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For the Working CtirfetUui. s, > ; ^
TOO BAD TO UOMK TO JESUS.
The human family manifest more stupidity
in religious matters than every thing else to
golher. No one ever heard of an individual
being so sick with a liodily disease, as not tc
Jtsire some relief. Usually, men are the more
urgent to secure relief in proportion to theii
sufferings. With regard to the disease of the
soul, the mode of procedure is the very re
verse1. M»*n who are covered all over with
i lie leprosy of sin and indifferent whether
their souls die or live—such a sjiectacle is
sufficient to make angels weep. Often we
h<$ir those who are in the high way to perdi
tion calmly declaring that they are “too had
to come to Jesus.”
Poor devil-deluded sinner; Jesus died to
save sinners. The greater yoursins, the more
need you have of a Saviour. Tim more hein
ous your crimes against the law and justice
of (Jod, the greater haste you should make iu
Hying to Christ Your very “badness” is the
reason you should go to the Saviour. If you
\i*-re not a sinner, you would not uecd him;
hut since you are a sinner, resting under God’s
displeasure, and Christ is the Saviour of sin
ners, your duty and privilege is to go to him.
The day is not far distant in every sinner’s
history when he will cease to say “I am too
had to go to Jesus.” Instead of these words
which are so insulting to (Hod and wounding
to the blessed Saviour, he will utter the dole
ful words, “I knew my duty but did it not.”
•Sinner, say not you are to had to come to
Jesus. It insults his goodness and grieves the
1 lnl v Spirit. Jesus offers himself as your me
diator. He desires your salvation. Why die
u ith a lie in your mouth ? Why live damned
and die damned for your own neglect? Jesus
has no delight in your everlasting destruction.
No, He would rejoice in your coming to Him
to be saved.
The angels in heaven would rejoice at your
renting.
“Sinner your “badness” need not keep you
i>ut of heaven, blit it will most assuredly do it,
unless you come to Jesus. . L.
For the Working Christian•
<;o FORWARD.
Being present while a minister was holding
forth the principles of the gospel to an assem
bly, seated in a grove on a winter day, I was ]
forcibly impressed with a remark he made
in reproving some young men who were leav
ing the stand. The theme of his discourse ;
was Christian Progress. While forcibly 1
urging this imj>ortant duty, some young men ;
arose and started towards a fire near by. The j
minister seeing them, says. “Go fonvard, but i
not to the fire," the young men turned their j
course and passed on. While we as Christians j
are going forward in onr lives, should we not, j
be careful that we go (forward but) not to
the fire—to envy, hatred, covetousness, pride,
worldly lusts and pleasures. These things !
will consume, will burn up our usefulness. ;
As the pattern for others, let us turn our
course from these things, avoiding them ns we
would the desolating flame. Sinners, “go
forward,” but not to the fire of sin, which will
lead you down to the eternal fire that is never
quenched. Turn your course towards Christ.
(»o forward in the path that leads to eternal
life beyond the grave. DARBY.
LETTER FROM MARIOS COUNTY.
Brother Napier writes, in substance, as fol
lows :
I can get names for the paper: but I can
not 'get the money yet. Should you go on j
with the publication, as soon as there is mon
ijy in the country from the growing crop, I
think I can succeed to some extent; but, real
lv, we are living without money just now.
There is none in the country. The taxes
have absorbed it—I may say all or nearly all
—and many persons will not be able to pay.
We have suffered very much from the recent
drought; the corn crop looks badly, but cot
ton is looking well. I think the time of hold
ing the Convention is unpropitious; the fall
or winter would be better. The people would
have the means to travel with and the attend
ance would be lietter. I will write again,
when I have something to send. I think the
credit system is ruinous and will not do. I
would say in addition to my opinion of the
useful contents of the paper, that I am pleased
with the mechanical work. It is a luxury to
read such print—so open and distinct.
FELLOWSHIP ONE WITH ANOTHER.
The above is the title of a sermon by broth
er ,I(»seph E. Carter, pastor of the Baptist
Church of Huntsville, Alabama. It is from
the text, “But if we walk in the light as he is
in the light, we have fellowship, one with an
other,” (1 Jolm i. 7.)
In the extract which we give below, he al
ludes, (as it will be seen) to the influence of
wealth and fashion on the conduct of some
Christians towards others. What he says Is
alas! too true. Many professors of religion
seem to forget, that Christians are members
one body, even the hotly of Christ their
common Redeemer. They act towards those
who are in less favored circumstances than
themselves, as the Pharisees acted towards the
jmbli ans in the time of the Saviour. The
language of each of these with respect to the
le«« favored brother or sister seems to be
“stand off for I am holier than thou,” They
act as if they had forgotten that the same
grace that saved the one also saved the other.
»• The love of Christ “eoustraineth us,” and
brings into sweet communion the learned and
unlearned, the rich and the poor, the gnv
dressed and poorly clad, and fixes a congeni
ality, dearest of all on artli, between the j
palace and the hovel, the cushioned divan and
an unpainied chair, the crowded book shelf j
and the w xxlman’s axe. He who called Doc
tor Luke and Fisherman Peter, Rich Zache
us and Poor Lazarus, Dionysius the Areopa
gite, and John the unlettered, Damaris of
Athens, and the woman of Syrophenicia, calls
now, a people of all classes, and makes them
one in interest, one in pur]lose, one in hope,
and 'me in Christian love to each other.
Yes, blessed be Cod I while the spheres
of social life -will and' must arrange them
selves as the earth’s strata, the religion of
■ Jesus, in its fellowship of Christian love strikes
I through these spheres and brings heart to
1 heart in sweet communion as the waters
j which jKTineatc the earth’s strata, collect in
I one fountain and hurst forth in gushing, cool
: ing streams*
j But, what do we often see among professed
'Christians? The rich church member has
but little to do with his poor brother. The
fashionable pew must set out some of God’s
honest poor. The hard handed laboring
brother must touch cautiously the kid glove
j of his cultivated brother. Aye, often, in the
same church, the rich and the poor are hardly
acquainted the one with the other. Our latter
day Christianity verifies Solomon’s Proverb:
“Wealth maketh many friends, but the poor
is separated from his neighbor,” and we may
add, fashion maketh many friends, but the
unfashionable is separated from his neighbor.
Position maketh many friends, but the humble
in life is separated from his neighbor.
How the apostle James presses this truth
home when ho says that, to the rich man in
tine apparel, the word is “sit thou here but
to the poor man, the word is, “stand thou
there.” My dear brethren, conformity to this'
world has thus separated the rich from the
poor, often in the same church. The fellow
ship for one another, which should bring all
classes near to each other in Christian love,
and make each feel pleasant and happy in the
other’s society, has been dissipated by the
abominable customs and conventionalities of
this low world. “High-flying,” “silk stock
ing” religion seems'to be craved by the many,
and they will have no religion which does not
walk in silver slippers. Oh, what will these
people do with the Carpenter's son f These
people who nre not one in Christian love from
all classes and grades of society, are not walk
ing in the light of God. ’ /
RELIGIOUS ITEMS.
The Baptist.—The Baptist, Memphis, has
enteral upon its third volume with a subscrip
tion of 6,000. . .
Household Baptism.—A household of
eight persons was immersed recently, upon a
profession of faith, at AVilliamsviJle, New
York.
Death ok Rev. R. K. Porter.—The
Rev. Rufus K. Porter, pastor of the Central'
(Presbyterian) church, died at Atlanta, Gn.,
on tlie 14th ult.
Baptisms.—We learn that Rev. A. IV
Norris has recently baptized some 50 or more,
at Graniteville, where he is pastor. There
were, a few weeks since, a number of acces
sions, by baptism, to the Citadel .Square:
Church, Charleston.
Calvary Baptist Church of Washing- :
ton.—The Calvary Baptist Church dedicated |
their rebult edifice, corner of Eighth and H !
streets, last Sabbath, with appropriate ser- j
vices morning and evening. The day was |
intensely hot, yet every seat was occupied.
Rev. W. T. Brantly.—The Christian
Index (Atlanta) says: “Rev. Win. T. Brantly,
pastor of the Second Baptist Church of this
city, delivered an interesting and eloquent
sermon on temperance last Sabbath evening
to an unusually large congregation.”
Infidelity.—Rev. Rowland Connor, Uni
versalist, at the last Conference of Free Relig
ionists, Boston, styled “Bible legends and
nursery tales, twin brothers,” and said that
“the most important question is not whether
a man shall be saved by the blood of Christ,
but whether his own blood flows healthily.”
Change in Theological Professor
ship.—Dr. Arnold, of Madison University,
has accepted the Professorship of Biblical
Literature in the Theological Seminary at
Chicago. Dr. A mold stands equally eminent
as a scholar and a Christian gentleman, and
his ace ission to any institution is a very posi
tive gain.
religious Persecution in Portugal.—
Religious liberty is something which is not
very well known in Portugal. - A Scotch
merchant at Oporto was lately sentenced to
six years’ banishment by the Portuguese Gov
ernment for teaching Protestant doctrines
in his own house. In no other country in
Europe, the Papal States excepted, could such
a thing occur now, and it lotuis as though a
revolution was needed in Portugal.
Baptists in Paris.—The Baptists in Paris,
France, have a congregation of two hundred,
and need greatly a house of worship. It is
suggested that wealthy American Baptists,
visiting that city, would greatly strengthen
the denomination bj contributing liberally to
the erection of a church which might be a
gathering place for Baptist visitors from
other lands, and thus lead to an acquaintance
and communion with brethren from various
countries.
Our Seminary.—We obtain the following
information from the Christian Index: The
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary,
Greenville, declines the proposition from the
trustees of Union University to remove to
Murfreesboro, Tenri. v The chief reason is,
that the funds contributed by South Carolina
to tlie endowment vf tlic PeuillISC COI1
tributed on condition that they should, in ease
of its removal from Greenville, be turned over}
to Furman University.
Mr. Bpugeon and Infants.—Mr. Spur
geon has found it necessary to deny formally
the oft-repeated slander that he believes
“there are infants in hell a span long.” He,
says : “1 have always believed in the salva
tion of all infants; and I intensely detest the
opinions which your opponent dared to at
tri’iute to me. I do not believe that on this
earth there is a single professing Christian
holding the damnation of infants; or, if there
be, he must be insane or utterly ignorant of
Christianity,”
Church and State.—A Low-Church
Episcopalian, Rev. Mr. Cheney, of Chicago,
felt constrained in conscience to leave out a
word in administering liaptism which declared
the child “regenerate.” For this oftence he
was brought to trial by his High-Church
Bishop. His counsel, who are lawyers, after
other objections had been over-ruled, obtained
an injunction from the Civil Court, and had
it formally served upon the Ecclesiastical
Court, forbidding it to proceed any further!
Well done for the “free North !” “Hast thou
appealed unto. Ciesar? Unto Caesar shalt
thou go.” . -v • J■■ v - • :-“I ?
Foreign Missions.—The Home and For
eign Journal of August says: “We must in
crease our force in the Foreign fields. Brother
Phillips and Reid are expecting to return to
Africa in the fall, Three men ought to be
sent to China. ' But where are these three
men ? Are none to be found in all out South
ern States, breathing a large hearted mission
ary spirit, with suitable intelligence, and
soundness of judgment, who are willing to
offer themselves ? But will the churches be
i willing to sustain this increased force ? Yes,
they will. We - have confidence that God
will put it into the hearts of his people to
give willingly, as lie has prospered them.’1
The Garden of Eden.—A London letter
to the Scribner’s New York Book Buyer con
tains the following: “Sir Heury Rawiinson,
at the last meeting of the Royal Asiatic So
ciety, gave the remarkable announcement
that the progress now reached in the collec
tion and arrangement of the Nineveh ■ in
scribed fragment, made it beyond a doubt
that they would be able to derive the whole
of the history given hi the Book of Genesis,
from the time of Abraham, from the original
documents; and it was not too much to cr
pect that almost the same facts and descrip
tions would be found in the Babylonian docu
ments as in the Bible. He hoped very soon
to have ready a paper on the Garden of Eden,
in-which he would show that was the natural
name of Babylon. The rivers bore the very
same names, and the Babylonian documents
gave an exact geographical account of the
Garden of Eden. The Flood and the Tower
of Babel woidd be found to be most amply
illustrated in the Babylonian documents.”
DOMESTIC MISSIONS. ' : "
TO THE BAPTISTS OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
Dear Brethren: We cannot address you in
person, upon the great subjects that mutually
interest us as Baptists—that pertain to the
welfare of our common Zion, and the perma
nent good of our people; therefore we employ
this medium, and ask your prayerful atten
tion—this we have never failed to secure—
and with it your warm and earnest support.
Never has there been a time since the organ
ization of the Southern Baptist Convention,
when your prompt and generous co-operation
was more earnestly demanded, or your confi
dence more fully deserved.
The balance rejxirted to the Convention in
May, as due our former missionaries, is well
nigh provided for, when the Board shall real
ize, as it holies to in a few months, the sub
scriptions already made, and the legacies of
brethren Robert and McCutchen. When
these are paid there will remain only about
82,300 to be provided for, to moet all the lia
bilities of the Board, to May 1st, 1869.
We should, then, feel encouraged, so far as
our past indebtedness is concerned. This has
hindered our work, for we have been very
anxious to relieve our brethren that have had
claims upon us for past service. This dis
posed of, what prevents our advance ? The
field is white unto the harvest, the laborers
are at hand. It is necessary only that the
means should be at our disposal, with the
blessing of God, to secure the most happy
results. In all the Southern States there arc
large tracts of country unsupplied with the
gospel ministry. Many of our brethren and
sisters do not hear a sermon in years. One
great evil of this is, that good men, in order
to have some religious associations for them
selves and families, connect themselves with
other denominations, and arc lost to the Bap
tist cause. Is it not our duty to supply their
lack ? Gladly would they hail the coming of
an earnest and intelligent minister of their
own faith. The irreligious and profane, too,
have a claim upon our sympathy and labors.
The mission of the Saviour was to publicans
and sinners.
Our attention was specially called, by the
Convention in Macon, to the spiritual wants
of the Indians and Germans, and Freedmen
in our midst. In addition to these, there is
another class that are likely to constitute a
considerable element of our Southern popula
tion, the Chinese. Some 5,000 are now, we
are informed, on their way from the Pacifij
coast to New Orleans and other points, to
labor upon Southern plantations. Over 100,
000 Chinese arc to be found in California,
and they are arriving monthly by thousands,
to make America their future home. Does
not Providence indicate our duty ? Shall not
provision be made for their education and
religious instruction? Otherwise they must
remain in heathenism, and commit their
abominations under the very shadow of our
dwellings.
■l-LilVt5 Y>K, LIKIlj UllJ'imug LU UU, IU UOIlg
the increasing thousands gathering annually
upon our American soil, to Christ, the only
Saviour of a guilty race ? The red man of
the West, the foreigner in every town and
city, the freedman upon the plantation, and
the Chinaman—all send up their famishing
cry for the bread of life. Will not God bless
his people that help the destitute aud make
the disconsolate rejoice ?
Brethren of South Carolina, the Board will
require not less than $5,000 as your quota to
carry forward the work of the coming year.
If every pastor will read this appeal to his
people, and interest himself in the object, and
then go to work, he will realize not only a
liberal gift for the mission, but find his church
in a better spiritual condition, an<l exerting a
wider influence in the community.
Brethren, remember us at your Associa
tions this Summer and Fall, and let every
church, be sure to send something, if bid one
dollar, by hadelegates, for the Board of Do
mestic and Indian^ Missions, and to God shall
be all the praise. A*.- ■Yours truly,
M. T. fiiMXEK, 'Cor. See,
Marian, Ala., July 1860C V A
There is enough in the above to'eueourage
us to labor, but as it is. in all cases, so itds in
this, there is nothing to induce supinettese.,
We earnestly request our brethren so to act, ‘
that by God’s blessing, “the wilderness and
the solitary place shall be glad and the desert
rejoice and blossom as the rose.”
B. F. Butler on the Test Oath in Vir
ginia.—General Butler says: “My opinion,
therefore, would be, and in that I am quite
clear, that it is within the power of the gov
ernment a'nd within the requirements of the
laws of Congress, if administered in their in
tegrity, to set aside those men who cannot
take the test oath because of their participa
tion in the rebellion, and that men who did
not so participate, and who lost the votes of
the electors because of their adhere, i^e, to the
Union, should be admitted to their seats as
being the choice of the only men voting who
did not prefer a traitor to the government to
a loyal man for his representative.” Butler
adds that Congress is the only power which
can remove the necessity of taking the irqn
clad oath, . * ^ 'A
■ v-•' SECULAR ITEMS.; - k';.
Yellow Fevek in New' Orleans.—A
Frenchman who had just reached New Or
leans, died of yellow fever in that city on the
20th tilt This is said to be the first ease
during the season. *■
University of California.—Tlie board
ofTegents of the State University of Califor
nia, has unanimously elected Mr. Win. Swin
ton,of New York city, professor of Literature,
Rhetoric, and Logic, .. ,
Mississippi and Texas.—President Grant
lias ordered that elections shall be held in
Mississippi and Texas on the 30th of Novem
ber. In Texas, the vote is to be on the pro
posed Constitution as a whole; in Mississippi,
several clauses are to be submitted to separate
votes. . '
Trouble in Edgefield.—We learn that
a seriously disordered state of society exists
at Edgefield C. H., S. C., and that a collision
between the white citizens of the town and a
lot of negroes might at any time t \ke place.
The State authorities had placed arms in the
negroes, and called them “militia.”
Fires in Cars.—A law of Ohio enacts
that each railroad in the State shall, when
necessary to heat any of its cars, do so by a
heating apparatus so constructed that the fire
in it will be immediately extinguished when
ever the ears are thrown from the track and
overturned. The same law provides that cars
shall be lighted by candles only.
. -Trouble in Barnwell.—We gather the
following item from an exchange: A bloody
tragedy occurred last week at a place called
Upper Three Runs, in Barnwell District, S.
C. It had its origin in politics, and was par
ticipated in by prominent families named
Tyler, Holland, Greene and Woodward. The
fight was general among the male members of
said families, and knives and pistols were
used. John Greene was instantly killed.
Holland was mortally wounded, and died
afterwards. The others were all wounded,
and perhaps some of them have since died.
A Man struck Deaf and Dumb.—An
exchange informs us that Mr. Wm. Powell,
of Tennessee, was suddenly struck deaf and
dumb, at Bell’s Station, recently. The day
before, young Powell had occasion to make a
short trip on the railroad, and, prompted by
innocent sport, he played off deaf and dumb
on the conductor of the train and the news
and confection boys, using signs and writing
to signify his stopping place and his wants.
Since his great calamity, Mr. Powell says he
believes God struck him deaf and dumb for
scoffing at the real misfortune of others. He
says when the visitation came upon him, he
felt sleepy all over, his other faculties remain
ing as sound Slid in as full play as before.
Examination in English History.—The
Rugby (England) Meteor says that the fol
lowing answers were sent up in a recent ex
amination, in one of the public schools of
England. Regard for the memory of- Dr.
Arnold, the famous Master of Rugby, makes
us hope that this brilliant exhibition did not
occur there. According to the Meteor’% ac
count, the questions and replies were: 1.
Give an account of Raleigh. Ans. He was
passing throw the forest when Walter Terral
seeing a dear pass by be puled his boe, and
the arer stuck a tree and glance oft' and hit
Walter Raleigh throw the head and Walter
Terral seeing him dead, at wonce fled. And
a few years afterwards a man was passing by
and found the body, and at once called some
people, and they took the body and byryed
it in Wineester Kerfideral. 2. The policy of
Queen Elizabeth. Ans. Queen Elizabeth
was very fond of wriding, and she did not
];ve long but raind very short time. 3. The
cause that led to dissatisfaction with Charles
the First. Ans. Because they did not like
him and he ran about when his head was rut
off. 4. The principal battles of the Civil
War. Ans. There was the crimmear and the
war of the read roses and the war of the wite
roses. 5. Life of Charles the First Ans.
Charles the I was a very good king. He
came to the froine 1866 and raind 13 years
and he was hated by every one and no one
loved him and he was executed and he rnn
about when his head was cut off.
AFFAIRS IN EDGEFIELD.
We clip the following from the Edgefield
Advertiser of the 4th instant. It will be seen
that negro troops arc still .garrisoned in Edge
field village:
“The leading facts of the late extraordinary
occupation of Edgefield by negro soldiers and
the State Constables, have already been given
in the Advertiser. The occupation is still
kept up, without a law, right or necessity, and
in defiance of legal authority in all its possi
ble forms. Twenty strappmg negroes, with
hot and new-born zeal, guard our jail day and
night; while eight or ten white Constables
are on the watch*with eternal vigilance. Of
the latter, four have arrival within the last
week. We hear also of two negro detectives
who ever and anon, flit to and fro in owl-like
mystery. The negro-fellows who guard the
jail are drawn from this immediate vicinity,
and are filled, we hear, with a horrible desire
for theft-ay.' We should not say “guarding
the jail,” however, for there is no one in the
jail requires a guard. They are guarding the
arms and ammunition lately lodged in the jail,
and are kept in readiness to sally forth upon
any vain pretext and murder decent white
people, whose only crime is unbelief in Mes
srs. Scott and Eichelberger. The jail-yard
presents now quite an animated scene, with its
fierce and fearfully armed black heroes, hurry
ing constantly to and fro; while along the iron
fence in front are ever ranged whole ranks of
lazy negroes, contemplating, in ecstatic idle
ness, the sublime glory of their military bre
thren. Military enthusiasm is at fever heat
among them ; they gloat upon the exalting
scene in the jailyard, and pant, with ambition
that cannot be measured, to serve their coun
try with sword, and musket. The glittering
bayonet, the pomp and circumstance of trap
pings, the warm red blood of Democrat:, the
seductive, life-giving government greenbacks,
all these things fill their” eyer-excited brains,
and render them willing and ready for any
and all excesses. Should further troops be
called for just now, we have not the slightest
doubt that thousands could be enlisted in one-,
day. ; ? . -■ ’ •_ '
Through all this, as ever before, the white
people cf our town and vicinity, pursue the
even tenor of their quiet wry. In fiiet the
imperturbable dignity and decorum of the
white people have sadly thwarted the secret
designs of Messrs. Pcott and Eichelberger.
These negro soldiers and this swarm of Con
stables were put up here without the faintest I
shadow of necessity or provocation; and with
out the faintest shadow of provocation or ne
cessity are they kept here. *•« - ' ‘1 '■
e- By the people of Edgefield, Gov. Seott
must "ever be considered a most unscrupulous
partisan despot; and we hold up to the un
mitigated scorn of his own .race any man who
could so wantonly and ungenerously outrage
the dearest rights of American citizens.
This whole thing is a very scandal upon
the American name. It proves most clearly
that there is no law in our land except what
the Government officials choose shall be law.
The rights of the people, unless in accordance
with the will of the rulers, is no more regar
ded than the rights of brute cattle. Our
Government—the U. States Government !-—
brings shame upon itself, and shame upon re
publican institutions. The very name of re
public is stained and defiled by this country’s
wearing it. - .
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riVIIE trains over the KING’S MOUNTAIN
RAILROAD, on and after this date—oil Mon
days, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays—will
run as follows, making close connections on the
mentioned days, with trains on the Charlotte ami
Soutli Carolina Railroad:
Leave Yorkvillo, promptly, at G o’clock, A. M.
Arrive at Chester at 8.20 o’clock, A. M.
Leave Chester immediately aftertlie arrival of the
mail train from Columbia.
Arrive at Yorkvillo at 7J o’clock, P. M.
All Freights must be delivered at the Depot by
4 o’clock, p, m., ou the evenings previous to the
departure of tho train. j,. ■>
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July 1 1 if
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UKIYERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLEtfA.
THE next Session will begin on the
FIRST MONDAY IN OCTOBER,
and continue, without intermission, to
the ensuing Julv.
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will be less. _
For further information, send for Catalogues to
the Secretary of the Faculty, Rev. C. Bruce
Walker. R. W. BARNWELL,
Chairman of Faculty. ‘
Columbia, S. C., August 2,1860.
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CHESTER FEMALE SEMINARY. - .
Rev. L. C. HINTON,
s Pri nci pal and Instructor in Mental and'
| Moral Philosophy, Rhetoric and His
tory.
_ R. H. JORDAN, A. M.,
Instructor in Mathematics and Natural Sciences.
Mrs. E. C. McKEE, .
Principal of Primary Department."
Mbs. M. GILL,
Vocal and Instrumental Music.
MissJ. LECICEY, '-'’. V '
Needle Work and Drawing. 'r_ ■
The next Session will commence on the lflth of
AUGUST, 1869.
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Rev. J. O. B. Dargan, Darlington, S. C.
Rev. T. H. Pope, Martin’s Depot, S. C,
Rev. E. T. Winkler, Charleston, S. C.
Rev. J. L. Reynolds, Columbia, S. C.
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OP THE
WORKING CHRISTIAN, ,
A WEEKLY RELIGI0U8 NEWSPAPER,
TO BE EDITED BY
* REV. TIX.MAN R. GAINK8,
And published by Capt. L. M. Grist, at the Office
of tlio Yorkvule Enquirer, Yorkville, 8. C.
HAVING secured a working capital of TWO
THOUSAND DOLLARS, and arranged with
C'apt. L. M. Grist, the successful proprietor of the
Yorkville Enquirer, to publish for me, I expeet to
issue on the FIRST DAY OF JULY noxt, the
first number of The Working Christian, a week
ly Roligious Newspaper, to be elegantly printed
with new type, on good paper, and to contain
twenty-four wide columns.
This enterprise has originated in the conviction
that such a paper is, at this time, specially needed
amonj» our churches, to stir up the “pure minds
of Christians’’ and “provoke them to love and good
works.’’ It will contain valuable readingon mat
ters of practical importance, and will be specially
devoted to the interests of the Christian Religion.
Its title—WORKING CHRISTIAN—partially
delines tho character of our paper, and suggests
the department in which we hope it will princi
pally labor. The epithet WORKING, is not to be
understood as opposing or excluding the gospel
faith which we are ever to hold and contend for;
but as it was necessary for Paul to attend chiefly
to tilt mysteries offaith, and James to the depart
ment of works, so wo propose, for tho most part,
to leave the contending for the lkith to others, and
content ourselves by saying to all, “faith without
works is dead.” We desire to send out our her
ald weekly, to sound the alarm in the ears of the
Churches: “Awake! Awake! put on thy strength,
O Zionand to eaynestly beseech every Christian,
in the land to “work while it is day.”
The term CHRISTIAN is intended to embrace
nothing more nor less than the word strictly im
ports, viz: a follower of Christ, such as were they,
who were “Jirst called Christians at Antioch.”
It will contain the loading intelligence of the re
ligious world as to Missions, and sympathize with
every enterprise which lias for its aim the pro
gress of the Saviour’s kingdom. It will watch
tho movomentsof the churches—seek out working
churches and working men, and report their ope
rations and successes. Its columns will contain,
also, items of goneral intelligence. It will take no
pai-tiu politics, further than to give tho latest po
litical news. Information on farming and gar
dening, on education and all the departments of
useful industry, will be found in our paper.
Special attention will be paid to the cause pi
Sabbath Schools. Indeed, wo hope to make our
paper very interesting to the young.
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sending a club of ten names accompanied with
the money. Remittances in Registered letters may
be mado at tho risk of the undersigned.
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issuing of this paper for one year. All necessary
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TILMAN R. GAINES.
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May l:’>
SOUTH CAROLINA BRANCH OFFICE
\ ' OF THE
PIEDMONT LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, OF RICHMOND, VA.,
AT
COLUMBIA, S. C.
' ispJlSF' :
■iS
AUTHORIZED CAPITAL, ’ -
CAPITAL PAID IX AND SECURELY INVESTED.
ACCUMULATED ASSETS TO THIS DATE, OVER.
NUMBER OF POLICIES ISSUED,
XT
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81,000,000
100,000
700,000
4,«00
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OFFICERS:
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ii%>: ,' AV. C. CARRINGTON, President,
3. 3. HOPKINS, Secretary.
R. II. MAURY, Vice-President.
C. H. PBRROVV, M. D., Medical Adv.
:$
OFFICERS OF SOUTH CAROLINA BRANCH:
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THOMAS. President Board Directors. • - 8. L. LEAPIIAKT, Secretary*
• ^ . ' ’V. VJJR. ISAAC BRANCH, Superintendent of Agent*..
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John S. Preston,
John McKenzie, Mrtyorof Columbia,
Vc?.-* ;; R. C. Shiver,
F, AV. McMastor, A-f&i , s ' . AV. B. Guliek,
John T. Sloan, , . Thompson Earle,
R. AV. Gibhes,
3. D. Kennedy,
Ex-Governor M. L. Bonham.
M. C, Butler, , ,
T. C. Perrin, ..;3$ ,
Dr. Isaac Branch. . J ■
rpHIS BRANCH OFFICE offers ail inducements fur Life Insurance of a perfect. Homo Office, witli
X these advantages: The Capital is furnished, tlieexpon.se of commencing operations has been in
curred, the success, beyond peradventure, is established, arid the whole Capital and Assets of the
Home Companj’stand committed to sustain it. , . ''
The entire management of tho Piedmont is in the hands of Southern men, and its aim is to sustain
Southern interests. It furthor pledges itself to invest all funds accruing within the State, under the
direction of the gentlemen named above, constituting the South < aroiina Board of Directors, in whoso
integrity you must have ontire confidence. ,,
The PIEDMONT claims to be equal in the privileges and beuelltg granted its patrons; to any other
Company, surpassed by none, and superior to many, and only requests parties wishing to insure not
to do so until they havo examined the merits of this established Southern Company.
The first Dividend of the Piedmont Life lose ranee Company paid on Life Policies was FORTY
PER CENT., which proves the economy of its management and its careful selection of risks
; ••- LEA PH ART, JEFFERSON & RANSOM,
u w VA«rr n**. ,„ General Agents for South Carolina.
, . , , . ^D. M. W. NASH, General Canvassing Agent for South Carolina. ‘
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