f/5'

SnilTta, * 1 S r T«aB.

I ® .... ..... J . ' H . BoUen.

'it mi

y r

•

Oa tMowit of th« ooRMliiiAti n of tll« ptptw, tad Olt MMMMnt f E M ^ iBiraMid «1C|WBM«, and | | i N-

ber (Hco^^ , , ^ ^ ^ ^ ^'^• W f c t t r o l n b wte^ of one p»)lkr

raflM^U f t eltilM often, lind>Mk« AUNTIDFOM P H M OFTLIOTAPW I I « N I ^ « R t w o d o l b n t o m r y oB*, Moept qi^aii-

eoQtlBMM thoniiii* rM. o ^ & J q I I w u d fifty otnti.

bow Ibr t v K d d I m tbe two iwp«r)i in OBo. w ^ i M to vv four ioU

or, «t Hut,

M W f i l l b»ea o«r olab f»t« aatfl NofiflAib l«t So that if,.you

to get a elab, yoa moat go iitoe-diitiir l« Wo wait to aee bow a ^ i i M a i u d o Q t to ferate tbe piper

^ o a e dollar aad'Sftyeeate. Toaean " NoTe»a»# Ut, After titat

^ j «ob%ae a a i t p^r two dollan.

qOArterJiave Jnit beea i we « e \ iwibllcaiioBi

i r - «'!lMnf North, or anywhere ebe, fbronrBnad».Mhool l i teratare-tbSe' im aaaoiently good. They oonuin tbe br^m prodttM ofaoae of our ba«t aobnl Wy to mdea. from the

order to Kind Words, Drawer M., Atlaato, Qa.

~''»W.~AIlFiteitopped free by ©r, KUee'aNerte watoreT No 8to a f t « fii^ day'a , Marwioua ourea! T ^ t l i e and 12.00 t r i ^ bottle ^ T o

W Kibe. 981

in another column our advartine-ment eoooarningwne aeeond hand ma-teilal •nluWe for country printen,

we will dbpoM of at a low fl«re Those intereated can aecure a btrg^n.

BAPTIST AND RirLicroB

~ Affols.

We ofinr a onamiMioa of twenty-five per vpoa all aew aabeeribera aad twelve aad one half per eeat apoare-aewal^ to aU oar hgeata who will aiake it a bpdaeaa to woric for the paper wberdrertbeynaygo.'

IvbMilbm.

Notlee the kbel da yoar paper and aee wiM year time ia oat. I f y o a a i e bebia^t tbwi pleeee reaew.

J OoaianaUoo S a m * Oared To the Bditor: Pleaee infbrm your

readera that I have a poaitive remedy

oww.havibeen PWnenUy oared. I ahall be glad to aend two bottlee of my remedy / a a a to any of yoar r ^ e r a who have ooo«um^

Sloonm. M. 0., 181 Pearl ttreot, N ^ York. 4_3

Sera, Friend. Are You Biokf Dp yoa suffer from dyspepsia, indi-

gestton, sour stomaoh, liver complaint. biliousness exbauaUon, or tired fMling. pains in

or any fwm of oonsompiiion ? If so i 88 Warren street - Y o r k , who a i l send »ou free, by

of Florsplexion, whioh is Send to-day. 4—3

„ Bleotrio Belt Free To introduM it and obuin agents the

ander^ned fim «i | | give away a few of their ».00 German Electric Belts, invented by Prof. Van der W^de Preeident of the^New York ElMtflc ^ i e t y . (U.S. Pat.2Kr,647.) A p<^. ttve cure for nervous debility, rheoma-^ m , lo*a of power, etc. Address Eltc-N. Y. Write to them today. 4~8

TtoMMiaupdriaraptlto «• mvn aili|<ni of bemM tat«««than • qMrtM At • cMtm ^ t

lYiM ( cnaa Baking P»»d*r daa* not •obuIb ••••Mill. Hma, o. •law. mSm^imSi^ . . . BAKIHO P O W D / B C O T ii«w Towt. catOAoo. ar touu.

i-ii

OSS:-. W>tlMIW(M

»y t

aend I New „„„ „

aiaii, a bottle of Flora a aare care. "

SOMEnHlie NEK

f-J'!*.WMIMtti U • wywhw Hrtok fall nw, Mkk Inla. u |»«l«» bUiMw, fateni laija, McunttV MKl mrnUt* •»»rw!«« (w It ra f f im^l i t^aU. «Hl a«t«k. Dhu w hri* u* mU mr;

lalrMloi* Una «• wi;i wUt:m,lbr««M Sni , U mbM la tuam u a (wnntMaf |Md lutk an I »IU tn* rw Ik* Mt:U npnu C. O. n, ntp]n>

W BBUIBf. V iaUMKl wltlr. anmiw w-wi la ini — . iMUjfwiHtMfcrt •Nhr fm IkM Inm W Ml ir* ftm lh« (ulMlnaftiin U yau waaif utt Mn4 |m nuS fa MdlUM ta Ik* a nl«aU»Minrl>MUtal «M MliA Jmtrr.fiXMMInfaf HofL (Cir il t l«l,in».| I ( J llMwk«a (L. nili»m At

0 21

3te l o n c B S .

. Of TOO WART • a " - . - - " - . w r o B w r n

U e r s ! S M s ! MOTHBKW acaiooi. AGKHOT.

) pluaa ml or ao Mee of ^radical .eare of ehroaie

W H I T E ' S i a S u r e

^ naltitade of

' <1 _ . ' ^ t b i i a V pilla eara biUoaa * ad Mr

voiM Ula.

O I V M QNLOK BALLOE and Bflkotii » Par. mutant Ouroof SSSSVL < I U M M W T r y It, and Suffer no more.

PtlM!BmaUBattlM,ttott. Ui|o BotUM. «0eta. rV)r Sato by all Dni»pl«u.

E.B.WHITE,8oleProp., Lancaster.a 2 4i

AtaMt A XfafMl*.

jbe » a a ^ haa7bew[ f S n ^ a i a ? S -

i t ; a^ ,bo t t l ae i^mMop I, R E I ( O ^ , N Y L U I U H T O B M

eoag

jutnom TO MtMnnnub

A POSITIVE, RADICAL

CURE VOB

ASTHMA. HAY FEVER, CATARRH,

URYNGITIS, Bronohitla

and Cuniumption.

S P E C I F I C OXYGEN is the only mcdlcated

O X Y G E N la nss and Is rebtntndsd by

Rev. * B. Dimu/lCd. Comb. Rev. P. A. Sowall,!'. E..1I. B. Chwi nev. J, ,w> oMgi, BnmVtesliy. Ohni lUv. LoobPaweiLMeFeirinMem.Chu^

^ aod^40qo^iaNsshvllle. FiM ibrther Infetaiaaon, eoasuliatlon,

eiamlnatlon 100 peM hook F B E F E . «ui on, or addlesB '

p p i g i F i o o a t v o E i r m ^^ B A B H V I L L B , T B W W .

T H E OLD RELIABLE

iLittleRochndHempliis RAILROAD.

{ A B I A I H A S , laSHm o i u p o i n IHOBTUMB.

MEMPHIS— TaallpolnU in

Arkansas, Texas, Ani tlMi W«rt aae 8oaUi»«tt.

• T l j e ^ V / r / F C ^

I70^ad\»oi\ S r . CHICAGO.

[ENGRAVERS S c h o o l ^ ^

^ C h u r c h S ^ V / O R K A

IroaSI

0 0 TOU SMTER WITH ITT Tkea aae the oaly trieti and reliable reatetly

WoMK nf^ndtd If ting /Ul (« M a// m el»lm. ALL OWWOOtaTe eCLL THCM.

M«NUr«CTURCD SV B. S. FAHNE3T0CK, Pittaburgh, Pa.

nioniian>« or B . L F A K N E S T O C K ' S V E R M I F U G E

x . t 7 n r c i > S Y X i X T P . 11

I

W j j ^ j j j '

JlfO^A.SOOTT, aKnarH, ^

T. r. A. KadlMa St., IfiMahIa, A w. TUOK, a. o. r. A., utti. aiA, AA.

Reduced to BOcls. oau t|M0W attwtfcm to the folfcrntog

Urt of uimodUad S/NCmG cuss BOOKS

the of which have bem rednewl from TSomta par copy to eo oenta Muih i

Vli« Ckwic*. McOranahan A CaM. Harvvat ml tmrng. CIM * McOraoaiiao. TUm Spf P. P. bum. New Boar Brm. P. W. Root. NewKaaleaKiiiivar. LMWO A Laflntx. P « l u » mt a e a t . o. p. Root. Prlii«« • • • g . CiM A Willlama. • • • l a s mt fmg. O. P. Root. lOHg m i « l « . H. R. Patfflor. 8«lig King. H. R. Palffltr. T I M ANPCRLCR. P . M. Davla.

It to mitinap at

TIE J I M 8 n i M eO., IIIIIIUTI,B. Aae If gsM 1Mb $iml ilm M m '

9 4$

VOIL*! .

t s m m n d o i n y f i o v *

' T E l V I S r . , O O T T O K k n

FIRST DAT-r3IoMtNa SiwiOM. TheTeaaeeeee Baptist Cctovention.

repreaeMig one bandred thotisand i^aptiaia, inet in its fifteenth annual HeasioB at tea o'oloek a.m'. waa ealled to order by 2>r. W.,6. Inman,i^oe<prea!-dent of the laa* esasioa, by Ule reading of the ninety-first Psalm, I)r. K. J . Willingham led in a very fervent prayer for tbe bleadng of God. The delegates were enrolled and there were found to one bandred and one pres-ent, witb manyotbentooome on to-day. Ohi^t^OB mw raised to reeeiving the WDiiien.aa dela tes . Dorsey 0 .

U eomposed of male metaengers bnly This immediately preelpiiated the woman qneetioa igain. The question waa varioosly distiBssed by BQmmaa members. Considerable intereet waa aroused. The hour of adjoomment waa postponed thirty minutes, and finally the Convention adioumed until to-lnor-WW, with the matter still unsettled. Good feeling prevails, bat each iide •eems earnest and determined. The prineipal argumento on each aide are about aa follows:

For seating the women: The breth-ren generally on that side oppose their speaking in publie, but think that they should be members of the Convention just u they are members Of the shuroh.

waa I taijflB eaek' eaeb ebareb,and ^ woaM Msaltia f« haadredthomaad

The CoBveatioB i«sa aa^ [numiagUgbtiabiva;

Brother Aadenoa

Tboijmjiade aa ^ e r t speech in op- u.»u.uw» me -onron. position* as*did Bev, ,R. A. VenaWe, They give their money, they are active while Ur. Q. A. Loften, Colonel W, M. | in all church work, they were last at

paidtheaaadBotbai eloee of the year. wUlofferiBgia eaab to ; debtoftheboai^i j f

I hoaae nea aa:

Woodcock, H. B. Folk and others strongly favored their reception. The mattw was paaaed over for the prMent but will come up agaia aad promises to' bring out a veiy intereeting discussion.

Dr. W. 0 . Inman. of Humboldt, waa elected president ananimonaly; John D. Anderson, of Nashville, and Colonel T. H. Reovea, of Jonesboro, were elect-ed vice-presidents; A. Lircombe, sec-rcUiy; W. M. Woodcock, treasurer, sod J.M. Senter. statistical aecretary. Dr. Inman, as pastor of the ohurch, delivered the address of wclcomc, ex-wndingthe hoeplUllty of the town and its homes to the Convention. Uev. K.

• A. Venable made a fitting rcspongo. Dr. T. C. Teaadale, of Columbus. Jliss.; Bev. A. S. Petty, of Kentucky, and Dr. Wm. Shelton, of California, were re-ceived as visitors. The honrs cf meet-iof were decided upon. A Committee on Order of Bueincss waa appointed and the Convention adjourned until 2 p.m.

AFTBBMOON SKSSION. The Convention re-assembled at 2

p m. Dr. T. T. Eaton, of Kentucky; Dr.

.'ohnW.Jone«» of Georgia, and Kev. W. r. Hargis, of Oxford, Miss., wcro recognised and invited to seats.

i'rof. fl. C. Irby, of the Southwest-ern BapUst University, road the report of the Board on Minbterial Education. There are twenty-two stadents for the minUtry at that inatitution.

Profeaaor Savage reported eight min-isterial atadenta at Eagleville, and Rev. C. H. Jonea reported a number at Car-•on and Newman College.

Stacey Lord read the report of the Board of Miniaterial Belief, >bowing a good deal ooalribated for that pnrpesc.

Dr. T. T. E a t o B , editor of the Wnt-"i-n Jlfeordir,mMd0 some remarks about hia paper, aa alio did Rev. B. E. Folk, of tbe BAMinr A N D BBFLBOTOB.

A eomMittae on nvbiagthe Coasti* tuUoa read Its tapbvt. Tbevonl dele' gat«>WBk'«|,tB| »d to maasenger, and Article 2 was BMM* to read, "This Coa-•enlion aballibaoonpoaed of mesmo-R«ra. ,9lipifoQa»^ptist ebarebee

tioa to tb« eikel that tbia body aboald

the cross, and first at the tomb, etc. On the other side, the brethren deny the analogy between the church and the Convention. The latter ia a delibera-tive, business body, and the only thing the delegates can do is to vote and speak, and if they are not allowed to do that, what is the use of them being members?

If it is proposed for them to speak, nature and Paul object to their doing Ro. The difficulty is that the admission of the women will bo the entering wedge to their speaking in tbe meeting, and to bringing down the Northern ideas of women's rightii, etc. The two sides are pretty well balanced in argument, as they are also in numbers. It is an in-teresting situation. To-morrow will settle the question.

At night Uev. W. C. Gracc. of Knox-ville. preached a pine gospel sermon on Gal. vi. 14: "God forbid that I should glory save in the cross of the Lord Je-sus Christ." There was a very Isrge audience out to hear it. After the ser-mon, Dr. T. T. Eaton msde a very in-teresting and witty talk about the South-ern Baptist Thcologicsl Seminary, and took up a collection for the support of the stndcnU there, amounting to six hundred and fifty six dollars in caah and pledges. The first day's session was altogether quite a success.

This, after a HtUe discussion, adopted by a large majority.

Bev. J . H. ABdersou. SUto Misaioa' ^ Secretaiy, read hia report Tbe Boatd started in a year ago iHth a debt of WOO. and with preasing invitatloaa from all pver the Sute. The total amoant coHected for State MUriona., about Mven thoasand dolUra, ia the brethrw eoatrlNa largest ia tbe bistoiy of the Conveatlon. winter, so that tba There were twenty-eight mii^onariea in all. Days of service. B.OiM; nilea traveled. 19,122; ^ o n s preaohad, 1,881; addresses, 478; p r a y e r - n e e l ^ 070; Uptisms, 240; additfons, 606 ; paa-, « « „ . toral visits, 5,810; mlssionsiy sodetiea {IsyaaB a p i e * or^niied.r; amount collected oa the t Z a a d i l blllaMdr field for State Misiions;«»6.66; Sua- " day-schools orgaaised, 8; ehurohea or> ganized, 3. He p r o p ^ that the church aim for ten thoasand dollan next year. Thia waa a fine nport, aad showed a aplendid work done ^ the Board, throagh the effioieaeyof itsaiiB-sionary secretary and ita ftithfU misr sionaries.

W. M. Woodcock, treaaurer, read bla report, abowing a total for Stato Mis-sions of 17,110.70. I t waa bettor thaa last year by 1726.46, and ft waa better than any year previoua by WJ6 57. For Foreign Missioaa. W,688.14; Home Missions, 1138066; charoh baildlng, •7.780; Assoelitfobal Missions, Wfll;

Dr. G. A. Loftoa read the report of ftndedtbapa8t«at»dttea2LfcI the Committee on Sute Miarions. waa witb t S ^ ^ J ^ d ^ M ^ ,

Dr. Lofton made an earnest appea HaUey for more men to occupy the tacant Jjelp glvaa t h e a e e o t t i l . h « S ' 3 ^ fields in the State. Middle Teaneasee | v l I l I . S W t o d ^ ^

BO ftirther n M of bdpk i i « was adopted with the aeaeda* CoBveatioa then adfoaratA, a

tiitba .ausa of llQOjOfi. WW

[thoaibtthtfkateJii ' thepaatiwi,wtdalM. oagbttoseadoatlh tatoplaoeato pnaalb

tleaoS/ble t M Jm I vhentbaBMi brilv iMippiiebeiaBbeat. elx baadredwWced B i i S -

I eonaetaanoa. B a l t M ieMtj ' t i a g . They bava I tweatyaieabenamlbafa^ , ty-aevaa dariaf tb« year. aartbagradaaL • • • j } - ^ ^ ,

Captaia A. J. Hania aiB«d portaaee^ the aowdauirtiS

SECOWII D A T — M O B N I N O SEWJION. The Convention mot at 8..% this

morning. Again the woman question was taken up. It was dispoied of very briefly, however, by sdoptiog a resolu-tion, offered by Stacy Lord,'In a spirit of compromiM, ss follows:

JUaofved, That while this Convention most heartily approves of tbe growth in usefulncas and Christian activity of tbo female church members and would enooursge them to greater elTorta by ita empbatie (ndo r^en t of their church Miasl inary Societies and yarloua meana of eo'Operatilig with the paators in ftirth,bring general Christian work, and whilfi ^ plaifl^welcomaBanit highly ap-

ibeir preaenee at t|ie Convea' tioB/rts visiton. tbe Conveatloa woald

p n i f t the praetloe apoa tbe part of eharohee of sendiag ladles aa meeieBgent to its aaasioa."

has contributed about one tUrl of the amount given to tbe missiaBa, aad moat of that baa goae to East aad West Tea-ncssee. Seven thoasand dollara for Stato Misrioaa is only seven cento a head for the one hundred thoaaaad Bsptista of tha Stato. The Stato Mis-sion Board, the secretaries, aad the mis* sionaries have done their duty. The foreign missionary has done mora for the world than all the governmeato of tbe worid. The great eommlsrioa is the ftindamental principle of Baptiat churches. The biggest He that aay church or any man can toll ia to profeas the rellgtoD of the- Lord Jeaus Chriat and not believe in missions. The Bap« tista in Tennessee are not worse than any other Baptists. Convince tbeni they ought to do any thing and they will do it as aure aa God la in heaven. The fault is with the pastors. '

Pr. Eaton thought that the {aeraaae in the amount given aad ia tike nanber of oontribatioBS, asalso In the faet that so msny pIsces helped last year will not need help next year was Inooaragiaf.

Bev. B. A. Veaable said ^ Men-pbia bad atarted a aew inissioaat aa ax-pense of one thoasand ddilars.riiad fitated that be was not now la AftHe ot re-orgaaislag tha old Wsat V m r n H PoaveatloB, as be waa last aanaMr. aad thatbewaa hiwrt la hand in ,^ tb t l i i StatoCoBventioaiwd itasecrttaiy^..

Dr. Savage offered aa a m e a d a ^ la tha report to bare a aiiarioaaiy

Tha afteraooa aaMoaaf day of tha Baptiat M H opeaedwitbtbeiaadlafafa Saaday-aeboola by Ji whieh that gaaUetaaa aap earaeat apeeeb^ advaeal sehools. aiglaff (ha power« Wassioaaaad tba ii iagtheatarighfc.'^- • '•y. usm

Bev. J . a /lhioMM, 8. atbool Saerataiy« followad apeeeh apoa tba sabjliiiir tbo aaed of (NVsalaatOl oar Soadarsehool work. +

Oeloael T. R, M t r n r n ^ i t ^ m i ^ f i •poke with Hiefc e a i b a i t a i k ^ S ^ ^ tha Sfiaday^bool l a b S S i i ^ bora, wbieh he elalaMd biwv-ai aer So i^ .n ImoI t a»# la^ibat WH

sehool ataaitelist (br T a a a i ^ e o M BepUet^jwaa i b v l i i f # (be Coavittloa, aad did so tt^ •ftiaf t ^ w r - f y y b i a iiffiib,

' vjl

'A

If'"'-

IV.

CCoatiniiUj w tht txtgtHtal haiU

tUhnpoiU^tvf pniK^imafitr death f M ooDMded by

wrijew of th* new theol-o g y tbe ibiloiiat lbatQ«ge:

ftpMlMMioa kfter d«ah bw no ex< p H d l l i i t e i ^ l B g . "

Whf M*<Do«te ft theory of theftitare wbiob i M Boexplieit dlviae teMhiBi? SelTfttioBby fUth i« taufht poutively tod Mfitifeljr.

"Shd lno t perbb bnt btve everlwt*

> by sabelief ia aim tanght porilfvdy (lad aegMively.

^SKftUiO AWftyistoererlMting pun-not inherit the king-

V u ^ i m efter deoh i« uught e e h N r podtitely aor aeKaUTely: ex-piWllr BorinpIieitlyv Itifoleioied to b«4Mgli»iaAreotUUy.

Wkat^Mrlptaree are tllegad to teaoh a JtewprobAtioa inferenti«lIyeTen7

f i n t flfall, 1 Peter iii. 18-30: " For . C h f i t t ^ hatb oaeeraffered for eine. , , . ^ ^

tlw^jMk « t (hen»Jaa t . t h i t be might I"® P'wohed to the loet Meyer ^ bring o i t« Qod, being put to death in Iren®oa.TertuniM. Zningle. u d

the leih« b«l qtdekened by the Spirit, " ' lec 'ar in* Chriat aimply f ! by.wbidi abo IMwent and preaebed tin- j jnoo^nofJ ^ the epirito of the jnet in

to th« epifito in priMn, whieb aonie-

Ita i p ^ o i ^ m n n i Ibi i||terTal

[ o f o w ^ ^ . The Greek word efcrwaw, PWin^iL" nWMHiBoement, ft proohimaUon, and diffna aatwrially

ftow mimtffaito, t b i annottneenent or proelanation of the goepel. He nay have tnttoonoed to thoee who repented when the delnge bnrat upon them that their aoeeptanoe of Ood'e truth, though ute, had reaalted in their nlTation through the merit of Ohrist. who bad now died for them and thua became their ark of aafety frem the billow* of bell.

(c) There is no evidenoe that Chriat ever re-entered badea and repeated hia meaaage, whatever it waa, to any other olaw. aave thoae who at one time were dfaobedient in the daya of Noah. Henoe it afforda no ounaolation to thoae who die impenitent, for the proelama> tion oonatruetiToly waa not made to aneh, and, therefore, the hypotheaia of probation after death baa not oven an inference on which to atand.

(rf) Chriat in badea then mnat have preached to aainta or ainnera. I f he preached to aainU it could not have been the goapel of aalmion, for they were already aaved. It he preached to ainnera there ia no evidence that they repented. In fact there ia no evidence that he preached to the loet Meyer

spm-^-

tiOM w«rf diaobedient when once the iMi'iaifcring of God waited in the dayt of Noah, while the ark waa a pre* palriai;wh«reia firw, tbatia, eight aoula wer»aftvadbywatar." Confeaaedly by aU^Hipoaitoraonaof the moat difficult paaaageainthe Bible. A moat excel-iMtra la in bermeneatiea, ia to "ex-idafa noAfficnltpaaaagetomean what ia Mft taught in aome other paaaage ao plainly aa to need no explanation." Bat k fbtare probation Uught inferen-t ia l lyiatbk paaaage?

Two iniarpretations have been given, Bakber of whieb inferentially teachea pnibatioft after death.

1. Soma have regarded the preaching to the apiriu in pri«)n to have been by tba Spirit in connection with the

hadea the fact of their salvation. Athanaaius, Ambroae,and Eraamuaheld that it waa a proclamation of deatiny to theaaved and lost. While we believe that the weight of acholarahip favora the interpreUtion that Chriat actual-ly went to hadea and preached to the apiritain priaon there iano evidence that theae apirita had entered upon a new probation, and conseqnentiy no hope for any who die impenitent.

Another paaaage in 1 Peter iv. 6. is a corollary to the one already considered. " F o r unto this end was the gospel preached, even to the dead, that they might be Judged according to men in the fleah, but live according to God in theapirit"

Thiapaasage says nothing about epirito in prison. Evidently the dead to whom i / j M M o f i i n k I B iwaneoiion wiin ine I • " f ' * ^ " . '^••unouyinaaeaa to whom

miaainftof Noab, wbila the antedilnvi- ^liru^ preaebed were living In the flesh m w a M ia tba i ^ n t probation, and | l>ePT«ftohed to them. The apostle beaoe, itlMBao raferanoe whatefverto ft ftaMm ptobatioib

a . rOdiM bava taught that Ohrist w«Bito<hadea,io8piriti,whilabia body waa oa Ibo mm, and there praacbed to t i n apirita in priaon, who aomatime ware diaobedient in tba d a n of Noah.

Bo* tUa interpratfttioB afforda no in faraatial oridanoo of probation afUr death, foif tlM baatben who haTo not beard thftfoapalt aor fbr ainnera who have njaetad i t

For tho piaachingwaa to a apeeial ehua ia the t inaiof Noah who had haaiduaad mfected natil the hut mo-aiaat, petbapat tba Udinga of saltation, and baaoa i t afforda ao gionnd of hope for tboaa who never hnurd the gospel. Oa tli9.pther band, it affords no eaoour-agaawnl to tboaa who hava heard the goaiialiaad naiated ita abani , and that ^ i v a v a a a o n a :

(p),Tba eUaa rafarrad to were ** afore-timadiMbadiant wh«a iha long aaffet-iag of God waited ia the daya of Noah,'! wbiahHi»oaribly, may imply tbai t b v baeataa obidieni wbea it waa too k t a to aateir tha arki aad tboa tbaiy aatarad badaa aavad, yet under tba elond of

had in the preceding work apoken of Chriat aa the judge of the quick and the d e ^ : " For they, too, in their life-time bad the gospel preached unto them, thatao they might be Judged at laat in the aame way aa thoae now liv-ing in the fleah." Those found living at Chriafa coming will have no advant-age above the dead who ahall then be raiaed, inaaaucb aa the latter live unto God in the apirit. Since thoee now dead bad the goapel preacfasd unto them in the preaent diapenaation the puMage afforda no ground. whatever for a new diapenaation of r e e e in the in-termediate state.

An hypothesis bssed on an inferenoe is ft very praoarioua fonndstion, but there ia no inferenoe or hypothesis in the pas-sage before net

Matt xii. 32 ia quoted in favor of a probation port morlem. "Whoaoever •P«ka*h ^ n a t the Holy Spirit it abdi not b« fbrgiven him. neither in this world aor in that wbiob ia to wma." The inferanoa sought to be d r a m is that other aina than that ^ t til* Holy Oboat may be n ^ T e a ia the world to ooma.

d t i i n n l S ^ * ' i f b t i f b m provint '^tb^ft proL,.™. tba lost after death, positively teachra w (bat probation miy end inaomftoatM. before d ^ . "Shall not ba f o r i r i ^ Wn», neither in tbia world, noither in the worid to eone," ao far fVom teach-ing ft fbtore probation, it expreealy de-elares that the preaent probatioA may ba out abort by ain. Dr. Bdershelm, in hia " Life and Times of Jeiras," Mys, " I t were unduly to press the worda of Chriat to draw firom them auch »n in-ferenoe. aa whether aina nnfbntiven in tiiia worid miaht or might not ba for-given in the next, ainca manifeatly it waa not the intention of Chriat (in that place) to teach on thia aubjeot." I t ia by no meana certain that Chriat had any reference to the eternal state when he aaid " noither in thia worid, nor in the worid to oomo." I t ia not even certain that ho referred to the intermediate anc diaembodied atate, and if not, the paaaage can have no possible reference to a f\it-ure probation. The phraim, " the worid," or, " the age to come." never, according to uniform Jewish uaage, de notea the intermediate or the eternal atate. In the mind of a Jew " the age to come." denoted a period of time not in the unaeen worid of apirita. but here in tile body on earth. The Jewa be-lieved that the age to come would bo introduced by Christ and the resurrec-tion of the just. As long as the inter-mediate state continues, " the world to oome." or the age to come, v i i . tho Messianic reign of Christ on earth U not yet in tf xiatance. Christ recognised this meaning of the phrase when be said, " Those who shall bo accounted worthy to attain that world (or ' age ' ) and the resurrection from the dead, can not die any more, being children of the resurrection."

Since the phrase "world to oome " never refers to an order of things in the invisible or eternal state, but always to an order of things, introduced by the resurrection of the righteous, and to take place here on earth in tho body, the passage can not have tho slightest bearing upon a probation in the inter-mediate state of disembodied spirits.

i mt

billowa, and the aama be iawhUpered to our souls: T ^ t into each life some win must

ftll. If this were all, ah I if this were all • Them were fainter sobs in the p^t 'g

rhyme, T h e r ^ e r e fewer wrecks on the shores

of Time. But tompesU of woe pass over the soul. Hince winds of anguish we can not con

trol, / And storm after storm we are cslled to

bear. Till the lips grow white with the heart's

despair.

The shores of Time with wrecks are strewn;

Unto the ear oomes ever a moan; Wrecks of Hope that set sails with glee. Wrecks of Love sinking silently. Many are hidden from the human eye; Only God knoweth bow deep they lie; Only God heard when arose the cry. Help me to bear, 0 help me to bear. That into cach life some rain must fall If this were all. ah! if this were all; But there is sure refuge from storm and

blast— Gfon'a P<itri, we rcaoh it at last.

L r n r P O R T E R

Life's Lessons.

l i f e ' s Shadowa.

Did you ever think reader mine, while listaning to the roaring of a storm, how similar it is to the tempest* that sweep over our souls ? In looking back through the vista of years one sees the quick flashes ofgrief like forked light-ning playing around blaok roaring clouds. Then the whiriwind of despon-dency catching one up and bearing him along reckless of consequences. Then the stillness of deep sorrow settling down in endless gloom like a night without a morning. Sometimes I al-most wonder if this huge worid of ours has paaaiona like men. You have seen it when it looked as if aadnesa brooded over ita faoe, when the clouda banged low. and evening cloaed In u if a pall waa thrown over all nature. Then in theblaekneaa it would aeemaa if the very flood-gatea of heaven were opened and blinding teara poured forth from the depth* of a troubled aoul. Then a low, diatant moan and old earth would quiver like a aoul aorrowing without hope. Bnt,wben the morning comea and the eloiids have railed away, bow bright and joyona all nature la; the earth BOama langblng out in bar glad-aeat and welooming tiia kiaMa of the aun. Lift ean not bo all annabina,

Sojourner in this worid ao fair. Where, intarminglod, bliu and care

Fill up the few abort years of life; Say, traveler to the dark abode. Hast though been idle on the road—

A careless looker-on where all strife?

Hast thou beheld tho sorely tried, Nor sought to turn tempution's tide,

Which e'en the stoutest overawes ; Or seen the wise and good sink down. Beneath vile calumny's dark frown.

Nor battled boldly in their cause ? Or looked on wretohednoss and woe. And told thy suffering brother no.

When thou conld'st spare from out thy store;

Or gased unmoved upon the tear Of sorrowing ones shed o'er thy bier.

Of those that are of earth n j more ?

With heart to feeling all unknown. Hast thou for self and self alone

Thus far advanced in thy career? If so, around thy pathway bloom No flowers to smile away the gloom

That lowers from cradle to tho bier. When age has silvered o'er thy head. And all thy early hopes have fled,

And yawns the future, dim and vast. If thou hast well performed thy part, Sweet memories will within thy heart.

Support and cheer thee to the lut . Marietta Star*. Major.

September 30,1889.

—Have you not noticed that flowers send forth their most eiquisito fVag-ranoe when they open in the morning, after the long darkansa and chill of tho night? So i t i a with the human aoul. Italaoia awaetaned by trial; and the teara of sorrow seam only to bring forth ita finer perlVines, as tba dew and rain nreahen tba roae.—

—Glva aot a hair-braadtb of truth away; for It ia Bat yonr*. bttt Ood'a.-Samuel jRHther/btd,

a t 0. B . ,wjnoio i r .

(Conolia^.)

ifQwJI^r one or tVO ineideatia mat-tall wbioti ooeur iia Scripture, which aeeai to throw a littie ligbt alao on the subleet. Yon have not foigotten the eas« of Duvid, Hia oblld by Bathsheba waa to di«> as a punishment for the fath-er's offenas. David prayed, and faatad, andvexedihia aoul; at laat they told him the child waa dead. He fiutod no more, but he said, " I shall go to him. he shall not return to me." Now. where did David expect to go to? Why, to heaven surdy. Then his child must have been there, for he said, " I shal go to him." I do not hear him say the same of Absalom. He did ndt stand over bis corpse and say, " I ahall go to h im;" for he had no hope of that re-bellious son. Over this ohild it waa not " 0 my son. would to God I had died fo thee I " No. he could let his babe go with perfect confidonce, for he said, " I shall go to him." " I know," he might have said, " that he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, or-dered in all ^ings and sure, and when I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I shall fear no evil, for he is with me! I shall go to my child, and in heaven Vjo shall be reunited."

There is a passage in iiiekiel—for where we have but little, we must pick up even the crumbs, and do as our Mas-ter did-gather up tho fragmenU, that nothing be lost—there is a passsgo in Kiekiel,

in the sixteenth chaptar and twenty first verse, where God is cen-suring his people for having given up their little infanta to Moloch, by caus-ing them to pass through the fire, and he says of these little ones, " Thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through tho fire; " 80. tlien, they were God's children; those babes who died in the red-hot arms of Moloch, God calls " my chil-dren." We may, therefore, believe oon-oorning all those who have fallen asleep in the early days of life that Jesus said of tbem, " These are my children," and •hat he now to-day, while he leads his sheep unto living fountains of water, does not forget still to carry out his own iojanotion, " Feed my lambs."

In tho first chapter of Deuteronomy there had been a threatening pro-nounced upon the children of Israel, in the wiidcrnees, that with the exception of Caleb and Joshua, they should never see the promised land; nevertheless, it is added, " Your little ones, whioh ye aaid should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thithsr, and unto them will I giye it, and they shall possess it." To you, fathers and mothers, who fear not God, who live and die unbelieving, I would say, "Your unbelief ean not shut your children out of heaven, and I bless God for that. While you can not lay hold on that text which says. " Tho promiso is unto us and our children, even to as many as the Lord our God shall call," yet inasmnob as the sin of tho genera-tion in the wilderness did not shut the next generation out of Canaan, but they did surely enter In, so Uie sin of unbe-lieving parenta ahall not neoamrily be the mla of their ohildren, bat tbey •hall atlll, through God'a aoverelg;D «taea and hia oversowing meroy, be ntda partaken of the reat which he hatb r ^ r v e d for hia people. 0nder-•tand that I have not made a dlatino-

m i lata *

e h U ^ n ' of iSdly'^fSlnta S i i r b ^ ft ^ t a r plftija in fc«wa tbfta tlioaa , « « .na Who b ^ p j a to flmm ungodly . j J a

thing. All of them, without exeeptio^ w t o T ^ O

Chriat, through the regenerating infln-ence of the Holy Spirit, attain to glory Md immortality, and wear the image of the heavenly as they have worn the image of the earthy.

I I I . I now oome to make a practical use of the doctrine.

First, let it be a comfort to bereaved parenta. You say that it is a heavy cross that you have to carry. Bemem-her, it is easier to carry a dead oroaa than a living one. To have a living cross is. indeed, a tribulation—to have a child who is rebellious in his child-hood. vicious in his youth, debauched in his msnhood. Ah. would God that he had died from tiie birth; would God that he had never seen tiielight! Many - fatiier's hairs have been brought wiUi sorrow to tiie grave through his living ohildren, but I think never through bis dead b&bes; certainly not if he was a Christian, and was able to take the comfort of the apostle's words—" We lorrow not as they that are without lope." So you would have your child ive? Ah, if you could have drawn

aside the veil of destiny, and have seen to what he might have lived I Would you have had him live to ripen for the gallows ? Would you have him live to curse his father's God? Would you have him live to make your home wretched, to make you wet your pillow with tears, and send you to your daily work with your hands upon your loins because of sorrow? Such might have been tho oase; it is not so now, for your little sings before the throne of God. Do you know from what sorrows your dariing has escaped? You have had grief enough your-self It was born of woman; it would have been of few days and full of trouble aa you are. It has escaped those sorrows; do you lament that? Itemember, too, your own sins, and the deep sorrow of repentance. Had that child lived it would have sinned as you have done, and it must have known the bitterness of conviction of sin. I t hasosoapod that; it rejoices now in tho glory of God, Would you drsg it back again? Bereaved parenta, could you for a moment sec your own offspring above, you would wipe away your tears. •There among the swebt voices which sing the perpetual carol may bo heard the voice of your own child—a bright spirit now, and you the mother of a songster hoforo the throne of God. You might not have murmured had you received tho promise that your ohild should be elevated to a dukedom; itbas been elevated higher than t h a t ^ to the peerage of heaven. It has re-ceived the dignity of the immortals; it is robed in better than royal garmonte; it is more rich and more blessed than it oould havo been if all the crowns of earth oould havo adorned ita head. Wherefore, then, oould you complain ? I do not know that I would prefer the lot of a child in heaven myself. I think it la nobler to have borne the atorm, and to havo atmggled agalnat the wind and the tempest. I t may pos>

rewftjrded, aalth the Lord; t sham oome again firbm the enctay."

Tba next and perhaps niiBri and profitable inftoenea to bo^ dintiip from the text la this; many of m a i f parenta who haVe ohildren ia laavaii la it not ft deairable thing t l ^ yoi should go there too? AndyataMtbarii not some, perhaps many, wiiobitvaa» hope bereafW? Yoa hava Ififlf tbaji which ia beyond the grave to ba ttiotif bij. of another day; you hava given allyotMl time and thoughu to the ahi^rt, briaf, and unaatiafactory puraoita of i n ^ life. Mother, uneonverted a o ^ ^ from the battlementa of b e n m | y o ^ i ohild beckena you to paradiae. Fikttwr, ungodly, impenitent father, tbe l i t ^ eyes that onoe looked Joyoualy on| you^ look down upon yoa now. and t b | Up^ whioh had acaroely learned to ealU yoa father ere they were aealed bjr tba alienee of deatii, may be heard ai with a still small voice, now aayinif Uryoa, "Father, muat we be forevwdiirided by the great gulf which no ,mati oan

m iitM

pua?^" Doth not nature itaetfk|didla a longing in your aoul that yoa nuiyj^ bound up in the bundle of Mfe vith your own ohildren? Then iitop and think. As you are at present, yon, ean not hope for heaven; for youi' wiiy ia ainfnl, you have forgotten (Whilst, yoa have not repented of sin, jouhave loved tho wagei of iniquity. I ipifay thee go to thy chamber, and of thjmelf as being driven from the little <inea, banished forever from tiie praience of God, cast " where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not qnenohed." If thou wilt think of these matters, perhaps thine heart will begin to move, and thine eyes will begin to flow, and t b n may the Holy Spirit put before thino eyes the Savior, the holy ohild J e m I Remember, if thou wilt turn thine eye tohimaa orucifled thou shaltlive: If thou believeat on him with all thy heart thoushalt he with him where hia is—with all those whom the Father gave him, who bave gone before. Thou needcstnottobeshut out Wilt tbou sign thine own doom and writa thine own death warrant? Neglect not tlilM great salvation, but may thegnicoo^ God work with thee to make theaiwok for thou Shalt find—to make thea klioek. for tho door shall bo opened—to tnak^ thee ask, for he that aeeketh abilt re oeivel O might I tako yon by the hand—perhapa you bave oomo firom a newly.made grave, or lefk the ohild at home dead, and god baa made thia book a messenger to yon—O might I tiika you by the hand and t^y, " Wo ean not bring him back again, the apirit la gona beyond recall, but you may fblliiiwr* Behold the ladder of ligbt Mora you I The first step upon Itlarapentanoa. oai ofthyaelf; the next atop ia faith, into Chriat; and when thoa arttbar*, ihon art fairly and aafely in tho right way, and erelong thou ahalt be reoeived at heaven'a gatea by thoae veqr llttia oaM who have gone bafora, that thayaiay come to welcome thea whan thoa abiiU land upon the eternal ahoraa.

«Moaiaitaj|[ Rsaatiiii'iiM'

h # d s of AaiiU« Umdom ftad batf

, OM aiaiiaaw tfi, [i iMdaraMa ibnil

wlio bad aoi lag, want to

aiaatiaff, to aia iMW, «paet ia«to , d l ^ f t f U r jotliarlniiUiaaatripi^ia.. Iba aiaa wlioia U p t j ^ jfottaa into tha i ae«tliMi,ha«ai ftfWaarvioaa or tlon. WbUaha iragatioaawftitlog. „ i e ea^waa^ ia t i iwo ik^L auunbwra aa lvpoe«|tai ,P ftABftaoaa, hft aai^ J|t ooald aaa tha vary l lawaBtsolkraa t« are Brothar 8ohnuat t , ih« irfta:„"ft l i t t l a - d i ^ ;/ n i o a v " Batftfter t i ^ . tiiflaeaoadtototo thaal , ftndwasoonvartad.baibff oloaad. H a d i d a o i l l o A .

titat ftf^O^ b^ok to oborob that altbl, ft gtowinf axiMtieaoa m Lord, by graea, had aatad j •»pf«tab«d ft ami thataifbk | gragation iritii wbom I t a^ad iLw on a p a a l ^ tarm|i i,for , a aail - , darfnf tfia a » a a t l » g l t h l a : : : » i S f i > l t « r t ^ aad Joiaad t b a a f c i A CoalA baipUam hava doaa j o auobit T h i ^ «a*n were both beada of &«i(Uai a i ^ f , rthMei^bors. . : . • j.

Another maa fiuaily i L llvw within ft fbw haadrad l aMi of l h i « ehureb door, aad wbOi waa MMlodli op^ posed to protraotad j a " snppoaa ba naver b«d, attend one regalarly, and the meeting had bean in L three WMka, aavar bad ringla aarvloe, and M t v Bebnuam word not to talk iri t h a a o ^ t of r ^ g a , waa bythagrftMof Oo^ W 0 tba Holy Spirit wbUa at b l a « , - „ , Brotbar Sohnunm p)latlng Itlat to " L a a b p f O o d . " JIaaaa!;.to <bat dajr. Fridftyof tlia tb^id Jba aaatinf, joined Af K^h^U into tha ohoir ^ n ^ W ^ i ^ J S p I S F oa Sondw. and bida ftlr to dutU aa ao' tlva, aaaloua a e m b a r J TlUa axb IbloT/ of diviea grace onght ftiarar atop i6i niimtha of ra ibman aadftliupyara,

Brothar Sebramm did all praaoh' liigftom T u ^ night of tbn Ji«& wwA. Ha also dW a |r#at dali 1 pifnaohifii firoa honsa to hooat,, wbiah biidawoadarflilaffent i

Hia ^ aaraaata^, and W t L wl^;

wi|l ooai^fod U a (0 any «hnroh S S w4)iiti foc^j^l i i i work doae^ B r o t h s I Jftjiawn praaohad, thiaa aMalllal att* B o p andtandaiad o t b a r n l a ^ l a a ^ ;

Broibar P l aaae r , of Kaatooky, an^^roAar Fradariok, of iPlorida, did t M wo»k4 Oar oharob ia grwUy ra-

loGodbabllthafloiy. .. W.B. KcTt iDa i ,^ ,

'iflt

lH ij-uj .1 ^

ItctUw. UlilWM

"A'

« n i i i i i « f i i | of til*

B A M M i i B W & ^ r a f r Nu lv l i l*

i M M i M

i t ^ At tMoM Bai l t i ; M i o i l i o B 8<).

^ vtOi utMikl * l» t l » « M M f t t i < i iwftr .

, , ^ a . RFtiliCiB«v. R « t » , H o * . 0 ^ 0 . VjbtaMi, B w . t P. Tiratter, Ool

BiY. a n . Brawn, B«v. „ . Df^ J . Wa/^Www^ Df.

JFobttaoa Mift oOum tiMk* ia OHI BAPHST AUD

diMtwioB t i m a g vp willi lo iPiiHf n w j and ili« B t p t M PtUiMtioaSocisiy.

' " l&«OMVMiti0tt«4it|ottrned. OMiMiUMoo Tina and ilfkVQt of OhatUaooga,

^ j V I M a y iMfeN ihinTSaaday in B i r . H, W. Tribblft to ptmoh

Rav.Ctrter

M ''Literatwa waa ea}t«d Ij ' bjr Dr. Kitoa.

WvmidaMMiriyadoitted, at whieh th« Oob^tieiiioa again braaUiad a aigh of r«-

aafely and haraoni-L t ^ a n o t l i w

fook. ! w t ^ ^ atanda, it oonmends tira Kind Worda Sanaa and the

of tbe A n a r i o u Baptiat SodalT,

^ m i l X o r d Tead tli« report on the ' ImWii i ' a tWnfcrenee. Dra. UOoo,

f J l , Gun and F^rd anpported the Mf ip i i i Jhria^ Imt aameat, apeeehea, abowi^r Aa t Omr heart u in ftm of t M l i V M l ^ w o r k .

BIy. a l s . Hailay read tha rapart on E H m MWom, telling of tha work anong th t Indiaaa, among tha negroes of IhA 8o«tli, in many of tha Sonthem Stataa,aadiaC«ba. In thak t twoonn-U f aapadally • very fine work b being aoooapKriMid. Tha (bUowing ia a anm-• M T o f the work done: Nnwber of iiiaaioaariea,a3R; waeka of labor, 12,. 409r^ aanBona and addreaaaa, b^rtiimn, '4,837; peoeired by letter, 3JBiiSV; Sudhraaboob organised, aiS; raHijiiOtta^te, ftl,190; cburohea organ-

l t « # ' 0 . Li Hidlay made an inipre««-lifw tqlMsli ti|Kni the rabject <

D f ; ' J o t e l l i n i aa i Joaaa, udatant aatmtary of tha Home

M l ^ Board tt tha Soathem Baptist O o i M b i , l l^ka eloiineatly, dwelUng

t a a i M l i ^ M tha wonderfU Work of D i i f t i t O s W . TbaybaptiaaeiYetySan-da^ t i l l • t a t r Thatadiv, Md hardly vn/ t baptiting a t any tnaating. t lh i t iMl i* oifvryBieinber of thaehnreh

I g|v» iwiiilMng to the expanaaa of tha a l ivNl , Me t ina a oaadidata waa oa« |^ l la Ilia wat elotbea after baptism

'iMda to anbaeriba to tha ehnreh axpasaw. If OM woald not giva ha amnM ba iortiadoat of thacburoh be^ fotiliMkfaat.

Dr. 0 6 k a alao of tha aegroaa o r ^ f i M t l i . Haaawaooondt tmoyin aaadiag misriooaries to Aflrioa a a l nag-laatiiig tlw iiagroM ia oar own eoantnr. B« tiMNt^t tlMwagro problem waa aot to M by laiidailoa, ba t liy that grai t itoNtat tMaaea. l k * c M p a l -t«iBli1n «liiali avilaMlyiaat with a|>-pvofi^ loM of tlM WMk la Naw O i l a ^ l aityklmiMt daaUtata o f i n a ' taUbil Mi id i i a t , of Arkaaaaa, aad

i r ^ ^ U t h b BoaM Mis' j d t i S o i M y ^ yottr aoai aad dMg^tan la llnaa a«« Stalaa.

ia iioraarfag bar ooatrlba-

mi

waa 'Mttoh

waa

tPMt, i n T t o l l i ^ J w i . Ai tha oIom tha Oonfaaiiloa a a ^ " Pralao Ood ( ^ w Whom all blait iagalttw."

Dr. ioBnaa lolt tbat tha l^ord • M n i i h a ^ay lo Oia llaptllto.

Dr. Baton aald tW^lia ^p t l a t a M l ^ eonatmoOoaiiia on baptlsn, bat Botoa tha imooa i in la i loa . Theyara praetioaltyaprtaklaia on thai.

Bav. jr. H . Saow t|wka of the naed of tha worftiaStempbfa.

Bav.C.S.Gardaarargad tha lnpor-tanoa of aoaUiaiag the IToma Board,

Bev. K. B. Polk apoke on tha negro problem, sayiog that the negro ia here and here to etay. Something most be dona with him. Tha problem Has large-ly with the white people of the Bontb, and partiealarly with the Baptitffai. What shall be doner First, edacato him. and seoond, Chriatianiie him. Preaeh to him. Send h iu the goapel.

IUt . Vann, colored, waa invited to apeak and he did ao in a really eloquent apeech. He aaid the negro waa naturally a Baptist, and when he waa anything else some one else had been interpret-ing his Bible for him. He did not ad-•oeata social eqntlity. As for him ho wanjed the privilege of choosing his own company, whaterer we might want. They have five hundrwl Baptist preaeh-era in the Sute , with twenty eight A«-aooiations. They need the help of the white Baptists in the Sute. The neftro doesn't want to leave you. and I do n't believe yon want him to go. Mr. Vann has a great deal of natural oratory, ia a very graceful speaker aad eloquent.

Dr. John Wm. Jones said that if the Baptists of Tennessee would give Ave handred dollars to help the colored Baptiata the Home Board would give five hundred dollars.

•The report was adopted and the con-vention then adjourned.

THiaU lUY—MOttMlNU «K8S10N. Bov. Enoch Windes road tho report

on Woman's Work, commending the Women's MiasioDary Societies and tho Central Committee.

A. W. rhambliss objected to the lat-ter part of the report, believing that everything should ba given through the church.

John D. Andcnion thought that there was danger of thrwUling tho activities of the women.

Rev. R. A. Venable sympathized with the views of Brother Ohambliss.

Dr. John Wm. Jones suted that the Women's Central Comitteca do work with and through th« church.

Bev. C. S. Oardnora^dthat the Cen-tral Committee is doing good.

H. B. Folk feared Oiat tha women might withdraw (h>m the men and then what woald become of the men.

A. W. Chamblias disclaimed any in-tention of refleoting upon the wo ..^en. He thought that the tendency was wroag, not intentionally no, or course.

Dr. Lofton said that their work waa not separate. They are doing the bmt work of any body in the Sute, accord-ing to th«ir opportaniUes.

SUoy Lord took the position that we had better let Uie women do their own way. Tha report was adopted unani-moaaly.

Dr. W« P . Jonas read tha report on Miaiatarial Bdaoation. There are aev aaty thraa atadaato for tha miaistiy at Ja«kao>« and twaaty three at OataoaatdKawoiaa Colli«a. There-port aomaaadadabotlMSoatliara Bap-tiat TiMologiaal SaaOaaiy at Loatsvilla a»a Bofar WUUaaM Ualvaialty for the oobradpaoplaatNaakvUla,

Bav.O. a Qafdaar ipoka of Rofar

aolorad, iplM apoka latt alght. m an i M t a ^ i T tha gmdtiaiM of OuA ImU ttttlon, . ' ' •

H, B. Twvar, pnai4aiH«r t £ iUbM^onaalaaboid* eolorad. u H m -Phil, nada an (Btacaadiig apaieh aboat hiaaahooL

Dr. 0 . W,. J a m a a laid (hat tha prima ol^eot wbleb eallad Oila Coaran-tloB Into axiataaoa waa tha adaoaOoa of tha ministry. B« told how at Jaakaoa four yoaog men woald cat, alaap« and cook in ona room. " They naad yoar v w p ^ y . y o t t r prayera, and yoar aid." Ha oallad on Bev. J . H, Anderson to speak on the subject.

At the close of an earnest Ulk 3ir. Anderson took up a collection for tbe yottog ministers at Jackson, amounang to $2Si in pledges and 1(11.40 iu cash.

Dr. II J . Willloghani read tha report on Foreign .Missions. " All nations are open to tho gospel. What shall we do ? The obligation resU upon all. The Foreign Board has added to lU five fields-Africa, China, Italy, .Mexico, and Bratil—«Dothcr, Japan. The mis-sionary force has been about doubled during the last year. The Board asks Tennessee for six thousand dollars." Dr. Willingham opened the subject with feeling and touched the hearU of the Convention.

Bev. T. I*. Bell, asiiistautcorreipood-ing secretary of the Foreign Miasionary Board at Kichmond, w u introduced and made a very elo<jaent speech. He said that while there were not so many baptisms reported last year in the for-eign fields, "altogether it was the best year the board had ever had. Tfaey opened a number of new fieldn. The oontributionii also increased twenty per coot, tho Board having received over one hundred thounnd dollars altogether last year. In twenty months forty-two new mifsionaries have been appointedi

inereaic of one hundred pt-r cent. an Japan ha« been occupied, a nation t which suods with doors, and minds, and hearts open, ready to rcceive the gospel.

" Hut when the lk>ard turns from thcAe forty-two new miscionaries to the drafu which como in to support them and to an empty treasury, the heart is heavy. They feel, however, that the Lord commands us to go forward. He did this by biw providence in opening the way and forcing the missiona-ries into new fields. In North China twenty-six new sUtions were opened with only three to occupy them.

" In llrazil and 3fexioo tho fields are opening and pressing to be occupied. Ood called two of the belt young men in the Seminary at Louisville to go tn Jspau. They, with a young lady simi-larly called, are now on the seas to China. Indeed, God is calling so many that the applicants can not all be ac-cepted.

"Again, the voice of the brethren called us forward. Thoy insisted that we do so. From all of the fields came reporU of baptisms, and next year at the Convention more baptisms will here-ported than ever. The Convention told us to ask for tl.'W.OIKll. That means fl2n(Wt a month. Wu are spending it but not receiving It. Tha Foreign Mission Board baa as good a credit as any bank in the worid. It would not do to wreok that credit But wa will gat I t I t ii coming from tho rich and tha poor."

Ila gave several inataaees of aaeb, which ware very affaoUng. Tha apaaoh waa a splendid aflbrt and didmueh good.

Dr. M. HlUsmaa waa oallad upoa aad ladlMpntyarfbrtliaulaBloBariaa. Tha

« At (N^aftanHHm vNaiati iMa j r Br . B. GHllili. a o m i p M i b g m m m t ^

aiaiar, • « a i t i t t t » ^ g a U N i a « « i t«M«». tribtttiaa. Tim aookfiy waa t l i a I m «o aaiar tha ia id of eolpoMaga. t>»w onanitlioB ftmilies have Inwh t I M Hoaaato boase m n k ia jaat wbat io oaadad, juat what Jaans did. fliaitttl-pit, tha Stata paper, ganffl«) literalwt*. ara great faetora for good. The volw of the

traota on the idielvaa cry oat to let them o n t

Bev. O. M. S<vag« read ibe report on Denominational Kdaoation. It oom-mends the Southwestern Baptist ITni v a n i ^ , Caraon and Kewmaa College, Hrowntville Female College.Mary Sbari. College, and f?onlo College. Pr<yfes«>r S«va|e spoke In favor of eMts^rubing a general university at some central poi«« for tb6 BaptisU of the Bontb.

Dr. Wm. Shclton tbotongly agreed with the idea of having that larp-e nni varsity.

Hon. D. <•. Thomas spoke most car neatly iu favor of the different schools, e«pecially the Brownmlle Pemale Col lege. He closed with a strong appeal for female cduoation, thinking it more imporunt to educate the girls than tbr boys.

Dr. (S. .V. lioffcow nrged the neoew»ily ofbaviug the great tinivcrsity in the South.

I>r. John L. Johnson, Prcnident of Mary Sharp College, spoke in a quiit-a wiuy and, at die same time, sensible strain on educatioa. He ws.« a woman's rights Bian, and one of her rights i s t c receive an education e<}na1 to that of a man. He spoke in high terms Dr. Z.C. Graves, bisin-edeceasor. He comes to Tennessee not to antagoaiceany otber institution, but to be a fHend aad brother in the great work of female edn cation in the Sute. He toldof the mK'-oeai of Mary Sharp so far, and expected greater succen next sctwion.

Bev. W. H. Ryals read the report on oolportaxeand Bible work. I t recom-mended that cburcbes Uke np a collec-tion on Bible Day for this work. Therp are fifteen thousand families in Tennes-see without any Bible. Thigr have on band M(J7 worth of bocAs.

Rev. J . T. Oakley read the report on Ministerial B«lief, which was adopted

Rev. Kfloeb Windes read the report on Obituariesi Several ministen and deacons have died daring ibe year. The report was adopted wiiboat debate

The Convention tbra i^Joaraed. At night Brother R. W. Norton *m<I

the report of the Committee on Tem IKsrancf, Uking very strong groands iw flavor of it aad agaiast intemperance, and recommending ib«t tbe goq>el aboald be preached a« the creat antidote of int«m |)erance.

Brother Norton followed tbe report in a very earneat and de l i gb^ l apeecb.

Colonel T. H. Beeves w a n ^ to know what bad become of tba 117,<MI0 Probi bitlonisu in Tennesaaa. Ha tboagbt that if tha (emparatica D wioaratti aiad Ropnblioans would aaa tibat «albraaoti went to Lagielatara. tliat InmI ^ woald paaa tbe lawawa wanted. "

Bar. F. C. DeCaaoMy apok« witlba a e m a a a e o e a t , Vat auda aaaariUa apaaeb. Ha ikoaijkt thM lha tail sboald b a o a t o t riijbt lAaaa mpUllk* earn.

B a r Carlar JoMB that ba did not poaMaa tfca^aaMlarilWM wf a taapanaaa laMtnar, «a IN i a i baaa 4raak. Ha MiaaMai «

' im

rm*

. . . J i t l i i k i i i ^ i ^ '' -'

vtAa tiM ailMhliMfiMr.

«« l lM«i t fM«aU m i » m Umigli ^ twaaiwy diftonildMM « aMMWl cT tiM f t * .

aalMM alaaMwt «IM9 Lm4 aail tiMt« yeittg lady liad

k a n liiat ( t m driakli«wiaa,aa4 ap-pealed to tbaOifiaUaa ywiai ladiaa to ataai up le laaywaaea,

J«b« T, l l a i l M itOd bow btawifa bad «i«|)|«ed blm h m drtaUag boar.

Itr, 4 . H, Wastbraak apoka ia W ««f aa aaKMtdmnt io tbe rvftort of-fifldi by bianwlf tft aMaaarialiae tike l<«gi4atat« ta rnka tha ibar-adle law aptaioable to iaeortwralad t«waa aad vititiiii^

Tba w»jwt, as »ai«»doil, WM adopML Hon. D. O. I^itwaa, «f the Committee

on KemlatiiMM, «ll«i«d a reaolaUoa to ibe «fli«t that w« ^ d t w a tbe Looiai-ana Static

Dr. L t d ^ «xplai»«d that the obleet «f tbe rnaalatloa waa to bring all tbe m m ! iaiaeaee pMtdbla to bear «poa ibc lagiklaurv af Loaialana and of tbe «©aml govt»«aMmt

l»r. Jmea told of buw tbat instita ti«a bad Vtk4 to buy thr legiiaatttre and alao tbe M^otOa, and e**a tbr (>.hmT«befi.

H, B. Folk tbt>«fbt tbat this w»» one «f tha greMaat eviln «f tbe age, and ought ti» b« e«ptwt«M>d. if posaibk

Dr. J«hn L, Jobaikwi Uxdi tbe |iow-tbat wa nagbt to pass tbe resola-

tion, to t«««b our people tbat it i* wmag k> bay briery tieketa.

Tb« raaoltttioM waa dlo|4«d , A rvfillation was alao adopted to

tbaak the Awaricaa ]tt|»tlttt PuUiea tioa BooJety pgr tbair delation «f book* t««iif aMt»ai«aar; aim. one tbaukiai tha Asarioah tCduMtioaal Sodety fW tbdrdbaatJaa «r five tbuusand dullar* •0 ibe Seatbweatefa Bairtint r«i*eraity at Jaeliaon, and for tbe dematioa to (Vr "on and Newman Collage,

A r«Maati»a %o t^aak the ebureh and ^ m * ( m of UuttbiOdt for tbeir bnaHtality was adttpted by a riaiag wita,

Awotbor reimltttioa waa offered to arga tb« llaptiata of tbe Sute to try to Wl all tbfijp ean to to our Conven-tiwi.

Tha brribrea of tbe Kir»t Chureb. rbattaawiga, gav« a eordlal inviution tw«»Mybody toewne t o t b e C^veu-tlftn tbare a a t t jpaar, )wulj(mlariy tba ladiaa. A, W, t ' ^ b l i M o l m d to en-i«na)a a daitaa biiaaalf.

ttratliraa ti|«k« «f tbe tOeaatire they wtpM4«at»d ia Kt^ag at tbta <\«rea-tioa «a l ibair intentkn of going and

ffu lo ibe next one at CbMtaaooiia

11»(\>atMmtta iiang,*'tatb« awaet by aad by ** gava aaeb otber tbe t ^ b t -b a a i «f A^llnwftbip and adiouraed mm tltn,

imrRM Tba (VtavcatiM it etttapaaad of wtwe

oftiM bratMaa ia tba BarUal taaka. TI%U la Cba laiflMt *«taada»«a (be

t^C^mvaat l tHi iMiaafar lud, and tbe a M « ^ |w««U«atnba Om b a a l i a l u bbUMy.

^TIi«f«ba<baaaM»r«Maarraiiag la

t f ^ ^ . ! ? ^ w i W ^ r . f .

iR«i41l dialr . n ^ did mm^S^

^ i i W i l t iM>»^}y aajiyad v S .Ida.' ' • Th f l l iA «r « e»8««BtlM as tu lb

btttOdaoaa d i d a o C S f . J J O f . Far Hum tiiaiik Oil ^ i S ; I V f f M ^ b iMiM dOnga Hv«ly

-naw«al l»arw»ib«Mi t l fM bd«>d all tk»teoaldbava baaa deaiiod. Once ort ir iealt tbiaataaed lala. bat fortu-^ a l y the tlireat WM aot carried into wWWfci

- B a r * . J , T. Oakley and Q. A Ogle were preMat to aaa and bear, but mod-aatly took no part in the discussions. Tbeyare twoof tbe best country pas-toiaia Middle Tenneaaee.

- U a v . Carter Helm Jones, of Knox-ville, remained a aileat member of the C'onvMtIca until Saturday aight, but when be didopea bis month, be was liateited to with much interest

—We w<mder bow many men who i o ^ rides agaiart the women, and whose wives were at home, have since been made to re|»cnt of tt^eir action, aad would fvobably now uke the other aide if the thing were to do over again.

—Dr. J . R. Graves was present at nearly every session of the Convention though he took no part. He waa the object of a good deal of attention, and all «eemed to sympathlte with him in his miafortuaea.

Dr. John L, Jobnsoui uiado bis first appraranee oa the fioor of tbe Conven-tion, aad a u d e a f i a e iaoression." He is tbe i ^ d e a t of Mwy Sharp College at Wiaehester, aad is • most cultured «««tleiiiaa.

Tbe Convention took things delib-erately, dtaeaaaed ev«,ry question which oame up, and genentlly at length, with earaeataeas, and theu got through on good time. It was a pleasant winding up of a vt<ry delightful session.

" Tbe best report of the Convention and supjwted by a speech tbat sticks eloser to tbe subject than any other," wrote one i>romioeut brother to a friend after Dr. Willinghams report on For-eign Miaaions.

—Dr. B. Griffith waa on hand and made an interesting address ou tract distribatioa, aud also an excellent talk to tbe ehildrea at tbe Sunday school wasameeting Sunday afternoon. Wo were glad to have him with us.

—There waa a gratifying mixture of old and young men ia the meeting- -old men with their wisdom and eonserva-tiam, young men with tiieir vim, and eaergy, and push. The two ought al-ways to go tcfetber.

—Willingbaaa is (he man of the Con-vention, Mid one who is a pretty good Judge of aKS. He eerUinly made a fine Imprasaloa on the breUjren. His ser-aaoa Saaday moralng at the Methodist ebuK'b pteaaed tboie aUnU very muob.

- U w u a buslaew meeting. From 8 ^ ia tbe morning till noon, ftvm 2 to \ and Arom T to 10 p,m, i tWa buslneM, baainaaa-tbat ia. with • little talk mixed ia, of eoaraa, Aad tbsy managed to aeeonpliab a good deal of work.

-Oravaa, liillsmaa, Teaadale, Shel-toa, tbaaa aad otbar veaarabla patri-archs were iwaaaat to giva digaityand taaetatbamaatiag, Bat for them the yoaag «au aOgbt lave takaa tba bit ia tbairawaaMKitba aad raa completely awaywitb i t

- K v a r t aasaiaa of tba OoavaaUoa la

WwwM^' W i AotUd to iM iwi^gat fo^lkl Iklttg

Dr. Ka ton '>mld oog» OBtahittid, ba i ba ^ wat blaioogae iii«t^t«p(d]y Ibdo It, ' f t l u t ^ a l i i d Moorfd iwathonaaaddollifiSlifaitit tha Amatl-^ Baplto K f l ^ j ^ p ^ i , for Ufa

J a e k s a n , a n 4 o 6 n l d l M m tan thouaud if t h a ^ ' M uVe^ tbiti amount ' •• '

—We regretted exoeedingli^^ that Bav. J . 8, Thomas wai oallad iwiy from tha (?onvention by tHa critical III-neaa of bis wife. ( Wa have not yat l ^ e d h o w she Is, but trust that be found barb^ter. Sheis ather fkthar's In Arkansaa. - . - mi-

Dr. Lofkon thought it very unfortu-nate that our young men should be taken from the country, adttoated and never returned to the country. Dr. Katon thought it waa tho most fortu-nate thing in the world, as it enabled them to reach more people in theolty.

Dr. O. C. Savage, of Nashville, stat-ed tbat their churob had called a man to tho pastorate with wings long enough to covM-the whole Sute, "Logs, you mean." said Dr. J . Wm, .Tones, Tho«>

Dr. Katon will appreciate

^ warn- aaM ba tbe baal ia tta blstoiy. Bat

« «MMitMiiy widtA al^aala <«

tbiawaa raallyao, aa It waa gaaafally •JWaA lS««Vba4ybeUaT«i.kowa««r. tkal tba aaariaa ia CbaMa«Mia aaxt

who know the point

—" Dr. Eaton, what would you Uke never to ask me for another oant?" " J u s t make me a deed ofaosignment for all you have, and I will promise never to bother you again," replied the witty paator and editor. He did n't tell us but we suspeot the man did not ao-cept bia proposition. v.

Tbe Convention missed iU prerident oflaat aesaion, Capuin W. W. Wood-ruff, of Knoxvillo. Ho was kept away by tbe iojuriea suaUined in the recent railroad diaaster near Knoxville. He regretted very much his inability to come, and the Convention ccrUinly re-gretted his absence.

I t was a fitting compliment to Dr, Inman to elect him moderator. He h u been closely connected with tho Convention for eight years and baa been several times vice-president of tho Con-vention. He knows all the brethren by face and name, and makes an excellent presiding ofiicer.

—There ia one thing about these Ten-nessee BaptisU, aa illustrated several timea in the Convention. Thoy may luarrel aad wrangle, and diacuis and dispute, until it looks like they must bo forever divided, but when the time comes to aot they manage t> get to-gether somehow.

—It waa an interesting meeting Arom beginning to end, not a single dull session, though possibly one or two speeches that might have bad a little more life and apice. There waa not any particular lack of this latter qnality, howeve;; indeed, somo of the remarks were, perhaps, a little too spicy.

—Well, wa did not ha«a the three hundred ia attendanoa at tha Convan-tion. But we believe every m d a r of tha B A m a r amo Bgri.ioTo« will agrao that it was aot our fiiult Wa 4id, how-aver. bava two buadrad, or loonB, maa-aeogara aad vidton altofathar, wjilch was coaaldarably battar than tba State Convaatlon avw did bafora.

—0 tba women, tba woman, -jFof oaea wa graw tired—nol of tba woman to ba aara, wa aavar oould do tbati but of tba wottia qaMtloa, and wa aottU not balparaipatbialng Willi Praaldaat man wbaa toward tha oloaa of tba ataat-lag ha lappad 4ow8 atraqr msh whd Made tha iMibliat allwiog to «bat nik-

irtir M , i t .

% •*'t1>ara*« otia or amaMakg oA thKOtp^

waa a a p l a n ^ m a a a i i f ^ b f

aavotiDn. » lUuTifi!; d i a e a n i L ^ ^

bean a still graodar maa t iq l t^ ' ' . -- O t i i o f tbe «pioiai|||illlt«'apata

h a v e b a a r d l n l l o t • '

were proia»V«i^ B o a r a f t l i i w j a i ^ salliM fif6m easyv .

" ¥ T b o loot tie, oii^he'ii was vaijr fina;^ 11 o«edii^ly iBiita a^a _ pAinUiif isn^r t l i^ t ' tUng JuM ai «W»u of o ^ ^ i ^ oertalnly o n a W tlia and InatrooUtia Iaeter«i Wa bopa a aambar of neasee will inirita him td) daltvM seriw of leotttrai witb

- W e w p p o a t a w i r l M ^ t l i ^ t S e y bad the beat boma ia t o l i i A i ^ D . tbe Convantioa. W ^ k n ^ W l S m S m - w i t h Brother 8 . 0 , i , o w ^ t b a olawaafc iaeKan««flWbog. piUblehosU It Waa aver tNtr^eaatir* t o i ^ t Hto boaaa i t e H b a Bawiit h^qaa r to ra . For a«wral 'llaw, m«a|j»v ^ m a a l ^ b a h j P i t m ^ n b t M visitors at hia tabki« And yaf-btrtb b a ^ and hla most axoallaat wifa l ial lyM seemed toeqjoy I taxoawHai^JI t t fcot wo don ' t ballava Miai»Vf«a any Iwo pooplo whQ Noyad tlia, :CottTt«tfpn.. more than thay. Tha f i j i J i i r p I S ' about i t to tham appaarail y i l M t h a broking up. Oao woaM bate Aoagbt ^ otherwiaa. -r, . ~

" t b a t a l l o f t h o w i ^ k o T ^ ^ on are m^riea imb w W l ^ w igft

ing eandidata for n a t r i a ^ ,

I beliava I would ratbar vamOa iin-^ r i ^ j w d figb^ for Iba wpsiw, be tt^^Md fight Bar. J . P . W ^ i f m M i IMllifc of

nUhn order, aaylng that Oia the house waa nojt „ un not a quepUon qt m t i ^ o n y j ? •hould like to Wow wbal ' ^MlaS Brother Lord. T i wBijlt BroiJiar Weawr totoribd ; •• I i tt i ' quaition.au MknowUgadAllta' '^

R. H. Hunt, of ObattaiiboiiL bad da* tarmln^ a o m io mtia toSg of tha ConyaaUoii.' Biiiwi ottdawtoad wby ba doaa iibt propoaa "t, M b Ilia tneattac. Tba lail waa a t CoIambU, i t t d t b a t o ^ S ^ : bia yoanf ladlaa M HatniMUii and wa drt not blaiiia hti^ ' W h o % M l a ? S Mrote tba Suta to aaa w o h ^ But w r Hk^tb ftitottaa

tba g i r l j ^thottibr you i ^ t o ^ t h m rap^ tb i l U ii^iha aivbilaSi of iba bandMineil eburbli btUfdlng In tba

.Iba-

Zi

4

onoron oaiiaing I

-m

1 M ' tsmi Mwvyfor

fmMM mmrniH

viMrrtii •IliMjM, to lUfb* ad-

It,

m

Urn: ^ AthuiU, Ok. .T«ni., Vie. Ptml-- NonMiM, to wboa •boat work in Ui«

: aa«in'iwxA& •DooAnoir.

r-U* ;V •, ^ - •• • 4. ' iSSm fiMk" ^

^ Jfci^lblloW®! in JTelping _ o t r a i ^ ttonthly, pablUhed b?

I llfotbor Branwn t i t o ' of the l»n-

.He re , / orioword. I know

li|oniiog--oliftio.'' We _ — to i^eak of the wgnia-

M n ^ of Otis to tbe Ladiee' Society, and tae^f t m l t e ip^tlie following:

S l i w p l l i i ^ i w w , ' ago, in tbe

Jlad ever and ever in glory inoreased, T t t n b f night into day wherever it

StUlHrniward and Westward forever ' iM^foae,

light has girdled the

Kaat of ita ntmaat star

S,

TiUalnovi ito IMth,

Isr, ikr

That Mtt of the land whore the ttroM,'- -

Still aita in the ahadow and darkness nhatknowa No word of the morning.

O Messenger, bearing yonr tidings so ^ grand.

That the Day-sUr is moving toward the land.

Where the tongue that ii strange shall the word withhold.

What art have you learned, whereby to , ' nnfold

To the men that dwell in the far Ja-

Toor tteaaage of love from Ood onto maaT

" No langnage I know, my tidinga to

Add all l e an aay, when the shores I

^ III obald(good^ morning)." . Good ' tn t^nf l g ^ morning I what

; .« mort wooid you say f ^ The ahadlowi are flod, and. behold it ia

The day tlMI shall melt into that fairer

Where th«]r need not the moon and ^ nelAfr thaaun; For Itia t ^ r d ii its light, and never

, Maini. p ' i -. Thenifbtstiall desigen

i^tti IM,. fn U^of the .. . . a h a l l W , . . • -tfij,-. .

(Jood-MMniinii' g i^ -morrow;" — , mrinrar and aye. *'Qha)o (good morning)."

rrtMarttt XioutM JBet.

, - W e olt iqli ioulTow want of, phi-iMibfopy hf i t ^ i i tlia naiue of f k u t i ' 9 m to tha m> u l ^ t Pf ot | i tn.

I on t h e sons o f

ear th logother

o'jnato •-XoMfi^Mi,

a mal, b r o t h ^ a i i t a r . YTO into Mexioofor aliti te

, | j m MWaiiy,aftd hav« oome over in toiMMa fewdayainVw-

Mr^dnly ia p t f l ^ t 4o m ^ Arnviivw ftefcisYbti ha r i doBe J j t t w ikatt iiM»#t of. tha They g M ^ take a vaoatioa from their, religion when tliay aome down here, and wend their ^abbaths going to' the bull iights, the baUa, and the thea-tere, I em gUd you bQttt«4i(,ap oar preaehing halt. I suppose you had no trouble it) finding it. for they know us well at the hotel and are very friendly to ns. 0 no, th«y never oome to onr a^rvices; not beoango they are afraid of Uie priests, for they would not give a •nap of their fingers for the good opin-ion of all the priests in Me«ioo, nor for ihe whole Jgle$ia Oatolica ApiMolica Bimana. Exonsemefor that Spanish word iglaia. I t means ohnrch. We are not thoroughly imbued with this language, but when one hears words so often, he is inoUnod to let them slip in even when he has the privilege of talking to Americans, and that is the high-sounding combination of titles by which they refer to antichrist. But Don Antonio and his wife do n't oome here partly through indifference and partly because they do n't want to lose their social standing.

Yes, it is better for you to occupy one of these chairs here in front We (the missionaries) always ait here, because we open that great iron-barred window almost to the floor, so the people who stop through curiosity, or to ridicule us, may hear somo of the gospel. At least two of tbe principal men of tbe city were there the other night, and I have no doubt that it was the first time they ever heard any of the gospel. Bot I was going to say that we sit here because— you seo thoce inside blinds of the win-dow are turned so tbe crowd outside can see the preachcr and those on the front scats, but can not see the congre-gation. We arrange them that way be-cause the enemies of those who attend our services come up there to seo who is here and go and report them to the priests. No, they do not disturb us now. One night some months ago they threw in someimall stones, but they did not hurt any body, and another night some men came in and sat in the back of the room, blaspheming in a droadful manner, bot we reported them tbe next day to the mayor of the town. The proprietor of the hotel, by the way, where you arc stopping-and as I told yon a while ago —he is very friendly to us, because we all stopped there some time when we I irst oome to Parrss. He put a stop to it immediately. Yes, they sometimes say ugly things, but we do not mind that—we do not, you know, but, of course, they out theee Mexicans to the quiok, beoanse those revilersare their life-long associates. ,

The other night a man, who was out there, repeated soornrully after the preacher the words which he had Juat read from the Bible—<Sbnto, »anto, mnfo. He interrupted that way two or three times, and finally the preacher «ioietly, but firmly, reminded him that in this country all religious denominations had thr protection of the law; that if he oontii.ued to disturb our worship ho might be put into prison, but that if he would Uaten quietly he wa« perfectly welcome there. He listenad quietly and raspeeti^illy to the remainder of the sermon. Oonaiderable orowda gather there lometimoi uuder 'cover of tbe darkness, and » oertaia yoang lawyer of th i town lathara hii f H i ^ in a room iMrofa t N ilTHt to listeii tQ tht Mnnott,

•Wnrei

imm

- 1

•bonttobe.-. of fiontwrjini wott!l under"

i o f 11, bui your pre«me« wowWp the

m m n n d e r a ^ w M ia U i ^ M ^ h e r o or noi» <br w « ^ o r . m p wWi the iiune amitbientii In onr beam UutdU your hewrta in the Unit-ed Siatoa, though wa do oxpresa them in ^ i i old middle afe language, that haabeen dediwtfld siuM i o birth al> most eioluidvely to Bottaniim, fimati-oisms, the inquisition, and the like. By the way, did you ever think of it, you can read a people's whole history in their language. The Spanish diotion-

.ary is full of words which rgfcr to these things, and there are very few that indicate progress.

You can enjoy the songs, for they have the sane tunes that you use in Knglish, and the words express the same sentiments, for instenoe, this one that we are going to sing. " There is a founUin filled with blood." I '11 tell yon about the sermon as well as I can. The text is the words of the Virgin Mary, "Behold the hand-maid of the Lord; be it unto mc according to thy word." The preacher says he is going to preach about the Virgin as an ex-ample for us, and the Catholics—and there are some in here and in the win-dow who have never been here before— are all eager to hear what he will say, for they have been told that we say very ugly things about the blessed Vir-gin. I t will be a good Catholic sormon, you may depend upon that.

He begins with the highest praise of the Virgin, and the Komanists are well pleased. He tells them that the doc-trinosof the Iglesia Catolica Apostolica were the pure truth of God, that he prefers the Catholic Bible to the one which he hss just laid at the other end of the table from him to impress his declaration.

Hut what 18 he doing now 7 lie is telling them that the church has de-parted from its first faith ; that there is no foundation in their Catholic Bible for the confessional, and that for four or five ocnturies after Christ there was no such thing known to the world; and that until the year 1115 after Christ the mode of baptism practiccd by the Koman Catholic church was immoriion, sprinkling or pouring being allowed by spccial permission only to persons who were supposed to bo dying; and that if any of these persons recovered they we excluded from all the higher privileges of the church, because they were not properly baptized; but that in the year 1145 theCounoil ofRevenna declared that the church had a right to change the laws of Christ, and accord-ingly they dcolarcd sprinkling as valid as immersion. He is tolling them that eternal life is the gift of God—without money and without price—and remind-ing them how the priesta wring fVom them the last cent over and over again to pay for thoir poor promise of it; and he is telling them ranch more of the same kind.

Does he hear how the murmurs are growing louder and louder around the windows, and in tho back of the room 1 I suppose be does, for he is telling them now that when Ood ohoso the mother of our Lord ho did not display respect for persona and regard for money by ohoosing a maiden in a king'a palace, hut one from among the poor, but ahe waa rioh, rioh in piety, rich in bttmillty, riohinikith. And then he goes on again as before. Tho Catholics are hearing aeveral things (o-nigbt they never heard bafore.

The mannnra ar« rbinf •fain. The

S *

m M ifam to knov l l , , ^ t t b t b a ^ H m t novlia la idUiii uum • M l % f lmr thaAi» M ^ K i who illnatwiiaiUby i S ^

Whom kf daoUraa no nation of fwatnr.and (q the glory aod joff ihat the b lamd yirgln now haa In the heavena Maing all nattons ooming t^ the ftet of her Son. the only Savior of man-

ikind. . -r. . Wall, the aannoni ia over and the sing

ing, and prayer, and banadietion, and I auppoao hia lastremarka have left them all in a good humor by tho way they are amiling and shaking hands with him back there.

No, I oould n't give yoa any idea of the sermon. I t oaught ono up like a whirlwind, and bore one along self-con demned for want of seal, astonished amased, breathless, half frightened. Probably it would not be so if our seal approached his, but as it is it is almost incomprehensible. Kloqucnt? Opin ions differ as you know. There were no well-stedied, resounding Ciceronean sentences, but there waa elwiuence like that of him whose hearera cried out, " Let us march a^inst Phillip f " There are some preachers, and great ones too, who emphasise their remarks with only a few graoef\il litUe gestures with their hands. You see the preacher of to-night is n't ono of them.

You probably noticed some peculiar gestures, such as the waving of the fore finger before the face and very close to it, that u an emphatic negation, and the laying of the fore-finger on the lips is an admonition to silent submission. Those gcsttires are very agreeable to us because they are a part of the language as mnch

as the most commonly used words in it, at least they are a part of it as it is spoken in Mexico, and you could hardly talk an hour with any Mexican, learned or ignorant, without seeing one or both of them.

Of course you know who tho preacher is. There is only one man in Mexico and nono out of it on whoso soul the Lord has laid so heavily the weight of the eternal interests of this whole nation, tho Apostle of Mexico, chosen of God and sent.

Well, yoa most shake hands with our people. Wc Mexicans are the greatest people you over saw to shake hands. Each person here shakes hands about three times a night with every other, after tho manner of that queer rule in arithmetio which I never did under-stand. Since I think of that rule yon may take that statement with consider-able allowances, I ' ve no idea how many billions it would run up to.

Yon see after the benediction tbe people all sit down quietly as if they had to go through anothi;r programme. They are waiting for us to start the hand-shaking. We have only eight or nine members—the others are Presby-teriane, and Catholics, and " frienda of the gospel." This nice looking young man with the bright face baa been ac-eepted for baptism since these meetings began, and hia family haa cast him off, but be comes every time, bringing his brother.

I t is enough to oonvinee any body that thero is something in this religion to see how happy he looks. He haa bor-rowed a Catbolie Testament, whiob he in tan^ to try to put into the hands of hia parento. Alter he-waa accepted by ua, tbe young priest, who, ha says, bad a!ways loved him very much, sent for himlind talked with him, not angrily, but kindly and sffeotionately, about hia ohsnge'of religion. Ha (our young ooliyort) replied by quoting the Berlpt-

lOuHtinwd on pagt 14 3

I K i i i K

^ ^ M i i n i f ' i i r r f T i i x 17777

'sseimwM Htmm^^" n FUBASB IfOnCB.

I.TkAlaMM •tttetfff Alisft •• — » • • • • I I I I I I «

UMtiMtMMn jmu i«M»a),« tohMrfMMM. X U f * a dwag* ithanMbOiw •wtowkl ' Alwi/i fiT* fa te jitiMud PMl-OaM* t. link* all Ctwito, h. tbe Bjl

4. MS eilMT. «. AiifMllrt>|rM«( Ubwa*. and wUl b» fur-

irt

th* fmM^ to w l ^ m wUk (teduuvtMd*.

E u k adltor w l M j H t o o w hi* v v a IbI»1>I, MM tonvMulbl* («r Id* nttanncM «f th*

warca von t h b a r A i i p t - w b n i r o a m k -•cripUoBMptniUicwordi: *'Ysar mbMiptlM eipim wlUi UOa lam. PImm rrotw," vili be •Uaptd apon jmr Hiwr *bar* tUa soMe*. in juttlM to •uftelra w* tbail b* «aaip«)M to drop tb* BUM* of aU whwi th«lr Ua* I* oat, un-Ifn tb«y rraaw at oor*. Wa abonld n(rtt to pan coapaaj with ^uu. iDdaad wa 4o not ballat* that 700 waat u to do ao. Yoa npact )o rcoev at aooMtiam. Flaaa* do ao now.

VuhviUa,T«iuL,(ktob«r 84, 1889^

rOOB B0T8 V1B8T78 BICE.

(Concluded ) Tho poor yoang man, on tho con-

trary, has no money on which to roly, often no friends to holp him, and so ho is thrown back npon him-wlf, and compollod to place his re-lianco thoro. If ho ovor accom-plishes any thing it must bo by his own effort. If ambition soizos him, an often it doos, it inspires him to raise bimsolf upon an oquaiity, mentally, socially, financially, with others around him. Ho is not con-tont to remain forever down. So he struggles. Ho will do any thing that is honest to holp himself. IIo IS not afraid of work, nor ashamed of i t IIo boliovos in the dignity of labor. Ho has a hard time at first, perhaps. But tho very strug-gle strengthens him. It strengthens him physically. His daily labor gives him musclo and bono, as well as moat and bread. I t strongthons him mentally. Thrown upon him-self with no artificial prop, ho real-ises tho need of study. At school, at college, if ho is so fortnnnto as to get thero, ho is apt to load his class. Ho takes every opportunity for self-cultivation. Ho roads. Ho thinks. Ho develops an originality the rich seldom possess. His mind must bo his capital and ho strives to increase his stock in trade. Ho has no timo to frit ter away in pleasures, which only wcnkon tho intellect This very struggle strongthons also his moral nature. Temptations, liko tho world and sleep, their ready visits paj ' where fortuno smiloN; tho poor thoy for-w»ko. Vico to him is robbed of much of i u nttractivonosfl. Virtue offers herself as the only guido to fortune and aucvona. Under hor magio wand hia charactor grows stronger and more beautinil. All this, of course, in not truo with overy pow young man. But I nm "peaking apovially of tho ambitioui «ne. AntI with him tho tendoncy

o r thn t tmggloi ha ip oompel|«sl to tnidergo is to dtitalop bla p b ^ o a l , tik«ntal, «tid i]iorial muaolea^ nnd to mnko 1 p«w man out of him, I t te

t r W i j i f Jfou|Lli l i f t ' mWbrtnno:^' I f Mtho yoaog man baa any thing lb h imnnd t b r trinla av» withstood thoao vory trinia prove * ^elp. Ho who baa a hard time in youth, if bo doea not anooumb under bis bur-dons, will have an easy time In after l if t . Bnt he who haa an easy timo a t first, will be apt to havo a bard time afterward.

Tho best way to ruin a boy is to givo him a pony and a dog and a gun, and lot him nndorstand that ho has plenty of money back of him. If ho doos not rido that pony down the hill all tho way, until ho roaches tho dogs at last, and then perhaps turn tho gun upon him-ficlf, it will bo bccouso ho is a re-markable boy, or botjauso sonio-thing radical has occurrod to chock him in his downward course. Tho presumption is always against tho boy on a pony, and especially if ho has a gun on his shoulder, and a dog following behind.

Tho best way, on tbe contrary, to make a man out of a boy--not a thing on two feet that which you can hardly toll from a peacock—is to throw him upon bis own re-sources, with just enough holp to keep his head nlwve water; or at least to give him bard earnest work to do. This, as wo said, develops his manhood. He becomes really superior, in body, in mind, in char-nctor, in moral worth, in every thing that goos to inako true man-hood to the man who started rich and failed to develop what was in him. Tho world, quick to discover and ovor ready to admire a man, is glad to lend him a helping hand. People feel too that he is one of them, while tho rich young man is apt to be more or loss exclusive, proud, arrogant. But tho poor ono finds a tide of popular sympathy and favor to assist him in his aspi-rations. Positions of honor and trust open before him. Filling these well bo receives still greater. And so he goes up. Standing at the bottom, indeed, ho has no way to go but up, while tho rich young man, starting at tho top, has no way to go but down. Balance is hard to preserve. Retrogression is easier than equilibrium. So ho is apt, sooner or later, to go down. Even in his own golden circle tho poor boy often surpasses him, tho poor getting rich, and tho rich poor. And as tho poor boy ascends from ono hill to another of fame, of honor, of usofhincss, or of wealth, his ambition rises and his horizon broadens. Ho has tho fbnndatlon of health, of mind, of charactor, of IMipulnr favor on which to build, and so ho easily occupies each height of opportunity as ho roaches It, and climbs to another.

liot no ono suppose fVom all this that wo arc making n tirade against wealth. Wo nro not Such is voi^' fhr IVom our pnrposo. Monoy is n good t h i n g ~ t / used aright. Gold as A wrvdnt ia capable tif infinite good.

.. I f thn oUt of It, 4iid make then I t ! » t u r n e d lAto » 1» tortnre nnd debtM na; I t la well for » ^onng nmiitd be Hoh^ provided he autk<i(i thn Mgbi ^ bf his rlohe*. ^ I f l e U t n i m ^ y for book*, for the bigfaer btiltiviti^n ofb{« inind whfvh n o n e ^ o i^n* fo him, for thoM) things whlob refloe and onnoblo, for lifting np human-i ty and for apreading theoanae of Christ on earth, then money ii; mqst aarnestly to bo d o i l r ^ . ' ' Bnt If He is to spond it as, alaa ( too many do, and as seems to bo tbe tendency, for horses, aad guns, and dogs, for clothes, and jewelry, and luxuries, for cards, and wine, and womon,for ploasuro of every kind, to adminis-ter simply to his selfish gratifica-tion, then money becomos a terrible curse to him.

You rich young mon, you havo splendid opportunities W o r e you> but at tho same timo sore tempta-tions press you on every hand. Shall tho temptations destroy tho opportunities? Have tho manhood to resist them. Let the money you possess bo turned to all tho immense advantage which it gives you, and not allowed to work out your do struction. Uso it for your self-development, physically, mentally, morally, ond for tbe good of others and tho glory of God. Then you will bo ablo to hold your own in tho struggle which shall come with your poor neighbor. Otherwise you must go down, for in that con test it is not so much monoy that counts, but strength—of body, of mind, of soul.

You rich fathers, how are you using 3'our monoy with rospoct to your boy ? Has ho fVeo accoss to your pile to spend it in any way that he sees fit? Then that pile will rapidly dimin-ish and he will havo nothing to show for it but languid body, and hollow eyes, and painted noso, and weakened mind, and diseased soul. Are you hoarding it np to leave to him when yon die? Then ton chances to ono it will go faster than it came, and when that is all gone, his hoalth will bo gone, his intellect, what little ho inhoritod, will bo gone, bis character MCill bo gone, his usefulness will bo gono, his friends will begone, and ho bim-solf will bo gone—to the doge, or may be, literally, to tho dovil. Lay it up in his head. P u t it in bis charactor. Use it for making a man out of him. Thon, whether you leave hitij a cent or not, ho will bo able to mako bis way in tho world, and perhaps win honor, fiimo, ovon wealth. Tho invest-ment which will pay tho biggest in torost in tho ond is tho few thou-sand dollars put in tho odncation of }-our boy, if tho education be the threefold ono of body and mind and soul. Try i t ^

You poor young men, dos|)air not in your povorty. I t is not an un-mixed evil. I f it has tho effect, by throwing .yon npon yourself, of developing your rosouitHiS, it was but a blessing in disgulao whlob God sent to yon. You are not neo< eisorll^lit » dlifidvantage in

iniNiggln on !

yourfovor. B « t i tnU

to dig fop it. ^ u t yoji t W ^ ^ A r o j b t t pr<i

sounds, b e ^ ^ e d .

-V ' t

M. ss

f l i t

S o m e w e e k s s i n c e . . . „ C a l v i n i s t i o d l s t i e h i

' • l i j A d M t t ^ a U i r W e s i n n e d a l l / '

A n d r e m a r k e d t h a t , a l t h o u g h w o r e b r o u g h t u p o n i t , w e d i d n o t b e l i e v e h w o r d o f i t j t l m i s i a w m « v i o l a t i o n o f I n w . a n d W ^ o w t n i n l y ^ d i d n o t s i n s i x t h o n a n D d - y e n r a M -f o r e w e w e r e b o r n , a n d i i W M o e r - * t a i n t h a t s inoe s i n w a n » not , n o o n e s i n n e d for n s i ^ t t ^ i ^ sand o r s i x y e a r s a g o . ; •

T h e Wettem i t e e o r ^ u s t o ^ a n a c c o n n t f o r oni>. i s i n g u l n r f i a n d s u r p r i s i n g b e t o t o d o z y , " h a v o m i s l a i d t h e p n p e r M d o n l j r w . m e m b e r t h a t b e s n y s w * « « s o i l -t a r y a n d a l o n e a m o n g B a p t M m i t t -i s te rs a n d s c h o l a n i n t h i i v i e w t 8 o m n c h t h e w o r s e for t b e m w e t h i n k . T o b o l d o r t e a c h t h a t I n f n n U a n d i d i o t s a r e o a i « b l e o f s i n n i n g , o r t l i * t A d a m s i n n e d for t h e m , i a , ; i n o n r ^ b u m b l e o p i n i o n , a a c o n t r a r y v ^ son a n d r e v e l a t i o n ^ a a i t l i l ^ n l -f o s t i y a b s n r d . W e w i U h t t n % a i t a t t h e foet o f o n r b r o t h e r o t fto J i e . eorder, o r a n y o n o else, t o h e a r h i m r e p e a t o n e passage i n G o d ' l w o r d % t h a t r e f n t e s o u r p o s i t i o n . r ^ - O i v e n s ^ - p C h r i s t , o r a n a p o a t l e , nttd" o p i n i o n s o f B a p t i s t m i n i s t e n , B r o t h e r E a t o n , a n d w o w i l l s a r v M i . d o r a t o n c e . N o m a n b e l i e v e s n o c e u n d o u b t e d l y t h a n w e t h a t e v e i y c h i l d b o r n o f A d a m w a s c o n o e i v e d i n s in a n d b o r n i n i n i q n i t y ~ « - t o t a l l y

d o p r a v o d i n i t s m o r a l n a t n r e - ' b o n i ' ^ sinful, i f y o u w i l l , b u t n o t ^ « f m « r s , " ^ A d a m d i d n o t s i n for tbem^ o r t h f y in h i m . B r o t h e r E i | t o n has. t h e " f loor .

BLAVX.

" K o c e i v o d b y bapj t ism, b l a n k l e t t e r , b l a n k ; d i s m i s s e d b y , i e t t « r » b l a n k ; e x c l u d e d , b l a n k ; d e a d , J b l a n k ; p a s t o r ' s s a l a r y , b l n i a k i f o r -e i g n M i s s i o n s , b l a n k ; H o m e ^ j i L ^ s i o n s , b l a n k ; S t a t e M i s s i o n s , b i t n j ^ ; " A s s o c i a t i o n a l Missions!, b l n n l c ; | n n p d o y - s c h o o l s , b l a n k . ' »

W e h a v e h e a r d s o m e snob ' ^ c i a t i o n a l l e t ^ r a t h i s y e a n T h s ^ o u g h t t o a d d , t h n e m o r e W q k t — l i f o , b l a n k ; p a s t o r , b l a n k ; clinV ' b l a n k . W o s u g g e s t t t i t b l a n k c h u r o b e s , w l i e n t h ^ y i ^ d such a b l a n k l e t t e r , s h o u l d , I f ] b l e , e x o r t t b e i n s e l r o s t o fill a t ono o f t h e b l a n k s . ' I f n o n o o f b l a n k m e m ^ r s w i l l d i e , b y | 1 m e a n s e x o l n t l o o n e . T ^ f s u j ^ l t h o b l a n k p a s t o r . *

To

We offer a Mmmissloil'ortwMi/^flvs per eent upon all newaabsortlMn and twelve and one half ptr eifakNipiMtlii* aetsals, to all our agents wh^ will maki i t » bastnasK to work for tka jmpor wlisifirsribsymaifa, %

.if J l , a

t t i ^ m h l p i f e t w l d nUofirty

i M r W e i i r U of ft

" ^ m t f 0 . t.; Hiiilfly, 0/ Knosv i l lk

fetal** of niy intoroit In

bmt iw of Loving the

% B •p ^ r t j n J C f l n l o w iw I do,

it «flbW* ttio ttni|i««kabt« pieiwure

to tiurji oyer my mpona ib ie dnUoa

to w c h strong «nd worthy hands.

I bog TennMMe BipUats, ovotj--

where, and • t i l l tlniM, to rally with

«11 t h e ^ t t i g h t to the BAPTIST AND ^ K|»l.iutoiU{ Wha t I shall do and

^ b e r e I shall go U entirely with the

Lord,'

to whom I oommlt my way.

I MM m d y to oorrospond in regard

' * to • my future work. Promising an

- ^^^Waslonal article as a correspond-

^ ^ e^t; I now make my editorial bow.

^ FArewell. J . B. Moonv.

^ A p t h l s

V«no»5?«good *fhUe perhapfiHint

I fl^UwriUi ofjor my ft t l l fume^iet

mf>4Mt:!«dd that X hitvo learned to

jq]ro ihe i r ^ BArrijKT; ANi»

morpiw,sv soatt^red,

|Ji<M»owy jiji they are,«« i , ussd to

love the members of my church.

May Ctod blew ,

KnuABE. Poi,K.

In l i clearly inOstakep ;lii-

plaoing t h e ^ words befbr^ b^^ ;

tism.

W O M B U V V L W I I B O M O O U V T T W A t t B .

n w n o j o H A i o x !

In aeoordanoe with a desire fond-

ly oberished evor since Brother

> Bai ley came into his family as his

eon-in-law, Dr. Graves last week

turned over to Rev. O. L . Hailoy,

^ ^ V Knoxvllle, all his interest in the

B u n i n r AMD BKITLKCTOR. The lat-

- tor then bought out Brother

^ 4'Moody's interest in the same, and

b e r n d the writer have become

•qiMi ^ owners and proprietors of

thto p4per, and are to bo its editors.

DT; Graves, however, has been re-

^ tained npon the paper with the

title of special editor. He will con-

tinue to write for it, as heretofore.

Brother Moody, in retiring, leaves

not only his good-will, but his best

will with the BAPIIHT ANP RB-FLacTOK. He expects to work for

i t wherever ho goes, and will fre-

quently also be heard through its

columns. I n parting from him as a

eo'laborer in the office, I wish to

epeakofthe pleasant relations ex-

isting between us and to express

my love for him as a friend and a

brother. O f Brother UaJJey, who

is to take his plaoe, I need hardly

speak to the readers of the BAP-TIST AJFI BBFLICTOR. The popular

and snceessfbl pastor of the Second

c h ^ ^ h , Knoxvllle, the Vlce-Prosi-

d«n i o f the Home Mission Board for

TenB«B(i)ee, fbr some time editor ofthe

MiWion Department of the JSajtlM,

h b Asili6 is not new, and he does

not come as a stranger. For my-

dan only say that I welcome

. m ^ h ^ l l y ^ ^ t ^ the editorial CO-] ^ n « n h i p my fHend and school-

tta^i lind predict for him acaroer

i iU* i i i ^ l n 6 s s and honor. H e will

' it6t be ttble 'Just now to leave his

lirork itt Kiibxvllle, but will keep up

lilts 4tdb of the paper fh>m his home

M ^ for tbo present- Next week

^ I j J HU bow to the readers

b f ib^^ im^r . Wateb him and see

bow i l i ^ f b U y be can do it. Bring,

lag with him youth, Ivigor, and at

tbtMim* tldne experienee, I trust

h^ wUI ^ able to advance the Ba*-

. ^ j!f/lT,,AMn j a § r i ,w (mu Un a higher

V Staadard than ,it, baa ever ocenpled

bdhHi = W® are. going to atrike ibr

tan^bottaand aifbavribera, What

Brother W, J . Allen, two and one

half miles north of Watertown,

bored a well slxty-five foot through

solid rock and up camo n sparkling,

bubbling, smoking, and strongly

impregnated sulphur water. A

marked improvement in health of

several members of tho family wan

soon discovered. Dyspepsia and

urinary trouble yielded readily.

I t is believed to equal any water in

healing such diseasoH, but its won-

derful effects on the nervous system

should give it prominonee among

the most noted wiitors of tlie world.

This scribe, after two years' trial,

testifies, that in his greatest states

of exhaustion from overwork, such

as diaf|ualifiod him at limes for an

intelligent reading of a single par-

agrapb, or even a Nontence, such as

disqualitiod him for rest or sloop,

that oven thus doprossod with o.\-

haustod energy a frco use of tho

water for a day has restored the

vigor of youth, and that under it«

strengthening (not exciting) influ-

ence he has constantly performed

the heaviest tasks with no symp-

toms of fotiguo. As tho water is

heavily chargcd with gas it has

been thought best to seal it in pint

bottles, so it can bo used immcdiato-

ly on opening. Hrothor Allen will

deliver on train at Watortown, in

boxes, socuroly packcd, at tho rate

of one dollar per dozen, furnishing

the bottles, or he will fill famished

bottles at the rate of fifty cents per

dozen for pint bottles, and sixty

cents per doKcn for qnart bottlos

sent him with cash and pro-paid

freight. Tho water keeps indefi-

nitely, and maj' bo ordered in largo

quantities at above rates, as

Brother Allen is desirous of having

this water thoroughly tested. I

have thoroughly tested the most

popular waters of the country and

I believe this to be the equal of any

for the stomach and kidneys, and

tho superior of all for insomnia and

mental and nervous weariness and

exhaustion. Give the water an Im-

mediate and thorough test. Ad-

dress W. ' J . Allen, Watertown, Wil-

son county, Tennessoo. M.

Your advlee ia earneatlT and immSff.' »tslv.d«lr^. ^ J . F. DOTSON:

iKey Station, Tenn. %

Ordain h im If satlafled as to his

fitness In other regards and if the

facts be beyond all doubt as stated

above. He has done nothing

wrong. P-

» o n c i r

l>r. J. K. Graves will deliver bis

Chair Tolks ot Galloway,beginning

on Saturday night before tho first

Sabbath in November.

C U M B B R L A H D A8SOOIATIOH.

Tho minutes ofthe lost session of

Cumberland Association furnish

some statistical items of interest

which were not given in our pub-

lished report of the mooting. Cum-

borland Association now report* 3G

churches, 20 jiastors, 11 ordained

ministers who are not pastors, and

11 licentiates, with a total member-

ship of 4,M0. (Big llatchio's

report for this year gives 53

churchc.s and 4,417 members.)

Cumberland Association reports

total contributions of 824,087

against 820,310 last year, of which

there was given for State Missions

82,032 against 81,137 last year.

Tho lowest rate per cnpita from

any church is seventy cents; tho

highest eighteen dollars. Tho con-

tributions of four churches o.iccoed

ton dollars per cnpita, and tho aver-

ago in all tho churches of tho Asso-

ciutiun is within a smiill fraction of

five dollars per rapita. It is noteworthy that tho yniing

and struggling mission churches

are, in proportion to their numbers

and wealth, among the most liberal

contributors.

QVSSTtOVS AHO AH8WEBB

WM .Christ already bnptiied when T V wptliod when

John^teid^ •• Bshold the Lamb of God,

whipb taketh away thn DIO of the

wo'M ? W. A. Ban. .

We Ihlhk beyond all doubt ho was.

Bead John I, 20^34. Verae 32 set-

tioa tho' "matter, It seems to us.

'^'And'JBhn bare I'oebrd saying, I

saw 'thii Spirit descending froth

hoavbnMiko a dove, and It abo'dfo

upon bfri>." WhQo did thatoboar? At i !

—Wo give a groat deal of space this

week to tho State CoDTcntion. It is

worth all the spaoo wo give. Uoad tho

account of it.

-Head "Life's Shadows" on our

2d page. I t ia written by a cultured

Chriatian lady, and will strike a chord

of sympathy in many a aorrowing hoart.

Suoh piecea can not but make us bettor.

— I f tho BAPTIST AND 11BFI.EOTOR had many suoh good friends as Mrs. M. S. Major, of Clarkaville, daughter of Dr. A. D. Sears, it would be easy to se-cure the ten thousand subserlborS we are aiming for.

—We had tho pleasure of a visit Tuesday mornlDg fVom Dr. I. T. Tlohe-nor and Ilev. A. J . Diaa, on their re* turn from tha Missouri Convention. Brother Dlaa regretted that he oould not bo at Humboldt aa ho expooted, but ha was eompelled to ohange hla pro-gramme. He haa been a little alok. Wo hope, however, that he will fully reoover before he goes back to hia great work in Cuba.

Frienda aematimaa write to ua and lay that paoplo ara plaaaod with the pa* par, and if wa Juat koap it np toilspraa-entitandard,ato. Now, bratbren and aiatan, that dopenda on you. >Wa can not keep it np to Ita pr«a«nt itandard

, i-Bwtber OMdnar reporta flw m„t-inia. Brother W. O .a»oa , of Knox-vllle, p r w b j d at 11 ..n». Pwtorat night. Fine Intoreat In Yeufig Ptople'i. Meeting.

-Immanuel-Pastbr preaehed, eon-gregatlona good. Two recelTed by let tor.

'-F i rs t — Brother E. V. Baldj preached morning and night.

-Central—PrfaehlDg by Dr. J . Hun yau Stephens. Good congregations, fine Sunday-suhool.

—North Edgefleld-Good oongrcgn tions. 'Paster, Brother Amacker preached.

—Brother Gilbert preached to (ino oongregationa. Morning auhloct: " Tho gospel to solve the race problem." One received by letter.

—Motion made by Brother Gardner in Ministem' Conference to appoint a oommltteo to address a oiroulaf letter to tho prominent Biptlau of the South, asking an opinion as to the praeticabili ty of establishing in Nashville a grcai Southern University.

—Brother Carter Helm Jones, of tbo First church, Knoxville, visiting, preaohod at First church, Jackson, Tenn. Is muoh pleased with church and university.

CHATTANOOOA. —Tho Bsptist Ministers' Conference

mot according to appointment. Breth ren present: C. K. Wright, K.Stillwcll, of Nashville, J . E. Watson, L. A. .Mor ris, and Brother Blevins.

-Central — Brother K. Stillwell preached

morning and night and re-ported good and appreciative congrexa tions.

— Second—.Meeting still continuing with glorious victories. Three services Sunday. Baptised one at night. Serv ices conducted by tbo pastor.

—First—The pastor being at Convon tiwn there was no preaching. Sunday school good.

- H i l l City—Hev. E. Stillwell. an evangelist of .Nashville, Tenn., gav.j the children of the Sunday-sohool a brief address at three o'olock p.m. Brother Stillwell begins a series of meetings Monday night at the Baptist church, which we hope will bo blessed of fiod in building up our cause In this im portant field.

—St. Elmo—Services by pastor it eleven e'oloek a.m. W, T. llusscll wa« called to the pastorate. Arrangcmenu are being made to remove the tabernaclo donated by the First church to the lot recently seoured.

KNOXVILLR. —The Knoxvillo Paators' Association

mot In tho paster's study of the First

Baptist churoh at ten o'clock Monday

morning. Brother 0. t , Halley being

absent. Dr. MoCeun waa called te pre-

aldo as moderator. Brother A. T.

Smith reported a good service Sunday

at Mount Lebanon. Tho aermon nai

on Missions and the colleetion was five

dollara. He prMohed at Maryvillo,

at 7.80 p.m. Brother Brewer held no

aervice Sunday, but aUted that the

brethren wera progresaing'aatlafaetorlly

with the ihiprovemanten tha honae at

M t Olivtt. ii

—At the P in t ehuroh Brdther Jones

met a large con«re|atlon, and made the

eeoaaien ens,of interaat to , niiaalous.

Brotbar DIai, of Havana, Caba, was

auditoiy „

aw^aler Bi^tfn|a ai lha lataad Heme c h ^ h anHnf tha waelf, Ha baptlaad eight en Boiday etMing, and expalta to h4Te othara to «oma in aa tha r«inlt

Tha a^ ieaa at the Third chnreh ware #elr 'attended on Snnday avening.

—Dr. McCown preached at the Sec-ond dbureh in the morning and at-tended the lecture of Brother Diss at the First ehuroh at night.

-Brother Diaa thrilled the members of the Asaoeiatien on Monday morning by a reoital of incidenU and ancoesaea attending bis work ID Havana. He goea to the Missouri General Asaoeia-tien this week. We had hoped ho would bo at Humboldt.

—Brethren Jones and Grace will at-tend the Suto Convention.

Tannaaiaa. —We are sorry to learn that Us v. D.

W Chookley, of Johnson City, is con 8ned to his room with an attack of rheumatism. We hope to hear of hia early recovery.

—The protracted meeting at Smith's Spring, ten miles east of Nashville, under the pastorship of Brother John Rice, closed with happy results for tho cause of the Maatcr-fifteen conver-sions, and fourteen happy souls added to the church by baptism. Brothers Sperry and MarUin rendered good work daring the meeting under the fostering care of our heavenly Father, to whom all honor and glory belongs.

MILAN.—Good oongregations morn-ing and night, considering the exoito-ment of the fair. Brother Morton, of Union City, gave us two splendid ser-mons. It ia a very great pleasure to have our neighbors visit us. K. W.

. ^ r a i o ^ v ^ WaN i d d a / ^ bap^tn- l i i reedw brnthait m i m

' iW^Brothar Prnn ln l to i i ^mmeBSi g a ^ h i n t to na about ten lienilta afo. Wa k v e prwiohing, twloa » w m ^ » ttod ^bbath-aehoeliW prayarmi't! n«. Our ehureh ia in a more promia-

ing condition than ahe haa b«an fbra reatmanyyeara. W.C.DODSOK.

EAttLV Gaova, Muw.-Our pro-tracted meeting at Oak Grove ehureh, Fayette cennty, Tenn., oommeneed on the second Sunday In September and closed on the third Sunday, lasting eight days and nights. Our little church waa greatly revived, and we had nine additions, six by experience and bap-tiam, two by letter, and one by reatora-tlon. Oshers are expeoted to join soon Our paster. Elder 0. W. Floyd, done all the preaching, and he preaohed with great power and demonstration of the Spirit. Moat, If not quite all of us. were able to say with the Psalmist David. " Bless the Lord. 0 my soul, and all that is within me bless hia holy name."

W. T. 8w)CT;JIB.

SiiBLBrviLLK.—Yesterday was a

most delightful day at our church.

Kleven accessions, nine by experience.

We think this only the beginning of

ffood times. There wore forty-nine ad-

ditions to tbo various churches in town

yesterday, as the result ofthe first week

of the revival services, conducted by

the evangelist, Mr. Williams. The in-

terest ia deep, widespread and increas-

8. H. PaicB.

ORAHT, TENN.-Praise the Lord with me. The church at Salem last Satur-day received from the Lord a blessing. Nino were added by baptism. The fel-lowship waa rcatored by tho brethren adjusting their differenocs, and mutually forgiving each other; resolved to have meeting every Sunday, and to Uke steps toward aettling a pastor. Praycr-meet-iog every Thursday night. The Lord is working In tho midst of his people.

T, J . CABTKB. —New Hope and Egypt churohea,

which I am aupplying with monthly preaching, have recently held meetings, resulting in the addition of eight mem-bers by experience and baptism to New Rope and six to Egypt Both churchea wera mneh revived, and the outlook la good for an advance movement In the future along the lines of Christian work. I am making an effort to got the BAP-TfST AMD RgrtaoTOB into every family of the two ehnroiiea. Warm-hearted, good paopla aa they are naad only to koowthair duty and they will do it. Look oat for a olob aeon.

W. J . F ALLKH.

RJPLBY, TENN—The plasterers are at work on the Woodlawn church. That completed and the baptistery lined, the house will be ready for use, and a good house it wilt be. With what joy wo will move out of our hired house into our own large and attractive one.

I am giving one fourth of my time to mission work—preaching at Gold Dust and Ashport, second Sunday and Satur-day before, two sermons at each place. At Gold Dost we have secured a lot and will soon begin to build a house, which is very much needed. Brothers J . J . Glenney and James .Jennings are pushing the work.

These two places are imporUnt, and as the boards are not ablo to help I have undorUken tho work, though I am about as destitute of surplus cash as tbo boards.

Have had thirtecD new additions, nine by baptism, making about thirty mem-bers in tbe new organization.

I should have sUted that .Mr. Wm. Lambreth, merchant and large land owner, gave the lot, the bt-at in tbo vil lage, will also give money, and aid the above committee in securing iubscrip-tions. Glass and Butler, of Ripley, will also aid us in building.

E. C. FAt LKNEB.

Ordination.

At the rcfiuest of the Palestine church, Rutherford county, Tenneesee, on October 20. 188!), Revs. P. T. Hen-derson, A. J . Brandon, J. C. Potteraon, A. B. Cabaniss, and Pastor Cariton or-dalnod E. S. .Miller to the full work of the gospel ministry. Rev. A. B. Cah-aniaa preached the sermon; Pastor Carlton offered the prayer; Rev. A. J . Brandon gave the charge and presented tho Bible. Laying on hands by the preabytery.

Appointmanta Canoallad.

•^r-^—: I I, I yr^

of •LSI. wlwB it Awtfd h a t S ^ ^ I f ; tha oontribnllona I v W i S ^ NliMl i n i . additiea to t l S

«0 .® . wWeIi pntf Clarkafllla « t i , roll of ttonor->()hnr«haa whaaa total tribttUona exceed ten dolWs fpraaeh « « » » « . ' . % ' m-..

CLIBK CDMaaatAWp Aaa'ji.

Knoif iUa tha aaaan C i t y ^

tenth.

Just now our city u aUiied in Iter neheat holiday dreaa. and all ia axeita-ment over the Trades'DiapUy, whieh *kw place on October 22-24, in cale-jration of the eempletien of tha Cwn-beriand Gap railroad, Th^naandaare expected to Uka adrantage of tha tow rates and vialt the city. Hudreda of floats are ready, or nearly to, for the march. The procaailon wiD be nearfy two miles long. Much money will be spent, and we hope aoroeihinggoed may come from i t

A large number of our citisena at-tended the aale of lota at Cnaibarland Gap a few days since, and many of them purchased lo'.a. The excitement was high and prices high.

The different oonferenece, oonvan-tlons, ete , in the Sute have caused a dearth of preaehera for a while. Sev-eral ImporUnt ehangea have been made among our Methodist minlatars. Some are leaving for their new fields, while others are coming in to take their place.

Dr. McCown filled the pulpit at the First Church last Snnday, and Rev. J . K. Pace, of LitUe Rook, Ark., filled that of the Second Church. We are not advised of the Third.

We note the change of editora ofthe BAPTIST A.ND RERLXCROR. Thia givea East Tennessee a reprasentative. While we love Brother Mo^y and dia-like to part with him, we feel it waa only just to give our part of the State a showing. We welcome Brother Hailey and may the Baptisfas of the, State give the BAPTIST AND REPMcroa the aup-pert it meriu. M.

rJbr

BioBviM,a.—i write to let tbe read-

fl»» BArn«T AMD BiFLtoroa

Pleaac state in your paper of this week that Brother J . 8. Thomaa was aum* mend away from the Suta Convention on laat Friday night, beoause of alekneaa In his family, and it will be imponibla for him to fill hia appointmanta In Weat Tennessee in oonnaetlon with the Son-day-achool work. I will fill three or four of these fnr him nntll the nawa can be cirenUtad. J . FL. AWDKMO*.

Mahia, October SO. ^

—We clip the following fVem the Texas BaptUtand Herald: " The Lord is doing great thinga forna whereof we are glad. I have been eleven days with Brother Rudd, prmhing every night here In San laador' a ranch twenty five milea from Parroa. I baptised elaran at San Isador on last Satnrday, and we organiied a church. TheoatlMk here is indeed hopeful. Yesterday I bap-tiled those here, making fifty-aeven I have baptized ainoe the Oontantion at Memphis. I have alao aldad in organ-ising two churches. We how have twenty-one chnrchea in connecticn with the Mexican work. I have Up t i s ^ sixty-three bellavera and organised three churchea ainoe April 18. All of our miaslonariea enjoy good health and the bleaaing of the Lord ia upon na. How I ahottld leva to have attended tha Convention, bnt I could nol^,U|va tha work. Let the Lord'a pee|^ adatinne to pray for ua. W. D. I & I L L

Pai»ena,Me*loo. * /

—Wehepathoaa who aabaorihed at tha Eaatanallee Aaaodation « i I gat ' thairpaparaall right thia^waak. I f not, plaaaa let na know. /Vottr aab-aaripUon ahall bagfa flroai tti* data yna btgin to rtadra yoair parj ^-

• . V^ fw ;. ..

-

Hhehiaaawa-by PnM^nmi Dr.SateMT l l a

IMII i i ap ; -

wUakh* waa ia Nmra-iiQOMH t ':;

•Mia ^

W . m maa t a- n m ^ ^ n i ^ f f m t n i b t , '

to preaeli Ika M ^ i m ^ Thia

viUankkaala^Wii f i^ i i i t tMt

r-Tha » « a b . » a f fe tnian eharvh ai« aoiae editea ea ttartl t o i ^ l •tfMta. Thia m O m M P n ^ t f M n eharehaa withia tfci«t a f aaafc othw . ^ g w a p i i l o f dkiiafca^

ba datri»«it«|

tha popalar .paaiof i

rial Praabneriaa eh«« l i „ fcttona leetaia o » •»-' crowded booaa

~ A aew Ib la ia ' Jk leliaihw*^'-iathe

Friday ataainp teaehaa vocal mnaie for tWMlr mia*(«a

to all the s t adan t i iw i t j i ^ m f ^

V*tmu> fie alio fcai prf,*!,

olaaaaa. Thia la < aa advaall^f ,

by no other Seminaiy. # I >Mta « i l

Pjwidlyoaghtto ^ fwM rfatw»«ad

Dr. Manly « l d laaK FriAjp awalai^^ any body that ean eaU hop^aaa

Wi'.'

—Thia y«ar there laa Jai«af ofatndcttta advaaeed i a yaai^wid la thenambarofyomigeramhMaMda<« ereaaedat a l l Thia aifelM tba n ^ of Samiaary trainteg ia bafat«0N felt by Biaa already ia tka aeUva alait^

try.aad aa tha need ia falt.tlMr iHU toy

toanpply the daSeiaaoy. S d M mm make batter preabhata by M 9m- K iag to. the ' ScnOaaiy - a a ^ X aoma wUI. by no l ' ' • ' ' kMi i ip ^ ^ laga rot a ibll aoaia . ,# ia i Ig t h , . l ^ t ^ o r i t y o f eaaai, a a d w l i ^ i l f e / t s l f t poaaibla, Man •atartag th» "" ought ttf taka a aoaiia afe>eoUagi aad # thaaat tha Swaiaaflr, wfcalfcar a ftUl eoaraa ot not, m daptai iltogMbir upon tha man. t% la baliiat man not (0 try for a lUl ooaiM. A d e o , it ia better for aoaM to jpktn a o M a a d

notto Aa^Swninafj. aad ftf a & t o ^

^ to (be Samiaafy aad adt to «bl* r

- r a a t a r 4 the " r l t i i ^ / b o ^ ^ " veoUoa ofthe CampbalUm'teeetiilHd ^

with thaebnrehoa Foattttaad iVIf . nut Noted man fnMB al) «far « ! • world ara p r ^ n i u Tka Coa^ t i o a . wiU ba la aaaaioa amak of tka waatr^ v #

-Tha ganaral opiaioa in Xoidavilla ia that Or. Batoa willaoMpt lha (MU NaahTllla, thoagl^ b i lua

hiiM^PBblialjria tagani io it^ ~WadttaMlair.aigkt J iC i . DiaUaioa

M M * Mst ia t witk Ma abamh ia Pai i lMd. Ba m aaaialM liy Bfac H .ETraax . • -

- D r . B . ^ Tapper l a a n t i t t M a a d ^ ta oow ragalttlr at .wotlu HIs M p t

".l-.X.!--

iffe- W "ll Ood'i

W« intf i i lnf all ihU dpiibt i|iid

• • . (few . •

Bttluoito'day.j. Then be oontent, u d

' ^ aod> p l ^ i . likeJWei pure tnd white. w l b l d ; . 4 W« 0 | i | t ^ . t m (he tender leavoa

tba oiiljpxos of gold. Mi id i fy tbv<>it|[h patient toil, we reach

m - the land Whew tlwd feet, with aandals looaod,

W h w wt ohall clearly know and under-^ - i taad , ' I think we will say, " Ood know the

heat" ' —Jft B . i { H Ihe EmngeUml Church-

I t ^ f i l - ma*.' ••• » •

m ^ D»lly Duty.

BY MASaABKT I . «IANU8TRU.

My friend and I were sitting in her

m-

•tr

h-: • t :

parlor, the summer evening ftUist MftJty fipom golden sanset to sUr-

^ J f t i ^ ^ W r d s orooning their vesper ' ^ I g U t t ^ ^ e maplea on the lawn, and

Al t b a V o f the household, in his cradle aoroM the hall, dropping into hapiiy •ie«p Mi4iwakeniBg BOW and then for a • o m M t 16 call "mammal mamma!" " Yei,^ i«ty darling, mamma is hero I " ^ mi%nH>ther would answer, and down «• t i » pillow would go the silken-eiow&ed head, the little heart quite sat-M a d with the hlcssed knowledge that l U ttokher was near. By and by. the baby boy was ftst asleep, and then we had ouftat t i f " T h t flWition with me," she said, " is not what I can do every day, so mueh ia what I oan leave out. I grow ap Ursd ot trying to round the measnro of every day's duty<tomitling nothing, sUghtilig nothing,^'yet fulfilling erer^ obli«aion, keeping my hand on every atring, being just what I ought to bo in each ralation. I rise early and sit up

and " - s h e hesiuted. the dark eyes fillingwith t e a n - " I w t t h e b r e a d of sorrow, for I am so unable to live up to myownideaL^' i

You are overworked," I said, look-ing at tha sweet flw. wiatfUIy, with the eompwhenslon of 'M older woman, who had M through the same sort of trouble a M oane out on the other side of Ana you are the vioUm of a morbid .oooMieutbttsiiess. There is sueKf;» ihiuf ^ ib^ ingover ready to wourga ounwlTea^fbr omissions and oommisrions, which we owe to bodily i n t o i l y . jThero is such a thing, too.

being nu|ttst to, and impatient with oat ' iowoioul ." t

n i n y interruptions," thslltt le woman, " s o many need-

le«iintiWtt|>Uons.'' t t , "A^fbrinstanee?." ! " p ftveiy houseUeper knows how tho

""•idk l i i A a m i s t i ^ plan as best she nwy, will fcrget that she has used tho l i s t e n of salt, of sugar, till the reryinstant t he s i i a t t n.«lod,or will mention thatbr^ad-is Wanted, or butted W M b« boughtv kt the most inedn-VMlint time for the purchase of theitf

Kveiy wife has had her e*. M i h ^ j i f Ihii hu'sbtnd'iftolHiy ill u a k i % wnrk'.at unexpected mo-ments; biriiiiing you a pair of irousdn pra ooatt<Kii^di or (leggin^ydu to piooo

Iwld farther a, little longer, and^thhi| wMyii, ju i t when your hands^'^ve al-ready fti I t#6v«flow. Bjfiiy'inother know* the ll9ur8ionji(>hI%en,darlltt|i

her worn. Ings aijd a l^dobi^^ Every won«n ilndrbow M ^ t it i i to d e n y h e M f to her ftiendi though they oonsnme time to ni> ^ d purpose, and if y^u f » n l to paint plbtires, write poetry, pontribnte to the papers, do any thing to influence the Iwger world life beyond

own doors, itreallylooka as though principalities and powers arrayed them-selves against you."

" W o are agreed," T said, "a re wo not, that the life within tho doors of homo is of greater moment, so far as our responsibility for it is in questfon ? One most take cnro of her, own little garden plot, let tho wider fields beckon as thoy may."

" Yes, by all means!" " Then, why not take tho daily duty,

however insignificant it uiay seem, as the heaven-sent gift, trusting that, in his own time and way the Father will make plain tho path to the more con-spicuous usefulness which allures, to the cultivation of the Ulent which is now apparently negleetod? I t is not certain that tho world will be tho bettor for any body's poem or picture; but ii one's husband is ncgleotcd, one's child antagonized, one's friend snubbed or wounded, tho little home world is tho worse. I havo often been struck with the beauty and pathos of the simple in soription, carved somewhere on tho stone over a lowly grave. I forget tho place if I over knew what was ito name, but I shall never forget tho legend : • She was so pleasant I ' I t is a wonder-ful thing,I' I went on musingly, " to bo pleasant in all ciroumstances, seldom ruffled, always glad to see all who come, always sending people from your pres-ence the bettor for their contact with you. Tho little daily duties, after all. are the true heavenly opportunities; they best test tho metal in character; in our meeting and performing them aright tho true heroism consists."

" If one could realiie it," said the little dame, doubtfully, "there wuuld bo comfort in such a conviction. But you must concedo that it is hard to give up the chance of writing a book which thousands of people might road and onjoy, because irour boy wears out his stockings at the knoo, or your girls havo the measles, or your friends per-sist in paying visits when they and you should be engaged in work rather than in desultory talk."

" A h I but fancy, dear, that tho boy and the girls were not hero for your loving oaro, or that they were afraid to ask mother for whatever they needed. Fancy that you had no fViends or ac-quainUnces to present the myriad claims of friendship and affection. Fancy, still ftirther, that tho angels sympathise in yopr efforts to make the home circle full of cheer, and think that tho work you find ready to your hand is of tho Lord's own appointment. Then remember that the apparent waste may bo a rich prep-aration for somo coming leisure in the by andby,andyou vrill noi be discon-solate. There Is a great deal in tho point of view I "

X,!'f M f i ! " " " " i d to light tho lamp and

<Ira t^ t l |y rUlns .~/« /<Tior .

^ spending tho afternoon r i s his aunt'sand for Bomo momenta had

ui J".

W gaainf out of tho window in a W ' W I y t h o u g h t s sort of a way. * What makes you io soriomt, Bobby ?

that I juust remember not to aak for •nd I ' m any thinir toMt,

ipemborltf'V/Hrfi'tt^rt i i/.

to re-

4i<l, W h e i i ' • t o ^ . w ^ h e ? p i w e flw doing olhwwiM/ o o n M ; a lfl*onT>yirhJoh all ^ profit^: g ^ d i j ' l ^ ^ go to Snnd^-a^liodl that »|ftif)»o<>nt " d at

hiilf A dMiin .vUmee resolved not to do so. I n ' fte llrit it WM rainin*', # itepidy down-pour, and Myw kuew .tbit shn was •bout to have a eoldi "he h«d fblt it eominf on ibr a week. Beiidei, nobody would be out in this driitle, and why should she act differently fVom others? Aa she thus reasoned with herself, her eyes fell upon the motto on the wall: " Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might."

The motto troubled her. 8ho was

trying to do with her might every thing she had to do. Her mother was dead, and they had only one servant; hence considerable

care of tho household fell upon her shoulders. Kvery day she preparod her three brothers for school, and helped Susan with tho work. Then she had her musio pnpils three times a week. On Sundays she had her class in the Sabbath-school.

Myra got up and looked out of tho window. Rain—rain—rain! Nothing but gray sky and damp pavements as far as eye could reach. She thoaght she might cerUinly mako herself comfort-able in her rocking-chair and read that interesting book she had begun.

But what were those words that sud-denly flashed into her mind? "Christ pleased not himself." That settled the question for Myra. She hurriedly got herself into her gossamer, put on her hat and rubbers, seized Bible and um-brella, and was off.

There were few at Sunday school, not one of Myra's class. She half repented having come out. But not for long. Tho superintendent came toward hor, leading a little boy.

" I found him sitting on the stops," said Mr. Lawrence, " just inside the door. I imagine he camo in for refuge from the storm. Will you take him to-day, seeing your class is absent ? "

" Poor little follow! " said Myra. aa she made way for him on the bench bo-side her.

Such a iittlo ragamuffin I His scanty clothing was but a poor protection from the rain, his boots had great gaps in them, showing his poor little toes, half frozen ; his hat was nothing but a rim. He was about six years old, with a bright, merry faco. Jlyra asked him his. name.

"Jemmy Danks," he replied; and then in answer to other questions, he said:

" Yoj 'm; I live on Ash street with my grandma. She tows for a man what sells men's shirts. I do n't do nothin'. Used to go to school, but my olo'os is worn out now. No 'm; I 'vo never beon to Sunday-school before. Yes'm; I '11 come next Sunday. Jesus? No 'm; never hoard of him. Bible? What ' s that?"

So you SCO Myra Baynes had a chance to work for the Master to-day, if never before. If Jemmy Danks could havo known of tho now suit of clothes, and tho good times coming to him during the next week or so, ho could havo felt oven happier than he did now. For Myra Baynes never did things in a one-sided manner. Every thing with her was whole-hearted. Many a time after-ward, when she saw the noble boy Jemmy had grown to bo, did she thank Oodthot shb pleased not horsolf that rainy Bunday.—

—" Huaband, I have tbe uthma so bad I can ' t breatho," " Well, do •r/ tOi my iQTe,"

i l n ^ OQ llttple ak^bV t h W i w r e n u ; r ^ ^ u r « s , mtny mla laka lad ihe

t « m p ^ to nbaudou^* Work, A kind mother uttervd w b ^ ef on-oonra^meut; nnd at )«n|tli. <mt o fa •uooMon of ^ I t t e k ^ f h m irew a p re t^ a ^ A of • qniat lakej refleetlig wooded heifhta and » bright aummer

For many y ^ the redly artistic picture delighted each o e o u ^ t o f t h e ^QS^ chamber on whoM walla i t hnng. mred eyes often rested gratefVilly on the sunny landaoape-«> small, and hung so cloae to the eye. that i u modest claim to merit was easily granted. But there came a day when the hospitoble homopaaaed into the hands of Strang-ers. Death had beckoned to Uie loving father and the busy mother, and at len«th the daughter, too, folded her del-

icate hands and went to join them. New fiiooBwere seen in the spacious rooms, and an invalid wis brought to spend her appointed days of suffering in the beau-tiftil chamber. And the Iittlo water-color fulfilled iU mission to thin stranger also, and breathed of peace and rest to the tired eyes so soon to gaze on the "sweet fields beyond the swelling flood."

The next occupant of the chamber was a bright, happy young sohool firl, whose vigorous life and abounding spir-it* sometimes led hor beyond the gentle ways of the perfect, fine womanhood that had been so lovely in the girl art-ist. And the dainty picture, so deli-cate in tone and color, so quieting in its peaceAil beauty, often checked the loud tones and the boisterous laughter, by an influence of which the girl was not aware, and could not have! described.

The girl became a noble woman and a happy wife. The picture, now quite old, was transplanted to a new home in loving remembrance of girlhood's days. As years went on, young eyes learned to regard i t ; and among them one pair be-longed to a little artist who lovingly re-produced the humble sketch which had never dreamed of such an honor. And still the work of tho patient child ih proving a joy nod a comfort to its poa sessor.

A man wrought a noble deed. IIo was a plain man of no education, an i lacking all that makes life beautiful save that which is in itself of inde-scribable beauty—a gentle, noble heart. Ilia days were spent in a ceaseless round of

common duties, whose homeliness he never knew because hia bnutifnl thought transformed them into Ood-given tasks. And so he never thought to be praised for his act of divine self-denial. But all about him knew it. The mother told it to her child; tho teacher to herpupihi; tho wife, to her husband, and wherever it was repeated it caused a thrill of Joy that snob a deed had been wrought, and a desire for higher living and nobler ideals. Chil-dren's children, in that small neighbor-hood where tho poor man had lived, hoard of the heroic deed, and told it with delight.

Both the simple skotoh and tho noble deed continued the same element of purity and patience, and were bom of tho same noble fidelity to duty. Those who wrought them, had no thought of their influence, broadening at the yeara went on. But to eaoh oame the same reward—the reward of all Aithfti) hearts.—//«fcn M. I f o r l h , ii» S m ^ ^ y i r h w i t T i m t i .

'r-KnowIedgo if proud Uia* be known so much; wbdoEO is )iumbl« that bn kflowa pQ more.—(;bl^|Jf^ '

Kb, S4 Wjjrt nftk A««iv*, XliMtilt*. t%wi. «.

J | «w I t B t f a n . . . r i t

Glass number one, only in fun. Qlaas number two, other boys'do. Qlsm number three, i t wnn't hurt me. Olsss number fbur, only one more. Glass number flve, before a drive. Glass number six, brains in a mix. Glass number seven, iktars up in h w e n . 01as« nuinbOT eight, stars in his pate. Glass number nine, whiiky—not wine. Glass number ten, drinking again'/ rtl.ws number twenty, not yet u plenty ? Drinking with boys, drowning his joys Drinking with men, just now and then Watting his life, killing his wife. Losing respect, manhood all wrecked Losing his friends, thus it all ends. Glass number one, taken in fun. Uuined his life, brought on strife. Blighted his youth, sullied his truth. In a few years brought many teara. Gave only pain, stole all his gain. •Made him at last friendless, outcast. Light-hearted boy somebody's joy, Do not begin early in sin; (Jrow up a man brave as you can. Taste not in fun glass number one.

—Selerlttl.

or iU.iuUw».tUt H i d hmS

t>»t thnfe whfle otmttai waa n ^ , n ^

on.

BBBSL OHUOBBH.

ny o. I. CEBVU8.

One summer Mrs. Corvus had the misfortune to be so ill as to require a complete change of air, and tho conse-qnonoe was that I was left in the city to Boch a " keeping house " as my daughter

Nan could manage. For her age.

T . ^ T J ^ ' " ' "ord inar i ly wc l. The beds were made proporly. •ndwo had our meals fairly on time but yet after all I missed "mamma" exceedingly, the more on account of tho responaibility. .nd the necessity I Win dwipUno with ^ .11 and Poll,kins. With my boy there w« bu l.ttle trouble; ho was eight m"" reasonable. My mam difficulty was with Pollikina. who was only turned four, and had a hcadBtrong disposition, which I pre-

««y»ho ^ k fVom mo. However t L may be hule a . she was. I'ollikins used now and then to turn stubborn. Mrs.

qoahues. but patient resolution is not

.he .nd Polllkina had fallen out. in which encountem-notwithstanding a h^ral use of slippem-the little one hid io managed as to cariy her point thinff. which, indeed, troubled mo ^Mtly. and had my mind made up to try my own sort of discipline tho first

1 tm not that «,rt of father. But let ae tell you wUtUppenod.

nffi . - ^ '"""0 from the

bwn wiriously misbe-

and done a I went dlrwtly to the nurteiy, not at

a S ' k . l S * ^ " ' ^ oudoingmyduty t i e Mwwonthefloor.amid

hormourt .Md.Iwaf trbilblad to ob-

I Mt down,

''ik

•6mebow gaAered from my manner that I waa not likely to be v«y brave. At •H evenu, when I had finished my litUe lecture on the abstract evils of the situ-•Uon, and had told her to go direeUy •nd put aU the books baok in their P aoea, sho astonished mo greatly by pUnUng both little feet squarely down, looking mo full in the eyes and saying daunUessly, " I w o n ' t "

Did you ever hear such " MUCO ? " I looked at Pollikins. and Pollikins looked at me, both unflinching.

'Wil l you pick those booksun?" said I.

"No , " Pollikins answered plump. putUng her lips together, and tho wick-ed look filling both eyes.

" Then I shall make yon," said I nrmly.

Sho began to whimper. " There is no need of crying," I went

" You are not going to be whipped, but to sit on this chair" (with that I picked her up) " until you are ready to do as I bid you. These books shall suy there on the floor till you put them back. I f j o u makeup your mind by supper time you may come down sUirs. If not, you shall have supper here, and only bread and water."

With that I wont away, leaving Pol-likins industrously sucking hor thumb, and in what appeared to be a "sUto of mind " as resolute as my own. Supper time camo. and 1—to give her every chance—went up sUirs again.

"Will you pick up those books now?" said I.

She pulled her thumb out just enough to iay " No." stoutly, put it back, and sucked away.

Not only would n't she pick up the books, but she al«o declined her bread. IIo idea no doubt was to distress mo, and this she did finoly.

At eight—her bed time—I sent nurse to Pollikins, who, though going to bed hungry, fell asleep directly, while I worried about her half the night. Tho next day. at the usual time. Pollikins. with a bright " goood-morning, papa," came dancing down the sUirs; forgetful of all that had passed, or. more likely, willing to let " by gones be by-gones," and to overlook my conduct. Of course, I kissed her, and then she was for go-inx into the breakfast room.

I stopped her.

" No, Pollikins," said I. " not until you havo picked up the books. Will you do it now, like a good girl? "

InsUntly back into her eyes tho wicked look came. She turned sulky directly, said "No," again, and, half famished, went obstinately back to her chair in the nursery.

I had business which took me down town after breakfast; so I went away leaving my girl to console herself if sho chose with dry bread. Pluoky aa tho little thing was, hunger got the better of her, and before I oame home sho bad eaten all there waa and asked for,moi o.

I think she was ashamed of this oon-cession to nature; hen waa a valoroua little spirit, and, even whll* deter-mined upon the subduing of it, I ad-mired and waa proud of her naolution.

B i t at last, when even I b e f a n t o b a uneisy, and the nurae waa in an agony ofaympathy, the danntlaai will gavn way. How it oame about t can not aay, or by what prooeaa of thoniht, or what emotion; but h the ibidowp of (hp Mp-

aha i , n . ^ a

N t w w aU the r ® ? ^ O W - I wer liMenlaa and hoping; When I i t a i # ~ < b r l did

Wpt." and, her aoft a m i oeck, whiap««I. amid bar t e « .

O i ^ I m a o w r y j I 'Ubogood.' '

revolt of every one of us toward Qod something Uke that of my liule girl?

How determined is the natural heart n IU stubborn will, ita reftiaal of the

loving humbleness be. our Father in heaven, asks! Then, when the pride and vanity of lifo are onn, when consoioua of our ftce will, and say It is our own, God anawen," No, dearobUd • you are not your own." Hear the words of the Lord: " I have called thee by my name; thou art mine.

' Notiiint i r l i g

loot i i u ^ bMtfriMd.** I M

wta to

He wojJd aoi km,m ^ B l i ^ _

Pf^KOA. I t ia afmnlr Mtj inf ' fa I t i ' P o A ^ t p h m U t i h Z j r ^ ^ ^ S ^ ^

J ^ w i a ^ n d y u r M ^ ^ H ^

TWaJa aU fc of i i fclb

What nboai o w M t t l i M n t , 'W W i H eaOaW w S J S home, t t n t f - i t r m i T Z S ^

n deception worked t k i w r f S I S I but beenua. h . k ^ S T w ^ ^ ^ l I f f ? .

f w l u b ! Tmly, I know that Ood does with each one of ns in this life the beat for each. He has left us in the dark, but it IS for a llulo while only, saying. " Be still and know that I am Ood! ' We 1 lire, and made *h» « w i . ^ — may be in the dark, hut he is the Li»ht. ^ waiUng ^n t inmi l i ; for tJe c ^ T o f t e p T u r i " ^

tationofyourdwio. |> A f r i e n d o f a i o o r e o m t b o i l M ^ ^

• selection from twi» l ikaa«swtak^I lL ' the aamo t i M I t o o T t E T J a E t wpreeented evoty-day lUb mA Jumm life, and made tfco romark. " W b r n ^ mul l T—HI •

ohild.—G^nffrfffatitmaUn.

A Baby'a AocompUahmenta.

The author of " The Five Talonta of Woman " has thus Ubulatcd a baby's accomplishments :

" A baby can beat any alarm clock ever invented for waking a family up in the morning. Give it a chance, and it can smash more dishes than the moat industrious servant giri in the country It can fall down oftencr and with lev provocation than the most expert tum-bler in the circus ring. It can make more gennine fuss over a simple biasa pin than its mother would over a broken back. I t can choke itaelf black in the

W h y i a i t t h a t w e g h t ^ ^ ; ^ •milea who earaa aotUiw l - j deny them to tboio w b o l e m t k Z f "SmUo a littU,

; ; i W0!»M» why." a a i d l i t t l o ^ '

That a not the way that X ahoiJd 4ow* S o m a n y t i a o a n d ^ l ^

I e'poae I'm wioni, but I do. ' lMO, iJ If yon were t u n e d right Into m T Z ^

Most sure to do my WI91» . •^JSluaittk ,

m

- m

; - " - in ine , . r ^ ^ Wimof face with greater case than the moat ae- » by i i t t inf w t i d b U M U oompli.,hed wretch that ever was exe- Wo m i r m t O m U cutcd. Itcan kecpafamilyina constant h b d W f ^ t f turmoil from morningtiil nightand night i b W m H Ull morning without once varrin* i o I fT®® ooMiltriat Ull tune.

morning without once varying iti I®® OOMiltriak e. I t can be relied upon to aleep U ' Z " ? ? ® " who tko rowmowloa ioS^

peacefully all day when ita fkther is i »» | i » i l iMo away at bnslness, and eiy persistently , ' know that lH i l i H y t at night, when he is particularly sleepy S t l T ' ^ u .i." ^ It may bo the naughUest. dirtiest. S - »»«l»«lf «f whom r f c liest, most ftetfnl baby in all the World, f ? but you can never make ita mother be- •• a — v . lieve it, and you had better not tit. I t can be a charming uid model laliint a fclJ^

.one la around,butwhk. | ^ i S i ^ t X i T T t ? ' — — -mwmmmm mwmmmm^ WU aAIVUQg 'dmMb

when no one ia around, but «hlM vis-itors are present it can exhibit mora bad temper than both of i u ponnlofllo-gether. I t ean brlghtoa up a b A m better than all thiifliraltiiroever m A ; make sweotor nuaio thjui the l a e o ^ . * ohastra organiaed; All • larger pfaoo la | i u paronta' brewrt than thoy kMw t l ^ — ^ had; and whrni it goea away it Muwi « —What w« aood Io do for greater vaoanuy snd laavo a gn i l a r J * o r l d o v « i y ^ ls topalM«M blank than all tho raat of the wnrld pat " ^ " ' togethsr."-ja«AiiiWfc ;

If - F a u l t e in life brMd ^ h n i i , . - • • •

Andthaae, rceipn>oaUy.tfeoM«^.

—To rulf ono'a atgor is wall; (0 pro-Tra| it ia bfttor.—.^leanff,

I —-_ » lOTiy am mp §riui both I Christ b i o

—Tho OOMOIOU ~ —w winwiVIHMVmip In QMBr fMMW

- O l V i

I M . . . • • I .

i f w l i n t i i s U o l ^

>tltbb' e h a r e l i , Q e 6 r / i ^

. ^ W ' ^ k i ^ inMt{D« w i t h t h e Qftr i i i« |vai«< ftt^, r e c e n t l y rn-

" W t f ^ t M Wl t f i t h # o h f a r e i rt i t t w i i . t l l c M L a « t h n r ia«a l t o f t t w o a w i ^ i W n f . V ' I t t t r l ' ^ . B . W r o s i g n ^ h U «|kMit« i i Q iM^aTiHe , T m m . H e h n V M T « t f l e d t o p A T i n ^ i l l e , T e x u .

r ( J M l i l n f inciwln^^ 5P»bor I n ' F d r ^ I i e o n n t y , G e o r g i a .

e l o M d t e f p e n t l ; w i t h n i n e a d d i t i o i u , a n d t h e e l i a i i ^ h f m t l j r t h r i v e d . • ^ I W r . X I C B H t t a n . D . t i . , U s e t t l e d

I b K t i a e w field l a ' i > ^ 6 r 6t t h e C e n t e r B » | ) t l a t d h ^ h , A v ^ t a , G e o r g i a , a n d i | W a l I ] p 1 e a a e d . " B a p t i a t S t a t e U o n v e n t i o n o f S l M t l t ' O a r b l i i i a w i n i t i ee t N o v e m b e r 28 , M ' t h e B a p t i r t o h n r e h a t F l o r e n c e . S b a t h C u o l i a a .

— B r o t h e r J . H . Y a r b o r o t t g h h a a b e e n o r d a i B e d t o t K e f a l l w o r k o f t h e m i o i s -t i r h j p t h e L i H l e B i T « r B a p t i a t o h u r o h , F a i r i l e l d o o i m t T , S o n t h C a r o l i n a .

• — B r o t h e r W . 8 . B r o w n w a s r e c e n t l y b r ^ e d t o t h e fldl w o r k o f t h e m i n i s -t r j r h y t h e P a b f o x S t r e e t B a p t i s t c h a r o h o f P r a s » ^ U , 7 1 a .

B a p t i a t o h n r e h w a s o r g a n i i e d a t t d i h l o n , A l a . , o n t h e f o u r t h S a n d a y i n G b p t e m b e r . B r o t h e r J a m e k S h a o k -ftHbtd w u c a l l e d t o i t s p a s t o r a t e .

; % o U > e r T . A . M o o r e w i l l U k o c h a r g e Of t i k ^ t w m i n i o n a o f t h e F i r s t B a p -

H a t o h ^ h , S a n A n t o n i a , T e x a s , o n t h e I t M f B i i s d a y i n N o v e m b e r .

' B n ^ l t o t ' W . A . J f t r r e l ! r e c e n t l y h e l d * m e e t i n g a t S a n t a c h n r c h . P a l o P i n t o

T e x a a . T h e r e s u l t s w e r e ^ ^ h t e e n i d a i t i o n s t o t h e o h u r o h .

• • ^ A g d o d m e e t i n g a t J e r u s a l e m e h n r e h , L o n i a i a n a , r e c e n t l y r e s u l t e d i n t w e n t y - o n e a d d l U d i u t o t h e o h u r o h — a i x t e e a V t w p t i s m , f o u r b y l e t t e r , a n d o n e rtiitoM:

- ^ A a i w h o u t « o f w o r s h i p h a s j u s t b e e n e o m p l e t e d a t A n t i o o h B a p t i s t e h a r e h , P i e k e n s o o u n t y . S o u t h C w o -U n a . a n d w i l l b e d e d i c a t e d t h e first S n n ^ l n N t W o t n b e r .

r - A n t h A r e n i l t a o f B u n i o n m e e t i n g h e l d l n B a ^ i ^ l , S o a t h C a r o l i n a , t h e B a p t i s t e h n r e h T M e l v e d t w e n t y - s e v e n h r ^ B ^ t a n ^ i B o i e i g h t o r t e n b y l e t t e r

Co t l egB , A l a b a m a , o p e n e d ^ t s i f t y a e o o n d a a M l o n I n I t a n e w , e l e -i M ^ I ttd j i a p a s i n g e d i f i c e w i t h 124 j>ni»U% B u d B e e e ^ B i t o I t s n u m b e n • r a s f r i T l n g B l m o i l e v e r y d a y .

, - n t W j B P t i p t o h i m l k B t H a r l e t t B , ^ . I N M m t o t B i M f i ind f l t o

Bi w r h o u s e o f m r a h i p . T h e \ k h B v i n g frwinent Booeas ions b y

B n d g o o d o o n g r e g a U o n s e v e r y • S a b b B t h .

m t . O . W . H i d e , o f M i a s o n r i . b e -UevBB t h a t Ibe i w o r k I n O n b * la t h e g a t e -i * B | ; , t o t i e C B t l r a U o w o r l d , a n d t h e h n r d e a t b b w , , t h a t B o u a n i s f f l b a a r e -oe lvBd IB f i rom t h e aalaBiona i n C u b a a n d

^ o ^ B w S j j ^ ' Q o t o b e r 7 t h , m ^ - . ^ J k o p l ^ U t e o f P u b n q u e ,

r e o o t n l i e d a i p a H o r o f A b F i n t B a p t U M b n r o h o f T o p e k a ,

.R !!* BBW j p a f t o r e n t e i w o n h i a

" ^ m B h t t r e h a t O r B o g e , T e x a s , h a s b M b y o n e o f t h e m o a t I n t e r -

ml* o f n l l g l o i i I t h a a e v e r e x -B r o t h e r A . P . O r a m a t .

m e l p M w e w I n t e ^ ^

J. N . P M d i o n e o e e d i B f W B ^ S f c n A n ^ n l * ; ' T # M . fiittoB h e t o o k c h i r » i t h e e h w r a h b u i l d i n g h a a n n ^ B r g o o B e h ^ o r a ^ r ^ n k l o a d d i t i o n h « ia b u i l d -i n g t w d t e l M i o n e b a p e b I n r a | » d l y g r o w -i n g p a r t s o f t h e d t y . T h i s m a k « i t h r e e m i s s i o n s t a t i o n * o a r r i e d On b y h i s O h u r o h .

— D r . I . T._ T I e h e n o r s a y s : T h e B s p . t i s t s o f t h e S o u t h w e r e n e v e r s o n u m -e r o u s iw t h e y a r e t o - d a y . T h e y n o w n u m b e r a b o n t 3 . 0 0 0 , 5 0 0 b a p t i s e d b e l i e v -« r s a n d m o r e t h a n 2 5 , 0 0 0 o h u r o b e s . T h e y a r e a b o u t o n e o u t o f e i g h t o u t o f t h e e n t i r e p o p u l a t i o n , a n d e x c l u d i n g t h o s e b e l o w t h e a g e o f a c c o u n t a b i l i t y , a b o u t o n e o u t o f five.

From Brother iTlna. M a y I g i v e y o u a s h o r t a c c o u n t o f

t h e w o r k d o n e f o r t h e M a s t e r b y t h e w r i t e r d u r i n g a t h r e e w e e k a ' c a m p a i g n ? I c o m m e n c o d w i t h t h e o l d N o r r i s C r e e k o h u r o h , n e a r F a y e t t o v i l l e . L i n c o l n c o u n t y , o n t h e f o u r t h S u n d a y i n S e p -tember. c o n t i n u i n g e i g h t d a y s , r e s u l t i n g i n t w e l v e b a p t i s m s , c l o s i n g o n S u n d a y e v e n i n g w i t h a s e r v i c e h e l d f o r t h e l i t t l e f o l k s , a n d w h i c h b r e t h r e n s a i d w a s t h e m o s t i m p r e s s i v e o f t h e w h o l e w e e k . F r o m t h i s p l a c e I w e n t t o B o o n v i l l c . w h e r e I c o n d u c t e d a m e e t i n g i n t h e M e t h o d i s t E p i s c o p a l , S o u t h , c h u r c h

' h o u i e , c o m m e n c i n g o n M o n ^ y n i g h t a n d c o n t i n u i n g u n t i l t h e f o l l o w i n g S a t -u r d a y . H e r e I f o u n d a n u m b e r o f b r e t h r e n d e s i r i n g t o b e c o m e a n i n d e -p e n d e n t c h u r c h , s o I a g r e e d w i t h t h e m t o r e t u r n a t a c e r t a i n t i m e a n d a s s i s t t h e m i n t h e i r o r g a n i s a t i o n . F r o m t h i s p o i n t I w e n t t o O l d C h a r i t y c h u r c h , i n M o o r e c o u n t y , a n d p r e a c h e d f o r a w e e k , a n d b a p t i s e d t w o p e r s o n a a n d t w o o t h e r s w e r e r e c e i v e d i n t o t h e o h u r o h . H e r e I c l o s e d a t f o r e n o o n s e r v i c e , a n d r e -t u r n e d t o B o o n y i l l e a n d a s s i s t e d t h e b r e t h r e n , a t 3 p . m . , i n o r g a n i z i n g t h e m s e l v e s i n t o a B a p t i s t c h n r c h , h a v -i n g t h i r t y - f o u r m e m b e r s . T h i s i s o u r d e a r B r o t h e r M o N a t t ' s field o f l a b o r , b u t t h e d e a r b r o t h e r w a s p r e v e n t e d f r o m b e i n g w i t h u s a s i n g l e t i m e , h i s w i f e b e -i n g d a n g e r o u s l y i l l M a y H e a v e n s p a r e h e r l i f e t h a t s h e l i v e t o r a i s e h e r c h i l -d r e n f o r t h e M a s t e r . D u r i n g t h i s t h r e e w e e k s ' c a m p a i g n I w a s e n a b l e d t o p r e a c h t h i r t y - s i x s e r m o n s , i n c l u d i n g t h r a e s e r v i c e s s p e c i a l l y h e l d f o r t h e c h i l d r e n , o n e a t e a c h p l a c e , a n d o n e s e r v i c e f o r t h e o l d p e o p l e , a n d n o w , a f t e r a l l t h i s h a r d w o r k ( t h a n k s t o m y h e a v e n l y F a t h e r ) , I f e e l a b o u t a s f r e s h a s w h e n I o o m m e n o e d . I m a k e t h i s l a s t s t a t e m e n t t o a h o w m y b r e t h r e n t h a t I a m s t i l l a b l e t o h o l d u p t h e b a n n e r o f m y L o r d a n d t e l l t o s i n n e r s t h e o l d , o l d s t o r y . I s o l d a l s o t e n d o l l a r s a n d fifly o e n t a ' w o r t h o f b o o k s b e l o n g i n g t o o u r S t a t e B o a r d , a n d t o o k a n u m b e r o f n a m e s f o r t h e BAPHBT ARO BK-FLKOTOR. l a m n o w i n H u m b o l d t e n -j o y i n g t h e a n n u a l m e e t i n g o f o u r S t a t e C o n v e n t i o n . S . C. EVIHB.

i s e

J . R . O H J I V B S & S O N ,

P t t O P U B T O l M ,

l o . 8 4 7 M a t a i « , I B I P B U . T B W . ,

Keep a FnKh aDd h \ \ M o

All the Standard I^atest Baptist publl-cationa.

All the best Baptist Sanday School books, helps and libraries

All the beet books needed (or Minis-ters' libraries and helps for the pulpit andatudy. ^

All the Standard Chnrch Manuals and Baptist histories.

All tile best Hymn and Song booka for Churches, Revivals and Sunday Schools, in both round and shaped notea.

I E BIBLE BEPOSUBT Will be made an especial feature of the House. All ^ e veir best and.'chpapest styles of Bibles ancl TesUmenta in all yeraions published in America wiU be fo^i here. The Double or Parallel Bible, the v e ^ beet for the family and the pulpit, will be a special^, and also, a rare and splendid line of lxK>ka for children and young people.

Our p u r ^ ia to make the Honee a Bible and Book Supply for agents and canvasMn where they can get easy terms, Urge discounts, and Save Freight. An ^ n t w a n t ^ in every association in the South. Address

J . RI G R A V E S & S O N . M e m p h i s , T e n n .

8 0 8 N O B T K 8 i n i ] f 3 S E 8 T .

WB oaUeapedBl Btt*nti<in to a few lead-ing bookB that WB h a ^ B BilBoted a« the veo- beat and which WB BBmes t ly deaire to g ^ into Bwry Baptiat family. Some of t ^ m Biro HA well known that Uj«y need aa ootnjneodaUon, and we only ^VB the prlfiea. But we call attention to the two following books, which are now ranking with our most popular books "Behind the Scenea," and "Before the

by lams, who was con-verted f o ^ the CongregaUonal to the Eaptii* Jaitlfc atory is capUvai-Ing," " r o t adul l pagiln it," " I t rank, first-ehus in polemic literature," u t some of the press commendations,

B4pU.m u d r ^ M O l i i m , W U d i S ^ ' ' «

^ u r o k I H f e t f t ^ B , g i , . L « S » i 5 B«MpM Why I am » Btpttot, P»iidl«t'n. h

ItfDWWdwDArt • JO ^ ^ ' l l ^ a f B o r ^ k i ' BIbU BMdlut, JTudnn Tiy l«

oJ « tricU OD diAttnt lubjMU, „ O M r ) / p U j T M . B«MIM for B«»ia lo( • BiptUt, Sliek TnUBlMol CIiU<lreiir„ ,.....„. Ho«r ChUdrMi nur Iw Brooiht to ChrUt, _ Dayton .7. Horoo!TruU,aiC. W.DobU

" • - • - rlor.....„

I v> I S O

so 10 10

lOjrII

t a t i . BOABI» PAID, CB«>IT to on our New Book.

i M u v f h r e a k k i • B k .

B R O W N ' S

D R E S S I N G

l» lb* old Veeei.bU PulmonMT B«I»«B." Onlkr

W l t t ^

MW87

•<m MM i M * « i b . a ^

ncOMi. All M w n . ^ t m * RipnlmM.iMi •••iMry. S M w a n i M M O M . Vm ta* tn* ai (mm, firiac

, B O O V t i l D I S O M .

C l ^ i

f o w l

pliMt to emtomitn fnw I i ^ M r t a n , at wiH>l«.

I g n r i ^ n i ^ . . Ko moner

Ub«nUna, JadioD Tkrlor..... »«m« CbritUao, J . a Mood; BaptM AnUion u d Otlwn Vlsdlcaud, J . B • ^ Ubwty of CktoKhaMM^

JArr^l. . ^ If)

B O O K S B Y D R . J . R . G R A V E S .

S jwn DbpcontlODi i j mi T h a O r w H r e n Whe»l u o P nbic* »Dd ProphcdM of Cbritt I u i n l cmmauDlon . . 7a tMdnwrkti in - j SjTtn OMomloktiooal Sermnot. J* Middle Uf* . 7J Trilwfinw . w <>«»?•««».. 10 Biptinn—tbe Aet 10 BapUim-BrUUoD to ItelTalloD lO B»UDg ind Prtokliis UnworUllj in

W E A L S O K E E P A Stock of the beet books and tracts from the American Baptist Publication Society, among which are the following: EapMit I ^ H r U b n r y . U VoU t» 00 CiOldiw'i JUbrarr, ••CUnao* and HaJlle"

Booki,10Vok. a ,vi BmnlBMkaasdOiidi,pMBaek Soto w Bapilrt Btorl Meth-Hl-Zr . . . ! ! . .

o - J " " " Baptiadn, XJ .Oonank . ^ I ^ O D S i ^ i a m

Manual «1 BapttShBilCyL;™^^^ UmaiMtarlw, by BnMdni

Clark, «a«b AldatoOaratloii Blood oi j m o i ::::: Way Md Walk, W. Andanon... . Chuwli Maooal, Pwdlatoa

M w r ^ ^ " i S * &t l« r io l I ) t imlaa lonWbI I^Mt i ' aDi p'^ i iio

n V M H BOOKS. gwthOT l y m l r t .

Kdllton"" " ' •» n«ap«j H jwBMnd iKiiVi^^^^ M OoiP|d H n a M 1, S. S.«, OoMolidatad; Baard,

I N i»

B I B L K S T I f

N j R a r t s / r j u j B , i i i N M .

r s . 'V i

1

ofi

J u f t • I S M f e ^ ^ / l p f o i t B b l O . . ^ ^ . ^ . ^ . Seve ra l p l I i ^ i k W B n ' d l s O i i i i ^ V j p ; t i e b r e t h r e n , B r o t h e r M r O , tiOVBliioe Rost tared s o q i * TBtjr I n s t n t O U v B I < ^ e i s , f i 'om P r . A l l e n t o p p e r , M o r e t a r y o f t h e F o t « i | i B M i s s i o n B o i i r d , R i c h m o n d , V s . , w b i e h . f v e r y c h a r o h w o u l d d o well t o h « v e a n d i n f o r m t h e m s e l v e s iu f i igard t o ooT field o f miBsfon w o r k , l i r o t h e r L o v e l a o a m a d e , a g o o d r e p o r t B r o t h e r ^ ^ i l l i a m ^ v k e r . o f B i g R o o k e h n r c h , m a d e a g r a n d , s t i r r i n g s p e e c h io s u p p o r t o f F o r e i g n M i s s i o n s , a l s o B r o t h e r C s r n e y r e f e r r e d t o t h e p e r s o n a l

k n o w l e d g e a n d g o o d n e s s o f m a n y o f o u r mi s s iona r io s a n d w a s a o l a s s - m a t e o f many w h o n o w a r e i n C h i n a , A f H c a , Mez ioo , a n d o t h e r p l a c e s of l a b o r .

B r o t h e r S , M . O u p t o n , o f S p r i n g f i e l d , who wi l l a i d P a s t o r C a r n e y i n a p r o -t r a c t e d m e e t i n g , m a d e a t e l l i n g s p e e c h 00 r e l i g i o u s l i t e r s t u r e , s p e a k i n g i n b e -ha l f o f t h e Foreign Miaioa Journal our h o m e field, t h e We$tem Recorder, a n d n o t i n a n y w a y f o r g e t t i n g t h e goOd t n d w o r t h y BAPTIST AND RKri,KCT(»!i. O u r h o u s e w a s w e l l filled, a n d h a d i t not b e e n a r a i n y d a y w e c o u l d n o t h a v e 8oat«d t h e f r i e n d s w h o c a m e t o see a n d w o r s h i p w i t h u s . O u r c h u r c h h a t b e e n s t r i v ing h a r d j t o r e p a i r , o r r a t h e r r e b u i l d o u r o l d e h u r e h h o u s e . B y t h e h e l p o f God w e h o p e t o h a v e i t finished b e f o r e t he co ld w e a t h e r s e t s in . M a n y k i n d f r i e n d s h a v e s e n t u s h e l p . B e t h e l , K y . . o h u r o h is t h e b a n n e r chus-ch i n h e l p i n g , u s h e r a i s e d u s a s a f i e c - w i l l o f i e r i n g i r 2 0 3 5 . T h e y h a v e a g r a n d m a n a s pas to r , B r o t h e r E . N . D t c k e n , a b r o t h e r o f t h e d e a r b r o t h e r w h o c o n -(laoted o u r p r o t r a c t c d m e e t i n g l a s t f a l l , i b t h g r a n d m e n . T r e n t o n , K y . , g a v e iM #5 .10 ; P a m b r o k e , K y . . $5.90, a n d •cvera l s m s J I e r g i f t s .

W e k i n d l y a s k y o u r p r a y e r s a n d ol ' t h e d e a r r e a d e r s o f t h e BAITIBT AND IlKKLxrTOB, t h a t G o d wi l l b l e s s u s in our s p i r i t u a l u p b u i l d i n g , a n d t h a t a l l rosy bo b u i k u p u n t o t h e g l o r y o f O o d . H e l p a s , d e a r b r e t h r e n , i f y o u c a n . " u r p a s t o r h a s l a b o r e d h a r d , w o r k i n g with h i s o w n h a n d s t o r e b u i l d o u r house, w h i c h w a s a l m o s t a r u i n when B r o t h e r C a r n e y c a m e h e r e , but w i t h a l i t t l e m o r e h e l p wi l l be r e s t o r e d t o s t i l l b e t t e r c o n d i t i o n than e v e r b e f o r e . O l d B r o t h e r R e u b e n Hoss w a s f o r l o n g y e a r s o t l r p a s t o r , t h i s is n o w o n e o f t h e o l d e s t c h u r c h e s in a l l this c o u n t r y , o r g a n i s e d i n 1810. A n y th ing d o n e f o r u s w i l l r e c e i v e d u e n o t i c e in o u r p a p e r s i f n o t o t h e r w i s e o r d e r e d .

SUBRCRIDEB.

•J'

F A R M

A j l O C ^ E T T . H A R T S V I L L E . T E N N .

DO no « U T D o t o o w t n

T e a c i e r s ! h W .

8 0 l T n E R . V B c n o o t . A t i m M t ^

2 43

Our Olub KBtB-PlBBIB BOBd.

On account of the consolidation cf tho two papers, and the consequent greatly increased expenses, and in re-"pousc to the urgent request of a num-ber of our best friends, wo have decided to uke off our club rate, of one dollar •nd fifty cents in clubs of ten, and make tho uniform price of the paper hereafter two dOllara to every one, except minis-ters, Whom we will continue at the same rate of one dollar and fifly cents.

Remember that you are getting any-how for two dollara the two papers in one, whereas you had to pay four dol-lars for them separately, or, at least, threo d o l l a r

^ u t , WB w i l l l e a v e o p e n o u r o l u b n i t « u n t i l J ! foy«a ibe r I s t S o t h a t I f y o n w i i h t o g f i t u p B o l u b , y o n m u s t g o i m m o -d l a t e l y t o w o r k . W B w a i t t o a e e H o w BBNY BM BBXlOOB tO BBOTTTB t h e P T — for oBo j o l l a r Bnd flilir o o n t a . ITon d o BD W N o T « m b e r l A A f t e r H c h o n e m u a t p a y t w o d o l h r s .

L E A D I N G P O W E R

O f t h e TBTlons B a k i n g F o w d e n t U l n s -tTBted f ^ a BctOBl t e a t s .

BOTAL(PUK)I O r a a f s * (Ahim) ...m S o a f l n d ' B * <(Mi). . . i H a a i M ^ <»iiaB fruh). C h a m * (Alum Powdtt). J i O a v b ' * and 6 . X.* (AboB) Bi Olevaiaad's Pioaaar(aaB ftaadaun Osar D r . M M ^ l fcow Ilaks (OntTs) Coaghw.-H e s t a r ^ O l U e f s HaallHd'B(NoiM Sacb).»ben notftadl rsarKAadrawaftCo.) "...„ B o a i M ' S • (PheqilMtt). »b«a Mt rraA

B e p o r i B o f G B v e m n e n t O M n b i B .

Tbe I b e ^ b l

o i l l W i ' i i Y d ^ M

THE O Q i n O K E S T a m l

CLfARANi.E ,Ai£ J U N E • AUi .

1 8 8 9

ORGANS

_ WMTKFFLF PttaoaanlOtt tM

Mua t b « OlOMd Out »y AMKmt I.

Ktw.Mearff Mtm.and Prim* Stcond-hand T « K n i R - u e H A N a i

, *nd iB*d* oe*. In oor r»|>»lf fMlur*. ^ MUBT B I L L ! OutHboMUwm. NnroMo. 2-* tflKM I Jtnif Trrmt' Writ* for BuisIaSbMl. U I O O E N i B A T E S • A V A N N A H . O A .

r ^ '

THE E :

I S M O Q ^ ^

—-AND—-

' I f l o i s y i j e i r l l f l e a o s s f i

-w.ewSBlSWeilBe. AB flOeiB DOB OOniJ _

Ife. iiaxar A. moWTM. »., pit d.-Z'®?'^ B r t ' n s Powder t« parcat in qnalltr

"WM. McMtiarunt. Pb.D." • All Alnm Powden. no matter bow bleb tbelr jtrennth, are to bo avolilMl aa ibwanrooiL PhiMphMe pnwdern Ithmtte llmir iru too fiSoIr, or under (Oltullo chanfee aalfer deterlunttou. 8aowl4

I r a i l w a y .

MlttolSSIPPt VAIXBY BOUTK

N e w Y o r k & M e m | h f e i

c a r i v i ^ a M m a n P a l a e ® B ^ s i a e p i D g o t w . " " "

KNOXVILLE,TENN. I J . A r t . ,

c iUTTAwo<)o4> Tt i r i t . :

[ © F R E E ®

miiM can eaaUr an<f qalokir [earn to out and maice anr gar-S.'SiSr.Ji''/.?'" "•"Id. Addmw IMOODVB CO. CINCINNATI, O.

SMWU

futt's Pills C U B E C O H j m P A T I O N .

H M I T U H L G O N B T i n T I O N •»«»

BOLD IVJUtY WHBBB.

THE POPUUR LINE nKTWKEN—

MEMPHIS OHEBNVILLE;

VICK8BURQ. BATON ROUOK,

and KBW ORLEANS. Traver s ing a Magn i f i cen t a n d Eve«i PIctur .

e s q u e Count ry . - p H E Il ea and Muxar PlinUtlon('.,ad i i w t nuu-II . I f l n w l M DOtttb of

nBTWKBK M,»pb l . . b . Ho. * panN Ihroiigh mfu« of tb« anMt Oottoo I^tanitlon, ID tho Vaiyo-MlMlMlTOl"ni l i rX MHb •Nttlon of country on ' T ' U k R<|(ilpinn<t and Hiriioal Obndltlon of ifea .1 "2f ' J * '"«• '0 •»«T parllflular, p m a l t .

' T O t i B l k r rtOBBts at nduoMl round trip latM

CVlfo';:,.':' " I^AUNIFUHCMT Parnaaa BuRbt naaplM C m

pA«<iKNOEBS ibouia parahaaa tloktti via tlilt Una. f t la ••pbatlealljr th« moat a t lneUt*

ronte ID tba Sontll LO-4ar,

a<ld?!ii '" ' B .B. l tADBir , J i i , , '

Tr*». Pmm. AfU, ^ p b l a , T « B . . ilr R. W. UOW,

•itnenil PHaNS(M> Afn i t , P.B.B{)OEBS,

r-itfnfnatfliiitial rawBui i I n i i i . J.«. MJWABDB,

VtawPw^ a«« . Itaa., I taapMa, T m m

R A I L W A Y .

WTBB

S h o r t l i n e

TO RMT KABIV ' 4 . , li.ili ..II , I t

O o u b l i O i l l y S l i i p l H g ' ^ ; ; , - J - J

/t-.i ' ' jM B a B t T B n . « r i

Q S B A T

S c e n i c S h e n i n d o i h V « I l e P f l o i t t « i . A ' ' '

I t w.wumn, o . t. a a i w i Agtu t B r n H U n a A. 1 > ; M D B | 0 U ; A. 0 . R

I kl " 'T' ^ f h

m

bMr'l ia torn Mrf blMdlnt, thovgli it Nemi

., tb« if wjth liiia, But I « l ( l p Mt iMlp titlidtlat t l»l ih«r«

W j ^ f o o d «iraiilQ«C«tl)olIo "mm of. tlimi «Bi«r ills priilii-

. of their Mwids; «ad MOW throngli a taato for

ji liUnfaivt^a^d MM*. «o dkrabt, throofh nUlMtt t M U a w ^ (br Ihvf knov Bti^iif i^dM mrnnV' #

oia. hftiriiViij n»a ii t pklDter. Whta he f)«iM wr^dng to o«r mesUo«s tk« Ti«Il Ol prfMl W went to bl« MB-ploym Mid told tbom thst lie ww »

Ud nun; that he attended the Baptbl meetinci, and that thejr mnat Bot fii^pf^ lilm, He baa been a long tint^iiiUag up hit mind to be bap-tiaei^bnt i M j p fotten the Tiotorjr at iMt Ihia voMti with the ehild in her ar i l , thongh aaffering great triaU, •aAeta the ohildren of her neighbon

' Mien the veraea whieh they , -ilittleSabbaih-aohooI.

t'owld teli 70Q mnoh more, bat we noafc go home aoroe time to-night.

O r BA F T I B T BO O K H O O B I ,

Nwhtille, Tonnoasoo,

f W o l f f ' s A C M E Blacking

w o t F r f F

ir4KTE|> ON

SALABT.

"rr

M A E Y S H A B P CO IXEGE ,

Winohester, Tenn. ThU mowMd initliutioi), known u ih* •• Wn.

jome Ume to-night. hSS^JS^EJ"' ' •«•»«««•«* wp Hor to^j Bvwu noche$. Tndriamot mueho .^wj^yolTin (bM ud moitrapwiwcwi

0Mfo M ver a vtieiUi m toda$ nufHroi J ^ ^ i ^ X Z S T o ^ , l l d . . uu ^ P l ^ ^ That ia what we | g ^ r ^ ^ ^ r l ^ ^ ^ ^

ooeopi

S T A K D ^ R D GAtrc^X!

St Lonla. Arkaaaas, aai Tezu By.

The Short Lino to all Points IM

T

alwajra aay to tbe neweomera. It means litmllf, "Oood-night We ahonld , - - r - — u

in aeoing year wor-

Daily Trains -Fnou<

Memphia, Arkansas, St Texas, VU O

^ i l a l m Md l aw Sal«n.

Aaaoeiation, it will be romom-at ita laat meeting, appointed a Ittee of ftre to raiae fnnda on the

aetelanhip phn. (wbiob waa giren in a l f paparof Saptamber 18th> and oon-

Fountain OocUiB, Smlthyille, Tenn., for Salem Aaaodation.

Naw 8alem Anoeiation, by request, at ita Noent meeting, appointed a like commtttes of Bra to act with Salem's committee.

Thaae oommittees are ready to give deaired information and receive dona-tiona.

These ooflfmitteea will meet Novem-ber 9th, at 10 A.M., at Prosperity ohurch, near Auburn. They urge the friends to thia move to make known their wiahea to aome member of the oommit-

16 thia time, aa it ia desired to delUie^ determine and arrange the work at thia meeting. It ia expected that eaoh ttember of the committees makf it » point to be present All flrienda are inrited. What we do mnat

quickly or the opportnuity pLN^-'

Salam'a committee ia: Julius Will-iuna, Headeraon'a Oroaa Iloada; James YoMif, Cottafo Home; William Bobin aott, Forka-of-Pike; J . 0. New, Wood bimf r . M. Bowling, SmitbTille.

IlM i , . T. J .

V U ^ 0M$g9t J . D. Jones, Shop Spriiif; J . A. Barrett. New Middleton; JeaaiarH. Baird, Hickman. William

a-u

h ^ S d wJSuSJ.yii'if'?! 's'" "p®" "••Co'-

onrt?"* Mt«i«lM and Uwikinf thor-UmnrtMUMd f«r bfaltblulMM uid baautT

,„ By ordtr of BOABP TnnCTKES.

C A T A B I CREAM BALMl

CleaiiM)* the NMMI I>MM>C«*, AlUjrs Pain nnit InflAinmntlon, UMU« the Sore*.

n#«t4>rei the Heaie* of Tiute

«n<l Hmell.

H l o i t o q B e l t i iof l (e .

Free Reclining Chnir Cars. Pullman Buffet and Sleeping Cars,

fV>r Bain and Train flerrico apple to -Wi W. A. Wl«iri*u>, o. p, ii., Xi*arka»a, T«a». W. R. UouuoM, Com. AgMt, a lP.WAWi«,T*aT. A«t, U HadlaoQ St., Memphl.

TflEoiLYuis BmnnG iiouD m i l s _ awrtiwni ^

l O m s V U L E H E I I P E I S WltB

uDnmis. mmnu, n m m a ahd IKV OILIAn, IBIPBU.

« moo a. m., SSKS " • P- •»;. A?"?! wnm l4»qUt<Ua at T.oTI • 1 ralT a nisbt'i rid*, and ctvaa aa mUM d» dv'frt^SJT'" /

111* pralmid lonte f« point* in Wat

w a ««»•««»» eranri.™ awldS M««phWlW. Poplar and FioX Buiiu.

8outfc..Pa.,, Af.nt. Om. l-aii. A«nl. UmiMU*. Kr. Memphia, Taan.

T A K E T H E

Illinois Central — • ' A i y R O A D . —

If You are Going

a s r o R T H

OTar tba

I L L I N O I S - : - C E N T R A L AIK AOnNTS von IT.

OKLf;AJNS

TRYTHECURE.)

^LY BltoTHKKi. M Warran 8t., New Vorkf"''

uee rrescen' » R O U T E ^

^ Savannah

A ' S * VIS . . - •

R A I L W A Y ,

If You are Going

SOUTH Or''""", t kllfornl., Florid., or

Boulbaro T«xa« poluti, Mcur* fourUckeU o»er the

I L L I N O I S - - C E N T R A L TAKH aoan OTHSR.

S n n d a y - S c h o o l B o o k s .

UttSi tai dOlM • t

ioda;r*l oorai

uaand A Mm

M

P»rt uiT"tUa-i;'it: I«r

Perdoaan . Baoda r ;

BluaandBad'

fcooia I wit-out

so

wpica lunilfiiad

doaan

J BAnur BOOI HOUSE.

D o T o n W a n t A G o o s e ?

0 B L G H E n C A L C O . ,

N O R T H W A R D .

ONLY 11 IIOUBS

Chattanooga to Ginninnati /

S O U T H W A R D ! —TH« ailOBT UHK-

Cliattanooga to New Orleans I TIMB. 17 HOURS.

TRAINS RON thronih without EH.osa.

Ballwajr ataiiNTapart for potnia In

Texaa^^Mexloo. C»ilifomla. And tbe Far West.

For ralaa, mapa, als., addraaa

O. 8. BARRBITThiv. rua. Agt.

f D U I i N B r a T S W o i ^

Beat AcoonadaUona and EqnlpmanU.

O

Tbe Shortest ft Quickest Ronte. <* o

Oriam La., oObn 8h pnan aiS Oonilnian of

latuaTtiiroDgh bill. |JJ\"»jW I'««™««w»mUatoandfroBiall Impor-

Tn obtain rrompt and Qnlok fierrl a, ord«r four SblpmanUnutadTl.:

The Illinois Central Railroad.

Uon 'apSli "*'' A. a MAN80W, O. r. « T. A., Chloaio, III. A. J. KKAPP, Aaa't O. F. A P. A„ Htnphli, T.iid n. TUCKBn, O.P.A., Vottbtrn Un«, Obk»(o, III O. R MOREY, O.P.a. 8ou. Unaa, Saw Orlaani, U T. J. HUDSOK, Trafflo Uaoa|«r. Cbleafo, III. M. 0. MARKHAM. Aaa-tT. M Cbleato, III

JLLANBY, Oiv. ItM.. f. M I L I ^ TIakM Aai.

CbattAnoosa. J n a c o a m t , D. Q. Bdwarda^

Mail. Manattr. Oan. P»a». nni Tk'l AaL, ouraMMATi, ottia ,

I CURE FIT8I i M

sre Mw itndy. | wamuii nqriwiMdv to oura tlw I. Baoauaa otbem luktWailad ia DO

li

ws

TIm filllowinf prognmrnt W adoptad:

1. Wliat ralatibn doaa baptiam ana-tain to aalration?

a Wliat ar« Uia duUeiof pastors ani deacona to a obnroh ? '

a What ar« the dntiea of the mam-ben toward the paatora and deaoona ?

4. How ahall »« fulfill the law of Chriat in helping to bear each other'a burdeoa?

5 Qaeriea. <

Sunday-aohool maa« meetinip. 7. Sfiationa. Then tha digcuasion of the i|uoatiooa

in order beaau.

QaMUon No. 1 wm introduced by 0. W. Glan, and diienased by 0 M »orrld W. H. Jordan. A. R KmewoD! John Mardangh and C. C. MoDaniel All wero agreed that baptism was not to secure salvation, but waa a manifest-ation of

an obedient heart. No. 2. Introduced by Brother W P

I>«y. Discusaed by Kidera W. H. Jor-dan and C. C. McDsniel.

No. a Introdnced by Brother A. R hmeraon, and diacnased by Elders John Muriangh. W. H. Jordan, and C. 0. MoDaniai.

No. 4. Introduced by Elder C. C. McDamel, and discusaed by Elders W.

Jordan. C. C. McDaniel. and Brother >V. P. Day.

The subject of missions was post-poned until Snnday.

The following query wa» then read and discussed:

No. 5. Query. Did Judas ,«irukc of VU . . T ' """PP®'^ K H l>orris and W^l • «Poko in the affiraativo and KIdcrs W. H. Jordan and C. C. .Mc-Daniel in the negative.

No. 6. Sunday school ma*, meeting 'Speeches were made by H. M. Jlill-««ead,superint«ndent of Walnut Grove Sanday achwl. and by Elders John Mur^ugh. W. H. Jordan. Brothers E. H. Dorris, W. P. Day. and T. F. Dor-ns, and Elder C. C. McDaniel. John A Vaughn in the chair.

AKTBRKOON SKBSIOJ*. Assembled at 1 o'clock by singinjt

I'rayer by Elder C. C. McDaniel. Query No. 2 waa then read: Why

should we restrict the Lord s-supper to the ohnrcb celebrating it? Dia-oa . ^ by Brothers W. P. Day, George

Vincent. J . K. Mc Dm el. W. D. Siler, and Elders W. H. Jordan and 0. 0. McDaniel.

No. 7. Missions. Elder W. H. Jor-<lan made a speech on miasions, urging the churchea to carry out the plans of the Association.

Thus ended one of the most harmoni-ous. instructive, and interesting Fifth

H . "

W q « y i lELL FOUNORT.

kVANOUZKN 4 -nrrClMinMll.« I-4S

mis county. The speeches were able •nd exhanative. Brotherly love pre-vailed. The Lord waa honored; his osuse atrenitthened, and his truth sus- > T«INED. E . H . DORRIS. Moderator.

Oto. M. DORRIS, M . D.,&n*/ar.v.

mis county. The speeches were able •nd exhanative. Brotherly love pre-vailed. The Lord waa honored; his osuse atrenitthened, and his truth sus- > T«INED. E . H . DORRIS. Moderator.

Oto. M. DORRIS, M . D.,&n*/ar.v.

l-IT

CoRsnroption Permanentry

Can Be CuradL*

OBITUABT.

MRS. INIZ TRAII.. WAth baa again Tbltad tha Baptiat

«httr«h hara in Tnllahoma, and thia unu ha haa taken firom ua ona of our •tetara, Mra. Inaa Trail, who died hare aeptaaibar aotb. 1888. 8ha waa bnriad »«MShalbyvilla. 8hawaaapiona.«oa-woratod ChriaOan. and a davotad wife. «ha leaves many flrienda and ralativaa.

•eesniataa. taa tataw ssHywiiJaiS

«ns R irtMa aa ellNr iMdldMa kaie MM aai ivM^atefmlNiealMaawaaflartapkaML « • i sfrttMiftaMseMwanrseanMiak.lto*.

S L i l C O M I I I W T O I I l A S

I ta^ Mrs. r.t. OtiMti.MeiHMMwaaysMM' e< Nf. At aHM kr IMIMM. ksmi

OBITUABT.

MRS. INIZ TRAII.. WAth baa again Tbltad tha Baptiat

«httr«h hara in Tnllahoma, and thia unu ha haa taken firom ua ona of our •tetara, Mra. Inaa Trail, who died hare aeptaaibar aotb. 1888. 8ha waa bnriad »«MShalbyvilla. 8hawaaapiona.«oa-woratod ChriaOan. and a davotad wife. «ha leaves many flrienda and ralativaa.

OBITUABT.

MRS. INIZ TRAII.. WAth baa again Tbltad tha Baptiat

«httr«h hara in Tnllahoma, and thia unu ha haa taken firom ua ona of our •tetara, Mra. Inaa Trail, who died hare aeptaaibar aotb. 1888. 8ha waa bnriad »«MShalbyvilla. 8hawaaapiona.«oa-woratod ChriaOan. and a davotad wife. «ha leaves many flrienda and ralativaa.

a ^ ^ l i a l

eunaiTe power anperior u, a ^ f w ^

Purif los t h e B lood

iui{«Mioii, awt gtm utrentiti to oraaaofttabod,. J t m u i T X o ^ ^ «»««» of Bcrofula, Salt Biwum. B i ^ v C ^

Wo^. Bnpopala; BiUouraeia, U e S T Kidney and I4»w Ctol»ptaii,u. c i t a m ^ ^

that

for catarrh and Impure Mood than anything cl« I tu^d." A. BALL. S r ^ ^ Y ?

Creates an Appetite h i Z T l ' to ewanaa m, b^andtonoupmyayatem. Ugawmei aoc apj tlloand .«m«i to boUdSToTw.-B. M. lUus. Uma, Ohio. "I took Hood's Sarsaparflln for caneerona

hu^r and U began to act onUk. •l»«. It cured tbe huoMr, am seeiwd to tone up tbe wbolo body

Send tor book jlring •tatemea^TcSer

Hood's Sarsaparilla

too Doses One Dollar

Yka FORtMOST 8TAN0AR0

COTTON o - W

or THE

W O R L D

GEO. M. BATTEY. ROME. GA

n r a DISORDERED LIVER Tnr l E E O I M ' S P t U S .

26ct8. a Box. oar uuAa

BAU

mi . i • maM^*

•'if blinitttfM^'' "

'm

i»A«imt__ • ' 'liW

T»

'J-fcv t

T H S O B O O L A W W O R W A O O »roog w jABtB aroMutiOK moacA^TOi

• OJH T.

j-jG^Mi

a

tf c/c

m

i n c UNiiiAQO, R06 I I S U M D i P l O i m M f t W l Y . "noa-braaohe®

-J Cfty, WtdBo ooKUitltutes —mnn^Z^

MACNIPtCBMT VESTIBtlLK ani

t^ratnar a«»tloiM Colorado Bar Bad •ndc -Colorado.

City and St.. priotM.

t ST. JOHN,

Bm^^mm h d y $ 2 . d 0 Ftor T e a r . l U h s a f l w

IliK^I ip'

1 V -

•-"•'J',

a twnl niuo jfit ^ ^ I t ^ n ; M d > r a u i i i i ' witiln^ to-

bf MiMioDMty B t p t i s i i l ^ ' t t f | o to tli | i . |>lft^ Iby

who war* QiRTinf Ml « Uitre. I ^ j ^ r l m t a a i i t

M d t W i t a d l / n -M l m f ' ( i M v w A th« t i n * we

i l r t i i ^ w O t f A np, A« 6 . I t e ' o b t t t o j l t ^ t u ftr •

W d l , i<ad tb« brothraii « • k«aiNHni iMkiof f6r t M d {n m a l ^ l ^ , ^ i n f o m ^ Urn t b i t ; w ^ i h e mM^ if h t i v ^ t d tiring of W b ^ a i e a , w o ' W d U 00 l i i i d with U u . T h e

^ joue t in r ooniiaMd to grow in i n t e r a t . Tber* w«|:fi Mme coovenioiu ftt home u d ' M i B f j ^ tbe . eoBf re i^ Many

. , I « |o , imd l i f l ^ o t Bore, were worlEed

' . CkmpbelUtef were fi>r theniMlvef, and

^ ' ^ H a r d Shell " g o t the i i n ^ an boa r a t home

a a a who w u aaid tow to ^T^^ him.

kiodneM t o i u eonld j h t e r waa a t lit hand for

awi great in-preaehed the

fr(» > h e t e s t ^ M a k e aU _ to the p a l M t a h o w e d

Wottat." afl«i>wh{eh the H l D . w h l o h h a d m e t

t h b point, reeeiTod aeven Saturday m o m -

pnaenee^ of a large erowd, i ( m i l t in h a p ^ . Some

the pleaat. do not be in a ewr any one bap-

^ t i led C l i iR l ipBd I want to aay, Jnat here, t w t l l i l l ioo tde are an intelligent • • d edieaied people. The Lord being wilHttg^Wt • i p « e t t o u e e t t h i a people

t k e ftnrtli Sabbatli in thia montb, to oigialse a tihiiroh, after whioh we w i U g i f * t h e f l a a l r a e a l t ThiameeUng e o n t i n M i f A e « l days and nighta.

'iPilMBW AMD AtHtOCK.

I J p j j ^ g t M t e v e ^ l ^hown that th« M J n S i i i

, v j ; . inexpesaiv beV aro pr<hrer

eityi who will forward them ' lo any ad-,

I f yon not ^ ^ t h e elettant fl06 Ohnroh.irtreet, do.ao now. They a n ^olTering the mwnol finiah oablnet

broke

m their work.

" I can not^praiM Hool ' a S m a p a r i l U

by th la m e d i i ^ e . l ano tbe rwiu i iMaon . aorofiUa, 0 1 ^

• W H i ^

laa^i

i w i e i

F i m - ~ A l l F i t a » t o p p e d f r e e by Dr . K K n e ' a N « m r t«M«rer. No fiu a f te r firet day'a w f c Marrelona onrea. Treatiae and^iaOO trial botUeiVeeto P iU oaaefc Send to Dr. Kline, 031 Aroh i t reet , Philadelphia. Pa . 13 O o u a m p t i o a S u n i y O o n d .

To the^ Edi tor r P leaa i inform yonr n»»d«ri tha t I h a r e a remedy for oonramption. By Ita -timely wm thooaanda of hopeleoa oawa hare been permanently onred. I ahall be glad t o aend two bottlea of my remedy r a t i to M y of yonr readers who have eoniamp* tion i f tj^^y will w n d ®o their E x o t i m M d P . O. add re» . Reapectfnlly T. A. Sloonm. M. C.. 181 P e a f f atreet. New York. 4 - 3

I —.^oottipliiJnij

i S T g i y j p r R E E

ttenmrtiuparlorwMdWiM i m m In MUIImm ' of IMHBM tar Hor« (bM » qnutM^ • Mtiirr. It by tiw Wf Ka.

d o n ^ j r ^ k M & s t tiM OiMt Oalvml im M

WMW TOM. OUIOAOOk W. LODIt.

r - i i

P O R T R A I T E N G F ^ V I N O .

s o M E n i i i i G m a r s s a i a

I W I I I K H H V 0 1 I C B &

I-

»iiMta<'>^yiHa ettre aiek headaohe. i^of t h e infamenation and _ e d ' ^ a o o l d i n i h e h e a d " potenoy in BIy'a Cream i^itiy th ing elae i t ia posai-Thia preparation haa t a ^ . g a brill iant ^ I b t o o l d i n t h o b e a d , ' aver . . U a e d i n t h e i n -

— weaOoomplaintaCraam ItnrHMtf aitf Mriooa development of t b e i w i W r l U s almoit n n W -

— -• I t o g * .

aad tO M ^ M M T o n a t o aot hia part health. of aotori require

r , a n d « o i t i a w i t h dor bodiea, they

onbr need a J l o lefc them ^ t . b n t J l a i i l to eompllMtiona tha t UMfili phyrieian a oare. A n , eomiiaratiTely apeak-< l l ^ 4 a t r ^ a M d in gJxnt litUa toriuieutioned

i M k H n * . F r i e n d , A n T « f t fi«]ct Do yon anffer from .dyipfpaia, iadt-gestion, aonr stomaoh, l ivtT eotnplaint, n e m o a n a i a , loat appetite, bilionaneaa, exhaustion, or t i r ^ feeling, paina in eheat or lunga, diy cough, n^sht sweats, or any form of oonanm^ion? If so, Mud to Prof . Ha r t , 88 Warron street! New York, who will send you free, by mail, a bottle of Floraplexion, whioh is a sure cure. Send to-day. 4—3

l l M t r i o Bel t Free . To introduce i t and obtain agents tho u n d e r s i g n ^ firm will give away a few of their «i.00 German Electr ic Belts, invented by P r o f Van der Weyde, President of tbn New York Eleotrical Society. (U . 8 . Pat . 257,647.) A posi-u v e cure for nervous debility, rheuma-tism, lois of TOwer, eto. Address Elec-Agency^ P . 0 . Box 178, Brooklyn, N. Y. W r i t e to them to-day. 4- .S

ADTIOB TO MOrmntH. Var WIRJSMW'I SooraiMo 8r««jp iliould I f f i * " ! ! ^ It noolhw Ih. chlW, MtMiittlw gun*, ilUri til pala, euiM wind ^ l e , wd II Un tot rtmtdr lor Wirrha.. Twratjr-arceuilfilwttl*. s s

A POSITIVE, RADICAL

CURE POB ASTHMA,

HAY FEVER, CATARRH,

LARYNQITIS, Bronchitis

and C u n a u m p t l o n .

S P E C I F I C O X Y G E N is the only msdicated

O X Y G E N In UMk and Is reranMiidad by

Bev. J . H.Gwier,D. P . P . IS. I I .EChni«b . Ber. I f . & DaWitt. £d . Onnb. Fkwbr. Rev. P . A. Bowell, P . E. l^ j B. Chunh & Bav, a a r -Bay* X Wt Bav, Look

Fcwftuthw examlnaUdn

^ ^ ^ eall in , _ S T I Q I F I 0 OXitlBBIIf 0 0 . ^ •''•WABltV

- _ _ — ^ r i a - f f w r - f i f c i i «i4«rlMMtnM«« Mllllt* m Um oilMlivatranat ran MwiyHHl MO* m Mia fii |MIU*II t* Uw wtM • mul>l*Miii|>l«MUU*C tm* mIM MMIn.»MHWMjrilHS nluH*Miii|>l« kiilai, a*. <|M IMI>M>WnM,CUii«;rm 9 21 WHITE'S fia Sure

maMOt euro of thot'mort p a h ^ <jia«as* HTTry It, and Suffer no more. PriM:8iiMUB«(tiM.Uot«. U(i»Bottl«t.60et«.

For Sale by all DrngxiiU. E.B.WHITE,8oleProp.,Lanca8ter.a so

THE OLD RELIABLE LittleRockandHempMs RAILROAD.

A1UU1I8A8, TBXA8 AlID SBOBT UMB.

OAUrORin

. Wo make portrait fiiU fh»m M . O O np. Hwd tor cataluRiie. Wn di* all ciaaww of Mgravlns.

IcowSl

DO you SUFFER WITH IT t Then use the only tried and reliable nmt4y

D n . A . W l L S O N s

iTON r r-, A NO ANTI • D Y M ' i - ' I'iURt: CUKf rOH Hf ADACHE I l/on»0 rtfuml*« If Unn fall to io all m claim.

ALL DHUooiara s k l l thkm. MaNuraeniHto mt

B. 3 . FAHNCSTOCK, PHtaburgh. Pa. raoraiaroa or B. L FAHNESTOCK'S VERMIFUGE

—AmH-J m X J N G e i T R U P .

- U

X - M A s MUSIC. — B ^ i a 1 0 0 9 ^ — . ' ^ y a j l com. b7 an •lemdlndlr InlarMttoc B ^ n ' t V Kirrclw br an •lemdlndlr IntarMittot that u w b» uMd wllk or wllbont II paiM. Prk«,»ctnUa*lafl«coBir IboVaroU. It

B. Oim •LOhOnA. .ji.ChQidh. iTllle.^

Offisn tht tniTtllDg public lb* fbortnt, quloktat and direct rottt* (ram M E M P H I S —

oi cDoio* nMik ar*lnl*ntwmd , lor iiw In eonnM! (MbMrriao.tola. M H T H T I I S i .

'rou|tbnlit*w%"«h «md aporopr jato Oaroli wrllUn n^lal l r eonnNtlo^ wjtb tbo i M l n d . Trie* u(

To all polnta In Arkansas, Texas,

And tb* Weat Md Soathwwt. Manr mllM tho ibortMl aad hoara th* ilalekMt llo* bctwMa Mmphlaaad UtU« Jfawk, witnTit-

I T A B H m L B . T B i m .

JHaA.SOOXT, Titktt Alt., I l l Ukia ir«M|)Ui. a B . U K m , • 'r'fer'JI.^ t . r. A. SK itadbM m., HMarklb,' • a. W. TUOK, B. O. r^-Jk., UtU»

•pNl '•"•••cSuiomis of all kjndiof Chrlitmnn Miulc, sent Iree to any addreu. ,

n a n • ' < •'•it' •

•IV' i U i I

-

M , .J}

PublUbel mtf tlmntdajr.

V O I I . I .

From Xentnoky .

BAPTIST } THB BAI*TIBT r b p l b c t o r . ^ c o i i i o u i u i t e a

Q p & B J K p c u g T r u t l x i n X j o y r m .

AuflttWt 14. 1 8 8 9 .

^ itributors throngh the pastors Ou Friday, Ootohor 20th. ItCff, fifty. \ • V™ no paid agents in the field ro years «ko. tho General A«*on{«tInn ohnrohos h»v« been made to fee

I that this expense can be obviated their doing tho oolleoting themselves.

two years ago, tho General Association of Baptists in Kentucky was organized in liouisville. During the eight pre-ceding years Campbellism had burst forth, msking great inruads among our u hurches. We had lost nearly one third of our membership sod nearly two thirds of ministerial power. Not counting the Anti-Mission eleroont, which was soon after out off, tho Bap-tists (thirty thousand) numbered less than the Reformers, or Moihodiuts. Tho Presbyterians and tho Cumbcrlsnds were in the uonith of their glory. About neventy-five actively engaged ministonj, or one to every ten churches, made it a «ijomy time for those pioneer Mi«8ionary Baptist workers. Tho situation was appallbg, but tho oouragoous few, freed from Campbellism and Anti Misaion-iHm, bound themselves in closer bonds I'y the State organiiation, and since then tho denomination has made unin lerruptod and unrivalled progreas. Wo have now nearly twice as many whit« members (and iu addition some soventy-tive thousand colored mombors), double the wealth and double the number of any Protestant denomination in tho Htate. One out of tho sixty District AsHociations gave lust year, for nil pur-poses. two hundred thousand dollars. Tho Baptist educational institufions. including the Theological Seminary,are making their impress and are heipin^j Kreatly to give Baptists iwtcnt power in the State.

But it is of progroHM in the missionary spirit and methods of work of whioh I wish to speak. Kentucky wbh Aleian i dor Campbell's stamping ground, and , the influence of his vigorous opposition i to missions, a paid ministry, theological I schools, etc., was felt for years in the ! Baptist ranks among those whom ho failed to convert to his now doctrine of baptism in order to the remission of sins. For forty-throo years, till lH(i(», the missionary plant was of slow growth. During this period tho annual average contribution to missionary objects was eight thousand dollars. During the nine years since then the average contribu-tion has been twenty-eight thousand dollars. Tho receipts for the year end-ing June , 1H80, $i;},500. Receipts for the year ending .June, 1HS!». wore m

The cost of collecting tho in 1H«0 was W.StX). The cost of collecting tho #;i'M))2iH} in I8«> was ei,!M;(iH4. Note this inoroaso in eontributions and wonderful deoreaso in tho oost of agency work. The expense in tho one oaso is thirty-three and one third cents on tho dollar, and in tho other it li loss than rix oents. Is it not well for tho de-nominational loaders to consider tho system operated in this Bute , whioh is one of Oie ohlef Ikotors in bringing ebottt thia happy lUte of affairs ? Tho S u t e Seoretary, Dr. .J. W. Warder, who for iiiae yaars haa pre«i«d this reforma uon of a M o n a n methods, does no floUeoting, bn t inflaenoos the regular

by The system (imperfect u yet

is this : The live great misalon ary objoets, Foreign, Home, State District, Sunday-school and Ool portage work are thrown together one object for whioh a fund is to be created and divided proportionately among them. The contribution to this ftind for " Missions " is to bo laid by en eaoh Sunday and given weekly or monthly as tho ease may be. Tho pas-tor, by public and privato instroetion, is expected, through his workers, or by personal appeal, to got a contribution to this general fund from each member of the church. Special colleetioos are taken when nocossary, and designated funds are received in addition to the regular mpifthly or weekly mission ool-loction. Working this plan in my own church I notice that more than four hundred families have contributed dur-ing the last year. Being a member of the State Bjard, I have also had occa-sion to watch tho movement of this ays-

. tem throughout tho 8 u t e , aa it has I been adopted by tho Oenoml Aasocia-I tion and some forty of tho district As-

sociations. The partial results ob-j served during the past seven years a re : I 1. Fivo hundred of our one thousand I ministers have had their inisssionary I ical perecptably quickened. T h b is j tho Kroaictit nood of tho age. All else , will follow when the preacher is aflame.

2 Tho people are being taught to be ^ liovti that all missions are one in spirit,

purpose, and principle. Frequent reference to tho subject,

frequent giving, according to tho sorip tural plan, and frequent praying for missions arc forming the habit and molding tho oharaoter to giving, thus developing this grace in contributors.

I. A far greater amount of money has boon raised, and at much less expense. Also a far greater number of workers have been kept busy in real church work.

By the use of this envelope system

To Insure the greateat miooeaa means of thia system three things are necessary.

J. Tha t the pastor be interested. Let him pray and read till he beooraes eon* so ioosof the need of the mission fields, liot him nndsrsUnd tha t this i ^ t o special work. A live miaaionary e h i ^ h haa no trouble «irj^lt»work at home,

2. Tha t the ladiea be interested. Let there be no separate organlutiona for mission work, but all pray and work to-gother for this general ftwd, helping to oharaeteriie tho m i n d a o f t h e mtmbers with rofereftoe to tho work as a whole.

a. That the children be interested. Infuso this idea into the Snnday-sohool and sooure a contribution each month Trom them.

Thus it is that eaeh member of the church oan he reached with the little red envelope and receive proper credit on the treasurer's book for his contri-bution. PuBD. D. Hai.k,

Louisville, Ky,

^hoira of the m ^ h

the i r h i i h Allliig. | ' Am I m o M H m i Lwm-* Theae youiig l a i l i< i ' | «d i i i t» i«^» t« ic :

to have bem ereatM Jaiftsla, »« bav« grown np to W wtim-m. wets mesMngera l>y t U f e to the Ooaventibn, I its tlMr were reeeivad ' aad*'!'Mlw)tt«4 pnrilegea of the f W ^ m O m ell. they lifted a p f i l t ^ i r t l ^ were seen and yet, strange to a v ^ ^ l i m ftiA open and swallow t & U . iHiither i « i i | a . roof of the temple |i|Mni l i ^ ^ o n u h them. Who p r n m ^ ^ right to aay^that the ^Mrioa r**-dered waa not aoeepjiMlF:?

A Sow. i l - ,,k l»»«MMit F r o i t j

A Lost A r t Reeovered.

r». and tho keeping of an account with oaoh mcmbur a greater number of small contributions has been secured.

li. Christians have been trained to give from the principle involved in It, and not from any temporary excitement raised by high-pressure methods, which so frequently react and leave no bless-ing on the giver.

7. I t has not interfered with any special collection needed, or tho giving of designated funds, but the interest of old contributors has been quickened, as well as much now material reaohed.

8. This system will enable the Boards alwajs to havo somo money on hand, as a contribution should come from all tho churches oaoh month or quarter. More i\indi are thus given to each ob-ject than formerly, when a ipeolal an-nual dolleotion w&s taken Ibr each mil-siottt

T i n T i x t . Kxceptyo uttor by the tongue words

easy to be undentood how shall it be known what fai spoken (sung) for ye shall speak (sing) into the air.—1 Cot. xiv. !».

Tiik Skbmon. Doubtless the great apostle had in his

mind's eye a prophetic vision of a modern church choir when he wrote theae words, for in a large majority of these the chief qualification of a singer appears to bo the ability to sing in an unknown tongue—to be to all hearers utterly and hopelessly unintelligible.

AN ILLUSTRATION. I t comes like a revelation when one

discovers that there still exists a rem-nant who have not bowed the knee to Baal. There came to the Convention at Hnmboldt three young ladies—sent as messengers by the Baptist church a t Columbia,allmembers of tho choir of tha t church. As their names will appear in tho published list of delegates there can be no impropriety in giving them here—Misses Florence and Mattie Bhep-pard and Miss Sadie Kerr . During tho proceedings, at a certain convenient season, they came forward by invitation, oseorted and assisted by Brother 8taoy Lord, and clustering about the littio organ sang a beautiful hymn, " Longing for rest." I t needs not to be aaid that they all had sweet voices. No specUl merit in that, for a musical voioe is a g i a f r o m Ood, but that they had not buried their Ulenta in a napkin, bnt assiduously cnltivated and improved them was manifest. \ With rare (aate and Judgment their voices blended In sweet aooord; ba t a greater charm waa a distinctneas of articulation whieh made evory word and aylUble aa easily to be understood »h though a.maater of eloontion had ipoken It. I t aeeined to one hearer at least, that ttieie ladles oonlil hardly do « betUir work than to go up and down tho land a t mllilon-

Wi thyonr new U ™ ^ - ^ in K u t Tennsaie*, F f l M , , I ^ T numm, a n ^ r . a r a f u In Wmd I W neaaee- i i certainly ! j » b |ilw f 6 « taking in all porUona i f t t i t f^at^. JUm.

\ tha quoaUon with y^ft n^w ls ' you be thkan in aD^Mrtitm^ «f Om fiute?" t believe i K I ! ^ . ciroulated, ia one of fc'f^-n'fflftiiiaiji for good wo oan povlMii h»v« im i m S u t e , a n d n o t for y o l r ii>J|(«i,tnH t m the good of the ohurol^fn mm in general would Qrga {wstMi«««| influential brethMO to t a tb t ^ ^ and let us get a medlnlf of tion among OS. A a p a t s ^ the field is what you toit I hopo tho reader of thii jliritl beooitte «•« and go to work imnu|jiialii^y. fraternally, I l O B 5 ^ | f | | i i 4 J l « « A J i

The B a p t h t ^ i M I i s t a r .

saw this new name, at i t I faaale< lifr my pen to write the n k l i t , tiling * could say, for I waa pi. M l , I wsa

I lighted. Then I aaid I irill imi t« Uttis while nntil I aeo bow}|M» |««wly n u r -ried pair got along. 1 i r M , aati I am still dAlighted-iliMNi daUflite^l than e v e r - a a I see thiaiMii&i » a d a mi* put on new atrength am} g ^ ' - Itself the ooofliot. How i | M i l i i ^ t m l Ilow it gathers la, and i^eat T e a . neasee BaptiaU, and t]ioii|i Um muat riUoioe I Move on; iiWIit on, Move on; trWit

l ^ t i f l l • j(

O n c k n u A IV*

grand old bannsr I (lod yoa will bo with you.

Somo time ago I . whioh waaitt aQbiiiitiM

The great J . iQ. One fiiptlat of Oertakny, wli| signally bletaed of Ood, if bis ftUI da tybyaoare f t t l l B .O . nowell oa " C o m i said that there are BaptiaU in Qermfcoy tol thli (Teal naubeV ia Iti; ofMr . OoQken'a laboni,. enoe of Dr. HowUll'a Httl

0. H.

«)i«sat4tt«it l|h( pioweir

' iuti' lw«o io l«l''tO MM

l»|tof I t t l i a

Hr OMiisaiWl gy, M t l M i : r f M t h

Wl | |> i n f l t '

J-