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I'RKHIDKNT CLRVELANU b a s a p -pointed the following persona as the Venezuelan Commission: David .1. nrowor, of Kansas , .Tustico United States Supreme Court; Richard II. Alvey, of Maryland, Chief .Tustico of the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia; Andrew D. White, of New York; Frederick U. Coudert, of New York; and Daniel C. Gllman, of Mary-land. All of tliose a i^ noted for tholr high charactcr, and it is bellqvcd that ihclr decision in the matter will be Batlsfactory not only to this country, but also to England, tliough as a mat-tor of consistency England will not formally recognize the authority of the commission. The commission held a meeting in Washington on Saturday and organized ready for work.

^THR news from Cuba still continues <iuite startling. According to the lat-est reports the Cuban (icncral, fiomez, had broken entirely through the Span-ish linos, and his army was swarming around Havana, burning sugar canc fields, destroying ra i l roads and threatening the water supply of Hav-ana. The city is ful l of refugees and the greatest state of consternation pi-o-valls there. Soine dispatches stated that Gomez had already taken posses-sUin of Havana, but this news seems to lack conflrmation. At any rate the end does not seem to Ira f a r off. liy next W^k something dennltc will prob-ably h i ^ been done, and wo shall have Homething more to say upon the sub-ject a t the time in discussing the prob-able results of the Cuban vli-tory both so fa r as conccrns the United States, and especially our Bapt is t intorostH In Cuba.

OS last Sunday Mgr. Satoll l was in-vested with the beretta, or red skull cap, in token of his elevation tu the rank ot cardinal . The ceremony was held In the Catljcdral a t Baltimore, and was accompanicd with great pomp

•and parade. Tlie dally pa|)crs of the country on Monday morning contained some three oi' four columns about it, giving in minute detai l everything said and done. Wo were sorry to i-ead that the Vice President of the United s ta tes , together with many Senators and Congi-essmen, wore present upon the occasion. Wu had IIOIKM that Satol l i ' s elevation to the cardinalate would moan his rotlrement from Amer-ica and American politics. No intima-tion has boon given, however, of such intention upon his part , ' o r upon the part of the pope. On the contrary, it sooms to mean a more determined ef-fort upon their pa r t to capture this country for the pope. Well , If such be the oaie, let the light come, and the sooner the better. As to what shall be the Issue, we think there can bo no doubt. Evidently the A. P . P . s wore orgauUed none to aoon.

'jf' I w i "- ' '•! • THE Vonoauelan oontrovorsy was

overahadowed last week by news from South Africa. Dr. Jameson, » Brit-ish aubjMt, made an expedition wlUi about MW armed men Into the country

of the Boers, whose sympathies and alliance are with the Germans. Dr. Jameson, howovor, was defeated and ho himself made prisoner, with his whole army. The Brit ish Govern-ment, through Mr. Joseph Chamtior-lain, So<;retary for the Colonics, promptly disclaimed any knowledge of or autiiority for Dr. Jameson 's expedition. Despite this disclalmor, however, It was gonorally believed that Dr. Jameson would no^ have made such an expedition If he had not bad reason to count on the sympathy of the British government. limpcror Will-iam, of Germany, with his usual hot-headednoss, added considerably to the embarrassment of the situation by sending a letter to President Cruger congratulat ing him upon his success in defeating Dr. Jameson. This was taken by the English as an Intentional insult to them, and thoro has been con-siderable talk of war botwocn the two countries. The feeling ^mong the En-glish is said to bo very much bitterer against the Germans over this af fa i r than it was agains t the Americans ovor the Venezuelan matter. Wo hope howovor, that there will be no war in oithor case. Certainly England would not euro to have two wars on her hands at the same time with such countries as the United States and Germany.

LAHT your 171 |)creons In this coun-try were murdei-ed by mobs, or in pop-ular parlance, were lynchetl. Of these 1(11 wore men and ten women; 112 were negroes. Of these lynohings 114 oc-curred in the South and twenty-seven in the North. In c.x|ilanation of this disproportion of lynehings in the two sections It should l>o mentioned that the proportion is about in accordance with the proportion of negro ])opu)a-tlon in the two sections," the negroes being tho ones who suffer mainly from mob law, for a spccial reason. These lynehings were distributed throughout tho States as follows: Alabama, 1(1; Ar-kansas, I); California, T; Colorado, 7; Florida,. 12; Georgia, U; Illinois, 2; Kansas, 1; Kentucky, 15; Ixtuislana, 4; Maryland, .'t; Mississippi, i:i; Mis-souri, :i; Nebraska, 4; North Carolina, 1; South ' Mi, fl; South Dakota, 2; Tom Texas, 24; Virginia,

a; Wa- , N'ow Mexico, 1; In-dlan Te. : Oklahoma, I). The n u n i W c rtl oxocutloDS In the United States last year was 132, of which oighty-nino were In the South and forty-three wore in tho North. As a Tenncsscan, we blush to see tho largo number of lynehings which have oc-curred In this State. Can nothing bo done to check this lawless spirit of mob vioIonceV Ara our governors all powerless? Have our shcrilTs no authori ty to protect prisoners? I lavo we lost al l respect for courU? Must wo surrender ourielvos entirely into the hands of tlie mob? Shall wo t«nr down our oourt-housos and do away with our Judges and Juries? Those a ra lerlouB but practical questions, which foroo themselves upon ui in view of the ihowlng made above. Think of I t l , 171 lynehings In one year, against 132 l e m f executions I W h a t ara we com-l ^ t o ?

The Drink Sin In t h e Old T e s t a -m e n t .

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It is a noteworthy circumstance that the sin of drunkenness is much more prominent in the Old Testament than in tho New. In tlio Now wo hear not a few warnings against it, especially in the Epistles, but wo have no specific instance of the sin, for the charge against the apostles on the Day of Pentecost that they were " fu l l of new wine" was as baseless as it was silly. John the Baptist did not specify it among tho outstanding sins of the day, nor is there any allusion to It In the Sermon on the Mount. In modern times the Jews havo not been an in-temperate people, not even in those terrible ages when their miseries might have tempted them to seek to drown their anguish In temporary uncon-sclousncMS. There was therefore noth-ing in the condition of things in the days of our Ix)rd to make it perilous for Him to begin His miracles with tho conversion of water into wine at a feast, or to contrast His manner of life with that of tho Baptist, who, unlike Himself, came "neither eating nor dr inking ."

But in the Old Testamout we have many instances of drunkenness. But not as it is with us, a great national vice, affecting all classcs of the com-munity, periMStuatcd from generation' to generation, giving birth to domestic tragedies without number, and year by year bringing forth an awful crop of assaults, suieldcs, divorecs, disease, ])ovcrty and madness. Individual drunkards, Mike Nabal, Were marked men, despised by their own families as fools, blind to their own Intci'ests, and as weak as blind. In ordinary times, drinking to cxccss took place only a t feasts or on other occasions of oxcilo-mont or i-ejolcing. It was at the sheep-sheering feast, when Amon's hear t was expectod to bccdmo "merry with wine," tha t Absalom gave the command to slay him. In common life, and until tho nation bccamecorrupted with wealth and luxury, tho ordinary fare', even of the richer class, both In meat and drink, wore extremely simple. The supplies that Abigail brought to David in the wilderness consUtcd of bread and fruit, with 11 vo sheep, but only two bottles of wine. When Uio rich Dar-zlllai and other friends supplied his wants at Mahanalm, on his flight from Absalom, they "brought beds and ba-sons, and earthen vessels, and wheat and barley and parolicd corn Hour and beans and lentils and parched pulse and honey and butter, and sheep and eheese of k ine ," but no wine or s trong drink. No doubt It was from being accustomed to ybry simple fara, with-out any strong drink, tha t the Illttito ioidier , Uriah, unconsolously fell a vietlm so fa r to tlie yile plot of King David when bo piled him with moat and drink and "made him d r u n k , " in the hope that losing self-eootrol ho would go to his house and Ihield hitn from hl i orlme. I t Is delightful to think of A community In which there

was little or no habitual drunkenness, and of the comfort, peace and happi-ness that must have reigned in its families as they sat each under its vine and under its flg treo.

But when wealth flowed into the He-brew State, and idolatry roused the recklessness and self-indulgence of tho people, a grievous change set in, both in the eating and the drinking habits of tho wealthy class. In tho

I kingdom of Israel there was evidently a great influx of wealth under Jerobo-am II . Wo have an Indirect proof of this in what is recorded as having tak-en placo a few years later in the reign of Menahcm, when the Assyrian Inva-sion took place under Pul, and Mena-hem had to buy t i m off with a bribe of a thousand talents of silver. To raise this amount, somewhora about two million dollars, Menahcm exacted a contribution of fifty shekels (about twenty-flvo dol lars) from " a l l tho mighty men of wealtli"—which would imply that in his little kingdom therei wore somo 80,000 iwrsons who might b« | called "mighty men of wealth."

And how did they spend their money? Our newspapers sometimes tell us of the fabulous sums spent by rich men on their entertainments, and in those days the cost of feasting must have been on a corresponding scale. The prophet Amos gives us a vivid picturc of it. "Woo to them. . . . that lie on beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and cat the lambs of the flock, and tho calvos out of tho midst o t tho stall, that chant to the sound of t ^ viol, and invent to them-selves instruments of music, UKO Da-vid; that drink wine in bowls, and an-ointthemsel ves with thochlef ointments, butthey are notgrlcved for theafllictlon Joseph." How changed from^tho days ot Abraham, when animal food was hardly known, and it was only on rare emorgonclcs that a '.'calf, tender and good ," was killed, " the fatted ca l f " of the parable ot tho prodigal son, In order to provide an unusual entertain-ment for strangers. In tho days uf Amos, feasting had become a kind of fine ar t , and all that could gratify " the lust ot tho flesh, and tho lust of the eyo and tho pride of Hfo" was heaped to-gether in profusion day by day. Men poured out streams of wealth for tho docoration of their housos and on musicians and musical Instruments; the choicest of tho flocks and herds were sacriflced for their tables; costly vessels wore purehascd for their win«'s, and costly wlnos for their vessels; and as is •till so common, ••the< demon of seiflshness reljincd over all ; public oalamltles excited no feeling of dis-tr«Bs; "they were not griovod for the affllotion of Joseph . " Their god was their bellyi and their motto;, "L«t us eat and drink, tor to-morrow wo d i e . " Unsanotllled wealth wasfoliowod by the ruin of their country; wlna dostroyed the heart! the old patriotic cry, "J'lv arU et /bcit,** for our a l tars and our flreildoii roused no emotion; and tho oouHiquenoe was that many who had been ocouitomed.to feast In houses ot Ivory, regaled' with f ragran t scents and Joyous music, aoded the|r days In

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It wa* tho Hanio qtatu of thluKB that Isaiah depiotod in bi8 tweoty-elKht «<haptor, when "tho drunkards o( Kphralm" sat for their portrait . Tiie vice of drunkonncss had bocomo very common and very disKURtiD^; among the wealthy. Htrango to nay, tiie priests and the proplicts, the very men tliat shouid have set tiio exampio of Hobriety and all virtue, wore nmonj; the worst,. "The priest and the proph-et have en-ed throiijfh strong drink, tljey ai-o Bwail0we<) up of wine, they are out of tho way through strong drink, they err in vision, they stumble iu judgment, t^or all tables arc full of vomit and fllthiness, so that there is no plaec c lean." Drunkenness was seen in its most disgusting outward phase, its beastliness, its swinishness, converting elegant apartments with their costly adornments Into pigsties. More than that, it was making idiots of tho men who ought to have coun-seled and guided the nation—"they err in vision, they stumble in judg-ment." Tlie Ship of State was under the guidance of drunken prolligatcs, who were steering her to ruin, like "Middlcton's drunken Par l iament ," so well known in Scottish Covenanting history. What a comment on the re-mark we often hear, that the drunkard is only his own enemy! It is seldom that the drunkard fails to ruin his own body and soul, as well as the |)cace and well-being of his family; hero were men offering a still costlier sacriflce to Bacchus, driving Uieir country with a powerful-enemy a t its gates to ruin, giving over all its material treasure and al l its moral glory to tho spoile>-and the despot.

But oven this is not the worst. Isaiah has a far more serious arraignment of the drink sin and those who pra<rticcd it when the kingdom of Judah is moro speoially in his view. In his fifth chap-ter ho hurls a scries of six Uery woes (the seventh is at chapter x. I ) against the scandalous sinners of Judah and Jerusalem, and two of tlieso woos, tho seuond and sixth, a re hurled against the drunkard. "»'\Voe unto thorn that rise up early in tlie morning tliat they may follow strong drink, thatcontinuo unto night until wine inflame them! .Vnd tho harp and tho viol, tho tabret and the pipe and wine are in their feasts" (chapte> v. I I , 12). Again it is the wealthy class that arc specially in view, and a portion of them that are so besotten that tho whole day is s|>ent in drinking, while tho evening is wound up with a sor t of musical car-nival of sensual delights. One might well suppose that by bed-time they would bo so sated that tho very smell of drink would ropol thom: if it is so, it is but for an hour; the morning finds them more thirsty than ever, and the only fluid thoy can think of is tho (lory poison tl)at is driving them t o hell!

Tho prophet enumerates four fruits <if their madnosii:

1. "Thoy re^'ard not tho work of tho i.ord, neither consider tho Operation of his hands ." All thought of God and all fear of Ciod is blotted out of their hearts, (iod is a mere cipher, a moro nothing; a word to swear by, nothing more. Drink makes men atholsts, as well an brutes and idiots.

Tholr sonselosnnois drives God's IMiopls into oaptiri ty, makes thom vlti* tiros of tho viloat Insulta and Uto most grinding cruelty; yes, through Iho drunkenness of the rulers tho pooploot God aro robliod of their sacred horit< ago, and l ^ o m o a proverb and a by-word to tho heathen.

3. All classes are Involved In tho wreck and ruin—"their honorable men • r e famished and their multitude dried up wtlh th i r s t . " Tho unexampled hor* rors of famine prostrate every class.

And -I, last, not least, "Hell hath enlarged herself and o|>cned her mouth without measure, and tlielr glory and their multltudo and their pomp and he that rvjolcoth shall doscond into it.'* Think only what that llguro of 8|)cech meanS'-"hell hath onlargud herself and opened hor mouth ." I t m e a n s t h a t the wanton rooklcssness of thosodrunk-ards has caused hell to cherish en-largt>d exiKH.>ttttions of what she will get; through their madness she looks for moro than she could havo dreamt of formerly; she therefore enlarges hor infernal mouth, "and their glory and their multitude and their pomp and lie that rejoicoth" cumo tumbling in. Even "he that rojoii'cth;" the man of pleasure; the man that was rostraired by no fear of God from tho pursuit of pleasure; the man that seemed so full of jollity and glee; when she sees him and all his jovial atmamderk, hell enlarges her mouth and sucks them all in. For drunkenness is so iiroliUc of wanton wickedness, so incredibly base and cruel to wife and child, so utterly rcckless of ail conscquences, that hell gets a better chance than could have been looked for, incredible is the ruin that is scattered on every side.

Thus drunkenness was a principal cause of the ruin of tho kingdoms of Israel anc^ Judah—the desolation of the glorious horitago that had been built up at such cost by David and his successors. With tho captivity of Ephrsim, and afterward of Judah , ali the toil and the glory of moro than a thousand years, f romthedaysofMoses, seemed lost and swallowed up. Like a i mighty conflagration consuming » ' gorgeous palace and all its contents, j that sin brought destruction to the i nation. Are we quite sure, either in ! Great Britain or the United States, that history will not repeat itselfV

One qualifying thought thero is in the study of tho Hebrew people; the captivity seems to havo to a great de-gree cured them of this sin. Idolatry and drunkenness aro the two national sins tha t do dot reappear in tho New Testament. But at what a cost was tho euro effected! What years of misery must havo passed when tho country lay in ruins; and even af ter it was restored,! what memories of its degradation have over since filled the hearts of the ancient {leoplo, in whoso horizon tho dark night of sin and sor-row has never yet been scattered by the morning of joy!

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as those relating to ministers. Tho distinctivo dilTerence being that dea-cons must be skillful in tho manage-ment of money, and preachers In their aptness to teach. But from deacons whi> aro stingy; deacons who a rc unruly, unreasonable, unreliable, unstable, un-just and wholly unfit for their oxalted ofllce, may wo bo delivered.

Cannot our churches be induced U) exercise greater carc as to whom they select for deacons? And cannot our preaohors uso moro judgment as to whom thoy set apa r t by the imposition of liands to this imjiortnntonice';:' Then again, let some one como fbrward and toll US" how to get rid of a dunder-head deacon. Wo can turn a preacher out or send him his resignation, or call for his credentials, or induct* somo other church to call him from us, but tho ar t of getting rid of a trouble-somodeacon has dovorbctMidiscovcred. You see, dear brother, a few deacons in the world have taken it into their heads that tho church belongs to them, and they proceed to dispose of matters and things according to their legal pleasure. If the preacher don ' t like it, why, ho can just move on, and if ho does not hurry up about it tlio deacon will help him., If any member should dare to differ with this majestic doa-con he Is mercilessly snubbed and had just as well take his k-tlcr—If ho can get one.

But lost some one imagine that Pickwick has himself fallen among thieves, let it be known that he Is neither a deacon nor a deacon-hater, having never had a trouble with a dea-con. On tho contrary iwrsonal ex|)e-rienco with this very excellent class of members has taught Pickwick to love thom for their work's sake. They have moro responsibilities, more cares, more duties, and reoeivo more criti-cism and less recom))ense than any other people the world over. The first Christian martyr was a deacon, and from the days of Stephen oven until now thero havo been moro martyrs among deacoi ' i than among proai'hers.

And ohat a sweet promise comes to the hard-working, faithful, but unap-preciated deacon: "They that uso tho oHlco of deacon well shall purchatre to themselves a great degree—"

I ' l r i fwicK. Costumes.

nv RKV. A. U. CAIUNIHfl.

Trk) MANY, ' ' p a v i n g taken it upon myself, gentle reader, to speak of tho things apjKjr-taining to Baptist principles and pol-ity, I venture, with fear and trembling, to suggest that wo have too many doa-cons. I proUst, I havo no disposition to be iconoclastic. In common with most people I have faith In existing institutions as I And them, until I as-certain thom to bo wrong. Time was when I thought deacons were immacu-late. Tho very name was synonymous with gravity and goodness. But "Mino eyes hast thou opened." Lot It not bo said to tho detriment of tho many that tho few aro unworthy.

Var ious causes contrlbuto to this condition. An Incorrect conception of tho duties of the dlaconato; tho usual orroneousjudgmentofmen; theohangcd and changing condition of alTalrs In these lat ter days, have all had no lit-tle to do In Increasing and retaining In onioe a number of , deacons who do not exalt tholr ofUcc.

A covetous deacon Is as much out of place as a drunken preacher, o r as a Judge of a Supreme Ooiirt w^o oarr les concealed weapons and violates tho dignity of the law that he of all others l i i irorn to maintain.

The quallfloatlous, moral and aplrlt* ual . pertaining to deacons, Is a s high

NrMHKR XI. As it was the fashion for men in

Eastern countries in aneiont days to wear long gowns, tho gown was not tho distinguishing nor particular dress of tho priest, either Jewish or pagan. They simply conformed to the fashion of the day In which thoy lived. It is truo Moses gave some particular di-rections as to the trimmimj of tho gowns o r robe of tho priest and how thoy should wear tho breastplates, tho ephod, etc. I f l thad lieentho fashion a t that time for men to wear trousers and socks, as they In America a t tho present day, can any one beliove that God would havo dlroctcd Moses to tell tho priests they must wear gowns, as our women do a t the present day? In-stead of this, l ie gives part icular dl-roctlons about the cut of thotr breeches as well as tholr robes. Hero It is, in Exodus xxvtll. 42: VAnd thou shalt mako thom llnon brooohos to cover their nakedness; from tho loins oven unto tho thighs thoy shall reach.'* I t will be seen that-the priest 's brecchos were a fur Mmik of those worn by men In England and Franco (wo hundred years ago, a s shown In a former number of these articles, " reaching from the loins oven unto the fWj/kjt."

W e think It Is a mistake In the Cath-olics and the £p!soopaUattii to think their priests and preaohers ougbt to wear long gowns and other man-mllUnery In the pulpit because the an .

clout priests did. l l io ro Is nothing In the Now Testament to indicate thattiio preachers a re to bo a sacerdotal easu> to bo distinguished by their drass. In Pau l ' s directions for the qualifloatlon of a bishop o r pastor not one word Is said about his dress; but' he describes particularly his mental and moral quallftcatlons.

In view of those facU It Is strange that so much stress h a s been put upon tho garments of preachers under the gospel dispensation. Not only the Catholics and Episcopalians, but the Congrogatlonallsto and Presbyterians used to havo a dist inguishing dress for their proachors—a par t icular or clerical cut of the coat, white cravat , etc. I remember well when the Meth-odist proachors wore white cravats and all woro tlielrclerlcal cut coats. Whon Bishop Bascombehadthe independence to break this rule an old Methodist chidod him for it. Tho bishop replied, "If thero is any moro religion In your coat than In mine, my brother. I will gladly exchange with y o u . "

Whon wo settled America we brought our English notions and customs witli us. During our colonial life wo paid groat rcspecl to men of rank and of any part icular odlco In church or State. Ilonco It was thought the preachers would be moro respected if thoyworoa dist inguishing dross. Even aft«r tho Rovolutlon this was the pre-vailing Idea and custom with many. But whon Mr. Jefferson was elected President he came Into oftico with the leveling idea of democracy tha t all men were on equality except a s their talents and doods made thom superior to others. Then men began to pay less respect to titles and positions in life and to place every man on his merits.

Peter Parly (Goodrich) tells an amusing incident i l lustrative of this change in public sentiment and man-ners during Mr. Jefferson 's adminis-tration. Two strangers in Now En-gland met a t a crcek in theroad. While their horses were dr inking one said to tho other, "How are you, priest?" The other replied, "How a re you, dem-ocra t?" The former said, "How did you know I was a democrat?" The latter asked, "How did you know 1 was a pr iest?" Tho man said, " I knew you by your drm," The Congrega-tional prcacher replied, " I know yon by your rt(I<fi*M."

Even tho Supremo Judges of the United Htates Court a t Washington City wear long gowns af ter the fashion of the old English judges and tho old Eastern fashion of ancient days; yea, somo of our old universities keep up this ancient fashion. At Harvard and Yalo tho professors and graduates still wear long gowns on commence-ment occasions. So they do a t our Baptist University In Washlngt«Ai City. • In tho Episcopal University a t Sowanoo, Tenn., the graduat ing class wear tho long gown during the whole Senior year , and all wear tho Oxford cap af ter tho fashion of tho old Eng-lish colleges.

Moral.—Wo learn from this that It Is not s trange tha t tho Chinese gentle-men should cling to their mother-hub-bard gowns when many of our proach-ors and even our chief Judges and learne<l professors think It adds to their dignity and Influence to wear long gowns.

—There Is a s t o n e , t o n s In weight, so nicely poised upon the apex of an inverted cone, that It osollUtes a t the touch of a child 's finger, but It presses so equally upon Us center of gravi ty t ha t a legion of giants cannot hur l U f rom tta firm base. It Is a fit emblem of a well-balanocd Chrlstlau character , trembling a t the slightest suggestion of tenderness, butso planted and poised tha t Uie hosU of hell can-not move It from Its sure foundations. -Hx.

B A P T I S T A N D R E F L E G T O B , J A N . H, 1896. 3 Honebftok Rldo Through the Holy Land.

nr Rsv. p.T. nAi.B n u. On the morning of Friday, OetolMsr

9th, we began the descent from Jericho to Jerusalem. Along the way we met Bovoral robbers, flcrtw and bloody, doubtless, as was Uarabbas . There Is now a most excellent carr iage road from Jericho up to Jerusalem. It Is said that a lady of wealth, who met with an almost fa ta l aceident while traveling over the old road; devoted hor fortune to tho construction of this excellent road, still I would advise travolere to go horseback rather than by carriage, a s tho road winds around steep precipices whore an ^-cident to a carriage might provo fatal . By 12 o'clock we arrived a t Bethany, tho homo of Martha, Mary and I.A/.arus. Our camp is pitched In a young or-chard of olives. W e are, however, too much interested to cat much. We have Just been over tho village, visited tho tradit ional site of tho home of Mary and Martha, and tho grave of Lazarus; the house of Simon the leper, and so on. Wo a rc now ufion tho Mt. of Olives. As wo writ<! this we are in sight of the Holy City. Below us, in tho light of the afternoon sun, stretches Jerusalem, Mt. Calvary, Mt. Zlon and Mt. Morlah, with their sa-cred and thronging memories, and wu feel it is good to bo here.

Wo now dcscend into tho Valley of Johoshaphat. I t was along this road that David went and wept when driven out of tho city by tho robollion of his own son Absalom. As there are hills on each side one can readily see how Shimel could throw rocks at the king in perfect security.

Our hotel Is situated in the new par t of the city without tho walls. Jerusa-lem has a population of over 80,000 |)oople. Tho Jews a r e returning to their old houo In quite largo numbers, and Jerusalem is being rapidly re-built. Many see in this fact, and in iho return of the early fal l rains, a sign tif the second coming of Christ. This land needs only a ra in and intelligont cultivation to render it cai>able of sup-porting a largo population.

Wo havo spent several days in tlio Holy City, reading the Bible and visit-ing the placos to which reference is made In the sacred Word . Of course, ono of tho first placos wo visited was Mt. Morlah, upon which stood Solo-mon's Temple. This spot Is now cov-ered by the Mohammedan Mosquo of Omar. Formerly It was very difficult to get access to this famous building. It is now necessary to securo permis-sion through your Consul from tho Turkish government to enter It, so wo set out for Che Mosque with an ofHcer from tho United States Consul and a soldier from the Turkish governor In front of us, and by paying the neces-sary foe we entered tho Immense gate and stood within the Temple area . The Mosque Is one of tho world's great buildings. I t Is mado glorious inside by tho richest gildings, bur-nished columns and other oriental mag-nificence and decorations. Tho main body of the building Is eight square, each side being sixty-seven feet in length, so tha t the Interior Is AM foot In circumferenoe.

But the Mosque did not Interest me KB mnoh as the great ba re rock under the center of the dome. "This was the rock tha t stood In tho Temple of Solo-mon,, and upon which thousands of an-imals were sacrificed. There Is a great hole In tho rook through which the blood of the saorlfi.ces was carried •twftjr to tho l i rook of Kedron without the elty. Upon this rook It Is thought, also, thiit Abraham erei^toil his a l t a r u d placed Isaac upon i t in order to sacrifice him a t tho command of God, when h l i hand was s ta id by tho voice of Jehovah. The Mohammedans say

that this is tho rock from which Ma-homet ascmnded to heaven. They fool-ishly Inform you that t in rock started to ascend with him, when It was held d«»wn by the Angol Gabriel, and thus remains suspended in mid-air. Tho side of tho rock which is visible is in-dce<l tilted iu a i r several foot, and a wall hides the remaining portion from view, and tliey tell you that that par t of It is also raised above tho earth and remains susiieuded in tho air . If you do not liollove this they say you havo no fallh, and if you doubt that the Angol Gabriel prevent<!d tho rock from ascending to heaven they will show you tho prints of Ills lingers. <'>ur Mohammedan conductor showc<1 us a place in the rock where Mahomet drove nineteen nails, and told us that when all of thu nails came out tho world would come to an end. Some Of them have already come out. He further alleged that If we placed money on this spot wo should lie sure to go to heaven. I noticed that the money went into Ws pocket. Tho visitor is_ outraged con-tinually by those Mohammedan legends with which his car is afllicted when he visits many places that aro sacred to every Christian, and after visiting tlto Holy Land one feels a keener sympathy with the crusaders and greater sorrow for their woes and final and irretriev-able failure. The size of the present enclosure within which tho Mosque of Otnar stands is about thirty-six acres. According to Josephus, the area cov-ered by Solomon's Temple, with the connected buildings and courts, 'was between <H)0 and 700 feet square. Un-til within tho last few years there has been no place on earth so rigidly guarded as this Mohammedan Mosque, to keep it from being profaned by in-fidel, Jewish and Christian feet. Mr. Floyd said he knew of several persons who had paid (200 for the privilege of spending a few minutes insido tho building, at the samo time being obliged to go through certain Moslem ceremonics. Dr. Barclay, in "ThoCity of the Great King ," gives an account of the great preparation necessary thirty years ago for a Christian to go through bcfoi-e he could enter this sa-cred spot. Tho building possesses fifty-six large windows of almost unimag-inable Ixjauty, and tho vast domo is one of tho most graceful in existcDCC. THK CHURCH OF THE HOIA" SEI»riX?HKR.

On our way we pass the Orphanage of the Sisters of ZIon, a large, now building on tho slto of Pilate 's Judg-ment Hall. While excavating for tlio foundations of this building, the "Fkico Homo Arch" was discovered. This arch Is believed to be a part of ' tho original building, tho very portal whoro a i r i s t was ox|)osed by Pilate, when ho told the Jews to behold their king. About seven feet bolow tho level of tho present street, a largo area of I toman pavement has now been un-earthed, doubtless tho samo once trod-den by Christ. Thero aro also two iargo cut stones, bcliovcd by somo to bo the pedestals from which judgments woro promulgated. "Whon Pi late therefore heard that saying, ho brought Jesus forth, and sat down in the Judg-ment seat in a placo that Is called the pavement." Hero begins the "v ia do lorosa , " tho "sorrowful way ," a long which, bearing his cross, Jesus walked toward Calvary. At tho be-ginning of this sad thorouglifaro, upon the pavement, stands a statue of .Tesus with his cross upon his shoulders. Just as he must have stood upon timt fear-ful morning. It may havo boon a fool-ish sentlmoPt that made vtonp down and kiss tho cold cheek, but It was an Irreslstable Impulse In memory of that lov ing sacrlfiee. On entering . the Church of the Holy Sepulcher one meets a corps of Turkish omeers, and generally a detachment of Turkish soldiery. It was alraut this church that the Crimean W a r took plaea.

At the close of that sanguinary con-flict, tho church, according to the terms of the treaty, was given over to the Christians, but the Turks claimed that they did not cedo tho door, so they stand guard and charge admission. In this immense and magnificent structure there are thirty-seven dlfTer-ent stations a t which different sects hold scrvIce. Tho following a re a few of tho number representing early tradit ions: The Stone of Unction, on which i t Is said the Savior was laid and anointed when taken from tho cross. Of course, the building Is thought by these different sects to cover Mt. Calvary, tho tomb of Joseph, ahd so forth. In tho center p f ' tho rotunds stands the Holy Sopuichor. It has two chambers; tho first is called tho Chapel of tho Angel, said to con-tain a piece of tho stone which closed tho door, and on which tho angel sat on the morning of the resurrection of the Savior ; tho second chamber Is tho sepulcher itself. In this 142 gold and sliver hanging lamps aro kept burn-ing day and night. An iron cage marks tho s|)ot whore Mary is said to havo stood to see what would bo done with the body of Christ.

Proceeding somodlstanoo we ascended fifteen feet and came to what is called Calvary, whoro in a hole through a marble pavement tho cross is said to have stood. We moved a silver slide and saw a great rent in the rock. Al-though one may doubt very seriously that ho is in the exact spot where tho Savior arose from the dead, yet it is with feelings of gratitude and of exul-tation, that standing by the so-called sepulcher of Christ, ho knows that somewhere near the spot the Lord rose from the dead, and this brought life and immortality to light.

The Golden Gate, facing the Mt- of Olives, is now walled up and guarded. It is said that the Mohammedans have a tradition that Christ is going to re-turn and lead his people through that gate inU) tho city, and that therefore they have closed it up with heavy masonry and keep it guarded. My own opinion, however, is that it is not from this apprehension that this gate is no longer usod, but because It opens upon the enclosure of the Mosque of Omar, which they regard as too sacred for any but Mohammedans to set foot in.

As wo came into the city through the Ja f fa Gate our guide iiointed out to ustho "Noodle's Eye." This is a small door in the great gate of the city. A camel can go through, but with great dlflflculty, and without his burden. If this be the correct interpreUtion, when Christ said, " I t is easier for a camol to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to ontor tho kingdom of heaven," he meant that It was ex-ceedingly dIRIoult, but not utterly im-possilile.

Sunday some of us wont out to tho hill outside tho walls, which I believe Is tho true Calvary. This hill Is more and more bollevod by scholars to bo tho truo place of the cruolfixlon. I t Is outside of tho walls. It Is quite an emi-nence, It Is between the J a f f a and Da-mascus roads, and it has much the ap-pearance Of a skull. SUndlng upon this hill and feeling that probably we woro upon the spot where -the cross of anguish stood, wo read the account of tho crucifixion, Joined In singing sev-eral songs, and In prayer together. We «»ent over a lso and re-ylslted tho Garden of Gethsemanc, upon the Western slope of the Mt. of Olives Just over the Brook Kebron. Going silently to different places, wo realised that we must be near the spot that witnessed the fearful struggle whon Ho sweat great drops of blood, and the angel bent over Him and gave Him strength. I visited a lso the place a t which. In coming from Bethany, Jesus must ifftve beheld Uie efty when be

wopt over it. On the top of tho Mt. of Olives I went to see a church built on the spot where tradition states that the Savior taught His disciples the Lord 's prayer. This building was erected by the Princess D'Auvergno, and she has had the Lo rd ' s prayer written In thir-ty-two different languages. The' dif-ferent versions a re written on tiling and each ono occupies about the space of -a door. These aro placed in the walls surrounding an open court, adorned with a fountain and flowers. She Is buried hero and a most beautiful recumbent statue rests over her grave.

Immediately upon entering the J a f f a Gate we seo to the right tho Tower of David, the stronghold of Zlon, hold by the Jebusltcs, as recorded In 2nd Sam-uel, r,th chapter. This Is almost tho only par t of the city we know existed in tho time of David.

Our Monumentt of Shame. UT WM. t . KLUS, AKioelste Editor "Oolden Rule."

I t has become tho trltest sort of a platitude to say tha t the American peo-ple aro under tho thraldom of the rum power. W e havo been told so often .that the reins of govemmert aro in tho hands of the liquor dealer that the truth has lost Its force with us. Chris-tian citizens do not arouse themselves to an assertion of their rights because there seems no power to convince them of the awful- state of affairs . Three facts tha thave lately comoundormyown observation havo caused my blood to boll with Indignation, and have norved my arm to strike harder blows at the octopus of drink.

Every American glories in the Bos-ton Tea Par ty . There is a note of ex-ultation in his voice as ho tells of that bold stroke for the emancipation of our people from a galling yoke. Per-haps it would set that same pktriotic American to seriously thinking of oth-er tyrants and their oppression woro ho to-day to visit the site of that same Tea Par ty and find it a liquor estab-lishment!

The spirit of our national leaders in tho days of the Boston Tea Party was different by infinity from tho spirit that controls most of our government of-ficials to-day. In tho very heart of the nation. In the center of our beauti-ful capital , beneath the halls where all our laws a r e brought into being, there is maintained and honored the great-est enemy of our national life, that same old viper of rum, who only watts to strike his venom fangs at our throats. Does it not make every American citizen blush for the name when he recalls that our government, that which tho s tars and stripes rep-resents, that to which we look for protection from al l hurtful Influences, supports with Its own money and by Its direct authority and approval two grog shops In the national capital, for tho solo uso of the nation's leglshitor?

One of the flrst sights that tlio Immi-grant sees as ho approaches this " land of tho free and homo of tho b rave , " Is tho bokcon In.the uplifted hand of tho Goddess of Liberty, hor torch telling the mute message of freedom from op-pressive rule of all sorts. Could tho Immigrant, or could ono of us, look a little more closely, he would find a t the baso of tha t beautiful monument a largo and flourishing dispensary of intoxicating liquors. Tho horrible suggostiveness of this appalled mo when I first liehold It, and It drove home to my soul the conviction tha t more truly than we dare think Is the liquor tranio a t the very base of our boasted freedom. May It bo rooted out before It oausos the structure to totter and fal l!

Boston, Mass. _ —Dr. Paton says it is demonstrated

by figures tha t In the South Seas a soul Is saved for every five dollars expended for missions.

BAPTIST AND REFLECTOR, JAN. I),ll8a6. BAPTIST AND REFLECTOR, JAN. 9, 1896.

CORRESPOMDENCE

Our Field Editor's Letter.

From {.'Union, tlu" i-ounty sciil of Andornoii, I i-aiiie i»n to Coal (,'rwk ut the fool of Ihc Cuinlx-rUnd MountuinH. Thence lo Caryvlllo in tho ^loiithern end of I'oweir« Vulloy, whci-e Ihc Dup-tUl tfalnta havo a Utile cuntM-etratlon. Al tho mlnlni; townH of Coal Creek and Htitter Chancc the ItaptiBtit arc Hlront; in uumLera, with Uov. .1. \V. lUtd hh their |ia»t()r.

From C'aryville, three uiile» u|» Powell's Valley, I ct me lo Jueksboro, ihe county seal of C'am|ibull. Here I found the ItaptiBtu had built a lari;e and elegant huuee of worohip tiine«> uiy visit to thi8 place four yearit ago. They were lamenting the lerent death of one of their prominent mem)>erH, W. C. Hall, who for thirty yearn had been clerk of the Clinton Association. Rev. C. L. Dowlinj; has been pastor of this church for some years past.

From Jaeksbt)ro I weni by Indian Creek, Rev. A. (iross, pastor, on to Grantsboro Church, where Dro. (iross is also pastor. He was closing a pro-tracted mcetinir of fifteen days, in which he was assisted by Rev. K. Ed-monson and Rev. J(»hn Walker of Claiborne County, and Rev. Archer LIndsa;- of Indian Cixek Church. They had a glorious revival which re-sulted In sixty-five conversions and forty-three additions by baptism.

Thenco ! came tlirough the moun-tains up by Cedar Creek Church to Clinton, in I'owell's Vallov, where the Baptist Church has Rev. C. L. Uo-vling as pastor. I found them busy pre-paring /or a Christmas tixxl lot the Sunday-«chool children. They pressed me to stay another day and night to be at their children's entertainment, but my business forbade, and I came on to Bljf Creek Gap in tho Cumber-land Mountains, where Dro. C. L. Bo -'l'-ag: $ire»ches to a few saints once ft :n»rjth, A company Is here trying to

Mt' a town and railroad. Com-pares tried this at CardllT, Harrlman, Mlddlesborougb, Knoxvllle, Chatta-nooga, Birmingham, Florence, and other places, a few years ago, whoa the "suckers" bit freely and so many were caught, f j their sorrow, when they found themselves In the frying pan. Whether the "suckers" will bite here at Big Creek Gap, remains to be seen. If tbey do bits freely, wo can as readily forecast the tlnancial storms that will overwhelm them In two or throe years as that weather prophet In St. Jx)uIh, Iri Hicks, forecasts tho snow blizzards that will como upon us In January and February In 18Wi. H It is for tho bcncQt of the people to forecast weather storms that they may prepare for them, It ia still more for thoirbouoflttoforecastnnanclalstorms, that they may avoid them. To boom a town with streets and houses, with-out inliabltants and business, is a great curso and an injury to both boomers and tiio "suekcrs" who arc caught by tho Iroom. They Iiavo laid off their town and graded sta-ets and call tho place LaFollotte, and gone to

• muoh ex |)on se before thoy ha vo busi ness, inhabitants or railroads. Whether thoy will try to boom it by seilinglotB at fabulous prices, like they did at Car-dllT and other places that failed, ro-maina to Ira seon. l ' trust thoy will not, and that many of tho oviU roault-ing from boomed tcwnimaybeavolded. To this ond I have made theio fore-caiti. Thoro Is a eood U|ienloff for a railroad and minlor town hero and nothing raoro, unless Uioy itart an iron furnaeo. Coal and iron ore can Iw had in itbundaneo, and tho Big Gap makot-ltoasy toffot lato thoooal Holdi hoynnd. I wish them tnuoh lucoet* in KetUngftrnllroad and InopooiugtheK rich nlnea. and that they may never

by tho uvMb of a boom have rcaaon to change the name of their town to l.a-Folly.

ChriMtmas eve 1 got back to .lacks-boro, where' I found tho Baptist^aints IniHy |)reparing for tho entertainment of the Sunday-school children by Christmas songs, recitations and a tree. Bro. Bowling, the pastor, wus present. The little ones wei« highly entertained by tho exercises, and jubilant whon old Santa Claus camo down tho chimney and out at tho fire-place (pivpared for the occasion) and then dlRlribuU'd candy, bananas, and toys In great abundance. I told some of the children thoy were, very fortu-nate in having come into tiio world in these latter days; that Santa Claus had never made his ap|K>arance In our part of the world when 1 was a boy; and we never had such Christmas gifts as ho was showering upon tho children of tho present day.

The field editor wishes all the . hll-di-cn a happy New Year.

Carson and Newman College.

The suggestion of Prof. Burke In re-gard to buildlng.up tho library of the ^ olverslty is a good one and we have decided to prolit by it. We are very well furnished with encyclopaedias, having tho Chambers, Johnson, Brltannlca, tho Columbian, the Ency-clop:edia of American Biography. However, In the line of general litera-ture we need a great many books. Doubtless many of our friends In l^st Tennessee and elsewhere have valuable works which they have read, and I am sure they would eheorfully contribute such to our library. H some one in tsach ehureh would Interest himself In this matter a re8|)ectable collection might bo made In many of our churches, and shipped in a box to I'rof. J. M. Burnett, Librarian, Mossy Creek, Tenn.

We have decided to 111 up a room in our new building separate from our

• reading-room for the library. We i have already received a letter from a j generous friend enquiring if wo havo ! room for some books he would like to ! present us. My brother or sister, I have you not a valuable book or ; books that you would like to place in ! this library?

I By invitation I s|)ent yesUrday in I Chattanooga ond had tho right ol way j to speak of our college interests In the I First Church in tho morning and at the i;entral in the evening. Both pas-tors were absent and other unfavor-able circumstances existed, yet I have ali-eady received considerable encour-agement.

The col logo enrolled about forty now vtudents last week and many others are exfieetod this wwk.

J . T . H e n d e i i s o n .

Beulah Assooiation.

The fifth Sunday meeting cocvonod at Rutherford. There was a program along the lino of practical work, but only a Bmall number of tho pastors wore present. Still, tho meeting, by tho aid of visitors, was a very succosi-(ul one. Thoro was much said about system in our missionary colloetions, and prat!tioal good was acoompliahcd. In this section there must bo "precept upon precept; line upon line; hero a little and there a little."

There are several things that this mooting emphasixetl anew, if I am wrong, 1 beg pardon:

1. The lack of interest among many of our pastors in the general work of the eburehos. Tliese meetings should be rallying points for the pastors and other workers, but how can thoy bo whon the pastors are absent?

2. Only Hve out of the forty-two churches of this Assooiation were rep-resented. Tho fSxeeutive poard made a modest roqcest of tho pastors to ask

their churches to wind meBsengers and reports, but not the sound of «ino voice was hoard In reply. Ho we add to tho llrst statement above, at least, an in-dication of a lack of eo-o|)eratlon ain(mg the churehob of this section.

And, again, the Indeiwndence of Boulah Association doing missionary work.

We are convinccd that more could be accomplished In co-o|)eratlon with tho Stato Board. Our plan increases tho objects to which we uontrlbuto and adds a feeling of oxclusiveness In our work. But I must not add more about our general work.

On ycBlcrday, January oth, I passed my second mlle-t)ost with the church In Union City, Tlie church has -made during 1811.1 a net gain of twenty mem-bers. Tho heavy debt Is being grad-ually removed, and tho church Is very hopeful. There was one conversion and two additions on tho first Sunday In the year. Wo all look with much hope to tlio coming of Bro. Qulsenberry to aid us In a meeting. Dr. G. W. Grlflin continues In 111 health. Wo all ho|)e for his recovery.

Bro. Kiwn Stubbleliold has closed his pastorate at Rutherford and takes charge of the work In Lake County. TIptonvllle will bo his home. He will l>e the only Baptist preacher In this county, and he gives his whole time to the work. He was recently married,to Miss Minnie O'Daniel of Rutherford, und we predict good reports from him in his new field. J. H. ('.

Union City. Tenn.

Seminary Notes.

Tho students presented Miss Taylor, our efliciont matron, two beautiful pic-tures as a token of their regard for her watchcare over them. Bro. C. L. I Corbett In a short speech presented them and I'rof. Mc(jlothlln responded, by request, in a hajipy strain.

Dr. Kerfoot has gone lo attend the {'"lorida State Convention.

Examinations are here. The classes Inspeeial theology and houilletlcs have passed the ordeal, whilo Biblical in-troduction Is scheduled for Thursday.

Board In New York Hall amounted to M.'jO for December.

The Detiember number of tho Mui/a-zinr la os'iKwlally good. Some of the topics discuss<>d are as follows: Mat-thew Tyson Yatea, by Dr. R. J. Wlll-Ingham; Serial Expository Preaching, bv Prof. II. H. Harris; Tho Attitude of Christianity Tow.ird Other Relig-ions, by W. O. Carver; Tlio Origin and Functions of tho Dlaconate, by K. E. Dudley.

Quito a number of now students havo boon enrolled: H. A, Belton, Indiana; G. W. Convera, Canada; J. E. Ooaa, Texas; A. I. Jones, Illinoia; A. ,S. Petrey, Kentucky; P. C. Hand, Ala-bama; G. W. Townaon, Alabama. ^ Bro. C. W. Duke dlBcuaaod the sub-ject, "Tho Divino Sanction of Modern Miaslons," at our last miaslunary meeting. Prof. Harris has taken ohargo of thoao meetinga.

Suj)plleB: Broadway, morning. Prof. Dargan; night, C. I.. Corliott. South Union, J. D. Hart; Eaat Hickman, J. D. Mooro. B o n i i .

Rotreriville Church Agraln.

To my oarnoat appeal for help to thlB littloBtruggling, sacriHoIng band, there liaVe been but Im responfes of •16 each. This is a ntMon church of our State Mission Board, and I am Its missionary pastor. I fool, therefore, t ought not to nppoal in vain to tho brotherhood of the State to help Bavo

its property to the Convention. I have exhausted every i esource, Biptist and Pedobaptlst, in Rogersv II le, baving raised about KtOO, leaving a balance of 1140 to be provided for to elear the ehureb of debt This cannot bo had from tho surrouodlnir country, which Is largely dominated by antl*mlsBinn-

ary innuoncoa. BroUu-on from othur Bcetiona muat holp, or tho Kacrllleos made by the little band atltogeravllle havo been in vain, and a pro|)orty wortli 81,(KX) may be loat to the donomination. Thoso ara Uio plain facts. As a misBionary of tho State Board it ia my duty to lay them before the brethren and alBters of the Con-vention. This la all I can do, and I ask in the name of our Master, can we afford for the want of a little timely aid to ]0Bo ground so hardly conquered, and the aacrificea so nobly made in tho interoat of our Stato BoardV Again I beg our paatora and liberal brethren and aiatcra to prevent It. Tho ilrat reaponao to my former ap-ical waa from a woman and a foreign mtaaionary—MiBaSallie Halo of Guad-alajara, Moxico. Accompanying the check for l.'t, alio eaya, " I waa In the Proabyterlan Collage there, and I saw in what a sad atate thn poor little church was." Brethren, If you could aeo the atruggling band, aa Misa Sallle did, you would follow her example and help mw. Brethren! aistorB! please help, and help promptly, and give the Baptist cause in Rogeravillo a chanct-to live! W. A Mon t oOMEHV .

Miasionary Paator. P. S.—Send money to mo at Ixad-

valo or to J. M. Gray, Church Treai.-urer, Rogeravillo, Tenn.

Louisiana. Notes.

i'roaidont Tomkles ia happy because Ute Orat half of thn seskion of 18U.'< Ut> was a Buoeosa at Koachio, and tlio prospecta aro tho second half will have a larger attendance atill.

Dr. Penick, tho popular paBtor of tho First Church, Shroveport, Is de-livering a aeriea of Sunday night ser-mona, "Half houra with men and women of the Old Teatament." The bermons are attracting largo congi-e-gationa.

Tlio past year has l een a good <Mie with tho ManaUold Chui-ch. Twenty-eight wore baptized and seven received by letter. Two now await baptism. CongrcgationsandcontrlbutionBgreat-ly incroaBO«<. Liquor waa voted out of tho town last year and to-day we have no saloons.

It ia rumored tliat Troy, Ala., i» trying to induce Dr. J. F. Puraer of t>to First Church, Now Orleans, to re-turn to a forriicr love. Louisiann needs Dr. Purser and wo hopo ho will remain in Now Orleans.

Wo have just heard that Bro. How-oil's family at Mindon Ib aflllotod with scarlet fever. We hope, however, it is in a mild form.

The Manalicld Church and Pastor Tredway aro making an elTort to have Dr. L. G. Broughton of Virginia in a meeting in the early spring.

— "C. H. M."

Payment

The first quarterly payment of the miasionarlea of tho Stato Mission Board will bo made, as usual, thirty days lato, and will bo paid about Fob. 5, 1800. Let all moneye for StaU? Miwsiona bo In tho hands of our Treas-urer, W. M. Woot'cock, Nashville, by that date.

__A. J_^Hot.T, Cor. Hoc.

The ChiinliaH Jmltx atatcs that the First Baptist Church of Augusta, Ga., la planning for a now house of worship to bo ercctcd in the near future. We congratulate Dr. Burrows and his no-ble church upon this evidence of tlielr prosperity. The present structure Is a frame building which was erected sonic sixty years ago, we think. It was in. this building that the Southern Baptist Convention was orgaulxod in We had hoped to be able to moot In the old church again on the flfllaih anniversary of the Convention, but It was found Impracticable to do so on account of the sIm of the Couvenllnn. Why can we not meet in the new church ta the year 1000? J, ••

NEWS NOTES.

PASTOBS' CONFERENCE REPORT.

Nashville.

First Church—Pastor Frost proach-ud at both hours. Morning ^ibjeet, "A question for the New Year" (Psa. oxvl. 12). Evening subject, "A lamp without oi l" (Matt. XXV. :i). Usual Horviccs. A doljglitful observance of ilio Ixird'a Supper. Christmaa outer-lalnmont contribution to Orphanage, • J.-i. 205 in H. H.

Central—Paator Ixjfton preached at lioth houra. Grand day. One bap-ti/.<!(l. •'12.') in H. S. Christmas enter-iiiiiuiient qlTorlng to tho Orphanage,

Largo attendance at tho I.<ord's .sup|)or. Flno attendance at tho young IHHiple'a meeting.

EdgofleUI—PaBtor Rust prcached at both hours. A good all round day. .\ splendid obaervanco of tho Lord's Siipiier.

Third—i'astor Golden preached at liotli hours. Fine audiences morning and evgninp. Roll call in tho morn-ing. 203 in S. S. Largo attendance at Voung i'eoplu'a Union. ChrlstmaB offering for Orphans' Homo, Si.'!. .').

linmanuol—Pastor Van Nobs preach-ed. Ono baptized. Observance of tho Ix)rd's Supper well attended. Flno meeting In tho afternoon of tho Sun-iloy achool Union. Christmas onte<-talnment contribution to Orphanage,

N. Kdgelleld—Pastor Barton preach-ed at lioth houra. Good congregations. Large attendance at prayer-meeting. Christmas entertainment olTerlng to Orphanage, $12.

Seventh—Pastor Wright preachd at both hours. Good con|grogatlons. '22* In a. S. Observed Ix»rd'a Sup|)er at night. Contribution to Orphfinage,

Centennial—Paator Cleveland preach-ed both houra. Good day. Three re-ceived by letter. Chriatmaa entertain-inent contribution to 0rphanage,913.r>0. '' Howell Memorial—Paator Strother preachod at both houra. Chriatmas entertainment contribution for Or-phanage, 112.

Mill Crook—Paator Price preached. Good acrvices. I^ord'a Supper ob-served. 50 in 8. S, (M in Uiia Mis-sion. Christmas ofTorlng for Orphan-age, W.

Anson Nolaon Mlaaion—170 in S. S. First l':dgoflold (col.)—Pastor Van-

davoll proachoti throo times during tho day. Ono baptizoti and three under watehcaro.

PaBt^ Golden read a very interest-ing paper on "How should a pastor conduct himself toward tho work and membership of the other churches in tho city?" There was a very helpful dUcuBaion of this subjoct.

K I I M T I 1 I « .

Firat Church-Dr. K. J . Willing-ham preachod in tho morning. ^An-nual meeting and Lord's Supper In afternoon. 428 in S. S.

Third—Pastor MoPhorson preached at both hours to good congrcgatlonB. 118 in S. 8.

Second—Pastor preachod at both hours to good congregations. Ixird's Suppor observed. Collection for For-eign Missions. Ono received for bap-tiBni, one by-restoration, twobapticod. Night sormon first of a series on "Ten young men of the Bible;" this on "Ja-cob, the grasping young man." 310 In S. 8. Dr. Wllllngham addressed

..the school.'

Centennial—Pastor preached in tho morning and Dn l i . X WllUngham at nlKhl. m In 8. 8.-

Kast KnpxyiUe—Pastor preached al both hours to unusually largo congrc-xatious. gutiA M Interest manlfeitted In church work with the o|ienlng of tho .year. A icooilly number approved for

baptism, bro. Powers and wife re-ceived from tlieir methbors a boautiiul swinging lamp and rocking chair as a token of their love and appreciation.

nieiMplils.

Rowan Church—Good day and bet-tor night. Two united with tho church, one by oxpcrlon«!o and baptism and tho other by letter. Sunday-school good. This church ia a deserving church, but hasn't Ijoen assisted ono cent sinco my coming liero. But God will ono day roward faithful and prayerful' norvice.

Central Avenue—Preaching at both hours by tho paator. Morning sub-jcet, "Tho duty of tho pastor to hia people." Evening aubjoct, "Iwoad mo to the Rock." Organized a mlaaion Hchool at Binghampton. I 'raycr-moet-Ing and Sunday-school well attended.

i'ark Avenue—The outlook for this church Is better than It has been for some lime. 4.'i In S. S.

—1 had three good servlco'j here yes-terday. This church Is still without a paator. Wo aro very much In need of a good man. Any ono desiring a good Held for half or all of hia time would do well to correspond with our Pulpit Committee, P. J. .Donlaon, Clialrman, I^xlngton, Tonn. B. F. Bautleh.

Ixixlngton, Tenn.

—Troaaurcr Woodcock reporls the following collections for the quarter ending Doc. ;il, 18!)ri: .MlnlHlerlal Re-lief, 110.20; .Ministerial Education, •;W7.07; Orphanago, $1,207.18; Sun-day-Bchoola and Colportagc, •r)(i2.87; Homo Missions, $L04i.iVi; Foreign Miaaions, $7(^.40; Stato .Missions, »t,-021.27., Total, $,-),0»1..18.

—A good day last Sunday at Ixinolr 'city. Rev. U. S. Thomas of Mossy Ci-eek preached two excellent sermons with great spiritual power. He assist-ed'the paator in tho ordination of two deacons, Charles Johnson and J. A. Bray. Throe additions to tho church and i:iO In Sunday-school.

J. A. R0I1EH90N, PasUir. l/)udon, Tonn.

—1 have watcbcd tho Baitiht and Reklectou carefully since you start-ed it and havo rejoiced in the steady improvement from year to year. You are making a splendid pai)er, and of all tho paiMsrs that reach my desk I read none with keener Interest. May God bless old Tenneaaeo! Four yoara of tho hardcBt, happioat work of my life were a|)cnt among hor |)cople.

Cahter IlEua Jones. '

Louisville, Ky.

—Wo have eloctod Bro. W. L. Brown ])aBtor for 1800, but ho can servo us only once per month until after March. After this his time will have Itoon fulfilled at Bolivar, then wo will have two aormons por month from him. Our regular buBlnosa dayB aro the Booond Lord's day in each month, and wo have Sunday-school all winter, and services every second and fourth Lord's day whether wo havo a pastor or not. Prayor-mcetlng crcvy Sunday night. J. H. STOTt.

Eurokaton, Tenn.

—Ikuv ifcc</t«»i.'—Myolllcltti relation to the Orphans' Homo haa boon sov-crod, but my interest for the work and tho childi-on has' not in tho least de-gree abated. I tltorefore plead with yoi| to koop your vowa made to mo, and through me to the homolesB. It you have not made an effort to keep your woi-d with UB, wo'n't you (Jo it now? Bro. A. J. Wheeler, .Treasurer of tho Orphans' Home Board, stands rt'ody to receipt you for any sum, and put tho amount to work for tho little ones.

T. T. Thomson.

—Good oonj^regatlons woloomed tim pastor, Bro. I. S. Haker, after an ab-sence ol a week,' at tho morning and evening servico. Ho nqnios back lo us

refreshed from the visit to his old home, and we feel that ho will aooom-pllsh much good here this glad new year. The Lord's Supper waa admin-istered at the morning service, and, as Is our custom, a collection for the poor was taken. We are anxious to learn the mystery that enshrouds Bro. Vinos' happiness that Bro. Qulsenber-ry speaks of. W.

MoMionville, Tonn., Jan. 0th.

—Ilev. F. M. Doweii of Pedigo, Tonn., began a revival mooting at C'iear BranchChureh on December 8th. Ho preached and labored for ono week, and it aoemod that his labor would return void. Ho waa thinking of eloaing tho mooting on Sunday, Doccm))cr I'lth, but tho chiirch wanted him to stay another week and he did ao, and wo had a grand meeting. Thoro wero twelve profenaiona, two joined tho ch iroh and twelve were baptized on Subday, Docomb^r 22nd. "When Zlon travaila she brlngelh forth fruit." K. R. W.

Moltabargor, Tonn.

—i< x|)eD BOB for board in Adamallali, Soutbwcatorn Baptiat University, for Decombor, ISOj, woro •.j.40 for each boarder; this includca fuel, lights and toilet soap. Tho atoam heatora arc a great addition. Our former matron, Mra. J . B. White, .resigned on account of lil-health. Now Mra.' J. K. Nooner is our matron. The rooma have all been taken for the apring term, but a few vacancioa will bo made by commer-cial kudenta completing their eouraea.

W . J a s . R o u i n s o n , Manager. Jackaon, Tenn. [This is certainly remarkably choap

- i n fact it ia cheaper than living at homo.— Eu. ] ^

—The Baptist Young People's Asso-ciation of Nashville held Its monthly meeting at the Central Baptist Church Friday evening, January 3rd. Presi-dent S. W. Meek presided, with Mr, S. M. Turner as Secretary, The min-utes of the meeting hold a month ago at the Howell Memorial Baptist CliuTCh Wero read and approved. Then a very pleasant program of music. Scripture reading, prayer and papers road was carried out. The paiwrs read were as follows: "Young Pooplo'a Society In a Baptist Church." (a) What should bo their llrst and most important work? Rev. John O. Rust, Edgefield Church.

(b) Their relation to the Sunday-Bchool. FidwardTrice, Seventh Church. (c) Ought school duties to bo allowed to Intcrfero with their church and so-ciety duties? Owen Jonos, First Church. Those papers woro of a very high order, and wore greatly onjoyod by the large congregation. Thcro was considerable cuthusiasm in tho moot-ing, and we bellovo its influences for good are far-rcoehlng and permanent. Tlio next mooting will bo held with tho First Chureh, January Slat.

—Our church at Boech Grove, Cof-fee County, was dedicated on Sunday, Dee. 1,1805. The sermon was preached by Rev. A. J. Holt, D.D., of Nash-villo, tho Corresponding Seorotary of our Stato Mlaaion Board. The con-gregation was good in splto of tho very inclement woathor, and Dr. Holt gave us a moa t oxcellontSermon. The little band of tho faithful at Beech Grove havo had to contend agalnat very groat and painful diaadvantagea. When tho church waa organized in 1888 thcro wero only four or five members—all of them females. But thoy had faith and a spirit of consocratod determination. Tlioy built a hoUBo by oarnost zeal ond Bolf-denlal. The foundation provod Insecure and a stoim upiet the build-ing. With tho same rcioiuto spirit thoy built again. Recently the house has iwon seated with comfortable pews nud painted Inside and out. The memberflhlp Is small, but It Is a band to bo counlwl upon, it la the "Baniier

Church" of Duck River AsBooiatiou. It gave iasti year, for all purposes, un average of •13,00 por member. I vcn-iuro to say there is not a church in .Tennessee that goes ahoa'd of that |>er capita. May tho Lord bloaa the little flock this "Now Year" that is Uiforo us. O. C. P.

"Wartraco, Tonn.

—Our fifth Sunday mcHing closed our record for 1805, and tho old Nola-ehucky bogina a now volume to-day, "Coming events oaat thoir abadoWa before," and from this stand point .181MI will bo an eventful year. Although our meeting waa not what Bomo of ua hoped it would be, wo feel that It waa 'not a failure. Some important quea-tiona wero diseuaaed, notably, "Our college," and tho "Work of tho Holy Spirit," to the odiflcatlon and profit, wo truat, of all the aalnta who were present. Thoao fifth Sunday meetings could and Hhmlil bo made mighty factors in our denominational work. Oh, that our |>oople could realize this thought in all its fulness! OUr Irrepressible,, pushing "Pa.t" Halo Is doing some good work among hia churchos; when last heard from ho waa at III pressing tho warfare at Bethel, bis homo church, after a continuoua aiegoof about thn^o wcoka. Now, brethren, let us "go for-ward," and make 18IHI the grandest ycor in tho nnraU Of Tenneaaeo Bap-tlals. J. B. Jo.NES,

Morrlstown, Tenn.

Notice.

The Stato Mlaaion Board of the Ten-nobBce Baptist Convention will hold its regular quarterly meeting Monday, .Tanuary 13th, at 2:30 p. m. In their mission rooms In the Cumberland Presbyterian Building, NaBbvillo, Tenn, A full attendance Is desired.

A. J. Holt, Cor. Sfc.

HoW Tennessee Stands.

Accordlngto an appoitlonment of the amount asked for by the last Southern Baptist Convention to pay olT all ob-llgatlona and aupport our missioharios In the field this year, we should look to your Stato from May Ist, 1805, to Jan. Ist, 189(1, for 14,800. In that time wc have reccivod 14,270.84.

"Upon tho first day of tho week let every ono of you lay by him in store, as God hath proapered him, that there be no gatherings when I come."—I. Cor. xvi.2,

Tho work is tho I.ord's and we arc His. Wil l not each ono pay some-thing soon for thoso rorking ifor Christ for UB? Thoy need help now.

R. J. WiUJNOHAM, Cor. Sec. Uiohmond, Va.

Abounding In Good Works.

Jitv, Folk:—I want to toll you aome-thing of our dear Grandma Mercer in your most exoellont paper. She is abountlfulfruit-bearer,alwaysabound-ing in the work of the Lord. Sho is always bo cheerful, so useful, so thankful, that we all lovo to oall her by tho endearing name (if grandma. Sho haa tho happy art of doing and raying things at the right time and place. It is a fruit which will grow the more it ia cultlvatwl. "Kxcopt yo abide in m'3, yo e.innot boar fruil," a BOng whole refrain will ccho through tho agea -a building whoso walla aru made of stone of every day's good deetla, making some ono happy always. It gives a awoot fragranco to hor noble life. Her iiifiuenco will nuvor fade: will lio like proulouB olatiuont puureil forth. Shu sowa with tlio whoio sauk, not wltii the hand, apploa of gold in God's basket of si Ivor. Long may slie live lo oiijoy'the rosua of grnelouBly donn deeds In I Hit name.

A. V. M.

^ iMoroor, Tonn.

T) BAPTIST AND REFLECTOR, JAN. 9, 1896.

snssiOHS. MIMION DIUEOTOBV.

tllMie MiHlanir.—Bev. A. J. UOLT, U.D., MlulOMrjrBeoreUnr. All commuDlMtlou dMigned (or bim ahould ha (iddrMMd to htm kt Natbville, Tenn. Vf. U. WOOD-COOK. Treaaurer, NMbTUie..T«on.

t 'arelvu MUaiaua.-Rcv. R. J, WllXlMO-UAM. D.D., CorreapoBdlng BcfireUry, Utsta-mond, Va. Rev. J. H. SMOW, Knosvllle, Tenn., Vlce-Praaldent of tha Foreign Board (or Teoneuea, to wfbom all loqulrlea (or IB> formation may ba addreawd

llenta miaalena.—Rer. I . T . TIUBBHOII, D . O., Corraipondlng Soorotarjr, Atlanta, Oa Rav. a R. AcaiB, D O., Vice Preitdant o( iba Homa Board (or Tanneaaea, towbomall Information oV inqulrlaa about work In the State may ba addraaaad.

mulat«r l«l EducMlUn.—All fund* for young minlatara to tba a W. U. Unlraratty ebould ba aent to 0. U. Savaga, LL D., Jackion, Fann. For young minlatara at Caraon and Newman Collage, aand to J. T. Ilandaraon, Uoaay Creak, Tanif.

MHuday •aclioala ain« C«lpori«iro.— Rev. Vf. Y. UtJUCNBERRT, UorrMpondIng Secretary, Ctaatunooga, Tenn.

Jrphana* U*nie. Rev. T. T. TuoMPaoii, Financial A^ent, NaabTllle, Tenn. ''

U'«Miaiifa llllaal*n«rr Uulan. PRunim.-Mra- A C. S. Jiiokaon, NaabTlUa,

Tenn. COMMPOitouio SAOARART—Mlaa Lucia Cun-

nlngbam, iSii K. Spruce, Naabrllla, Tenn. RIOOBOIKO SBCBRABT.—Hra. 0 . B . Striek

land, Jr., NaabTlUa, Tenn. Boi*o»-llra. J, O. Rnat, NaabrlUa, Tenn.

Our Letter From Brazil.

So many things have uocupieU me lately that I have not written for acme time. To the on-Iookor and to the in-terested worker—from a reliifious or a political point of view—things po-litical, roiigioua and otherwise in Bra-zil are full of food for serious thought. Since the Ilepublic was inaugurated six years ago yesterday, the gospel has had many more privileges than at any time before. Many have been the victories won for Christ. This is more than the Catholic clergy can calmly survey; but they know that while the Republic stands they are powerless to suppress us by the arm of the law. So now they think the monarchy must bo restored as the cure for all the evils that do really afilict the country. Hence a monarchical party has been organized, and several journals now go forth to proclaim the "Restora-tion. " All this is but a priestly clam-or for the union of Church and State— the fervent desire for the Inquisition. It is the Jesuitical Isabel—the daugh-ter of D, Pedro II.—that they want. They are exceedingly harassed by the presence and growing influence of the various evangelical denominations. They are troubled ut the constant tendency of Christianity to break off the shackles of Rpme and free her slaves. Too many intelligent priests arc leaving her ranks to take advan-Uge of Jthe republican laws that en-force t t t right of the people to civil marriasfc. . As a case in point, n few

Dr. Ottoni, the eloquent ex-prominent city In Brazil,

[inverted some months ago visit to the States, was in

the city of Sao Paulo, \>'here the Bish-op lives. The doctor was invited by the Presbyterian pastor to preach. A crowdcd house greeted him and the papers all highly complimonted him. This was too much for the priests. Ono said to the Bishop that Dr. O, should be punished for the injury ho Is bringing to the Catholle religion, t h e Bishop responded only, " W e hiivo now no laws by which that c«»ul<l bo done." Hero follows an luloivst-Ing sequel. Its n friond toUl Dr. O. n few days luur, Tlil,< lllshup sends ttnothi-r lllHli(t|t nil UuUaii inprescu-

^nllvu iif l ie I'liic III llirty.ll-.io tliu

days ag | vicar of who was I while on !

city of Dr. O.'s last labors as a vicar to preach against Dr. O. and all other Protestanu. He was fulfllllng this mission faithfully till the people, al-most all of whom are Dr. O.'s friends, became so enraged that the preachor had to be conducted to and from the church by the police, and on the last night ho dared not open his mouth on the subject. Two days later the preachor was carrying a company of priests and nuns to another State to found some colleges, wiien the 8|>ccittl car in which they traveled was "tele-scoped" in a wreck and ho, with II vo others, was instantly killed and many were wounded, some fatally, ono dy-ing yesterday.

Now the part of this terriblu disaa-ter that least pleases the Protestant haters is yet to be told. It so hap-liencd, apparently, that this disaster took place within a few yards of the residences of two of the very |)coplo whose suppression in Brazil is very desirable—two Protestants, the writer and a member of the same church. We did everything possible to allevi-ate the tfufferlngs of the wounded, some of them being the priests that escapotl.

To make a long and terriblu "'ory short, the only people hurt weru pas-sengers in the special car, and we made no question as to who needed help. Thousands of people came out to see and help. We are known all over the city, and the papers hero and In many other cities specially men-tioned the I^otestant pastor and his family as doing all they could. This public mention forced the vicar of this city to thank us personally for services rendered, while we did nothing with a view of being praised. There aro many comments on this co-inciden:x, and many are praying that it all may bring glory to Him whose servants wn are.

I think It will now be moru dlttlcult for the vicar of this city to abuse us publicly than heretofore, as has been his custom. At times when we feel faint, as Gideon's men, yet pursuing, and almost ready to give up, the good Lord remembers us and sends us some reminder that our "work is not in vain in the Lord." It requires a great deal of couragc, too, for poor, weak human nature to work on and on, hated and shunned by the very ones whoso salvation you seek. Uniy tho companionship of Christ and the oc-casional proofs of his presence can •trongthen the heart for the undertak-i n g . J . J . T A Y U > R .

Miuas Ueraes, Brazil, Nov. 1<I, imi.>.

Sad Sights.

clean? ^What is thorp in them to en-noble and lift upV Those homes aro not in China or Africa, but in beauti-ful Tennessee.

Not only aro Uieso families badly housed and unsupplied with God's word and religious litoralure, but 1 tind a great many of thpm aro slaves to tho snutr habit. From tlic mother down to very small girls have I scon it. If thcit) Is nothiugelso in the homo the snufT and tho tobaoco are found there. lu ono small county, 1 uiii told, there was sold over •.'>,000 vimli i>f snulT to the woinun last yoa Now add to this tho tobacco used by the men and some of the women aud think of it! I SCO the evil vfTectof thiH habit on the bodies of tliosc who an> its slavos. We talk of the opium habit of China and forget the evil at our own doors.

Out of BUfh homos a i Ihcso »>ui- poor houses, jails and iieniicutiary arc get-ting tho larger part of thoir iuniates. It is a sad picturc if you leave out tla* spiritual question. Tliosu aro white families of which I am writing.

Let mo give a picturc of n hoiiu- I visite<i. The house wan built of uu-hewn logs and daubed with dirt, with only ono room. Tho tloor was laid with loose, undressed plank. In this house were thi-eo dirty beds, on one of which was an old hen making her nest. I'nder those beds were several old Iioxes and cooking utonslls. Tho latter wore beinK' licked by a half starved dog until he ixreivoil a fear-ful kick from ono of the women to whom I was trying to talk about la-r soul. There were several old home-made chairs with a rough board table. There was not a book or picturv to bo seen. In this hut there lived hrofuini-

each having children from little babes up to nearly grown—one girl full-grown in size. When 1 lirst en tered and began to talk about spirit-uol things tho two mothers sat there and dipped their snuff and spat upon tho floor as though they might have been rhised in tho heart of heathen China. (They had no Bible; there never had been a prcachor in their house; no one had ever prayed with them or Ulked to them iiersonally

more helporg. Wo oould wisely iMnd •30,000 a year In thU work. ought to have a wise, godly, oot». crated col porter In ovory county ig Tennossoo for all of hli time.

Is there not aomo ono who roads thli who will glvo $1,000 to this Sunday, school and Bible work? Who can toll tho good it would do all through ths years? Who will help in this work? Brethi-en, my hope is In Ood and in i/oii. W. Y. QUISKKOERRV.

Chattacooga, Tenn.

What Does It Mean?

BAPTIST AND REFLEOTOR, JAN. 9, 1896.

Till) Treasuix^r's report for Uuccm-ber as published In tho B A I T I S T AND

R E K L K C T O R is before me. Tho foot-lug up of the flgures is as follows: Ministerial Relief, 12.01; MinlstorUI K.ductttlon, Orphans' Home, •447.MI; Sunday-schools and Colpor-lage, fiW.SHl; Homo Missions, lill.Dfl; i''oroign Missions, 91U1.00; State Mis-HIOOS, $147..'>I.

A umallor amount has been givuu fur Statu Missions than for any mil-sionary work fostei-ed by the Baptists of Tonneasetr.

Can it be that this is tho way tiie Itaptistaof Tennessee have of express-ing their desire that there be retrench-inont in State Missions? A skilful en-gineer consults constantly his steam gauge so as to know how much his en-gine can do. This is our steam gauge. Tlio Board will meet in a few days tu consider soino extra appropriaUoa» which have been most urgently asked

I of us. The indications on our steam gauge ai-e discouraging to further ap-

I proprlations. Kvery missionary employed must bo

; promised a definite amount of salary. Tiius tho forty men we employ annu-ally ai-o promised in tho neighborhooil of $;t,()CO. Vet there has not been a

' dollar definitely promised to State ' MlHsiona

Other agents arc pushing a definite I work, asking for delinite amounts.

Good Bro. Thompson had tho ncces-; sity laid on him to raise a deflnik-

amount for tho Orphanago by a dofl-I nite time to pay deflnito notes. Thi»

accounts for the largo amount given about their soul's salvation). But as ] to the Home. Bro. Quisenberry, with

When I look at one side of tho ivn-dition in Tennesseo my heart grows sad. The home life of tens of thou-sands of our families Is sod beyond description. These families are with-out a copy of God's word, and very many of them have not ono page of religious literature, and do not seem to oaro. E

If I write some things that I've seen many will not'bolicvo. Somo will say, "Qulsonborry has thought on ono sub-ject until ho la getting ora«y.'' But I am as tane as I have ever Ixion. I am convincod that tho pastors of our Stato do not know tho oonditioh of tho homo life of many of tho famllloa within tlio territory of tholr ehurohoi. If thoy will go into each of these homos with thoIr eyoa and hearts opan during 18IKI thoy will And muoh to stir their aoula. Brother, will you try It?- I ask thia for tho truth's sake.

Many of theao famlllus are poorly hoiiaod. Often thera aro largo fami-lies living'In n ouo-room hut, with boya and girls full-grown. HomotitDos thoro la more than ono family living In these hut*. Slop and try Ui grasp thla imndltloiil How can thorti ooiiio out of thcNU lioinoM thu puro and the

I read from tho Bible I saw they be-gan to soften In feeling. Whon I had flnished my prayer ono of tho women was weeping freely. Sho thanked mo for tho viait and said sho would try to be a Christian.

While talking to tho iiiothers (the men were off at work) a little girl who had boon playing came in, and us she camo noar mo ono of tho women gave her a jerk and push and sent her out crying like her little hoart would

most commendable zeal and ainglcnc»a of heart and puriwae, ia puahing Sun-day-schoola and Col|>ortago, and tho steam gauge registers a handsome amount. TI19 Corresponding Secre-tary of the State Miaaion Board has been doing what ho oould In tho way of systematic work, taking up no col-lections, not one during thia Conven-tional year; urging the adoption of tho systematic plan adopted by tho Convention, which includes every ob-

break. When I wont out and spoke j Ject fostered by tho Convention. In to tho child, and tho hot tears had j his opinion permanent aucoeaa In our softened tho dirt on her face, and aa ahe wiped her face with hor sleeve and thua made it clean In plaeea, I aaw that aho was really a protty child. How my heort did ache for hor! OhI you who are blessed with beautiful, clean, pure. Christian homes, if you could Hco what I and our col porters aeo'your hearts would acho, too.

Now some ore going to critielso what I have written; somo will not bellovo it; others, perhaps, will get mad; and aomo aro going to tlilnk of tho condi-tion, tlien pray over it, and then try to help me romudy It. Whtoh will you do, dear reader? Tho Board needs

work inuat aud can only bo reaohed through thia method. While ho has thua boon helping every other interest as well as Stato Misaiona, the breth-ren bnd alatora generally havo suffered State Miasloua to bo "negleetod in their dally miniatrationa."

Does It moan that Tennof «e Bap-tlsts would, prefer to fall bi»"k to the old plan so often triad wl .1 hurtful results—tho high pressure mothod of tho paat? If thia be tho conaonaua of opinion, and there could bo a way to let the Stato Mlaslon Secretary know this to bo true, he would take tho floid, colloot everywhere he goea, dun every

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preacher, every church, and literally beg the people to contribute to Stato Mlaalona alone, and raise in oile year •25',000 for this single object. It Is not the Judgment of the Secretary that thia would be tho best courae to pur-sue. An eiperience of fifteen yoara in the mission work has thoroughly con-vinced him that tho only permanent, healthy success In this department is to build up a habit to give systemat-ically and regularly to each objcct foatered by Tennessee BaptlsU.

It Is humiliating to this Secretary to have his eapeclal work of State Mlaalona thua brought into compari-son with the work of othera who differ from him In methoda of labor. But ho is willing to bear tho blamo, if any lie liiaued on him because of the paucity of State Mission contributions, so long as the contributors to our great work—all of it aa a whole—bollove with him that permanent success is only attainable through systematic methods.

Just ono more matter deserves con-sideration in this connection: Shall the State Board go beyond tlie Indi-cations of thia Treasurer's report in making their appropriations? If so, we shall have to dismiss some of the misaionariea already employed and shut down abruptly cn tho extension of our work until the steam gauge shall show a healthier condition of the treaaury?

Suggestions, comments and criti-cisms aro invited from all who give.

A . J . HOLT , C o r . S e c . Nashville, Tenn.

Canon and Newman College.

Tho BAJTIST AND RKI'-UCCTOR is tt regular and welcome visitor to tho college reading room. The students lyipreciato it very highly bccauso it ia a warm friond to tho college.

l^imagine tho .'Vi,000 Baptists in i-Iast Tennessee are not only well pleased, but highly elated over the prosiieots of theircollogo. Tlio'faculty and students are very hopeful just now. Prof. Hen-derson, our boloved President, is do-ing a great deal to free tho institution from its flnanclal embaraaamcnt, and it ia gratifying to know that he h suc-cooding admirably. It haa beon prin-cipally through hia management that the college haa boon located In Ita now home, a magnificent building erected at a coat of $40,000 or $00,000. I'rosi-dont Henderson la not only a lino bus-Inoaa man, but a scholar and a typical teacher. Ho alwaya meota hia olaaaes with Tim and enthuaiaam and he never falls to get tho Interost of hia puplla. .\8 a drill maater, If be has any equals, I am sure ho has but few superiors In tho Stato.

Prof. Jones teaches mathematius and ia master of this branch. Ho tells tho boys about the triangles, circles, tan-gents, parabolas and many other cu-rious things.

Prof. 8. la very popular with tlio boys. He doesn't have to loavo tho college to find his best frlonda. Hia fine disposition and courtesy havo en-deared him to all.

Prof. Welsoh has ehargo of the aci-enee department and is quite a success In the position. Ho teaohes us astron-omy, that we may know of tho world above us; gaologyt that we mav know of th&earth beneath us; and botany, that we may know of tho things around us. Prof. Welsoh Is one o( those good men, full of sympathy for young men struggling for ati eduoatlon.

Prof. Burnett teaohes Greek. Hia aoholarshlp la broad and aeourato. No better man is needed in tho uhnlr Of Greek. ' Prof. 11. A. Henderscm teaohes tho language In whlah Cicero a|ioko so el-oquently and Virgil sang so swcolly. HP imrrles Uio bt>y« through Ovid, li 'v), tlie iimwu of lloi-nco aud many

other dlfflcult things. He Is a i>erfect gontleman and a devout Chriatian.

Mra. Brown, our excellent teacher of Engllah, is doing an exceptionally good work. From hor wo learn the beauties of rhetoric, and after iiaving accomplished this work we are allowed to go higher and wander through tho fields of literature. Chaucer, Shakes-peare, Pope, Tennyson and Longfellow aro carefully studied. This is by no means a compieto list. Tho English courso Is worthy of special mention.

Misses Jackson and Phillips, who teach music and art respectively, are doing tills work in a very lU'ceptablo manner.

Mr. Gass Is t>oth profussor-and stu-dent. As a student he is making an enviable reputation. As a teacher, 1 imagine he IH doing his work with great care.

No, tho college needs no better fac-ulty, but if thoy bad another teacher or two tlio present professors would not have to work so hard.

I am told that quite a number of young men are 8|Kiaking of coming here after Christmas. Every Btfptlst should encourage them to oomo. They, will find Mostly Ci-eek a delightful place, free from temptations and al-lurements HO often found In towns and cities. If any young man should read thisarticlo and ia contemplating going to college, it might be wise for him to investigftte Carson and Newman. Ho will find a hearty welcome awaiting h i m . A S T L ' D K N T .

Mossy Creek, Tenn.

Fifth Sunday Meetings.

Allow space for synopsis report of our fifth Suaday meeting, just held with Gibson Church. Churches repre-sented, 20; mlnlstera present, 11; col-lections reported for different objects of missions, t.'IOU. Tho attendance was fine both days. Tho subjects woi-e all practical, and wo trust that their ap-plication shall tell for good. At 11 o'clock Sabbatli morning Rev. W. H. Ilyals preached a most enjoyable sei--mon. Text, " W h a t have ye done?" The next meetiug will IM huld with tliu Trenton Church, embracing thu fifth Sabbath In Maivh next. "Thu laU>h-string is hanging out."

J. M. SKNTKIt. Trcntou, Tenn.

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The fifth Suuday meeting of Eastanal-loo Association convened with Now Friendship Church at 10 a. m. Friday, December 27lh. Ten churches were represented. Dr. I. Simmons was elected Secretary. Tho discussions from beginning to end woi-c able and Inatructivo. Tho doctrine of sinless lierfoctlon In the flesh was dlssoct«d and laid bare by lotting the light of tho Scriptures ahine in upon it. The bormon on Sunday by Itov. L. M. Modlin waa able and full of tho aplrlt. of missions. Wc oolleeted for Stale Missions. Thu weatlier was good, congregations largo atid atten-tive. I'ho meeting was enjoyable, de-votional and spiritual. Tho parting hand wan given while tho whole con-gregation, led by Bro. Hoylo, joined in tho farowoll song. These fiftli Sun-day meotings aro milo-|K>sts in our earthly pilgrlmago.

C. G. S.VML'Ki., Ch'ni. tJalhoun, Tenn.

The fifth Sunday meeting of tliu Providence Association mot at Pleas-ant Hill Cliuroh on Friday, Deoombor 27th. Pleasant Hill Is one among the oldest ohurchoa of the country. It was organised by the Prlmltlvu Baptists In-1837, ond about thirty yeara later <je-flared liorralf u missionary liudy. The introduetory fwriiion was prcachwl l»y Rev. W. H. (hay.

With D. W. Awos in the cliali* and J . W. KIdrldgu Suureury, thu ineutiiig priKXHjdwl with tho prAgram.

We bad some warm discustions on ho various topics that came before tho

body. Tho question, "Havo wo both tho Scriptural and practical right to bocallcd Missionary Baptists,' ' aeomod to excite more interest than any other and was made a special subJcct for Saturday night.

The discussion was opened with an excellent speech by Rev. T. K. Postoll, who gave us a brief history of the or-igin of missions, followed by Reva. W. B. Groy, J . W. Bowmon and J. A. Roberson, showing most conclu-sively that wo had a acriptural right to l>o called Missionary Baptisu. The progress of the miaaion work under tho direction of tho Boards, was shown in such a way that all present were made to feel that we had a practical right to be called Missionary Baptists, and somo seemed to be sorry that they were not more practical.

On Sunday D. W. Amos was or-dainc<l to tho work of the ministry, in tho presence of a la go congrega-tion and his venerable father, Rev. Presley L. Amos, one of tho old veter-ans of the cross who has been for fif-ty-three years in the service of his Mas-ter.

l{ev. J . W. Bowman was elected chairman of the presbytery and exam-

! inod .the candidate. .1. W. .Holder prayed tho prayer of ordination and W. B. Gray delivered the charge. Tho writer then preached to a large aud attentive congregation. A col-lection was taken for missions and tho mooting closed with a good state of fooling. .1. A. RoiiKitso.N.

Tx>udon, Tenn. Romanism.

Romanism Is not .sleeping iii this 1 eountry. I find Romish literature

scattering diseaso and moral death in this country. I found a Romish cato-chlsm in tho hands of ono of our young Baptist ladloa.

1 think It Is high time to.awako out of sloop and warn our pooplo of tho approach of this dirty, drunken boast of persecution. Once in a while aomo ex-prlest arises in the country and holds popery up beforo tho people In all Its blaokuess, but upon the an-nouncement of a lecturo by any man opposing that black, blood-stained monarchy called Roman Catholiciam, a howl goes up from our daily Jour-nals, our toadying politioians, crying, "abuse," "talaroproaontation," "in-Juatloe," otfl., and comoa beforo tho public yelling, " I t ia a political sohemo." Somo Ropubllcana will say "it ia a Domooratic trick;" aomo Dem-ocrats will yell, "It is a Republican dootrino," and vice ixtmi. Then slan-der, vituperation and donunoiation do their work, and if tlic^ fall, cobble-atones, brickbats, eggs, and Imprison-ment uomo In quick suoooaalon.

Think of' MoNamara at Kansas City, put In prison for six months fof opposing the vllost of brothols, viz., Roman Catholic nunneries, many of which have been proven to Im i>inks of pollution for tho use and lieniMLi of thit celibate priesthood.

Think of a Slattory nt Sqvannaii, roiiked, anti his munagur knockud vcnseluis with a sund-bag, and tlie liuavy wiiidow-Aliutters of the Masonic Temple buttered down and wonion and iiiun urippled, and thu calling out of

the Georgia militia to quoll a rioting mob of Catholics opiioalng an Ameri-can citizen and an ox-prleat for tolling the truth.

Nunneries aro immoral prisons, monasteries are vile dons of sodomy. Priosts aro oollbate vampires, sapping the life from liberty and destroying tho virtuo of women, and hearing thu socrctfl of<mnn'8 wives which belong to none but a husband. Rufllana, thieves, gamblers, prostitutes, burglars, con-fidence men and whiakey-ring men all find'a welcome smile from the Roman papacy.

Let the country pastors look this thing square in the face and tell tho people about this huge eomjiound of heathenism, barbarism and demonol-ogy. I am not anxious to see tho In-quisition and Index courts restored, nor the horrors of Bartholomew or Nantea repeated. The Baptists are the only people who. ev,or opposed Romanism in the true sense of opposi-tion, and let us keep up our zeal and warn tho people faithfully. Wo have^ so many weak preachers who are I cowardly to tell the truth that poperj is beginning to laugh at her old ene-mies like a ghoul in the dark. Wake up, ye sleeping host, and put on the armor of God!

J . J . M C D O N A L D .

Doylo, Ten^^ Ho Joke.

The Comiulttee on Co-operation was not jesting when it requested you to send a copy of your Association min-utes. Vet only three responses have been made—two of them from one As-sociation, tho Central, the other from Duck River. I'Utue itop hert and iioir and vuul a copy of your Auodation niiii-uiu to A. J . Barton, Na«hvllle, Tenn. Do not th'.nk that some one else will do it ; do it imrKlf and it tcill be done.

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Baptist and Reflector. Nashvlllo. Tenn., Jan. 8 ,1896.

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liCt us say that all of these offers are, we think, remarkably liberal. You have the opiiortunity in this way, simply by doing a little work, of securing a new book for nothing according to one offer, or, according to another, only ten cents, and also of securing the very best Sunday-school l ibrary available for Baptists in this country, practically for noth-ing.

Please remember that these pre-miums arc notjoffered for renewals, but they arc offered to old subscrib-ers to secure nctcsubsorlbers—-to In-duce these old subscr ibers to work for the paper which they themselves seem to appreciate so much, judging from expressions which we are con-stantly receiving from them. If, however, the old subscr ibers wish to secure these books and cannot get any new subAcribers, we will make the following propositions to them:

1. To any old subsoriber who re-news his subsoription, sending us 12.10, wo will send a copy ei ther of "Spurgeon ' s . Twelve Greatest Ser-mons," or of "Remarkable Answers to P r a y e r . " '

2. To any old subaeribor who will send us his ronowal and 12.25, wu will send a copy either of Dr. Chris-t lan 's "Rome or America, Which?" or of Spurgeon's "Soul-wlnnor."

To any old Bubserlber who will

send us his renewal and WI.50, wo will send a copy of Ilolinan's Self-pronouncing Bible, the same us above.

4. Touny old subscriber who will send UH the name of a new subscrib-er, together with his renewal and #4, wo will send any ^J^o of the above books, cxcopt the Bible. The other proiwsitlons will ronmln the sumo.

Now (or u grand rally for the IJAITIHI' AND I^KKI.WTOII! T h e r e -sult would bo seen in a great for-ward inovcment all aloim the line, it would be felt by all of our denou-inotional intorostH—Stiitc, Home and Foreign Missions, Sunday-school and Col|K)rtuge, Orphans ' Home, Minis-toriul Kdui-ation, Ministerial Belief and all of our other interests in the State. Is it not worth trying? Will !/nii DOt help? Go to work at oncc. liOt us hear from you soon, pleuse.

SVSTEMATIC ItEXEFlCEM'E. At the rccent meeting of the Ten-

nessee Baptist Convention the fol-lowing resolutions were unanimous-ly adopted:

Ucsvlvcil (1), That n otiminittco of live, two of whom Hhall bo Uio .Sevrota-ric8 of oui- Uoarda of State MIHOIODB, and Sunday-ticbouU and ('olpurta(;c, and ono of whom shall bo the Preiil-d o D t of the OrphanH' Homo Board, shall bo appointed to prepare n plan of uystcmatU- benctlccnco, which plan shall l>e Bubmlttc-d to the three UoardH mentioned abovo for their ado|ition, and when adopt4Hl shall bo o|H>rat«td by the Secretaries of these Boards.

I{ei>olml (2), That the pastors of tho State borcqucHted to Joinearnestly with tho Socrotarles in o|>cratlnK this plan, and thus lieln to develop their ])ooplo in all of uiir denominational work. In accordancc with these resolu-

tions the coinmittec appointed for the purpose held a meeting soon afler the Convention and agreed uijon the following plan of systematic benefi-cence, which was af terwards adopt-ed by the three Boards mentioned in the resolution. The plan pro-vides for a card, one side of which reads as follows:

Kverr man as be purpoRoth In his heart, so : lot him (Ive: not grudKlntcly. or of ne ccBslty; tor God lovetb a cheer-ful girer.-11. Cor. li.T. I SV8TKMATI0 IIENKFICENX'K. FF IJollovlng in tho duty of sending S tho Gostwl Into all the world, and ^ roalizini; tho importance of every « Christian assiating in tho fflorious H work, according to his ability, I, | tho undersigned, agrco to KIVO tho J amount below for that purpose: P

.1 btate Missions Ilobio Itiatlons H Foreign Missions « M. 8 . and Oolportage S Orphans' Home f- MInlsteHal Kduoatlon.... S Hlnisterisl Relief I

Nrme.,.. s p Postofflco ^ 1 a 2 Oslo i«>.. . . | 2 Kauh contributor is ro(iuci>tod to I g deslffnato tho direction and propor- & I tionato amounts of his g l fu . All ^ n undesiffoated funds, however,will be § - dlvldod as follows: 30 per cent, for 3 1 Btato Missions, IS per eont. f o r e Homo Mlfslons, IS percent, for For* 1 elgn Missions, 20 i>er eont. for Bun- » day-sohools and Colportago, 10 per n cent, for Orphans' Home, 8 per cent. I for Ministerial Eduoation, 2 por^ ooDt. for Ministerial Roilof. Whoro S it is speained that theeontrlbutions ^ shall go to Mlssioai, but the k i n d f of Missions Is undesignated, tliedl- B vision will be as follows: 60 per cent. | for State Missions, 25 iwr cent, for I Homo Mlssioas, and llTt per conti & for Foreign Missions. m

"trpontbs drat day ot Ihowcah lot tvnry S OBJ of ipu lay lif bim in store ai Si liodliat^ IgMpsrttl hltn."— 4

B A P T I S T A N D R E F L E C T O K , J A N . TF, 1896. On tho rovorso sldo of tho card

are tho following HUMIEHTLONH:

1. liCt each ohureh by voto ad6iit this plan as a method of scciirlnir money for benevolent purpoiss. 2. U t tlie church elect a MIsHionai y Collector, whoso duty It shall b« to so-cure, so far as possible, a subscription from cnry member of the church fur those piirpoHos, and to sco to its prumpt eolioctlon. Ho should be privileged t<i solcut from tlie momlwr? of the church as many assistants as hn may nood to aid hint in this work, dividing tiio list of contributors among them. ;). liCt tho collector and his asslHi-unts give or send one of thoso cards to overy niciiiber of tho church, with tho request to lili out all, or as many ns praclifitble, of tho blanks, and then reliirn the card to the collector. < 4. Ix't certain days bo lixed by ilio cluiroh as the time when tho contribu-tioHH bhiill IM) made. Tho pastor is ox|H.>cted to call attention at tlio prO|icr timo to these occasions, so that tiicy limy not lie overlooked. .'). Theso contributions may bi< made In on veloiMis or otherwise, as profcrrod. The UHo of cn vclo))cs will lie found help-ful. tl. A Treasurer's book, exactly udaptcil U) keeping accounts under this plan, Clin bo olitalnol l»y application to tiio Corresiionding Sarretary of thi* Stnto Hoard.

Should any ono fail to m^ke his contribution, thecoilccu>r should adopt some means to remedy tho ncglect. lie can wriu< tho naino of such as thus fail upon a card and send It to that ono of his assistants u|)on wtiose list the names of thcsonon-payingcontributors occur. Un rcceipt of this tho assistant will !)c cxiHsctcd to (ISO proper means to si-curu the promised offering. H. If tho collector will ktvp himself informut! as to tho work and needs of tho Hoards, and from time totlmo give such information to thechurch, ho will (rrcatly facilitate his work. Ho will tlnd tills Information in his Stato paper and in tho Mitnion Journal, liolh of wtiich ho ouglit to take. II. Where Woman's Mission or otlier Missionary Uoclotles oxistin a church, they nmy make collections accord|jig to their own established methods, ro-portinjf the amounts to the collector of the Mission Fund as a part of tho con-tribution to Mission work. Wc do not k now that wo need to add

anything In explanation of this plan. It seems to us that It exphilns Itself. Wc hope that overy pastor In the Stato will send and get one of these c^irdsfor cach member of his church. M'rlte ei ther to Dr. A. J . Holt, Corrc-siwndlng Secretary of tho Stato Mis-sion Board, Nashville, Tonn.; or to Rev. W. Y, Qulsenberry, Corre-siwndlng Secretary of the Sunday-school and Colportago Board, Chat-tanooga, Tenn. Either of thoso Sec-retaries will gladly furnish you with as many of these cards as you may desire, free.

Let us say just a word about the linportunco of systematio benefi-conee. We havo 118,000 white Bap-tists in the State. Those 118,000Bap-t is ts gave last year for all purposes something less than 425,000. Sup-pose, however, that each ono of them had given just 6 cents a month for all of our missionary enterprises; that would have made about $70,000. I s there any Baptist in tho Stato too poor to glvo 6 conts a month? Wo believe not, if ho Is properly ap-proached and asked to do it. There aro,|of coursoi'many who can and will glvo much more than this. What wo speolally noed is to have sdme sys-tem by which we can foaoh these Baptists iu the State and aeouro a contribution from each one. I t Is jus t this th ing which this plan of syBtomatto boneflcence seeks to do. Lot it be uudorstood that noither the CoQveution ,nor its Boards, j ior the Committcie on Oo-operatlon, nor thlROominittoeoQ Syntcinatlo Donof-Icenoo, Is t ry ing to usurp tho pt'o-rogatlvfisof thoohurohenortho priv-

ileges of the pilstors. On the con-trary, It Is j)roi)oscd to work through tlio pastors and for the churches. All of these different agencies which liiivc been, mentioned were created siini)ly fo«' tho puriKJSo of better fliclting, combining and directing tli(! energies of the churches. In iho plan which is proposed, as Is seen above, they simply inako sug-gestions lo tho churclics. They ciaiin no autliority to give direc-tions. They can simply suggestand leave tho rost with the pastors and the churchfs. At tho sumo time, iiowcvcr, wc believe that If the cliurchcs will udopt this plan, they will liiid it as g<Jod its any they cuu iheuisclvcs prepare, for it hus Ijcen prt'pai'cd lifter much cureful consid-eration und consullution; and besides thai, the adoption of this plan by all of the churches in this State will tend to bring us more Into sympathy iiiul lo-opcration witli ono another. We are glud lo know thut different I hiirclics all over the State are adopt-ing tliis plun. Wc hope timt every line will do s(i, and that the Baptis ts tif Tennessee will now make a grand forward move alto;^ethcr for tho up Wuilding of our cause in this State iinii Tor liie evangelization of the na-tiiins of tho earth, und tlic advance-ment of our Hcdccincr's kingdom In the world.

yh W YEAII UESOLUTJoys. Did you make any New Year res-

olutions? Have you kept Ihcm? You liuve not broken thern already, have you? .Well, what aro you go-ing to do about it? Are you going to grow carrless and indifferent, and in despair of ever being able tokcep Kucii resolutions determine that you will never niulieany more, andccii-sc all ctTort it inipiovcment in your life? Do you think that would be the wisest thing to do? Don't you think that it would be better to make resolutions, even if you break them, timn net to make tiicm at all? Bet-ter struggle if you fail than to rclnain forever down. Suppose you have fulled to keep your resolutions. Such failure is only an incident of humanity. The dif-ference between a noble man and an ignoble one Is that the former Is not satisfied with his failures, but after each successive failure he rouses himself to still greater effort. Bo-cause you are conquered once Is no reason why you should be conquered always. Rally the broken forces of your resolutions, form tlicm Into bat-tle lino once more, and it may bo that this time victory shall be yours —or If not this time, then perhaps tho next, or the next.

PERSONAL AND PRACTICAL.

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aro but tlio expression of tho charac-ter. Tho outsldo of a man is simply tho renocllon of his inside. His words and doeds aro only tho stream flowing from the fountain of his heart. What ho in dotonnines tvhat ho dutB.

KKV. 1. 8 . DAKRR of MoMInnvilie spent tho holidays with his family nriar tills city. He is taking hold vigorous-ly of tho work at MoMlnnvlllo and Kooms very much encouraged. The mombors there aro rallying nobly around him. I,—I

WK wore glad to have visits last week from BrethroD U. M. Halo of (-'arthage and A. 8. Reaves of Harts-vllle. These brathron aro botli proml-' nont members of theii' rospeetivo vhiirchos atid among tho best laymen wo have;in thoStatji. '

"BBAUTY IS as beauty does" Is the nid saying. And U Is true. But lib a "till higher sense it Is trun that (M'tiifj/ <lm tu htmlit /*. Back of a roan's ac-tions Is his nbaraeter, and. the notions

TIIK rovlsod version of tho foiiHh eommandmont In tho vocabulary of most people would road: "Itemomber tho Sabbath day to it tc/iolly." Under the Impression that tho Sabbath Is a day of rest, thoy siiond almost tho entire day in b<!d. Hut this Is a falsa conception of tho Sabbath. Best does not mean rust. True robt means ac-tivity. KoopinK tho Sabbath day holy is a very dllTorent thing from sleeping It wholly.

TIIK 'J'min Jld/itinl und Ihrald has joined the procession anil has adopted tiio sixtet-n pajfo form, which makes •julto an improvomcnc in its npi)car-anco. Tills leaves now very few Bap-tist papers In tlio South, Indeed in tho Unltwl States, using tho old blanket sheet form, as It is callwl. Tho BAP-TIST AND UKFLKC'TOR, i t m a y ix> re -mumlxirud, was tlio first Baptist paficr in tho South, and wo >3cIlovo in tlio United Stuto», to adopt tho now form.

H o . \ . W l I . U A M K. GLADSTONK is now about eighty-six years of age. Ho is not able tt> do any very activo political work, but s|)CQds his timo mostly in reading' and writing. May he bo spared to ivuch his hundredth yearof ago. Tliere is scarcely a grand-er character in tho history of tho world, wc think, than that of William E. Gladstone, thu ChrUtian Statesman, the unerowncd king of England, the foremost cltizcn of the world to-day.

IT is announced that Alfi-od Austin has beiin appointed poet laureate of England In place 'of Lord Tennyson. Very little is known of Mr. Austin on this side of tho water. In a brief sketch of his life published In the papers it is stated that he Is about sixty years of age, having l)cen born May IWth, 1835. lioth of his parents were Roman Cath-olics, but it Is not stated whether hols or not. Ho Is the author of a number of poems, none of which havo ever at-tained any great celebrity. Certainly Alfred Austin hardly seems a wortliy suecosBor to Alfred Tennyson.

WK regret to announce that llev. I, N. Slrothcrhas prosontod his resigna-tion us pastor of tho Howell Memorial Church, in West Nashville. Ho has aceot>tcd .a call to his old .fleld at Ca-diz, Ky. Bro. Strother is a most ex-cellent man, a strong Baptist, a hlgii-toned Christian gentleman, an in-structive preacher and a popular pas-tor. Ho has done a good work at Howell Memorial Church. We aro very sorry to havo him leave -tho city and tho Stato, in both of which ho has so many friends, but ho))o that wo may bo able to get him back again with us at some time.

WE regret to learn that Joseph Cook, Uio famous lecturer, who some timo ago started on a lecture tour around the world, has been compelled by Ill-health to abandon it, and is niported to be now witli his daughter, a mission-ary at Kobe, Japan, much broken both in body and mind. We hoim tliat ho may soon fully recover. Ho is not a very old man, and should havo many more years of usefulness before him. While Mr. Cook cannot bo eailod a groat thinker, ho is certainly a Hue rhetorlelan and a very Inteiesting speaker. His Boston Monday lectures will take rank with the best lectures of Uiekind ever delivered in this country. Those on biology aro ospeeiaily good.

Buv. BYRON H . DBMKNT of Ijexing-Uin, Va., and Mrs. Dement spent tho holidays In tho olty with tho family f»f Mrs. Doinont, who was formorly a Nashvlllo girl, lie also visited his

relatives near tho Hermitage. Bro. Demont Is a Tonnossoo boy who straycil into Virginia. Ho is doing a line work as pastor of tho Haptlst Church at Lex-ington, which Is tho seat of Washing-ton and Loo University and Virginia Military Instltulo. During his pasto-rate of two or thruo years tho church has thrown from ninety members to 2.'»0. This is certainly a remarkable growth, and is duo largely, under God, to thu zealous and olliclent labors of the consecrated Demont. Wo wish flomo Tonnussce chui-ch would cull him buck home.

O.s January Kith tho First Haptlst Church at Waco, Tex., will celcbrato tho 2.'ith anniversary of Dr. B. H. Carroll as pastor of that church, and it has invllod Dr. J. M. Frost, pastor of tho First Baptist Church, this city, to preach a sermon appropriate to tho occasion. Dr. Frost's church has by voto granted him iicrmlsalon to be present on that occasion. It is quite an honor lo any ono to have tho privi-lege of preaciiliig a sermon of that character, and csiicclally when so dis-tinguished a jwrson as Dr. Carroll, and so sueccssful a pastorate as that which ho has had at tho First Baptist Church, Waco, Tex., will Ix> tho sub-ject of it, and wo are glad that tho honor has fallen to our friend. Dr. Frost. Wc aro sure that he will dis-charge the duly in a most satisfactory manner.

THK Sunday-school Union of this city licld an interesting meeting in tlio Immanuel Baptist Church on last Sun-day afternoon. President A. L. Turin-ton presided with his usual irracoand vigor. I lev. W. C. Cleveland, pastor of the Ccutonnial Haptlst Church, made a most excellent talk upon the subject of Sunday-school libraries. Wo havo asked him to write it out for publication, and hope to havo tho privilege of laying it before our read-ers shortly. Aflcr his talk thcro was quite an animated discusslou of tho subjcct. A voto, however, develo|iud the fact that tho sentiment of tho Union was almost unanimously iu favor of having a library in the Sunduy-sohool. ln_ another column this week wo, sug-gest to you a very practical way of sc-ouring such a library, or at least of beginning it.

WK stated recently that it had been decided to hold the next meotingof the Baptist Congress In this city next November. Some brothcrn—of whom we confess wo were one—havo fought a little shy of tho Congress for fear that tliero might bo most too much'Bap-tist indo|>cnd9nco aboiit it, and that it was disposetl U) attack tho foundations of our faith. Wo are glad to say now that while there scorned to bo such a disposition at first in the meeting of tho Congress, this tondeney has not manlfostod itself for sovoral years. Wo may also add that from the lists of subjects which havo been suggested for disousslor. In tho Congress, add whieh wo have had tho [irivilege of seeing, wo do not think tliat thero will be any opportunity for complaint along this lino at its sossion In Nash-ville next fall. Wo ho|>o that thero may be a largo attendance and an In • terosting meeting.

ALL. our readers, espcolaily tho fem-inine portion of them, aro aware, wo presume, that this Is lioap Vear. Per-haps thoy are not aware of tlin fact that there will not l>o another lAiap Year for eight ,voar», or until ItlOI. The i-eason fur tills is that according to tho Gregorian ualondar, established by Gregory Xf l l . In 15(42, and adopted in all English siwaking lands In ITr*2, ovary fourth year is a leap year except those ending a century which aro not' divisible by 400 without a remainder-that Is, every yoar Is a leap year wliieh is divlnlblo by four except the

oven centuries which must be divisible by 400. This rule was adopted to keep the calendar year and tUe solar yoar In as close eonformlty as possible. Our young lady friends had hotter make tho best of this Loap Yoar, as eight years will be a good while to have to wait for another—if wo may make so violent a presumption as that they will have to wait.

TIIK JajHin JIail, which Is said to be tho best informed and most carefully edited paper In the far East, had the following to say in a recent Issue about missions: "Tho missionaries load the most exemplary lives; devote them-selves to deeds of charity; place Uieir educational and modieai skill at tho free use of tho people; and oxhibit, in the midst of sharp suffering and ad-vorslly, a spirit of patience and bonev-oliMico such as ought to enlist univer-sal sympathy and respect. It seems to us that the record is all in their favor. Watching tho question closely for many years, wo have failed to discov-er any want of discretion on the part of tho missionaries, unless it be an occasional display of unwise confi-dence in sending unprotected women into tho interior." I l i ls is certainly quite striking, coming from such a sourco. V

Ai'TKit tho little discussion which wo havo had with tho Tresfcni lieoordir roiKsntly we want to eommoDd very heartily its editorial in last week's is-sue headed "Cut Down the PerC^nt." The Ikcordcr makes two practical sug-gestions for cutting down the poroent-ago of cxiMsnses to our Boards. The llrst it states as follows: "Since tho support of each Secretary and other costs arc aixiut tho same, whether the contributions aro largo or small, the best way to diminish the per cent, of expenses it to incrtoKthe oontrOmtiont." Its second sugfi^estion is that the money which Is sent for missions, especially for Foreign Missions, should be sent early and regularly, so as to save the Board from having to borrow money from tho bank and to pay interest up-on it, thus removing this itom of ex-pense and correspondtngly rednelng tho percentage of cost. Both of these suggestions arc quite practical and timely. Our readers will rememlxer that wo oursclf have made them more than once. Wo aro glad that wo can agree with tho editor of the Recmdtr on some things, and glad also that wo havo so strong an ally in so good a cause. '

TIIK otllclai figures from the Atlanta Exposition show that during the whole period of tiio Exposition 1,286,863 peo-pichad l)oen admitted to the grounds Of this number thero wore 817,028 paid admissions, including adults andehil* dren. Tho total rcoelpts from the . paid admissions were 1346,072.05, to which is to bo addod 1116,654.32 re-ceived from concossions onthegrounds, making tho total roeeipts t470,727.27. This is in addition, it should be re-mcmliored, to tho large amount of money sjrant in Atlanta during the Ex-position at the. hotels, boarding hous'-OS, stores, etc. Wc suppose that these amounts would foot up anywhere from 1500,000, to I'll,000,000. It is a good showing which tho Atlanta Exposition makes. We bel love, however, that our Centennial at Nashville will be able to do still hotter. In the first plai!o tho population around. Nashville is denser than that around Atiiinta, and in tho second placo while tlie Atlanta Exposition was very fine, we hope to havo a still better ono hero ID Nash-vlllo. In fact It Is proposed to have the llnest Exposition hero whioh has ever been held In this country, with tho flingie exception of the World's Fair at Chicago. If you do not bo-llovo thU, just oume lo sea It when it Is opened,

10 BAPTIST AND REFLECTOB, JAN. 1896.

THE HOHE.

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Tk»OI« Y««r«a Blesalng. near,

oomtBf jrekr. I am Mlaf Irom jroo, bat OM dnwuth (M)«a the Ancai-cuMdUa of th« oomtn UByj|truud]trMMooldty you forget, L«t tS* Now YOMT'O ABRtl bleu oDd urown

tlwayot. ror wo work tototkori bo ud I are ose: Lot klB ond aad p^oot all I ioave undone. I broi^t Oood Ooolroi, tbongb ai jro*. but liOttka Now Yoar make thea lilottom Into

Oooda. I bronght Joy to brlghton many happy day v. Ut tbo Now Yoar'a Angel turn It Into PralM If I (are you ilekaeos Jf 1 brought you care , Lot him mako one Patlenco and the o'.ber

Pniyor. When I brought you Borrow, tkroufb bU care It my riaotrlumphanx iDtu future Streugtli. If I brought you Plenty, all wealtb'i bounte

oua oharu, ShaUMtthe now Angel turn them Intu Aim*? I gax« Health and Leiiure, Skill lu drrtm and Lot'^m'make them nobler -wurk for Qod aoil If I broke your lUolf, abowcd you they were duat. Lot him turn the KnowleJgc Into licuwoljr Troat. If I brought Temptotton, let Sin diu away Into boundltatPity for all hearu that stray If your liat of Errora dark and long appears. Lot thla new-born Monarch melt them liit

Toara. May yea bold thU Angel dearer tbao the laat-80 I blcaa bl« Future, while he c-rowns my Paat. -AdeUide A I'roclor

ONE WMA)rs~WORK. By Lnrlo Daytwn Phillip*,

CHAPTER 11. "Tla wall with word*, oh master*, yi- liam

aooght. To turn Bon'a yearning* to tbe great atd

uoo. Yet llrat take hood to what your ow n bands

do." Farmer Olden sat by the bluziii^'

log fire in "Niece Eleanor's" cheer-ful •itting-room.

Without knowini; wliy t e thuuKht so, he found himself once more de-c iding that no room he had ever seen was quite so pleasant—so entirely satisfactory UK this. Itooins often resemble their owners, and there was in this thoroughly comfortable, quaint, ye t charming', and friendly one which brought Eleanor It!vers herself before you. And others be-s ides the practical, moncy-lovinj^ man who sat at i t s hearthstone uii th is sunsh iny winter 's day seemed to itnow under 4te s i lent influence what home really was—not just u place to stay, but something pure.st and dearest—the sweetest spot on earth ."

"You miss y o u r line city church, don't you nioce'/" ho asked, a s u pause oqcurred in the commonplace, desultory tallc between them.

"Our membership was with the Second Baptist , uncle, an up-and do-ing, deeply-in-earnest church, but there w a s n:othing as fine about it us the pastor ."

"That sounds l ike y o u , " h e said, laughing dryly , a s usual. " I ' v e been wondering if you and Rivers meant to bring any of tliose highfa-l u U n ' c i t y ways back hero, but up to n o w — "

"Yet, you need new ways of some sort, Uncle D a n , " she broke in oag-orly, "if what I hear about your con-tribution to mlBsioiis be true. I s it really so, that th i s church, cal l ing itself a Misaionary Baptist Church, too, g i v e s almost nothing to foreign misaions?"

The old man stirred rest lessly in hia aoftly-oushloned arm-ohair.

"Well , niece, wo haven't done u great s i g h t for missions, homo or foreign, in the past ion year, tlmt's a fact; but this h not to say a rich church, you see. And when wo iwy our paator the l ive hundred dollars we g i v e Binoe ho preaches twiot u month 'stead o' ono t, keep up the Insuranco so tut wo'd liavo Homuthin' In caao we're burnt out, uud sottlv

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for fuel and oil and such—llinre ain't a pile worth naming left over for missions. I'm sorry, but i t ' s a fact. You can't alter facts, i iuther."

Ho hud urgucd on this subject be-fore, and it a lways made him uncom-fortable.

nd yet in God's Word there i.s solemn charge that we bo rU-h in

good works, ready to d'stribute, will-ing to communicate - Ui g i v c - tha^ wo may lay hold on eteniul life. . \nd think of the IIJUII who received

I but one talent— how, because ho hid it uiul tuld U'lie alxiut his motives ho was stripped and banished to 'outer darkness . ' Millionaires are not alone in their greed of gold, their worship of money. Whether wc arc iKiMir or ricli, Uncle Dan. we ai-e held resi)Ousiblc for the use wc inuUe of our means. The day is coniiny, it may be soqn, when we shall hear the Master say, 'lieiider the accounl of thy stewardship; for tUou can st be no longer steward. 'Your ru-hes

I are corrupted," l ie will say to one, ! 'your gold and s i lver arc nisted. I and their rust shall be for a testi-

in3ny against you. ' Hoth poor and rich must auswer tu iliin for the use we liave nmde of the means lie lius

I g iven us—the iimii whose imoine is ' a few liundreils. as well as he whose I bank account recoi-ds millions. "

"Hut we do g ive . Niecc Kleaiior, I we are always givin" to somethin;'

and 1 sup|K):ie there arc oilier causes • just about as needy a s forei);" mi-s-, s ions ." ! "If we gavi- as wo ought l.> foreign 1 missions, Uncle. " siiiil Mrs IJivers I s lowly , "our hearts would be en j larged- We'd have more lo g ive to j everything—we'd double thai pitiful i live iuindred dollars wc pay our >;.KK! ' pastor. •'

Faruu;r Uldeu looked friglileiicd. ! He wasagiKxl man, a "standby " in ; the old church, but the love of money I w a s his besett ing sin. i'erhu|is she j knew how the chief sorrow of his , life had come about, how that beau-i tiful young daughter with her fond-I ue s s for b m k s and her jmssion for I music hud been refused the "sclux)!-i i n g " she craved, until in a lit of

childiKii spite she threw herself awoy on a dissipated fellow of the vi l lage, as ignorant a s he was wick-ed. The ill-mated couple stitl lived in a rickety house aljout a milo away, with Mix children to share and in-crease their p<Tverty. The bright, handsomo girl , prematurely fdd and gray , had lost all spir i t and energy long s ince —liad "thrown herself a w a y , " a s the soy ing goes. It was hard to believe that ho hud loved

'money better even than this only daughter , "my pretty J a n e , " as ho used to call her. He hud, however, refused l ior theudvahtagoshis neigh-bor's g i r l s wcro enjoying, on the j)lcu that ho "could not iilTord it." It was a favorite e,xpression with the old man. l i e used it now:

"Nonsense , niece. J couldn't af-ford it, for one. What do you sup-pose u man •like our pastor would Jo with—with all that inonoy? He ain't g<»t no big furin to run, no d r o v e s of cattle and stock to food, no grown-up sons to think he's made of money, no—"

"I knowul l that, unelo. Ho lias nothing in oil th is world to cult his now except wife and children, tho horso ho r ides to h i s npiHiintmeiils through the Hltirins of winter uiiil the hcut or Huminer, uiui the cow lii

brother gavo them last fall. But ho imt/ht to have a homo to shelter those helpless beings, a mother with four little children. What would become

i of them if ho should die and leave } Ihcni unprovided for'/ He carries

no life insurance, I hear ." • Tiie liord will provide ," said

, Uncle Dan solemnly, "He's prom-I ised to look after the wlddcr and I orphin children in His Word. '

"Ah, its well for them tlmt He ! has ," returned Mrs. I{ivers fervent-I ly, "but He a lso s a y s in that stime

Word that a man is to provide for I his own liousehoid. Ought we not ' to g ive our dear pastor a chance, at I least, to obey Him'/ Will God not I hold res]X)nsiblc- for his failure to

do so, s ince the preacher has laid his life on tiie altur of tho gospel—

j con.secrated h is all to the service of i the Master?

"Where did you get all these new faiigied notions 'tK>ut g iv ing, niece? Ill the city where the rich folks live? •

"I saw more real iMivertyaud suf : feriiig t h e f e than 1 had ever .doue I iiefore in all the years of my life, ; and I got my 'new fangled notions I I>out g iv ing ' f rom a |xx)rold widow,

half blind and deaf, who knit men's soi'ks for a l i v i n g . "

Uncle Dan moved about uneasily once more and Mrs. Rivers suggest -ed the straight-backed chair in the

I warmest corner, but he gruUly de I d a r e d that he was "all right. "

And then sLe went on calmly, "Yeg, t/iiii was where 1 learned the

true spirit of giv4ng to the liord. , Site camc into our missionary meet

ing - the second I had attended— I aui) t(Hik a setit in sucii an humble,

wistful sort of way that my heart warmed to her at once, and when 1 saw her drop a (iuart<>r into the bo.\

I that was jmsscd around for our vol-untary olTerings, when h e r shawl

I was «» thin, her g l o v e s so worn and i her shoes in holes, I could not keep I from crying. Then, too, there was i in her dim old e y e s a iwaceful look t that said she was yfut/ to g ive , and

hei' l ips were moving a s if she prayed over the g i f t she made. 'Ho will regard tho prayer of the desti-tute and not desp i se their prayer, ' I remembered, and a longing crept into my own heart to be a s faithful and loving us she. I went homo and wrote out a cheque for fifty dol-lars and sent it to tho Treasurer that night. The inonoy was mine; Wilfrid had g i v e n it to mo tho week before to buy a plush cloak and a certain bonnet 1 liked, but I could easily wear my old ones. It was only a fancy that I needed thoso handsome new ones. And th i s was just how my deep interest in mis-s ions began ,"

"Hut charity begins at homo, J say. 1 never was great ly s truck on sending inonoy to the Hottentots of Africa, when there are heathens at our very door ."

"Yet you may not send money to convert those 'who ar^ at our very door.' I s It ixissible that you do neither that nor tho other—that you neglect both?"

"1 didn't uay tlmt. The agents of these bcorda to carry on home and foreign mis s ions vlalt our church otton and I alwayn g i v e what I can Hliare—or, that Is, somethin' ."

Ilo lookiHl about forh i s hut, yawn-ing, Hut Mrs. It lvers kept on in hur eurncs l fushton. Hlic liud ever

that way t)f speaking -when a girl "Don' t you believe, Undo Dan

that the churches ut home are re' spons ib le to God for the uupitortof our miss ionaries in foreign lundi? A r e they not do ing our work, notw proxies , but instruments? Was not tho cominund to 'disc iple all nationg' g i v e n to the whole church? But some cannot do th i s work us well OK others and so the missionaries act for the church, or rather, '>« //K tlnirch which s imply eonccntrate.s its oner g i e s lu tho bearer of the gus|N>| to heathen lands who is fullilling itji own obligation. Now, ought we not to supi>ort our own cause, our own work, which we undertake in oiK-'di-ence to the Savior 's plain l onunuiid, 'Go ye into all the w<»rld uud prmh the.gospel toex crv crcatuie?' "

"Well, from your p int of view it diH's seem that wc ought. And your aunt and I have a l w a y s symimthizcd with '

"Hut tlicy lu'ctl iii'in than sym-|>athy, uncle' .And genuine sym-pathy acts generously . It malies us g i v e to the e.xtent of our ability; glad, hupp>. to help the glorious cause l\v our Kiijijxot us woll u.s prayers . '

Uncle Dan is considerably behind ill iitissionary results , and has not kept hiiMself (Ktsted" as to wiiat lias been done in the lust few years. HO he s a y s

" l iu t land .ilive, child, the little if»' can do .seems iiardly worth uain-in". If we had a millicmaire or two amuiigst us now

••l.,et me tell you MMiicthiiig of what one small, potu- church did less than fifty years ago. It was inad»! up of farmers and ilay laborers, p<>u.sunts and tenants OneyrarGod put it into their hearts to .send the gospel tu the i icathens and iiiodc them sensible of their own fruitful l ives . They resolved to do NOIDC-

thing. A jKior woman brought six shi l l ings , a brick-layer six |)eiicc, a little girl a new penny. Then u farmer otTered his house for a train-ing-school for the missionaries that were to go. Nex t tho sh ip Cuiiihic was built and Africa cliosen as tbu field. In thirty y e a r s of labor this churchestt ibl is l ied thirty 'stations,' or miss ions , and forty missionaries with one hundred and eighty-live nat ive helpers wore carrying on tho work, Hy this time there were four thou.sund converts . At homo ten thousand souls hud been added to thcchurch . IFecould do as much as theydid ,couldn' t w c , U n d o Dan?"

" W e l l - y e s , " he as-sontod rdue-tantly. He knew what Eleouor was up to.

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BAPTIST AND BEFLEOTOB, JAN. 9, 1896. 11

YOUNG SOUTH. Mn. LAIIM OATToli RAKTH. Editor. tM Caat dMOnd Street, OliatMD0o«a, Tobil, 10 wkom rommnnleatlooo la' tbi* dopartnont sbould Da a(tdr«aae<L-VourK South Hottoi Nulla VaaUcteBoMraum.

••Jeaua Inereaaod In wladom and suturo, and in (aror wllb Qod and inaD."-LuKie.

Young South Correspondence.

The loaiion wo are to study together fur next Sunday ou^ht to Ix) a very precious ono to youn;r |M*oplo. It la ilio singlo incidont of tho Savior's ••hildhood which tho cvangoliata have 'ivcn UH. Study it with that thought

in your mind, and get from it strength fur your growth. I would that I could 8ay of each of tiiu Young South Band jil the uloso of this year just what is said of Jesus in our vorse for this week. May you increase In mind and iHidyl May you grow In favor with God and ^ood ijooplel

1 havo such an "cmbnrrasHment of riches" I itcarcoly know which way to turn this morning. Here's tho Chrisl-iiias letter from Japan. Hero's ono fi-ou] Mexico, and a dozen or so from our scHtterod membors. I^ast week I ttent in so many that the foreman had to iwnd back my "Itoeeipts," and I was so proud of tho long list, too. I am sure if I put it to vote you will say, "Give us dear Mrs. Maynard's letter tirct of ai l ." So here it is:

KOKUKA, JAI'A.V. Christmas t;rcctinj;s to tlio dear

childron of tho Young SouthJ I hope very much that yotlinay'havu this let-ter for Christmas wook, but unless tho mail (foos very prompti v it will be a Now Year's letter, for it will not leave hero until November 2rith, and I find that Just about ono month after my letters are mailed after reaching Amer-ica, I am reading them in Japan. Well, cvon if your Christmas is ovor, just romombor that your missionary thought of you; prayed that you might havo a joyful time, and might roeeivo many gifts to make clad your little hearts; and more than all that, that you might learn tho swoot losson, that it is not so much what wo get tha*. makes us happy, as what we give. If you havo only determined to make some ono else happy this Christmas, if you havo not forgotten to lay asido some of your Christmas money for tho Lord's work, I think I can safely prom-ise you a glad hoart to begin tho work of adothor yoar. Ah! I do hope and belioTo that you will not overlook so precious a privilege. You have worked nobly this year, but tlioro is a still groator work before you for tho future. Let 1800 flud your reports double those of tho past yoar. If uauh ono will re-solve by God's help to do his best, wo shall do lu

I am 10 glad every day that God so ordered it that I booamo united wiUi tho children of our own Southland in this work. It is a constant inspira-tion to mo. Sonwtimos tho days got a bit lonely, the head sooms too full of quoer sounds and now words and son-tenoos turned backward. Another strange thing takos place. Tho hoad and tho hoart lecm to bo trying to balance, and the heart gets a little tlio boat of it and begins to feel very heavy, like that little boy's who ato so much dinner that his heart was.all swelled up. These times do not como very ofton, to be lure. A long afternoon walk usually keeps that old heart In good condition and oloars tlie tangle out of tho brain. But there muit bo some "rainy days," Mr. Longfellow says—and Japan fully agrees with him —when the walk is not so beautiful and the heart not quite right. Then It is that the home papers "imppon In" so nieoly. No, ehlldron, thero la no just "happon so" InaChrtstlau's life, but evcryUiIng great and small comes

to us guldod and eontrollod by a lov-ing Father, who makes all things work together for our good. And so, when it sooms we most nood them, these precious messagos from tbo home-land come to us, all full of tender love and sympathy. After tho letters, dear children, your page comes next My hoart grows lighter and lighter as I road, and I cannot holp exclaiming aloud somotlmos and calling Mr. May-nard to hear. A, Covington letter may bring a fow tears of deepest joy that my fellow-workers there are still "liv-ing and loving." Only think! you send mo messagos from all over my bonny South, and evon from far-off .Mexico, whore my missionary school-mate Is not only giving herself, but sending help to mc. What a losson for some!

If you noticu the heading of my let-ter you will SCO that we aro no longer in Fukuoka with our friends, the Walnes. No, wo aro in our now home in Kokura, about forty miles from our former residence. It is a large city, though much smaller than Fukuoka. We havo had a preaching station here for sorao time, and thero is an evan-gelist living here. Wo are tho only foreigners, and at first tho people socmed to dislike very much tbo fact of our coming. I am not one to write of a missionary's trials. We have somei' but our blessings far, far out-number them, and I do not tell you what follows to oxciui your pity for us, but fur theso poor little heathen children. They arc tauglit tu bate us, to call us ugly named, and to mako it very unpleasant for us when we aro on the streets. They stoned our home ajmost constantly at first, yelling at our gate, lieating u|)on our fence with sticks, and " in every way being very rude. Our native preacher, Sugana San, staid with us the greater part of tho first week, and would go out and run them away, but thoy would return in a short while.

One afternoon everything seemed quiet, and I accompanied my husband for a short walk, and not knowing tho city we went upon a very noisy street and soon had a largo crowd following us, screaming, throwing mud and stones, almost deafening us. Just when I began to fool a little throb of despair as to what wo could do at that distanco from home, Hugana San turned a corner just in front of us, and rnshing into the midst of the little mob, throw some down, shook some, ofToctuaiiy frightening them ail, but not hurting anybody. Ue then re-ported them to the police ofUcer, who went to work at once to prevent its re-curring by visiting all tbe parents on that street and the scboois In different parts of tho city, and leaving orders that childron who wore rude to us should bo severely punished.

Tliero was a groat change after that, and wo wore no longer troubled In tbe city, but to got out Into the country, where wo lovo to go for a breath of fresh air,wo baveto pass through some flshing vlilagos, and again tho iioor little ragged, dirty children would fol-low ut with their cries. We had won tho friendship of tbe children upon our street by going out among them and giving them bright cards, and the sec-ond timo wo passed by the village wo carried somo of these with Ui. Thoy saw us comlntr and gatliered upon the bridge. A man with a baby in his arms eauto up to us with a scowl upon his. face, as if he would prevent our oomlng. Mr. Maynard patted tha baby's hoad, spoke a few words to it, and gavo it a card. T wish you oould havo stood by mo and watched the change that came ovur that man's fa«w. 'llie ugly frown gave way to smiles and he Uianhcd us, as a Japanese knows «o well how U» do, with many IJOWS and "arlgators." We gave some cards to ihemothortt,who weivcarrying ohildren

upon their back, and to the boys and girls who gathered round. Sinoe then we have only the most polite greetings from all these people.

Now, do you see what I am loading up to? You have so many bright pic-ture cards in America, advertisements, Sunday-school cards, birthday and Easter mementoes. Do save them all. Let Mexico have some, but be sure not to forget Japan. Through one card we may be able to win a child to Sunday-school, and through the truths thero taught, to Christ. I think some friend will collect and send tome, addressing Mrs. Bessie Maynard, Kokura, Japan, via San Francisco. The postmaster will tell you what the postage will be.

As you will read this letter about tho timo of your Christmas sports, when games and toys will be plentiful, it may interest you to know something of Japanese children. You know of course that this is a great country for toys, very ingenious ones and very frail. They are so highly colored, too, and so not safe for very young Children. On festival days, which means almost any day, the enclosure in front of tho temple is gay with the wares of the toy-sellers, who select this plaoo to teupt the loving mothers as they come to worship. In Japan it seems to be a mother's greatest joy to mako her child happy. It must not cry. Anything it wishes for, it must havo if possible. So the tiny Japs do not suffer for toys. Unlike our Ameri-can children, they do not care for dolls,-excopt to put them away for tho "Feast of Dolls," whore they strive to seo who can make the largest display. I have seen them often when they can-not get a real live baby to Carry, have a rag one on their backs, but I havo never seen them play with the chalk dolls, sonumerous in the shops.

There seems to be two favorite games with the girls. Ono Is played with a bright colored ball of yarn, perhaps with somo rubber inside, for it bounc-es well. This thoy throw upon tho ground, and when it bounces, they strike it with the palm of the hand, causing it to bounce again and again, while thoy in the meantime whirl around singing all the time. The one who can keep tbe ball in unbroken motion until the end of the song Is vic-tor, and it is wonderful how skillful tbe little girls becomo. Thoy are very graceful, too, and it is pleasant to watch them. '

The game of battledore is very pop-ular also. This you may have played. The shuttlecock is a gilded seed, stuck around with painted feathers, and must be kopt afloat by the combined aid of tho air and bat or battlodoro. To seo the young girls in thoir light colored "obis" and sashes, hair deco-rated with artlQcial flowers, up-turned faces and bright black eyes, as thoy eagerly follow tbe flight of the feather, is most interesting. Thoy, too, have a song in which they plead with the wind to blow aright, or rather not to blow at all, while tho boys gather round and beseooh It to blow bard. I wonder if there aro any American boys who like to spoil the girls' fun. None of our band, I am sure.

I must not forget to tell the boys of the Japanese manner of playing somo of thoir games. I have already written of kite-flying, I think, but not of top-spinning. How very skillful theso litr tie fellows are! Several spin at one time, and each one in throwing down his top, tries to overturn the others. They also try to spin against the oth-ers by guiding tlieir own tops with strings, "tthipping," isn't It, boys? One little boy living near us, la the charapion of cur street. As I watch his doteriulood face, I often wish I could put him in tho right way. if, as he grows up, that will might be tralnod for the Master, what might not bo ac-compllshod among his (wo Thoy

have games of earda. and the children early learn the use of dice, and in some form or other Introduce pliaylng for winning, not only the game, but thoy gamble away their few pennies or play thinga from very childhood.

Theae long winter evenlnga, while you are atudylng to-morrow's lesaona, or enjoying aome aoelal gamo, are apent in much the aame way by our young Japaneae. Grandmother aometlmoa tella them wonderful atorlea of life in .Japan, when the "Daimloa" and "Samirral" (Japaneae for rulera and aoldiera) dwelt In the land with their castles and their tenants. In or-der to train them tu beoourageoua, thoy play with them a game called "Hiyku Monogatiri," or tbe "One Hundred Storiea." A company of boy a and girla gather around tbe "hi-bacbl" to listen to blood-curdling tales of ghosts and witches. In a dla-tant dark room a lamp or dlah of oil is placed with a wiek of one hundred strands. As each atory la ended the children in turn go to the dark room and pull out a atrand. Aa the .wiok burna down, the room beccmea shadowy, and of course In the ahadowa they see many terrible things, and shadows are enough to frighten any child, are they not? Now I do not wish any of my children to try this game, for I think it very foollah. Be good and pure and true, and your courage will be all right, but the wicked are such cowards. Doea not tbe Bible say thoy flee when no man pursuoth? L.ook and see if I am right From all this you will learn thatchild-life in Japan has many bright feat-ures. Everyone helps to make youth a happy time. It la one thing to ad-mire in the character -of thla people, yot tho one thing they lack. Let u# try to give them tbe knowledge of Christ's love. Then will their Uvea be happy, indeed. Let thla be our aim for the coming year. Do your best and I will try to do mine.

God bloss each one In the new year boforeyou. With love, your own mis-sionary. B E S B I S M A Y N A B D .

Now, I am sure you will read every word of this sweet letter with wonder-ful pleasure. I could not bear to make you wait for It, thoiyh some of your letters came flrst. 1 think you will gladly give place and wait patiently to i see what you have to tell ua a week later. I had a number of things to re- „ late alaoi-biit they can wait, too. lam aure you will flnd our long column of reeeipta moat Intereatinr reading also, . and am confident'thla letter wUl atlr you to renewed efforts and greater aucceaa. We muat make 1896 a great year in the young South'a hiatory.

A white field Invltea you. Come in. Work atcadiiy and prayerfuilr.

L A C B A D A Y T O N E A I O N .

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RECENT EVENTS.

Uev. G. W . UlhKY, of Corinth, Miss., has acecptcd the paotorutc of tho church At Brookhnvon, MIkb.

The church At UariiHvillc, Ua., han callud Dr. J. M. Brlttaln of Atlanta as pastor. It is presumed that he will accept.

Rbv. W. N. Chacodin, D.IJ., of LaGrange, Fla., has bccnclcctcd Vice-President of tho Homo Board of Flor-ida, as succcssor of Dr. Malcolm Me-Grcgor, who resiKued to accept tho call of tho Jackson Hill Baptist Chui-ch, Atlanta, Ga.

Wk tender our deep sympathy to our friends, Dr. and Mrs. W. I.. I'lckard, of Louisville, Ky., ujwn the ret-ent death of their llvc-year-old son. \V. f,. Pickard, Jr. The remaii^jwrfo in-tcrredatAlbany,Ga., whldfwantheold ' home of Mrs. Pickard.

Rfv. T . M. Calloway, of Dawson, Ga., has acccpted the carc of the churcbesat Lumpkin and IIaniilton,(ia. He Is an excellent man and a t;oud preacher. His wife is a remarkably i sweet Christian lady, and i(» (julte a help to him in his pastoral work.

Rev. E. B. MiLLfaj, of Arkadelphia. ' Ark., s u c c ^ s Dr. T. S. Potts as pas- ! tor of the" Second Baptist C hurch, j Little Rock, Ark., who recently moved I to Memphis, Tenn., to accept a call to ' the pastorate of tho (.'entral Baptist , Church made vacant by the rosih'uatUjn of Dr. q , A. Nunnally.

RKV. T. J. "McCANDLtSS. wllO an old Tennossean, but who ha:) been livings in Texas for a number of years, has accepted a call to tho church at Deckcr Branch, uoar Webberv ille, Tex. T h e Tezas Baptist and J/mt/d taye: "Texas has much to confrratuiate her-self over in his return from Tennensee. We have got him now, let's keep him."

A Lyceum Free Thought Hall in Sydney, Australia, which cost 922,500, was dedicated a few years ago to tho destruction of Christianity and-Godism in Sydney. Now it has boon bought for half the cost by a church of Christ, and several of the loading mombors of the antl'Christian society havo pro-> fessed oonvorilon to the Christian re-ligion.

Tin: UuptUt Vouncf last week began a new department called "Notes on Current Kvents" which, tho editor sUtoi, will be prepared by our friend. Rev. C. S. Gardner, formerly pastor of the Edgefleld BapUst Church, this city, now pastor of tho First Baptist Church, Greonvlllo, S. C. As might be expected, tho "Notes" aro qulto thoughtful and pointed.

T h e ChrUliun Ob»frrtv of I.,oulsvlllo states that it is just in rocoipt of an authentic letter from Oroomiah, Persia, Islling of the deplorable condition of afTalrs among the Nestorian^, as well as Armeolaui, In KurdltUn. In sev-

Ab • ToMIc af i«r rerera tJse Hsrsfardta Acid PbotphMio. Dr. W , B» PLPrcHEK, Indianapolis,

iBd., layi: "I have uswl It with great •atiifaetlon In alargonunniefofeasos of nervous debility, ami atonic aft-flp fevers."

oral villages and towns butcherios have takon placu'airoady. TiiU is not tho first timo that the Nestor lans have felt tho.llres of persecution.

I t was with inucii regret tliat wo loaruud of tho recent death of Bro. W. C. Hal l , the veteran clork of tho Clin-ton Associat ion in this State, , which position ho had hold for al>uut thirty years . Ifu was a useful man, and loved by nil witli whom ho came in

I eohtact. l ie leaves a wife and five I children. Wo exteiul our sympathy * to them and oUicik who mourn his

loss. W e rctfret to learn o( the recent

death of Mrs. F. T, Seymour, of I'ure-katon in Haywood (.'ounty, this State. She was tho daughter of Wil l iam Sh«>rt and tho wife of Dr. F. T. Soynu»ur, both members of Harmony l iaptUt Church, and wa» herself a prominent member of that church. She leaves a lartre family of children, tojfether with many other relatives, to mourn her loss. Wo extend our deep sympathy to the bei-eaved ones.

O.N t lwis tmau day, Mr. George \ 'an-; derbil t oi)encd his magnltiecnt mansion

near Abhoville, N. C. Fif ty rclati»c8 and friends from New York and vicin-ity were invited guests. During tho

\ followinn week there was a large num-ber of otliern. The mansion, with 2,000 aeres of ground sur rounding It, will cost altogether about <^10,000,000

j when fully completed. It contains .'155 : rooms—a pretty oonsiderablo dwelling ' for an old .bachelor. Mr. Vandcrbl l t

lit about thirty-two years of ago and unmarr ied.

Tin: friends of Uev. John D. Wells, pastor Of tl>e South Third Presby-terian Church in Brooklyn, N. V., lately celebrated the HUth anniversary of his birth. A most alTectionatc ad-dress was dcllvcriHl in behalf of his church and congregat ion. His pas-tora te of that bnechuivh has extended over a iierlod of more than forty-six years , and four other sister churehes ai-o the offspr ings of his, the mother church. Tho reading of a poem by Mrs. Margare t K. Sangster , dedicated to the octogenar ian, was an Interest-ing feature of tho occasion.

Therk latiily appeared In tho lAmdon Tium an ac(!ount of a now dlssonMng sect of religionists In Russia, callod "Dukhobortsy." In their moral creed they resemble tlic Friends; in their

I diet they aro Vegetarians; in thoir I lives they aro virtuous, benevolent

and eharltablo; In economy and In-dustry they aro co-operatlvo. Tlioy have all property in common. They abstain fropi smoking, drinking, and tho eating of flesh. Tlioy will not shod blood, or servo in tho army. They are i)er8ooutod and pillaged and plundoro<1 by the Cossack soldiers bo-cauRo they aro non-combatanU, and these amictlons thoy boar patiently for Christ's sake. •

On last Saturday President Cleve-land lissuod a proclamation formally roeognlzing-'Utah as a State In th6 Union. This makos forty-five States now composing the United States. By tho way, wo oiTored several weoks ago, as our readers will remember, a book to any boy or girl who would be the tirst to send us a correct list of the States in tho Union, together wltli tho d&to of tlieir admission. In response to this proposition, we have received quite a number of lists. Mqat of them are correct, but a few of Uiem contain some mistakes. Tho. first eorreet lUt i-ecelved, however, was from Herndon JelTrloi, of Knoxvllle. Wo havo sent to him tho book.

Hon. James D. IticuAnosoi* of Murfreeiboro, Tenn., representing the Fifth CongresRlonal DUtrlof of Ten-nosseo In tho House of neprosontatl vei, lias Introduced a bill to entabllsh a national park ii|tnn tho liatttaflnld nf

Stone 's Rlvor, a s tho Northcrnors call it, o r Murfroosboro, a s tlm Southern-ers call It. Tho bill provides for tho purchase and improvement of 1,000 a c r a s o u t h o batticlIoUl, in addit ion U> tlie Federal Cemetery now situated on tho Acid, and an appropr ia t ion of »I2.">,000. Wo ho|Hj that tiio bill will pass. Murfroosboro was one of tho greatest batt les dur ing the civil war, and while the lialtlellelds of (icltys-burg, Chtckamauga, Khiioh and others a re being commemorated iiy the CHlab-l lshmentof parks , tiuvt of Murfrees-Iwrt) should not be treated with less considerat ion. The country around Murfreesboro upon which the buttle o c e u r m l l s v e r y Ijcautiful, belngamong the tinest of the bluegrasis lands of Mid-dle Tennessee, and it will Itc- a Kpleiidid place for a nat ional park.

.So.MKTl.Mi: ago, as we noticed at the time, the po|»e uuule an over ture for tho reunion of CliriHtend'.Mii. The over-tuiv wAh put forth with all solemnity and all ap)H>arance of falrnesM, but of course everybody knew that what tlii! pojw meant by the reunion of Christen-dom was for everybody to Ixsrome Roman Catliollcs. The I'nldunh of Constantinople, representing thoOrtho-dox Greek church, i-eplled to the |»0|)e'M overture and told him that all Chris-t ian hearts longed for union and the Orthodox church daily prays for It. Ho said that his |>eople were willing to learn and would cease their objection, provide«l tha t tiio Church of Rotne can prove, from tho " F a t h e r s , " or the couticils held before tho ninth century, that the church, up to that time, ac-cepte«l tlie teaching of iJome as to tho procession of the Son, the use of leavened bread In tho F.ucharlst, pur-ga tory , spr inkl ing Instead of immer-sion, tiie immaculate conception of tlu< Virgin Mary, tho temporal power of the pope, the Infallibili ty, o r the ab-solute rule, of the pope of Rome. The J'ohiinrh concludes his answer with thodeclarat i t in that "war lit better than IK'aci) which separa tes us from ( i o d . "

So.METlMEago weannounced through tho columns of the l U i - h s T a.nd I{n-KLECTOH that a call had been is«iiod by the Ant l -Saloon Ixiague of the District of Columbia for a National

Ant i -Saloon Convention to bo hold nt Wash ing ton , D. C., Dec. 17 to lit, isnj. 'Hio Convention has ulnce Ix-en hold and proved to. bo quito a success. \ la rgo number of delogates wore In at< tendancc f rom tho most prominent tcni. |)oranco societies, and niunorous eom> municat lons were received from orxan-I /a t lons wiiich wero not roprescnttid by delegates, and from individual ori;an-l/.utions of promlneuccv l ion. Hiram Pr ice of Iowa was oleetwl {'resident of the l icague. The add ies s of welcome was delivered by l!ev. K. II. (irecne, D.I) . , I .L.D., pas to r of Ca lvary llap-tist Church, Wasiilngtoii , D. C., 1;) whose church the Convention met. The sivond ai tieleufHieCJonellliition n ads as follows: " T h e object of IIiIk l>'n|,'m! Is the Hupprchblon of the haloon. To this endiwe Invite the al l iance of all who a rc in harmony nUIi tlilit «>bject, and the U-ague plcdgert itself to avoid alllliatlon with any political party us such, to nuiintain an at t i tude of ucu-tral l ty upon (luonllonf of public jiollcy n»)t directly unil immediately concern-ed with the trallic in s t rong dr ink ." ()ni: thouKand dollar.t was raised to-wards defraying tiio cxikmucs of llie (IrHl yea r ' s work.

Itrware uf Oiutuicuts for IJatarrh 'I liat (Junlalu lUercurj,

u» ulcri'urjf will surely iK'hlroy 1hi< •eiiHC iit mm-ll iinU complciUdy di'rniiito the whole nyxlein whi n enterliifc' H thrcush Ihp mucoiiy xurraci-a. Sucii arilrlf* kIiouUI never ho usetl except on preM-'rlpilona from reputulilo phyalclanit. as the diimuRC thi-y «lll do Ih ten fold to the (nod yuii I'uii iKiHHllile derive from them. Hall'H Catarrh Cure, uunnfaclured bt F J. Cbrmy A Co., Toledo, I)., coiiiulDH no miTcury, ami In taken tnternally. actlni; directly upon Ihf Wood and mueou» i«urf»e<'» of vho system, lii buylhK llulI'M Catnrrh (^rc Ih' auruyou get Uie :enulne. It Is Uiken Interuully. and mude In I'oUhIo. Ohio, by K. J. Cheney & Co. Teitlnio-; nIttiM frea. ; {•'Hold by nil l»ru;!irl«tt), price lie. per bottle

- " T h e Southern Bapt is t Pu lp i t , " ' lately published by tlie .Vmerican Bap-

Ust I 'ubilcution Society, and consist-, ing of thirty-three seniions by leading I Soutlicrn mlni»lor», is now being of-( fered in connection with tho Sctniwirij I Miujiizitii of the Suutherii Bapt i s t The-

ological .Seaiiniii y. The regu la r price of the book in anil the Magazine is

; •111 a year (e ight numlx'rs). Ti»c two will l)c sent, postage pix>pald, fo r only $2.2"». Address, .SVirn'min/ J/aj/diiiic,

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No hotter fixaiiiples of tliu iinpurt-mice of aniall tliiiiga can lio found thuii umoug the roccordn ut tho Uiiltod Btatos Patont Ofllce, In Wasii-iiigtoii. Tliero aro to bo seen certain small obJoctH which, by a a lucky turn of nilalrH or, perhaps, by tiio iii-genultyof tho iuvoiitors,huvo bocoine known tliroiigliout tho world, and have been the ineanft of filling tho pockets of botn the inventors and their roproseiitatlvPH. In fact, it would soein an if iuveiitori* of Hiiiall objootH buvo boon far bettor paid than skilled ineclinnlcH and engin-eers who liavp spout niuntiiH and years in perfecting clnitnrato mo-chanisins. Certainly, in proportion to tho amount of work done, tho lot iif tho inventor of huiuII objects is more to bo desired than that of tho man who spondji tho best part of his life over an elaborate niacliitic, tiio merits of which are tardily recog-nized, not, poriiaps,until tho inventor, through worry and sickness, is in no condition to onjoy tiie fruits of ills toil. It would seem also as if tho in-ventor of amall objects which have paid have not, as u rule, been inven-tors by profosAlon. Tiioy have been for tho most part persons who by sheer luck have fltiitiibied upon an Idea wlileh somebody else has recog-nized as a good one. Witiiout the suggestion of this "somobody else," who is usually tho ono wlio proflta l>y tho great Idea, though born, would rarely grow to maturity.

A story curroiit at the Patent Oilice IS told of on old farmer up in Maine. The children of the old fellow, like many other children bofore and since, had a way of kicking tho toes out of their shoes. Tlir farmer wap of an Ingenious turn of mind, uiid ho cut out a couple of copper strips fur each pair of slioes, which wero fastened over the toes and between tlie sole and the Upper. Tho plan proved HO successful that the farmer found that, where ho b.nd been buy-ing three pair of shoes, one pair would sulllce. There happened along about this time a man from tho city with an eye to business. He prevailed on the old man to have tlio idea patented. Tiiia watt done, antl botwoen fTO.OOi) and $100,000 was made out of it. Ho\y much of tills tlio old limn got is not known, but it is. pre- ; Slimed tiiat tho promoter got tho i larger part. Tho record at the I'at-ent Onico shows only tho drawing of the invention as patented on Janu-ary 6,1858, by George A. Mitchell, of Turnor Maine.

Anothoralmilar invention whicli made a great deal of money waH the metal button faatonor for ahoea, in-vented and introduced by Heaton.of Providence, K. I. At the time U was considered a fine Invention, for tiio old aewed button^ was oontlnually coming off. I t haa gradually grown in popularity since Its introduction in IKOU, until now very few aiioen with biitlona are manufadtured witiiout llio Hnaton appliance.

By a comp9rAtl\*oly aimplo arrango-uient tlie shipping taga in use all '•vor thn country to-day. were made II posalbillty. Tho ohiof troublo witii 0 paper lag waa tho iilmoat uilavoid-nbln tearing out of tiie tying liole bo-fore tlie package arrived nt its doa-tlnatiuu. A cardboard relnforce-inout, round In shape, on each aide "f the tying hole waa all that waa nceearary to make the shipping tag n Ruooeaa.. This waa tho Inventllon ofaMr. Dennlaon. of Phliadnlphla, who has made a fortune out of a liioky Ave minutes of thought

The ehlot examiner of the division of toys oltea many histaiiODa where fortunes have been madn on pusilea mid similar objects; Tho pig In olov-

or (luzzlu had a curious hlatory. Tho inventor, Crmidall, put It on tho markot before the patent had been granted, or, in fact, even applied for. Other people, recognlising the value of tho invention from a flnanolal point of vlow, formed companlea and began manufacturing the pnxzlea In oven largerquaiiltiea than Crandall'a company could turn thorn out. Cran-dall, of course, contested for his rights ayd prayed for an injunction. Tho claim waa put into Interference which la a long proceaa and one whicli trios both tiio patience of tlie department and that of the attor-neys. Tho unfortunate part of It for Crandall who invented the famous children's building blocka, with dovetailed cgea, which had auch a, run and are popular even to-day.

Tlie return ball, a wooden ball faat-ened to a thin atrip of rubber, with a wooden ring at the other end, whicli waa pate|it«jil somewhere in tlie sixties, bad a rush of popularity which netted Ita inventor lOO/WO, and It Is sold widely to-day. The patent has now expired. The flying top, a round tin afTair with winga, wound with a string and aliot up In tlie air, made a fortune for ita Inven-tor. Heveral years ago a puzzle ap-appeared wlilc'.i attracted conaldera-attention. It consisted of two dou-ble painter's hooks, which, when fas-tened togotlier in a cortoln way, could not bo taken apart, except by ono wlio iiad seen it done. It is said tliat this invention camo about l)y the merest chance. A painter waa standing on iiis ladder acafTold on the front of a house. Ho liad oc-casion to use a pair of tho hooka, and, picking them up liurriedly, en-tangled them in auch a manner that it was several hours before he could got them apart. He forthwith had dtawiiigM mado and filed an applica-tion for a patent, which was grant-ed. No figures uro known nt tiie Patent Olllcc, but it is supposed that he made a largo sum of money, for the puzzle was sold for twenty-flve cents in all parti< ol the East, and it cost much less than a cent to manu-facture.

-BKO.S'cniris. Sudden changes of the weather cause Bronchial Troubles . '•JIIOWH'K HmndtM Trnvhcn" will give elTcclive relief.

THREW AWAniS CRUTCH. Marrelona Effoot of the Eleo-

tropoise on a Bheu-matio Man.

It Took Only a Few Applloatlons of the Little "Dootor" to Bring

Him Around All Right.

I feel it a duty I owe to suffering hu-manity to give my teatlmonial aa to the Electropolso. In tho month of An-guat, 1804,1 was attacked with rheuma-tism in my foot and lega. I began with tho treatment of different curcs for rheuipatism and continued te grow worac, until I could not walk across my room without my crutch, and I bad almost lost hoiw of relief. Finally a friend inaiatod that I try the Klectro-poiae. and I told him that it was no use, that it would do me no good. My trife wont to visit a neighbor about Nov. 15, and when she camo home she said she had borrowed an Electropolae and I must try it. I told her, for her satiafaotion, I would give it a trial. I began to uao it as directed and to my great surprise I began'to Improve, and at the end of a few couracs of treatment I could walk without my crutch, and continued to improve until I had no pain whatever, and I would say to thoae afllicted with rheumatism, try the Klcctropolse. Respectfully,

W. P. M'CLAKAHAN, Notary Public.

r.awrenccburg, Tenn., Dec. IM, IRfC).

Home influence.

Homo Inllucneb Is never forgotten if good. Tho memory of it will bo a rich legacy to our loved ones. We should Imj careful of our Influoncc. It is silent. We cannot sco it or hear it. Unconsciously its existence will never die. It will grow stronger, wider aa ^ time rolls. I^t it bo a blessfng to all Let us bo chocrful and polite. It will havo Its reward. Thoy belong to the Christian graces. Tho liouaehold ma-chinery will run smoother; will scatter sunbeams all around. These Ilttlo courtoaiea are Inexpensive. It's not. tho clouds, but tho aunahlnothat gives lieauty to the llowors. Lot us ontwlno thorn around .all hoarto. It la well said, "Homo rules thn nation." We havo only to look Into the biographies of groat mcn'a Uvea tliat have Im-pressed thciusolvua upon the world, tiiolr deep piety and patience, who ac-knowledge a patient mother who had Implicit faith in God. JAit ua alng sweet, oHoery aonga. Influence ia magnetic, wonderful, never dies. Ohl that it may be a hallowed Influence guiding Immortal aOtdsheavenward.

Mercer, Tenn.

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Martin, Tenn. i

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Poster.—WRA. O. Foster died near Como, Tonn., Nov. 21, 18l>'.; aired <50 years, 1 month and in days. Ho mar-ried Miss Nannie J. .lohnon Aut;. IB, lam Together thoy had lived, in tho community hero they were born, a de-voted and happy pair. Throe song wcra born to them. Two of these are consistent members of the Thompson Creek Baptist Church (tho church of their parents and i^rand parents) and excellent citizcns, giving promise of much usefulness in the church and community. Tho youngest son is a Baptist preacher in Texas, intelligent and consecrated. Bro. Poster was a devoted husband, kind father, and for twenty years a leading member of the Thompson Creek Church. He was es-pecially noted for his unwearied atten tion to the sick, his tact as peace-maker among peighbors,bi8 liberality in giving and his kindly disposition toward and interest in the welfare of ail classex. In view of these noble traits of character it is not surprising that helived and died without an enemy, and that tho entire community mourn the loss of a valued citizen, an appre-ciative friend and exemplary Christian. A large concourse of friends attended the funeral, preached by tho writer at tho church, after which his body was buried by the Masonic Lodge, of which he was a member. Wo tender our heartfelt sympathies to tho faithful, sorely bereaved wife, the sons that are left to light life's battles without pater-nal counsel, and the venerable father, wtio iitill lingers on the shores of time SWaitlng the summons to a reunion with many loved ones ifone before.

S . C . H - N . McKenxie, Tenn.

Mohan.—Thos. P. Moran was born near Canaan, Benton County, Miss., Dec. 28, 1871. He professe<l reliifion and joined the Baptist Church at Saulsbury, Hardeman county, Tenn., in the summer of 1801; was baptized by F.lder C.C. McDaniel. In tho winter of ISlKi he removed his membersliip to tlie Central Avenue Baptist Church, near Memphis, Tenn. In tho winter of 18(i.> he moved his membership to Mt. Lebanon BaptistChurch.lnearCov-ington, Tenn., the church of which he was a faithful member at the time of his death. He was cut down in tho bloom of young manhood without a moment's warning, in tho very best of health. It was tho writer's pleasure to meet Bro. Moran last summer in a meeting at Mt. Lebanon. He was faith-ful in tho discharge of his Christian duty. He was one of tho most unselfish boys I over saw. He would gladly deny himself to help others. In this wo exhibited tho spirit of his blessed Master, whom he loved and served un-til he was oallod to his blessed reward in the homo of tho redeemed. Ho was ready when the time camo for him to go. His last words wore: "Toll moth-er to meet me In heaven." It was the saddest deatli that ever oooutvd in that community. He leaves a widowed mother, a brother, two sisters and a host of friends to mourn his death. Wo extend to tiio family and friends our heartfelt sympathy, and commend them to Him. who alone oan oomfort tho contrite spirit. From ono who loved him. M. M. Bleosoe.

PUILUPB.—Death'* relenlleH hand has agalnboenin our midst andolalmed for iU victim our beloved brother, W. T. Phillips, aged 32 years, 1 month and 11 days. A home hat been made des-olate. He leaves two dear little boya

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and a faithful, devoted companion to mourn his loss. He was baptized iLto the fellowship of Hound Lick Baptlot Church in August, J884. He was chos-en a deacon May.')!, 1H1I4, in which ca-pacity ho served till God in His inflnlte wisdom saw lit to call him home to re-ceive his reward,Oct. 8,18JI.J. Ho was a faitliful member of Hound Lick Sun-day-school, and had l)een since near its organization. In his st^hool-days in literary school he was a favorite with both teacher and pupil, Willie bid fair to live a life of userulncBR. not only to his family, but to his church and country. We can truthfully say, a good man' Is gone. But if wo are prepared to meet Jesus wiien the death angel calls for us methinks he will lie with Jesus, with many of our other loved ones gone Irafore, waiting and watching for UH. Therefore lie It

Ketohtd, That in tho death of Bro. Willio Phillips wo have sustained an irreparable loss.

IhxAvtd, That we extend our sincere sympathy to tho sorrowing family and frlonds, and commend tiiem to Ilim who will bo a husband to the widow, and a father to the fatherless.

Jimlved, That a copy of those roso-lutlona be sent the family and ono to the Baptist and Rkfleotor for pub-lication. W. W. Youno,

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'Three uKintlis ago, I tookavio-Iviit cold wiiirh rcsultMl in an attack of .ocuM; lironcliltiM. I put myself under mcdiciil tronluient, Olid at tho cud of two muntim was no liettcr. I found it very dilHcult to preach, ami ronrludod to try AycrV Cherry

rcciofiil. 'j'lie first licit I lo cave rno groat rolli-f; the .wroMil, wliich I am now taking, lias relieved ine almost rntiroly of nil unpleasant symptoms, and I feel sure that one or two l»ot-tlps more will orToct a pennnnent cure. To all ministers RufTeting from throat trouMos. I recommend Aver's rhorrv IV<toml."-K. M. Buawi-kv. n. I)., DlHt. Secretary. Am. IJajit. riililicatlon f!<»rloty, I'eter«burg,'\'a.

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How the Moflkeys Breaflil Ike Boys ssd Qlrls to SclHwI.

The iie.wett »i'rvloe rondorod by inoiikoyt WRi recently IllustrAled in London, whoro I'onipuliory oduestiun i« tho l«w. In ono ol tho nchool diitrlct* too many piironts, it w»i tliouglit, reported no childron In their tsmiliof, nnd in order to s iwr ts in tlio num. b«r oi children in thali dlrtHct the whool (iincrni rworted to sn ingenloin niosiuro. Two monkey* were gstly drentMl. |iiit In « wsgon, snd, stfonipsniod by n Iwiid, were csrriod through tno »treel» of the dlitrict. Atcmco crowd! of children msdo their sp-pesrsiire, Tho procwilon wsi itopped In N psric snd the whoul olHeerii Ugan tlioir worl(; dUtrlbutlng cnndloi to the young-«ter», tlioy tooit thf i r nsraessnd add-eiMi. They found out that over lUtjr iwrsnt^ ovndni tho law by keeping their ehlldren from tchool, snd the Ingenloui roeaiiuro lirought to the sehool'sboUt 200 boys and

I Irit who had ni vor attendi^ bafnre. ^,,

IfXAXMffEnEB. Why In U Uic toiidomii (cct mimt intia Ibv r<> b •

• Mt road? Why li II tint tUe weikwi bark niiitl iwrry llie

licovlcilloadr ' Wlilleihe feet that «r« ouml aiiil Ormnl hi»vt<

theiumtpatb togn. i AI1.J llie back that li »lralx)iti»l and ilmiixfl li«i j wrerabiinlentokunw.

W (!) )« It tlic brigbtrxl arp i lie niipt wv.ii iliiii with teai»?

H hy li li the ll«hl«!.l licnrt mii»i uiltc mid lu-he (or yean?

» b"!!* tho eyoa Uiat are liarilc»i oiid .-oldeM iihe.1 iicTcr a bitter tear,

And the heart IliatU amallext and mcaiiwt ha.i Item an ache to fear.

i Why li It Uioto who are naddcut Imve ahmyii llie i gayeat laugh?

Whylilt tboao who iiewl niu Iiavr alway" Ibc "blgge»t halfr-

Willie tbotc who hare never a wirrow Imve kvldoin aamilc lo glrc,

An.llliouc who want JiLlii little mint mrlve and »lrugxlc In lire.

Why inlltbRDublcMtbongliliintf the "iipf that I are never cxpreMcd?

Why It It thograndeit doedi are llie i.iie» that are ncTcroonfened?

! While the thoughta that are like nil other* ate the i omtwcalwaymcll,

A iid the deeds worth little iirnlM' are Ihe one« tliHt I are |iiibllihp<l welt. | , Why l»ltthc«we<'te«t(.nille hnn for il« sl-ler it ; algh? ' Why U It tho UroiiKcul love In the love we alwnyn

IMwbyf While the umllc that ixold and IndllTeretit l> the

Knille for whleh we pray, And the love wc knrol to nnd triir>hl|i Is only

eninmou eUy, Why io It the thine* weean bare are the thlngii

we alwaya refute? Why li It none of II» lend Ihe llve« If we eonld

we'd eliooac? The thlngi that wo all ean hare are the thin;:''

we alwaya bale, And life aeema never rnini>lete. no mutter hmi

Ion? wewuli. -KIlMlietb Stewart Man In

AT A COURT DINNEK. A Hailed Stales Minister to France Css|bl Is

a Bsd Pliiiil. .\ writer In the Cincinnati Timun-Star

recall* a itorv of Klihu it. Waahburn while lie wa» United Ststca Miniator to Franco aonie year* ago. There wna a court dinner given nt the paliico of tho Tullcrloa ono night by Kniporor Napolooii I I I . I t wa* the cuitom at thcie dinner* wticn tho Kniprete aruso to retire with the other ladle* ftir tlio gentlemen to rise from tliclr aeatj at the table and »tpp lack about three or (our pace*, »<• that the ladio* could pa<» down the lino l>ctween them and the table, Uy thi* means all could avoid turning tiieir b'lvk* upon the Kmpreia. Mr. Wnrhlnirii tia<l very tender feet. During the dinner tli' V lind (jiven hitu very Qreat annoyance, kM'l t'> ri'liovc hi* feet ho had slipped olT hii piit< Hi, (< athcr pump*. He was deeply abiorbed in conversation nt the close of tho dinner, and was caught unawares when the Kmpre** mndo tlie signal for depart-tins HO lie waa obliged to step back without ills piimpr. There Im stcHKl in hi* stocking feet, grave, dtgnlfled and *«lf.potie«(ed, ili tho row ol grinning diplomats to hi* right and loft. He betTayc<i notii« of tho cmbar-rsMinent ho must have felt, atid wh» never heard to nlludc to tho incident.

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Fint: An ALUMNI DEPARTMENT has been added. By this meana ormer 8tudonl8'wUl<)e kept more In touch with oaob other and will have a medium of communication. : : : : : : : : : : : : : : ; ;

Stcomh The department of "B(X)K NOTICES AND REVIEWS " has been re-established. The Professors of the Seminary and other able scholars will write for thi.-!i Department. : : : : : : : i : : :

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Formerly Asslalaut Burgeon U. 8. M«vr. afterwards Post Borgoon U. 8. Army, and later Buigeon bltlsh Marine Ser-vice, with two years' experience u Physician at Hot Spring*, Ark., will welcome the sick and alllioted st bi« ofBcM, where coiisullation with one of the most successfal doctorsof the prfs-en'.sce is cordislly incited. All will receive kind and honorable tieatment. and permanent cures are Kusrinlo'd in eveiT case nndertsken.

Dr. Mafthew Henry Koiiofk Trrnli* Niicecssflully All Chronic and

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OiaS«l«i,7ol.LXZ. N A S H V I L L E , T E N N . , J A N U A R Y 16, 1896. New S«rl*i, Vol TIL, No. 99

CDHBBMT TOPICS. TUB Cuban insurgent army is said to

number 23,000 men. THB quantity of Now England rum

•ont from Boston to Africa has dimin ished in the past two years 403,961 gallons.

BAYS the JEvatigfU "In Philadelphia there are over 8,000 persons in the re-tail liquor business; 1,306 of those are women, but one of whom is an Amer-lean, and all the rest are Roman Cath olios. Of Uie entire number, two aro Jews, two aro Chinamen, and less than 400 aro outside of the Romian Catholic Church. Ninoty«five per cent, of the bar-keepers, seventy-flve per cent, of tho brewers, and sixty-five per cent of the manufacturers of alcoholic liquor in Philadelphia are communicants ia the Roman Catholic Church and sup-porters of its worship." We wonder if the same proportion will not hold good in other cities a» well as In Phiia delphia. In fact, we are inclined to think that the proportion will be oven larger. If anything, in such cities as New York, Chicago, New Orleais and

I.ART jmav tn this country various persons gave •12,879,820 to colleges •5,745,670 to charlUes; •2,089,150 to churches; to museums and art galleries •1,724,600; to libraries •530,430, and to other InsUtutions •6,471,076; a total of •28,843,549, which is nearly •10,000,000 more than was ^ven the year before. This seems to be a fine showing, does it not? But remember that during the same p«rlod the expenditures of the people of the United SUtes for tobacco were •600,000,000, and for liquors •1,200,000,000. When these figures are put against those above, and at the same Ume against the •11,000,000 ex ponded for Home and Foreign Mfs-uions, they make these latter dwindle quite into insignificance, do they not? Of course, we would not intimate for the world that you spent any of the •1,200,000,000 expended for liquors, but what about the ^600,000,000 spent for totecco? Can any of that £e charged to your acpount? If <40. how much? In this conneotion let us ask you a plain question: Did you give as much for missions last year as you spent on tObacoo and such luxuries? Do you not think that you should give to the Lord at least as much as you spend In your own self-lndulg*noe?

THB news from Cuba has been rather indeflnlte during the past week. The Insurgents seam to be hovering around Havana, but have made no direct at-tack upon that city. Thoy have, how-•vwr, been burning towns and cane fields and doing other damage almost in sight of the oi(y. The Spanish olahn that they have got the Insur-gents hemmed up, and that they will b* able to capture them without any trouble at th* proper thne. Mean* while, however, the Insurgent* seem to 40 wherever they please and do all th* damage Io Spanish Interasta they picas*. Oan. Oampoiolahnsttiatthls li due 10 IhsiMi thai they aM mounl-

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he has made a roquisition for all of the horses in Cuba for use by his troops. It is a question, however, whether ho will be able to secure them in time to do him any good. The in surgonts,- it is said, are looking for roinforoements of men and arms from this country. Tho crisis of the war seems to have been about reached, and everything poinU to the SUCCMS of tho insurgents. There is one thing about it: If they do cot stioceed this time the Cubans may as well give up all hopes of freedom from the Spanish yoke for many years to coma If the rebellion is crushed iu cost to Spain, which has been enormous, will be sad-dled upon Cuba, whioh is already ground down by taxation, and life will be made a burden for the Cubans. It is the knowledge of this fact which seems to have nerved them to despera-tion. They feel that they might as well die now on the field of battle as by starvation afterwards in case of failure.

SiNCB our last issue the war cloud in tho East has grown a little dimmer. As wo sUted last week, England re-n t e d the telagram of congratulation senthy E m i ^ r Willliiun to President Kruger of the Transvaal Republic in South Africa upon the occasion of his defeating the expedition under Dr. Jameson. The Transvaal Republic was settled at first by the Dutch or Boers. England, however, obtained a suzeninty, or paramount authority, over it. Later many Englishmen set-tled there. The Dutch, however, had passed a law that one must live there for sixteen years before he could be allowed the priviliges of citizenship. In this way they retained control of the government, although outnumbered by the English. It was this fact that led to friction between the two people and caused Dr. Jameson to make his expedition for the purpose of relieving the English. The people of England understood the telegram of Emporor William to President Kruger as hu' plying a denial of the suieralnty of England over the Transvaal Republic. For a while things looked very war-like on both sides of the channel. England especially has been making very aotive war prep.. Ations in getUng her fleet ready for service. During the past week, however, there has been quite noticeable a much more pacific tone in theOerman press, and this has tended to quiet down the excitement considerably. It is even said that Emperor William has explained that le did not mean by his telegram to

President Kruger what tiie English un-derstood him to mean, and it is also clahned that the intention of England In getting her fieet ready for service has been to send It to the Dardanelles for, the purpose of settling the Armen-ian question, and she has simply Uken the opportunity of th* war talk between the English and Germans as a pretext to get her fleet ready for set vice In the Bospborus without having her motivas susp*cted untU th* fleet Is ready to sail. This Is th* situation at prasent. What anothar day m*y bring forth w* aasaaktsU.

BlMi' i'i-fiftSxi aJvtoiiBiB

"TO CfSAR THE THIHGS WHIOH ABB CASAR'S,"

Ii Silent Endnranee of Bad Govern-ment the Duty of Chrlatlui

Citizens?

av paaatDnrtMBBaiu,u>WAaiMi OATSS, U.D., L.H j>., ot Atnherat

The awakened consoienco of good citizens throughout our country seeks principles for the guidance of action in affairs municipal and political. The conviction that in every commu nity the Christian Church should make its power felt for good in civic life. Is widespread and deep. Not only the war against Tammany methods in New York, not alone non-partisan ef-fort for purer city government In so many of the leading towns in the land, but also the tone of articles and con-tributions in our newspapers and pe-riodicals, and topics discussed and the trend of discussion in the social and political clubs throughout the cotutry, are convincing indlcaUons that the re-vival of an ethical civic conscioosnus is general, significant and full of P M I ^ ^ Sound Chridian teaching eaUs for

purer ptAUieal methodt.—Tbe Christian .Church is conowned primarily and essentially with the spiritual life of men and women, one by one. As an ori>fanisation, the Christian Church should concern itself most of all with the teaching of spiritual truth; but it is more clearly evident with each de-cade of Christian history that under a free, popular, constitutional govehi-mient like our own. Christians as indi-viduals and the Church as an organis-ation cannot be true to high spiritual teaching without concerning them-selves practically with social questions and with political methods and meas-ures. Tho ethical standards and Id^as of tho Bible have shaped the political and social ideals and institutions of tho Anglo-Saxon race. Exceptional and sporadic afllrmatlons to tto con-trary notwithstanding, it is a fact that we are a Christian people, that the consciousness of tho nation is a Chris-tian consciousness. Subs^uent his-tory amply confirms the truth of tiie words of Daniel Webster: ."There is nothing we look for with more oertain-ty than this prlnOiple—that Christian-ity is part of the law of the land—gen-eral, tolerant Christianity, independ-ent of sect and party. " "Christianity is part ot the common law," said Jus-tice Story. The signlflcanoe of John Stuart Mill's remark that "no one's belief that duty is an objective reality is ktrongor than Is his belief that Ood is so," is seen with greater clearness after every wave of agnosticism and anarchy whioh sweeps over a people, or a section, in Europe or tn America. Every system of civilisation which deserves attention in th* study of his-tory has been based upon «tbics. A ife-givlng aad controlling ethical sys-

tem is posslbl* only wh«r* th*r* is a rev*rsnl rsoognltlon Of r*ligious tmlh. Tb* comparativ* study nf th* irhSA h a v * M a l l « d hi d l S M ^ -

tions, gives unquestionable and un-approachable pre-eminence to the re* ligion and the moral standards of Christianity. heart of Christlu-Ity is the life' and words of Jenu Cta-ist. It Is ineviUble, therefore,, that the attitude of ^esus Christ toward the poUUoal institutions of his time, and the bearing upon •political ideals and the Christian's political dutle* of the words in whidi Christ referred to CsBsar and the world-empire ot his time, should* have great weight with the thoughtful followers of Chr i^

Does tervhg Ood imply the ignoring of abum$ in the Staid In Its bearing upon the duty of Christian citlaeas in Amer* lea, what Is the significance of the words recorded in three of th* gospels: "Render therafor* unto Csssar th* things which are Cesar's and unto God the things which are God's?" Do these words Imply that thers is sudra i separation betwseo political duties and I obligations on the one hand, and the spiritual duty and obligation to wor-ship and obey God on the other hand, that the citlseo's action in oneoftbeae spheres is to be regarded as entirely independent of the citlaso's b*U*( and, action la the other sphsra? Is t h m t a the spirit and purpoH of these words any Justifioatfon of the teaching en-forced by a few very earnest an^ well-meaning persons, that in proportion as a maa Is interested In the truth about God and in the wonhip of Ood and the building np of the Church ot Christ, in just tttat ivoportion h* will ignore all demands upon Llm fOr po-litical actloa, hold aloof as far as possible from all civic aad political relatioas, regard hlaiself as a citiaen of the Idagdom of God alooe, aad re-fuse to recognise tho claims which the government of his native land may make upon him for the recognition and service due from a patriotic and loyal citizen? "Altetu under any government vMih

if not (Aeoeratie. "—Small as is the num-ber of those who openly press this view to its extreme issue, there can be no doubt that haunting reoolleetlons of a tiieocraUc form of government, have Influenced multitudes of Christ-ians. Such views have led more or less unconsciously to a political apathy upon the part ot nominal Christians, which in Its direct consequences has been most disastrous to th* political and social life of our natloa and *f other Christian nations. Af*wamong the noblest of Christian spirits have openly said: "Our feeling toward any and all forms of govornment upon the earth is like the f i l ing of the loyal subjects of King David when he had leen driven from his capital and his

kingdom, and Absalom, the usurper, was seated on his throne. Lik* tham w* say: *Our Khig has gone up th* Mount of Olives, and drinm from his kingdom b*caus* his subjset* w*leom*d another less righteous swayj for th* prsssnt h* and we hav* no intsreat in th* govsmment of th* eitgr and th* kingdom wh*r*w* dw*1L" W* will net r*eognls* any authority la any powar «hl«h iHii Id rale ia the abwRMM of lha Xioff. We «iU haYi H o ^ la i a .

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