Foreign Mission Journal, August 1888

Foreign' Mission journal. PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE FOREIGN MISSION ВОЛШ» OF THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION. * ■ -> “ALL. POWER IS GIVEN UNTO ME IN HEAVEN AND IN EARTH. GO YE, THEREFORE, AND TEACH ALL NATIONS.” Vol. 20 — New Series! RICHMOND, VA., AUGUST, 1888. No. I — Whole1 No. 241. Entered ftt the l»osi-Offlcc at nichmoml, Va.t as secoud-clnsc matter.] Foreign Mission Journal RATES PER ANNUM: I. For paper* separately addressed, either to same »r to different poet ofTlces i One copy . . . M..S5 ct*. Three copies @ $1, or . ЗЗИ ct*. apiece. II. For package* sent to one person, who shall be responsible for their distribution : Four copies for $1, or more at. . .....25cis. apiece. Twenty-Ave copies for $ft. or more nt . 20 ct*. apiece. One Hundred copies for $10! or more at.. 15ct*. apiece. «^-Please remit by Draft, Vot tnl Order.or in Ite*ls lered Letter, and notify us гномгпл* of any change \n address. Address. FOREIGN MISSION JOURNAL, Richmond, Va ADVERTISING RATES. 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Hatcher. .1, Pollard, ,Tr., s. о. О onton. г II. Hnt'on. W. П. Thomas, W W. Landrum, W J. Shipman. Про. • Cooper, О. H. Rvlarnl, II. C. Burnetii T, P Mathews, К. II. Pill, R, S. linker. Q&8~All communications in reference to the business of this Board should be addressed to H. A. TuprER, Corresponding Secretary, Richmond, Va. " BORROW AGAIN." A few days ago tve had occasion to go into the оШсе of the Treasurer of the Hoard, Soon he asked, “How is money coming in ? ” On our reply that it was coming in very slowly, he said, “Well I suppose we’ll have to borrow again." And borrow it bad to be. Drafts were coming in from the foreign fields, money was needed' for the outfit of new missionaries, and bills for the work at home must be paid. So recourse was had to the banks for money to carry on the Lord’s work. We cannot but feel that there is some¬ thing wtotig about this. We felt rebuked for our people when a short time since on an application of the treasurer for a loan, a bank officer asked how it was that Christians were carrying on their Lord’s work on borrowed money. Why don't your people give it as it is needed ? Why ? Let some of our men and churches of large means set the example of giving to this cause, early in the year, and the reproach will in a measure be removed. A gift, or gifts amounting to say ?ro,ooo, would greatly relieve the Hoard just now. Who will give it ? A warm-hearted missionary friend sends the encouraging information that on a re¬ cent Sabbath his pastor prayed for foreign missions for the second lime during the past twelve months ; also, that a missionary concert has been announced during the week, the first one which has been ap¬ pointed for several years. This is a strong New England church of over three hun¬ dred members, with a beloved and able pastor. We predict tliat that missionary concert will become a permanent institu¬ tion, and that that excellent pastor will preach a stirring missionary sermon before the year is out, and will hereafter pray for foreign missions ns olten at least as once a month. — Miss'y Herald. This is encouraging. We once attended a church where for weeks and months even we would listen with hungry hearts for an earnest word of prayer to God for blessings on our dear brethren and sisters in foreign lands, and often for weeks and months in vain. How is it in your church reader ? More praying for missions would lead to more preaching on missions. ****** ROSEWELl HOBART GRAVES, M. D„ D. 0, Born in Baltimore May 39, 1S33. Baptized by Dr. Fuller Oct. 15, 1S4S, Ordained April 12, 1856. Sailed for China April 19, 1S56. One of the most intelligent, consecrated, successful and honoted missionaries. Dr. Graves is now in the United States, having returned with his invalid wife, who died in California April 20th, iSS3, WHO SHOULD GO? 'colleges? Is he going with a view to For special reasons the question has ! doing scholarly work, such as translat¬ or late been pressing itself upon ourjing, preparing scientific works on the mind,' “Who should go to our mis- , language or languages with which lie sion field?” The special reasons why nnay be engaged? or is be going es- it has so pressed is, (1), that all ] pecially to preach, to become first and our mission fields are calling loudly j foremost and above all else a preacher, and earnestly for reinforcements, and a herald of the cross ? (2), some young men have been an- ' If the first two purposes are in his swering these calls, about whose im- 1 mind then, by all means, let him get all mediately going some grave questions ! the mental training he can well get be¬ have been raised. . fore going — he will need it all, and such There arc several qualifications ab- men are needed. Hut we need, shall solute! у necessary to be possessed by we say more than these — preachers, any one going as a missionary, about men whose whole lives shall be devoted which there can be no question. A to preaching ; men who will spend but man to be fitted for this work should be , little time in school-rooms and inschol- a pious man, giving every evidence of ! arly pursuits, but will give themselves having been truly converted, and of' to preaching the everlasting gospel of leading a Godly life in Christ Jesus, j the grace of God to poor, lost, because He ought also to be a man sound in the j guilty, men and women. We have faith, as that faith is held by the people 1 been much gratified to see of late, in whom he represents on the field. He ’ various mission journals, the statement should be a man of good common I that missionaries arc beginning to ask sense, and one who can accommodate 1 very seriously whether great mistakes himself to other men, not contentious, I have not been made in the spending of but easy to be entreated. He should i too much time and money and energy in be in good health, not necessarily ro- | the school-room to the neglect of the bust, but certainly free from any or- j preaching of the word. From many ganic disease. He ought to feel him- missionaries, of many denominations, self called of God to this work. By , wc are reading the pica for more this wc do not mean that he should preacher*, and the opinion is being have an overwhelming impression that more and more emphasized that the lie must go to a foreign field. Not all j evangelization of the heathen is to be men have these overwhelming impres- . affected by preaching and not by teacli- sions in regard to any work. So, if a ing. The missionary world is demand- man is made to feel that it is his duty j ing preaching. This has been the to go to a foreign field, so much so that policy of our missions all along, and he is ready to leave all else and go, we 1 from comparison of the results achieved should be satisfied as to his call, believ- by our missions, with those of other ing, as wc should, that this impression | bodies near the size of our own, wc are of duty comes from God. Upon such 1 persuaded that the policy has proved points as these all are agreed. But questions arise as to the amount of education: a man should have before going, and it is to these we desire to address ourselves. It seems to us that the answer to these questions will de¬ pend very largely on the answer to another, t. c., for what is the missionary going ? Is he going with a view to be¬ coming an educator? to spend his time and talents in teaching in schools and itself to be the true one. Now the question arises, to be preach¬ ers of the gospel among the heathen, is it necessary for our men, all of them, to have a thorough classical, scripture or theological education? In general wc might answer that a deservedly lauded peculiarity of our own Southern Baptist Theological Seminary is that its course of instruction is adopted to every variety of previous training of ministerial stu¬ dents. The Seminary itself does not propose to make first rate scholars or full graduates of all its matriculates. Such full graduation is not more neces¬ sary for the missionary than for the minister at home and for several rea¬ sons. 1. In the extention of his kingdom on the earth our Lord has never con¬ fined himself to the using of thoroughly educated workmen. This needs neitf *r argument nor illustration ; and wc see no reasons to believe that he is going to pttrsup a different policy in the ex¬ tention of that kingdom in Africa, China, .Japan, Brazil or elsewhere. The Bap¬ tists have ever been in accord with their Master in this matter. Why change now ? 2. Experience has shown that ex¬ cellent work is done by men who never saw the inside of a seminary. Need we point to Yates' and Graves and Crawford in China? If wc are cor¬ rectly informed Dr. Geo. B. Taylor never attended a theological seminary, and we know that Rev. W. J. David was in one but for a short time. The same is true of W. D. Powell, ofW. B. Bagby, and Z. C. Taylor. If we go beyond our own work, examples could be multiplied almost without number. We cannot refrain from pointing to Rev. J. E. Clough, of Telugu Farm, nor from alluding to the China Inland Mission. 3. Men who have gone through our Southern colleges — Wake Forest, or Richmond, or Clinton, or our Uni versities — Furman, or Mercer, or Waco, and taken their honors, show that they have the ability to cope with even the finer minds of heathen nations, and surely indicate ability enough to prcacli the gospel to the general mass of heathen people. For one we arc ready to cast our vote in favor of any ap¬ proved man who comes to us bearing the diploma of any one of our leading colleges, and who feels that he ought to go a t once to a foreign field. 4. Wc do not believe that it is neces¬ sary, because we believe it is impos sible for us to carry on our work if it be made necessary. We do believe that our work ought to be greatly en¬ larged. We have called for graduates of the Seminary to go to reinforce our weakened missions and occupy new stations that promise well. They have not answered. For example : Twelve young men graduated from the Semi¬ nary .this year. Wc .need twelve men at the very least for our fields. We called them. Three graduates an¬ swered. "Where are the nine?” Dr. Yates, dying, weeps for men. Mrs. Crawford, praying and weeping, calls for men. Bro. Simmons, alone in great Canton, calls for men. David and Eubank and Smith join in the cry, which is echoed from Bagby and Tay¬ lor in Brazil, where are the men ? They will not come from among the Seminary graduates. We call to them as they conic from the colleges, and as they labor in pastorates. “Ye men of God, come !" Wc sincerely trust that nothing we have said in this article will lead any one to think that wc do not need first-class men, and men of the finest educational advantages for our work abroad. Such arc needed, and badly needed. The very best men that are now in our Seminary, or who have come from it and gone into pastorates, can find in the foreign field ample scope for the exercise of all their poweis, and there is in these fields an imperative demand for those powers. The work needs the best men we have ; but it does not need such alone. Men of fewer gifts and less broad culture can also find a place in the foreign field, where they can very effectively tell the story of redeem¬ ing love, and lead men to a saving faith in Jesus Christ. SCRAFS PICKED UP. Tito committees on union between Con- grcgntlonallste anil I'rcsbytcriane In Japan have сото to a concluson In form of union, and will so report to their respective bodies in the fall . "Missionary work Is sowing, not reaping, and tho sowing of a plant which Is slow to bear.” . Southern Presbyteri¬ ans gave to foreign missions, In tho year just closed, $83,0-10,33, n little того than South¬ ern Baptists . Dr. Hlydcn, a colored man, says Mohammedanism Is, spreading In Africa by tbo quiet work of tho teachers of tho Koran, and Is accomplishing groat good. But Bishop CTowthcr, another colored man, and an African, says its growth Is duo to four catues : 1. Slave wars waged by Mo¬ hammedans, when tho nntivo tribes arc given choice betwocn accepting tlio Koran, and war; 2. The sanctioning anil sale of charms, which suit the African and enrich Mohammedan ; 3. Tho favor shown to po¬ lygamy, and oncourgement of works of merit, and 4, liberation from slavo ships by Christian nations . Tbo English Bap¬ tist mission on tho Congo lost six of Us work¬ ers by death during last year. Ftvo others have gone to take up tho work . “At pre¬ sent the heathen world lies like a poor Lazarus at wealthy Christendom's door, so that this, as it were, can neither go out nor In wlthoutstumbling over Its unhappy brother, Whoso case may well awaken to compas¬ sion all who have a heart to feel for wretch-' and for tho religious degradation of follow men." . Baptist net in- In numbers Inst year, 114,422. In- i ol Baptist wealth nbovo all expenses ! beneficence, over 0110 hundred mil- of dollars. Yet BaptUt gifts to Foreign were less than those of tho year Yet wo claim to bo tho peoplo’who tho Lord . Tho Board of Public Instruction of his Imperial Majesty tho Sul¬ tan, has placed tho seal ot authorization up on 33 dlllerent editions of tho Arabic Scrip¬ tures and parts of Scriptures. Tho light slilncth In tho darkness . Tho 114th sta¬ tion of tho McAU Mission In Franco was opened In Paris Jan. 12th. •1 “OUR HOME FIELD." This is the name chosen by our Home Mission Board for the new journal, which, by direction of the Southern Baptist Con¬ vention, it will begin to issue in July. As its name indicates it will be devoted chiefly to the setting forth of the needs and deeds of the Board' publishing it, though it will not be confined to these alone, but will contain some accounts of the work of other bodies at home and abroad. It will be an eight page paper, under the editorial management of Dr. J. Wm. Jones, assistant secretary of the Board. This last state¬ ment affords ground sufficient for asserting that it will be well edited and be made very interesting. We welcome gladly this new publication, and bespeak for it the cordial support of all our readers. Every reader of the Foreign Mission Journal should he a reader of " Our Home Field ” as well, that he or she may be equally well posted on all our mission work— a well rounded mission worker. We give herewith the subscription rates, and hope that very many of our subscri¬ bers will send on subscriptions for ‘four Home Field” at once. - Address; A...C. Briscoe, Box 196, Atlanta, Ga. •< KATES TER ANNUM. • ;l • 1. For papers separately addressed, ellher to same or to different post One copy t|i cents. Flvo copies nt 42.00, or 40 cents apiece. • ' - . ' sent to ono person, who shitl be for their distribution Twenty - 1)0 or more So cents apiece. ’’ copies for *23.00,- or more at г. lor It is stated that within tli'e last 25 years, previous to the present movement .‘under Rablnowitz, 120 Jews in Kischlnew. have confessed Christ by receiving baptism.1: я '