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About The Baptist banner. (Atlanta, Ga.) 186?-1??? | View Entire Issue (March 14, 1863)
©jt Jiinwr. VI M W w f !- /S irt w "*'>~’A' a i ' ' j ‘The entrance of Thy Word giveth light? JAS. NATHAN ELLS, Editor. ATLANTA, GEORGIA: SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 1863. The Banner. —Enlargement. This week we present The Banner to its patrons in an enlarged form. It will be seen that our readers now have twenty-four columns, instead of twenty. We take the occasion for thanking the many friends who have assisted in the re cent large increase of our circulation ; and we bespeak a continuance of their kindness, if in their opinion The Baptist Banner continues to merit success. Arrangements are in progress for still greater improve ments in our journal, and we hope soon to announce a corps of able contributors who will materially aid the editor in furnishing a first-class paper, devoted to religion and literature. Our motto : Make home happy. Convention of Weekly Editor*. Several editors 'of weekly newspapers in the State have suggested the propriety of holding a Convention of the Editors, and Macon has been named as a suitable place for holding the We go in for this, heartily, and hope the proposed meeting will take place at an early day—the sooner the better. There are good reasons why such a convention sjjpuld be held ; Macon is a convenient and de lightful locality ; and we move that breth ren Knowles, Rose and Boykin be asked to go ahead with this matter—appoint the time for assembling, make the necessary arrangements, etc. —, Missionary Mas* Meeting. There will be a Missionary Mass Meeting of the Rehoboth Association, held with the Baptist Church at Henderson, Houston county, Ga., including the fifth Sabbath in March. We hope to see a large attendance on the part of the friends of Missions at this gathering—the fifth Sabbath in the present month. — Three Day* at Newnan. Since last Saturday we have spent three very pleasant days in the beautiful town of Newnan. A wish long entertained was gratified, and our first visit to .this pleasant and sociable place will never be forgotten. Sabbath morning we listened to one of brother Wood’s best discourses —a real Gospel sermon, from the text ‘ Ye must be born again.’ This was the first of a course Elder Wood designs preaching on the sub ject of Regeneration ; and our readers will be pleased to learn that, at our urgent re quest, the able author has consented to furnish sketches of these discourses for the columns of The Banner. e must be permitted to express the hearty thanks, of our compagnon du voyage and self, to the kind and attentive friends we met—the hospitable families of brethren Sparks, Wood, Seals, Robinson and others, who have placed us under a heavy debt of obligations for which we shall covet an opportunity for endeavoring to cancel. Meeting of the l.rgi«latnrv. Governor Brown has issued a proclaim! tion calling upon the Legislature of Georgia to convene at the eapitol on A\ ednesdav the 25th instant. Heath of James 1.. I’ettigru. The death of this distinguished gentleman occurred on Monday last, at Charleston, in the seventy fourth year of his age. He was a native of Abbeville district, and at tained the highest distinction as a Jurist in his State. Revival in (’amp.—A letter from camp near Fredericksburg mentions <hat for sev eral months pas; there has been an inter esting prayer-meeting in the 9th Georgia regiment. The brethren have been much revived ; twenty-five persons have been converted and have joined the Soldiers’ Christian Association lately established in the brigade to which the regiment belongs. John S. I ukasher, ot Texas, has been appointed Superintendent of the Telegraph News Agency ot the I'ress Association of the Confederate States. lerms of The Banner. $3 a year. * Fcniina, Divinum, Doouiil A few days since, we accepted the kind invitation of President Kellogg, to visit the ‘ College Temple,’ at Newnan, of which justly-celebrated institution he is the Presi dent and sole proprietor. The ‘ Temple’ was erected, ten years ago, and completely furnished, at Mr. Kellogg’s own expense; and it. was to elevate woman, to prepare her for the able discharge of her numerous and arduous duties in the domes tic circle and society—to qualify her for wielding the pen in defence of right, morals, and the Christian religion, that he under took the laborious and expensive project of building and supporting a first-class female college. A well-arranged building on the left of the Temple, contains apartments for the library, and philosophical and chemical laboratory, well supplied with the best of instruments. The musical department is under the charge of Professor Seals, a fine ’ instructor of long experience. To secure the most rigid mental disci pline in each pupil, no specified time is [ assigned for a young lady to complete her education at College Temple, but she is allowed to advance as rapidly as her mental and physical abilities will permit; and the I degree, Magistra in Artibus, is conferred I upon her whenever she shall have thorough ’■ Ig mastered the extensive course of study ’ adopted by this institution, and manifests a ripeness of scholarship sufficient to entitle her to such distinction. It is not the num ber of her pupils, but the ability of her graduates, that forms the just pride of the I friends of College Temple. It now num bers about ninety pupils in attendance, and, we think, between thirty and forty gradu ates. The' founder is determined to make i this a model school for educating young f ladies. The Atlanta Amateur*. ! This talented association gave another one of their medley soirees on Thursday ! evening. As usual, they were received with hearty applause, and acquitted them-i ' selves creditably. The entire proceeds are | I for the poor and destitute of the city. As our readers, doubtless, have frequent I ’ ly seen notices of this truly patriotic and • I I useful Association, some curiosity may exist | “ to know more of them, and a sketch of the Club and their good deeds will be preserved < gratefully by Uie thousands who have been the recipients of the product of their labors. r The efficient manager (Wm. IT. Barnes) j and T. D. Wright, during the Secession ! canvass, did much towards carrying the ! I State for secession; and the novel, patri otic and stirring songs, written by Mr. ] ‘ Billy Barnes,’ were caught up by the s I people, and the public speakers of the day t j testified to their influence and efficacy. At the breaking out of the war, a portion of the citizens of Atlanta met for the pur ?l pose of forming an association to give con p certs and assist in the equipment of volun ' teers then going to the field. This occurred SI . . t in April, 1861. Mr. Barnes was unani mously chosen Manager, which position he I' has held, and maintained with the highest I credit, to the present time. , The Club originally consisted of thirty , ladies and fifteen gentlemen. From divers causes, and the obligations that many of I the male members felt due to their country, now the Association is much reduced in J numbers. T. D. Wright, Keely, Kennedy, Mackie, Nash, Hanlon, and Aug. Haynes are in the service; and of the large num ber that once constituted the ‘Amateurs,’ the following only are left : i Win. 11. Barnes, Manacer. Mrs. Julia E. Willis ' 1 8. B. Sherwood. Treasurer. Miss Mary Frank. W'hitnev I J. M. Willis, Secretary. Miss Rowena Hale ’ ’ 1 James G Barnes, Miss Lizzie Judson Thomas F. Lowe, Miss Annie Jud-on' ’ | IL O. Haynes, Miss Jennie Sims. ’ This Club has, upon invitation, visited 1 j Augusta, Macon, Newnan, LaGrange, Mil ledgeville, Marietta and other places, and given their novel entertainments to the most enthusiastic audiences. The whole i proceeds of their entertainments, in every ease, have been distributed for charitable ' objects—equipping companies, relieving the poor, providing good reading to hospitals > and camps —and the truly handsome sum i of twelve thousand dollars has been donated i by them. >' The railways of the confederacy have . given them free transportation overall their ) lines, when travelling upon invitations to give entertainments. The press, every where, has advertised free of expense. Hall rent has been ever tendered gratis and here many thanks are due to Mr. Jas. E. Y\ ihiams for the kindness with which he 1 has placet! the Athemvum at their disposal. Long prosper the Atlanta Amateurs Mr. Barnes and his coadjutors will be re-' membered, not only for the concord of sweet sounds, but for the patriotic motives which inspire their melodv. Resignation of Gen. Toombs.—The Richmond Examiner of the 3d inst. learns, . on undoubted authority, that Gen. Robert Toombs, of this State, has tendered the res ignation of his commission to the Presi-|< dent. He held the rank of Brigadier Gen eral XSffi JB AS'V 88 S .Religious Faith. Good men, men of noble parts, have egregiously erred in weakly deferring to science and philosophy in matters of reli gious faith. The main evidences of Chris tianity are divine things, outside of the common phenomena of material nature and the ordinary operations of the mind; and hence, to put the inductions of reason, how ever clear and strong, beside them, is simply to destroy the distinction between God’s work and man’s work. If our faith has a Divine foundation, it is treachery to search for any other. The proofs of Christianity were brought by the blessed Christ from heaven. When | He lay in the manger they lay there with ' Him; when He spoke they spoke; and whenever His infinite glory shone forth, ? flashing through the darkness of the times > and startling men into a sudden conscious* > ness of a fearful splendor about them, the glory of Christianity blended its radiance • therewith, and the astonished multitude > felt at one and the same instant the majesty • ot a Divine person and the grandeur of i Divine truth, The Day of Prayer. It was well remarked by a cotemporary, that it is an auspicious feature of the pro clamation by President Davis, appointing the 27th instant as a day of fasting, humili ation and prayer, that it was not wrung from Government by a series of reverses. We are called to abase ourselves on the eve of terrible collisions and while their is sue is unknown—thus confessing that we deserve only the stroke of the Lord for our manifold sins as a people, and yet, casting the weight of this great unworthiness on the mercy that is infinite, on the compassion that fails not. If this national penitence before the Divine holiness really mingles with our national faith in the Divine pro tection, shall we not prove invincible to our foes ? This is the secret Napoleon never knew. I He said, indeed, that ‘ the whole art of war ! consists in being the strongest on a given point.’ But he did not realize that the best means—the means indispensable even when all others are used—of being the strongest on every given point, is the contrite and fer vent supplication of a people whose cause is just, and who feel that ‘the Lord saveth I not with sword and spear—for the battle is the Lord’s.’ Rev. Albert Barnes Against Lincoln.! i —Rev. Albert Barnes, of Philadelphia, ■ whom we supposed was the most deter mined of Abolitionists, opposes Mr. Lin- ! coin’s proclamation in all its aspects. He has recently published a sermon, “The Conditions of Peace,” in which he expresses i the view that the “ control of slavery, and ■ all the laws regulating it, ought to be left to the States as such, in all respects, abso- ■ lutely and exclusively.” Mr. Barnes sug- I gests that “ New Y’ork city might not yet • have travelled far beyond Canal street,” it ! it had not been for cotton, and “ if the /South had not been willing that, on certain well known terms, their money affairs should be in the hands of the merchants and i brokers of New York.” Upon another F point, Mr. Barnes says a word as follows :| , “In all my life I have defended freedom i of speech, and fought many a battle for it. ’ I have felt no restraint on that subject hith- < erto. I feel none now. 1 believe that when freedom of speech shall he taken, AWAY, THE LAST HOPE OF THE NATION, THE LAST REMNANT OF LIBERTY, WILL BE GONE.” I Atlanta, Ga., March 4, 1863. Dear Brother Ells -. During the month of February just i closed, 1 have been able to distribute among our soldiers in the hospitals and camps around the city 17,136 pages of tracts se cured chiefly from the depository of broth-i er Hornady—some few of the Evangelical j Tract Society of Petersburg, Va. Through . the kindness of these brethren, their agents, ynany a poor soldier is made glad at the re ception of one of these small messengers of ; i love. 1 have distributed, through your kind ness and that of brethrenßoykin, and Wor rell, (of the Soldier’s Friend) many reli gious papers—and for the Central Bible Society of Mississippi, have undertaken to supply the Mississippi soldiers who are in the hospitals here with the New Testa ment. To my great surprise, two hundred Testaments given me for this object bv their agent, brother W. 11. Thomas, of Jackson, Miss., will all be consumed, and others could be used—a large number of troops are here from Mississippi. In a single ward of the Fair-Ground Hospital I found fourteen men from that State alone, who needed the Testament. Now who will give them to the boys from Tennessee and Kentucky. Arkansas. Louisiana, and I exas 1 hey need the Word of God, and shall they not have «t ? During the month 1 collected for mission to the soldiers from 1 Antioch church, Troup county, $27 75- o th 1 er sources $2.50; in all $30.25. ’ i I raternally yours, ] M . 11. Robert [For the Baptist Banner.] Tullahoma, March 7, 1863. Dear Brother Wood: As I am weather-bound to day, I thought I wmuld give you a few more items as they have occurred since I last wrote you.— What good weather we have had, I have spent very pleasantly in camps. Although I have seen and heard much wickedness in camps, some things have occurred calcula ted to eneouaage me in the great work I have undertaken in the strength of God. When 1 behold the vast work to be done in my Master’s vineyard, I sometimes stop still and look over the work, and ask my self the question, Who is sufficient for this great work ? Then I conclude that God’s grace alone is sufficient. About one week ago I was approaching some camps for the first time; as I drew near, 1 observed that some of the soldiers were engaged in a game of some kind. I began to feel my inability to approach in a right manner; but I ventured in the name of my Master. After a while I succeeded in getting the attention of the captain and a few of his men, for it was only an artille ry company. I gave them some tracts, and left some with the captain for the balance of his men ; but they were so intent upon their game that they did not stop to read them, except some two or three that step ped aside from their sport, and began to look at the tracts. I heard a voice from a tent ask, “ What is that ? ” “ Nothing only some little religious tricks,” was the reply. I went to the tent from whence the voice proceeded, was invited in, and soon found myself in the presence of a high-toned gen tleman and a warm-hearted Baptist, in the person of Doctor Hunt, of Georgia. I spent a few minutes very pleasantly with this brother in religious conversation.— From this brother I learned that the captain was also a member of the Baptist church. I then sought and obtainel a private inter view with the captain, and gave him friend ly and brotherly admonition. He thanked me and promised to live more faithful. The next Sabbath I was passing by the same camps on my way to preach to a reg iment by request, when my old friend, the captain, invited me to preach to his com pany at three o’clock the same day. I told him, God being my help, I would do so.— He informed me at the same time of the result of my visit to his company and the admonition I gave him. He said that he 'and Ids men had concluded to start a pray er-meeting. He requested me to remain with them after preaching, and assist them in their first prayer-meeting. I did so gladly. I opened the meeting w’ith prayer and a short exhortation. It would have made you glad to hear the open confessions of unfaithfulness, and fervent promises to do better, by God’s grace, and their ex pressions of gratitude to God for sending the missionary that way. God willing, 1 shall try to preach to-morrow in camps. Your brother in Christ, P. A. Hughes. [JVr The Baptist Banner.] Southern Baptist Convention. Atlanta, March 7, 1863. The following action was taken by the Second Baptist Church at its regular con ference held this day : AV hereas, Columbus, Miss.—the place to which the Southern Baptist Convention stands adjourned—is threatened by the ene my; and whereas,communication with that j city being at this time diffi. ult and danger |ous with parts of the country— Resolved, That the several Boards and i members of the Convention be cordially in vited to hold the next Biennial session of that body with this Church, and that the clerk be requested to transmit this invita tion to the several Boards, and publish it in our religious papers. W. T. Brantly, Moderator. . S. Root, Clerk. I The Baptist Banner. Will not its friends sustain it—not only so far as to enable it to live, but to flourish 1 and increase its usefulness? It is a great benefit to its patrons, to the denomination, to toe public at large. It does improve in spite of the times, and its influence will in crease in proportion to the value we place upon it. That value is indicated by our exertion for its circulation, the efforts we make to support it. Many are doing well for the paper—all may do something. Let every one, desirous to promote its noble mission, lend a helping hand and share the 1 blessedness of doing good. D. P. E. Pastoral Settlement. Rev. George W. Selvidge, formerly pas tor of the Baptist Church in Dalton, Ga., had again been called to the care of that I Church, and is now in charge. He was pastor of the Baptist Church at Corinth, Miss., before the Abolitionists occupied that place; and, like many other Southern pastors, had to leave or be bastiled. We wish him great success in his renewed con nection. W e know his labors were greatlv ( blest in his former charge. H. E. T. 1 Receiving Christ as a Little Child. I The profound intellect of Bishop Butler was able to remove doubts respecting Chris tianity as a divine system from the minds of others. I have before me the record of three persons who were convinced of the truth of the gospel, and of their own lost condition as sinners, by the study of his Analogy of Religion. Yet Butler himself was in darkness in his last hours. A friend in attendance said to him, “ You do not.be lieve in Christ. He is able to save them to the uttermost, that come unto God by Him.” “ I never understood that verse be fore, said the dying Bishop, after a mo ment’s reflection, and those words of the Divine Teacher lifted the clouds of doubt, and restored confidence and peace to his soul. All his life he had been studying the mysteries of redemption, but the truth by which he was brought to rest on Christ at last was so plain and simple that the lit tle child may understand it. Perhaps no one ever won a prouder hom-' age to his intellectual greatness, from his own age, than Dr. Johnson. But in all his wide surveys of knowledge, he found no lofty and exclusive portal through which in tellects like his might enter into the king dom of heaven. He must bow low and en ter the door of faith in Christ, side by side with the little child. Throughout his fife he recognized the Cross as the only way to heaven, and this conviction deepened to its close. His last days he spent in prayer and strong entreaties, lying low at the throne of grace. To his faithful negro servant he was frequently explaining the simple truths of the Bible, often saying to him, “Attend, Irancis, to the salvation of your soul, which is of the greatest importance.” It has been said of John Foster, that “few spirits can have passed away from earth endowed with more of intellectual grasp and penetration to meet the won ders and grandeurs of regions immense and untraversed.” Yet one year before his death he said, “If that great cause of faith and hope,.i he all-sufficient merits and atone ment of our Lord and Saviour, were taken aw r ay, I should have nothing heft.” And on his death-bed, when conscious of the failure of his mental powers, he exclaimed, But I can pray, and this is a glorious thing.” * In the one great and all-important con cern of life, how insignificant are those dis tinctions of which the world thinks and makes so much. Are we great, here we must become humble. Are we lowly, here we stand on a level with the ; for “ whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of heaven as a little child shall not enter therein.” The Gospel of Christ! in its adaptation to man, how wonderful ; in its beneficence, how worthy of its Divine Au thor ! Valor. —Perfect valor and perfect cow ardice are extremes men seldom arrive at. The intermediate space is prodigious, and contains all the different species of courage, which are as various as men’s faces and humors. There are those who expose themselves boldly at the beginning of an action, and who slacken, and are dishearten , ed at its duration. There are others who aim only at preserving their honor, and do little more. Some are not equally exempt 1 from fear at all times alike. Others give occasionally into a general panic. Others advance to the charge, because they dare not stay at their posts. 1 here are men whom habitual small dangers encourage, and fit for greater. Some are brave with the sword, and fear bullets; others defy bullets and dread a sword. All these differ ent kinds of valor agree in this, that night, as it augments fear, so it conceals good or bad actions, and gives every one the oppor tunity of sparing himself. There is also another more general discretion: for we find that those who do most, would do more still were they sure of coming off safe: so that it is very plain that the fear of death gives a damp to courage. A Plea for Intellectual Modesty.— The Divine knbwlftjge of mankind strong ly enforces distrust of our own understand ing. -Men are prone to rely on their strength of mind; to “lean to” it; to be intoxica ted by the persuasion ot superior wisdom, bo far from “ reasoning at every step they tread, with strange inconsideration they are giddy and eager in the chase of earthly i vanities; while their higher interests, which j suffer wreck at every step, though standing in connection w ith the most perplexed and difficult of all inquiries, scarcely obtain a thought at their hands. I hev are wise in their own eyes. , i But let them reflect. Os the universal i map of knowledge which spreads out before ' the view of the Most High, they see only a , narrow strip, and see that but diml v. From i the original and copious fountain of under- j . standing they have never been allowed to' drink; but there has been appointed to I their mental thirst a mere transmitted and) j diluted drop of its waters. The full-orbed I sun of truth shines not on them : they walk | in a night of ignorance, under its reflected broken light; and even this, clouds of wil lful prejudice often intercept and shut out. j Shall they suffer, then, a vain sense of their intellectual power tc inflate them?—! Shall they presume, on the strength of speculation that must be dark and wHd to reject counsels, “to whom all times' are but one moment, all places but one : point, all truths but one idea,”— JJ ls w fo o i I “sees the present without a medium the past without recollection, and the future without foresight'? o The learns from a gentle man just from the coast, that a Massachu-i setts regiment at Fort Pike, near the mouth 1 a aid ..f gmentof American citizens of Afri can descent,” and threatened to shoot said i ncan escendants should they persist in i their offer of assistance. |< ! Signs of’ Peace. Messrs. Editors :—I have ventured to - suggest a few thoughts relative to the fu ' ™ re ’ a sed. upon a professed revelation from God but from past experience and present indications. 1 think we may confi- a cessation hostilities early in the spring. I wi]l assign my rea- H SO 1 1,1 the first place, I ] think that the providences of God will use - some means to check this bloody war, in i asmueh as we have been already sorely r scourged, and m the exercise of His sover- - eignty He will draw it to a close. In the ” - next place, I think the people both North ; and South are now prepared to offer up to , God in earnest, the breathings of their s hearts for peace. Ido not mean by this r to say that everybody is prepared to do so, i but I mean to say that a large portion of t the weight of our people can unite and pray - God to interpose and give us an honorable peace accoiding to His will and wisdom. -' We do not expect a church of God to re s ceive a blessing unless the Lord first pre -5 pares them for the reception of the bless ) Ing; yet, we have never known every mem- - ber of any church to be in readiness for the - blessing when it comes. We always have . some dead weight to carry ; so we have > many amongst us now who give no evi « deuce of being humbled before God ; but > we believe that the praying portion of our i people are getting ripe for the reception of • a blessing of peace, that the effusion of blood i may be stopped ; and I think we could ap i preciate it as a token of God’s providential i care over us. Twelve or eighteen months , since we could not have placed a proper es , timate upon such a boon; I think we can now, which inspires the hope that the end is , near. The North, with the exception of the Abolition fanatics, who are lost to reason and given over to delusion, are earnestly desiring some terms of peace. Another reason why we may hope for an early. , peace is, the growing discontent amongst themselves and the restless condition of Europe. I believe that God is using Lin coln as an instrument to bring about this result; he was the cause of this bloody war being forced upon us, which has brought , desolation, suffering and death to our doors, ; and he will be instrumental in stopping this unholy crusade by his wonderful proclama tion, and other things which are in keeping with it. We should look to God alone to deliver us from our enemies, with strict at tention to the duties we owe to our coun try, and find it in our hearts to forgive them, and leave vengeance with the Lord, to whom it belongs. There would be many rejoicing hearts to know that the war would stop, when the suffering soldiers would re turn to their homes, and the distressed fam ilies, who have been deprived of all their supplies and homes, could be better provi ded for, and our commercial interests bet ter regulated. We have good reason to hope that God has a blessing in store for us after we shall pass through this bloody struggle. But we have one more enemy to meet ; first: drunkenness has been suppressed by the high price of liquor, and by military and civil authorities; when these restraints , are removed we may expect a flood of dis , sipation and drunkenness to deluge our country, but will be of short duration ; God will follow these reverses with a special visit from His holy presence. Our Zion is clad in mourning, the ministers of the gos pel are fast wearing out and dying up, and no young ministers rising up as witnesses to the truth. Our prayers should go up to the Lord to send more laborers into His vineyard ; and when all these results are developed we may confidently hope to re alize peace and quietude, and expect God to send us a gracious reign of grace and converting power, and raise up an 1 addition al supply of able ministers of the New Tes tament, and we be humbled before God and rightly appreciate all such tokens of 11 is mercy. John Talbert. Mckinly, Marengo county, Ala. The Dead.—We are indebted for the following piece of statistical information to a gentleman connected with the office of the Commissary General of the State—an office, by the way, to which the future his torian of our State will refer for much im portant and varied information connected with the war, and the losses and sacrifices made by our heroic troops in it. y Our info, mant states that the number of maiiied men, whose widows are now’ or ' were recently, living, killed, or have died • in the service of the State and Confederacy up to the time the battle of Perry ville was 1 fought, as reported to the Commissary Gen eral, was 3,6lß—the number from this (Fulton co ) being 40. That a number have been killed, or have died since that time, there is no doubt, but no report of them has yet been made. This informa tion has been made through applications made for salt, by the widows of the deceas ied,to the Commissary General, at his office in this city.—Atlanta Intelligencer. ' Mckoebino Wombs.—We learn from the exchanged prisoners who arrived here on iriday from New Orleans, that on their 1 eparture from that city, large numbers of true-hearted Southern ladies gathered about I lhen 2’ w T a W r their handkerchiefs and cheer i mg or Jeff. Davis and the Southern Con -1 ederacy. tor this the whole military force was called out and ordered to charge upon the crowd, by which four ladies were I known to have been killed. [ Vicksburg Citizen. Beware of the Swindler. —J. Randolph A-alleau is passing through Florida obtain ing money under false pretences. lie claims to be a civil engineer, a graduate of West Point, a native of St. Augustine, arid a refugee from Louisiana. It is said that he has papers about him purporting to be signed by officers of the army. lie has ob tained money from citizens.of .Tallahassee and Quincy by representing himself as a stranger in distress.
