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‘The entrance of Thy Word giveth light’
JAS. NATHAN ELLS, Editor.
Associate Editors : 11. C HORNADY, Atlanta.
J. M. WOOD, Newnan.
A. C. DAYTON, L Fayette.
D. P. EVERETT, Florida.
SATURDAY, MAY 30, 1863.
A Praiseworthy Enterprise.
We desire to call the attention of our cit
izens to the following communication,
which will sufficiently explain itself. Sure
ly, it will require no effort on our part to
induce a liberal response from right-mind
ed men and women in this community.
Mr Jackson, the worthy gentleman who
makes the commendable offer, is an inva
lid, living in this city ; unable to join the
ranks in defence of his country, he is devo
ting his mental energies in behalf of our
cause. His first compilation—-‘The Con
federate Monitor’ —has been warmly com
mended by the press, and another of his
volumes will soon appear. It will be seen
that, in addition to his other donation, Mr.
Jackson has determined to give twenty-five
cents on each copy of his publications sold,
towards the establishment of a School free
to the orphans of Confederate soldiers.
We cheerfully accept the agency assign
ed uy as mentioned in his communication,
and sincerely trust Mr. J. will have the
hearty cooperation of our citizens:
From and after the 29th Apr 1, 1863, in
the sale of ‘The Confederate Monitor,’ and
all other works published by me, twenty
five cents, on each copy sold, shall be do
nated to establish and support a Soldiers’
Orphans’ Male and Female School, said
School to be established in Atlanta or its
vicinity.
The editor of the Atlanta (Ga.) Baptist
Banner, is appointed to receive any and all
contributions made to the object and pur
pose above stated.
I propose to be one of twenty who may
donate SSO each into the hands of the par
ty above mentioned, as the starting point
for the establishment of the institution
above des ribe<l, and hope that this hum
ble offering will be cheerfully responded
to even by more, and many more, than the
nineteen who are called upon in this article
to lay the foundation of an institution which
must eventually elevate to posts of honor
and responsibility, “at some future day in
this infant Confederacy,” many of our now
humble and destitute orphans of soldiers
who have freely given their lives in defence
of liberty and their homes and hearths, so
sacred and dear to man.
I herewith deposit 850, together with
$lO5, as the amount of proceeds of the per
cent, set apart in the sale of my publica
tions since the 29. h April, 1863.
Respectfully, &c.,
Atlan'a, May 25. 1863. 11. W. R. JACKSON.
F r*t Baptist Chu< ch - The Pastor.
The meetings at the First Church, no
ticed in our last, have been brought to a
close, we regret to say, in consequence of
the very serious illness of the Pastor, El
der Hornady, who is suffering from an at
tack of erysipelas.
We are rejoiced to learn, this morning,
that he is much'better, and that his skilful
physicians are encouraged to hope for his
early recovery.
Explanatory.
We promised to give in this issue asketch
of the proceedings of the Cherokee Baptist
Convention, at its recent session in Rome.
This promise was based upon the promise
of the brother Clerk to forward to us the
manuscript ‘ Minutes’ by Thursday of last
week. Relying upon this, we made no
notes. As yet, the Minutes have failed to
reach this office.
* Denominational I'nity?
If the author of the article under this
caption will observe the rule by communi-
Citing to us his name, his effusion will see
day light; if not, not.
One word, just here: To ou *thinking,
the chief question involved in this contro
versy, L—Can Baptist ministers invite un
baptizt-d preachers into their pulpits, and
c< operate with them in pulpit ministrations,
w nl,out aiding thereby in the perpetuation
of pedobaptist errors? ‘Erwin’ thinks
yea—and we have no sort of objection to
his placing that opini. n upon record. The
editor oli this journal thinks nay—and is
ready to say why he so thinks, whenever
objectors and questioners shall comply with
the rule in tendering their uljectiuns and
queries.
After the next issue, the price of
‘ The Banner ’ w ill be four dollars per year. ,
X 1 S E BA.S? r £ SS » SAO M.
Home Defence. J
The appeal made by the Mayj»r of At
lanta, in regard to the defence of our city,
is worthy of serious consideration. ' Ene
mies, as well as friends, know that much is
at stake here. Nothing would give the
Lincolnites more joy than to hear that the
‘Gate City’of our nation had fallen into I
their hands.
Our duty is plain. Every man in our
midst, citizen or alien, must take his posi
tion—show his hand. Several companies,
cavalry and foot, are being organized ; and
no man, capable of bearing arms, should be
permitted, if he felt inclined, io falter. Let
every man in our midst enroll his name
with some company now forming, or leave.
These are our sentiments.
Said Gen. Buckner, in a recent appeal to
the people of Mobile and South Alabama:
“If any citizen or re-ident of Mobile still
thinks that the lime hes not come for him to
make preparations to de end his home, let him
make arrangements at once tor leaving the city
when danger arrives. No man, who is able to
bear arms, will then be permitted to remain,
unless he belongs to a military organization.”
The test is sufficient. Those who refuse
to take arms now- should be considered un
worthy of protection, as quasi enemies ot
the confederacy.
CwCßieral Breckinridge.
This gallant officer passed through our
city on Tuesday last. While at the hotel,
a large crowd of citizens assembled in
front, anxious to get a glimpse of him and
to hear him speak. The Genera! thanked
the concourse for their kindness, and spoke
just two minutes—stating that this was the
longest speech he had recently made, or in
tended to make till our independence shall
have been acknowledged by the whole
world. Few men are better beloved than
John Cabell Breckinridge, of whom it has
been truly said, ‘he has a great heart, and
a large share of humanity. He has sym
pathy for the common soldier, and is not
afraid to sit beside him and encourage his
heart. He accompanies his wife to visit
the sick soldier, and relieve his distress and
suffering.’
Vai lan cl ham.
By order of Lincoln, the Federal Mon
arch, Mr. Vallandigham, a citizen of Ohio,
’has been banished from the United States.
I f or ‘treason’ against that government; and
I the telegraph brings word that, under a flag
of truce, he was recently escorted to neu-i
tral ground, and is now at Shelbyville,
asking to be received within our lines.—
Ihe question of his reception has been for
warded to President Davis. The secular
( papers are discussing the propriety of re
!ceiving the distinguished exile—many con
tending that his reception would inaugurate
a policy dangerous to the S >uth—in which
Opinion, as Mr. V. is not a voluntary ex ; le,
we are disposed to concur. ,
We won’t undertake to say how many
troops have, within tltb past week, glided
, over the rails through our city, en route —
somewhere. The cheerful spirit manifest
ed by these Confederates, ‘eager for the
tray,’ was noticeable—while, amid the re
verberations of the soul-stirring drum, from
thousands of stentorian voices went up pro
longed and hearty cheers for the much
loved Land of Dixie.
Accession.
We learn that the Appeal newspaper,
I originally of Memphis, and recently of Jack
ton, Miss., will be issued in this city. The
editors exhibit commerdable pluck in ad
versity. We welcome them to our city—
earnestly hoping for the Appeal abundant
i prosperity, and future immunity from Van
’ dalism.
Drill.
By a resolution of the City Council of
Atlanta, the Mayor has requested the mer
chants to close their business houses ea< h
i Friday afternoon, at four o’clock, to enable
‘(employees to assemble for military drill.
In addition to the several companies or
ganized for local defence, we learn that the
Typographers in our city, about fifty in
1 number, are taking steps for the formation
of a mil tary corps. The disciples of Ben
] Franklin are second to no el iss of citizens in
. patriotism ; and, from their skill in handling
. ‘shooting sticks ’ and ‘leaded matter,’ will
, doubtless, when the occasion comes, ‘chase’
the enemy in ‘solid columns,’and finally,
in the general ‘distribution’of honors, come
in fur a handsome ‘take.’
Army Supplies*
The prices fixed by Messrs. J. E. Mor
gan and U. M. Willkmson, commissioners
of Georgia, under the late impi essment act,
have been published. We notice the fol
I<oa ing:
Flour, per bbl of 196 lbs, S4O, per sack,
S2O. Corn, shelled, per bu-hel of 56 Ihs,
82,25; un-helled. per bushel of 70 lbs, $2
10; corn meal, $2.40 H< gs, fair, net, S3O
per 100 lbs; gross. S2O; bacon. sides, per
lb, 85 cts. ; hams, SO ets. ; shoulders, 75cts.
Bet t, fre>h, 15 cts ; salt or cowed,* 20 ct« :
dried. 50 ets. Lard. 60 Cts. Potatoes. $2
. p-r bushel. Folder, $2 50 per 100 lbs.
Rice. 10 cts ; Sugar, 75 cts. ; Molasses,
, $ 1.50 per gallon.
Cherokee Eudiau Missions.
' The following letter is the last news re
ceived from E. L. Compere. It was read
at the late session of the Cherokee Baptist
Convention, at Rome; but as many inter
ested brethren were not present, it is offer
ed fur publication. W.
—
Fort Smith, Ark., April 16,1863.
Elder J. M. Wood:
My Dear Brother—l have time just to
write you a line. Perhaps you may get it!
in time.
The Lord has blessed me again in this
place. During a meeting of twelve day s, a
number found the Saviour. We received
thirteen into the fellowship of the church,
nine for baptism. Meeting closed a week
ago. I went a trip to our Cherokee troops,
and fell back last night, as we had a pray
-1 er-meeting appointed. I found a good con
gregation, and preached. The Methodists
are trying to “ get up a revival,” a meeting
, being in progress at their house.
I start, in a few minutes, for the Chero
kee regiments, camped, twenty miles off.—
I will preach there this evening, and at
Webber’s Falls next Sabbath, the J9th.—
I will remain there during next week, or a
part of it, as the Cherokee Council meets
r.here on Monday. So soon as it is adjourn
ed, I will start in a hurry for Georgia. I
expect to meet you at your Convention.—
biiday before the third Sabbath in May, I
understand, is the time.
1 will not have much time to stay in
, Georgia, as duties are very pressing out
i here. I want to secure tracts, Testaments,
I camp-hymns, and other religious literature,
for our troops out here —especially for our
Cherokee troops. If you g-t this in time,
please go to work to secure a good lot for
■ me as soon as possible.
Foster and Foreman are doing the best
I th e y can, of which I will tell you more.
In great haste. The Lord bless you.—
Your brother in Christ,
i E. L. COMPERE.
Stafne of Jackson.
Col. S. B. French, Aid to the Governor
of Virginia, and late of Gen. Jackson’s
staff, will receive contributions for the pur
pose of erecting a statue to the memory of
the admired hero, whose death the public
mourns. The statue will be of bronze, and
will be cast at the same foundery where the
equestrian statue of Washington was cast,
at Munich, Bavaria, under the eye of the
lamented Crawford. The cost in Confed
erate currency is estimated at $60,000 to
SBO,OOO. This monument of a nation’s grat
itude is to be placed in the Capitol Square,
lat Richmond, along with the statues of
Washington, Jefferson and Patrick Henry.
Save your Rags !—lf our readers desire
to aid the press at this critical juncture,
they should carefully save all the linen or
cotton rags, scraps of rope, twine, bagging,
or other articles of hemp or cotton fabric.
Soiled cotton about gin houses or cotton
yards should be carefully preserved and ;
packed away. There should be rag pick
ers, and agents for the purchase of rags, in
every neighborhood, and then the paper
mills could be abundantly supplied.
[For The Baptist Banner ]
Notes ou the Southern Baptist Con
ven Hon.
NUMBER 11.
I , I
The Funeral Obsequies.
The many friends of the late Bible Board
I will be relieved at learning that its suffer-
I ings are at last ended. It languished long
and painfully. It might well exclaim, in
the language of Mr. Van Buren, “ Our suf
fer ngs is intolerable.” The public will be '
gratified that, though its lite had been one 1
•■f agony, its last hours were peaceful and
serene. Knowing that the fatal day had
• arrived, the poor Bible-Board composed it
self and received the fatal dart.
lc is always gratifying to record exam
ples of virtuous friendship. The friends of
the departed Board will be pleased to know
that Rev. L, B. Woolfolk was assidious in
P his attentions to the dying, as he had been
(devoted in his services to the living. He
’ ( received the last sigh and closed the eyes
1 in death. He acted as chief mourner at the
» funeral and delivered a eulogy which is
said t<> have been much admired. The
Bible-Board is dead ; Requiescat in pace.
Some evil-disposed persons have reported
that the poor Bible-Board died in conse
i quence of injuries received in a cm fliet,
i some years ago, with a Western bully
, | narn Graves; and others have insinuated
that its death was caused by harsh treat
ment of the Yankees. Both reports are un
• founded. The poor creature was alwaysof
a ricketty constitution, and had been in a
' decline for years. Its life was doubtless
prolonged by the use of stimulants.
The Accouchement.
This wot Id is a melange of smiles and
tears. At the very time when the funeral
cer< monies of one brother were bring per
formed, good Mother Convention was safe
ly delivered ot another offspring—said by
those who were admitted w ithiti the sacred
precincts, to be a bouncing babe, and (un
like other > ff-prng) very like its mamma.
The accouchement was superintended by
the Greenville doctors, and was entirely
successful. It is said that the child has al
ready been christened ‘‘Sunday-School
Board,'" and has been placed in charge of
verv accomplished nurses, under the direc
lion of the accoucheurs. There can be no
doubt, therefore, that the child and the
mother w ill both do as well as can be ex
pected. PEDRIILO. 1
I Bowhill, May 15, 1863. i
[For the B ’p'ist Banner.}
Queries iu S’heolojry.
WILL GOOD MEN SOLVE THEM?
1. Why is Christ called, in the New
Testament, the “ Son of David,” instead of
the “Son of Abraham”? <
2. Why did the New Testament writers, i
in the Epistles, use the phrase, “ God and
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ*,” instead
of “God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob,”
and instead of the “ God of Israel ” ?
3. Why does Paul affirm that there is a
veil “untaken away, in the reading of the
Old Testament ’" ?
4. Why do “Ministers of the New Tes
tament, not of the letter, hut of the spirit,” ;
preach from texts in the O:d Testament so <
much more than from texts in the New
Testament ?
5. Why is the body or church of pres
ent Christianity gone so far back “ from
the true tabernacle which the Lord pitched,
tow-ard that whfch man pitched”?
Dear Ells—The facts assumed
as true, upon which the above queries rest, j
are themselves left open as queries. They i
are, nevertheless, considered of vital and <
permanent bearing upon the doctrine ofj;
salvation.
I am anxious to see the discussion of the ;
queries in The Banner. Such a discussion, (
ably and Scripturally conducted, will be j
edifying. It will frequently take us back (
to “ first principles,” and greatly assist us
in motive, and success too, in “keeping the (
ordinances as they were delivered to us.”
I think I ought, in safety, appeal to Geor
gia Baptists. Numbers are not wanting,
and there is plenty of literary attainment.
And it is not a matter of pride to that S'ate
’ that it is a Baptist of humble
thanksgiving to God.
Th^ whole period of the Christian dis
pensation has manifested the extreme diffi
culty of maintaining a pure religion. —
Hence, the minister of Christ stands under
■ a painful responsibility. There is an easi
er way, and strong are the temptations to
shun the former and seek the latter.
1 do hope and ardently desire that breth
ren will enter into the w’ork of discussion.
I do not commit myself by starting the
i queries; but I surely have more than a cu
. rious concern in them and about them. For
p a minister of religion is to mankind one of
the greatest benefits, or one of the w'orst
curses.
' But I desist, and wait with patience to
- hear nien of gravity, and of grace, and of
t wisdom, “ rightly divide this word of truth.”
. “ Grace, mercy and peace be with all their
spirits.” . m. B.
> [For The Baptiet Banner.}
‘Qsamd.’
, ‘Quis’ pwsents his respects to ‘Quod,’
" and begs leave to say that all he intimated
in regard to unexpected visitors at our re-
( cent Convention, is fully sustained by /'acts.
( He knows one case where the good breth
■ run at Griffin were obliged to pay ninety
dollars, at a hotel, for one party (two or
three ladies being in the company), during
their visit to the Convention. The position
wdiich ‘Quis’ takes is simply this: In a
time of war and scarcity, where entertain
ment is burdensome and expensive, dele
gates should not carry their children, or
wives, or sweethearts, or servants with
them, unless they are specially invited by
friends to do so. Or, to state the proposi
tion a little more succinctly • Delegates
should expect the churches entertaining our
religious bodies to make provision only so.
those who are, properly speaking, delegates.
If ‘Quod’ wishes to discuss this proposition
in your columns, ‘ Quis’ is ready to meet
him. quis.
Liberty witlsoiit HeCgion.
If you had wished to figure to yourself a ;
country which had reached the highest pin
nacle of prosperity, you would undoubted- ,
ly have turned your eyes to France, as she
appeared a few months before the rev
olution I Illustrious in learning and genius, >
(the favorite abode of the arts, and the mir
: ror of fashion, w hither the flower of the
I nobility of all countries resorted, to acquire
the last polish of which the human charac
ter is susceptible. Lulled in voluptuous re
pose, and dreaming of a philosophical mil
lennium, without dependence on God, like
the generation before the flood, they ate,
they drank, they married, they uere given in
marriage. In that exuberant soil every-!
(thing seemed to flourish but religion and
virtue. The season, however, had at length
1 arrived, when God was resolved to punish
' their impiety, as well as avenge the blood
1 of His servants, w hose souls for a century
had been incessantly crying to Him from
under the altar. And what method did He
employ for that purpose? When He to
whom vengeance belongs —when lie whose (
ways are un-earchable. and whose wisdom
is inxhaustible, proceeded to this strange
work, Hedrew from His treasure a weapon
He had never used before. Resolving to
make their punishment as signal as their
crimes, He neither let loose a powerful in ;
undatiun of nations, nor the des<dating pow
ers of the universp. He neither over- 1
whelmed them with earthquakes, nor visit
ed them with pestilence. He summoned
from among themselves a ferocity more ter
rible than either; a ferocity, which, min
glim; in the struggle for liberty, and bor
rowing aid from that very refinement to
which 4t seemed to be opposed, turned eve
ry man’s hand agai: st his neighbor, and
spared no age, nor sex, nor rank, till, satiated
with the rum of greatness, the distresses of ’
innocei.ee, and the tears ot beautv, it ter
minated its career in the most unrelenting
despotism. * Thou art righteous, O Lord,
which art, and wrast, and shall be, because
thou hast judged thus ; for they have shed
the b.ood of saints and prophets, and thou I
hast given them blood to drink; for thej
are worthy.’— [R,bert Hall.
He that borrows biuls himself with his ’ 1
i neighbor’s rope. i
‘COMMON_TBINGS?
BY MENU.
A HEARSE passes slowly through the
jLL streets. A common thing, this is, in
every city; so common that draymen
scarce make room for it to go by, or school
boys look up from their merry games. A
little group is gathered in the cemetery ; a
rude coffin is lowered ; tears are shed —
very common are tears in this world, —then
the few mourners pass out, and that is all.
A simple lad, a mere boy, neither hand
some nor very bright, lias passed away
from an humble sphere; one more name is
added to the list of deaths, —but who w ill
ever-note that? Gue more form is clad in
black ; but that, too, is a common thing,
and the clerk never glances at t hat pale,
thin face, as he measures off the yards of
black.
“Stitch—-stitch—stitch” for days, weeks
past, little fingers had been plodding weari
ly. What though the cheek grew daily
paler, that eyes all too dim for one so young,
turned ever more and more wistfully to the
clock which moved so slowly, or that once
skilful lingers moved now so nervously ?
It was but the lot of thousands; why
should the lady pause and look up from her
novel, to ask what it means? It is aliber
ial thing to employ so freely, and if the
(task be found too irksome in this land,
there is no restraint. But is this true?
The fair employer may not guess. The
breaking heart of the weary seamstress, as
her thoughts turn to that unfurnished room,
where a young lad lies; rude and unpol
ished, perhaps, but the only one -he has in
this wide world to love; the little brother
for whose sake the sister’s heart has braved
many storms in life. One by one she has
seen loved ones lie down to the long sleep
of death, yet has borne bravely both sor
row and poverty, because there was still
one who loved her—one to care for.
“ Hard and cruel ” is it to leave him
there alone, ill, dying perhaps? But it is
for him that she is toiling, though with ach
ing heart, as, through the long, long day,
she pictures those ej es watching for her so
wistfully.
The stitches are slow and irregular; the
girl has been careless to day, and her work
must be taken out, yet it is rather the trem
bling of the finger than the length of the
seams, which keeps her so very late.
How much a kind word now weie worth!
but the need for it is not guessed, and it
would not be conventional, therefore, to
take a seat beside the lowly stool of one
whose name you scarcely know; to take
the work from those trembling fingers with
some kindly inquiry. Sympathy were
very sweet to that full heart; and though
it should cause it to ovejflofv, it would be
all the lighter for it. Those eyes, dim and
red from watching, are yet more so by rea
son ot the hushid tears. And your heart
would surely be all the lighter for soothing
that of the weary girl, for softening the
death-bed of the dying boy.
But no. Such things are too common to
be noticed. Truly, they are
“ Too common.
Nfver morning wore to evening
But some heart did break.”
And a little later, when she comes in,
clad in back—that, too, is a “common
thing”; you will scarcely see it, or that
heart might not be quite so bitter, because
made to feel that all the love and kindness
in the world had not gone out with that one
life—because cheered by one kind loving
which, alas! were-aoZ a common tiling to
her.
It was but a common thing, too, that lit
tle scene at the ball this evening.
Brilliantly flashed the lights, and yet
more brilliantly the bright eyes of the hand
some women assembled there. Yet even
in this galaxy of beamy, one lady, the star
of the evening, arrests the ej e by reason of
her surpassing loveliness.
She has left the gay circle of the dancers
and is promenading in the hall without,
leaning on the arm of a very handsome
man. He is a talented lawyer, of whom
his native city may well be proud, and,
much more, the young girl on whom he has
bestowed all the treasures of a great, strum*
I
heart.
Her cheek is flushed with pride, ydt
there seems something not quite natural in
her merry tones and laughter, as she reen
ters the room, the gay est of thatgay throng.
A simple ring encircles her finger, which
was nut there awhile ago; that is all.—
Yet, methinks it marks vuws all too light
ly spoken.
He, the handsome man we saw with her,
is noble and true; yet we fear she thinks
more fondly of the proud position which
she, with her simple dower of loveliness,
will gain, than of that heart so true, which
is all her own. He has oflered her a future
n which she thinks she will be proud and
happy. She has accepted it. That is all.
A common, a very common thing it is,
and so will be the vows she will utter. —
She will look more peerle.-s than ever, with
diamonds braided in the ba”ds ot her dar k
hair, receiving with queenly grace the hom
age of those around.
1 wonder, though, if the low, sweet tones
she once loved so well will never mingle
in herdreams; if earnest eyes will never
haunt her, which, if less dark and brilliant
than those gazing now so proudly ou her,
once made life seem very bright? Or
words which, if n"t mure true than those
now uttered, were mure straugelj eloquent
to her?
We can not tell. A youth hud sought
her hand; strong hearted tie was, and sirorig
minded 100. Hut his lot in life was lowly.
Hud boundless wealth and sounding titles
been his, he would not have esteemed him
self a whit more highly ; his step wa\ no
less proud without 'hem. He could seethe
lustre which hrs presence ever brought to
ner eye, the gloom which hrs sadness cast
over that lovely face. She was very young
then. He had met her in a simple cuun-