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G àliitISÎvÏA^ lllih Att). . - — »■ 9 Methodists who arc engaged in tist, another Presbyterian and an-, unless, by chance they condescend Correspondence. building. I passed on to Utica, in other Christian. This Paul gives, to recognize you on the street by a , Letter from Bro. T. F. Campbell. the same county, where there ate in his letter to the Corinthians, as formal bow and a frigid salutation. many disciples, but the church is in evidence conclusive of carnality. The leaven of reform is working, A lto , L a ., Feb. 12, 1883. a languishing condition. This is And-certainly anyone who will con however, and the people are begin Bro. D. Stump: sider for a brief period only the ning to demand a reason for this D ear S ir ,—From Arkansas I the home of Bro. A. R. Bishop, a jealousy ami envy, the bickering foolish state of affairs, and no inan made a visit to my relatives at my young man of fair attainments and ¡more tlian average ability. The. ■And h&te^pufent and intense, cher can give one that has the sanction VTU IJUITTC m -tuning Ill VUUUVJ ,AVBI» ished ami practiced by these parties of reason. l’rejudiceis dissolving issipp* The devastating hand of congregation has been unanimous one against another, must reach the under the light and life of increas “ rampant war,” and lapse of time in its call for him to preach ; yet, sad conclusion that there is not a ing intelligence and the, hope of have wrought such changes since because it has not met its previous single trace of the spirit of love in better counsels is cheering the my former visit in 1860, that I was engagements with him, he declines all they do, except it be the love of hearts of many. This part of indeed “ a stranger in a land of to preach for it. It may be doubted the “ publican,” who loves them Louisiana has no Church, of Christ strangers.” Comfortable homes and whether this course will improve -rmir who love him. - Such love con -organized in it. Afewmembers fertile fields have been converted the—iihf’rality:pnnctTnrttty Trr tains not one element of Christiani are found, too remote to gather into into wretched hovels and desolate honesty of the people. My' ap ty, but is “ earthly, sensual, devil an organization.» A few'*oF them, wastes. The sedge and the briar, pointment previously sent forward ish.” Why preachers, claiming to desiring church influence for their gradually yielding to the invading failed to reach Bro. Bishop. The have thaspirit of the ^Master and children, have united with other grovefh-ot -young- pin e , mark U t e audience was, consequently, small Organizations, chiefly the Baptist? place where well directed lalior for on Saturday; and because the rain professing to be competent to~teacE7 merly produced the luxuries of life. was almost incessant and the roads should by precept and example, The principles and purpose of the No healthy reaction has yet been nearly impassable I had no congre sustain and encourage this <le- reformation are but little and only established after the depression in gation on Sunday. It was my in plorable state of affairs, is to me imperfectly understood in the cident to the change of the labor-- tention to continue a meeting here passing strange. If they could South.1 * Missionaries are needed, and the ' system in the South. The wisest of ten days; but the situation was claim for their conduct even the have not been able to solve the so destitute of hope or promise that selfish merit of financial gain, it field is inviting, for a noble and problem by which prosperity shall I left Monday morning for Ray might relieve it of the extreme of generous people, such as form a be re-established where black men mond, where court was in session, folly. But the result is to divide large per cent, of the Southern will not, and white men know not. hoping for better prospects there. the available resources of a village, population, will readily accept the -howto work. -The^mwmeeww Rail’- »4-M»A-WMI^Jtreste only able, at l>est, to build one de Gospel when presented^ in the tomed to provide for Jnmself, liter and d i tapi d atod sidewa1ks, and. a mit church and support one ally “ takes no thought for the people indifferent alike to the preacher, into a dozen parts, to be power and glory. Your brother in Christ, morrow.” If he has that which warnings. of the Gospel and the distributed amongst as many in T. F. C ampbell . satisfies the demands of the flesh hopes of the future, all combined competent men who eke out a to-day, he is more than willing to .to make my stay unprofitable. I scanty living, by monthly preach New England Letters. let the future take care of itself. hastened to leave Mississippi as the ing at many points. It is not NUMBER XIII. With him, .« " sufficient unto the day most unpromising field I have yet possible that any man’s laliors can S tone H all , Feb. 14, 1883. is the evil thereof.” Whether the visited in all my travels. Return be made efficient when spread out rising generation will become more ing to Vicksburg, I passed over into over a large territory. The time Dear Friend» at Horae : The weeks have gone by, very provident and careful remains to be Louisiana. At Rayville I met a occupied in traveling could be more venerable preacher, I). A. Camp profitably engaged in systematic swiftly ami pleasantly since the seen. The progress of education of the Presbyterian church, bell study or pastoral labor among the beginning of the New Year, and amongst an ignorant and dependent who received me most cordially, flock. A union of effort and con to day, we look into each others people is necessarily slow. It may and, though it was late in the even centration of means at this point eyes ami say, “ it is St. Valentine’s ultimately accomplish a revolution ing, circulated an appointment in would secure the services of a com day,” and with it we finish the which w ill result in improved labor, the village, ami had me to preach petent man at an ample salary, first half of the Winter term. The and establish better relations lie to his congregation. The next day, whose labors would be worth more snow has come and gone several tween the muscle of the Negro and by hack, over a fearful road of to the community in one year, than times since the fine Christmas the brain of the Caucasian. Until twelve miles, and after an adven the scrimp, selfish, partiza efforts of weather, and it now lies perhaps then, decent poverty and squalid ture of a tumble in the mud in a dozen half educated, badly fed, twelve inches deep ami deeper ignorance must continue to charac which a widow, a Negro and a little spirits, who seem to think terize many sections of the .South. where it has been shoveled away small lx»y participated, I reached that all the religion in the world is While in Rankin county I de from the paths. The lake lies ' this place having sustained no more concealed under the thin crust livered fourteen discourses ; but as asleep under its white coverlet and serious damages than a few selfishness has indurated and which there were no organizations into sometimes where the sun has shone scratches and bruises. baked over their party. This class which to invite converts, I did not brightly we have watched the blue J, A TER. of ministers, unfortunately very make any effort at proselyting. I shadows of the trees stretching in large, is greatly annoyed by our A lto , Feb. 15,1883. limited my labors almost exclusive a protecting way towards it, and efforts to expose ' the . folly and ~T mSdft fttrthîs placé fourîécTü res ly to subjects demonstrating The again when The" snow lias’ rnelfeT,' folly and wickedness of division, and two sermons, all of which were wickedness of these divisions, and we have looked upon what seemed and the wisdom, possibility and well received by small audiences, to show the possibility and the a miniature ocean with its billows practicability of the union of all for the weather and the state of the practicability of' union and peace frozen. At such times men have God’s people. At Jackson, the roads limited the congregations al among the wise and the good. dug out great blocks of ice and capital of the State, and former most exclusively to the people in Many of these, who inflate then- piled them upon carts drawn by home of old brother Clark the- the village. I find the rain here, vanity by appending to their patient donkeys to neighboring ice pioneer of Mississippi, who built up at this season, nearly as incessant names “ Rev." or “D. D.” first sound houses. It seemed almost cruel a large congregation here in his as in the Willamette valley. This, the note of alarm by crying and very prosaic to spoil the beauty day, I found only a few disciples, like other communities, is cursed “ Campbellite,’ and then pull them of a perfect landscape in order to without a shepherd, and whose with sciym and division, one claim selves in, like a turtle into its shell, store away the coolness that will Jjpuse Qf worship was rented to the ing to be Methodist, another Bap- and nothing more is seen of them, be precious when summer comes, O 6 _____ - 9 1 1»1 • 1 .A Jl *1 11 « 1' j > >