Published Iflontlily by the Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention,
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Vol. 10. — New Series.
RICHMOND, VA.. JUNE, 1878.
No. 3.— Whole No. 99.
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FOREIGN MISSION BOARD
OF THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION,
Located at RICHMOND, VIRGINIA.
Presidbnt
L. M. CURRY.
Vice-Presidents. — Hiram Woods, Md., J. A. Hackett,
Miss., F. Courtney, La., J. B. Jeter, Va., H. B. McCallum.
Fla., W. MI Wingate, N. C., J. L. Burrows, Ky., S. Hen¬
derson, Alabama, W. Pope Yeaman, Mo., ,T. B. Link, Texas,
H. H. Tucker, Ga., J. C. Furman, S. C., Matt. Hillsman,
Tenn., J. B. Boone, Ark:
Corresponding Secretary— H. A. T UPPER.
Treasurer— J. C. WILLIAMS.
Recording Secretary— W. H. GWATHMEY.
Auditor— JOSEPH F. COTTRELL.
Board or Managers. — E. W. Warren, J. B. Watkins, H.
K. Ellyson, W. E. Hatcher, E. Wortham, Henry McDonald,
W. Goddin, H. H. Harris, A. E. Dickinson, J. W. Jones, A. B.
Clarke, J. B. Winston,
Т.
J. Evans,
С.
H. Winston, J. R.
Garlick. ,
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All communications in reference to the business
of this Board should be addressed to H. \. Tupper,
Corresponding Secretary , Richmond , Va.
THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION.
The recent meeting of this body, at Nashville,
was of great importance. Foreign Missions, Home
liloaiiAio, «un'i tire Th^logicat Seminary tested stie-
cessfully their hold upon the Baptists of the South.
The Rome Chapel received special attention ;
and the remembrance of the promptitude with
which the original fund for this purpose was col¬
lected, inspires the hope that the supplementary
amount, now needed, will be readily secured. Our
eyes are also toward the North. But the great
thing— not the great speeches — of the Convention
was the change in the Constitution. That gave an
under-pinning to the body, which will add to its
present strength the confirmation of triple bands
of steel. The change wTas wisely conceived and
adroitly executed. If any body shall talk again of
the “last legs” of the Convention, ,the mat apro¬
pos words will be interpreted as the legs of the
Convention which shall last.
TRIP SOUTH AND WEST.
This trip, as far as Montgomery, Alabama, was
noticed in the April number of the Journal.
ALABAMA.
Before the war, this State was among the most
liberal contributors to the Foreign Missionary en¬
terprise. The hearts of the people are as warm as
ever, and their views were never more liberal. The
present comparatively small donations must be at¬
tributed to our bad management in getting at their
churches, or, to their large contributions to other
benevolent objects. As to poverty, I suppose the
State is in the same fix as the other Southern States.
At Selma , Dr. Hawthorne was preaching nightly
to large audiences. I conferred in private with the
pastor, Dr. Cleveland, and a few brethren. As to
giving, they acted promptly and nobly. My visit
to Marion was pleasant. I spoke twice to the im¬
penitent at the revival meetings, in progress there
also. The brethren engaged to render us early as¬
sistance. The pledge was as good as the money.
Their strong man, Dr. Winkler, is as strong as ever ;
and, as one of his members tersely said : “Has no
end to what he knows.” I saw the representative
heads of “Howard” and “Hudson,” respectively.
These institutions are not mixed colleges, so I got
ho light on a question in which I have been in¬
terested, viz : Whete boys and'girls study together 1
is not the average scholarship of the latter greater
than that of the former ? I enjoyed the hospitality
of the Treasurer of the’ Home Mission Board,
brother J. B. Lovelace, ard received courteous at¬
tentions from other noble "spirits. 1 greatly regret
that my time was so limited in the State of chival- 1
rous men, and noble women, and, better than all,
of so many cultured and elevated Christians.
May their material prosperity be only second to
their educational and spiritual !
MISSISSIPPI.
The black shadows, which enveloped Meridian
when I last visited it, had given away to a subdued
and twilight state of affairs. Brother Crumpton,
the new pastor, was absent, but my friend, Rev.
С.
M. Gordon, took me in charge, and did a bro-
ther’s-part. I addressed his large school of young
ladies ; and was delighted with their Calisthenic
exercises, under the skilful direction of Miss Clem¬
ents. Only brace up our girls by such physical cul¬
ture, and let them go i^Lo the intellectual race
with our hoys, and see who will come out second
best ! Making a speech to a mixed college, I said
to the young men : “I am sorry for you my boys,
if you have to keep up with these bright eyed I
girls:” and the noble fellows looked as if they
were sorry for themselves. I met a sister and
other relations of, our missionary, W. J, David,
whose grandfather owned the land on which the
city of Meridian is built. I spoke to the church at
night, and collected next day. Brother Gordon’s
“little Mary,” who has been consecrated by her
parents to the Mission cause, gave $2.00, raised from
the eggs of a “very motherly and missionary hen.”
I made my respects to the Southern Baptist , which
had, in advance, reciprocated the attention ! A
gentleman said to me : “ Why not do all the work
at home first, before we talk about going to the
heathen?” I answered. “ Why not do all the work
in our own hearts first, before we talk about work¬
ing in our homes?” He gave the largest donation
I received. '■
At Jackson, Dr. Zealy preaches and pedagogues.
Is not that too much for even so zealous a man as
the Doctor ? I presented Foreign Missions on Sun¬
day the 24th of March, morning and night. The
Presbyterian and Methodist churches closed to at¬
tend the latter service. The ladies who have been
doing great things for their church, will organize
now on our Mite-box plan, for “the regions be¬
yond.” In the afternoon, I attended the African
church, and after a strong sermon from a colored
brother, I spoke to them about “the work in
Africa.” The venerable pastor promised a collec¬
tion in the “early future.” I broke bread withl
Rev. Mr, Sewell, of Manchester, N. H., at General I
George’s, and received courteous consideration
from Judge Campbell, Dr. Keill, Hon. Mr. Sheldon,
and others, which, contrary to my custom, I take
this method of acknowledging. The contributions
were liberal, and most pleasantly bestowed.
Clinton is splendid. Brother Gambrell is the
princeliest man for his appearance that I have
met. “Judge not, ye saints, by feeble sense.” And
Dr. Whitefield is just like him. To look at them
one thinks they are like common folks, but he soon
finds himself in the grip of giants. And Drs. Webb
and Martin, and the rest of them ! People of Mis¬
sissippi take the Record and send your boys to Mis¬
sissippi College ! I refrain from telling what was
given for our cause, even after a liberal contribu¬
tion had just been sent to Richmond, lest I should
shame some other worthy people. I left Clinton
saying : If these folks are so much without brag¬
ging, what would they be if they bragged like
us Virginians?
At Canton, I have Episcopal kin, the family of
the late Gen. Tullius C. Tupper; but arriving and
preaching and departing the same night, I had to
confine myself to my Baptist brethren. I was ac¬
companied to Canton by Drs. Zealy and Keill, of
Jackson, and shared with them the well-spread
board of Col. Thompson, which, in tlie Colonel’s
absence was presided over by his matronly wife
and accomplished daughter. Pastor Mason works
up his church faithfully and “to date,’* and leaves
little or nothing for agental interlopers to do. Yet
they — the church — did something and promised
marc. At midnight I -arose «and .departed. The
Doctor — not Z. — kept vigil in the parlor, and not
alone, I opine. The rapidly increasing missionary
interest of Mississippi is due under God, I believe,
to the free circulation of the Foreign Mission Jour¬
nal.
TENNESSEE.
Dr. Hendrichson, the pastor at Jackson, was in
Texas. I spoke at night on missions, and next
day addressed the students of the South-Western
University — some two hundred in number. I had
also an interview with the ministerial students. I
told them they should prove “their call to stay
at home, if they did not go into the Foreign
field ; and that if any of them did not believe in
the doctrine that, a 4 Bishop must be the husband
of one wife,’ I would like to send them to Africa.”
The chairman of the Faculty, Dr. Jarmin, and his
colleagues, are the very personifications of conge¬
niality and goodness, and if I knew them better,
I might be compelled to add of learning also. I
had “a good time” with the Gaius of the place,
the beloved Welchman Hughes, whose amiable
spouse is the sister of Mrs. J. R. Graves, of Mem¬
phis. From this point, I expected to go to Pa¬
ducah, Ky., but was deterred by the absence of my
son from his charge there, and the unfavoring rail¬
road connections to and from the place. I notice
in the Recorder that* the church contemplates im¬
provements to accommodate two hundred more
persons.
I was met at the depot of Trenton by Dr. Hills¬
man, and conducted to his house, lately shadowed
by the departure of his sainted partner, with whom
he had journeyed some two score years. The next
day I asked to confer with a few’ of the brethren.
Ten met, of whom eight were lawyers, headed by
Judge Freeman, of the Supreme Court. I talked
about five minutes, and the Judge said, “Brother
