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It is estimated that 8,000 represen tatives and visitors are here. Dallas put on her gala attire and opsned her arms. Rain came down in torrents on Thursday. The "Cotton Belt" brought more visitors than any other road. Mr. Adams, theT. P. A , showed himself a Chesterfield.

Educational Conference. Thursday, May lOlh.-W. R. Roth-

well, D.D., of William Jewell College, President of the Conference, called the meeting to order. Religious ex-ercises were conducted by President Congerof Ouachita College, Arkansas. Delegates from all Southern Baptist educational inatitutions were present.

" The Education of Oirls " was dis-cussed by P. H. Eager, J. D. Robnett and R. C. Burleson.

W. R. Rothwell was elected Presi-dent and J. B. Gatnbrell, of Georgia, First Vice President; G. M. Savage, of Tennessee, Second Vice President; P. H. Eager, of Texas, Secretary.

In the discussions that were con-tinued in the afternoon many good things were said, among them tha Bible as a text book in all denomina tional schools, male and female, was made prominent.

Conventiou. MORNINO SESSION , M a y 1 1 t h .

At 10 a m. President Haralson called the audience to order and announced that Dr. Pritchard, of North Carolina, would conduct devotional exercises. " Coronation " was sung. Psalm ciii, was read snd prayer ciFeied.

The lists of representatives were read, and it was announced that these would make up the voting power of the body.

The election of oflicers lesulted as follows: President, Judge Jonathan Haralson; Vice PresidenU, F. M. Ellis of Maryland, W. J. Northen of Georgia, S. H. Ford of Jdlssouri, J.W. Jones of Virginia. The Secretaries, J. L. Burrows, of Georgia, and O. F. Gregory, of Maryland.

Rev. C. L. Seasholes, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Dallas, wel-comed the Convention in a timely, pointed, well spirited speech. E G. Williams, of Baltimore, was requested to respond to this on behalf of-t^e ConventioD, which he did in a most happy choice of thought and a most winning way.

Visiting brethrsn from other parts of the United States and other coun-tries were introduced. In this num-ber several missionaries were seen who will sp«d[ later of their different fields. nOHl HISSIOM BirOBT.

For tha first time in its history, the

present Board is called upon to re port deaths among its members. Dur-ing the past year two who had been associated with it from the time of its removal to Atlanta, have rested from their labors and entered upon their rewards. Brethren Rev. John D. Stewart, for eleven years the honored President of the Eloard, and Marion C. Kiser, who had serred it for an equal length of time, ceased their earthly warfare and went home to en-joy the rest that remains for the peo-ple of God. After the last session of the Convention the Board completed its organization by the election of I. T. Tichenor, Corresponding Secretary, F. C. McConnell, Assistant Secretary, and Walker Dunson, Treasurer. The receipts of the Board have been less than was anticipated at the begin-ning of the year. This diminution, taken in connection with the increase of its work, has resulted in an indebt-edness of about to,500.

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After the Home Mission report was read came that on Foreign Missions, read by Dr. Willingham, and the Sun-day-school Boaid's report by Dr. Bell. These were referred to commit-tees to report later.

AFTBBMOON SESSION. The report of the Committee on

Basis of Representation brought in a majority'and minority report. Bev. E. £ . Folk spoke to the majority re-port. He had hoped to be able to bring in a unanimous report. A com-mittee of five was appointed two years sgo to devise a way to reduce the number of repressntatives at this Convention. From the first it was seen that two notions wsrs in the committee, one was that • namerioal basis should bs adopted, and the oth-

er that a financial basis. If every delegate who might come by the pres-ent provision of the law were here, there would be about 1350 This number is too great for successful de-liberation. It should be reduced. The numerical basis is Baptistic; a poor man ought to be represented here as well as a rich man. Let there -be no monied aristocracy. The nu-merical basis provides for the recog-nition of every church and every indi-vidual through Associations and State Conventions. The charter of this Convention provides that it represent the denomination, and not the money of any part of it.

Dr. Penick said the numerical basis is not Biblical. This is a missionary body, and the dollars given should determine the numbers and persons who shall attend. The people that give the money should say where it must go and how.

Dr. Nunnally said, What is the in-tent of reducing the attendance! The majority report does not reduce the attendance, only the possible at-tendance. We ought to invite the whole denomination, but at each one's own expeuse—a resolution to which end he read.

Dr. Hawthorne said it is the con-sensus of opinion that the time has come when the representation of this Convention must be reduced. We need togetintosmaller quarters where every speaker may be heard. The croi^ is too large for the calm de libention of great questions. He did not want the OonvenUon to degener-ate into a joint stock company. Nothing is more unbaptistic than a great body like this made up on a money basis.

Dr. Harris said the fathers of this OonvenUon forty-nine years ago gave us a financial basil, and all the trou-ble has come from the later introduo-Uon of nombers. The minority report does not mention the churches, and rightlf so,'"as this ia a missionary bbdyt Namsrical basis promotes een-brtllxtUon and destroys unity.

Dr. Whitsitt moved t int both M-

ports be laid on the table. Carried. N I O B T SESSOIN.

Exercises began with the singing of " Nearer My God to Thee." The Con-vention SI rmon was preached by Dr. F. H. Kerfoot of Louibville, Ky. He readJno xvi Dr. Ellis of Baltimore led the prayer. This was the 49th annual sermon. Tex*.. Jno. xvi. 7. He said: This promise was not only for Christ's immediate disciples, but for us all. They hardly knew how much this meant. How often He must have said, "Oh! slow of heart to beUeve." We need to be stirred up to examine this doctrine and comforted by it.

INTKBPBETATIOM OF T B I TBXT. This is a promise to send the Spirit

into the world to comfort, to guide His people. " Comforter " means not only to soothe, but also to advocate, to help, to strengthen—another Jeeus. The Spirit had been in the world. Why should He aay He would send the Spirit. Whatdid He meant l l tat He was going to send Him to exocise sn cffioe power on the earth that had never been known before.

VALUE OF THIS F B O M I S E .

This would be worth more to Hia people than Hia own continued pres-ence. " It is expedient for you that I go away." Christ had fiUed them with hope for the coming kingdom; but they thought it was to be with His presence. When they knew of His death they were aad and dis-heartened. They had some idw of their desolation, but the Shepherd knew even better than they of their dim need; and sUU He said it is better for me to go away and send Him. The Spirit was going to convict men of sin, and of righteoosness, and judgment, and lead them into the truth. Tho Spirit was to come and continue the work where Christ had left it. Oh, that hia people in all the agee aince then had bfdieved that God was with them as much as that Christ was with His people I

VSRIFiOATION OF THB PROMISE. Look at the moral transformation

of even the disciples ou the day of Pentecost. Sse the diffdience^in Peter. No servant, no man on larth, no devil in hell can make him tiemble now. He chargcd the audience with Deicide. The Spirit had made A<m a new man; and many of those peo-ple had probably stood at the cross and crisd, '<!raoify liim,oruoify him." Now see how they become eonyinbed of the righteousnsss of Jssus and thrir own sinfulness and ory, "Ifon and brethren, what shall we dot" The world h f i bsra alow to take hoU of the doctrine of the Holy Ghost The great masa of Uie ohoinhss haTs not hidf gotten hold of the doctrine that

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CONTRIBUTIONS. " W h a t Is The M a t t e r ? "

This ia » question of vital impor-tanos to eveiy preacher who is earn-estly striving to give himaelf to the cause of Chriat. I have read with much inteiest the different articles that have been written uoder this head. I fu l l j concur in every answer that I have read, but think that we have not yet probed to the bottom of the matter. I hope that the brethren will not let this question drop for many months to oome.

Strange isn't it. brother, that we rare ly hear much preaching about Christi Our Christian duty " is preached at us and " reformed lives and better times " is preached to the sinner, but whoever thinks of preaching the great incentive to Christian activity or the reformer of lives or the giver of peace? Once worship was taught, then under another dispensation Jesus Christ was preached, and non under the old rtgime worship is b»i g Uught again and the " power of God unto salva-tion to every one ihat believeth " is shelved away for the time being.

I think that no one can love music more than I. It is the highest pleas-ure this earth can give to be allowed to sit and listen to the strains of sweetest music as they float out upon the air, seeming to take my very soul and bear it away to a land of ecstasy —if this music be the deep-toned, reverential worship of Ood or the clarion-voiced proclamation of the goepel of Christ, who will objwt to its use in our Christian servicesT But this trash that is in common use now would be scoffed at even in as low a thing as an opera or a theater. 1 f we prstsnd to worship Ood through song we should see that there is both soul and music, and above all, thst the verse shsll contain the gospel of Christ.

Come with me sod let's see a com-mon picturs—visit the house of Ood and learn of him through the service that is conducted there. Think now that it is Sunday morning, we are rising later than usual and must needs hurry, lest we be late for church. We hastily swallow a few bites of break-fast, don our very best clothing, and after much con fusion of preparation we start. When we get near the sanctu-ary we sncounter many others beht in the same direction. Notice, please, the sameness in appearance. All are laughing and talking, while now and then mentally comparing their own garb and outfit to that of their neigh-bors. Are they Christianst Ate they sinners? We can see no distinction, hence think it to be a frivolous, godless crowd. We pass in and find •sata near the front just in time for the beginning of the service. The choir or class gives as a fantastic (dance time) song—thus the Mrvics proceeds. Did you ever t iy to on-dentand what one of those little

' clicking machines in a telegraph office WH layingl Ton knew that they •aid •omething, but only an operator ooold tall what. We know theia mo-skrians (T) a n bringing us some mei-saga, b a t not bring operaton wa fail to ondantand tha import of this tale-graph maaio. Some good brotbar pnaant riaaa to lead In prayer. Ha f sab tha t , l a • bader, ha mast be ex* oaptUmally carafol in hia naa ol lan-gnaga, tha p ra ja r moat ba al^gant,

gracsful, and must cover enough territory .to give a proper expression for every individual prayer for each person preeent. The prayer being finished the brother sits down with a sslf-satisfied air, and aftsr another message has been telegraphed to the people the preacher risss. A long list of announcements, covering every-thing from one of the devil's church suppers to the meeting of some so-ciety, is read, and now the preacher preachts. The sermon is interesting and we feel that we are enjoying an intellectual feast. Before we are dis-missed we discover that our minister is well versed in the eciences, has a brilliant flow of language, and rea-sons with mathematical precision After we are dismissed we will pass from the house with much laughter and talk, and if we ever remember that service it will be to recall the pretty solo, the new music, the good prayer or the leamed-maybe eloquent preacher, but if the name of Jesus Christ was ever mentioned in that service it was in so distant a manner that it made no impression. If you want this experience, you may have it most any Sunday.

Brethren, let us have more genuine, soul-stirring old music and less of this nonsense. Pray more. Pray to Ood for just what we want. Remem • ber that Ood alone answers prayer. Lose sight of the congregation and pray to Ood as if alone with and talk-ing to a loving father. Preach Christ because "there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved."

Tlus is an advanced age and we are advancing with it, but isn't this just the trouble? We have advanced be-yond the goepel of the Son of Ood and have totter organizations than the church of Christ I love ths old-time raligion that has been saving souls for nineteen hundred yean —and more—and I love the organizttion to which the commission was given.

When I preach a sermon and fsil to accomplish anything, I know that I have not a praying church in the congregation and that I am not lean-ing enough on the strong arm of the omnipotent God. I wduld that Ood might give to each of us the grace to hold the blood of Jesus before the congregation until the thought, Christ, should burn itsslf deep in every heart.

Lcrcics Robebtson. Chattanooga, Tenn.

Social Disorders in Europe .

BT EMILIO CASTBLAS, Formerly Prculdent of Ibe KpanUb Ucpubllc.

Who is there that is not touched by the misery that sfDicts and opprsssee with ita horron tha wretched work-ingman.of modern dayst No one liv-ing surrounded by the comforts of an aaqr position, who had not sometime braathed the infected air of the gar-rets in which wretched children aleep lika pigs on heaps of rotten straw, envying the horsss and tha dogs of tha nsighboring palacss, could nndwr-stand all tha moral filth that minglss with this material filth, and the plagaaa which auch miasma bread in tha aoala of our psople. Fourteen or fifteen h o a n in a faotoiy among the strident wheala which oaosa vertigo and tha onwholeaome amanationa which oanaa death; d a j after day in tha mine, in Uiat a l ^ in which the white akin ot tha Saxon Uuna Uaok,

where tha heat and the filth and the darkness make hell appMr preferable, fur to the miner exhausted by the sweat caused by the work of breaking the rocks, and which littlaby littlesapa the life of the unhappy wretch, his imprisonment in the towels of the earth seems eternal; all this, and much more scarcely conceivable because of its horror, justifies the complaints uttered by misery latoring under a fatality whose oppression causes it to curse its exiitence, and to wiflh in a paroxysm of genuine despair for non-existence, in the hope that in annihi-lation such horrible evils may have an end, together with all that lives and breathes. But I say that the medi-cines invented by socialism, far from curing this terriblecondition of things, sggravates and exacerbates it. Im-puticg everything to society and to the States which personify and gov-ern it. Socialists forget two chief sources of the evil i t se l f -on the one side the vile nature of man, and on the other the unescapable laws of the universe. How largely do vice, ex travagance, improvidence, inordinate luxury, gross sensuality, gambling, and a thousand other things depen-dent upon our will, and which we might have prevented ourselves from willing, contribute to misery! W here-in is society to blame if some are economical and others extravsgantT And as there are miseries dependent upu3 our free will which no one can force, there are miseries dependent upon mechanical, chemical, and phys-iological fatalities which no one can prevent. As tod as poverty, a hun-dred times worse than poverty is a hereditary malady, blindness from birth which closes the eyes to the light of the sun, or inherited imbecil ity which closes the mind to the light of thought, or deafness which closes the ear to the sounds of the universe and the accords of art, or ugliness which renders you repulsive to your fellow-toiogs and condemns you to go through life a mark for ridicule, that since it can-not extinguish in you inextinguish-able vanity, makes you turn agsinst society with rsge and hatred. I know the malady, and I have pity for it, but I repeat that the remedy aggra-vates it; the socialistic laws aiming at creatiiig for us an impossible army of invalids of lator; official aid funds which aid only the employes and clerks of the Oovernment; the doc-trines which Oerman Imperialism has ordered to to taught from the pro-fessor's chair and embodied in the laws; the promises of the contending parties in their electoral programs to the proletariat to place the budget at its disposal, when all they do in the end is to augment it with taxea which the proletariat itself paya; when there is no such virtae unleaa it to imposed by the oonsoienoe on the will the mistake made by so larjge a part of the press, not e x c e p ^ g the con-servatives, that democratic States should give to democracies not inal-ienable rights but daily bi^pad; tha constant increase of communistic schools with symtola full of unmean-ing BophismB; and aa.the natural and logical raault, and quint eaaantlal aubatratum of all this, p a t c h y and tha anaiohista.

How did tha anarchi8t\idaa and mathod firat criginata in \Ean>pat Who 4raa ita wofd, and b o ^ w h o m did it ncaiva ita impolaa to

In a last analysis, all that wa sse and touch ^n the universe proceeds from light and heat; all that we see and touch in the political world, proceeds from thought and the idea. As Ood, immovable Motor, gives the motion to the stars, the idea gives thsir impulse to acts. Thus, studying the move-ment of anarohist ideas, we study, in its final expression, the contemporary social movement. Anarohist theories come under the common head of socislism. Contemporary socialistic ideas must to divided into these two phases—the phase which they have presented from the time of the great French revolution of the last century to the great revolution of February, in the middle of the present century; and the phase which they have pre-sented from the middle of the cent-ury to our own days. The socialism preceding that of the present day presents itself with a form of State superior in power aud authority to the existing pariiamentary form of State, as well as with reactionary ten-dencies, I will not say to privileged classes, for its capital doctrinn ig equality, but 1 will say to guilds or-ganizod in families and clasies as be fore the revolution.

Some one has said that IMato and Aristotle represent the whole of hu-man knowledge in its two aspects, the ideal and the real; and it should to added that they represent the two eternal forms of political science— the dogmatic and the experimental. The mind of Plato still influences the soi'islistic schools coincident with the beginning of the century. His gov-ernment of the best is organized of necessity in an intelligent ruling class, which constitutes, in exercising its governing functions, a real priest-hood. So with Platonic castes; so with the theocratic clergy; so with the industrial pontificate; so with the positivist, devoted to the worship of humanity, and enamored of media-va), ecclefciastical hierarchies. When the doctrines of St. Simon, Fourier and Leroux were formulating them-selves on the heights of abstract thought, every one tolieved them des-tined to rule and govern the first State which should arise from the revolutionary eruptions, so frequent in this age, which has earned for it-self the name of the Age of Revolu-tions. But the revolution of Febru-ary came; and politics, instead of turning toward dictatorial socialism, turned toward iitoral democracy. The failure of the national work-shops planned in an evil hour by Blanc and Altort, together with the scenes of June, in which, for an impalpable phantom, the proletariat sacrificed itself, killed the old socialistic schools. But that which will never die is the imperishable aspiration of the human mind to absolute social perfection.

And here, too, come in the two po-litical systema—the experimental, at-tentive only to amelioration, atid the dogmatic tont upon perfection. Thus, the theorists, adherents of thia Uto-pian idea, imagined that they had been completely deoaived by the aocialiam ot antiquity, by ita theoriea in regard to the State, to oiganisaUon, to order, to discipline, and they propoaed mia-govamment, diaoiganizition, diaorder, Inaabordination, that ia to aay miaer able anarahy, the horrible plague whioh to-dajr soouigea and aflliota na. Proadhon ia the name of tha evil gen-iaa in whom aU thaae prindplsa be-

came incarnated. Thus, some to-lieved him to to the devil appearing in human form in politics, as he may appear in human form in poetry. For Calderon'a Satan, who appeared to-fore Justina, and Milton's Satan, who appeared tofore Eve, and Ooethe's Satan, who appeared tofore Margue-rite, people took him, seeing the part he p l a y ^ toward our contemporary society. The eloquent Donoso went so fsr as to proclaim him Antichrist, as the persecuted Christians pro-claimed Nero in the early days of Christianity. He seemed an extermi-nating Archangel sounding the shrill trump that kills the living and resus-citates the dead. His device was: DeMruam, et adificabo; that is to say, to seek reconstruction by de-struction. Thus he pretended to tear God from Heaven and religion from the soul and the SUte from human sociejties, and the government from every community and emulation and competition from all lator and Inter-est from capital and from the soil it-self, private property. By those au-tonomies which Kant studied so pro-foundly and Hegel employed in bis fsmous identity of opposites, the so-cialism of the past resolved itself in-to a pitiful atomizstion of individuals, such as the most violent and exag-gerated system of individualism could never have imagined. In view of such mul t s , it must to acknowledged that If the stars are governed by the component forces of the celestial sys-tem, and souls by moral laws that distribute rewards and punishments, peoples are governed by a logic as real and implacable as Providence.

Proudhon was the word of Anarch ist thought, and Bakounine wss its action. Proudhon, the Frenchman, I did not know personally, but the Russian Bakounine I saw and heard speak on various occasions in Swiss assemblies and congresses, but with-out toing acquainted with him as I was with Hertzen, widely as his com munistic ideas and history differed from my democratic and litoral ones. The phenomenon already observed in every Anarchist, the horrible mad ness induced by the intoxication pro duced by the fumes of thought not clearly defined andconcrete, Bakoun-ine personified in all its reality Arche type, as he was of a living sophism. Born whsn our century was scarce ly sixteen y e a n old, he entered on adoIew«nce in thoee days when ideas of the extreme left of Hegelism pre-vailed; and he reached maturity and the fullness of his powere atout the time when revolutionary methods connatural to the fierce storm o! February prevailed. Oreatly given to reading and controveray, he rea( auch philosophical works as fell into hia hands; he devoured first and then ruminated on the ideas contained in those books; and he was able to take in and aasimilate only their terrible n a t i o n s and extravagant errors Like all the inune , he thought him-aelf endowed equally with ardent paasidna intenaified in the combustion of thought over-atimulated by read-ing, and with herculean atrength in-oreased by the exeroise of the army to the official aUff of which he to-longed from hia youth. And with theae enron in hia brain, and with thaae feellnga in hia heart, and with thIa atrangth in hia muaolea, hefoaght lika a Titan In the atormy daya of the raToIatlon of fortyeifl^t, being da-

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feated by the Prussian troops after a heroic struggle ending in a piUfa rout. He was made a prisoner and Buffered long in the horrible dungeons of Austria, where innumerable shad-ows gathered around his soul unU claimed and demanded by the Em-^ r o r Nicholas for punishment in Kussis, he was sent an exUe to Si-^ n a . He fortunately escaped, and after making the circuit of the gloto, going from China and Japan to the New World, and returning from the United Slates to our Old World, he declared a war of exterminaUon, not only against every government, but sgainst every State, eepeciaUy the democratic States, and not only against every State, but against all "ociety, his system of extermination earning for itself the name so hap-pily invented by Tourgenleff to de-scnto Anarchist theories, the name of Nihilism. His person, also monstrous in appearance, merited the name con-gruent with his theories, the name of Nihilist.

The first sign of the anarchist which he showod was the inheritance of a nature psychological and physiologic al, now called atavism, by which he tolieved his soul to to a condensation and his body the make of the oldest and most secular of the Slavs the Cosssck, a nomad like all the tribes destined for progressive endp, free as the North wind on the frczsn steppes, and so naturally an individualist like a true Oerman, that for him the State IS an incomprehensible enigma, and he lives in community with his peo-ple putting in one common stock property and lator. Thus he had a wonderful aptitude for learning the languages of all nations with the pur pose of combating them, and for ac quiring with facility the character of every country with the purpose of more easily undermining them. Two factore more opposite to each other do not exist than a revolutionist so thoroughly Russian and a classic Eu-ropean republican. I have never seen any one who united as did Bakounine, a despotic power of the will to an anarchistic chaos of the intelligence. He commanded imperiously in order that all authority might to destroyed with violence. He was of such gi-gantic statue that his head towered atove every other head in the popular congresses, as it is said the heads oi the Cimbri towered in the putrid bat tie fields atove the Roman legions and trophies. His long beard made him resemble a patriarch of Biblica dayp, and hia small eyes one of those Mongols known by the namea of Attila and Tamerlane, who led the Hana and Tar tan in their incunions into the West. And if in his height anc hia majestic appearance he waa a patriaroh, in his nervousneaa and aoa-oeptibility he waa a Slav. While hia eyes flsshed with anger his lips ware curved in a disdainful amile, leaving the spectator in doubt aa to whether n his inmost aoul he did not despise lumanity more than he hated i t And f in the anarohist there was a deepot, n tha atheist t h e n waa a pope. No

one has ever impoaed his caprioaa on o than with the aame power aa thla man haa done, nor hia ideaa with the same authority. He had a numeroaa crowd of hypnoUasd followen whom le faadnatad and led aa tha

the Uid, and aa the magnatiaar tha snake. H e woald not hear the family mentioned, he oonfonndad it with tha

municipaUty; nor aociety, he con-founded it with anarahy; nor Ood, he confounded him with nature. The world waa transformed in hia eyea into an anonymoua commeroial com-pany; the law into a logical and natural relation totween different in-

the Stote into a mere form; property into oommuniam, half vol-untary, half forced; raUgion and met-aphysics into deep-aeated maladies congenital to the irremediable spirit-ual weakness of our contemporariea— it was necessary then to destroy all this. And to destroy it he was not satisfied with theoretical andatotract error; like another Oenserio he would lave recourse to fire and sword. The lorrible lash of tyranny had ciit to

the tone, and he was tyrant. The spy who watched him so long made 1 lim also a spy. He had become con-,

taminated by contact with the war upon the cz in , and absorbing despot-sm by his continual comtota with it, le kept his partisans in subjection to

the extent of subjscting them to the discipline and the organization of an army. He had such a hatred of all orderly and peaceful progress that he could not forgive the Czw Alexander II. the emancipation of the serfs, and he entered into all the conspiracies to assassinate him; he could not forgive the French people the Republic of '70, and he did all in his power to de-stroy it in the scandalous riots of Lyons and the revolutionary Com-mune of Paris; he could not forgive Spain her glorious transformation of iSeptemtor, and he encouraged the Cantons with all his power, and sent Cartagena his anarohistic legions; he could not forgive Italy her independ-ence, and traces of his conspiracies still exist in the horron of Sicily; he could not forgive our continent ita litorty, and all the criminals who commit their crimes in the name of terrible anarohy are specten or ap-paritioDB of his spirit, as all the ex-ploeives that b u n t under our feet are charged with his perverse ideas.

Madrid, Spaia.

Cheek to evolve auch a thought fh»n hia brain. Phyalcally it ia an Impoa-•ibility. Really it ia aa falae aa that Diana aprang from the brain of Jove. Would not that child to of doubt-ful gwiderf What gender would it toT I t ia aimply too absuid to com-ment on.

The pamphlet further intimates that Protestants are tquatten—occu-py ing Catholic countries without their oonsen t -a hint they would execute had they the power. I think every meana should to resorted to to edu-cate the people against this monsterl

Mbbot W. Shields, A. B. Spring Place, Oa.

Comiuencemeot Exerclsea.

Dr. J . A. Broadus will preach the annual sermon of the Southweatem Baptist University Sunday, June 3rd, 11 a. m. Rev. T. W. Toung on the same day at 8 p. m. will preach the annual sermon tofore the J . R. Oraves Society of Religious Enquiiy. On Wedneeday following at 8:30 p.m., the literary address wUl to delireied by Dr. P . S. Henson of Chicago. The last speech of the week will to the address of R. H. Preecottof Memphis tofore the Alumni Aaaociation.

The other exercisea will .to exami-nationa written, beginning May 21st: entertainmenta and contests by the aocieUes of the insUtuUon; and s p e ^ e a of the graduates and con-ferring diplomas on June 7th.

To aU these, BapUsta and other friends are cordially invited. I hope that the hospitalities of Jackson will to tested by the presence of large n u m t o n of interested friends.

The University is the common property of the Baptists of especiaUy Middle and West Tennessee; and will they not occasionally come and look upon their inheriianceT The coun-tries around this dssignated portion have just ss many righta and privi-leges and are just as cordially in-'ited- O. M. SAVAOA.

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I have just read a publication in which I read some of the strangest things I ever read. Men talk more foolishly on religious than perhapa on any other subject. I t is entitled "Romels Challenge." In that pam-phlet tha Protestant world is informed that the day set apart by Ood him-aelf to to kept holy waa ao kept up to the 16Lh century, and ia today ao kept by the Jews. He argues that the Proteatanta claim to take the Bi-ble for their rule of faith and prac-tice; that Luther found the firat day 80 firmly fixed that he did not attack t ; that Proteatanta have really not cept the Sabtoth for 800 yean paat ^ow, the atrange part of it is: We,

tha Catholics, c h a n ^ i t - h a d a r i ^ t to: " Whatsoever ye bind on earth shall to bound in heaven;" " Whoso-ever hearath yon, hearath me," etc. 'The Chriatian Sabtoth m the genu ne offspring of the union of the Holy

Ohoat (Spirit) with the Obtholic Church, hia apoaae." Now if you have not witneaaad anything really atoard, here it i t : Chriatian Sabtoth a child of Ood (Holy Spirit) and the Catholic Churahl Woald not that to a mongralt Ood the father, the Soman Catholic C h a n h the mothar, and tha child the Chriatian Sabhathl A man moat have a g n a t deal of

Be the l College €k>nimeDcenient Exercises.

Final examinations togin l l i a n -day, June 7,1891.

Annual aermon Sunday, J a n a K k h , 11 a. m , by Rsv. E C. Dargan, DJ>.,

I Louisville, Ky. Alumni address Monday, 8 p. nj.,

by Rev. J . T. ChrisUan, D D. (daaa of'76), Louisville, Ky.

Literary Societies. C o n t a a t for "Debater's Medal" Tuseday, 8 p. m.

Senior orationa Wedneadaj, 11 a. m.

Board of Tmsteea meeta Wednea-day, 2 p. m.

Junior orationa Wednesday, 8 p. m. Commencement Tharaday, 10 a. m. Alumni Asaociation meeta T h n n -

d a y , 2 p . m . Oraduatea' reception Thunday, 8

to 11 p. m. "Field Day" will to Friday, June

lat, instead of May 4th, aa previooaly announced. w . S; B.

RuaaeUviUe, Ky.

—AU the nfieotiona I make upon the pride, coimption, bUndnsaa and deadly fall of man, upon the nacaa-aity of t t o daOly croaa and death to tha world, I beatow f i a a ^ apoo oth-a n ; and am hlndand b j tha dacalt-falnaaa of mina own haart, and tha artifice of tha davll ,bmn t u n i n g tha . adga ot them apoo mjaalf.—ildaaui

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the Holy Spirit mty be with them as Christ was with His disciples. We aie such creatures of sensel If we could just see Jesus onoe! If I could just hear him speak oncel In pro-portion as we try to make Him pres ent to our senses by pictures, ele-ments, etc., in that proportion we loae the power. Such men as Edwards were moved by the Spirit.

IS TU18 DOCTBIME TRVET Why then do we not share more His

powerT What's the matterT There is no one here that thinks the church-es are working up to their capacity. Too little is done for the machinery employed. What is the trouble Y Some say organiz aion. No. Ood is the greatest organizer in the universe. Is it not the neglect of the source of powerT Let these orgai'zitions be connected with Ood. What we need is that every individual ue filled with the Holy Spirit. Ci me, oh! breath of Ood, breathe upou the dry bones, make us soldiers. Come, oh! Spirit of Ood; thy mighty arm make bare. Fill us with thy light and thy power. Help us in our churches. Help us in our Convention. Enable us to take hold of this world and shake it with the power of God. Enable us to mak^ men feel the power of unseen things. Come, oh! Spirit of God, comfort thy people, convict the world, cocqier Sat«n, crown Jesus King of Kings and Lord of Lords.

The vast tabernacle, with a seating capacity of 5 500, was filled. The audience could hardly keep from listening (and did not), so earnest and helpful was the sermon.

MORNINO SESSION, M a y 1 2 t b . At 9:22 a.m. President Haralson

called the Convention to order. Dr. Burleson led in prayer. The journal of the preceding day was resd.

TUEOUXILCAL SeUlNABT. Dr. W. H. WhiUitt of the Seminary

presented the needs of the Students' Fund. The Seminary is on a solid basis, but this Students' Fund is as poor as a church mouse. There is an invested fund of f 2,600; all ouUide of this income must be given by the brethren and sisters. The Students' Fund is used to pay the board, etc, of poor young men at the Seminary partially. Our work is to help the poor men. Oae of the best men from Texas is now doing bis washing in h'S own room and we are paying his board. I have bad a good many ex-periences in life, been in the peniten-tiary twice; but no experience to equal that of being sucoeasful in trying to borrow money. I want to appeal to the ladies, too. I have changed my opinion about the ladies. I used to think the women were in the way, but now I believe they help along very much. I've broken the racoid this year—gotten more money this year than ever before, and the times ate hard. I am 12,000 in debt, and I can't get out without help. About $1,600 were railed.

Th« nport of the Committee on ForaigD Population was read by Dr. a . W, Hyde of Miaw>uri. He apoke of the Garman work in Missouri. Un> d « thia nport there were introduced four Indian prMwhan—Jno. Jumper, who WM oommandw of the Indian Ooofadmto foroM in the late war.

He is now 75 years old. H i led the great audience in a prayer, and al-though no word could be understood, it being in another tongue, it was full of solemnity, power and pathos. There were also introduced Brethren Jno. Mcintosh, Williams and William MoComb, also of the Creek Nation. These four sang in their language "Come Thou Fount," and another by special request of Dr. Hatcher, after which the audience joiued in, ' What a Friend We Have in Jesus," and "Od Jordan's Stormy Banks" to the chorus, " I Am Bound for the iVom-i«ed Land." Many were the tears shed as the multitudes came forward to shake the bands of these four rep resentatives of the vanquished Creeks. This was the high water mark, spirit-ually, of the Convention so far.

Kev. Sevier, of Kansas City, Mo, spoke of the German work. There aie 1,800 German Baptists in the United States. When a German is converted he is so pocket-book and all; 500,000 Germans in this country, and we can influence them with the gospel

Alex. Msrchamp of £1 Paso, Texas, an ex priest, was introduced. He said he had been in the Roman Cath olic Church for forty years—a free man, a Baptist minister, for twenty months. In that time he had bap tized 107 candidates, and 52 stand ap proved for baptism. With the prop er men 100,000 Mexicans could ^ baptizxl in one year; no people so easy of access. With the grace of God they surrender quickly. We have no room for the people. Last year he preached in the streets to 400 and 500 people. If you help me, I can baptize 500 before your next Con-vention. The Roman Church knows nothing of the brotherhood of Christ.

Bro. Hatcher said: " I t occurs to me that there is a hat full of money here for Bro. Marchamp's station to build a chapel. A collection of |1, 63*; 03 was taken.

The Convention adjourned at 12:'18 p. m. for dinner.

AFTEBNOON SESSION. At 3:10 p.m. the Convention reas-

sembled and was led in prayer by Dr. White. " Coronation " was sung.

N. B. Broughton read the Sunday-school financial report ajidemphasizsd the necessity of our schools using our own literature: $14,000 have come into this Board as profits; all this goes to the support of needy work within our bounds; show the churches and schools wkat the Board is doing. B. D. Gray read the report on missionary and benevolent features of the work. This Board will be helpful to the de-nomination as it continues conserva-tive and orthodox; $447 have been spent >n benevolence during the year. This could be increased if its patronage was greater. When our literature is used, missionary work is more active than when it is not.

Dr. Hatcher said all ought to re-member that our future depends on the way we handle children. Make the Sunday-school attractive. A great deal of the work we are doing with our children is defective. Picnics, Christmas trees, etc., are made a feature now. We muat have it clear-ly understood in Sunday achools and famillaa that it ia mora blessed to give than to receiTO, and that they art brought into the Sundajr-aohool to ba davelopad. Tou paaton look into it and lee what aort of Imtmction your

children are getting. The gifts of children should be encouraged on the understanding that a part sf it shall be given to some lofty purpose. Giv-ing with diiferent motives obtains. Get them to give habitually, sys-tematically, and this with projter at-tractions, a " special day " is not a bad thing. He encouraged the Sun-day school Board. He did not shout much at first, now he was in a shout-ing moo<i. Educate the boys and girls in the moral and spiritual things of dtinominational interest. Educate them in heart and sympathy. Tell them of State, Home and Foreign Missions, and let them see the world.

S. H. Ford, of St. Louis, insisted that denominational peculiarities be taught through Christ to baptism, and that through baptism to Christ. Baptists stand alone in this. The child should learn that it is through Christ to baptism; through baptism to the church; through the church to the Lord's Supper. Nothing without Christ. Fix this on their minds through your literature.

J. M. Frost, President of the Sun-day-school Board, -aid: Pastors,what about your teachersT He does not feel like shouting. The responsibility on the Board is too great. But pas-tors have in their teachers the might-iest lever for good in the world. I want to magnify the teacher's power The teacher makes the Sunday schoo! and determines largely what sort o: church members their scholars are going to be.

W. It. Rothwell, of Missouri, saic that the spirit in which the work o the Board had been carried on was delightful and satisfactory.

Justin D. Fulton, of New York spoke of the possibilities of the na tion if we should do our duty. I think the Baptists have a mission to the Catholics as well as to the world. Baptism is the result of witnessing for the truth. Let us remember that God is on our sids. This is a mar vellous hour. There was a time when Romanism was on top. Luther went to Rome to find religion and found it worse than in his own country. God spoke to him —was on his side. He is on ours. Thia is our opportunity.

After resolutions were read the Con-vention adjourned until evening.

EVEMINO SESSION. Vice President J . W. Jones, of Vir-

ginia, presided. Prayer was offered by Rev. J . M. Carroll of Texas.

Missions in our cities was reported by a paper read by Rev. D. I. Purser of Louisiana.

Rev. Malcolm.McGregorof Florida spoke to the question. Many ate crowding into our cities. The evan-gelizing of these centers is the better-ing of the whole world. Money can' not be spent in more opportune places than in large cities. The country is rushing to the cities, and here should be the working force of religious ao tivity.

The report on missions among the negroes was read by S. C. Clopton. He aaid we have begun to reaUzs that we sustain some relationship to the 8,000.000 colored people in our South-em country, many of them in our homes. The time has gone when we cannot be helpful to our neighbor colored pastor. These people ara not only turning their attention to buai-neaa, eduoation, etc., but to vioea as weU. IdonotbeUevethey wiUevw be oolonlasd.

W. J . Northen oi Georgia said the greatest q^ettion now at the South among statesmen and Baptists is the proper relationship of the negro to us. His financial helplessness is a reason we ought to help him. I love the ne gro, learned to love him when I was a boy. There was a time when they belonged to you and me. There was a time when we left all at home in the hands of these men, and I plead for him now. The problem is a ao cial one. Religion never hurt a mor-tal man, nor the onward progress of any enterprise. If we fail to look af-ter the proper relationship of the ne-gro we jeopardiz} our most sacred in-terests. It has been suggested that we co-operate with the brethren of the North in helping them. But if I must do this under the accusation of being unpatriotic I am unwilling to CO operate.

In answer to a telegram ffom tLe Virginia Colored State Conventlou Eph. i. 15 23 was wired back.

C. C. Brown of South Carolina said; I believe I was born on the wroug side of some questions, but on the right tide of this. The Southern white Baptists through her Board are doing nothing for the negro, and nev-er will until the Convention sajs they must do so. They need an ed-ucated ministry and not more instruc-tion from the pulpit by white preach-ers. They need more than a ten days institute in one year. The Board made a special effort to get money to be expended on Cuba, but there is DO special efTirt for the negro. Let us take an active part with the Northern brethren in the education of the negro.

F. C. McDonnell said: The Home Mission Board IA doing something lor the colored people; 25 per cent, of the money of the Home Mission Board is given to the negro. The objection to CO operating with the Northern brethren is that in some of the col-leges operated for the education of the negro social equality is taught. True we did get money for Cuba by special effort, but there was a romance nbout it. More money ought to be spent by the Board in this direction, but it must be given before it can l>e spent.

MORNINO SE.SSION, M a y M t b . At 9:12 President Haralson called

the Convention toorder. Bro. Moody led in prayer. The jjurnal of Satur-day wps r ^ .

W. C. Taylor read the report of the committee appointed to consider ad-mitting Oregon to our territory and organization. On account of some doctrines held by the Oregon breth-ren their request for admission was refused. The Convention sustained the committee.

The report on Woman's Work was read. This work is entirely under the direction of the two Boards.

B. H. Graves of China spoke to this report. He spoke in high terms of woman's work in China.

E. T. Mullina of Baltimore said he believed this movement was the Lord's act. Knowbg, praying, giving are the three strande of miaaionary rope. Tracts are the gnateat aouroes of re-liable information aa to modem mis-aion work.

W. a . In^an apoke to the question. He hoped the time would oome when every ohnrah would have • woman's minionuy society.

The Committee on l ime Place and

BAITIST AJSD lUfiTLECTOU, MAY 17,1894.

Preacher report«d. Time, Friday be-fore the second Sunday in May, 1895; preacher. G. B. Eager, D.D., of Ala-bama; alternate, A. B. Miller, D.D, of Arkansas; historicsl sermon, by W, H. Whitsitt, D.D., of Kentucky. This being the semi-centennial session of the Convention, the place was left to be determined by the three Boards.

The Foreign Mission Board report-ed as to its finances. Dr. Kerfoot of Kentucky read the following sum-luary: Expenses have been reduced in force at home and in salaries abroad. More attention ought to be given in the Convention to ways and m<«an8 of raising money among our churches. The one great thing that c-oufronts this Convention is to reach the great mass of Baptists of this Southland.

H. H. Harris said: The debt of the Board one year ago was about 110,000. But the impression went abroad that the Board wos out of dtbt and did uot need money. The debt of the Board when Dr. Harris acted as Sec-retary for two months last summer was about .f:}5,000. Now it has been reduced by Dr. Willingham to about 130,COO; $20,000 is due the permanent fund, $10,000 to the bank. But there are about $12,000 of drafts of the mis-sionaries coming in. The Board has cut down expenses. The missionaries have said: "Cut down our salaries and send us reinforcements." We are like the Eyptians at the Red Sea. The debt is the Red Sea. The cloud is the cloud of witnesses around. Shall there be a voice from the cloud telling us to go forward? Dr. Harris then called upon all who would say to the Board, Go forward and appoint more missionarieu, to stand. Quite a number did so.

Dr. Ellis then led in an earnest prayer for Ooil's blefsiog. The scene was a solemn and feeling one.

Dr. R. J. Willingham, the Secretary of the Board, then spoke. Eight months ago, without any knowledge on his part, he had received a letter one morning telling him that the brethren w a ^ d him to take charge of the Foreign Mission work. He could not help falling on bis knees and say, O Lord, what does this meant About this time a child was bora in hia home. He had prayed, O Lord, make this child a mission-ary. Unknown to him, his wife was at the same time praying the same thing. He had asked. Why wait twenty years to take any active part in this missionary workt Why not nowt Then the letter came. He can hear three voices calling to him. One aays. Send me as a missionary. Another says, Send me. Another says. Send me. Dr. Willingham made quite a feeling speech, which touched all hearta. A collection was taken for the foreign work amount-ing to $14,924 25.

AFTERNOON SESSION. At 3:07 p.m. th<i Convention was

called to order. Prayer by W. C. Cleveland.

The report on Young People's Work waa read by Dr. Lanaing Bur-rows. It raoommends that the special work of theee aooietiea ahall be di-rected by the local church, and abo their oombinaUon into larger bodies ahall be determined by the consent of the local ohuroh. Dr. Burrows aaid that there u e some things that oan-not be ignond or aet aside or laid aaida, no matter what our notiona

may be. Theee societies are organ-izing, combining and working. The only question is, shall we save the young people to the denomination. O ^ seems to be blessing this Work. His experience as a young man made him love the young people's move-ment. As a result of the movement he can be away from his people a fortnight or a month and the church will run itself. Although not a proph-et, he believed that the coming of the new century will be marked by a wonderful movtinent among young manhood and womanhood.

Dr. Eaton said this is a remarkable age, the age of the young people. Organize! Organize! Are not the Christian homes the place to instruct the youngt Organization does not make the life, but the life the organi-zation. Before joining in a proces sion let me find out where the proces-sion is going. Muat we supplement the New Testamentf It gives u<i all the organization we want. The local church is the greatest organization on earth. When you have two organ-izations, young and old, in one church, you will have two classes of people doing the same work on the same field, or one class going one way and the other another. Let us have no organization for the young people that the local church docs not belong to.

Rev. J . A. Speight of Virginia said the time has come when we can't preach our convictions to our congre gatioDs. (Dissenting voices were heard over the congregation)

Dr. Frost of Nashville said Dr. Eaton's manner of applying the prin-ciples involved in the report was very Hoe, but he did not anticipate the danger prophesied by Dr. Eaton. We are confronted by a condition. We can't shut our eyes to it. As sure as we are in this Convention something must be done, and he thought it was along this line of work. Brethren, why not have confidence in each oth-er and in God, warding off danger when there is any and rejoicing when there is cause. I want to do the same in this line as with the Sunday school work-get hold of the young people He has a young people's meeting. He wants the church to get a grip on the young people. His children have a better notion of church life than he had at their age, and the young peo pie's training has helped them. Let us not be afraid of something that may come.

Dr. J . B. Gambrellof Georgia said: We want to get all the horse in the harness, and as you must harness the horse when he is young, so with the young people. There is an idea that the New Testament furnishes all the oiganization that we need. There ia no provision for the Southern Bap tist Convention nor for the Theolog ical Seminary. The New Testament does not say everything that ought to be done. The Hardshells threshed on that straw long ago; we got the wheat, they got the straw. We want to do a ap^f ic work. We muat ad-mit that we don't agree about many things. He regretted that the time will never oome when Baptists will do as he wanted them to do. I must have patience with you. It ia a quea-tloD of organization beyond the ohuroh. He didn't believe that Bro. Baton u d hiouelf were oompetentto direct afEain,l3nt Uie ohutohea of the Southira Baptiit Oonvention would

go along and do aa they wanted to do. This is a new movement, and too much so to understand all about it. Some want one sort of union and some another. The union is Baptis-tic, for it gels its suthority from local churches.

Dr. S. H. Ford of Missouri said the New Testament neither warrants nor a^provss any organization but co-operation of local churches in mis-sion work. If the aim of the young people is to spread the gospel and do mission work, it has a place; if not, not.

Dr. Hawthorne said the report of the committee is so much better than he thought it would be that be ad advised Dr. Eaton to withdraw his amendment. Never,.by his consent, should there be in his church any or-ganizition of young, middle aged, cr old, except what is under the control of the local church. If anything goes wrong I want to know it. I'm not going to allow any woman to teach my young people that Paul was a divorced man and that the thorn in his side was his divorced wife. He didn't want our young people to be-long to any national concern that teaches doctrines opposed to us, sush as a woman speaking in a promiscuous assembly. He believes in the South-ern Baptist Convention.

Malcolm McGregor of Florida said he loved to teach young people; dif-ferent ways had been present^ to him. Let us not try to put an ox yoke on a horse—harness of another tribe on the Baptists. We are more indebted to the women that never took the platform than to those who have.

Dr. J. B. Cranfill of Texas said the young people's movement is here, and here to stay. The Convention has no power over the local church, and ha was glad it has not. These who have not attended these national meetings of the young people's movement are not prepared to judge. The move-ment means the ascendency of the local church. It is a necessity. The non-denominational society will take its place. No matter how you do it, do it.

Dr. Burrows said: We have no right to legislate for the local church. Did we control the woman's work! The churches are no more infallible than the pope.

F . C. McConnell said: We pastora here are goliig to ahape the conduct of the churches. He wanted to re-pudiate the idea that we must or-gauizs anything in self defense. He did not believe the young people ought to run cff like an ox team to water on a hot day.

W. W. Landram said that the con-stitution of every young people's society subjects the organization to the supervision of the church. The pastor ia e« officio president of the sooiety. We teach the young men, not the young women to pray, etc., in publio. Virginia wants all the young people to attend their own and the general State Convention. We want a young people's union in connection with the ohuroh. District Association State Convention and Southern Bap-tist Convention.

The pith of the report as adopted ia as follows: That societier, or young people's meetings, be organizsd, to be strictly dsnomlnational, making con-tributions through the ohtinh tnss-uiiss; that ill questions ooneemlog

form and combination into more gen-eral gatherings be under the direc-tion of the loc«l church. The report

ipecially urged the (raining of the young people in the work of the Con-vention, recommended the Young PeopWa Leader and instracted tiie Sunday-school Board to publish any needed literature.

[The above embracee all of the Convention report received up to the hour of going to press. The remain-der v ill be given in our issue of next Week.]

—Perhape a few lines from this part of our State would be of some interest to the many readera of your valuable paper. Tennessee is my na-tive State, and of course news from there is quite interesting to me. I have been in this State nearly four years. The past three years I trav-eled as colporter in the Clinch Valley Association. This year I am engaged in pastoral work. Have been en-g s g ^ in some good revivals during the past fall and winter. On one oc-casior, by request of three candidatea for baptise, I baptizkl them at night, which is unusual in this country, but was not in the days of the apoetles. On last Sunday at one of my charges, viz, Clear Spring Church, I buried nine with Christ by baptism. The brethren are preparing to build a new church. The outlook is very encour-aging for this church at (resent. We have some fine Sunday-schools in Lee County. I hope the B I P T I S T AND BEFLECTOB will continue to prosper. The articles from Bro. Lofton are just splendid. R. N . PLANK.

JonesviUe, Va. —Wiiat fine wsather we had for our

fifth Sunday meetinga. How pleas-ant to one who has for a long while been shut up to the sights and sounds of a stirring little city to get sway into the quietude of remote country settlements! Piney Grove church was Unity's placeof rendezvousjao named, not for some well remetnbered groves faraway, but for the tall pines there and for milea around. Seated before a landscape dressed in all shades of green from the new leaves of the an-nuala to the dark foliage of the pine, one thanks God for eyes; listening to music everywhere from the songs of birds to that atrange mu»o whidi only pine trees played upon by the winds can make, one thanks God fdr ears. But what ahould make us most thankful of all is for the strong hold which Baptists have on these noise-ries of the young far torn the vioes peculiar to dties. How many chil-dren have youf Ten, How many have yout Eight. Such answevs as these can be heard not.often in fash-ionable society. God some day will make the reason pldn. - My stopping place waa at an ideal country home, where there is heard far lass com-plaint of hard times than along strsets smoothly paved. The yard is full of tasteful ahrubbeiy i the floors are per-fectly clean; and the old people can talk with you of their p e m ^ m-quaintanoe with Tates and the men of his early di^ys. On the veianda stand thne^spinhing whsels, not plaosd there for mere ornament, while they are an ornament No sonar—nrt even Home,j Sweet Home''—can have awakened auch aweet memories. In some neii^borhoods thne is five times mote domestio industiy than two yean ago. Thanks to the peo-ple of Pinsy Ofove for making the stay of delMptss to the fifth Snnday nuiting so puwrnt . Q,

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6 BAPTIST AND KEFJLECTOB, MAY 17, 1894.

MISSIONS.

MISSION DIRECTORY.

TUKASUlCEirs ItKI 'OKT.

Ck)lleoUonB for Tenneflaee Baptist CouTention for the month of April,

18U1, were «8 follows:

S T A T S MI88ION8. BIT. A. J. Hour, D.D.. HlMionarr Booretary All oommUBloAtlonsdoclinied for him •bould be addroMed to bin at Naibville, Tenn.

W. II. WooiioocB.Tr«aaurer. NaahvlUc. Tcnn.

rOBKION mSSlOMB EBT. B. J. W i M J R a H A M , D.D.. Oorretpondlof •Mivtarr. Hlcbmond. Va.

J. H. Show. Knoxvllle. 1 enn.

ass<k:iatk)N st a 3 i S

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5 i i tB oSn S-.

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BIT. for Vice Prealdent of the Vorelirn noard

Tenneaaeo. to w h o m all inqulne* for Infor-mation m a r be addroMed

HOMB H18SI0N8. BIT. I.T.TicMaNoa, D.D., OorrMpODdlDir 8eo-retarr. Atlanta, Oa.

Bit. n . D. Earlt, Uomphlt. Tenn., Vlce-Pre«ldeDt of the H o m e Doard for Tennouee, to w h o m all Information or loqutriM about work In the State m a r be addroHwd.

MINIBTKHIAL BDDCATtON. rund* forroung mtnltten to the 8. W . D. On! Tenlty ibould be tent to O. M . SarBfre. D.D. JackMO. Tenn.

For Tounn minlitera at Carton and N e w m a n CX>nere, to J. T. Bemlonton, H e u r Creek. Tenn

S U N D A Y - S C H O O L S A N D C O L r O R T A O E R « t , W Y Qci-'KNnKHKT 'Corresponding See

retary, Chaitunoocu. Tcui..

Woman's MlMlonary Onion. OairTRAI. COMHtTTEB fOR TCHNUSBa:

H n . O. A. Liottoo. Frerdoni. so; Soutb S u m merStreev

Mrs. R. C. Stockton. Corr<>apoDdtn( Secretin and Treasurer. 130U West Dcmonbreun Sv. NashTllle. Tens.

Forty Odd Yeur>« in Cliliiti.

DT MBS. U . F. CBAWFOBD.

X.

STBEET BCOIHNINO OF T H E U O N T M E N T

CBCBCH

At the smaller villages in busy sea

sons • half an hour's talk was often

long enough, as the people, by the

end of that time, would t ^ i n to feel

that they must return to their work;

but in Itisure seasons, when many

were coming and going, hours might

be profitably spent at one place. For

MTeral years tto people did not seem

to understand our object in these vis-

its, but by degrees, and after frequent

explanations, they began to learn that

we meant simply to proclaim the

"hearenly doctrine." Naw and then

one would have the temerity to invite

us into a house, and we found that ac

cepting such invitations brought us

into more intimate relations with the

people—though preaching out under

the trees was more pleasant. We can

recall many instances of kind consid-

eration and sympathy extended to us

on these excursions, contrasting with

more of the opposite kind. Oace,

when almost exhausted from heat and

labor, • man suddenly presented him

•elf before us bwring a tray of smok-

ing tea, saying: " I knew you must

need something to drink." Sumetimee

a loving old woman would take me by

the hand and say: "Come in and

reat; this ia hard work you are doing

for OS." Oo one of our tours a lady

of wealth Mot us an invitaUon to come

to her hooaa for raat and refreshment.

We found her umisually intelligent

and interesting. " I have great re-

spect," she aaid, "for those who are

•pending their Uvea in teaching oth-

en to be good. Ton are like our own

•age Confucius whio went in his (»rt

from village to village exhorting the

people to morality." Sometimes evU

disposed peraons would excite public

•entiment against oa. In raoh plaoaa

wa found it uaelees to attempt ralig-

ioua work. At other times venerable

old men with flowing white beaida

would approaoh and thank oa warm-

ly for taai^nff thair peopla auoh good

things. : The OhinaaaaraiuA all alike.

Our m ^ o d a of pnaantinK the goa-

Itii-cb KIvit AsROflallon I.exlnKtou Kunday-Hcboul . .

Ilculah AHMoclation. Martin 11. Y. I M T

Illg Kmory Asuoolatlon. Kingston church Harrlmun Trenton St. \V. M S. Usrrlman Tronton St. rhurch ..

Illg liutcblG AiUMtciattou Covington church.. . . Sulcm cburch Ilniwniivlllo cliurfli Ararat church Ilrightonoliiirch Hlple* church llrownsvlllo I.. M. S Holly Orove church

Ccntrul Aiisoclattou. M m M. C Crutchcr riciuMinl Plains S. S Aiwootl rhurch JockKon '.'ml church . Trenton church UumlioKll church. Humlx>UltS.S Coll.m tirovc S S ( i lhvin church i;tl>!toD S S Now lU'thlflicm ohuri-h Center church JackKon Ut church Trezcvant chun-h Milan S S Hickory lirovrchuriti llelln church l*lt'ai>ant I'lalns chur> h Oak (! rove church I'oplar lirove church »e«^h iJrovc church Spring Hill church. . Trenton W. M S W H. Hughe* Kev. W K IVirrU

Chllhowle AoHoclatlon Mt. I-elMCon church Island Home church

Clinton ArtsoclstloD Bethel church W H Miller Jackshoro church Indian Creek church

ConcortI A-i-toclstlon. rranklln church. . Nashville Tth church MurJreesboro I. M. S Nashville Centennial I. .M S Nashville Centennial cburch Nashville Central church Nashville Central W .M S Hiker's Cirovechurch New Hope church J. G. Putnam Rutland church L^Uuardo S. S. tiladeville church Laacassas church Kaglevllle S. S

Cumberland Association Nashville Immanuol S. S Nashville 3rd Mls«lon Class . . Nashville .Ird L,. A S Nashville Istcburch Clarksvllle Sunbeam.'! Mttle Hope church Miss Sallle Manning Rig R(ick cburch Krln church New Bethel cburch NashTllle Immanuel L M S . Sprlnglleld church I 'mon Hiilcbnrch (>sk Orove church Mttle West Fork church NaAhvillc Kdgelleld cburch Oallstln 8. 8

Duck River AsHocU'lon. Shelby\ille church North Fork church Columbia church .. Shelbrvllic I- A S Tullahoma church .. .

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pel would vary according to circum

stances, but we always told of salva

tion through Christ. The objects

around us often afforded an introduc

tion. Pointing to the sun we would

say: "Do you know who holds the

sun in the heavens, so guides it that

it unfailingly rises and seta day after

day through the ages;" or "look at

the growing crops; who aenda rain to

make thein grow and give food to

yourselves and childrsnT Tou know

it is the Heavenly Father. Have you

ever once, in all your Uvea, rendered

thanka to him for hia loving kindneaat

Ever inquired into his will that you

may obey h imt" Sometimea a moth-

er would apeak of her dead ohUd.

"Do you know your child will live

againi" Then the reaurrecUon and

eternal life would be taught and ex-

plained. Some one would be in dia-

treea; a Savior who can take away all

sorrow would be preaentad. But gen-

erally we told them in the beginning

that we had a measage of lova and

meroT. an oflhring of aalvatibn Crom

the Heavenly Father through Jeaoa

Chriat hia Son.

In visiting the viUagM near the

city we could, after a day's work, re

turn home and have a comfortable

night'e reet, starting out freeh again

next morning. But for places ten,

twenty or thirty milea distant we were

often absent from home many daya,

or even weeks, lodging in Chineee

inns or vacant houses. Sleeping on

brick beds in cloae, damp, stuffy

rooms is not conducive to heidth, and

we often aroae in the morning fe^ng

only a little less weary than when we

lay down at night The villages, on

an average, ar6 about a mile apart,

and our voicea were rested in going

from one to another. From four to

seven villagea made a good day'a

work, leaving atrength for two or

three houra' work at our lodging plaoe

at night; but when our road took ub

by eight or tsn-and we could not

conaant to paw any without a few

goapel worda-we were ready for bed

at anaariy hour.

bo our arrival at Tung Chow in

1868, lira. Holmas was superintend-

ing a amall day school for boya, the

taadiar of whfcsh was paid by the na-

av* chorah, induding, aa I auppoaa,

the cmtributions of the thiaa mlsaioa-

ary members. Mr. and Mrs. Hartwell

and Mrs. Holmes. The native mem-

bers, as well as I can recall, were aU

then, or had recently been, in foreign

employment at higher wages thao

they could command from their own

people. Ere long the arrangemeuU

about the school became unsatisfao

tory, the church ceased to pay for il,

and Mrs. Holmes took upon hereelf

its expenses from private funds. She

continued it until her departure for

the United States in 1867, when she

left it in my handa with $50, which

had been contributed by a lady of an-

other denomination for its suppoit.

Before this time the Foreign Mission

Board had constituted Messrs. Gran-

ford and Hartwell, at their united re

queet, into separate miasione, and as

Mrs. Hulmea' house was near to Mr.

Hartwell's, it was, after her depart-

ure, ohsDgetl into a ohapel for tbe

North Street Cburch, the school be

ing removed to a rented room near

our place, and gradually developttd

into a boarding Hchool, the history of

which in left for future treatment.

Our Monument Street house coo-

slated of a number of small rooms ar-

ranged in four auccessive rows, each

row being separated from the next

by a courtyartl. The first row pre-

sented to the street a dead wall

pierced only by the front doorway.

There had been a beautiful apple tree

in the front court, but as it wa« not

mentioned in the title deed, the retir-

ing owner, according to Chinese cus-

tom, cut it down and sold the wood.

Little Landrum Holmes, hearing our

expressions of regret at the lossef

the tree, said to his mother: " Never

mind, mammB,we can stick it on sgsin

with Spalding's Prepared Qlew;"

strongly suggestive of the many times

his accidents had been repaired by

that famous preparation.

The houses in Tung Chow and ex-

tensively in North China are of one

story. Our courts were small, en-

closed by houaee and walls reaching

to the eavea. As some of them were

paved with stones, the summ«r beat

was almost intolorabi#. At all sea-

aona our vision was confined to these

courts and a little patch of sky above.

Our isolated position, the trials of the

work in the midst of a hostile, scorn-

ful people, with other difficulties too

tedious to mention, tried our souls to

the utmost. Two years later we

bought the adjoining house on the

£«st, pulled down the intervening

walls, thus enlarging the courts, be-

sides securing rooms for the school

and proepeotive work. We planted

treea in the courts, and as they grew

up casting a grateful ahade around,

our Oiaterial comfort waa greatly en-

hanced. l^or many yaara pa»t tbe

contraat, in summer, upon stepping

'rom the acorched street into the

shadow of those fln« locust, mimosa

and elm treea, with flowers of various

(inda beneath theno, and Virginia

oreepera covering tba walls, is very

refrMhing. Thou|^, in itself unpre-

tending, the place became to us a

ovaly and dear home where we ex-

pected to spend the remainder of our

earthly daya in the rervice of the

Maater. But God had other plans

'or us.

Oiviog to Ood ia no loss; but

putting your substsnos into th« very

ML bank. Giving is true having, as

the old gnTO-atone said of the dead

: "What I spwit I had, what I

saved I lost, what I gBTS I hav^-iirx.^

BAPTIST AND REFLBCTOE, M A Y 17, 1894.

'•Tlio Worlil Do Move."

liro. Folk:—l ask space only for

this short note. Bro. Lofton makes

two statements in his last reply that I

confess I cannot make fit to each oth-

er. as follows:

" 1 never have had any sort of sym-

pathy with Romanism, Kpiacopacy,

or Campbellism, since they are n'fual

inlic and umvangelical in their theory

of mlvalion."

"The thirty-nine articles of the

Episcopal Church, however, are Cat-

rinistic and Hound aa to salvation tiy

grace; and Mr. Gales is not only a

converted and consecrated man, but

he soundly and effectively preached

hi« creed as to salvation."

Now, if Bro. Loftou will reconcile

these, it will be a relief to me. I con-

fess they are too much mixed for nie.

I have italicised some of the words

for sake of emphasis.

Now, Bro. Lofton has given several

columns mainly to the praise of the

virtues, piety, zeal, liberality, in-

telligence, etc, of Pedobaptists. Now

it would be refreshing if we could see

only a few words in praise of the vir-

tues of the poor persecuted Baptists

—if at all they possess any virtues.

He invariably tells of their stinginess,

laziness and meanness in general. I do

not remember to have ever seen a word

of4)raise from his pen of Baptist vir-

tue?, except that they have the truth,

the whole truth, and as he is wont to

say," nothing but the truth." Are any

of them piousT Are any zealousT Are

anyliberalt Are any intelligent? Have

Baptists ever written any "songsT"

Have they made any "commentariesT"

Are they authors of any "master-

piecesT"

Now, in conclusion, let me say I

have the highest persoual esteem for

Dr. Lofton. We are warm, personal

friends. I have no criticisms for him

personally. But as a public servant

in a oSmmon cause I have offered

these criticisms. Not wanting to be

extreme, I have not been near as se-

vere as I felt the case demanded.

With me it is no small thing to com-

promise the church of Christ with

rival inatitutions. J. H. Obihe. Watertown, Tenn.

" T h e World I>o Move."

High Church Episcopalians do-he gives them an evangelical applica-tion. The damning heresy of Ro-manism, Episcopacy proper, and of Campbellism is their ritualiatic theory of aalvatioD, which Mr. Gales reRiiidi-ates.

Bro. Grime exaggerates when he

says I have written several columns

in praise of Pedobaptist virtuea.

Twice or thrice in brief I mentioned

their piety, z<)al and the like in con-

trast with the wolverine and harlotry

he indiscriminately applied to them;

and I only plead that until Baptists

surpassed them in these respects we

had better withhold such epithets. I

can distinguish between these people

sod their systeme, when they rise

above them; and I can deplore the

fact that we Baptists often fall below

our system.

Bro. Grime asks if I can't say some-

thing good of the Baptists; and he

exaggerates again when he says I

never impute anything to Baptists

but "laziness, stinginess and mean-

nesi'," and that I say, " Baptists have

the truth, the whole truth, yet noth-

ing but the truth." He asks if Bap

tists never wrote an} "songs," or

"commentaries," or "masterpieces."

Let me say that Baptists have the

grandest history of them all. They

have kept the gospel and its ordi-

nances, they gave the world religious

liberty, they founded modern mid

sions, and without them primitive

Christianity would not be in the

world. They have their songs, their

commentaries, their masterpieces; and

they are still moving up gloriously

and grandly in the conquest of the

world. Yet in Tennessee, with 111.-

&C0 white Baptists, we have 90,000

who do little or nothing to give the

gospel to this perishing world. This

is what I say hard things about; but

I do not mean to reflect upon the

smaller number who do what they

can. If the Baptists of Tennessee

would do half what they might we

Bro. Grime aska me to reconcile two

atatements which I made in my last

reply, as follows:

1. " J never bad any sort of sym-

pathy with. Romanism, Episcopacy,

or Campbeliism, since they sre ritual-

iatic and unevangelical in their theory

of salvation."

2. "The thirty-nine articles of the

Episcopal Church, however, are Cal-

viniatio and sound aa to salvation

by grace, and Mr. Galea is not only a

converted and consecrated mas, but

aoundly and efTectively preached hia

creed as to Balvation by grace."

I explained in my last reply that

Mr. Gales is not a ritualistio Episco-

palian, but is of the Reformed or Low

Church order, and hence he ia not

recognized by Epiaoopaliana proper.

Whatever hia viewa as to church gov-

ernment, cr aa to the mode and aub-

jecU of baptiam, ha does not believe

in baptiamal tsgansration or remis-

sion; and he prsaohes to ainneia sal-

vation by gracs, through fdth in our

Lord Jssus Ohriat, juit aa any Bap-

tiat froold. Instead of giving ths

tUrtraiiM utiolss of ths Epiniopal

Ohondi > rituaUntio applioaUon—aa

could go up and possess the land. Alas! th^ great masa of us are lasy, stingy, mean—the great mass of ua have the truth, the whole truth, but nothing but the truth—and Grime knowa i t

I reciprocate the kindly feeling of

Bro. Grime toward me. I admire hia

open and manly criticiam of my poei-

Uon; and although we do not agree

in everything, we are not so far apart

after alL Union meetings, aa I aaid

before, are not an article of futh with

me; and I have nothing to aay againat

those who never engage in them. I

like Grime all the more, because heia

a Calviniat, or, if he Ukes it better, a

Paulinist, in the doctrines of grace;

and he is a misaionary Baptiat" upon

the fundamental principlea of the goe-

pel—not because he ia not a Hard-

shell in doctrine, and yet a Hardahell

in practice, as is the manner of moet

of us. Anti-misaionary Arminianism

and anti-mission HatdsheUism are

like extremes, as seen among the

Separate Primitive Baptista of Ten-

nessee. Hyper-Calviniamaeeanoneed

for missions; Arminianism would re-

fuse to be missionary if God'a elec-

tion of the believer iaaovereign; but

the Calviniat dictatea no terma to the

Almighty and reats upon God's de-

crees and promises to go and preach

to a lost world. According to Froude

it is Calvinism which makea mm, and

upon the rocky foundation of which

our modern civilizttion was built; and

according to the Bible it is the rocky

basis of hope and encouragement

upon which the missionary spirit is

assured that this world "shall be"

the "possession" of Christ and the

heathen be his " inheritance." God

deliver us aliko from Arminianism

and Hardshellism.

Bro. Grime, let us put up our swords,

shake hands, and put in God's mis

sionary plow for the salvation of i

lost world on gospel principles.

G. A. Lofton. [We publish both pf theee articlee

together, aa theconcluaimi of the oon-trorersy between these valiant war-riors. And now before the curtun falls we want to lay our hand upon the head of each and say, The Lord bleaa you, my children. Tou both have fought weU. Each,weauppose. is satisfied that he baa demoliahed the other. Now let ua have peace. Ring down tbe curtain.—Ed.]

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THE POPE OR AMERICAN We published last we«k an art-

icle by Dr. J . B. Gambrell, Presi-deut of Mercer University, Geor-gia, protesting against our com-mento upon the recent act of Gov. Northen in appointing Mr. Pa t Walsb, a Catholic, as United States Senator.

In the article Dr. Gambrell says: " I know Mr. Walsh only slightly, but from all I bear you could not make anybody who knows him believe he would go against his country for the pope. He is broad-minded and American, or, at any rate, he has made people tl^ink so." Again he says: " But is it tme or not tme that all Catholics hold their supreme allegiance to the pope in political matters? If it is true, Mr. Walsh was not eligible to the high office he now hold& You assame that it is true; bat it is not tme at all."

The only qaestion at issue be-tween, Dr. Gambrell and onraelf is, DOM a Catholio swear allegi-ance to the pope first, then to his country, or can a good Catholic be at the tatne time a tme American citizen?

Now let us see about that. In his remarkable book published several years ago called "Our Country," Dr. Josiah Strong, in diBOUBsing the lubject of Boman-ism, has touched upon this ques-tion, and for convenience sake we •hall follow him laigely, using some of ^ e eztraota which he has made from Oatholio writen.

The revised Statutes of the Uni-ted States declare: "The alien seeking citizenship miitit viake oalh to renounce forever all alle-

(jiunce and Jidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state or sover-eij/nttj, in particular that to which he has been subject." The Ro-man Catholic profession of faith, having the sanction of the Council which met at Baltimore in 1884, contains the following oath of al-legiance to the pope: "And I pledge and swear true obi'dience to the Roman Pontiff, vicar of JesuB Christ., and successor of the blesseil Petor, prince of the Apos-ties," Here, then, is a man who has sworn allegiance to two pow-ers, each claiming to be supreme. Suppose there should be any cou-tlict between iheui, what then? Here is what Catholics say he should do. Their canon law says: " No oaths are to be kept if they are against the interests of the Church of Rome," And again: " Oaths which are against the Church of Rome are not to be called oaths, but perjuries." In a work preparetl by Rev. F. X Schonppe for Roman C a t h o l i c schools and colleges and l)earing the imprimatur of Cardinal Man-ning, we read (p. 278), " The civil laws are binding on the conscience only 80 long as they are conform-able to the rights of the Catholic Church."

But suppose the man prefers to obey his oath of allegiance to his country instead of to the pope, in case of conflict, what would the Catholic say?

lu his Syllabus of Errors, Prop-oBition 42, issued Dec. 8, 18Gi, Pins IX. said: " I t is an error to hold that, In the case of conflict-ing laws between the two powers, the civil law ought to prevail." The reigning pontiff, in an ency-clical isBiied Jan. 10, 181»0, says: " I t is wrong to break the law of Jesus Christ in order to obey the magistrate, or under pretence of civil rights to tranBgress the laws of the church." Again Leo XIIL says: " But if the laws of the State are openly at variance with the law of God—if they inflict injury upon tho church • * • or set at naught the authority of Jesus Christ which is vested in the Su-preme Pontiff, then indeed it be-comes a duty to resist them, a sin to render obedience." Bishop Gil monr, of Cleveland, Ohio, in his Lenten Letter, March, 1873, said: "Nationalities must be subordi-nate to religion, and we must loarn that we are Catholics first and citizens next. God is above man, and the church above the State." The bull Unam Sanctum of Boni-face YIIL, which is also a part of the canon law, and acknowledged by Cardinal Manning as an "Art-icle of Faith," says: " I t is neoes-sary that one sword should be un-der another, and that the temporal authority should be subject to the spiritual power.". .

But if the man p e i ^ B in his

disobedience to the commands of Rome as against those of his conn-try, what follows? The canon law of the Church of Rome is essen-tially the constitution of that church, b i n d i n g upon Roman Catholics everywhera The bull,

/^q/iHi iHi«," published by Benedict XIV., is a part of the canon law and decrees that those who refuse to obey any "com-mands of the Court of Rome, if they be ecclesiastics, are ipao facto suspended from their orders and offices; and, if they be laymen, are smitten with t'xcoinmunica-tiou."

Excomuuniical ion! To a Cath-olic that meaii8 not only exclusion from spiritual privileges in this life, but even from spiritual life itself, from heaven. Would Sen-ator Walsh be strong enough to resist such prossnre? But per-haps he would say: " I will take my religion l)ut not niy politics from Rome." But as we have shown, and as is well knoWn, the pope claims not only religious but political control over his subjects. On this point hear a Catholic high in authority. Said Vicar-General Preston, in a sermon preached in New York Jan. 1, 1888: "Every word that Leo speaks from his high chair is the voice of the Holy Ghost, and must be obeyed. To every Catholic heart comes no thought but obedience. It is said that politics is not within the province of the church, and that the church has only jurisdiction in mattere of faith. You say, ' I will receive my faith from the Pontiff, but I will not receive my politics from him.' This assertion is disloyal and untruthful. • • • You must not think as you choose; you mnst think as Catholics. The man who says, ' I will take my faith from Peter, but I will not take my politics from Peter,' is not a true Catholic. The church teaches that the supreme Pontiff must be obeyed, because he Is the vicar of the Lord. Christ speaks through him." The claims of tae Ultramontanes are quite logical. Christ is King of kings and Lord of lords. His right to rule is ab-solute and his authority unlimit-ed. If, now, Christ has a vice-gerent on earth, if there is a vicar of God among men, his sovereign ty is absolute, his authority unlim-ited. The Roman Catholic must, as Leo XIIL says, render as "per-fect submission and obedience of will to the church and the Sover-eign Pontiff as to God himself."

Do you know that the two great-est living Statesmen, Gladstone and Bismarck, bold that the alle-giance demanded by the pope is inconsistent with good citizenship? Bismarck had the Jesuits banished from Germsny, and we have been sorry to see a disposition on the part of the Reichstag since his re-tirement to readmit them. Glad-stone said "that Borne requires a convert who now joins her to for-feit his moral and mental freedom.

and to place his loyalty and civil duty at the mercy of another."

But is there liable to come a conflict between Senator Walsh's oath of allegiance to the pope and his oath of allegiance to the gov-ernment? That is, is there likely to be a conflict between the prin-ciples of Rome and the principles of America? This question we have not time to discuss. Dr. Gambrell admits i t That the pope has designs upon this coun-try and is now reaching out his hand to control it, no reader of the eigne of the times can doubt That is what the presence of Satolli at Washington means. That con-flict is now pending upon the sub-ject of our public school system, and must soon be fought to the issuo. When the conflj^i comes, who doubts on which side Senator Walsh will bo found?

Tliat conflict is likely to occur also over the very ((uestion upon which Dr. (ianibrcll and others justify Gov. Northen's appoint-ment of Mr. Walsh as Senator— that of "religious liberty." Pius IX. declared it to be an error that "Every man is free to embrace and profess the religion he shall believe true, guided by the light of reason."

Dr. O. A. Brownson, a high American Uoman Catholic author-ity, says: "Protestantism of every form has not and never can have any right where Catholicity is tri-umphant." The Catholio policy is very frankly stated by M. Louis VeniHot, a distinguished French Roman Catholic writer, highly es-teemed at Rome, who says: " When there is a Protestant majority we claim religious liberty because such is their principle; but when we are in the majority we refuse it because that is ours."

As a Baptist we believe, of course, in religions liberty. And it is bccause we are a Baptist and do beliove in religions liberty that we are BO strenuously oppos(»d to Catholics, who would if they could destroy that precious principle, which, as Bancroft says, "was from the first a trophy of the Bap-tists"—a trophy won from the Catholics only through fire and blood. They have destroyed that principle, or at least the privilege of exercising it, wherever they had

power, and they arc seeking to do so in this country. I t is to prevent them doing so that we op-pose them with all the vigor of our being, and that we protest against the appointment of one of them to a high office by a Baptist Governor, thus giving him greater vantage ground from which to fight that principla

We have only to add that our present fight against the Oatholics is not upon reh'gious grounds, but upon political. OathoUoism is not only a religions organization. I t is at the same time a political or-e^isat ion. As a Baptist we op-pose the religious part of this huge religio-politioal octopus. Asac i t -

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isien we oppose the political part of it And so, as Baptist and as citizen, wo propose to flght it all along tbe line so long as God shall give us strength.

rut-: SOUTHERN UAl'TJST CONVENTION.

This editorial is written upon Monday afternoon of the Conven-tion. There is a day and a half yet before it closes, so that we ennnot speak of the Convention as a whole at present, but shall do that next week. Wo may say, however, that so far the Conven-tiou has been a very delightful one. It has been very largely at-tenile<l. The delegation has not been more than 700 or 800, per-haps, but the visitors have run up into the thousands. Nearly all Texas seems to have turned out, and that means an immense num-ber in itself. Tompkins' Hall, where the meeting is being held, will seat, it is said, <5,000 to 8,000 people. It has been full at every meeting, and sometimes has been packed and jammed.

The meeting has been character-ireil, perhaps, more as a business Convention than as an oratorial one. While there have been some gootl speeches made, there have been no remarkably great ones, but there has been an interest in all of the sessions and an enthusi-asm which have been very inspir-ing. There has been also remark-able harmony in the proceedings, except upon the question of the b a s i s of representation. Upon this <inestion the committee was unfortunately d i v i d e d , and it seemed impossible for them to harmonize their differences and bring in a compromise report, as we tried so hard to get them to do. The consequence was that, as wo ex[)ected, the Convention declined to adopt either report, laying them both on the table, and decided to continue on the present basis. As an advocate, however, of a numeri-cal basis of representation we want to say that when such men as J . B. Hawthore, Lansing Burrows, I. T. Tichenor, B. H. Carroll, and many others of similar distinction and influence whoin we could mention, are in f a v o r of adopting that basis, it shows that, although the matter has been laid upon the table for the present, it is not finally dis-posed oL I t is an idea which has gotten into the heads of some peo-ple and is not likely soon to get out

The meeting this morning in the interest of Foreign Missions was one of the greatest sessions of the Convention which we have had this year or any year. The For eign Mission Board was laboring under a debt of <80,000, and after strong speeches by Drs. Kerfoot, Harris and WiWingham it was de-cided to pay off the debt right then and there, at least so far as practicabley

Dr. Willingham made a very earnest and tonchiog appeal to the,

Convention, and the Walnut S t Church in Louisville led off with a contribution of $1,000 on condi-tion that $10,000 should be raised at once. At last accounts tho sub-scription amounted to some $15,-(XX), and the Board was authorized to bring the matter up again and try to secure the balance dnring the meeting of the Convention, if possible. This, we think, is the largest subscription that has ever been taken at a meeting of the S o u t h e r n Baptist Convention, which shows the hold which our foreign mission work has upon the hearts of Southern Baptists and their determination to see that it shall not be crippled because of a dobt

I t is worthy of mention that while the collection was being taken the Sunday-school Board of the Southern Baptist Convention asked the authority of the Conven-tion to be allowed to give $1,000 to the Foreign Mission Board. Despite the hard times the Sun-day-school Board has not only had enough money to pay its own ex-penses, but has also had enough to help in the work of other Boards.

We shall have something more to say next week with reference to the Convention.

Convention Notes.

— On our way to the meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention at Dal las, we stopped over in Memphis several hours waiting for our specia train to start, and so had the oppor-tunity of looking in on the Methodist General Conference, now in session there. It is a distinguished looking body of men; it is not near so large, however, as the Southern Baptist Convention, but it is more of a de-iberative body. The meetings were held in the First Methodist Church and only delegates were allowed upon the floor, while the visitors were com-pelled to sit in the galleries and look down upon them. We think this is an example which our Southern Bap-tist Convention could well afford to follow. Our meetings have lost too much of the nature of a business body and become largely mass meetings, in the literal sense of the word mass. Of course people will think that we are prejudiced, but having the op-portunity to compare the two bodies, we cannot help thinking that the SouUiera Baptist Convention is grander looking body of men. and will make more impression upon a community for intelligence than the Methodist General Conference.

—On our way to the General Con-ference in Memphis we met with Bro. B. G. Craig in front of the First Bap tist Churoh, and learned that a re ception was being held in the Sun-day-school room of the church in honor of their former pastor, B. Willingham, as he was passhii through the dty. So after a short stay at the Conference we returned the Baptist Church in time to i Bro. WilUngham surrounded by bis old friends, who seemed very devoted-ly attached to him. While loving

ace in their hearts for their former pastor.

—The Cotton Belt got there—not exactly on time, but in plenty of time. ' 'he delay was not the fault of the Cotton Belt, but was occasioned by the act that the special BapUst train had a wait Ui Memphis for the special rom Atlanta, which was delayed for

several hours. After leaving Mem-phis, however, we made pietty nearly schedule time, despite the fact that

pulled out of Memphis with one the longest passenger trains that

ever left there; there were fourteen coaches, all of them loaded down with Baptists. A count showed that there

ere 401 on board. Oa reaching Pine llufF it was found necessary to divide

the train and run us through in two sections. It was quite a delightful party which we had on board, and no one seemed to regret the delay of a ew hours, as it gave us the oppor-

tunity of seeing more of each other, and also to have a daylight run through Texas, and to see the beau tiful prairie lands through which the road passes. Before reaching Dallas

meeting was held in one of the coaches on the train, and resolutions of thanks to the oflicers of the Cotton ielt were unanimously and enthusi

astically adopted. The Tennessee delegation alw made up a purse and bought with it a beautiful gold headed umbrella tor Mr. W. T. Adams, of Nashville, the very gentiemanly and accommodating Traveling Passenger Agent of the road, who came through with us from Nashville, and to whom we were all indebted for many kind nesses.

their prassnt pastor, Dr. E. A.Taylor, dearly, thqr stiU have a veiy warm

KECEDT ETENT8.

—The Baptist Church at Santa Fe, Tenn., has called to its pastorate Bev. W. C. McFherson.

—It is said that Tremont Temple Baptist Church, Boston, has now a membership of 2,000.

—The Baptist Orphans' Home of Louisville, Ky., has furnished three brides lately. Good.

— Rev. J . S. Grubb has moved from Clinton to Sweetwater, Tenn., where his friends may address him in future.

—Bev. D. D. Forwoord, who is said to be a grand, good man, of Homer, N. Y, has became pastor of the Bap-tist Church in Shelbyville, Ky.

—Denied the use of the mails for transportation of any newspapers con taining its advertisements, the Louis-ana Lottery Company has a new dodge for advertising its nefarious )usiness in connection with Fcre-paugh's drcus posters, placards and handbills.

—The Talmage Tabernacle, Brook lyn, N. Y., was destroyed by fire last Sunday, May ISlh, directly after the morning service. This is the thhrd time that congregation has lost its house of worship by and every time it occurred on Sunday. The less was great, but tiiere was $126,000 in sursnce.

—Bev. Jamss Tkylor Dickinson, pastor of the Baptist Church in North Orange, N. J., has amongst his de-voted members Gardner Colby, a rail road magnate, who lately took his pastor, together wiUi a select party of friends, in his private palace car to Paget Sound, across the entire conti-nent. Not many BapUst praaoheia or pastois have membeis so gener-ous dther io kind or degree.

—Miss Annie W. Annstiong of Bal-timore, Corresponding Secntaiy of the Woman's Missionary Union, aux-iliary to the SouUiem Baptist Con-vention, will stop in Nashville three days, and will hold mlsdonaiy m ^ ings at the Central Baptist Church, Friday, May I8th, 8 p.m.; Third Bap-tist Church, Saturday, May 19tb, 8 p. m.; Edgefield Baptist Church, Son-day, May 20tb, 8:80 p. m. AU ladies are cordially invited to attend.

—B«v. C. S. Gardner resigned the pastorate of the Edgefield Baptist Churah, Nashville, Tenn., Sunday, May 18th. to accept that of the First Baptist Church in GreenTiUe, S. O. The reeignation is to take effect the last Sunday in June next Bro Gard-ner haa been pastor of the Edgefield Baptist Church for more than eight yean. He has done a great work there. Nothing but a sense of duty to be more useful in a new sphere in-duces him to sever a relation that has been so uniformly agreeable.

—The Baptist Courier of Green-ville, S. C.,saya: "The First Baptist Church, of this city, on last Sunday morning extended a hearty, unani-mous call to Bev. C. S. Gardnw, of Nashvill^ Tenn. Bro. (Hrdner is a native of Tennessee, was educated at Btchmond College and the Seminary at Louisville. He is a fine scholar, an able preacher, and has been end-nently successful as pastor of the Edgefield church, NashviUe. He has been pastor of this church for several years, and has become deeply imbed-ded in the affectiona of the Nashville people. It is hoped that Bro. Gard-ner will accept the call extended by the First Church. He will meet with a cordial and hearty recei^co, not only from the Greenville Baptists, but from the Baptist brotherhood of the entire State."

—We find the following in the Journal and Messenger'.

A pastor tells one of our contemm-raries how he secured a Isige number of new names for that paper. He ••J"'

" I took a new turn on my church and woke up these new subscriptimis. At the close of the sermon, I said: See here, brethren, I want to empknr an assistant pastor, I can't do all the work on this field. I have my mind on a 'silent one' you can get b h m , a grand, good preacher too. He will preach you fifty-two sermons a jear, and deUver fully as many krtarss. Then he%ill keep yon posted cm the movement of all our chuiohss;' i^ve you all important news, disonss the Sunday-school lesson, t ^ to ^ e Young People's Union, and hwpthem on their topics. He is veiy prompt, never misses an sjmointmenti eomss. ain or shine. Cheap, did I . s n l Yes! amaringcheap. All he asks for this service is two dollars a year from each subscriber."'

Then he puUed a copy of Uie Mper from under the pulpit and held i t up. saying. " I willshowToa theprsadier; titis is Uie fellow. See, he is pan , and dean, hiside and out, and a Bap-tist of thefiist toater." At first, he says, they locked dsztd-stumped. But soon they began to s o ^ , and

ongregation was cusmissed -jother came to him asUng

to be enrolled among the s o b s o r i ^ for the supp(»t of thatprsoohw. The consequence was the long ust of new names reported. Why should nOt many p a i ^ treat the J O U B I U L A I D McBsmosa in the same wayt TVy it, biethrsn, and draw onus fori what you legiM the services as wotth."

Substitute the BAmsr AMD Bsrbio-ITOS forthe Jottmal and Messenger. We will make the same praporiUoit.

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THE HOME.

The Word She ICenieniberod.

" You remonibor the soriuon yon boani, my dear?"

The little one blushed, and dropped her eyes,

Then lifted theni bravolv, with look of cheer—

Kyes that wero bliio as the suiuiuor skies.

" I ' m afraid I forgot what the ministor said.

He said so much to grown up-iuen, And the pulpit was 'way over niy head:

But I told mamma that ho said •Amon.'

"And *Amen,' you know, means • i^et it be,'

Whatever our l^ord may please to do, And that is sermon enough for mo.

If I mind and feel so, the whole week through."

I took the little one's woni to heart. I wish I could carry it all day long.

The "Amen" spirit, which hido.H the art To moot each cross with a happy sung

—Mra. M. E. Songster

Does An Only CblUl Often Acliie ve Greatness?

For a few days I have been in-terested in a somewhat cnrions in-vestigation. A statement by Rev. Carlos Martyn, D.D., in his very entertaining life of Wendell Phil-lips, is responsible for i t Not that I ooold not accept his statement, but that I was interested to know jnat how mnch emphasis might be placed npon i t Speaking of the yonog Wendell, he says: "There

-is scarcely an instance of an only child's achieving greatness." That seems pretty thoroughly to over-cast the ambitions of anyone who is not at all responsible for his being without brothers or sisters. Does it mean that one condition of greatness depends npon getting one's self bom in among a goodly namber of brothers and sisters Are we to take it to infer that the more nnmerons the children in the family in which the aspirant to greatness appears, the greater his chances of achiering greatness? Is there any hope at all for him who happens to be " an only child ?' Or can we take it as an ^conrage-ment to such an one, in that it points ont to him how signally sig-nificant the distinction must be, should be, in spite of the disad-vantage in having neither brother nor sister, climb to the veiy top of the ladder?

Anyway, I have spent a few pleasant, and, I trust, not nnprof-itable honrs, in foUowbg out the line snggesM in the statement qnoted. I t is fair to suppose that the men to whom a great work, like the *'ED<7clopedia Britan-nica," gives the greatest space, are, in a general way, the men to whom the world looks as its great men. On this bads, and not forgetting theIistofi"Forty Amnriean Im-mortals," as given in The Evangel tMit I hare carefnlly examined the .biographies, of folly two hundred of ths world's notables npon this particular point Ont of the two handled, I ooold find bot six of

whom it would bo safe to affirm that they had neither broth(<r nor sister. About oue hundred and thirty I found definitely deBoribetl as originating in families of any-where from two to twenty children. As to the other sixty, I could get no information upon this point in the notices accessible. It is fair to suppcwe that now and then ono of the sixty was "an only child," but it is not probable that such are more numerous than amon^ the one hundred and thirty-six

The following is the list of sis, each of whom has won a secure place in history, and each of whom is described as "au only child:" Adam Smith, Kobert Steveueou, Count /inzeudorf, John Frederick William Henry Herschel, John Dry den, and Lord Byron, When we examine into those several ca-reers a little closely, we find that the fact of beiug an only child did not secure to each of these the traditional bed of roses. Smith lost his father before his birth, Stevenson in early infancy, Zin-zendorf in early childhood, and fortunate it might have proved had Byron also been orphaned in in-fancy. It was a good mother who prepared Adam Smith to be the founder of political economy, and a kind stepfather who prepared Stevenson for becoming the great engineer, and a noble grandmother who cultivated the religious emo-tions in Zinzendrof and prepared him to be the founder of the Mo-ravian Brethren; but it was in spite of home influences that Byron retained his native genius. Her-schel, the great astronomer, is splendid illustration of a son sur-passing a great father in the same ine of greatness. And Dryden, a

notable instance of the few who are not spoiled by easy circum stances.

But especially interesting to me is the list of about one hnndre< and thirty names which must be placed over against this shorl; lisi of six. Beginning with the men noted for activity in affairs o State, Lincoln was one in a family of five children; Washington was one of eight children; Franklin one of seventeen; Oreeley, the third of seven; Alexander Hamil-ton, the youngest of a large family Webster, a youncer brother; Clay, the fifth of seven; Jefferson, the' first of eight; Everett, a younger brother; Gladstone, one of seven; Beaconsfield, one of four; Olive, one of seven; Peel, the oldest son; Chatham, a younger son; Pitt, the second son; Walpole, the last of six; Woolsey, the first of four; Temple, the oldest son; Fox, the third son; Burke, one of at least four; Cranmer, the second son; Oromwell, the second son; Well-ington, one of at least three; Gen-eral Sherman, one of eleven; Brougham, the oldest son; Sidney, the seoond son; Daniel O'Oonnell, the first of several; Dalhousie, the third son; Sheridan, the seoond son; Napoleon, one of thirteen; of

Mirabeau, one of several; Hanni-bal, the noted Carthaginian, one of at least three; Wendell Phillips, one of nine; Rousseau, the second son; and Talleyrand, the oldest son. Abraham had at least Nahor and Haran; Moses had Aaron and Miiiam, and David had seven brothers.

Taking up history and philoso-phy, Gibbon was the oldest of seven; Hume, the youngest of three; Macaulay, oue of several; Guizot, ouo of Boveral; Thomas Fuller, the olilost son; Milman, the third child; Li'SsinK, one of twelve; Kant, the fourtli of a large family; Hobbcs, one of several; Hamilton, one of sevoral; Descar-tes, one of three; lleKel, ono of three; Berkeley, the oldest child ; Schopenhauer, <»n« of two; and Spino/.a, one of threo.

Passing ne.\t to poetry, painting, and music, Milton was ono of six children; Watts, the first of nine; Shelly, the oldest: Charles Wesley, the youngest of nineteen; Shake-separe, oue of eight; Longfellow had his brother Samuel; liowell was the youngest child; Tennyson, the third in a large family; Keble, one of five; La Fontaine, the old-est; Goethe had a sister; Coleridge was one of ten; Dante had at least two brothers; Burns was the oldest child; Wordsworth, one of three; Poe, one of three; Goldsmith, a fourth son; Michacl Angelo, the second of four; Millet, the oldest son; Rosetti, the second of four; Rubens, one of four; Van Dyck, the seventh of t<celve; Titian, the first of four; Holbein, the younger one of several; Mendelssohn had a sister, and so had Mozart; Schiller was one of six; Weber, one of sev-eral; and Haydn, one of twelve.

Taking up some of the names high in the Christian Church, John Wesley was one of nineteen; Cal-vin, one of six; Stanley, the third child; Theodore Parker, the first of a large family; Jonathan Ed-wards, one of eleven; Robert Hall, the youngest of fourteen; Whately, the youngest of nine; Luther, oue of seven; David Livingstone, the second son; Posey, the second son; Usher, the oldest son; George Whitefield, the youngest of seven; Phillips Brooks, one of several; the noted Japanese, Neesima, one of s-vt ral; the noble John G. Pa-ton, of the New Hebrides, one of eleven; and Henry Ward Beecher, one of thirteen. Should we wish to add New Testament names, Peter had at least Andrew, John had at least James, and, thinking of our Lord reverently as the Son of Man,even Jesus had " brethren."

Passing last of all to essayists, novelists, dramatists, and scien-ists, Montaigne was the third of

nine; Racine we know to have had sister; Sydney Smith was the

second of five; Swift, one of thir-een; Scott, a second son; Emerson liad a brother, and so had Oor-neille; Voltaire was the |fifth child; ''roUope, the third; Dickens, one

eight; Irving, the y o o n ^ ;

Hawthorne, one of three; Fielding the oldest in a large family; d^ Quincy, the fifth of eight; Addison the oldest; Charlotte Bronte, one of six; Cervantes, ono of four Newton, one of four; Pascal, one of three: Lyell, the oldest; Priestly, one of six; Kepler, the eldest' Hnmboldt, the younger of two; I i 1 UH'Us, the oldest child; Hunter, the youngest of ten; Harvey, the old. est; Cyrus W. Field, one of ten, four of whom were eminent; Uoger Bacon, one of several; and Francis Bacon, llio youngest among sev-eral.

The showings of history certain, ly declare that, othrr things l»eiug »(|na1, the memherd of a largo family are more likely to achieve greatness than ho wiio is an ooly chihl. Where one like the latttr rises to eminence, there is a score of the former. Wo count it espec-ially praiseworthy where one mem. ber of a family of ten or twelve rises to greatness; may not history sugg»>st that at least etjnal honor belongs to such rising on the part of an only child? The explani-tion of the fact that so often single children drop behind in the race of life, is upon everybody's tongoa Only children are too apt to be-come mere hot house plants. That child has the greater chances who from the very beginning is forced to help care for himself and for others. There is something akin to university training in the fric-tion of minds of various types against each other in a large fami-ly. It developes latent facultiea, And that necessity which sends the child away from home at an early age to begin laying the step-ping-stones of life, if at times it seems almost cruel, is one of the mightiest uplifts toward future greatness which can come to any young man or young woman of determined purpose. There ate no better schools in existence than those large families which have at the head of them a good father and a good mother. Better for future wellbeing is it to be bom to hard work than to be born to possible l e i s u r e . — J a m e s A. Milter, Ph.D., in the Evangelist.

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B A P T I S T A U D B E F L E O T O B , M A Y 1 7 , 1 8 9 4 . 11

YOUNG SOUTH.

Mm. LAURA DAYTOH EAKIN. Editor JH hunt SocomI Slreol , ChultttnooKB. Tcnii., lowborn communlcultoiiBfor lh l»dopar tmcol mny bo odilroMeil.

Yountf South M01U>: Nulla VosHlBla Uc inirBiim.

I'ayluff Her Way.

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Wh»i U»« my Uiirllnir boon dplDK »« day ToP»» for her wiwTiliiKand mondlnRJ

HOW ban »ho manaRo toT<(H<ip out of dobi h-or no much can-wtlnR and tcndlnK>

•low i-an I wall till Iho yoara nhall have »..« n And the hand* httTeKrownlargoraiidMlronKLT'

W'ho will b« ablo the Inten-Ht to pay ir iho debt run» many years lonaurr

neiir little fci'ti How thoy lly to my »Ulo While arniB my m-ok arc carenHlnK: Hvi<-« trHt of klMfH arfl laid on my chwk; Kali head ray Hhoulder In nre«AlnB.

NoihlnK at all from my durlhiK In dui' rroin evil may anitolii defend her .Th<- debt In dlHeharuwl aH fast an iIm maili'. I-'or love Id a ICRttl lender I S 8 Advocate

Yuuiii; Hoiitli Corrc8|»oinlciice.

The first letter I open this morniuK ia one I know you will n'joice to read. It is from our dear old friend, Mies Sarah Hale, misaionary to Mexico, and I give it to you entire:

Parbas, Coau , Mexico, April 2 6 , Igyi —Mu Dear Mrs. Eakin:—\ be-long to the " Young South," not as a member, but as a pensioner on their bounty, and, therefore, I take the lib erty to write to you. Ever since I have been in Mexico they, being kind-ly led in that good work by Mrs. Bai-ley, have sent me advertisement cards. For this reason I have read with the greatest interest of the ohanges that have taken place in that department. Of course I felt when I learned that Mrs. Hailey had left the State that a part of the dear home State itself was gone; but as I go on reading from week to week I feel more and mote that I have not lost an old friend, but only gained a new one. We ahall realize that more strongly than ever when Mrs. Hailey writes to us, as she promises to do. May your work be as greatly blessed as hers was I

I wish to ask the children to send me more cards. Since I wrote last I have received packages from Mrs. Hailey and from Miss Lily Avery. They will please accept my thanks.

Last week and week before last we had a precious meeting in our church. The oongiegations were good; many were interested, and seven persons were added to the church.

Wishing the Young South abun-dant success in the work of training the joung people in their labor for missioos, I remain, yours sincerely,

Sarau H a l e . Certahily we will send more cards

to the address Bliss Hale gives us at the beginning of her letter. I t m m s to me there was some restriction as to kind or quantity. Will she not tell US once more definitely just what she dedreat Do not wait, however, if you understand. We hope to hear oftener from this devoted young ser-vant of the Marter. The details of her work in Mexico wUl be always in teresting to this drcle. We are so glad that we have her prayers.

Mn. R. E. Nowlin writes me from Martin. I t seems to me we are get-ting quite a namber of helpen from that part of our field. The more the bettm! Thsee little ones made thehr money "helpingmammn." Vacation is almost hen . flow many more ean fill in the long summer d«ys " help-ing " aomdiodyf Let as hear from aU who wiU tiy. The pyramids awrit yoor oiden. Be sare to

all the donations the mothers and fa-thers and uncles and aunts are will-ing to add to yours. They do that way in Martin.

Annie Joyner, a little Tennessean, who has moved to Bentonville, Ark, sends the proceeds of a bell sent her by Mrs. Hailey several months ago. She collected " from friends and kins-folks," she says. Some people call t ha t " begging," but I do not. It is simply giving these kind people the great privilege of contributing to the Lord's work. Those you ask ought to be grateful to you for the oppor-tunity. I dare say many of them are. Keep up this g o ^ work, and let us hear soon from other bells. This dear child has a " missionary hen " also. May she have lots of eggs to sell!

I told you that we had friends not a few at Martin. Here'a Arthur Wag-gener, who sends a stamp for a bell Will not a pyramid do as wellt 1 will send him one. May Ood help this little lad in his " work for Jesus." An aunt sends him this paper, he sayp, aud that makes me think to ask you, what do you do with your pa perst Do you ever think to pass them ont Save them for some home that needs brightening, for some sick child, for the orphans' homee, the mission Sunday-schools, the hospit-als, the jails. Let them do good twice over. Some one will direct you what to do nith them if you have it in your heart not to let them waste

Here is a donation from one who has nerer walked a step since she can remember. Ah! me. Are you thank ful enough for the free use of your limbsT Ood will bless this offerini from this afflicted child. " H e knows.' Some sweet day we shall understand

Mrs. N. 0 . Bailey, Nashville, has done what I wish many more wouk do. She has organized a "Young South Band " to work especially for the Young South Missionary. She bids me to expect donations every two weeks. If she will be just a lit-tle bit patient, all the particulars in regard to our Tennessee girl will be furnished the readers of these col-umns. We are not quite ready yet. Will you not follow Mrs. Bailey's ex-amplet Let us dot the Southlan and the far West with " Young South bands," and be all ready to start our missionary off to the Island Empire.

From Livy Tubb, Alexandria, comes the chiming of another bell. Mrs. Hailey's work is btill going on you see. I hope there may be a great ringing as we go. Hunt up the be l t , •nd the barrels, and fiU them as quickly as possible for Japan.

The last letter is from WiUie Cham-berUin Roberts, Nina, Tenn., a farm-er in embiyo, and to him I send a pyramid, hoping the white, fresh eggs wiU soon fiU it to the top. flow' wish I oould help hunt for them I

Class No. 11 in the First Baptis Sunday-school, Chattanooga, is hard at work. They do not take one pen ny from the regular school eoUecUon bat earn and save these for the Yoaoj South outside, and as the teacher w pot in her birthday offerhig t h s month, it wiU not be long before you

« the first results of their Ubor. I am proudssd a nice letter for yon

from the Southern Baptist Conven-tion. which wiU mset in Dallas before yon read this. Bidding you work and pray, I am yonn faithfnUy,

LaoBA DAnoM SAUK.

" I Will Deliver Uiin And Honor Him.*'

When Hudson Taylor first went out to China it was in a nil ing vessel Very close to the shores of a cannibal island the ship was becalmed, and it was slowly drifting shoreward, un-able to tack about, and the savages were eagerly antidpathig a feast. The captain came to Mr. Tkylor and besought him to pray for the help of God. " I WiU," said Taylor, "pro-V ded you set your sails to catch the breeze." The captain declined to make himself a laughingstock by un-furling sails in a dead calm. Taylor said, " I will not undertake to pray for the vessel unless you will prepare the sails," and it was done. While engaged in prayer, there was a knock at the door of his state-room. "Who

therel" The captain's voice re-sponded, " Are you still praying for windT" " Yes " " Well, you'd bet-ter stop praying, for we have now more vrind than we can well manage." And, sure enough, when but a hun-dred yards from shore a strong wind lad struck the sails and changed the

course of the boat, so that the canni-bals were cheated of their human pnj.—Missionary Review.

Itecelpte.

Previously reported Mra. Bailey. NaBhTllle. Nellie and Nllwon Nonrlln, Martin. Annie Joyner, Bentonville, A r k -Arthur Waggener. Martin MIm Frances Cochran, Peck, Llvy Vubb. A le i ind r l a Willie C. Roberu , Nina.

Total

.15 96 .. to TO

.. I OO 02 .. » . I 00 02

Women In J a p a n .

The Japanese ladies think more of their hair than anything they pos-

, and they employ professional hair dressers to come three times a week to dress their hair and then )0ur over it a kind of paste or glue

to hold it in place. At night they sleep with a small wooden block just under the neck, which props the head up and keeps the hair from becoming disarranged. These Japanese wom-en have very little to give them pleas-ure, being held in great contempt by their husbands and fathers, one horse >eing regarded of as much value as

two hundred of these human souls. In fact, they a n taught to believe that they have no souls, and so great is their desira to possess souls that they may live in the next world and be treated with some respect, that many thousands of them have cut off thdr beautiful hair and carried it to the temple of thehr god as an offering, praying hhn to give to them souls. This hair has been woven into a rope which measures two miles in length and three inches in diameter, and it _ used to Utt the great stonss of which the temple is behig buUt.

Mas. A. B. Bobistsom. Beech Grove, Tenn.

Aflrlca*s Da rk Side.

I have watched, came smilingly to me sayhig, 'Please, ma'am, I want you to cany my name to the chnroh. Jesus has taken my sins, and I want to be baptized.' I was so happy to hear that from him; it made me for-get my illness, and my heart w«it up in praise to Gh)d from whom all bless-ings flow. The spirit of Him who long ago called the little ones to Him is now at work among them, and ti^ are coming. Pray spedaUy for the children. If they Jeam to tove Jesus in their youth, the futare men and women are safe. If we look for any future good, we must turn our atten-tion to the young people of Congo. Showers of blsMbgs eonUnue to fall, and many aro rejoidng in thdr Sav-ior. Sunday before last nine were baptizkl.—Helping Hand.

—A personal characterisUcof Joseph, all along in his life stoiy, is a lovhig and trustful nature. Whatever faults he had, he was not envious, or ill-natured, or nulidous, or suspidous, as his brothers wsre. And this char-acteristic made him friends wherever he wss, even among his enemies. I t is worthy of imitation and cultivation by all. In the long run, a "good lover " has more power than a "good hater," and it is better to tove than to hate whatever be the eonseqaence. Yet, chief of all the teachings of this life stoiy of Joseph, is the overruling power of God in earth as well as in heaven. God foretold good to Joseph; and God made all thingf, even man's opposition, to work together for the bringing to pass of his prophedes and pronnsss. " I f God be for us, who can be agamst ust" A loving trust in God is better than the help of men, and it is a guard against all the evil that man can execute or pUn. —S. S. Timet.

Near Lagoo, 200 human bdngs wen lately offered in sacrifics. Chris-tendom has introdacsd 70,000 gaUons of ram to every misdonary. In the g n a t Congo Free State then a n 100 drunkaids to one convert—Foret^ Miuion Journal for May.

—Extract from a ncent totter from a lady misdonaiT in Africa:

Two Sundays ago, one Uttle bey. foe whmn I have prayed and for whom

—A touching story of liberal giving m a heathen countiy is that of the old Chineee woman in the town of Chiva, near T^kyo. She was a Chris-tian, and her church was making gnatefforts to obtahi a regular diurofa milding. The members wen as-

sessed moderate sums, and inmost nstances far surpassed the assess-ment, giving, as one of their namber expresssd i t ," the double of the dou-ble." But this old woman, who had been wntchedly poor all her days, and had been saving money lit-tle by little for yean to o U d n for herself the fine funeral in which Chi-nees delight, gave to the chnrah building fund all she had saved, the sum of fifty y e n . — .

Beauty Purity do hand In band. They are the fonn^uon or health and happl-nem; Health, becanM ot para

blood; -

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IM^I^r Ita pacttUar action on the pont 111* fuoceMruiyprewnUnn And cnrin* all Skin, Scalp, and lin^".

wmooteiiand children. IhSSS « mU io ipmiW y« •ffwH^'y UTSHIIB tWii w - j f e ? '

IninM a "tew aWn Mdiniw biood. luw»ni«ionwl bodily heaim.

Am C«M. Po«r, Bote I'ropa., W""""-« How to C o n SUn and Blood UoaMra." I r n .

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l a B A P T I S T A N D R E F J L E C T O L L . M A Y 1 7 , 1 8 9 4 .

N E W S N O T E S . NASBTILU.

Pint Cburch—Good oongicgmtionB; Rev. JamM Watera preached at both Barrioea.

Oantnl—Bar. H. B. Folk preached at both houn.

Thiid—Prof. A. L. Parinton con-ducted aerrioea in tha moraiog.

Howall Memorial—Dr. Wm. Sheltoo preached at 11 a. m ; Bro. W. B. Paul condnotad the night eenrice; good Sunday-achool.

Mill Creek-Paator preached; good audience; laigeet collection during tha year; received one by letter; elected two deacons; 133 in Sunday-achool; good Sunday-school and ser-vicea at Una.

Seventh—Fine day; good congre-gations morning and evening; 211 in Sunday-school. la the absence of Paator Wright at the Ck>nvention Bro. A. Robertson preached at both s^rvicea

Edgefield-^. L. Corwin preached in the morning; Pastor Gardner at night; one received by lettar. The paator offued his reaignation, to take effect tha last of June, in order to ac-cept the paatorate of the First Bap-tist Church in Greeneville, S. C.

-Collections for the week ending May 1 2 , : Home MisaionB, 13 fiU; Foreign, $2319; State, t»l!)t ; Sun-day-school and Colportage, $1 30; Or-phanage, 111 07.

—We had a deiightful day at At-wood last Sunday. I preached a com-munion sermon to a large and atten-tive congregation, after which we ad-ministered the Lord's supper to quite a number of communicants. Atwood is located on the L. & N. R. H, near Milan, and is surrounded by a great many good people. I have charge of the church this year, and trust God will bless our lalrars there.

J. L. Dawh Humboldt, Tenn.

dolenoe are greatly appreciated. We will try to humbly and reverently bow to the decree of our loving Father in Heaven, knowing that he doeth all things well. Expressions of sympa-thy from kind friends, when we are passing through deep waters and un-der clouds of sadness, seem like mes-sages sent from a kind providence. While they do not reach the depth of our grief and remove our sorrows, yet they are comforting to the strick-en heart. Your devoted brother in Christ, J. M. COB BIN.

Mt. Peak, Texna.

MBMFHIS.

Rowan—Good servicies in the morn-ing; preaching by the pastor; large audience at night, and servicee by Rev. Mr. Haynea of Oregon; pastor officiated at the Central Baptist Church in tha funeral servicee of our esteemed and lamented deacon, Bro. John W. Justice, who died very sud-denly on Friday last

TWnity—The revival meetings are still in progrsas. One person baptized during the last week. There is some degree of interest manifeated, and the paator is preaching the gospel eam-eatly and fearlessly. Tliere is much improvement in the attendance at Sunday-achool.

First Church — Pulpit occupied morning and night by appointments. Paator Taylor absent attending Con-vention with the Baptist hosts in Dallas, Texaa.

Central—Pastor absent attending the Convention in Dallas, Texas.

—Thanks for your out-spoken bold n e s s iu the Breckioridge-Pollard scandal. I also enjoyed Dr. Waters on Eaau and Jacob. He is a thought ful man and always writes so as to make the reader think. And "My First Sermon," oh! it brings up many memories, for I had a " first sermon," or what was called one. Of a dczsn Baptist weeklies coming to my table, none are brighter than youn>, and you seem to be right on the " A. P. A., t o o . W . H . STBUKLAND.

Madison, Fla.

—Glenwood Church, in Sullivan County, has had 30 additions within a couple of months past. Rev. J. T. Kincanon, D.D, is pastor. He was assisted by Rev. M. B. Upchurch, a very successful revivalist. The church has ordered a good bell, and is mov-ing foward along other lines. Rev. E. L. Smith, of South Bristol, has been baptizing several converts of late. He preaches at two or three placea in Bristol.

N. J. PlllLLII'8 Blountville, Tenn.

KNOXVILLK.

Pastors JelTries, Snow and Powers a n attendiog the Convention and we have no report from their churches. Ilisir pulpits, we learn, were accept ab l j supplied by visiting brethren.

First Church-Preaclung by Pas-tor Aoraa morning and evening to good•ndienoe8;450 in Sunday-school.

We have had tha pleasure of hav-ing our mlsdonaries, Mr. and Mn. Chaistain, of Mexico, pay us a short •isiL Tbflj w«re tha gueats of the Centennial Church. Their visit was grently e n j c ^ . They left for Chat-tanoote Saturday.

C L A I K S V I L L B ,

Pastor preaohed iu the morning from John xzL 21,22; in the evening from Bom.?i. 28|good oongngations; one beptiam; 186 in Sundaysohool.

DB. W . J . MOEBBON, 1181 Unkm Strsat. NaahTilJe. Tenn.

Tslephpne 899.

—For their encouragement, please permit me to acknowledge the receipt of 120 from Bartlett, Eben^zer, Egypt and New Hope churches to aid me in going to the Southern Baptist Con-vention. The money was raised by Mre. Josie Crawford, Mrs. SallieJ. Anderson, Mra. L. A. Arbuckleand Miss Sallie Owen, each representing her respective church. While tbe generous gift is highly appreciated, the spirit which prompted it will ever be even more fondly remembered.

W . J . P . ALLBN. Dexter, Tenn.

—The fifth Sunday meeting of Cen-tral Aesoeiation met with Trezevant church last Friday, holding over un-til Sunday evening. Twenty churches were represented, reporting to the meeting f;J20, sent by H'.H) pereons; twenty four Sunday si-hools were rep resented; oHiceis and teachers, 217; pupils, 1,18*.); total, 1,706, and six min-isters. The Associatiou has given for the difTerent objects of our Boards since our last Associational meetiug $1,09(1 Tbe meeting wnn well at-tended. Bro. J .N. Hall, pastor, gave the visitors such a kind, brotlierly welcome that we will not forget him And as for the Trezevant saints and community, they have never been ex-celled fc r Christian hospitality. The topics discussed seemed to bo se-lected with direct reference to how each Christian is living at homp, iu church and Sunday school life. .\l 10 o'clock a. m. Sunday Bro. W. H. Ryals preached from the text, " It is more blessed to give than to receive," taking a nice coIle(*tion for State Mis-sions and the Orphans' Home. At 11 o'clock Bro. E. E. Folk preached. Come again, Bro. Folk. You do us good. J. M. Ss.NTEn.

Trenton, Teun , May Ist.

all I can to help them realize satis-factory results. I place this here be-cause of a circular letter received to day. seemingly forgetting that I re plied to the letter received from our treasurer sometime since.

Success to our RerLBoron. S . S . HALE.

Mossy Creek, Tenn., May 7th.

How's This? Wo otter Ono l l u n d r . ^ Dollur;t Kowtird f„r

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—The Brownsville (Tenn.) Female College commencement exercises will be as follows:

Annual sermon Sunday, June 3rd, 11 a. m. by Rev. E. E. Folk, Nash-ville, Tenn.

Annual meeting of trustees Mon-day, June 4th, 10 a. m.

Annual c3nc»rt Monday, June 4th, 8 p. m.

Alumnae exercises. Addresa by Tuesday, June 5tb, 10 a. m.

Recital of graduates in music Tues day, June 6th, 8 p. m.

Commencement Wednesday, June 6tb, 10 a. m.

—Dear Bro Folk :-I kindly u k space in your columns to answer the numerous letters of my friends in which they send expreeaions of sym-pathy for me in the loaa of my dear wife. I t would require some little time to write every one aeparately, therefore I hope that this wiU be',at-isfactorj. Be amured, deer brethren and sisten, that your wocds of oon-

Yesterday was an enjoyable dav for the brethren in Dandridge. l''our were received for baptism and nine bap-tized at 2:.'i0 p. m, part of the fruits of the recent meeting held there. We received in all twelve membere, two by letter. The work now is vt ry hope-ful.

Brother and Sister Webster are very sad over the loss of their darling lit-tle Bettie, who passed away the 2n( inst.

Our fifth Sunday meeting at Mor-ristown was very well attended. Rev. J . M. Anderson preached a very strong sermon on the state of the wicked dead.

1 go (D. v . ) to Whitwell, in the Sequatchie Valley, soon to assist my brother in a meeting.

Bro. T. T. Thompson has been in East Tennessee for awhile looking after the interests of the Orphana' Home. There Is a strong, healthy boy nine yeara old near here, son of a destitute widow, that she would like to place in some good family for one year on trial and longer if agreeable to both. He is large for hia age and with very good mind. She would ask Bro. Thompson to take him, but this boy can earn his food and clothing and she is mora than anxious to have him do so.

The school is doing well, especially for these times, and why should it not with the many saorifioes of the HendeisoiiB and assodateaT

I Ud Godspeed to the plaosof Bro. Holt and tha Oommlttee, and will do

Instead of going to the Convention Dr. Broadus is taking a short rest at Dawson Springs. His work for the session has been finished except in one class, and his rest can be thor-oughly enjoyed.

We are glad to know that Bro. ,1.8. Corpening is to become pastor at Union City, Tenn. Bro. Corpening will do good, solid work wherever he gow, and we heartily welcome him to the work in Tennessee.

It becomes more and more appar-ent that " hopers " is the proper dm-ignation for those who expect to grad-uate. Already one of the nineteen, who wero hoping, is known to have faile<l in a class that was necessary to graduation. Who knows what else may happen before May SlstT

Several of the pastore were absent at the Convention Sunday, and the following brethren supplied: M. Ash-by Jones at McFerran both hours; W. D. Hubbanl in the morning and C. W. Duke at night at Broadwsj; Luther Little at East Church both hours; W. J. McGlothlin at Walnut Street both houre. Dr. T. T. Eaton will go with the excureion to Mexico and his pulpit will be supplied next Sunday by W. F. Fisher. H. E. Cham^re preached for Pastor Hiiut at Twenty-second and Walnut Street Church in the morning.

The marriage of Bro. B. A. Copass to Mies CIo. Williams has been an-nounced. Bro. Copass is one of the brightest, best and most promising young men Tennessee has sent to the Seminary. He is a graduate of Beth-el College, but because of failure of health laat year he will not get bis degree from the Seminary, though he has taken all the more important studies. Miss Williams is the daugh-ter of Prof. A. F. Williams, vice-pres-ident and field representative of ^ t h -el CoUegv, and is an acoomplished and very estimable lady. In advance we wish to extend heartiest congratu-lations with the hopethat their lives together may be long, happy and use-f u l . MOQLOTIILIN.

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— Elder B E N . M. BUOARD has writ-ten a small book on Christian Uuion. He shows bow all denominations al-r<)ady accept Baptist doctrines, and hence all could consistently unite with Baptists and in that way solve the problem of Christian Union. In discussing the subject Bro Hogard shows all the prominent doctrines of all denominations. He also gives the names of the founders of all denomi-nalions and the time when each de-nomination sprang up. He also clearly proves that Baptists have come from Christ and the Apostles. The baok is just the thing to make Baptists with. Price 10 cents. Ad dross BAPTITR BOOK CONCKHN, Louis ville, Ky.

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The following are the market prices of the articles mentioned, with the latest corrections:

OODMTaT PBODDOK. Beeswax, 22o per lb. Broomcorn.straight, Red Tipped,2J

8 per lb; long, good quality, S@

Butter choice 12@lCperlb. Country bacon (from wagon), clear

sides, per lb; shoulders, 7ic; hams, 12^13; jowls, 6c; lard, 7J®84 choice 12@13c.

Feathers, prime, 3<Sper lb; mixed, I8@20.

Tallow, 41c. Ginsing, clear of strings, dry 2 35@ 2 40 per Db.

Eggs, 8c per doz. Peanuts, l<[@21o per D). Chickens, 6 per ib;hen8 5per lb. Turkeys, S^Qa,

Ducks. 5o. Irish potatoes (from wagon) 1.25@

1.40 Sweet potatoes, Tennessee new, $1.25 per bbl.

0nions.225@2.50. Dried peaclies, halves, 4o cents

per lb; dried apples,41@ri per lb;dried blackberries, j j c per u>.

Apples, green, 3.60#1.G0 per bbl. S U D S .

Prime Timothy, |2.0I)@216 per bu; Red Top, l>5o; Blue Grass, $1.15; Orchard Grass, fl.&0; Clover, from wagon, t«00@6.60; Millet, 76; Hungarian, $1.00

WOOL.

Choice unwashed, ll@12o per lb coarse, 10@llc per lb; burry, per lb; ^oice, tub washed, ^ ^ 2 3 per lb; dingy, 20c per lb.

WHKAT. No. 2, car lots, 55@57; No. 3, car lots

Mc. Com, 40@41 bu., from wagon. Oata, 38@40, from wogon.

COTTON.

Ordinary, 0; good ordinary, 6;

HIDKS. Green salted, 2@SperIb; dry flint

r>i@7c per lb; dry salted, 4 @ 6per D) LIVKSTOOX.

Cattle, extra shippers, 3.00@3 26; good shippers, 2.75@3.00; best butch-ers, 3.00@3.26;common butchers, 1.26. @2.00; steers, 2.26@2.60.

Hogs, 260 lbs average, 4.60@4.&6 200 lbs. average, 4.60@4 66;10(rlbs; average, 380(^4.00.

Sheep, go<^ fat, S2.60@3.00; best lambs, 32&@3 60; good lambs, 3.26 @3.60.

TOBACCO. Lugs, common, f326@4.25; medium; i;4.50@&00; good and fine, | 6 25@ 6.00; leaf, common, f6.50@6.26; medium, f6.26@6.75; long, |650@ $7.60 per 100 pounds; fine, norm .

—The fifth Sunday meeting at Hall Station was a pleasant and profitable one. The attendance was better than usual and the questions were practical aud discussed with much interest. The meeting waa spiritual through-out. The reports of the miwionaries were encouraging. Bro. Morria has been appointed as missionary at Alamo. The Sunday-school and Col-portage work was ably discussed and a collection taken for same amount-ing to $11.63. About the same amount was raised for misiiona. Considerable interest waa taken in discussing the meaning of " f o r " aa found in Acts ii. 38. It will be impoaaible to forget the kind treatment we received while there. The next meeting will be held with Holly Springs Church, near Powlke's Station. G. A. O.

—Hairs Hair Benewer is pro-nounced the beat preparation made for tbiokening the growth of the hair •nd restoring that which is gray to its o i ^ n a l oolor.

r i l t l i Sunday Meotliig.

The fifth Sunday meeting of the Sweetwater Association waa held with the church at Loudon. The attend-ance was good and an intereeting program waa carried out.

Rev. J . A. Roberson, the paator at Loudon, was active in working up the interest of the occaaion, and ita success is largely attributable to hia activity.

"Should Churches Enforce Bible DisciplineT" drew out quite an inter-estingand general discussion. " Qual-ificationa and OiKce Work of Dea-cons" was treated at some length un-der a spirited and helpful inveatlga-tion. "What Religious Denomina-tion Fini Advocated Religious Lib-erty in the United States?" Rev. T. A. Waggener led on thia topic with a terse and well timed speech. He was followed by the second appointee, Dr. F. K. Berry, who had been chos-en to preside over the meeting, and whose indisposition to leave the chair to engage in debate had to be over-come by a motion requeating him to do so. A paper on New Testament ordinances was read. The venerable brother. Rev. J . S. Russell, to whom this subject had been given, to the regret of all, was at home sick.

On Friday night there was a ques-tion box session of decided interest. The question, " What advantage has Baptist doctrine been to the worldt" was postponed to Saturday night, and the Methodist brethren having kindly tendered the use of their house, we met there a large audience. The writer, to whom the subject had been assigned, spoke at some length.

A Sunday-school mass-meeting waa held on Sunday morning, and T. R. Waggener addressed the meeting on the preparation and work of teachers. He was followed by a number of brethren in five minute talks.

At 11 o'clock Dr. H. P. Fitch, of Harriman, delivered his chart sermon on Baptist History; or, to express it better, History of Baptists—a strong production, presenting both to eye and ear many inspiring facts.

We were glad to have Rev. Z. T. Manis and Bro. Cormany from Big Emory, Revs. Hennard and Ruby from other points, with us, who, in various ways, contributed to the in-terest of the meeting.

Our cause in Loudon has been much neglected in the past, and was there-foroweak. We had a few, however, who were stead faat, such brethren as Fox, Taliaferro, Henderson, and some others, with a few noble sisters, when the present paator, Bro. Roberson, began work there some two years ago. Then their place of meeting was an old indifferent atore-house. They have rented, and are now worahip-ping In the Episcopal Church house. Then two or three members prayed in public, now some fifteen do ao. Then they had about twenty members; they have received under the preaent pastorate by letter, 16; by baptism, 24; lost by letter and exclusion, 8; so that the present membership ia about 62. They will rite and build thia fall, having now on hand good sub-soriptions of $886, and other good promises of about $100. They have aold the old houae for $176. Loudon is the oounty seat ot Loudon Coun-ty, and is an important point and ought to have a g o ^ ohuroh.

J . T . BABBOW, Sweetmiter, Tenn.

Flush Air ami Emrcisii. Get all that's possible of both, if in ^ need of flesh St r e n g t h and n e r v e force. There's need,too, of plenty of fat-food.

Scott's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil builds up flesh and strength quicker than any other preparation known to sci-cnce.

S(o//'s Emulsion is constantly ef-fecting Cure of Consumption, Jironckitis and kindred diseases where other methods F A I L . I'f«p.rwl br Soott a Boww. W. Y. AlldranM^

A Good Meeting.

Bro. M. B. Upchurch has held an-other one of hia glorioua meetinga with Glenwood Baptist Churoh, in Sullivan County, Tennessee, com-mencing on March 11th. Bro. Up< church preached twenty sermons. Dr. Kincannon, who ia paator ot the church, also did some good preach-ing, aa he alwaya does. Twenty-six joined the church, six of whom were Methodista. One entire fanUly of Methodists joined. Aa' usual, Bro. U. will break into the Methodirt ranks. Whenever he commences to throw in his scriptural bombshells, they have to take water. This waa a very weak church, but it has been greatly' vived and ia in a good, way ^ . ^ n ^ e out now. They have aome good wick-ers—Brethren Hann, Martin, SdttB, Dickinson and others. Mr. Sam Pierce, who is not a member of any church, pays the paator $40 a year and paid Bro. U. $7. He speaks of building a good church house here and donating it to the Baptiats. May the Lord bless all such men and give us more of the same kind. May he alao atir up some of the church members to do half aa well aa Mr. l»ieroe. Thirty-three were baptized aa the result of this meeting. Bro. Upchurch is do-ing a noble work for the Lord. He has been acting as minionary in the bounds ot the Holston Assooiation for eight, months, but was at home two montns of that time on aooount of sickneea. He has had 102 Mm-versons and 101 additions to the Sfip^ tist Churoh from his work. But f ^ ' men can handle a a u b j ^ as Bto, TJ. can. The Lord is with him in his preaching. I have never heud m y one who oould preach so inany ser-mons and make them all so good with' so little preparation.

Bro. Upohuroh ia to commence • meeting with Enon Baptist Churoh, on Chuoky River, the laat of Mayi' If any ohuroh wanta a" good m ^ n g aend for Bro. U. The Lord always goes with him. I hope I will be able to send you some subeoribers for ydnr paper from the meeting •( ' ' Ifooa ohuroh. B. 0 . Baowii.r'

Vineland, Tenn.

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for MTers chill and alw for rheamt-tiun. "lamoonfidentlUiattheEleo-tropoiie will benefit all who are afflict-ed. if properly applied."

Mr. John F. Zarp, 13 Bluff View, Chattanooga, uaed in two oaMe of typhoid ferer with wonderful auccese. " I think the Eleotropoiae is a won-derful instrument and consider it worth more than a gold mine."

Mrs. S. B. Irrons, Gallatin, was bed-ridden for ten yean with muscular and articular rheumatism, together with distressing female complaints " I am now in such strength and health as I have not enjoyed in fifteen years, which I attribute entirely to the use of the Electropoise."

Mr. J. W. H. Nance, County Line: " I have never suffered any pain since I got the Electropoise. It is death to rheumatism."

Mr. L. N. Block, Memphis: "The Electropoise has relieved me of indi geation, conit'pation, and rheumatism and greatly relieved my general health."

Mrs. L. E. Bowling, Nashville:" The Electropoise haa so greatly relieved my rheumatism and insomnia that I consider them very nearly cured."

Mr. W. L. C a p ^ , Brownsville, is 80 yean old, and was afflicted with pardysis, indigestion and constipa-tion: " I can now walk up town, sleep well, and free hom pain and all afflic-tions are relieved."

Hundreds of auch statements can be given upon application from part-iea living in all parts of Tennessee, and we will uke pleasure in furnish-ing circulan with copies of the lettere from which these extracts are taken to anyane applying to us for them Call on or address DuBois & Webb, Cole Building. NashvUIe, Tenn.

—Bev. James Waten of Nashville, Tenn., was with us Sunday, April 29, and preached to good congregations morning and evening. Text at morning service, 2 Pet. i. i . One was reoeived by letter; two upon a pro-fession of faith were received for baptism, theee two and another pre viously reoeived were baptizad by Bro. Waten at 8 o'clock. At the conslusion of the evening service one was reoeived by letter and two for baptism. We were glad to have Bro Waten with us. We were wonder-fully blessed and encouraged by the gracious word as declared by him. We trust that we ahall be able to have him with us next Sunday and often in the future. The church here was organized but little over a year ago; it is as yet weak in num-bere but strong in faith. There are quit? a number of Baptists perma-nently located here who have not united with the church. If they would get lettere and unite with us we would be able under God to ac-complish much for the Master. Our great need now is a strong, faithful man of God as pastor. May the churehes all over the State remember our struggling band in their pnyere.

W . T . C b o t z e k . Dickson, Tenn.

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The fifth Sunday meeting of Cen-tral Association, that convened with our church in this place, was an oc-casion of much real old-fashioned Christian pleasure. Those that at-tended were made glad in the Lord. Our church lovee to have our breth-ren convene with us. Many of the leading brethren of our Association were with us. They came in the spirit of the Master. Our hearts and doore flew open and reoeived them joyfully.

Bro. Folk, editor of the B a p t i s t a n d

R k f l i c t o r , and Bro. Hall, editor of the Baptist Gleaner and our pastor, were with us. By their humility and good speeches they sank deep into the affections of our people. Both papere are read and appreciated by many of our brethren here. Brethren Ryala and Folk preached twomoet excellent sermons for us on Sunday. If our non-attendants had any way of knowing what they missed by being absent, and what they would have gained by being present, they would have been with us. Many practical queetions that have to do with our daily life were discussed by the breth-ren. Many brethren, such as In man, Jarreil, Wm. Askew, Hopkins, Halliburton, Crim, Haste, Fairli Jetton, Reed, Bruton, Hawks, Nich-olson and othere that have greatly helped to make our meetings what they are, were not with us. Their ab-sence made ma feel sad. O, how I would have enjoyed seeing them and ahaking hands with them. In our little rallies here we most alwaya mourn the absence of some loved and reapeoted one; but in the grand ral-ly and before no one will ba abAent

We rather expected Brethren Holt and Qnisenbei^ with na. Wa want-ed to aee them and form their ac-quain^noa. W« a n anticipating a grand time at our Association thia.. falL It will meet with ona of the beat oharahea in Weat Tnnsasea. To know the membership of that ohunsh as I do ia to love Uiem aa I

W. H. HDoan. Traaavant, Tann.

—I write you of our work at Moun-tain City that your readere may know that we are not entirely dead. We were without a pastor for over twelve months, and for a while all our efforts to procure one proved futile. Our memben had bemme neglig«nt and ceased to meet on our regular church meeting days. Had it not been for our prayer-meeting service and Sun-day-school our work, as a church, would have been entirely suspended. We appointed a committee to confer with the Secretary of our State Mis-sion Board, but failed to get a pastor or supply from that source. Hearing that Rsv. E. H. Hicks, a young stu-dent of Holly Spring College, would serve us, our church called him for an indefinite period. He accepted, and has bean preaching regularly for us since January. Our church and people are well pleased with him as a preacher and he is still growing in favor. At our last meeting two beau-tiful young Isdies came forward for baptism, and on Saturday at 3 o'clock p. m. a large and r^pectable audi-ence assembled on the banks of the North Fork of Roan's Creek to wit ness the baptism of those young la-dies. On this occasion our young brother did honor to our blessed Re deemer, to the church and to himself. His talk at the water's edge was earn-est and forcible, and the impression made on that occasion will be lasting.

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Sides.—Die<l at her home in M«m-phis, Tenn., Mrs. Lois N. Sides, De-cember 3, 1893. She was born in Hardeman County, Tennossoe, Sept. 12, 1867, aud was married to Mr. J. W. Sides Jan. 12,1893. Since having malarial fever in the late summer she had not thought she woula be well again. Her friends could not realize the summons as she did, and her death from dropsy of the heart seemed very eudden. She has been a Chris-tian since childhood, when she united with the Baptist Church at Van Buren, Tean. She was always modest and sweet, making friends everj-where, whom she served with an earn-estness rarely found. Her hands were always ready to minister to the help-loAS ones aud to the liLtle children, who will all miss the tender thought-fulness of Aunt Lois. She must have felt she would not be with us long, she spent so much time doing little kindnesses others would not think of. Her time on earth was short, but she haa not lived in vain, and her influence will not be lost. She leaves brothers and sisters who will deeply mourn their losp, and a hnsband, who for a few short mouths has had the blessed privilege of her love and trust and a glimpse into her life. May Jesus sanctify this grief to his heart; may he be a devoted follower of the Lord, whom she so meekly served; may she be a beacon light to draw h tb up higher. We have her dear form with us no more to cheer and brighten our lives, but we have a precious assur-ance that we may meet her in that home where every trait of her lovely character is brought to perfection, where she dwells in pf rfect love and happiness. She has gone to meet her parenta, brothers and sisters who have goue before, making one more tie to bind her loved ones to that glorious beyond, where there will be no more parting, where they hope to have a glorious reunion with the blessed.

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—The -Ith division of the fifth Sun-day meeting of the Tennessee Asso-ciation met with Stock Creek Church April 28tb, and waa organized by making Bio. W. B. Cooper Superin-tendent for the day. Bro. Acree fipake on the condition of Foreign Missions, followed by Bro. John Wray. The needs of our countrr churches wai discussed by Bro. M D Jeffries. The topic, encourage-ments and discouragements of the Sunday-school work, was opened by Bro W. A. J . Moot», and followed by Brethren Snow and Acree. Condi-tion of Baptist affairs in East Ten-ueasee, by Bro. Snow. A coUeotlon waa taken on Sunday for State Mia-siona. The next fifth Sunday meet-ing will be held with the Smithwood church, four milea northeaat of Knox-ville, on the Tazawell pike. Elected Bfo. Snow Superintendent for the remainder of the year. Bro. John Wray praushed Sunday from Gal. vie 7, "For whatKWTer a naan soweth ttotshaU he also reap." Had a mod QonKragation, and every one spoke in the w y highest terma pf the yottng preacher. Hope the brethren wiQ •11 come again. I t was a good meet-ing W. B. Coona, Supt.

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Southern Baptist Convention K'diitliiucU from liiNt urvli I

RVENINII SESSION, May Mtb,

At H:28 Vice-President Northen called the Convention to order. Dr. Willingham led in prayer.

Tbe report on Papal Fields was read by D. M. Ramaey. The work in papal fields is encouraginK. but not llatteriDK- There have been 277 baptisms in Mexico the past year. Tbe printing press has been au effi-cient factor.

P. H. Ooldsmitb of Guadalajara, Mexico, said: When one goes to Mex ico as a missionary his fancies give way to bard facts. Tbe first six months of his life there are tbe dark-est of his whole life. He is dumb, and in tbe midst of tbe darkest vice. He soon concludea that life is more serious than be ever thought it was. One of my saddeat experiences here was that gone through when tbe col-lection to make up the Foreign Mis sion Board's debt was taken. Tbe men at home must send to these men abroad spiritual life and sympathy. Although Mexico seems ripe, it will not be turned in a day. We take no new name to Mexico; they say they are Christians—so do we. It is not a Protestant government. They are constructing new Catholic churches all the time. Although many go out of tbe Catholic Church, they do not become Protestants or Baptists. He never had known one having gone out to go back again. There are about four missionaries to every one million of people. The only policy that will atand is to establish a native religion and a native ministry in Mex-ico.

The report on Pagan Fields was read by T. J . Walrie. Dr. R. H. Graves spoke to the report. He re-lated incidents in bis life of thirty-eight years in China.

B, T. Bryan, who has been in China seven yeani, spoke. He said now is the time to reinforce China missions. Now is God's time—His special time for China. He is moving all denom-inations in that direction. The Pres-byterian missionaries there went lo welcome twenty new missionaries, while ours went to welcome one God is moving thn young men and women toward China. And now is Ohina'a time. In thirty-eight years her attitude has materially changed. Ther look on us as those who bring a goinMl of peace. This ie> one of the most frai tfal fields. The language is oondueive to religion. They sing Ohr is t iu songs to oar own music. While thsre mn millions over there who a r t not Cbriitians, there is hard-ly a pUoB w h m tha gpspel has not

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Dr. Hatcher said he wanted to aay a good, human word for the new Sec-retary. In the name of humanity set Williugham free Don't turn his black hair gray, or make that young heart old, or bend those straight shoulders down with this great debt. A collection of (2,338.12 was taken.

The Convention adjourned at 11 p. m. after singing the Doxology.

MORNIKO SESSION, May 15th.

The gavel fell at 9:08 with Presi-dent Haralson in the chair. Dr. Crumpton of Alabama led in prayer. The journal of the previous day was read.

The report on Frontier Missions was read and spoken to by Rev. R. T . Hanks of Texas.

Bro. Milliken of El Paso, Texap, spoke of the work in New Mexico.

The report on Increase of Cantribu tions W8B read by P. T. Hale of Ala bama. He said: We want to get the 1,250,000 who give nothing to give. The grumblers in our church-es are those who do not give.

Mr. Brown of Alabama spoke. He is a layman, a lawyer and a politician. He was instrumental in the appoint-ment of Judge Haralson to the Su-preme bench of Alabama. More con-tributors must be had. This is the question of the Convention. The preachera go for me sometimes, and somebody ought to go for them. Usually a reason for the churches doing little is that the preachers try to do it all and do not put their dea-cons to work. We want religion in our finances as well as in our preach-ing. Ring for a connection with heaven in every matter of church work.

Drs. Kerfoot and Ellis spoke to the report. A. M. Vardeman also spoke. He said the pastors must be informed. Let the Boards instruct them by their literature. Sow this.

H. H. Harris said the best plan is to bring this matter of "contributors" before the district Associations. This may be heresy. I t is said that the pastors must look after the spiritual-ity and.the deacons after the tempo-rality of the ohurches. fie does not find that in the Bible. The Boards hare no word of pnblio oeniiure for anybody. We have foond thatvol^ unteer service is m o n valnable than I»id •arrioe.

B . H . Orampton of Alabama aaid

the way is for the Vice Presidents to organize a campaign of information to the pastors of the district Associa-tions.

Bro. Robertson of Arkansas spoke, as did Dr. Owinn of Georgia and Dr. Hatcher and Dr. Kerfoot,

A little breeze was stirred up when a paper from our Disciple brethren was read looking to and inviting fur-ther conference concerning organic union between the two denomina-tions.

At 12:42 p. m. Tuesday, upon mo-tion of Dr. J . Wm. Jones, the Con-vention adjourned sine die. Adjourn-ment was announced and tbe gavel fell, after band-nhaking and prayer by Dr. G. A. Lofton, at 12:59 p. m.

Woman's .VUHlenary I'nlen. MOBNIKU SESSION, May i l th .

The sixth annual session of this body opened at 9:80 a. m. in the First Baptist Church, with Mrs. W. J . Brown of Maryland in the chair. Mrs. T, B. Davis of San Antonio conduct-ed the devotional services, reading the 90th Psalm, Jno. iii. 16 and Jno. xvii. " Coronation " was sung. Mrs. Stainback Wilson of Georgia led in prayer. Mrs. C. H. Briggs of Dallas gave the Union a hearty welcome in an appropriate address, to which Mrs. C. 6 . Jones of Tennes»ee responded.

Committees on Credentials, Plan of Work, Nominations and Obituaries were appointed.

Mi'ss Armstrong of Maryland told the Union of the sufferings through which Miss Fannie E Heck of North Carolina, President of the Union, has passed during the year, and had a letter from her read expressing her regrets at being unable to attend the meeting of the Union. Mrs. Bum-ham of Missouri led a prayer ( j r a blessing on the absent and sick Pres-ident. On motion of Mrs. Osborne of Kentucky a telegram of regret and sympathy was sent, along with a Scripture reference.

Miss Williams of Dallas tendered an invitation to the body to a recepr tion at the Oriental Hotel from S to 6:30 p. m.

Miss Armstrong's report was as fol lews: Letters written li.UBB Postals written LcaUcts, etc., sent out TS,7FT7 Christmas envelopoa (H.BOT MUslon cards Il),llft Mite barrels and boxes K,!m< Chapel cards S,T34 Programs «.mM Clroulars »,«•

Reported contributions through the Union: PorelRn Missions I33,M4 W Home Missions 21,013 (U

Total M5,U» W This ia <17,208 less than that of the

ConTentional year, but f846 mora than that of tha year befors. Eighteen beds, a t • oo4 of S25 aac^, hava bean fomiahad tluiOaban h o ^ t a l , which

will now accommodate 100 patients. Bible classes, mothers' meetings and industrial schools are held among the negroes. This report spoke cheerful-ly of work in all directions, especially of the increase of the missionary spirit.

MORNINO SESSION, May 12th.

On opening Mrs. Nelson of Georgia read the 23rd Psalm, led in prayer and spoke of trust in Jesus, after which Mrs. S. H. Ford of Missouri led in a voluntary prayer.

Reports were read and discussed. A telegram was received from Mrs.

M. D. Early, who had looked forward to working with the Union here. She was unable to attend the Convention; the doctor had told her she could not live long. The telegram was Psalm Ixxii. 26.

An interesting feature was the train-ing of the " Model Band " class from Fort Worth by Miss Agnes Osborne.

R. J . Willingham of the Foreign Board, and F . 0 . McConnellof the Home Board, spoke before this as-sembly on the reports of their respec-tive Boards. [I am told that when a man speaks before this Union he does so by invitation, and that he muches up to the rostrum, says his say, steps down and out without hearing the sound of a feminine voice. Can't say how true it is, was never there,]

MORNINO SESSION, May 14th.

Met at 9:30. Mrs. Sallie Boohester Ford of Missouri led the devoUonal meeting. "Am I a Soldier of the Cross " was sung, Bom. viii. read and spoken about.

Secretary Willingham came before the body and appealed for help in liquidating the debt on the Foreign Board. He asked for $3,000or S5,000, After /w retired they deliberatad about it and agreed to give f5,000. [When this was communicated the Convention was thrilled.]

A paper was read by Mrs. B^nnw; Hatcher of Texas.

The Sunday-school Borrd's report was considered and dlacussetlin three-minute speeches. The missionary day program, to be given once a month iu f i n d IForcfs, was spoken of. Dr. Bell spcke on the subject.

After adoption, of various resolu-tions, the reading of "basketques-tions " and some other routine work, the body adjourned its sixth annual meeting.

The officers for the following year were elected as'follows: President, Mrs. H. M. Gwathnay, Virginia; Cor-responding Secretary, liiss Annie W. Armatrong, Maryland;^ Becoiding Secretary, Mrs. F . M. iBliis, Maiyland; Traasurer, Misa Sarah Tylar, Maiy-land ; Vice Presidenta—Alabama, H n . G. B. Eager; Arkansas, Mrs. E . L o n ^ l^y; Florida, Mis. W. B. OUplqri

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