FOREIGN MISSION JOURNAL.
Published Monthly by the Foreign Mission lio:ir<l ol' the Southern Uaptist Convention.
"A-LL POWER IS GIVEN UNTO ME IN HEAVEN AND IN EARTH.
GO YE, THEREFORE, AND TEACH ALL NATIONS.”
Vol. 14 — New Series.
RICHMOND. VA„ OCTOBER, 1882.
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Turi’i'K, Correspondin'! Secretary,
Hiehmond, IV.
The Baptist Missionary Magazine will ne-
ivpl our thanks for its pleasant notice of the
Journal. "May its usefulness increase
with its size, ami the good work it represents
prosper so much that a further eiilatgement
of the paper shall be necessary at no distant
day." To which we lespond, “So mote it
be,” and heal lily reciprocate our brother's
good wishes.
The Sixty-eighth Annual Report of the
American baptist Missionary Union, with
piocecdings of tile Annual Meeting, held in
New York, May 30th, makes a pamphlet of
127 pages. The income for the year
amounted to #302,584.19, of which about j
#00,000 was raised by woman’s societies,
nearly #55,000 by legacies, and some #30,0ll0
Horn income of invested funds, rents, Me.
The Union supports 181 missionaries, 1,198
native pieachcrs ; the mission churches are
1,001, with 91,879 members; baptisms re¬
ported for tile year 1831,8,317. Other inter¬
esting matter we shall notice hereafter. I
THE MONTHLY CONCERT.
With the return of cooler weather and the
gathering again of members scattered at
summer resorts, our city churches will find
it well to re-organize their work, lay out new
plans, and enlist ns many recruits as possi¬
ble. One of the most important tilings is to
revive the. missionary meeting on the first of
every month, and to take measures for mak¬
ing it the most interesting and inlluential of
all the prayer-meetings. To this end we of¬
fer some suggestions.
Let it. be a meeting prominently for prayer.
Make every one who attends feel that a
prayer-hearing God is very near to us and a
prayer-answering God just ns near to our
brethren on the other side of the globe, and
to them that call upon Him from amid the
darkness of heathenism and superstition.
The work is His. On Him alone we depend
for success. We ate encouraged to plead
His promises and to implore help for His
own holy name's sake.
Let the prayers be special. A good old
brother, long since departed, used invariably
in public prayer to request that when the .
Lord came to make up his jewels “not one
single member of the whole human family
might be left out.” The petition was bora
of a large-hearted charity, but one may
■luiibt whether it was mixed with faith— cer¬
tainly not in some of them that heard it.
The concrete and particular appeals to mind
and heart much more strongly than generali¬
ties and abstractions. Prayers for a special
wot
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at home or abroad, and for special per¬
sons, aie usually mote fervent.
Let the prayers lie interspersed and
guided by btief and pertinent hymns, laths
and readings. A spirited song, a passage of
scripture, a letter from some missionary, (if
some have seen it, no matter,) a sketch of
the man and his field, an essay or two—
something which introduces a pleasing sa¬
tiety and at the same time imparts infoinia-
tion and encourages faith.
bring out unemployed latent. The pastor
i and prominent membeis can speak more
llucntly, but the broken utterance, either in
prayer or exhortation, of a dillident young
brother, will not unfrequenlly be more effec¬
tive for good. In every church there is a
latent power, talent hid in the napkin of
bashftilness — the missionary meeting is one
of the best places to draw it out and culti¬
vate it for other occasions. The most mod¬
est of ladies may very properly prepate a
paper and get some one to lead it, conceal¬
ing, if she pleases, even her own name.
THE WAR IN EGYPT.
The «hole civilized world has been lot
months turning, with intense inteicst, to the
"cradle of civilization." The Khedive intro¬
duced many reforms, displacing numerous
officers, both civil and military. The mal¬
contents, under the lead of Arabi l'aeha,
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General Arabi, j then Minister of War,
gained the mastery, dictated to the Khedive,
and commenced a persecution of all Euro¬
peans in Egypt, which broke out in the mas¬
sacre at Alexandria June 11th. Tiiis led to
English intervention, and so the war com¬
menced.
The interest in it is greater because of the
almost universal belief that Arabi lias some¬
where powerful backers. Our own suspi¬
cions have been that Russia was stirring up
the strife for the sake of its bearing upon the
unsettled “Eastern Question." Dr. Jessup,
whose residence at beirut, Syria, gives him a
good view of the situation, writes a valuable
letter to the Foreign Missionary, (Presbyte¬
rian,) in which he argues with much force
that tile revolt is instigated by the Sultan of
| Turkey, and is part of a wide-reaching
scheme to inaugurate a Mohammedan revi¬
val of religious tyranny. Thus much is cer¬
tain that the contest partakes largely of the
religious clement. England, under its pre¬
sent premier, is, more than any other power
on earth, avowedly Christian, as we under¬
stand Christianity, and her opponents on die
Nile are as heartily anti-christian. We re¬
joice, therefore, in the news, received ns we
write, of a decisive victory at Tel-el-Keber
and the occupation of Cairo. This will re¬
move the conflict from the burning sands of
the desert, to the curtained council chambers
of Europe, and substitute cunning diplomacy
for open warfare.
What the end will be cannot yet be told.
We say with Dr. Jessup: "The duty of
Christians is plain. It is a time for united
prayer and united effort for the salvation of
these benighted millions of our fellotv-men.
Christian England stands committed before
the civilized world to restore order, security
and good government to distracted Egypt;
and as executing a police mission in the
cause of common humanity and for the best
welfare of the Egyptian people themselves,
she deserves the sympathy of all enlightened
people, but while we may sympathize with
the cause of civilization, owrweapons are not
carnal weapons. We, as Christian churches,
have undertaken a crusade of love and peace
to the Mohammedan world. Our weapons
are the Arabic biblo, which is already in tile
hands of many, and the preached gospel ol
Christ, the school, the college and the press."
EGYPTIAN SOLDIERS.
It was our privilege some time ago to have
a long conversation with a certain ex-Con-
federate general, after he had been in the
service of the late Khedive. In reply too
question about the soldiers whom he com¬
manded there, he said that " with one excep¬
tion they were 111" best he had ever seen.
For drill and dress-parade, for camp-service
and guard-duty, for entrenchments and long
inarches, they were unsui passed. The one
exception was that they would not fight."
Is not this like the great host embattled
under the baptist banner? For a "dress-
parade,” with its reports, evolutions and
general orders, as at the Southern Baptist
Convention, or our Virginia June meetings,
they ure inimitable ; for “guarding” the
ordinances and standing by the “ old land¬
marks,” they bear the palm ; but do they
fight f The word of command is, " Go ye,
therefore, and make disciples of all the na¬
tions, baptizing them into the name of the
Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy-
Spirit ; teaching them to observe all tilings
whatsoever 1 commanded you." Are we
doing this?
The general apologized for his Egyptian
soldiers by adding that "they had nothing
to light for— defeat meant simply a change
of masters; victory only continued slavery.”
How different with us. Our cause, the glory
of God in saving sinners, is the grandest
that ever nerved the arm, and fired the soul
of mortal; the captain of oursalvation leads
oil to certain triumph over all enemies; and
complete submission to him ensures the
only truo and perfect freedom.
The Missionary Review In commenting on
the payment from donations for printing and
circulating a certain periodical in England
says: "We can but think this expense should
be disallowed. In the present state of I’ro-
testaiit-Christeridoin and missionary interest
no periodical that is not self-supporting de¬
serves to live.” We accept the sentence.
If tills Journal deserves to live its readers
will pay promptly and induce others to do
likewise. Heretofore It has been sent free
to many pastors in the hope that they would
exert themselves to extend its circulation—
but we think of stopping this, because they
would enjoy it more if they paid what it cost.
Any excess of receipts for subscriptions over
and above the actual expenses of publica¬
tion go into the treasury of the board. A
little effort would double our list. Will you
try? _________
There has not been time yet since the en¬
largement of the Journal, for our mission¬
aries to avail themselves of the increased
space at their disposal. Wc shall hope to
have soon a letter from each station every
month.
It is well to preach sometimes on the sov¬
ereignty of God ; it is better to have this
grand truth running as one strand in the web
of every sermon; so It is well to have now and
then a discourse on missions, it is belter to
have the spirit of the great Missionary run¬
ning through every discourse.
Last year more than one-half of the money
given by the Presbyterians of the United
States for Foreign Missions, is reported to
have been raised by the Female Missionary
Societies of their churches.
Our missionaries call for more men. “The
harvest truly is plenteous but the laborers
are few. Pray ye, therefore, the Lord of the
harvest, that he send forth laborers into his
harvest."
EARS OF CORN-
"To plead the heathen at home as a rea¬
son for not sending the gospel to the heathen
abroad is a plea lor exemption and indulgence
on the ground of ourown neglect and sin. It
is like the murderer of his father asking the
judge to have pity on his orphanhood.”—
Phillips Books.
“The ministers who wear longest and arc
surest of a hearing year after year, nre those
who wield the gospel sword with its naked
edge flashing at every wave. To sucli as
really want religious instruction, there is
nothing more attractive than the Bible.”
“ The population of South American States
is estimated at 23,700,000. Nearly all the
people are nominally Roman Catholics; but,
as in Mexico, there is little real religion, es¬
pecially among the men. Protestantism has
thus far made but a very trifling impression,
though there are signs of promise here and
there which ought to incite to larger efforts."
— Examiner.
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Wiberg, under date of July 19th,
reports as part of the fruitage of the great
revival in Sweden, 052 baptisms in seven
churches. This docs not look as if immer¬
sion were unsuiled to a cold climate.
“ The efforts of the English Presbyterians
in China and the American Methodists in
Japan to lead the native churches towards
sell-support, are meeting with encouraging
success ; and the churches are already be¬
ginning to feel that increase in vigor and
growth in power which always attend efforts
toward self-help." — Baptist Missionary Mag¬
azine. The same is true of the native
churches at several of our Southern Baptist
stations — indeed they go further and send out
their own missionaries.
“ I stand amazed before the revelations of
the last decade, as to how women may help
Christ’s kingdom come. What unused and
unguessed resources have been lying hid,
which this ’woman’s work for woman' has
called out of their secret places and sent on
missionary errands around the world! It is
the dawn of a new day, and there scarcely
has been a brighter since the angels made
the Judean air thick with melody when Jesus
was born. It looks, after all, as if the
strategic point in the warfare for this world's
supremacy were the heart of women. That
won, and the family is won. And when 'up
goes the family, down goe* heathenism.’”—
Dr. Herrick Johnson.
“ Within the last ten years as many as nine,
million copies of Scriptures and tracts have
been given away or sold in India. Little
tracts containing Christian hymns and songs,
and sold at a pice (less than our cent) each,
are especially popular and are sold by tens
of thousands.” — Rev. G. H. Rouse, of Cut-
culta.
"The population of Rome is now more
than 300,000 and continues to increase rapid¬
ly. This seething mass of humanity is kept
in continual agitation under the influence oj
social, political, and other great questions.
The crowds have broken loose from Popery
and from all religious control ; and, if means
proportionate to the end were put into ope¬
ration, masses of them might be brought un¬
der the influence of the gospel." — Rev. Mr.
Wall.
In Japan there are protestant missionaries,
130 ; native pastors, 37 ; missionary stations,
35; churches entirely self-supporting, 14;
partially self-supporting, 53; baptized adults,
3,408 ; Sunday scholars, 3,724 ; billies sold,
115,000.
During the decade from 1870 to 1880 the
Woman’s Missionary Societies In, Christian
lands raked
|3,580,7ГЙ.
