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Qur Qeorgia 'pulpit.
EVIL, AND GOD’S PLAN OF DELIVERING US
FROM IT.
A SERMON PREACHED BY
Rev. .1. B. HAWTHORNE, D. D:
“ Deliver u» from evil."—Luke 11:14.
The existence of evil in this
world is a problem that has baf
fled all philosophy It stands
before us a wall of darkness on
which there falls not one beam
of light. In their unsuccessful
efforts to explain this mystery,)
some have reached the conclu
sion that the universeis godless,
some have become pessimistic,
and others haveabandoned them
selves to a career of dissipation
and uncleatness.
Why God has permitted evil
to come into the world is a se
cret which he holds in the
depths of his own sacred bosom.
There is nothing in his written
revelations and nothing in the
volume of nature that gives the
faintest clue to this mystery.
But while it is an insoluble rays
tery it is a tremendous reality.
We cannot ignore it. It stands
out distinctly in a t housand hide
ous forms. All of our material
senses take cognizance of it. It
is in our flesh, and blood, and
bone and brain. The earth is
full of it. Wasted lands, blight
and famine, plague and earth
quake, angry seas and sinking
ships, burning cities and bloody
battle fields proclaim its ex
istence. The Bible contains the
record of its entrance into the
world, an epitomized history of
its progress through a period of
four thousand years, and a
prophecy of its ever increasing
desolations up to the time when
the great globe itself and all that
it inherits shall dissolve, and like
the baseless fabric of a vision,
leave not a rack behind ”
Every page of secular history
is stained with crime and blot
ted with blood. There we see
how tyrants' feet have slipped in
human gore, and how the best
and noblest of our race have
been scourged and slain by the
base and the vile.
All about us to-day are faces
lettered with sorrow and stamped
with shame. Nothing but their
fear of the iron fist of law keeps
a large element of our own com
munity from inaugurating a
reign of lust and deviltry. The
very existence of such an institu
tion as the “ Trocadero,” where
abandoned merf and wohien are
permitted to gather, and under
the blaze of electric lights make
an exhibition of all that is most
unclean, loathsome and damna
ble in human depravity, is
enough to convince us that devils
tabernacle in human flesh, and
that much of this world’s terri
tory is still under hell's dark and
direful dominion
What are our daily newspapers
but chronicles of evils ? Their
chief business is to tell us how
nation is scheming to defraud
nation, how politicians are vic
timizing each other by unright
eous trickery, how huge mo
nopolies are enslaving the
masst sos mankind, how lust is
clamoring for unrestrained free
dom, how bank vaults and State
treasuries are depleted by em
bezzlements, how drunken bus
bands murder their wives, and
how women, even in high social
life, despise motherhood and de
stroy their unborn children;
how the devilish dastardy of
some assassin has deprived a na
tion of its executive head and
precipitated it into consterna
tion and mourning, and how in
the last years of the nineteenth
century of the Christian era, a
hundred thousand human beirgs
are put to death for worshipping
God according to their own con
victions of truth and duty.
" Can these things be.
And overcome ns like a summer cloud,
And not provoke our wonder
Stranger than the existence if
these evils is the fact that so
many men live in comparative
unconsciousness of them. Im
mersed in sensuality, or insane
with the greed of gain, or be
witched by siren songs of pleas
ure and splendor, they seem not
to recognize the fact that they
are on an ocean of merciless
whirlpools. They seem not to
know that they are tenants of a
world where every pathway
leads to peril; where every hu
man habitation is shadowed by
some sorrow, and where all
beau'y is fading into darkness
and all life is sinking into dust.
Not until you awake to a sense of
these solemn and awful realities
can you comprehend and appre
ciate the significance of the
prayer which our Divine Lord
taught us to pray—“ Deliver us
from evil.”
My first undertaking in the
treatment of this subject is to
strike the scales from your eyes
and qu cken your dead sensibili
ties, that you may see and feel
the dread reality which God calls
“evil,” know its tiemendous
power, and the awful disasters
with which it threatens your in
terests, both in this life and in
the vaster life to come, I would
impress on every one of you the
grim reality of our personal peril
from the universal evil against
which we pray.
I prefer the rendering of the
Revised Version, which reads —
“ Deliver us from the Evil One.”
Our danger is from something
more serious and fearful than
evil. It is from the Evil One—a
mighty and malignant person
ality, who stands behind all that
men call evil. In the absence of
this personality nothing would
be evil—everything ! would be
good.
I know that I run much risk in
proclaiming such a doctrine from
this pulpit. Atlanta is one of
the few places in the world
whose people are unfamiliir
with tne idea of personal devils.
That is- an element of Bible
teaching which seems to have
escaped their attention. A few
months ago, when I suggested
that women who wear bloomers
and straddle bicycles are incited
to such unfeminine conduct by
the ministry of demons, thou
sands were horrified at the fact
that a minister so ignorant
should be allowed to occupy an
Atlanta pulpit. They had for
gotten that they had ever read
that Jesus himself was tempted
of the devil; that he said to Peter,
“Get thee behind me, Satan,”
and that at his approach devils
lodged in the person of the man
of Gadara cried out, “ What have
we to do with thee, Jesus, thou
Son of God ?”
Who is this Evil One? He is
the enemy, forthat is the mean
ing of the word “ satan. ’ He is
the Tempter who deceives, al
lures, seduces, undermines and
entraps the human soul. He is
the Accuser who brands, black
ens and blasts men with the
very sins into which he leads
them. He is Apollyon—the De
stroyer, who pierces them
through and through with his
deadly darts.
Young men, the enemy that
nightly drags you into a gam
bier’s den is no myth. A hundred
times you have resolved that you
would not enter that iniquitous
place again, R but something
than your own will
comes into you and compels you
to go.
Goto that young bank cashier,
once the idol of the very inner
circle of Atlanta society, but now
an incarcerated felon loaded with
infamy from which he can never
escape, and ask him to account
for his strange conduct. He will
tell you tha' some malign power
entered into him, dethroned his
will, and constriined him to do
what his own judgment and con
science condemned.
Forty years ago I knew a little
girl of almost angelic beauty and
loveliness. If I diad wanted to
paint a picture of human inno
cence 1 could not have found a
better model. She was the child
of wealthy, cultured and distin
guished parents. She was reared
in an atmosphere of Christian
piety. The influences that sur
rounded her ch ildhood and young
womanhood were exceptionally
pure and helpful. Ten years
ago she was sentenced by an
English court to life-long im
prisonment for the crime of tak
ing the life of her own husband.
Ask her to account for her hor
rible deed, and she will tell you
that some invisible fiend pos
sessed her deprived her of self
control. and forced her to the
fatal step.
Young man, the “Evil One”
has not yet dragged you into a
life of shame and crime. No
court has sentenced you to wear
a con net's garb and sleep in a
felon’s cell, and yet your life
may be one of subjection to Sa
tanic power. If you are habitu
ally untruthful, or dishonest, or
intemperate, or licentious, you
are the devil's captive; you are
doing his bidding; you are com
pletely in his power, and you are
in danger of becoming as de
graded and vicious as the men
whom public justice has branded
as incurable criminals.
Young woman, your record
may be unsullied by any
act of indiscretion. In the
eyes of men you may be as pure
as the white flowers with which
you aie wont to adorn your per
son. And yet, the Evil One may
possess your mind and heart. If
your master-passion is the love
of fashion and the fleeting pleas
ures of the passing day; if the
novel has more charms for you
than the Word cf God, and the
festive hall is more attractive to
your soul than the sanctuary of
prayer, yeu are as truly pos
sessed of the devil as was Mary
Magdalene, and all the unclean
ness and shame to which she de
scended is possible to you.
If there is any one before me
to day in whose breast avarice,
THE CHRISTIAN INDEX : THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1896
or lust, or malice, or the desire
of worldly power or fame is the
reigning passion, I stand here as
God’s mouth piece to say to him;
“ You are Satan’s fettered slave;
you are bound hand and foot;
you are in danger of remediless
degradation in this life, and of
rayless darkness and unuttera
ble wretchedness in the end
less life beyond the grave. ”
Thanks be to God for the de
liverance which his mercy has
provided and made accessible to
all of those who, conscious of
their bondage and peril, are
wont to pray—“ Deliver us from
evil.” What that deliverance is,
and how it shall become ours,
are questions which claim our
most thoughtful and serious at
tention.
The old Epicureans identified
evil with discomfort, and made
the avoidance of personal pain
the chief end of life. Their only
idea of deliverance from evil was
to avoid as far as possible every
experience that was painful or
unpleasant. But their theory
was utterly false. The man who
attempts to hide from or go
around disagreeable things does
not escape them. It is painful
to resist temptation, but submis
sion to it will bring upon us ex
periences still more painful. It
troubles you to discipline your
disobedient child, but the neg
lect of such discipline will bring
upon you still more serious
Doubles
The theory of the Stoics was
that pain is no evil and that hap
piness is no good. This doctrine
gives no deliverance, for the
simple reason that no man of
sound mind can believe it.
When I have toothache, not
even an angel from heaven can
convince me that it is not evil.
When I am peaceful and happy, it
is simply impossible to persuade
me that it is not good to be in
such a state.
The Christian Science theory
is that evil itself is a myth. You
can sit on top of a red hot cook
ing stove, and, by believing that
it is not hot, escape any painful
sensation. This doctrine brings
no relief, because no man is fool
enough to believe that he can sit
upon a red hot stove without be
ing uncomfortably warm. If
any Christian Scientist will get
into such a situation and
emerge Irom it without a blister
or pain, he may hope to make
converts from people who are
not lunatics.
Christianity is free from all
such absurdities. It recognizes
the reality of evil, and it utters
no word of protest against those
natural emotions which are ex
cited by contact with it. When
Christ from the brow of Olivet
looked upon Jerusalem and fore
saw its destruction, he wept. If
he had been a Christian Scientist
he would not have wept. To
him the suffering and slaughter
of a half million people was an
evil—a stupendous evil—and he
could not contemplate it without
the deepestjemotions of sorrow.
He believed and he taught that
death was an evil. Hence we
see him weeping at the grave of
his friend Lazarus. He pitied
the sick, the poor and the perse
cuted, bewiuse he believed sick
ness, poverty and persecution to
be evil. He denounced lying,
hypocrisy, theft, adultery and
despotism, because he knew them
to be evils.
But. how does Christ deliver us
from evil? Not by removing
evil from the world in which we
live. He has nowhere promised
to do that. Unto the end of time
there will be disease, famine,
war, persecution, tribulation and
anguish. Christians are as liable
to all these forms of evil as in
fidels. Moody is just as liable
to be caught in a railroad wreck
as Robert Ingersoll. A ship
freighted with Christian mission
aries is just as much exposed to
ocean storms as one carrying a
crew of merciless pirates. Evils
in their external forms happen
alike to the good and the bad, to
the wise and the foolish.
Christ does not deliver us by
exempting us from the evils of
the world, but by uniting us to
himself by a living faith, by let
ting his life into our life, and
thereby redeeming us from the
dominion and power of the Evil
One. Delivered from Satanic
power, nothing that is evil
can provoke us to sin, or
prevent us from being peaceful
and happy.
The evil of persecution to the
wicked and godless man, is un
mitigated evil. There is nothing
in him to mollify the anguish of
it. But when the Christian is
persecuted for righteousness
sake, he can rejoice and be ex
ceeding glad. The joy with
which Christ's presence fills him
more than compensates for the
pain. Physical sickness to the
ungodly man is unmitigated evil.
Conscious that he deserves it,
and without faith in divine help,
he has uOt one ray of light or
drop of comfort. But to the
child of God physical sickness
is a “light affliction.” Light,
because of the relief which comes
to him in the consciousness of
Christ's supporting presence,
and in the belief that his suffer
ing is a divine discipline that
will “work out for him a far
more exceeding and eternal
weight of glory.”
Look at Byron. He was young
and beautiful and nobly born.
As a poet he had gifts which
lifted him out of all competition
with any man of his time. “He
seemed to stoop to touch the
loftiest thought; stood on the
Alps, stood on the Appenines,
and with the thunder talked, as
friend to friend; laid his hand
upon the ocean’s main and played
familiar with his hoary locks.”
But never was a life more wicked
and wretched than his. His
years were all winter, his rest
all labor, and his sleep all night
mare. At the age of thirty he
wrote:
“My days are in the yellow leaf;
The flowers and fruits of love are
gone:
The worm, the canker, and the grief,
are mine alone,
The fire that on my bosom preys,
Is lone as some volcanic isle;
No torch is kindled at its blaze—
A funeral pile.”
Verily there is no peace to the
wicked. Why? Because they
are under the power of the Evil
One, whose mission is to disturb
them to make their evils doubly
evil, and to instill into their
every cup of pleasure, drops of
oitterness and anguish.
Contrast their condition with
that of the Lord’s people, who
are continually saying, “The lines
have fallen to us in pleasant
places and ours is a goodly heri
tage.” Evils which in them
selves would be terrible and un
mitigated, almost cease to be
evils when Christ is with us to
help us bear them.
Every day we hear of suicides
committed in State prisons.
Under the burden of disgrace
which such bondage imposes
upon them, men feel that life is
not worth living, and rather than
endure the ills they have, fly to
others they know- not of. No
man who is delivered from the
power of the Evil One can ever
be provoked to take his own life.
Paul and Silak were publicly
whipped, and thrust into a Ro
man prison,- but the cowardly
thought of suicide had no place
in their heroic minds. The faith
that was in them transmuted
their humiliation into glory, and
their anguish into rapture. The
presence of their living Lord ir
radiated the darkness of their
dungeon and turned their lamen
tations into hallelujahs.
Paul was hid away for three
years in the lowest dungeon of
the Marner tine prison, where he
wasted to a mere skeleton. But
that was to him a period of ex
ceptional spiritual exaltation and
joy. There he wrote those jubi
lant words: “I am now ready to
be offered up, jind the time of
my departure Wat hand. I have
fought a good tight; I have fin
ished my course; I have kept the
faith. Henceforth there is laid
up for me a crown.” Veiily he
was delivered from evil. His
life was hid with Christ in God,
and Satan had no more dominion
over him. How profound was
his sense of security: “If God
be for us. who can be against
us?” “I am persuaded that
neither life, nor death, nor
angels, nor principalities, nor
powers, nor things present, nor
things to come, nor height, nor
depth, nor any other creature,
shall be able to separate us from
the love of God which is in
Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Look at Franc s Xavier in the
midst of all the degradation,crime
and squalid wretchedness of the
darkest region of India. See
him there in the deepest poverty,
and without access to a solitary
earthly friend. Was he over
come? Was he despondent? Did
he complain of his hard fate?
No. On the contrary he wrote
home that he was so exuberantly
happy that he sometimes almost
prayed God to restrain his super
abundance of joy. Christ had so
delivered him from the Evil One
that nothing which men call ad
versity could shadow his path
way, or disturb the sweet seren
ity of his soul.
Poverty in itself is not evil.
The best being that ever wore
earth about him was poorer than
the birds of the air and the
beasts of the field; so poor that
he had not where to lay his head;
so poor that when he died, the
winding sheet in which he was
wrapped, and the grave in which
he was buried, were the gifts of
cl arity. He. the Man of men,
the wisest and noblest of our
race, chose poverty as a condi
lion more desirable than wealth.
If Martin Luther had regarded
poverty as an evil per xe, he
would not have said in the close
of his great life, “I thank thee,
oh God, that thou hast made me
a beggar on the earth. ”
Poverty is an evil only when
it is connected with sin. When
a man is not only poor, but pro
sane, wicked, unclean and faith
less, he is wretched indeed. The
most joyless and pitiable being
in all the world is a drunken,
licentious, filthy mouthed infidel
pauper. What is true of poverty
in this respect, is equally true of
every other earthly trial. No
experience can be evil to us if
we are free from the Evil One,
and are living by faith in the
Son of God. United to him we
are superior to every form of
evil in this world, and forever
secure against all that constitutes
final and incurable evil.
“Should all the host* of ein,
And powers of hell unknown,
Put their most dreadful forms
Os rage and mischief on,
We shall be safe.
For Christ displays
Superior power
And guardian grace."
Let me, in conclusion, direct
your attention to one feature of
this prayer which may have es
caped you notice. It is a prayer
not for your individual self
alone, but for all mankind. It is
not deliver me from evil, but de
liver an from evil. God will
hear only the prayer that is free
from selfishness. You must bring
not only your own needy self,
but all sin-stained and im
prisoned humanity to his throne
of delivering grace.
Consider also that such a
prayer implies not only that you
sympathize with your fellow
men, and desire their deliverance
from evil, but that you are wil
ling and ready to perform any
service and to make any sacrifice
that may be needed to bring
them to a saving knowledge of
the world’s only deliverer.
“How shall they believe on
hin of whom they have not
heard? How shall they hear
without a preacher? And how
shall they preach except they be
sett? ” These words of inspired
wisdom clothe you with a solemn
and tremendous responsibility
God’s chosen instrumentality for
bringing sin cursed men into
contact with the Divine Re
deemer is the preaching of the
gospel, and those who preach it
must be sent by the churches and
supported by their prayers and
gifts. The man who prays,
“Deliver us from evil,” and re
fuses to support the missionary
who goes abroad to tell the en
slaved millions of his race of
God’s anointed Deliverer, is man
ifestly insincere. He is an icy
hearted hypocrite, who needs
more than any publican, or har
lot, or heathen to be redeemed
from the Evil One.
Merciful God, deliver us from
evil. Strike off the fetters which
Satan has riveted upon us. Give
us a freedom akin to that which
saints and angels kno v. Break
the power of every unholy and
rebellious passion of our nature.
Create clean hearts and renew a
right spirit within us, so that we
shall be fitted for the noblest
service here, and be meet for the
highest dignity and glory here
after.
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Life of Patrick Hues Mell, by
P. H. Mell. Jr.
Dr. P. H. Mell was one of the men
whom the Baptiste of the South, and
especially of Georgia, should never for
get. It was my privilege to know him
through more than forty of the best
years of both our lives. I feel, there
fore, that 1 have a right to speak of
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As a college officer he had few equals
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day —I might almost say evpry hour.
To him. as much as to any other one
man, during those early years of its
history, the institution was indebted
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Dr. Mell was equally eminent as a
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conception of our New Testament the
ology and church polity made him al
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Then his complete knowledge of par
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As a minister of the gospel, few men
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Dr Mell
The book whose tit'e stands at the
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The study of such a life cannot fail
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aud developing character. It shows ns
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belief for a time; and then by the grace
of God. emerging into the clear light of
faith and hope. That one item is worth
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Again the story illustrates the value
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Brother Mell was a native Georgian,
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Index in our native State The subject
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A Literary Study of the Bible.
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At first we were inclined to be suspi
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The author, however, disclaims any dis
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that are cast in poetic forms are brought
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of a commentary the mere printing of
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Here frequently historical, narrative
Psalms, and epics are intermingled.
The separation of these for the ordinary
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The author deals fairly with his readers
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sages they intend reading in public
worship Similarly teachers of schools
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and class room study of the Bible.
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This old standard Review is an exam
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This is a small volume dealing in a
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From these passages three chapters are
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ing Pheeps' “Still Hour" remains the
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Literary Notes and News.
Our readers have noticed the death of
"Bill'Nye February 22 Nye was
one of the most popular of humoristsand
was loved by tne common people. He
was like Josh Billings and Robert Bur
dette clean and pure in his fun. He
brightened the world and left it better.
Laughing at low wit is destructive of
our moral senses. Nye's last days were
sad and full of grief. His memory
will be ch- rished for his brightness, and
his name loved for his lovable char
acter.
Mr Gladstone is in deman I as a
writer. His series on immortality in
the Earth American /ferine are attract
ing great attention It is said that not
long ago The Cosmopolitan offered him
a dollar a word for an article of any
length. Mr Gladstone declined courte
ously. This will please his many ad
mirers who are<g!ad he has better taste
than the offer gave him credit for.
An example of the enterprise of mod
ern days is to be found in the last zrt
Amateur. The bicycle is treated of.
not only as an object of art in itself,
but as an adjunct to art “ The bicycle
for sketching tours” is an article that
leads up to an offer of a prize by the
editor for the best attachment to the
bicycle to provide for carrying an
artist's sketching material.
Those who are interested in the sub
ject of Ethical Monism as presented by
Dr. A. H. Strong can now procure his
Examiner articles by sending to that
paper, New Y’ork City. We do not
sympathize with his views, but it is as
well to get our ideas of what this new
teaching is from a source that represents
its best.
The Hubbard Publishing Co., Phila
delphia. expect to issue shortly a book
on "Turkey and the Armenian Troub
les, "by Rev. E. W. Bliss of the lade
pendent. Mr. Bliss was. we believe,
born in Turkey, and is an expert in his
line. The book will be sold by sub
scription.
The Confeder de Veteran is not only
growing in favor but is rendering a gen
uine service It is gathering materials
for future history. It is eminently fair
in its treatment of disputed themes and
shows by frequent responses from the
North that it circulates among both ar
mies
Thousands have tested the
great building-up power of
Hood's Sarsaparilla and have
found renewed strength, vigor
and vitality in its use.
RECEIPTS OF THE MISSION BOARD
BAPTIST CONVENTION OF THE STATE
OF GEORGIA.
From Jan. Ist to Jan. 31, 1896.
foreign missions.
Jan 1. Previously reported... .86,382 41
Gillsville ch, J. L. R. Barrett
Tr N Ga Con 4 28
Dewberry eh, J L R Barrett.
Tr N Ga Con, for J R
Elrod 1 30
Vineville ch. L H W00d.... 4 00
Cuthbert " JW Stanford.. 3 96
3 Fort Creek ch, J W Atkinson 60
Harlem “ “ “ 70
WMS, “ “ 75
Bethabara ch. H R Bernard 71
High Shoals ch, “ “ 1 01
Watkinsville “ " “ 55
Bethabara “ “ “
December collection ... 33
High Shoals ch, H R Ber-
nard. December collection 1 76
Watkinsville ch, H R Ber-
nard, December collection 43
Summerville WMS, Mrs
Northen 2 50
Tennille W M S. Mrs Nor-
then 3 W
Greshamville WMS 5 00
Macon WMS ■ ■ 4
Bartow W M S, Mrs Northen 3 75
Guyton “ “ " 10 00
6 S A Burney, Int on Perma-
nent Fund • • 50
7 Elberton ch, G L Almond 12 00
R J Bargeron, Y’acht. Ga... 2 83
8 Indian Hill eh, R S Cheney »t
Dublin ch, J M Fordham... 2 00
9 Sardis ch, J M Cross 25
10 Hebron Asso, W V \ ickery.
Apple Valley ch, J W Min-
ish• 300
Leesburghch, Mrs Rosa Me-
Donald 4
13 Taylorsville ch, C P Sewell 1 «4
Social Circle W M S, Mrs J
AVallance ■ ■■ ‘
West Point cb, John F Eden 5 00
Enon ch, C M Harper *? ??
Pisgah “ “ “ •*.
W B Tuggle. C M Harper.. 2 00
14 Central W M S, Mrs Ander
Hol] *■
16 Z J Cowan, Worth. Ga DW
Mt Tabor ch. J W Ellington 2 25
Elim , 34
Salem ch, M S Weaver 2 50
17 Harmony Grove ch, W W
Stark 24 78
Eatonton ch, J T B Ander-
son 21,3
18 Brownwood, G W Argabrite 89
Griffin Ist, J H Huff 19 51
Sparta ch 1
S S 1 01
20 Wrightsville, W H H Stew-
Arabi ch, J J Hyman 2 30
22 Pinehurst W M S, Mrs J R
Horne 1 50
Concord eh. J L R Barrett,
for J B Boyd 18«
Woodstock ch, W L Dean.. 4 00
Marshall eh. J W Ellington 1 25
"Amos." “ “ 150
Sardis S S. B M Callaway.. 3 50
Hillsboro, Miss lone Hender-
son 135
Oconee eh, R D Hawkins... 35
Maysville S S, H Atkins ... 1 00
33 Griffin " J P Nichols... 1193
Nails Creek, C T Burgess.. 2 00
White Plains ch, J H Kil
patrick 35 00
Norwood, Ga. J V Ha 11.... 1 00
24 McDonough ch, H J Cipe-
land .... 5 00
Midison WMS 5 00
Penfield ch, J S Callaway.. 37
27 W’est End ch, G W Howard 6 65
28 Houston Asso. J E Howell.. 49 19
A friend 50
Sandy Creek, T H Burrus.. 63
B D Martin. Millner, Ga... 2 50
Mrs W H Bolton Millner.
Ga 37 w
Shiloh ch. J S Callaway.... 36
J V Hall. Norwood, Ga ... 121
30 Springfield ch, J M Cross... 50
Wades “ “ “ ... 50
Sardis ch 1 00
Cassville ch. G H Headden. 50
Sardis ch, M M Richardson 1 83
“ SS. “ “ 166
" W M S " “ 50
Girls' Mission Band. M M
Richardson 66
Ist Athens, H A Lowrance.. 17 95
Total 86 851 03
HOME MISSIONS.
Jan 1, Previously reported.. 85,021 53
Gillsville ch, J L R Barrett,
Tr N Ga Con 4 28
Vineville ch. L H W00d.... 4 00
Cuthbert. J W Stanford.... 3 97
2 6th Atlanta. A C Ward 20 00
3 Harmony Grove S S, A B
Dead wyler 3 77
Bethabara. H R Bernard . 71
High Shoals, “ " ... 100
Watkinsville 11 “ .. 55
Bethabara. “ “ De-
cember collection 33
High Shoals, H R Bernard,
December collection.... 1 77
Watkinsville, H R Bernard.
December collection. . .. 44
Greshamville WMS Mrs
Northen . 5 00
Macon W JI S. Mrs Nor f hen 5 00
Augusta Sunbeams, Mrs Nor-
then 4 00
Adairsville W M S, Mrs Nor-
then 3 00
West Little Workers, Jlrs
Northen .... 1 43
7 Elberton ch, G L Almond.. 3 00
R J Bargerson, Yacht. Ga 2 32
8 Indian Hill ch. R S Cheney 81
Dublin ch. J M Fordham... 2 00
Indian Creek eh. E Colvin 4 35
Union ch. W P Walker ... 452
Sardis ch. J M Cross .. 25
10 Hebron Asso, W V Vickery 63 56
Apple Valley ch, J W Minish 3 35
Mrs Rosa McDonald. Lees
burg. Ga 4 10
(Continued on Bth page.)
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