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SOUTH-WESTERN BAPTIST, Z X THE CHRISTIAN HERALD,
of Alabama. of Tennessee.
ESTABLISHED I 82,1.
Table of Contents.
First Page—Alabama Department: Domes
tic Board of Southern Baptist Conven
tion ; Freedom of Thought; The Religious
Press; Southern Baptist Theological Bern
inary.
Second Page.—Correspondence: Indian. Mis
sions of the Southern Baptist Convention
—No. 1. 8. Boykin ; Too Much Religion;
A Pleasant Meeting ; From Brunswick ;
Mrs. J. W. McCall; Jottings by the Way;
Ministers’ and Deacons’ Meeting ; Sunday
School Convention ; Coosa Association ;
Missionary Department.
Third Page.—Children's Corner; Bible Ex
plorations ; Enigmas; Correspondence.
Fourth Page.—Editorials: Unknowable
Standards ; Abraham's Prayer; Georgia
Baptist News.
Fifth Page—Secular Editorials : Iternatianal
Cotton Exposition; Books and Magazines;
Alexander at Gatschina —poetry —Charles
W.JHubner; Georgia News.
Sixth Page.—The Household; God Knows It
All—poetry; Home Topics ; Health Hints;
.Married People Would Be Happier; etc.
Seventh Page.—The Farmers’ Index : The
Weather and Crops; Taxation ; Small
Notes.
Eighth Page—Florida Department: Florida
Facts, Fancies and Figures; Letter from
Bartow—Prayer for the Sick, etc.; Re
ceipts of Florida Mission Board; The In
stitute of Melrose; An Appreciated Let
ter ; The True Test.
Alabama Department.
BY SAMUEL HENDERSON.
DOMESTIC BOARD OF SOUTHERN
BAPTIST CONVENTION.
. We cannot recur to the work of this
Board too often. From our point of
view, it cannot be over-estimated. We
could not attend the late meeting of
the Southern Baptist Convention at
• 'Columbus, Miss., but have read with
’ great interest its proceedings as report
ed in several papers* from which we
learn, no small pleasure, that the
' occupancy of cities, especially New
Orleans, is hereafter to be an object of
special concern to this Board. We have
time and again urged this particular
field to the attention of the Board as
being beyond all question a work of
paramount importance. The position
of New Orleans, its population, its com
mercial significance, and the fact that
it is byway of special pre-eminen
cy the Catholic city of the United
States, all contribute to make it a field
of more interest to us than any field
occupied by either of our Boards, For
eign or Domestic. It may be well to
explode a little rhetoric occasionally
over the “Eternal City”—to “curl”
somewhat about preaching the gospel
“under the shadow of the Vatican” —
about “standing where Paul stoojl eigh
teen centuries ago to ‘preach the gospel
to them that are at Rome also’,” etc.
Now, we would not say aught to abate
the interest of any Christian in this or
any other portion of our foreign field.
But then what, if there be a city in the
heart of our own Sunny South—a city
whose population and commercial im
portance transcends that of any other
city at least in the Gulf States-in which
the power and authority of the “Man of
Sin," the Pope, are well nigh as influ
ential to-day as they are in the city of
the Caesars- what if, at her Catholic
“carnivals,” her “Mardi-Gras” celebra
tions, the people for five hundred miles
are attracted to this outer court of her
abominations under the plea that it is
only a season of pleasant recreation,
what if nineteen-twentieths of this
Cresent City are given up to the delu
sions of this seven-headed beast—can
any work that can appeal to our Chris
tian philanthropy surpass that which
aims to rescue such a city from the
blighting grasp of this “mother of har
lots?” Realize it, Christian reader,
that so far as our denomination is con
cerned, we have barely one Baptist
church in this grand Southern empor
ium with a population largely over
two hundred thousand! Yes, and that
church struggling for existence! Why,
if the Domestic and Home Board
should devote its whole energies for
the next five or ten years to this field
alone, and be instrumental in planting
one self-sustaining church annually, it
would be a work worthy of all the time
and the means, the men and the
money, expended in the enterprise.
Why, only think of it—one little Bap
tist church in the emporium of the
South with a population of over two
hundred thousand, the principal city
of a country in which the Baptist de
nomination claims to surpass in num
erical strength any other denomination!
The very statement of the proposition
ought flush our cheeks with shame,'
and arouse our people to do something
in that city worthy of their, members,
their piety and their intelligence.
Work for Christ, like all other work
successfully prosecuted, must assume
some distinct, tangible shape. No
matter how much land a practical far
mer owns, he clears up and incloses no
more than he can cultivate profitably.
It is all proper for the Christian to
realize that “the field is the world,”
that it all belongs by purchase to his
great spiritual Husbandman, and that
in the end. it is all to*be subdued and
occupied by His under-husbandmen.
But if we all stand gazing at the im
mense field, speculating how and when
it is to be “subdued to the obedience of
the faith,” never meanwhile putting,
forth any efforts to compass the end,
we shall have no share in the grand
work, all our speculations to the con
trary notwithstanding. Each one must
check off some portion of work that
comes within his capacity. We must,
each for himself, to use a familiar il
lustration, apply a microscope to the
portion of the field we enter, and thus,
as the Apostle says, “magnify our of
fice,” not beyond its real dimensions to
be sure, for that cannot be done; but
to bring it up to something like its
real magnitude.
Now, we apply the same idea to
combinations that we do to individu
als. By selecting wisely, and cultivat
ing efficiently its fields of labor, our
Boards, both Foreign and Domestic,
and especially the latter, will enlist
what we are all aiming to do, the
general co-operation of the denomina
tion. Suppose our Domestic Board
should resolve to make New Orleans a
specialty—suppose it should apply our
“microscope” to that vast city, viewing
it as a great centre, sending out its in
fluence, for good or evil, over the
whole South—suppose that Board
realizing in adequate measure, that in
evangelizing that city, it would be lay
ing its hand upon the very sensorium
of Commercial, social and moral life in
our broad land, and that in purifying
that, the pulsation of a new spiritual
power would be sent over a broader
surface than could emanate from any
other centre, ean any one doubt that
a work so important and yet so prac
tical could fail to commend itself to
the confidence and active sympathy
of all our brethren? We should all
feel in that case, that the Board was
doing a work not unworthy of the de
nomination. We should feel that our
efforts to send the gospel to any foreign
field could not surpass, in present or
prospective importance, this grand ob
ject. Nay, let us say in conclusion,
that in so far as patriotism can be sup
posed to increase the obligation which
Christianity .inspires, it takes preced
ence of any other field outside of our
own country; and it is impossible to
conceive of a combination of motives
that could so stir a pious heart to its
deepest depths as those w’hich religion
and patriotism supply. That sensibil
ity that would resist these, is proof
against any motive which three worlds
can inspire.
“PRE EDOM OF THOUGHT.’’
That was a very happy maxim of
Mr. Jefferson that “error may be toler
ated when truth is left free to combat
it.” But a hundred and fifty years be
fore Jefferson’s day, Milton had said
that although “all the winds of error
be let loose, so truth be in the field,
you do misjudge her if you misdoubt
her strength.” Perhaps there is not a
more inalienable right with which God
has endowed our race than a man’s
right to himself, soul, body and spirit—
the right to exercise functions, powers,
affections, etc., which he has derived
directly from his Maker. Os course all
this is under the jurisdiction of law,
both human aqd divine, since liberty
unrestrained by law would degenerate
into licentiousness. And obvious as
this truth is to our people, to all men
who dare to be free, it is the last thing
despotism, ecclesiastical or civil, has
yielded—or rather, it is the last thing
that has been extorted from tyranny by
“pike and bullet.” In the celebrated
“civil war” of England, we mean the
war between Charles J and Parliament,
things got so hot for the king that he
quit Whitehall and fled to the country,
and sent his family to a place of safety.
Many messages passed between him
and the Parliament, the Parliament
begging him, "Will your majesty grant
us power of the militia, and accept this
list of Lord-Lieutenants?” No answer
except evasions and subterfuges. At
length the last overture came—“ Could
not your majesty please to grant us
power of the militia for a limited time?”
“No!” answered the haughty king, with
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1881.
a blasphemous oath, “not for an hour!”
That answer sealed his fate, and, in the
end, gave liberty to England; for his
majesty never thereafter returned to
Whitehall but once, and that was as a
prisoner “to lay down his head there.”
The emancipation of the intellect
from the shackles of despotism has been
a gradual, difficult and painful process.
How many slow-movingcenturies rolled
on before that great principle began to
assert itself in human legislation, that
where “the dominion of the conscience
begins, the dominion of mere secular
power ends.” What seas of blood has
it cost its friends for its present tom
mandingposition in Christendom! Nor
even is the victory won in all its pleni
tude. The menacing form of the
world’s tyrant, "the Man of Sin,” still
towers in massive repulsiveness in the
dim distance, stained with the blood of
fifty millions of martyred saints.
But, then, kings and popes are not
the only despots who attempt to rule
the minds of men. The real freemen
here and elsewhere are yet the merest
remnants and minorities. It is not a
little refreshing to meet one of these
independent thinkers, who has never
“asked any man’s pardon for being in
the world,” and who, with due modesty,
speaks his sentiments with all the con
sciousness of real personal convictions
—who never “crooks the knee that
thrift may follow fawning,” but who,
without arrogance, speaks his mind
with a quiet dignity that commands
the respect and confidence of all—who,
conceding with cheerfulness the rights
to all other persons he claims for him
self, maintains his own personal identi
ty in every circle, as if he were, as
Novalis expresses it,-“an incarnated
idea,” that never could be anything
more or less .than he is. ’We have
sometimes thought that if our Northern
fellow-'citizens could once come to real
ize that we of the South are folks—
living,- moving entities—that we lytve
personal convictions, and have' some
dim consciousness of what citizenship
means in this grand confederation of
States—it would save them a deal of
trouble in undertaking to do our think
ing for us. We once witnessed a rather
amusing incident in a colloquial con
troversy between two very good men
of different denominational views. The
one had a rather mercurial tempera
ment, and s iemed always to feel that
others ought to see truth just as he
saw it. The other was a quiet, yet
firm, decided Christian, fully satisfied
with his creed. Our mercurial friend
belabored him some time for his sup
posed errors, until our patient friend
responded in his blandest manner—
“ Brother 8., I reckon it isn’t worth
while for you and me to try to convert
one another at this time of life. I sup
pose we shall live and die just what we
are.” Os course there was a rather
abrupt termination to that controversy.
We rather guess our Northern brethren
had better quit trying to convert us.
We are very much "set in our ways.”
Ordination of Deacon.—At a meet
ing appointed for Mt. Zion church,
Calhoun county, Ala., embracing the
fifth Lord’s day in May and Saturday
before, a presbytery composed of the
pastor, Rev. W. S. Griffin and Samuel
Henderson, met to ordain Samuel W.
Crook to the office of deacon. Exam
ination of the candidate on Saturday
by the write?, and being found quali
fied, it was resolved to set him apart on
Sabbath to that work by the usual ex
ercises. Sermon on the necessities, the
qualification and duties of deacons by
the writer, prayer by brother Griffin,
and charge by the writer. After whiqh
the entire church extended to brother
Crook the hand of fellowship in token
of their confidence and their intention
to co-operate with him in the duties of
his office. The whole exercises were
impressive, solemn and, we hope, profit
able, and were attended by an unusu
ally large congregation. We doubt not
that brother Crook will “fill the office
of a deacon well, and purchase to him
self a good degree.”
Cuthbert Ga. Enterprise: We, the
Senior, spent the latter part of last
week in Eufaula, assisting Mr. Wam
boldt in a series of meetings in the Bap
tist church. Eleven were baptized
Friday night, and six more on Sabbath
night. Mr. Wamboldt promised if we
would go over and preach for him
Sunday night, he would give us as
good an audience as we gave him here
just a week since, and he kept his word
and went beyond it. The meeting i?
still in progress. We are glad to see
Mr. Wamdoldt enjoying the confidence
and affection of his people in so large
a degree.
The Baptist church in Eufaula, is
’one of the largest and most influential
in Alabama. Its Sunday-school is the
most sprightly we have seen for a long
time. Under the able care of Mr.
Wamboldt, the church is building up
in all its interests. The congregation,
already very large, is steadily increas
ing-
The Religious Press.
Nothing could be more to our mind
than the following from the Associate
Reformed Presbyterian: «
Tasts Against Judgment.—ls a word or
phraselby mistake, slips into the authorized
version of the Scriptures, and if this mistake
is handed down through many centuries and
becomes associated with thought that is very
tender, and awakens emotions that are both
pleasing and precious, is not the word or
phrase thus venerable from its antiquity and
held in reverential regard by so many good
and pious people for so long a time almost,
if not entirely inspired ? We should say
not, even if the time were extended to a
million times the longest of the geological
ages, and the sacredness and.tenderness and
reverence wero a million times greater. We
see many criticisms on the Revision that
have underlying them this very notion. It
is an application of the evolution theory
which Darwin never dreamed of. A hu
man phrase by long usage is developed into
, inspiration ! The right word in a transla
tion of the Scriptures is to be determined
by sanctified scholarship, but by the
moss of antiquity, which may have gathered
about it! We submit that this is a matter
to be decided not by taste but by judgment,
, not by what pleases the ear, but by what
expresses in simplest language the meaning
of the original. We want to know exactly
What the inspired men wrote, and not what
someone thinks they ought to have written.
We want a version, and not a revelation.
. The man Kalloch, Baptist preaqher
(so-called) and pastor of a so-called
i aptiat church in California, is mayor
0f the city of San Francisco. The city
1) ■ until passed an ordinance prohibit
ing lotteries, and the man Kalloch ve
toed the ordinance. Here is his veto
message:
I am compelled to return order 1,626 with
out my approval. Fortunately, ap I consid
er it, and unfortunately, as you may con
sider it, I happen, to be minister, as well as
mayor; and, therefore, I am compelled to
object to any such interference with therev
enue of the churches of this city as order
1,626 would seem to interpose.
A majority of two thirds could not
be had to pass the ordinance over the
veto; hence, gambling is legal in San
Francisco by the influence of “a Bap
tist preacher.” What a pity that he
should be so called!
A Texas newspaper thinks the only way
to stop whisky drinking in the state is to
substitute some lighter beverage. Possibly
we could rid the state of horse stealing in
the same way—by substituting hog stealing,
for instance!—Christian Messenger.
The wit is better than the logic.
Non conformist preachers have one ad
vantage in England, over clergymen of the
Church of England or Catholic priests.
They can serve in Parliament, while all
other “clergymen” are prohibited. British
law does not recognize “clergymen” outside
of the Catholic and Episcopal churches.
The “clergy” are ambitious to have their
disability removed, but a bill to this end has
been rejected in the House of Commons.
As the law stands it will not admit either
Atheists or “clergymen.”—Evangelist.
The discontent in Europe and the growth
of emigration are due to the wretched condi
tion of the laboring masses. Alfred Russel
Wallace, the distinguished British author
and scientist, says that the status of the sav
ages in the Malay Archipelago is superior in
every way to that of the lower classes in
Great Britain. His statement is based upon
actual observation in both hemispheres. The
agricultural laborer fares worse than the
rich man’s horses or cattle. This is true not
only of Great Britain, but of most European
countries.—Evangelist.
Yet the world is shedding tears over
the “treatment” of the “colored peo
ple” at the “South.” In the days of
slavery, now happily gohe, they were
better cared for than any other people
of their class in the world ; and now
they are in better condition in propor
tion to the amount of work they do
than any class of laborers of whom we
have any knowledge; such, at least, is
our opinion.
A correspondent of the New York
Tribune, speaking of the frightful Ku-
Klux stories which that very paper
was so prompt to publish a few years
ago, has the following:
I do not mean that this represents or des
cribes anything that ekisted generally, or
throughout the South. It appears to be
certain that the history of the “Ku Klux
outrage” abounds in enormous exaggera
tions, as might be expected in any similar
condition of things. I satisfied myself in
several instances, by strict inquiry, that
particular outrages had not only been great
ly magnified in the transmission of descrip
tions of them through a succession of nar
rators, but that the scene or place of the
same outrage was sometimes located in sev
eral different regions. There was enough
—there was much—of horrible wrong and
outrageoftbe helpless and innocent. No
body that I can find in the South seems to
have the least disposition to deny, conceal or
excuse these out rages or this part of the work
ofthe “Klan.” It is generally admitted,
never defended. But everybody says alike,
and intelligent negroes most emphatically of
all, that the published stories and general
Northern ideas of the Klan outrages were dis
torted and exaggerated.
The Northern people grow tired of
hearing these silly stories, and so they
are thrown aside. In a few years,
when political capital can again be
made of them, they will be revived.
The people of the State of Pennsylvania
experienced a feeling of relief last Friday
morning when they learned that during the
night the Legislature of the State had ad
journed. For more than five months this
body had been bringing itself and the whole
commonwealth into disrepute. The early
part of the session had been spent in doing
none of the things for which a legislature is
chosen. After the election pf a United
States Senator, personal squabbles and bick
erings occupied much time to the great dis
credit of those engaged in them, and the real
interests of the public received attention du
ring only the last few days of the session. It
is hoped that the constituents of a good
many of those who composed the late Legis
lature will be careful to seep them at home
during the remainder of their lives, as they
have most conclusively demonstrated their
unfitness to discharge thejduties of legislators.
If the people will elect such men as toese,
they must not be surprised nor complain be
cause of such scenes as were witnessed at
Harrisburg last Winter and this Spring. The
remedy is in their hands, and if they fail to
apply it they must suffer the consequences.
—Presbyterian Banner.
We are sorry that the good people
of Pennsylvania have been so afflicted.
Perhaps the reason of it is, that they
have given so much of their attention
to the affairs of their Southern neigh
bors that they have neglected their
own interests at home. But we heart
ily join with our Presbyterian brother
in appealing to the people everywhere
to send none but men of integrity and
capacity to their legislative bodies. As
to the political parties, neither of them
we think, should claim a monopoly of
virtue; yet the claim is often made in
certain quarters.
The following interchange ot fraternal
greeting was had between the Northern Bap
tists, who held their annual meeting at, In
dianapolis, Indiana, and the Southern Bap
tists, who convened at Shelbyville, Ken
tucky :
Northern Baptists send greetings and refer
to Isaiah xliii. 6,6: “Fear not, for J am
with thee ; I will bring thy seed from the
east, and gather thee from the west. I will
say to the North—Give up, and to the South
keep not back, bring my sons from far, and
my daughters from the ends of the earth.”
Southern Baptists at Shelbyville respond,
returning Christian greeting, and refer to
Song ot Solomon, iv. 16: “Awake, 0 North
wind, and come thou South ; blow upon my
garden, that the spices thereof may flow out.
Let my beloved come into his garden and
eat his pleasant fruits.”
The Index approves of the kindly
feeling which prompted the mutual
greeting, but disapproves of the abuse
and perversion of Scripture by both
parties. All such play upon words is
trifling with the word of God.
When two souls have once consented to
partnership in evil they are thenceforth sin
gularly powerless to help each other in the
direction of goodness. The guilty secret
strikes them with moral paralysis and
dumbness —Christian Advocate.
It is often hard to keep up religious
service in the family because each one
knows that the inconsistency of his
life is known to all the others; and in
general, consciousness of our own guilt
and the knowledge that much of it is
public keeps us from making religious
appeals to others.
Simultaneously with the publication of
the revised version of the New Testament
Drs. Westcott and Hort published what is
believed by scholars to be the best and criti
cally the most accurate Greek text of the
New Testament which is anywhere to be
had. This text is exclusively founded upon
documentary evidence, and not at all upon
any printed text, Messrs. Harper & Broth
eis have nearly ready an edition of this
work. They have in preparation also an
other edition of Westcott & Hort’s tejri to
be printed with the revised English - version
upon the opposite pages. With this and the
work already published, containing the two
English versions side by side, every reader
will have the means of critical comparison
in the most convenient form, and can deter
mine for himself the comparative merits of
the two English versions, by subjecting them
to the test of the best Greek text.—N. Y.
Observer.
One who wishes to make himself
master of the situation may possibly do
so, by purchasing these books and ma
king proper and long continued use
of them.
Mormonism.—A correspondent of
the N. Y. Observer, says that Prof. J.
M. Couger, President of the Salt Lake
Collegiate Institute, recently delivered
a discourse in Cincinnati. The sub
ject was “Mormonism: the disease and
cure”:
Prof. Conger remarked that when, six
years ago, he went to Utah, he regarded pol
ygamy as a boil on the body politic, to be
VOL. 59.— NO. 25.
poulticed a.little and easily healed; but now,
after a six years’ experience, he has been
compelled to regard it as a canoer extending
to the very vitals of that same body politic.the
roots of which are spreading in all directions
threatening social death. The moral plague
is spreading with an alarming rapidity.
Utah Mormonism is not the Mormonism
that is described out of the Territory by its
six or eight hundred missionaries, at an an
nual expense of a million of dollars, but a
kingdom of itself, thoroughly organized
from its hierarch down to the lowest sub
ject,and whose avowed object is tooverthrow
Christianity and our republican institutions
at the same time; and tney boast that in
fifteen years that result will be accomplish
ed. Mormonism gives the sanction of relig
ion to the lowest appetites and basest pas-,
sions. The Professor said that the most
profane and vulgar man he had ever met was
Brigham Young. He spoke of the debased
condition of the women and children. They
have nd schools and no benevolent institu
tions. Within six years the Presbyterian
Church has organized in the Territory eighty
churches and twenty-three schools, all of
which had been done and maintained by ,
contributions from Eastern churches. He
said one-third of the territory of the United
States is virtually under Mormon control.
Over Utah as a centre they hold absolute
sway. They are masters in Arizona, Idaho,
and Wyoming, and are swiftly and surely
moving on Montana and Washington Terri
tories, and politically in Nevada and Colors*
do they hold the balance of power. The
picture drawn by the Professor is frightful to
contemplate.
The foillowing from'the Herald and
Presbyter will be read with interest.
The facts stated should be taken into
the account in all endeavors to solve
the problem of the negro:
Wm. Nesbit, an intelligent negro, who has
returned from Liberia, and is now a notary
public at Altoona, Pa., gives a sad account
of the present condition of the Republic. He
says: "Slavery as abject and far more mer
ciless than is to be found almost anywhere
else, exists there universally,” the slaves
being purchased from their parents for from
$8 to sls each, as they become Old and large
enough to work. The Government, entirely
in the hands of the colored people, is marked
with incapacity, corruption, mismanages
ment and disaster. The Republic is finan
cially bankrupt. An English writer, Krft.
Johnson, said to be good authority on, Af
rican matters, said, in 1872:
In place of having exercised a civilizing
influence over the natives, the American ne
groes seemed to have only relapsed into bar
barism. The schools are in a deplorable con
dition, morally at a low ebb, and the people
generally, oppressed with heavy taxes, are
lazy and indolent. The Liberia College, es
tablished by Christian philanthropists from
Boston and elsewhere some years ago, is a
failure, and the buildings erected at great
expense have been allowed to go to ruin.
We would fain hope these statements are
exaggerated, or that since the date of 1872
there is some improvement. The election
of a President and Vice-President ofthe
Republic is just announced. The offlcqrs
elect are pledged to the education of the
masses, the incorporation of native tribes into
the body politic, the expulsion of rum and
alcohol, etc. This announcement would
seem to throw some rays of light over the
dark shadow above presented. ‘ Let us hope
for the best.
SOUTHERN BAPTIST THEOLOGI
CAL SEMINARY.
It gives us pleasure to announce to
the friends of the Southern Baptist
Theological Seminary that the sum of
two huudred thousand dollars has been
secured in good corporate and personal
bonds and cash towards the permanent
endowment fund, and other amounts
will yet be added from subscriptions
made. It is hoped the friends of the
Seminary will, from time to time, by
donation and bequests, continue to add
liberally to this permanent endowment
fund (the income of which can alone
be used), until the income reaches a
sufficient amount to meet all the ex
penses of the Seminary.
It should be also born in mind that
suitable buildings should be erected,
and we trust such steps may be taken
at the proper time as will lead to this
end by liberal contributions for that
especial purpose.
G. W. Norton, Ch’n.
Arthur Peter.
Theodore Harriet.
Jno. B. McFEftkiS 1 .
Wm. F. Norton.
—Church items from the Columbus
Times: Again last Sunday a large
number of people attended the Various
houses of worship. Regular services
were held at all the churches and
congregations were entertained by
cellent sermons. The usual op^ Q a j r
services were held on Mott’s G\ €en an j
a large number were
After the sermon at< at the
First Baptist church ( r 6v a. B. Camp
bell baptized fifteen candidates.
Rev. Green McArthur, of the colored
Baptist ch’arch, baptized about thirty
five candidates in the river Sunday
afternoon, and Rev. 0. H. Jackson
colored, pastor of Shady Grove Baptist
church, baptized forty-one in the river
above the City Mills.
The District of Columbia rejoices in
ten white and thirty-two colored Ban
tist churches. 1
