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6 s 4 ACTING ° S eakJoinTS T (lA5$\A/OF(K ' Georgia Southern and Florida Railway. Suwanee River Route to Florida. ROUTH ROUND. Lt At1anta?.........” .17 W) prnl |"m 2o am Ar M icon. Hl 13pm H i"MJ Lt Mac n .. I ;u) pin’’l 25 pmlll Mmh Ar Cordele ft 58 pin I 45 am 2 12 pm Ar Tifton M 40 pm 300 am 350 pm Ar Valdonta 10 25 pm: 4 40 am 5 35 pm Ar JaMprr i.. I 5 40am 63M pm Ar Lake City A 30 am 7 35 pm Ar_l’al.dkii 9 15 «m 10 2.5 pm j.t Surdeie i ....i i SSam 9 r» pm Ar Americus 2 50amj 3 25 pm As Montgomery ‘ 7 40 am h 10 pin LrTlordele 1.. ...... .[ 1 ©Amj 3 ttpm Ar Havnnah 8 Hinim 9 10 pm Lt ISTumZ3 I" am 10, pm Ar Waycross ' 5 10 am 0 25 pm Ar Jacksonville 7 .‘MI am H 50 pin Ar Brunswick 19 Wpm 9 10 pm Lt Tift no 7 80 810 4 00pm A. Fltagerald 9 00 am 5 15 pm Lt Val.i «ta 111 :«» pmj J® ••.: I”" Ar Quitman II 59 pm I 1 30 pm Ar Thomasville 112 55 pm I ,| 214 pm LFTala ka ..... | 4 00 pmi Ar Bt Auu'UNtinr 5 Hl pm Lt Palatka 10 55 am Ar Ormond .12 50 pm Ar Rockledge j .1 3 31 pm Ar W. Palm Beach ! 8 05 pn Ar Miami I" ■" I”" Lt Palatka 10 90am II 40 pm Ar Sanford . j i 0,1 pm 3 <m> am Ar Orlando ... I 2 IM pm 4 20 am Ar*Tampa. 5 45 pm * 80am north hound. Lt Tampi 7 50 pm 7 00 am I Lt Orlando 12 (15 am 12 55 pm Lt Hanford 88 am 219 pin Ar Palatka I »oam I >" pm Lt Mmim . 5 00 am Lt W. Palm Beach 7 30 am Lt Rockledge 12 00 pm Lt < >rmond 2 45 pm Ar Palatka .... 150 pm - Lt Ht Augustine | |l<» 35 am Ar Pnlalka . . 111 50 am Lv Thoniaavilie I 3 3.5 pm I 2 15 am Lt Qii tman. I 17 pmj I 3 32 am Ar Valdoatii I 16 pm . i 02 am ■KFTjtigerald . .. 110 15am 000 pm 1 S 00 hiii I 31 pm . s pm Io I . .mi '• I" pm ’ pm II ■ pm ?.• am :pm I 50 pill, I I" .(111 * 1 15 ;I 111 i. on.-ini 5 .;<) pin s ..11.1 n i s |,p •• ** * : ;im I I pH. ' 1 i "" 1,1 ' i’"' ■ ' 1 ' ••pm I ‘ 111 :i m I ■.l I ■ ';<m i mtm t he ASKED AND ANSWERED. BY 0. B. W. DOBBS, D.D. I wish to ask you one other ques tion: Is ft not sinful to keep on pray ing to the Ix>rd for the same thing? Does he not say that we should not use vain repetitions in prayer? Can you explain why God requires us to pray when he knows just what we need, and Just what he intends to give us before we ask him? J. Q. C. So your “one question” turns out to be three. Nevertheless we murmur not, for the Asked and Answered de partment is furnished by the Index for the benefit of its readers, and all are welcome to send their questions to it. Our correspondent’s accompanying let ter furnishes abundant evidence that his questions are asked in no captious spirit. 1. The long prayers and much speaking in praying which Jesus con demned must not be confounded with sincere importunity in prayer, which is encouraged in several of his para- Ides. Paul prayed three times ear nestly that the thorn in his flesh might be removed. There is nothing to lead us to believe that his impor tunity was displeasing to God, even though the divine wisdom did not see fit to grant his request. Perhaps he needed the very discipline which came through the importunity to prepare him for the final refusal, and to assure his humble submission to the will of God in that matter. The importunate widow continually besought the un righteous Judge to vindicate her rights, and the lesson for us in the parable is that we are to wait on the Lord in earnest and humble prayer. (Luke 18 7.) We are exhorted to "continue Urgent in prayer,” and to “pray with out ceasing.” Jesus himself prayed three times that the awful cup might pass. (Matt. 26: 44.) 2. By “vain repetitions” Jesus sure ly did not mean such earnestness in prayer as is described in the preceding paragraph. What he condemned was the habit of heartlessly repeating over and over prescribed words of prayer, very much in the same manner that many "prayers” are now mumbled over in liturgical worship. In Eccle siastes 5: 2 we have this caution: “Therefore let thy words be few,” and in the apocryphal book of Sirach (Ec clesiasticus) 7: 14, we read: “Use not many words in multitude of elders, and make not much babbling when thou prayest.” Even if not an in spired utterance, there is wisdom in these words of “Jesus the son of Si rach.” What our Lord condemned was such "babbling,” or repeating mere words in pretended praying. It is saiil that Buddhist monks will for hours, even days, together cry aloud the sacred syllable Um; and some Ma hommedans “turn round in a circle, ami pronounce the name of God till they drop down.” After a Mahomme dan funeral in some countries, devout men assemble and repeat “Allah el Allah”- God is God —three thousand times. They utter a very important truth in the phrase, but they are guilty of nonsense in the way they put it. Very like such perversion of prayer is the practice of Roman Catholics in repeating, with the beads of their ros aries, the Pater Nosters and Hail Maries ten, fifteen, and even a hun dred times, thinking to secure spirit ual blessing by the number of repeti- I actions, rather than the fervency or sin '’f petitions. We do not true lliis is, but it is said f tlie r.isarv, wln. li i. <.l br.i.l ■ Hlirl. lO i. 1 ■ ' 1,1 THE CHRISTIAN INDEX : THURSDAY. JANUARY 28, 1897. name of Jesun" ihould be “upon the name.” Would /fiot “unto the name” be better? Is not that the proper translation of the words in Christ's last commission? M. J. R. The phrase In Acts 2: 38 is different from that in Matt. 28: 19. The Greek preposition in the former place is epi, while in the latter it is eis. The ren dering “upon the name,” as we give it in the Quarterly, is literal. In the commission the Revised Version ren ders “into the name." Perhaps we cannot do better than give what Dr. Broadus says on the preposition in the commission: "In, or into, the name, is the most obvious and ■'Com monest translation of the Greek phrase (eis to onoma). The same preposition and case are found after baptize in Acts 8: 16; 19: 5; 1 Cor. 1: 13; and (with other nouns) in Gal. 3: 27; Romans 6: 3 (twice); 1 Cor. 10: 2; compare also Matt. 10: 41; 18: 20. Now, if we take this obvious sense ‘into’, the question will arise whether the ceremony actually brings the person into the name, into Christ, into Paul, Moses, etc., or whether it only represents, symbolizes, the rela tion thus indicated. Those who be lieve in baptismal regeneration, or in baptism as constituting regeneration, will, of course, take the phrase in the former sense; others will understand that the ceremony only represents the person’s introduction into the name, into Christ. In either case the idea denoted by ‘into’ seems to be highly important, and with those who believe in baptismal regeneration, etc., an es sential element in the significance of the ceremony. Now, it is to be ob served that Luke In Acts, while twice using 'into the name’ (eis to onoma), as above cited, in 2: 38 has epi toi onomati —‘upon the name’ —upon this as basis or ground of the ceremony, and in 10: 48 en toi onomati —‘in the name’ —within the limits of it, with relation to it and it alone. If, then, the idea attached to ‘into’ be highly important, or even essential, how do we account for the fact that Luke uses three other expressions, which may with some effort be construed as equivalent, but will quite fail to indi cate the important conception in ques tion? It would seem clear that Luke, when recording the action of the apos tles in carrying out the commission, did not regard the distinctive notion of ‘into’ as essential or highly impor tant, or he would not have used that phrase twice, and twice the other phrases. And those who insist on the most obvious translation of eis by ’into’, must beware of treating any particular interpretation of the phrase as very important, in the presence of Luke’s usage. The question may also arise whether it is not better to un derstand eis to onoma as meaning in all these cases ‘unto the name,’ with reference to the name, as that to which the ceremony is restricted. Then it becomes plain at once that Luke's other phrases give substantially the same sense, and we see why he has varied the expression at will. This rendering is felt by all to lie necessary in 1 Cor. 10: 2 —‘baptized unto Moses.’ And in Gal. 3: 27; Romans. 6: 3, ‘unto’ gives a thoroughly appropriate con ception, ‘baptized unto Christ,’ with distinct and exclusive reference to him; that, is, the ceremony does not refer to Moses, or to Paul, but to Christ. And note especially the appro priateness in Romans 6: 3 —‘all we who were baptized unto Christ were baptized unto his death,’ etc. Our baptism in referring to Christ Jesus referred especially to his death. 'We were buried therefore with him through the baptism unto death,’ etc. We believe then that it would be a de cided improvement to render baptize eis everywhere by ‘unto.’ " From the foregoing clear exposition prince of New Testament 'll wen (lint our . ■ ' '' > fe_ a , ©bttiiarir*. BRANSFORD.—Sister Emily Brans ford died at the home of her daughter on the 14th of July last, in the city of Columbus, Ga. She was brightly con verted when quite young, and united with the Macedonian Baptist church, of which she was a most devoted mem ber for sixty years. She was of Joy ous and sunny spirit. She was of deep and fervent piety. She never relaxed her hold on Christ and his word. Her charity was almost unbounded. She was literally a ministering ange) to all who suffered or had sorrow. Her life was full of peculiar trials. She was a child of sorrow and affliction. She frequently said, “AH thy waves ind thy billows have gone over me." Still she did not murmur or question her Shep herd's wisdom, but was full of the present, and power ordie Holy Ghost in all her trials. She* w°r not once heard to complain. Her love for God’s house was intense. Ti’* wnter knew her Intimately for nd3"4y forty-five years, and can say he has known no brighter, purer or more Joyous Chris tian than our departed sister. She was buried at. Mt. Olive church, beside her departed husband, and leaves six children, three sons and three daugh ters; and a number of grandchildren. Her end was great peace. It was all light and no darkness. Her youngest son says to me, “Pray for me.” Join me that he, a noble and industrious young man, may meet her again. R. H. BULLOCH. DUGGAN. —Died of typhoid fever, in Cochran, Ga., on Sunday, January 3, 1897, Mrs. Addie Stone Duggan, wife of Prof. A. M. Duggan, and eldest daughter of Dr. and Mrs. R. G. Stone, of Linton. Ga. As a girl she was modest, gentle, amiable and good. As a pupil she was prompt, diligent, ambitious and bril liant. As a young lady she had no superiors. She was born August 11, 1872; at about the age of fifteen she was baptized into Darien church, and four years ago she was married. No one possessed fairer prospects for long life, happiness and usefulness. For seven weeks she suffered with patience and resignation; and Just as the watchers began to hope for her re covery the Master took her home. No words can express the desolation of the bereaved husband, the loss to the two motherless babes, and the grief of the father, mother, brothers, sisters and friends. She is through with the battle, the storm and the strife, She is safe from the troubles and trials of life. She will dwell evermore in the land of the blest. Where she’ll never be tired, but for ever will rest. IVY W. DUGGAN. HALL.—lnez, eldest daughter of Capt. and Mrs. G. A. Hall, was born October 13, 1882, and went to heaven January 7, 1897. She became a child of the King in th£ summer of 1895. A brighter, sweeter<giH this writer has never known. Her beautiful form, like the rosebud severed from the trunk, has withered and vanished from sight, but the fragrance of her brief earthly life ■ I H .i. A I'ii c< nt t: 1 h t ' i l litbl b < ; 1 ■ i l.i:”]' .1 \\ w h.it i. tim 11 ! 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POSITION 1122 Broadway, [Room 3<M] New York. ‘•We’ll Dye Por You. ” Why throw away your clothes whet yon can have them Cleaned and Dyed equal to new ? We do both ladies’ and men’s clother better than any other in the South with prices to suit the times. Southern Dye <£• Cleaning- Works, 89 & 24 Walton St., Atlanta, Ga jy Express paid. Send for prior tst. mch26ly .t: jj ‘fl| fl flj 1 ! CABLED FIELD AKDHOGFENCE. ;»bled Poultry Fence: Wire Fence Board; Yard '• metery and Grave Lot Fencing on Steel Post s -t ecialty. We Pay the Freight. Catalogue Fret K. L. SHKLLABEBGEB. ATLANTA. GA. SOUTHERN RAILWAY. PIEDMONT air LIMB. Coode.Md Schedule of I’tetenpr Trains. In Effect Jen. IS. 1807. Ve». r»t.M*l No. IS Northbound. No. 38 No. 3« Kl - Dally. Doily. Sun. Lv Atlant., C.T. 12 00 rn '< «> P 7to a 4 ® P •• Atlanta, E.T. 1 W pl 2 W a 8 W a S«P “ Norcrow ..." 1 26 a 931 a «»P “ Buford ~ . 10<M a7OB p - Gainesville... i 29 p 4to alO 35 a 743 p " Lula 248 p 2 47 a 1100 a 8 08p Ar. Cornelia. 11 & a 8 85 P Lv Mt. Airy ........ It 28 a “ Toccoa 885p 4 43 • » 44 » “ Westminster .. ■ 1280 m " Seneca 4 18 p 4 27 al2 48 p “ Central 4 <"> p 4 55 a 130 p “ Greenville... 5 80 p 4 44 * 231 p “ Spartanburg. 6 18 p ®42 ■ 347 p N<>.39 “ Gaffneys. *722a 4 28 p * " Blacksburg .. 708 p 740 a 447 p ,| " King's Mt 805 a 513 P , , |M “ Gastonia 8 27 a 535 P Lv. Charlotte ... 8 30p»30a 8 40p 11 top Ar. Danville .... 12 00 n 1 80 pll 25p 2 30 a Ar. Richmond ... 000 a 0 40 p 6 00a Ar. Washington 6 42 a 9 40 p 9 45a •' BaltmePßß. 800 all 25 P 1108a Philadelphia. 10 15 a 3 00 a 118 p " New York 12 43 m 6to a 8 53p „ N 0.31 Ves. jFst.Ml „ 11 NY A Southbound. No . 37 No. 35 (£•’ ' * IMIIy. Daily. [,‘d Lv. Hr. y. k ri. r 4to pl 2 IS a 12 iup •• Philadelphia. 655 p 850 a 2 86p “ Baltimore. .. 920 p 681 a Stop ** Washington.. 10 43 pll 15 a 6 top Lv. Richmond ... 200 al2 St p 200a Lv Danville 5 50 a 6 20 p 615 a 1 12 a tr. Charlotte .... 926a10t0p 11 80 p stoa v. Gastonia 10 80 p 1 It p “ King's Mt 135 p “ Blacksburg .. 10 49 all 32 p 206 r " Gaffneys 11 47 a 226 p “ Spartanburg. 11 37 al2 26 a 815 p “ Greenville.. 12 28 p Ito a 420 p - Central 1 15 p 2 05 a 525 p “ Seneca 185 p 226 a 554 p Noli. “ Westminster 615 p ™_ - Toccoa 218 p 815 a 7to p “ - Mt. Airy 783 p ** Lula 8 13 p 409 a 808 p 6OT • H Gainesville,. 881 p 485 a 835 p 7 20a ** Buford 907 p 748 a * Norcroas 943 p 827 a Ar Atlanta, E. T. '55 p 6 10 alO 30 p 080 a Ar Atlanta, C.T. 8 55 p 5 10 a- 930 p 830 a •‘A” a. m. *‘P” p. m. “M” noon. “N” night. Noa.B7and3B—Daily. Washington and South western Vestibule Limited. Through Pullman Steening care between New York and New Or leans, via Washington, Atlanta and Montgom ery, and also between New York and Memphis, ▼iaWashington, Atlanta and Birmingham. Pull man sleeping cars between New York and New Orleans, in connection with the '‘Sunset Lim ited” trains for San Francisco, semi-weekly, leaving Jersey Citv Tuesdays and Saturdays: returning, leave New Orleans Wednesdays and Satnrda s. This train also carries Kichmond- August a sleeping cars between Danville and Charlotte. First class thoroughfare coaches between Washington and Atlanta. Dining cars serve all meals en route. Nos. 85 and 36—United States Fast Mail runs solid between Washington and NewOr leans, via Southern Railway, A. & W. P. R. R., and L. & N. R. R.. being composed of baggage car and coaches, through without change for passengers of all clussos. Pullman drawing room sleeping cars Between Jersey City and New Orleans, via Atlanta and Montgomery. Leaving Washington each Saturday, a tourist sleeping car will run through between Wash Ington and San Francisco without change. Nos. 31 and 32—New York and Florida Lim ited. Vestibuled train between New York and St. Augustine, via Washington, Charlotte, Co lumbia, Savannah sud Jacksonville, consisting of Pullman drawing room sleeping cars, Pull man compartment cars, Pullman* obsei ration cars and dining cars, leaving New York and 6t. Augustine (terminal points) daily except Sunday. This train also carries twelve section drawing room buffet sleeping cars between Augusta and New York. N os. 11 and 12—Pullman sleeping cars between Richmond and Danville. I Line Belle train, Nos. 17 and 18, be- and Cornelia, Ga., daily except J M. CULP. Traffic M g'r., D. C. Washington, D. O. |M||WURK, 8. H. HARDWICK, Ag’t , Ass’tGeuT Pass. Ag’t., ington, D. C. Atlanta, Ga. MwfSßßmwL’-” i E r • C U S, s s ’’ O N V f L L E, B’ Blank Books, Ledgers, Journals, Cash Booka, Binding,klectrotypinf 7 etc., etc., of Tbe Franklin P’tnting a Publish'Co., CKO. W. h.JKINOR, M*iM«er (sui.iM.ter), Atlaata, frx aVCl<m.uU Mrm 6r/ore pbw4>w imr or*w».->» The Plant System. Reaching most important points in Alabama, South Carolina, Georgia, Flori da, Cuba, Jamaica and Nova Scotia. Owning and operating seven of the fln eet modern Hotels on the west coast of Florida: Tampa Bay Hotel, and Casino, Tampa, Florida. ‘ The Inn,” Port Tampa. Fla. The Belleview, Bellair, Fla. The Seminole, Winter Park, Fla. The Ocala House, Ocala, Fla. The Kissimmee, Kissimmee, Fla. Hotel Punta Gorda, Punte Gorda, Fla. B. W. WRENN, Passenger Traffic Manager. H. C. McJADDEN, Asst. Gen. Pass. Agent acoi and Birnimliaii Railway. Schedule in effect J uly 19.1896. Read I Read Down Htattonb V> 8 40 p m Lv Macon Ar 11 to a m 407 pm Sofkee 10 55 a in 4 89pm LlzelSa 1028 am 5 23 pm - .Culloden 9 39am p m ... Yatesville 9 27am « 06 p m Thom as on 8 55 a m 6 52 pm Woodbury..... 808 am 715 pm .... Harms City 724 am 787 pm ... Odessa .... 702 am 749 pm Mountville 661 am 815 pm Ar ... LaGrange ..Lv 626 a m Connects at Bofkee for Florida and points onG. 8. A F. Ry. at Yatesville for Roberta and points between Yatesville and Fort. Val ley; at Woodbury for points on Southern Railway; at LaGrange for Atlanta and points on A. A W. P. between Atlanta and LaGrange. Passengers for Columbus get supper aS Warm Springs. Trains arrive and depart from corner of Fifth and Pine streets, Macon, wa. JULIAN R. LANK. Gen’l M’gr MONON ROUTE Louisville, New Albany and Chicago Railway. The Pullman Car lino BETWEEN LOUISVILLE or INDIAN- i CINCINNATI, APOLIS J AND ■ CHICAGO ANDJHMORTHWEST. 1 Pullman Vestibule Service on i Night Trains. Parlor Chair I andvDining Cars on. J | The Monon Trains make the fastest time between the South ern Winter Cities and Summer Resorts of the Northwest. W. H. McDoel, Vice Prest., Receiverand Gen. M’g’r. Frank J. Reed, Gen’l Passenger Agent. For further particulars, address R. W. Glading, Gen’l Agt., . Thomasville, Ga. • a'tlanta and neworleknsshort Al LINE. ATLANTA A WEST POINT RAILROAD CO., the Great Quick Through Ll>le via Montgomery to New Orleans, Tex as a'nd the Southwest. Schedule In effect Novjember Bth, 1896. • ! No 85. No 87. No. 88. Bound. Dally. Dally. Dally. JV Atlanta ■ 5 22am 4 20pm 130 pm kr Newnan. 6 88am 5 22pm 2 58pm “ LaGrange... 725 am 6 22pm 4 08pm ■ West Point 8 00am 6 47pm 4 45pm 'Opelika 840 am 725 pm 625 pm Columbus 9 50am " Montgomery 10 3.am 9 20pm 815 pm “ Selma 11 80pm ‘ Pensacola 6 10pm 5 80am • Mobile ... 410 pm 8 06am ‘ New Orleans 8 80pm 726 am ' Houston Texas... 8 45am 10 60pm No. 88. No. 84. No. W. North Bound. Dally. Dally. Dally. ,V Houston 5 60am 656 pm •• New Orleans 750 pm ... ... 710 am • Mobile 12 20am 1220 pm • Pensacola 1126 pm .... ... 1230 pm ■ mJ Selma 640 am 830 pm MgHKolumbus 180 pm »... ... 8 26am 2 40pm 817 pm .. 9 <<)»m B:«>pm HlZipm y 9" l""l>m '.-21pm '■ '.r' >" ''l’m ’ Ji’pm plaSSjßffiiy-' , ■ 1 4»arn Tjxipmj I topm A> ’ 1•• mil: s>.-piri k -and and N-wi irleans. 111 iri4,l ' s Wii-hinuton pt ri N' w 1 'lk t< >■ •’ xjf’.i J >'O. A. GEE, '.■■!! Pass. Agt. ' 1 Agent. , Y GEORGIA