The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-07-14

Accents ...................... 700 90
A. ID. Trimble to buy team. 800 %
For farm teams. $50 90
Rent of Springs property. 800 90
For buildings. .-.--.-....----....- 300 w
Attorneys fees, Hurlburt suit, 200 90
In seeking new location...... 27O 90
General supplies, ......... 5,553 493
Total disbursements ..........$13, 1872 81
Balance on hand. ....S723 SO
COMPROMISE.
We are happy to be able to announce,
also, that the suit which was brought last
year against Hurlburt, Sturgis q Co.,
has been amicably settled. Mr.. SturgIs
agrees to pay back all he received in his
own name and in the name of Elder y.
r. Graves, amounting to $3.50. MIR.
Hurlburt pays back $1,000 in three
equal annual installments Mr.. Duncan
paws back 500 in three equal annual
payments, making in all Sd, SO returned
to the Home. Only $1,000 of this was
paid in cash the balance is well secured.
We trust this arrangement will meet
your appreciation. We are greatly in
debted to Judge I. Reavis, of GAINESVILLE,
Alabama, for the accomplishment of
this result, who, without fee or reward,
served as peace maker on the occasion of
the settlement. Special thanks are also
due to Messrs. Hamm & Evans, our at
torneys, for the faithful discharge of
their duties, and for their efforts in secu-
ring the compromise.
DENoMINATIoNAL CHARACTER OF THE
HOME.
Strange as it may seem, complaints
have reached us from two directly oppo-
site sources, with regard to the denomina-
tional control of the Institution. One
party complains that it is too denomina-
tional the other that it is not enough so.
1t is of course impossible to satisfy both
parties, and the present management
seems to satisfy neither. This, however,
may be the result Of not understanding
the plan on which the Home is conducted,
and the causes which led to the adoption
this of plan. 1t will not be out of place,
therefore, to give a brief history of the
origin of the Institution as it now exists.
During the year 1864 the subject of
establishing a Home or Asylum for the
destitute orphans of Confederate SOL
diers, was generally discussed in the
public papers throughout the State.
Public meetings were held to deliberate
upon the matter-one at jackson, called
at the instance of Governor Clark, and
one at Columbus, of which Bishop
Green was Chairman, or in which he
took a prominent part. The object of
these meetings was TO unite all denomina-
tions in the support of p Home in such
way that no one denomination would
have superior control. After a thor
ough canvassing of the whole subject by
the leading minds of the State, the opin-
ion seemed to be quite general, that it
could not be done. 1t was thought best
by many that some one denomination
should become responsible for its origin
and management, who would conduct it
in such manner, if possible, as to unite
all hearts in its support. The Baptists,
being perhaps, the strongest denomination
IN the State, voluntarily undertook to
do this. The Mississippi Baptist State
Convention met at Charlottesville, Octo-
Der 26th, 1864, and inaugurated meas
ures which resulted in establishing the
Home at Lauderdale The Charter gives
the entire control to this Convention
The Convention appoints the Board of
Trustees, one third of them every year,
thus becoming responsible for the char
acter of the Board and the success or fail
ure Of the Institution. They have the
power of reviewing the action of the
Board as often and as critically as they
choose, and of directing them in their
line of policy. 1t has been thought best
by the Convention hitherto in appointing
these trustees, to give leading members
of other denominations a place upon the
Board. The Board thus constituted, has
endeavored to manage the Institution in
accordance with the plan thus indicated
by disappointing power, in the spirit of
catholic christianity. No Just cause of
otfense has been given to these gentlemen
of other persuasions who have been asso-
ciated with us. And we bear cheerful
testimony to the fact that they have been
faithful and true to the interests of the
Home. Some of them have been among
the most laborious and self-sacrifcing of
our number. Every measure Of the Board
so far as we know, has met their cordial
appreciation. We have labored together
as christians and philanthropists, and not
as Baptists and Pedobaptists
Where, then, is there any cause for
complaint? With all this unlimited
control of the Institution, the Baptists |
demand that it should be made more |
thoroughly Baptist in its internal ad-
ministratiam, and in its religious inhu- |
ences. And the Pedobaptists. notwith- |
standing all this yielding to their wishes |
and views, In conducting the Institution |
in the interests of no one denomination.
demand that it shall be entirely severed |
from the control of the Convention. and |
either made selfperpetuating in its
Board, or placed In other hands. We |
have reference in the above to Baptists |
and Pedobaptists outside the present /
Board of Trustees. The pressure Is from
without, not from within, but it is strong.
and cannot be ignored. Official deliy-
erances from the ecclesiastical orpaniza-
lions of our Pedobaptist Brethren and a
mighty ground-swell coming from the
Baptist brotherhood throughout the
State, have forced the issue upon ms /
Both parties may be unreasonable but
they must be heard; and if they cannot Il
be satisfied that the present policy Is the
wisest, then some new policy must be
adopted The Board is placed under yery
embarrassing circumstances; they can
turn neither to the right hand nor TO the |
left; on the one hand Ecylla, on the
Dther Charybdis; in front the boisterous
sea. behind the Wailing cry Of helpless
the current running across
bur course, and threatening to engulf M.
What are we to do9 Shall we lie an
bur oars and miserably founder amid the
waves? or shall we nerve our
arms anew and strike cut through the
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