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continued and well sustained effort.
Enlistment for a loss time than “dur
ing the war,” is not worth the paper on
which the enrollment is made. Any
plan that contemplates a second place
for Mercer University in the rank of
Georgia schools is good only to be dis-
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P. D. POLLOCK, A.M.,
Chairman of Faculty and Professor of
English Language and Liteiature.
carded. Plans of today should look to
the welfare of the generation that is
to live a thousand years from this date.
But coming more directly now to the
things that imediately produce results.
We suggest to every Sunday-school,
every Woman's Missionary Society and
to every Baptist church in the land to
plant Mercer University in that body.
By vote of the church put the Univer
sity on the list for support along with
other benevolences. Give the school
its time and place. According to the
“Regulation Schedule,” or some other
schedule or program, set a time to con
sider the claims of Mercer and then
remember it according to your ability
and its necesities. In a time like the
present, there should be a large giving.
It is an emergency with us. If the Uni
versity is planted notice results: a,
prayer willbeofTered for it: b, sympathy
wil go out for it: c, money will be given
for it; d, boys will be sent to it. Cling
unflinchingly to a regime as outlined
for ten years and Mercer University
would begin to answer in some good
degree to her glorious mission.
No matter what else you do or do
not do, plant tne University. Plant
deep. Plant for everlasting growth.
Plant for generations unborn. Set a day
for the planting. Let the school be
rooted in the church. Covetousness
and hard times may be present, playing
the part of Sanballot and Tobias, but
be not hindered. Plant Mercer Univer
sity and reap a harvest of Alumni an
nually. We need them. O. how we
need them in every way and walk of
life.
Again, doing must enter largely into
plans. Good will, best wishes and
righteous resolves and just services are
all very well —serve a good end. but
these are not sufficient. We need doers
and doings. It is heresy not to do in
religion. Let all do. Movement every
where with everybody is needed. The
beauty of doing is. all can do. The
woman with her mites can do as grand
ly and In many features of the case, as
the prince with his millions.
You see we are not saying *much
about how to do things. Baptist polity
involves church sovereignty, and indi
vidual freedom so thoroughly that no
matter what we might advise or do our
selves in matters of detail, it is doubt
less best to leave pastors and churches
very much to their own plans.
When you make collections remit to
us. We will receipt yon and also pub
lish names with amounts given in the
Index from time to time, except when
contributors desire name withheld.
We do not say we will not visit cities,
towns and churches unless invited, but
invitations will in all cases be very ac
ceptable. We acknowledge already the
receipt of many very pleasant ones.
If parties have not the money and de
sire to give notes we will gladly receive
them. We have had parties volunteer
to give us notes recently.
Finally, brethren in the pastorate,
our hope of success is largely in your
hands. Our trust is in God—and in
you. The Lord will not fail vs. Now
let us get you by the lapel of the coat
and ask. how about you. Can we lean
on yon? When Peter stood up with the
eleven he preached on the day of Pen
tecost a great sermon. What he would
have done without the eleven we do not
know. No doubt they were "with
Peter and no doubt he knew it.” God
has given to Baptists great principles—
given them in sacred trust to hold and
propagate. Along with them he has
given Mercer University. An educated
leadership is necessary to the main
tenance and propagation of truth as
Baptists hold it. And Mercer Univer
sity endowed and eouipped so as to
command patronage is necessary to
our leadership. Remember, the State
University has more money than we
G. W. MACON, A.M.,
Professor of Modern Languages and
Biology.
have. So has Emory. Money is power.
We are paying tax on more than half
the property in Georgia. What are
we going to do? What are we doing
now? Delay is costing us heavily.
Mercer University from 1872 to 18811-
A Morsel of History.
BY A, J. BATTLE, D D.
The above period of seventeen years
is covered by the administration of the
present writer. This sketch is given in
response to the courteous request of the
editors to contribute to the Mercer Uni
versity edition of the Index a brief re
view of that administration.
Notification of his election as Presi
dent of this great Baptist college came
to the writer in October, 1871, just af
ter the opening of the seventh year of
his connection as President of the Jud
son Female Institute, Marion, Ala. This
unexpected call was accepted on condi
tion that he should be permitted to
finish his engagement at the Judson
before entering upon the duties of his
office at Mercer University. To have
left the Institute as near the beginning
of the term, when all the teachers and
pupils were in their places, would have
wrought much confusion in its affairs.
No great inconvenience, however,
would result to Mercer by waiting a
year on tne President-elect. The Uni
versity had just been removed from
Penfield to the city of Macon. No
buildings had been erected on the Uni
versity premises. A few rooms rented
in the heart of the city were ample tor
the accommodation of the thirty stu
dents who had matriculated. The
college might be said to be in a state
of suspended animation, awaiting the
erection of the necessary buildings and
the forthcoming of the necessary ap
pliances. '1 he staff of professors, who
had come over from Penfield with the
late able incumbent of the presidential
chair, were fully equal to the task of
instructing and governing the small
body of students and of safely manag
ing the affairs of the college. The
Trustees recognized the force of these
considerations and cheerfully assented
to the condition.
The President-elect came over to the
Commencement of 1872, and after de
livering an inaugural address and re
ceiving the seal of the University from
Hon. D. E. Butler. .President of the
Board of Trustees, formally entered
upon the duties of his office. He presid
ed during the delivery of the orations
of the graduating class and conferred
the degrees upon the candidates. Then
ensued the long summer vacation.
The year that had passed since his
election had been spent in erecting the
new buildings on the campus near Tat
nall Square.
In October the University exercises
were regularly resumed in one of the
buildings that had been completed.
This was the edifice known as the
“Mess Hall.” It was constructed for
the purposes of a dormitory and re
fectory. and was ill adapted for the
uses of instruction. But the main col
lege building was not nigh to comple
tion, and the Mess Hall furnished the
only accommodation available.
The sesion of 1872-3 opened with an
attendance of about 160 students. A
great disaster befell the University in
the following January. The epizootic
influenza, which had prevailed over the
continent, was followed by an atmos
pheric wave charged with poison,
which swept over the country from the
Eastern States to the States of the Gulf
It left in its wake thousands of graves
of the young and tens of thousands of
bleeding hearts. The dread cerebro
spinal meningitis attacked, one after
another, several of the towns and cities
of Georgia, and in some instances al
most decimated the population. In Ma
con. it attacked a number of private
homes with fatal effect, but its most
cruel havoc was in the Mess Hall of
Mercer University. One hundred and
sixty young men crowded into its small
apartments by day and nearly half this
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T. J. WOOFTER, A M., LL.B.,
Professor of Mathematics and As
tronomy.
number occupying the dormitories at
night must needs have vitiated the air
and rendered the inmates an easy prey
to the infection. The first death oc
curred January 17th, and in quick suc
cession victim after victim fell, the
other boys fleeing for their lives. Sev
eral were struck down after leaving the
city; one fell by the way, while a fear
ful panic spread over the State. The
faculty and a few heroic spirits among
the students remained by the bedsides
of the tortured and dying boys. Among
the noble young men who tended the
sufferers night and day was one hero
who deserved a monument—John F.
Daniel, now an Atlanta attorney.
The exercises were suspended for six
weeks. Meanwhile improvements in
ventilation were made and other sani
tary measures adopted. On the re
sumption of the exercises in the early
spring nearly all the students who
went home returned. But alas! one
bright and noble youth was seized with
the fatal infection on the very day of
his arrival, and still another at a later
period, the last and fifteenth victim of
this unparalleled epidemic.
Os course it was a fearful blow to the
college. It required several years for
confidence in the healthfulness of the
new location to be restored. This provi
dential visitation added to a feeling,
prevalent in certain quarters, of hostil
ity to the University growing out of its
removal from its original location, ren
dered the early years of the administra
tion very trying to the custodians of
this great interest. But with an abid
ing faith in the God who had sustained
the courage of our fathers, all resolved
to struggle on in spite of obstacles,
and to do all in their power to place the
beloved college on the highest plane of
usefulness. In this the Board of Trus
tees stood bravely by the side of the
faculty.
The attitude of the people of Macon
was generous and honorable beyond ex
pression. Never was a man in this po
sition more nobly supported by the
public sentiment and sympathy of a
community than Mercer’s President in
these trying times; and throughout the
seventeen years of his administration
this sympathy and support were never
withheld. Citizens of every class and
Christian people of all denominations
united in words of helpful cheer and
encouragement. Never, never can the
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present writer forget the noble men
and women of that goodly city who
abided his fast friends to the last.
. Never had a President a nobler band
of colleagues—the professors of Mer
cer University during those years. With
unswerving loyalty to the college, were
combined remarkable fitness for their
several departments, enthusiasm in
their work, love and sympathy for the
young, and a spirit of mutual fraternal
regard—all concurring to make life at
Mercer a perpetual Intellectual feast.
No discords marred the beautiful har
mony which prevailed at all times. On
all important questions they acted as a
unit, individual preferences being merg
ed into the desire to promote the gener
al good. Seldom have such men as
Sanford, Willet,Brantly,Woodfin, Steed
and Ryals composed the staff of a col
lege President.
The alumni of this period have had
an honorable record. About 350 choice
spirits went forth during these years,
bearing the imprimatur of this noble
faculty. They adorn every station and
rank in life. Many of the leading citi
zens of Macon and many of the most
prominent men in this and other States
received their education at Mercer dur
ing this epoch.
Marshall. Golden, Vaughan, Jessup,
Solomon, Eden, Chapman. Ivey. Ward,
Kelley, O'Kelley, Crawford, Garner,
Parrott. Ragsdale. Waller, in Georgia;
Pickard and Baldy in Kentucky; Me-
J. F. SELLERS, A.M ,
Professor of Physics and Chemistry.
Connell in Virginia; Ivey in Texas;
Lemon (Episcopal), Leak (Presbyte
rian, Freuder (Hebrew), among the
ministers; Peeples,Cabaniss(Alabama),
Seaborn Wright, Clark, Nunnally,
Hooper, Irwin, Steed, Jordan,
Dasher, Harris, Jones, Hodges,
Blalock, Ryals, Ellis, Cain, Ken
nedy, Bennett, Long, Don Haper
(Paris), among its lawyers; Moses
and Watson, among its Congress
men; Dean, Charlton, Battle, Kil
patrick, among its Senators; Boifeiul
let, Hodges, Evans, Hall, West, among
its State Representatives; Adams
(Texas), Williams, Etheridge, Richard
son, Gregory, Jas. Ross, J. K. Bank,
Clark, Hardeman, Blalock, among its
physicians; Felton, Cleveland, Ross,
among its judges: and Hinton, James
Duggan, W. L. Duggan, Charles Cox
and Zellars among its educators. Where
will you find a larger and finer array of
brilliant graduates of a similar period?
Well may Mercer and Georgia be
proud of them.
Mrs. Josepli E. Brown.
BY HENRY M DONALD, D.D.
After a brief illness this noble
woman passed away to the home of her
Savior. Her death was the occasion of
the universal expression of admiration
for her character and of sympathy for
the bereaved. Borne by the same
hands which carried her honored hus
band’s remains, she was placed in death
by his side, to await the day when the
dead in Christ shall rise. Her charac
ter is worthy of our study and praise.
She was the daughter of Rev. Mr.
Grisham, a Baptist minister of South
Carolina. In her girlhood she trusted
the Lord Jesus Christ and publicly con
fess his name. In every position she
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J. 8. MURRAY, A.M.,
Professor of Greek Language and
Literature.
never forgot that she belonged to him.
In the quiet home with her children
or in the Governor’s mansion, in the
circles of Washington or in the cities
beyond the sea, she bore herself as the
follower of Christ, never shrinking
from the avowal of her faith.
She had strong native intellect and
rare common sense, and being well
trained had a most acute and discrim
inating power of observation. Her es
timates of people never falling far from
being true. Her husband was justly
honored as few men have been in pub
lic life. Whatever may be said as to
the elements of success which won such
a useful and lofty career it may be
safely acknowledged that the brave,
true woman who pledged her life and
love to him on the twenty-first anni
versary of her birth was the chief fac
tor in helping him in his splendid life
work.
She was indeed an helpmeet whom
the Lord had provided.
He never reached a position by his
genius but that she could adorn by the
grace of her pure and sincere woman
hood. No woman, not that of Eng
land’s great premier nor that of Ger
many’s iron chancellor ever stood more
bravely and faithfully than did Mrs.
Brown by Governor Brown. In sun
shine and storm she stood by his side,
unspoiled by the one and unqualing be
fore the other.
“It should be recorded to encourage
the wives of all public men that Mrs.
Brown in addition to the care of her
children and household duties, with her
own hand copied for the printer the
original manuscript, difficult for most
people to read, of all the messages and
nubile documents of the governor while
in office. And in like manner all his
discussions and opinions as Chief Jus
tice of the Supreme Court, and in ad
dition kept a complete' file in scrap
books of the public criticism and com
ment and commendations of the gover
nor and most of the public documents
from his early life to the present.” No
wonder that he honored and loved
such a wife.
Another easily observable trait was
her essential truthfulness of nature.
She was too sincere and true to tolerate
shums of any kind. She appreciated
society but her nature was too strong
and simple to be caught by artful and
artificial forms which meant nothing
to her keen and just discrimination.
She was thoroughly sincere. She was
strong with the simplicity and direct
ness of truth. We admire the truth
fulness of such a nature as we do a ray
of light or the purity of a mountain
stream that reveals the pebbles be
neath.
As a mother she loved her children
with the strong, changelss grasp of a
mother's heart. She prayed for them
and no joy equaled that which she
felt in the thought that her Savior was
their Savior, too.
Her devotion to her friends partook
of that same steadfastness. Her heart
grappled them as with hooks of steel.
Friendship was no idle sentiment with
her.
Her ready helpfulness to those that
sought and needed her aid was as un
ostentatious as her sympathy was
practical. The foundations of this true,
strong and consistent character was
found in her faith in God and in his
Son. Her Bible was her companion.
Its promises and hopes sheltered and
blessed her. The last chapters of
John’s Gospel, beginning with. “Let not
your heart be troubled,” etc., were mes
sages from Christ to her heart and life.
After returning from a long continued
trip to Europe and Palestine, she,
seemingly bouyant and happy, took up
life’s duties and burdens; but alas! for
what a little while. Her work was
done. The husband had gone before,
and though so outwardly brave and
calm, sorrow was in the wounded heart.
With the affection of children for
such a mother and with the profound
confidence and esteem of all who knew
her, she passed over the river and is at
rest. Blessed be her memory.
Thus do we walk with her and keep
unbroken
The bond which nature gives.
Thinking that our remembrance,though
unspoken.
May reach her where she lives.
Mercer and Hie Twen'ietli Century.
BY F. M. LONGLEY, ESQ.
It seems pretty well settled among
scholars that the 31st of this December
is really the last day of the nineteenth
century-that the Diomsinn era (A.
D.) began four years too late; so that
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J. R. moseiAy, m. S.,
Professor of Ilistoi’|A‘' f Philosophy.
January the first is the beginning day
of the twentieth century.
Many appeals have been made for
grand old Mercer and help has come
from time to time, but at no time in the
history of our University has there
been a long pull and a pull all together
by Georgia Baptists to place our insti
tution on a solid foundation. Mercer
belongs to all the Baptists of the State,
and old Baptists and young Baptists
alike should feel special interest in the
institution.
Christmas comes, and then New Year,
every twelve months, and gifts on these
glad days are almost universal among
Christian nations. But no man living
has perhaps witnessed the beginning of
a new century. Now the real twentieth
century is upon us with its transcend
ant demands. What shall it be to the
Baptists of Georgia? Shall its opening
days be as ordinary New Years or shall
our mountains, valleys and lowlands be
made redolent and the air filled with
songs of praise for the magnificent,
blessings vouchsafed to this people?
Why not set apart the coming January,
l!)oo,astheopening month of the twen
tieth century in which to raise the?loo,-
000 called for by the trustees and
friends of Mercer University? Are we
less grateful, less liberal than were the
followers of Moses, who poured out
their treasure for the tabernacle? One,
two or a dozen cannot raise this sum,
but with kindling enthusiasm all along
the line the amount required would be
forthcoming and no one burdened, but.
every helper made glad. Dr. Gam
brell’s idea of an old-time corn shuck
ing. in which the neighborhood par
ticipated. would soon end the work.
Brethren remember the real twentieth
centurv opens in January and every
Baptist is invited to the Mercer corn
shucking, and after her crib is well fill
ed and the shucks put away then
comes supper with brother Barnard at
the head of the table. Brethren, sup
pose you pass the word round, the
twentieth century is here and .January
the month for the SIOO,OOO.
Not University of Georgia Less, But
Mercer More.
BY REV. J. L. GROSS.
The University of Georgia is my
alma mater; as such I love her; but I
love Mercer more; because I believe
that, the latter in her very constitution
and established purpose is doing, and
properly supported is capable of doing
far more than the former to symetri-
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Professor of Physiology ami Hygiene.
cally elevate humanity and glorify God.
While not altogether disregarding
the spiritual, the State University spe
cially emphasizes intellectual develop
ment; Mercer emphasizes both the
spiritual and intellectual, and ought
therefore to send forth from her walls
a higher type of manhood than the
other institution. For this reason, and
many more that might be given. I de
sire to be known specially as the
friend and supporter of Mercer Univer
sity.
For her weal I am resolved to pray
and work and give until she rests se
curely upon the loftiest peak far above
similar institutions. A centre of pure
light sending out her untarnished rays
to guide lost humanity up to that “city
whose builder and maker is God.”
Mercer Endowment.
BY ALEX F. Kt ESE.
The endowment of Mercer University
is not a question for discussion, but a
matter of necessity for Georgia Bap
tists. The day of free schools is here
and here to stay. One needs only to
observe the policy of the State in its
management of the University branch
colleges, technological and industrial
schools and the trend of school legisla
tion to be convinced that free tuition is
the keynote of schools of the future.
No need to complain that this is un-
Baptistic and un-American, it is a
fact and as such we must deal with it.
If then, we would have Mercer to exist,
not to mention a fuller equipment, we
must prepare at once to meet this con
dition.
For another reason the endowment is
a necessity. We have reached, it seems
to me, the limit of securing aid to fur
ther the Master’s Kingdom by appeals
to the emotions of Christians. If the
work is to be extended or even kept at
its present standard it must be done
by broadening the sympathies and en
larging the conceptions of duty of our
church members. This higher, truer
conception of life will come through
the education of the mind and heart of
our youth by godly. consecrated
teachers. Our denominational schools,
with Mercer as their common mother,
are to be the true source of the onward
march of missions and benevolence. If
our Baptist host could be impressed for
one hour with this great truth, in that
hour the SIOO,OOO would be provided
for.
Announcements of the B. Y P. U
Auxilliaryto the Southern Baptist
Convention.
1. We have been anxious to have
a joint Christian culture course with
the B. Y. P. U. A., and have twice pro
posed it. This proposal was based,
first, upon our own desire for co-opera
tive work as far as was consistent with
the pressing of our work distinctively
auxilliary to the S. B. convention; sec
ondly, upon the individual wishes of
many brethren in Maryland, Virginia
and Missouri; and, thirdly, upon the
following resolution passed by the
Missouri Baptist Young People’s Con
vention at their last annual meeting:
“Resolved, That we urge..and beg the
Boards of the B. Y. P. U. A. and the
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E. S. TICIIENOR, A. M.,
Professor of Latin Language and
Literature.
B. Y. P. U. Auxiliary to the S. B. Con
vention to adopt the same course of
study in order that harmony may pre
vail in our work and thus the proba
bility of conflict and division in Mis
souri may be averted.”
Moved by the above considerations,
the Board of Managers of the Southern
Union, through a committee, requested
a conference with representatives from
the B. Y. P. U. A. at Nashville. Tenn.,
in the early autumn of 1896 for the
purpose of adopting a joint culture
course. We were met by a represen
tative of the B. Y. P. U. A. with whom
we agreed on such a joint culture
course, which was to be submitted to
his executive committee for endorse
ment. That committee declined to treat
with us, whereupon we instituted plans
for our own courses of study, but were
unexpectedly informed by the Sunday
School Board that they felt constrain
ed to suspend the publication of the
“Young People’s Leader,” which, by
the consent of the Sunday School Board
we had adopted as our organ of com
munication. All our plans for a week
ly paper being thus upset, we decided
to begin a Monthly Hand-Book with
January, 1897. But, in view of the
brief time between January and the
meeting of our great Young People’s
Convention in Wilmington, N, C., the
first of May, we have deferred the mat
ter of a paper till that convention.
2. Meanwhile our Lesson Topics will
be treated in the Kind Words series of
our Sunday School Board at Nashville
and in many of our weekly* denomina
tional papers, thus securing us a wide
circulation.
Topic cards for the first six months
of 1897, Constitutions, Covenant Cards,
etc., and all information about the
work can be had from our Secretary,
Rev. John D. Jordan, Birmingham,
Ala,
3. Our principal work till next May,
in addition to stimulating unions al
ready formed, will be the formation of
local unions and pressing missions. On
these two lines our motto is: "A union
in every church that wants it and a
dollar from each member for missions
between now and May.”
•I. Though disappointed that some of
our plans have been thwarted, our
hearts are full of hope as we see the
rapid and solid progress of the work.
From all parts of the South our Gener
al Secretary is being urged to come and >
lead in the work of organizing. He is !
now making a tour of the States, or- |
ganizing and putting the forces to i
work.
Our running expenses, which we
make as low as possible, must be fur
nished by the brethren. Send your
contributions for this purpose to our
Treasurer. Mr. W. R. Phillips, Birm
ingham, Ala.
B. D. GRAY,
Chairman Ex. Com.
. W. R. PHILLIPS,
Treasurer.
JOHN D. JORDAN,
General Secretary.
Birmingham, Ala., Jan. 1, 1897.
Is Your Heart With Us?
Earnest Prayers: In bringing this
lost world to a knowledge of Christ we
need unceasingly to look to God. When
we longingly pray, Thy kingdom come,
we must realize that without God we
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EDWARD T. HOLMES, A.B.
Principal University High .School.
can do nothing. The master is as able
and willing to bless his people as ever.
Let us in private devotions, at the fam
ily alter, and in our churches, unceas
ingly plead with God for his help, his
guidance and his blessing on the great
Mission work which he has entrusted
to us.
Getting Ready for the Collection:
Every Missionary Baptist church
should have certain seasons to have
Foreign Mission collections. These oc
casions should be fixed. Then the
pastor and church should prepare
weeks or months before for the collec
tion. Prayer should be made. Sermons
instructing and inspiring should be
preached. These sermons need not nec
essarily be altogether on missions, but
truly gospel, telling God’s love in Christ
for a lost world. Tracts and Mission
Journals should be circulated so that
the people can read and talk about the
work. Tracts will be furnished free if
desired.
A live committee should be appointed
to arrange for the collection. Some
churches hold a week of prayer for
missions before the day for the collec
tion, and the committee afterwards call
on the absentees or those who fail to
contribute. We should each see that
his church does not come up to this
great work with indifference, while mil
lions are dying without the gospel of
Christ. To be more efficient we should
be more thorough in preparation. Be
gin in your church now, appoint the
time and prepare for it.
Looking Forward: With grateful
hearts we praise God, for his past mer
cies and great blessings on our work,
and hopefully press forward. We have
four more months in this convention
year. We hope they will be gracious
indeed. Below we give the contribu
tions for the past eight months.
Asked Received
for in yr. in 8 mos.
Alabamas 8,400 $3,914 96
Arkansas 2,400 1,015 31
W. Ark. & I. T. . 600 79 77
D. C 1,800 354 32
Florida 16,000 524 75
Georgia 16,000 11,109 96
Kentucky 16,000 5,961 53
Louisiana 2.400 638 62
Maryland 9,000 4,300 05
Mississippi. . . . 7.200 3,936 16
Missouri 9,000 3,416 06
North Carolina. . 9,000 3,099 07
Western N. C. . . 600 390 71
South Carolina. . 12,000 4.923 21
Tennessee 7.800 3,170 53
Texas 12,000 4.181 47
Virginia 21,000 8,185 67
Other sources. . . 1,400 799 39
Totalsl3B,4oo $60,001 54
From this it can be seen that some of
our States are doing nobly. Let none
be discouraged, but with renewed zeal
let us each and all press forward in
God’s cause. The work is his and we
are his. May his blessings rest richly
on the churches in foreign and home
lands. A Happy New Year to all. The
Lord bless you and make you a bless
ing. Fraternally,
R. J. WILLINGHAM.
Richmond, Va., Jan. Ist, 1897.
In the Name of the Lord.
With the beginning of the new year
let it be remembered that the Georgia
Baptists have a great trust committed
to their care. We have hundreds of
missionaries in the State, home and
foreign fields looking to us for prayer,
sympathy and material support; we
are in honor bound not to fall them.
This work does not devolve upon a few,
but upon the many. It is the solemn
duty and high privilege of every one
of us to put forth earnest and persist
ent effort in this great work. Each
pastor is charged with the responsi
bility of seeing that every member of
his church is in line and engaged In
doing according to his or her ability. It
is high time to abandon old, senseless
trnditions and plant ourselves squarely
upon the teachings of God’s word. Pas
tors who are not willing to lead their
people in this direction would bless
their churches and the world by retir
ing and giving place to those who un
derstand the duties and obligations of
an overseer, teach and leader in God’s
vineyard. We need no longer to dodge
the question and resort to sensational
ism and clap-trap in prosecuting the
great work given us by our Divine Mas
ter. Let us follow his lead, obey his
teachings and adopt common sense
business methods in all our churches
and remember, every month at least,
that we owe to the Lord’s cause a part
of all with which he entrusts us. Many
churches are doing this and many more
are not doing it and are, consequently,
doing little or nothing for the spread
of the Gospel. There is no reason in
the world why we should not raise five
hundred thousand dollars in Georgia
for misisons instead of one hundred
thousand. This could be done with all
ease, were all the churches doing in
the same proportion to their ability
that some are doing. Brother Pastor,
what is your church doing? What is
each member doing? Don t you believe
that God will hold you responsible as
his steward? Do you believe
that the Master is pleased with
your church doing little or nothing for
the spread of his gospel? Many of our
churches have responded liberally to
the recent special appeal of the For
eign Board and favorable responses are
coming in answer to the call of the
Home Board; thank the Lord for this:
let the good work go on. State Board
work has been, measureably, overlook
ed for the last month or two and we
are consequently falling beh’”' 1
Each work is equally import
ant in its place and demands
constant attention. All employees
and beneficiaries of the Board
need their supplies monthly. Ft re
quired $165.60 to meet the wants «>f the
indigent ministers and needy widows of
deceased ministers during the month of
December, and I received“or this pur
pose only $99.47. For the employees
of the State Board I did not receive half
as much as was needed: but, judging
the future by the past, I am satisfied
that it is only necessary to let Georgia
Baptists know what we need, for they
have, heretofore, come to our rescue
in every time of trouble. I have great
faith in what God will do through his
people and if we will just bestir our
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ministers. Let us begin with the new
year to do more earnest work for the
Lord and may he direct and ble.-.s us.
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