FOREIGN MISSION JOURNAL;
_ I'ublMiert Monthly by tlio Foreign Mission Board of tlio Southern Baptist Convention.
“ALL POWER IS GIVEN UNTO ME IN HEAVEN AND IN EARTH. GO YE, THEREFORE, AND TEACH ALL NATIONS.”
Vol. IS— New Series.
RICHMOND, VA„ AUGUST, 1886.
No. 1.— Whole No. 217.
[Entered at the l»OBt-0mee M Richmond, Vu„
second-clue* matter.]
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Address. FOREIGN MISSION JOURNAL.
RICHMOND, VA.
FOREIGN MISSION BOARD
OF THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION,
Located at RICHMOND. VIltOINlA.
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Vict-PIISSIDSNTS.— .loahuft Levering, Mil., O. W.
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J. a. WILLIAMS.
Rkcohdinu Skcn«TAnv-A. II. CLARKE.
AcoiTOH-JOSEI’II F. COTTRELL.
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TV. .Toner, .T. Pollard, Jr.,
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Landrum, TV .1. Shipman. Geo. Cooper. Ii, TV.
Power., (J. 11. Hyland, 11. O. Harnett, T. P. Mathotv.,
ter AH communications in reference to the
business of this Hoard should be addressed to
H. A. TurPEK, Corresponding Secretary ,
Richmond . Va.
llro, Bell is, we believe, of a Presbyterian
family, and therefore it may be presumed
well-grounded in the doctrines of grace and
in habits of systematic work. He began bis
business life as a clerk in the office of Dr. Mc-
Ilw.iine, of the Southern Presbyterian Hoard
of Foreign Missions. That while in this
position, and having come to years of ma¬
turity, he learned "a more excellent way,”
and was baptized nt Columbia, S. C., will be
accepted by Baptists ns prima facie evidence
ol soundness on denominational tenets. In
the midst of many difficulties, nnd depend¬
ing largely on his own exertions for the
means, he gained a good education nt the
State University of South Carolina, then
entered the Southern baptist Theological
Seminary, and came out in 1SS0 a full gradu¬
ate, and, in the opinion of his instructors and
fellow students, one of the most promising
that had ever gone fortli from that School of
the Prophets. Since his graduation he has
been eminently successful ns a pastor, and
especially noted for his intelligent and ardent
interest in the cause of missions. He is
vigorous in body, robust in health, in the
prime of early manhood, and combines
For four months the Journal has been
moulting. While the old plumage was fall¬
ing out and the new not yet formed, it lias
presented a rather forlorn and neglected
look. We are glad to announce a reason¬
able prospect, that in September it will ap¬
pear in new plumes, with Rev. T. P. Hell ns
editor, and Mrs. Abby M. Gwathmey in
charge of the subscription and mailing
books.
The new editor will no doubt make it bis
right arm in the work laid upon him, as else¬
where explained, and for this purpose will
need and will have opportunity to secure a
large increase of circulation. Mrs. Gwath¬
mey is not without experience in the work
committed to her ; she inherits much of the
genial disposition, the patience, the talent,
and the earnestness of her honored father,
the elder Dr. Manly ; and in her own friends
and those of her late husband, Dr. Wm. H.
Gwathmey, will have abundant help, if she
should need any, for the successful conduct
of the business.
•Vow, therefore, is the time for a vigorous
effort. How many new subscribers will you
send?
ays:
ASSISTANT SECRETARY.
For more than a year our Treasury has
been severely strained by the demands of a
growing work. The great question con¬
stantly pressing upon the Hoard, and es¬
pecially on tlie Secretary and the Treasurer,
has been how to make the contributions at
home keep pace with the increasing needs
abroad. For six or eight months all the
various plans that could be suggested have
been under prayerful consideration. At the
tegular monthly meeting for July the Finance
Committee presented a well-considered nnd
exhaustive report, cf which we print some
Portions in another column. It concluded
by recommending the appointment of an
assistant to the Corresponding Secretary,
and nominating for that position Rev. T. P.
Bell, of South Carolina. The report was
adopted and the nominee elected with hearty
unanimity.
business talent with preaching power,
sturdy self-dependence with an humble
trust in God.
The Baptist Courier of July 15th,
11 Anderson loses its beloved pastor, Rev.
T. V. Hell, who has accepted the position of
Assistant Corresponding Secretary of the
Foreign Mission Hoard, and will shortly re¬
move to Richmond to enter upon the duties
of his new position. The choice that has
been made in his selection is one thatcan be
heartily commended for its fitness and sa¬
gacity. Hrother Hell is well equipped for the
work to which lie is assigned, and he will
enter upon it with zeaj and earnestness born
of an intense interest in foreign missions, to
which he has given much, study and atten¬
tion. As we understand it, he will travel in
the interest of the Hoard, and he will also
become the editor of the Foreign Mission
Journal. His quick intelligence and accu¬
rate knowledge will serve him admirably in
both divisions of his work, and we will ex¬
pect that his popular, effective style of
speaking will contribute much to the ad¬
vancement of the cause among the people.
South Carolina llaptists will rejoice at the
accession of strength gained by the Foreign
Mission Hoard in this acceptable appoint¬
ment, while they will as deeply regret to part
with one who lias contributed no little to
their working force In the last six or eight
years.”
His work has not yet been clearly defined,
and may not be for several months to come.
In fact be must take some time to survey
the field, to prove his armor in the new rela¬
tions, to consult with the Corresponding
Secretary, and with brethren in the several
States, and perfect the details of plans,
which for the present can only be sketched.
His aim will be to foster harmonious co¬
operation between the State organizations
and the general Convention, to rouse slum¬
bering churches to a sense of their obliga¬
tion, to encourage systematic and regular
collections for the spread of the gospel, and
to utilize as much as possible of the vast
store of undeveloped resources now dor¬
mant in the minds and hearts and purses of
a million of Southern Baptists. He will not
do it in a year, nor in five years, nor in ten
years, but by the blessing of God, and with
the help of the brethren he can accomplish
much. We bespeak for him a cordial recep¬
tion wherever he shall go this Summer, “for
he worketh the work of the Lord.”
DR, TUPPER IN MEXICO.
The Corresponding Secretary of our
Hoard, as is well known, is driven from his
office every year by that mysterious malady
known as "hay fever,” and is compelled to
spend the months of August and Septem¬
ber on some elevation, to which the dust or
pollen, or whatever produces it, cannot as¬
cend. it Is also known that his daughter,
our excellent missionary to Mexico, has
been dangerously ill and is very slowly con¬
valescing. These circumstances looked like
pointings of the finger of Providence, and
led him to leave Richmond about the mid¬
dle of July. If Saltillo, 5,000 feet above the
ocean, should prove not high enough to
keep olT his malady, he can bivouac on one
of the neighboring mountains, or go on to
Zacatecas, which has an elevation of 10,000
feet.
None who know the man need be assured
that the time will not be lost to the cause of
missions. The invalid daughter will no
doubt gain strength much more rapidly, and
be the sooner ready to resume the work in
which she has been so successful. The
Doctor himself, having already a fair ac¬
quaintance with the Spanish tongue, will be
able to take part in the dedication of houses
of worship, to attend the Mexican Associa¬
tion, to gather invaluable information about
the fields, and as he goes to preach " the
glorious gospel of the blessed God.”
The routine work of his office will, of
course, go on systematically and regularly
in his absence. Any bank-draft or postal
order payable to him will be collected, and
remittances to meet constant demands are
all the more needed since he is not heie to
make any special arrangements for taking
up foreign drafts.
At your Association please see that some
one makes a practical talk on Foreign Mis-
sions. The cause doesn't need sky-scraping
rhetoric, but plain presentation of facts and
the arousing of Christians to action. Tell
the brethren about how you work in your
church, and what success you have met
with. These gatherings of representatives
ought to stimulate regular collections.
"REST AWHILE."
When the disciples had been out two and
two among the lost sheep of the house of
Israel preaching the gospel and healing
everywhere, they returned to the Master
and told him what they had done nnd what
they had taught. “ And he saith unto them:
Come ye yourselves apart into a desert
place and rest awhile.” So every laborer
needs a season now and then away from
the scene of his work. The country pastor
enjoys the stormy Sundays of winter, and
needs besides to get off for two or three
weeks in summer, in the delightful recrea¬
tion of assisting some brother pastor in a
protracted meeting. The city bishop, with
his three or four regular services and as
many more irregular ones every week, needs
a good vacation to brace up his nerves.
What then shall we say of the missionary
to a heathen land ? He has to breathe con¬
tinually air that is tainted with superstition
and idolatry, to preach publicly and pri¬
vately every day, to guide the erring, to help
the weak, to reprove, rebuke, exhort, with
all long suffering and patience, and to bear
the unspeakable burden of daily contact
with thousands living and dying in igno¬
rance and in sin. No other occupation that
we can imagine is so exhaustive, and it is
no wonder that so many fall into early
graves, and so many more break down pre¬
maturely in either bodily or mental health.
Prevention is better than cure. Taking
six or eight months in a Christian land be¬
fore one is broken down is far better than
laboring on to the point of utter exhaustion
and having to take years to recuperate. In
this view we have welcomed Mr. and Mrs.
Iiagby from Brazil, Mr. and Mrs. Eubank
from Africa. They come under medical ad¬
vice, and with the approval of their' several
missions, and will be able to do much for
the cause in Texas and Kentucky, and to
return soon with prospects of prolonged
lives and increased usefulness.
The application of brother Hunnex— see
his letter in this number— has been ap¬
proved by the Hoard. He will spend his va¬
cation partly in England, partly in Geneva,
of which Mrs. H. is a native, and we hope
may find opportunity to return via Rich¬
mond to his field, and so make the circuit
of the globe. [
Dr. Graves is sorely in need of rest, and
we fear will be compelled before long to
leave his loved employ for a season.
From the scene on the Galilean shores —
a set of wearied preachers seeking rest, a
fit type of our earthly life— turn we to
another presented in the book of Revela¬
tion. Behold a throne encircled with a
rainbow and round about four and twenty
other thrones, and in the midst four living
ones, “ and they have no rest day and night,
saying: Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God,
the Almighty who was and who is' and who
is to come.” Here life is toil and must have
rest ; there it is unwearying praise.
Senhor Margarito Toscano, who came
from Mexico last fall to the Southern Bap¬
tist Theological Seminary, made good pro¬
gress in his classes there and earned the
commendation of professors and students.
He feels the need, however, of a broader
and better foundation for his theological
studies, and has applied to Dr. Wm. E.
Hatcher, President of the Virginia Baptist
Education Board, for the aid needed to
enable him to take a course of study at
Richmond College. The case is exceptional.
The Board is organized only to help stu¬
dents from Virginia. Dr. H. has, therefore,
assumed personal responsibility for the
brother’s support. Many generous readers
of the Journal will be glad to help him.
Please enclose whatever amount you wish
to contribute for the support of this Mexi¬
can brother, while he prepares himself to
evangelize his countrymen, to Rev. Wm. E.
Hatcher, D. D., Richmond, Va., and though
this note is written without his knowledge,
we can guarantee that the money will be
wisely and faithfully applied.
HISTORY OF OUR MISSIONS.
The history of the Foreign Missions of
the Southern Baptist Convention up to 1SS0,.
by Rev. H. A. Tupper, D. D., has been re¬
garded for some time as out of print, and
some applicants for it have been unable to
secure it. Some few stray copies scattered
here and there have been collected and can
be obtained of Miss Helen Gwathmey, Box
134, Richmond, Va. The price, including
postage, is $2.50: to ministers I2.00. The
work will probably not be re-printed.
Copies will be furnished as far as they go in
the order of application for them.
The floods in many sections have done
great damage, and many are depressed and
indisposed to liberality. But floods ought
to make us rejoice more in the immovable
Rock, and pity more the poor heathen who
have not heard of the great salvation. Then
too, be it remembered, that when some
sources of support for our "work are thus
cut off, it is all the more necessary for others
to be increased. Every little will help.
Gather it and send forward promptly.
The “ Kentucky Plan,” according to a let¬
ter from Dr. Warder, cost last year, for
salaries and expenses of Superintendents,
25.77 Per cenl °f collections. The General
Association at its late meeting resolved to
tax the Foreign Mission collection hereafter
only roper cent. Thanks.
Among the mails on the ill-starred Oregon
were letters from Africa, which' were re¬
covered from the ocean and forwarded July
6th. One of them, enclosed in a blue enve¬
lope, is hardly legible after its long submer¬
sion in salt water.
