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f h t U^.jiaM. WW o bitpjv f< tlio eh«rob hi MoMinttTfll* Tina. rMtu *)olit*ii4 ftitd •tni||l«; tM arabli Mlf-MwrtCo*. u d tiit ooblo l ibmli^ of Ja4«« llMBel. th« bmtiU-All iMWdlii^h, Atraiilied^d MAted in modan Xylo, and ready forda4iMtion,flr«oordtbt. Tho other ehwQliee aJI dinniMed tb«ir Mnrioei, lo that the hoQM WM fttll »nd (yntiowing. 3Iao7 wen tamed away, not beios Able toietateodiogroom.

Aftwr atniing and reading the Scrip-toree. Or. Stdnbaefc. of the OnmberUnd Preib/teriMi ohareh, offisrod an eameit pnyer. Another mg, end then the ohaimian of the bnildiog oommittee, A, H. Fenlkner, Eaq., read the follow-inf paper:

MoMwifviLr,*, T inn., September 16.18©.~We,the boilding oommittee

,Tho ohnrch hire fe'ola ^reirtly en-^^^onri^. For thotrrt time in seTeml

hoino-in a hotue of f e ir own—ohe of which th«y are Jnatly

They need «little help to keep l ^ t o r for «little while. The oongre-

are good and the ontlobk en-

io t t t l i a d Vordik

You have reoeiyed^mtny oongratnla-tione iiiooe the two papen oonaolidated. •ome from distant 6tetol^ The laat i«-•ue^ contained * vary cordial "hand

Wend and fFiauu worker in Florida: »leo a letter ftom Texw. TheMcn oouragingworde firom the diatanee tndi*

tW ^olportage Work i n .

- - - . - a » v « » « « e , BathMlt . thick - T h e report on paatorS mpport oftheBaptiatohuroh of McMinntille.

itn proud of oar new State

^ Hol«tonVallvA«i<Jol*aoi ProvldenoA ehnroh Htmilton, iiindioioai leyaui.ti,1nQaeni-tor. Eaitanallee elected Ik e ^ r aUo Thii ii oortainly n e t ^ tn the right direction, there nre niii^ reuona why a laymut ihould be mcHler' •tor. .

. r ? " wero weU enter-tainedand^lenjoyed the »«ting.

- T h e body had the p lomw of A good honaein whioh to doitahoaioeii,

—Tihii Aaeocitdon h»i A eehool In-terut »t Penis, and ia now erecting a very nice baddlng. ^ ^

- T h e BxAmtivo Bo«4 ii taking hold of th# Ootportage Work in good

now make oar flnni report, , On the 9th dey of Jane. 1838, the

Baptirtohorohof JfoMinnville, Tenn., waa 8nt oiganiied with ten membert-one man and nine women. (The one man ww Bev. J . M. D. Gates.) They built a small ch«roh boose on Lyon •treet, and lor a time the ohurch was very proeptrous.

In 1846 there were one hundred and fifty-flve members. The church con-tinued to worship in the old honse, uoUl » few years ago, it became so di. Itpidsted it had to be nbandoned. The church then having no place to worship bewme more or lees disorganised.

About Mawh 21.1888, a few of the members determined to baUd a new

- oar new Bute pa-per. Now the congratubtion I do-rire to ttctend is that tho Baptist awD RiFtKCTOB has, in so short n while, pown to such a handsome paper as this Isst issue. I am more pleased at the r ^ l t s of the union than I was at the anion itself.

Our work here in Olarksvillo moves smoothly on. under the conserviUve leadership of Dr. A. D. Sears and Pro-, feasor J. F. Parker, our pastor and Sandsy-sehooi superintendenL AJ. though oar Methodist and Presbyterian fHends here both outnumber us,and have

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Testerdsyl rmrta into ttie ei^tak ^ teWe.preaohia* ftiin ;

tFoOodbeiUtli^j visitation of his j

Atlanta,Oa." ^ Rj^^-rM^rbwtlJwa

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night. Brother Griffin preached a real work sermon on Fridiqr night.

—There were twenty'one charohes reported in the body this year, and one hundred and thirteen baptisms. Eighty-six dollars reported for all missions.

—This Association falls into line on the Sunday-school and colportage work of the State. It haa some fbndsal-re^y and proposes to raise noney and push this work. ^^ , — w « « « i nopnc wns

at Persia have a good ^ T " ? ' ihool •recting an elegant |

Association " " "

T ^ s abont Whcttho yonnfli^si^vr' Praftasor Hamittoa's eehool in Bdg^iltid A visitor who eallod bno "" during the midday s M o u s park liko groonia alif* wfi^i gtrli. A partrof thejttoiola^iloate tared a light wagoni l o u U d i t l ^ n i ; seniors, whilootbori at the sh»fkfjt«4r pushiiif la th«r«Mr imt Itapiai i^

house of worship, although the future I"«"''?'»®"?J'®»'»<>"to«mberus,andhave •««ed very dark and X y d W ± o^do-jom national schools, y t ^ n g obetaelee presented themselves. i»fl««oe is felt as much as theirs.

B«t ,bythehelpof6odandthe . id o H i " i r \ - T r I" thi> good p«,pl. of MoMlnnviUe and T ^ onr Wends and brethren .broad, we ^ now have thU house m you see it It t S K . •^""o'.Hon here. If our is clear of debt and ready for dedication - S S S " to inoreass in ratio to the service of G o i T h S o X ' ^ V ^ ® 'Iways re-J the amount of mon y rTeiv d „ d S ^ ^ diabursed by na: M^®? • ^'Ver MeeUng, orgaqiped about Reived for old bailding I 300 00 . • Ho, has been running ever Prom membersof this ohnroh. 2482 60 ^ t**® I nent departments of the church work.

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Lait Friday night our church granted the request of some eight or ten churches, situated in this and Stewart eounUci, that thoy be allowed to hold a convention with us to deoide the ques-Uon of changing their membership firom Kentucky to Tennessee AssooUtlon. Brother 0. H. Barnes, the misslonair for Bethel Association (Ky.), who planted several of the churches and has since watered them, Is in favor of ther uniting with Cumberland Asiociation, (Tenn.). There is some talk of fbrming e n e w ^ i a t i o n , butonr church Will, ofooafse, tise her inHuenoe t< gM them to Joitt Camberfaiad: Vhe exact

oonferance ia not, yet Hxed. Yoiiri^^raall |r,W.D. ToUwtir.

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school and are erecting school building. The - . - w should be proud ofthis enterprise,

—ihe body ordered a oollectionon Sunday for Sute Missions, which amounted to thirteen dollars. A col- , lection ofsixdolhrswss taken for For- phbyear? Oarsoa and eign Miasiona. ' I 1 . - 4 — .

-AUbusineas being done, and with-out that impaUeace usually seen at the I 'oong ladiea, aador diroM^ ^ close of auoh meetings. The moderator PW«M«nt and ftinlv of old Mary made a telling speech encou^ng the oba^Oollsfo ; irhiteWinoh^kAla't brethren, both Uymen an4 preachers, j "Itlp ivaBymMMtbat {»

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He is a grand man. oanyiag oa thi bidaehool with vigor and abandaat oigpHtMlf^i;^^

Wehavebad alScious meetiag In T , i 'nii?"** our churah which h a Just d o Z d ^ j k j ^ ^ f H J - * ^Ji* i f f a nigbUy service of thJeeweeb. T S ^ f t ^ I f have had a revival of the «».«bership of the church, almost eveiy individual ffilTi.w«w fat-communicanthavingbaenrLhed Cor congregations have been very largo and . " " T * ' iOai, tao-r much spiritual Interest manifest apon " e l r odaaatloa at ftlio , the part of the unconverted. IJIem converts have been baptised, one mem- S i i l S ^ ^ T J ' . ! ! ^ her restore<|, two reeelved byletter,and ST other additloni looked f o r / of conveiiion wia confined to memUn of the Sandsy-wihool. n i l ^ ^ S S I W t S ^ h a ^ ? ^ -the sohpol oomlbf to jaaua. Hfbaieb-«^BragBmwli,to tMMhen t o ^ falthibL l laoat all thoaf baptise4 a n the childrea of believing parento, and ar« the ohUdrea of nanyprayt^ Them that honor na, will I hqnor.^

Wo had valt^bla and Mnely aidf^m tho following minlatm: T h a B n . W. U. Cooper, of OaruravUla. who preaohad

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(«} U WW l iml t^ to p«g»n M -t i o u 1 « i » | f t f r]Bfiv«r l i M ^ of the hi** tori« Ohrbl, u d , tbdnforo, h«4 DO op« portanity to MMpt or n^feot liim. 80-lioitaile Yor thft hMtfa«ti, h o w e m , did not orlgiMtA tbe hypottiMUl, nor does it 10 W p ^ t 'decrw nttkin tlie tbmry ukd Itoldit b«foro tho publio mM^ W« B0i9t lu i i »aspeet Ui« tiiMr7 <>r proba-tion a(iflr i iaii^ i i • aiiimstfon of him

'' (bo (od of tbi« world, th'<|J prioM of thU ppwtr of the air, thf* (pint that now worketh in tbo obildrM of di«ob«dionoe, who eridently 4««irw the heathen for his inberitaiiM and tbo attt^moat part of A e ^ r hit poiMMion." I t U ^ a - b i n t Mbo of that finit Uni-Tenm^- Mmon in the garden of Edea flfbn the text, " Tbon ahalt not raroij difc" ^htare probation for the hMth^ft if prol^ablr an artfol lure of the arb&^eoeiTer, to Isl! the oonMlenoe of pafaiiia« and to dampen the ardor of ProtMtantism in all great miaaionary enterjpriwM. When aiaaionaiy atationa are girdling the world, when milHona are poared into the treaaarj of the Lord to aend the goapd to all nations, when eTei7^ntliMnt and ialand of the aea ia bdng explored by our miaiionariea, when hermit nationi are opening the gatee of empire^ be not anrpriaed if Satan ahonld raggeat why all thia waate of stoney, why all thia ha*t« of mawagei; there ia a more oonrenient aeaaoa after death, for d i i not Ghriat preaeh anti the ajrfrita in prison ? Sa-tan'i wrath i t great, for hia time ia abort Be not deoeived, be not igno-rant of bia devieea. H e will out the n e m of miaaionary enterpiiae; he will nndermine all eonrietiona of eternal dangMr to the heathen if they are not aared in thia l ife; he will auggeat that Oodwill not be ao nnJoat aato condemn the heathen by the light of nature; that he ia too wiae to err; too good to Ira un-kind, true in Itaelf, oonoealing a lie. The age of world-wide evangeliam ia al-ao an age of oniTeraal diaboUam. An-other reaaon for belieYing that anxiety for the heathen did not originate, the theory of probation a<W death ariaea from the ftot that thia artiole of faith ia dbreetly oaleahtedi to deatooy all anxiety fbr the heathen and remove all apprehentiona of their fntore condi-tion. Snppoee two niaaidnarica go to heathen lasda, one with the "old thetilogy," and the other with the " new theology.' * i ,

One aayiH ** How ahall y« deeape if ye negliet 00 greikt aalMtion ? " The othw aayi " T« ahall eeeape via the jreat hy-potheda^^' One aaya, Bei>ent and be eonnrtedi every one of yon." The other aa^, " IPhert i i repentance after death." One aaya, " Now ia the ao-o tpt i i tine»and now ia the day of aal-taOoik" The other repllea, Now ia not the only time, not the only day of aalntion." One aaya, " He that lie^eth not ahall be damned/' The other aaya, He thai belieTeth not ahitU i o l bo dkmned ontii he h w had antflhir ehanee in the fiattire atat«.r O i i t i i ^ ** IH' the day thon eateat thereof thou ahalt anrely die.!' The otheraaya, "Thon ahAlenotiarelydie."

Oooiiidi^Widenbl'lhat A lahy i^he-aia ^ d ' nok'briiiiiftiii i i any' real and

" " ' ' f o i r ' t h i ^ ^ t h e n

m o n ^ ikod malUtadea of miaaionaidee to reclaim the loat hMthen worl^ On the other Kand we are told that " there ia ji probation after death for all who have not heard of the hiatorio Ohrist" There ia, tharefote no need of great en-ergy and aelf-aMrifiee, and they are not in imminent danger of being loat.

Thia iaproof poaiare that aolicitade for the beatlien did not originate and doea not anatdin thia new goepel.

Be not deoeived, for aaoh arefalae apoatlea, deceitftil workera,tranarormiDg thenuelrea into the apoetlea ofObriat, and no marvel, for SaUn himaclf i i trana-formed into an angel of light. There-fore, it b no great thing if hia miniatera aiao bo tranaformed aa the miniatera of righteonaneaa," WbuM end ahall be ao-oordiog to their worka." 1 Cor. xi. ISh

Not aolicitade for the heathen originated thia theory, aince it ia di-rectly calculated to deetroy all aolicitade for their aalvation. Thu leads as to another item in the historical and cate-gorical statement of the treat hypothe-sia.

( i . ) The next step in " the progress-ive theology" was to offer afntore pro-bation to all those in Christian buida who have not had Christ made known to them; and even if aome have heard Christ and have not " here and now de-termined themaelvee against him," they may have the offers of aalvation in the intermediate atate.

Finally, Chriat may be preached to any man in hadea who did not have enough knowledge of Chriat h e n to be convinced. Or, to quote from a recent number of the Andover Rcoitw, " In the case of those who have aome knowledge of Christ, we do not think that any man baa the power or the right to judge either of the adequacy of the knowledge, or of the correaponding responsibility of those who have it." If thia gospel of pocraatination iatrne, mialed men have nothing to fear in death. AppMl to them on their death-beda to repent, tell them " it is a fear-ful thing to fall into the handa of the living God," for "our Ood ia a eonauming fire," and they will reapond, "away with fear, I ahall have more knowledge in the next life, and there I may accept aalvation." Or, he may

.disarm you by aaying, " I do not think that any man baa the power or the right to Judge of the adequacy of the knowl-e d ^ , or of the corresponding responsi-bility. I believe in the p r o g i ^ v e theology—K>r endleaa progreaaion of the human' intellect I appeal from thia diapensation to a future and a better one. I appeal to hadea for more light—light enough to be convinced that Chriat wai Ood, and that hia aalvation iaa reaUty." No. a

I f told by Andover that ' those who have the gospel while they are in the body are in the decisive period," the dying man may reply, "My lateat inatruetlona are that no man haa the power, or the right, to judgia of the adequacy of the knowledge or of thd mrrOaponding reaponaibility. t am alao told i f «v^r A aoul ahall be-come ' llxlid in evil,' it will not be un-tU * ail the poaaibilitlM 'of tho tiniterso at* exhatiateA thftt wdtild alter tho ehsrao^.' 1 go bettee to have tlto beneflt of «U the ponibilltiai of ^ e univiTBel" I t will be «Mn by thiaw ataiMinti of the "H«w Theology " thi^t the p ^ t of grealMt interiiet ia nOt

limit' Jectod OEdiPg a i p , ailR eladt all who h a ^ not h id knowledge to b%^!ivinoed.

The trend, Vowever, of thia whole theory ia b the direotion of a nniveraal offer of aalvation to all inankind in the futtire atktewho did not aeoept it in the present life. In abort, the great hypotheaia ia practically old a n i t e n ^ -iam writ new. Universaliata and Unit*-riana have aiwaya advocated ettdlana progreaaion of all men in the fntare state,and the "progreasive theology" ia to them a moat welcome gueat They dialike the term "new theology." They prefer "progreealve orthodoxy," or "the theological renaisaance," or " the real theology," aa they call i t They profeaa to hold the early Greek theology, instead of the later Roman or Angustinian. They contemplate a re-constmction of theology along the linea of science and reaaon. Instead of eon-forming the age to theology, theology itself muit be adapted to the age. Thia "new theology" is not only revolu-tionary, but evolutionary. It is a wide-spread and rapidly increasing defection from the old standard of dootrine, an attempt to break down the barriers be-tween the church and the world. I t is a maudlin sentimenUlism that would abolish hell, tone down divine Justice, and soften the aaperitiee of moral law. It ia much like the preaching of a min-ister to the rich sinners in hia c o n g r ^ -tion, when he atid, " I f you do not re-pent aa it were, and ba converted in a measure, you will be damned to aome extent." The authority of Chriatian consciouaneaa ia made co-ordinate with the Bible. Bat if "Christian con-scionsnesa ia the ultimate source of authority in religious truth," then any man may have a different Bible.

The old theology is strongest where the new theology " u weakest, via : in the Scriptures. Its drift ia away from a scriptural system of Christian dootrine, with a tendency toward l*dlagianism." " progressive orthodoxy " is apt to be-come " regressive heterodoxy."

But as Dr. George E. Ellis, the scholarly Unitarian, affirms, "The Bible taken with all the especial divine quality that Christ ordained for it, and so ext«nsively assigned to it, is an ortho-dox book. It yields what is called the orthodox creed. Only that kind of ingeniona special discrimination, and in candor'I must add forccd treatnjient, which it receives from as liberals, oan make the book teach any thing but orthodoxy. Orthodoxy can not re-ad-Jaat ita creed until it re adjuats its estimate of the Scripturea."

Such are the firank eonfeaaiona of one of the foremoat (Jnitariana of the United Sutea. To which wa add, ortho-doxy muat re-acUnst ita .eatimate of the Soriptnrea before it can teach pro-bation afUr death. We fear the inter-pretation ia more ingeniona than ingen-uoaa that prcjecta a probation entirely Uirough the intermodiate.atate.

The Bomania^ reatorationiat and an-nihilationlat warn the wicked of an aw-ful fntnre, if they do not rapent in this life, but the probationiat, tesches Uiat the chances ofauffisring In Uie ftitnre for deeds done in the body,, art i'nealoa-lably amall. They teaeh that it is aaiii for the ainner to • die in hia aina. W h e n Berlpttire doaa not contain " as explldt divine tsaohing, sneh as thsr d e ^ Seriptwre is eiihiiied. to anil the •nMrgenqr. Atod alnee the Bible no-

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^ i j » g o n .whi<ih to fojrta napensibl^ Chriatlana, and henee are not ainnem. Therefore, In order for a heathen to es-cape Judgment and puniahmaat he m u t not hear of Chriat and hia gospel, for nntil be doea ha ia not reaponaibie. Chriat ia to condemn alnnera, and if the heathen are not responsible they are not sinners. Henoe^ the only sinless beings in tho worid are psgans—the on-ly people t t for heaven. Such ia the rtducHo ad abturdvm. Condemnation ia based generieally ulwn the ainftilneM of nature and llfe,apeoiically by neglect or rejection of the gospel.

Th» CtthoUot and tht l i o u o r Power.

At the Cumberland Association in (a talk on Home Miasions, I allnded to the possible alliance between theCatho lio and the liquor powers, and, as an illostration, stated the facta related io the subjoined letter. A brother who was preaent felt called upon, for aome reaaon, to defend the Catholics, and in a aemi-pnblic manner called in question t a e t m t h e f my atatements. Not only for hia aatiafaotion, but in order to make public a very instructive incident, I wrote to Mr. Hawkina and secured hia atatement of it as follows:

Louisville, September l a C. 8. Gardner, Nashville, Tenn.:

D I A K BEOTUIB—I haaten to reply to your letter in regard to theatoryof the Catholic priest I am tiie man that told you that. I waa building a aewer for the city, in Shelby atreet, near Broadway, in front of the Catholic church; had a ditah five or aix feet wide and ten or twelve feet deep, and 00 Saturday evening I waa arranging things along the line ao aa to be in u good ahape aa pooaible for the Sabbath at the regular crossings, making walk-ways over. The priest, with hia longro^ on, came ont and aaked me if I waa the contractor. I answered, " Yea, air." He then aaked me if I would not make acroesing opposite the church—a bar room being on the other side—io aa to make it convenient for hia congregation to go over and get their beer on to-morrow. I told him, no, I had never made a bridge for any body to go to bell on, and I 'II not begin It now. . . .

Tour brother, W. H . H A W K I N S , Beaoon of Cedar Creek Baptiat chnrcb.

Jefferson county, Kentucky. The above incident though aeeming-

ly a trifle in itaelf, will, when taken in connection with many other facts and tandencies of the times, start in thoughtful minda a train of profitable meditation. I believe thsit the maebi-nationaof the Roman Catholio church will be brought to naught, and that the liquor power will be ground to dust un-der the tremendous pressure of an aroused Christian senUment; but would it not add greatly to the effeot-ivenesa of theaetwo evil foreea if they should combiner What element of fctrength is lasking to the liquor trafio except some show of moral and relig-iona Sanction? Atad might not the Roman ehtoreh exchange this very ad-vaatagaously fbr the taiighty financial b a o k i ^ o f t h e liqnor ttafio? At any rata theae things will do to think about

O.8.QAMINIB.

—Marriage is nsuaUy a fliilaiw when anuM .thifdta h* is aianjrli|«ianaagel aadl the wossan a man Ilk* to a aovsliat'a bsroi .

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BT RBV. OUOIDDIL BVONXAAK, L I . .D .

Tboa jkr we have apofc«i» of the auo-oess of th« gospel io>«ia'fe9' sieans of Eoropew fHreachsra. '- BaMre shall now exhibit to yo<t e^&noe:«^m anoUier wurce, from a « w and anexpected qasrter. We are now to declare what bss been done independently of onr ex-ertions, and in r e ^ o a where we have no laborers and no acoeas. And thu I do to show you, whether we asaiat in the work or not, it is God's will that it sboald begin. Vou have hitherto been contemplating the Light in India. We •re now to announce to you that a ligbt hath appeared In Arabia, and dawned, u it were, on the Temple of Mecca itaelf.

Two Mahometans of Arabia, persons of consideration in their own country, have been lately converted to the Chris-tian faith. One of thom haa Utely Buf-fered uiirtyrdom, and the other ia now engaged in tranalating the Scriptures and in concerting plana for the conver-lion of his countiymen. The name of the martyr was Abdallah; and the name of the other, who ia n'ow translating the (Scriptures, is Sabat or, as he ia called since his Chriatian baptism, Nathanael Habat. Sabat redded in my honae aome time before I left India, and I had from hU own month the chief part of the ac-connt which I ahall now give to you. .Some particulora I had from othew. His conversion took place after the martyrdom of Abdallah, " t o whose death he was consenting; " and he re-lated the circumstance to me with many tears.

Abdallah and Sabat were intimate friends, and being young men of family in .\rabia, they agreed to travel to-gether, and visit foreign countries. They were both sealoua 3Iahometans. Stbatisson of Ibrabim Sabat, a noble family of the line of Beni Sabat, who trace their pedigree to Mahomet The two friends left Arabia, after paying their adorations at the tomb of their

to aia. and a t m J d weat t h r o ^ the Hhr of Bokhara, aaaoune-ia f f that iKeof hfsiexeontion. A a i a -meaae m^tltadeatteaded. aad tha ehi<^ m«i of tha dty. I also want and sfood near to Abdalhh. He was offered his lifb if ha would al^ara Christ, the 0x0-ouUoner standing by him, with his swiord. ' No' aaid he (aa i f the piopo^ aition were impoarible to be compiled with), ' I can not abjure Chriat' Then one of hia handa was out off at the wriat He atood firm, hia arm han^ng by hia aide with but litUe motion. A physician, by deaire of the king, otbred to heel th9 wound if he would recant He mada no anawer, but looked up ateadfastly toward heaven, like Stephen the first martyr, hia eyea atreaming with tears. He did not look with anger to-ward me. He looked at me. but it waa benignly, and with a joountenanoe of forgiveness. His other hand waa cut off. ' But, air,' aaid Sabat in imperfect English, ' he never ehanged, he never changed.' And when he bowed hia head to receive the blow of death, all Bokhara aeemed to aay, 'What new thing u thia?'"

Sabat had indulged the hope that Ab-dallah would have recanted when he waa offered hia life; but when beaaw that hia friend wsa d&d, he resigned himself to grief and remorae. He traveled from pUce to pUce, aeeking rest but finding none. At laat he thonght that he would viait India. He accordingly came to Madraa about five yeara ago. Soon after his arrival.

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prophet at Mecca, and traveled through I eraia, and thence to Cabul. Abdallah WM appointed to an office of State nnder /emaun Shah. King of Cabul; and Sa-bat left him there and proceeded on a tour through Tartaiyt.

W'hile AbdalUh remained at Cabul, he waa converted to the Chriatian faith by the peruaal of a Bible (aa ia aup-^ d ) belonging to a CbrialUn from

"Siding at Cabnl. In the Mahometan states it ia death for a " " of "Ok to become a Christian! AbdaMah endnvored for a Ume to con-ceal hia convcralon, but finding it no onger poasible, he determined to floe

w some of the Chriatian ohnrchcs near theCaqiianSea.

He accordingly I,ft Cabul In disi^isc,

B o k h « , i » Tartary.when he waa met Jo the a t ^ of that elty by hia friend

H t'^'i*'.® recognised him. "•bat had heard of his oonverslon and J gbt, and was filled with indlgaatfon at

conduct Abdallah k a ^ his dan-m , a ^ thrwr himself at th i fbrt of Sa-

blai by tha aaersd tis or their former fHendshIp to let Uni ^ wlA hi , lift, " B a t , sir," said

Whan relating the itoiy blstaslf.

be was appointed by the English gov-ernment a JIufU. or expounder of Ma-hometan law; bis great learning, and respectable atation in hia own country, rendering him eminently qualified for that office. And now the period of his own conversion drew near. While be waaatVisagapatani.ia tbcNortuern Cir-cars, exercising bis profeaaional duties, Providence brought in his way a New Testament in Arabic. He read it with deep thonght, the Koran lying before him. He compared them together, and at length the truth of the word of God fell on bia mind, as he expresacd it, like a flood of light Soon afterward he proceeded to Madraa, a journey of three hundred milea, to seek Christian baptism; and having made a public confession of bis faith, be was Uptised by Rev. Dr. Kerr, in the Engliab church at that place, by the name of Nathanael, in the twenty-aeventh year of hia age.

Being now deairons to devote hia fut-ure life to the gloiyof God, be reaigned bia aecnlar employ, and camc by invi-tation to Bengal, where he ia now en-gaged in tranahrting the Scripturea into the Peraian language. Thia work hath not hitherto been executed, for want of a tranalator of anflicient ability. The Persian is an important language in the East being the general language in WeetemAsia, particularly among the higher classes, and is undcrscood ih>m Calcutta to Damaocna. But the great work which oceupiea the attentlbn of thia noble Arabian, lathe promulgation of the goapel among hia countrymen; and flrom the preaent fluctuationa of re-llgiona opinion in Arsbia, be laaanguine in hb hopea of aneoeaa. Hia firat work is entitled (Neama Besharatin III Arabi), "Happy News for Anbla," writtan in the Nabuttee, or oomnon dialeet of the eonntry. I t ooatains an eloquent and argamentativa elnaidation of the truth of tha gospel, with eoplons anthoritias admitted Iqr tha Sfahome-taas theawslvai, and paritealarly by the Wahabiaas. Aad pralxad to it, Is aa

histi^'of miiMi w h e a ^ i ^ l l y i i A i a ^ ^ hsard Oiat h j l a d Ibltowed the ekampla of Ab4allah,aai b ^ B i a a Cbrlstiao, they dbpatched his brother to India (_ voyage of two months), to aaskaslnate him. While Sabat was sitting in his house at Visagapatam, his brother preaented hlmaelf in tihe dli^iae of a faqucer, or beggar, having a dagger concealed nnder hia man-tle. He ruahed on Sabat, aad wounded him. But Sabat seiaed his arm, and hia aerranta came to his asaiat* ance. He then reoognlsed hia brother. The aaaaaain would have become the victim of pubjic joatiee, but Sabat inter-ceded for hia brother, and aent him home in peace, with lettera and praa-enta to his mother's house in Arabhu

And these, my brethren, are the In-stanoea I wished to lay before yon of the divine power of the Chriatian re-ligion recently exemplified in the Eaat The converaiona of Abdalkh and Sabat aeem to have been aa evidently pro-duced by the Spirit of God aa any eon-veraion in the primitive church. Other inataneee have occurred in Arabia of a aimilar kind, and on the very borders of Paleatine itaelf. T h ^ are like the aol-itary noticea whieh in other nationa have announced the approach of gen-eral illumination. John Huaa and Je-rome of Prague were not perhape, more talked of in Europe than Abdallah and Sabat are at thia day in Bokhara and Arabia.

What conclusions, then, ahall we draw from t h o e facta ? It ia this: that the time for diffoaing our religion in the Eaat ia come. We ahall notice aome other particdars which encourago ua to think that the time ia come.

1. The minda of men aeem every-where to be impreaaed with the duty of making the attempt Nearly fifteen years have ekpsed since it began, and their ardor ia not abated. On the con-trary, they gather strength

as thoy pro-ceed, new instrnmenta are found, and liberal contributions are made by the people. Indeed, the consciences of men seem to bear witness that the work iaof God. 2. Another circumstance indicating

that the time is at band, is the general contempktion of the propheciea. The prophecica of Scripture are at thia time pondered aa aerionsly in Asia as in Ktl-rope. Even the Jews in the Eaat be-gin to atudy the oracles of their prophet laaiab. And what ia more important the propheciea begin to be publisbw among the heathen nationa; and we may expect that every nation will soon be able to read the divine decree con ceming itielf.

3. The Holy Scripturea arc tranalat-ing into varioua languagea.

When the goapel waa first to be preached to all nations it was necessary to give a diversity of tongues—a tongue for each nation—and this was done by the dirine power. But in this promul-gation. aa It were, of the goapel, the word will be carried on by a diveraily of tranalationa, a diveraity of Scripturea: a tranalation for eaeh nation. Inatead of the gift of tonguee, God by hia prov-idence ia giving to mankind a gjft of Scriptures.

4. Another clronmstaaee which seems to testify that thia work is of God is tha comaMitioB in tha bands of infidel-itar sgainst I t Herod i i troublad, and all Jerusalem witii him. A spirit hath lasasd from tha awnth of iafldaltiiy

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Our Savior _ shall be itohlWiad _ _ But theio Nsist tha say it mm itot ba p n b l l s M ^ _ Oar Lord hatl^ s a l d , a & r | i tha world, and preabh ery oreature.'* Bat Oialiu the gospel oan aot be creature, for that ** the b o i i a ^ i l ^ ' t , stitionls too strong, or that 1 1 4 iiBbi^n"^'^ enee of Christianity is too w^kV^^^^jt

These ara unjpiariM words, a i i d ^ l M not to be beard in a ChriiitlbitrMiriM'i^ These are presaaptuoiu w o ^ a n ^ ^ ' ^ ' ing the dispensation of th " " ' Such words as thes fwar i by tha philosophy of ( h a f ^ and; B ^ but the gospd prevailed, aiMi i[piit«!»(». ! ed ita dominion among th4m.: r M p ^ ess of time the barbaiotu -jiMtiloai o f Europe yielded to ita sway, o f which ara evidences at this day^ f i U i s ^ ^ nationa of Asia will yield iO the Mba^l power, and trntii will prenll , aad ^ goepel ahall be prsaohad over the whida world. ' •

- '^l i* ' ! . Tha Trasaat in tka t a t u f ,

Br HAHIKTTA n U M iiAJoit

TheworidisfoUofbsauty, Though aloudssometimesappear.

And shroud ita asnre heavens. And winds howl blsak and drear;

For the hoaiy froeta of winter. The blossoming of sjaiag,

And the ripening of summer. Alike tiieirbleidngf bring.

To him whose ayes aca opened To Truth's immortal light,

There besms a radiant splendor On e'en the b l a c k s night;

In the seasons and their ehanges. In storm and bright suniihins.

He sees tbo unerring Ultasss Of natnra'a h w s sublime.

From winter drew emerging, He sees the joyous spring;

The health and buoyant gladnett The storm imd tempest bring;

In withered leaves of autumn.

The yellow leaf and Bare, Not deatii, but life, ha seeth

That soon shalt re-appear. So, in tiie ceaSelM strivings

That mark Ufa's short earaar. Ha seas with uaarring vision,

The Uws whieh bind as here. # He sees tha soal aaBcndlng

From out ithe shsdss of time, Till, in aa endleas ibtora,

It dwells in light sublime.

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—If M want to have a s t a l a ^ Christian charaetar plant it r ^ t Otatof doors in the great field of Christian W ftilnesss, and though the hot ann 6f trial may t ^ to ooniiume It, i t will thrive until it beeoinaa a big tr^ , ia which tha fowht of hikven may hivis' their hab{tation.-9^/miri7».

—" At what age were ybit m a i ^ ^ ? ssked one singsr of aaotiiar, who prided hoTNlf upon bar yoathftil iMki. Tha other waa a " f ly" soft of filrl.Itowifiir, and a l t e r e d , " A t the p a i ^ ^ " '

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- " T h a entioansnta to wroag-doin^ ara so i ^ a a d ito. stroot that a ^ •ten of lifa assds to ba watahs^ and goardoi with tha tttsMiaioara."

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I'Mitming S ^ i tliiit the objMt of tlwl 5?..' o ^ t t t t f o n ii th« bmk iog dowa of

"" sll dwomlMtioDkl linat." TIM tttto-nuBt i> tlMn made (ha t " tb« aim of the KfiOiiUod AtUanoo tod T . M. C. A i* th» MUM," and tlw infcMno* naiu-rallr d^Uowa UMI the vritor adviiM " ItMi^Df oUIdND oa t" of tbMo organ' iiaUonaaUo. I t i a not the purpoae of tbia artteU to repljr to tbe mattor di-ru t«d tfiiiMt tb« SooUtyof Ohriitian Eadoavor Jfortbor tban to n j r that no naiwii^bl* attonnooa X bare ever MM ahow .that the organisation h u floeli an d m M "oonfeHed" by Mid newiqpaper, and to anggeit that if tbe Baptiat ebnrebea and Snnday-aohoola were to b* judged by all the " oonfes-• i o u " In paperi edited by their anp-poaad repreaeatativea probably we abould agree that it were better that they had long ainoe been blotted oat of eziatettM. Xiet meaayonbehalfof the Tdnag Man'a OhriaUan Aaaooiation, bowerw, that it i< known by all who bar* kept poeted «> to ita pnrpoaes and praetioea t ^ t it has NBVBR had Buoh an aim u broadly auted by ** (}.," and the advloe to ahnn it ia nntlmely.

To know the attitude of tbe Sanday-Mhool, er the dootrinea of the Baptiat ohnreb, one mtut oonaider the deliTer-aaees of t h d r repreaeatative bodlea, and theMmeia tme of the Yonng Men'a Chriatian Aaioeiation, At the first Montreal ConTention, in 185G, the fol-lowing resolntioa was adopted:

"Jteiofved, By tbe Yonog Mea'a Obriatiaa Aaaooiatioos, ia oonvention aaMmbled, that we do not intend that thia institation shall, take tbe highest plaoe in our aifeotiona or the largeat ahare of our labors, bat that we hold thia orgaaiution M auxiliary to the di-vinely appoiated meaaa of grace, the ohurehaad the preaching of the gospel."

This was re-alErmed in the oonven-tinuat Biohmond, 1857; Troy, 1859 ; and STew Orleans^ 1880. At Portland, 1860, U waa vnanlmunaly

"RmtHtd, That we eonrider it tbe bonnden duly of the membera of all Young Men's Chriatian Aaaooiationa, oalliBg themMhM Cbriatians, to hold their dutiea and obUgationa to iheir re-apeetiTe .oharehes. auB to the Mrvioes of tlie same, M bv lng a prior claim upon their sympathy and efforts."

I f any member of tho Assooiation baa fklled to eonaUntly hold thia attitude tomurd his eburch he has been disloyal to hia Aaaociatioa M well aa to bis oharoh,*ndhe (not the AssooiaUon or the ohuroh) ahould be oritiolsed.

The dm of the Aisoclation was dis-tinetly Mt forth at tho first World's OmveatioB (Paris, 1806) as follows:

" TheTooag Men's Christiaa Asaooi-ationa aeek to uaito those young men who, regarding,the Lord JMUs Obriat aa lAeit: Qod and davior aooording to t U Holy ^oriptures, desire io ^ hia diaeiples in their dootrine and in their llfii^ nad to aasoeiate their eiTorts for the e x t ^ i o n of his k i^dom among young nan."

Tlw beaellta that come to our ohnrohM M » r^ulfe of this kiad of woirk airi uiually pirb|iorlioned to the oo-opmtlon and ayupaihy given to ihe ^si^tatlons by tlMpMtbni w d iMding members of th* «hiBrehe«, and the testimotay of Bap* til t pastort who have Ima brought into dtiM iiottfaM with the wtirk of tbe Young Mea'i Ohrktian AsKwIatida ia

owl, Mi»t the yoniig men of our oJi t tMii i i f 'W^tiTCV' O W Work of this AasooiaMoft make Bot only teit«r Cbristiani; but better Bapttattt whioh wlth ioaie iMople se«ma to bo Uie wore iiap3rtaiit item of the two. Let tis then ehange the Wording of the IHI* »lee of , " 0 . " to th»t It shall: read: "Wil l not fiaptlsu take not6 of thia and U i p their young men in it ? '*

J . V . Bkao.

A Wdrd from Worida.

D«Aa BROTHKa GIKA v i s : My pray-ers are ascending for you as I write after reiiding of your reaching tho crit-ical time of the year you were afflicted. May the Lord leave you with us for a long time to oome, is my prayer on your kehair. Aitbongh I have never seen you in the flesh, I feel a love and esteem going out toward you more tban any living Christian brother for the work you have performed.

I am doing missionary work in a iwr-tion of our State where wo have but one Baptist ohuroh in a country about twenty miles long by fifteen broad, on tbe north end of it, tapsring off into a point at tbe southern end, being a sub-peninsula. Being endowed with but little of this world's goods, I do not have many books, except the Bible, t h « BAPTIHT AMD B c r L K n T o a , a n d m y Sute paper. Recently I have, how-over, become posacssed of"01dLkud-markism," " Exposition of the Para-bles," and " MiddIO Life," and have bad the loan of "Seven Dispensstions," (which I will buy as soon aa I can). The three former books help mo re-markably, especially the "Exposition of the Parables," but the " Seven Die-penntions," it is simply grand, the cov-enants especially. I find it helps mo in my work. I t helps me to study my Bible, which every religions work does not

My field has been in the undispatod ponession of the pedobaptists, there being only one weak Baptist ohuroh in it, which has pursued a " liberal policy," holding union meetings, etc., with the MethodisU until they are nearly dead, but they have now accepted my services and are going to pursue a different course. Yours, II. EDWARDS.

HID Antonio, Fla.

Oeatral Assooiation

eovenened with Hickory Grovo church in its fifty-third annual session, M. Hillsman being elected moderator, on the 12th inst. Of tbe thirty-nine ohurches composing the body, thirty-six were represented. One new church was added. The increase in baptisms over l u t year was about fifty. Our membership now is about 4 , ^ . The report on Sunday-schools showed thirty schools, with 2,100 enrolled, and 100 oonversiona fVom the Sunday-schools. The treuurer'a report ahowed oollec-tiona for State Missions, t612.00; For-eign Miaions, UIO.OO; Home Missions. 9108 00; Ministerial Education, 1275 00; Ministerial Rslief, I0300. ToUl, $1,S58.00, a gain over last year of fOSO.OO.

The Lord h u blessed us all along tho line, i t w u one of the most harnioni-oua sessions ever held. There was more Work and better.

Tb^ union of the two ptpers seems to inspire our people witb new life. The w<Mis,Amen. dul

Brothel J . H. AnderaoH, missionaif seoreury, Just amiled all the nteoting. He Mid; I haVi paid all nly debta in thia oonntrjr, and I am oinrying money toward the mountains. Now; lot ua UNt in Btkta Coaveation, at Humbiiildt, and BM io il that t)i« last dollar of the Stat*

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I read wUh special interest the prog-r ^ o f i h o B a p ^ i oaUM in Tiuneasee. my dear old native State. Awiqr up la the " Old Dominion," ia sight of the Blue Bidge, the B APTIHT AVD B i r i ^ i c -TOB (blesMd iwlon) pa}^ me regular ind welcome visits.

I am now reading with earn and muoh interest the artiolea entitled " Christian (?) Science Examined." I am being more and more convinced of tbe ntter impropriety of the present designation of the belief of Christian scietatisU and for two reasons:

First—It is not really scientific for true science is formulated truth, or sys-tematiied knowledge.

Second—It is not Christian, for it is in direct antagonism to the explicit tcachinp of Christ and his apostles.

I long to SCO what more Dr. O. has to sty in disproving this pernicious doo-trine.

Perhaps it is well that I should let you know something of tho cause in this section. Meetings in the Piedmont region of Virginia are somewhat better than average, and, doubtless, they would have been even better had it not been for so much rain. Thirty-eight inches is the average rainfall of Virginia, and about mxty inches have ahoady fallen, and it ia raining vsry hard uow.

The meetings at niy three churches have closed. Fortunately I secured tho services of our young Brother W. 0 . Carver, Hermitage, Tenn., who has been in Kichmond College for three years, and is to attend again the coming session. Wo were brought up in the HJime Sunday-school and chnrah—New Hope—about twelve miles from your city. Ho did all tho preaching for four wooks except five sermons, and to the true gospel edification of all bearers. The Lord greatly blessed the divine mesiage at each church. At Hebron, Nelson county, there were nine profes-sions and the same number of baptisms. At. Mt. Bbiloh, Nelson County, there wore six professions and five baptisms. At Mt. Ed, Albemarle county, there were eleven professions and ten bap-tisms. Several were restored and oth-erwise reooivcd at tho different churches.

Brother Carver just talks the gospel right from the heart He is strong in body, mind, and soul. He is not only an excellent college student, but also a fine Bible atudent Now, can yon guess how the people liked him ?

I have occupied my present field for eighteen months, preaohing twicc a month to ono church, and once a mohtb each to two others. During this period seventy-nine members have been received, sixty-eight of them by baptism.

My ohurches gave me last July aa a vacation, and delVayed my exponsos homo, near Nashville.

I attonded the University of Virginia last Mision and expect to return in Oc-tober. Fratornally,

B . H . DBMKNT.

•nnday'iohool WorL

Soma families, for instance that **:|^biitps fiimily,"and aome individuals, art giving monthly flvo^oenta Moh for the parents and ono oent for ttie ohll-, dren. This fkmlly bualneM i« getting Vf ry iaterMting. Moved by this spirit, ikn old frloiid, Mm. T. J , Oiloway. Nat mo the pnttliMt oheok I evor MW la my lUk But iMok to Btyinall MBOuata.

OS all up with i K j a t m M in tho work

., ^ M a y ecJjwo/ ^^mary. Knoxville, Tenn,

AppoiatBtMte. By r«iuMt of Bwthlir ir. 8, Thoo««,

Sunday-sehoo) evangelist, I take great pleaauro in making out fer him the fbl-lowing appointments, to be filled by hiu immediately after the meeting of the Sute Convention. He will preach, or lecture, at eaeh ohuroh at night He will be dependent

on Mch church in the country to convey him out from the towns, or villages, and back;

Martin. October 20th. Oak Qrove. October 21st Pleasant Hill, October 22d. Corinth, October 2Bd. Greenfield, October 21tb. Bradford, October 26th. Milan, October 26th. Oak Grove, October 27th. Eldad, October 28th. Gibson Sution, Octobor Sfdh. Humboldt, October ;iOth. Trenton, October 31st Salem. November 1st Hickory Grove, November 2d. Dyer, November .3d. New Bethlehem, November ith. China Grove, November 6tb. Walnut Qrove, November fJth. Rutherford. November 7tb. Boech Grove, November 8th. Old Bethlehem, {fovember 5 >th . Cohoord. November 10th. Salem, November l l tb . Bethpsge, November 12tb. Union City, November I3tb. Woodland. November 14th. I'oplar Qrove. November ISth. Gardner, November 16th. Brother Thomas can make other sp-

pointmenU for West Tennessee after getting on the field. Let the brethreu everywhere seo that the appointmenta are well circulated. Let the people at each placc give him a full house.

J . H . ANDERSON

ENO.N AsgociATiON.—I wish to H»y that our Assooiation meets October 9. Those coming up on ChatUnoog* and Nashville railroad will got off at Roganna. and will find conveyance there. Those coming down, or south, on same road will get off at Bethpage, and find conveyance to homes, and next morning to tbe ohuroh. Come up Octobor 8. 3 P.M.; down October 8. !• A.M. Please send one of the editors, or all of them.

Respectively, J . S. PARDITR, Com.

Oar Olub Bato-Pioa io Bead-

On account of the consolidation of the two papers, and the consequent greatly increased expenses, and in re-sponse to the urgent request of a num-ber of our beat friends, we have decided to take off our olub rate, of one dollar and fifty cents in clubs of ten, and maite the uniform price of the paper hereafter two dollars to every one, except minis-ters, whoni we will oontinneat the same rate of one dollar and fif^y oeots.

Remember that yon are getting any-how for two, dollars the two papers in one, whereu you had to pay four dol-lars for tl^em Mpan^ely, or, at least, thNodoIJan.

But, wo will leave, open our olub rate . until NovMiWr Isl. Bo that if yoo wish to got np a olubi yon mnst go imme-diately to work. Wfl wait to see how many ara anxious to Monra the paper fbr oao dollar aad flflty ooata. Yon oao do M by Ndvember 1st. AlUr that-eaoh oaa must pay two dollars.

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^ latter Mid oaa bapUntd. nissionaiy thaakigiv{ii|;»,«. held, and eighty-ibroe doll mi«8ions was raised. PoriRg lAo, piuit eottventloaal y n r the Oeotral ohuroh b s raised 1783 96 fbr idl missionary pur-poses, iaclndingS^to, ttome, F o r ^ , and city work. Of this amount the. ladies and children raised one hundred and eighty dollars bymonUily oollec-tions. The ohuroh hM mora than doubled the amount apportioned to it by tbe State Board. Meetings will con-tinue in tbe church every night this week.

IMMANUBL CitDRcit—Congregations fine. Series of meetings will be oon-tinued during the week. Five dollaro pontributfld for ministerial relief.

FIRST CniTRcn.—Brother E . V. Baidy, pastor, reporU fine oongrega-lions. The church extended a hearty ananimous call to tbe Rev. T. T. Eaton. D.I)., of Louisville. Ky,

F^DfUtKiBtDCauRCH.—Congregations if!ood. Nothing unusual. The new Peraale College has opened well. Pro-feaaor Hamilton is much encouraged, and tho outlook is good for a groat Bap-ti«t Gollego here.

- E . M. Brawley. State Sunday-school Missionary of the American Baptist I'ablioation Society, preached at Howard Chapel yesterday morning from Psalm xovi. 0, and at night from 2 Petor iii. 18. at .Mt. Zion Baptist church.

—.M. Vann. State Jlissionary of the American Baptist Home Mission So-eiety, addressed two Sundoy-sohools in the morning (Mt Zion and Pleasant f}reen). and preached at Pendleton Street Baptist church at night from 1 Timothy vi. 12.

Tennosseo Vows. —The correspondents of Elder J . S.

Simpson, will plcMC address him at i^nyder, Sourry county. Texas.

—Rev. W. 11. Osborne has returned from his visit to Asheviile, and entered upon his work at .Jonesboro with re-nuwed i!cal.

—I am delighted with the B A P T I S T AND RBFLBCTOR. I hear only the heartiest approval of the consolidated paper, and I shall try to extend iu cir-culation in my field.

W. H. OsBORNt. -Rev . W. H. Osborne is drawing

large audiences at Jonesboro. He "eems to be as interesting and M popn-lar in the pulpites ho is genial and so-cial out of i t He certainly deserves the success which ho is winning.

—You may aearch this Stato over and we ehallenge you to find aoleverer man, • more hospitable gentleman, a bettor H»ptist,and a more generous Christian than Colonel B. H. Dungan, of Jones-boro. Bring up your man and we would like to put Colonel Dungan (Rainst him.

- I n sending you thirteen subscribers from Auburn church, which only in-orea^ the growing list kl this plscc. I •m glad to report thai a good meeting »» now in progress. S'xteen have united ny siperienoe. twelve of whom have been baptised. Will give full report at

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^ r o h wi ih ls flm oha»ii,Md ItaI»w J i r t p ^ r . Of eoniio,llMipiopleoiay know Um to love him. Tho e h n r ^ WM gwatly ifvived. The iSrd be pniaedforhiagoodneiic

. . Wiuum tiUin, ^ - T h o Western Dlvldoa Assooiation

is to meet with tbe Union Grovo ohnreb, la Weakley county, Tenn., October 4th, on the road leading f^om Drewien, Tenn.. to Boydsvllle, Ky., near Spoufa bridge. Now to all whom it may eonoem: I will convey tWo or three bre^ren fVom Paris to and from tbe Association and to Paris on October 7th, prorided they will inform me by postal card when they will reach Paris,which-must be on.tho 10 a m . train, October 3d, at tho furthest If I receive any eards I will respond imme-diately. I can not aocommodatc more than three brethren.

—Our meeting at Hopewell com menced on Saturday before tho third Sunday in September, and continued nine days and nights. Brother J . H. Grime was with me. and did all of tbe preaching. I t is needless for me to say any thing with regard to his ability as a preacher, for the readers of the B A P T I S T AND RBFLZCTOR know something of his talents from reading his articles in tho paper. Suffice it to say that his preaching is equal to his writing. The results of our meetings were eight addi-tions, seven by experience and baptism, and one by letter. We feel that we should thank God and take eouragc. God bless our paper, the BAPTIST AND R BPLICTOR. W I L I J A M W I L K S ,

Enon College, Tenn.

—The fifth Sunday meetings of the Hoiston Association have been divided into four sections, so as to reach al parts of the Association best The third section met last week at Chero-kee church, the oiii'^st ohuroh in the State, Rev. J . II. Moore, pastor. Brother 1). W. F Peoples was elected moderator. An excellent programme had been made out, and most of tho speakers upon it wore present. Inter-esting spocchcs were made during the meeting by Brethren Dungan, Osborne. Bayless, Bates, Booth, Murray, and others. Brother Osborne presched a fine sermon on Sunday morning to a large audienco on missions, snd took up a eollcotion for that cause amounting to five or six dollars. Tho meeting can not fail to do good. Miss Fanny Hoss is a member of Cherokee church. She has a largo farm, which she manages herself, and seems to mansge well. She is a cousin of Dr. E. E. HOBS, ofVan-derbiit University, but is herself a strong Baptist Her hospitality cer-tainly abounds.

•tnagtheaed. All tlio d l f f i ^ t inte^ f of froih ittpetua. Whoa J took ohai«o of this ehoroh lMt February itwaade-oided at onoe to have aorvioM two Sni|' days a month. Tho pUa waa adopted, and the brethroa found it veiy Kttle more trouble to raiM money for two Sunday* than one. This ta.aa It ahould be. I am now engaged in a meeting at Belie Depot, Tenn. I will let you know the results. PlesM send aie aome specimen eopieaof B A P T I S T AND BBrLRCTOR to thia places I think ^very preacher ahould be a colporteur and paper agent

Respectfully. B. F. B A B T L B S .

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a ' obromencsd at Oorinne "111, Sumner oounty.on Saturdiybe-foM the first Sunday in August, and oontinued Nveral days end nightawith RoodlntarMt ItrMultedlnfburoonver-

FAYBTTBVILLI! . T B N N . — I a m con-ducting a very precious meeting at Nor ris crook church,near this plaoe,and have baptised nine persons up to this writing. I will baptise others to-morrow moril-ing. I will closo here to-morrow night and go to Boonville and spend tho com-ing week, whore we expect to organise a church, and then to Old Charity. I expect to send you a good list of names on niy return home. S. C. Evirrs.

CirMnERi.AND AssoctATtoN.—Dear Brethren: We hope that all ohurches which desiro our fifth Sunday tobe held with them in December, will pliiase notify me at onoe so that I msy IM able to decide what (0 do, snd where to go.

T. T. TlloilP««ii», Chairmin Exeoutive Committee,

LIMWOOD, TBKM.—Dear Brother Ed-itors: I ask space in your valuable paper to report my meotinp. I com-menced a mooting at Linwood church— my home church—on Saturday l^fore tho third Sunday in August, which con-tinued two weeks, with good results. Tho church was grMtly strengthened and much good accomplbhed. There were about ton additions to the church' some by experience atid baptism and some by letter, and more to follow. I baptiied five at the close. All heads of families except one. We closed the meeting with a good interest I had but little ministerial help. Brother Bing-ham preached twice for us during the meeting. Brother Osborn, of Cedar Creek church, preached twice, and Brother Beard, of Lebanon', preached once. The brethren and sisters aided greatly in the meeting. Linwood ia a new church, but she is pressing her way to tbe front She will have a good re-port for the Anociation. They have ono of the best Sunday-schools I know of, snd more of the members of the ohurch in the Sunday-school perhaps than most any other ohuroh aooording to numbers. I am on my fourth year as their pastor, and all the pastor they ever had. The young ohurch fVom her teens has grown to about one hundred. The Lord continues his good work with* the church, and to him be all the glory.

I commenoed a meeting at Biddleton on Saturday before the firat Sunday in September, and cloaed the second Sun-day. Brother A. B. Cabanis, agent of tho Weilem Recorder, preached for us on the first Sunday. Brother J . H. Grimo preached for us Sunday night, with good resnlta Brother W. H. Smith and Brother T. W. Matthews, of Enon Association, were with us. Broth-er Smith commenced a aeries of ser-mons on Monday, and preached eight sermons—strong gospel sermons—with good offset Brother Matthews prMched three sermons, whioh were wellnoeived, notwithstanding the constant rain and tbe email congregations. We think good wu acoompjished. I think the way has boon paved and the reeult will be a precious ingathering soon. -

I am pleMod very much with the oon-solidation of tho B A P T I S T AND R B -FLBoToR, and hope for it aueooM, and will do what I can to increase the drou-lation of the paper, that the tme doc-trines of tbe Bible may be disMminated among the people, as thero are numbers that may be reached through the p r t n that can not be rmehed from tbe pnlplt. I am glad to know that the spirit of unity prevails among the BaptJata of Tenneaaee, and that East and West Ten-nessee Baptlsta are eonoentrating Iholr

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. t t ^ r n m m expresaivo of " tho ' estaem ia whioh wa'_ Diekiaaoa M a »lii»ft«ti ,,,_,,,„ matt and a fUtlilU Mrvaiil o T ' t l ^ ia the mialirttr; also tho «< row wo Ibol in jovoiliv onr , with ono to good and aoblo' ahown UmMlf to bo."

In purnumoe of thl% ^ Deaeone pupated and subi idt t^ ohuroh the followiag resolntlA^^^'^^^*^

WheroM, onr beloved A. J . DIektnaon, lM« r e i i i ^ l l torata of thlsehnroh. w d aotion irrevooable j thorolbi^?

Jtetolved, L Thai in aoMptiof Ma i ignation, we do so with iwlnetaai regret, for dnring his Bdilstiy^ us he h u homo hiouMlf in all M a true and f a l t h ^ Mrnwt pf O o i l His wdk and oon^nM^bn l i ^ I * without reproaoh M a troklfle, devri minister of Christ, aad ia fcis proaeL,,^ he h u not shunaed to deeUra the vbole eouns«I of 6od^ but h u nobUy i j ^ boldly maintained thedoetriaeobf i l ^ according to trua Baptiat fiiith atod ^ pure word of Ctod. Tho froito of k b work are shown ia the l a i ^ idditkms to onr memberahip during his ministry.

2. We recommend Mm io the brath-ron of onr common fidth sis a nialsteir whoM record while with na h u boon blamelew, ataialeai, and irreproaehaUo. By his nunly Christian bMriig, h b &ithful proaobiag, and tbe graoso of Us heart and mind, ho h u endowed U n -Mlf, not only to the memboNi ^ tkhi ohuroh, bnt to the people of the entire oommunity; and whilo disagmaiento and diriaions havo prevailed Maoot l i , we willingly tesUfy that ho i m ^ p H -sonally responsible in any dtgreO l b r ^ of them. I t Wu our fknlt and lila i id^ fortune that (hey existod while hb ihu with us. I t seldom, if e v e r , t o tho lot of any young miniater in l i b flnt putorato (o face sneh gravo and naax-peoted difiloulties u bo hai beeaoOn-fronted with.

3. WeeordiallyandsinoereijrbidUtt God-speed In his ohoun u d Mond oalling for tiio futoro. and we eoafl-dently predict for him Uiat high Meooai to whioh his talents aad ftitlifUaoss entitle him. Whewver tho providonaa of Ood may lead him he will bo foUowod by the affeotionato intarbst and praym of this people. %

The above resotcitiou wera hmrtUy adopted by a uaanimbas vbto of Ilia ohnreb when read In ehnreh oonferenee on Sunday morning, SsptomW Iftti ,

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I would roply to the nnmovono lottors of Inquirer fh>m all jwrtbof tho country that tho book lb boinir printod, and Is oxpoctod to be ready in November. As soon aa vr« t r a roady tho time, terms, oto., will be mado known. I oonid not giva deflnlto aniw<tra yot, and bonoo I offer this genbral roply. Yonr mlnda ttriirbo atirrod uj^ by way of romembranoo as tho tlmo dntwbth nigb. liot nil got ready for phampt action thenw H,

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W « » u ' i MiMiaQ Work-AtudUftry TtoMMM f tett Ooamt io i i .

Mono—^' SernntB of oar oburohes."

"Co'kboww of God'i miniatera io

Pwrident—Mm. Ar«k)w N«L80», Cor. 8fl«. — MiM K l la . Hili . , 208

B ^ l l •traet, Nadiirille, Teno. Pn^rtr C*rd Topio for September, 1889:

cniifA. "AU the enda of the world ehall tarn

QDto the Lord; for the kingdom is the Lord'i."

MimonArie* of Southern Biptiat Con-rentioa» and their utt ire aniituit*, 67; bftptimu, 79; ehnrehee and (taUona, 43w Bitter orjr for Borolaboren. Pre> ndioe dimioUhinx.

StuJ^ Ttqno.— Wh»i are China's thra* great religions? Is their hold weakening, and are the Chinese ready for the goepel 7 When and where were mullions started in China by Sonthorn Baptist Conrention ? Eoooanwement aaddlsooaragements. Opportunities for medical missionaries. The leaflet for the month, issaed by Me^ioal &pt is t Mission Rooms, price two cents, is ''China for Chritt," byB. H. GraTes, D.D. No one has had larger opportn-nitSee than ho to know that whereof he speaks. To th$ Wommt of the Baptltt Churchft

in Thinmee: Thia VMk, for the first Ume, the State

Central Coa^i t tM of Woman's Minion Work takes eharge of the eolnion which has been so kindly placed at their dis-posal t ^ the editor of the Baptist and RmiOTOB. The committee, feeling deeply gratefal for this ftror, hopes to mak* of it a inedinm of coumanication betwera itself and the women of the Baptiit chnnh thronghout the Sute in the proseentioA of its work. This wp|I^ |f wa andarstand it. is to awaken, to idmnlate; Ind to MltlTate the mis-sionary spirit among the women and children of all our chorohes. We be-lisTe tbM this can be best acfloinpliabed by opening up and keeping contlnaally before their minds the importance, the msgnitade. aad the glory of the work which the Lcird of the harvest has in-tmsted to the Baptist ohnrchas of Ten-

. iisasee. And now, in the Tery begin-nlngt wo wish to empbatioally diwlajm all intention or deairv to work independ-ently of onr chnrohes and their recog-niied agentii. As Biptists, wo can^o^ kndwiedga no authority in matters fbole* p i a ^ ot|)«r>!>i|n tftf (mtbofit^ of our

9f ottr S M t h i r n ^ p i i i i t C b a M o ^ ^ longi; toiuiia imncb m to (hen. We are onder the aaae obiigatioii to inter-est oaraelTef in it, to nnderstand it, to pray Ibr it,to ««rk forit, and to t i n tb it in acflordanoa with the ability ^ t the Lord has given iis, iu are oiur brethren. Ood forbid that there shpnld isrer be a ^•sex line," or aiyr other line, drawn through onr charches. On the oontra-nr. we do most earnestly and ooniini}-ally pray that we may grow Into a more perfect understanding of the Scripture, which teachea that " We being many Me one body in Christ and every one members one of another," and " That to every one of us is given grace a ^ r d i n g to the measore of t i e gift of Christ," who. " when he asoended up on high, led cap-tivity captive and gave gifts to men," the purpose of the bestowal of these gifta being " For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ." We do want to help c&ch other to comprehend more of this woik which the Lord has given to his churchcs, in order that we may be more loyal to its interests. We feel sure there is a part in this work for the women of the chnrches to do. We want to find out jost what that part is. and then do the work in the way laid down in his word. We have no other ambition, we ask no greater honor, than to work as did the women of the apos-tolic age, and hence wo have adopted as our motto, " Servant of our churches; co-laborers of God's minis-ters in the goepel."

In t h b work we will co-operate with the Executive Committee of Woman Mission Societies, auxiliary to the Southern Biptist Convention, located in Baltimore, Md., and through them with the two boards of the Southern Baptist Convention. Our work has also the approval and indorsement of the board of onr own State Convention.

We feel sure that the Executive Com-mittee is in sympathy with the senti-mento we have here expressed. Wo are aware of the prejudice which many have against the formation of mictiionary nu-cicties. We assure all such persons that we recognize and shall seek to guard against that tendency which they fear. Moreover, we would have them know that the Woman's 3Iission Societies that have been organised by the Ex-ecutive Committee, and the State Cen-tral Committees working with them, are in no sense " extra church societies," but they are organised within the church, and they distinctly reeognine their allegiance to their own churches in all they do. In proof of this we re-fer to the minutes of the meeting in Memphis, where, in the report upon the " Plan of Work," it is distinctly stated they desire to emphasise the fact that our Woman's Mission work is church work, and that we are co-laborers under the bonds of church membership.

We are under obligation to the Excc-ntivo Committee for a liberal supply of " prayer card," brick card for the Ha-vana Honse, and other literature, for friHi distribution to the societies and the women of our chnrches, Any one wish-ing missionary litera^re, or desiring ftirther oominanioatioti in regard to the work, should apply to Hiss Ella Hill, oorrespondipg aecretary, 918 Bussell street, Na|hville,Tenn,

l^inflly, iiftera, f e bweech you that yoti pra|p for that gnioa may be given V fo Ifotk bM i|i.

t c l M i w ^ p w tiwi t rm ivea bqw ibr iha ia«oQd>ibiioM. Ii9d. read witb iMAt i a t ^ w t r - t t a k * plearara in givingTon a brief account o f ^ n r work in^,Cuba. We have converted flftyfotir s i n^ the Southera Baptist Ooavention, twen^-two weri luptised. and ten more received by Brother Calioran, who 1m eharge of a new minion opene<l ia 4to Cenro. We have the mMtencoaraging results front Che new missions as well as those already established. The seal and ardor demonstrated is very credit-able to its members, the ih int for spir • itnai food and advancement is aston-ishingfor people who have been dor-mant all their previous lives; ;liey ac-tually rtiloice in their new life, and their attendance is regular, with a growing interest that is pleasant to remark. On September 1, one of the men of impor-tance died here and arrangements were made to bury him in our cemetery. Over five thousand people were present at the funeral. The public wore so well pleased with their reception at the cemetery that the papers spoke very highly of it, and the kind and cordial treatment extended to their people at the funeral. Reawn had they to suppose that the Catholics would not be received gently, judging ua by their own unkind treatment; but our desire is to overcome them with kindness. Baring the past month over seven thousand people visited oar bury-ing ground, which is gradually being converted into a garden for the depart-ed. Our Sunday-schools are in a very prosperous condition. Great interest and enthusiasm prevail*. Good attend-ance has been secured and the pros-peoU generally are extremely encourag-ing. We have 2,228 pupils belonging to our entire Sunday-school in Havana, which is divided into several schools. The principal one, formerly held in Neptune street in a tent presented us by the board, the severe storms have com-pletely destroyed, and wo have found ourselves compelled to construct a building for both day and Sundsy-school purposes, as no other suitable house could be found in that neighborhood to accommodate our schools and congrega-tions, reaching as high as seven hun-dred frequently. I t is now completed and we intend to continne our schools there. On September 1 a special meet-ing was held for tho children, the ser-mon being preached particularly for them. The purpose of this meeting be-ing to re-open the Sunday-school after its month of vacation. Over three thonssnd personii wore present They all congregated at our now honse, the Jane theater, purchased for worship hero during the past winter. I t hss a espacity for accommodating three thousand people, and holds an almost central location. Sinco wo hold our meetings there it has a very favorable cITeot on our congregation, improving theelsss of people and increasing the number to a considerable extent.

Yours in Him, A. J . Diaz. Havana, Cuba, ^ptember 10.

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OBiTVABIBS. WlLLBOIT.

Mrs. Vistula Morris Willhoit, wife of Thomas B. Willhoit. died September 4, 1800. She was tho sister of L. A. Mor-ris, so long connected with the Southern Baptiid, under Mr. Grcsset, and also of Judge J . hi Morris, of Jonesborougb, Mtss.

Bister Willhoit profeiied HUiqn

t t i b r i ^^^^ an» »)ttij»bl» mo®Br^ t#<» orphan girls' wliom aild her hwfcujd t e w rear' i o r ; Sieifat Willhoit was not a M d to die

bttt she wished 01iv® that she might do something more for her Master, and alio finish the irork of rearing the Httl* eeven-yea^old giri lefk behind. .<<h8 had been in very bad health for five or six years, and had beiiti a complete in-valid since last April. Her husbmd brought her IVt>m their homo in Jlem-phis to his father's in Chattsnoog. where every thing was done for her liitt could be done. But God io his wisdom saw fit to call her hence, and she died in the full triumph of faith in Jesns Cbrin

The subject of this notice. Father Willis Bennett, w u born in Warren county, N. C.. September 15, 180C, died at his homo in Gibson county, Tenn., February 21, 1889. He wu united in marriage with Miss Harriet K. Powell, of Halifax county. N. C., in 18X1. At once afler marriage he moved to Gib-son county, Tenn. Brother Bennett professed faith in Christ at homo in 1816. Three years afterward he joined E l ^ Baptist church, of which he re mained a member for twenty yearn. He joined Humboldt church in 18<i(i, remained a member thereof for five years. In 1871 he joined Center church, of which he was a member at his death. Sister Bennett professed hope in Chriai in 1846. She joined the Eldad church at once. Afterward she transferred her membership with her huibsnd. She was a member of Center church at her death, August, 1886. Brother and sister Bennett reared to maturity eight children, all of whom were Baptists ex-cept one son, who is not a member of the church. Their second son, W. T. Bennett, was well educated, and bo camconoofthc most consecrated and useful

ministers of the gospel in our country. The Lord called him to liim self while he was yet a young m»n.

Brother and Sister Bennett adorned the Christian life by word and deed. They loved the church of Christ, Hence, thoy gave liberally of their prayers and means, in the promotion of Christ's kingdom. Well may it be stid, that a father and mother in Israel hath fallen. We extend our sympathy to tho bereaved family, church, and com-munity. May our fidelity to tho Lord be purer as we Uke their places.

Fraternally, J , M. Sintkb. H a l l .

Mrs. Eudora Hall died at llendcMon last Tuesday, 17th insUnt She wm for several years our choir loader at Henderson. Her voice was well suited to lead, niturally strong, and well culti-vated. The choir, under her leader-ship, was fall of peace and religion. It is too often the case that where the choir is and the boys sit, are places that make us feel worse. But Eudora (for she entered school there when a mere ohild and grew up irith us) always kept her choir in perfect accord with the pulpit and congregation. I have posi-Uveamnnces that she ruled Mpesee-fully In her home as In the choir.

husband was getting a wlaiy, end before her death rc-

miveda 15,000 salary, she always did her o m work with the aid of her lovely dauhter . She has left to her family

'riends an examnle of a beautiful life. The sense of^ their loss In her deith was fully attested at the fbncrsi rarvioes. She was a danghter of Brother f p. ftfcCnur, of Henderson.

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VashTille, Tens.. Oetober 9,1889.

BBI0RAX8.

BapUst papore. bat they f o ^ satisfy tno like tba B a w m t AKD Rir tKOToi 111*0 in a ntther ob. Mare porUon of Florida, ^nd seldom hear a good somwn, and I fool like my sonl iabecomling omactated for tbo want of strong, eoond nuai. Httncc I muit bavo the Baptist amd RiTi.K0T0a. I am a t a great loes when I miss a copy. I bavo ro-eeivod but tbirtoon copioe sinco last January. Soo to it."

I wunt to know what you think of tho Brown-Sonuard 'Elixir of hifo. H. M. Dot'uiiKRTv.

Loa, Texan. It bflH been found to bo but n tem-

porary stimulant, and danj[rorouR in many cases to tho recipient. Lot it Kovoroly alono unless j'ou arc will-ing to imperil your lifo or health.

An old and tried Toxaa Baptist, T. A. 3fcNcill,of Paris, thus writes:

" I am ronowing my subscription U) tho ' old banner by to-day's mail, and I can notforogo the plcas-iiro it affords mo to address a few linos to tho grand old soldier who, for Io thoso many years, has so gal-lantly borno it into tho forefront of b&ttlo against sin and error. There is but ono old banner, tho Baptist amd Rkf lector . Tho sub-ject matter of its mako-up, thO able, yot easy and graceful, manner in which tho same is presented, it Ncoins to mo should mako it an at-iraction in each and every Baptist houAohold in tho land. No, wo can not do without tho paper in our house. Send it along. It iH tho biggest two-dollar invcHtmont I hnvo over made. I sond you ono now snb»cribor. Vour " way marks," Brother Graves, afford mighty good reading. Can ' t yon longthon them out ? "

Words aro good, deeds arc good, hilt good words with good dcocls aro vorj^ good indeed. Only five yoors ago this brother was a powerful .Methodist, bat tho t ru th as it is in Jesus mado him free from tbo law of sin and doath, and ho is now an active workor--not for, but bocnueo of, bis salvation-^in tho Baptist church of Paris, Toxas.

A. A. Wagstaff—You failed to give ua your Stato and post-ofllco. An answer to your letter is pre-pared, waiting for your address.

G. W. Wilson, Kansas—Will not March or April bo accoptablo for our visit?

W'. 8. Grouch, of Carrollton, Mo., greets tho now paper with th is : '•Tho Baptiht and IlRRiiioToa is at hand. I hardly know the ' presto I chango I ' I llko tho got-up of tho new Imuo, and liopo that It will not haVo so innoh of tho neic that the o/d will bo l e f touL" Whon the now paper goes back on tho old dOQtrinee and praoticos uf tbo Noir Testament (ben let every Baptist In

T n c Baptista of Tonnoseoo aro rejoicing over tho consolidation of thoir two panors. They now pro-sent a solid front, and will all pull together in tbo Btato Mission work. The new paper, tho Baptist amd R w l k j t o b , comos filled with good things, and boars ovidenco of a strong paper in thn fatnre. I t has throo editors, Graves, Moody, and Folk. With such a force, nothing short of an oxcollont pai)or can bo oxpocted. May tho union be blessed to tho building up of tho cause of our liodcomor in that State.— Louisiana Baptiat.

Handsomely said, Brotlicr Bap-tixf. Wo havo done all wo can to moot tho wishes of tho Baptists of Tennessee, as ox pressed by the State Covontion, and it now re-mains for our brethren to givo us snbstantial assuranco that tho con-solidation was what they really wished. Tho list in Tonnossco ought to bo doubled this month, and with a littio offort on tho part of tho pastors, and, if thoy will not put thoir hand to it, if somo activo brother in each church will propose to rocruit tho list by adding tho name of every non-subscribor in tho church, it can bo done. Brctb-ron, assure ns by such a movo that wo bavo done what you wished. Help ttH noir. (J.

the t ^ ^ r a n o e I d k i o f | | i ls ^ountiy. ^

Tha N e ^ York Sxaminer^ and sopio northern writo^v, reject the idoa of tbo absolato i n d ^ n d * ence of Baptist ohnrobcs, and inshit upon ti^ole interd^nedence, ThOM who use this word, wo must sup. pose, have an idea what i t moans, and can deftno it Batisfaotorily to thomsoivos, and so did the Fronoh Academy, which defined a crab as a small rod fish that walks back-ward. Cuvier, the French natural-ist, to whom they submitted thoir felicitous definition, bogged to make a singlo observation in natural his-tory. Tho crab is not a fish; i t Is not red; i t d o o s n o t go backward; with those exceptions, said be, your definition is oxcollont.

What is intordopondonco of Bap-tist churches ? we bog to ask the Examiner. Will it, can it, toll ns? Docs it know? Who can answer?

From a temporanco spccch made before tho Scottish Tomporanee League by Mr. J . Guthrie, wo cull these paragraphs :

You bavo heard of tho Local Govornmont bill for England of last year, and of a now bill for Scotland of this session. There is ono good thing about it, it has not many bad points ? But thero is ono bad thing about it, it has not many gOod pointi* either. (Laugh torJ I t is liko boarding-bouso coifco. A boarder called tho landlady and said, " Your coffoo has a good and a bail point." (Laughter.) " T h o good point about it is thii;—it has nocbicorv in i t ; and tho bad point is this—that it has no coffoo." (Re-newed laughter.) When ho was leaving that boarding-houso tho landlady asked him on what grounds bo was leaving? (Laugh-tar. ) I need not toll you they woro coffcogrounds. (Loud laughter.)

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I counsel you to avoid relying political parties. I d o n ' t takk. . rosy view of any political situation —eortalnly not a " nrimrosy " view —(laufflitor)—nor do I shelfor my-self nndor tlio spokos of Gladstone's umbrella. I do n ' t care who ho is. f shall ^'oto for the man that will givo tbo people ])owor to protoct tliemsolvos. Thorofbro, plant the flag of tomnoranco on tho fbrofVont of yoar politioAl platfbrm, and en-roll yourself under Its bi)np«r.

For ourselves wo havo no concep-tion of it. Wo fool safe in making tho assertion tha t it does not exis t Hold up your watches, brothron in New York. Of courso, ovory ono of you have a valuable gold ono, keeping oxcollont timo, but docs tho motions of ono watch depend upon tho action of the other? What about this intordopondonco of Bap-tist churchcs? What about mutual relations ? What about centralizing or disintegrating tendencies? Can you tell us, brothron of tho Exam-iner, how your two, or a thousand, watcbos can become ono watch ? If Brother Bright 's watch has a broken spring is Brother Vcddor'a watch in tho least rosponsiblo for i t? Or if Brother Voddor's watch has a broken wheel, or is dirty, and will not keep time, o r run a t all, will it offcct Brother Bright 's watch in tbo least? Can Brother Bright loan Brother Veddor a wheel from his watch to roplaco tho broken whool in Brother Voddor's watch with-out detriment to Brother Bright 's watch? Timo is ono. Watches mark and report it singly and in-dependently, not collectively, Ono tolls it all. So Christ is ono. I t is tho mission of oach church to re-port him fully. Each church is complcto in him, and Is qualifiod and commissioned to toll it all. Each church is a pillar and a ground o f t h o truth—tho wbolo troth—and oach church is olotljied with all tho occlosiastical authority that can bo oxercisod on oarth, and, therefore, dependent nfion no othor charob or body outside of Itsolf for tho least concoivnblo thing she does not her-self possess. G.

tbe midfst'oT 'Bo^ aroniwd awt Vj^l harder

tnay be t h t ^ u ^ ^ , a h ^ n many <iwhi orouG thoir effbrta'for ing o f t h o Itodoemer'a

Owa of t he young hi lni i t t t t , ^ | graduated a t tho Oa lwwl ty i Jatd^-son, T o n n . , ^ m tba p ^ ^ i & ato o f o n o o r niore Tonnoseea or Arkansas, 'f fte^itt 4 some year or ' more of porionoe atrd fea aettled man. .Ad-dress tbo senior < editor of th is pin. per, or Rev. H . W. Tribblo, poa^br of First church, Jaokeon, Teon. * ' ^

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To pasvKNT the defecUoftVof their mombem to the Bapt ls t t t b i t was going on, tbo Methodifto^pf

Marion, Ala., sent for Jaoo^j JMttlor to come and dollver a co«ri« ofjkx)-tnros on tbo act,>^tbo a a i b j ^ ^ of baptism^ and one on the Bapt la t t ln particular. Tbo pastor, Kr -H«n i -Iton, loudly heralds the exploits of

Jacob to tho public. Tho Alalwiaa Saptirt gives a column of notioea of Mr. H. 's art. Wo copy a i>aragraph or two:

Any town or city west of tho Mississippi river wishing an exoel-lent dentist, who la a working Bap-tist, can rocoivo his address b y ad> dressing us, 817 Main phis, Tenn, Q.

" W o haveeaid more than we in-tended^ but can ' t stop nntil the last paragraph of the brothor** lotter is reviewed. Ho make* an admission tha t ovorj ' woll-Infbrmed and con-sciontious Methodist Is eooipelled to make. H e a r h i m : " Tho f W is, wo aro in a most inconsistent a t t ^ tndo toward tbo immendon .qnee- * tion, which greatly bin<t«m na in . onr war against it as the only Inode. Wo agreo with tho Baptists tha t It is scriptural and then do oiir best to prove tha t their position is wrong." Strange they have not seen this point beforo f Thbfltct is. many of their loadehi havo soon it , but they daro not abandon tha t position. The common people who road tho Bible are not slow to seixo immersion as tho moaning , of bap . tism, and to omm thoir oonfolehooa tho proachori hiVe been oompelled to say, "Yes, rmroersion is one mode of baptism, but sprinkling i« j n s t M g o o d ; Ood commanddd you to bo bapUxod, but did not n y whether yon shontd be bipt iMd by immonlon or sprinkIin|R" oto. Now, let them oat themsdves «n« >iroly looso f rom immfvslon., X e t them deny t|)8tba|iUdi6 ever niMns © to immerso. L e t thorn deny tha t tbo word of Ood bbuld p o ^ l y ! » i mado intelligible by nsing imner - ' sion. Then will their i n t e l i i g e n f ^ and thoughtfbl jnembers, on inveS' ligation, leave an organisation wh^ph^nwUcos ordinances fbrefgn

Mr. Band than calls Immersion ^ tho "wate r of G o d " of the Bap- • t is tsi ' : ^ • 0 /

Tname are now in Rome ten Baptist chapels or mission hails, with nine pastors op evangoltsii. The ohurob in >Pla««A J<udna bnn

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qoMtioD Wmef r Why k I t is t pbMQinenon. What

«xpi«n»Uoi^or U7 Vaiiotui |»ww«r« b ^ giron to tbia qntiMon^ %l low vut to add oof mito

gr ^ toward ooMng tho problem. Thero ^ wo tbiDk, oqe kby which will on-u^^ tE l o ^ thiji myttoiy, thoogb this is

oompMod of levcntl Mparato parU— tho dffferonco of conntry and city Itfli. Of ooarsi^ lo what wo shall lay wo baYo no ono city and noono aoctlon of country apoclally in mlqd. Wo thall speak of ooantrj' and city lifo in gonoral^ theso being

' very i i lob tbo same the world over. Wo shall confine oarsolf also in the dlscaasidn apecially to tho young

?rnjen of the city and of tbo conntry. In the first place, tbo young men

of„ the city are not so strong pbys* i«3»lly M those of the country. Tbo ataosp^iere which they breathe is not so puro. I t is laden more or leas with dost, and smoke, and soot. The sun does not shine so brightly fbr thorn. If they get a sun bath at all, which physiologists consider so important, It is necessarily im-perfect. The water thoy drink is usually muddy and impure, and either very warm or vary cold. Tho Togotables and the fVuit they eat are frequently stale, having been gath-

' <5 ored a day or aoveral days^ f h c n thoy have little opportunity for ex-ercise. While boys at school they UMtplay in sfnall yards or on tho s(M>t«. They can not ran, and Jump, and turn somersaults to their hearka* oontoot. And after leaving school, they aro usually shut up from morning till night in a store or an ofBoe, frequently at a desk the live long day. The consequence of all this ia tliat in youth their consti-tutions aro weakened, and they aro not p r e p i ^ for tho heavy drains wbich the exacting duties of life aro apt to,demand of them. And thon, alMl ahui t those energies, whioh havo still, by the strength of youth, TMlsted tholnroada of theso subtle Ibroes, are too often wasted by dis-

^ sfpation, and their whole system is honeyoombed by oorrtlption. ^ u t , on the other hand, the young

man in the country has pure atmo-sphere tending its blood*strengtbon-Ing cordial to eveiy part of his lungs, and thus throughout bis body« He has tho bright, Joyous sunshine pouring its bealtbibl cays upon him. He has pnro, sparkling water, fVesh from the well or spring to quench his thirst. Seldom or never do his lips taste of any thing more poisonous or more ruin* ous to health or strength, j^is vogaiables and fruit also aro UNoally newly gathered front the gairUen or the orchard. And as for

J o t i h o mai^ i i i iwidui i ' tij^Botonly (rtwA^Ma dinner for hia jippetito, biitiwadly may bo coun l^ on to have the kppotlto for his d in9^. ^fVxKi, appetite, diges-tibn, hi^tb^ and strength^in this cMer they (fom, His musolos bo-06me hard, bis fiosh i$ solid, his oonsUtution Vigorous. And thus is laid tho foundation for a long life, with a capacity for resisting tho at-tacks of disease and for accompllHh-ing almost an unlimited amount of word. "Genius," said Tbomos Carlyle, " i s on immonso capacity for hard work." Thus genius, in any sphere of labor, depends large-ly upon the body, and tho body ro-wives its higho8t devolopinont, so for as strength is concorned, not in tho city, but in tbo country.

Again, the young mon in tbo city aro not so strong mentally as thoMO of the country. We'spoak generally, of course. This follows somewhat as a corollary of tho laat proposi-tion. Sana in sano corpore mens, sold the Latins. We usually under-stand this to moan that a sound mind should bo in a sound body. Biit it ba», we think, a doopor moaning—that a sound mind must bo in a sound body, or at least tbo sonndcstmind must bo in a sound body. Tho sounder tho body tho sounder tho mind, othor things bo-ing equal. Tbo cau80H which oper-ate in tho city to lesson tho strength of the body, tond also to lessen the capacity of tho mind, Theso dissipations—tbo late hours, the wine-glass, tho ball-room, tho

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other places-which sap tho onor-giosoftho body, at tho samo time emasculate tho power of tliomind.

" But," says some ono, " do you say that tho country youths aro smarter than city youths? You know that isn't so." We didn't say that. Wo Haid they woro stronger mentally. With thoir su-perior educational advantages, and with tbo sharpening influonco of numerous othor minds, the city young mon are- generally smarter, brighter, quicker, sharper than those of tbo conntry, bat the latter will be founi^to be broader, deeper, stronger, more original. The first are apt to have more knowledge, the other more wisdom. <* Knowledge and wisdom, far from

beintfone, Have oiltimes no connection.

Knowledge lives In heads replete with thoughts of

other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their

own; Knowledge a rude unprofltablo

mass, The mere material with which wis-

dom builds Till smoothed and squaroil, and

fitted io its place.

i ^ r p ^ f i t S f iroii^ . _ _ man the ni{nd pf^ h i | IWliw^S.*^ But AS «wrcl«a jitrengtbeoi the bodj^ Bo the solitndo of t l^fieW and of the fbroiit t h ^ S t n d bf tho country ySttth. Thcr® alone, with hia own bcirting heart, bia tbliiklog mind mbst think, Kature at ever)-turn ia fbll of suggestions to bim Hi subjocte for thought The sprout-ing seed, the growing graifl, the budding flower, the falling loaves the floating clouds, iho gracious showers, the lowing herds, the lovely vale, the towering mountain, tho rich landscape—theso and a thousand other kindred things form fuel for inquiry to his mind. And he tliinks—not philosophically, po^ haps, not scientifically — but ho thinks. And thought is mental exercise. And exercise brings strength. And strength of mind is )ottor than smartness. When tho )attle comes, the strong overcomes

tho bright. p. (To bo continued.)

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Iihiuu U» IW pioco. Does but incumbor what It sooms

to enrich." Education, in the true senso of

the word, does not moan learning to know, but learning how to think. The drawing out of tbo powers of the mind to their greatest capacity

BAPnSK VITO BBPXVTAVOI.

That tho passage which prosonts tho foregoing Idea is difficult to sat-isfactorily intornret will be denied by no tUougbthil person. If tho statement be taken as complete in its verbiage—as containing words enough to fully express the thought intended to bo conveyed—tho idea is that John baptized people in or-dor to repentance, and this view is held by some eminent writors. Ac-cording to this view those who were baptized by John assumed an obli-gation to ropent in tho Aituro. Not that they had not already r^tnted, but, having repented of their former sins, they by their baptiim, bound themselves to a life of repentance. That tho Grook proposition eis in such connections, moans in order to, is denied by no compotont, impartial scholor, and if tho passogo in ques-tion is not elliptioiil, tho explanation just alludod to is probably correct. —/. B. Birney.

ThlH expression is a thorn in tho flesh of our erring friends of tho Koformation. "Baptism unto re-mission " i«» so plain to thom in Acts ii, ,38 that thoy wonder at the world's obtuscnoss in not seeing i t Why, say they, " Is not remission on that side of baptism ? " " Poos not that make baptism a prerequisite, so essential that without it there is no remission ? " If "baljlism unto repentance " does not make baptism a prerequisite, and we know and confess that it does not, how can tho other? It was well the Holy Spirit used the expression in other connections. Baptism eis repent-ance, baptism eis Jordan, baptism eis name, baptism eie Christ, bap-tism eis death of Christ, baptism eis John's baptism, baptism eis one body, baptism eis Moses, are the Holy Spirit's deadly blows to " Our Plea." Nine tenths of the occur-rences of eis in the New Scriptures show tho absurdity of the Camp-bellito idea. This preposition is rarely used to express purpose, since kinn, hopos, and the classic in-finitive are ample for nnch h' pur*

What does it moan ?. King James' version translatea i t : "And the Ijord added to tho church daily luoh a« should be saved." But * glance at the Greek shows that tmnslatioi. to be impossible. Tho word "church does not occur, and the participle can hardly be twisteil in to "such as should bo saved.'' Some take it to mean, "And the Lord addded to thom daily the saved;' those that woro in a saved state, But to moan that tho participle would have to be in tho perfect tense, whereas it is present Tho Bevisod Version renders it, "And the Lord added io ihem day by day those that woro being saved, " wbich certainly gives the corro<'t meaning of the participle. But what do the words, " being saved," imply? We know a very distin-guishod Baptist scholar of world-wide reputation, who understands it as moaning that tho " being saved " applied to the individuals, and that the process of salvation was go-ing on in the individual, to be com-pleted at death. But, besides the doubtful theology of that. It soomH to us an unnatural rendering of the passage. Certainly it is an unnec-essary one. Of course, tho words " being saved " imply a process of salvation. But procoss where? Not in tho individual, but from ono individual to another-thoso that wore being saved from time to time, or daily. For wo think that tho adverbial clause " day by day " should bo connected with tho par-ticiple "being saved," and not with the verb " added. " Get your Greek and see if this is not so. Is not that thoir natural connection ? It stands, you see, next to the participle ond not to the vorb. So that the literal, straightforward translation of tho passage would be: "And the Lord added thoso that wore being saved daily to them." Or transposing tho last two words for convenience. " And the Lord added to them (or together) thoso that were being saved daily." That rendering it sooms to us, though we have soen it nowhere else, exactly translates tho Greek, and at the same time pro-sonts to us a beautiful pictum of tho church at Jerusalem just after tho day of Pentecost They had a per-petual revival. Thoy did not stop with the salvation of the three thousand on the day of Pentecost. But souls were being saved daily for some time to come, and were added to their number.

Take this lesson. You have had a revival in your church. A num-ber were converted. You onjoyed the meeting greatly while It lasted, and yon frit like working to save mmts. Now, that tho meeting has

WMpitMi^'M'^oi Pray m S work, that souia M y saved dally'and that the I«i>jrd may add to. jrott thoaa that are j>cing saved 4>y by day. ' S P.

r B r x o i ' i o s i i i :

A call having been made for tbo ministera and d e a c o n s o f New Salem' and Enon Assbciations to moot at Peyton's Creek, on the lino of tho two AMociations, with this prospect of meeting with two Asso-ciations, we " took up our carrioge" and journeyed thither. We arrived tbo second day an hour afror tbo opening hour, and asked is this tho mooting of two Associations? A brother replied that if it had been a mooting of three Associations there would be no ono here. Wo venture to say that if laithor Asso-ciation bad been divided into two or throo meetings, oither one would have boon bettor attended. More and more wo are preferring little to big meetings, for the Httle meetings nro generally big, and the big little. So, desiring the big, wo prefer the littio.

"Excuses for non-attondanco at church," was the first subject dis-cussed. I t was clear, from tbo de volopmont of the subject, that tho usual excuses could not stand a scrutinizing examination. It is clearly the duty of every Christian to attend to the most important duties first If working tho potato patch is of more importance than tho kingdom of heaven, by all moans work tho potatoes. If tho potatoes ought to have all his time, and tbo kingdom of heaven none, then by all moans work tho pota toes ond lot tho kingdom of heaven

The next question wn«, " What wiw tho wrong to be forgiven Paul in 2 Cor. xii. 13? " This elicited a lively discussion on giving. Tho first speaker maintained that tho church that did not support tho pastor does a wrong to tho preacher that noods to be forgiven, Tho see ond speaker maintained that tho preacher that would preach to such ft church does a wrong to tho church that needs to bo forgiven. It was also strongly intimated that in the custom of monthly meetings, this mutual wronging is probably practicod, and mutual forgiveness should be extended, and tho par-ties should go and sin no more. Some strong utterances were made on this subject, and may br in the distant fbture some good may ac crue,

"Ought Christians to Attend Fairs?" brought forth some faithful speeches, that caused many a head to hang for shame, Theso inft mous Institutions were denounced as gambling hells, and there was no one to deny I t Attending Chris tians were cbai'ged with encourag-Ing, by their presence and patron-age, this demoralialng abomination. Chrlatian stockholdera were charged

IMWM^of youBft m fr. %l«j#lir l iMana, that :i»bfb«il«iii w ^ l a their hearta,afid piulrpowi, tbo, ib«t they will tin In th t i iib

" What Belation does the Hlnlstor Sustain to the Church?" The M-lowing was embm?jed in the an-swers,:- . ^.i'

1. The minister ia a mmder, and as aiich, like any other member, is under tbo discipline of the o h ^ h with only this difl'erence. A char^^ against him must not be entertained by the church, except in the fiico of two or three witnesses.

2. Tho minister is the servant of the church, theftoni-servant, and bis very office should drive him to un-pleasant duties, even as the bond-servant is driven to do things that bo would not prefer. Kebuking, warning, mediating,'exhorting, fbr-beoring,

otc*9 &r6 Aotno or tho un* pleasant things that ho must do, whether ho feels like it or not

3. Overseer is another relation. I t was agreed that this di.d not im-ply an overruling power, but sim-ply an oversight, that would lead bim to acquaint himself with the sit-uation, so as to bo able to suggest the best plans to carry on tho work, to foresee approaching and threaten-ing evils, and to faithAilly sound tho alarm, and have the flock fore-armed against thom.

Tho duty of deacons was next discnssod. One brother maintained from Acts vi. 1, that it was tho duty of tbo deacons to look aAor tho "widows" ond see thoy aro not " neglected in tho doily ministra-tions." It was whispered that tho danpor of such an interpretation would bo that all tho widowers would covet tho office. A minister present, who was also a widower, insisted that looking after widows was also tho daily duty of ministera, and it was manifest that he was ready to mogniiy his office, and to discharge tho duties of it. Tho re-creant deacons got some plain in-structions, and somo gave unmis-tablo indications that thoy woro not "past feeling," However tho stripes were washed and promises of im-provement made.

The house by ten or eleven o'clock was woll fliled, and to the croso tho attendance was good but slow. San-born, McKnabb, Moody, D. L. Smith, and Davis wore about the ministerial forco present The time was well put in, and the mooting, all in all, was a good ono. Wo were sorely disappointed at not seeing othor faces, M,

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A P I i m g T PB08P10T.

lam promising myself the pleas-ure of meeting with my old Associa-tion, at my old church—Paducah. I long to see some of my well be-loved friends and saints there and tbereabontii. M.'

—What tho church needs is not mora machinery, but more power.

jrbu to m t m b l ^ l a , if m doB'iM tend i D ^ f ' - ' • • •• -

—Wf i i i ! tff again. The SaSa o Dr. Baabamii'i MtaoaaboiiM be 1800 aqd neither 1880. aor i m ^ m stated la two dUhnat plaoet last week. Bui what good will it do you to know the date ifyeu doa'ticad the sermon?

—We learn tbat Dr. B. GrifflUi, eor reipoadia« seereur]> for Amerii^ Baptist PablieaUon Soeiety, e x j ^ t o attcAd tbo Coaventioa at HuaiboMt We pr«iume tbat Dr. J . Wn. Jonsa* ofAtiantik will be there, too. If you want to bear someihiog gwd, go and hear these two disfinguiahed mea.

—We are amniedeonettmas at a lit tie mistake in apelliaff. A writer is telling of some hero, and means to eall him a " tcarrtd rttenn," U t by the dreppiag out of one letter his b i ^ be-comes a teared veteran. We sni peet that ^ere were a good many veteiau^ who, if the truth were but known, wen more seared than searred.

—Consolidation seems to be la the air. Arraogementa have been made for the eonselidation of the Christian Herald and the Frat BaptiU Enterprim, organs of the Free Will BsptitU in tho South. The oonsolidated paper will be publiahedat Pleasant View, Cheatham connty, Tean., for the present, with the expectation of ooming to Nashville shortly. We extend eongratulationa.

—Don't forget that the meeting of tho Convention is on Thursday, Oeto-ber 17th, instead of Wednesday, the 16th. Well, if you should forget it and go on Wednesday, we suppose Dr. In-mtn sad the people of Humboldt eoold manage to entertain you oae day longer. We fear, howeTcr, that the grtatest danger is that yon may forget to go at all. Do n't forget that, please.

—If all the brethren who are going to help us would only do it, what an Im mense list we wodd hare. We eonU soon reach 15,000 or 20,000. Bat then, alas I they ars only going to do it—and tbat seems to mske a big difierenee. No man ever yet did any thing, who waa always going to do i t Did you ever think of tbat? Tho only way to do a thing is to do i t Now won't yon quit " going to help " us, and help us right now ?

—One thing we should like to im press upon those who go to the Conven-tion—go prepared to stay to tbd eloaa. It Ukes a day to get well organised. Mueh of the meet important bnsineaa of the body will not oome up until Sat-urday prolwbly. .Usually one third or ono hsif of the brethren leave on that day. Do n't do it this time. Stay to the oloflo. Let us get through the busl-ness before yon leave. What do yon •ay?

—Rev. J . P. Weaver, pastor of the Third eburob of this city, has almciit a perpetual revival in bis ehurob. fie ia continually receiving and baptJilng. He is a strong Baptist, and uneompro' raising in any pedtion be takea. Some of hia sayinga are aa quaiat and as sharp as any to which Sam Jones aver gava utteranee. But be ia no ape. He ia original and natural. He is doing a fine work In North Nashville.

—Now, what about that Stale Oonren-tion? Areyougolagf Whynot? How many raaaons ean you gtva fbr not going 1 Have yon any real go^ one 7 Wa bava

yowiif - r - f i f j^ —The

aiabi Ur were Ouir I aa the it-a^r".. T m ^ t k v i i B i ^ but still, tbay^ tb« Baptiftar Qod aponbnridldt^i wajBotalwayalwiil^

- I f thera atwildi U or more, dekfatas why nott—Dr. fiii " phin. For, m .™ already a n n o u t ^ thatJt peae to aBtertaia all ora to the nmon ^ i g ^ i baprowion la thai ba - iviil'l pie at Humboldt win be diaappobitea at ieeint too f « t j than too many. tBda^ w^^MwNNri can get too many. LH i t Hy.'

—" Tha Baptist niaiaian of ara an exeaptiMal oab Wii M i f i ~ apokait of the courtesy wUek tluy 'i to «a e a ! ^ piators." So pUd ! M.W. Bi«Wl|rat tba f eaee in tbia «ty lost w ored bretbrea a n there u eordlally iii X wiabthe WiUehma», %r 0 or tha Jndtpendent, 9<nii paators' eonfereaee lOMe Jti ng about ten, aad jM tha t^

isters sitlii^and oonvandag white. I t might do (heir ojti i o ^ r

—Tha ChHslum Mmtld mnCT^ Rev. J . 9. Hldan, Bid^ ford, H a « , it aald to biar a eloia to-semblaaee io Dr. J . A. Broadni in t ^ of voice and methoda of thoo^t,: fl^ tba onee reminded of thia reasmbl&M at the eloM . of » tarmtm to Niw j a brother expreased great i a t« iwik . i« •ermoD, beoauta it wat to a u e ^ a t e Dr. Btoadua' method of p raa^ni^ Dr. Hidra turaad tlw mat^r i u m I h ^ pily for himtelf, aayiag ? " t ^ pM-tt^ Dr. Broadua doeaspeak and pnia^ n t f mueh at I do. Touknow I watbit tor for several yeara."

—BraUiran, our eolumna a n and ao must your artfelsa be publieation. The demand«||E j^a itli^i^ it for short artielat, P f ^ iHll read longonoa. ThaUw o f i a tiiaaurrivalbf tha t^r tai t , and ofi^* tintea die deatii of,tba t o t i ^ ^ H«ra it aia bonorMl ^ t l i a r , for inataaMi who aeadt ut im article twaatgrclx pagaa long. I t It a jooat azeaUaatmM, woll written, and with good tluragluk Bat to publish that f ould b» to fill ptgaa of om paper and to crowd •omedoMn 'OT mora other Bemember that wa ara net pablisU«f a maguine, but a nawtpapw, .Of eonrae, wa propcaa to dlscBW doe* triaea and to preaeh the foajpal, bat wa do not ou« to a a ^ them av«l(^lt' iag in the paper, bbwmr ,av«rlaii^ they may U (n rwdiiy. 80 piaita^a brief, bratbraa, iW^, brathran, BBurl

T« I f w t a .

Wa offer a cottmltBioi of twaaty^fi^ Pfr aeui upou allsNnr ialNwribm aad twelve aad Ho half par etnt. ^ ^ n * nawalt, to alt our agsnta who wilt wuki I t a busiaaat to work f b r ^ pap^-whonrrar t b ^ may go,

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railnif^tig'iiip her fold,

r«B0«d nwnd •wuro l^r 's lovcMdeu* .

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Sbutm niiU PmK, Tht Bmnt Maker.

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'a work in Uw ohnreh atill

o l ^ llbd V of pmdiie. H«i«, u alio it tli« helper of Hum. not hit

llvv^'dmibUeaa % bottor oompuion Md •itiioM bolpto Adan thao an-( ^ A d a u w o B l d have boen. Wom-

^ j wiu. wiaaom, wito .toady and tomporod Mt d r ^ W of bw womanhood, doaa aeal. with womanly graco and womnly

di»tinetion botwoen t«,t. and womanj

^ ^ j b m o M r t t brooic thfnM of i ^ V ^ m a flowiait, '

H a i f ^ t , lowlii l if on, ' Ac atiMiaRlata flow. Whit* riobtf f N ^ moala

Tho rilent w i ^ thoy go.

I t latmly n grmt work «o to A-^a bonao «a to maki it a ho»u^ to to order th« lifo within that it ahall bo a good plaoe for the aeed sown from tba^pqipit to tpr iDg up and grow^a good plaoo f^r the toaobbga of the pntpit to bo pon-der«d.and the inilnonooa Of tbo palpit to work their silent and deepoat and most lasting effeots. This is a work whioh none but woman oan do.

1 /rt tod'o/ i'iOercowte^ oaob keeping bersoif adorned with the ornament of a meek and qoiet spirit," exemplifying, in a iMIy jifo, the meekness and gentle-ness and nnworldiiness whioh the pulpit inonleates.

3. Jm the Sabbath ichool, patiently, Aitbfally, praytfriUly applying all worn-anly taot and all womanly attraetiOna to young minds to teaoh them the pleasant ways of heavenly wisdom, and win them to walk therein.

4. Jn proper mmionary work. There are women in our oily ohurobes, provi-dentially disengaged firom domestio oares, whom God has riehly endowed with wisdom, with steady and tempered

W i in htf^i fitting; work.-

•"SfSte*-!-- —

t^rauMoUBo and the feminine. The i a a ^ Of inspiration is added to the disoHnination whioh "naturo itself t s^ 'M . " A ebnroh with no women in tt W r a bo like Bdea without Eve. A obitt^ ^ o l i should have lost alltbe iteMM dilRireaeea between its mason-IbM and flminine inembership wonld bo liko fUM iiritb two Adams and no Evo.

Maob that bas been said and written on this topiO seems to imply tiiat woman Mods belpto find ber plaoe and her Worir. Is not this a mistake r In the Amily awl in sooial interoourae a woman wlio is ever anxidualy and nervously sedkittg for her plaoe, and tiyinlf to get into it^ is sure to make the impression t ^ Bb» laoka someUiing of feminine ehmoter. Sbe wbo never seems to be (rat of bw plaoo baa not all the while

oMsdously tiTint to keep in it. She enoimors gravitates to it by a spon-t l a o ^ teadenoy.

7b tbl i MqM^ioma^ groatlysu-IMki^ tb man. Sho bas finer and truer instiiidte, or rather qoieker and surer in^tiiUM. She knows moroihingibr / W ^ ' lliWn than jtnan does. I f this

U dulled and lost, she is not Ittel^ to win, in plsM of it, maa'a power oflofitf-of kAowing things by proving Imm. ' ' . ' Shall aqy nian attempt to define wom-

an'! ption and work, or to set tbem forth i i %IobI or rlietorieal fonnt

DoubUeii wa ihall i l l agree t the firadBiae elenumi of liaiiH^ii^ the more refiaed, the tnor* ral^tle element. I t i i Jaat tiiife wUob^ left to itself, most easOyfiads its oirii plaoe and doesite own work, bf«i«Ni lbrtii ito own infiu-

The Isnd may be meaanred and

tude (for there is a feminine type of these, in no other way inferior to the masenline). whom Christian men may well support by regular and stipulated pay, to givo their whole time and strength to missionary labor.

A ohurob whioh ahonid employ enough such devoted sisters of Christ to explore IVequently every BtreOt and alley in ite proper field, to read the Bible and pray in every squalid abode, to cheer and comfort every desponding and suffering disolplo, to invito every negleeter of the sanctuary to ber plaoe of worship, every child to her own 8«b-bath-sohool, and to load every one, who will be led, to ber pastor, or bring ber pastor to thsir homes or bedsides, bas made the most worthy and useful ex-penditure of the funds needed to sup-port them.

We need not be anxious to define snd desoribe woman's plaoe and work. Rec-ognising her feminine nature, and neither enticing nor driving bor away from ite proper exercise, wa may best trust it to find ite own plaoe and way. Lot us invite and expect the help of our women in all our spheres of duty and uselUness. Men ahdVomon should bo helpers of eaoh other in oommon spheres, more than laborers ift wholly separate ones.

Let us not dishearten and depress Christian women by seefming to under-value aU that is not done in public, that oui not be figured in stotistics, nor bksonsd upon phtforms. Let the meoke^ and genUest, and timldest woman who breaks hsr box of ointment on ber Matsr'a ftet noi be alarmed when sho finds that the whole house is

BegUi wiih your own posssasions, girls. Reform your upper buiMu drawer ; relievo your o loset i^ of 4i«ir aooumulation ofgitrmente onit of uso a month or two ago, InsUtute « olear and oaroibl order in the midst of wblob you i m daily move, and loam to keep it so that it will be a part of your toilet to dress your room and Its arraQgements while yon dress yourselves, learingthe draperiss yort take off as lightly and ar-tbtlcally hung, or as delicately folded and plaeed, as the skirt* you loop oare-ftUly to wear, or the ribbon and laoo you put irith • soft neatneos abont your throat. Cherish your instincts of taste and fitness in every little thing you bave about you. This will not make you "fiissy," it is tb<} other thing that does that—the not knowing, except by fidgety experiment, what is harmony and the intangible grace of relation.

Take upon yourself gradually—for the sake of getting them in hand in like manner, if for no other need-all the oares that belong to your own small ter-ritory of home, flave your little wash-cloths and your sponges for bite of cleaning; your ftamiture brush, and Tonrleather-duster, and your light little broom, and your whisk and pan; your bottle of swoet oil and spirits of turpen-tine and piece of flannel, to preserve the polish or restore the gloss where dark wood grows dim or goto spotted. Find out, by following your surely-growing sense of thoroiighness and nice-ncss, the best and readiest ways of keep-ing all fresh abont yon. Invent your own procemes; they will crfmotoyon. When you make yourself wholly mis-tress of what you can learn and do in your own apartment, so that it is easier and more natural for you to do it than to let it alone, then you have laamed to keep a whole house so far as its cloanly ordering is oocoorned. — & Nicholat.

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T " - T — " " u I wuva Bao aniu huh tUO WnOlO BOUSO fS

b S S r S l j S ^ l ^ r ^ bo fillod with its bdor: and let not her who

s ^ i S L PtitMjriiTss a cup of cold

IV a . • Master watohsa tha huu^blo action with

^ ifwoitbin an^ .llvsn, | ^ wotwtt Wboi, t>.|rt |s fl^ll, ^

—Wo find the following dialogue is credited t? the Epocfi,:

Mamma (to Flossie, who had boon lunching with a little friend): " I hopo you were very polite, Flossie, at the table, and said,' Yes. please,' and' No thank you.'"

Flossie: "Well, I didn't say 'No, thank jou,' because, you see, I took every thing."

I t is believed that there are office-sceking politicians and others who, for reasons similar to those hero stated, seldom or never say," No, thank you."

—Do n't bo a eynio and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail attd bemoan. Omit the negative propositions. Nerve us with incessant afllrmatives. Don't WMte yourself in rctleotion, nor bark sgainst the bad. but ohange tho boauty of the good.—JETmsrion.

—The groat secret of success in life is for a man to bo rndy when bis oppor-tunity comes.—.Pisiwfi.

—A little giri who was onjoying broiled partridge for bNakfast remarked that she did not think it at all strange that maau said bb birthright fbr almesa

of I

old,

^ »•»»»» who did overy Ibiog in thi worid, to lirtko him haiipy, H , h ^ a prinanrpresa, » voloolpodo, a bi* jyolo, sled, skates (loo and roller), books, every thlMr ; And yet bs was the most unhappy child,! ovtr ssw. One winter morning the stiroets were oov-ersd with snow. All the boys in tho neighborhood were out with their sled«, shouUng, and laughing, and having the best kind of times. This boy wont abont tho house frowning, growling, and whining. What about, do you think? Ho was not satisfied because hit sled was not longer, and utterly refused to go out. He "would not go out with snob a mean j^lod," he said. That after-noon I was not ftr fVom this boy's house when I heard shouu of laughter fSrom some ohildren, who were out of sight around the oorner. When I did see them I stood perfectly still There were four little children without over-shoes, or overooata, or mittens. They had an old broom which they were using as a sled. The youngest child was sit-ting on the broom. Thefr eyci were shining, cheeks Just liko rosas, and they certainly were just at happy as though they had the most beautifai of sleds.

! The following oonversttion wm over-heard amongBoae little ohildreo:

Three tiny, ragged boys were playing together in the sunshine Thursday on a sidewalk near one of the North End railway stations. A

fourth yoBogster came up, bin eyes glistening with pleas-ure, his dirty face proud with deligh». "Oh, boys," h j cried, " I've foui' a tin-cent piece."

Tho others crowdei around and dis-cutsed thu treasure excitedly. Then they sat down on tho curbstone to eom-pare reminisoonoos of recent Inolcy Snds.

"Ifoun' mos' a hull piooo of top yes terday," said one.

"Ifoun"a big bono in oar alloy, a n'orful big bono," said a seojnd. " 'n ' I 'm going to msko a Jumper out of it."

The youngest child-the very dlrti-ost, smallest, thinnest baby that ever walked-had listened with asmile of per-fect content, and now he chimed In, in a tone whoso prldo and jsy no words oan convey:

" Thith momin' I foun' a pea-nut."

Ton see, It is not what you have, what you find, that mikes you happy, but the use you make of i t I f you use it toei^oy it, got all the pleasure and profit there is in it out of it, yon will bo happy in Ita possession; but if you think all tho

time that you want tho thing yon have not got, or can not havo, youloso alltbe pleasure looked up in your present possession. You know Paul said: " I have learned in whatso-ever state I am, therewith to be con-tent" Now, that is a text for you to think about Paul meant that he had losrnodhowlo use the present time, the present gills, the present friends; tbst It was not wise to keep grasping alj the time for something out of reaob, Think about I t — V n t m .

-Observation is tho absolute basis of all knowladgo. Tho first object, tbon, of eduoation must bo to lead a oblld to obserro with aoouraoy, and to oxprM with oorreotnass. tb« reinH of bli «bifrvitlons,-f«toro^/^. »v ^

€ good-bye. aa for m i ^ i ^ i o i ' not bo with you longer than the Mpira^ ^ n of tho- peesent month. 80 if you havo ai^ woi^ lo iay or mphey to givo f b r d a b * . .

Hero is'a pbsttl-oard X received from Brother Powell somo months ago:

D k a r Stttas Ha(IiBT; Wo are oodnting ott you to help its seat the chapel. Wo bave simply boon waiting for you to send the funu to Dr. Tupper for tibtii purpose. I proaehod in the " Young South Chapel" the other night, and many of the people had to stand through the service. Brother Watklns. of Mississippi, is the pastor. I am glad the dear children are going to work for Cub*. I t is one 6f the finest fields now open for mission work. Tell the ohil-dren not to forget to pray for us. We have your pioturo and that of Brother Hailey nlocly framed and sitting on my study table. Sincerely yours.

Baitillo. W. D. PowBti..

Now, oblldren and friends, I bave three pictures of Brother Powell left of thooe ho sent as prises last year. I will nnd oite of them to any one w ^ will send me five dollars for the seating of this Young South Chapel of ours. No, not " of ours," we built it and gave it to tho Lord, did we not? Let us close our work with one more oontribu-tion for Mexico, that field we loved and worked for so long. This will givo us fifteen dollars, whioh will help greatly. I know, and will let them all know, we have not forgotten them. Whatiay you, ohildren and fVlends? Let me hear from you. Lovingly, Au k t Noba.

AimT No r a : I am interested in your great work. I , through the Instrumon-tallty of Central Avenue ohurob, am at tbo South-western Baptist University, fitting myself for the ministry. Inclosed you will find a small sum, tho amount of which I will not tell, for I am ashamed of i t Remember me in your pr^rers. The J . R. (f. Society of Re-ligious Inquiry met yesterday evening, (Friday) and we bad a warm meeting. It Is hoped that great good will bo ac-complished by our meeting In the J . R. 0. Hall, as we young ministers call i t

Use that amount as you think host Your true friend, W im,ib Nobbib. Jackson, Tenn.

Such news as this gladdens our bearta greatly, Willie, and I am glad you were thoughtful enough to write us of your whereabouta and you plans. May Ood richly bless you. We would bo glad fo hoar from you often.

AOMt Noba : I am far behind with my answers this time. I hope you will not dismiss me from your band of work-ers. I was cut In the country and waa taken with a spell of bilious fever. A now thing to me. As soon as I was able I tried to answer tho questions, but Jtist before I got them finished I was taken slok again. I hope you will ex-ouso tho this time. I send a stamp for Brother Diss's pleturo. . Loringly, W i l m b W. Wa t t s .

Wo bave missed you, Willie, and am sorry to learn of your ill-health, and glad to know'it was only siokooHi tbat oaaiod yoar siloooa. Both gls4 ftod •OrrjHiow do fon niiko it t

p d i

W ^ w i t b Tonf-fmifM ^ Aumt Noba : AFTOS so long a

tfiBOi hero I oomo with my monthly duo*. Inelosed find twen^ oenta for the m o n ^ of September and Ootobor; I wrote, to you a short time ago and sonka two oent Stamp for Mr, DIaa'f picture. I will send it to you sgain. My letter got loot, and it came baekto mo. I told yon in it about meeting your fiithsr in Manor. My fiitber, brother, and my-self went down to Manor in Juno to hear him proaoh, but were dimppoioted. But we got to aee and talk with him. and also dined with him. I think ho is • SmLfiPisood man, and papa thinks thort -M jib one like him. We are so sorry tbat be is so afflloted. Our pas-tor. Rev. Mr. Chatnan, bas Just bold a protracted meeting, with the help of Rev. Mr. Hoi man. There were nine or ten conversions, and seven baptisms. Others sro awaiting baptism. We love our pastor OS good ss ever, Whylhave not answered any Bible questions, my mother and fiither havo boon quite slok, and I have been very busy Waiting on them and attending to the household duties. I will not start to sehool until the first Of next month, ss the sehool does not commence until then. Well, as I bave nothing more of interest to write, I will close lAth lovo to you, Unele Orson, and little James. Yonr littl^ niooo, MAniL Hxruif.

Austin, Texas. Ave you a Christian, Mabel ? I hop^

so. List Friday night was a memorable night with us, for we mw Mven of our Sunday-sohool soholars stand up and testify of their love for Jesus, and all under fifteen years, I should think, and Unele Orson bsptlsed them Sunday afternoon.

tot

itii^liard'i

Lou ls i i ^ lafo arO

and hope you will ever lo ve the woii in ] Cuba and work for I t I iiioi I— »

Biblo OBittoaa^

What king bad a grandton lamed by falling from his nurse's arms t,

What was his nsme and what beciwo of him?

Who waa slain on his bed at noon by Reobab and Baan?

What reward did David give them for doing it? '

How old was David wb^' bo waa anointed king, and how long did he reign over brael?

Whom did the Loi^ smite dead bo-oanse be laid bold of e arkf

What woman ridiculed a king for ro-Joicing before the Lord, and suffered fbr it? • • . . .. -

What king lost a tbousand obi^ota in battle, and who captured them ?

Who, in speaking of himself, said, "Such a dead dog as I am ?>'

Wbom did David send to fight against theSyrisns?

7or Oaba-loptoabtr.

Tishie Csdwell. LilaCadwell. 1 Mabel Hefiin Genevieve Taylor Harry Townsend. Willie Norria.

Intorestiiif Vows froa Japan.

BBV. n. LOOMIS.

Ai|swers to Questions for Sept fith.

Dxab Au n t Noba : Will you wel-come a little Southern maiden to the Young South. Mamma takes tho Bap-tist AND RErMOToB. She likes it very much, and I like it also. I send two cents for Brother Diss's pioturo and ten cents for Cuba. I should have boon highly delighted to bave heard him preach in Chattanooga, but did not

There is a Sabbath school at Clover-dale church, and preaching there each first Sunday. I send answers for the Bible questions for September fi.

1. Ssmuel was a prophet in Israel In the time of Saul.

2. Nabub, kingof the Ammonites, of-fered a covenant with Israel, provided be might thrust out their right eye and by It as a reproach before them.

3. The prophet Samuel, In his faro-well address to Israel, said he was " old and gray-headed."

4. Jonathan, tbo son of KlngSsul, ato a little honey when the king bad commanded the army of Israel to eat notbiog that day, and King Saul threat-ened to take bis life for tbo sot

5. King Saul forced overy strong and valiant roan he saw, into his service.

0 Ssmuel said to obey Is hotter than sacrifice, when he was reproving Saul for taking of the spoil of Amalek.

Samuel was ordsred to go to Beth-lehem, and anoint David king.

9. When the sons of Jesse were passing before Ssmtiol, Qod said unto him. " Man looketh on the outward ap-poarande. but (l|o ord looketh oi) tfio biirt,"

For some time psst the BuddblsU in Japan haVe felt that they were plainly losing ground, and something must bis done to help their cause, or it would oease to exert the influence It has hith-erto possMsed. The attempt to add to their strength by sending some of their representatives to India in ol^er to get their inspiration from the fountain bead bas no*i been sucoessfhl. When such men came back the moat of them had lost their faith or seal in the oauso, and so wero a hindrance instead of a help ss was expeoted.

In their perplexity it wm deoided to invite Colonel Olcott, frOm India, to come and bolstor up tho waning fhltbi by a series of lectures on the ethnical oultus of tho Buddhistic teaohlags as compared with CbrisUsnily. I t wss thought the oomiog of snob a distin-guished apostle of Sbakamttoi would in-spire new hopo and courage iq tho fol-lowers of Buddha, and bring hosts of oonverta into their fold.

The Colonel oame, as requested, and h u been lecturing all over the country. At first he was received by large and enthusisstio crowds, bat to many of bis hearers at least his addresses havo boon a great dfaMppointment I attended ono of them in Tokyo, in order to seo and hear for myself what this president of tbo Great Thoosophlst Boelety hsd to say. His «ob}eet wss. " Tbo Solentifio Basis of Rellj^on." I expootsd to bear

sueh a eombli^tioit of soloneo aijd I . that BO ordinaiy mortal would bo abi# to refute I t lint tbo atdentlfio basli consisted In tho assertion that nan ia a doiil betnjji. and oompotod of oUlfMnte

I S K ^ r i l k ^

dblbKi

solid aid ibiofpUii^^

Tholootaw inil^^ that would iMi^nH^I people. Abiol^ present, and al oOi numbsrworotlteiii the man i •thusiasm, l^y'it^ that bis - m O a M i any ipaoral dosenprioMiirarol aoter to tbo 03 „ butlittloreilWMN^' tho whole dlsooiaioJ '

At Maibkiia-li^i' mentthatOhrisI^^

I boast of their t a M JI dbism wasspiptdltili l United Stiiw in this ooantiy, M there wero obw llfiv i in Amorioa. TUsi

, byan-Amir ioBr '^Mi i ) 00 plaoe, aad »oballeniW;«||| 00 Cdonel to meet bim 20 deellnodtoentor iato aag t 10 the subioei i 20 I It baa bsiti 10 I Colonel if wsllpaldibrbto'

ho ftNM oBly to^i^ pbM»erwli«r«|ho oom^VfUation i i flxoSaad rniliitmMfi Tbo ataotiBt given atlffiroshiaw waHidO (Mexioao),andatNagoya leoo. BbU seemsltbat, liko Oolonot liifsiaoliV orasado against ChriUballf^lt ti iiilw ply a means of gottliif M t a r t ^ O M mousy. I t looks very nook af ir t l i BuddblsteofJipii wOI bo tlM-kMi; finanoially and in every way, oa mMpMM oftheadvontoftbistoaebor of a o n ^ that is over^hero waaing bofot* t ^ light of tho eKm—!r%S JrimbtMt*y '

from BrotUar Htrriof.

Dnt4ng t ^ past tluM motfllHi Z havo been proaobing at tho obitroli Ott'lSilii day, takiag it turn a W t Witlv' iUMov Wong; and iatho obveh aad^hipola to the beatboB somo, tbtraili Itot -si muoh of the latter as bilbr* i l l iMMlk^ beoamo so warm. Brithroii'*

BHttonj Tatnm, and I have boon' loiiijr m i * i wsek out on tbo stmiiot, oiOM fcaft t i in the surroundiag viUagiif Bibles and shoot traota. ^ i M I p f several thousand,'ud X ' thousands oa tho stroot and plaoes. a« well aa in tho sho^i noss bousos, somotbiOff of t h M ^ offf life. I havo boon Studies H muob as p ^ U Mm ' j b f msny iot«rmption|^^l aa-'takiu oourso in tbo Cblsi^M olaasldl, n A m m Bcarly tbrot^li tbo C o d f l i ^ writing tti#bbanMtorsaiJMl«i; latlng. I find it invalMblo In, mo to, grasp tbo languagt andii^ s^ken. }<•,

Our dear brother, jpsaoon TTi very riok now. 0 wbal I ro^ j ir|j tbo Lord wore to lakobimf Wt j

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that bo nvf bo spand.

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Id iiUrty. to tke e h o ^ ^

i ^ l J f T i w I meetiop it Mywdo Jwic-tkMH T m m the of tireot*

jMing eoiiTen«d reoMtlj. ntljr Ifitttiwd »t ;r«iT?UIe, A r t , e»ll« fiiolher K. H.

to their pMtiwie.

h«reli««n htving » «ood aeetiiw r<J

^ f ^ . t Book ehwoCa Weet b.pti«ftd Are Zn-..'Tens,

^ -^A jlfte«» di^' neetlni at ,£Mt B«de>Cr^k ohwph, H « 3 B ool,^?

W M w eddltfona to the

B. Bomw reoenily o r ^ t o t h t w o r k o f t h e ^ l S ^ j j g ^ the Spwuobu,* tBiu,tl.t

ft good reealufd k

i jjMtwn ooarerrioM « d .Uteen b.p.

to the w i S . ^ ^ ' T f county.

olOMd wiA twenlyibitt ecoeMoni to theAnrohbybftptlMa. ^ H o H l w . Inrtitate. V.., oWed ll. f b ^ m n A i ^ o n with one tundrwl

- A ro^iw aoetlog hue Joet

«on end eight were beptiied.

J. B. U ^ e ^ I e hat been depo*^ ft«ni

tw ?hWf«of Mnminleteriftl tonddot/

~Bro|her hoe Jut oloied » •uoceMfal iBMtlBi^th theohuroh et JonMboro, Arkiuutt, rerolting in five ^ f i t t i i . tiittftddod br letter, end one »WftItingb»ptl8n».

- A r d e n t meeting at Middle Creek oh^h. XftRoe oountjrj Ky., reetilted in thlrty throe being b«ptised< two more •pproted, MTen reetored, end the ohar^greftUyjrariTed. . "Tp'^J^^' J- »• Meyntrd. of Mor-

ri«Til^e,North C«rolin», closed A meet-totjrith Swift Creok ohuroh recently with twenty ooBvortii,. Theohuroh wu w»iwd ft! never before ia it» hietory. «

;~Brother W. J. Poekett he* been o^uned to the work of the ministry by ttii Knox Creek oharch, Ky. Brother Pnckett WM one of the gndttttfng clftM rt the Georgetown n the iMtterm.

~ A «Une dey»' meeting At the Gr.n. Till^huroh, Geoiiin, resulted in ton

nine by baptism »nd one by

fh-rwJM'i Octo 10.

"WOW «oo«. msty, October WMtUnioor-PlesssntOrotiohuroh

Humboldt. T h t t i S S y t T C w i r C ^ p W l county. Thursdsy. October l?) w l t ^ ' ^ y cottoty.. Bible Union church. Wesklcy county, Wedncsdsy, October

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I t ' v-nensy wss as «»t«d by Her. W. W. Boop. of Carroll too.

'-^•IHng Creek church, Elbert Munty, Oa., has been greatly blessed in s meeting in which thirty-si« have been •ddedta the church. Many of them from twenty-one up to sevcnty-flve years old. '

N^t^^®*! Rockingham. North CaroUna. closed recently with four hundred and thirty professions of Aith in the Lord Jesus. It was a re-m^bltmceUng, reaching eveiy class

- T h e Master's cause is in a prosper-^ coupon at Corinth church, Ga. Without a protracted meeting there l»Te been twenty additions to the church recently. Thirteen by experi-ence and scTen by letter.

- T h e Coal Mountain church. For-SJth county G...has closed .gracious « w ^ F i ^ ^ the church, forty by baptism and ten by

Sheffield conducted the services. ^ - T h e Rev. G, B. Taylor has resigned

of 0«.apelHIllch«ch, North Carolina, and has scoepted a oall ss assistant pistor of the First. Baptist church. Bsltimore. Mr. f a y l b r i » Mtive of Virginia, and recently mar-ried Miss Josi Cabell of that State

- T h e Townville church, South Caro-^ r ^Ith • «>orious revivsl.^ There were lifty.four acc«. •ioM. PMtor J . R.Earle wss assisted

Bwthew W. W. Leather., Weldo^ and H. P. Smith. I t w s s s a i d b y S

w i ^ V moeUng is in progress at

Thitd church in Atlanta. T f k r tte resulthss been twsnty-eight addi-«ons to ihe church, fourteen by expe-rience, thirteen by letter, and one re-ceived tander the watchcire of the church. Pastor A. H. Jlitoheli is grcfttly encouraged in his work.

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lj4 oqJfil i wheii the distributioR Was thsqiuotM

sat' officers <>t ,wiiioh'~ihotu;h repeated sp-peilis were made—failed to send to the iscretary copies ftf their minutes, or evea the post-office addrms of any one to whom ft jpMka^ ooitld be fonrarded. To send the package simply to Ciover-bottoni AsM'ciatidn, or t) iSion church. Tconosjce- well, th^ might as well have been mailent to the man in the woon.

In ^rder that all this good reading should not be wasted, the secretaiy has been sending out minutes to be distrib-uted at the meetingB of the district Auociations, and other gatherings of BsptisU that could be located by a mail carrier, in the hope that the books would stir up the minds of the bret^n by way of remembrance of. the fast ap-prcsching convention, and to give you, my brother, a chance to get oven with your conscience about that contribution to State Minions which you intended to make, but have not made up to this time. , j .

EAaLtviLU!, Tkkk.—This church washofp fnlof having a Fiah Sunday meeting here this September, but the aoncuncement in the paper of the change of methods again disappoints them. However, we are not such as to get sullen, and do nothing when we fail to get Jnst what we want. This wouldbeugly. Besides, I do not know, but it is best under the circumstances to do the very thing we are going to do for this one time. I hope the Concord Association has become so well drilled and so attentive as to wheel into lino and take promptly any new position. If the Executive Cammittee, into whose hands we have put this business, should tell us to meet on the extreme limits, in some school-house, and carry two day's provisions wiU» us. we ought to be there. It is not so much where and when as it is our promptness and unanimity in action. We are going to try to make the Eagleviilemeeting sue-cessfhl according to the announcement.

G. M. SAVAai.

of ' - Convention; holder to puroha«e a r^um ticket at one third tho i ^ l a r rate.

The same amngementa will probably be made with the Eist Tenneil^, Vir-^ni^ and Georgia, thrOlncinnati Southern, the Meti|>phU and Charleston, and the Illinois Ceniral. These roads have referred the matter to Mr, M. Slaughter, Commissionar, at Atlanta, who MpressM a willingnm to give re-due^ rates, but his not yet given dcfi-uif« iitstnketions.

The Tennessee Midland wUi sell round trip tickets to Memphis or Jack-son, at one fare for the roudd trip, lim-iting them to l i t days from the date of issue. A. LabcOmbi. JSkc. T. B. C.

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in ute, and la mvntandad by Rer. J. M. Carter. D. D P. E. M. E.Church. Uev. M. B. DeWiU. EJ. Cnmb. Pnsbr.

r. P. A. fiowell, P. E. M. E. Chnreh R

Our meeting at Bradley Creek, my home church, commenced the second Sabbath in September and continued twelve days and nights, and wss won-derful in its nature, reaching ftmilles that had never before been reached. We have never known this community •0 religiously wrought up as in this meeting. About thirty-five conver-slons and thirty Editions. The writer did all the preaching except four ser-mons by Brother Couch, which were timely and effective. Q. A. Of».B.

Th« PUrriaafff to Hnmboldt

Infinite amngemants for reduced fare to delegates and visitors to the Ijtftte Conyeution.have been made as follows:

The Nashville, Chattauoogft, an St. Louis roftd wiU 9eU ticketl at ons and

for the round trip frow. Na^Tillt, Murflrsesboro, Sheir hrriUe, Warii»«^'.Taliaho«a, Win.

Manchetter, South Pittsbuif. and Ch^QOfa. Alsf ftem Wavwly. MtEsnsie* Bre^den. aqd eploa Ci^. Tlokstj on sale on the Idtb and lltli, M^dioAd to OetoberSfl, inolusivi.

Rev. , K«v. as.0an]ti«r, Ken J. W. Stsgit, IU«r. LoubPowe -

and 400 For further

•fd. BaiitiaLOionih. _-.X Presbjr. Church. MoFerrin Church. It in NashvUle; Ittion, ooosultatlon. , ,winu<wuw.

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u d upbemen IC'tlit the «on bo nukdo to Steto Mia

to tho dptiOB of thofix itto irbeUier toy wiU bo

in tbo North L i b « ^ Amo*

,. ^ ^ ^ B f o m thrto hoadrod dol Wwi-w* eontribatoi Ibr MImIou. Voi^iy tiro' bandred dollurt wore

^ plodied forMinirterialBdiiefttioD. One

^ B; tlrsBptOB, eorreii»oadiiQf McroUf7 ojr State Minioaa wia proiMt,

ftdded ttnob to the lateral* of the Aiiodatioa. Ho woa for ;,'bitaaelf c o l ^ ojrfaloao m • vtroi^ lonble,

^ d elfie|«al m a . After bis iaiiidoB> Mxaemoa oaSoadar, hio uked fbr • ooU^oa of aad reoeived ofrei^flwdollwfc , ^ , Whir U it t h f t t ^ iMtioaa wbeire oottoa iaid tobaeoo are raiMd ooatribate, j K i n aoeordii^ to their aUl i^ ihaa t k ^ p l e in the blae-grua aad etoek-gtoniof tegioai? Saoh. m-oordias to ttjr obiurratioB, aeeaia to be

Jta,% beoaaae the beauty of the l a a d s ^ f h i flae^k faoreaiM the love of laia more thaa the lew

r beaatiftil k a ^ aad erope of oottoa aad tobaoeo?

/ W. 0. Hiaea, oae of the editora of the / Alabattia BaptiH, was present, aad ae-oaredafoodiiatof aabaeribers. H e is a little, pi^ttir mio, like our Jaaior ed-itorr Ithe Atahamai Sdpiiit h»M been Bttoh inproTod u d e r t h e ataaafament o f sadfijopkc 9h«y a r e eondnot-iaf l l^b^isas^^ priooiples, ao that it eao aad stilt civo to its odlt&rfalfTiw ^ WeVriee^fa t w o d o l -lara to all eUasot-Boelab rates. This, to my aiiad^; is basiaeaa. Why abonld

^ aU ' thi ttiaistersof ft mUj For the sales of their tniiti>

^ eaeo. Tos, bat tho good piston Wl l be ^ chid to f i fe their iaflaoiibo Ibr the sake

of the food effeets apoa their people, aad if (hay a n reoeiTiag a good salwy th«y do oot oo' i r iA. aay p a y f o r their sarfioe^ If tboy aeed a remaaer. atioB, let (heir pay bo a per oeat. oa oTery aab^berseoared. Bat hers is P t f j l ^ thi/wofk :1s done, and ih S f i C T ^ f i i M ^ w U l aeVer be doas. Selah. With ataay Baptists a porsoaal effort is aeosiaaiy. Hitgr aast b* raa dowa, or. eomeMd, lad battOo> holed belbre they will sabsoribo, Aad

£1 the (Blab irata is still wone. The best pajiag olab in oar pharehesaTail <hsni-sslyss of the. elab rates; aad the nore iadifliiraBt aad Issaablsr aiast bo m a

oio at a tiias if yoa eter sseare - "Uieai. Besidss, aaob 1 papsr is ths

BA»niv Atm Bi r tBoto* oaa aot bo « lass pries than two tag the i^M of ths paper at

' a ittK i k ^ ' tbatr ooiild ba dTorded is Mf j^ iMBy itsMpapii^ wreeks

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jaaijh^Bd sw wlU rsoelto at ^ l ^ t j r thottsaad sttbaoriben. ^ H y s i ^ o f meetiBgawith theI.o<ra(it OroTo oha^oh resulted to flfteeaaddi-tioaa to the ehuroh by baptism/and six to the Now Market oharoh.

Wo ebaiaieooe a aeries of meetings at Ne« Market to day. Re*, 0 . W. Dalby has proBtiaed to join me to mor-WW,. . s • ^

Bev., J. 0. Hidetf has resigned the oars of tile ehareh at Beilbuekle, and will go to a theologiesl iMininary.

Wi tUAM HPFS'. New Market, Ala.

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A 8 H I N C LASTS A WCCK. A PcnrcCTHARNKU DRCSSINQ.

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Freo BecliniDg Chair Oars. Pallmaa BaflTot and Sleeping Gars.

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T b e S b o r t e s t f t Qn ioker t Rente.

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otdar your Tn obtain Prompt and Quiidi Barrl a, ShlpmantorantadTlai The Illinois Central Railroad.

inoldan,oraorolhar Imfoima-Uoa A. B. HANSOW. O. P. A T. A., Chlei|o, nt A. J. Un^P, Aai't O. F. A P. A., HaapUa. Tann. R. TOCKim, O.P.A., Hortkani Uaaa, OUm«o, 111 0. B. ItOBKtr, O.P.A. SOB. Unaa, Kaw Orlaani, U T. J. HDDSOa. TmiBo Itawcar. Cbiaav, 111. M. a MAMBAU, Aaa-'.T. K Olii(i««. lU.

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^ We slanedall." QaeaUoa^n^. men are not bora

Udder the Adwio sin, vliiaa do tliey bcoome traaaii^Mra Wore Ood, aad «t what time, or 16 what sot, doea nail's moral astora beeome eatraoged IVvm God?

2. I f maa is oot bora oader the Ad-iiuio Bin then how does the hamsn fsm-Uy die ia Adam, as Paal asjw? I f sn indtvidasl is bom holjr then oonid he not rem^a ao. iXBVW ,oommittiag an oTort sM of diiobedieaoe, heaoe never coming ander oondemastion, u Paal deolaires <if the hiintta fitmily ?

Baird'a MilU I . W. MABTIW.

—A meetiOK at Retora ohurch, S. C., haa closed with g<(od| r«iaIta. Fifteen converaions and twenty additions to the chnroh.

S9i Xx>olc out for tbo big I P ad-vertisomont in this papor, and the information may bo of great benefit to you.

Moll iai i t M l F a t M r y

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Mjratt^ion bw llMen dnwii to ffoiae thingt otir ilMur Brother H. P. MoCor miok, ofZWieflM. Mexioo. bta written (Kkoeerfllnf the prietti inthet oonntr ., JQtere wre e ^ thloci be t^jn:

** DruikMiBetti ie edisiittedly ootnmoo tmoBt tben, end {« exooiMd m » proof of tbe H0I7 Fetber'a jieaiefity.

"A abort wbile a ^ tbe oiTil entbori-ti«a oloied » Cetbplio Mbool tn France beeaoae the teaoben. jprieate, ' aboi^ aad i^titiited tbe atndents.' I ^ y OathoUo oititena deolare tbat tbe iemi-narlea and Jeaait ooilege in MoziiM> •bottld be oloied for tba tatne borrible retaon."

Wb7 do Proteatanta eyaraomaobu tbink offendinc tbeir daofbtera to Cttbolio nboola, tbongb tbey be better tbantbow?

" It *onId be diffionit to find e man or woman in Mexico of known reraoity, who wonld deny Uiat, aa a olaM, thcee prieata arenncbaate. They on^Ligon^i the Tilenaaa of the Catholic aaint, Li' Konri himaelf, in tbeir impurity in the oonfeaaional, Soaroely a day paaea that the daily papera do not note the impriaonment'of aome one of these 'holy fethera' for criminal aosanlt on female virtnea."

"lathe wonder great that the masa of thia people are baatards? Well-in-formed peraona declare that there is no prieat in a certain large State in Mexico who is not a known libertine."

I have recently read a very interest-ing and newsy book, written by my friend, Judge J . R. Flippin (Sketehca from the Mountains of 3Iexico—Sun-dard Poblisbing Company, Cincinnati), in which he pays hie respects to these "Christson earth." He says he baa frequently met the " holy father " mak-ing his tonr among the people, haying along with him a mnlawell packed with good proTiaions," and a mysterious- look-ing bottle, fragrant with tbe breath of ' mountain dew.'"

Again hesaya: " I should dislike to say that there are here no prieata worthy of their profeasion, but from what I bareaeen and heard, there are but few whoae high voeation ia not disgraced by their liTea. One died here aome yean ainoe whoae ainftU praetioea had b^ot-tea the moat malignant infirmity, leav-ittg to the eara of bia parish a house ftill of illegiUmato children; and these things are no moral aboek to bia pariah-ionara, for they aay the father can do BO wrong, tbat be ia the Ticar of Chriai on earth, and tbat bia precepts, rather than bia example; ahoald U obeyed. > . . I f they oommit morder tb«y be-

liat* the word of tbe prieat can wipe out the blood of the alain. If. thv stoal« bia word ia all-anf-fleimt to oaneal tha anae. I f they, In their Waatonoaaa, tiolato tha aanotitr of yoiitb, agt« and innooeii«a,hift word ew rioi a pardoning power, ehanging iriloa into Tirtne and villainy Into Hiktaona-

Tbay baliara that ha ott bar those gatarwbieb "gnto barab^thtttt.

aer," or open thoie "on golden bingea tnmtag." Btteb,:* fclAi witb rteb a people, makw dangwona^deTilisb, and lawleaa. Believing in the prteat'a power to forgive, and the eaae with which the forliveneaa may be obtniiiedt »ot only weakens all moral rtntt^nta, bnt girea positive enoonragement to tha indnlgenee of tbe neaneat paaaiona and

perttetration of tha vMaat crimsa. He staba with aaaaasin'a band bia fel-low-men to-day, and to-morrow, abonld tbe law demand hia life, the holy eon-feasor, with prayer, and onicifix, and abrlve aenda him on to gloiy. Future punishment baa no terrors for him, for hia mediator can change by hia trana-formiog power sias into innocence and purity.

These priests are the moral guides of Mexico; can we bo surpriaed at the moral degradation of that country? How badly Mexico needs the gotpel of Jeans Christ I Christian reader, let us help to send the gospel to Mexico.

I P. Trottkb.

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• • • S. .A^K6atr Rieeville, Tenn.

The PrMbytarian/ VrM Ohturab

Sooilaad.

BY WM. KdBTOir.

SoBday'SehooIa.

As I bavejnst been thinking about the possibilities, probabilities, differ-ences, and indiSerencos of our Baptist brethren of Saat Tennessee, and feeling rather sad, yet hopeful, I pen a few words for the consideration of pastors and churches having no Sunday-schools, or church schools if you please, to which those pastors are preaching. Believing as I do, tbat the Sunday school idea was the one with which Jesus Christ began the world's con-quest, it is somewhat astonishing to me to see some of our people, claiming to be the church and the only church of Jeans Christ, so indifferent about this work. He taught a class of twelve. "As his custom was he went into tbe synagogue on the Sabbath day." What didhedo? Taught, of course. Are wo the light of the world and a city set on a hill that can not be hid when we are viaiting around on the Lord's day, and our children roaming over the country, sowing their wild oau, which ia eternal deatrnotion when fully ma-tured ? 0 brethren, let ns oome square to tbe front and answer this question, yra or no. I can oonoeive of no reason why any self-sustaining cbnrob can not maintain a Snftday schdol. When I look over our beloved But Tenneaaee and aee at leest half, of our ehurch houaeava^ntat leut three fourths of the Sundays in the year, I am inclined to think that should the Lord Jeins paaa through and call at theae obnrchea, make inquiry for the members, viait the homea, and And tha memberahip aaleep, reading novab and poliUoal papers, dis-ouaaing free trade and proteotion, etci, he wonld hardly aay, " Well done, thou good and iaitbAil aervant," bnt wonld rather aay, " Chooae ya thia day whom yawUlaerra."

For Iter some one may think I am JooUngonly on the dark aide, let ma aay in f oonolitsion. Althoogh wa haVa

An event baa tahen pbuie in die FreeCbnrch of Scotland Uiatshoira ^ ^eat change ia oecnrrinf in that body. Dr. H. Sinclair Pateraon, i London Presbyterian, who pnblbbaa a weekly paper edled Word and Work, aaya, June 7th: ** By an overwhelming ma-jority the Genera! Assembly of tha Free Churoh of Scotland baa appointed Br. Marona Bods Profeator of New Teati ment £xegeaia in the Theological Ool-lege at Edinburgh. . , . Wbilo otbara whoUiink aahe doea on tbaanbjeet of inapiration have been prudently reti-cent, or have only ventured to aptok with bated breath, he baa been bold almost to bravado. In the Awe of all the churches representod at the Pan-Presbyterian Council held in London last year he maintained with cynical frankneea tbat so long as the obnrch en-couragea the belief that Chriatianity sUnds or fklls with the infallibility of the Old TeaUment, it mnst be held re-sponsible for no small amount of enr* rent skepUoiim. To this present hour he has neither retracted nor explained a single expression he then used. Not many years the Free Charoh of Scotland waa sound to the core. Su i denly tbe storm broke on the chnrob when the article by Br. Robertioh Smith appeared in the pagea of tbiHi-cythpadia Britaniea. After a pro-

tracted process the writer of the article wu removed from his chair at Aber-deen. The Free Churoh of Sootlandi which had till then apoke with one voice, has spoken with two'voices ever sinoe, And now the voice wh|ob waa for • moment silenced has beonne loud enough to drown tha other. Br. Bob-ertson Smith is amply avenged. The assembly which disowned him beeattaa bia writinga dishonored theOldTorta-mcnt, beatowa the highest mark of eon-fldence in her gift on one who apeab of its 'miatakea and immoralitiea I ' by eleotinj bim as the flttaat man toba found within ita bonnda io iniin fta Aitura miniatersintheNewTaatament."

The veto markaaorisia in the histoid of tha Free Cht<reh." The Scdtman newspaper aaya," There ia no dottbt tbat Br. Boda la a tramandona beratie. and that tbe FrseChnreh ia ovarflbwlnt witbheraay. An or tbo^ miaiaUr aa ortbodoky was andaratood iwanty yaara ago, wonld bate tto ab^et of aleotion aa profeasor nowadays." Br. Boda aueotoda VTTITMOT S m s ^ t who " bad tba demerit of being orthodox.

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In tha laal p a ^ Thomaa indioataa thara la vaanflniioit to invaatlgato tba aiit agafnat iM tfdly Ohoat. ' •r-rrm-'u!^.--I ^ ^•^IUT^ IIT H^D John ill 4), and wbaia no law la ^ ia BO iMnagraaalon (Rom. Ivi45). i

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