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2 that would illustrate and verify what I have sa d. Christians did seem to me, in my boyhood days —and long afterward —to love one another. I tell you, reader, there was much to admire and to imitate in those churches of your fathers and your mothers. I know they had some queer notions and some amusing ways, at which, from our standpoint, we may smile. 1 will give you a case in point. When Bro. Frank Callawaj’ was called to ordination, away bac< in the twenties, one of the council that had met to perform the service, was an old man. He had not yet adopted suspen ders as a part of his toi let. He clung to the sash ions that were in vogue when he was a young man, and therefore supported his pants by a band buttoned tight above his hips. He no doubt regarded sus penders as indicating a sinful conformity to the world. Well, the ceremony proceeded. Bro. C. stood his examination sue cessfully, and the council were ready to ordain him. But there was one dissenting voice the old brother above mentioned. He had somehow found out that the candidate was wearing a pair of suspenders. (They were call ed “gallowses” in that early day ) So he arose and said with great solemnity: ‘ Brethren, I can t lay my hands upon them gallowses. And the other members of the coun cil had to proceed without him Bro. Callaway was ordained in spite of his suspenders, and lived for many years an humble, but earnest worker in the Lord’s vineyard. And it affords me pleasure to add that he was one of the council which ordained to the gospel ministry my own be loved brother, Rev. John F. Hil lyer, late of Texas. Yes, we may smile at the se vere conservatism of the old brother who would not lay hands on a pair of suspenders. But, after all, let us not forget that conservatism is often a virtue. There is such a thing as conform ity to the world among our church members. Nay, it may, if not watched, creep into the firms of our own church services. More anon. Baptist Position Stated and Contrast ed—The Purely Spiritual Idea. BY G. A. LOFTON, 1). D. 11. There are three specific forms of Christianity, embraced under the head of the Spiritualistic, the Ritualistic, the Rationalistic. By far the larger portion of the Christian world is Ritualistic; by far the smaller portion is Ration alistic;and between these two ex tremes lies that less and larger portion that may be termed the the purely Spiritualistic. Let me state these position among the various sects of Christianity and then draw the contrast in which Baptists stand out in bold relief as purely representative of the Spiritualistic ideal. 1. Ritualism embraces all those sects which claim that sal vation by grace, through faith in Jesus Christ, is mediated through the rites of the church at the hands of a priest, minister or other person. This is Roman Catholicism pure, which holds that salvation is impossible ex cept through the sacraments at the hands of the priest in the bosom of the church. An ana thema is pronounced by the Coun cil of Trent upon all who claim that God's grace, directly through faith in Christ, is transmitted to the soul either to regenerate or justify; or who deny that that grace, ex operate, is not trans mitted through the sacraments, and through baptism first of all. Baptismal regeneration is the foundation stone of sacramental ism, or ritualism—the inven tion of Rome; and in pure or modified forms, other denomina tions have copied the damnable heresy from the old mother of harlots and abominations. In fant baptism grew out of this heresy about 150A. D., in North ern Africa; and most of the in quisitorial horrors of persecution at the hands of so-called Christi anity which have cursed and blackened the Christian ages, grew out of this dogma. The Episcopalians (High Church)hold to this dogma of the second cen tury; and Campbellism, though rejecting the heresy as to the in fant rite, maintains it in adult baptism as an act of physical obe dience in connection with faith and repentance. Other ard all de nominations which hold to infant Baptism maintain a relic of the old heresy; and while salvation by grace, through faith, is main tained as to the adult, yet the in fant is regarded as in a safer covenant relation with God by means of baptism—“the root and pillar of popery”—when that is applied to the infant under the conception of ritual regeneration, or even of safer covenant rela tions after the manner of cir cumcision. 2. Rationalism is that form of Christianity in which reason not only takes the place of rites, but also the place of any super- natural operation of the Holy Spirit It is the ext reme opposite of ritualism; and ritualism ard rationalism, while absolutely opposed to each other, are like the blades of a common pair of shears combining not only to cut against each other, but to cut to getheragainst a spiritual Christi anity Ritualism is the mother of superstition; rationalism is the mother of infidelity. Ritual ism claims the orthodoxy of sal vation by grace through the effi cacy of Christ’s atonement by blood, but mediates it through a system of sacramentation, priest ism and churchism; ra ionalism rejects the orthodoxy of salva tion by grace, through the blood, and makes salvation a mere re demption through the moral ex ample and teaching of Christ, without the necessity of ritual mediation or spiritual regenera tion. Ethical culture, based upon the preceptive doctrines and the per ft ct character of Christ, is the reformatory and salvatory ground upon which the rational ist bases his hope; and the doc trines o* inspiration, substitu tion, miracles, spiritual opera tion and the like,are relegated to the realm of exploded orthodoxy! Churches and ordinances are used as means of symbolism and culture; but they are neither the media of grace nor are they necessary to the intelligent obe dience and development of the candidate for eternal life and hon ors. The sufferings of Christ were not an expiatory or sacri ficial atonement for sin—but only a great moral example; and the resurrection, even if true, was but a divine appointment with no vindicatory significance as to an atoning sacrifice,or pledge of our literal resurrection from the dead. The Spirit of God has no more to do with the inspiration or illumination of truth in Christ than truth in any other form; and man by nature is capable of belief and obedience without the supernatural aid of God's Spirit, even if there were such a person. The fact is that the Trinity is de nied altogether, and Father, Son and Spirit imply nothing more than that God the Father is the Spirit, and that Jesus Christ was a perfect being originating in the divine evolution of a rational plan to redeem the race through the highest form of “ethical cul ture.” Now the Spiritual theory, purely and solely held by Bap tists, differs from ritualism and rationalism in this : 1. That salvation is alone by grace, directly applied through faith in Christ and operated by the Holy Spirit in the belief of the truth, without any reference to rite, priest or church, and in the subordination of reason to the will and teaching of God. All that is necessary to salvation, so far as man is concerned, is to be lieve; and all that is necessary to believing is hearing the truth, so far as man is concerned. He needs a Bible or a preacher, or both ; but beyond this, so far as human help is concerned, he needs no mediator between him and Jesus Christ. He needs his reason, to be sure, in compre hending the ichat of revelation necessary to be understood in order to his salvation; but there is a point where reason endsand faith begins in what is to be be lieved and don<' > , upon credible testimony and under spiritual operation. There is no medium of approach to the soul except faith; and the moment faith is consummated salvation is es fected, because Christ enters the heart and is formed within as the hope of glory. This is regener ation which results in conversion, and which is accompanied by justification; and hence salvation is purely and solely a spiritual or psychological process. While sal vation is all of grace, and alto gether through the medium of faith, and not of work or water, it leads to work and water, be cause we are "created in Christ Jesus”, through spiritual pro cesses, "unto good works.” While salvation is above reason both in its gra cious conception and application, yet it is not contrary to reason from the standpoint of its neces sity as planned and executed. 2. Baptists believe in rites, churches, ministers, good works and in every form of obedience and submission to the will of God; but we put all these things in their proper place on the other side of salvation by grace, faith in Christ, regeneration through God’s Spirit and truth. There can be no physical obedience to God until spiritual relationship to God is established, because there can be no spiritual action until we have spiritual life. We must be “born again” before we can think, feel or act in Christ and for Christ. We never ‘ ‘ work” towards the cross, but only from the cross. To be sure faith’ is called a work,but it is the spirit ual “work of God” on the inside, not a physical work of man which follows life on the outside. Philosophically as well as scrip turally, therefore, Baptists put the blood of Christ on the soul before putting the water of bap tism on the body—the outward act declaring, as well as spring ing from,the inward fact. So we THE CHRISTIAN INDEX: THURSDAY. AUGUST 13. 1896. put Christ in the soul before we put the man into the church, recognizing the scriptural truth that a church is the spiritual body of Christ,into which only a scriptural member can be grafted. We never graft a dead limb into a living tree to make the grafting alive either; but we always graft the living limb into the living tree, or body, by the baptismal process of grafting or introduc tion. No man ever put a rough stone into a building to polish it, or make it a “lively stone;” but, on the contrary, you polish and make the stone “lively” in order to put it into the polished or liv ing building. God’s building, like the temple of Solomon, is made up of polished and living stones; but the stones arejpolished and made living before being put into the temple; and they are so nicely polished and exactly chis elled as to befitted into the build ing without the use of a ritual istic saw or the sound of a ritu alistic hammer. 3. Baptists do not ignore reason in the salvation of the soul; but while the “natural man” may have much intellectual ap prehension of truth, he “re ceiveth not the things of the Spirit because they are foolish ness to him; and he cannot know them because they are spiritually discerned.” “No man can say that Jesus Christ is Lord but by the Holy Spirit;” and no man can “come” to Christ except the “Father draw him.” Not only is “Che carnal mind enmity against God, not subject to his law and neither can be,” not only are we “dead in trespasses and in sins”, and “by nature the children of wrath,” but we are spiritually “blind and cannot see” the way of salvation so as to take it, with out the illuminating as well as quickening power of the Holy Spirit. We have reason-, but we only know spiritual things as a blind man conceives of colors or as a deaf man conceives of music Our spiritual eyes and ears must be opened of God to spiritually understand the things of God; and so when Lydia was converted, the Lord opened her heart that she might attend unto things spoken by Paul. Baptists are ritual without be ing ritualists, rational without being rationalists, and they ex clusively put thespiritual always bafore the ritual and the rational. We use our reason only as en lightened and guided by God’s Spirit in the understanding of God’s word; and we never use re ligious rites, or symbols, or ve hides, until we have the grace and the truth to be symbolized, declared or carried. We never put the fruit before the tree, and we plant the tree of life in the garden of the soul, first of all, in order to bear and gather the fruit of grace. This is a great and fundamental Baptist pecu liarity, and while some partia’ly hold to the same peculiarity, none have ever exclusively and solely held to it,as a rule, except Baptists,unless it be the Quakers and some other minor sects, who ignore the ritual and the rational in religion altogether, and who have, in fact, no distinct recog nition as an orthodox religious sect, or as an ecclesiastical body. The Unity and Diversity of Chris tianlty. BY J. H. HALL, D.D. UNITY IN FAITH. The faith of Christianity is one. That is, its truth, its teachings. Not our opinions. They may be many. But the doctrines of Christianity are one. Objective faith may undergo radical changes in becoming subjective faith. The truth of God revealed to us may suffer serious distor tions in its passage into our de praved minds. Truth in God’s word is to be distinguished from conceptions of it in our interpre tations.- Then the unity is in ob jective faith —the Word of God, “the Scriptures of truth.” What a wonderful book is the Bible! Wonderful in its homo geneity. Written in periods standing centuries apart, under changing conditions that revolu tionize opinions and institutions, by men widely different in mind and habits, and yet what har mony, coherence, unity inallthe Scriptures! They must proceed from one supreme mind. Their unity proves that “all Scripture was given by inspiration of God.” And this unity is not only in the Scriptures as a whole, but is in every single doctrine. That is, there is no difference in the same truth. Truth is one. There are not two Christs—not two jus tifications—not two baptisms. Justification by faith and justi fication by works are contradic tory, and cannot both be true. The unity of faith is in the one ness of Scripture truth. The faith of .Christianity is presented in Christ and the Scriptures. Creeds are neces sary, but human, and subject to error. We must hold to the di vine expressions of faith—Christ and the Scriptures. In Christ we have truth in the concrete, in the Scriptures, truth in the ab stract. Christ is the synthesis, the Scriptures the analysis of truth. Truth in Christ is one. Hence, “there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” Again, “other foundations can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.” There is but one Christ, and to have him is to have all truth. In Christ believers have a perfect theology; and as it is the same Christ, it is the same theology, and in it they are one. Hence it is said: “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female; for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.” Though this unity of believers in Christ is spiritual, and has but an imper fect correspondence in actual unity, yet there are marked evi dences of an underlying unity in the people of God. In them all we have a more or less Christ like mind. The mind that laid aside the glory of heaven, and came down to serve men, can be seen in the humility and con descending service of the saints. They ought to,and have,a Christ like spirit. He felt and wept. Their sympathy and tears show their high kinship—show that they “have the spirit of Christ,” and are his. And see their unity in the Christlike purpose of their lives. He came “to seek and to save the lost.” The same gra cious purpose in them comes out in labors, sacrifices and suffer ings for the salvation of men. There is unity in the faith of the Scriptures. This makes the Scriptures the standard by which varying religious opinions are to be tried. “To the law and to the testimony; if they speak not ac cording to this word, it is be cause there is no light in them.” All the writers of the Scriptures, as inspired, may say with John: “We are of God; he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us; hereby know we the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.” Whatever the Scriptures teach on any given subj ;ct is definite, certain, final truth. Their de liverance, upon any question, is an end of controversy. Their teachings as a whole have a unity in their source —the mind of the spirit. Each doctrine has a unity in itself, in its exact and unchangeable correspondence to the divine mind. Each must be received without question, reser vation, or modification. “Ye shall not add unto the word I command you, neither shall you diminish aught from it ” All Christians should accept and revere the faith taught in the Scriptures, because it is God given truth. -A-las, that they should fail to do this. But while the unity in the truth of the Scriptures does not have its counterpart in a united creed of Christendom, yet it has begotten the universal confession that “the word of God is the infalli ble standard by which all human conduct, creeds and opinions are to be tried.” This is great gain. It establishes the supremacy of the Holy Scriptures. And it shows that the differences in re ligious creeds are from differ ences in fallible men, not from differences in the truth of God. While we must admit that there are sad and lamentable divisions among Christians as to the details of truth, there is, at least, unity of faith in the one acknowledged Bible of Christendom. UNITY IN ORDER. Christianity has its organic form—its visible working ecclesia. Is its organization prescribed, or left optional? Is it determined by law, or left to the discretion of taste and preference? Divine law definitely predetermines or ganic Christianity. This appears from the great commission which reads: “Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost; teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have com manded you.” (Matt. 28:19 20) This law requires faith and b«/>- tism in the formation of churches. Inspired example, in holy men acting under the law of the com missicn, corroborates this order. “Then they that gladly received his word were baptized; and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.” (Acts 2:41.) Thus by divine pre cept and inspired example or ganic Christianity is shaped. A brief analysis will show what a New Testament church is. The composition of a church. It is formed of believers, of the saved. Regeneration and faith are invariable prerequisites to church membership. John re quired them of those he baptized. Peter made the same require ment of those received into the church at Jerusalem. The church at Rome is addressed as “saints.” The church at Corinth is addressed as the “sanctified in Christ, called to be saints.” All New Testament churches are one in their composition, their con verted membership. The initiatory rite of a church. It is bapttsm. • ‘He that believeth and is baptized,” is the order. Baptism is an act. That act is immersion. The meaning of the word settles that. But, besides, we have examples of the act which put it beyond question The converts under John “were all baptized of him in the river Jordan.” Philip’s baptism of the Ethiopian is decisive as to the act. “And they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him.” Immersion is baptism. This rite uniformily preceded admission into New Testament churches. The independency of a church. Every church is a local, distinct organization. Our Lord swept away the centralizations of the past in Judean and Samarian re ligion, when he said: “Woman, believe me, the hour cometh when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.” In John’s symbolic vision of the churches he saw “seven golden candle sticks.” The imagery, here, con trasts “the organic unity of Jew ish polity with the organic multi plicity of the Christian. The seven distinct light-holders in John’s vision represent the indi viduality and multiplicity of gos pel churches.” The provincial, national idea of “church” is with out warrant in the Scriptures. The polity of a church. It is a government by the people. It is a pure democracy. All cf its members are upon a perfect equality. Our Lord, the head of the church, said: “One is your master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren.” His law of dis cipline, making it the final duty of the aggrieved to “tell it unto the church,” shows that a church governs itself. The hierarchic idea is not from the New Testa ment. In these essential respects —in composition, baptism, independ ency, government—there is per feet uniformity in the order of New Testament churches. the Any publication mentioned in this de partment may be obtained of the American Baptist Publication So ciety, 93 Whitehall St., Atlanta, Ga When prices are named they include postage. The Editors of the Christian Index desire to make this column of service to their readers. They will gladly ans ver, or have answered, any ques tions regarding books. If you desire books for certain lines of reading, or desire to find out the worth or pub lisher of any book, write to them. The Monetary and Banking Prob lem Logan G. McPherson. D. Appleton & Co., New York. Price fl 00. This is a most readable volume on the money question It is the extension of a series of articles published in the Popular Science Monthly. Money is de fined as that through which the results of human efforts are exchanged. This definition is what money ought to be in an ideal world. The author recog nizes.however, that this is in the minds of the people expressed in certain val ues assigned to gold and silver, yet con tends Jhat the greater part of our trans actions are simply to facilitate the ex change of the results of our efforts. In this he is right. Most of us. however, are anxious to get more than our share of results from our own efforts and we prefer working for something that will not suggest such a disparagement of our motives Mr. McPnerson believes in the gold standard and argues quietly for it because of the necessity of main taining relations with other nations A use of simple illustrations makes the book most readable. It will be of ser vice in the days of financial discussion and thought. We hope such books will be read. Coming from disinterested sources they are our best instructors. The Arena. August. The Arena Pub. Co., Boston, Mass. Price 25ets. or |3 00 a year. If any one desires to keep up with all the notions and currents of modern thinking, he must read the Arena. The only cause not given comprehensive and fair treatment is orthodox Christianity. In this number are treatments of pol itics, economics, religion, spiritism and social life. The best are The Telegraph Monopoly, Club Life versus Home Life, and Associated Effort and its Influence on Human Progress. There are many suggestions on the Silver Question, of which this magazine is a strong advo cate. McClure’s Magazine. August S. S. McClure Co.. New York. Price lOcts. or $1 00 a year. This mid-summer number contains a liberal supply of fiction. This is varied and runs from thrilling war stories to delicate love tales. Mr. W. T Stead gives a finely illustrated and keenly dis criminating article on Gladstone. The Lincoln papers continue dealing with Lincoln's success as a lawyer, and his first meeting with Stanton. A Century of Painting, by W H. Low, which is beautifully illustrated, and the Remi niscences of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, complete a charming and interesting number. North American Review. August. North American Review. Price 50cts. or $5.00 a year. The future of the Anglo-Saxon Race, by Walter Besant. and The Issues and Prospects of the Campaign, take the leading place. In the last, Senator Chandler speaks of the Republican side and Hon. Josiah Quincy, of Massachu setts, for the Democrats. Each proposes to win, but readers can weigh their reasons for themselves Is Japanese Competition a Myth, Some Ante-Bel lum Politics, Can the Criminal be Re claimed, and Natural Bi-metallism are some of the other articles. The whole conttn’s are timely and of interest to those who try to think along varied lines. Review of Reviews. August. Re view of Reviews Co., New York' Price 25 cts. $2 50 a year. The special features of this month’s Review are a character sketch of Wil liam J. Bryan, an account of the Homes of the Homeless Children, conducted by Dr. Barnardo, of London It includes ‘Harriet Beecher Stowe.” “the Prog gress of Australian Federation,” and Francis A. Walker on “International Bimetallism. In the Progress of the World the editor reviews very compre hensively the Chicago Convention. The usual summaries and quotations from periodicals are given The Forum. August. The Forum Publishing Co., New York. Price 25 cts. $3 00 a year. The leading subjects are “The West and the East " treated by two Western men. and "Imperative Reasons for Re publican Control,” which is subdivided into Th« Free Coinage Epidemic by- Senator Morrill: Blunders of the Demo cratic Administration, by Senator Cul lom, and "What the Republican Party- Stands For," by Gen. Horace Porter. Other articles deal with bicycle, education, archieokgy and affairs. The Matrimonial Market, by Edward Carv. is quaintly put but extremely valuable. Reverence For the Bible.—There is a sin prevalent in onr households of which we take little note, which, in fact, we encourage either by an indif ference to it. or by an active partieipa tion in its folly and wickedness: the use of the Word of God for the purpose of making riddles, conundrums, puzzling questions, anagrams, etc., etc., out of it. If we really believe in the divine origin of the Bible, can it be right to give it to children that they may con strue its words into odd .connections and make sport and laughter and men tal legerdemain from its pages? Is it likely they will reveience on other oc casions what has previously been food for their amusement? It is not, and we need not be astonished if the boys and girls who have been permitted to turn the leaves of their Bibles for pas time and entertainment, turn them in after years to find pretext for their in fidelity—. Amelia Is Barr, in April La dies' Home Journal. A Chance to Make Money. I have berries, grapes and peaches, a year old, fresh as when picked. 1 use the California Cold process, do not heat or seal the fruit, just put it up cold, keeps perfectly fresh, and costs almost nothing; can put np a bushel in ten minutes Last week I sold directions to over 120 families; anyone will pay a dollar for directions, when they see the beautiful samples of fruit. As there are many poor people like myself, I con sider it my duty to give my experience to such, and feel confident any one can make one or two hundred dollars around home in a few dayj. I will mail sample of fruit and complete directions, to any of your readers, for eighteen two cent stamps, which is only the actual cost of the samples, postage, etc., to me. FRANCIS CASEY, St. Louis, Mo. Times and Places of Meet’ngs of Asso elutions, 1896. AUGUST. Mountain, Amy’s (’reek ch., 7 miles N. W. Cl irksvilie, Thursday before 3rd Munday. Not la Ki ver, Harmony Grove ch., inion Co., Thursday before 3rd Sunday. Lawrenceville, Lawrenceville, 6ft.. Thurs day before 4th Sunday. Clarksvdie.Clarksville, Ga., Thursday be ore 4th Sunuay. f Ellijay. Mount Vernon ch., Thursday be ore 4- h Sunday. Central. Madison, Ga., Tuesday before sth Sunday. SEPTEMBER. Floyd County, Fellowship ch., Floyd Co., Thursday before Ist Sunday. Mountaintown, New Salem, 6 miles N.Elli jay. Friday before Ist Munday, Jasper, Jasper Ga., Friday before Ist Sun day. Stone Mountain, Stone Mountain, Ga., Tuesday be ore 2d Sunday. Columbus, Bethesda ch., Ellerslie, Ga., on G. M. A G. R. R., fueaday before 2d Sunday. Noi th Georgia Grove Lev el,6milts from Dalton. Thursday before 2d Sunday. Tallapoosa, Pumpkinville, Pauloing coun ty, Friday before 2d Sunday. Appalachee, Bethabara. Oconee county, Tuesday before 3rd Sunday. Tugalo, Nalls Creek, 10 miles N. E. Harmo ny, luesday before 3rd Sunday. Second Georgia, Zion, DeKalb county, Fri day before 3rd Sunday. / Summerhill,Pleasant Grove, 8 miles Union Station, G. A A Ry., Tuesday before 4th Sun day. Sarepta, Glade, 4 miles S. Carlton on G. C. A N. Ry.. Tuesday before 4th Sunday. eouth River, Conyers, Ga., Wednesday be fore 4th Sunday. Middle Cherokee, Cartersville, Ga.,Thurs day before 4th Sunday. • Flint River. Tlrzah ch.. Sunny Side, Ga., Saturday before 4th Sunday. New Hope. Hills Ureek. 4 milts from Rock mart, Ga., Saturday before 4th Sunday. OCTOBER. Friendshir. County I ine. near Ellaville* Ga.. Tuesday before Ist Sunday. Meli, Staunton, on G. H. A F. R. R., Berrien county. Tuesday before Ist Sunday. Washington, Island Creek ch., near Carr's Station, Hancock county. Tuesday before Ist Sunday. Pine Mountain, Bethany. Harris county, Wednesday before Ist Sunday. New Union. Dahlonega, Thursday before Ist Sunday. ('oosawattee, Cort nth, Gordon county, Fri el ny before Ist Sunday. Piedmont, Union ch., Friday before Ist Sunday. Harmony, Tallapoosa, Friday before Ist Sunday. Liberty, Carnes Creek. 4 miles S. E. Toccoa, Friday before Ist Sunday. Southwestern, Salem, D?caturcounty, Fri day before Ist Sunday. Fairburn, Line Creek, Fayette county, Sat urday before Ist Sunday. Mulberry, Auburn,Ga., Saturday before Ist Sunday. Centennial, Fellowship church, Upson county, M. A B. R. R., Tuesday before 2d Sun day. Miller, Emmet Grove, Bullock county, Tuesday before 2 ; Sunday. Houston, Vienna. Dooly county, Wednes day before 2d Sunday. Middle, Union ch., Screven Co.. Wednes day before 2d Sunday. Chattah >ochee, Dewberry No. 1, 10 miles N. W. Dahlonega, Thursday before 2d Sun day. Bowen, Providence, Decatur county, 4 miles S. Whigham, Friday before 2d Sunday. Chattooga. Ebenezer, 12 miles E. Summe:- ville, Friday before 2d Sunday. Roswell, Cross Plains, Forsyth county, Friday before 2d Sunday. Concord, Concord, Cobb county, Saturday before 2d Sunday. Bethlehem, Pleasant Hope ch., Floyd Co., Saturday before 2d Sunday. Georgia. Warrenton, Tuesday before 3rd Sunday. Mt. Vernon, New’ Home ch., Tuesday be fore 3rd Sunday. Hebron, Bowman ch., Tuesday before 3rd Sunday. Little River, Blue Strings ch.. Pulaski county. Wednesday before 3rd Sunday. New Ebenezer. Bethlehem.s miles E East man, Wednesday before 3rd Sunday. Mercer Ihomasville, Wednesday before 3rd Sunday Western. LaGrange,Wednesday before 3rd Sunday Ohesratee, Mt. Zion. Lumpkin county. 10 mil-8 N. W. Dahlonega, Friday before 3rd Sunday. Miliary. M . Enon ch. 3 miles N. E. Ba conton. S. F. A W. Ry., Friday before 3rd Sunday. Polk County. Friend hip, Polk county, Saturday before 3rd Sunday. Hephzibah. Davisboro, on Central Ry., Tuesday before 4th Sunday. Bap ist Union, Mr. Jazar ch, Tatnall Co., Wednesday before 4th Sunday. Carrollton. New’ Lebanon ch. 9 miles 8. Carrollton. Wednesday before 4th Bunday. 3 Daniels, Harmony, Montgomery county, Wednesday before 4th Sunday. Ebenezer.Oconee. Laurens county, Wed nesday before 4th Sunday. Tucker. Mt. Zion. Mitchell county. Smiles E. Camilla. Wednesday before 4th Sunday. New Sunberry. Jones Creek c\. Liberty county. Thursday before 4th Sudday. Smyrna. Flizabeth ch.. 6 miles S. Hazle hursr, Thursday before 4th Sunday. Rshobotb, Elko ch. G. S. A F. Ry., Tuesday before sth Sunday. NOVEMBER. Bethel. Arlington ch.. Calhoun Co., Tues day before Ist Sunday. Consolation. Oak Grove ch., near Hazle hurst. Saturday before Ist Sunday. Homerville, Millwood, Ware county, Fri day before Ist Sunday. Central Western, Ephesus ch., Heard Co., Saturday before Ist Sunday. I have no minutes or the Morganton, Sa lem and Pleasant Grove Associations con sequently I cannot give time and place of meetings, &ny error In the above will be promptly corrected when my attention is called to it. The brethren of »ach Associa tion will please inform me as to the nearest railroad point to their place of meeting. J. G. Gibson, Cor. Sec., S. M. Bd. CHURCH ORGAN FOR SALE. Our Make. Cost 82,100. Price, $1,200. Hook & Hastings Co., Boston. The Bane wyW of MU® Beauty. Beauty’s bane is® vsj? the fading or falling of the hair. Luxuriant tresses are far more to the matron than to the maid whose casket of charms is yet unrifled by time. Beautiful women will be glad to be reminded that falling or fading hair is unknown to those who use Ayer’s Hair Vigor. A New Thing in Education - In establishing a correlated system of schools and colleges the Randolph-Ma con Board of Trustees have shewn wise foresight and given an example worthy of attention. The fonr institutions of the Board, banded together with com bined resources approximating three quarters of a million dollars, offer unique advantages for education both to young men and women nnder guaran tees of permanence, especially valuable in these times when so many schools are failing. The newest and possibly the best of these institutions is the Ran dolph Macon Woman's College, adver tised elsewhere. The purpose of the Board is to establish a college where onr young women may obtain an education equal t»• that given in our best colleges for young men, and under environments in harmony with Southern ideas of wo manhood; where the dignity and strength of fully developed faculties and the charm or the highest literary culture may be acquired by onr daugh ters without the k*s of woman s crown ing glory, her gentleness and grace. The most significant feature is an endow ment already exceeding fIOO.OOO Send your name for a catalogue to Win. W. Smith, A. M., L L D., President Lynch burg, Va EDUCATIONAL. Ml I CIP ILLINOIS CONSERVATORY, 111 Uvl V Jae-kw title, 111. FEMALE ACADEMY icai School for voung women. Elective c<>ur?es. MR', W.J. BRYA.V*. Almu Muttr.Jut k«oin IIIrJIL COMMERCIAL COLLEGE OF KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY Chr*pn.t. HiKhe-l Honored. Situation*, i/edai awarded Prof Smith at World eFair. It keeping. Buaioess, Short-band. Typ e✓ • and Telegraphy taught. University Diploma to graduatea. 10.000 Graduates in Business. Begin now. Addreaaunly, WILUCK K. SMITH, Lexington, Ky. Classical School at Rome, Ga. On the first Monday of September. 1896 the under signed will opeg a school for the prep - ration of boys for the University. The Fall term will centmuefour months. The Spring term will begin on the first Monday of January, 1897 a> d continue six months. Tuition in Classics and Higher Mathematics. $6 per month. English studies |4 per month. Number of pupils limited to twenty. For other information, address PALEMON J. KING, Prin. MARY BALDWIN SEMINARY FOR YOUNG LADIES, STAUNTON, VIRGINIA. Term begins Sept. 2d, IW. Located in Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Unsurpassed climate, grounds and appointments. Board, etc., with full English course, MSBU. Music, Languages, Elocution, Art, Book keeping, and Physical Culture, extra. Pupils enter any time. Write for Catalog. M. J. Baldwin, Prim Hrs Prathers Hom School, 232-238 West Peachtree Street, aTLAI\’Ta, .... This school offers Instruction from trained American and European teachers in prima ry, Intermediate and collegiate studies,mus ic, art and elocution; a systematic study of the Biole; a location that gives all of the ad vantages and none of the disadvantages of city Hie: patronage from the best familksof Georgia and five other states. Tne school year begins September I, 1*96. Students of specialties are received every summer. Send for catalogue. 28july8t Richmond College, BICHMOND, VA. Situated in the historic city of the South. Handsome buildings located In a park of thirteen acres. Free Library of 12,500 vol umes. All the latest and best books. Fifteen professors and instructors. Full courses leading to the degrees of M. A., B. A., B. S. T and Bachelor of Law. Facilities for the study of Law unexcelled in the South. Chris tian influences are strong and numerous. The professors are deeply interested In the spiritual welfare of their students. Tuition In Academic Department, >7O; in Law, HO, for session of nine months. Session begins Sept. 24th. The catalogue for 1896 contains complete list of graduates and proficients 1849-1896. Copies free. For full Information address F-W BOATWRIGHT, 23july9t President. Union Female College, EU A* a ULA ’ Charming location; delightful climate; wonderful health record. This is a chartered college of highest grade. Literary Faculty unsurpassed in the South. Art, Elocution, Physical Culture, etc., under the finest in structors. Conservatory of Music (Piano, Or gan, Voice, Violin. Harp, etc.) unquestiona bly the best. School select. Faye excellent. Terras very reasonable. Session opens Sept. 17th. Please write for catalogue. 28july8t T.J SIMMONS, A. M., Pres’t. Woman’s Medical College, m McCulloh <fc Hoffman Streets. Established 1882. Four years graded course, eight months sessions. 36 instructors and assist ants. Reduced fees for missionaries. Send for Catalogue. 28juiy4t Shorter College forYoung Ladies, ROME, GEORGIA. Next Session Opens Sept. 18th, 1896. High and healthful situation, grand scen ery,every material comfort ana conven ience. High standard of scholarship. Ac 3ompllshea specialists as teacheis. Hand tome endowment. Kindly and home-like Influences. Free literary tuition to minis ters* daugters. Board and College tuition reduced to *IOO per term of 4% months. Ap ply to A. J BATTLE. 18j u nel3t EDUCATIONAL The School Agency, Birmingham, Ala., recommends suit- Me teachers free of cost to schools, jolleges and families. Write and state particulars. 2aprtf Notice to Teachers! WE WANT the name and address o W everv enterprising teacher In the South, Send stamp tor Teacher's land BookT CHARLES J. PARKER, Manager, Teachers’ Aid Association, «Bapr«m Raleigh, N. C. D.wiwwm Ledgers, I UllTTllTll Journals, Cash Books, fl 1111 l 1 binding, FJeetTorvping etc., etc., of The Franklin Printing & Publishing Co., GEO. W. HARKISO.V, Manager (sial. I'rtnt.r), Atlanta, Ga, ASg-Consutt them before placing your