The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1867-05-19
SUNDAY READING.
THE PULPIT.
MY CREED.

THE PULPIT.
MY CREED.
hold that Christian grace abounds
Where charity is seen; that when
We climb TO Heaven, tits on the rounds
Of love to men
hold that all else named piety
a selfish scheme, a vain pretense;
Where center is not can there De
circumference
This moreover hold, and dare
Affirm where'er my rhyme may go;
Whatever things be sweet or fair,
Love makes them SO.
Whether it be the lullabies
That charm to rest the nurselIng bird
Or that sweet confidence of signs
And bushes made without a word.
Whether the dazzling and the flush
OF softly sumptuous garden bowers,
Or by some cabin door, or bush $500
dragged flowers.
'Tis not the wide phylactery,
Nor stubborn fast, or stated prayers,
That make US saints we judge the tree
By what 1t bears
And when man can live apart
From works on theologic trust,
| know the blood about his heart
Is dry as dust. ALICE CAREY
The Israelite, published in Cincin-
natl, saws We need no personal
Messiah. We do not wish to go back
to Palestine, or submit to any king.
What good can we expect of q son of
David? We are the children of the
house; we go to-no steward, need no
guardian, require no mediator, and
ask none to plead our cause with our
Heavenly Father. We are of Israel.
At the Southern Baptist Conven-
ton, held at Memphis on the 9th inst,
Rev NJ. T. Summers, Secretary of
the Board of Domestic and Indian
Missions, submitted the twenty second
annual report of its operations, from
which we make the following abstract:
During the greater portion of the
past year the Board has employed l24
missionaries and evangelists, located
throughout the South. Great good
has been accomplished but owing to
the sad condition in which the war
left the country, the Board has labored
under serious disadvantages. The
scarcity of money everywhere, and
the extreme poverty of the churches at
many points, have in numerous instan-
ces caused a cessation of ministerial
labors altogether. The report con
tains letters from many places in the
South revealing an extent of suffering
for even the bare necessities of life
that is melancholy to contemplate.
One missionary writes "Mv field of
labor is a very destitute region of
country-nO money / have in my
family a wife, widowed daughter, two
little children, and myself, and not
one of us able to cut the wood and
make us a good winters fire, and we
are now living on bread alone. All
we use, eat, wear, or burn we have to
buy. The cruel war killed all my
sons and my son-in-law. Their wild
ows are on my hands without homes
and means of support
A large number of intelligent and
pious missionaries have been employ
ed to preach specially to the freedmen
ofthe South. The colored people gen
orally prefer the white missionary to
those of their own color. This is
owing, in no small degree, to the fact
that the white minister is better quail
fed to instruct them, and that is what
they need, good, sound, theological
instruction. Those people are gradu-
ally improving, and show evident
signs of advancement They are
usually Withdrawing from the white
churches and organizing churches of
their own, and this course is approved
by the brethren, and promises to in
crease their efficiency. The missiona-
ries of the board are encouraged in
their work among this class of people.
This very able and comprehensive re-
port concludes:
In conclusion the board would ex-
press its gratitude to Almighty God
for that measure of success that has
crowned its humble labors in this de
partment of Home EvangelizatiOn
The field is vast, its wants are many
and pressing. Never in the history of
our country was there such a demand
for spiritual, gospel truth. The only
antidote to sin, we must look to its
healing properties as the panacea for
the evils that infict our moral and
spiritual constitution. No better de
of the interest in the
prosperity of our people can we afford
than in promoting the advancement of
this cause, that looks to the establish
ment of the Kingdom of Christ on
earth and the reign of His principles
in the hearts of men"