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KIWB WOKBS® WEEKLY EDITION. S. BOYKIN, Editor. TERMS PER ANNUM, INCLUDING POSTAGE: Weekly— Single Copy $ i 00 Clubs of ten or more, each 63 cts Semi-Monthly— Single copy 75 cts Clubs of ten or more, each 33 cts Monthly— Single copy 50 cts Clubs of ten or more, each 16 cts Payments may be made by installments, but in advance. 33'The Monthly Issue contains no Lessons; the Weekly and Semi-Monthly Issues do contain them. We do not write names on papers sent at club rates. Address simply KIND WORDS, Macon, Ga. WEEKLY LESSON PAPERS, Containing the Lessons and nothing more, will be furnished at the following rates, which include postage: 100 copies, one year. sl3 00 75 “ “ “ 975 60 ** “ “ 780 50 “ " “ 650 40 ** *' “ 520 25 " “ '* 325 10 . " “ ................................................ 1 65 For six months one-half the above rates, and for three months one-fourth the above rates. Communications for the Editor should not be sent with business letters, unless on a separate sheet. Send money by registered letter, postal order, or express. All business letters should be addressed simply KIND WORDS, Macon, Georgia. MACON, GEORGIA, JULY 22, 1877. Communications for the Editor only should be di rected to S. Boykin, Macon, Ga. All letters enclosing money and subscriptions for Kind Words and Lesson Papers, should be addressed to Kind Words, Macon, Ga. Two Lessons in this Paper.— As there are two lessons in this number, the paper must be carefully pre served and used two weeks. Postpone distributing the following number. Leaf Cluster.— We again recommend to infant classes the Leaf Cluster, published by Nelson & Phil lips, 805 Broadway, N. Y. With large colored pictures and type, it is a most admirable assistant in teaching the lesson. Send SI.OO and get it without fail. “Friendly Suggestions.”— A closer examination makes us more than ever pleased with this little guide to Sunday School work. We know of nothing in the same space which embraces so much excellent advice and instruction on the subject of Sunday Schools, their organization and management. Send 10 cents to Rev. T. C. Boykin, Atlanta, Ga., for a copy. THE LESSONS. We are sure you will find the lessons you are now studying interesting and profitable. We beg you to study hard; and, by all means, keep the map before you and find all the places. These lessons teach us several important things about missions. We will tell you some of them. 1. The Holy Spirit appointed and sent out the first regular for eign missionaries, Paul and Barnabas. We learned that in the first lesson of this quarter. 2. Nevertheless, the Spirit used the church at Antioch as the instrument, or means, for sending out and supporting these missiona ries. So we learn—3. That it is the duty of churches to send out and support missionaries. Now can’t you recollect these things? It follows, too, that if we want to send out a great many missionaries, it is a good plan to unite our funds for that purpose, just as the Southern Bap tist Convention tries to get the Southern Baptists to do. To Teachers. — Begin with the week, and continue to study the lesson as you have opportunity until you go before your class. This rule is worthy the considera tion of all teachers. No person can “prepare” a lesson without earnest and continued thought. It is a great mistake to put off studying the lesson to the end of the week. KIND WORDS. OUR INDIAN MISSIONS. A letter from one of our Indian missionaries, Peter Folsom, a full-blooded Indian, says: “I am preaching in two counties, Saniboy and Scullyville. As a general thing our people are not improving much in morality. The late war corrupted our people much, and a few only come into churches. In this state of things we are depending on God only to cause a great revival among the people. We are praying to Him to cause much revivals among the people ; and we are earnestly pray ing that our white brethren in the States will pray with us, for the conversion of the Indians.” He sends the statistics of thirteen Indian Sunday Schools, and they contain 429 scholars, old and young, and 50 teachers, making one teacher to every eight scholars, and an average of thirty-three scholars in each school. * ♦» PAUL. The more we study about Paul the more shall we admire him. He was staunch in principle, strong in will and purpose, brave, courteous, and full of tact and good sense. No hardship or suffering prevented him from doing what he thought right and his duty. He was learned and eloquent, and had the' power of attach ing friends to him strongly. lie stood up for the honor of the Gospel, and maintained his rights under very try ing circumstances. So great was his zeal that for thirty years he traversed the world in all directions, preaching the Gospel amid the greatest dangers and persecutions. Nothing daunted him, and death-only could stop him. *•«—<2 TRUST AND FAITH. The first is mostly the Old Testament word; the seoond, the New. But Hebrews eleventh shows us that there was a real, active, living “ faith ” in those old worthies who trusted in God. They were anything but lazy, dreaming religious quietists. Their “ trust ” was a working “ faith.” On the other hand, Christian faith is a thoroughly restful grace, busy as it may be in secur ing its own and others’ salvation. “ For we who have believed do enter into rest.” Webster’s Unabridged is good for definitions, but is it the highest pulpit or closet guide in experimental Christianity? Yet, the later faith does make advance on the earlier trust, just as the “ love of God,” in the New Testament, advances beyond the “fear of the Lord,” in the Old.— Congregationalist. .«« DOTS. The next session of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary will be opened at Louisville, Ky.—and Or. Boyce is happy. The Religious Herald gives SI,OOO to the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Well done! A Baptist lady in South Carolina lately received a legacy of $20,000, and gave SI,OOO of it to the Seminary, SSOO to each of our Boards, SSOO to Furman University, and SSOO to the Baptist State Mission Committee of S. C. May God bless her! One of the best reports adopted by the Southern Bap tist Convention was that written and offered by Dr. J. R. Graves, on sending the Gospel to the Wild Tribes in the West. Another admirable report adopted by the Convention was offered by Dr. I. T. Tichenor, on evangelizing the colored people. *.»« Bible Catechism.—We hope teachers and parents are using, every week, the Bible catechism we are pub lishing. It gets better and better, and will prove a regular series of lessons for the young. By all means teach it to the infant classes and to the little ones in the family. An Address. — At the Convention in New Orleans, Dr. E. T. Winkler, President of the Home Board, de livered an address on our Italian missions, which was greatly applauded. It has been printed in pamphlet form, under the title of Rome: past, present and future. Send 25 cts. to Dr. J. S. Lawton, Atlanta, Ga., for a copy. BIBLE CATECHISM—I 4. Temptation of Jesus. Question* — After his baptism, where was Jesus led by the Spirit ? .Answer. —lnto the wilderness. Q. What took place there ? A. He was tempted by Satan. Q. What was the first thing Satan asked him to do? .zL To make these stones bread. Q. What was the next thing? A. To cast himself down from the temple. (>. And the last thing? A. To bow down and worship him. Q. What did Jesus say to him ? A. Get thee hence, Satan; for it is written, thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shall thou serve. (J. What did Satan do ? A. He left Jesus alone. Q. How long had Jesus fasted ? A. Forty days and forty nights. Q. Who supplied his wants at that time ? A. The angels ministered unto him. Q. Was Jesus a rich man? A. No, he was very poor. (?. Was he rich in heaven ? A. Yes, the worlds were his. (?. What, then, brought him to earth ? zf. Love, nothing but love. Oh, for this love, let rocks and hills, Their lasting silence break, And all harmonious human tongues The Saviour’s praises speak. *•« INFANT CLASS PAPER. “ I have just seen your notice about issuing an infant class paper. Now that is the thing I have been looking for. If you put one forth, we will certainly take what we need.” J. N. Rogers, Jacksboro, Texas. We have received a good many such notes as this, but we wish to hear from more superintendents. .«• TO AMUSE BOYS AND GIRLS. Among the ignorant people of England, humorous mistakes often occur, even when correctness and solem nity would seem to be required. A puddler went the other day to get his child christen ed. “ What name,” said the parson, “ shall I call the child ?” “ Thoo can caal the kid owt thoo likes,” says the father. “ Weel,” says the parson, “ I think Benjamin is a very nice name.” “Varry weel,” says the father, “caal him Benjamin.” The puddler came out of the church with his wife and child, highly delighted with the name, when a thought struck him. Rushing back into the church, and over taking the parson walking down the aisle, he exclaimed, “ Hey, mister, the young squeaker’s a lass!” The parson was at a loss what to do under the cir cumstances. However, he put in an aat the end of the name, and they called it Benjamina. “ My son,” said a doting mother to her eight-year-old, “ what pleasure do you feel like giving up during the Lent season?” “ Well, ma, I guess I’ll stay away from school,” was the reply. After looking at the picture of a spouting whale for a long time, a little boy seemed to become more and more puzzled. At last he turned to his uncle and pointing to the picture, said: “ Oh, my, doesn’t he sneeze a good long way ?” A boy came down Linwood avenue a few nights since, and in an excited manner, said that there were a lot of lights in the Jewish burial ground. Half a dozen scientific men, four loafers and a dog started oft to sec them. The graveyard was as dark as such places usu ally are. “ Where are the lights?” asked a big man of the boy. The youngster backed off to a safe di.T<. ce, and yelled out: “Underground, they ait Isiaeites. He then ran for life. 3