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A WEIK OF PRAYER.
DR. J. B. GAMBRELL.
To the pastors and churches of the
Southern Baptist Convention,
Dear Brethren: —The Com
mittee of seven appointed by the
Convention in Washington to con
fer with the Secretaries of the
State Boards of Missions as to
means of enlisting our people more
heartily in mission work, met in
Atlanta June 19th and 20th, and
spent two days in almost continu
ous consideration of the great
questions submitted to us.
What was formally done you
can read in the denominational
papers. The entire Committee felt
that great good was done in bring
ing into a clear light the real situ
ation throughout these Southern
states, and in a helpful exchange
of views on the many sides of the
grear problem before our people,
viz : how to utilize for the king
dom and glory of Christ, our great
and sadly wasting resources.
At the close of the Committee’s
labors I, as chairman, was instruct
ed to prepare and cause to be pub
lished a call for a week of earnest
prayer for the help of the Holy
Spirit in all our work as a people.
The Committee felt, as wi all
must when we reflect, that our su
preme need is power from on high,
and that wisdom that cometh from
above. Therefore, as directed, I
’ n *he ,r> n me of . rhe Com
mittee, that the week beginning
’ the Lord’s Day, July 21st, be given
in the churches, in the homes and
in the private devotions of all the
people to special prayer for the
mighty power and working of the
Holy Spirit, moving and leading
us all in our work for the spread of
the gospel.
Dear Breathren, let us lay th’s
matter to heart. Our difficulties
are many, but they grow out of our
ignorance and lack of spiritual life.
Who can doubt that a great spirit
ual uplifting would bear us on and
through all difficulties. Our great
numbers and great resources are a
weakness, unless they have the
sanctifying power of the Spirit on
them. Opportunities go for noth
ing if our eyes be holden that we
cannot see them, or our zeal frozen
that we have no heart to use them.
If in answer to united paryer
the spirit shall be given us in great
power, there will come back to the
churches and to the hearts of the
Lord’s own, the tenderness, the
yearning love and compassion of
Christ, for all Christian life is only
Christ in us by the Holy Spirit.
And this love and compassion is
the only true and reliable source of
missionary activity. We should
not deceive ourselves into a semi
belief that something else will
answer. The Spirit is our power,
and without him we have no power
for anything.
Let us lay it to our hearts afresh
that while Jesus gave to his people
the work of discipling the world as
their mission, he never intended
they should do even the least part
of this work without the presence
and immediate help of the Spirit.
He restrained his disciples from
going on the mission assigned them
till they should be endued from on
high. For this supreme prepara
tion he commanded them to tarry.
Who that has ever felt the power
of the Holy Spirit does not feel
the tremendous need of a fresh sup
ply of his power throughout all our
borders? This resistless helper we
can have for the asking, but we
must ask in faith nothing doubt
ing- . .
With many of our churches it is
the protracted meeting time. The
people in great throngs will wait
on the word. Would we have the
word with power? Then let prayer
be made that the Holy Spirit will
visit us. The power that moves us
to seek the lost at home, is the
same power that must vitalize all
our missionary movements.
The Committee requests the de
nominational press to take up this
question and keep it before the
people. The Holy Spirit working
his will as he will, comes to some of
his servants with special sugges-
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tions. If any feel move -t them
talk privately and publicly of this
matter. And in ly each one try to
liy himself afresh, at the feet of the
Redeemer of sinners, to be tilled
with his Spirit for better service.
For the Index.
THE RISE OF THE BAPTISTS IN
VIRGINIA.
REV. C. K. HENDERSON.
A few days ago while in the
home of Deacon Raymond Hurst,
of Myrtle, Ga., I found a copy of
Semple’s History of the Baptists
in Virginia. This book was pub
lished by the Author, in Richmond,
in the year ISIO I have been
greatly interested in this history,
and I shall present in this paper, a
few of the striking things pertain
ing to the Baptist fathers of Vir
ginia.
Semple shows that there were
two kinds of Baptists in Virginia
in 1744: Separate Baptists and
Regular Baptists . The Separates
were converted under the preach
ing of Whitefield and separated
themselves from the “ established
churches.” Those who j lined the
movement of Whitefield were
called in New England, “ New
Lights.” In Virginia, Separates.
The Separates were Independents
in church polity, and Pedo baptists
in principle. They did not reject
any of their members who chose
to submit to believer’s baptism.
Shubal Stearns was a Separate
and afterwards submitted to be
liever’s baptism. He, Daniel Mar
shall, his brother-in-law, and Gar
rad, and others, in all sixteen, con
stituted a church called Sandy
Creek, in Guilford county, North
Carolina. Stearns was pastor.
Sandy Creek church soon swelled
to 606 members.
In August, 1760, a church was
constituted under the pastoral care
of the Rev. Dutton Sane, baptized
by Rev. Daniel Marshall. This
was the first Separite Baptist
church in Virginia, and in some
sense, the mother of all the rest.
The first Regular Baptists came
from England into Virginia in
1714 and settled in the south east
part of the State. Another party
came from Maryland in 1743. But
the party from New England act
ed the most distinguished part.
Samuel Harriss, James Read,
Elijah Craig, John Waller, were
the men who spread the tidings of
peace and salvation. These, to
gether with the names already
were the leader; -jf tbs
Baptists. Most of them were illit
erate, yet illuminated by the wis
dom from above, they would de
fend and mantain the cause of
truth, against the arguments of the
most profound.
The Church of England was es
tablished in Virginia, and no min
ister was permitted to preach un
less he had received ordination
from some Bishop in England.
Every person was compelled to at
tend church every Sunday under
the penalty of jolbs of tobacco.
The Established Church greatly af
flicted the Baptists, but despite all
opposition, they prospered.
After awhile there was a pretty
general desire for the union of the
Separates and the Regular Bap
tists. One difficulty to this union
was that the Regulars complained
that the Separates were not suffi
ciently explicit in their principles,
having never published or sanc
tioned any confession of faith ; and
that they kept within their com
munion, many who were professed
Arminians.
The Separates feared a tyranical
power of a confession of faith over
the conscience. But after consid
erable debate as to the propriety of
having any confession of faith,” a
union was effected on the basis of
the confession of the Regulars, de
claring that, “we do not mean that
every person is bound to the strict
observance of everything therein
contained ; yet that it holds forth
the essential truths of the gospel.”
After this, Regular and Separate
were buried in oblivion, and there
was known only“ The United Bap
tist Churches of Christ in Virginia.
The churches of those early days
were not free from dissension
They were pretty evenly divided
between Arminian and Calvinistic
doctrines. Calvinism was slightly
in the majority. The Associations
spent most of the time in preaching
and debating queries, and attend
ing to local matters. It was de
nied that it was right for a brother
to marry his deceased wife’s sister.
Funeral sermons were objected
to. The office of Apostle was es
tablished. Rev. Samuel Harriss
was chosen Apostle by unanimous
consent. John Waller and E.
Craig were also elected afterwards
as Apostles. It was the old plan of
the Bishop over again, but it did
not succeed, and no others were
ever appointed. It was believed that
all the offices mentioned in Eph. 4 :
11, 12, 13, were still in use.
Many of the preachers in the
early days had a “ holy tone ” and
Semple speaks of “disgusting
whoops ” and gestures. Shoutings
and tremblings were frequent.
In going through Semple I find
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that some of the churches cared
nothing for a name. Among oth
ers, I find some named Skinquarter,
Polecat and Stinking River. Skin
quarter is a live church in Virginia
to-day, and, perhaps, in other
States.
I mean to read Semple carefuliy
through, and I may have something
else to say about the churches and
ministers of whom he writes.
God bless the early Baptists of
Virginia.
For the Index,
DIVINE GRADE TO HELP.
BY REV. O. C. PEYTON.
“My grace is sufficient for thee.”
11 Cor. 12 :9.
There is no condition possible to
human life when this assurance
from the lips of Jesus will fail to
Drove true in the experience of the
trusting believer. But, let us brief
ly note two or three conditions,
under which divine grace will al
ways prove to be sufficient.
1. It restrains from sinful indul
gence.
; Life is full of fearful temptations
When we become servants of
Christ, we do not get rid of our
evil inclinations. Nay, the very
opposite is true. When we have
been given to see our sinfulness in
God’s sight, our need of the Sa
vior and the Holy Spirit has led us
to accept Christ, all the evil in our
nature rebels. The demands of the
new and spiritual life, upon which
we have entered, stimulates sinful
indulgence by the ve y restraint it
puts upon sin. This is a law of
our evil hearts. We want to do
just exactly those things we are
forbidden to do. Vou see this in
the smallest child. When the
mother says, “don’t do that,” that
is the very thing the child will be
most inclmed to do. See Rom.
7 : 7-24. But, for all the evil with
in us, all our evil tendencies, our
evil propensities and all the varied
and powerful tempta 1 ion« 4of life,
God’s grace is all sufficient. Read
1 Cor. 10: 13.
2. It constrains to duty. Tempta
tion comes to us all in two forms.
One is to commit positive evil and
the other is to shrink from doing
right. We are prone to see only
one side. I trust we are all con
scious of our sinning in thought,
word and deed every day we live.
I hope not one of my readers has
been deluded into professing the
kind of sanctification some modern
self-deceived, ignorant and loud
boasting preachers are misleading
people into claiming. No, it we
know our own hearts, we must be
conscious of evil within us and we
are painfully aware that this evil
manifests itself in sin, sin, sin—
every day. But, there is the other
side. In God’s sight, there are sins
of omission as well as commission.
And God counts the one sin as well
as the other. Listen to the word :
“He that knoweth to do good and
doeth it not, to him it is sin.” Do
you think about that side?
God’s word here teaches that if a
man knows his duty and does it not
he committed! sin. If we have the
means of doing good and do it not
it is sin. If you can help the poor,
comfort the distressed help to send
the gospel to the heathen—if you
neglect plain Christian duty—to
you it is sin. Ah! to be fully
aroused to duty we need God’s
grace. We are cold, careless, slug
gish. Privileges and opportunities
are going by us every day. Tal
ents lie hidden, unimproved, unus
ed. Life is rushing by us. It can
bring us nothing worth having but
usefulness. May God stir our souls
and give us grace to see and do
our duty to him, to the world, to
ourselves.
3. It sustains in trial. All of us
must bear trials of some sort. To
some they are heavy, bitter, painful
and hard ‘to bear. To some, it is
bereavement. To some, it is
thwarted plans and disappointed
hopes. How must you view all
these? Well there are two ways.
One is to sit and repine, to com
plain that all goes wrong, to think
that none ever suffered as you are
suffering, to just sit and brood until
your Christain character is greatly
damaged. The other and the best
way is to say : “Well, lam God s
child and I know he loves me and
I know I love him and he tells me
that “all things work together for
good to them that love God.” I
know he is too wise to err and too
good to be unkind.” lam sure that
good is coming out of this trial and
here I am going to rest. But,
nothing but God’s grace can give
us such a view of life and its mean
ing as this. May that grace be
given us all in richest measure that
in our experience its help may be
sufficient to our every need.
Wartrace, Tenn.
Superintendents of Sunday-schools
in the Stone Mountain Associa
tion :
Please furnish me with number
and names of delegates to the Stone
Mountain Convention to be held at
Rutledge, Tuesday after the 2d Sun
day in July, so that I can have homes
assigned them.
M. A. Murrow,
Supt. Rutledge S. S.
For the Indbx
MISSOURI LETTER.
BY REV. B. G. TUTT.
Our State never looked more
beautiful than it does now. Crops
of all kinds are flourishing and give
promise of an abundant harvest.
The fruit crop all over the
State is far better than usual. The
rains have been pretty generally
destributed and corn, our great
staple, is looking well. Our farm
ers have little cause to complain of
the season so far.
The closing exercises of Wm.
Jewell College were held last week.
The past year has been perhaps the
most successful in the history of
the college. Two hundred and
ninety one students are in
ance during the year—ninety of
whom were ministerial students.
President J. P. Greene is admira
bly adapted to the position he oc
cupies, his heart is fully in his
work and if he can be properly sup
ported by the denomination he will
under God make the Institution
what it ought to be—an honor to
the great Baptist brotherhood of
the State. Our greatest need now
is more buildings. A dozen more
students than we had last year
would test the utmost capacity of
our present buildings.
I suppose we are very much in
the condition of your Mercer. Such
men as Drs. Gambrell and Greene
ought not to be hindered in their
great work for the want of a few
thousand dollars.
Dr. Harper, of Chicago Univer
sity, delivered the address before
the literary societies. His theme
was “Why college students should
study the Bible and how to study
a >’
The address was reverent, inspir
ing—and in every way uplifting
It did much towards removing
some apprehensions in the minds
of some as to Dr. Harpers belief in
the inspiration of the scriptures.
His treatment of his subject was
clear cut, with scarcely a suspicion
of department from orthodox views
on the subject of inspiration.
Our denominational work in
Missouri, along all lines is fairly
satisfactory—but like the Baptists
of Georgia, vwSare not putting forth
one half of bur ability to do for the
Master.
Our District associations will be
gin to hoid meeting the last
of July and from that time until
the middle of October the secreta
ries ’ 1 ? ar mjiwiftii interest, will be
... tier, / to b".
May ftlfe Lord of the harvest say
“well done” to all His faithful
laborerers.
Our B. Y. P. U. organisation for
the State will meet next week at
Sedalia,the reports will show a large
increase of unions and work done.
May the Lord bless and guide the
“movement” all over the world for
His glory and the good or His
cause.
AOTS OF THE APOSTLES.
I have always called this Book
the fifth Gospel of the New Testa
ment.
1. A Gospel to the Gentiles.
2. The Gospel of the Holy
Ghost,
3. The Gospel of the Resurrec
tion.
4. Apostolic Sermons.
5. Gospel Church history.
The value of it in our Canon of
Scripture cannot be too highly es
timated by the minister of the Gos
pel who searches for Bible truth
In it we can find five model New
Testament churches: (i) Jerusa
lem, (2) Antioch, (3) Phillippi, (4)
Ephesus, and (5) Corinth.
The members of these all alike,
1. Heard the word. 2. Received
the truth, and 3. Were baptized.
They were called Christians,
Saints, Beloved. “Beloved of God,”
“ Saints Sanctified,” etc. The
description in some places com
plete. We can find also five preach
ers : Peter, Barnabas, Paul, Mark
and Silas. Stephen and Philip and
scores of others joined them in
spreading the Gospel in all places.
They were scattered abroad and
went everywhere preaching the
word The Lord added unto them
daily such as should be saved.
This fifth New Testament book,
shall, with its five churches, claim
our attention by a few short arti
cles.
While some would go to other
sources to find the meaning of the
word church, and would be thereby
confused, we shall hunt for it in
this which is “ God’s Book,” and
our book, too, the book for the sal
vation of the world. We find these
definitions of church :
1. The Catholics say that the
church is the company of the faith
ful, subject to the Pope. They ad
mit that the church contains bad
as well as good. The bad they
hope will be saved by the sacra
ments (as they call baptism and
the Lord’s Supper).
3. The Episcopalians do not be
lieve in the Pope, and so find the
church to be the company of the
faithful, and those who are subject
to the King, the head of the
church and their Bishops.
3. The Presbyterians say,“no, we
reject the Pope and the Bishops,
too. The church is com >osed ot
the faithful and their children.”
But turning to Acts we read :
At Corinth (Acts 8:8) “Many of
the Corinthians hearing, believed
and were baptized.”
These are the simple qualifica
tions for membership in all Bap
tist churches, and hence we claim
as Baptist churches, all the churches
lin Acts of the Apostles. Am I
not right? W. H. Robert.
For the It dkx.
YOUR HELP GREATLY NEEDED.
In the fight now on for Georgia’ B
deliverance from Georgia’s greatest
foe, the legalized liquor traffic,
reader your help is greatly needed-
This enemy has as allies the daily
papers and the 240,000 saloons and
“ blind tigers” of the nations, with
their millions of money, and his
Satanic majesty to direct all these
tremendous forces in their diabolic
designs on Georgia’s homes and
children.
But, formidable as the enemies
are, “they that be with us are more
than they that be with them.”
Brother preacher, the sermon the
Georgia Prohibition Associat on
and some of the most eminent min
isters in the State have been ask
ing you to preach, is greatly need
ed. It would do much good in
your congregation. Then, have
you thought about how your silence,
especially after be ng asked to
speak, will be interpreted by the
enemy? The fact that you were
in that conference, or convention,
or association that resolved, and
that you made a speech, will
amount to but little in this fight.
To win we must keep up the licks.
And reader, that money you can
and therefore ought to coqriibute
to this great cause, i i greatly
needed. You may not be able to
give much, and have to deny your
self to give the little, but the
amount of money necessary to win
this fight will accomplish more
good than ten times the amount
given to any other cause. I have
as much zeal for missions, edu
cation, etc , as any one, and do as
much for such claims, according to
ability, as most Christians; but
every reason why we should con
tribute to missions, and education,
and the poor, and to save souls, is a
reason for giving to this cause. If
we are defeated it will be for lack
of money. We thought of not let
ting the philistines know it, but
perhaps we had better tell that we
had to stop sending out valuable
articles to pepers ptb’isl-iiiu sq- "
for lack of money to pay postage.
In all this movement, extending
over years, except for pointing
there has been less than SIOO paid
for work done! Most of the much
work has been done without re
muneration.
Did any church or party ever ex
pect the workers to board them
selves, pay all expenses and work
without pay? Some prohibition
ists are disposed to complain that
more is not being accomplished,
but never contribute a pennj,nor
do anything but find fault.
And then it is very important
that local papers publish articles in
the interest of this movement.
Reader, if your town paper is not
already doing so, will you ask the
editor, and if he consents, send me
your address, that articles may be
sent to you, and you present them
to the editor?
Then, ten thousand people are
needed to circulate petitions. The
Anti-Birroom Bill, with petition
printed under bill,with space for 160
names, can be sent for one cent (in
stamps) per copy. Reader, can’t
you send to me for one or more
copiesand help get names on this
petition ? We should have 500,000
names in the next three months,
and can get them if we will ask for
them. Will you see that everybody
about you has an opportunity to
sign it? May be if you do not at
tend to this, it will not be done,
and this great cause lack support
you could secure it. Likely 500,-
000 of the best people in Georgia
are in favor of prohibition. May
we not suppose one in fifty to be
ready to do what they can to rid
Georgia of this greatest enemy?
Reader, are you not one of the ten
thousand?
The enactment of the bill into
law will save to the people of the
State of Georgia, $5,000,000 the
first year ; and in a few years will
be saving to the people of the State
$8,000,000 annually; will save
thousands of families from penury
and want. Removing temptation
it will prevent more sorrow, and
save more souls than any and
everything else possible to human
instrumentality. To rid Georgia
of this gigantic foe, means so much
good to so many people, that it
passes comprehension. Their suc
cess is so certain if a considerable
per cent, of the men, women and
children, friendly to this move
ment, will help. But reader, well
wishes will notwin this fight.
For the sake of our tempted
boys and imperiled homes, send a
contribution or subscription, how
ever small, to A. A. DeLoach, At
lanta, Ga., and send to me for pe
tition, and do what you can in this
great work. Do not fail to under
take the work because you feel
that you can do but a little. Geor
gia must be rescued by those who
cannot do much.
A. J. Hughes,
Pres. Geo. Pro. Asso.
Lexington, Ga.
NEW GRAFTS ON OLD STOCKS.
The above furnishes the basis for
an article on the subject of co-educa
tion in Mercer, by Dr. J, B. Gam
brell.
From the recent symposium given
by the Index on this matter, I
think it is made clear that the senti
ment of our people is clearly against
this new feature of work in this in
stitution and that consequently the
discussion of the subject at this time
is unnecessary. But the good Doc
tor seems anxious to bring this mat
ter before our people and in doing
so, it is supposed his arguments are
about as strong as the advocates of
this theory can produce.
We have brought before us, here,
the real thing the apostle of co-edu
cation in Georgia designs,and we find
it to be a desire to onen Mercer to
women, who have graduated in any
of the Female Seminaries of the
State. It is wonderful to see how
vacillating. wej may be when it is
necessary for us to adjust ourselves
to facts, after we have seen the fail
ure of our theories. It was at first
said that co-education in Mercer
would prove to be a panacea for
all her ills, and that this movement
would crowd her walls witn 600 or
700 students. But when it was seen
that it was needless to think of mak-
ing Mercer a rival of the Female
colleges of the State, the theory is
modified, and all that is needed is
that women who are graduates can
alone be permitted to enter. And
now we are told that “Mercer wants
to do two things,” when in fact Mer
cer does not want any thing of the
kind, as was shown at the recent
meeting of the Board of Trustees,
when a large majority of them voted
against this very thing. It is not
.Mercer, but her president that wants
co education.
We are told that the Female col
leges of our State are hindered by
I mitations from meeting the de
mands of higher educat on for wo
men. To me, this smacks much
more strongly of theory than of fact.
It is supposed that there are no dif
ficulties in the way of our women
taking a post-graduate course in the
very institution in which they have
graduated. If this is not true with
other Seminaries, it is true with the
qie a i iine f ville as '■ »i>pwn in tne.
fact that three young ladies took
such a course here last session and
had confferred on them the degree of
Master of Arts.
But our brother seems to feel that
there is a great and growing demand
for higher education for our women
and that this demand can only be
met in the application of the theory
of co-education. It is declared that
our girls are going in troops to the
North and enter co-educntional in
stitutions, and inferred that we are
pursuing a suic dal course by not
furnishing what they want here.
But where are these girls and what
co educational schools have they
entered in the North? Perhaps we
may easily find a few young ladies
in the South, who have gone to Vas
sar and studied there, but that is a
Eemale school. In this school all
the demands for higher education
for women can be fully met, and to
much greater advantage than it
could possibly be done in Mer
csr. For the few women who
do des re to pursue a higher
course of study than is furn
ished in our Female colleges,
this is eminently the place for them
to go. But our brother in his advo
cacy of his theory becomes almost
desperate and tells us that if our
girls are kept out of Mercer, then
they will go over to the State Uni
versity. This only shows how anx
ious he is for the adoption of his
theory, for as a matter of fact the
State school is as far from opening hi r
doors for co-education as is Mercer.
We are told that the trustees, with
out voting on its merits, declared
that, “the University was in no po
sition to fully look after the boys,
much less an additional number of
students of the female sex.”
Our attention is called to the fact
that the school of Pedagogy, in Mer
cer is a failure unless other schools
are open to women. If the life of
Pedagogy depends on our girls for
its support then perhaps it would be
better for it to expire, for after all it
is not clear to my mind that the in
troduction of this school into Mercer
was not intended as the first step
toward the securement of co educa
tion in that institution. As to a
school of Pedagogy, there should be
one in all of our institutions, both
male and fema'e. Not only so, but
Pedagogy should be taught in every
class. What are teachars for if it is
not to show their pupils how to
teach?
We are told that Mercer has not
grown any for 50 years and the rem
edy for this evil is co-education.
This thing begins to look and taste
like a quack medicine, it is claiming
to be good for too many things the
inference is that Mercer has been a
a failure. But as a matter of fact is
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this bo? It would be hard to make
our Georgia Baptist folk believe
this, as long as they see so many of
her noble sons filling positions of
trust, and making themselve potent
factors in fields of usefulness
Comparisons are invidious and
consequently it is not meet to say
any more of Waco University than
to call attention to the fact that the
circumstances which surround that
institution differ from those which
obtain here.
No doubt that the best thing that
could be done for Mercer now is to
drop the discussion of this matter
and turn our attention to getting
more men and money for her.
G. H. Cartek,
Gainesville, Ga.
For the Index .
PHILADELPHIA NEWS AND NOTES
Bishop Taylor, of Africa, has late
ly visited our city. As your corres
pondent listened to this wonderful
man, now in his seventy-fifth year,
he reminded him of one of the early
apostles. He went to Africa eleven
years ago, where he says there are
forty millions of children.
There is some prospect of Rev-
Wayland Hoyt, of Minniapolis, being
called to the Epiphany church, that
was once served by Rev. Geo.
Cooper, of Richmond. Mr. Hoyt is
fifty-seven years old, a graduate of
Brown University and Rochester
Seminary. He is short, stout, broad
shouldered and one of the leading
preachers of this generation.
Many open air services are held to
reach the non-church going people.
They are often held on the lawn in
front of the edifice just before the
services and then the people are in
vited to come into the meeting. In
this way we are certainly going out
into the “highways and hedges.”
Prof. J. M. Stiller, of Crozer Sem
inary, wdl read a paper at the great
convention at Baltimore, on the
‘Hopewell Academy and its Suc
cessors ” This was the first institution
in America among the Baptists to
educate young men for the ministry,
it began in 1756 and mav be said to
be the germ of Brown University.
Among our veterans that we de"
light to honor is Rev. James
French, who was eighty years old on
the first of April last. For many
years he was superintendent of our
city missions and did a auccessful
work. He is now preaching regu
larly at one of the mission chapels.
At one of our associations a
speaker founded his address cu th
H V y» JT . w* ’
Be your pastor’s usher : 2, Be yßvr
pastor’s umbrella; 3, Be your pas
tor’s underaction; 5, Be your pastor’s
uplift. Ecci.esia.
For the ndex-
IT IS NOT LOST.
No service rendered for Christ is
lost. All that we do in love for him,
however Itttle, it may be, counts for
something in contributing to the sue
cess of his kingdom and the honor of
his name.
Dr. D. C. Eddy says: “Nothing
done for Christ is lost. Nothing
sown for Christ is fruitless A word
spoken for Christ, a letter written for
Christ, a tract given away for Christ,
a Sunday-school taught for Christ, is
sure of its reward. Only be sure
that it is for Christ and not for the
reward! The motto of the Christian
life must be, ‘Everything for Christ.’
And when everything is for Christ,
nothing is lost. Not a wish, nor a
prayer, nor a sigh, nor a tear.
There are angels searching
shrough all these lower lives of ours
to find things done for Christ, to
mould them into one grand image of
grace and beauty, to stand in the
temple of God forever.”
What a stirring inspiration this is
for all who would do something for
Christ! It should energize anew our
faith and lead us to joyfully continue
to “do with our might what our
hands find to do,” in the line of serv
ice for our Lord. Alas that we
should be so faint-hearted faifbless
and fickle ! The great bother of our
lives is that of “walking by sight’’
instead of by undaunted faith. We
are terribly prone to see with our
natural eyes, every fruit of our Chris
tian labor. The thing is impossible.
Why, we canot see the full fruits of
our secular labors. No man can.
There are hundreds of secular things
which we do, whose results, neither
present nor future, we can fully see.
The unconverted man does not and
cannot see or know one half of the
beneficent results which flow from
his neighborly acts and kindly ex
pressions. Why, then, should it be
thought strange that a Christian can
not see the full fruitage of what he
does for bis Lord ? It should not be.
He does know that his labor for
Christ is not in vain and is not,there
fore, lost. And the little things,
which seem to him not worth men
tioning, are noticed by Christ and
receive his blessing. This is the
believer’s reward. This is his en
couragement. This is what should
stimulate him to keep on gladly in
such spheres of activity as God may
place him in and be loyal to the
great trust which is graciously com
mitted to his hands.
C. H. Wethekbe.