The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-04-27

since our last paper went to press,
the following statement of the receipts
and expenditures for the year has
been received from the Rooms in
Boston. The result as given is modi-
fed in a very pleasing way. The
anxiety many have felt in Consequence
Of the heavy balance expected to lie
against the treasury, Will be relieved:
Expenditures for the year ........ sI9eQ77 7g
Received in donations.sl42 ,68l SO
1891 vi
Miscellaneous sans..... 3 3,19l So
Balance On hand Aprii
1, S66.----...-...... 1869 75 S19l ,7I4 90
Balance against the T~reasurer...s 1858 70
Rev. J. FL. Gilmore, pastor of Sec
ond Baptist Church, Rochester, has
recently printed a sermon subject
"Denominational Self-respect." In
it is this passage, which deserves to
be read and %pondered:
st is precisely here, my brethren,
that we as Baptists have made a Sc
-rious and most prejudicial mistake.
We have dealt too frequently In
apologies for our existence. We have
too readily conceded the prestige of
social supremacy to other d~enCnina-
tons of Christians. There has been
a growing deficiency among us of
hearty, out spoken love for. those
principles which fealty t o the Master
compels US to cherish and defend.
We have lost something Of our
fathers relish for dis%tinctively Bap-
fist preaching" By constant reitera-
ton of the charge of bigotry, the
world has well-nigh convinced us that
we are bigots. Some of us sigh to-
day thai allegiance to Christ forbids
US to concede the claims of Christian
charity, forgetting that above all
things else Charity rejoices IN the
truth" In a word, we are wanting
In that healthy and invigorating self
respect without which no body Of
Christians can prosper ol aga85ias
Now, | have no desire, to-day, to
take exception to the p~retensions of
my brethren of other denominations.
l honor them for their manly ravowal
and hearty defence of their character.
istic principles. I love to meet a
a who, whether he be right OF,
wrong, is not afraid to speak out
boldly what he thinks and feels. But
| do take sexceptionstof the utter o q
trastSwitt this manly, selfsconfdent.
aggressive spirit, which our own de,
nomination presents.
G.IxhaxeA SeenAso many of our mas
tors who seemed to hold the truth as.
if they were ashamed of it, so MANY
>laymen. whose highest idea of excel
lence was the closest possible approx
imation to their Pedobaptist neigh
bors, so many churches oppressed BY
the thought that they were nothing
but poor, prosecuted baptists,'
shrinking off to build shabby meet
ing-house in some by-way, that my
spirit burns within me for a revival
among Is of hearty and generous self
respect. | cannot helpsighing for the
good old times when our fathers /.
would have scorned to take the
standing order as their model for
church building; when the sect w olf'
Is everywhere spoken against rejolcea-
that it was accounted worthy to bear
reproach for the name of Christ" sd
Rev. DIR. Anderson, President of
the Rochester University has been
offered the Presidency of Brown Uni
versity, in place of DR.. Sears, who has
resigned, to take the SUPERINTENDENT
of the Peabody Educational Institu-
tons in the South.