Foreign Mission Journal, July 1890

Foreign Mission Journal. PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE FOREIGN MISSION BOARD OF THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION. "ALL. POWER IS GIVEN UNTO ME IN HEAVEN AND IN EARTH. GO YE, THEREFORE, AND TEACH ALL NATIONS” Vol. 2i — New Series. RICHMOND, VA., JULY, 1890. No. 12 — Whole No. 264 r Filtered nt the Po4t-Offlce nt Richmond» V«. * пч Rccond-clavo matter.] Foreign Mission Journal RATES PER ANNUM: tinder ten copies, ench . 00 Cents. Ten to twenty* five copies . 30 Cents. Over twenty-live copies, encli, . . 2Й Cents. Alljmpers will be separately addressed. -.'j-I’lea-c remit by Draft, Postal Order, or In Keelstcred better, and notify ns i’Romi-tly of liny eliniiRc In address, Address, FOREIGN MISSION JOURNAL, RICHMOND, VA. FOREIGN MISSION BOARD OF THE 80UTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION Located *r RICHMOND. YIHOINIA. Pn*eiD*Ht— H. H. Плите. - vicR.riineinii.NTe.— Joshua Levering, Md.. C. VV. Tomklcs. I.n„ A. li. Owen. Va„ N. A. Dailey, Pin.. J. L. White, N. C.. G. P. Dauby, Kj„ \V. C. Wedsoe, Ala., I P. Greene, Mo., II. II. Carroll, Texas, W. b. Kilpatrick, Gn., A. J. S. Thomas, S, С., K. G. Willingham, Тени., I. II. Searcy, Ark., George Whitfield, Miss,, \V. P. Attklsson, IV. Va. ConknsroxniNO Sne'v — II. A. TUPI'UR. ASSISTANT Sne’v — T. P. DULL. Tnr.ASUKRK— J. C. WIbblAMS. Recording Skc’v — A. II. CLARK. AUDITOR— H. C. IlURNIvTT. Hoard op Masaokrs. — И. K. nilyson. C. lb Wlnstoil, W. Ii. Hatcher, J. Pollard, Jr., S. C. Clonton, J. II. Hutson, W. I). Thomas. W. W. Landrum, Geo. Cooper, С. II. Hyland, T. P. Mathews, К. H. Pitt, J. L. M. Curry, Tlico. Whittled, II. It. Pollard. lid у All communications in reference to the business of this Board should be ad¬ dressed to H. A. Tupper, Corresponding Secretary, Richmond, Va, $150,000. The Board last year asked the churches for $150 ooo for its work. $126,000 was for the general work of the Board, and $24.000 for building houses of worship in several places where they were greatly needed. The receipts from all sources were $109,174. 20— I40.825.S0 less than was asked for. Still, by the exercise of a prudent fore¬ sight, the Board was enabled to carry on a large woik, and lo come out wilhout debt at the end of the year. We wish, briefly, to call attention to some of the work done. All the older missions were maintained and all reinforced. We say all. for though uo American missionaries were sent to Italy, additional helpers were employed on the field and an enlargement of the work there made. Between Conventions, twenty two new missionaries were added to the working force of the Board— eighteen in old fields and four in the new mission in Japan. The heavy expenses incident to the equipping and sending forth of these laborers were all met promptly. Their salaries have also been paid in full. By means of these workers important stations which have hitherto been worked as out-sta- tions, hive been manned, and some of these are making ready to establish out-stations in regions beyond. Important main stations, held in some cases for years by one man, have had another added, and so the mis¬ sions greatly strengthened. A house of worship, large and well suited to the pur¬ pose, has been purchased in Bahia, Brazil, though with money previously appropri¬ ated, and a chapel bought in Carpi, Italy, for the purchase money of which Dr. Tay¬ lor now holds a letter of credit. Madero Institute has been strengthened, anda flour¬ ishing boys’ school opened in Saltillo. Al together, a great work has been done, and done in spite of the fact that the Board failed to get all the money it asked for. The deepest regret felt by the Board in reviewing the work of the year, is that awakened by its inability to secure the sadly needed houses of worship. THE COMING YEAR, however, with the work that must be done m it, will require the full sum of $150,000. Let dc see what is to be done. The present missionary force is to be maintained. Bearing in mind the fact that most of the missionaries who went out last year did not go until fall, and so did not draw any salaries until early winter, it will be seen how the board was enabled to pay their traveling expenses without being more heavily burdened financially than it was. This year full years’salaries will have to be paid all these, and the $109,174 20 re¬ ceived last year will be fully consumed in supporting our present force, supposing that no additions be made and no extra expenses incurred. But additional missionaries must and will be sent out. As many ought lo be sent this year as last, and probably will. Older fields are calling for additional workers and new fields are opening on every hand, demanding the entrance of the sowers, Some houses of worship must be bought or built within the next eleven months. Dr. Taylor has already received authority to draw for $5,000 for Italian chapels. As much or more will be needed for a house in Zacatecas, for which Bro. McCormick is now on the lookout. Nor can Bro. Bagby’s earnest pleas for a home for the noble little church at Rio be much longer ignored. We have reached a point in our work now where it is impossible either to go backward or to stand still. Forward we must go, and forward, with God's blessing, we will go. $150,000 must be raised for Foreign Mis¬ sions this year. ATTENTION, To the following changes in the Journal. and suggestions to subscribers, will save much confusion and annoyance, both to the subscribers and to those who manage the affairs of the paper. 1. Beginning with the next(Augusl) issue, the form of the Journal will be changed from newspaper to pamphlet. It will ap¬ pear as a pamphlet of thirty-two pages, with colored cover. 2. The price will be changed also, there being henceforth only three prices: Sin¬ glecopies, or any number below too. fifty cents each; from ten to twenty- five copies, thirty cents each, and for all over twenty- five copies, twenty-five cents, each, per annum. While this is a slight increase on former prices, it at the same time gives a larger and better journal, and the prices arej'ust about one-half those of other mis¬ sionary publications of the same grade. 3. The Journal will henceforth be sent to each individual subscriber, whether he' subscribe alone or in a club. This will save all the trouble that has resulted from one person's receiving and having to dis¬ tribute the papers to a whole club. Each subscriber’s paper will now have his or her name on it, and go directly to its owner. 4. This last change makes it necessary that every one getting up a club shall send the names of all the subscribers. And if any one who has already sent a club will forward the names of those composing it, they will be entered on the books and the Journals sent to them individually. 5. Mrs. A. M. Gwathmey, who has for several years rendered very efficient ser¬ vice as business manager of the Journal , has retired, and the business management will hereafter be under the immediate di¬ rection of the editor. 6. Ail communications should be ad¬ dressed to The Foreign Mission Jour¬ nal, Richmond, Va,, and all checks and post-office orders made payable to the same. As the editor is frequently away, communications and remittances addressed to him personally, may not receive that prompt attention which they would if ad¬ dressed simply to the Journal. 7. If, in the transfer of the books and the confusion incident to a new hand's taking charge of the mailing, any errors should occur, our subscribers will please bear with us, and notify us promptly, when the errors will be corrected. 8. The unexpired subscriptions to the Journal under its old form, will, of course, be filled out in the new form. As many of these subscriptions were paid at the low rates made for clubs, some even at fifteen cents, we shall be doing a losing business on them. We shall need a great many new subscribers at the new rates, and a great many renewals, to enable us to come out at the end of the year free of debt. Inasmuch as we are striving to give our readers and the brethren generally a better paper, at very nearly bare cost, may we not confidently appeal to them to aid us in extending its circulation ? 9. In sending clubs, be very careful to give plainly, names and post-offices. л new feature. Some six pages of the Journal will be given to the Executive Committee of the Woman’s Missionary Union, auxiliary, to the Southern Baptist Convention, located at Baltimore. The Committee will conduct a Woman's Mission Department, where they can inform the societies concerning their work, and where the various societies scattered all over the country will have opportunity to compare views, report work done, and advance, in so far as it can be done in a paper, the interests of that work. The Journal -will be the organ of the -f Ro¬ man's Missionary Union. This department will be under the edi¬ torial charge of Miss Alice Armstrong, of Baltimore, subject, of course, to the gene¬ ral editorial supervision of the editor of the Journal. All communications for this department must be addressed to Miss Alice Armstrong, 1423 McCulloh street, Bal¬ timore, Md. Brethren and sisters, help us just now, both by renewing your own subscriptions and by inducing others to subscribe. The more you help us the better can we make the Journal what it ought to be. Subscrip¬ tions sent now must be a l the new rates. QUOTAS OF THE STATES. The quotas of the different States will be left this year almost as they were last, with the exception that no difference will be made between money for general work and church building. It will all be in¬ cluded under thp general work of the Board. Reasons are given in another article in this issue, why the Board will need the full sum of $150,000 for its work this year, and we earnestly urge the breth¬ ren of the various States to consider care¬ fully the claims of this work upon them, and set to work at once to bring their con¬ tributions up to the amounts asked for. Work begun early and continued steadily, will be needed if the Board is to receive the needed sum this year. The quotas asked of the States are as follows : Virginia . . . . . $18,000 00 Georgia . 18,000.00 Texas . 18,000.00 Kentucky....»......— . - . 18,000.00 South Carolina . 13,000.00 North Carolina . it, 500.00 Western North Carolina . 1,500.00 Missouri . 13,000.00 Mississippi . 9,000.00 Maryland . 7,50000 Alabama . 7,500.00 Tennessee . - . 6,000.00 Arkansas . 3.000.00 Louisiana..., . - . 2,500.00 Florida . 2,000.00 West Virginia . 500.00 District of Columbia . 500 00 West’n Ark. and Indian Ter . 500 00 LET THE GOOD WORK GO ON. Among the many encouraging features of our foreign mission work just now — and there are many — one deserves special no¬ tice. It is the increasing number of large individual gifts and legacies coming to the Board. Year before last, a Miss Peyton, of Missouri, left to the Board prop¬ erty, from which we have already realized $3 750, with the promise of more to follow, Last year $500 was received from the late Dr. Kells, of Mississippi, $500 from the es¬ tate of Mr. L. M. Coker, of South Caro¬ lina, and $104.50 from that of the late Mrs. M. C. Jeter. Two years 3go Hon. Jas. Brown, of Geor¬ gia, undertook the support of Bro. J. A. Brunson in Japan, for several years at least. Last year a brother in Texas gave the Board a lot in the City of Waco, worth now $1,000 and increasing in value, to be sold, and the money used for a church building in Rio, Brazil, when the Board is ready to build. And now comes a letter from Bro. J. M. Carroll, our agent in Texas, saying: “ I have just received a letter from a bro¬ ther, offering to support a missionary. May the Lord put it into the hearts of others to do likewise." By one day's mail this letter came, and by the next day's came one from Bro. A. F. Fleet, enclosing a check for $500— a legacy from Mrs. Virginia Garnett, of that State. We biess God for these tokens of a grow¬ ing interest on the part of our Southern Baptists in the great work. May he, by his Spirit, influence many others to give while they are alive, and dying, to leave large sums for this work. Would it not be well for the pastors of our churches occasionally to impress upon their people the duty of giving or leaving money for this cause? God uses instrumentalities, and these pastors may be used of the Spirit very largely in this way. MEDICAL MISSIONARIES. The time has come when our Board can no longer delay the sending out of several medical missionaries to China and Africa. As our missionaries press into the interior of these countries, the necessity grows stronger and stronger that they have ac¬ companying them the healers of bodies. These are needed for the missionaries themselves, not to speak of the immense amount of good they may do in ministering to the suffering heathen, and so winning them to the truth preached by the mission¬ ary and taught by the physician. Bro. Simmons urges the necessity of at least one physican in South China, to follow up our missionary force as it presseson into the interior, and to perform that healing work, which has been done in part by Dr. Graves. Miss Lottie Moon, in speaking of Pingtu, says : "If you could only see as we do the need of a doctor 1 Months— months— months lost from stations because mission aries have to be away for medical attend, ance. There ought to be a doctor for Pingtu at once. No doctor nearer than Weihien, 180 li (60 miles) away . If we are going to work the interior, a doctor is a sine qua non." The same need, greater if possible, ex¬ ists with regard to our interior African missions. We are glad to know that several young physicians are seriously considering the duty of going to these fields, and we are hoping that by the fall the Board will be able to answer this earnest cry for medical missionaries. SCRAPS PICKED UP. Rev. Dr. J. N. Murdock has resigned the Corresponding Secretaryship of the Mis¬ sionary Union, his resignation to take effect a year hence. His has been a long, faithful and efficient service, thirty-seven years . The wealth of church members in the United States in 1SS0, was $8,723,000,000. Of this one-sixteenth of one per cent., or one dollar out of every $1,560, was given to foreign missions . There ye re 1,310 baptisms among the Teiugus in 1889. Dr. Clough thinks many ot these were led to Christ by the native Bible women . The Southern Presbyterian Mission in Brazil has lost one of its finest missionaries in the death of Rev. J. W. Dabney, of yellow fever, in Campinas . Brazil has over 8,000,000 people who can neither read nor write, and the governments of several of the States are contemplating compulsory education of the children. After Rome has held sway for 3C0 years, the people feel that it will require violent measures to break the dense ignorance she fosters . "The World's Missionary Committee of Christian Women ” have recommended that Christian women of all denominations observe every Sunday afternoon, between five and six o’clock, as an hour of special prayer for the conversion of the world . $150 000 from Southern Baptists for foreign missions this year. Is it too much ? DISESTABLISHMENT ENFORCED IN BRA¬ ZIL. It seems to be very difficult for the officers of a religious establishment, which has long had the privilege of drawing almost ad libi/nm on the public purse, to learn the lesson of self-dependence. The priests in Brazil continue to knock at the door of the State treasury for money for the various uses of “The Church,” notwithstanding the fact that the new government has issued its decree of separation of Church and State. The following, from Brazilian Missions, shows that the authorities mean what they have said, and equally that the priests do not so understand it. No true American can help rejoicing in this evi¬ dence of progress towards religious liberty on the part of the people of our sister re¬ public of the South : Some of the Brazilian officials evidently believe in the decree for the separation of Church and State, and Intend that it shall be effective, as the following facts will show : The Secretary of the Navy has recently dismissed all of the priests who served as chaplains on men-ol-war, alleging that as the State has no religion, the servants of the State must have their souls cared for at their own expense, In the State of Sao Paulo some vicars were placed over certain parishes after the decree of separation was issued, with the expectation that their salaries would be paid by the State, bur Instead of the State paying, the Governor recommended that the people support their own priests. Application was made to the Governor to detail a_ “guard of honor” to accom¬ pany a religious procession, but the re¬ sponse came that the State had nothing to do with it. Application was also made to have cer¬ tain moneys voted under monarch." paid over for the repairs of certain parish churches. The reply was that the govern¬ ment only promised to pay certain salaries, and nothing more, and recommended that the petitioners look to their people for such moneys. The Governor of the State of Minas Ge- raes has decreed that there be no more religious instruction given in the public schools, that that was a matter for the pa¬ rents and guardians of the children to look after. KHARTOUM CONGRESS. It is not a little remarkable that, while the great Christian powers were convened by their representatives to devise means to check and overthrow the horrible slave traffic in Africa, the slave-traders should also assemble, to the number of two hun¬ dred delegates, to devise measures to suppress the. traffi: in liquors, which is sweeping Africa with the besom of destruc¬ tion. While the motive of these Moham¬ medan slave-dealers is purely selfish, the terrible ravages of the rum trade among the native races greatly diminishing the number of their victims, and the conse¬ quent profit of their trade in human flesh, yet the Christian world can but rejoice in this feature of the Khartoum Congress, and bid it God speed. It is another instance of a divine power overruling the wrath of man, to praise him, and bringing good out of evil. The two great curses of Africa are pitted “against each other” in His providence, and what the Christian powers might not be able- to do to abate the rum ruin, the Arab slavers may ac- ccmplish.— Helping PI and , But does it not seem a shame that from Christian lands 'comes the prolific source of evils so terrible that even slave-traders have to combine to save their own victims from them? And from America, even from New England, goes much of this soul- destroying rum ! Let us hope, at least, that- the Arabs will make the rum trade unprofitable, and (hen New England will decry it and declare a crusade against the drinking of it. "A DECADE OF FOREIGN MISSIONS." The Prospectus of this book, sent to many friend r, was prepared in Richmond, Va., without consulting with the publishers. It states that the work will be published in best style, will contain some ten hundred pages, with illustrations, and will be sold for ($2.50) two dollars and fifty cents. These words appear in the prospectus: "It is put at $2.50, though, if sold by a pub¬ lisher, it would cost at least $3.00." Re¬ ceiving a copy of the Prospectus, the pub¬ lishers write thus: “We think' the price, of the book exceedingly reasonable, (al-. most too much so), as no publisher would: manufacture at same cost, to sell retail for lessthan $5.00; so that we think you are understating rather than overstating the- case. If we were in your place, we would have prospectus changed, so as to read $5.00 instead of $3.00. No publisher could or would sell at $3 00.” No change will be made in the price , Ap¬ ply to T. P. Bell, Richmond, Va., for Pros¬ pectus. _ A Chinese Christian recently asked Arch¬ deacon Moule how many clergymen there were in England. Being desired to guess, he said, “ It’s a little country; perhaps fif¬ teen hundred.” And being told there were twenty-three thousand, said, in astonish¬ ment, “Twenty-three thousand I Then you can well spare one thousand for China.” — Spirit of Missions, These converts from heathenism are of¬ ten puzzled at the inconsistency of our professions and practices, and at nothing are they more puzzled than the Indiffer¬ ence of Christians to the world's evangeli¬ zation. Why do not at least one hundred missionaries go from the million two hun¬ dred thousand Baptists of the South every year? Why do not the churches provide for the sending and supporting of so many ? Korea. — The Korean Alphabet is pho¬ netic and so simple that any one can learn to read in a day. Nearly all the women la Korea can read.