Foreign Mission Journal, November 1888

Foreign Mission Journal!1 PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE FOKEIGN MISSION BOARD OF THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION”! 'XU •'C, дЯ '‘ALL POWER IS GIVEN UNTO ME IN HEAVEN AND IN EARTH. GO YE, THEREFORE, AND TEACH ALL NATIONS?' : ' Vol. 20 — New Series. RICHMOND, VA„ NOVEMBER, iSSS. No. 4— Whole No. 244. [Entered at the l'oKt-O at Jllchmoml, Va., ns second-class matter.] Foreign Mission Journal. RATES PER ANNUM: I. For papers eeparAtely addressed, either to same or to different post оШсеа : One copy . 3ft cts. Three copies @ fl, or . . . . . 33 H cts. apiece. II. For package.* aent to one person, whoahall be responsible for their distribution 1 Four coplea for fl, or more at . 25cts. apiece. Twenty-five copies for ♦Л.огтого nt . 20 cts. apiece. One Hundred coploa for f 16, or more at . . lfi cts. apiece. *?* Please remit by Draft, Гоя tnl Order, or In regis¬ tered Letter, and notify us rnoMi’TLY of any change la address. Address, FOREIGN MISSION JOURNAL, Richmond, Va. ADVERTISING RATES. 81’AOB. 1 Month. В Months в Months 12 Months One Inch . . . 1 2J 3 4!» в Ю 12 1Ю Two Inches . 2 <0 6 4Л 12 60 22 60 Threelncl.es . 3 00 0 20 18 00 32 OH Quarter column... 4 7b 1Я 00 25 1*0 48 00 Iialf column . 0 2ft 25 20 48 00 90 00 One column . 18 01) 00 00 92 00 178 00 FOREIGN MISSION BOARD OF THE SOUTHERN DAPTIST CONVENTION. boCATUD AT RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. Гвмтш- H. II. Hakuis. Vics-PnisiBKNTfl.— ToshUA Levering, Mil., C- W. Tomkles. I.n„ Л. E. Owen, Va.. N. A. Halley, -Па., W. I.. Wright, N.O.,U.l\Bnghy,Ky., W. O. Hied- .o', Alabama, J. I'. Greene, Mo.. II. H. Carroll, Texas, W. I,. Kilpatrick, Oa., Ohns. Manly, S. O., J. M. Sealer. Тонн.. J. II. Searcy, Ark., George Whitlleld, Miss., W. F. Allklssou, W. Vo, OOnnIESrONDIKO ЕКСПЕТЛИУ— II. A, TUl'PER. Assistant Skoiibtaht, T. P. HELL. TniiASDiixn-J. O. WILLIAMS. RscoBDisa васпктАПТ— A. II. CLARKE. ADDiTOB-H. O. HURNlirT. Hoard OK Manaokbs.— H. K. Ellyson, J. R. Win- • loo, О. II. Wlnsloii. W. K, Hatcher, J. Pollard. ■Tr„ S. O. C-outnn, T. II, Hution. W. V. Thomas, W. W. Landrum, W .T. Shipman. Geo. Cooper. O.II. Hvland.ll. C. Burnett, T. P. Mathews, It. II. Pitt. Ii.S. Ilosher. Ciijr All communications in reference to the business of this Hoard should be addressedto H. А. Тигрвк, Corresponding Secretary, Richmond, Va. « ♦♦♦»*«»*♦*«• •♦*»«»• AROUSING THE CHURCHES. Pastors of the churches, I speak to you! Great movements that carry the churches must, first of all, stir ami carry the pastors. The great /Ecumenical Missionary Confer¬ ence at London was all, perhaps, it could reasonably have been expected to be. The question now is, What use shall be made of it to the great cause it represented ? How shall the results of that mighty enthusiasm— the advantages of its teachings, the force of its appeals, the thrill of its power, be made to mean most for the churches ; how shall the influence of that world's Conference be employed so as to secure the best results for the home mission work of Foreign Mis¬ sions f The proceedings will be published. The papers have reported the meetings, and hundreds of articles have found their way from the pens ol delegates into the press of their respective countries. l!ut, the use of that great Conference must not stop there. Every tiling depends upon the connec¬ tion between the Conference and the churches— the spirit and purpose in which delegates shall bring the results of that great Conference home to the churches. The blessings of Pentecost were not con¬ fined to Jerusalem or to the one hundred and twenty. Our brethren in Scotland went to work at once— Drs. Gordon, Pier¬ son, and others, were invited to Edinburgh and other Scotch cities, and the fire was kindled in scores of places. This was Pen¬ tecostal— so did the Apostles after Pente¬ cost. The living voice, the earnest eye, the warm heart— these the Holy Spirit employed, with which to declare the things God had done at Jerusalem. The dull, pas¬ sionless, leaden type do not report the pre¬ sence and power of the Holy Spirit as the voice of the living, enthusiastic witness can do. The Apostles honored the Holy Split’s work at Jerusalem by rousing the people everywhere with the story of what He had done. The delegates should also honor the Spirit by rousing the churches with the story of what He did at London during those " ten days ” that Conference sat there. He was present in mighty power. Surely not for the edification or comfort of those 1500 missionaries or friends of missions there assembled. No, no, but for the cause of MRS. MARTHA F. CRAWFORD, The daughter of the late John L. S. Foster, of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Married Rev. T. P. Crawford March 12th, 1S51. Has been a missionary in China for thirty-seven years. Mrs. Crawford is the author of a number of small works and of one of the most stirring appeals, in behalf of her adopted country, ever addressed to the Southern Baptist Convention and the churches of the South. It was well written of Dr. Crawford, with regard to this noble woman : “ Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good tiling, and obtainetli favor of the Lord.” >• •••«•• • •••••••••••♦•< ►♦••••••••«••♦•••••«•••♦••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••в** missions— for a world’s evangelization. Let our Publication Society, and our mis¬ sion Hoards, make arrangements to supply every pastor of this country with copies of the proceedings of that Conference at such rates that each one of them can secure a friends of missions, and be used to rouse the interest of all Christians in missions. Such gatherings would awaken fresh enthu¬ siasm, and enlarge the knowledge of the people in this great work of the churches. More ought to be done, more can be done, copy. This will be one step towards pre- 1 more must be done, if we meet olir personal paring our pastors for the work of arousing their churches to a new and more earnest responsibilities to God, as Christians, in the world’s evangelization. Our Lord’s corn- interest in Foreign Missions. Then let our 1 mission imposes this duty upon eacli disci- pastors preacli on missions— exchange pul- ! pie. They must be aroused, if they realize pits, call conventions to consider the subject | this responsibility. of missions. j We must not confine our ser- f mons on missions to collection days. Preacli | on missions often ; study the whole subject. I Its phases are many, its needs are various, j its demands are urgent, its relations are | multiform and vital. Frank M. Ellis. Baltimore, Md„ Septs 19th, jSSS. ing, at least, in each month, be devoted to missionary information and study. Our pastors must feel the interests of this great cause as fire within their bones. We must be full of the facts, fields, workers, needs, and encouragements of Foreign Missions. We must be impressed with the vital inter¬ ests of this great work of ChiistVehurch j and not only so, but we must study to pre¬ sent these themes in their most effective KIND WORDS TEACHER. We see it announced that Rev. Dr. D. Let one prayer meet- i Shaver has been chosen by the Kind Words Publishing Company as editor of the Teacher, with Dr. J. Wm. Jones as associate editor and business director. We congrat¬ ulate the Company on their excellent selec¬ tion of editors, and those who use the I cacher on the choice morsels of truth that will be served up henceforth in that publication. Dr. Manly has done good work on the Teacher, so far as his many, and pressing engagements would permit ; and telling way. As the churches are | but lie did not have the time, nor, we may aroused and informed, their interest will ' add, the health, to devote toil which was ab- be increased, and their prayers will become ' solutely necessary to make it what it ought more and more earnest, their offerings j to be. Dr. Shaver will devote himself more frequent, regular and more propor- i entirely to this work, and those who have tionate to their ability and to the demands had the privilege of reading the products of the work. of his brain and heart and pen in the Chris- Let each pastor feel that his accounta- 1 Han Index, will feel assured that under its bility to God, in this matter, is to be met • new management the Teacher will be sec- first by his duty to bis own people. Let , ond to none in excellence, him seek to reach results through an After a pleasant half hour’s chat with the aroused church— his church. But let him . new Business Director, about the Kind not confine his work to his local church. ( Word Series, we shall expect to see the Every pastor has obligations to meet out- j improvement in the mechanical execution side of his church. The church at large j of the Series that will enable all to join in has claims upon him. He can aid iiis fel- j saying, “ Here they are— equal, in all re- low-pastors, and In doing this lie will not .spects, to the very best.” only enlarge the scope of his work for mis- 1 —————— - sions, but will rouse other churches than , On the 21st September, Rev. A. B. Rudd his own. 1 left Richmond for Mexico. He will be sta- Why not call mass-meetings in towns and I tioned at Parras, the home of Ex. Gov. cities where there are more than one church 1 Madero, the warm friend of our missions of our denomination, at which the facts and in that land, Let us ask God that Gov. needs of the work shall be presented and j Madero’s heart may be opened by the urged in the best possible manner. Why j Spirit to the truth preached by Bro. Rudd, not occasionally call mass-meetings of all ' and that he may soon have his name writ- evangelical churches in towns and neigh- j ten in the Lamb's book of life, borhoods at which the fields of various] He has given more than the cup of cold missions shall receive the attention of the I water to some disciples. IN. MEMORIAM, At her home, in Richmond, Va., on Oc¬ tober 12th, 1S88, Mrs. Nannie Boyce Tup ter, wife of Rev. H. A. Tuppar, D. D Cor. Sec. Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, fell asleep in Christ. Mrs. Tupper was the daughter of Hon. Kerr Boyce, of South Carolina, and the sister of Rev. J. P. Boyce, Prest. of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, at Louisville. She leaves nine children to revere her memory and strive to emulate her godly example.. A Christian at the age of fourteen, she Bad been actively and joyously engaged for almost five decades of years in the prayerful study of God’s Word and the successful execution of his will. Her interest in Foreign Missions was deep and constantly growing. Her whole Chris tian career, symmetrical and beautiful, was a living illustration of the Apostolic words. “ The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-buffering, gentleness, goodness, faith meekness, temperance." The world was richer when she was born, better while she lived, poorer when she died. Of such an one as Mrs. Tupper we do not say, she died, but she emigrated — emi¬ grated to a land where every bud of holy living shall burst into blossom, and every blossom be filled with fruit. Death Is another sleep; \\* bow Our heads In coln^ out ; we enter Straight another golden chamber of our King, Larger than this wc have, and lovelier. BAPTISTS LEFT OUT IN THE WORLD’S MISSIONARY CONFERENCE, There was one other circumstance con¬ nected with the published programme of the meetings which occasioned some sur¬ prise; namely, the absence of so many American names from the list of those who were assigned parts. Therewere, for instance, thirty or more Baptists from the United States, whose character and position entitled them to consideration; but only one was down for a paper, and another was announced as the chairman of a ses¬ sion. Of course no blight was intended. The English committee would doubtless have been only too happy to have assigned duties to men like Dr. Armitage, Dr. lloardman, Dr. Gordon, Dr. Ellis, Dr. Mabie, and many others, had they been advised properly of their probable pres¬ ence. It is possible that there may have been Lome lack of understanding between the English committee and the provisional committee in New York in reference to this matter. But it ought to be stated that the General Committee in London did their utmost to remedy this omission, and were eager to avail themselves of the admirable services of Drs. Gordon, Board- man, Ellis, and others in the subsequent meetings of the conference. — Rap. Missy Magazine. It seems strange that the ignorance (on the part of the committee of the world’s missionary conference) alluded to above, should have existed only ns regards Bap¬ tists, and that, too, when the Secretaries of both the Baptist missionary organizations in this country met with the provisional committee in New York. We are inclined to think that, as usual in inter-denomi- natinna! meetings, the Baptists, the “speckled birds,” ns Dr. Ashmore calls them, were quietly snubbed. We are all the more inclined so to think from the fol¬ lowing from the same magazine : It would seem that some representative of Baptist missions in Burma, India and even China, might have been put on the programme for the meetings devoted to those countries. _ That any mention was made of our missions to Burma and India, was due to the fact that the Secretary ol the Union was called to act as Secretary of the meeting devoted to those countries. It was unfortunate that so few of our mis¬ sionaries were in London ; but it was very gratifying to see bow readily the commit¬ tee and the General Secretary consented to a change in the programme in order, so far as possible, to remedy the omission. It is simple justice to Mr. Johnston to state that he used all means of information open to him to insure equal consideration to all the missions and to those interested in them. His position was most difficult and delicate, and he is worthy of all commendation for his Christian courtesy and for the general effectiveness with which he performed his onerous duties. Surely it might have been known that Baptists had some first-class missionaries in those countries, and some courtesy might have been shown them. Dr. Mur¬ dock very kindly tries to smooth over-the matter, but the facts are there, and teach us that Baptists must be prepared to carry on their work with very little sympathy or co-operation from other religious bodies. “Speckled birds" of missions they are and will be, but it matters not if they be -but faithful to God and bis truth. HOW CHINESE CONVERTS SAVE MONEY FOR BENEVOLENT PURPOSES. Rev. Fung Chak, of Portland, Oregon, gives a beautiful illustration of the devo¬ tion of his brethren to the work of the Gos¬ pel. Perhaps the American can take a lesson in benevolence from his Chinese brother. Writing July 25th, he says : "Enclosed please find a money order for I15.00, (fifteen dollars), which we have sub¬ scribed to the Board. I sincerely hope you will accept it as a little offering to the Lord. “ I will inform you about what some of our brethren are trying to do for the Lord, that it may encourage those who are assist¬ ing our Chinese in this mission. We are trying to do all we can to save our money to give to the cause of Christ. You know every time we have our heads shaved 'we have to pay the barber twenty-five cents, and now some of our brethren are shaving eacli other so as to save the money to help God's Gospel. They do our washing the same way, and put the money into ‘God's Treasury-’ Brother Li Chak Hoi, a Chi¬ nese physician, who recently came from Canton, is a very faithful Christian; he is helping me to preach the Word of Truth every Sunday on the street; he is very suc¬ cessful in his profession. If any brethren or his friends come to him to be healed of their disease, no matter what the sum they give him, he puts it into the ’ Treasury.’ This is the way we endeavor to save our ex¬ penses to assist the Gospel, and intend to send the money to do some work in China. I think that it Is a good Idea, and an easy way to get the money for God. I earnestly hope you will pray for us that everyone’s heart may be stirred up and their spirits made willing, so that they may bring their offering to the Cord for the work of Christ. ‘Let every one of you lay by him in store ns God hath prospered him, that there be no gathering when He needs.”’ — Bap. HP M. Monthly. (This brother Fung Chak, several of whose letters have appeared in the Journal lately, was a member of our Canton church. See what Dr. Graves says of him and others who have been converted through the ef-4 forts of our missionaries in Canton. Reads his article, "A plea for Canton," in the Oc¬ tober number of the fonrnal.) A careful calculation shows that the total aggregate income of the’ Church, Wesleyan, London, and Baptist missionary societies, and the Iiritisli and Foreign Bible Society of Great Britain, during tile fifty years of Queen Victoria’s reign amounted’ to .£20,798,160, being about equal to the sum spent on strong drink in Great Britain in sixty days. — Exchange. This paragraph gave us quite n shock, by suddenly thrusting upon us the fact, that in the most Christian country on the earth, appetite can secure, for useless and ruinous beverage, in the sixth of a year, as much money as faith, hope and love secure for the evangelization of the world in half a century ! Just turn this fact over in your mind, reader, for ten or fifteen minutes. — Christian Index. And as you turn it, and consider that the same thing is true of this country, ask yourself, " Have 1 done my part to have it otherwise ?” You may not be able to decrease the amount spent for liquor, but you may increase that given for the spread of the gospel. The movement in favor of the organic union of the Congregational and Presby¬ terian churches in Japan is progressing rapidly, and a committee appointed for the purpose has presented a draft of a consti¬ tution for the united body, to be called “The Church of Christ in Japan.” — Mis¬ sionary Herald. These brethren show as much modesty in their choice of a name as the Campbell- ites when they chose “ Christian,” or as the Episcopalians exhibit in speaking of The Church.” We could wish, with the Missionary Ilcraid, that the name “could be so modified that it should not seem to assume that there are no other churches of Christ in the Empire." Some promi¬ nent Japanese are raising the question of adopting Christianity as a State religion, and having a State church. Is this name chosen in anticipation of such a move¬ ment? The dear Lord, in whose hands is my breath and whose arenll my ways, continues me here still, and graciously permits me through your hand to contribute -another five hundred dollars to that soul-saving work In which infinite condescension suffers such as we to be engaged." So wrote one, with a gift to the Ameri¬ can Board. There was blessedness to the giver in such giving; it broughtjoy to the Secretaries; it will carry blessing jo ‘the heathen; it honored God.