Foreign Mission Journal, May 1889

Foreign Mission Journal. PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE FOBEIGN MISSION BOARD OF THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION. t < ■( “ALL POWER IS GIVEN UNTO ME IN HEAVEN AND IN EARTH. GO YE, THEREFORE, AND TEACH ALL NATIONS.” VOL. 20— New Series. RICHMOND, VA., MAY, 1889. No. 10 — Whole Nc. 250 [Entered nt the (’oet-OfTIre nt lilehmond, Va., ae eecond-clasB mutter.J Foreign Mission Journal. RATES PER ANNUM: I. For papers separately addressed, either to same or to different post olHcrtt One copy . . . .. . „юМ cte. Three copies &, t), or.... ..ЯЗИ cte. apiece. II. For packages eent to one person, who shall be rejpouilbW* for their dlatilbiitlont Four copies for ♦!, or more at . 25cts. apiece. Twenty-five copies for trt or more nt . 20 cte. apiece. Oue Hundred copies for *16, or more nt..lflcU«. apiece. ЛТ Please remit by llrnft, l*o«tal Order, or In Kefrls- teretl better, and notify us том I’ll. Y of any change In address. Address, FOREKIN MISSION JOURNAL, Richmond, Va. ADVERTISING RATES. 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О ' lit m. r. 11. Hut'nn, W. D. Thomas, W. W. Lan.lrnm, W J. Shipman. Geo. Cooper, an. Rylniul, H. C. Burnett, T. P. Mathews, It. 11. Pitt. II. S. Iloshnr. tfy.lli communications in reference to the business of this Hoard should he addressed to H. A. Topper, Corresponding Secretary, Kichmond, Va. CLOSE OF THE CONVENTIONAL YEAR, A feeling of profound llmnkfulness pos¬ sessed the liearls of ils officers, when atthe dose of the year, it was found that the Board was practically free of debt. The account stands as follows: Balance last year . $ 3.609.63 Receipts from all sources . 99.023.75 J102.633.3S The expenditures have been fioi SiS.4i, leaving a balance in the treasury of JSi4 97. There is. as will be seen when the treasu¬ rer’s report is printed, the sum of $2, 150.21 due by the Iioartl oil “ Loans on call.” This is money loaned to the Board by returned missionaries, who prefer to leave it in our hands for use, and is to all intents and purposes hardly to be regarded as a debt on the Board. It will probably re¬ main an item in the financial report for years to come. As we review the work of the past year, both at home and abroad, both in its finan¬ cial and spiritual aspects, the Board feels profoundly thankful to God for the bless¬ ings he has bestowed on its woik, and grateful to the churches for their efficient help in the same. And now we turn our eyes forward and lookout on the greatly enlarged work lying before us. The com¬ mand of the last Convention to “ go for¬ ward" has been obeyed, and the Board hopes to hear from the Convention a repe¬ tition of the same command, and is prepar¬ ed to render still further obedience. May our great Leader direct the Convention in all its work, in its discussions, in the con¬ clusions reached, in the directions given to its executive boards; and may the spirit of missions which is the Spirit of Christ, abide with our people in the year to come. DEPARTURE OF MISSIONARIES. Rev. R. H. G.ravcs, D. D., sailed from San Francisco, the latter part of April, on his return to Canton, to take up again the work in which he has been so successfully engaged for over thirty years. Rev. J. H. Eager and family expect to leave for Rome, Italy, during the early part of May. They return to their loved work, much benefited by their visit home. May our God g > with these his servants, and greatly bless them. MISS MAGGIE RICE. This consecrated young missionary was a native of Mis¬ souri, and had just acquired the native tongue of the people of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, among whom she had cast her lot for weal or woe, and was laboring most acceptably, when she was smitten with that fearful scourge, yellow fever, and borne upward to her home in glory. RECENT APPOINTMENTS. At its meeting held on the first of April, the Board had the pleasure of examining and appointing several new missionaries. Rev. С. C. Newton and wife, of North Carolina, were accepted for work in Africa. Bro. Newton is a man of something over forty years of age, and has been for a num¬ ber of years a faithful and honored worker in his native State. Having no small chil¬ dren, and himself and wife being both in j excellent health, he seemed to the Hoard, j as u'ell as to some of his brethren in North ! Carolina, to be especially suited for work : • к t • _ A _ ...... Г..11 „ Г _..„1 „„Л I felt the need of another year at the Semina¬ ry, and has been doing fine work there, not only in the class room, but in mission work in the city of Louisville. Bro. League feels that God has called him to go to China, and on his application, has been transferred from Mexico to North China. Miss Mollie McMinn and Miss Emma Morion, of Missou¬ ri, were appointed respectively to Canton, China, and Rio, Brazil. MISSIONARY INFLUENCE WORDS;” OF “KIND , , „ , , , , When in the pastorate, we were fre- m Africa. A godly man full of zeal, and|ql|en(|y ,roubIed by lhe )ack of informa- profoundly convinced of his call by God to this work. We are glad to be able to say that along with Bro. Newton will he Rev. W. J. Lurnb- ley. of Mississippi, who was appointed to this field a year ago. hut was detained by sickness. Bro. Lumbley will be accom¬ panied by a help-meet. Miss Lottie Moon's earnest appeal for n.-p lady workers for Pingtu was partly answered by the appointment of Miss Fan¬ nie S. Knight, also of North Carolina. Miss Knight came to the Board with the best of recommendations from many sources, and in her the Board felt that they had secured a worker who fills all the re¬ quirements of a helper,. as Miss Moon gives these to the Secretary. ' MOST RECENT APPOINTMENTS. Owing to an unavoidable delay in the issuing of this number of tho Journal, we are enabled to announce the following ap¬ pointments of missionaries made by Board on Friday the 3rd of May. Miss Newton was appointed to accompany her father and mother to Africa. To open the mission in tion on the missionary work of the South¬ ern Baptist Convention, so prepared as to be availableforoiirSunday-school teachers and scholars. We felt, more and more, the need of instructing tlie children on the general subject of missions, and more es¬ pecially of giving them definite informa¬ tion concerning the work of our own mis¬ sion boards, both home and foreign. So far as we could learn, there was no publi¬ cation which in any way provided for this need— none that could well do so. So we hailed with peculiar pleasure the publica¬ tion of a series of Sunday-school papers by the Home Mission Board, as we thought we saw in these the medium through which the desired information could he conveyed to the children. And we are glad to say that our hopes in this direction have been in a considerable measure realized. From time to time we have noted with satisfaction that Kind Words has contained no little information about the work of .our boards, such as the children of our schools could have re¬ ceived from no other source. In addition to statistical information and set articles, and lessons on missionary topics, mission- japan, Rev. J. W. McCullom, of Alabama, and Rev. J. A. Brunson, of South Carolina, aries’ letters have been printed, of such were appointed. It will be remembered by our readers that Bro. Brunson was ap¬ pointed a year ago to the North China field, but was granted leave to spend another year at the Seminary. With his hearty con¬ currence lie lias been transferred to the Japan mission, for which he seems to have special qualifications. Bro. McCullom. who graduates this year at the Seminary, is con¬ sidered, both bythe professors and students, as one of the very best men who will go forth from that Institution this year. God has given us two choice men for our new mission. Bro. T. J. League, of South Carolina, was appointed, at the same time with bro. Brun¬ son, hut to the Mexican work. He also kind as to bring the children into a com paratively close and intimate acquaintance with these missionaries and their work, and to develop in our young people an interest in that work. Our "Sunbeam” movement was an effort on our part— at the suggestion and under the direction of Rev. Geo. Braxton Taylor — to meet this same want. This movement has been increasingly success¬ ful, but in the very nature of the case we cannot hope that its influence will be felt in nearly all our schools. Only a small number of schools will have Sunbeam societies, even as only a small number cf churches, comparatively, will have Wo¬ man’s Mission societies— at least for a long time to come. The want must, in the main, be met by the papers which are used regularly in the school’s, and which are so conducted as to pay special attention to the work and wants of our own missions. Such attention is being more and more given to this subject by the editors of Kind Words, and we feel sure that in every school in which this paper and its related series of lessons go. there has been awakened a deeper interest in the work of our Southern Baptist Convention, both homeland foreign. The service that may still be rendered to our work by these publications is simply immeasurable. These thoughts, in part expressed when we received the first issue of the Kind Words series, have been awakened pnew by a glance over the April issue of the paper, and of the Advanced Quarterly for the second quarter of thisyear. A mighty instrumentality for developing a missionary- spirit in our Sunday-schools, and for train¬ ing the children in missionary giving, is possessed by Southern Baptists in this series. IN MEMORIAM— MISS MAGGIE RICE. At a regular meeting of the “ Woman's Foreign Missionary Society” of the First Baptist Church, St. Joseph, Mo., the fol¬ lowing resolutions were unanimously adopted : IN MKMORIAM. Whereas, it lias pleased our Heavenly Father to remove from her earthly field of labor our beloved sister, Maggie Rice, therefore, Resolved, First. That while we bow in humble submission to the will of him who said. “ Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his-saints,” it is with a feeling of deep sorrow that we mourn the early death of our beloved sister. She was a devoted, earnest Christian. Her heart was wholly given to her chosen lile-work — parting with dear ones, giving up home and country, sheunfalteringly and faithfully car¬ ried out her long cherished desire to go to the heathen and teach them the way of life, nor did she stay her hand, nor stop her work until the. Father sent her release, and bade her come up higher. Second. That wc, are impressed with the importance of the work, and count it a priceless privilege given to our sister to say among the heathen: "The Lord reigneth.” Third. That as a society, in all tender¬ ness and love, we extend to her berbaved mother and family our sincere sympathy in their great affliction, and say to them that the sweetest consolation is found in her faith and their faith in a risen Saviour; and that it will he hut a few years, at most, when they will rejoice together in the heavenly mansion. Fourth. That this preamble and these resolutions be engrossed on a separate page of the record of the society, and copies thereof be sent to her bereaved family; and for publication, to the Cen¬ tral Baptist and foreign Mission Journal. Mrs. О. P. Moss, Mrs. John Doniphan, Mrs. J. L. Lawless, Committee. DEATH OF MRS. J. J. TAYLOR. In tho February Issue of tlio/rwwz/it was announced that Rev. J. J. Taylor and wife, of Forest City, Arkansas, had been appoint¬ ed ns missionaries to North China. Tlio se¬ curing of this appointment had been a long cherished desire of both brother and sister Taylor. For several years they had looked forward anxiously to tho lime when they could feci themselves missionaries. Theap- polntment brought Joy to their hearls, and with fond anticipations of an early going forth, they had sot about making tlieir pre¬ parations. But God had other uso for his servant, and called lior unto himself. Bro. Taylor writes, “During herwholo Illness her whole thought ami expressfun woro concern¬ ing our work In Chinn.” This sad and most unexpected blow compels brother Taylor to remain In this country. May tho Lord com¬ fort lilm In Ids sore beroavement. And what a disappointment to tho anx¬ iously walling workers In Chinn. They were joyfully looking for tho four workers— now only two can go— Bro. Bostick mid wife. But may It not ho that tho Lord will ralso up others to go — not only that tho hearts of our missionaries may bo filled with Joy again, but that the work, so pressing, may be done? If we will make it a point to get some¬ thing from. every member of the church, our collections will greatly increase, and we will be educating much better to get Jioo from 100 men than the same amount from one man. And we must insist upon it, that one man cannot do another mail’s giving. Vanderbilt himself cannot pay the ‘‘widow’s mile.” She must pay her own mite.— Rev. J. B. Arnold, in Raleigh Christian Advocate, Well put. The small gifts of the poor are as necessary to the prosecution of the Lord's work as the large gifts of the rich, and the withholding of these is as sinful as the withholding of those. Rev. A. Lloyd writes from Japan that Unltarianism is so wonderfully like Con¬ fucianism that it seems likely to prove specially attractive to the Japanese. With¬ out change of heart or opinion, they will he able to call themselves Christians, and that is just what they most desire. Christian workers in Japan all seem to see and feel this, and .realize that the greatest danger of Japan, religiously npeak- ing, is Unitarianisn. Prompt, earnest work by evangelical Christians alone can save her therefrom. SCRAPS PICKED UP. A second Baptist church was Organized in Paris, France, in December, under direc¬ tion of the Missionary Union . "The Christian Union” is the name of asociety recently formed in England, whose object is to bring about the severance of the British Empire from the opium traffic. God speed it in its labor of love . «‘‘What means shall the priests employ in, the hope of resisting successfully the further pro¬ gress of the sects", the Free Reformed churches and the Baptists ? " is the question! now agitating the Catholic powers in Aus-\ tria. Thank God for this evidence of the4, progress of the truth in this land ol spirit¬ ual darkness . Southern Presbyterians entered Mexico, as a mission field, fifteen years ago. They have seven American and six native workers ; a total member¬ ship of 364; with pupils in day and Sun¬ day schools, 440 . The London Mis¬ sionary Society's force of foreign workers in Madagascar is only 30. But with these work S28 native ordained ministers and 4,395 ordained preachers, (evangelists.) The church members number 61,000, and adherents, 280,000 . Ninety-seven per cent of all moneys collected for religious purposes is spent on the home field— only three per cent for evangelization of the world . The total number of Jesuits scattered over the world in missionary work is 2,377 . TheJapanese Christians are zealous propagators of the.truth; full of tlie missionary spirit. It is an awful thotignt but a true one : Every soul that without excuse goes at last into outer darkness, as having heard but not having heeded tlie gospel, is as truly a proof of tlie preacher's fidelity and as really a trophy of God’s triumph as is a soul saved by repentance and faith; There¬ fore it is that as we go forth to evangelize the world we rejoice alike in victory and in defeat, for in both alike God is leading us ill triumph in Cliiist. Whether men are saved and send up tlie fragrance of life; or whether, lost, they send up the stench of death, he will recognize and reward the fidelity of which botli tlie saved and the lost are alike witnesses. This cry of “ vic¬ tory ” has long been Satan’s device to mis¬ lead and discourage God’s saints. It tempts us to “number tile people" and gauge success by figures; nay, to let down the gospel standard in hopes of easier und quicker victory. It leads an English Canon to set pounds sterling over against the sterling wortli of souls, and, because the sums expended semi large and the con¬ verts gailiered seem lew, to cry, like Judas, “To what purpose is this waste?" It be¬ trays uij into hopelessness and heartless-, ness when our words seem to avail nothing in winning souls, and it has diiven not a few workmen from the field altogether, because God’s blessing seemed withheld from tlieir work. — Dr. A. T. JHcrson. As we read these words, we could not help thinking about tlie complaints some¬ times heard about the “small number of converts” in some of our own fields. Are we faithfully sustaining these fields? .Are our workers there faithfully preaching the • Word? Then, 'is God being obeyed' and honored, we are doing our duty, andiebus leave results with him.