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i s i n s c r i b e d i n l ^ b l e c h a r a c t e r s o n e a d i c r e a t e d g o o d . H o w , t h e n , c a n t h e r o i e w e d c r e a t u r e e s -c a p e i t s i n f l u e n c e ? H e i s " s u b j e c t t o v a n i t y . " D a z z l e d b y i t s g l a r e , c a p t i v a t e d b y i t a fiuonationa, e n a n a r e d b y Ms p r o m i s e s , h e i s o f l H i t h t i v i c t i m o f i t s p o w e r . B u t i t i i Q o t a v o l a n t ^ s u l ^ e c t i o o o n t h e p a r t o f t h e r e n e w e d c r e a t u r e , " f o r t h e c r e a -t u r e w a a m a d e s u b j e c t t o v a n i t y , n o t w i B i n ^ y . " I t i s n o t w i t h h i m a c o n d i t i o n o f c h o i c e . H e l o v e s I t n o t , h e p r e f e r s i t n o t , h e g l o r i e s n o t i n i t F r o m i t h e w o u l d ftdn b e freed, b e y o n d i t h e w o u l d ^ a d l y a o a r . " F o r w e w h o a r e i n t h i s t a b e m a d e d o g r o a n , b e i n g b u r d e n e d : n o t f o r t h a t w e w o u l d b e u n c l o t h e d , b u t c l o t h e d u p a i , tiiat m o r t a U t y m i g h t b e s w a l l o w e d u p oi l i f e . " ( 2 C o r . v . 4 ) . ^ i s p r a y e r i s , " T u r n a w a y m i n e e y e s f r o m b e h o l d i n g v a n i t y ; a n d n u i c k e n t h o u m e I n t h y w a y . " ( P s a . c x i x . 3 7 ) . H e p a n t s f o r a h o U e r a n d a h a p i ^ s t a t e — a s t a t e m o r e c o n g e n i a l w i t h U s r e n e w e d n a t u r e . L i k e U i e L « r a d i t e s u n d e r tiie E g y p t i a n b o n d a g e , h e b a m o s t u n w i l l i n g s e r v a n t , g r o a n i i ® b e n e a t h h i s g a l l i n g y o k e , a n d s i g h i n g for " t n e g l o r i o u s l i b e r t y o f t h e c h U d r e n o f G o d . " A h , y e s ! G o d h a s g i v e n y o u a n o t h e r w i l l , O r « i e w e d c r e a t u r e ! a n d y o u i p r e s e n t s u b j e c t i o n t o t h i s p o w , v a i n w o r l d , i s a n i n v o l u n t a r y s u b j e c t i o n o f t h e d i v i n e n a t u r e w i t h i n y o u . W h y G o d s h o u l d h a v e s u b j e c t e d * h e r a i e w e d c r e a t u r e t o v a n i t y d o e s n o t a p p e a r ; Mre w e l l k n o w t h a t h e c o a l d h a v e t r a n s -f a r e d a s t o h e a v C T t h e m o m e n t t h a t h e r e n e w e d u s o n e a r t h . B u t m a y w e n o t i n f e r t h a t i n s e n d -i n g h i s p e o i d e i n t o t h e w o r l d , a f t e r h e h a d c a U e d t h e m b y h i s g r a c e , a n d , i n a s e n s e , t a k a n t h e m o u t o f l t , t t a t i n 8 a b j e c U B g t b m f < M r 8 o i B a n y y e a r s t o t h t a s t a t e o f v a n i t y , h e h a s b e s t c o n s u l t e d h i s o w n ^ a y a n d t h e i r g o o d ? T h e s c h o c d o f t h e i r h e a v -e n l y t e a c M n g , t h e s c e n e o f t h ^ e a r t U y t o i l , a n d t l ^ t h e a t r e o f t h e i r s p i r i t n a l c o n f l i c t , t h e y a r e k e p t i n t h i s w o r i d tor a s e a s o n ; " m a d e s u b j e c t t o v a n i t y , n o t w i l l i n g l y , b a t b y r e a s o n Of h i m w h o h a t h s u b j e c t e d t h e s a m e i n h o p e . " H e a r k e n t o t h e w o r d s o f t h e i r g r e a t I n t e r c e ^ , w h e n b r e a t h -i n g f o r t h b i s p r a y « f o r t h e m o n e a r t h : — T h e s e a r e i n t h e w o r l d , a n d I c o m e t o t h e e . I ^ a y o o t t h a t t h o a s h o a l d e s t t a k e t h e m o u t o f t h e w o r i d , b a t t h a t t h o u s h o a l d e s t k e e p t h e m from t h e e v i L A s t h o u h a s t s e n t m e i n t o t h e w o r l d , e v e n s o h a v e I a l s o s e n t t h e m i n t o t h e ynaM." ( J t d m x v i L 1 1 , 1 5 , 1 8 ) . N o t i n t o the solitude erf the desert—not i n t o

t b e c a l m , b u t s d ^ r e p o s e o f t h e d t i n t o i t i f d t r l p — n o t i n t o t h e h a l l o w e d b u t r e s t r i c t e d t d l u w a L i p o f t h e c h u r c h — b u t i n t o t h e w o r l d — w i r r f i n s t h e m , f o r a seoa tHi , b y i U v a n i t y , a n d s u l u o c t i c j ; t h e m t o i t s t r i a l s . A n d w h a t i s t h e i r m i - w o n ? T h a t t h e y s h o a l d l o v e u e w o r i d ? M s n p o r t w i t h t b e w o d d ? f c a t e m i z e w i t h t h e w o r l d ? O b , n o ! N o t f b r t h i s w e r e t h e y s e n t i n t o i t A n o l ) i e c t m o r c w o r t h y o f h i s w i s d o m w h o s e n d s , a n d m o r e i n h a n n c B i y w i t h t h d r h i g h c a l l i n g w h o a r e ! « n t i ^ b e f o r e t h e m . T h e y a r e s e n t i n t o t h e w u r k l t h a t t h e i r l i v e s s h o u l d b e a c o n s t a n t , i m c o m p r t i t u i s i n c , a n d s c d e m n i n o t e s t a g a i n s t i t s v ^ t i e s a n d i t s m n s . ] S d t f k a g a i n t h e w o r d s o f C h r i s t : — " A s t h u u h a s t s e n t m e i n t o t h e w o r l d , e v e n a a h a v e I a l s o a e n t t b e m i n t o t h e w o d d . " C h r i s t w a s c o m m i B - a u n e d t o t e s t i f y o f t b e w o r i d t h a t t b e w o r k s t h a n i r f w e r e e v I L H e c a m e t o l a b o r f i a r t h e w o r i d — t o U e s B t h e w o r l d — t o l u m o c h i s F a t h e r I n t h e w o d d . A n d o h , i t w a s t h e g l o r y o f t h e w o r i d t h a t t h e S o n o f G o d w a s s e n t i n t o i t — t h a t h e m a d e i t f i f f a w h i i e t b e p l a c e o f b i s t r a n p o a r y a b o d e , a n d t h e f o f h i s s t u p e n d o u s r e d e m p t i o n . I t w a s t h e g l o t y o l t b e e a r t h t h a t h e t r o d u p o n i t s t u r f . I t w a s t h e g l o r y o f t h e - o c e a i i t h a t h e s a i l e d u p o n i t a bcKMU. I t w a s t h e g l o r y o l t h e s o n t h a t i t b e a m e d u p t m h i s b e a d . I t w a s t h e g l o r y t h e a i r t h a t i t f a n n e d h i s b r o w . I t w a s t h e ^ r y o f t b e w a t e r s t h a t t l i q r q u e n c h e d h i s t h i r s t I t w a s t h e g i « T d f t h e flowers t h a t t h e y p e d o m e d U i a p a t h . I t w a s t h e ^ o t y o f t h e s k y t h a t i t t ^ t m d a b o v e M m i t a U o e c a n o p y , ^ S l i a t t i a n e t h a s b e e n ixi . b o o o r a d a s t h i s t , ^ t f m y r a t U l o v i s f t ^ s o t S ^ l n g a i a h e d . s o U e r t ? j j o c h i s t h e C h r i s t i a n ' s p a t t e r n . V r h y h a a C h r i s t p l a c e d y o u i n t h e p o d t i o a y o a n o w o o c o p y ? W h y a r e y o o b e g i r t w i t h 9 0 m u c h f o U y , a n d t r i a l , a n d d a n g e r ? Y o o a r e c c m v e r t a d I n t h e m u l s t o f ^ w o r l d — y o a r i k m i l y i s i n t h e w o r k l , y o o r a a s o -d a t f f l a r e i n t h e w o r i d , y o a r c a l l i n g i s m t h u w o r i d . W h y i s i t s o ? E v e n t h a t l i k e y o a r l i t m l a n d M a s t e r y o u m i g h t b y y o u r u n w n r i i U y , o n -e a r t h l y , h e a v e n l y l i f e t e s t i ^ o f t h e w o r i d t l u U U i « w o r k s t h e r e o f a r e e^•i l , a n d o n l y e v i l , a u d e v i l c o n t i n u a l l y .

O n e m o r e p h r a s e c o m i d e t e s t h i s p i c t u n ; o f o u r p T » e n t h u m i l i a t i o n : " T l » e b o n d a g e o f <>»rmi»-t l o n . " T h e r e i s n o t h i n g i n t h e s e w u r d s t h a t d h i -p m v e s a d e c l a r a t i o n o f t h e s a m e a p o s t i e i n a n o t h e r i d a c e , " f f i n n o t h a v e d o m i n i o n ovtT y w i . " A i i d y e t i t m u s t b e a d m i t t e d o f t h e b r i i e v . - r t h a t h e I s u n d e r t h e " b c m d a g e o f c o r r u p t i o n . " W h o o f t h e fomOy o f G o d i s e x e m p t ? I m p r i s o n e d a n d f e t t e r e d b y t h e i n n e c e n t c o r r u p t i o n o f b i n G k D m n a t u r e , t h e r e n e w e d c r e a t u r e e x d a i m s w i t h t b n a p o e t i e , " T h a t w h l d i I d o I a l l o w n o t : for w h a t I w o u l d , t h a t d o I n o t ; b u t w h a t I h a t e , t h u l i l o I . I f t h r a i I d o t h a t w h i c f a I w o a l d n o t , 1 c o n s e n t o n t o t h e l a w t h a t i t i s g o o d . N o w t h e n I t i s n o m o r e I t h a t d o i t , b u t d n t h a t d w d l e l h i n m e . F o r I k n o w t b a t i n m e ( t h a t i s , i n m y fle^) d w e U e t h n o g o o d t i l i n g : f o r t o w i l l i s p r e a e n t w i t h n i e ; b a t h o w t o p e r f o r m t h a t w h i c f a i s g o o d I find n o t F o r t h e g o o d t h a t I w o u l d I d o n o t : b u t t h e e v i l w h i d i I w o u l d n o t , t h a t I d o . N o w i f I d u t h a t I w o u l d n o t , i t i s n o m o r e I t h a t d o i t , b u t m n t h a t d w d l e t h i n m e . I A n d t h e n a l a w , t h a i , w h e n I w o a l d d o g o o d , e v i l I s p r e s e n t w i t h n ^ . R a I d d l g b t i n t b e l a w o f G o d , a f t e r t l t e i n w a r d m a n : b a t I s e e a n o t h e r l a w i n m y m o n b a s , u v r i n g a g a i n s t t h e l a w o f m y m i n d , a n d b r i n e d m e i n t o c a v i t y t o t h e l a w o f d n w U c h i s i n m y m e m -b e r s . O w r e t c h e d m a n t h a t I a m : w h o F h a l l dt>-U v e r m e f r o m t b e b o d y o f t h l s d e B U i ? " ( l U j m . v u .

I t i s t b e b a i d a e e o c c a c n i p t i o o i a n d y e t t b e

T H E B A P T X S 1 ? .

of Ubhe wtaom Cbn^ tuis naule fi«e, and to wiicunthae b **nov DO cowleiiuuttiuD."

Bat painfcii- ami haoiiluidng as b tbe present conditkBKtf tbemiewiriciaitBte, i t i s :^<OQe of azne^expeetatioojuidafhqpe: " Wltotaathsub-ieeted the aune !a hope.** FtamiMkHtateofTaii-int7 and bondage of oJieniptiaB,^ beliefv« b e^^ pc^iny and hoping to tts delivered. Hfa goture is mMt ezpceaBtre—tt is ttsit of esnwst expectation. Anil i R we not in troth earnest expectanta? Wooki we live always h o e ? Coakl we be content th«t this alaie dT ^nuiity abovld be onr condition ftoera? Ali ,no! weexpectabet terandahoiia •itrtu than tiifa. With oatsuetcfaod neck we are innirim for the n m n ; coast towards which we are Toyagiag. With earnest expectation we are watdiing for the dgxm of his approach, who will reriare aU t h i n g s L o o k i n g for that bleaeed hope, and the giiaiaaB appearing of the great God, and our Savior Jasos Christ." (Ttt. ii. 13). Hope, too, riaei nir» the day spring ficon^on high in oar souls. If we a n In the bandage of cormption, we yet are " priaoneia of hope." Sot always shall we be thus tBttoed. Not fiirever shall we look oat Cram the bars of oar prison, and exclaim, " Why are his chariot wheels ao long In coming?" Oh, no! bape, bonding npon the atoning work of Christ — iiope, springing from his open grave—hope, beaming down from the throne in heaven, within

afler they exist and are useful, by saving in one direction «ich variations as " arise" by unknown laws, and tend to add to their nsefnlneBs:—

"Several vri tere hava mlBapoBBheirfed' or ob-jected to the term na tunl selecUw. Some have even imaidned that natocal sdecUan indacea vari-abiUty, whereas ft impttes only the p ^ r v ^ t i o H of vaAtions as arise and are beneftaal to t|je beiiK u n d « its conditions of life." " Unless fevor-aUevariatidDs be inherltsd by some at least of the

enanripated from the body of mo and of death. Every fetter of corruption will be broken, and every tie of sense wiU be dissolved. AU saduess win be d i a ^ from oar spirit, aU sorrow from our heart, and all cloud litem our mind. Delivered fejm all sin, and freed from all suffering, we shall pander th iw^h the many mansions of our ^Father's bouse, and tiead the stuc-paveA streets of 4he celestial elty, and repose beneath ^ e s y l ^ l selec-bowras of the upper Paradise, and dnnk of the tion.»-l)ARWis, f J r i f f i n of Specif, pp. 63,80. waters, dear as crystal, that flow from beneath 1 Darwin and other evolutionists can easUy the throne —our pure, and bltisful, and ettmal I ^^ natural selecUon might culUvate a bird's home—exalting in the " glorious Uberty ol the 1 ^^^^^ j y making them more and more effective children of Qod." I after such wings exist, and are so far usefhl as to

In concluaion, how striking and solemn is the I j^e functional purpose of flying. But until contrast between the present and the future state I ^.^jigg ^f birds are so far developed as to of the b^eve r and the unlieliever! Yours, too, j actually serve the purpose of flight they are utterly unregoierate hearer, is a state of vanity. But, j y^gj^jg (^ i th a very few^ exceptions, as in the case alas! it is a most willing subjection, and the bond- ^^ ostrich,) and Mr. Darwin is well aware of age of corruption which holds you is uncheered by Hence, natural sdection could not have.touched one ray of hope of final deUverance. What ater- Lj^g ^j^gg during all their incipient w. —— 1 jne 1U3J ^ ^ rible and hamUisiting bondage, a willing slave to ^f devdopment, since such stumps or rudi sin and Satan! AU is vanity which you so eagerly.I gjjjjjjjj - '

- - - T ivMnvA-W f n r TTIATI 1 . . . . pursue. " The Lord knoweth the thoughts of men , that they are vanity." Were it possible for yon to realize all the schemes of wealth, and distinc-tion, and pleasure, and happiness which now float in go]^;eo(B visions before your fevered fancy, still would your heart utter its mournful and bitter

whan v ^ m an anchor it is cast — " hope that | OBnplalnt, "All is vanity and vexation of spirit." mmk mth not pMhmrrmi" sheds Its lostcr opon all I Oh, turn you from these vain shadows to Jesus, the futore, ah^hing its landscape with verdnre, | the substance of all true wealth, and happiness and and sUvering it with beanty. Prisoner of hope, | honor. That fluttering "heart will never find ^

wings could have been of no service to the bird. The common intelligence every reader must assure him that a stump of a wing In any ynimal would not only be useless but would be a clumsy and awkward appendage, burthen-some for transportation and requiring extra nutri-tion for its growth and waste of substance. Hence, daring all the incipiency of the wing-bones in

1 starting the organ, or until the wings became at least of sufficient size to aid in running, as with

•nuauTeniig u wuu ucwugr. ixjuuuu ui uu^x;, • uuuu«. xutu w,^ ^Ti I tiie wings of tlve ostrich referred to, they would lift yoot head and z^olce, for your redemption j poae until it rests in liim. That craving soul will ^ ^ ^j^jy nn itKyi but harmful, for the reasons dtaweth aigh I " Wherelbre gird ap the loins of I ncvar be satisfied until it be satisfied with Christ j answer can possibly be made to this

' ' ' stateof i ^ t s ; and therefore no answer has ever lieen attempted.

T h ^ is a distinct intdligent design m the wing of a bird, bat, or insect, and it defies the ingenuity and reason of any man to conceive of such a d j ^ t i o n of the most wonderful mechani-cal principles and parts to uses and results, without

iL-unuix .admitting an intelligent purpose in the very in-of -Evoiauon Evolved" by cipientyof tiiemechanism. .\Uieism,materialism,

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jaat mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that la to be brought onto yoa at tbe revela-tion of J e n s Ghriil." (I P e t L IS}.

The great «'«w«mmtn«Htin toward which this ex-pectation and hope tendeth la the " manifestation itf theaonatfGod." The sons of God are at pres-ent ineognilo. Unknown to the wmrid, often veOed, in a great degree, to the brothahood, and sometimes Igncaant of t h ^ own divine relation, the charch of God Is anytlUng but a visible body. I Being the .:i«iins chapter _ . .. . . . ^ , . i . ^Zl I WUUbnt. Everr mlnlider •

[At his feet, then, cast you down, and with the tears of p ^ t e n c c , and the reliance of faith, and

j the expectation of hope, ask to be numbered amongst the adopted, who shaU ere long be d ^ v -

I ered fhmi the bondage of cormption into the {^o-I rions liberty of the children of God.

DIFFICULTIES ANT> INCONSISTENCIKS OF EVOLUTION.

Bat it will not be always so. There is fust hasten-ing a day tf pofeet manifestation. The sons of uod shall be known. Their relationship will be manifest — their principals will be manifest— their glory will be manifest before the anlvese. Emeqpng tram the obscnrity of the wUdoness

pantheism, evolution, and every other theory or phiiosophicd hypothesis which denies the atisoluto and intelligent existence and intervention of a personal Creator must forever stand dumb ^ confbanded In the presence of a humming-bird. The whrfe question of evolution, with its truth or

WUUbrd. Every mlnluter shoulil sttuly Uiese »rUcle» to a* to be enabled to aniUhllate EvoInUoa by EvuIuUon ItscU.

THE object in this d^ising chapter will be to point out some of the mofe prominent and

manilfflt diffictilties in the way of evolntba as a — " — 1 leaacsiable or scientific hypothesis, and to indicate • xne wacut: fiuuuuu m cvwuuuu, w..— EoM^fing tram Uie obscnrity of tiie WTla®^®® 1 g^ch contradictions and inconsistendes as cannot feisity. Is Oius narrowed right down to tills one into which she bad been driven, throwing, off the I ^ ^ ^ a- theory based on trutii, class of facts-tiie wings of birds. If Uiey could wekdoth In whfch she had ao long loophesied, ^ ^ ^ ^ to be sdentific or net. not. by any posabiUty, have been orlginaUy pro-the dinrch of God, tiie adoj^ion of tiie I-ather, ^ ^ evident impossibiUty of tiie origin of wings, duced by natural selection, as I will now demon-wUi stand fiirth befare an astonfehed and admir-1 ^^ Q ^ g animals, such as birds, bats, gtrate, then the intervention of an intelligent Ing world dethed in afl Uiej^ories of Uie mani-j ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ reptiles and fishes, by natural Creative Will is an unavoidable necessity. No iiBBted aoos of God. MOT than tills, tiiey wiU be j ^lone sufficient to o\-ertiirow evolution j candid evolutionist can or wUl dispute tiiis. manllHtpd to Uiemsdves. Sdf-disEuise will no 1 ^ ^ ^ ^^^ anoUier objection to tiie hypoUie- The idea of the possible development of a wing Icmgcx prompt the trembUng taqmry, "Am I a l ^ i t is a difficulty which has not only never I by natural sdection saving up slight favorable child of God!" That question will now be an-1 a distinct rebut-' -

tal of tbe evolution hypothesis ever since the first puUication of Mr. Darwin's Origin 0/ i^>ecie». In his later editions ol Uiat work, he has had the candor to refer to this objection and stale it, but has lacked the candor to admit its unanswerable

^ ' f t , I character—while, at the same time, he does not. ucjuic ji —ft— tore of earned expectation. We through tte I ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ attempt to meet it. No better proof gome use in caiisdng a sensible protuberance of the spirit wait for tiie hope of righteousneaa by Ciitii. I ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^^ ^^^^ ^^^gj^ ^f wings surface at that iwrtion of the body which might ' " ^ ^ Z ' J L i ^ t h th« blPSMd condition tiiere isl ^ ^ miraculous act upon the ground in hdping to move tiie body

CoxwbM ^ tius U M ^ m u m ^ B creation tiian tiiis faUure on ti»e part of all evolu- gj the snake. But not so witii tiie wing of a bird. tteS^rf it^ stages of devdopment would not

natural sdec- only have been usdess but actuaUy harmful, a , ^ ^ S l ^ i ^ ^ S t S ^ r S S l t i o n : U my imaginable explanation had been shown, consuming nutrition and streneU, for l ^ L ^ v ^ l ^ ^ ^ r r ^ S ^ I P o ^ e it ^ ^ ^ surdy sometime or otiier l«ve transportation;and tiiereforemitural s d e c t i o n ^ ^ ^ ^ o T f i i ^ S ^ S S i ^ ^ v S ^ ^ ' ^ t e m p ^ How sudi g r ^ t naturalists as k r from assisting its devdopmen^ w o u l d ^ d r f

Huxley and Haeckd, can feel satisfied to by tiie economy of growtii, have s u p p r ^ it. ^ ^ . ^ L f S ^ h M ^ ^ t o t t e bdieve in evolution while quietly ignoringLtoce Mr. Darwin In a score of places reiterates ^ ^ K f ^ . seen in iU millions of Uie law tiiat natural sdection "acts only," " a d s

i i ^ d tiiem-while eadi bird, bat,or exdusivdy," " a d s soldy," in saving ^ ^ t ^ o n s S i ^ d ^ S S ^ p L t o S m S T e S S ^ o F ^ ^ ^ c « ^ t u l e s a perpetual refutation of tiidr whidi are " benefidal " whUe he r e ^ t e ^ y tdls

theory of natural sdection. Is more tiian I c a n as Uia t" tills preservation of favorable Individual t r S i ^ n f S ^ t ^ t o e o m S ^ The reason why tiiey cannot even d i f f e r e n c e s and variations, and tiie d i c t i o n of

I " ® . t ! r atiemnt an exnlanation of tills nroblem will now tiiose which are injUrious^such as partiy devdoped

awcsed by a testimony to tbe fact, doir and con-l vindiv^as the noontide l^ht,before whose b r i ^ - 1 ncB every gioomy doubt and slavish fear will I vanish as tbe muming gieyr with all the objects I looming in its mlai, vanish before the upriangl •un. For this the renewed creature is inthepos-l tore of —mpwt expectation. " We through thej

i variations is a very different thing from the I devdopment of a leg in a snake, for instance, or I any animal which is legless, and which moves on j the ground. Evolutionists might, with some show I of plausibility, daim that the nascent leg of a I reptile, even in its most incipient rudiment or before it showed through the skin, might be of

luff ia IZ* 111 wl WOTwi no r«3U mFmj w wf? w I ——r — m m la t ' f iOth? hand upon tiie evetlaattng covenant, attempt an explanation of tills problem will now and exclaim," There is now no condonnation j b® deariy shown. O h , y a ! Thto is the liberty wherewith Christ| Natural sdection, Mr. Darwin repeatedly and h a t h made IB fltee. Botthe^arioasIibatyQfthe|part icalady reminds his readers, caimot, in the chOdroi of God to y ^ to come. Glorioas it will | first place, produce an organ of any kind, since it he becanse more manifest and complete. Indud-1 cannot even cause tbe smallest variation, tboa-ing all tbe elements of oar present ftaedom, it wiU I sands of which It takes to constitute an organ, if ^htr^rm m t j e t enji^ycd. We shall be] eardUIy preserved. I t can only cidUvate organs

those which are injurious^lsuch as partiy developed wings, which could be of no service,] 1 have called natural sdection or survival of the fitti?st."— {Origin of Sfiecies, p . O^J.)

The movement of any body through the air which is many times Its spedfic gravity is utterly annatural, and opposed to every law or prindple of evolation as expounded by Mr. Darwin above.

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Such a mode ol locomotion as the movement of a body thn-u :h the atmosphere having a thwisand times Its u< ightbdngabsohildyoppoaedtonature, is, therefoiv, in its or^nnal design and construction, supernatural! Bdngsopematuralianddependbig for its accompUaiunent on the combination of numerous mechanical devices and prindples, in opposition to the laws of nature, and onbracing the highest dements and faculties of reason, it amounts to an absolute demonstration that the first wings were constructed and adapted to their use by an Intdilgent Creative Will!

Evolutionists often ask their opponents to pro-duce a mirade. 1 assert that birds, bats, and Insects, are perpetual and unmistakable mirades, at least in thdr primal origin, according to the intrinsic definition of the word. Our dictionaries define a miracle to be a supernatural event—an occurrence contrary to the established laws of nature. The flying ol a bird, a thousand times heavier than the air, is a purdy mectonical pro-cess—an operation of the very highest iirder of intelligent skill—and is accomplished in violation of the central law of nature—gravitation. There is no part of the process of flying but what is or must have been in its primordial commencement a miraculous operation, since all mechanical results come from the intdUgent use of one law of nature by which to overcome anothir, and are therefore supernatural events.

Thtt}, evolutionists have the indisputable proof of bona fide mirades all around them aU the time; while the inventor who shall in the future con-struct an apparatus by which a man may fly through the air by the mechaniiad aid of wings alone, operated by his own individual strength, will have wrought a new' mirade in mechanics, and one of the greatest since the worid began. Such a supernatural event I bdieve not only pos-sible but probable, and in strirt accord with the rapidly advandng triumphs of human skill in employing one set of nature's laws to overcome and render sub8er>'ient another set.

While the assumption here maintained (that the incipient structure or unuseful stage of a bird's wing, if developed at all, could not have been produced by natural seledion,) would seem an aUnost self-evident proposition, I will add a few remarks and quotations which will prevent the most casual reader from losing the annihilating force of th t j single arBument.

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FROM OHIO.

BRO. GRAVES: —We moved to this neigh-borhood fourteen years ago. There w ere no

Baptisfts in the neighborhood then, and we were much at a loss to know what to do for some time. My wife met a Presbyterian preacher at a neigh-bor's house, and in conversation he said that in fant baptism was taught in the Bible. Shortly afler she attended a Presbyterian meeting, and when the invitation was given for those who had uhildren to be baptized to come forward, she went, w ith others, and when the preacher came to her, she demanded the auUiorlty of Christ for infant baptism. The same man who told her that it was taught, now refused to give authority before his church and a brother minister sitting on the stand. This raised quite an exdtement, and pleased the Campbeilltes wonderfully. Soon after this we got a Baptist preacher to preach a few sermons in a C ^ p b d l l t e meeting-house. On the last night of the meeting, one of the leading members came to me and said he could see no difference bdween themsdves and the Baptists, and thought we ought to unite. I replied that If they would set a day to meet and show ns the authority of Chri^ for what they taught and practiced as a'church, 1 was ready to go with them. He agreed to do so. We have also ma<U« the same demand on the Presbyterian and Mfcihodist churches, (soK»lled), and all have fWedl The people unanimously say that the preachers should answer the demand, because it is not asking too much. The people are investigat-ing this subject. Please give us your advice under the present circumstances through The B a f t i s t ,

R.CHBISWELX Shreve, Wayne county, Ohio. The above will be read with Interest Who will

not praise the Ghristten Mrneaa and flmmeas of

B ra and Sister C.r T h a t was a bcdd step in Sister C., and It wm have i b eflfect We say to tiiem, stand firm if you stand alone, and having done all to stand.

THE BIBLE. BY EUJ. A. G. PAKBOTT.

r p H E divine aathmtidty of the Bible has been for ages the great subject of thought and Inves-

tigation — the greatest minds of the world have hem drawn to I t V'olume upon vcdums has be«i w r i t t ^ for and against the Bible. I t i sadiff icol t task now for any one to produce anything new or original on the subject, yet the conflict still goes on. Men are still publicly denouncing the BlUe, setting at defiance its authority, mocUng the dread severity of its law, and treating Its holy, heavenly Incentives to action as vain dduslons. Even woman has, in some instances, left her di-vinely-appointed sphere of action, and mounted the rostrum to declaim against the Bible. Wo-man's ambition to know and lead, onceill>guided, brought death into our world and all our woe, and still the deceiver finds among her ranks victims of his vain ddusions, who are ready with all their power to aid in the destruction of God's govern-ment, and thereby wreck the last cheering hope of earth by breaking down ail the moral barriers in sodety, and redudng the same to chaos and night.

The present is not the time for the friends of God and m«n to be still. Let us go forth to battle. Althcwgh we may not be able to go equipped with the armor of sdence and philosophy," we have a more sure word of prophecy to which we do well if we take heed." Every Christian has an armor that is Impenetrable to all darts. Clothed with it the stripling may slay a giant, or one diase a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight The Bible contains within itself its own evidence. I t is a matter of no great importance to us whoi, where, or by whom the Soi^ures were written; if they are true they are of God. If the teachings of the Bible, so far as we can comprehend and un-derstand the same, are true, we may know of a certainty that so far at least tlicy are of God. No man can produce a truth in prindple. He may know a truth, he may com;^rehend a truth, he may be affected by a truth, but he cannot iwoduce one. The Bible reveals truth that bears its own evidence.

First, the Bible teaches that God created the world. I t matters not about the time required for Its creation, whether it was six of our days or a l o i ^ period represented by days; the great tnjth revealed is the creation—time is nothing with God. Even the most untutored mind can see and know that there is a power invisible that gives life and motion to the laws that operate in the movements and existence of the world. If we If we take an -iffe't and trace it to a cause, we wUl see that that cause is but the effect of another cause, and still another. So we are driven irresist-ibly to the condusion that there is somewhere a great first cause, which of necessity Ls self exlst-ent, and must have always existed. If we take what we see in nature as the effects of this first great cause, we can see that the cause is character-ized by Omnipotence, Onmisdraice and Omni-presence, and Is indeed the very God, the Author and Creator of all things.

The Bible teaches us that " God made man of the dust of the earth, and breathed into his nos-trils the breath of life, and he became a living soul," and we know that the body of man is bnt dust, animated with life, thiat may be suddenly separated from i t This creation, we are taught, was In the Image of God, and although that image has been marred by the &11, yet we can see traces of it stiU. As God has dominion over all things, so man has doiminion in this world as the lord of creation. As God Is saperiw to all IntelllgoiceB, so man Is superior to aU earthly InteiUgoicer, and Is but a Uttie lower than the angds.

How plain and simple Is this account of man's creation, and how unlike some of the wild specu-lations of modem theorists.

The Bilde teaches ns that man fell from bis original state of holiness, that he has beonne dnfhl and oorrnpt— every in tdUgot bdng on earth

knows that stich is his coodition. As to tbe his-torical part of tbe Bible, in whidi is related God's H<-Hnga with tiie Jews ami other nations, we have as good evidence of its truth as that of any other history, and the additicmal evidoice of jm^hedes uttered by tbqpe who wrote these bis-tories, seme of which are even now recdving ful-fillment, snch as thecme rdietting to tbedL<iper8ion of the Jews among the nations of the earth. £verywha« In the CNd Testamoit Scriptnrea, prophecy lifts Its bead, as a landing mnnamental witness to attest the troth of revdation, (spedally the ones referring to Christ, whteb ^ v e a n accoont of his mlssicKi to earth In detail, all of which have been fhlflUed to the letter.

The doctrines of the BiMe bear the Impress of thdr author. Everything that God does Is worthy of him. Is like him. Men Impress themsdves on thdr works. The peculiar cast of mina, with the style of a writer, is sometimes so dlstioet from others that you may know i t If there be snch difference in the prodndions of men, how great mn-ot be the difference between man's worics and God's works. Men may imitate God's woite, t>at tbe veriest tyro in nature can distinguish it ftom the real. There Is a life In natural things that man cannot Infase into imitations. So there is a life and power In the gospd that attests its troth. Men's judgments are often convinced of the ruinous consequences of some sins, reason may have fhll play, and every power belcmging to earth may be brought to bear on them, (sudi as the ex-ceffiive use of Intoxicating drinks and other vioes), bnt all in vain. Thepower of the gospd can and has, before tbe qres of the world, saved many an inebriate from a drunkard's grave and a drunk-ard's hell. God's poww, lovei, mercy. Justice, all shine forth in thdr brightest rays In the gospd. All the aoctrines of the gospd, and all the pn>-visions of dl\-ine grace it a f f o r d are worthy of God. It proposes to show, in its grand consum-mation, that man was not made in vain; that death, cmd, rdentieas monster, shall not always tove . dominion, but shall himself be o\'erthrowu Md destroyed; that the world shall not always continue In its present rained and corrupt condi-tion, but shall be consumed by fire, and that there shall be a new besiven and a new earth, wherein dwdleth righteousness. This is no dream of a dis-ordered brain.

.Vstronomers tell ns that worlds have been con-sumed by fire, and some Intdilgent, investigating minds have thonght that they had diaoovered In the earth the dements of its own destiacUon. Subterranean fires are burning even beneath tlit-bed of the ocean. New volcanoes are conUnaslly bursting forth, and the extent of these fires is bt-yond the power of research.

Much of the seeming antagonism existing tie-tween sdence and revelation has been reconciled, and we have stronz reason to beheve that future devdopmenU will reoondle what remains. In tiie language of Lieutenant Maury, one of the most eminent scientific men of the age, " If tne two can-not be reconciled, the fault Is ours, and is becaute in oar blindness and weakness we have nut tieen able to interpret aright dther the one or the other, or both."

Men of the b i g h ^ rank and culture, such as Milton, Hale, Bayle, Newton, and evai Koassoan, have discovered in the Bible a beauty i.nd saSv-limity -that utterly overshadow tiiat of all other books. We may explore tiie visst r t ^on of haman thought, gather all its brightest gems, place tb(a% In one Inight starry crown, and then but td l the dmple story of the cross, " God so loved the wodd that he gave his only begott^ Son that wbosoevo-believetb on him might not perish, but have ever-lasting life," and befcire the awakening thoaghta of this simple story those gems of human thoaght fade away like stats when the sun appouu The human mind can be raised to no subllmer thoaght, can grasp n o greater depth of wisdom, can con-template no brighto' exhibition of love; the heart can be moved to no greater depth by tbe power of heaven than this can readi; no brighter hope gilds the horizon of earth than this inspires; no brighter scenes of glory flash opcm tbe enrsptnn'd viaon of man than g^ow, and brighten and Uase in that simple story; tboogbt can go no fiutber, bat there upon tbe hcdy moont of vidoQ we may

TOSS B A f ^ l B ^ .

and conteaipiaii* Uic nabUme theme until the hiaurt is Oileil with luveand tbcIiiMan! moved tu 4iie uttenincc *if the lUif^c "Qkicy to Qod in the higfaisit, tm esrth p«tce and good will tu nianJ

I Iwik Dpun the tuith inall ita.i^ary; I listen to the voice that comet finm mawntain, vide and Htreun, imt it is only a fiiint, feeUe voice, and seeau to mg, I woold bat ouinot tetl of God's Vlifiry. I Ku (ar oat on the ocean, a voice comes (rum the aumeasoied depths beneath, and min-

of the mt , even thoe shaU thy hand lead me, and thy tight hand shall hold m e t ' Shakespeare, Byn>a, Miltoi;, Young, and others, are indebted to the Bible lor aome of their beat scenes and in^i-ratioos. I t was »t this fountain mainly that these aothon had their fancies enriched with b^liant tieasaiee. Here MUttm received the light which has rendered hlni superior in majesty ci thought and splendor of expression to earth's brightest il-lomlnaries; here Young lit up the tires of his im-moctal muse; hare Cowper learned to anticipate

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« T H 0 0 H A W oiTKSt A B A M r s a n T H » M ray T B A T i t H A T U D i m r L A T X D a i O A C a a o r n s T B i m . ' ' — J.R.QRAVL U . w . u r a j < k A k k y , JA& & MAHAnnr. •

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aijs with the wkie-^ieading view around, the I the millennial bleajedness." While such minds roaring winds and aoiging waves; I l i s t e n until 1 as these do homage to the Bible, we need not fear vlMous irf i^ory pass before me, but I listen again, I the pow« of the human intdlect, although It does ' n n - ' * ' " ^ voice, cuming from the unmeasured I sometimes aaaall, as it has recently, with a tongue

beyond, tells me that this earth itadf is a | set on fire of hell to dentroy. mete atcma In God's cxwiUon. I go into the tallest I It is rdated that a society of uenUcmen in I-Ing-irfMervatury thai em heerected,and with tdescopic | land, most of whom had enjoyed a liberal educa-yiriim sweep thrmgh the heavens, until the mosti tion and were pecson;' of polished mannera, but diidaat star kiwwn to earth is brought to view ; who had imUbed infidel principles, used to as-viiduna of giury paw before me until I am bewil- [ semUe (ur the purpose of ridiculiog the acriptures (leral, but the Bible bills me that beyond the range j and hardening one another in unbelief. At last of thisie are hrightor glisie*, bc^re which sun, | they unanimously foroKd a resolution to burn the moon and staa are paled, and even angels hidei Bible, so that they might no more be troubled thi.ir Jkcra. That glory a the giory Uod, as it with a book which was so hostile to their prin-shinea in the fiice of Jesos ChrM. The mockery, dples and disquieting to their consciences. The the scum, tlprfaig", and contempt of men and day fixed for the purpose at length arrived. A Oeviis only brightens its lustre and add to its ettar-1 large fire was prq>ared, a Bible was laid on the

Kdltor And Pnmrlator . . • • Uffloe Kdllor. Book-keep«r and Order ^ •*!«•*. MCBvlita, Teaa

.ui^, ^ ^ •ender'a. maU, wnd nUatp or poatAl card.

Bend moDUT by red t«Uer,Kipre»or D i ^ a l irar - - U aiuwer U doUred by

I. „ of the OiaUm^ataUBC Prtadrlca of BartUta.

As itopUMa. ve are to itand tor the Miprama aalltorUT word of (M a« the oolyand aaffleleat rule or (alth and pracUce. The Bible, aad the Blhleonly.aaoppowd lu all hamAU tradiUon In matters both or lalth and pracUce, we miut claim aa being a diitiogaUhinc doctrine ol our de-nomlnatlda- a doctrine fbr whiiOi we are called earueatly to contend. i A»BapU»t»,wearelo«tanUrortheonilnaneeeorChrJ»t a* he enjolhed theni upon hla lollowen, the lame In Humfttr. Is motlr, in order, and In ayM&olie vtetoHiv. nnobanxed and nnchaniwable tUI he come. S. A« fiaptlstm we are to atand for a aplritaal u d rei^e^ alcd chnrw, and that none ahall be received into Cnrlali chureh, or be welcomed to lU ordinaacea, withoat copteoalnie a personal fklth in ChrUt, and givlns credible eTidenee of piety.

DiaUacniablBC PoUCT of HUtorieia BapUata. The non-recosniUon ot hnman aocieUea aa Seriptnral chorchea by affiUaUon, ministerial or ecclMlaaUcal, or any alliance or co-operaUon that U aowepUble or belna ap-parently or loflciilly conatnied by onr members or thdn or he world Into a rccogniUon orecclealsstlcal or mlnliterlAl eqmalty with Baptiit ehorchea.

ntU praise. He who would destroy the BiUe would, if he

h:id the power, ilethnine Uod, despoil heavoi, and •iwaitii her sun and stars in the blackness of eter-nal night To oppose the Bihleisaimply to oppose virtue and all moral govprnment; fior nowhere do we find a per&ct code of morals but In the BiUe. Jilvay- o tha &irm of religion save that of the Bible panders to the fiesh with its lusts. The perfect wisdom exhibited in the moral code shows its di-vine toigin. Taice fiur example any one of the toi ,.,)auuandmeat9—fiv instance, "Thou shalt not Hteal," and then suppose the same to be utterly tliaregarded by the hnman £unily, and we can see at unce that wide-spread ruin and. destruction WMuhl be the result. Yet some of the ene-mla of the Bible are UdKBing to destroy the maniage lelatifin, while every intelligent mind a bound to Icnow that such desGmction wuuhl be attenriwl with consequences almost as Oi a^xDus as if the law, " Thou ahalt not kiU," was utterly overthrowiT and dJae^uded.

oppnitifHi to the Sh ie » caznal,and exists dimply because the Bible condemns 3in in the , ih*,^ and no carnal man wouM have originated a can these things direct us mto the unknown, b ^ boiOt that thus condemns sin. T h e e n e m i e s o f the yond their reahn? BevelaUon alone opens up to Bible dedde the Dlitenite character its writes, I our minds another world, governed by other laws.

table, and a flowing bowl ready to drink its diige. For the execution of their plans, they fixed upou a young man of high birth, brilliant vivacity and elegance of manners. After a few enlivening glasses, amidst the applause of his jovial compeers, he approached the table, took up the Bible, and was walking leisurely fon»-ard to push it into the flames, when, happexiing to give it a look, ail at once he was seized with a trembling, p a l e n ^ over^iread his countenance, and he seemed con-vulsed. He returned to the table and, laying the Bible down, said, with a strong asservatlon, We will not bum that book until we get a better.

iVn expoience has shown that man will have a religion. We have no account of the existence of a nation without a religion. And what do the enemies uf the Bible propose to give us in it^ stead? Mere scientific speinilation and human reasoning. Science never teaches falsehood, and yet among the wisest of those who profess to inter-pret its teaching there is no agreement. Iteason indeed speaks with a stem voice, that must be heard in aD matters relating to hnman interest, yet how otten is reason blinded and perverted ? How

iiot the divinity of its wisdom is only the more dearly aeen in such setting, and all Uie writers of the Bible wtxe not ignorant m«i. .Before men ol -it-ience had discovered and made known the fact that the ^ has weight. Job said, " He maketh wnght fijr the winds." I<cmg before the telescope WW known, or S r John Hwrsrhd with his p o i ^ -ful one had dlscoveretl the empty place in toe north, where comets ddight to roam and hide ihrnuelve in emptiness. Job dedared that " He ,tTetcheth oat the north o v « the empty idace, ind hangetb the earth upon nothing." In the luRsuage of a modem writer, " In regard to the -tuhlime, both in sentiment and style, what can i-xceed thuM? s in^e^^kes uf the sacred writers, by whtcfi the mightiejt events are painted, such as ' L«« there b e l i ^ t , and there was light;' ' Come .It.wn, O Babylon, and ait in thednat,' or those

i»Thihiting God's holy as well as creative power. There can be no substantial, effectlTC moral gov-

ernment in this world that is not based upon the existence of a world beyond. Remove from the mind of man all thought of future reward and pun-ishment, and you break down at once all the moral barriers of sodety, and inaugurate a reign of licentiousneH. Who are the friends and advocates ol licentiousness now but oi)pn and avowed in fideb? Man's corrupt nature says, " Would there was no God, no moral jiower to restniin," and thai, in f<dly of heart, says tliere Ls none. With what intense interest do crowds listen now to man who mocks hell and religion.

Never, porhape, did the worid enjoy such perfect soul hberty as now. Udigi<m, not even in its out ward forms, is forced upon no «>ne. The religion of the Bible stands alone upon its own merits. The ordeal through which it is passing now is indeed a trying one. Every spedes of opposition that can be brought to bear against it is being exerted in full Ibrce. If it can stand the pre«nt trial testand Borvive, we need not fear. In the grand arena of

.it.wn, u u . . rp^ewntationa by which the perfections and op-erafionsuftheUaty are brou^t to view, "Great is Jrfiovah and al great power, his greatness is un-.^earchaUe. his understanding is infinite; marvd-

And as tax poetry, w h a e are magic straim so borneafofl the standard. They have penetrated niuumfal and tender as the lammtations of Jere-1 jjjg deepest caverns of earth, asceided her highest

„ of cavid over Jonathan and Saul ? W*hat mountains, femiliarired themselves with her . ^ d excKsl the 3Mig of Amoa, sweeping the mlMtab, her fbssfl remains, f o U p ^ h a rivers to i-muu BMTO ^ 3WB I ^ descending cascades, explored old oceans' efaords to the giory of the Holy Caty? in haiS^ and not a truth thereof amUfet att the sfflHions of Homer himsai,can be dimmed by the shadows of earth. Well compared with Eaeldal's prediction of the destmc- nwy we inacribe on that blessed volume the lan-Uon of i^ypt , or the Fsalmtst's re^esaitation of gnage of Byron,— tiod** ubiquity: '"Whither diall I go flrran tliy spirit or whilh« shall I flee from thy prwmce T irii»cendantohesven ,thQoartthae! I f l m a k e my lied in heU.thoo art there! ITI take the wings I uf tlie momiBg, lod dwefl in the Httonwet p*ilB|

" Wllhin thlaawtul volnnie U«i The mrstery of myserits; ub! bsppteat they ot hnman racf, TO whom oor Ood has given gnfv. To hear, to tear, to md, to pny, TO un the latch, to force the wny; not beuer had they ne'er been buru WiM nad to dwM. (R ma M Kom."

ATLANTA.

No t h i n g surprised us more than the rapiil growth of this city since the war. From a

m ^ inland village it has sprang up into a consid-erable dty, and from the noise she makes in the commracial world, one would suppose she had a jiopulation of a million or two, while she has only 12,000, which is almost Incr^ble. The dty Ls fully three milra in diameter, and buildings are going up everywhere, and we suppose that this Ls the only dty in the South where real estate Ls raiHdly appreciating in value. The average yeariy increase ot the population is .j,UJ0. Atlanta, by the activity, enterprise and capital of her mer-chants, command-i almost the entire trade of the State—she is the railroad and commercial center, as she is the gateway of the State, and a bright fu-ture is before her. As the State increases In weidth-^and It is tiie most prosperous of aO the Southern States—Atlanta will improve. Fortu-nate these who bought prt^»erty just after the war.

CIIOBCHIS. There are six Baptist churehes in the d ty , and

perhaps three would be better. The first Baptist church was organized by Uev. D. G. Daniel in liWlT, when acting as misionary of the Georgia Convention, with seventeen members. Its first house of worship, a plain wooden structure, was erected in 1S4S. Since the organizaUon of the church, the following pastors have ofliclated in the order and for the term named: llev. D. G. Daniel, from January, 1848, to April, 1830. Rev. D. G. Danid and Itev. A. M. Spalding, from April,

to April, 1851. llev. A. M. Spalding, from April, IWl, to October, 1851. Rev. W. II. Robert, from October, 1851, to Odober, ISiVl. Rev. T. V. Wilki-s, from October, 18-54, to December, 1S.H;. Rev. U. WiUiams, from December, 1856, to March, ISiS. Rev. A T. Holmes, fn>ni Mareh, 18.V!, in August, 18®. Uev. T, U. Wilkes, from Octolier, ISTiS, to Mareh, 18G1. Uev. II. C, llomady, frtmi Matdi, 18«I, to Mareh, 1807. Rev. R. W. FnlU-r, from February, 1868, to December, 1870. Rev. K. W. Warren, from April, 1871, to February, 1876. Rev. D. W. Gwin, from June, 1870. I t now num-bers over 400 membete, and worships in a house bunt in 1869, at a cost of 130,500. The funds were largely contented by the North. *We shall never forg^ the grand old BaptW meetings we have hdd in that plain wooden buDding with a body of Baptists, the like of which that church may never again possess.

8BC»SD Cm-RCH. A colony of nineteen members from the First

chureh were organized into a church, Septenilier 1,18.M. A substantial brick elifice wa.s erected in 1855, at a cost of W4,000, and Eld. Cha-s. M. Irvin dected pastor. In 1870 the house was enlarged and internally improved, at an expense of $20,000. Since the organization, the following pastors have «)fficiated: Rev. C. M. Irvin, from August, 1&>5, to December, 1856. Bev. T. U. Wilkw, Crom De-

cember, 1856, to August, 1858. Itev. J . T. Clark, from November, 18.">8, to December, 1S61. Bev. W. T. BranUy, from December, 1861, to Septem-ber, 1871. Itev. A. T. Spalding, from tKrtober, 1871.

The present membership is about -vi-i. THE TUIBW CHUBCH.

This church has 10t> members, and is under the {ttstoral care of Eld. W. J . Spilars.

Tll E CESTKAL l UUlU U. This is a new, but vigorous, organization,

idanted in December, 1878, with forty members, has already doubled Its membership, an«l jn.st erected a new house on the corncr of Peters and Fiir streets. Rev. F. M. Danid is pastor. It owns the Sunday-school Uught in the house, elei-ts the otficerH and tcachers, and it Is the only Sunday-day-adiool thiit does not belong to the Union. It is pre-eminently a Baptist Suuday-school.

TlIK KltTll I HUIU n. This o > u . s L s L s ol 75 i h c i u U t - , ami Is umlcr (he

i^re of lU'v. B. C. Norcross. T I I K H J X T U I I U K l U

Has aUiul lo members, ami is .crvwl by Wd. Higtlou. liEl.I.W<H>D

Has alKJut members, and although outside the city limits, b reckoned a-x au -Vtlanta church.

The following were offered by Deacon tJold-smith, of the First church, at the dose of our Lec-tures, which were ddivered In the Central church edifice, and unanimously adopted. It is graUfying to us that we have not yet ddivered these dis-courses bdore any body of Baptists, in any Stale, that has not hearUly endorsed them. They are not our " peculiariUes," but the old landmarks of our historical predecessors for nearly 2,000 years iw-st:— KESOLLTIOXS.

WuEKKAs, Rev. J . 11. Graves, LL. D the dis-auishcd editor of The Baptist, of Meinphis Tenn.. has, upon inviUUon of the BapUsts and citize^ of Atlanta, deUvered a c o u ^ of sermons upon the " F/adesla of Christ;" and —

^insnEAS, These able and logical discourses have been the means of Imparting instrucUon and creat satisfaction to all listeners; therefore —

ifcicirecf. That we hereby tender Dr. Graves our sincere an<l heartfelt thanks for his exceedlnely •dile and instructive sermons, which have afforded his hearers so much gratification and p l M ^ -

» Thot it pnm<«<tlv desired that Graves repeat his sermuus m O-WM^^ ^ fiSlon of tHbse who have alrwdy h ^ , and that others may have an opportumty of h ^ n g teem.

Resolcetl, That our thanks arc due and are hereby tendered the pastor and members of the Centril Baptist church, Atlanta, for their c o ^ ^ in allowing the use of thdr church-building to the i«oplc of Atlanta, Baptists and others, for the de-livery of the discourses of Dr. Graves - c^-outscs so reiJete with instruction, an.l evidently so " gUully rcceivc*l" l>y our i>eoplc.

communion with the unbaptired ? We are pained to hear <hat Bro. Fish is so loose.

La-rtrRK o n Cai.ipor.nia.— W'e will delivw our Lecture on " California and the Wonders," in the Baptist chureh in Brownsville, Tenn., on Friday, 8 p. m., June 13, for the braiefit of the young minfcters at Jackson. Admission, twenty-five cents, at the door. We leave this in the hands of Brethren Province and Fayp.

The Vennont Baptist, a sprighL'y litUe sheet, c o m e s to us for an exchange. Certainly. Such a pajior—a straight-out Biptist paper — is the thing nee»U>d in Veroiont. We shall rejoice in its suc-cess. It wUl teacn BapUsU to do their own laeach-ing and baptudng, and each church to commemo-rate the death of Christ as ite own inJi\idual church act.

We rejoice to learn thaf llev. O. a Wheeler, of Califoinin, has consented to ddiver the Literary Address at the appn«ching cominenecmcut at Jackson. He is a gentleman of high literary ac-quirements, and wo heard it universally admitted that he was jierhaps the most finished rhetorician on the cua.st. And we would suggest here that if any community in this State or Mississippi should desire a Ixx-ture from Mr. Wheeler," up<Mi the sub-ject of The Chinese as IteliaWe and I'rofiUble La-borers for the South, he wiU be pleas^ to gratify them for a trifling smn, to cover his travding ex-{lenses. He has had thirty years of obijervaticHi in OUifomia, and no man is bett« «iualified to give

more reliable opinion on th« m^jst Lmiwrtant subjtct.

We are most happy in bdng able to say to all those who have been under the Impression that the discussion of yellow fever and pastors' duties will result in barm, that a per^•erted public opinion has been most effectually corrected, and the discuasion is at an end, here and at Nashville, and in the country generally. We are abundantly satisfied with the verdict as it now stands, and dose the debate. Should the plague re-appear, all those ministers who feel that to nurse the dck who re-main in the city, and .'•rrve the Howards—for this is all they can do—is a paramount duty to that they owe tneir families and preaching where they can do some good, can remain, and those who fed called to preach and to pro\ide safety aad supiwrt for their fimidies, can fredy do so, without fear from an inquisition.

draiy the statement. The historical fi»cla wiU be gathered Into a brirf history and published this year.

We learned from Bro. Millar ,« wo wens Uking the train at Jacksen retaining home, that £3d> Orifiln was sick, and had been confliied to his bed fM over two weeks. Bro. G. is vorkiog beyond hisstrength, as our advisers say we are, and wr advise him to husband his strength fco' yean >o come. Would that some brothawooldenoourap his heart and strengthen his hopes by doinga lib-eral thing for thediair he is working so hard to endow. In looking ova: our exchanges this werfc, we notice tlie following munificoit ^ite to North-ern Colleges, already rich: Five brethrsi give •136,000 to Rochester Theological Seminaiy, New Y'ork; the late llobcst M. Mason, of Boston, be-queathed tisOOO to the Eidscopal ThedopicaJ School at Cambridge; Mr. James Brown, of New-York, has given $300,000 for the oidowment of all the professoKhips in Union Theological Seminal}'; the friends of Princeton College have laud off its debt uf $iaO,<iOO, on the condition that it will not do so any more, but live within its income; Mr. Gardiner Colby gave $75,000 to Waterville College, Maine, and the Trustees changed the name of the instiinUon to Colby University. Mr. Colby died on the 4th ult., and it has been stated recently that he gave to the carise of Christ ti:30il,000 during his life. May we not hope that the time is not far distant when God will i>ut it into the heart of some Christian brothCT to aidow one of the pro-fessorships now so much needed at our Uni vetsily t His act would inspire others to imitate his ex-ample. In this direction is our hope.

BREVITIES. " Tliank you for exposing Mr. Boyd's last dodge.

The OUl Banner has lost none of its color," writes a strong brother in Illinois.

We thank the brother who !«end.s us the JlinuUs of the fifty-fifth annual session of the Liberty As-sodation, of North Carolina.

The Southern Baptist, Mississippi, claims l,96i subscribers, a much larger circulation than the Beconl, which started later.

" Many down here are pleased with Popular Fallacies, by Bro. Frost," writes a brother from Baton Itouge, La., "and the sermons are of e -iwcial service when we have no preaching."

The editor's Beply to Mr. Burruss will appear next week. Two more Ijetters from Mr. B. doses

" The Baptist slates, not with a view to injure us of course, Uiat our drculation is ' neariy six hun-dred : : : ' would you like, just for the fun of the thing, dear Baptist, to c o m p a r e figures ?"—Bap-lijsi lUfletior. Certainly, the information was brought directly from Nashville by one of your friends, who h ^ no wish to bjure you. He of ujursc meant i>aying subscribers, and he hail his informutiou before you added the seven hundred subscribers of your Happj Home t i make out their time. Since that time you have Issued sMne 1,400, all told. You must now be satisfied that we meant you no injustice. H it would afford the Ref/xtor any fun, let hun send us the amount of postage he l>ai<l this first week in June on the lUfecfar, and we wUl publish it, with the figures we paid the same week. *

urUL*. — the discussion. I t has been unavoidably protracted, but all have had ample time to read, digest and dedde.

DOCTRINAI, DiscxtLBSES.—We have accepted the invitaUon to ddiver the Five Doctrinal Ws-courses in Newnan, Ga., commencing Friday be-before the fourth Sabbath in this month, embrac-ing the Sabbath and Monday night following.

The Befixtor nobly protests against the act of the Third chureh. Eld. L. B. Fish's, in receiving Campbdlitce and Methodists into membership o q their alien Immeraions. How much worse is open

" tAUar Index.— Roger Williams was a Baptist, and so much the better for Roger W^llUams." Sow it is not in the power of the correspondent of the Index or its learned editor to prove that Roger Williams was ever a Baptist for one hour in his his life, or that be believed that the ordinances of the Baptist church are valid. There was a Baptist church near to Providence, at Newport, R. L, r^ularly oiganized—why, if he was a Baptist did he not join himself to that body, instead of baptizing a man who might baptize him? And when, after four months, he dissolved his thing called a church, why, if a Baptist, did he not joLo the Baptist church at Newport, of which John Clark was the pastor, and why did he never, in the course of a score or more of years he lived near to it, identify himadf with it in any way or wor-ship with i t? A Baptist forsooth, and never in his life baptized, and therefore never a meacber, and never cdebratiag the Lord's supper in a Bap-tist church. EvMy Baptist minister and editor in

I the land, as well as every BapUirt layman, should

CX>MMESCEMENTt>. N this i^ue will be found the announcemoits of both the Southwestern Baptist Unlvetnty, at

Jackson, and that of the Female Unlversily of the South —the Mary Sharp, at Wincbestnr, Tenn.

The friends of education in Tenneatee and the Southwest cannot better demonstrate tfadr intcretit in higher education than to attetid t h ^ com-mencements, and thus give them the light of their countenance, at leasst. Parente and gaardianw an-confidentiy expected to witne® the examinations of their children and wards. It isaduty theyowi-them, and greatly will it encourage their tflacbers.

No litUe comi^alnt has been made aa to U«-maimer in which'eJouninaUons have been hmti>-fore conducted. I t is n<A presumable tlint they were intended as mere occasions for any perafm present to make a spedous show of his own ar-quirementsby proposing intricate questions, which he may have spent months in studying up, to p«'r-plei or puzzle a class, or to air some fif t tliniry or opinion of his own, consuming the time a."!slgiii»l U) ascertain if the stndimts have Pomprehcnd<sl the prindpies biid down in thdr tfljct-books.

The Trustees of the Southwestern Baptist I'iii-versity last year appointed a committix of ccimi*--tent examiners, who, in ecwnection with the I'n»-fesBors, should witness and direct the examina-tion of the classes, that i^rents may be satisfied that the clases have not beai " stuffed," but have accomplished a &iir amount of woric during tin-session.

We are also r ^ c e d to see that the Faculty of the Mary Sharp has bdlowed so good an example, and hassdected so hirge and (with one exception) competent a board of examiners — thorough schol-ars and impartial men, with no " ax to grind." We trust that every one appointed will make tb»: necessary efibrt and sacrifice to attend. We antic-ipate that thb will be one of the most intensting examinations of the JLoy Sharp— the gentlemf^n appealed tu assist in the examination give amidp assurance that it will be more thuruugh, if inerablc, than any previous one.

-A aactcd baid»o i» the lite y* bear. Look on it, lift tt. bear it w>l«nnl.r. stAnd np and walk beneath It HaadtiiMl}'. Fall not tar •arrow, falter not tor sis. Bat oawvd, upward, tin the soal yti viii.^

If God has choeea your way, de|Kmd upon it, it is the best that could be diosen; it may he rough, but It la ri^t; it may be U''li'AP, but it i t aafe.

T H E B A P T I S T .

FOBTY YEABS IN THE CHRISnAN Mnf- j Jesus oftm standa with the bereaved at the B T R Y graveride, promising conadation, which the aor-

iw-. T«uu— wbit rowing heart rejects, even as M a i ^ o p j ^ the TAOTSondaymoniingatagecHiwdgatheredat WonlofC3hriat. To such comes tte ^ U e ^ u k e

-Ifthouwould3tl«lieve! The h e a U ^ ^ m can , p r e a c h ^ amiiv«Mry sermon of his fortieth | ^ y ^ taken ftom the Savior's hand by the hand

TOUT in the ministry. TheDoctOTintrodnctedtlie serriBHi by reading the lOki Paalm and announc-ing the 311th hymn—

" Hav n m Ur Bows tile giapel •oand," ate., Which was song by the choir and congre^Uion. A moat fervent prayer was then (^oed, in which

(tf Mth. An old citizen died the otiier day in want,

though he iiait large sums in the bank. His lect to draw on liis stores was attended with the aanw. fatal consequences as real poverty. Many Oiristiaas live and die with a meagre experience

the mind ofthepetitioner seemed to reverttoboy- because they feil to aK)ly to the "bank of h » -boud and then span the period of nearly a half omtmy, when aQ the inddaitp (rf a minister's life, in proaperity and adversity, appeared vivid and aabntyotoday; the special providences oTGod, hia in afflictians and his grace in triumph wereaD refared to in a most ieding and pathetic manner. The Doctor announced hia text from 1 Tim. L 12: "AIHI I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, wlio hath QiaUed me, for tliat he counted me MthJhl, potting me into the ministry." His theme wsa " the ChnsHan ministry," and in which he showed by his effort thit he was " a workman that n e e d ^ not be ashamed." In the brirf account of his ministry for so long a period there was much wholeaame inatmctian to be derived, especially to young mtniftfiTH. The Doctor dosed with a very touching tribute to the ladies who had ao tastefully decanted the pulpit and stand with festoons and flowers of the richest variety, and arranged in the moat handsome and lovely style.

Dr. H. commoiced labors in the ministry at the age of ninetem, and during the period of liis services has filled some oTthe most important paa-trfr tam of tfae- Union, emtiracing Philadelphia, Washington C3iy,, Norfiilk, Memphis, and FnmdbKo, and in has been oninentiy succeae-fol In bidkiing up and sotiaining churciies. FDB-juMiLd of vigegpus Intritentnal poweia and inspired by a luly ambition, he has succeeded in attaining to sn eminoiee that gives him'a recognixed pasi> tion in tiie frtoit rank among the polptt orattss of the South. Hfe-tfTSR style and logical presenta-tion of tfae tmtii, never IkUs to excite the admira-tion of hb Iieareis, while his sermons always abound in rich thought and gospd power.

ven" where untold spiritual wealth liaa been de-ported by their lord, subject to thar order. To live poor wiien God lias endowed us with true riches is a sign o^ ingratitude, carelessness, and nnikith, rather than humility.

BREVITIES. The various Woman's Mission Societies in the

United States, last year, raised nearly tialf a mil-lion dollars.

The Bev. Mr. Hutchinson, formerly a Presby texian pastor at Xenia, U., bias been baptized by Dr. Ellis at Denver, Col.

The trustees of >'ewton Theological Seminary

FBAYEB-MEESXNG. Qor prmyrr-m stla* opena on well Hanilay «ftem«x>n at

ihTMa'daBk; ud Itta propoBea Ibat ernr Chilttlaa wtio naOM thim vtn sooMezmla Uut h tr U> pnrer lot object* fmscotfld In tbls

"Tlun a m plan viicre (iiiUs bienil— Wbttm trtssd hcOda Ulmnblp with friend. Thoiic!! mndend hr, by Baita v« mnt Aiuuud ana commOQ lacicj aat.**

It is good Ibr us to think no grace or blessing truly oars till we are aware that God has bleased some one dae with it throogh ua.—P&iO^ BrvakM.

Tlie sweetest life is to be ever makinn saeriflctn for ChrM; the hardest life a man can lead on earth, the moat full of misery, la to be always do-ing his own win and seeking to please liimaelt— OektntM.

The gnxind of your working for mai is not their desata you teach thmn, not because they de-saves to bo taught, but because God has given you his" troth, and has soit you to aaye them.— &thap Smpton,

The troEts of autumn sink into tlie leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall; and thoa insenibly are we, as years dose round us, de-tached firom our tenadty of life by the g«iUe pres-ure of reoirded aamw.—Landor.

la Uie tdirS Pnt I mr tnot; He t» iBnUe. he Is Jnrt; He mj Itiensth in, ba mr rac. And my crown cball b« are lonc-WWla to him mr rmr not what man eaa do; Jar and haaltli with me abide Whiia tha tod is on ray tide.

have dected President Andrews, of Denison Uni-versity, to the professorship lately filled by the Bev. Dr. Caldwdl.

At the commencement of the Chicago Theolog-ical Seminary, the degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred upon Bev. E. B. Hulbert, pastor of the Fourth Baptist church, Chicago.

THE TBKASUBY OF DAVID. —Ttiis is a valu able expositicHi of the Psalms, by Bev. C. H Spurgeon. Four vdumea. Price f4 per volume Address Baptist Book House, Memphis, Tenn.

The bin designed to relieve the Seventh Day Baptists from the operation of Sunday laws, which lias been pending in the Pennsylvania Legislature, has fiiilee in the Sfenate. A majority voted for it, but it did not receive the two-thirds vote.

The coarse of the Boman Catholics in Xew Mex ico recaitly shows the Scarlet Woman to be the bitter and unrdenting enemy to free speech, free press, free pulpit, and ftee schools, and whatever dse is ftee to benefit the human liamily.—C»r«ian Maua)ff«r.

Eld. W. B . Green, an <dd student of Union Uni-vosity, and for one year pastor of the Central church , Nashville, and for a season at Winchester, died January 25th, 1S7», at his residence in Knob-noster. Mo., at the age of ">6 years and one day. He was a devoted and useful minister of Christ.

Bro. Stevens, of Texas, in renewing his subscrip-tion, sends another, like a good friend, and says: " I cannot do without THE BAPTIST, if the times arehard. I have been a subecrilier since 1846, and am better pleased with the Old Banner every week." We appreciate such a steadfast patron. Such are the Baptists who have kept the Old Banna waving, and we believe the God of Truth will multiply such patrons unto us.

Indeed, Bro. W^dsh, lyiless baptism, as well as the supper, is a local church ordinance, it is noth-ing the chnrch has anything to do with, and who, pray, is to administer it—who Is to dedde upon the qualification of the candidate? If any one thing has be«i a settled arUde of Baptist belief, it is that tiaptlsm and the suppa are local church ordinanc«B. To dray them is to throw wide open both the church and the table.

The new Baptist Y ^ - B o o k for Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba shows that the total number of Baptist churches in the Western Convention is 288, in the Eastern Convention 63, and in Manitoba 3—mak-ing a grand total of 334 churches, of which 24 are not yet ccmnected with the Associations. The number baptized in theae churches, daring 1S78, was 2,379,83 i^ainst 3,611 in 1877. The total mem-

the Recordat's coort in Atlanta, and qotethe char-acter of the petty cases, and the manna of the udge. It oc^ht to be sufBdent to aay that Re-

corder Milledge is a Baptist; but we sim^dy add that we saw him fine a man ten dollars for aainga pro&ne oath on the street, and that we learned that tramps never visit Atlanta but once, The labor that has been expended in grading the streets, and in other public improvements, is a standing dan-ger signal to the whole fraternity. We explored l»ck streets alone at late hours, and we conversed with migroes and Sorthem. immigrants, and our impr^ons in regard to the present regime are that life, and property and morals are as safe in Atlanta as in New York."

YKIILOW FEVEE uf MEMPHIS.—Weekly, if not daily, the report flies into the country that the ydlow fever has actually appeared in Memphis, and those reports are traced to letters written from dtiaens of this dty! Now we have the mortuary report for May before us, and it is authentic and may be relied upon aa true. Not a case of even malignant bilious fever is reported, and only two cases of congestive and one case of typho-malarial feva the past month, which indicates a remarkable absence of malaria in the city at this time ot year. It is possible tliat thert' may he a few cases of yel-low fever this year, but it is contrary to all prece-dents that it should become epidemic before 18SS, if then, in this dty. We pledge ourself, as a faith-ful journalist, to announce the first case that occurs. Persons may not have the least apprehension of danger from any disease, much less the yellow fever, by visiting the city.

daily on the things of eternity; and by teship of the churches, induding the nine con-tbe grace at God do somrfhing daily, which thoa noted the Grande ligne M336ion and the woaldBt wish to have done when the day of jadg. three fai Manitoba, is now 27,489, bdng an increase moxt comes. Eternity fades quickly tarn the over the memberahip In 1877. s^ht, amid the mbta and doodB of this worid. j A. C. W., a visitor from the North to the late Hmven^ akove oor heads, yet we see it not with I Southezn Baptist Convention, writes to the Jour-tjSTSxBi ffii tbfCearth.—J?r. i^iey. | nal and Mtmagm-: " It was oar priviT*^ to visit

THE CHRISTIAN USE OF WEALTH.

THE way in which a man disposes of the money he makes supplies one of the most delicate,

searching, decisive tests of his moral diaracter. The church of Jesus Chrkt is the earthly agency which God has appointed by which to reclaim hu-manity to himsdf. And money, not leas than brain and prayer and example, is one of the in-strnmentalities which tbe church in her turn Is to emfdoy in folfiUing her mission. This Instinctive, constitutional bnpulse to acqutoe, I do beUeve, conatitutes an eeaentlal dement in that economy of arrang^ents by which the gradous plans of Ddty concerning our earth are to be achieved. So far then from wishing to see the day when an em-bargo shall be laid on our ships « f commerce, and the doors of our warehouses shall be doaed, and men shall vacate the various spheres of secular in-dustry, because they shall have lost aU desire to accumulate, I bdleve that that will be the true Golden Age when an intense business activity shall prevail throughout the worid; when the white sails of commerce shall swell before the breezes of every zone; when the marts of the world shall be multiplied and crowded with the products of every dime, and of every kind of hu-man skill, and shall be thronged with eager trades-men ol every race and color; when mines of min-eral wealth, yet undiscovered, shall disdose their predous treasures, and not a foot of soil shall be unreclaimed from the wild sway of nature; when the whole earth shall become one vast emporium of trade, in which all the inhabitants shall engage with a sanctified enthusiasm, that they may offer all that Providence hdps them to amass on the altar of Messiah's service. And when this Golden Age shall have arrived, then shall the passion for accumulation, which had been divindy implanted in the bosom of Adam, while yet nnlallffli, but which has since been perverted to selfish ends, re-sume its heavenward direction, making use of the gains it makes as wings by which the spirit may soar to loftier hdghts of perfectness. Even the mammon, now so unrighteotK and hostile to as, shall be turned Into a pure and glorioaa friend. who, when we have crossed the Dark Kver, shall wdcome us into the eternal tabemaeds.—JSie.r G. D. Boardman, in Baptist Weelli/.

TO MINISTERS. J o St make np yonr mind to get two

new anbscrltieni, and secure thla paper for yonneir this year, and tee bow easily yon can do It.

T H E B A P T I S T . S 4 7

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SOMETHING NEW.

ANEW AsBOciaUon, named " Bethlehem," waa formed last October, from the territory ot

Red River and Concord Associations —but mcae anon as to its history.

The second session of the Ministers' and Dea-cons' Meeting of this new Association wiU be bdd with Macedonia church, Jackson parish, the fifth Sabbath in Jane and Saturday before.

BFSNFESSOF THE MECTISC.. Introductory sermon. Eld. J . Lolly; alternate,

Wd. W. C. Moreland. Sabbath service. Eld. D. H. Burt; alternate, Eld. E. N. Warren.

UUEL'.IES. Does the New Testament teach the observance

of a Sabbath day, and how it should be observed ? Does the New Testament preach the support of

the gospd to be only optionary or imperative? Is there a divine call to the ministry — what are

the evidences? Tho Mission Board of the .\-«ocij»tion will meet

at the same time and place. W . C. MosELA.vn, Sec'y. /«-o lem.

T H E UESURliECTlON BODY.

THERE was a party of the Jews in the time of our Lord's ministry on eiulh called Sadducees

which denied the resurrecUon of the dead. And there are many now who doubt that there will be a Uteral resurrecUon of the dead. That the spirits of the departed will have bodies given them is readily admitted; but that the same material that composed the body at Its dissolution shall compose the Immortal one which receive the returning spirit once Its companion, is not only doubteil, but by many wholly denied. This Is virtually a denial of the resurrection of the body. For the scriptural idea of the resurrection Is the rising again of that which was mortal to a state of immortality. Death is not annihilation, but the cessation of vitality In the body from which the animating spirit had then usparted. The AposUe James says: "The body without the spirit is dead.' Solomon, tbe preacher, said: "Or ever thesUver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at tha iountain, or the whed broken at the cistern, then shaU the dust return to the earth as.it was, and the spirit shall return unto God who gave It."

This as a figure is a beautiful description of death as the dbsoluUon takes place; but the return of the body as dust to the earth and the spirit to God who gave it, Ls a literal statement of the con-ditions of tbe spirit and the body as sepaiated in j:he state of the dead. The resurrecUon cf the dead, therefore, is the rising again of this same dust, gathenxi and fashioned anew In organic form to lie vitalized by a reunion with the returning spirit companion. Man is a complex being, con-sUtuted of tiody and spirit united; and death is the state of the body while separated from the spirit. And life from the dead Is the reorganiza-Uon Into form, and reanlmaUon by the spirit returned, so constituting again man, the complex being, who contains in himself both spirit and matter, the only essences known in nature. If the returning spirit shall find prepared for it a body composed of material which was no part of the fbrmer one, and which was never mortal nor corrupt. It cannot without an abuse ol langujige be said, " this corrupUble must put on incormption,

.and this mortal put on immortality." And, " it Is »wn In corrupUon; It Is raised In Incormption it Is sown In dishonor; It is raised In glory." Nor; can It be said that Christ " shall change our vile body, that It may be fashioned like unto his glorious body."

The resurrection according to the teaching of the Scriptures is, raising again from the earth the same body that went Into it, whether in a decom-posed state or not. No organization formed of other material than that wMch constituted the body that was dead can In any rational sense be a reaarrection of the dead. Job aska the question, " i f a man die shall he live again?" Hia meaning most have been, if the body and spirit, which conBtttate the man, be separated, shall they be united again. He an^^era his question himself, thus: "Though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my fleah shall I see God: whom I shall aee for myself, and mine eyes shall behold

i and not anothCT." Danielaaya: "Many of them that aleep in the dust of the earth shall awake." And Isaiah says: "Awake and sing ye that dwdl in the dost; for thy dew Is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shaU cast out the dead." The body only can be said to dwell and sleep in the dust, and to awake and sing.

The spirit of inspiration, in speaking concerning the bodies of the s ^ t s in thdr separation fn)m the spirit, though dissolved into dust, calls that state a sleep. Job says: " Till the heavens be no more, they shaU not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep." The sweet l-salmist of ferad aays: " I shall be satisfied when 1 awake Iti his l i k e n s . " The Apostle Paul aays: " W e whi> s re alive and remain unto the coming of the lord • hall not pre-vent (precede) them that are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangd and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ sh.ill rise first; then we which are aiive and remain .<haU be caught uji together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord lu the air; and so shall we ever Iw with the Lord." Tbe design of tne aposde was to comtort the disciples who had been sorrowing for the dead. For he says: " Wherefore comfort one another with these words." The point he makes as the source of comfort is the dead in Christ—the sleepmg bodies of the saints, at the coming of Christ rise first, then those which have not, as well as those whidi have, seen corruption, shall be changed in a moment and fashioned like unto his glorious body.

If the bodies which are in the gra\-es do not rise, the aposUe'8 boaspng challenge to the grave, " O grave where Is thy victory," would receive a triumphant answer from it«> myriad tenantry, which would reverberate throughout eternity, here! and forever here!! But no such answer will ever be made. Instead of this, the hollow vaults of the t« nantles3 graves shall echo answer, where! " Behold," he says, " I show yon a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but we sliall all be changed, in a moment. In the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump; for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be r a i ^ Incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible body must put on incormption, and this mortal must put on immor-tality." The material that shaU compose the body raised must be the same as that of the one sown or put in the earth, or aU the terms and figures used In reference to the state of the l>ody in death, and the rtsurrecUon of the dead, are violations of the laws of language and wholly deceptive. And a denial that the body raised is the same in sub-stance with the one that was dead Is a denial of the resurrection of the dead.

" The body without the spirit is dead," says one inspired author ; another, by a figure, calls it a sleep, and by the same t i g ^ it awakes from sleep. TIU a certain thne, aays one: " They shaU not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep." And another says: " I shall be satisfied when I awake with thy likeness." To awake in hia llkenes who is the king of glory, and who "shall change our

sappositicm that otha matfTial mcne ccavenient waald do aa wdL

I f the occapanoy by the retoming spirit of an-other body than the one with whidi it parted at death may be called the same pemm, vonld not the occtqancy of the body of (»e kand alive at oar liord'a coming by another s iMt than the tmo which bad occupied it by parity of reaBonlDf be the aame peiacn? Would n<^ either tf tfae s a ^ posed cases be not only more improbable than that made as an objection, bat litoally impoadUe? For it is impoagiUe that the creaiioQ of a body out of niat^ial that nevor farmed part of one once dead, should be a resarrection of the dead. Tbe objection to tlie resornxlion, it seems, is mainly founded upon the soppoaftl difficulty of collecting the same dements, and impUes a doabt of its poa-siblUtyt. Why dse shoald it be thooght a thing incredible that God ahoald raise the dead? I t is not a question of policy or philosophy, bat of fcct-Nor is it a qucsdun whether ail tbe partideB that have been part of a living body at some time dur-ing the growth and decay sludi compose part of the new (»ie, but wUl the buried dead body be raised again? Or other words will there be a res-urrecUon of the dead ?

In answering those who denied that there would beany resurrection<tftJ>edead, the Apostle Panl says: " W^hat shall they do which are beptlKdfiir the dead, if the dead rise not at all? Why are ttiey then baptized for the dead ? ^Vnd why stand we In jeopardy evoy hour? * * whatadvanlagetfa it me U the dead riae not?" The p ^ meaning is, why symbolize a buried and risen body by bapa-ou if the body bnried riaea not? If tfae body which guts down Into the earth is not ealsed up again, baptism as a symbol teaches an antmtb. The apGt^e thus reasons: "It the dead rise not, then Is not Christ raised; and if CSuiat be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your aina. Then they also which are falioi asleep in Chrint are perished." The legitimate condaslon from the apostle's reasoning Is, they who doabt that the bodies which have fallen asleep In CiuM siuntid rise again, should not use baptism aa a symbol of the resurrecUon of the dead; for they must beUeve they have perished, if ti>e apostie reaaoned oor-recUy. " But now U Christ risen from the dead, and become th." tii^t iruiLs of them that slept- • • We shall not aU sleep, but we afaall all be changed t • • for the trampet shaU sound, and the dead shall be raised bJcorrapUble." " Precioos In tbe sight of the Lord is the death of hia aalnts." " I wiU ransom them from the power of the grave; I wlU redeem them from death." Glorioaa hope! for which mllUcns have rejoiced, and some even in the midst of the flames that consumed thdr bodies to ashes.—J. C. Waller in IVrfitam Reeorder.

vile body that It may be fasliloned like unto his glorious body," that " when he shaU appear we shall be like him; for we shaU see him as he i s " is a glorious promise, our confidence In which is the faith of the gospd. And It was in reference to this tliat our Lord made that pointed inquiry, " When the Son of Man cometh shall he find Ikith on the earth?"

The significance of this Inquiry will become ap-parent to any one who wiU take the pains to cate-chise those around him. He will b^ astonished to find how few among the members ol the churches boUeve in the resurrection of the dead. He will find the objection to be the supposed difficulty in collecting the scattered dementi which composed the body at its dlasolution. It la thought to be a thiftg Incredible that the aame material which haa minted with other demraita, and may be entered into other bodies should be brought together to fcnn a body for the returning eidrit And the snppoeed difficulty In gathering together the di-vided and scattered dements makes it too im-probable for rational bdief that the same material wUl compose the new body. That wMpb Increases tbe improbability in the mind of the Peptic is the

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NEWS FROM THE STATES. TEXAH.^Eid. H. EL 'Kilani Mrigned the pMtor-

aie at Waxahachie <HI the third Banday in May. He a diinghta ol oar eateoned Bro. WyattootheaftatnoraiartlieaMiieday. Hehad been pHtar at this church over four ye&if.—£ap-t U HrrcUiL Eld. B. A. Goodwin, of Sherman, b to driivat the l i t e c u ? Addres at Waco Uni-vwHity, s t ilB next eammencaoent. The Second church, Gatvwton, expect Bro. Pean

expectine to attend the State • Ccmvention lU I the Seminaiy. Ccmgregatioiia good and the Inter-SarifaTdMwW send xbai nam® immediatdy to est increasing. Seven have been received for hap-J a a . Q . H a l l , d i a i r i n a n <rf conmuttee <rf anange-j tiam.—iiecortier. menta. Paatw A n d e r s o n at Longtown recently I MBSBOUBI.—The church at Neasho, o^oyed a lecaved three by let tn and two by experience. | predocB meeting last month. The pasAw, Q d . B.

-There are two churches in Mlad»iq;>i wlilch | j ; Downing baptized fourte«i converts. Three of

Bt-hidd a meadnt with than at the dose of hid meet-incsatliOCdaviQe, Ky. The chnrch at Corpw t l u M i is an elli»t to boild than a house td iVQiriiip. This is a town ^ thousand in-hidiltaota, and is an ^por tan t ptmt. They have no putor, but keep up a regular weekly pmytr-meeUngaiHla Sunday-aehoi^ The brethren ore frying to arrange ka six camp-meeflnK», to be hrfd by Bro. W . E . Penn, in July and AugiMt, in ItarteBon, MOam, Leon, Wiiliamson, Beii and Idunimns wwnUw, the Lwd willing. — ifciptW MtrtUd. Rev. J . P. Slma lUed hi the city of IlHltati Habbath morning, £jth, at eight o'clock. He was bom In I'lckens Dlatriet, S. C., Februray t l , IHia. When ten years of agv moved to Oeor-Sia. Convertad at eighteen. Ordained June t<>.

Settled hi Rutherford county, Tenn., isiii, nod laime to TfaUM November, 1x78. He was pit»-(ur of Mvezal ehnrcba in Temi£wee. He wad a manuf f iod . H b piety of that poaitive type that '{uaileU not at wickednen even in high places. Ha died in triumph and now resti* (him his labors. —R; W.Soijat, Dalh».

AasAWUid.—The church at Cabot L-t prospering under the piataal labors of Eld. It. J . Coleman. We n>gret to team that he mxtSexa Arum ill health at times, (kid blew this noble brother in his lubnr of love in preaching the glorloos gospel of j«U9. EU.T .B . I i ipy , editor of the llejrf-mi Baptist is pubilahing some very interesting "Wny-notes" toand from the Southern Baptist (.'mventlon. Kid. G. A. Hoflatt has been called to the laue of the Mineral Springs church for two Habbaths in the month. It seciiw that some one has confanndoi his name with one Moffltt, puN llthcd ta an impostor, but Bro. MafSitt is alto-gether a different person, as the letter of Kev. W. H. t^umpa, of CtmneUsville, i ^ , ftiUy shows, whkh k puitUsfaed in the Howard County Jele-phme. ^Thinking a few lines from this place might interest some of your readers I Knd you a few items. Atldns is a nourishing iittli> town of name eight hundred inhaUfamts, located ^ t y -thre« miles from UtUe iSock, an th- B. A F. & lailruttd. We organixed a Baptistclmrch here in HepleaiJier, KSTT, with twelve members. We iiave Iwen ftmggling a:i it were, against wind and tide, (Hit we think a brighter day Lf in the near future. .MremJy the light aecm;) to be breaking in upon the mental visionsi of the peoi^e. We are recwv-ing additions at nearly every conference meeting, We now number tweniy-ftve and others will ap-ply fur membaaliip at oar next meeting. We irnve a neat iiouae of woraiilp completed, with iKats, ^<tove, chandaiier and beii, ail in place, for which we are largely inddited to the Uberality of Bro. W«rr«i. Tlie good Lord has not bestowed lu» tavnrs upon Bro. Warren in vain. Our worthy and eificient p ^ o r , EU. J . B. Perminter is untir-ing in his efiorts to pnHnote tiie cause of the Mas-tiar. We have iiim emfdoyed for one-half his time —iuve an interesting Sabbath-echool and a week-ly prai-HT-meeting. Mr. Coriey, the Jtohodist f imut rider at this place, delivered a discouiae on Infant Baptism rwOTtly, in which he took the ^Toond that the chunji of ChriBt AIKI the chnrch hi the wild«!meB» were the same—that it was es-taliitHhfd in the &mily of Abraham when circum-c t e l u n was inst toted-that when Christ came he took this same churuh from tlie Jews and turned it over to toe GentUes-dObstituting baptism for circumcissiun, and the IxmL's supper for the feast uf the pasBova-, and in as much as the gospel em-braced inhntM unda the Abrahamie covenant, it atao eBbncBd t h a n under the covenant of grace. Qe prodnced B«ilh« precept nor example irom the Kaw Testammt in lavot of this dogma.—P. R. XJUynoUt, Pope county.

MtrnMom.—The Gulf Djaut A«i.«iation meets at amdr twro on the ISUi, inat. Ail brathren

contribute together about ooe-twdfth of ail that is | the most p r o i ^ r a i t Presbyterians in the d ty , ^ v e n in the SUte for Fweign Miadws. Why is j were of the number. We learn that Thomas "this? Wf will not mention the c h u r c h e s . — 1 Hudaoc—who was once expdled from a church (M Beeord. Dr. W. A- Montgomery, of Tm-1 in South S t Louis—is now operating in Franklin nesee has been laboring with Bro. Noffidnger's|and Jefferson counties, and has organized two church at »Iacon. Home fifteen or twenty have I gmall opposition churches. He is an alien baptism proCoBcd conv«rsion, and a number have united | advocate and schismatic.—JSoW/t //njf. Prof. with the church. Prul. J . L. Johnson, of Ox-f(»d, made the beiil Sunday-scliool speech at the Omventiun in Atlanta, that 1 ever heard. I t was lirim lull of truth, and so aup te as to be dearly | undentuud, and tughly apjiredated by both and young.—y^. C. KeUU, in licaord. Eld. W. J . David and wife leit our city last Monday night for Richmond. They will spend some time in Virjjinia with Sister David's people, perhaps, be-fore starting to Africa. Bro. David has a large number of relatives in and around Meridian, who doubtless look forward to his future usefulnees with great anxiety, among them a widowed mother with wtiom we symitathbse, knowing tliat mothers love their boys better than any one else. —AoutAern JiaptUi. L»r. J . T. Zealy of Jackson recently baptized eight deaf - mutes, pupiL< of the deaf and dumb institutiun of that city.

AIIX)IITIIA.—Then* are one thousand churches connected with the Ueorgia BapUst State Conven-tion. The Commencement exercises of the Georgia Baptist Female Seminary at (JainsvUlel will begin on the 2i>th of June. ^The General Meeting for the Third l>istrict, .Stone Mountain | Atwciation, b appointed to be held with the Bap-tist chnrch at Salem, Itockdale county, commenc-ing Friday before the fifth Sunday in June, and continuing three days. It retiuires »2i),«J0 per annum to meet the current expenses of the South-

Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville,

R, p . Rider has been elected preadtnt of Stephens Cdlege for a term of live years.

TEKKIBSEE.-Nineteen united with the chua-h at McMinnville at the close of the meotine con-ducted by Breth. Nelson and Fish. Bro. M. H. liane is conducting a suci-essful meeting at tbv Emanud Mission of the First church in Went Nashville. «iulte a number of persons have pro-fessed faith in Christ. The interest is deepening anil the congregation incruasing from night to night. Last night the house was crowiied to over-Bowlnjc.-iic/ferfo/-. Bro. 8. L. Sanford »)f Shelbyviile ba» returned from his visit to Califor-nia. ^The luibilities of the Cumberland I'rvH-

I byterian Publication Society, in this city, amount to more than tt:S,ixJi>: Uie liabilitlcM of the Methodist Publishiug House to iibout fiilD.lNNi, we believe. Th(> total liabilities of our Ba|)ti.-it Publishing House, S. C. Rogers, Business Man-ager, are about $i,r*»t.—Hetfec(or. JACKSON AND t)UR Yt)UNa M1NLSTKR8.

BAi»TIST:—Since my last, Bro. EDITOR BAi»TIST:—Since my last, Crawford our returned mb^onary to Chinu

has spent some days in this city. He gave an in-teresting lecture at the college; and on Wednesday and Thursday ulghts, spoke at the church to ap-preciative audienccs. It is uuncceasary to allude to his history and hU work: for it is weU known to the readers oi TUK BAJPTIST, parUcularly in this region, the scene ot his boyhood days. But for an nnusoally stmdy rain, he would have had an opiiortunity of addressing our people again bist night; and he might have expected a large con-gregation.

The ladies' Aid Society here gave an intertain-ment last week. It lonsisted of the cantata of

evangelist, left us yesterday, after a stay of twelve j the "Flower ifueen," wdl rendered; and refresh-days. Six persons were baptized at the dose of | ments of ice cream and cakes at remarkably rea i the meeting. It was very pleasant to me td bap-1 enable prices. I am not advised of the amount tize my own daughter, Nora. The Lord be praised. J realized, but it is somewhere near a hundred dol Bro. F. impreajed our people CavoraUy. He col-| lars, probably, if not over. This will be applietl lected for State Misdons while here, t.w.10. Pas- j to completing the church edifice, I suppoee, ta the tor Ebeltoft baptized five ladies. Bro. J . -V.j l o n g c a r d e d debt lias been removed. A new pave-Ilackett preached for us yesterday at Antiodi to | ment in front is already a sign of improvement—

em Ky., and the Board of Trustees have electcd Dr. M. B. Wharton, of this SUte, corresponding secre-tary of the board, to raise this amount. Dr. Wliarton has been acting as agent for the Semina-ry and raised Georgia's quota of the endowment ftand, m o o o .

LotisiANA.-Bro. W. C. FrUey our State

a gojxl week day audience. It is a serious loss to any one to t>e in reach of Bro. H. and not hear him preach. 1 am ^ a d you are coming to our] Convention.-6'. H'. SL, Mansfidd, May 28. -We regret to ieam that the office and effects of the Bapti^ Mfstnser, Farmerville, were recently destroyed by fire. Dr. E. T. Winkler of Marion, Ala., has received a unanimous call to the Colise-um Place church. New Orleans.

KEXTCCKV.—The General Association met at Winchester, on Jlay 23d. It represents a constitu-ency of 120,w>. Rev. Green Clay Smith was chosen moderator. The State Mission Board collected and expended f3,«33.4G. The $8,000 contributed every year to the support of the Baptist Orphans, Home in Louisville, and the thousands contributed for the current expenses of the thecdogical Semm-ary not bdng induded. The meetings conduct-ed by Bro. Penn in tliis city continue with increas-ing interest, the services being hdd for the present in Broadway chnrch. The congregations are good. Up to T n e ^ y night of this week there had been ninety-nine convosions.—Afonier. The Bap-tist church at Roseville, Haiicoi^ couifty,-will dedicate their house the tiurri Sabbath in June. A numbor of preachers will be present and take part in the exercise. The sermom will be preached by Bev. J . D. Arnold, of Owensboro. ^For sev-a a l weeks a meeting has been in progress in the Portland-avaiue church this d ty . Pastor Camp-beO hal been assisted for a part of the time by Sevs. J . P. Greene and £ . P . BdJ, the.Iatter of

it was humorously suggested by a mutual friend t h a t " we are mending our ways," and I could nut but say, " so mote it be " in that respect at least, for it was not done before it was needed. But the ladles are at work, and the Liord is giving them success. There is more to commend than to condemn in the flock at this place.

Your talk to the Sodety of Religious Inquiiy, on Saturday morning, Bro. editor, was beneficial, I think. Hope you reached home in safety, and that your famUy feel none the worse for their short sojourn in Jackson. By the way, you fd l in company, it seems, witli one of our most earn-est young men returmng to Mempliis for the sum-mer. He has the ministry in view, but not hav-ing yet applied for his license, has been paj^ng his own way, while at school, from jast savings. I allude to Bro. W. B. Lewis, ol the Central church; of whom, I hope to speak more fully ere long.

While upon tiiis subject ot young ministers, al-low me to correct my list a little. Of the fifteen reported as attending, three have not been licensed yet, and, of course, are not baiefidariea. Two are spedally provided for; two may manage to get along; two cannot continue to the dose ol the seesion without h d p ; while two were compelled to leave some w e d s since, and two are oot pursu-ing their regular studies—one devoting U s entire time to the supply ot churches and the other giv-ing his attention to teaching. Among thestudenix now In attendance, is one ordained minister from

Avkaiuas; four iioentiates from Misnssipiu, and three from Tenneaeee,

An Ut ide in the lUnUraled OiriiOan Weeklji uses this language: " I)r. M'Oosh, of Princeton, says that, if in the immediate future, no greater I«(qK»tion of young men than is the case at pres-ent enter upon the study of theology, in five years thete will be a dearth and in ten years a famine of ministen. Thwe are others in other denomina-tions who fed the same fear." These are the sentiments of a leading Presbyterian as set lorth by and midenominational paper. Are they not of sufBdent import to in^ire serious thoughts in the hearts of Baptists? I- A. U. Jackson, Tenn., June Z, 1879.

IN MEMORIAM. l y U E R E A S , In tho providcnco of God, Miss ^ Anna Belle Harvey, of Crawfordville, MLss.,

who was a Iwlovwl and hom>n*l mcmbt-r of tho Junior Class of Mary Shan' Colk^ , the school year that dtsed Juno, 1878, and who would have iHJon a raomber of tho priwent Senior tlass, if health had permitted her to return, has passed, as we fully trust and believe, to a happy and more glorious existence.

liaotred, That in the death of alias Harvey tbc College has lost ono of its brightest ornaments and truest friends, the chias of which she Iwd been a member one of its most docile, intdligent and af-fectionate students, of whom they are proud to say she was once associated with them, and one whose lovely dispoaiUon and worthy example will ever be remembered as a modd of wliat is most amiable and excdlent In youthftil womanhood.

RcKolved, That we affectionately tender to the grief-stricken Ihmily of our lamented pupil an<l clamnate, our deep sympathy with them In this severe aOllction. Jiaolcid, That the d a a of which she was for merly a member, testify their respect and affection for their departed classmate by wearing the usui»l badge of mouming for thirty days. Retolvtd, That these resolutions be forwarUwl to THE BAPTIST, at Memphis, for publication, and a copy of the Issue containing them be sent to the family of our deceased pupil and dassmatc.

Z. C. GKAVES, President. A. T. BAN»nT, Prof, of Mathematics. G. W. JouMhTO.N I'rof. of Languages. C. F. U T E R . M O E H L E N , Prof. of Music. M R S . A . C . G R A V E S , ^ l a t r o n . SENIOK CLAS.<. Laura C. Blalock,

Corndia Fletcher, Lucile A. Illges, NimnieG.Carmack, Alma Itatliff, Maggie W. Jarman, Relic B. Yunniin, Fannie JI. Sliieldj,

EXAMINATION EXERCISES. TH E examination exercises of the Mary Sharpe

Odlege, Winchester, Train., will b e ^ Mon-day, June 9th, and doae with commencement day, Wednesday, June 18. The commencement soman wiU be preached by Rev. J . F. B. Mays, D.H., of Nashville, on Sunday, June 15th. Baccalaureat address by Rev. G. W. Griflin, D. D., Professor ot li»«ic and Metaphysics in the Southwestern Bap-tist University, Jackson, Tenn.

BOARD OK E X A M I N E R S - C i E N T L E S t E - V . Jamta H. Buroum, Fayetteville; Rev. J . R.

tJraves, D. l>. LL.D., Memphis; Prof. G. W. Jar-man, Chairman of Faculty of the Southw-estem liaptist l*niversity, Jackson; Rev. J . W. Lipeey, I ^ i d e n t (iermantown Academy, Germantqwn; J . F. B. Mays, D. D., NashviUc; Ivouis .Metcalf, J . ( . Shupard, .M. !»., I'rof. .1. W. Syler, Hon. P. Tunioy, Supreme -ludgi' of tho Middle District of Tennessee, Wiuchestor; .1. 11. Phillips, Chatta-nooga; J . H.TlM.nijwon,Shelbyviile; Prof. Leslie Woggenex, Pn»i<lcnl lietlid Male College, Ra-tKll. ville, Ky.

Ml-w Hallit' Adketson, A. B., Professor in Bethd Fetsale College, Hopkinsville, Ky; Mrs. Fannie Beall Brame, A. B., IMnciiwl of Young Ladies, Seminary, Cartersville, Ga.; Miss Margaret Manh, A. .M., Winchester.

These ladies are all graduatCH of this College,and have iKJcn suct-efwful tcachers for >-oars.

I'aUons and friends of the Mar>- Sliarpe are eurnfstly Holieited to attend the annual t'.\amlna-tion e.'tenl'^w. Uy order of the Board of Itustees. •/.. C. OitAVEs, l-rcsident.

4. It adheres literally to the aacred text, neither adding, nor evading, anything of doctrinBl im-portance. It tdls in its simple way about Jesus " coming up oat (tf the water," and "PfaUip and the Eonudi going ^ w n into the water," and the jailor's " hoosdiold " all bdng ttdtevers.

5. I t is iHofiBdy miBtrated, neariyeveqr other page having some appropriate cut, and some of them very suggestive and instractive.

6. Itisdieap,CMit«ining70Qpi«eB,272illiirt»-tions, with an alphabeUoJ index, good pi^ier, and fidr binding, for tLOO. That certainly is dieqt .

There are many other things that might be said of " The Story of the Bible." I think U ought to be put into the hands of every dilid in t ^ land. It WiU be read and reread. That is a great need. The people ought to road the BiUe. ItakepteM-ure in commending this book, and hope .it will ha\-e a wide circulation among all the people.

B. B. WOXACE.

Annie Beasley, Mary L. Abercrombie, EIna lender, lizzife G. Van Hoose, Kate E. Fears, Annie S. Ray, l<la M. Beasley, Addie R. Waggener,

Minnie 'L. Campbell. Mary Sharp CoU«xe, April SI, 1879. COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES OF THE

SOUTHERN BAPTIST UNTV^ERSITY, JACKSON, TENN.

ANNUAL sermon by Rev. James Waters, Nashville, Tenn., Sunday, June 20, 1S79, at

11 a. m. Sermon before The J . ' l i . Graves Sodety of

Reiipous Inquiry, by Rev. B. R, Womack, Memphis, Tenn., Sunday, June 8, p. m.

Sub-Junior Prize Dedamation, Monday, June 30,8. p. m.

Junior Prize Dechimation, Tuesday, July 1, 8, p. m.

Annual Cdebration of the Callio|)ean ami Apol-lonion literary Sodeties, Wednesday, July 3, 8, p. m.

Alumni Address by C. A Brown, A. U., Troy, Tenn., July 3,10 a. m.

Literary Address before the University by Rev. O. C. Wheeler, San Francisco, Oil.., Thursday, July 3,11 a. m.

The examination ot the classes will commence June 23, and dose July, 2, which the friends of the tTniverdty are iviled to attend.

The Board of Trustees will meet Wednesday, July 2,1879. PROF. GEO. JARXAK. A M . , Chairman of Faculty.

A .NKW, \ AlA ABLE AND CUIi.VP WJOK. "The Story of the Bible From Genesis to Revela-

tion, Told in Simple Languajce For the \oung." This cilition of the "Bible Story" Is revised,

enlarged, newly illustrated, and is cheajt. The book Is llteraUy what Its UUe page indicates, vLt: The whole story of the Bible, in a phiin ami sim-ple, though ebasle and reverent style, from (JenesLs to Revelation, f r o m beginning tq end, in one connected account. Every paragraph, every chapter, every book is linked on to the preceoding one in that order to which u-e are accustomed in any other work. In the story begun in tienesis there Is no break from any cause till you have finished Revelation. It is the Bible in simple ver-sion, with its stories, its precepts, and its dodrines in a continuous form froa be^nning to end,8how-ing the connection and unify of the Old and New Testaments. It indudea it all: follows tho Saered Narrative in detail; adds nocomment except what is absolutely necessary to dudilate the text; and is so plain and simple that small children and uneducatctl adults will ne«l no further cspbtna-tion.

A short aceouBt of what happened to the Jews from the time when the Old Teitament ends, to the time when the New Testament b ^ n s , " in the same simple style, follows the end of the Old Tes-tament and introduces you to the story of the New Testament in the gospels. Thus, the mys-terious gap between the two is filled up, so that instead of feeUng that you are through, when you reach the end of the Old Testament, and that you have commenccd another and different book, when you begin with the New Testament, you realize that you are in the very midst of a most interesting story, and are anxious to pursue it to the end, which you do not find till you have finished the aci-ount of John in tlie Revdation. All the books of the Old Testament are harmon-ized so i» to give one continuous account of the two liingdoms of Isreal and Judah, which account b incomplete with that one given in the four gos-peK The book is very \-aluable and has many points of excellence.

1. It has the chanu of a novel. The young and the illiterate will read it with zoif. Nor will they forget it is the word of God, for its style is most reverent and solemn.

2. I t is connected and continuous, with no breaks or repetitions. I 3. I t H modernized in lorm and exprajsi'jn. It lias the appearenco of any other book, with proper diapters and paragraphs.

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OF THE BIBLE. TT is impoasible to govern the world without God. ^ He must be worse than an inSdd that ladui faith, and more than wicked that has not gratitude enough to acknowledge his <AlIgation.—Gwrs* H'asAbifftotu

Pointing to the family Bible on the stand, dur-ing his hut Olness, Andrew Jackson said to his friend," That book, sir, is the rock on whkh our BepubUc rests."

I deem the present oocasion sufiidraitly impor-tant and solemn to justify me in expressing to my fdiow-dtlzens a profound reverence for the CSiris-tian idigion, and a thorough conviction that sound morals, rdigioos Uberty, and a just sense of leUgious responsibiUty, are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness.—Ren. Harri-•on'* btaugurtd Addrtu.

A few days before his dea th ," the fuemost man of all his t i m e s " — D a n i d Webster—drew up and signed this dedaraUon of his religion fidth: " Lord, I bdieve; hdpthou mine unbelief. Philo-sophical argument, espedally that drawn from the vastnesB of the universe, in compariscm with the insignificance of this i^obe, has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that is in me,bntmy heart has always assured and reassured me that the gos-pel of Jesus Christ must be a divine ieality. T8e aermon on the Mount cannot be a merdy human jooduction. T h i s beliel enters into the very deipth of my consdence."

I account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.—>Sir Uaae Sarton.

To give a TP"" a frill knowledge of true moralit}', I should need to send him to no other book than the New TestamenL-JoAn Locke.

I know the Bible is inspired, because it finds me at greater depths of my bdng than any other book.—CWem^yc.

PEARLS. Are you in the way of temptation 7 Hasten with

ail speed out of i t ; rememlicr Abraham, David and Peter.

He that walks uprightly befwe God will walk honorary before men; and is safe in evwy piaoe and condition.

Wherever you go, endeavor to cany with you a sense of God's presence, his hoIineBB and his love; it will preserve you from a thooaandsnatea.

We are sure of ddivoance if God is our Savior; he will ddiver in six troobles, and in seven shall a o ^ touch us.

The Baptist Book Hoose, Memphis, Tenn., aa the agents for Kind Word*. Send for speeimeo copies.

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350 T H E B A P T I S T . FamUy Girde.

HOW A BOY WAS SAVED. BX XB8. A3(Sa''A. FREBI05.

« T ANE faas been mating us trooble again. I ^ diMikB to tell you, bat what can we do

with h im?" MO. Hooaton ataod by tiie gate with the tean

mcmiag down her cfaeeka, as her hnaband, after n afaaenee of a day and night, drove np to his hoaie.

"•What k It now?" he aaked, alightingtkraa his wagon and going to his wife's side with a dark, diacomaged look settling down opon his I k s .

"Oh, that poor boy has sold hia watch hU gnmdfiUher gsTO hiin,to procure one of thoau little pociust rErroiveta that are so temptingly advertised in one papeis. He got angry at hia aiaters this mocning, and pKsently hearing him say in a load voice, 'Take caze theze or Til draw my seven-duxiteroa yoal* I entered the room to find him sbmdinganoneof tlie hmndiahmg ^ loaded nvdver , and pointing at tlie girls'heads. Icom-mnnHpci him SB calmly as I could tq go to his toom, but the scaoe gave my nerves such a shock t h a t l have been in a tzemble ever since."

" H e (Aeyed yon, did he not?" " He f ^ s e d to give np the mozderous little

weapon, bat the parlor for his room, saying that he had got the best (tf ' the ^mfly now, and would brii% thsn all to tocis before h6 got through with this quarrel. I liave been momen-tarily wrpwifng that he would shoot hlmarff, or some am at the family, and have listened for the report at tlie revolver till I am qnite mmerved. I am thankfhl that yoa have come, but do not, 1 entreat yon, go near the deipenite boy until his paroxyiam of temper has had time to snh^de."

»We Shan have to aoid him to the Befocm Sdiool,» said Mr. HooBtini, dedifedly. of-fences hitherto have been grave enough to send him to a worse place. I will have lunch and then immediately start f<a M on the twelve o'dodc train. Oh it is hard, U is hnmUlatuig be-yond measure to be obliged to acknowledge to the WQdd that I have a son whose conduct is such as to faring Iilm within the statutory provisons oonceming commitments to the Reform Schocd evm."

Mr. Hooston retnmed from his moomfni emmd just in time for the six o'clock dinner, "mien he went to hia room to make his toilet his wife fol-lowed him. " What is the result of your jour-ney?** A e aaked as soon as they were alone. Her hnaband looked so distressed that she began to

^ trouble again, and what he attempted to reply it ' waa some moments befcae he conld command his

voice or words to make himself i n t d l i ^ l e . "The snpprintpndent of the school, a very pjeas-

ant agreeable man, and a nhrfatian^ to whom I had nwifidpd, some time since, my a n x l ^ in re-gard to Lane, Ustoied to this new tronhle with a grave aympothy which quite won my heart. Wha i I had finished speaking he said, ' Yra, Mr. Hooaton, yoa must hove hin: soit here now by all means. He needs the discipline of this institn-fion. Bat beTore definite anaagemoits are made, Z want to aak yoa one qaestian: yoa say he has always been a hard case to manage; that yoa hava tried every way to effect his reformation; that love, fear and force have all been employed in tba prsnises; and that yoa have tried to hire him to alter his behaviour, paying him a certain sum of money per day so long as he should com-mit no mbdeed; bat all these meosares have &iled. Now I want to know whethor yoa have tried laaying with h im?"

'No,* said I , v s y innch taken by surprise, have never thraght of that.'

'Wdl , ' sold the superintendent, 'yoa must go home and ptay with him- I don't fed as if I eoaW receive him here or have anything to do with the case snta the power of prayer at at hia home and that in his presoice has been tried.'

' l eaaao t joay b^cae my fiunily,* I said. •What! yoa a chnrdi member, and do not have fiuaflyprayaa?'he replied.

* No, dr , ' was my answer, very deeply hamill-ated by the confession.

* Go home and set up a family altar to night, he said.

" I cannot,' I pleaded. : I luive net the courage to broach the matter, evoi to my wife. We never speak apon npon the subject of religion.'

' I t is htet* time yoa take ap this cross, if a cross it is , 'he urged. ' How can yoa expect that son to sobmit to ytMirs when yoa do not submit your will to the Master? To-night, at nine o'clodc, call your fiunily together, read a chapter of the wcad of God, and lead in the prayer. At that time my wife and I will go into oar dotets and loay for yoa all, especially for Lane. Let us now take ttie Lord Jesus Christ into our council.'

" I came away upon tiiat. But what am I go-ingtodoaboot it? I don't know. I can aever {Hsy aloud in the presence of my family."

" Dear husband," said Mrs. Houston, sobbing, " I tiave been thinking for a long time that we were shirking our duty in this direction. Do not have any more misgivinss about it; do not hesi-tate another moment I will arrange e v ^ t h i n g —never fear. The Lord will pardon us,let us hope, and give us strength when the hour arrives.

" Has Lane been down stairs since? " asked the COher, himself moved to tears.

" I fo , he has had notiiing to eat, and no one has spoken to him since breakfast," replied the mother.

" What if Jie should start to go down town to spend the evening? "

" I have a plan which I think will keep him home to-ni£^t."

On his way down stairs Mr. Houston went to his son's door and called in a pleasant voice, " C(une, my son, dinner is waiting." Lane quick ly opened the door, with his hair freshly brnshed and neatly attired. He had dressed for dinner, aithongh expecting should he try the door, to find it still locked npon the oat outside, and not doubt-ing that he was to be again put upon a protracted diet of bread and water.

He (suae down staiis wondering on the way was it possible that his fatner in this controversy had espoused his cause against his mother; or whether, as seecied most likdy to him, the possession of the vicious little firearm had not indeed brought them all to "terms.'

Lane was given to stealing out of the house evenings, and frequenting unquestionable resorts in company of boys who were neariy as wayward as himsdf; but to night Mis. Houston forestalled any such course by saying as soon as dinner was over," I wish, children, you would make two or three pansful of pop-corn balls, to carry to the charity festival to-morrow. The matoials are all ready, and Lane you must superintend the pop-ping of the com and the preparation of the mo-lasses and sugar."

Tliis was one of the lad's favorite pastimes, and he went about the business in hand with alacrity, his brothers and ^s tos obeying his many orders, glad to have this new outbreak blow over without developing into a regular warfare between him and his Mher.

When eight and lialf o'clock came, Mrs. Hous-ton was called into the kitchen to see the result of the evening's labors.

"Thank yon, good children," said she. " They are as nice and white and shapely as any that could be made by the confectioners themselves. Now wash up so as to be in the parior when the dock stirkes nine, there is something else pleasant for you."

The young people obeyed, wonderihg and eager, At nine o'clock precisely their mother folded up the day's newspapers, put them in the waU-pock et, tmd brought a large Bible and put it upon the reading table.

Mr. Houston's voice trembled a little as he said " I t has been brought very forcible to my mind t»day, that I have been sbamefiilly neglecting my duty and the highest of you, my chlldrCT In not jcdnlng with yoo In the s t i ^ of this blened Word and In fiunily prayer. To-night we win begin a different coaise, and whether we shall not an be made happier and bet ta following it ." He now read a chapter tmd then knelt down

His wife and children followed his example, all e x c ^ Lane. Heaat bolt with a aiieni, pale &u», and perturbed air, now and then casting quick Ranees towards the docv as if meditattng and escape.

The poor father at first could find no words to exjoesB his conflcting thoughts and deep pray»-fal deaireB, but as he called to mind hia frimds, the raperintaident and his wife, rai their knees in inayer for him, at that momoit, his stammering tongue was unloosed, and his unburdened aoul found a wonderM freedom at the throne of grace. As the now wrestling Jacob was dosing a pathetic and tender appeal in behalf of his erring son, and that aU might submit their r^idlious wills to Christ's loving sovereignty, Lane arose from his ciiair, crossed the room, and Imeeling by his father's »de, threw his arm around his neck, sob-bing, " Pray on, fiUher! pray on! I have tried to askGod to deanse my wicked heart, but I could not get to him at all by mysdf; I know he will hear me, when you are willing to pray with me,"

The whole family rose from their knees with mdted hearts and tearful fiuss. It came out that the two eldest daughters had been in the habit of praying in secret, and they declared this to be the hswiest hour of their lives.

Lane was completely subdued. The leaven of repoitance and faith toward God had worked en-tire reformation and healing. He stepped up to the table and laid the loaded revdver upon it near his lather's side. " I t is I who have been brought to terms," he said. " I don't think you will have any more trouble with Lane. Forgive, oh forgive me, my father and mother, and brothers and sisters, as I hope in the forgive-ness of Jesus Christ."

This actual occurrence rdated at a County Conference ot Ministers in the State of Connectti-cut last Autumn, and I heard it from the lips of one of the pastors then present, on my vacation in the neighborhood of his parish. Is there need of any conunent, or wasteful rhetoric in addition?— Bapiiti nwjay.

CUBE FOR DOMESTIC UNHAPPINBSS. THK law of love was given as a prindple and a

spirit which should rule the Christian's life and the righteousness of the Christiaa is to be measured by the fidelity with which he adheres to this supreme stand. In this new dispensation a breach of the law of love is sin equaUy with the violation of the letter of the Jewish law. Apfriy this prindple to the home life of the Cliristlan, and you at once touch the root of the difficulty in domestic infdidty. The husband or the wife who continually commits acts of discourtesy in the privacy of the home drde, or indulges teibituaily in cross words, or who persists in thoughtlessness or neglect, is guilty of sin equally with one who breaks the Sibbath, and perhaps in the eye of God has committed the deeper wrong. Certainly such a one is not living the Christian life, since their life is not animated by the spirit of Christ. For " the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, long suf» fering, gentleness, goodness, fkith, meekness, temperance; against which there is no law." Let these blesed qualities be enshrined in the home life and domestic infdidty will be cured. Let each party be eager in the pursuit of happiness ot the other, and individual grievances, trials and vexations will be forgotten In the ardor of the new devotion, provided that the whole soul be concentrated in the accomplishment of the single purpose at whatever cost, and that eflScjent aid be sought from the God of Love. Failure in this work is a failure in the Christian life, and should be recognized while success is worth more than all the mere professions in the world.—.^^Ztdnce.

CHOICE SELECTIONS. The way to be righted yourself, is to be careful

not to wrong others. If the eye of thy firith is fixed upon God's Christ,

the eye of his love Is fixed upon thy person. God only carries his people when they cannot

walk; he pities our weakness, but not oor sloth. There is only one place where God's justice can-

not reach us, and that is In God's Arte, Christ Jesns.

' T S E B j ^ J E > n B T . 351 80irrH£BII SEWS ITEMS.

A t k n U h a i a c o t t o n e x d u u i g e . W h e a t i« i m p r o T i D e i n p o r t i o n s ^of

and North Caro l Jnt . The varioui towns io Weat TeooeHee an organUng boards of hesltli. Louisvilie, Jcffenon onunty, GFT., is bonding a railroad to the onUide worid. Becent ovet flows damavrd the Texis and N«w Oriaaos railroad >100,OOa T h e n e x f r a e r i M o f G e o r p a f o u r p e r cent, bonds will be issued in 1880, to the amonstot $300,000. Seven yean ago d u u were planted in tha Onaebita river, near Hot Sprinsi, and now tha river b swarming with them. On account o( the tax imposed upon them, the PuUman car coipan; threaten to withdraw all their property from Texas. Texas owes $7,000,000. The legiala-tore is to meet In extra cenion Jiuie 10 to wratle with the debt and school .^aestion. F. F. Hopp will surrey the 3,060,000 aerea of land set apart to bolld the state eapitol in Texas, and receive therefor $6,000 Judge Eve, of Aapusta, without fear or favor, fines everybodv $t00 who is brcnrht before Mm charged with carrying concealed weapona. Cotton in roulhwest Geo^ia is nnail, but is rapidly cominR ont nnder the inflaecce of the warn weather. The nniU grain crops are good. The drummers traveling ia Texas propose to hsTe a conventioa and orgacize to figbt the tax levied on them by the re>> cent tax bill. A Texas p« per eays: The demand for BsdstoDes is nich, since the tegisUt ire re-pealed the dog law, that $500 U offered for one of nnqantioned virtue in Gaiuesrille. The Swiss colony on the Cnmberlacd river. In East Tennessee, numbers 500 per-sons, and II i« very prosperous. They are mostly in frait^uHure end wine> The latest evidence ot patriotism is aflbrded by a Georpa einigrant in Texs-i. who left seven dollirs »nd a halt in his wilJ to pay for the publication cf his obitcary in a Geori^ newspaper. The Foit Worth Democrat rays that np to date there has been a total ot 33,730 head of cattle reported at Fort Worth, and have croased the Trinity, goinc north M Kansas u d Wyoming. There has not been a bill of indict-ment found against a citizen, nor has there been a man arrested, e j sn;^ with an ofi fence against the state, in Holly township, Pender county, N. C., since the war. T h e A u g u s t a K e v r s s a y s t i i e r e Is a n old grey mule in Macon wiilch acted in the capacity of a shirting engine on the Mcnrce railroad abont fcrty yean ago. The aniniel is now forty-seven years of sge,and is doiajr «ood servicc at the central depot in pnUing a damp<eart. A Boaton emi|fration company, headed by a nnmber of leadicg citinns, has pur-chased 60.000 aerea of land in Tennessee, on the Cineinnsti Sontfaem lailroad, forty miles from the Kentocky line, and will lay out a city and populate it and ntrroundings «ith Massachusetts colonisation. Sherman (Texa») Courier: Mr. T. G. Dunbar, late of Kentucky, but now a tens aat oa the farm of T. R Newell, six miles north of Sherman, has 18 acres of corn that he plowed throuch {our times and laid it by. A larga portion of it is np to a man's ahonl-der. and it looki black and thrifty. The com fields of the county will not averan a growth of inopc than IS inches. This' field wu planted the last week in Febrtury, and the result sht ws what early planting and good farming will do.

FOREIOK. In 1880 the Belgians intend to cele> brate, with all becoming pomp and ceres mony, the fiftieth anniversary of the exists enee of Belgium as as independent king dom. In Tyrol, at the p r c M n t day, be-trothed swaina are expected (o carry a rose dnrinr the period of their betr.-th.«i a warning to young maidens of their eaeaced state. A London newspaper f a r n i s h e s t h e enriona and surprising statement that 1,8^ ont of 6~m shares in a new brewery com-pany in ShefiSeld are held by English clergy men. Ths Cremation mdety of England, a toiet stoek aflUr, has leeeived a deck. Baeratarr CroM, of the hone ofBee, recently aaaooneed, ia tha house of eonmona, that fa* will Bot sntedoii the proeeedian of Oie eoopany until they are approved by parlia-ment. English medieal and legal drdea object to erwMtioii beeanae it destnyi evK desM at the aaase of dMih.

A good m a n y ^ p l a a r e indined to i r t t l o t h e queetion of pablio a m n s « -a e n f a b y a o o w a i d l y o o m p c o m i a e with c o n a n e n e e . T h e y w i s h to b e o o n a i d -a r e d o i ^ > o s e n t i o f t h e a t z i o a l e x h i b i -t i o a % a ^ K> t h e y d r a i r t h e l i n e i n f a v o r o f m i n s t r e l u t o w a , i r i m e , m o a t l i k e l y , a c o m p a n y o t v n l ^ o o m e d i a n a r e t a i l a l l t h e q n e a t a o n a H e j e s t s o f t h a • e a s o n . O r , a g a i n , t h e y c o n s i d e r t h e i r p l e d ^ a s c h i m s h - m e m b e t s v i o l a t e d a v i s i t to a d r e s s , b a t d e e m o p e i a - g o i n g a n i n n o c e n t a n d c o m m e n d a b l e p r a c t i c e . N o w , w h a t e v e r p o s i t i o n faetakmoon-wBTniTig d a y - h o o s e s , i t i s p l o i n f y t h a O h r i s t i a n V d a f y to l o o k s h a r p l y a t t h e m o r a l q n a l i t j o f t h e a v e r a g e o p e r a . O n e o f t h e m o s t f a m o o s o f m o d e m o p e r a s i a d e v o t e d to t h e e x p l o i t s o f a

o f t h e w o r s t d i s s . L a s t w e e k 3,000 F h i l a d d p h i p s c r o w d e d t h e A c a d e m y o f H n a i o to l i s t e n to t h e first r e d t a l o f t h e a t o i y o f a n o t h e r w o m a n o f t h e s a m e s o r t . I s a t a l e o f v i c e h o t t h e l e s s d a n g e r o n s w h e n s u r x o o n d e d b y aQ t h e a U u e m e n t s o f t h e m i ; s i c a l a r t ? P l a i n l y , t h e r e i s a g r o s s i n c o n s i s t e n c y i n t h a t c h o i c e w h i c h r e j e c t s t h e t h e a t e r m e r d y b e e a n s e i t i s a p l a y - h o a a e , a n d a c c e p t s a k w d o p e r a b e c a o s e i t ia a m u -s i c s l p e r f o r m a n c e . I t i s u s e l e s s to b m -i s h t n e c o r r u p t d d T^ngii^b drffTTTftti*tf f r o m ozir l i b r a r i e s go l o n g a s t h e m u s i o o f e q u i t y c o r r u p t m o d e m I t a l i a n c o m -l » a e i a l i e s o n t h e p i a n o . I t i s n o t j e t t i m e to f o r g e t t h e g o o d r r i t m p l f t o t t h a t A m e r i c a n s i n g e r w h o r e f u s e d , a f e w y e a r s a g o , t o e n a c t t h e p a r t o f a n a b a n -d o n e d c h a r a c t e r , a n d l o s t h e r p r o f e s -• k m a l e n g a g e m e n t i n o o n ^ e q n e n c e . — Sunday-School Times.

\ ;pw wcf . i i teo ' c? hundfci farms, eotapriwDi; s tw-'ftfi j a-t of Wsnrukihire, Ecjlsnl, -irere aiivetu-tj? U) 'et.

FAllM AND HOME. IVIiKt a 5V-ru* rmnncfm. At a rfcpot isc'ting of fnn Ma^sadiu* «€lt-< hoard of acricnUaf. Jn.lte Bennet st'itfii in na .-ijjraK wlia.»(3ec<l o: a (a.-r> iLCiudt-!.: O" CJU-:-c, hf t&ii, tvery t ut- ir.ows it ooDveya all the fccc^s (tending on the rar.n. bat aU mi^bt la-t, thirik it also in-duded the .'encing stuff, r-'jas, rails,etc., which had ones h^n u«d 00 the fence, bat had been tatcn down sji l i41ed op for iuturo use ai^ia in the siime i-lace. But new fencini; material just bmnght ant} ne7e.- attached to the Kvi! would not

pas3 . S) pi es of horv stirod away. ii once uspvl on the Ucd, hivti been ocsid-er«l » part of it.; but kxiw boards or puicx laid Icxwely across the beams r.f the bam and rever fastened to it would not be, and the seller o: the fana mi^ht take them awsy. Stinding trw^ of conrje, alsi pass as part ot the land; so do treea blown or cut down and still left in the woods where they fell, but not if cut or corded np for rale; tl^ wood has then become persosal property. I < there te any manure in f e barn-yard, or iu a compost heap on the field ready for immediate use. the hnye' or-dinsrily taxes that aiso as belor.eing to the <arm ; though it might not te bo it the owner had preyiouslT told it to some other paitT, and cnllcct^d it trgether in a heap by itself. Growing crops also pass by a deed > a (ann unless they are expresaly re^'Ted, cad when it is" not intradcd to convey those, it should be so stated in Um deed itself; a mere oral a^?meat to that effect would not be Taiid in law. Ancithcr mode is to stipulate that pcwesion is not to be given" until Mwae future day, ia which cate the crops or munie may ba removed before that Ufflfe. As to the buiidiiif^ on the farm, though ^ecerally mfatiVired in the d'pd, St is Bct Hbjolntely nece.«jary that tbi-y shnuld lie A di ed of Ijind ordinarily carries all the baiMlnw to thp grantor, whetter meotior>c<l or not; arwl tbis ruleiudadfa the lum'^tr aad timber of any nli builds iDg wLicfc lias beeo taken down or blown down, acd has been packed away for fnturfc use oa the tiua. But if there be any buildings on the farm built by scoie third with the fanaer** leaTe, the deed wonld net onoTey tbfn>>, iiisce sndi bnildim an

penonal property, and do not bdnas to the land owner to c o n ^ .

The real owner thereof B%ht moTe them oK althon^ the paicbaaer ot te tarmsnnpoMd he was buying and paying for ail 'the building! on it. Hia only remedy in such caae woold be against the party edKcg the premises.

As part of the bnildlBgi conveyed, of caonie. the window blinds are indnded, even it they be at tlie iSune time taken off and carried to a painter'a shop to be painted. It would be othenriae it they ^ been newly purchased and brought into the haose, bnt not yet attached or fitted to it.

Lightning rods also j;o with the house, if a £rcier ia foc>lish enough to bare any on his hooap. A lumace in the cellar, brick or port« able, is CGnoider?d a part of the house, but an or«iinary store with a locae jiipe ronnicg lu'.o the chimney is aot.

Koajc aoaiTM. To B l e a c h C lothxs.—In the spring,

clothes cau be bleached by pattii^ sfic centr' worth of oxalic acid into a i^lon uf boiling water, and pouring over ^era. Siir them up and let them remain in it till Ui water is cold, and then lay cnzt on toe ;;raMi to bleach They will soon he white as snow.

To W a s h S j l k . — a i l k will wash as fo'ilowf: M * quarter of a pi Bsd of hoofy, Quaiier cf a pnund of soft soatt, and a ^i'.l .- f gts ; l a y each breadth of silk ou a wi>jdtn ub1e,'scrub it weU with a brush a n d this mixture; then dip it succea&irtiy ia two paila of soft water; do not wring it bnt hung it thos to dry, and iron beiweea paper when sufficiently dry.

A p p l ? : - — To one quart of meal put one pint of ripi chopped apples, one egg, a small piece of batter, a little salt, and Iresh water eneugh to form a itiffdough The apples shoakl,oTconne, be peeleS I minad very fifc. Some [tersons like a iittio st^ar in the d<Migh, but it is senctally preferred without His ia a faTorite with children.

Leuon STicp.—The lemcm symp bDUghl at stores caa be made at home mu& chea;«r. Take a potjid of Ha-Ttna sugar, boil it In inter down to r. quart, drop in the white of an egK to darify it, .f,train it, add one-quarter of an ounce of tartaric or dtric acid. If von do not find it sour enough after it has stood twa or three days, add more of the acid. A lew drofd of oil of lemcn mpcores iu

trOTT S o a p . — T h r e e - q u a r t e i a of a pound of washing soda and a pound of brown (osp cut in small pieces;: put them in a isrce stone jar on the bkct nf the range, when the rsn^e ia not very hot, and pour over it a pailful of cold water: »tir it once in a while, and after some hours, when thorou^Aly diaolTed, ret it aray to cnol. It forms a jnrt of ielir, Kud is excellent to remove pette cn fljors or ddves.

S t a b c r f o e F n f B M u b u s e . — A bo1o> tion of gum aiabic in water makes a nice starch far Iswsi and thin muslin, giving them a new appearance. DOute the dissolved cnm until you find by experi-ment that you hare it just l idt . It tskpj but a minute to mb a doUi in it, slightly dry and iroa it, to test the ft;ength ot the gnm water. Lawns renewed la thia «ay. after washing, not only look ks though iast made, up, but retain their good appearance vocderfuliy welL

Skow CcBtAKD. —Beat eight leaving out the whites of four; them to osa quart of mUk and five ouDcet of oigar: 'haxe a dialkiw pan ot hot water in the o t c b , tet the diah in .o it, a:;d bake tni the custard i» thick; then take it ont and set it away to cool; bf>at the remdaiog whitn Tcrj H ^ t ; add a half-pound of mgar fi;tad(ially and a tcaspoonfnl of lemoo juice. When he costard ia cdd, lay the whites OTcr

t^e top in heaps, but do iwt let them londi.

B^AKiirs—Four ounces ot grated chnpse, t«o ounces of butterj two oonoes n' b r c ^ (wi'Jiont crust), half a ^ H milk, rrne third of a teaspooofol of salt tnd mnstud. a pinch of cayence pepper, two epg«. Crumb the bread and bdi soft in the mOk: add the imtter, the e ^ ; beat thoroughly, tbeu stir In the iSites ot the egga, whiaked tn a stiff froth; pour in a »oap plate or in ooall •qnrei of atttt white paper ptodied at

t h e and baks fiftaea Binntaa. A d e l ^ U ^ d i r i i for t a a .

T o B o n . O B i o m . — I b e n k a g n a t d e a l o f p m d j a d i e e agtimb Mt matt • r h d e n a i e o l a U T C g a t a h i e a . l a k a te' q n a r t a o f o n i o c a , p ^ t h e a s c a n t e q f ; w a a h a n d p n t i n t w o q n a r t a o f i — w h e n i t h a a b d l e d u p t w k e ' w a t e r , a n d r e p l a c e w i t h q n a n t i t r o f boiliiif; w a t ^ a d d t s p o o n f n l a o f a d t , a n d b o u a g a l a 1 nninn^ ( r B t e n d e r ; t h e l e n g t h o n i m a r e q u i r e t o cook d e p e n d i n p o a - i c o n d i t i o B o f thaonha; i( in a a a u ^ w h e n f r e s h t h e y t a k e b o o t OTIFI h a l f to t h r e e - f o u r t h s o f a n hoar ; in wintar b o m o n e t o o n e a n d a h a l f h o m ; w h e n boQs i n g ia fiuiahed, p a t i n a e a i a a d a r , a n d a l l o w t o d r a i n t h o n w ^ y : for t h e M o c e t a k e a t a b t e q n o n f i i l o f i l o a r , a t ab iw« s p o o n f u l e f b a t t n a n d m i x t h e a i t h o r * o n g h l y , b e a t i n g t h e m t o a c n a m ; a e a i t -spotm o f s d t , h a l f of v r h i t e a rat

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W W Uarlg, Louiidaiui-We will spena a «e«k in Baton Rouge If tlie " expenses " i-an be met by the brethren A boat will give half bre. Would we could come without prl<-e.

Wm Alllaou—Will you Jast iiuote one of tluwe very many iMLssages teui-bliii; that IThrist prepared a place l«»r his people uelore tbe foundattou uf the world—Just one :iu>l that maj- settle the iiuestion 7

W M McKnit ht, Kast TeunesM-,— Then " Ekl M was in East Tenacssee, safe fTimi the fever, while it was raglug in Chattanooga." Well, preaching Is one thing and pnictice an-other. Let it pasa, till be has luoiv to say.

s V Brown, Uampton, Ark—Vou can write to Bro R a Craig fi>r all Uie tacts con-renilng the Southern baptist I'ubUcatinn Society. He was made Kec-iver or Trustee lor all Ute stockholders.

W A JarreU, IllinoLs-Yes we would like much to see your artii-les on IVtlviuism, tUough for ki/per Calvinism we have no iis«-. Mr B cannot divert us inl.i the defence of Calvlnisin in disproving llestorationUiu. \Vc bave returned article on iuter-Communlnii' with reasons.

RE M, Mississippi-We like the outline well; Itlsstrong —biitaiid, he did not c<'in-raand the church to convert all men of all nations but to preach the gospel lo all n.t-tlons •• fbr a witness," and here tbe resionsi-hllity of the ebun-b ceases, and then sh.-Ul tin-end come; and we would have you urge that DO other organixatiou save tiie church has any authority to preach the giwpel at home or abrukl. See Actsi; •'Ye {the disciples un that mount) shall be wUness.>s unto m.-."elc.

In noway has the eiliicatioii or thepubiicso limgressed as In the apprt>ciatui!i tif artistki fui ai'-rv. Superiority in thi.v, unite<l with Splendi<l appointments ami ail the modem convenienees nf hotel life, have kept the .St SlclioUw," Of Kew York, In all its ol.l a.--knowledged supremacy. Tlie list of guests (Tom week to week include the Iwst known names of the counlrj- In wealth, KO< lal rank, .•4c. Country merchants also fln<l this hotel Uie most convenient ami desiralile lu (loint of location, price, accommodatiou-s, etc.

Special Notices. We call the attention of our rt.>aders to I he

advertisement ot the Itocliester I>sd in an. ol her columu. Tlie cure of dlseaM* by also >rp-Uon Is now an established bet. Dr. Hou ard Ford, manager of the Rochester I*ad Co, Ls a regnUtr graduate of medicine, and the son of KevSU Ford, of St Louis, who Is known to most of our readers. The Doctor (the Rever-end) has worn one himself, and endorses them highly. Every person living >u a ma-larious country Khoultl wear one nf the Ihuls, as a protection against chllLs and fever and malarhias dLseovs. |.V>r sale by all flr-t - lass ilrugglstM, an<l to the trade by G W Jones .t <v. and W N Wllkcrsnn « Co. Memphis. Tenn. HaU'a VrgelableMrlllan Hair Kenew er l« a sclentiOc eoiublnatlon of some of l be inoiit powerful rcKtorallves In the vet etable klugdom. It restor.'s gray hair to Iw orig-inal color. It makes the scalp white and clean. It cunvi dandruir and humors, and •idling onl of the hair. It furnishes the nu-trient principle by which the hair is nour-ished and supported. It makes the hair moist, mfl, glomy, and Is unsurpassed on a hair dresalng. It Is the most economical preparation ever olTered to the publl<-, as its effects remain a long rime, mak Ini; only an occaalonal application necessary. ItLsrec-ommri»led and usejl by eminent meillcal men, and oncially endorsasl by the Stale .\ssayernr Mamchusettv

F»llSvi.lC BY AI.I. DKALRKS. XI 10

Halleabers^ Haale Hoasr. IIU BoIIenbnrgoftheUreatSouthwestern

Mualc House deslrea to inform ills friends and patrons tn Miaslmlppi, Alabama, Arkan-sas and West Tenneasee, that his store is re-ojiened with a fresh and splendid assort-ment of planoa and organs of the moat re-nowned makrrs, such as Clilekering and Welnway, Maaon and Hamlin, SnrdetUNew h:ogland, and la ready lo Ail all orders in the mualc line with hlicDStomary promptnem uaMUatteUon.

What a truly beantiftal world we live tu! Nature givea uf grandeor of moontalno, gleits and ooean.v and tbouaanda of means fbr eu-iovmenu Wecandeaire do better when in pofMst health; bnt ho w often do the mJ iorlty of peopie leel like giving It np disheartened, diacoiiraged and worried out with diaeace, when there ia no oceaaioB Ibr this leellng, as every snfKrer can eaail}* obtain satlsfartory proof that Green's .\ngust Flower will make them aa f ^ fkum disease as when bom. Dys-pepsia and Liver Oamplalnt is the direct canseofseveuty-llvepercenu of such mala-dies as Cllloaaness, IndigesUon. Sick Head-ache, OostiveneMi, Nervous Prostration. Dli-zineffi of the Head, Palpitation of the Heart, and other distres:,ing symptoms. Three doses of .Vugu.st Hower will provr Its wonderful effet t. Sample bottles, 10 cents. Try It. Sold at wholesale by N W Wilkeison t tt), U w Junes A Co, S .VansHeld A Co, Memphis, Teuu. xi»x»aieow

Pwrfael-Book Lost. 11 was in the lowu of B.. and Mr.S. bail Just conrtuded some pun-bases, when he luade the startling dl»»vcry that hU pockct-lMok was lost, while acarvniag he found a buck-eye. and said—'•Gentletnen. my pocket-book Ls loM, but there has been something dl-scov-

cases, • according tn directions. Try If I rii-e SO

• by S. W. Wilkerson cents a bottle. For sale I A Co., Memphi-sTenn. xi T xll 7 eow.

The Mexican OoUar. What Ls tlie dlOerenct between the Mexcau dolhu-andTabler's Buckeye llle Ointment? One U«>c« what it pr«>m!»«i and the other does'ni:. The Mexican dollar says. •* 1 am one huiMlr««l cents;" bnt when you tsiivie to In-

vest it rou flntl it Ls imly elghty-flve. Tabler's Buckeye llle Olutment iwj-s " 1 will cure you of I1ie> ; " and upon trial It Is touml t«> do so in every case. It makes but one promise — to cure Piles; and does so wltbont talluie. I'ri.-e SO cents a bottle. Fia- sale b\ N. W. Wllker»iu Jt Co, MeinphLs Tenu. xl 7 xii ; eow.

R l B l i r S S f L f f l S l>r Barker of the Brighton Hospital fbr ITilI-ilren, (Kne.) Ka>-s It resembles mother's milk HO closelv tiiat Inlant. are reared and well resir.-d exclusively ujKjn it.

«'aa*amptioa <'ared. .\n old physician, retinsl from practice, having liad placed In his hands by an East India mlHiloiiary the fonnula of a simple vegptabletemedy,for the speedy and perma* nent cure lor consumption, broncbitls, catarrh, nsthma, and ail throat and long alTecMoas also a positive and radical cnre for nervntLs debility and nil nerrous com-plaints. After -baving tested lU wonderful curative powers in thonsands of esses, has trlt It his dutjr to n.ake it known to hLs sudtrtng fellows. Actuated by thin motive, and a desire tc relieve htuuan suffering, I will send, tree of charge, lo all who may de-sire it, this recipe, with full dlreeUons Ibr

stamp, naming this paper, W. W. 119 Powers' Block, Rocbester, N. Y. Xxiazxua

Order Department. JAN. 8. SLlHArrr. Ordrr>Clerk. Tlic Lung and Body Brace.

THE BBACE BT XAIL.-Ti> enable us to send tbe Brace by mail, we have had a descriptive circular printed, giving mil directions for putting on and wearing; alto how to put lOKetlier, as we have to lake It niwrt wiien sent by mail lo avoid breaking By this meau'i, thos.- who live at a distance from an Express Office, can have tliem sent to their IVwIofflcc. A circular will U- sent to anyoue sending us postal card.

Trstlmoay for the Body Brace. The very best is that we have been arJImg

tbem In Increased numbers for more than twenty years |Hist,an<l when one is used In a nelgbliorhood. and the results are mule known, large nnml>ers buy them.

Mm E F. Westhrook of W.>«t Point, Mlsa., writes tis that she has sold twenty-seven In her neighborhood, and ibur others by her recommendation, and tn the communica-tion orders another for a lady friend. They all givi! the greatest satistaction.

1) T r.spey ot Georgia, writes: -1 liave been using the Brace sinco July, ISTit, and find It all It Is recommended to be. To me It Is In-valuable, and every minister should pr«)enre and use one."

Bro, Graves: The Lung and Body Brace which I ordered from yon was received on the 2Btb of March last. I have DMd II about thirty days. Now, as an honest man, for the beneHU that I think that I have alrmdy re-ceived, I would not be withont the Brace yon sent me, and the privilege of duplicating, Ibr tbe best horse In Hpartanburx conDty. I would cheermlly rvcommeod oU penons suf-fering SMI have been with weaknea of the hips and back, and with a dull heavy feellDg around the abdomen, to srcnre a Brace at ooce and be rellered. 8.8. ROBUCK.

Bpananbanc, do., H. c.

In 18731 bongbt a Bnoe for mj neph-ew, James T. Ffiler, wlw had been pro-DOUDced in the last atan of oommnptioa by the ven best {Ajacttu ia Che oonn-.tiT. I difleied fivm them, fcoomniend-ed him to get the Lum Btaoe and he would pet well. I bon^t it for h i^ and he u now a i«bait min.ahlit to railii ordoanywoi^ I write thi^

TeaUaway of a Eawrer. 1 have worn the Lnng and Body Bnee sent me since the Uth of Jnly, UB7, and delayed writing you ontll I had given It •thotoogh trial. It now allbrds me great pleaanre to say that 1 have derived much benefit ttom the use of the Brare, In the way of Increasing the tone and strength of my voice, aa well aa the strengthening of the entire nervous pCrm. 1 can cheertDUy recommend It to Uiose who are snlltarii» aa 1 waa.

J. wTcaktwbight. Palestine. AudeiM>n Oo. Tezaa, Sept. IS. 77.

sys: all!

Cure by Absorption. ICocliestei .Vbaorblng Remedies, an Improved

Fever and Ague and Lirer

-Vbraria; Cukko. .\bs*qitiM Pk'arri .VND

Su Salt br iW-Baik

Tbe following are some of the diseaisea that these remedies will cure:

Fever and Ague, Bilious Disorders, Liver Oomplaint, Intermittent Fever. Periodical Hesdarhe, Dyspepsia, Ague cake. Dnmb Agn^ Bilious Fever, Itlarrhea. t tarrh. Kid-ney Troubles, Jaundice. Irregnlar Action of the Heart, Neuralgia, Rhenmatlsnr all kinds Female W eakneasea, tUck Heada e, I.nm-bsgo »laUcaJ4assltnde. BUlous Colic, Pain In the Side. Back. Sttmacb,Shonldersaad Muscles. And all Diseases arising from Korpid end t>iseaaed Action of tbe Stonwh. Liver or Internal organs. Prices as fbUows: InfanU' Cushion, flJ«): Mediimi size. <1.50; Special, C; Hpieen-and Liver Cushion, t; Plasters tor Body. We: Plasters far Feet, toe per pair; Hea Saltlbr Font-baths, 35c per package. P member, mlUtohs of honest poraont tes-tify to the cures of Absorption Remedies.

not hesitate to use a cure at once safe, siwedy, sure and cheap. M-None Kenntne but tbe above. For sale by dmgglstK every-where. Ask tor tliem. Take no other.

For Sale b^U _W Jonn A Co., and X W Wllketwmft phl»,Te»n.

, Wholmale Drnggists, Mem-

•lOWARU FORD. M.D., General Xaamicer for Hoatbera Niatea.

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Family Knitting Machine.

WIU Kail ae.>— tltoBoa ia a Blaato. Simple, Durable, Cheap! Win last a Ltf time!

This Machine is now attracllng onlvenal attentlna by Ita astonishing pel tot uumcea and Ibi great practleal -nine Ibr every day family nae. It knit every Toilatp of plain or Buicy work

Wltk alaaoo* Koctcal Bmo*. and givea perfect shape and Onlah to all gar* menta. It w(U knit a |ialr of aocka tn flftetn mlnntea! Every machine wamateB par-feet, ami to do Juat what la ri priaantiiil

A complete Imitmetloa bocA accompaoloi eadi machine. Mo. 1 ramlly Xachlna,-! cyUodar.n d«»-

dla No. 3 B»ehlna,SeyUBdar, 71 aad

Jth was asked bow it was he seemed to be always welL "1 am not particular la my meals: I eat what I like. and whenever I fael under the weather, i resort lo my TorraatVi MeKan-s Aperlcat.

wuicb 1 keep always In the boose." wise man. and economical aa welL Be does not rcaort to vldent meanator relief. He laea Katore remedy, in the shajie of thu aperlenl.

SOLD BY ALL DRDOalSIH.

OPIUM XorpUaeBabil «!) Bdx/s. No ML J. .'Bis la till I l-tb ^ AxUlflK

For nmber partlciilar.-addrsa BIcklbrtf KallU^ •achtM Va. AcaMjr. Maa-phls,Teen.

PleaaaatateroaiawadTMttaeiBeatIa thB paper.

No Cure, No Pay. Knowing that there are mnlUtodea tn dif-ferent portiona at our land who are anller

with that terrible dlaease called aravel.1 to be alleviated from offlpr my S has tjeeu transmitted to me thronch our anceatry ot over a hundred years- It baa never fidled

baving mm tortnnes to be allevlati it and fkUed, I, aa a wcialist. ol acrvlcea to the pnbUc. Thlk remedy I I never In astnglc Instance. We have cored soliieeu who luvc come to our treatment from dis-tances of hiUKireds at miles, being Oulnna nf the most sklllfbl physicians. i%yalelaBB have sought to obtain it by o&bnngdtflbreut SODSS. One offfered a tbonaoBd dollars, bnt It has never been stdd. 1 ]

pnae te cure any who may attend our far the small iitim of Iffini Any ffcllnte oa our pan will not only free the apptuant from any charn, bnt we wUl defiay any az-pense * 'f Tbere ahall be special provisions tor tho J W HARRIS. poor. JackaoD, Tenn. We have a personal acquaintance with Mr Harris and know hU family, and will an tee tbatbe will do exactly what he refund the mtmn In every ( Is no cure.—Ko. Barm. ) where there

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VOLUNTARY TESTIMONY.

IMcOlMi from Ot Baiiamm "Aaeriam,"

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" T h a PBlTOinaeberEIeetrte Belt ia

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•oaa: Hist. Sir lt> vomlcrful pniprrtl« (or

ttw e o n of dlaeaaai of tbe kUiaejn, stooucti,

UT«r and b l m t ; tecandljr, Ibr i u extreme

•tmpUoitT, astt "Cio e>ct of tu brine appUal

ostUda. pneisdei oU pnwlhilltr of but bi-

tni7 iMilac <i<xu to t]ia i»tienc. aa u external

nnnady i» Bntranmllr •cktttnrledsnt to be

•Bfo. AaotbaradTantaselstliafiulUtjrvUli

vbiclt tba prtj^ma at the diaeaMs anti cure

• an ba watcbml. asil tX Uie Belt ba Eu>t quite

tn tha rt(lit place. U out be T a y eaaU^ renil-

Jnatad b aa to eovcr tbe parts aX&cced. Tbe

Pomrmacher ElrcOrtc Belt, and Ita perf«?-

UoB. haa bees tsoUeil wltb deUcbt. aot oalr

bf U n nfflferen who baTe refined heaUIi.

aojaimeat. iuid a n a w I«ue ot UBa tli.-on«l>

Ita banafiornt ((aalltlea, bat by tbe nutlirai

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n«a to tbelr patlenu."

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iiat, and by veH-ltaoMra wrlten. retor to

tba «xtnantlnai7 etina rlltctei! by Pulver-

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vards of one bondml medical and pbUu-

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trie fwdUut. Q:ir PamphUt txflains haw la

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ridged feloth. Price, SU«.

U 50

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Ko . Z&. Same a« Ko . S& withoot references. Price,

NO.S3. BmaUPica OctaTO,»ixe t i ^ , Boan

Embwaed. P r f e e , C ^ .

So.93. Brevier, ISmo, slie 6J<x7, Boan Em-booed. race, tl JO.

No . M . Same as No. S3, In sheep, prlc« V.-3&. No. Same aa No. 93, In

edge. So . li*". Minion, 12mo, with references sixe

Itaon embossed. Price, S2.W. No. 129. Nonpartel, l ^ o . withonl referea-

cea. size 5HxT, Koiui emSossed, price tUW. So . 13U. Same as No. 13 , sheep embosBed.

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edge. Price, Wets.

No. 146. aUnion. ISrao. siie IJ^xS, urithont

relcrences, cloth ridged edgf, price, » ctii.

Nii^ l&S. Pearl, ISmo. 4>4xS, wilh reftxences. claspH, Baon edge. Price, il.To.

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N0.3ST. Snnday-school Edition, Agate, 32-mo, price. 13c each, or Si .75 per dozen. -We also have the same Ttatament n-s No.

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Polpll Bible* .

Bible No. 6T..

Bissasss ot tlie Tliroal and Lnms. Uiseases u{ the imlmo-

Steel POaey Plows 50

500

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Hoimaii's Cnmblnatlan Plow Stock S : 2i

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Bull Tongue. Shevcl, Sweep, and Scrape.

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low prioea. W e want small prfita only, and

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The above book will t>e given aa a pterolum for roar n e w snbscrlbera t o T u x BAPnar .

B U C K E V E Btt.1. F O U M O H V . E.tsbtialxd In ia*7.

Bai*rl.F r.rll*.r ^ d Th*.Jmtm^^ .III,... h— S«<r, li..?,.*.. fc; Omrm^ Stk—f rmO-r^Cmmn tmum,^

Abbott'a u t r s e T y p e ( I l l o a U » « e *

N E W T E S T A M E N T w r m N O T E S , Is a splendid w o r ^ r ^ ^ Nothing like it. All want it. Price f M ^ A d d r c ^ H H U O O D H P E E D A CO., N e w York or Clnelnn*U.O.

P a r e B l o o d a n d L o t r P r i c e s .

1 have a few pairs of Berkshire pigs, from the celebr»ited stock Imported by Tom Crnichfleld. which look the prize wherever exhibited, which I will sell at

tl0 .eo p e r P a i r , delivered at the Depot of either road leading out of Memphla. Also a Jersey BoU,

P r l B C « B l a m a i c k , (Price fSS-OO) by Mary Harding, Jeraey, and a ^ blood inuham—now three maotha old. This wlU m a k e a s p l e n d i d ateck u l m ^ for m u c h cowa . anltlng t h e t w o best bloodi n r milking p n r p o * .

Q55

Buttriek's Patterns Por badlca*. K l a M » * aiid C k U d

I, B B < S c a P s V a d e r w e a r .

O a r f a a t a l o B C J a t a -

l ^ n t e m a i l e d ft-ee,

w U i t ftiU d t r e c -

U O M b o w t « t a k f

t n e a s n r e . S h o w s

o v e r 5 , 0 0 0 c u t s

l a t e s t s t y l e g a r -

m e n t s a s t i t e r w i l l

1 9 0 k w l i e n m a d e ,

muinatnieuons on c M h pattern. Address

J . B . A U > R I G B , C e n ' I A s ' t ,

SIM BecMMl St., H e a i ^ l a . T e a a .

Sewing Machines O P AI . I . K I H D S .

iPrlces D o w n I L o « k at t h c M Flcarea .

6486

N A M K ; i • ' 5 s

e

n S

n m M

Victor .. - fas

30

f3S

I^oniestic 23 30 35

UroTer and Baker.

23

ss

35

H o w e . £ 30 35

BenUngton 25 30 33

Singer ZS X 35

St John 30 35

White 30 S5 40

Wilson... 2S 30 SS

Wheeler and Wilson SO 35 40

Weed .. 25 30 SS 25 30 SS

Above are prices of N e w Machines direct from Factory, guaranteed four year*. 0<K)d s m n d bandTUaehlnea of all kinds. In perfect order, b o m tlo to tl5.

Needles, oil Pterta, AttachmenU and Ile-palrs at N e w York prlcea.

J . B . A L D R I C H ,

S S 4 a e o o a d St., M e w p k i a . II 3S4!I

N O T I C E . Kor over t>renty-flvo years I have been

known to tb« cltlzensof Memphis and vicin-

ity as a prac'Jcal Piano and Organ maker

and tuner, and though m y business has ss-

.•umed larger dlmeiuiotu, I t>eg to infbrm

the public that the most thorough and

reliable work tn repairing and tuning

musical InstmmenU la still being done by

ine and highly skilled workmen In my em-

ploy, and atreduced prices. 1 a m comiwiled

by frequent complaint* Irom all parts of the

country to warn the pabllc against Impostors

and frauds w h o use m y well known name to

.ell worthless Inatmments and obtain work

•if which they generally make a miserable

iKitrh, and represent themselves as m y

sgrnts. .Ml ray tunin and agents carry

lettem of introduction bearing this signature

[FacSlmUe.]

All oiders promptly attended to, and satis-

fketlnn gnanmted. xll S xlll 5

BUCKEYE BELL FOUNDRY •alU a( r<ir« Cawrc and Tin far CbnrrhaL «ch<K>U,rir>al^mi,F»rDi.,Me. rULLT WaRK4!rTED. cauloro* ..nt rtw.

VANOUZCN « TtTT. Ciaciaaali, O . OX117X1U8

G o s p e l E c h o e s . Praioe^eetlngs. (ilveaj SC&perloa.

1879. Snnday-School Music Books. 1879. - — - B . 0 . 8 T A P U S . AnewandchoicecolleeUoa orqMrkling,

.-jerfhl H y m n s a n d Songs l o r i<Qod«y«ebooU, Ftajrer u i d p ^ e c t sattalacUon wherevet used. P n c e . ao c U ; *3i» p e r doa.

n ^ a ^ V v n n ^ A C ( Bv J. H . B O S E C B A N S . A veo" c h o i c e coUecUon of S. S . mnitic, f e o r l j i t U i e S a i moktly n e w . a n d a d a p t e d to t h e needs of t h e Snnd^-echoola, Pnyer-me^ng and Home Clrele. ^ e i y Sunday-school can affbrd ll. Price, £ eta ;

K N O W L E S S H A W . T h e last and beat work by the late j n O r D l U g O i a r . l K n o w l e s Shaw , t n e snecessjul revlvaUsU A u t h o r of Sparkling Jewels, S b l n ^ P e a r l s . U ^ d e n O a t e . e tc . Pr ice . S5 c t s : SJ-OO p e r d o z e n ; 0 0 p e r Ii«.

Yoa wil l make no mistake In adopting either or th.«e books. a V A oopy of elrther aent bv mail o n r e c e i p t of p r i c e , or o n e of each f o r 75 (vnts. S p e c i m e n pages n e e . Addresa

C E . \ T R . 4 L . B O O K . C O X C E I U K .

A Xll • U . arinaatl , O k i * . o r O a k a l o a a a , I * « a .

RElLXHLt .

iM.rye.on. 1 ^vhecler Aj Wllsou's I Icoaatracttoal | A f U a a |

S I L E N T S E W I X G M A C H I N E S

T b e A r k a o v l e d g e d Stantlard or Sxrt-Ui

l . \ I > O R S E D

IIY T U E

HiGBL^T AIIIOSITIES

E V E B T W U E K E

AS T H E

IvstpKtite^ud Ihinklf

K e w l n g SaeteiBP

l u t h e W o r l d . _

T H E S E W S o . M. T l i e superiority of this m a c h i n e w i l l be d e m o n s t r a t e d t o t h e uUukatcIiou ot a n y onedrslrlng

to purchase.

W h e e l e r & W i l s o n M T g C o . , ISO canreli Htrevt, H M k v U I e ,

O r « X o r l h Coart BtreeU Hrsapkla . T e a a .

• a g r . T h e o n l y

G r a n d P r i z e f o r

S e w i n g H a c l i l n e a

a t t l i c P a r i s E x -

p o a l t l o n , 1 8

i i a a a w a r d e d t o

t l ie W h e e l e r ft

W l U o n M a n o r s

C o . , o v e r E l g l i t y

C o m p e t i t o r s .

S . S . T a t e & C o .

B O O K B I N D E R S

A N D

B l a n k B o o k M a n u f a c t u r e r s

H o . » S M a l a St., (Up 8 U l n )

H e m p b l s , - - . T e n n .

K legaat la P t a l a b J Ut>eral Terms.

— s r r a -

rerms j

fiAChromosnnwllake ,» u u * C'ards with " V name lOc. Game Authors' lie, Lyman A Co., Cllntonv lUe, Ct. A xli 7 D»

FOUND AT L A S T ! • J ^ U R E C U R E , " f b r C A T A R R H ,

dnd MpteiMa ndtia. t m ' "

M a r b l e a n d G r a n i t e W o r k s .

A X D E B S O . \ , T E X X C O . ,

58 and ei East OmrtSt^bet.Hecondand Third (near l.'ourt tVjuare)

Hentpbis . • T e a n .

_ f«r tmymn. aai bo». XK CI-K6'> tt„sttJ:f..n»i<

. .tm .ruM . ttadfliUwkMt

t ttw mwbj, caa tralr nr «aa» «a tnxMt n th, I>n4." W w 4 M a a Malal. • UOBYXS'SrKECCBBr*

ToialMlanr* raralkbetl at iowral ralea. XI 4« xll 4<

CliroJu.i and Parformed Caidijio^Iallkr. I H I N a m e In l^ild and Jet, luc. Uinton Rros.. ClintonviU«.Ct. ' Ax l lTlS

North MlddlmSw ;^

Benryt niL.. L. P. Cooper.

C R A F T & C O O P E R ,

Attorneys at Law, 33;% M a d l a o a St., X e m p h l a . T e a a .

WlU pracUce In ail the Courts In Memphis,

in the Supreme Court In Jackson, and will

also take boalneai In North MlalasippL x i B y

4 S E S T H wanted to sell A T H K CPItt'E O F BITM, I n c I u d t n c ^ l ^ a w r ^ r a r ^ ^ r S a r p k y and B e y a o M a . w i t ^ H l a « o r y _ o r " the

It to date, too nana . Fully Illustrated. Price only ttUi. fa'UAKANTEK P P B . CXX, St. bonis. Mo. xl M xll HI

day at home. Samples worth tree, arnraon « Co. Portlaad,

xll U X U 1 4

Special attention glren to; binding Maga.

SUM* l l t i i t a . u d I « w b o o k g , m z l < 8 z U «

A T s m v r E X c r r i x G B O O K . ,

B r i a U l a c with the W I L D A D T E S T T K X S

" " S T A N L E Y I S : A F R I C A , The only anthentle and eopyrlghted cheap edlUon. Otres a tnU history 01 his wonderful diseorerlea m Africa, and marveioosjoa 3cy down the Congo. More t..<Hti««iwg O u u r

- Laadli PtoAiaely illustrated, aad highly en doned by the clergy and vresa. Over l&iU) •okL More A O K B n W A S T E D . Forpar-tlealan aboat the boo^ taeeem of agents, and beat tenna, address—

a . D . T H O M P S O N A CO., A x t U z U U 8LIo<Ui,j2o,

C A N C E R S .

Be It known to all w h o m it may concern, that as a Cancer Doctor, I offer m y proSea-sional services to the public. After eonslder-a U e suoeessfhl experfence, I feel tree to aay that I will make no charge wlihoot afflicting a c u n . Bnt before treatment the applicant is reanire<l to depoait the fee with some mer-chant In Uyhalla, or ^ v e good ancnrlty that he will meet his obllgauon when ettred. Minlsttsrs of all denomlnattona will be treated fi«e of chare. Consultation tree; clIMgea reasonarle; special provisloni Ibr tbe poor.

Respectftil&. J W D C N N A V A K T , C. D . Bybafia, MarxhaU Co., MUa.

RETF-r-CNcra: I>ts. J H Hays. S J 'WTlsoi^ C L Ba>> Charley Siuait. Byhaiia. Miia., P P BaUbni, Mayor of ^ h a l i a ; Messrs wlliioa inirmm. Jo Wadlcina, fknnei^ ^ h a l i a ; Mesas Alley A BTa..O FEddina, WEFMtreU ,

.merchaniattf Byhaiia -eh, an< ehurcit, f O e r k ,

Stricklmd. Judge

D P Harr T M Kemp . uiauiauiBin uBua j £ld J W ItarriSH, pastor Baptist ehnreh, and

paster Preabyterian ehureit, Myera, Cirenlt OcMut Clerk,

Bev K K Illccen. i ByhnlU: <iKorge ( Uoliv S|,rinK». M:

Lauiaaae.

yera,Cti . . ^ i ; M a J . i

Lauiaaae. F A ^ l e r , ediSor B o U y S p r l ^ ikiutb, Samut-1 west, Holte B p r t n n MlSB.; uenry Myers, SeeretaTy ^ Mate,'Sacksoo,

LORD & TAYLOR, N E W j r O K K .

Oping SpriflgDisplajf NEW m GOODS.

S I I i K S .

tsnoQ tor tusTcrml exccSaac. ttsi la aasor-

^'^te^Anrricsa Cacbcmiis DEDEBTXSCTIXXC BtaCK stLS )o>tlr cUhaa u m a attranaxi. tetuceqasttotbe brM ot tatejpa SiSSlBlf uue at lutU CM. E ^ k T T A k D W A U A H T S D .

Ia (XILOKED ffilu aor welMlceM sMek Is oflkted at pneca ibst esoaat ba nadasDlO.

COLOKEO AXD BlJlCc'^XIJk SAXAaSI^ am-tirscinK tba rsmt (MB. 01 <be Eampasa w

Ainnlcss Karkra. tn StrxXEK SIIXS ant POCIAXM ws hara

rTciTtluar tlisl u new sad braUUaL

D R £ S S G O O D S ' . K m m n la Caehrwres. SatOnct, Sebaim,

sni tlw aaBasnl rhsbMa nvleaaid wirtr. ite, "ABderaoB's" Seotrli IginjTs. w i a M eooaa DmaGoMli. Kama Clocfca. quaUaaa, Pneala*. CTu-TiM,, Ac.. wlUt evrrr trade tn b< tseaa in a Orst- iaM eaUbllshniCBL ^

Shawls, Cloais. and Wraps. T^dcpsrUDHt msifitsifis iu aasresacy. sad

• b a n itn ban mOncUaas Iniai ibr Earepeea

Onr Clnaki anl Steqan arr rat aag mtit bj m m tailors. UiciTfcCT mytr and m sia sasisaaed-

" S n i t s a n d O o s t s m a a .

Onr snTS and cnHTViax luia snatsla that

b d i e t ' u d ChiMrei« C a d e r p m n U . flmrt a-wonarnt or Saa Ftancfa liaBil.auar

O'DEkWEAK. cofsorfaSiK rrrrv mjalalli fnr a ladr^waronba. aJaa. ckOdRa'a nti> tor anry

lafasittf* Fnrmahlar Opparxwnt ta Our. (losatregaLppad. cmslta Waidrafaaa aa low aa (9S: betfrV^a la pnnMRloD. Aar amdrla me Wanlraba at li« scke; iwOly cbaaia-r Oua Ol. bcsaa-madr arucla, sad laaeli Bat* laMsi-toty.

TIk laraM. rmrrat and moat tnw|w rraseh n..^!.-. In ih. CUT. *im. ika •iidlsiii rraOaa or hva lar Udlaa sad cbOdisa at m y a u d m a

'Ladl..'.mk9m-. aad rklMnnl kid. etaia. and Lt.i> nn-ad Utom tt ma teat auBOactBR. » all tbr 1.. thadr. u> maScb anT dreaa anmnal

A wn-rkv >-lKn«i or h r a ^ i m aU Unn l«-m»utrti»d. aad anituncd _lls« cbiatl. AMt. rmhrotdrrad W k Baadlir aanotueC la maly or catst.

s z s B O v a . AU tbf cixic* • cimtalnTss anrr calm-

sad ahadc Sujwn. r m O addumaadsuy.

Qentfi ' F n r n i s h i i i g G o o d s . E<rrrT poanitola rrmlaia fora iaaUrmaa*! mati.

nrM.cUM an.1 nM.mata erailea urModl at oar IMOSI nawiaUr Invt.. QaaWy. Kjria. sad M Oa pnimlarnt teaurr.'* tt !<»• OrwtiaaBt.

B o o t s a n d S l i o e B a

I .-r .r-'-'bis and .011110.-?. f-* Ladlea. Xlwa. aad Ciiiuirrn tTl.<li l».li. »uw iiunoo ahor., lb. aewtey or tm •-aM. d mnuna bd waltiar taasa. Kl 73. l.!.* .n.ir. from KI toA',- Un. vubtj I>.r.rr«oi«l.s>to«2.a>' H i * * beat oekUanat. Wiirkn) buttimhok- t:: <1»lir< B-. baa* aiaaa, .rnia h.. 1. MUr.o k.w«Afl.«0. iBIaBST Mat , all

awl \«uln- FrriKll ran totun l«o«a al>l a snod,dsmli)» larc-d

air Onr saada m an all eaneur 1 mr (••rpnaarea. »»araatee sdt la he aalMkMarir ta ^mrrtf. wmt mmmt

m-tm. nMTtaan-d ««uM m arm trial wlU InMtr,. tt» thr rrcaijlar t

All araera fbr Caidi t . be aeremea. alr4 b» the mmmryi aas srhrre porttM • l.b, U m « o arlU be arat bjr r a v T M , <-. O . D . W b r r * llw i BaBlltsan la tmm larcr. »Iw«»o m i M (be dUViaana

M s a v aad T i r i t k t h S L .

firaai (kniiiif, m i F m w U i . S . I .

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From Dark to Dawn. In thU new volume the Popular ainiKir of

N i c H T SOQcxs IS THX BtBUt portrays with Tirld and thrUlinc mttse tiie event of Sacred Truth, and adda fresh teaUmony ta tile beoa-

Lthoa and mblimlty of toe StmlaB or ible. Agnnta wUl And tlUa Book with

I U sparkUng tbonghta. beautiful aSgtaTtoga, and rich bindings, tlw beat in tl>e narkel.

leral Cfreiiias nrmt Ubeirtl Go., PhU'a. Pa.

J C M o o e a i r r * A x i M z U S a D w

D a W a U V O H E S ,

W A T C H E S , C L O C K S ,

J e w e l r y , S i l r e r a n d P l a t e d

W a r e .

. M S a t a M v a M ,

256 T B E B A P T I S T ,

T o all Siilli»en|!froni Fro-

Iipsed Organs.

ItaiceUikaiatiiodaf c^&ng joax t ^ ^ ^ ta the oaWnted Bodf and Loag BOOB, WINDI I ham WLDLBR tlia Iiat

jma, tlwt I flov aalcB it s beneAt la my paper by —rng it a fiu KnaterbaDafttioTOB.

Ivilibneftr yon mr nuaoa for teeammenfiac tUa bmlnalue aztida to jtjo. Man OHB dAtaeo jeaxa ago, »aa thaKmdily bcoica down in Trace fam a—aamjfflariiing; loauld q eak tant a BtOe vldle witboat gettaag faoazae; air tktoat waa gmexaOr wote, and eaaaf r ***-*! sad ita tone became beavy and

iii^y; «iaaahaiclDiwcon^aetin,tIiat inoMaad, nstil at tbiB daw of a long meiili , mr voice &iled entizelT, under tlis tfKctB of a efatomc larynBtii tii«« •JOB aopenndncrd bnmdbitia, wnich wri-onaly tiuo^ened mr life. I waa now compriled to deeat nmn preadiing, t( nparfhie, OTetoome t]>oae diiBcuItiea, UM wttifar th« loMt tieaante,—the voice, that to a miniatcr or lawyer Bum Talnabta than gold or jewels,— or ha liteit fnerer. I a iUad to the aaoat wnfnimt pfayiiciana, ud waa hat littla hdped; wre the einiaion af an elnngatuT ttTiila, they coold do nsthihg bat adTiaa reat; and thii I waa com-paOed to take. What eanied and con< tiwif conatant irritation

cough, they coald neither plain ncv pnivait. ProTidence threw cha reoudy in my way. My wib lofcting DOB prolapaai nteii, and the MufcMur at the theory and ncactica ei madldne In the ITniTenit ^ of NadiTiOe Dt; Wlmtmi, waa her phyaidan, and he pmoibad fa h« thia Jdantical Bace. wiilah apaadily iaJinr«: Ste platnad at a "dragging down;" and m laagoagB eeaM tattar azpreaa my ftaHaft and ainadally ate pnaehiu. Itoonnad to if it waa goad te OM caaa tt -dng^dinra,7 why aot fx

at iatigncL and leave m with bean, hnaky voice; with it, I can eak M r honia a day without exbana-

or n— I now oae it only when ^eakinb and thna pietemmy voice and and pbynod enetnea. I do not bdiem that any one w«mfil ever be

with iawia, or sSet, w weakneai of tiw bade jr loina, ihoaid he wear it (adinarily Idoae, and ooly Ught when making (K patting fbrtb onimial efibrta. It is a pceaerver ot agocd \<nee andofa aoand yncal conation. It aboald te won ny every miniatpr and paUic •peaker to cai^ the energy and v i ^ of im youth hr into old age, and by every old man ta aaud turn to aapport the growing weaVnei of age.

HaiKlreds of old men v«irly are iBing the Brace for weai haekt witti Invanable aatiafiiction.

I do not dainf tbat the Body and I ane Brace wfll cure every diaeuiw that flesh is heir to; but it will re-lieve, where it does not fully cure, all that great aimy of ills and aches that noon break down the best consti-tntion«i, which are caused by pro-Ittptut e/ the mitscla vckich tupport the iiOtrvai ortfOM*. This Li the only mechanical contrivance c%-er dis-covered tbat ui ifbi the abdomen latber than comprases it, as all

eonanlting any one, una large enoaj br mywil

pat it on. the lint time doobtlaai itwoa a w worn hy a man for aneh a mana, and tha taaoU waa, the ir-dtatknofBy thnat mm qiiiated,aDd the hacUsg an k»g eaoaad, and the Toioa oommanced bmidiag no, ontfl I oonld articnlate, which I aad not done for twalveBontha, and vmaooolam-

1 ta peach again. Aat Bnce won Mady tan yean witlMOtcanmnni-csttDgltawonderihl advantagea to any ana, Mcane I thooght I waa oaing an arti^ tbat waa inTcnted for the on of •snalaaooly. Privately, to a few (pedal (rienda who wue laSuing aa I lafleied, I azplained the oae ot the Brace, iw thnmi^ Be they obtained it, and wen iBlSemtaalwaa. I now made known the p«w« at the Brace to reatore, ittenKtb en and pnaarre the voice in pawc ipaakm, and thai conuneneed oflaHng it aaapcndamto mimaten for mbact^

Tbe cane of boaiwuw, ion throat, laryagit&i, and finally bnmdiitla in TabHc

tar>,™ aU tbeae lymptonu of "dng-down," goTwrnwai, eziunutioa after

, and weakneaai of the back and , and ueniiL it the iSght n-of the abdominal muteUM^

vsMek aOaia the bawtb to «tRjk,-anc icnoKfi tM maried hoOoiea over the r at the h»pt. JTow all know that

liningi of tne itomadt an connected with Aon of tbe tbraat and afllKt the Tocal or^na. and when tbe atomach •nka a atnoning ia bnmgbt to bear upon the throat, and meaking or tak-ing wQl faritxce it and ptodncehaaae-nam, and if caotinoLa. aoe throat, and aQ the tain of evib tbat public (pnkera BawoBtto ccnmlainci; and wbicfabaa oKried handxeda to their navea, and widdi yea^ai'8 I^ing w6& tm nade* hiiiafiwlt o( atheta

5aw, after a pwarmal expeiieiioe naai^ tmnty yaaza, and Oe added ezpe. riCQOB of IBttCB tibiSB ODfi bOQUSld JDBZBS tSflt li&d pui ^ C SQlkEO QOOD& VfaBB lucre fitted the Itaoa with invariable fflcnim I am prepared to taatify of ita (Hdaarita. W^boot it. I am aatiafied , dunild have been laid aiide lhaa poUie •peaUsg ^^teen y e a a ^ fiyuing it, I imve fttl^ ncsrend a loat veioe, and aa> bk—w with ana at iwnTiMnvm power an<L ezBinraace. Withoot it, two m itam tkmam aihautiad wm

tnaaesdo. This is what it does, as thousand-*

who have used it are piepaied to testify: It aapports the Da», abdo-men, stomach, lungs and womo. It, ther^re, pTEvents laadtade, hoatse-neas, piles, bemia, comomption, and that terrible disease,—dyspepsia.

It increases the breatmntt camdty, and tber^y gives stren^ to the body.

It eTHpanita and enlan^ tlie lungsi, and thus renders breathing free an< easy, and thereby promotes digestioD

ll reUevGB chronic costivenes and piles when all other means nave Mled.

It invariably relieves all cases of , trolapius uteri in females, a dlseaae hat no medicine can reach, because, like a broken limb, it needs mechanic cal support.

It iweves piles and proltqmu ani, ' f uplifting the tower bowels fhim

ienefum. It is being iBed more and more >arly, as its Talue is known, by ibUc speakezs and singers, and by

hose having weak lungs and backs; and by those having stooping shoul-

• hacking cougiw, the

lungs and lumbago they are in valua-ble. W . c T L A W K K K C K , M . D .

Oawfordville, Miss.

TESTUIOaT O F P C B U C R P E A K E M .

Wwmam tk« CtoTcnMr mt Teucaaec.

The following certificate from Gov. Porter, who has thoroof^y tested the merits of our Improved Brace, should be read by all sufferers. He iargdy, if not altogether, owes his last dection to the Brace. Notice wtiathesays:^

KzceaUTe <Mk», KaaHTUl*. Tean.. I

Dr. 3. R . Gravea—Dear Sir; I w e d Uie Brace aent by roor-a ^ dorlBV my late canraaa'of Ufee State. It wan oft'ery great aervlce to me , and I feel verj-w e U aatlafled that iri had com-menced Its nae a week earlier tlaat my voice vroaid net bare been eflTected at all. The Arat time I uaed It I addressed a large crowd of people in tbe open air, and I found tbat my voice waa eery mncb atrengtb-ened. and at tbe close of a two bonr'a apeecb I waa fVee ftvm my uaual feeling of wearlneaa and eabanatlon.

Very Respectftilly, JAS. O . P O R T E R .

• IJfMTUM* TCSTiaoHT.

O K A B B S O . «iaLAVEB:-TM nwde mr

Bm*f mtr^ptr* aad kvyt It tor i h n v y w a witk4Hit WMriiic It, ratb«r riaaalac aaab tUaca aider lli» brad of " h a o H aesgwy." ttturj. umI iMinUBa eMrta af tbr CratMalal,

krakv dmra tor tbe ar«t msatb. I «Mel«a«tf I* tnr tbe rejeeted Brare.

bcaltMc t* Umaty Im tbe rarlb aC tbla Brucr. I rmm

aMll««Mt. taTiUwible w«rtb

^ • - ^ - • ^ ^ ' t r a S H s ' f t .'sr o r M C S K A I I E O BT. tmr atreiftb baa

£ l e £ u T remwed. 1 w a « M Uvea tbe arlee aT mj M * take tea Uvea tbe arlee al

M W awl be eampellrd * • WlUlll. II

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ipellMl * • aiiN ^ialljr reea«.

may. .rwlaeaeedlt. A. L O I T O H . O .D.

m t o r T b t t i l BapUatClmreb, St. UmU.

B A X a U i e O BBAf'E.-It la one af tbe ~ mt pbjalcal bliarilaaa t* a nab.

er mr aiBcer. Tba teaUnawy E?

Mlbtaaartf ^ ^ ^ KdltnrCtirt lUoiT.

deo and {vecmaors

sure of coiwumpUon. And

many a sufferCT has been cured of dympeda and liver complaint who had been considered in the last stage of consumption.

O C B U P B O T E D BBACE . The original Brace, nutde only for

ladies, waa too weak for the sterner sex. X remedied it by an important improvemoit, as the fcdlowing will show:—

I.et aU Take HaUca.

Tbtataeerfliy tbat tbe mlxtermli alba aaly S a a t b e t w e r ar mtm^ Bate Brae«>.aa« tl •toatiiS* tor J . B . Ova'

Bttbi iTca. UJ).,

•tb ar tbe Obto Bluer. B .C . B A X r O B T H .

Offlca or X u i T l C<v Caon^ M«jr 1 vet.

No other paxW in this city or the S<wtb sdls my uaproved Brace, un-less he can show a written com-midsioa from me.

TEsmomAUt. I could produce the tastimony of

hundreds ctf eminent physicians and surgeons of the North, but prefer to give a few Boutliem pracntioneis, who are known or may be written to.

The late Dr. Stone, the great sor-geaa ci New Orleans, pronounced it uie perfection of meuianiGal inven-ti<m ror the the indlftiiK'd

intended: i. e. rdief

of alPcanseB of pndapsas of the in-tonal oi;gam.

I prescribed one oi your Braces to a laify patient of mine last fidL She Btya she woold not take one himdred doOais Bjt it. If she could not get an-«M>er one ef the aune Idnd.

8 . Timiras, M J ) . Hayneville, La., A ^ 19,1877.

All tbe Braces whidi I have or-deted rive the greatest satia&KtiMi. Jiar aUUndB of womb dtaMBB, wotk

f The Brace I received from

find is of great benefit to me. I was aftald it wa.s not what it was recom-mended to be; but I wa.H induced by my physician to get one. Shortly afterward, the church that I was a member of called mo to serve them as pastor; and I accepted on the con-diora that they shoold get me a Brace. I was entirely broken down firom over speaking. I could not speak longer than fifteen minutes un-tu I became very hoarae; but, with the Brace on, I can spe^ with per-fiect ease one hour: and, after spr-ing, I do not feel that unpleasantness at my stomach that I did before udng the Jtoce. I can say that the Brace h* all that b rJaimed for it; and I woold advise all spc^km who feel fatigue and lassitude after speaking by all means to get them a Brace, before they have to stop speaking, as I bad to do. I would not be witnout it for any consideration.

C<deman, Mo. D A V I D U TT .

I haTe nven tbe Bnu» a lair trial, find it •it tbat ia dalmed for it. would not take $100 for the ri| t to uae it. I hope that all my nuniatering brethren will procnre one.

J . A . SEYHOLDS. Falton, Miaa., 1S74. I can preach day and night for two

Bon^ with my Brace on and not be aa boaiae aa I wwild in one week witlwnt it: every minister, atnmg or weak, ihoold have one. A. BODTR.

Union Depot, East Tennemee.

Jtn. Urm)tt:—l Have becB waartm tba Kanntiis^ Bodjr and Uins Btaaa abont alztT •lay*, for ezUema wcakncat or my r ^ m&e<7 in my cheat, and eaa trntl-that I am much baneatad, thooah i Uke clear ol my malady. I can rida boiae-liack or In a waaon, toUow my plow, la tut, endnre more Trralkln«.aboatBHUial baataoa in a dia\-, with br ireater caaa, than I bava been aUe to do In a loos time. I tad tba Brace to be truly the very mechaaleal b ^ I need. H.C.I«WXT.

Horn Laike, BIB., Bay U, un. Qd.J. R. anvea-Dear Sir: 1 hare eon-

n U M Willi the partlca I ordered Bneea Ibr ftnm yon, aad it U Impocalble fbr ma to bid wonU in which to ezpren their delight. The Brace I ordered ror »n«ht mpture. wttb two nadK, haa ropiiat^ the pennn ao weU he Siya ie baa no i.eed of the rapture pM now. He has never worn it at all. They bava all proved perfrtjlly aatUlkctory: ai^ nel^ ui the t»xU>* would lake a handred doUm far them^ do without. U. U. ijTEDUAM.

MonUceclo, Ark.

For Horacbaek luaiac. I baTetntveledacraaatheStateofMlmlmlppi

ou boraebackilnce wlataraattnaadtbOBU in very tcebie health, I made the trip with eomparatiTelrnophyideaiauiKiie. IbeUara itvoold have been utterly Impoaalbla to have itood it withoot the Brace. ItUpre-emlnenUy the very UUnt tor thoje wM teM to travel much on hotaebacfc. Let aMwho have II to do get a Brace aa gra

Camdeo, Miaa.. Jannary 3, un. A OROBBIA BTABaBUBT.

Having given tbe Banning Brace a lait trial, I cheerfully bear my ieatimony to ita value. I can perform my labor with fifty per cent more ease and comfort than before; I would not be without it for twice its price. T. C. BoYKUt.

Sunday-school EvangeUst Atlanta, Ga.

TESTIBOKT OF FABMEBB. 1 have been wearing one otyoar Bndr and

and 1 am . you lar lU

grrut lienefltit. 1 am a flmnfr; and when I minnieni-rU U»e wie nl the Brace 1 waa un-Iihl.- Kir Iiianiial taU>r, and bad been, k>r

i rHm, almotit worthieaaoo account o» M weak bflrK nnil general debility, ftpm whirli Die Hr.ire han given roe great rellei; III rlilmit horw-back, no one baa aay con-«vull<m of in worth. I believe it to be all >-ou claim. I would not be without It.

Wataugm. Tenn. T. E. K. UO NTKK ThnH«h Mmua. riowei* * Wllaon of Ken.

;^on, Obion coanty, XniD., I procuwd r yonr Improved Bunlng^ l<ans and

Body ifra^: It U Juia wtiat I ao much needed. I am well pleaaed with It. and wontd not be deprived of the uaa of It for one hundred gold d< n>. I feel tbat I am qnlle a new man Kinee I put It on, aM .^ld

. do lb. work -^s^Tk..

Kutherfcltd HUllon, Tenn.

reUeved her back finmedU^y. 1 am well pleased with the Brace. It is the only supporter that I have seen or a<»d in my extensive practice that I can rely upon without any ar anceofevil from its use. I shall after introduce it into my practice, and ciia^ no commisnlon.

A . A . Davib, M.D. Houstonia, Mo.

rates OF BBACB8. The price of tJils Brace t>elore the

war was and $25 when fitted by the medical profeasion.

The patent having expired I have secured tbe manufketure of l O M of the Improved Braces upon such terms that I can furnish them at the follow-ing prices:— Plain Krace, ordinary aUe— 9ia.ao Klnale Uemla Brace, onllnary aiia. Double " »

I.niig Bracm Mttce laiit Augnxt; free to exprew tuy gratitude to : greut lienefltx. 1 am a flmner; ai

U>n KUi one of

Fa< I la Oae.

I bave ordered trom tou fourteen Braces : my female friends. The parties aU live

in ^ near West point, MlaH. All have been fori

moch benefited. The moat of them are de-lighted, and Improving tet, and would not be wlthoat their Biaeea for an v amount. Not one of them ^ ^ ^ ' ' them. Idotbli r benefit any one they InbadhcalthleneeiallyaU tact diMues. 1 tad creatty indebted to yon for my reatored bMlfiL aU fhnt waailiw the^&aea.

^ M B & S . U WraiBKOOK. W e n rant, x m

I ofler ray in roved Brace to any one aa a p^inm for 10 new aubacribera to THK BAPTIST at $2 TOincladingpoatam and 91 for every subscriber you fidlto get.

Or one Brace for ten Braces with cash, flO each.

Hatteei AU uuaovwio inebea, bavlnc to

nnucTiOBB roB nABranro. a;

lari twa iMftM B K L O W lha tlpa ar ttM hl»a • raaaa tba abaaaaf . a a * M M <Ba •iianaiiilalarbia n a B n e a a a r a a O •aarttedla evao aaatben, aad eaa ba •alaived twa tachaa.

In all cases the cash must accom-pany the order, with nearest Enweas offi(^ as none are sent cot on trial to be returned. W e do not send tbe BracebymaiL Bat a perfiect fit is guaranteed, and Brace will be ex-changed by purchaser paying expien

Memphis, Tenn.

Stand ye in the waya. and see and aak fbr the old paths,-which are tha good ways, aad walk therein, and ye ahan fl^

O l d jSeries-Vol. X X X T I . M E M P H I S , T E N N . , J X J N E 1 4 , 1 8 7 9 , . N e w S « i e 8 - T o L X n . No . 17 .

P u l p i t .

" i^EPHIBOBHETH.

CAL. B Y REV. A. J . KBOST, D. D., SAN J<13E "And Uavld aali., t« there yet any tliav U lea of the boa»e of

Saul, that I may show him klnduesa for Jonathan'« «ake T " 2 8ant. Ix. 1.

T H E mutual friendahip of David and Jonathan is the mosl remarkable in the sacred Scrip-

tures, if not in all history. 1. This friendship was uoseltisk. Jonathan had

nothing to gain but much to loje froin his adher-ence to David.

2. It was not only unwlttsh, but generous. David was only a sbeiihcrd boy, Jonathan a l»rlnce, tbe son of King Saul. Jonathan was heir-apparent to the throne, David'was his most pop-ular rival. Yet notwithstanding the barriers of KUik and rivalry, Jonathan surrendered his bairt to David, saying, " Whatsoever thy soul daslreth, I will do it to thee."

3. Jonathan's rrienilsblpwjw practical. Jonathan gave to David the robe of a courtier, the sword of a soldier, and he peri»ctuated that love by the gift of himself.

4. Jonatliaii's friendship was intcMe and su-pieme. " He loved Uavid as he loved hb own soul." • 5. This Irlend hlp was also reciprocal. IMvid loved Jonathan as fervently as Jonathan loved him.

luuit Jonathan a mirror .of him who via from etendty the Son of QMI, the Son of a King, the Prince of the universe, laying aside the insignia of royalty —hla sceptre and his crown —in order to make us kings and priests unto Qod ? Is he not a "jCriend tbat sticketh CIUOT thim a brother ? " Does he not love you as he loves his own soul ? Has he not said, " Whatsoever thou desirest that will 1 do unto thee 1" Jonathan was a friend to his friend — this one the " friend of sinners."

In order to deserve a true friend, we must learn to be one. Slany of us lack Iriendship rather than friends. But there was a divine element in the Mendship of David and Jonathan. The solemn covenant of love was entered into, in the Lord. For Jonathan to break friendship with David would bo to tear asunder a divine bond, a denial of God himself, since he knew that Da\id w ^ as dear to Qod as the apple of his eye. Jonathan said to David, " The Lord be with thee as he has been with my lather. [The Lord had been with Saul, and given him tbe throne of Israel, and vic-tory after victory]. And thou shalt not only wiiile I live show me the kindness of the Lord that I die not, bat also thou shall not cut oft thy kind-ness from my house forever, not when the Lord hath cut off the enemies of David, every one of them, from the lace of the earth.'l What other hdr-apparent to an earthly throne e>-er gave such an exhiblUon of unselfishness? Without doubt he saw that David was God's anointed, but what nobleness to lay down his crown and aU his future greatness :it David's feet, for the Lord's sake! Somethiug noble shall yet be done for Jonathan's sake.

Where will you find such self-sacrificing submis-sion to the divine determination, Mendship so hallowed, self-abnegation so complete? No envy, no Jealousy, no indignation flaming np at David's exaltation in his place. Ahl tha?e ^ cmdal tests of love, divine seals of gennine Mendship.

W e an know how Jealous was King Saul of S K ^ because it had beeti heralded by tbe hosts

of Israel that Saul had slain his thousands, bat David his tens of thousands. We aU know how Saul hunted David like a partridge npon the mountains, and how Jonathan was as David's breastplate, to receive the Javdin ot his fiithec. Saul's, rather than IXivid's, breast should be its grave. See Jonathan at last, however, going oot of the royal palace, fbrsaklne father and mother, not merely to save his own life, but to save the life of another, whom he loved as_ himself. "Greater love bath no man than this, that tie lay down his life for his Mends." See Jonathan, as now he meets David, each pressing the other to his own bosom; tbe two hang weqjing in each other's arms, sealing their bond of firiondship with a warm brother kiss. But what a signat of peace as they now separate! Jonathan says, " Go in peace, for asmunh as we have swum, both of uN in the name of the Lord, saying, Tbe Lord be between me and thee, and betvi-een my seed and thy seed forever." Never did they meet again. On the heights of dewleaa Oilboa fell Saul and Jonathan, in battle —Jonathan by the hand of tbe enemy, Saul by his own sword, and bis shleld-bearta- like-Nvwe. One may read the sorrowful epitaph over the graveof King Saul In these exact words of h<dy writ: " So Saul died for his trani rossion which he committeil against the Lord, even against the Lord, which he kept not, and also tor isking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit to inquire of it, and inquired not of the Lord; therefore he slew kim and turned tbe kingdom unto David, the sonofJeaw." "The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high idact8,0,GtIboa! How aaetbe miglity fidlenl" Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided.

But how touching is the memorial of David's tender love to his fallen friend, saying, " I am dis-tressed for thee, my brother Jonathan. Very pleasant hast thou been unto me. Thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women."

In the book of Chronides mention is made of Jonathan's descendants, to thetwdfth generation, distinguished for their knightly virtaes, hundreds of years after their lilustrious ancestor. Pure, self-denying love was Jonathan's. He combined also perfect respect for bis fiitber, filial obedience, with a jart and lealous honor for Da\id—a peace-maker, a reconciler," fiiithful even unto deaUu"

But David became King in Saul's stead. Valiant in war, generous in peace, a man after God's own heart But will this man of God, flushed with victory upon victory, become vain, and proud, and forgetful of God? Nay, he lo<A3about«« ob-jects of benevolence. He says, " See now I dwdl in a house of cedar, iNit theark ot the Lord dweU-eth in curtains." So he arranges to build the TtemplefrfSf omon. But war comes again. The Philistines and Moabltes are on the wu-path. David comes off victor again. Will he now be lifted up with pride, or will hesetUedownatease? Not so. He thinks of Ids earlier days, and of his Mend Jonathan. Periiaps be says, "O, torrae day more with my bdoved Jonathan! O, for one boor of commmdon with him! Would he not eijoy my victories airf my honor? Bat, alas! Jonaihan is no more! I cannot Mess him for aU his kindnesB-he is gone, lorever gone!" But " Is there yet any that is left of the house of Saul, that I may shbw him kindness for Jonathan's sake?" Andthere was of the hooje of Saul a ser-vant, whose name was m a , and when tiiey. had called him onto David, the King sidd. Art thon ZSbtL And be said, Thy aayant is he. And tbe

King aaid. Is there not y ^ any e kindnfiM of God unto

ofthe house of

SaulT that! may show the him? And Ziba atki onto the King, Jonatlian hath yet a son, which ia lame in his feet. .

We shaU endeavor to .bring out more or kas plainly the fact that David waa not only the an* cestor of Cairist according to tte flaah, bat the type and peiBOoal prefiguration of the Mnwiah That which was tyidcal in David was not Umited to the general outline ot his appearance aa tbe theocratic King over IsrMlt bat it extended to hisindividual acts, dfcumstancea and experiences. Oonacioaaly octonoonacioa^, David, in his wal fior God'a hoaae, shadowed forth Christ His Palms are Maaatnnto- Thfi 22d, 41st and 69Ui are, word for word, ctwnptoitw repceaentations of the aaflbringa and lifiB of Christ, and theceby btieame Meaaianic prophecies. Tiie scene of M^hlbosheth is SIMO rick in tn>ical flgu^ There is in tbe wiiole ki-lowing narrative a prophetic prefigaration of Christ and tils peoide.

1. Who was MepUbosbeth? What was Me|>hi-bosbeth ? Where was Mephibosheth ?

Who vras he? He was the only aon of Jonathan yet Uylng. He WHS the gundwn of King Saul, the first-born of Jonathan, and for a long time the presumptive heir to the throne Israel. But why should David have sudi an interest in him ? He knew nothing of him personally. He started his inquiry altogetber ftom the aide of Joaathi n. He could no longer bless J(»iathaB,wbom be atill loved as beloved his own soal, so be wfll bleas Mephi-bosheth fat Jonathan, hla father^aake.

And so in bar d a ^ Ufb we are sIlzecehriBc blessingB, not tor our own sake only, bat also for ttiesake<tfotbeES. Wearealao giving bh—ings to others, not always for their sake, bot for the sake of another whom we loved. Yoa are very kind to a poor UtUe girt Yon watch for the child's coming. Many a pleasant sarpri» you prepare for the diild. Why? Is the child beanU-fill? Xo. Is the child a grajim? No. Why, then, all this care! Ah, how toaehibg tbe answer! A

Uttle giri of your own, whose body akeps in yon-der giave, vdiose spirit rests in yonder heavoi, caied for that little girl, k>ved her, playei with her. Yon tdees tiite UtOe gM for Mary^ sake, you are kind to the living for tbe sake of the dead. You are kind totheeged. Why? Pe^iasa be-cause you were not as kind to yoat own ag^ parents as you oi^t to bave been. Th^arewiw dead and gme—buried out of yoard^t forever.

Y<HI can ask no words of for^TenesB, make no amends to tbem pecsontOIy; yoa will thereEorv ever after be tender to tbe aged, for the sake of yonr aged dead.

Why is that father so genoous to that strange young man? It is for that young man's fiaher»B sake, who did a kindness to him wlu> now retoros the blessing. Why did that moUter goto tbe hos-pital in New York, daring our recent war, aad take oat a certain young man and convey him to ha own home, and hang ovor him day and night with a motbo's care and love, and watch iOm tqa-derly tm he died? Ah! that mother lu^ksra son In army, and wbBe he lay dck in tbe Soathon ho^tal, a mother csme and took idm to bet own home and cared fiCH- Urn till ttie ang^ wim»- Hence this Northern mother bleased tbe sick and dying soldier Tor a dead son's sake.

Bo yoa know thai God i ves TIS not a single

tdodng for oar own sake, Iwrlng tefettedaU? God grants ns every hlesdng Bar UsBon^aBlce. Who are we? Sons of aicingtiyereadian, heis ^Hflowt to ft oetaBtisl tiaones, y e t ^ fidtCB,!^