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"tIIEIIII’W M J. M. WOOD, Editor. CeRREHI’ONDING EDITORS I W. M. UNWELL S. 11. CATE. J. C BLACKSTOCK, BUSINESS MANAGER. Cumming, Ga., Wednesday, August 18, 1880. General Missionary Associa tion of North Georgia- EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. Eld. W. C. Wilkes, Chm'n, Gainesville, Ga. “ 1). 8. McCurry, Sec., Flow’y Br’ch, Ga B. 11. Brown, Treas., Brown’s Bridge. Eld. J. M. Wood, Cumming, Ga. “ A. B. Nuckolls, “ Ga- Eld. T. G. Underwood, Eastanallee. Eld. J. E. Rives, W ooley’s Ford, Ga. C. C. Bell, Gainesville. Ga, J?D. Bagwell, “ Ga We take no responsibility for views expressed by our correspond' ents, unless we endorse them. —-—• —— A SPECIAL OFFER.—We will send the Banner free to any Bap tist minister who will send us five subscribers and five dollars. HOW TO SEND MONEY.—SmaII amounts can bo enclosed in letters written to us. Larger amounts —say four or five dollars, or more—send in registered letters. Fractions of a dollar send in three cent stamps. JOB WORK. —We are prepared to do Job Work with neatness and dispatch. Our Job Printer is one of the best. Try him. ADVERTISING—Our rates are reasonable, our circulation large, covering a large territory, R. M. West, of Clarksville, Ga., is requested to act as agent for the Banner in his section. [tf. TEACHER WANTED. A Baptist minister, well educated, who is willing to help build up a high school in a good community, healthy locatfon, in S. C., can be put in cor respondence with parties, who wish to secure the services of a good ener getic man, by writing us promptly. [2w] FAIR NOTICE. As we cannot afford to buy paper, pay postage and printers to furnish the Banner to parties, who seem un willing to pay back dues, w e propose to strike from our list the names of all persons, who are much behind in payments, on the 15th of November next and to send their accounts to their respective neighborhoods, for collec tion. After the close of the present volume in January next, we will res quire payment in advance. We can not furnish a paper without means, [tf THE BAPTIST BANNER. It is understood that Mr. A. P. Prince proposes to publish a paper, with headquarters at Cumming, to be called the Independent Citizen. It is rumored that it is to be printed and put to press in the Banner office, and in some way to be published under the auspices of the Baptist Banner. Be it known, now and hereafter, to everybody and everys where that the Baptist Banner, is what its name imports—a religious paper, and so long as I remain editor can never be induced to take part in party politics, or in any way become complicated with political enterprise es. The Independent Citizen will neither be printed, put to press, nor mailed in the Banner office. Mr. Prince proposes to put the paper be fore the public upon its merits, out side of the Banner office and the Banner auspices- It will be to the Banner just what the Clarion and other exchanges are. We do not in all this intend an}' reflection upon Mr. Prince. As an employee, we have found him effi cient, reliable honest and gentle manly in his deportment. What we do mean is, that the Banner is not in politics directly nor indirectly, and dees not intend to be. Its work is of a m®re sacred and higher kind, <4 least in i-fie estimation of the Edi tor. J. M Woon. HIGI ITOW ER ASSOCIATION. At the late session held at Con’s Creek, there was a largo gathering of Baptists. During the year, as was shown by the letters sent up, many of the churches enjoyed revival sea sons. There were reported about IGO baptisms, instead of 410 as stated last week. We met a considerable number of brethren whom we knew in days gone by and made many new acquaintances. There are in this body 41 churches and 58 minis** ters, 31 of whom ordained. If each one of these ministers would give one month to preaching to the destitute, the aggregate would be more than four year’s work for one man. The preaching which we heard during the session, was sound and good and the brethren generally “talk like Jones’ folks,’’ In years gone by the Association, led by* Elder Alfred Webb. F. M. Hawkins and others, gave consider able amounts for missions, especially foreign missions. Os late years for some reason the brethren have not done so much. Still the missionary spirit exists and is bound to increase. A very pleasing incident occurred which touched our heart and illus trated the statement just made. When much of the ordinary business had been transacted and nothing had been said about missions Deacon J. B. Wallace got up and stated that he felt impressed to talk. He had been thinking of what the Associa tion was doing and it seemed to him that, while the field was large, the brethren were doing very little for missions at home or abroad, and it was time for them to try to do some thing, that God had raised up a worthy young man (C. W. Pruitt) who felt impressed to go to the foreign field and he wan ted to hear from the brethren about it. This led io feeling talks by several brethren among whom were Father Webb, F. M. Hawkins, W, J. Pirkle, and others including the writer. During these spccchess many tears were shed and a considerable amount of money contributed as a free will of fering to aid Bro. Pruitt to prepare for the work. Bro. P. was called out and made a telling talk, stating his early impressions, to the Foreign mission work, which have matured with growing years. God, in his Providence and grace, is leading the Hightower brethren to the Foreign mission work. What forty churches with fifty eight ministers can and will do in the near future,, no man can fully estinate. Let ns lead one another as God leads each of us to the great work of spreading the pure gospel at home and abroad. As Rev. Alfred Webb is now over four score years of age and has spent the strength of his life in the good cause as repre sented by Baptists, we will bo par doned for saying that ho is regarded as the old leader in the Hightower and is held in very high esteem by the brotherhood. May' the Holy- Spirit be given in great measure to the churches and members of the Hightower guiding them in every good word and work. QUERIES. Will you please answer the follows ing queries and oblige many readers ? Enquirer. 1. Should Christian men be invited into the pulpit to preach who have not been baptized ? Ans. We think not and so Baptists have ever thought and so think all denominations of Christians. 2. Docs it not take a proper ads ministrator (Z. e.) a baptized minis ter, a proper subject, (Z. e.) a regen erated believer, an • immersion in water and that by proper authority (Z. e.) a chujch, to constitute a Scrip tural baptism. Ans. The 2d query contains five propositions and we answer them all yes sir. A man who has not been baptized, (even refuses to be) cannot render acceptable service in this di l * rection. One who is an unrogeners ate unbeliever can not take the vows implied in baptism—can not declare his death to sin and his life in Christ. Nothing but immersion, in water, is Bible baptism. 3. If any one fails in any of these conditions is he baptized ? Ans. Not scripturally. 1. If a man leaves his wife for any cause save for fornication -gets a di vorce and mariies anoHier. is he liv ing in adultery ? And is the woman ' he marries guilty of the same sin ? I Ans. Jesus says, in Mathew 5-32 : ! “But I say unto you, that whosoever 1 shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication causeth her to commit adultery ; and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced, committeth adultery.’’ And in Mat, 19-8 He says : “And I say unto you whosoever shall put away his wife except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery, and whoso marrieth her that is put away, doth commit adultery.” These two passages answer the questions. From this law of Christ there is no appeal and to it no exceptions. MEDLEY. We call especial attention to the, advertisement of the Georgia Baptist Female Seminary which appears in another column. The Seminary has marked advantages in location,cheap ness and educational facilities. Send your daughters to the Seminary. Tl.e sermon of T. T. Eaton deliver ed before the American Baptist Pub lication Society, though lengthy, for a Banner article, will bo read with interest and profit. Ministers espe cially should read every word of it and all would do well to preserve it. It will do to take care of. Hope the brethren who are men tioned, in an article by W. C. Wilkes, will respond promptly to his wishes and that other contributors will send us articles upon subjects of their own selection. As for the editor, he proposes to commence the work as signed him, in next issue of the B. B. Baptist Banner Fund.—At the late meeting of the Ex. Com. of General Missionary Association a good broth er suggested that a fund might be raised to furnish the Banner free to aged and indigent ministers who wanted it but not able to pay for it; and also to widows of ministers and other widows who were poor in this world’s goods. A few persons have paid for the B. B. for such purposes and the Banner owners furnish sevs oral copies free to such personiX’ Bro. Almand of Conyers sent a dollar this week for a minister. If it is in the heart of those who have means respond to this suggestion we will see that the money is properly used. Wish wc were able to send to every such person. The meeting at Hopewell, (Eld. T). j S. McCurry, Pastor,) resulted in fifty ■ additions. Among them there were twelve men and their wives. Do not fail to read the advertisement of the Georgia Female Seminary. Send your daughters. Brethren ministers; look over the; objects of benevolence presented by ! W. C. Wilkes and give your people a! chance to do something for Jesus. ! Sister Laura Richards handed us 75 cts., when at the Hightower Asso ciation, to add to the Pruitt fund.! This was given by her neighbor sissj ters and is the fourth time sister R. 1 has sent money for same object.; Suppose all sisters should work this i way, what a move we should have! i We have answered our share of: queries this week, but some arc left ’ over for a future time. The Biblical Bccordet thinks we! are right about credits for items: which find their way in other papers without credit and brother Bailey! says he pursues the same course as ourselves—that is just lets them go to the reading world credit or no credit. Campmeetings are in order now— the one at Salem (Baptist) commenc ed last Friday night and one at Hol brook's (Methodist) about the same time. The one at Friendship will begin Thursday night the 19th. Who will work a little for the Ban ner at revival meetings so as to get young members to take it and thus start their Baptist life in reading a religious paper? At these camp meeting gatherings too brethren can help us if they will. Baptist Meeting.—Rev. Wm. M. Davis pastor proposes to commence a meeting Thursday night the 26th inst. at the Cumming Baptist church and to continue several days. The community and members of neigh boring churches are earnestly invited to attend. Our friend G. E. S. is on the way to promotion He received two no tices in one day one to work the road and the other to act as Chair -1 man of the Democratic Executive Committee of Forsyth county. He 1 still survives and looks to be in usual health. An educated, oompetent Bapli-t minister who is willing to do good in building up a high school and in preaching to an interesting commu nity would do well to write us a line or two about it. The Executive Committee of the General Missionary Association had a pleasant meeting at Flowery Branch the 10th inst. Eld. A. B. Nuckolls agreed to furnish the B. B. with the proceedings of the Committee. The sermon of brother Eaton, wc hope, will be worth the subscription price of the Banner to each reader, especially to ministers who are to teach the people. The Clarkesville and Lawrenceville Associations meet this week. Hope the brethren will remember the Bin ner and that they may have profita ble meetings. The Baptist Courier concedes that to practice pulpit affiliation and close ccmmunion is logically inconsistent. The Beliyious Herald says not so, and advises the Cornier “not to put such a club as that into the hands of Landmarkers.'’ Well, this logical club has been in the hands of Land markers a long time, and with it. many honest warriors have been con qnered. Somebody reports to the Be- iyions Jlerald a dog fight at church and a dog that seized the loaf at commun ion service. Let the pastors make a separate appointment for dogs and not have the congregation mixed with the canine and the human. We tried that once successfully. But if that fails let the churches appoint an additional officer and call him Dog- Killer. Prof. C. C. Guilford of Atlanta has been elected president of the mu-ic department of Mary Sharp College, Tenn He has a sp'endid reputation as a man and professor of music. The procihdiiigs of ll.c Union Meeting of Ist District 2d Georgia Association will appear next week. Politics. —As we are to Lave coun ty, district, State and national elec tions this Fall, the people will likely be more than usually excited. Poli lies will run high. We advise chris | tians, especially ministers, ordained i and licensed to avoid political com plications and excitements. We can study questions and do our duty as citizens without dabling in politics. Let us save our breath and fervor of spirits for a better and holier cause. I No minister can meddle much in this line without injuring his influence for good. We wish the little folks to send answers to Aunt Matilda’s riddles to Aunt Fennie. By ibe way you have | not answered Uncle Cate’s last ques- : tions. ITEMS OF INTEREST. Hon. IE P Bell was nominated by aecia- ■ mation at the Gainesville convention as a , candidate for Congress in the 9th district. J Now for Bell and Speer. The convention, which met in Atlanta on ! the Ith to nominate a candidate for Gover- ‘ nor and State House officers adopted the two thirds rule, and after trying for nearly : a week, they failed to nominate under the : rule, Colquil having a large majority of the whole vote. The majority finally agreed to put Colquit before the people without a for mal nomination. Mr. Tennyson is taking a long journey through Italy and Switzerland. England has become stirred up about her ' troops in India, and is sending reinforce- i nients. It takes New York, Philadelphia, Brook lyn, Chicago, St, Louis and New Orleans to equal London in size.—Star. Subscription for the erection of a Female College in troy, is being taken. Henry County Register. The following items are from the Ala. Baptist: Mr. Thomas Underwood, Jr , of Autauga county, together with a horse he was riding, was killed by lightning on Monday evening, in that county. -Advertiser. In the course of a few months the Bap tists here will erect a fine college building. - Greenville Advocate. The cotton crop is maturing about a week earlier than last year. Troy Enquirer. Eighty thousand very poor Baptists lately converted from heathenism, gave last year for the spread of the gospel. Dr. Tanner says he procured a divorce from his wife because she was addicted to eating cabbage and onions. Accordin'? to present estimates mder the new census, the Southern States will lose ; thirteen representatives in Congress, and ■ may possibly gain three two in Texas and i one in Missouri. Washington, July 27. By direction of the President. Major General W. 8- Han cock, United States army, in addition to his present duties, has been assigned to the command of the Department of the South during the temporary absence of Brigadier General C. C. Augur on detached service in tins city. On Friday morning last the. steamer City of Vicksburg, sunk while lying at Ashport, Tenn. No one was injured- Ths boat and cargo are a total loss. j The Raleigh Obstrter thus sums up North i Carolina’s representation in the cabinets : I “Hon. John Branch was /secretary of the ' Navy In 1829, under President Jackson - Hon. George E. Badger filled the same of- I flee in 1811 by appointment of President j Harrison Hon. Wm. A. Graham was also i Secretary A the Navy’ under President Fill more’s admini; tration, in 1850, and Hon. James ('. Dobbin served in the same capac ity in President Pierce’s cabinet. Hon. Samuel F. Phillips, as acting attorney Gen eral, has frequently attended the cabinet mectin ;s of President Hayes. Biblical Re corder. The number of the North Americamßeview will contain an article on the ruins of Central America, by M- Char nay, the leader of the expedition now ex ploring Central America under the auspices of the American and French Governments; also a paper on the trial of V'rs. /Surratt, containing many new facts, written by the only surviving member of her counsel. Land in China has been under cultivation every year for SCO years without deteriora tion of the soil. This result is effected by returning to the soil everything taken from it that is not consumed. Here, then is the secret of the remarkable richness of Chi.-, nese soil. /Seven hundred immigrants from Europe, converted to Mormonism, arrived at New York last week and left almost at once for the land of /Sodom. It is very strange that such a curse should defy all decency and flourish in spite of law and authority.— Seven hundred more examj les of lust and enmity to onr institutions. How long is Mormonism to be tolerated? A table of statistics prepared for presen tation at the Raikes Centennial Celebration at London, gives among others the follow ing figures: United States, 82.2(11 Sunday schools, 866,328 teachers, and 6,623,124 scholars, and in the world, 1,460,881 teach ers. and 12,310,316 scholars, Webster county develops the last horror. Jfrs. Gunnols, the wife of a well to do far. ■ mer, administered morphine to herself and nine children. It was put in some lemon ade and the children all drank of it during the absence of the husband. That she pre pared the dose deliberately there is no room to doubt from the note she left. '1 he lady and three of the children will die, the oth ers will’probably recover. -Gwinnett Her. J. Madison Broadus, of Virginia, a bro ther of Dr. J. A. Broadus, and a prominent railroad man, and a Baptist is dead. President Diaz has appointed a Roman Catholic priest as judge of the supreme court of the republic of Mexico. Joseph Days, now an inmate of the county poor house at Milwaukee. Wis., owned five banks before the war and was worth $6,- 000,000. The election in Alabama last week for State and county officers resulted in victory for the Democrats over the combined for ces of the republicans and independents. ’1 his’is but the presage of the victory that i the Nation d Democratic party will score in November. Monroe Adv’r. ”A sister in North Carolina has what she ' calls ‘ Sunday eggs.” 'These are the eggs ' her hens lay on Sunday; and she carefully saves every one of them to sell, and gives the money for Foreign Missions. Sisters, here is a worthy example.' Bap. Reflector. “If a Baptist school of equal excellence and nearness is to be found, we should con- i sider Baptist parents very disloyal to their j own faith if they failed to send to it in pre-: ference to any f iber.” Western Recorder. The Athens Banner has been sold to Messrs. Ch pman and Ingraham, of the Washington (Ga ) Gazette. The Toccoa News says a third wire is be ing put up on tbe telegraph line between Atlanta and Charlotte, to be used as part of a through line between New York and New Orleans. 1 The Carnesville Register says that Wil liam Brawner, son of Dr, A. W. Brawner, * has not eaten anything in fifty-two days. - ! He is sick with fever. i Ihe London World announces the ap-1 proaching marriage of the Baroness Bur dett Coutts, aged 66 and never before mar ried, to a young American named Ashmead Bartlett, aged 29 years. To marry this youth the aged Baroness gives up £IOO,OOO, half a million of dollars, of her annual in come. —.- ■ WHAT IS YOUR LIFE? IT IS EVEN A VAPOR.—James iv : 14. Dear Banner—ln meditating upon the comparison of our life in St. James, I am made to exclaim f This is a short lived world. We may praise it or despise it; we may love or grow weary of it ; but however we may esteem it, its course is very brief compared with the vastness of the world to come the glory of the! endless ages that stretch themselves beloiie the saints of Heaven. ( <un i pared with tbe mighty possibilities of the everlasting state, bow brief, ' how transient, how uncertain is the ■stage in which we live. Our life is a ; vapor that vanisheth away ; our days are sw’ift as the arrows flight; time hastens on with restless strides, and tbe great grand future of eternity rolls steadily onward to meet ns as we pass the boundaries of this tran sient world. Oh, that we who have been charmed by earth’s beauties, and entangled amid its snares, could learn how brief its stay is; how soon its pomp shall fade ; bow soon its joys shall pass away ! “The life that now i-s,” is like one grain of sand as compared with the wide reaching shore, and the joys and pleasures that have engaged our thoughts are but motes in the sunbeam when com pared with the enduring glory which shall fill the eternal existence of God’s redeemed with briglUnoss and gladness perpetual as the years of Heaven. This is a short lived world, whether it be fil ed with joy or sor row, light or shade it matters little. Here we are to work or wait, but ■ soon all Will be over, and the eternal day will dawn ; the clouds and 1 shades and storms will pass, and oh, that we, when the morning breaks, may, as “children of light’’ be found • watching and waiting, prepared for I the bright and everlasting day ! ; Dear reader let us take the admo ! nition of onr blessed Saviour in John xxiv: 42 : “Watch therefore, for ye I J know not what hour your Lord comcth.” Also John xxv : 13, and Mark xiii : 33. May all remember that we are as the grass that flour ishes in the morning, in the evening it is cut down and witbereth. J M. W. Gillespik. Walnut Hill, Ga. OBJECTS OF CHRISTIAN BE NEFICENCE. Dear Brethren: At the request of your Executive Committie, a list is lure given of the various objects which we consider worthy of our prayers and our con tributions. Not that these are all the objects of benevolence, but these are embraced in the Constitution of i The General Missionary Baptist i Association of Xorth Georyia. Let i each give to whatever object he pre f rs. I think it is our duty to con- I tribute to several, for we do not know which will piosper most, whither this or that. The Bible saxs, “B’eis cd are ye that sow beside all waters,” Isaiah 32: 20. “In the morning sow !*tliy seed, and in the evening withhold i Lot thine hand: for thou knowestnot < whether shall prosper, either th’B or i that, or whether they both shall bo ■alike good.’ Eccl. 61: 6. But no odd : can expect to reap who does not sow. Send up to your Associations, or to Bro. B. IL. Blown, Treasurer, at Brown's Bridge, Forsyth county, Ga-, ior to Chairman of Executive Com mittee at Gainesville, Ga., conU'ibus I tions for: 1. Missions—Foreign. Indian or Domestic. 2. Old worn out needy Baptist preachers. 3. Education of young men pre paring for the ministry#. : 4, For Baptist Colleges—tbe Fe -1 male Seminary at Gainesville, and Mtrccr Univer.-.ily at Macon. Wm. C. Wilkes, C’b’b Ex. Com. G. M. B. A. of N. Ga. —ra- Go to J. F. Duffey and buy a genuine Stewart Sewing Machine. They are tbe cheapest because they are the best. Orel, Jefferson County, Kt., ) August 7th..1880. f Elder J. M. Wowd, Editor B. B.: Bear Brother: I never write un less I think 1 have something to communicate, Last week I preached some four nights at Scott’s School House, Jefferson county, Ky., bad a good meeting—one by baptism. This is a destitute field, no church near. I have been preaching all this week in Harrison county, Ind., at my mission station, assisted a part of the time by Eld. T. J. Maynard, of Lou isville, Ky. Had a splendid meet ing; seven boldly came out or. tho* Lord’s side, and enlisted under the banner of onr Savior. Many others professed Christ but as wo here have church organization, they hesitate to follow Christ into the river and be buried in baptism with Christ. I hope to- be able So write yow again soon from Mt. Carmel, Ky., as j I begin there to morrow a meeting of doy«- Yours in Christ, i ’ B. F. W. G".-.<