Foreign Mission Journal, March 1875

1 'OKEIGN MISSION J OUBNAL B*iibll«hc<l illonllily by the Гоголи MInhIoii Jlonrd o4 Ilm Southern UnpUKt Convention. “All Power is given unto me in Heaven and in Earth. Go ye, therefore, and Teach ale Nations.” — The'Son.of God. Vol: 7. — New Series. RICHMOND, YA.| MARCH, 1876. <;No. 9.— Whole! No. 81. , ?,<, -41 • I ' FOREIGN MISSION JOURNAL. TERMS : ' Single ropy, ono year . . . $ CO Fonr copied to ono есЫгеил . 1 00 Ten copies to one address . 2 00 - Thirty copICa to ono nddrim . : . . . C 00 Si,, ta-b'or pnekage. containing fifty coploe and upwards, per year, .rtj, . 15 cents per copy. pi; All eiihscrlptlona for the paper shonld bo addreased, Foreion Mis- ' • BIOS JOCRNAL, Rtcnstoxp, VA. i Jlaxipli will U irntfor all lubicripllom received. M ;/> FORE TON MISSION BOARD, ■t Locatod at Uiohraond„Va,. 1 , . . v - Fkuimkt— I. L. M. CUBBY, Viaami*. VicP-ParHIDtlTS— -II I mm Wood*, Md.. W. M. Wingate, N. О., 1Г. „ П.'ТисШ'Г, Oa., S. Henderson, Ala.. J. A. llackett, Miss., J. L. Bur- rowe, Va., Henry McDonald, Ky.. W. I’opo Youmun, Mo., J. 0. Fur- ’ min, S. 0., Moioa Oroen, Ark.. S. Conrtney, Ia., И. B. McCollum, ^ d Fin,’,' Malt. Hilllinan, Tenn., W. Cary Crane, Texas. II. A. TUl'l'EH, CoanrarokMNO Зг-оа'втлкт. " ' • EDWIN WORTHAM, Tnr.*sunF.n. , „ i W. II. (1WATII.MKY, Itroonnixn StcntiAar. . . ,.;P< T. WOItniAM, At'iuron. • ''Do**n o'r'JliManEHa — J. 11. deter, 0. 0. nittlne. A. K. Dickinson, t Hi' Ki Kllyson. A. 11. Clark, J. K. Kceaee, J. C. Williams. T. J. Evans, J»J. B. Winston. O, It. Winston, II H. Harris, J. B. Watkins, Wei- , lln'gton Ooddln, N W. Wilson, J. It. Oarllek. ,йа5°!-М communications in reference lo the business (if this Board should be addressed to II. Л. Тиггкп. Cclrri'spbp'Jint/ Secretary, Jtlchmondx Va. .„THE QUOTAS OF THE STATES. At' tho.laei mpctirii* of ,tlio Southern Raptiet Соптоп- 5ifc^tj3'Si»^ct)Tiri;il^i;feT5^»tie*/ioifi'Vuoir,3laIKjTaeSl!rppo)ritc<l; to decide uf on thd «Quotas which might ‘bo fairly fcx- *pected from tho tjoutheni States, for Foreign Missions, , * dicing the- present Conventional yenr. Tho asscs.s- v ment of Georgia wns made subsequently by tho Excc- . utive Committqo'for Foreign Missions of Hint State. Will not tho pastors, and dcncone, and churches of the South, examine tho account on our last page and see what they arc expected to do before the next meeting of the Convention, and then, by God’s belp, do it. Tho Convention ordered the lionrd of Foreign Missions to borrow money, if' need be, to pay their missionaries quarterly .in advance. But borrowing is only an inju¬ rious. postponement of meeting obligations. Will not the ministry and tlio cliurcliCB ponder their sacred duty in th is' mutter ond not forsuho nor neglect the work on which the woild’s redemption depends. two years to have Mrs. Hartwell undor mcdioril care, and she has, under tho direction of the beet doctors. gono over, it seems to me, аЦ tho nervine tonics and .qnjceccnte, &c., in the whole pharmacopoeia, but with¬ out any permanent result. I do not mean tliisremark as in any degree derogatory .to the good doctor, whohas attended my family in Chefoo, for I believe that asj а physician ho hae not his suphioron the coastof China. He is skillful, thorough and successful, but a ease like Mrs. Hartwell's seems to reejuire a specialist. A little more than a year ago a ladyl ionnectcA. with the Pres¬ byterian' mission, who was c/iected inUchas Mrs. ilart- t. well is,, though she did not Hartwell, wont to New Yorl there three months, and among hor friends to test tli She luado the whole trip ia less, and, has come back to woman. ' She line urged tha placed in tho care of the ph ful With her. I am now about convinced that there will bo no permanent relief and that every month that that mncli more of suffering the difficulty of an ultimatelouro. I therefore writo. to ask if the Board will alio c m e to take my wifo to Now York to be treated. Id alike exceedingly to make sucli a request so 'shortly ‘aft liffer so acutely ou Airs ior treatment. She wns on spent a few. months permunenoy of her cure, about twelve months, or ,’liina apparently a vyell Mrs. Hartwell should be sician who was so success¬ or my wife nearer home, vo delay is only adding and probably increasing r my return ’from'a visit to live if only to giye'.ploasurc to theso little children.’* As they were my ciiljdfen I, felt kindly towards the tree for its kind feelings towards them. Joe seemed to ho iri tfiiiougbtf ul.moodL “ Charlie,’* he said, “ ain't this an-appje'trcc ?” “Why, of course it is boy -; .didn’t-.ycu knowdhat .fi* “Yes, I thought it was ; bulr-what’n 'the reason it' don’t have apples on itlike tbotree in the front yard?’* This was a home question ;• and I saw that;it cut the tree to the quick. It began to 'hold down- its head again and to quiver. That was .the. very thing, that troubled it. It felt that it woe Hot- во good as other trees, and especially not so good n'e other nppte trees. “Boy,” said Charlie, “you "arc too little ‘to ’mem¬ ber things. Last year this tree .was right full of -ap¬ ples, nice red ones. Father had to prop it up to keep it from breaking down ; and the. tree in the front yard didn’t have any apples at all on it. This tree is just restin’ this year. Don’t you know that a tree gets tired and must rest ? “Yes, I know,” said Joe, with a knowing nod, not letting on that it was a bran-new idea to him. It 6eemed to bc.anewidoa totbe tree, too. Itturned the matter over thoughtfully two or threo times, and then said, “ The child is right. We all get tired.' Tho busy birds, come oven in the daytimo and rest among my. branches. The children, rest in mysliadel Men are not i to stare mo'in thd face, while tlio, prospect of a speedy recovery .in skilled bunds makes the duty seem imper¬ ative.” BROTHER AND SISTER HARTWELL MUST COME HOME. A short time sluco it was anuounced that brother Crawford’s henlth demanded that lie eliould return to tins country. Now tho sad necessity of brother Hart¬ well’s icturn, on account of his wife’s ill-hcaltli, is upon us. Tim expenso of the return and of settling up for tho past, and providing for Wic future of his mis¬ sion, is very heavy. ThoBoaid liavo authorized their return ; and also brother Hartwell’s draft for some sevenhundred pounds. I.ct tlio following from brother Hartwell ho rend, and the question bo asked by oacli, “Am I not culled upon to do more for these missiona¬ ries?” “ You nro aware that Mrs. Hartwell has been ill ever sinco wo liavo been in Chinn and that aim has been a very great sufferer, but I am sure you cannot possibly have any mlcqunto idea of tho intensity and persistency of tho agony eho has endured. For two years and a half eho line never had a day, and scarcely an hour, in which slio has not been in pain ; and this no littlo cndurablo pain, but intense, боусго pain, which she can describe no better than by a severe tooth-ache all over tho body. I havo boon in Chefoo now nearly THE DESPONDENT &PPLE TREE. It is not every one who can hear tho trees talk ; nor can any otic hear them talk at all times. Once in a long while when I n'm out among them I can distinctly hear them whispering, and sometimes I can under¬ stand what they say. Not far from my study -door tbero is a little apple tree, that came near being blown down once, ondbas never been nblo to stand up straight since. One day lost summer when I was sitting at my open window I heard Ibis tree talking to itself. “I don’t see,” said the tree, “of what uso f. am in this world. I am an ugly, bent littlo thing, to begin with, and then I haven’t a single applo on my limbs. Last spring I had some Woesome, it ie true ; but that makes tlio matter worse, for what are blossoms tlmt сото to nothing but false ptomisoB ? I am sure I lmd just as well be cut down ; I’m only fit for fire-wood, and bardly fit for that.” I felt sorry for the little tree. It shook ne if con¬ vulsed with grief. It seemed to bend lower towards the ground, and I felt afraid that its very heart would break. JuBt then I beni'd a clear, childish voice say : “Como on, Charlie, and let's set down in this nice cool shade.” The too littlo hoys came with tlicir blocks and pic¬ tures, and hammer and case-knife, and all their other play-thin gs, and sat down beneath the applo tree. “ Now, ain't this n nice, cool place, Joe ?” said Char¬ lie. “ Yes, and ain’t this a good tree to keop tho hot sun off of us littlo boys?” “ Y'cs,” said Charlie, “ It's a jolly good tree.” I wondered if the tree heard wliat tlio little boys said, and watched it closely to sec. Presently it was still. Its inward sobbing ceased, and I thought its leaves brightened up a little. “After all,” it whis¬ pered softly, “ I am of some use. It. were worthwhile italwaye wprking.'y'They rest sometimes,- and' I- sfi “ ’ ' ' " ' ' rested last year, and I rest.this ; next year I will hear npples, and it will rest., Eaoli line its turn. Opportu¬ nities come to all, hut not at the same time.” The tree was evidently stronger, and so was I. How often I had repined and thought myself but a drone in God’s busy hive ! How often had I been jealous of more active workers, and envious of their more fruit¬ ful labors. I determined that 1 would be thankful for what I had been permitted to do in the past ; thankful for tho little that I nm now doiDg, and hopeful of a more fruitful season hereafter. . A HA8TY CONCLUSION. Tho pastor and' hie deacon wero riding home from church together. “ Brbthcr Smith,” Eaid tho deacon, “I hayo come to the conclusion that giving money for Foreign missions is almost the same as throwing it away. I can't see tlmt it in doing any good. If those brethren who aro wasting their lives among tho heathen were at home, they could do a great deal of good, and for my part, I wish they wero here.” The pastor rodo on ns if ho did not hear what was said ; but when he came to Mr. Griffin’s now vineyard he turned in his Boddlo and said : “ Brother Jones what do you think of this new¬ fangled notion of raising grapes in our country ? Here Mr. Grffin lias been working three years on this ten aero lot, and this year lie didn’t raiso as many grapes ne his family could cat. It’s my opinion that ho lias sunk at least a thousand dollars in that vine¬ yard.” “ Oh no 1 not sunk it, brother Smith, hut only in¬ vested it. Next year ho will have grapes to sell ; and the next year after lie may expect his crop to pay him hack nearly all ho line speDt. I don’t call that sink¬ ing money.” “ Perhaps you are right, brother Smith,” said the postor, and tiie subject was dropped ; but brother Smith thought of it, and at tlio noxt meeting Iinnded up twenty dollars for Foreign missions, sajing, “ Brother Smith, please invest this m tho Lord’s foreign vine¬ yard.”