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VOLUME IV.
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OUR REST.
[The sufferings of the present time are not
worthy to be compared to the glory that sha
be revealed in us.]
My feet are worn and weary with the march
Over rough roads and up the steep hill-side,
O '. City of our God, I fain would see
Thy pastures green where peaceful waters
glide.
My hands are weary, laboring, toiling on,
Day after day, for perishable meat;
Oh 1 City of our God, I fain would rest,—
I sigh to gain Thy glorious mercy seat.
My garments, travel-worn, and stained with
dust, , ,
Oft rent by briars and thorns that crowd my
way,
Would tain be made, O Lord, my righteousness,
Spotless and white in heaven’s unclouded ray.
My eyes are weary looking at the sin,
Impiety and scorn upon the earth ;
O 1 City of our God, within thy walls,
All, all are clothed upon with the new birth.
My heart is weary of its own deep sin --
Sinning, repenting, sinning still always;
When shall my soul thy glorious presence feel,
And find its guilt, dear Savior, washed away.
Patience, poor soul, thy Saviour’s feet were
worn
The Saviour’s heart and hands were weary
too,
His garments stained, and travel-worn, and old,
His sacred eyes blinded'with tears for you.
Love then the path of sorrow that he trod,
Toil on, and wait in patience for the rest;
O 1 City of our God, we soon shall see
Thy glorious walls, home of the loved and
blest*
(/Ur The Baptist Banner.]
HOW TO TRY THEM.
[continued.]
“ Now, madam, we have settled two
things. First, we are to try our churches
by the Bible —and second, if my church or
your church is not there, we are bound to
leave it and unite with one that is there.—
Now I might say to you at once that yours
is not there. There is no need to look for
it.”
“ Why not, sir ?”
“ Simply because, as you know very well,
it had no existence till the days of Mr. John
Wesley, and that was a lona time after the
Bible church was organized. Your preach
ers have always represented it as the work
ot Mr. Wesley and other good men who
lived and believed with him. All we could
look for in the Bible would be something
authorizing Mr. Wesley to set up such a
church. But it has never been pretended
that the Bible gave any more authority to
Mr. Wesley Jhan it does to me, or any oth
er man to set up a new church. Now, if
the Bible gives authority to any one who
pleases to set up a church as he thinks best,
we need have no further trouble. We are
all right, and one as much right as another.
But there is no such right given to me or to
any one. Christ established Ais church and
gave no one permission to set up another in
its place, or make any change in its order,
its organization, its membership, its ordi
nances, its government. Hence, Mr. Wesley
had no authority to set up such a church;
neither had the seventy preachers who met
in Baltimore and established the Methodist
Episcopal church of America.”
“ I don't suppose, s* they meant exactly
to establish anew church, different from the
old one which Christ established, but rather
to restore and re-establish that. You know,
Mr. Tonyad, that. Religion was at a very low
ebb when Mr. Wesley began his work.—
There was very little of vital Godliness in
the land, and he labored to restore what was
lost, rather than begin something entirely
new.”
“The personal piety of church members,
my dear madam, is one thiqg, and church
organisation is another and very different
thing. But you are partly right about Mr.
Wesley. He did not intend to establish a
new church. 11 is aim was promote per
sonal piety in the corrupt church ot England.
And his societies were composed of those
members ot that church who were willing
to adopt his rules. But though he did r.ot
intend it should be so. his fellow-workers
made altogether « new organization, and
called it the Methodist Episcopal Church,
and that organization has since been di vid .
ed, and you have now another, partly new I
and partly old, called the Methodist Epis- I
copal Church South. But neither this nor
the other, nor yet the Episcopal Church of 1
England were the church which Christ set
up. It Mr. W esley or h<< successors had
restored that. he would have done a great
work
•• What makes you think they did not?
The members of the church which Christ
established were pious, godlf people, were
they noil and the first MeM>«>disU were pi-,
ouSjjgodly people—l am sure they seern to
ms itcy much alike.” •
THE BAPTIST BMt
« You are partly right again, madam.
The members of the church of Christ were
to be pious and godly people. They were
to be truly penitent for sin, and true believ
ers in the Lord Jesus Christ Every one
of them was to be a real child of. (jog, a ,
truly converted person, ready to give up all ,
for CJirist. If any other persons gained ad- j
mittance unawares, they were to be cast
out as soon as their character was discov
ered. This is manifest not only from the j
fact that-they are called saints or holy ones,
but also from the whole history ofthe church ,
in the New Testament. They first believ- ,
ed and made an open profession of their ,
faith and penitence, and then were added to ,
the number. * Those whom John baptized
confessed their sins, thus indicating their
repentance. Those that the Apostles bap
tized ‘believed in the Lord Jesus Christ’ —
and they are said to be ‘ such as should be
saved’—or literally ‘ the saved.'' Now, right
here, madam, is the Ist point of difference
between your church and mine. There can
be no church without members. You can’t
have a church without the people of whom
it is composed. The Scripture church was
composed of professed penitent believers,
men and women who had been truly con
verted to God, and who united together to
obev his laws and observe his ordinances.
They consisted of such and no others. Now,
every Baptist church is professedly com
posed exclusively of such persons. If there
are any other among them, it is because
they have l crept in unawares,’ as certain false
b'ethren did into the Scriptural churches.
They have not been knowingly received as
impenitent and unbelieving that they might
reach repentance in the Church or be train
ed up in the Church to future belief. They
professed to be, and were supposed to be
truly penitent and real believers before
they were received. In this the Baptist
Churches differ not only from yours, but
from all the Pedo Baptist organizations.
They all receive the children of members
and some of them any other children, with
out any evidence of piety whatever, with
out any personal faith or repentance. —
Some of them, when they have thus been
received as members, continue to regard
and treat them as members and others do
not. They see how unscriptural it is to
have an unconverted membership, and, tho*
they have received them and baptized them,
they stand aloof from them and tacitly dis
own them. But your Church goes further
than the others. It not only receives un
converted . children, but unconverted men
and wmen. You receive them knowing
them to be unconverted, without any pro
fession of faith ; you call them 1 seek ers
and take them into the Church that they
may there become true converts. Now
you may turn to every page of the New
Testament, and you can never find a single
instance in which any one was received as
a Church member in order that he might
become religious. There is no seeker mem
bership.”
“But, Mr. Tonyad, you know we do not
keep them in the Church if they don’t give
evidence of conversion after a fair trial for
six months.”
“I believe you generally retain them as
long ns they attend class-meeting and lead
moral lives. But there again you are with
out the Scriptures. The Bible Churches
did not keep unconverted members six
months and then cast them off without tri
al, at th« will <fa class-leader. There is
no command to do it and no example of its
being done. This is all new ; something
invented after the birth of Mr. Wesley and
not in the Bible nt all. Your people do not
pretend to find it there. So you are doubly
wrong, first in receiving them and then in<
getting rid of them. There is no authority
in the Book for either. Here, then, is nay
first point in this examination, —viz., the
Baptist Churches are like the Bible Church
i in the reception of members, and yours are
not.” . A. C. D.
i THE SACRED VOLUME.
Some writer gives the following analysis
of the Book of Books—the Bible :
It is a Book of Laws, it shows the right
and wrong.
It is a Book of Wisdom, that makes the
foolish wise.
It is a Book of Truth, which dissects all;
human errors.
It is a Book of Life, and shows how to
avoid everlasting death.
It is the most authentic and entertaining
history ever published.
It contains the most remote antiquities,
the most remarkable events and wonderful ;
i occurrences.
It is a code of laws.
It is a perfect book of divinity.
It is an unequalled narrative.
I It is a book of travels.
It is a book of voyages.
It is a book ot the best covenant ever
made, the best deed ever written.
It is the best will ever executed, the best
testament ever signed.
It is the young man’s best companion.
It is the school boy’s instructor.
It is the learned man’s master-piece.
It is the ignorant man’s dictionary, and
jevery man’s dictionary.
A AMO BAMOsX •
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 1863.
HIS BANNER' OVER US IS LOVE.
[Pbr The Baptist Banner.]
Baptist State Convention of South
Carolina.
Bear Brother Ells:—Oor Convention met
on the 24th, and adjourned on the 27th ot
July. Glad to comply with your request;
I will send you & short sketch of the meet
ing. . .
In the.absence of Dr. Williams, the in
troductory sermon was preached by Rev.
W. D. Rice. Dr. Furman, Vice-President
of the Convention, took the chair, and pro
ceeded to organize the body. The names
of . delegates were enrolled. . Delegation
quite small. The election of officers Re
sulted in the choice of Dr. Jas. C. I’ urman
President; J. M. C. Breaker, Secretary.
On taking the chair before the election of
officers, the Vice-President read a commu
nication from our former President, the
venerable Chief Justice O’Neall tendering
his resignation. Rich with the fruits of a
glorious life, he is now standing near the
valley of shadows, awaiting the happy
summons the Great Master.
He has traveled through every station of
honor, and now fills the highest seat in his
profession. He"has always been a friend
of learning and patron of the fine arts. As
lawyer, legislator, judge, chief-justice, his
whole life has been remarkable for purity.
The strong advocate of temperance, the
splendid and pious author, the good and
pure Christian, I think I may safely say the
State cannot b< ust a gi cater man. Cer
tainly no one has done so much for morals
and religion. It is not surprising, then,
that we regret to see such a great, good
man retiring, under the weight of age, from
the harvest fields of Zion.
The Con vention was chiefly engaged in
consulting the welfare of the soldier. The
first matter of importance introduced was
the report of VV. D. Rice on Colportage,
Sunday Schools, and Army. He reported
the Sunday School interest as on the de
cline. Being able to do little at home, he
had turned his attention to the Army, and
cultivated this field with great advantage.
He makes a good Superintendent. Aided
by the Churches throughout the whole State,
he has done a great work. He has collec
ted, through every channel, nearly twenty
five thousand dollars, supplied the army
immense quantities of Bibles, Testaments,
and other religious reading, end has some
twenty men laboring in the employ of the
Board. They are doing a great work for
the soldiers-
Saturdav.—The meeting was not whom
ing in interest on this day. Dr. Furman/
according to previous arrangement, preach
ed a funeral discourse in memory of the la
mented Dr.’J’ohnston. The discourse was
like all the productions of this great man,
exceedingly good. The sermon will be
printed under the direction of the Conven
tion; I hope your readers may see it. Dr.
Johnson was the President of our Conven
tion some thirty years. He lived to be
over eighty years old. He was a pure and
good man. Studying for the law at first,
he finally devoted his life to the ministry’
r Although a correct reasoner, a good scholar
and profound theologian, he seems not to
have been a successful preacher. He was
never known, according to his own testi
mony, to have been instrumental in saving
a single soul. Was never known to weep
/on but two occasions: once on hearing a
. discourse on the dignity of the Christian
, ministry, and again on hearing that he was
not popular in a community where he pro
posed to labor. The pioneer of education
, in the State, a faithful and devoted Minister
? O9 P el ’ he is g° ne down to the grave
full of honors. The Conuention resolved
to build a monument to perpetuate his
■ " ie L m ?7* J the precedent thus estab
hshed is a bad one; but lam assured that
, Baptists throughout the country will con
tribute largely to lift a pile of stone above
his silent dust. The products of his great
[mind, however, will be his most lasting
monument. 6
Bro. Sumner was there to represent the
i claims ot his Board. Ha was just as ear
nest as ever, and can beat the world at beg
ging. Taylor, of Richmond, was also on
hand, to plead for the foreign mission Board
Both of them succeeded very well
| The Collections taken up fur all causes
amounted to about two thousand dollars.
Sunday was occupied in preaching The
sermons preached on this day did verv
well, but with . wry exceptions, the
preaching »»almo.t the poorest I ever
heard.
i Monday.—The meeting on this dav was
almost ridiculous. The train was to’leave :
at one o clock and everything was done in'
great haste. This is no wav to do the
Masters work. ’ i
If people can’t make up their minds to
stay until the business is finished thevl
ought to stay at home. A resolution was
passed commending the efforts making to'
establish a monthly periodical at Columbia
to be known as the Confederate Baptist
Review. r v
Bro. Compere was invited to speak. He
acquitted himself finely, and excited much
interest in behalf of his people in the west
I formed his acquaintance, and found great 1
pleasure in his company. I hope he will I
meet with ’great success in his glorious
work.
The Convention closed its session about
12 o’clock on Monday. As a whole, I was
plea' id with the meeting. I think most of
•us came- away with better hearts. But
some of us will meet no more in this life.
Death has been in our midst during the
past year. His sword will not be idle in
the future. Let us, therefore, hope to meet
about the throne of God where death nor
sorrow come.
I am quite unwell and hope you will ex
cuse this imperfect sketch.
Your Brother,
W. D. Mayfield.
Martin’s Depot, S. C., July 29th, 1863.
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THE GROWTHJN GRACE..
Let us now, as Christians, take a view of
our past lives, and see what progress we
have made in the divine life, and in the
growth in grace. Have we since our birth
to newness of life continued to grow, to.
press forward in the service of our Master
and Lord ? Have we met and overcome
difficulties and temptations at every point?
Have we with zeal end energy prosecuted
the spiritual warfare? Have we, afe all
times, and under all circumstances, been
clothed with the whole armor of God, cast
ing our lives, our all upon Him who is able
and willing to sustain us at all times ? Or
are we still in our infancy, not being able
to bear the meat, have to feed on milk,
having made little or no progress in the
cause of our Redeemer? We are as but
mere dwarfs. ’ The signs of life may yet be
visible, but we are making no progress to
wards the city of perfection. Our march
has been impeded. Why is this the case t
What has retarded our course ? Has the
way become more difficult ? Have obstacles
been thrown in the way that cannot be
overcome? Has the Lord refused to hear
the earnest and faithful entreaties of those
that call upon Him in sincerity and truth?
By no means. The dangers and trials re
main the same. They can be overcome.
God is willing and ever ready to assist us
in every danger. Why, then, longer con
tinue in this state of inactivity ? Awake,
thou sleeper, arise from that state of leth
argy. Let us now renew our energy, our
strength, double our diligence, increase our
faith, and go forth again to the contest. Let
us continue to grow, that we may be ena
bled to bear the strong meat, and by the
help of God, to surmount the various ob-
of time, that we may be fitted and
prepared for an entrance into that rest that
remaineth for the people of God, where all
pain, trials and troubles cease, and eternal
peace, joy and happiness forever reign
throughout ’he ceaseless ages of eternity.
THE UTILITY OF REFUSE THINGS.
•
The prussiate of potash is made in large
quantities in Cincinnati, from the hoofs,
horns, and other refuse of slaughtered ani
mals.
Cow hair taken from the hides in tanne
ries, is employed for making plastering
mortar, to give it a sort of fibrous quality,
Sawdust is daily sold in our streets for
sprinkling the floor of markets. It is also
used for packing ice for shipment.
The rags sold of worn out shirting, calico
dresses, and the waste of cotton factories,
are employed* to make the paper upon
which these lines are printed.
Old ropes are converted into fine note
paper, and the waste paper itself, which is
picked up in the gutters of our streets is
again converted into broad, white sheets,
and thus does duty in revolving stages.
The paring of skins and hides and the
ears of cows, calves and sheep are carefully
collected and converted into Peter Cooper’s
famous glue, made out at “ Old Bush wick.”
The finer qualities of gelatine are made
from ivory raspings—the bones and tend
ons of animals.
Bones converted into charcoal by roast
ing in retorts, are afterwards employed in
purifying the white sugar with which we
our coffee, etc.
The ammonia obtained from the distilla
tion of coal in making gas, is employed for
saturating orchil and cudbear in making
the beautiful lilac colors that are died on
silk and the fine woolen goods.
Carbonac acid obtaine.d in the distilation
of coal tar is employed with other acids, to
produce yellow colours on- silk and wool.
The shavings of cedar wood used in mak
ing pencils are distilled to obtain the otto
i of cedar wood.
Brass filings and old brass ketttes are
, melted and employed to make the brass
work of printing presses and pumps.
Old copper scraps are used in the con- j
istrqction of splendid bronze chandeliers for
I illuminating churches and the mansions of
the wealthy.
Old horse-shoe nails are employed in
making the famous steel and twist barrels
of fowling pieces.
Coal tar is burned and turned into lamp
i black, used for printer’s ink, common black !
paint, and for blacking shoes.
Oyster shells are burned in kilns, and I
afterwards used in making cement, their I
base being pure lime.
HOUSTON FEMALE COLLEGE.
Perry, Ga., July 15, 1863.
To my brethren and friends in Cherokee Georgia and
■ elsewhere:
I have just consented to take charge of the Hous
ton Female College, located at Perry, Georgia, and
propose, with the assistance of an efficient corps of
teachers, to build up a denominational school of
high order; and I beg of every brother or friend,
who has daughters Yvhoin he expects to send from
home to be educated, to consider whether he can do
better than to entrust them to us. We are here in
a place as safe from the dangers of the war as any in
.the Confederacy, remarkable for its health and good
society, near enough to the railroad to be easily ac
cessible at all times, and yet far t nough away to be
undisturbed by every passing ru.nor. We have a
most excellent building, and sufficient apparatus ;
and, if brethren will sustain us, we can have one of
the very best schools in the whole South. Board can
be had in the family of Elder B. F. Tharp, and oth
ers of the best families in the place, at from twenty
to twenty-five dollars per month. A few can, per
haps, be received in my own family.
The object of our course of training will be not
to make household idols and parlour ornaments of
the pupils committed to our care, but true and noble,
thinking and useful, women—fit to become the edu
cators of the succeeding generation.
Our first term will begin on the Ist Monday in
September next, and will close at Christmas. The
tuition is as low as circumstances will permit us to
make it, viz:
Primary department, for first Term, - $ 12,00
Preparatory “ “ “ “ - - 20 00 '
College Classes, “ “ “ - - 30’00 i
French, “ “ “ . . 10,00
Latin, “ “ “ - . io,O<
Greek, “ “ “ io,OO ,
Music, “ “ “ - . 25,00
Use of Piano, “ “ • “ ' - - 2,00 .
Incidental expenses, “ “ “ r - 1,00
Daughters of indigeht ministers, of all denomin-. „
ations, will be received and taught without charge r
If my brethren wish to do me a kindness, now is
the time.
A NEW FEATURE.
In view of the great demand which there must 1
shortly be for Southern teachers, it has been deter- <
mined to institute a department for special instruc
tions in the Science and Art of Teaching, to be 1
under the immediate direction of the President. — i
Those young ladies who desire or expect to engage
in this most noble and delightful employment will
derive very great advantages from the Lectures
and practical illustrations in this department. This J
Course can be taken with or without the Colllege
Course. Terms for first Term, $lO.
A. C. D
TALKING AND WRITING.
A man may never know he has read un
til he has either talked about it or has writ
ten about it. Talking and writing are di
gestive processes which are absolutely.nec
essary to the mental constitution of the man
who devours many books. But it is not
every man that can talk. Talking implies,
first of all, a readiness on the part of the
speaker, and next a sympathetic listener.—
It is, therefore, a digestive process, the most
difficult, if it is the most rapid in its opera-
tion.
Writing is a different affair—a man may .
take his owa time to do it, and not require
a reader—he can be his own reader. It is
an easier, although more formal process of
digestion than talking. It is in every body’s
power—and everybody who reads much
makes more or less use of it, because, as
Bacon says, if he does not write he ought
to have extraordinary faculties to compen
sate for such neglect. It is in this view
that we ought to understand the complaint
of a well known author, that he was igno-.
rant of a certain’subject, and the means by
which he was to dispel his ignorance—
namely, by writing on it.
It is in this view that the monitorial sys
tem of instruction has its greatest value—
to the monitors it is the best sort of teach
ing. It is from the same point of view that
Sir William Hamilton used to lament the
decay of teaching as a part of the education
of students of the universities. In the olden
time it was necessary to the obtaining of a
degree that the graduate should give evi
dence of his capacity as a teacher, and in
the very title of its degree as a magistrate
and doctor, he was designated as a teacher.
A man never knows anything, Sir William
used to say, until he has taught in some
way or other—it may be orally, or it may
be writing a book. It is a grand truth, and
points to a fine moral. Knowledge is knowl-
edge, say the philosophers; it is precious
for its own sake, it is an end to itself.—
But nature says the opposite. It is not ours
until brought uuder the command of the
social faculty, speech—we exist for soci
ety, and knowledge is null until we give it
expression, and, in so doing, make it over
to the social instinct.
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THE NATION’S FAREWELL ODE.
On Hie Death of Stonewall Jackson.
The nation’s rock that rose amid the storm,
From earth noting high its awful form,
In mournful splendor lies ;
The tall cliff where a thousand storms have trod,
Has thundered down—that noble work of God —
Sublime no nfore to rise.
The way-mark in the victor’s upward path,
That roll’d the ocean tide of wrath,
Is shatter’d now and low;
The tow’ring pharos seen from shore to shore,
Stands up our land of hope to light no more—
This bloody world below.,
The hero’s gone! our wondrous hope entombed!
The fire that through the smoke of battle loomed
Has sunk in endless night;
The sword is sheath’d that blazed with meteor flame,
And hew’d his rugged way to endless fame,
Nor flashes now with light.
The sturdy oak that rose against the blast,
Our Jackson, our great Jackson fell at last,
But sunk to rise again;
Like some great giant sunk in battle roar,
Where brave men all their tides of life-blood pour.
And proudly leap amain.
’Neath that tall oak in fields of open air, •
He bent himself that morn in holy prayer,
And rose with living joy;
The great good vigil of his stricken land,
In brass, in Christian strength, we saw him stand,
Equipp’d for grand employ.
The tide came rolling on, and lightning flash’d,
And warworn hosts, like wrathful seas were dash’d,
Where Stonewall lines opposed;
As front to front two midnight storms were hurled,
They fearful crashed, and roar’d and shook the
w?rld,
In dreadful conflicts clised.
High in that storm, wi ll God-like mein brave,
Uur wives and homes —the whole broad land to save,
We saw our chieftain charge;
With lifted arm he went, a form of light,
As angel tossing back a dark cloud of night,
With.glorious soul and large.
The battle darker grew, and thunders roll’d,
And heroes fell, the sons of freedom bold,
To load that crimson plain ;
And O! my God! my God! and must I say,
The nation’s darling wonder fell that day,
And bled among the slain ?
We saw him from the field of strife return,
And saw his face with newborn lustre burn,
At news of grand succe’B ;
And when the bloodstained host began to yell,
He turned the song of triumph once to swell,
And God above to bless.
Bending to God’s decree as all men must,
He came besmeared with gore and battle dust,
By tearful comrades borne;
One mangled, shattered arm was spouting blood,
And waving one green palm above the flood,
From trees of glory torn.
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He mov’d amid the heroes downward crash’d,
'Where farewell tears in floodlike torrents gush’d,
And all was midnight gloom;
On fields of battle doomed to lead no more,
He left the bloody plain like one of yore,
To find an early tomb.
Forever great, his nation’s only pride,
He, like some highborn Julius Caesar, died,
All full of splendid worth;
At the broad base of God,s high throne above, .
He yielded up his life, his heart of love,
Most glorious one of earth.
lie went to do, and dare, and bravely fall,
On freedom’s lighted shrine to offer all}
And died withoul a fear;
To God arose through storms of earthly strife,
Where crowns and thrones unite, and endless life,
No moie to shed a tear.
Our sun that flash’d with splendors ever bright,
Toss’d up on morning’s cloudless wings of light,
Roll’d thru’ the midday storms
With grandeur full and glory all untold,
Has sunk at last in piles of evening gold,
To dwell with angel forms.
He’s gone—the nation weeps a sad farewell —
He’s gone where hearts with nobler rapture swell,
And burst with songs of love;
With grief we yield him up, the good and brave,
To fill in long renown an honored grave,
And live with God above.
W. D. M.
Maritin's Depot, S. C.
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