Foreign Mission Journal, February 1889

Foreign Mission Journal. ■яг-паа-г-ц: PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE FOHEIGX MISSION BOARD ОГ 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., FEBRUARY, 1889. No. 7 — Whole No. 247’ [Entered i the l’ott-Omce at Richmond. Vn„ аз second-clues matter.] Foreign Mission Journal. RATES PER ANNUM: 1, For papers separately addressed, either to same • to different poet oltlces ; . 95 . 33 H Oae copy . . . Three copies @$1, or. . apiece shall be II. For packages sent to one person responsible for their distribution: Four copies for Ф1, or more at . 25cU. apiece, Tweaty-ft ve corles for *5. or more at . 20 cts. apiece, One Hundred copies for $lflt or moreat..l6cU. apiece, JOr Please remit by Draft, Postal Order, or In Rejcls tereit Letter, and notify us miomptly of any change In address. Address. FOREIGN MISSION JOURNAL Richmond. Va. ADVERTISING RATES. ВГА0К. One Inch..» . . Two Inches.... ... Three Inches . . Suarter colnmn.. alf colnmn . One column . 1 3 в 12 Month. Months Months Months 1 2A 3 46 6 60 12 00 2 4(1 fl 46 32 60 22 60 3 60 0 20 38 00 3» 00 4 76 13 00 25 00 46 00 A 26 26 26 48 00 AO 00 18 00 60 00 A2 60 178 00 FOREIGN MISSION BOARD OK THE SOUTHERN BAPTI8T CONVENTION. Located at RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. PhlSIDKNT— II. II. IlARIIIS. YiCE-riiESiDEHTa.— Joshua ЕетеНпк, Md.,0. W TomklM. I.a„ Л. K. Owen, Va.. N. A. Halley, Fla., W. Is. Wright, N.O., (I.F. UnRby.Ky., W. O. Died- so?, Alabama, J. P. Orecne, Mo„ It. II. Oarroll, Talas, W. b. Kilpatrick, Oa,, Ohas. Manly. S. O., J. M. Sealer, Teau.. .T. It. Searcy, Ark., George Whltfleld, М|з«„ W. F. Atlklseon, W. Va. Ooan*8PONDi!raSkcnETABV— II. A. TUPPER. Assistant вкспктлпу. T. 1’. BULL. TltKAStntsa — J. O. WILLIAMS. Ricordinq Бкспетлпт— A. П. CLARKE. AODlTOn-H. O. BURNETT. B0AHI> or MANAOEas — II. К. Ellyson, J.'Il.Wln. •ton. О. II. Winston. W. E. Hatcher, .T. Pollard, Jr., S. O. (Ponton, J. It. НпИоп. D. Thomas, W. W. Landrum, W. J. Shipman. Geo. Cooper, O.H. Hyland, H. C. Burnett, T. P.Mathevr», It. II. Pltt.R.S. lloshor. двУЛИ communications in reference to the business of this Board should be addressed to H. A. Tupper, Corresponding Secretary, Richmond, Va. THIRTY MISSIONARIES FOR NORTH CHINA. PRAYER BEING ANSWERED. A short time since Mrs. Crawford wrote that the North China Mission were praying for thirty new missionaries for that field, and begged that the friends of the mission at home would join them in that prayer. Doubtless it seemed to many who heeded this request that they were asking an almost impossible thing of God. We felt, many of us, that we might expect to see thirty men and women going in the near future to all our fields, but thirty for North China I Yet is tlie answer coming. Mrs. I’ruitt lias been added to that mission. At the January meeting of the Board, brethren Bostick and Taylor, with their wives, were appointed to that field. Here are five of the thirty asked for. The ladies, through the Executive Committee in Baltimore, are raising money to send two ladies to help Miss Lottie Moon, and doubtless they will soon be sent. This would give seven of the thirty. God is answering the prayer. May we soon be able to say “ God has answered the prayer." Let us pray on. CHANGES IN OUR MISSION FIELDS. A glance at our list of missionaries on the second page will show several changes. Mr. McCloy and wife are added to the list of workers in Canton and vicinity. They will enter on active work as soon as his resignation is accepted by the Britisli and Foreign Bible Society. To the North China list are added the names of Mrs. Pruitt, Revs. G. P. Bostick and J.J. Taylor and their wives. These last expect to sail in May. In Italy, Mestre is added to Venice, as the field in which Sr. Ilellondi labors. This is the new station, in the opening of which our evangelist met such bitter opposition. Dr. Taylor’s graphic pen depicted the scenes to our readers some months ago. At Naples we have undertaken a new- work, Count Papengonth, the father of our excellent pastor at Milan, having turned over the mission which he and his son Charles have been conducting in that city, to our Board. The son continues in charge of the work, and his name appears among our evangelists, I REV. E. Z. SIMMONS. Born in Tishomingo Co., Miss., March i, 1846. Baptized at Kossuth, Miss., in i86r. Attended Bethel and Georgetown Colleges of Kentucky, and was ordained to the ministry Oct. 30th, 1S69. Appointed missionary to Canton, China, Oct., 1S70. Sailed December 3, 1S70, and arrived in Canton February 6, 1871. From the list of Brazilian missionaries the name of Miss Maggie Rice disappears. This singularly gifted worker was called up higher by the Father on November 26th, her disease being yellow fever. Her work, mour estimation just begun, was in God's sight done, and lie called her to re¬ ceive her reward. Who will fill the vacant place ? opened, all entailing more or less ofexpense over and above salaries of missionaries. Bro. Hunnex and family have returned to Chinkiang, China, from England, while brethren Tatum and Britton have gone to reinforce the Central Chinn mission. Mrs. Pruitt has been added to the North China mission, her expenses of outfit be¬ ing returned by our board to the board The work at Santa Barbara tinued, and brother Puthuff will be hence¬ forth associated with brother Daniel in work in Minas Giraes. Mr. and Mrs. Chastain have settled at Matehuala, Mexico, a fact to be noted by correspondents. And Mr. and Mrs. Wat¬ kins find their home in Mnsquiz. FINANCIAL EXHIBIT JANUARY 1, 1889, On the 30th day of April last, when the financial year of the Convention ended, the treasurer of our Board reported “actual balance for the new year, $1,748.60.” Since that time eight months o( that “new year" have passed away, and it will be well per¬ haps lor those at headquarters to let the is discon- under whose direction she went out,. Rev, 1 J. A. Barker and wife have gone to I Brazil, while Mrs. Puthuff has been com- ' pelled to return to this country in search I of lost health. From Africa Bro. David j and family have just come, he too having I broken down in health. ' With all these extra expenses, it is cause I for congratulation that tiie debt of the j board is no larger than it was a year ago. Still it is to be regretted that there is any debt at all. And it must be confessed that the members of the board look with some anxiety to the four months to come. The expense ofsend- ing out these missionaries has been heavy, but maintaining them on their fields will involve heavier expense still. The drafts for salaries of all these new workers and brotherhood know the financial condition of the board, in order that these may con- forthe other expenses connected with every sider intelligently what they ought to do mission will be more in number than ever in the months to come to enable the board before, and many of them will be quite to complete its year's work and have a lit- r large. And while this is true, it is to be tie balance over for the next "new year." - added that other men and women are to The receipts from all sources, not includ- ’ be sent out in the very near future. Be¬ ing the balance, from May 1, lSSS, to Jan. , fore this paper goes from the press, Bro. 18S9, have been f46.36S.18. Adding to Chappell and wife will be on their way to this the f3, 609.63, balance in bank (includ- China, and the names of yet others will have ing some unpaid loans) at the beginning of been announced as appointees of the the year, the board has had for use - board. f49,977 Si. But it has had to expend more Where is the money to come from ? We than it lias received, as shown by the fact look to God first, whose our peopleare.and that it owes to banks and to individuals whose spirit is at work among them. Then the sum of $15,650 21. This indebtedness; we look to our brethren. We have confi- has been incurred in spite of the fact that dence in both, and anxiously, yet hopeful- the receipts forthe first eight months of this ly, face the financial problem which is to be year have been nearly #5,000 in excess of! solved in the next fourmonths. those of the corresponding period of last , ■ — - . year. Thisexcess has been consumed, and ! SAD NEWS, more than consumed, by the sending out ol . The sad news comes to us of the death of new missionaries to some of our fields, I the father of our sister, Miss MinaS.Ever- and by the movements of old missionaries 1 ett, of San Antonio, Texas. We know the to and from their fields. Brethren Mose- , mournful sentiments of our sisters heart, ley, Chastain and Watkins, with their and offer her our sincerest sympathy. Miss wives, together with Bro. A. B. Rudd and Misses Cabaniss, Russell and Hale (self supporting,) have been sent to Mexico, where a number of new stations have been Everett is a devoted missionary spirit and she will not be left comfortless In her great sorrow. Her great comfort must be in “The Great Comforter.” PASTORS GOING TOFOREIGN FIELDS. The Biblical Recorder of the 12th of De cember announced that Rev. G. P. Bostick had resigned the pastorate of the first church of Durham. N. C,, to go to China We were fully prepared for this anounce ment by several conversations which we had the privilege of holding with Bro. Bos¬ tick at the convention at Greensboro, but were none the less rejoiced at it. While not a few young men have recently gone out from our midst to different fields, there are some things about Bro. Bostick’s case which make it worthy of special-mention. After careful training, both in college and seminary, he had entered upon pastoral work at home and had been eminently suc¬ cessful in it. Though quite young, he was pastor of one of the best churches in his native State, and it seemed that there was no position open to the ministry to which lie might not aspire in tiie comparatively near future. Honored and loved and trust¬ ed by his own church and the whole broth erhood of his state, he had everytning to bind him to the home field. Yet from all these tilings he has cut loose that he may go and preach Christ in one of the hard places of the earth. Alongside of Bro, Bostick’s case we are glad to place that of Rev. I. R. Deane, the honored pastor of the church in Huntsville, Texas. Bro. Deane, by his individual exertions had cured an excellent education and had at¬ tained to a professorship in the State Nor¬ mal College of Texas. This position, In which he had done most excellent work, he resigned to become pastor of the church in Huntsville, the seat of the College. The church had greatly prospered under hi bors and he had come to be looked on as one of the popular and successful ministers in his State. He too cuts loose from all that he lias attained to at home, and offers himself, a well trained worker, for the mis¬ sion to Japan, in case the Board decides to open a mission in that land. If not, he will probably go to China. His association has signified its affection for and confidence in him by pledging his support. Rev. J. J. Taylor, also a full graduate of the Semina ry, and for several years a successful pas tor, first at Batesville and now at Forrest City, Arkansas, has offered himscll to the board for work in China, and has been ap¬ pointed to the North China field. There are other cases of pastors offering themselves to the board which we will no¬ tice at some future time. These are suffi¬ cient to warrant the belief cherished by that the spirit of missions is growing among our people, so growing that men, proved and successful at home, are sacrificing their successes to this cause, and theYieople are approving and gladly hailing the going forth of some of their brightest and best to this great work. We believe, from obser¬ vation of such facts as those given аЬоЦе, and from others equally inspiring, that the Baptists of the South are'just enteringupon an era of progress in their foreign mission work which will surprise themselves and make glad the heart of him who waits till the heathen shall be given to him for an Inheritance and the uttermost parts of the earth for a possession. God grant 'it. IMPORTANT MEETING OF THE BOARD. On Monday afternoon, January 7th, the Foreign Mission Board held a meeting which was both imporiant and delightful. The subject of a mission in Japan was fully considered, and the prospect of early en¬ trance into that promising field is cheering. There are important preliminary matters, however, which must be arranged, and on which really the starting of the mission is contingent. But, tiie great caution of the board in studying the subject in every direction, before committing themselves to the enterprise, is only an earnest of greater success when the work shall have been be¬ gun. In stating the above we take the public Into confidential relations with the board, feeling bound to meet the expectation of the denomination in regard to this generally de¬ sired work, by saying as much as possible in consistence, with propriety. Our person¬ al opinion is that before the next issue of our paper the Japan mission will be established by formal action of the board, and one at least of our very best men appointed as a missionary to that country. In the consideration of this new enterprise, the board has received valuable informa¬ tion from Rev. G. H. Appleton, a mission¬ ary of the Am. Baptist Missionary Union,, who is recruiting his health in Virginia,- which is the native state of Mrs. Appleton, A most delightful season of rejoicing was¬ hed by the members of the fioard where they had heard the experiences of breth¬ ren G. P. Bostick, of North Carolina, and" J.J. Taylor, of Arkansas, both of whom had) applied for appointment to North China, Some account of these brethren is given in? another article in this issue, and so will be- omitted here. The board felt that God has- given to North China two exceptionally fine men, and as they saw their prayers for this- field so answered, their hearts overflowed' with gratitude. In addition to these two- for North China, the board accepted for the Canton mission, a brother McCloy, 0Г whom Dr. Graves writes as follows : “ He- is a Scotch Baptist, a member of the church- in Glasgow of which Rev. Dr. McPherson, was pastor. He attended Grattan Guin¬ ness' Institution, where many of'tlie.Chlna Inland mission men are trained.* * ,He- went to China as colporter of the British- and Foreign Bible Society. He is strong and healthy, has acquired the language- very well, and preaches a good sermon in- English.” Bro. Simmons writes that broth¬ er McCloy has taken well with the Chinese and bids fair to make a good worker. He has a wife and one child. He will not en¬ ter upon work in our mission until he has had time to hear from the Society with which he is working, and to which he will at. once send his resignation. SCRAPS PICKED UP, "Be very full of the glad tidings and you will tell others. You cannot give what you have not got.".-, . The recent' union-. of Presbyterian missions in Brazil enables - that denomination to form a Synod having three Presbyteries . A company has been formed for the purpose of establish¬ ing stores on the Congo, where every thing needed by the white people can be secur¬ ed. Another company will provide trans¬ portation facilities from the lower Congo- to Stanley Pool. Next will follow the rail¬ road . The Fiji Islands, with only 9 white missionaries, have 3,505 native preachers; cannibalism has disappeared, , heathenism is a thing of the past, and the light of the gospel fills all the region . “The reason many people have no Interest in missions is because they invest no prin¬ cipal." . The American Board (Cong’l)* leceived last year for their work $552,179.- 63, an increase over the previous year of 875,735.3б. Southern Baptists have not reached their first$ioo.ooo yet . In Eu¬ rope, Protestants have increased three and half times in the last hundred years, while Roman Catholics have only doubled their numbers . The route of the railroad- from the navigabie waters of the Lower Congo to Stanley Pool, past the Livingstone Falls, has now been fully surveyed and found entirely practicable . Robert Col¬ lege, Constantinople, under the American Board, enrolled last session 171 students. In 20 years 208 graduates have gone forth from it . This Board reports for 18S8, 90 sta¬ tions, with 960 out stations, 472 American workers, with 2,135 native helpers, 336 churches, with 30,546 members ; these ;t contributed $124,274 during the year. . The Missionary Union calls for во men to go to its fields at once. The most difficult work which the Board attempts, and at the same lime the work of greatest dimensions, is found in China. Missionary service here demands the enthu¬ siasm that is called out, not by striking ex¬ periences and the stimulus of immediate results, but by the greatness of the task and the vastness of the issues that are at stake; and this demand is worthily 1 the force which mans these fields. met by Year after year they press their work, modifying it here, enlarging it there, thankfully gath¬ ering up such results ns appear, and par tiently waiting for the larger outcome which they confidently expect.— Missionary' Her¬ ald. All honor to the patient toilers who are content thus to work, not seeing results, but' believing that God will fulfil his prom¬ ises. This faith will bring them fullest blessing, even though It be for awhile de¬ layed. They do not doubt; why. should we at home? They, do not grtimble^at small results; why should we?