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- Foreign Mission Journal, June 1889
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- Date
- June 1889
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- Volume
- 20
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- ["Bell, Theodore Percy, 1852-1916"]
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- ["Southern Baptist Convention. Foreign Mission Board"]
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Foreign Mission Journal, June 1889
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Foreign Mission Journal.
PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE FOKEIGX MISSION BOAKD OF THE* SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION.
“ALL. POWER IS GIVEN UNTO ME IN HEAVEN AND IN EARTH. GO YE, THEREFORE, ' AND TEACH ALL NATIONS.”
Vor.. 26 — New Series.
RICHMOND, VA., JUNE, 1889.
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FOREIGN MISSION BOARD
OF THE 80UTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION,
Located at RICHMOND, VIRGINIA.
PltEBlDEHT— If. II. IlAIinlS.
ViCE-VnEeiDENTS _ Joshua Levering, Md„ O. W.
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J. M. Senter. Tenu., J. H. Searcy, Ark., George
Whitfield, Miss., W. F. Attklesoo, W. Va.
COnnESPOtroiHOSBCnETAttY— II. A. TOPPER.
Assistant Sechetaiiy. T. I’. IIELL.
TnEASunra— J. O. WILLIAMS.
RECOnDINO SECRETAnY— A. II. CLAIIKK.
AuDtTOit — If. O. BURNETT.
B0AI1D or Manaoers.— H. K. Ellyson, J. II. Win¬
ston.
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II. Winston. W. E. Hntcber, ,T. Pollard,
Jr., S. <J. Ornpton, T. II. nation. W. I). Thomas,
W. W. Landrum, W. J. Shipman, Geo. Cooper.
O.II. Hyland,
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C. Burnett, T. V.Mathews, It. II.
Pitt, H.S. Ilosher.
t&~All communications in reference io the
businessof this Board should be addresscdlo
H. A. Tupper, Corresponding Secretary,
Kichmond, Va.
WORDS OF COMMENDATION APPRE¬
CIATED,
Such full accounts of the work of the
Convention have been Riven in the papers
that we have decided not to take up
space in the Journal for any notice of the
meeting. Hut we do
Гее!
like saying for the
officers and members of the Hoard that
they are much gratified at the many kind
expressions of approval which their report
of the year’s work elicited from many
brethren. The "‘well done" of the breth¬
ren lias made them glad, and will cheer and
stimulate them as they strive for still better
things during the year now opening before
them.
And may we not, just here, ask that the
Board may have a share in the prayers of
their brethren ? Many grave and perplex¬
ing questions have to be considered and
settled by the twenty-two men composing
this Board. Oftentimes, not only in their
private devotions, but when they are to¬
gether, engaged in the work entrusled to
their hands, do they feel the need of divine
guidance and not seldom do they stop in
the midst of their deliberations to ask this
guidance and the blessing of the God of
missions. Will not the brethren who have
placed the responsibilities of this work
upon them, help them by their sympathy
and prayers, as well as by their labors for
the common work? When you pray for
the missionaries— and you ought to do this
every day — dear reader, remember the
Board too.
.$150,000.
At the late meeting of the Convention
a resolution was unanimously adopted to
the effect that the Foreign Mission Board
ought to have $150,000 for tiie prosecution
of its work during the present year. At
least that much will be needed if the Board
does the work now on its hands, not to
speak of other work not yet undertaken
but which is pressing for consideration.
During the last conventional year eighteen
missionaries were added to the force already
on the field. These eighteen went out at
different times during the year, few if any
drawing a full year’s salary. This year
these must be supported in full.
Besides these, there are now under ap¬
pointment, including the wives'some of the
appointees expect to take with them, nine¬
teen others, nine of whom will leave for
their respective fields of labor in June, the
others going in the early fall. Of these
nineteen, nine will go to China, four to
Japan, five to Africa, and one to Brazil.
Ilut even these nineteen will hardly cover
tho number to be sent this year. Quite a
number of others, men and women, have
applied for appointment, several of whom
were examined by members of the Board
at Memphis, and approved for recom¬
mendation to the Board.
All these must be sent out between now
and tiie late fall, and their outfit and trav¬
eling expenses provided for, in addition to
their salaries after reaching their destina¬
tions.
In addition to these tilings, several houses
of worship must he built or bought. Zacate¬
cas, Mexico, must have a house at once.
Several stations in Italy are in sore need of
proper places in which to worship God, and
to supply these several thousands of dollars
were raised last year by Brother Eager,
and will have to be paid over by tiie Hoard
this year. A house is needed at Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil, and must be secured in the
near future.
Less than #150,000 will not meet the ab
solute needs of the Board this year. Will
the churches give this amount? They can
if they will. Will they?
OUR INTEREST ACCOUNT,
It will be seen by reference to the annual
report of the Treasurer of the Board, which
is copied in this issue of the Journal, that
the Board had to pay interest on borrowed
money, last year, to tiie amount of nearly
#1,000. During the year, over #46,000 was
borrowed, tiie Board being compelled to do
this in order to carry on its work at all
Nearly enough money was paid for the use
of this #46,000 to pay the salarie • of two
missionaries.
This thing ought not so to be, but how
can it be helped? We can see only one
way — and that is by churches and individual
givers beginning to make their gifts to this
work now. Every dollar paid into our
treasury now, will save tiie Board nearly a
year’s interest, being thereby worth nearly
six per cent more than if given next April.
Regular contributions beginning at. once
will relieve the difficulty and save this in¬
terest money to the Lord’s work.
The first month of the new year is only
two-thirds gone, and already the Treasurer
has had to go into bank for#lo,ooo, to meet
the second quarter’s drafts from our mis¬
sion fields. Will not some of our Lord’s
people help us to remedy this evil at once?
NOTES ON JAPAN,
Richmond, Va., May 20, 1SS9.
Dear Brother:
In response to your request for some
notes on Japan, I begin where every mis¬
sionary of the Southern Board must begin
in his journeying towards that land of mis¬
sionary hope — at Richmond. From this city
to the California coast, the one basis of
choice of route is the season. From April
to October, "The Southern Pacific” is
intolerable on account of the intense
heat and tiie blinding sand that must be
encountered while crossing the Great
Alkali Desert between El Paso, Texas, and
Yuma, on the California frontier. From
October to April this route is to.be pre¬
ferred, because there is no danger of being
snow bound. At any season the long trip
across the continent must be very tiresome.
The ‘‘Canadian Pacific” is the English¬
man's route, and the one affected by an
uncertain class of wouldn't-be Americans,
for no better reason than that“it is English,
you know." True, lire sea voyage is some¬
what shorter from Victoria to Yokohama,
than from San Francisco, but it is very
mucli rougher. It is also more tiresome,
owing to the inferior class of steamers,
and the greater number of passengers— to
say nothing of the offensive snobbery ol
the average English “globe-trotter.”
The steamers sailing from San Francisco
are all good and well appointed. The choice
depends upon whether you prefer a Yankee
or an English skipper. Having tried both,
I unhesitatingly cast my vote in favor of
under the
the former, Of those sailing
American flag “The City of Pekin” is the . .
„,
. . — — ------
fastest and best as well as the largest. The I about twenty feet long, with both muscle and
best of the English steamers is the
“Arabic," although the “Oceanic "is the
favorite. Here let me state that the man
who hopes to reach Japan over a smooth
sea is doomed to bitter disappointment.
The one who dubbed that sheet of wnter
“ Pacific,” evidently designed to conceal
thought, or had never been more than
three hundred miles from the California
coast. The Japs have a very suggestive
saying: “a sea voyage is an inch of hell.1
You must take that inch for a yard of
heaven when you reach the Japan side.
If your digestion prove sea-worthy you
may expect a most enjoyable trip ; if not,
the nausea of a Japanese volcano becomes
symbolic. Not even the bracing air, the
glorious sunrise, tiie dying splendor of the
day and the multitudinous smiles of the
phosphorescent night can compensate for
the weary monotony of the “mal de mer.”
After about three weeks of steaming you
may hope to hear the words: “Sometime
to-morrow we shall sight Cape King.” Sun¬
rise “to-morrow” will find all .hands on
deck, and at last our faith turns to sight.
Away off, like a motionless wave rises the
snow-crmvned glory of the “ Land of the
Sunrise,"— Fujiyama, the Peerless, still
sixty or seventy miles away, but beautiful
in its solitude, sparkling like a diamond in
its setting of sapphire.
Not even tiie sky of Italy is as clear and
blue as that of Japan. A few hours and we
are opposite tiie Cape..
To the right the mountainous provinces
of Awa and Kadzu rise in their rainbow
glory of coloring. Such combinations can be
found only in a country like this, where the
land is always under the highest state of cul¬
tivation. Rounding the Cape we see a
grand stretch of green. To the left and a lit¬
tle ahead, is the village of Urngn, where
Com. Perry anchored, and where tiie Ty¬
coon's [Great Prince] messenger announc
ed the favorable reception of President
Fillmore’s message, and where the Ameri¬
can Commodore was first received as the
accredited Ambassador of the U. S. From
this fact the place has acquired the name of
“ Reception Bay,” which name it still re
tains. Not far away, lies all that remains of
the ill-fated U. S. man-of-war “ Oneida,”
sunk in collision with the British ship
“ Bombay.” The glory of the American (lag
has been preserved by tiie sale of the wreck,
the drowned being left to their ocean grave I
Up to date the memory of those who went
down with the ship is just where this grate'
ful Republic found it when the news
arrived. Passing between the light houses
the steamer shoots for tiie lightship
which marks the entrance to the harbor of
Yokohama. This so-called harbor is really
nothing but an open road-stead, which
fact accounts for the fearful destruction of
shipping that takes place every year.
Passing the lightship we drop anchor and
the voyage is done. Two guns fired from
the steamer announces our arrival, al
Ihough the hotel keepers have known that
we were in sight of Cape King long before
we knew it ourselves. They have probably
had a watcher on that peak for two days
looking out for the smoke of our ship.
They know that this is the only incoming
vessel from that quarter, and that we will
be glad enough to find a resting place on
dry land.
First comes tiie steam launch from tiie
“Zci Quan” [Zay Kan, Custom House,]
bringing the Port physician who is to pro¬
nounce upon our fitness to land. Following
this come the various "foreign” hotel
launches — [remember that we are now the
“ foreign devils.”] Looking towards the
“hatoba” [landing place] we see an in¬
numerable fleet of queer looking crafts
that defy description. They seem to have
shot from every crack and cranny of the
long sea-wall, henceforth to be known as
“The Bund.” They dart out as though
shot from a catapult. The rowers are not
trammeled by unnecessary clothing. As
they row you.scc that they stand to their
oars, the left foot braced against an in¬
clined plank and the thigh used as a ful¬
crum in rowing. With astonishingly quick
stroke, six or eight stout fellows drive the
boat through the water with yet more sur¬
prising speed, each set of rowers intent
on getting their boat first to the side of the
lately arrived ship. Sculling, rather than
rowing, is the descriptive word . With oars
strength thrown against them, and each man
working as if the entire responsibility rests
on his exertions, they make the boat fairiy
skim along the water. How they manage to
take sucli rapid strokes must be the first
query of one who has done anythingin that
line. And all is so noisy. Indeed everything
in Japan is accompanied bynoise. The
Japs can make more noise witli their
mouths than any people on the face of the
earth, unless it be the “Celestials." Let
me try to transliterate tiie song or noise
they sing or shout while bending to their
oars. This is about tiie tiling: “ Hoi hay!
huida I ho 1 ho ! hai 1 wa I ha I ”
Assuming that you wish to learn some¬
thing about Japan, take one of these “sam
pan ” [three planks,] a very descriptive
name for the Japanese row boat. "If you
have tears to shed, prepare to shed them
now.” Tiie motion of these boats is in¬
describable. A kind of jerk, that will
fairly disjoint you — something like a yawn
cut short by a hiccough. You are alter¬
nately pulled out and shoved in like a spy¬
glass. Oh! there has been nothing like it
since tiie Inquisition. After a few moments
of this torture you arc once mofe on shore
and have made yourself the promise to
let that voyage in a " sam pan ” last you a
lifetime.
Next comes the old, old story of the
customs. But you will not suffer the agony
experienced at the Custom House in the
United Stales. * Tiie Japanese Custom
House officers are far more respectable
-than are those of our country, though that
is not much of a compliment.
Now you see the one thing that will be
ever present to your eyes as you wander
about this country. You are on the other
side of the world and everything seems to
be turned bottom up.
I shall have much to say about this
up-side-downness of tiie Japanese customs,
so I need mention only a few.
Noisy conversation is polite. Studying
aloud in school is the approved way. Hard
work is accompanied by correspondingly
noisy talking. Modesty is at a discount.
The public baths are open to the street,
and I have frequently seen the bathers,
male and female, taking tlieii baths in a
tub placed where every passer could see
anil be seen.
Carpenters draw the plane towards them ;
but they push the "draw-knife” [as we
call it] from them. Horses are put tail first
in the stalls. In the house the “polite”
tiling would be shocking if not revolting to
the average Westerner.
If you go to one of the native hotels —
and only by doing so will you see anything
of the way in which the people of Japan live
—you will first ofall be requested to take off
your shoes, for otherwise you will destroy
more of the beautiful matting that covers
the padded mats than your hotel bill will
cover. Climb the stejis. They are so steep
that you must literally climb them. You
are now on a beautifully polished floor, and
a few steps bring you to the “shojee,” [so
pronounced], or sliding doors, which ad¬
mit you to your compartment, for room it
cannot be called. The only furniture in
tiie room is a Japanese vase containing
some flowers. In a few moments the "nay
san ” [ I am spelling according to the pro
nunciation], or wailing maid, will bring you
tea and some kind of candy. She will very
soon stare you out of countenance if .you
are the least diffident. Here I leave you
for the present trying to look self possessed,
while in fact you think the damsel"1 possess¬
ed,” and wonder why she don’t call in a
photographer at once. In my next letter I
will try to go all over the hotel, and show
you in what a queer country you are to
spend your time.
Geo. H. AprLETON.
DELAY OF MAY JOURNAL.
The issuing of the May number of the
Journal, as is our custom, was delayed un¬
til after the first of tiie month, in order
that we might give to our readers the re¬
sult of the year’s work. We are sorry to
learn that many subscribers were mucli
annoyed by this delay, and were put to the
trouble of writing to make inquiries about
their papers. We hurried forward the work
as rapidly as possible after the books were
closed. This explanation is due to our
readers and to the good lady who does the
mailing as well.
For a century the Spirit has poured his
fullest blessing on families, churches, and
schools of tiie propb'ets, whence have gone
the largest bands of laborers to fields re¬
mote. Tho paradox of modern church
life is this: Apparent depletion ends in rich¬
est repletion j the most liberal.gifts of men
and money to farthest fields are the signal
for the most rapid replenishment at home.
Here is the key to the paradox : the Holy
Spirit rewards obedience. .Should we re¬
call the 6,000 foreign missionaries to re¬
inforce the home fields, it would bring
to those very fields the curse of barrenness.
Should we, on the contrary, distribute the
whole force equally and impartially, with
strict reference to the vast extent and
awful need of the whole field, such bless¬
ing would come upon fields nearest home
as never has been known. Of church life,
as of individual life, it is true :
‘‘There 1$ that scnlterelh and yet Increneeth :
And then» Is that wtthhoJdem more than la meet,
Out it tendeth to poverty."
—Dr. A. T. Pierson:
When our churches come to believe that
paradox to be truo, how will the. work of
tlieLord prosper, bothat homeand abroad.
The truth of the Bible quotation might be
illustrated within the bounds of the South¬
ern Baptist Convention.
There is evidence that American com¬
merce with China will sutler on account of
the new Chinese exclusion law that is now
being rigidly enforced at all the ports of
the Uuited States. A Shanghai paper, the
Celestial Empire, says that there have
already been anti-American riots in Can¬
ton, and the populace feel that if Chinamen
cannot go to America they should exclude
Americans from China. The Foochow
Echo gives similar news, and adds that
the strong party in China which hates
foreigners has recently been displaying a
dangerous spirit. The- Chinese Govern¬
ment which has refused to ratify the exclu¬
sion treaty with the United States, is not
averse to these manifestations. There is
reason to apprehend that disagreeable re¬
sults may Be experienced by American _
traders in China, and by the shippers of
those American goods that have bcenW
coming into use among the Chinese. ButTO
we can bear with all tills piovided the mis- '
sionaries are not interfered with.
Our Lord can turn even the folly of cur
Congress to the advancement of his king¬
dom. Let us ask him to do it in this case.
Italy. — Wuttke gives the following sta¬
tistics of Evangelical Christians among the
Italians : There are 16.500 Waldenses.
Most of these are found in the old churches
of the valleys, but there are also new
churches in cities, namely, one In Milan
with 326 communicants, one in Turin with
317, and two in Florence with 325. The
Free Church of Italy has 71 churches and
stations, with L5S0 members. The Ply¬
mouth Brethren have 50 small congrega¬
tions; the Wesleyans, 55 congregations
and stations, and 1.380 members; the
Methodist Episcopal Church, 20 congrega¬
tions and 5 stations? with 950 members;
the Baptists have 53 stations and 870 mem¬
bers. There are, besides, a few smalL'mis-
sioas in different parts of the country.
The statistics of the German, English,
American and French churches are not
given. The total number of Italian
communicants in the Evangelical churches
is 22,000.— Dr.J. II. IK Sluckcnberg.
That is a good large lump of leaven God
has put into Italy. And it is gradually
leavening the lump.
AH vessels bound for West and South
Africa, coming from ports in Europe and
America, stop at Madeira. Here is the
list of liquors which passed through in one
week. It is taken from the daily returns
posted in Liverpool :
24.000 butts of rum . - . 240,000
30,000 cases of brandy . 90.000
28,006 cases ot Irish whiskey.... 56,000
800,000 demijohns bf rum . 240,000
36,000 barrels of rum .
.
. 72,000
30,000 case? of Old Tom . 60,066.
15,000 barrels of absinthe™ . 45,006-
40,000 cases of vermouth . 3,060
The compiler calls it “ The Devil’: Mis¬
sionary Enterprise.”— Bombay Guardian.
This "Missionary Enterprise” demands
more energetic work on the part of the.
Lord’s mission workers in Africa, to count¬
eract its influence, and the exercise of ail
the influence possessed by the Lord’s peo*-
ple at home to put a check upon it.
Missionary literature has no adequate-
place among the numberless publications
which throng even Christian homes. The
young are not trained to look upon the
world’s evangelization as a great and para¬
mount interest of life, — Missionary Herald.
Too true. If a tithe of the money spent
by Christian people for the purchase of
trashy literature for their children was
spent in good, readable, .missionary litera¬
ture, the children would be the better for
it, and the cause greatly helped. And
children would greatly enjoy the stories of
missionary life.
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