Foreign Mission Journal
Monthly by the Foreign Mission a$our«l of Hie Southern Jtoptlst Convention.
“ALL POWER IS GIVEN UNTO ME IN HEAVEN AND IN EARTH. GO YE, THEREFORE, AND TEACII ALL NATIONS.”
Yol. 9. — New Series.
RICHMOND, VA., OCTOBER, 1877.
No. 7.— Whole No. 91
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I Address, FOJ1KION MISSION JOURNAL,
j IllCllVOND,
Л'А.
FOREIGN MISSION BOARD
OF THE 80UTHEKN BAPTIST CONVENTION,
Located at I1IOHMONH, VIRGINIA.
I'UKRIDCS-T— J. I.,
OURKY.
YicI'I'iikhidemth.— Wrntn Wood*, Mil., J. A. Ilnclcett,
Min.. V Courtney, J.n„ J, II. Jeter. Vn.. II. B. McOnllum,
FIs., W. M. Winyste, N: C., J. I.. Burrows, Ky„ S. Hen¬
derson. Alntinmn, W. I'uihi Yeatimn, Mo,, .1. II. Unit, Texas,
II. II. Tucker. On., J. 0. Furman, S. C., Matt, Hillsinan,
Tenn., J. II. Hooue, Ark.
Coriikm-oniiino SkCHKTAHV— It.
Л. ТШЧ'ЕК.
TnKAsfiiEii— J. O. WILLIAMS.
1UCOIII4NCI Skciiktaiiv— W. II. OWAT1IMF.Y.
AuutTOn— JOSKI'II F. COTTHELL.
Hoard or
Махапкик.— К.
W. Warren, J, II. Watkins, II.
K. Illly, on, W. E. lialchur, K. Wortlmm. Henry McDonald,
W. Oodilln, H. H. Harris,
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Dickinson,.!. W. Jones,
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Clarke. J. II. Winston, T. J. Kvnns,
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II. Winston, J. II.
Qarllck. _ _
£2T All communication* in reference to the business
of this Hoard should be addressed to H.
А. Тш-гкв,
Qjrrespo nd ing Seer eta ry, Richmond, Va.
FOUM OF BEQUEST.
“ I hereby give mill bequeath unto the Soutliern
Baptist Convention, formed In August», Georgia,
lu the month of May, 1S45, and chartered by the
Legislature of the State of Georgia, by an act
passed and approved December 2'Jtli, 1845, (here
insert the amount, if in money, or 'subject,' if
other property, cither real or persona/,) for Foreign
Missions. ”
HOME AGAIN.
After nearly two months of sickness the editor
betook himself, weak and sintering, to the White
Sulphur Springs, West Va. The healing waters,
delicious baths and genial companysoon wrought a
great change, and lie returns just in time to get up
hurriedly the present number. The Corresponding
Secretary, too, driven to the top of Haiti Knob to
escape his animal bay fever, will be back with cool
weather to furnish letters from the missionaries and
supervise the editing. So the Journal may be
expected after this date to resume the even tenor
of its way.
THE ASSOCIATIONS.
Wc had hoped to attend, during the summer
months, ninny of these annual assemblies of the
brethren, and to secure thousands of subscribers,
but a wise Providence ordered our steps dm'ercntly.
We must beg our friends to supply, as they have
opportunity, our lack of service in tills regard.
Prom numerous meetings in half a dozen States
we hear glowing accounts of speeches made anti
interest excited In the cause of Foreign Missions.
Shall it end in mere words and feelings ? Remem¬
ber, brethren, what one Apostle says about “faith
without works,” and the searching question which
another asks about him “who hath this world’s
good anil sccth ills brother have need and sliutteth
up his heart from him.” Our brethren in China,
Africa and Italy have pressing needs, some of xvlilch
can be relieved by a portion of the worldly good
committed to your stewardship. Let the love of
Jesus constrain you to exercise your generous feel¬
ings and carry out your good resolutions.
BACK NUMBERB.
Wclmvca thousand or so of the April and May
numbers, and a smaller supply of subsequent Issues.
They contain some tilings well worth reading, and
wc shall lie glad to send them for distribution to
any who will pay postage and cost of mailing— say
half a cent per copy. Applications will be supplied
In the order of their reception.
THE HOME CHAPEL.
It Is related of Cato that after his embassy to
Carthage, he concluded every speech with the omi¬
nous words Fraeterea ccnseo Carthaginem esse de-
lendam, and so inllamed the Roman people that in
a few years their great rival was destroyed. The
reader of Dr. Taylor’s letters will not fail to dis¬
cover the analogy. He lias seen the place, lias felt
the need, looks to the future prosperity of our
cause in Italy, and therefore lie can hardly write
on any subject without saying somewhere that a
Hnptist chapel must be built in Rome. We admire
the sagacity of tiie heathen patriot, though it led
to deatli and ‘destruction; shall we not aid the zeal
of the Christian philanthropist in his efforts to
build up and to make known the way of life?
ODE FINANCES.
The current expenses of the Board for the five
mouths since the Convention have been about
$12,500. The receipts have all been reported on
fourth page of Journal. Add them up, begin¬
ning with June number and including tills, and
you find $7,053.57, leaving a deficit of say $5,000.
The brethren who look to the Board for their
support must be supplied with the necessaries of
life. They must not hamper their usefulness by
enduring unnecessary privation, or by making pur¬
chases on credit. We are quite sure that “all will
be well" by next May; but what is to be done in
the mean time? Some one says : Let the Board
borrow money to tide over the scarcity. But the
Board lias no legal existence and owns no proper¬
ty. Individual members of tlie Board can borrow
on their personal obligations, but is it right to allow
them to stake their credit as well as give their time
and energies to the service of their brethren ? And
if wc do tints borrow we must pay interest. No,
the simplest and best and cheapest way is for all the
churches to hurry forward tlieir annual contribu¬
tions, or, if not the whole, such part as can noW be
raised, without destroying their system of giving,
and for those who have no system and have not
given recently, as they ought, to come forward
now and help. Contributions in these times must
be small ; let them make up In number for what
they lack In size, _ _
TO SUNDAY-SCHOOL TEACHEES.
Ill the International series of- lessons, wc con¬
tinue through the month to study the life of the
great missionary— the apostle to the gentiles. The
opportunity to interest yourscholarsin our missions
ought not to be neglected.
When they read (Oct. 7,) about Paul taking leave
of weeping friends at Caesaraea, tell them of W. J.
David tearing himself away from home and loved
ones, to pursue the path of duty beset with dan¬
gers hardly less than Paul’s, and like him “ ready
to die” in Africa “ for the name of the Lord Je¬
sus.”
The exclusive spirit of the .Tews, in the lesson,
for October 14, assaulting Paul because lie had a
Greek xvitli him, may serve to rebuke such as are
constantly saying that charity begins at home and
that we ought to bring all our own people to Christ
before we look after the souls of foreigners.
The expression, “far lienee unto the Gentiles,”
(October 21) will give an opening to talk some
about our missionaries, who, ten thousand miles
away from home, are preaching to the most pop¬
ulous country in the world.' Seo that your pupils
know the names of Crawford, Yates, Graves, Mrs.
Holmes, and Miss Whlldcn.
The last word in the lesson for October 28th will
give occasion to talk about him, who after laboring
for some time, and with great success, in the land of
Ids birth, has gone to “bear witness also at Rome,”
a city which is yet, as it was then, the centre of in¬
fluence for a large part of the civilized world.
THE FIEST SUNDAY IN
0СГ0ВЕН.
The Shanghai conference of Protestant mission¬
aries unanimously resolved to set apart the first
Lord’s (lay in this month for special prayer for a
revival of the Lord’s work throughout the Empire
of China, and earnestly request all the churches of
Europe and America to unite with then» in its ob¬
servance. What a grand day it will be if this re¬
quest shall be generally heeded. The object is
great enough to fill every heart— it is nothing less
than the rescue of four hundred millions of im¬
mortal souls from gross idolatry and degrading su¬
perstition, the conversion to Christ of nearly one-
fourth of the human family. The suppliants m
many diverse tongues will utter the yearnings of
one heart and very similarly, too, for however dif¬
ferently men under the influence of birtli or creed
may pi-each, there is a beautiful harmony in the
tones, and even the expression, in which they pray,
while in every language the all-prevailing name of
Jesus is the same. The prayer will begin on the
eastern coast of Asia and in Australia while we
are asleep, it will be taken up by thousands of con¬
verts from heathenism in Burmah and Hindoostan,
then the little evangelical communities in Mada¬
gascar, Eastern Africa, Turkey and Russia will
join in, Western Africa and Europe will send tlie
chorus swelling across tlie Atlantic, over America
it will sweep and its last echoes will be breathed
softly among the Christianized islands of the Pa¬
cific. A day of prayer, observed all around tlie.
earth— a stream of incense curling up to heaven
for tlilrty-slx hours : “ And shall not God avenge
his own elect which cry.day and night unto him. * *
He will avenge them speedily.”
We beg that pastors, Sunday-school superintend¬
ents, leaders of prayer-meetings, will not for¬
get to pray for China on the first Sunday in Octo¬
ber, anil if any to whom these lines come, should
be on that day kept away from public worship,
let them in their closets or on tlieir sick-beds join
us in tlie concert of prayer.
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There are seventeen places of evangelical wor¬
ship in Constantinople and its suburbs. Tltere'arc
six educational institutions, of which two are
American.
