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Our I*al form.
1 N»ne but those who make a credible pro
fession of faith in Christ should be baptized ,
2. None are really baptized except those who (
are mi/iorwd upon a profession of their faith in
Christ
3. None can properly be members of the i
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 » hrist.
5 Non affiliation with th' se who refuse to
obey Chr st in these things—with those who re
fuse to walk according ‘o the Divine rule.
6. We shall insist upon Baptists practising
W’hat they hold and teach.
While we shall firm y 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 unbaptiz'd.
Sjt g.iptist fanner.
‘The entrance <>i iby Word giveth liihi.’
JAS. NATHAN ELLs, Editor.
Associate Editors: 11. C IIOKNaDY, Atjjinta.
J. M. WOOD, Newnan.
A. C. DAYTON, L Fayette.
D. P. E. ERETT, FI rida.
SATURD \Y, JULY 4, 1863
The editor of this paper is' receiving,
daily, urgmt requests from soldiers that
The Biwr in iy be sent to them in camp-.
We are doit g all in our power to supply
this demand. Many friends throughout the
State have kindly aided us in this matter.
But, mu h yet remains to be done. There
are many Georgia s ddiers to whom we
wish to send the paper every Saturday.—
To do this, it requires money to pay foi
paper and the expenses of printing.
There are good reasons for predicting
th it th-» necessary article of paper will very
soon increase in price ; and we are desirous
of purchasing, now, a large supply. We
make this e-rnest appeal to the friends of
the Soldier: Will you aid us in raising thf
sum of one thousand dollars for the pureha*t
of paper which will be used, exclusively,
in printing ‘ The Btptist Banner' for the
benefit of our soldiers in service ?
Will you, aid us in doing good?
The crave soldiers shill have this papei
to read. Our time and labor are devote'
to this purpose; will you aid us by con
tributing of the means with which God has
blessed you ?
To Correspondents.
The poem (?) entitled ‘ Love is Immor
tality ’ is respectfully declined.
‘ Nodi' sends another communication—
nearly a column in length—a rejoinder t<
‘ Quis,' which we must decline. No possi
ble good would, but probable harm might
result were we to comply with the requesi
of our tri nd. We think the whole subj.c
has had a sufficient‘airing ’; and haveonl
to say, in justice to one of our correspond
ents, that a member of the Giiffiu chute*
said in our hearing that Quis was not ii
error in regard to the bill of ninety dollars.
Mistakes wil sometimes occur.
The Cherokees.
W e learn from brother C mipere that Il
ls succeeding very well in his efforts in th
upper portion of the State. The church a
Cartersville resolved to purchase at leas
one bale of osnaburgs for the destitut.
Cherokees; having it understood that tne
did not wish to b? limited to one bale, bu
simply committing themselves to that much
A committee of sisters will .ollect such ai
t'des of clothing and bedding as thvtamilir
can spare.
At R >me, the ladies held a meeting am
appointed a large committee —fom in tael,
ward—to solicit contributions of money
and clothing. The work was committed t<
safe hands.
In fine, wherever brother Compere ha
mentioned this subject, he says the peopl
seem ready to respond. One fact hiute
at, however, is remarkable : every conitnu
nity feels itself a little more embai asst i that
any other. The general expression is, ‘IF
have been called on oftener than any othe
place, but we must make another effort—
we must do somethin) for the destitut
Cherokees.’
Preaching on Sabbath.
Elder Johu ToVell, late of Nashville
will preach, morning and night, in the Firs.
Baalist Churea in this city, to morrow.
SBB BAJPaiSS 8A H fit B .
A Noble mid Patriotic Enterprise.
We call the reader’s attention to an
appeal ‘to the people of the Confederate
States of America,’ on behalf of the orphans
of our fallen heroes, which will be found in
another column and whose perusal we are
sure can not fail to awaken the deepest in
terest in every Christian and every patriotic
heart throughout the land. Rarely indeed
has so noble a cause been more worthily
pleaded. And unless we greatly misappre
hend the spirit of our countrymen, this
appeal can not fail to elicit a response a?
once prompt and generous, giving assurance
not only that their sympathiesare enkindled,
but that all their resources of wealth and
influence and talent will be cheerfully put
under contribution to the full extent neces
sa y to insure the success of this philanthro
pic enterprise.
There is not a manly and, above all, there
is not a womanly heart in the Southern
Confederacy to whom the condition of thes
helpless and dependent orphans will not
appeal with an eloquence more touching
and pathetic than can possibly be embodied
in human language. To such, moreover,
the introspection of their own spirits, re
vealing as it will the depths of their affection
and the earnestness of their solicitude for
the well-being of their own loved ones, will
at the sime time suggest the measure of
their obligation to,that interesting class of
the children and youth of our country on
whose bt half this appeal is made; and will
lend moreover, we had almost said, a re
sistless force to that Divine injunction—
which in this connexion can not fail torecui
»o their minds in support of the sacred duty
here enjoined—‘all things whatsoever yt
would that men should do to you, do ye
ev'-n so to them.’
We shall watch with the deepest interest
and solicitude the development of this noble
enterprise, but of its final success we can
not allow ourselves to entertain a doubt.
The Dalton ludian*Ai<t Society.
Elder Compere has just returned from
Dilton, where he spent some days pleas
■mtly and profitably. Alter a sermon on
Sabbath night, he presented t he condition of
the Cherokee sufferers to a large audience.
\t the suggestion of the pastor, Eider Sei
vidge, the whole matter was referred t<
he ladies of the place; who met in the
Baptist church Monday morning and or
ganized the ‘ Dalton Indian-Aid Society,’—
Mrs. Sei vidge President and Mrs. McCarter
Secretary. Before night a handsome sum
had been subscribed, and the working Pres
ident assured brother C. that she iutendei
to call not only on the families in town.
»ut especially those in the country, foi
nlankets and quilt4—and she felt confident
>f success.
This is as it should be. Success to the
new Society I Let the ladies of othei
towns imitate the example, and see to ii
hat the six hundred women and children
mentioned in brother Compere’s letter (ii
our paper June 6th), not only have cloth
ing, but quilts and blankets, before th»
coming winter But remember to ac
for the Missionary must return
no his fielff very sobn.
Foreign Exempts.
All persons in the department of Georgia
South Carolina and Florida, who have for
•gn papers upon which they claim exemp
ion from military service, are informs
hat a special order j Ist issued requires then
n report, at the places named, before th
15th of this month, ihat their papers ma
oe examined and their names recorded
foreigners in this State are required to re
port at Savannah.
Fire in Atlanta.
On last Monday night, the three-storier
wilding at the corner of Whitehall an.
Marietta streets, in this city, was totall
lestroyed by fire—involving several hun
'red thousand dollars’ worth of property
The origin of the fire is unknown.
Voluntcot f«.r Local Defence.
According to the proclamation of th
Governor, nett Tuesday is the day f r th
ssembling of the militia, from whom th
ounty quotas are to be. taken. * Five hun
red’ is the quota for Fulton.
Acknowledgment.
We have received, by mail, the followin
imounts, intended fur the relief of the de
itute Cherokees :
J. J. Milner and wife, Pike county, Ga
520; Eden Taylor, Culeparchee, Ga., SlO
Chaplain’s Badge.—The letter C, will
i halt wreath ut olive leaves worked ingot,
ullion, on a ground of black velvet, th
.hole about two and a half inches wiue, i
he badge adopted by the Chaplains of th
id and 3d corp* Army of Northern Virginia
Personal.—Mr. Atkinson, editor of th.
Field and F'reside, <>f Augusta, dropped ii
ipun us tor a little wbile, yesterday.—
‘ illustrious successor’ appeared in fiin
-pints, and as good looking as ever.
The Bayt.sX Baimer, Xulf dollars a year
I Two Important * Decision*. ’
In the Confederate Court, at Charleston,
in the case of several parties who had been
members of the German-Artillery corps of
that place, who had applied under a writ of
habeas corpus for their discharge, under the
plea of their being foreigners, Judge Ma
grath has decided : That foreigners incur
‘lithe liabi ities imposed by the Conscrip
tion act. The principle of the decision is,
that whatever be the purpose of'hose who
have become residents of the confederacy
to return to their native country, residence,
if intended to be only temporary, carries
with it the obligation of assisting in the
public defence. Os course.
The other day at Raleigh, the Supreme
Court of North Carolina decided : That a
man who put in a substitute in July 1862,
sged thirty-nine years, when men of thirty
five years only had been called for, was not
liable to conscription now.
The War.
Much perplexity seems to exist among
the 1 ankees as to the exact route taken by
the Rebels’ on their trip to Pennsylvania.
The New York Herald informs that ‘ the
enemy progresses slowly, but with a large
force. Ir. is reported that the Confederates
occupy Harrisburg and York, Pa. Hooker
is said t<> have been superseded ty Mead.
General Stuart took possession of Fairfax
on Saturday last, capturing a large amount
of stores ; the main body of Hooker’s army
went towards Leesburg. except the garrisons
at Alexandria and Washington, which re
treated within the fortifications.
Hint.—A minister laboring .among the
*oldiers, writes: ‘I am constrained to be
lieve that there is much more religion in
ihe army now than among the people at
home.’ Will the churches ask themselves
how far their condition bears out this
opinion ?
To the People of the Confederate
States of America.
At the late session of the Baptist Conven
tion of the State of Georgia, the undersigned
were appointed a committee to address you
on the subject of educating the orphan
children of our deceased soldiers. The bare
statement of the subject is sufficient to stir
the sympathy of the patriot and the Chris
tian. We desire to present briefly a few
simple considerations.
1. The number of orphans who are thus
rhr >wn upon the enlightened benevolence
•f the public makes this a most momentous
subject. We have no means of making a
correct estimate of the number, but it is
certainly very large. It has been estimated
(we do not know' with what accuracy) that
two hundred thousand of our soldiers have
been killed, or have died of wounds or
diseases incurred in the service. A larg»
proportion of these were men of family,
with children of all ages. For twentx
years the education of these orphans musi
be going on. Many of the soldiers wen
joor and the children, in losing their father.
>ave lo?t their all. May we not hope thai
hose whose lives and liberty and honor
md property have been saved by the sacri
nee of the father will feel it to be a duty
tnd a pleasure to supply, in part at least,
that father’s care by securing an education
or the child ? The work indeed is vast
md of long duration ; but vast and of long
luration also will be the benefit conferred
upon the children and the blessing enjoyed
oy those who aid them. “ Pure religioi
nd undefiled before God and the Father i
his, to visit the widow and orphan in their
iffliction.”
2. The manner in which these orphan
are thrown upon our care appeals to u
vith greatei force than any argument, ana
<ands in place of all eloquence. Theis
■others died for us. Leaving their hum bl.
'tomes, nut homes in which there dwel
peace, plenty, and love, they bared then
losoms to the shock of battle and exposed
hemselves to all the hardships and priva
.ions of the must barbarous war. On th.
battle-field they perishe % or in the loath
ome hospital lh-y languished till they died
ron the cold ground where ice Jr mu
*as htrdly covered by straw, they breathe
heir last : and for us and our children thex
aenheed themselves. The last thought <*>
••any of them was of the loved ones a
•••me, soon to be deprived of a parent >.
"pport Jefferson i„ his lMt
■a'd. 1 leave my sou | to „
ny dau-hter a. my countrvHere i s .
nore aolernn legacy. Let 'the count™
-pt the Lequct nf these orphan,, and th
Ltd or the fatherless bless it f ur Ut.i,
ake.
3. The future fate of these thousands oi
•rphans is a matter of unspeakable interest
Shall they be permitted to grow up i n id| e
•ess, ignorance, and vice ? R aOt wh * ,
misery will be theirs ! Thp Lqrial <(l i
Manassas and Shiloh, of Malvern Jld| aiK ;
Mane’s Heights, of Mqrfreesborp U nc
•iharp*bijrg, cry aloud in remonstrance.— ‘
A grateful people will pot allow the children '
of their martyred heroes to be left to that
, worst of all the woes of orphanage, the
1 ignorance and vice that attend neglected
f youth.
I 4. The destiny of the country is insepa
-5 rably connected with the welfare of these
■ orphans. Our army has been composed of
’ our people, and in the next generation tlue
■ children of our soldiers will be the people ;
> a large proportion being these very children
• of the dead in behalf of whom we make this
appeal. If ignorance and vice shall be
> their lot, these will be largely the charac
-1 teristics of the people. If heretofore Intel
! ligence and Virtue were rightly styled the
Pillars of our republican institutions, now
‘ especially must these Pillars be sustained
1 in beauty and strength; or the new Temple
-of our freedom, cemented by the blood of
so many battle fields, will have been reared
■in vain and worse than in vain. We must
maintain republican institutions, or we
shall become the prey of military despotism.
Fur there is no middle ground. If we
would uphold the former, we must cultivate
virtue and intelligence ; and there can be
no more certain road to the latter than to
abandon our jouth to igno ance and vice
For the sake of our country then, as well a
our own and theirs, we are invoked to
educate these orphans.
It does not fall within the province as
s gned to us to indicate how this holy and
sublime and pious and patriotic duty may
best be done. Ocher and wiser and more
influential persons will investigate this
problem. ‘ When there is a will, there is
away.” And we trust that when you con
sider your obligations to the dead who died
for you, and your obligations to the living
who now appeal to you with the unspoken
eloquence of orphanage and destitution, and
your obligations to your children to whom
you must transmit freedom and peace or
despotism and war, and your obligations to
your country which in the very throes of
her life-struggle pleads for the children of
her slain, and your obligation especially to
the Great God who has fought our battles
for us and places in our care these orphans
as His own children: surely when you
consider these obligations, we trust, each
man will say, “ God helping me ! 1 will do
what I can.”
May the Father of the fatherless plead
for these orphans |
JESSE IT. CAMPBELL, 1 O
THOMAS STOCKS, 2.
marshall j. wellborn, ) -
B F THARP, £
N. M. < raw FORD, J S
P. S. Papers friencly to ihe object, are requested
to give this address an insertion. Committee
David M. Fare man.—Covtaa Aswoci
At the session of the Coosa, held at LaFavette.
a subscription! was taken to help support David
M. Foreman as Missionary among the Indians.
Brethren proposed to pay a certain amount each
year for three years. The sub criptions for last
year and the present are now needed, as tin
Executive Committee have the opportunit Jpt
sending the funds to brother Foreman by El *ei
E L. Compere Brother Foreman greatly needl
- funds. Wid brethren send by first mail to
D. B. Hamilton (Treasurer), Borne, Ga. ?
J. M. WOOD, Chairman
Ex. Comm. Coosa Association.
Brother Foreniao’a Salary !
Since we are desirous of sending brother
Foreman’s - alary by brother Compere, will tin
oilowing ‘pledges’ be promptly remitted t<
ether of the undersigned ? M e hope also to
receive contributions from others for this object.
Constantine Wood, E. Dyer, J H. Culbert
son, R C. Maddox, M. Pope-each $lO.
W. P Wood. B. M Powell, J. M. Eu-terling.
S. Saxon, A. B. Ross, J. J. Major, T D.
William Morgan, E C Sparks-each $5.
W. C Davidson, J. B Lunsford, T. J Grogan
GB Johnson, AN Kendrick, G L Culbertson
George Shaw, C T Atkins, J E Keown, J A
lose, D C R Wi Hams, D C Goree, Mr
vl Pope, Mary Dyer, Mrs A F Dyer, Margaret
Jennin s, N L Keown, R C Cole— each $2?
N Meredith. G B Smith, D B Austin, Robi
lohnson, J B Hearn, G W Ellis, P N Morgan.
D Murdock, W V Ball, Parah Saxon, Laura
Kelly, Mrs Kelly, O Z Dyer, Ella Sparks- $
each. Mrs M Lloyd, 50c.
The above owe their pledges for two years,
ending at time of next Association.
The following owe for one year: J M Wood.
Spencer Mar h, James Saunders, A J King, (
•V Sparks, Alvan Dr-ati, Miss E A Culbertson,
-each #10; J T Smith, J W Canfield, N Yar-
I'rough, Lindsey Edwards, M A APgood, J 1
West, each $5; Joseph Brown, J Cordell, J h
'olcombe, eac h $2; J J Smith, J T Renfro
Sarah Selman, each sl.
Z3r" Will this request amount to anything
D. W GWIN,
r B - F . HOOPUR,
Bub-Committee of C. A.
Special Notice.
The friends <f the Cherokee sufferer
*ho desire to send them clothing, may pm
in boxes such articles as blankets, quilts
oinesties, j.ans, and anything that wil
niake them comfortable, and direct thes.
l ° “‘ e ’ ih Care ° f The
desir ° ioj, K er «>"■« <i>»'
■ LX,' Ms ,! , U ' y l " co.,
ttA.l r. P ‘' iVSe c, ’ rfe *P on d with rm
r. "2 '" r u '" u ' e ,i
« Will be foils ilestitlaliun jf j
•A4U.es during the mouth of July.
E. L. COMPERE. ‘
[For The Baptist Banner ]
Not eg ou the Southern Baptist Con*
vention.
NO. IV.
The richest of all the projects before the
Convention was the proposition to send an
agent to Europe. This owed its paternity
to the President of the Greenville Board,
and was accompanied by the announcement
that another distinguished member of that
Board was willing to accept the appoint
ment. It did not appear whether the Com
missioner was to aid MasiWi and Slidell in
abortive efforts to secure the recognition of
the Confederacy qr help Dr. Hoge, the agent
of the C. S. Bible (Society, to bear the
snubs of the British abolitionists. The
proposition went down well 1. e., it
went to the bottom. Yet Dr. Reynolds,
of South Carolina, intimates that the Board
may still send the Commissioner. It is to
be hoped they will have better sense; but
if otherwise, it will be better than a monkey
show to see Ductor Boyce baited by the
Baptist Committee in London.
Upon the whole The Convention was
rather a pleasant meeting. A good deal of
trash was thrown off by the dyspeptic
brethren; considerable gas emitted by the
unsubstantial; while the storm kings thun
dered loudly with not much lightning.—
The excitable r pped and snorted ahundant
lv, but like Noodle’s head, there was ‘‘ no
thing in it,” tor it was all taken “in a
Pickwickian point of view.” So the breth
ren separated in great harmony and univer
sal professions of love.
Bowhill, 20 June, 1*63. PEDRILLO.
[For The Baptist Banner.]
Friendship Churrh.
The following Preamble and Resolutions:
were adopted by the Friendship Baptist
Church, in Calhoun county, Georgia:
Whereas: Friendship Baptist Church, at
the October conference, 1860, excluded
some of its members, and have been ready
at any time to restore them upon Gospel
terms, as practiced by Baptist churches, and,
Whereas : A church called Shilo, recently
constituted near by, in the presence of, or
by, Elders T. Muse, W. M. Pope and John
Martin, has received three ot these ex
pelled members-, w ithout their having made
personal application for restoration; and,
Whereas: A member has made applica
tion to Friendship Church for a letter of
dismission to join Shiloh, therefore, by the
Church in conference,
Resolved, 1: That we cannot have fellow
ship for said church, because of its depart
ure from the principles of the Gospel and'
the usage of Baptist churches—that we>
cannot grant letters to go to, or receive let
ters from it, while we know such disorder
exists.
Resolved, 2: That we believe, if sujfi a l ,
course of receiving members is endorsed by
the Baptist denomination, that iis days of
peace and prosperity are numbered—that
•he light to expel for offences is at an end,
md that each church will be liable to have
its expelled members thrown back upon it
at any time.
By the Church in conference.
B. SIMS, Moderator.
WM. TUCKHR, Clerk.
t/i« Bapl »t Banner.]
All A ppi al for Hie
The readers of The Banner have been
epprised of the visit of E. L. Compe re to
Georgia, and of his statement of sac ts re
garding the extreme sufferings of the; fami
lies of the Southern Cherokee India ns arid
frontier settlers—many of whom ha.ve been
robbed of everything, and driven from
their homes, by our common enemy, and
have to follow the army to keep from
starving. In view of these sufferings, the
• Executive Committee of the Cherokee, Ga.
Baptist Convention approve us the appeals’
..f Rev. E. L. Compere to get mltriai
) iid for their relief. VVill not our brethren,,
-isters and friends in Georgia do something’
liberally for this cause, and send their con
i rihutions as soon as possible to The Banner
»ffice, Atlanta, Ga.
After a few wee ks sojourn with us, bro
ther Compere will take charge of these
rifts and distribute them when gets to
iis field of labors.
J. M. WOOD, Ch.)
A. B. ROSS,
D. B. HAMILTON, } Com. CL B. C.
A. J. KING.
A. W. BUFORD. J
Flint River Association.
The general meeting for the Second Dis
trict of this Association will hold its next
mnual session with the church at Jackson,
Butts county, Ga., commencing on Friday
aefore the fourth Sabbath in July. Intro
ductory sermon by J. G. Kimbrell.
(1 here is no small pox at this tim* in the
vicinity of Jackson, nor has there been for
>ome months.) W. Jeff Speairs.
Rehobotli Association.
Meets with Union church in Macon coun
y (three miles from Reynolds, on Colunt
!>us road), embracing third Sabbafh in.
September. ' I
Coosa Association.
Meeting commences on Saturday before
r he second Sabbath in October—at Poplar
springs, Chattooga county.
Soldiers* Dipod oft.
Soldiers in and around this city are
hereby notified that 1 have opened a De
pository of Bibles, Testaments, Hymn-
Books, Tracts, and religious papers, for
their benefit, at the office of \V. 11. S a<k r .
Commission merchant, north side Bay street,,
about one hundred and fifty yards above
the Post office. They will phase caU' and
supply themseh.es with religious, readii g,..
tree us charge. In my absence, they wilE
be attended to by Mr. Kempton.
I c v T Jl Hi CAMPBELL,
car Annan, June 1. Arwy EvaagclUL