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“ALL POWER IS GIVEN UNTO ME IE HEAVEN AND IN EARTH.
GO YE , THEREFORE , AND TEACH ALL NATIONS."
Vol. 10.— Now Series.
RICHMOND, VA., OCTOBER, 1878.
No. 7. — Whole No. 103.
FOREIGN MISSION JOURNAL,
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RICHMOND, Va
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OF THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION,
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Oarrcspuiuling Secretary, ICichmond, Va.
FORM OF BEQUEST.
11 1 hereby give ttutl bequeath unto tho Southern
Baptist Convention, formed in Augusta, Georgia,
in the month of May, 1845, and chartered by the
Legislature of the State of Georgia, by an aet
passed and approved December 29th, 1S45, (here
insert the amount, if hi money , or ‘ subject ,’ ij
other property, cither real or personal,) for Foreign
Missions.”
A PRIZE FOR RENEWAL and NEW SUBSCRIBERS.
Our .lotirnal is piihlislietl purely in the interest
of Christ’s Kingdom aiming the nations. It is ed¬
ited gratuitously ; and the price charged is merely to
cover the necessary expenses of printing, mailing,
etc. lie. who takes and pays for the paper, is do¬
ing just so much toward the spread of the gospel
■in the heathen world. Can more good he done
with the money thus expended? The prize we of¬
fer is the consciousness of doing u good and inllu-
■ential work for Jesus. Is the prize sutllclcnt to in¬
duce our patrons to renew their subscriptions, and
■others to become subscribers to the Journal?
CONTRIBUTIONS.
Ill our September number we stated that when
'the last draft for the Koine chapel matured, not
■ouc-half of the needed amount, ($0,000,) had been
received. By reference to the acknowledgments
•for the chapel, in this issue, it will be seen that to
the 2:id of September the sum secured is $1,622.54.
Ky comparing tills amount with the whole amount
received for all purposes during tills Conventional
year, It will bo seen that a very inadequate sum
has been sent for the general work. This was an¬
ticipated, although wo begged that the churches
would guard this point. We make no complaint,
but we earnestly request that the deficit be now
tuatle up promptly. The ordinary expenses of our
missions have been, of course, in no wise dimin¬
ished by tlie special expense of the
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chapel.
Our brethren will bethink themselves on tiiis sub¬
ject ; and our sincere hope is that in addition to
the amount with which the Home chapel fund has
been generously supplemented, the full sum requi¬
site for the ordinary expenses of the missions will
be contributed. Less must be expected from that
part of the country which is presently so alllicted;
hut may not more be anticipated from that larger
portion which Ims been spared the devastation of
the fearful scourge as a thank offering to film of
whom it is written: “Shall there be evil in the
city, and tiie Lord hath not done it?”
HE SHALL BE GREAT UNTO THE ENDS OF THE
EARTH.
Who shall be thus great ?
He. says the prophet Micali, whose goings fortii
have been from of old— from everlasting — and who
shall lie horn in Bethlehem Ephratah, where the
wise men found the infant Jesus, over whom rested
the star which pointed to the arched firmament as
Id.- appropriate eanopy,ttll over-writ with the ancient
hieroglyphs of his wisdom and power; yea, widcii
pointed to a world of glory beyond, every ray of
which wtts publishing as its maker and God, that
same mystic being, whom a contemporary prophet
did not hesitate to entitle: The Wonderful, Coun¬
sellor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father,
The ITince of l’eace.
Why shall he be great to the ends oj the earth ?
Why was the earth made? Why was man put
upon it? Why was anything made which is made?
Paul says that God “created all things by Jesus
Christ, to the intent that now unto the princi¬
palities and powers in heavenly places might bo
known, by the church, the manifold wisdom of
Got).” The earth was made that it might be re¬
made into the kingdom of Christ ; that this dark,
opaque planet might be transformed into a reflector
of the glory of Gotl in the face of Christ Jesus;
that the dishonored and shattered vessel of sin
might be transmuted Into a censer of Jehovah, to
diffuse the incense of his praise, (as a Gotl who
could he just, and the justifler of sinners wlto
trusted his grace,) among the heavenly powers — yea,
as far as the utmost limit of the intelligent uni¬
verse.
How shall he be thus great ?
Xot by the exercise of absolute and sovereign
power, lie might say : Let there be light, and
our world, baptized into the knowledge of
Christ, would come forth a new earth, where¬
in dwelleth righteousness. But the work is
to he done by one of the simplest and most uni¬
versal of the laws of his government. To every
creature of Ids hand— to every nerve, vesicle, and
muscle of the human body, to every atom and to
every leaf and (lower of the earth, and U> every
ray of light, and every star, and every system, lie
hath said: “Go, publish my name and glory.” And
to bis church, as a body especially adopted to his
work, being possessed of his spirit, and having him¬
self as its head, he gives most emphatically this com¬
mand, “Go and preach the gospel.”
1. And the church has gone. They have gone
in their prayers, and in their intelligence, and In
their means, and in their men and women of God.
2. And the church shall go in greater power and
success. As the angel smote Peter In prison, so
the spirit shall smite the conscience of God’s peo¬
ple, and they shall go forth girded with truth and
shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
and every establishment of evil shall full Hat, and
every adversary shall be put to confusion, as
Jericho fell before Joshua, as Midiau was con¬
founded by Gideon. And at the name of Jesus
every knee shall bow, of things in heaven and
things on earth, and tilings under the earth ; and
every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord
to the glory of Gotl the Father.
What shall be said to stimulate to this, our grand
Mission ?
1. The conviction that this work of making Je¬
sus great to the end of the earth is the grand mis¬
sion of tiie church, should be burnt into the very
core of our existence, and permeate our whole
being— as light and heat pervade the surrounding
of (Ire.
2. A loss comprehensive view of tho end of the
church is damaging to its self and derogatory to its
great head. God’s people, absorbed in their local
allairs, is as the blinded son of Mauoali bound to
a tread-mill, while lie was born to bearaway the
brazen gates of Gaza, and to scatter single-handed
the compacted forces of Phllistia.
3. flow Inspiring the motive of following one
whose character should arouse the greatest enthu¬
siasm, and whose destiny it is to put his heel on
the great usurper, and restore the shattered and
scattered fragments of the moral universe, and to
make tiiis world itself a messenger of God— a great
missionary to erect the Cross, as tho symbol of the
Divine glory, on the very dome of the Temple of
God’s universal praise.
Should doubts of ultimate success of Foreign
Missions enter the mind, should temptation to,
withhold the hand from the work try the heart,
ponder this, fellow-follower of Jesus : It is the
Divine decree with regard to our Lord: he shall
RE GREAT UNTO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH.
N. W. WILSON, D. D.
This able divine, pastor of the Coliseum Baptist
church of New Orleans, fell at his post, by yellow-
fever, on the Gtli of September, while doing wliat
he could to relieve the stiflerers of that plague-
smitten city. While in Kichmond, as tho pastor
of the Grace-Street Baptist church, lie was a mem¬
ber of our Board of Foreign Missions, whose inter¬
ests lie served with prompt attention, patient con¬
sideration, and Intelligent counsel. In the provi¬
dence of Gotl, the writer was somewhat instrumen¬
tal lu our now saluted brother’s entering upon the
pastorate which be lias just left vacant. Little did
wo tldnk that that move was to be the stepping-
stone to his unending glory. His family and
church are bowed beneath the shadows of a fearful
bereavement; hut their beloved is walking, with
God, on the other side of the cloud. Reqiiiescit in
pace. Anti if, from that lofty abode, lie could say
a word to his brethren still lingering below, would
not that word be: “Work while It. Is called the
day ; for the night cometh, in.wldcli no man can
work.”
