FOREIGN MISSION JOURNAL.
Published Monthly by the Foreign Mission Board of tlio Southern Baptist Convention.
“ALL POWER ,'S GIVEN UNTO ME IN HEAVEN AND IN EARTH. GO YE, THEREFORE, AND TEACH ALL NATIONS.”
Vol. IS— New Series. , RICHMOND, VA„ APRIL, 1884. No. 9.— Whole No. 189.
(Entered nt the !*<Mt*Olllce nt ItlchinoiKi. Va., ne
second -daps matter.]
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FOREIGN MISSION BOARD
OF THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION,
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AUDITOR— IOSEIMI F. OOTTltELL.
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I &T/UI communications in reference to the
business of this Hoard should be addressed to
H. A. TurFliR, Corresponding Secretary ,
Richmond .
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The next. (May) number of the Journal
will be delayed a week or ten days beyond
the usual time of publication, in order to
contain the full receipts for the year ending
April 30lli, and abstracts of tile annual re¬
ports to the Convention.
THE MADERO INSTITUTE.
We gave last month a brief report of Dr.
Tupper’s visit to Mexico, and a meagre out¬
line of the arrangements made for opening
schools at Saltillo, l’arras and l’atos. The
friends of the enterprise will desire fuller
and more specific information, We have
therefore compiled tile following summary
of tlte Constitution and Uy-Iaws, drawn up
both in English anti in Spanish, approved by
all tile contracting parties, and formally ac¬
cepted by tlie trustees appointed underthem.
The Madero institute of Saltillo shall have
scholastic departments, primary, academic
and normal, for the education of girls and
young women, and a boarding department
for orphan girls and oilier pupils. The
scholastic exercises may be opened with
reading of tlte .Scriptures and prayer, but
shall not include the teaching of any pecu¬
liarly baptist tenets ; in the boarding de¬
partment the authorities will stand in loco
parentis. In the Institution good order, pure
morals and perfect freedom of conscience in
matters of religion shall be preserved. The
standtuds of instruction shall equal those of
tlte corresponding departments in the Public
Schools of Virginia.
The Trustees, appointed by the Foreign
Mission board, subject to its direction ant! to
the charter and Constitution of the Southern
baptist Convention, and their successors,
similarly appointed, shall hold all property
of this Institution in trust forever for the
education of female youths, and may hold
in trust for the said board, other property
and for other purposes as may be indicated
by the board. They are authorized to ac¬
cept donations from individuals or churches,
and to acquire property by purchase or lease,
but shall receive no property, either as a gift
or in discrimination favorable to the baptist
denomination, from any civil government.
Tlte Trustees shall meet at least twice a
year, five to make a quorum ; shall appoint
annually a Committee to visit and inspect
the Institution, andshall rcceivereportsfrom
die principal and forward an abstract of the
same to the Foreign Mission Hoard, with any
recommendations they may see fit to make.
For the purposes of the Madero Institute
the Trustees purchased, at $10,000 cash, a
large building, known ns the Mnrqueta or
Montez house, ami a vacant plaza adjoining,
known as Carmen Stptare. They also re¬
ceived as donations from Settors Maas and
Smith some vacant lots on the Alameda.
The cost of alterations and improvements
immediately needed for the school, is esti¬
mated at $8,0i)0. They will thus hold at a
total cost of $20,000, grounds and buildings
worth two or three times that amount. They
obligate themselves to open the scitool with
accommodations for at least 200 pupils on or
before tlie 1st of January, ISSfi, to instruct
free of charge for tuition every year as many
as one hundred orphan girls, recommended
by the executive of the Slate, and to care for
such orphans in the hoarding department,
during their course of study, at $00 each per
a mm in.
The Trustees of Madero Institute will also,
until another Hoard is organized for tlie pur¬
pose, hold in trust the property at l’arras, do¬
nated by Governor Madero, and will estab¬
lish there a preparatory school according to
the terms of the gift; and will lease at l’atos
a public building for another preparatory
school.
And finally these same Trustees bought at
$-’,000 cash, and hold in trust for the Foreign
Mission Hoard an unfinished Cathedral or
Temple in Saltillo. To complete this build¬
ing sufficiently for present needs and to fit up
the front of it for the church, and the rear
for school-rooms, will cost, according to esti¬
mates, some $S,000. When it is completed,
the baptist church of Saltillo will have tlie
best location anti the most attractive place of
worship in the city.
SELF-SUPPORT.
Among the most valuable of recent addi¬
tions to missionary literature is a volume by
Rev.
С.
II. Carpenter. Its full title is
“ Self-Support, i/tust rated in the History of
Hassciu Karen Mission from 1S-I0 to 1SS0.”
Mr. Carpenter went to Htitina in
18Я2,
and
was transferred from Rangoon to Hassein in
1808. Compelled by ill health to return to
America for rest, lie lias spent a portion of
his time in preparing a history of one of tlie
most interesting missions in the world.
With admirably modesty lie tells almost
nothing about his own personal work, and
for his predecessors does little more than to
edit, connect and explain their letters and
reports, forwarded to the boston Hoard, and
many of them now for the first time pub¬
lished. Mission, nits and secretaries are
men ; their differences, we might say quar-
i els, are brought out, hut in such a way as to
show the over-ruling hand of God.
The volume is illustrated by thirteen maps
ami engravings, and is offered at the very
low price, as books are now selling, of $1.50
—indeed, we are informed that “ for a
limited time only, by addressing the author
at Newton Centre, Mass., any minister, mis¬
sionary or theological student may obtain a
single copy at $1.15.”
Tlie history is written with a purpose.
The Karens were a miserably poor, ignorant
and oppressed people, yet Christianity
spread among them as never before in
modern times. This result is attributed
under God to a faithful adherence through
almost incredible difficulties to the principle
of "American support for Americans. Karen
support for Karens.” And it is shown that
when this principle lias been strictly fol¬
lowed, though there have been drawbacks,
the general effect has been good; while
every instance of departure from it has been
productive of great and serious evils. The
only exception allowed is in tlie cause of
higher education.
We quote a few paragraphs:
As ten or fifteen native preachers can be
supported at thecostof one foreign mission¬
ary, it has seemed wise to many friends of
missions to put as many of the native Chris¬
tians as possible into tlie direct work of
evangelization. In one of the Borman mis¬
sions, e. g., nearly every male disciple, and
several Christian wives and daughters, were
for years under tlie pay of tlie mission as
preachers, colporters,
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women or
school-teachers. To the poorer class of
native Christians it is a decided rise in the
social scale to escape from manual labor, to
dress in a clean white jacket every day, and
to be classed with writers and professional
men. The rate of pay is not generally too
high: the mistake is (with few exceptions,)
in employing them at all. by thus doing,
tlie value of their testimony to the heathen
around them is largely impaired; by taking
so large a proportion of the membership
from the supporting class in tlie church, and
adding to the class for whom support must
be provided, it becomes impossible for the
native church to maintain the establishment.
Foreign money must do it; and the mission
must be weighted, for an indefinite period,
with all the baleful ills of the patronage
system.
However plausible this plan may seem,
especially in the beginning of a mission,
when the converts are few and tlie mission¬
ary is eager to make as speedy and wide an
impression as possible on tlie heathen
masses, we look in vain to the New Testa¬
ment for a precept or a precedent for this
mode of evangelization. Great Hritain and
Germany were not thus converted to Chris¬
tianity. Not thus were Christian churches
and institutions planted and extended in
North America. Individual missionaries
there have been in every age sent fortli by
tlie home churches, and supported, to a
greater or less extent, in heathen lands ; but
in permanently successful missions, they
have never subsidized their converts. Not
thus does tlie kingdom of God extend and
establish itself in the earth. In successful
missions the converts themselves quickly
take up the burdens and responsibilities
which the New Testament imposes upon
them. There is a contagious life-principle
in the gospel leaven, which causes it to work
out in all directions, feeding upon and as¬
similating the inert masses with which it is
brought in contact. If there is not life
enough in an infant church to take root and
grow in tlie fresli soil where it is planted,
from resources right at hand; if there is not
life and energy enough in it to become a
tree, yielding shade and fruit for others, the
husbandman's labor is in vain: decay and
death are inevitable. Unless the churches
we plant in heathen lands speedily become
a new base of supplies, ami a new base of
aggressive warfare, all tlie money in Chris¬
tendom will not galvanize them into more
than artificial life. * . * * * *
A native ministry which cannot so com¬
mend itself to fellow-countrjmen and to
resident Knglish Christians as to secure a
living is of little worth ; and Christians wiio
cannot lie aroused to second tlie elforts of
their missionaries and an enlightened gov¬
ernment (or the education of their own off¬
spring are unworthy of Hie name. * * *
So great is the poverty of Asiatic Chris¬
tians, -and so great is tlie. consequent dis¬
parity between their mode of living, and the
iving which is absolutely necessary for tlie
preservation of a white foreigner’s health
and strengtli in their country and climate,
that we should deem it most unwise to ask
or permit them to contribute to the support
of American missionaries, although tlie
missionary's whole time and strengtli be
used for their benefit. To ask a native, who
lives in a hut on five dollars a month, or less,
to hear his share of the support of his own
native pastor, and, in addition, to contri¬
bute to the support of his missionary, who
lives in a house which would be to him a
alace, on fifty dollars a month, whicli would
e to him tlie height of luxury, would be
unreasonable, and most unhappy in its ef¬
fects every way. Self-respect would con¬
strain a missionary, in accepting native sup¬
port, to bring down iiis living as nearly as
possible to the native level, although it
might involve the loss of health and years
of usefulness.
But we urge more especially, that, to do
the native Christians and heathen the great¬
est amount of good, tlie missionary must be
quite independent of native support. Paul
refused personal gifts and personal support
from all his converts, save those in Phillippi,!
although they belonged to nations wealthier
and more civilized, probably, than his own,
in order that the Gentiles everywhere might
know that lie sought "not yours, but you.”
(See 1 Cor. ix. 12, 15, 18; 2 Cor. xit. 14;
2 Tliess. iii. 8, 0, and elsewhere.) So John,
in Ills Third Epistle: "For His name’s sake
they went fortli, taking nothing of tlie Gen¬
tiles." For any missionary to violate this
principle, and make a gain in any way of tlie
people whom lie goes to elevate and save,
is disastrous to his influence and usefulness.
Develop the principle of self-support, by
all means, to the utmost ; hut let American
churches look to the support of their own
missionary representatives.
We have more than once called attention
to tlie practice of our own missions in tills
matter. Tlie book gives ns fresh occasion
to congratulate our brethren of the South¬
ern Baptist Convention, that tlie poverty of
our treasury and the good sense of our mis¬
sionaries have preserved us from some of
the mistakes into whicli others have fallen.
DEATH OF MRS. GEORGE B. TAYLOR.
As we go to press we receive these startling
lines trom brother Eager:
Milan, March 7, 1834.
My Dear Brother: I send you a line only
to say that 1 have just received a telegram
from Rome announcing the deatli of Mrs.
Taylor. How sudden, and how sad I I go
at once to Rome, and will write you more
fully from there. Will you not join me in
earnest prayer for tlie afflicted husband and
children? Affectionately,
John H. Eager.
Our beloved sister, thus cut down when
little past the meridian of life, was a native
of Fredericksburg, Va., and one of tlie most
modest, lovable, devoted, and noble of wo¬
men. She leaves, beside the striken hus¬
band, four children — tlie eldest son now in
the Seminary at Louisville, two daughters
and a younger son in Rome.
We can never forget tlie motherly kind¬
ness with which she received a homesick
wanderer and made him feel entirely at
home in the crowded streets of tlie great
city, and again in die beautiful Waldensian
valleys. Tlie pleasant circle that gathered
in tlie picturesque chateau on tlie banks of
Bicllera is broken ; its centre has been trans¬
ferred from the labors of cartli to die joys
of heaven; but shall it not be reunited soon
in enduring mansions, by tlie side of die
river of life ?
MISS WHILDEN.
Doctor Shearer,
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Baltimore, writes die
Secretary that Miss Whilden, though much
improved, is still far from well. Her malady
is "chronic cerebral congestion, or what is
popularly known as brain fag:, the result of
protracted over-work." She must have
lest, and therefore will leave Baltimore be¬
fore the Convention. We decline to say
where she is going, lest some zealous Secre¬
tary of a Woman's Society should write, in¬
viting her to attend a meeting or to prepare
a paper. Her longing to get back and her
deep anxiety about affairs in Canton are die
great obstacles to rapid improvement. If
she could forget her work for a few months,
she might he ready to return to it, as she
hopes to do by tlie first of next October.
Arrangements are in progress for a wo¬
man’s meeting, at which ladies only shall be
present, at some fit time during tlie session
of tlie Convention in Baltimore. The great
majority of Southern women interpret
strictly and regard as binding tlie injunctions
of l Cor. xiv. 34, 35, and other sucli like
scriptures. *
The International Sunday-school lessons
for tlie month of April, on Paul’s third tour
ought to kindle new zeal for foreign missions
in the hearts of teachers and scholars. The
lesson for May 4th, on the pre-eminence of
love, will, be a most excellent preparation
for the meeting of the Convention.
