.1894. man has one strong and conspicuous virtue we should be very tolerant of hi) vices One of the most distinguished men that ever occupied a seat in the Senate of the United States was notorious for making debts which he never paid, and never showed any disposition to pay, but his political friends excused him and apologized for him on the ground that he gave liberally to every beggar that came to his door. Our toleration of such looseness in public men gives license to dishonesty. A man's philan thropy is no legal or moral offset to his note in bank. He may give half of his income to the church, or *to the poor, but if he will not pay his just debts, there is not one liber of honesty in him,, and society should treat him according ly. The large sum which Ananias laid at the Apostles’ feet to be distributed among the poor did not offset the lie that he told in making his gift. God smote him with instant death, to teach the world that no good deed can compen sate or atone for a bad one. Another cause for this laxity in morals, may be traced to the churches. If a church-member's religion is very emo tional, if he seems to be hapyy in the Lord, ami if he makes profession of high spiritual attainments, we are dis posed to tolerate him in neglecting many of the most CARDINAL 111 TIES of Christian life. “Wives obey your husbands.” I know some women who are too pious to do that, and who will never forgive Paul for laying such an 1 obligation upon them. I know men who are too pious to support, their families, i Having attained to a state of sinless perfection, they have quit work and left their wives and little children to strug ; gle for themselves. There are some of . these “saints par-excellence” who are I 100 holy to pay a butcher’s bill. Some who gaze so steadfastly into heaven, that they cannot see the deacon when he passes the contribution basket. Now, 1 say that the Church helps to demoral : ize the world, when it tolerates and fosters such ideas of religion. The man or woman who wilfully and habitually neglects a plain, domestic duty, is a very unworthy exemplar of the religion iof Christ. The church-member to , whom duty is less sacred than good- I feeling, has a fatal misconception of the ! one thing needful. In these times of unrest and anxiety, when markets are overloaded, and the wheels of industry hang idle; when mer chants go to their counting-rooms in the morning, not to see how much money they can make, but how little they can loose; when church treasuries and mis sion treasuries are shrivelled and empty! when hope dies out of the hearts of the poor, not for lack of bread in the land, lint for the want of work; in this unhap py state, men everywhere are asking, “What is the matter with our country?” The political doctors think that they have gone to the bottom of the matter, I and they commiserate those who ques ; tion tlie infallibility of their wisdom. But, unfortunately for the doctors, they , are not agreed among themselves. One ! tells us that the .Sherman Law is THE DIREFUL SOURCE of our country's woes. Another tolls I us that tlie iniquitous tariff is the Pan dora box from which all our troubles come. One cries, “Tlie Monometallists have robbed us.” Another shouts, “The ; Bimetallists have wrecked us.” My countrymen, God knows, and I , trurt that tlie day is not far distant , wlietjyou will see that the trouble lies | deeper than any question of currency, !or tariff, or both. The basal, radical cause of our national infelicity is a , chronic state of dishonesty. For years we have been living largely lon false pretenses. Thousands of men : have been swimming in wealth that was purely ficticious. liusiiicss. supposed ,tj,\ s be done on solid capital, have been done ;on bubbles of air. We have walkdcl in I vain shadows, and called these shadows i property. Much of the luxurious living ■ in our land has been maintained by un mitigated fraud. We have promoted to places of honor and responsibility, men who have asked to be trusted when there was nothing to trust. Men capa j ble of any duplicity ami shamed of no i dishonor, have been called to the front, : while men of unflinching integrity have , been relegated to the rear. In every j community, men with sad faces and broken hearts will tell us how they have i been deceived, betrayed and circumvent ed and robbed of their all. Now what is the fruit of all this reck i less, audacious, and long-continued in iquity? It is just what you see and feel to-day,—a loss of confidence. Men have I ceased to trust one another, and that has brought commercial stagnation, paralysis and death. “Woe to the wick ' ed; it shall be ill with him; for the re ward of his hands shall be given to him.” The meaning of this is that God will punish a wicked people with the inevita | ble and N A Tl' 11A I CONSEQUENCES. of their own folly. We had our seed time: it was propitious. We planted, and now comes the harvest—dissension, bitterness, strife, crimination and re ; crimination, bankruptcy, want, cries for bread, riots, mobs, arson, robberies, murder, What is the remedy? Any legislation [is mere patch-work. It is a mere anats thetic that can bring only temporary re lief. The disease is moral, and the remedy must be moral. We must re i pent toward God: and the remedy must be real and radical. As individuals we must repent, and seek forgiveness of him who is exalted to give repentance : and remission of sins. Asa people we must repent—we must clothe ourselves in sackcltoh and sit down in ashes. We must get back to those everlasting principles of Bible morality from which we have drifted. We must put away everything that is false, dishonest anil deceptive, and re ! turn to the virtuous simplicity of our Christian fathers in the purer and hap pier days of the Republic. Let us do ! this, and deliverance will come. 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DOBBS. 1. What is the meaning of He brews 6 : 6. 2. In John 3: 16, we have these words: “For God So loved the world, etc., and in the same chapter 27th I verse, “A man can receive nothing , except It be given him from heaven.” I Which of the two words that I have underscored contain the most mean ing, each taken in its own connec tion? We had as a general question in the Sunday-school, What is the shortest word in the New Testament containing the most meaning? The two words to which I call your at tention were given as answers. The school is divided as to which is right. Will you please settle the question for us? I always read your column in the Index and derive much pleasure profit from it. k. a. s. 1. The verse in the epistle to the •Hebrews states that it is impossible that those who have fallen away from Christianity “should be renewed to repentance ; seeing they are cruci fied to themselves tlie Son of God afresh, and putting him to an open shame.” The quotation is from the improved Bible Union Version. Dr. Kendrick comments: “Their recove ry is hopeless ; they have exhausted tile divine mercy.” (American Com mentary.) This is not to be con founded with the sin against the Holy Spirit, of which our Lord spoke in Mark 3; 29, 30; nor with the sin unto death, of which John wrote (1 John 5: 10), whatever those sins may have been. The passage in Hebrews positively asserts that there is no repentance for those who are described as “fallen away.” Whatever may be true as to the doctrines commonly known as ‘-falling from grace” and the “perseverance of the saints,” if this passage bears at all on the ques tion, it teaches that he who falls is beyond hope of renewal. It will be seen that the Revised Version aban dons the hypothetical “ii” of the King James Version. Still the whole argument of the sacred writer has a hypothetical form. The pas sage is confessedly a difficult one, and it is not good exegesis to wring out of a doubtful passage a meaning conti ary to the other passages clear antt unmistakable in their positive teaching concerning the certainty of the believers final salvation. Thank God, though he falls he shall not be utterly cast down. 2. Really we do «iot see the value of such in the Sunday school. Still we will try to help our good sister in her perplexity. In the Greek the adverb “so” is express ed emphatically, while there is no word at all for “it” in verse 27, it beitg expret ,< d, according to Greek etiNjfm, in the jerb “be.” This vv«^i / to ’ the former to be the more important. Hovey says that “die adverb so means, with so great a love.” The emphasis in verse 27 is to be laid on the phrase “unless it be given him from heaven” —that is all man’s honor or success in God’s service is from the giver of every good and perfect gift. 1. I see by the almanac that Eas ter Sunday this year does not come on the same day that it did last year. Why not? 2. Ought Baptist’s to observe Eas- ter? I find it mentioned in Acts 12: L L. M. D. 1. It would require many columns to explain this matter fully. Brief ly, early Christians held that Christ suffered death on the very day the Jews celebrated the Passover, the day on which the lamb was sacrific ed. In the earliest times, therefore, Easter was celebrated on the same day that the Jews celebrated their Passover. Afterwards the great majority of Christians attached more importance to the day of the resur rection, which was the Sunday fol lowing, and insisted that Easter should be celebrated on that day, that is the Sunday which followed the 14th day of the moon of March (the Jewish calender being in lunar months). The question became a very troublesome one in church cir cles, as will be seen by reading the history of the subject, and there was much controversy about it. Con stantine brought the matter before the Council of Nice in 325. The question was fully discussed, and finally settled for the whole church by adopting the rule which makes Easter day to be always the first Sunday after the full moon which happens upon our next after March 21 ; and if the full moon happens on Sunday, Easter is the Sunday after. By this arrangement Easter may come as early as March 22, or as late as April 25. 2. The word for “Easter” in Acts 12: 4 is that everywhere else render ed “passover,” and should have been so translated here. The Episcopa lian commentator, Dr. Plumtre, says : “In this solitary instance the trans lators have introduced, with a singu lar infelicity, the term which was definitely appropriate only to the Christian festival which took the place of the Passover.” There can scarcely be a question but that the King James translators allowed their sectarian interests to control them in putting “Easter” in the text. Even the Roman Catholic authors of the Rhemish New Testament did not do that The Revised Version, as in so many other places, corrects the error and restores “Passover.” “Easter” comes from the name of the old Saxon goddess “Eostre,” whose festival was celebrated in the Spring. The New Testament does not ordain the observance of any particular anniversary days or sea sons. Interpreted in the light of primitive Christian literature and practice, the New Testament appears to sanction the observance of the weekly “Lord’s day,” but nothing more. For this reason the early Puritans refused to observe Christ mas, Easter, and other ecclesiastical days, and they went to great ex tremes in their opposition. Most early Baptists strongly sympathized with them, and many of our breth ren to-day emphatically disapprove of any recognition whatever of “Easter.” We once knew a good man who went so far that he al ways urged his people to ob serve both Christmas and Easter Sundays as “fast days I” He would invariably preach on the death rath er than the birth, or resurrection, of Jesus, on those Sundays. This dear brother was an extremist, and very few Baptists now share his extreme views. It has long been the custom of this writer to preach on the resurrection of our Lord, or some related theme, on what is known as Easter Sunday, and he sees nothing wrong in such a recognition of the day. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. Rom. 14: 5. How can the disadvantages aris ing from our present mode of grant ing letters of dismission be avoided? CLERK. This inquiry comes from the clerk of the church at Crawfordville, which in formal conference proposes to her sister churches the following plan, namely: “When a member removes from our bounds, he or she will be ex pected to have some regular Baptist church, within six months, to make application for their letter of dismis. sion or transfer of membership, un less some arrangements be made to the contrary.” We question whether the average Baptist would cheerfully submit to such an arrangement. We Baptists are very much in favor of indepen dence and personal liberty. It is to be presumed th it every church member asking for and receiving a letter of dismission intends to use it conscientiously. The one who does not so intend would scarcely lie worth the postage necessary for the correspondence suggested by our Crawfordville brethren. Better try the time honored Baptist usage a while longer. CHURCH DISCIPLINE FOR 1894- BY REV. J. C. SOLOMON. Dear Index :—Allow me to express just a few thoughts for your many readers. Possibly they will not prove non-interesting. There lire many Baptists here — good, bad, and indifferent, and still they come. We want only one kind, viz., God-fearing. Christ-lov ing, soul-seeking Baptists. To this end we are praying and working. We heartily believe that the pruning knife has been left too long in disuse. Too many dead branches remain on the tree. I am in for a lopping off, a gen eral, close trimming—too much dead weight—too many pulling back—too many scotching the wheel—too few at work—too few pulling—too few loving, serving Christ. It really seems that a good, large per cent, of our churches, or of our church members are asleep. They are in a profound slumber, sleeping as if there would be no waking. What is the matter? What is the remedy? How can we correct the evil? Something evidently must be done. You see plainly, for it is an ocular demonstration, that not a few of our churches are do ing practically nothing for the spread of the gospel, for the glory of God. Too many of our members are dead to Christ, dead to the churches, dead to themselves, dead to real usefulness. Is there no remedy under the sun? Certainly there is. A church stands in her own light of her own volition when she tolerates it. She walks with crutches when she ought to go leaping and rejoicing in her strength. She grovels in the dust when she ought to soar like a lark. She mourns in sack cloth and ashes when she ought to throw around her the beauteous garment of righ teousness ready for the coming of her Lord. We need a revival of discipline, an old fashion, clear-cut, straight- The Largest Retail CLOTHIERS in the South. PRICE TO ALL.-- . . MACON, . . — 77 ATLANTA, . . 552-854 Cherry Street. 39-4■ Whltehall- 3 3- 34 S. Broad. forward, scriptural way of dealing with members. It does seem that church discipline is almost a lost art. Our preachers and our churches are either afraid, or it is not popular, or it is cruel, or it is distasteful. The rule is get all you can and keep all you get, and the pity of it is many, too many are not worth the getting. The back door has been shut too long. The people have been imprisoned. So open wide all the back doors and give the world an opportunity to pass out of the church. If members will neither pay, nor pray, nor come, nor go, nor help, nor lead in any way the burdens of the church, then they themselves are burdens and hindrances to the prosperity of Zion. If we can not arouse them, if we cannot use them, if they have taken too much of the devil’s opiate, why, then let us see to it, that they finish their nap outside the “church pail.” Such a class always brings re proach on a church and is an ap probrium to the cause of our [ blessed Master. Brother pastors i what say you to turning over a new ; leaf in ’94? Let us all this new j year “beard the lion in his den.” I Shall we be abashed? Shall we stand back? Shall we hesitate a moment because of the unpleas antness of the task? I admit it is unpleasant and at times smacks of hardness and unkindness. But shall we not endure hard ness as a good soldier? For one I am in for keeping, a clean, pure, attractive house for God, let it cost what it may. The unwhole some, offensive, covetous, world loving members must go. They are a curse to the church. They are a disgrace to the cause. They are real barriers to the Holy Spirit. Harvest Bells. Song book in round and shape notes and words only, is strongly endorsed by Drs. Broadus, Manly, Gambrell, A. .1. Frost, and thousands of others, and by nearly every Baptist paper in the U. S., Canada and England. Let churches aud Sunday-schools write for terms, and they will see how the middle man can be knocked out. Address. W. E. PENN. 14dec-ly St. Louis, Mo SEEDS, PLANTS AND VINES. My stock of new crop (1893) Garden Seeds is coming in, all fresh, new and tirst-class. Send j in your order»e»rly and receive prompt atten I tion. I keep a full stock of Standard Garden ' and Flower Seeds. Strawberry Plants, Rasberry Plants, “nd Blackberry Plants. All tlie best varieties of Grapevines fr‘'m one to two years old: embrac ing all the tested varieties suitable to the South LaFrance, Meteor. 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Choice selections Scarlet Clover, Red Clover, Alfalfa—Lucerne, Rescue Grass, Blue Grass, Herds Red Top, Orchard Timothy, Bermuda, Johnston and Lawn Grsss, etc. Seeds for the Garden. SPECIALTIES. Jacksan’s Wonder Bean, Lord Bacon Jones and White Ivy Water Melon Seeds, Georgia Collard, Cattail Millet, Spanish Peanut, Chufas, Ensilage. Corn, etc. Fertilizers, Davis Swing Churn. Send for prices. 4jan-4tn Writing Mention Christian Index. BUHNGAMANO As we are now fast becoming a musi cal people and the Piano is considered an essential part of the furniture of our homes, and lias been the means of bring ing sunshine into many a one, thanks to such enterprising men as Steinway A Sons, who for over 40 years have worked incessantly to bring to the front the now famous STEINWAY PIANO until it is now, as every one knows, the “STANDARD OF THE WORLD !” ■ - W The house for many years has been conceded universally to be the most ex tensive of its kind in existence. The workmen are of the ripest experience and may well be considered as the finest artists in their line, using only the Best and Finest Material. Add to this their many and varied inven tions and it will explain why the Steinway Piano lias the most agreeable, elastic touch of unerring precision, producing the finest and Most Lastinj Qualities of Tooe, and why the PIANO remains in tune and has greater durability and excellence than has ever been obtained in any Pi ano. To have a Steinway Piano is to have the best that can be had, and this is a satisfaction not to be underrated for a moment. As their Southern Agents we Duplicate New York Prices, saving you freights and other expenses and will be money in your pocket if you buy from us direct. Write us, or call and select in our warerooms. Fnw & Bradley Music Co. 63 Peachtrte St<ATLANTA, GA. * Writing Mention Christian Inokx, Rome Railroad Co. ol Georgia In effect 9:00 a. m.. Sunday, October 30, 1892 Right is reserved to vary from this schedule as circumstances may require. Rome to Kingston—Passenger Ttrains Daily Stations. No. 1. ! No. 3. No-5. I.v.Rome ... 900 am 215 pm 715 am Second Avenue-■ 904 " 219 " 717 “ Brick Yardl 910 “|2 25 “ 723 " Freemans 918 "I 233 “ 728 " Dykes; 923 ‘ 238 “ 732 ” Bass Ferry[ 929 “ I 244 “ 737 “ Eves !9 34 “ I 249 " 743 -1 Mnrchisons 945 " 300 “ 75' " Wooleysj 952 " j 307 “ 754 “ Ar. Kingston!lo 00 “ | 315 " 800 “ Atlantal 115 pm! 625 “ 11025 “ Chattanoogal 1 30 " I 600 “ 1 Kingston to Rome—Passenger Trains Daily Stations. No •’ No. 4. No. 6. Lv. Chattanooga 750 am 120 pm Atlanta 810 "!1 20 " 3 35p Kingston 1 50 “ I 405 “ 600 WooleysJO 55 “ 1 411 “ 606 Murchisons 10 59 “ I 417 " 610 Eves 1113 " 1426 " 617 Bass Ferryill 18 ■* i 434 " 623 Dykes;ll23 “ i 440 “ 628 Freemanslll2B “ : 445 “ 632 Brick Yard 1135 “ 451 “ '6 37 Second Avenue.. 11 42 “ 457 " !6 43 Ar. Rome .1145 “ i 500 “ | 645 Nos. 1, 2,3 and 4 trains run daily, making close connection at Kingston, Ga.,(both morn ing and evening) with Western & Atlantic trainsgoing North to Chattanooga, Tenn., and South to Atlanta, Ga. 1 Nos. 5 and 6 (Rome Express) will run daily between Rome and Atlanta, Ga., except Sun day, makingclose connection at Atlanta with , the Central s fast train. “Nancy Hanks.” for » Griffin, Macon and Savannah. W. F. AYER, Superintendent. INDIGESTION. IT ®‘‘’T, A " D CURE. Valuable DYSPEPSIA. b ook free. address, chas o TYNER, DRUGGIST, - ATLANTA, GA.