Foreign Mission J ournal
■MihllNlicrt Monthly by tlio Vorolpi niKfiloii Jlotird of the Boiillutrn IlapliNt Convention. -
"ALL POWER IS GIVEN UNTO ME IN HEAVEN AND IN EARTH. GO YE, THEREFORE, AND TEACH ALL NATIONS."
Vol. 14. — New Series.
RICHMOND, VA., MAY-JUNE, 1882.
Nos. 2and3. — Whole No. 147.
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Address, KOKKION MISSION JOURNAL,
RICHMOND, Va.
FOREIGN MISSION BOARD
OK THE BO0THEKN BAFTIBT CONVENTION,
LooatbI) at RICHMOND. VIRGINIA.
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Vtutt-l’nitetbKNTB. — Hiram Woods, Md., J. A. Ilackett,
La., \\\ 1). Thomas, Va., H. U. McfJallntn, Kla., T. II.
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AUDITOR — JOSEPH V. OOTTItELL.
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communication* in reference to the business
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Board should be addressed to 11. A. Titppkk,
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(Secretary, Richmond , Va.
THIRTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT
BOARD or FOREIGN MISSIONS.
This report is presented to llie Convention with
devout gratitude to God for the shield lie lias
thrown around us in the time of trouble, and for
the men and means he has afforded to carry on
the work assigned to us in the great harvest field
of the world.
FOREIGN MISSION JOURNAL.
Receipts and disbursements from April
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March
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1881.
April 1. To balance on hand, $ 35
Received from board
for publishing an¬
nual report 1881.... S8 75
1882.
March 31. Received from sub¬
scribers to date . ,• S06 93
March 31. By paid to the Dis¬
patch Co. for print¬
ing . <501 50
Paid for book-keop-
■ ing, mailing, etc.... 2-10 00
Paid postage on
Journal .
Paid for wrapping
paper .
$S94 03
25 -18
3 40
$830 3S
Balance . $03 Go
1 have this day examined the foregoing account
of tlie receipts and disbursements for the Foreign
Mission Journal, and find the same correct and sus¬
tained by proper vouchers, leaving balance on
hand of $03.05. -
J. F. COTTRELL, Auditor.
Richmond , Va.t April 3d,
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The circulation of th
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Journal is about five thou¬
sand. It is desirable that the paper be enlarged,
and that our gifted woman-workers jind other
able writers contribute to its columns. Is not the
time come for the employment of a regular editor?
Pastors should interest themselves in this organ of
the Convention.
MISS McCOWN.
When Mrs. M. T. Yates was in this country,
she urged that a woman Missionary Physician
should be sent to Shanghai. After correspond¬
ence with several young women, the Board
accepted for this service Miss Ruth McCown,
the daughter of an eminent Baptist minister of
Virginia. The acceptance was on the condition
that her medical education should not tax the
Treasury of the Board. The expense of a two-
year course in Philadelphia is about $400. The
amount raised by special contributions, and paid
to Miss McCown, is $-158.35. Our medical student
is much pleased with her studies, and thinks now
that she will extend her course to three years.
APPOINTMENTS, DEPARTURES, AND ARRIVALS OF
MISSIONARIES.
In July last, Rev. J. P. McCullough and wife,
formerly of Tennessee, then of Parma, N. Y.,
visited Richmond by invitation of the Board, and
on the 2Sth of that month brother McCullough was
appointed a missionary to China, as was published
in the Foreign Mission journal. Subsequently it
was deemed wise that be should retire* from the
appointment. This painful act was quietly per¬
formed by our brother and sister, who had, in these
trying circumstances, the sincere sympathy of the
Board, The appointments of Rev. John Stout
and Rev. T. P. Bell, of South Carolina, reported
to the last meeting of the Convention as as¬
signed respectively to Shanghai 'and to Tung
Chow, China, were also withdrawn; and these
brethren, beloved and honored for their piety,
zeal and ability, are esteemed among the most
earnest and efficient friends of our missionary en¬
terprise.
On the 22d of August Rev. N. W. Halcomb, of
Missouri, was appointed to Tung Chow. In com¬
pany with our missionaries, Dr. and Mrs. R. H.
Graves, lie sailed from San Francisco on the 24th
of October, arrived in Shanghai on the 28th of
November, and in Tung Chow the Stli of Janua¬
ry of this year. Dr. and Mrs. Graves readied
Canton on the 24th of November. Miss Ruth
McCown visited Richmond, and was accepted by
the Board October 10th. On the 19th of Novem¬
ber Rev. W. S. Walker and Rev. C. \V. Pruitt, of
Georgia, and Rev. P. A. Eubank, of Kentucky,
students of the Southern Baptist Theological Sem¬
inary, were appointed, the two first to China, the
last to Africa. Brethren Walker and Pruitt sailed
from San Francisco on the 21st of December and
arrived in Shanghai the 27th of January. Brother
Walker had been assigned to that mission.
Brother. Pruitt sailed for Tung Chow, his field of
labor, on thcCth of February, and arrived there on
the 11th of that month. Brother Eubank expects
to sail for Africa ill July next. Rev. Z. C. Taylor,
of Texas, was appointed to Brazil January 3d,
1882, and sailed with his wife from Baltimore', in
the Bark Serene, on the 12Ur of January. On the
23d of February they reached Rio de Janeiro,
where they were met by our missionary, Rev. W.
B. Bagby, who accompanied them to Campinas, in
San Paulo province.
The health of Mrs. S. J. Holmes failing, the
Board invited her to return to this country to re¬
cruit her strength. In July she left Tung Chow
and reached her relatives in West Virginia early
in September. Our sister is now in .Philadelphia
under medical treatment. After her departure
from Tung Chow, Mrs. T. P. Crawford, though in
feeble health, undertook Mrs. Holmes’ school with
her own . The strength of this missionary also yield¬
ing to excessive toil, it became necessary that
she should seek, immediately, the superior medical
skill of this country. On the 14th of October siie
sailed from Shanghai, and on the 11th of Novem¬
ber arrived in San Francisco. Mrs. Crawford lias
been in the Woman’s Hospital of New York, and
is now a patient in tile Ladies’ Retreat ol Rich¬
mond, Va. Miss Whilden of the Canton Mission,
also invited by the Board, arrived in San Francisco*
on 2-2d of April. The return of these noble women
to their native land will prove, no doubt, as in the
case of Dr. and Mrs. Graves, a blessing to our
churches.
woman’s work.
The influence of woman in Christian society is
such that without her co-operation no good cause
can prosper. Herseclusion in heathen lands calls
for the employment of female missionaries as es¬
sential to any great and permanent success in our
work. I11 the parable, it was naturally a woman
who took the leaycn "and hid it in three measures
of meal till it was all leavened;” in the reality it
is to a large extent by the loving hands of the
gentler and more patient sex, that the subtle,
silent, transforming power of Christain truth is to
pervade the masses of humanity. But how best
to combine mid direct woman’s potent energies is
a difficult and delicate problem. The suggestions
adopted by the Convention at its last meeting
have received long and careful attention on the
part of the Board, and some of them have been
carried into effect. Realizing, however, that a false
step now might entail fatal embarrassments for
years to come, wc have chosen to move slowly
and cautiously in the exercise of the discretion
allowed by tlie Convention.
Organisation.
The Board lias not deemed it wise as yet to ap¬
point a general superintendent of woman’s work.
The present plan of operation is very simple. In
each State there is a Central Committee appoint-
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ed according to the directions of the Convention. |
This committee disseminates missionary informa¬
tion, stimulates interest in missions, aids in organ¬
izing local societies, receives funds from these
auxiliaries and forwards the same to our Board.
The societies are requested to report and remit
their moneys to the State Central Committees. It
is thus that their statistics can be most conve¬
niently collected, and reports of their work most
satisfactorily made. The Board furnishes the
committees with tracts, leaflets and papers for cir¬
culation, and encourages them to form a mission¬
ary society in every church, and to secure contri¬
butions from every Baptist woman of tlie South.
For many and obvious reasons, we may well
follow the example of our sisters of the North in
the principle that while our woman’s societies aid
tlie Board to discovcrproper women to go into for-
