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Our Platform.
1. None but those who make a credible pro
fession of faith in Christ should be baptized.
2. None are really baptized except those who
are immersed upon a profession of their faith in
Christ.
3. None can properly be members of the
church of Christ, except they have been bap
tized.
4. None can properly be ministers of Christ
who are not members of the church of Christ.
3. Non-afflliation with those who refuse to
obey Christ in these things—with those who re
fuse to walk according to the Divine rule.
6. We shall insist upon Baptists practising
what they hold and teach.
While we shall firmly adhere to the above
principles, we do not deny that others are con
verted as well as Baptists; but, as it regards
their ‘baptism,’ we consider them as being in dis
order—unbaptized.
Cfje fanner.
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‘ The entrance of Thy Word giveth light’
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JAS. NATHAN ELLS, Editor.
Ajmociats Editors: H. C. HORNADY, Atlanta,
J. M. WOOD, Newnan.
A. G. DAYTON, L’Fayette.
D. P. EVERETT, Florida.
JUNE 13, 1863.
To Correspondents.
The statement of the Corinth Church,
Brooks county, will appear next week.
The communication from Greensborough,
will not, of course, appear in these columns
until the name of the author is made
known to the Editor. *
A friend, sending his subscription from
Tennessee, writes: ‘ I think I can get you
some subscribers in this county, at S 3
Your price will soon be $4, I see. If you
could see your own, and let a few of our
folks away off here in East Tennessee come
in at $3, I will try what I can do. Let me
know.’ We are much obliged to oyr friend,
but candor compels us to say that we can’t
• see our own’ on the terms indicated.—
True, things are looking up—in one sense.
Last week, a whole year’s subscription to
The Banner would only buy, ‘away off
here’ in Atlanta, one chicken and a half;
whereas, this week, the pay we get for fur
nishing The Banner fifty weeks, pays for
two chickens. Seriously, if there b#in the
nation a Baptist, who truly considers him
self unable to pay four dollars for receiving
our paper for one year, we shall feel it to
be our duty to supply such an one gratui
tously—notwithstanding the fact that we
are now paying eighteen dollars for the same
Quantity of blank paper which we obtained
last year for less than four dollars!
Acknowledgment*.
Mrs. Mary A. Griffeth, Dirt Town, Ga.:
45 for Nazarene Banner, to soldiers.
Hon. Mark A. Cooper, Etowah, Ga.:—
410 for Nazarene Banner, to Bth Georgia
regiment.
Dr. N. M. Crawford, Penfield, Ga.: 420
for Nazarene Banner.
Elder 1. M. Springer, Marietta, Ga. : 44
for Nazarene Banner.
Baptist Church at Perry, Ga., §75 for
Nazarene Banner, to soldiers from Houston
county.
Elder Hornady.
It gives us pleasure to state that Elder
Hornady is slowly though steadily recov
ering from his recent serious illness. This
announcement will be gratifying to ' troops !
of friends.’
Agent in Mississippi.
b. R. XV hitten, of Louisville, Miss., is
an authorized Agent to receive subscrip
tions for The Baptist Ba nner.
Agent in Tennessee.
Elder William McNutt, of Cleveland, is I
an authorized agent of The Banner.
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Our Army Agent.
Elder Daniel Morris, of the 14th regi
ment cavalry, Ist Texas Brigade, is duly
authorized to receipt for subscriptions to ■
The Baptist Banner.
The Memphis Appeal.
Fbis sterling journal again appeared on
last Saturday. It is now published in At
lanta. o f the Appeal are too
well known to need praise. To all who
wish a good news- paper, we commend it ;
Terms, 42 .50 per month.
The Trustees of one of the Female ‘
Colleges of this State wish to find a suita
ble person for President—a good place
offered. For particulars apply at this
office.
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I’M SAOIO
The War. '
Some parties at the North may be sick
of the war. We do not doubt it. There
have been parties there that opposed it at
the beginning, and that have never ceased
to oppose it for an instant. But they were
and they remain powerless, compelled to
silence even upon pain of imprisonment
and confiscation. The Lincoln government
is a military government. It has got the
power into its hands. It has the means,
therefore, of carrying out its purpose, so
far, at least, as keeping up the war in ap
pearance is concerned’and we see no reason
to doubt that it will do this for a long pe
riod before it will consent to recognize us
and to make peace. It has had already re
verses enough, if mere reverses could com
pel it to peace. They have not had this
effect, and we apprehend that the reverses
it may meet hereafter will not, until its
resources are pretty well exhausted by the
continuance of the war. If we are right in
this view of the subject, it becomes us, as a
primary consideration, to look to our re
sources and strengthen them by every ex
hibition of practical sagacity of which we
are capable—for Resources will be the cri
teria by which the length of the contest
j will be determined.
An intelligent Texas gentleman, who has
just returned from the North, where he was
detained by unavoidable circumstances, and
who found great difficulty in getting away,
informs the Houston Telegraph that, from
the closest and most extensive observations
which he could make through many months,
he is convinced that the belief is general
among the masses that the North will be
able to worry out the South at last, and be
therefore victorious. Hence, present re
verses do not entirely dishearten them.—
The South, they think, will after a while
exhaust herself. This, therefore, is the
field upon which the enemy expects to reap
his laurels, and this, therefore, is that upon
which we must be prepared to meet him.
We must check-mate him there, and give
him numerous and substantial proofs that
we understand his long-run policy, and are
prepared to dispute with him that contest.
If, therefore, we give a secondary consider
ation to our resources, on the supposition
that we have enough for the present, and
that the war will soon be over, when we
can devote our attention exclusively to
them, and should we be disappointed as to
its duration, our situation would then be
most trying.
Available resources, we need scarcely
say, are not the growth of an hour. We
have already some very feeling evidences
of that, and we suspect that they will rath
er accumulate than diminish. Let us no
be lured by the siren song of a short war,
or be caught in the long trap which the en
emy may set for us. If the war prove
short, we shall certainly know and rejoice
at it; but our preparations for a long one,
if in the meantime we wisely make them,
will not have been in vain. The develop
ment of our resources that may have been
undertaken, will be a splendid foundation
for a career of peace.
The Situation.
The intelligence from Vicksburg, though
still somewhat indefinite, is sufficientiv re
liable and assuring to inspire the fullest
confidence that the Queen City of the West
is impregnable, at least, while she has such
troops as those who have so far withstood
the Yankee assault, and has such a General
as Johnston operating without. Already
has the announcement that Vicksburg had
fallen gone forth from the Yankees to the
world in all the blazing characters of
York journals, and, for a day or two, Eu
rope will bg puzzled how to act, for unques
; tionably so disastrous a reverse as the cap
ture of Vicksburg would materially affect
the views of the Government, and especial
ly British industry and shipping interest.
‘All quiet along the’ Rappahannock.—
Important movements, however, are said
to be in preparation. The authorities (if
letter-writers arc to be credited) entertain
I the opinion that a peace must be conquered
[on Federal soil; aad it is predicted that
i the order to ‘ advance ’ will not be long
j delayed.
Significant.
It seems, upon good authority, that the
• fearful Yankee raid upon Jackson, Miss.,
has emphatically exemplified the saying,
|‘There is no great loss but where there is
some small gain.’ The nests of speculators
and extortioners, congregated in that local
ity, are represented to have been, without
exception, the most depraved and heartless
of any in the Confederacy—who were suck-;
ing the very life-blood of the people and ■
the army concentrated in that State for its
defence. \\ e are told that cellars, out
houses, bed-rooms, and other out-of-the-way
places, were found be full of all the ne
cessaries of life, in the sacking of the capi
tal by the Yankees; but the marauders
paid no attention to their friends, the spec
I viators, but destroyed all. A cotemporarv
lin Mississippi expresses the opinion that a
more righteous judgment has not fallen
upon any class since the beginning of the
war.
Should not the Government Stop
the Running of the Blockade ?
It decreases our currency. There is no
better currency in the South than Confed
erate money. If it fails, everything is
worthless; and yet it stands now from 25
to 50 per cent below State issues and Bank
bills. The reason of this is, that the spec
ulators buy up anything that the enemy
will take, and can afford to pay any price
for it. They prefer Bank bills and State
issues, and these speculators are willing to
sink our currency to any depth, so that they
can mass their fortunes by it. If it is the
duty of our government to provide a cur
rency, is it not duty to protect it?
Again, it is carrying all the cotton out of
the country. We, in South-western Geor
gia, can tell when there are large steamers
at Charleston by the running of the cars.
They go, laden with long trains of cotton,
to supply the demand of our enemies, Yan
kee and English. If that state of things
continues, they will have no motive to stop
the war, and we shall be drained of almost
all our cotton. Cotton could have opened
our ports and fought the war, if it had been,
kept properly under control; but as it is,
the war will be protracted indefinitely.—
They can get all the cotton there without
any sacrifice, and, while they have cotton,
care nothing for anything else we have or
1 wish.
And the running of the blockade is ruin
ing the country in another way. It en
courages extravagance among our people.
Many persons in obscurity have suddenly
made large fortunes, and they are anxious
for display. They purchase and exhibit
these Yankee goods in great profusion, to
show' their ability to buy, at a time when
1 all should be studying the closest possible
' economy. This leads others to follow
their example, and thus the whole country
is .drawn into sin and extravagance. It
will now take three months’ wages of a
common soldier to buy his wife a calico
dress. But if all would consent to wear
homespun, the poor would be on equality
with the rich. Then there would be time
and disposition to attend to our prayer
meetings for the safety and salvation of the
country—which, we are sorry to say, have
generally gone into disuse. Our people,
and especially our ladies, are occupied with
dress and show, to the neglect of these
more important interests. And all these
evils can be traced to this unpatriotic and
reprehensible custom of trading with our
enemy. Can not, and should not, the gov
ernment do something to prevent it?
T.
Question. —Answer.
Irwinton, Ga., June 5, 1863.
Editors Baptist Banner:
Dear Brethren: Will you answer the
following query in The Banner ?(:) — Should
a church receive a member who, upon a
profession of faith, desires to become a
member, being baptized by a regular or
dained minister while absent in the military
service? What rules should be observed
in receiving members so absent in the army ?
Please answer in your next, as we have
a case in point and desire information.
J. B.
In the absence and illness of the older
editors, we venture, modestly, to reply :
We see no good reason why the candidate
should not be received into church fellow
ship and membership. The administrator
was an ordained Baptist minister; there
was no church in the army to receive the
I baptized convert; and if the church at Ir
winton has evidence of his valid baptism,
he should be received.
We ask attention to the article in
this paper under the caption ‘ The Theatre.’
We only wish that it could find its way
into some of the daily journals of this city,
whose editors have for several weeks nearly
exhausted the list of complimentary adjec
tives in ‘puffing’ one of these falsely-called
institutions for ‘ the moral advancement of
the community.’
‘ Recognition.’—Pertinent Query. |
As all our readers know, a citizen of the j
‘United States’ (Vallandigham, of Ohio)j
was recently banished from that nation.— I
Where was he sent? Does not the sact 1
that he was sent, under a flag of truce, to 1
our lines, show a virtual acknowledgment,
on the part of the North, of the distinct
and separate Government established in the
Southern Confederacy ?
Prices In Atlanta.
We were of the opinion that seventy-five
cents a pound for beef was high enough; 1
but on last Saturday, at the market-house
here, one dollar a pound was asked by a'
(butcher — ‘Buck’ being the only name we
i ever heard applied to him. He will get no ’
more of this writer’s money. Can’t some-1
thing be done to meat out justice ?
Strange weather, here, for June. Alter
nately warm and cool. Sunshine and cloud
—smiles and tears. ‘ Winter lingering, etc.’
Cherokee Indian Missions.
lhe attention of the friends of this mis
sion is called to the fact that brother Com
pere, who has been laboring for the Chero
kee Indians for nearly two years, under the
patronage of the Cherokee Baptist Conven
tion, is now in Georgia. He will probably
remain about a month, and will visit as
many of the brethren as possible during
his stay. lie reports much destitution and
suffering among the true Southern Indians,
who have made immense sacrifices for the
Confederacy, our common country. These
. Indians deserve our sympathy, and are in
, much need of substantial aid, and of inis-
> sionary labor. We all know how difficult
, it is to transmit funds, these war times, to
» our missionaries, and it is proposed, not
. only to pay up brother Compere to the Ist
of Sept., the end of his second year’s labor,
f but in advance for future w’ork. The com
mittee has funds for all past labor, up tc
3 Sept., 1863, but we have not enough ir
hand to do what the emergency requires
Will not the friends of this mission send
funds to me, as chairman of the Executive
3 Committee, for this purpose, or, if prefer
> ed, send to A. J. King, Treas., Cave Spring
- Georgia.
I Some brethren who subscribed for this
! object, at Dalton and Marietta, have not
paid. Will they, also, send up their money
. promptly ? This appeal is made with the
earnest desire to promote a good cause, and
with the hope that brethren will heartily
. respond. J. M. Wood.
Blew nan, Ga., June 9, 1863.
Newnan, Ga., June 9, 1863.
My Dear Brother Ells:
' 1 hope the readers of The Banner will re-
( read the letter published last week, which
refers to the sufferings of the Cherokee peo-
J pie, and the object of iny mission. I pre
‘ sent this matter with special confidence to
i the people of Cherokee Georgia—who own
> the land once owned by this ruined people
, —and who have already undertaken to es
tablish a mission away there, and many of
whom have natural relations among the suf
' ferers.
i I shall be happy to assure the Cherokee
( people that the White Man, and especially
. the present owners of their former homes,
can be touched with the story of their great
distress, and that there is a willingness to
> divide with them,, who have lost everything
■ in this common cause. Little acts of kind
. ness and humanity towards this needy peo
ple, the Southern Cherokees—who now
would rather die than submit to our ene-
1 mies—would cause them to feel like they
were brothers, indeed, to the Southern
• White Man, and bind them to us by ties
..that could never.be severed.
Will not the families, therefore, in each
/community, put their contributions togeth
er, and send in boxes, such things as blank
ets, quilts, jeans, domestics, cotton dressing,
and any article that will clothe and make
comfortable the destitute? Do not say
'that you have been called on so often that
[you have nothing that you can spare, but
(for a moment imaging yourself one of the
, sufferers—your little ones among those un
clad children, shivering with cold, if not
dying with disease, and then ask yourself,
, if the enemy should suddenly come to
your homes, as he did to these Cherokees’,
if you w’ould not have many, many things
I that you would be obliged to spare to them.
> If you should withhold, and refuse to divide
, with those who have nothing left, I greatly
fear that the God of the needy may permit
the enemy to visit your quiet homes, and
reduce you to necessity. But I pray you
may never realize the distress of those on
the frontier, and believe that the mention
of their sufferings is enough to make you
desirous to send to their relief.
Those who are sorry for these Western
sufferers, may manifest it by sending such
things as are needed, put up in boxes, and
directed to me, Alanta, Ga., and care of
the editor of The Baptist Banner, and I will
acknowledge all receipts through the pages
of The Banner.
I expect to remain in Georgia during
this month, and if any persons desire a
• longer time to prepare their contributions,
they will please correspond with me at At
lanta, Ga. Your brother in Christ,
■ E. L. Compere.
Rome, Ga., May 28, 1863.
To the Ministers within the bounds of the
i Cherokee Baptist Convention :
It was resolved by the Convention, at its
I last session, that the following committee
request you and the churches to which you
preach, to relinquish and support you for
two weeks, or more, of your ministerial
1 service, for the purpose of visiting the army
to preach to our soldiers. Write immedi
ately to the chairman of the committee
whether, where, how long, and when you can
go- D. W. Gwin, .
D. B. Hamilton, / ~
J. F. Swanson, f Com *
J. T. West, '
Heavenward Affection.—lf you will
go to the banks of a little stream, and
I watch the flies that come to bathe in it,
.you will notice that, while they plunge
their bodies in, they keep their wings high
; out of the water, and after swimming about
ia little while, they fly away with their
wings unwet through the sunny air. Now,
;that is a lesson for us. Here we are im
mersed in the cares and business of this
world; but let us keep the w ings of our
i soul, our faith, and our love, out of the
, world, that with these unclogged, we may
( be ready to take our flight to Heaven.
[For The Baptist Banner.]
From our Army Evangelist.
A remarkable fact—Justifiable policy towards our
enemies—Demand for preaching—Deposity for
Roldiers— Visit to Thunderbolt—Robert Harris—
Apprehension realized. . *
When the history of this inhuman and
murderous war comes to be written, it will
be recorded a.samost remarkable facttMs&fiyc
more than two years of its existence, its
horrors were not augmented by even a local,
servile insurrection ; and that, too, notwith
standing the whole power of the United
States Government has been brought to
bear on our slaves to incite them to this
diabolical Exasperated to madness
I because they could not “ crush the rebel
■ lion” in sixty or ninety days, (though they
have brought against us, first and last, at .
) least a million and a half of men,) our ene
t mies have armed our slaves, whom they
have enticed or forced from their peaceful
t homes to aid them in their work of devas
', tation, rapine and murder, and have done
their utmost to convert our fair land into
0 another St. Domingo. I leave it to our
government to determine the policy of the
II war; but 1 wish to place upon record the
i. opinion I have entertained from the first,
d which is, that we should have been justified
e if we had never taken a prisoner. No mor
tal can tell to what we may be driven at
last; and while I pray that God may de-
» liver us from such a necessity, I believe His
law would justify us in accepting this issue,
s should the continued barbarities of our en
t emies force it upon us. We were justified
in hanging John Brown and his accompli
ces, who were but the representatives of
e that nation of fanatical hypocrites now bent
I on our subjugation or extermination; but
y when the whole nation comes with the same
intent, forsooth, weunust deal with them
upon the principles of civilized warfare,
even though they require us to receive our
slaves taken in battle in exchange for our
own citizens who may have fallen into their
hands.
On my return to Savannah, after an ab
’ sence of a w'eek or ten days, I received a
note through the Post office, of which the >
following is an extract:
“We would be happy to have you come
down and preach for us next Sabbath. If
it does not suit you to* come then, please
inform us when you can do so. We have
I no chaplain and scarce ever hear preaching
. now-a-days. We have many Baptists in
our battalion, and would be glad to get a
; few copies of the Christian Index regularly.
' You have many old friends here, who would
be gratified to hear you.”
’ In compliance with this request, I visited
( them the following Sabbath at the Isle of
Hope, preached to them, distributed about
a thousand tracts, and promised them a sup
ply of Testaments and religious papers,
which have since been furnished. Upon
investigation, made at my instance, it was
ascertained that more than a hundred of
the battalion were lacking Testaments.
j 1 have opened a “ Depository for Sol-
1 diers ” in the office of brother W. 11. Stark,
commission merchant, who allows me the
use of his room without charge. Brother
A. E. Dickinson promises to keep it supplied
with Testaments, tracts, &c., for gratuitous
’ distribution. A few small Bibles, sent me
by brother William Mansfield, of Lump
kin, were eagerly snatched up. Friends
having small Bibles which they are willing
to give to soldiers, will confer a favor by
forwarding them by Express to me, at Sa- ■=’
vannah, marked distinctly “Bibles for Sol- a
diers.” My Depository promises to be/
useful. It is already freely resorted to by
many for whose benefit it has been opened.
Last Sabbath I preached twice, at Thun
derbolt, to large audiences. The most pro
found attention was given to the Word -.
preached, and many seemed deeply moved. ,
Here I met a son of brother Allen Law- '
rence, of Putnam, besides many others to
whose parents I have preached in former
years. Oh, how it cheers my heart to
preach |q their “ dear boys ’’ under such
circumstances! /
Brother F. 11. Ivey, chaplain of the 57th
Georgia regiment, now in Mississippi, with
reference to a recent battle, says, “ Lieut.
Robert Harris acted with great coolness z
and gallantry, and received five balls thro’ "
various parts of his clothing. One ball
struck him on the side, passing through the
metallic scabbard of his sword, bruising
and denting the blade, and falling flattened
to the ground. The sword saved his life.”
I shall not soon forget the last evening I
spent in company with that noble young
man—the son of a noble mother, one of my
most valued friends. Surely, it was in an
swer to your prayers, my sister, that God *
preserved that precious life.
In parting with the soldiers of Walker’s
, brigade, which recently left fur Mississippi,
I expressed the fear that it might prove to
be our last interview on earth. I had but
recently preached to many of them, what
proved to be, probably, the last sermon
they ever heard. Our parting interview
was of a character not to be forgotten.
J. H. CAMPBELL-
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The Present Struggle.—As the Seers- y f
taries of the Southern Baptist Convention
do not seem to have furnished the denom
inational press with the paper adopted by
that body on the state of the country, we
must content ourselves with the following r
resolution, which we find in our exchanges:
Resolved, That the events of the past two
years have only confirmed the conviction
expressed by this Convention at its last
session, that the war which has been forced f
upon us, is, on our part, just and necessary,
and has only strengthened our opposition
to a re-union with the United States on any
terms whatever ; and that, while deploring
the dreadful evils of the war, and earnestly
desiring peace, we have no thought of ever
yielding, but will render a hearty support
to the Confederate Government in all con
stitutional measures to secure our inde- r
pendence.”