Home and Foreign Journal, July 1856

HOME AND journal; додшв VI, | Scriten in southern Georgia ; Jessco Л, . Collins in Alabama, ami Samuel Wallace I in Tennessee for llio Indiana. Uccaaional I service was perfnrmed in this department , of benevolent effort, by brotlireri William i li. Johnson in South Carolina, T. F. Lock- j ett in Missouri, 0. F. II, Crocket in North in the same . . . , _ . ... lOckhart in Missis- ] ]S35 to Jtpril I, I S5C, j sippi. At the present time, however, itho .1 . ,|iltkcst clouds ate at times tinged ; Hoard has but five agents in the field. *h dazzling linht, so, occasionally, arc. With the view of releasing themselves r ino.t nniohtl calamities surrounded by ; Horn pecuniary embarrassments and rc- ' v'atirr’ eients. The tenth financial, plenishing their treasury, 'Ihe Board at the r ,|lC Domestic Mission Board lias . beginning of the present year comtnis- i v!en characterized by contrasts which slri- ! stoned* their President, Bro. J. II. Do Vo- idiid of mm wm jIABIOV. А1.А1Ш1А, Jb'f.Y, IMP, Tontli Annual Report. • Й1 c Board of Domestic Missions of Me | Carolina, Jonathan Davis 0llUlktrn lb'ptist Convention, from ,'lpril [ State, and Thomas B. Loci RICHMOND PUBLISHED BY THE |OARD SOU1 NUMBER 1. vbvlv illustrate both the supremacy and j «с, to travel in the capacity of Financial I the mercy of God. They indicate that lie Secretary. Ilis remittances have shofin I An so direct and control matter and mo-[*bat the appointment was wisely made. Ition as to cause death to stipcrtcim in al besides collecting funds, the agents per- I moment of time, and so dispense (ho in- Jon» a large amount of missioning work I fences of Ilis spirit as to bring entire , with churches and in protracted meetings. | communities under the pleading dominion \ | of spiritual emotions. The sudden death . |cf the Kev. John Teasdale by llio Pacific paid) by Bro. Louf.* J^gryliltlc has been | against the Indian Bureau at Washington, realized IromclmrcfycoHeclions according which the Mipprmtpmlers iu their dUour- to'|h.o plan reconjrnenafil by the late con- | agcincnt had failed to send in. These ac- vention. Every ajincy should now be ; counts were presented for ‘payment, and set to.wprk to collet 'this amount at once i in this way the debt was reduced to nearly in the' country tt№ relieve ;Bro. Low," * five thousand dollars. In the meantime This information l(. sJjRoped will lead to tlm churches — or rather, individual church some efficient meajfu Шог the. speedy re- ' members began to send in funds, so that duction.of this debt Moot its entire ex- j up to the present date (April 1st.) the old tinguishment. , i debts cannot exceed a thousand dollars, j and this, it is confidently believed, will have been supplied by the Alabama and Рпм..а!« 1) . .. i! .1 C'l.l. fs k. .Г tin MISSIONARY OPERATIONS. On this point' the Board Jtave thought Chinese sfjss: In connection... Chinese ChapeJA continues his afervj Baptist church It this arrangement led fupds on bis fje] a lot and the eretjtfj and convenient cKj portion bf his skla support being stip'i Domestic Mission I CALIFORNIA. j-ltis labocs at the | Georgia Baptist State CJnvcnlions'of the |ph L. Shuck still , present spring. Should. this belief be (as pastor of the iSiilroad disaster in November last win an . Ilp;* "0l particularize at present, but I illustration of the former, while the unu- W 10 make a general statement tf ar¬ il increase of contcr.-ions over any pro- . '*"". re^rvmgr details for the Biennial Re I snal incrcaso of conter.-mns over any pro- . „ [ ousicar of the Board's history, is I port to be reed before the Southern Bap- emplification оГ the latter. . !=l Convention ,n May ISoT. Dunne | As soon as it was certainly known that 1 !,||и,?пагУ )cari J,ls °,na bundred [to beloved and useful mis-ionary had mwonane* and apt* tykbecn com- Itkui unexpectedly been called to bis re- '""slotted whose labors have bcen d.stn- ,„Jia heaven, the Board promptly passed Ь'Ие.1 n mm parts * «If Mo«i"S the following resolutions: М,.|«: an„d MaryJaml ; Nor.b JwIM, That by the death of the Rev. 1 Sn'llh ; Georgia and Florida ; John Teasdale, the Board of Domestic Kentucky and Ic.tnesace; Alabama and Missions have been deprived of an о,П- . M'-^sippi ; 1 exas and Lou, -tana ; Ar- I cient and industrious missionary; ,|,e , busus and Missouri; and on the Рас, lie [Third Baptist church at St. Louis of я I со:ы‘ California. [zealous ami successful pastor, and christi- | anity of a pious and talented minister. J ResokiJ, That this sad cient calls Ion, I- , „ . . . „ lv . . . Iron the churches "to pray the Lor, I of "'о10",?"1' B->lnmoro m the D.slr.ct of the harvest that He will send forth labo- Celnmb.a and Maryland; Richmond re¬ present spring well founded, the Board may congratulate 1 the churches and the denomination, and I proclaim the Indian Mission Deparment . out of debt ! ] The Treasurer’s report when finished ] up will show therece ipls auddi-bursements 1 in detail. But gratifying as it is to be re¬ lieved from the burden of old claims, . . K.iL_ _ ' there is still cause for apprehension when j Association of Virgin a. His labors as [ it is remembered that there arc five white I pastor have been, largely blessed while in mission familiesand some SOnativc preach- . I the Chinese deparli4|nt lie has al.-o been . era to support on an empty treasury. The I successful— at leostM far as seems to ' quarter that will fall due on the 30lh of have been practicable, ittjdcr the circum- June, can only be provided for by vigo- ! stances. The chaplljs completed and , rous efforts on -the part of the churches, paid for with tho dx'peption perhaps of 1 | about $100, and wit! ' to be worth $300' pimento City. By i as enabled to col¬ or the purchase of thereon of a neat ,e , and lo realize a ho balance of his :<p ’conjointly by the d and the Goshen SCHOOLS. The follow ing named cities and princi- i pal towns bate been occupied by one or hers into Ilis harvest.” I tersburg ami Wheeling in Virginia; Ncw- ResolveJ, That this Board hereby tender П°“,т у ; St. Loins Jefferson City, | their unfeigned but profound sympathy to bt. Joseph, Hannibal and Louisiana Ct. у the bereaved family of their deceased mis- 1 Missouri; Helena am byetleville in sionary, and to tlm devoted dock of which : Arkansas ; \ tekoburg and Biloxi in Mu. he was ibe faithful overseer. , "«Pf'i ^bat.anooga, Memplus and Knox- . vine m Tennessee; Mobile, Livingston IINANCIAL OPERATIONS.^ __.UmI.,Tallaliasi£^iiv-Alali№\a<S«ert*‘»W‘ neaTif?sT,l1l9.j,1" Ne'ih' Carolina;. Sumpter, Gran- [could be ascertained in advance of ,|1C 1 "csvillc and lemlleton in South Carolma; Treasurer's complete report-were in tlm Si. Marys. Darien am Thnmaswlle in aggregate about $22,000; which, will, a Georgia; Tampa ami Hillsboro m Honda ; balance in tlm treasury at tlm close of tlm > ‘Now °1|ва,и аш! NatchUochos in Louis- [fiscal year of 18.55, of $3 500. fixed tlm Galveston m Ioxas, ami in Caltlor- | resources of the lioatd at $25,500. This пи, Oakland am! Sncraiueiito Otly. Hi’ul- j s,m-by far the largest disbursement , '? lhc services pcrtornied m tlicso , [ever before made in the same period-ins ' interestin? centres of population and com- been entirely cxpemled; so that for ,1m mcrcial business, tlm Board have sustained first time front its origin, the Domestic i numerous statmns ш t ic mtenors ofscvc. , treasury is without a balance lo meet the «' «I» a,';>vo mnm.l Slates. Ami they I salaries of missionaries that fall due on taho great pleasure m biMrmg wdness to the 30th of ,1m ensuing June. This con- "«•' f^'ty “f.,lic'r С0Л" Ч J dilinn оГ,1,о finances 1ш Ifccn introduced missionaries, who-, hough they have о Itun I by the extraordinary urgency with which ' «‘в»*» diiailvantage-havo ii.t- applications fur the appointment of more «"bunding, been unrcmttttng tn her » I missionaries were preLcd upon the atten- Ьов, and m some places em nen ly sue- tioa of the Board by churches and minis- . Sctc'31 n . ,h°5C “ [ten of high (landing in the denomination, «*ght bo mentioned here vuth ono able ami by the diversion of Domestic Mission ' approbation, were it tlm Hoard s intent, on, contributions into tlm Indian Mis.-iou Ч'И report to part, cuhirtzc. [ channel. Unless, therefore, the exhausted ' coliseum place baptist church. I balance shall bo icplacctl uilhin .1 lew 1 mi . , , . . я 1Л weeks from this time, „о, only can uoj Tins church has for more than a ear Uore appointments ho made, but some of, been suptHHlmg its pas or without help, 'hose at present existing must be .Itscu- ftom the 1 oard of Do».c,l,c Мьмо ns and "nued. The Board in disbursing $3,500 the only effort the Board fell caked upon more than its tcceipis, did so to meet tho '»ak« « prosperity aud effi toner, I pressing demands for aid ; and now it i- «as to keep the f,cl of a large mdebic. - for ,1,0 benevolence of all tho Southern | f«‘h° 7ec,'on of. churches to ,ay whether they shall or "hip before the denn..nna m , and » "e , L jIUot be sustained in this .Icsiro 1 |)mi,i|U and hi, era conmUmoi b r l c I cM'k'c importunate petitioners for help. , IiquHlatio» of this debt. As ' j'racic a> , (lie 1.Ы .‘■«мои of lhc Uieiiiual Comcn*, agencies. lion, the Oonc.-pomliii^ Secretary ya'C It would doubile-3 he a "ratification lo notice, at tlm proper time, lo the pastors ВДпуоГ tlm churches if the employment; «ho had pledged ihcnwclves to present agents to solicit funds for onr bcuevo- the claims ol this .Sew Orleans enterprise lent enterprises could he dispensed with, the attention оГ their churches Tor tlm, . U"['I there shall be called into e.xer- purpose of eliciting spec, al cot Hr. buttons. , №o a larger spontaneous liberality, to dis- ! iV»t more than a dozen, a fnllmst, ol the Miliuue agencies would be lu abandon , I'astors redeemed tlmir pledges, or made | еп1![с1У Domestic Mission operations. ! h'onJ »l«eir promises, and the debt remains ^ The treasurer’s books will show lint, 'cry much m the saute predicament . M) ham those Slates in which agents hare' when these promises were first made. No- y*? Ih« churches, funds have been re- 1 'ice has been drawn to tins subject recent- '«d; while next to nothing has been 1 1/ •" 'h® «"У,"1 Baltimore, ami n. a let cr , '«mved from (matters where °\ m duty of received br ibe secretary from Bro John , Pruvidmg fo, missionary support was con- M. W illiams pas or of the btrs I • , Wed exclusively to pastors and churches, 'bt Church the Boanl arc mformed l a , HO'acrcr more popular enterprises might «"id church— in a.ldttion о ,ts prcvton «iihout agents, they are essential liberal contnbv . DomcsMo M s- “'bo perpetuity of the Domestic Board, sions— raise, in a private way i>J7o for, ‘‘•1 e''co'npasscd by difficulties peculiar 'he meeting-house ol .the Co iseum ll.tcc, telf, and which would prove to be in- Baptist Clmrch at New Orleans. How •uperablo but for its agents ” to stir up easily could tins debt bo Р"' . "J '4 lhl! pure minds of the brethren by way of churches and pastors gejicraHy but um'ale 'emeinbrancc.” Consequently its agents *e been retained, anil at least a Jirtlf do- " noiv appointments would have been i. ' "ad it been practicable to secure lh' proper persons. ‘be following brethren have labored Z1!,3 CXCfPl when prevented by tlm sual severity of tlm patt winter; E. liim’nlriU" Virginia and Maryland; Wil- m P« Hill in Northern Georgia; J. O. tli e lot is estimated . . . - A he Board hold a , The American Indian Mission Associa- deed lor tins property.,? 'tion at tlm time of Ihe transfer had, or | , A few mo.n!hi Щйро. Shuck had the j wcrc Sup,Kv,cd to have, three schools for | happiness of bapt,z,fc an intelligent Cbt- ! ц,е eJucati011 nf [„diau youths in opera- , naman “ Ah Moejj!|--;who_'s acting as a 4ioll_lwo in lf,e Kansas Territory, and colporteur under hw; direction, and was, ,one ,he choctaw Nation, on tlm fronti- ' doubtless- the first -C n peso convert tn I ors 0f Arkansas. At the former place a America. The indications arc that he | school bad been conducted for many years, will be very useful.1* j j nt Wea, by tlm Rev. David Lykins for the SUMMARY ОГ MISSIONARY RESULTS. I Ь™*® “f ll!B cllildrBI1 UnilB'1 '"b» of tlm I’eottas ami IVankeshaws, the kas- Perhaps one tjird saf tho reports due ka-kias and Weas. This school the scc- for the last quarter. оШе missionary year retary found to still be in existence, though are still dut, bjf wot .this exception, the much embarrassed for want of means, ring summary. isjbelieved to bo cor- | There had also becn a school at the mission station of the Putawatomios, about 70 miles west- of the IVea station, but which, on account of pecuniary neces¬ sities, had to be suspended. This school, accdrding to a written agreement made be- following summary-tslbelieved to bo cor¬ rect : Tho miss'tot|dr№3 have labored 2,- 350 weeks ; suppl/ed}31G churches and preaching stitions^eHyered S/100 ser¬ mons and cxliomtiwjj , attended '260. prayer and otjjet.'r® tings; observed the according to a written agreement made be- jnwithly.'ttilgac^yzyptJta-ou^ior'fi Tncbi/WgrIlrilflrJjetHrtffieht-nt-Waalitng-' with 51 churcheif.-bjf Ikied .1,821 white ь 'Ion'iind'tlic''American Indian Mission Asr persons, and 479 colored : total of white ami colored 2,300 ; received Ivy letter of sociation, receives a stipulated sum per scholar from the former, and has since re¬ sumed operations, under tlm direction of tlm Domestic Mission Board. Bro, John Jackson, formerly of Missouri, has been appointed its local stiperintendcr. In tlm month of September two school contracts were made by tlm Domestic Board with the Commissioner of Indian In the performance of their duties, and Affairs by which tho school at Wca re¬ made. 7,460 family or religious visits; ;Ccive have been instrumental in erecting 15 ' " meeting-houses ; ordaining 42 ministers and deacons, ami have witnessed the con¬ version of 1,020 persons whom they did not baptize. Only nine young men, ac- white and colored 600 ; and have in fel¬ lowship of white and colored 7,700 mem¬ bers. They report an aggregate of 75 Sabbath Schools, and 2,500 pupils and teachers; of these there were converted during the year 51 teachers and 101 pu¬ pils- They- have travelled 69,210. miles cs a portion of tlm annuity reserved I prosperous ffatt was renewed, requesting him to hold on lu tlm Academy with assurances that help might be expected at an early day He informed the Board that the Trustees would agree to the transfer on condition that the debts of the Louisville Board be paid, which condition the Domestic Board promptly accepted. Bro.' Moffat then proposed that if the Board would send him $1,000 with which to employ teachers, lie would keep up the school till tho close of the session, which would take placo in the approaching month of June. The Board sent the money and had taken measures to secure a competent faculty, when a letter from Bro. Moffat brought the unexpected intelligence that, on the Trustees demanding it, he had given up the school, and all pertaining thereunto, into their hands, and had placed the $1,000 in sale hands and subject to the order of the Board, ' Thus it appears that the Armstrong Aiad.imy had passed into other hands. Itev. Samuel Worcester has recently in¬ formed .the Board that the Academy, if the Baptists desire it, may he recovered. He is a native preacher and missionary of the Board, and, no doubt, speaks know- ingly on tho subject. It is however ques¬ tionable whether, on Ihe terms proposed, its recovery would bo desirable. Tho Corresponding Secretary, if practible, will visit the country and report to tho Board on this subject. Tho Domestic Board having so recently taken charge of the Indian Mission inter¬ est, it will not bo expected that they can report with definite certainly as to the condition of things at the several stations. As nearly, however, as information could be gathered from personal* interviews with several of the missionaries and correspon¬ dence with others, they are enabled to submit the following facts : and first, in relation to ТШ1 CREEK MISSIONS. The recent visit to the churches and as¬ sociations of the South by Rev. H. F. Buckner, renders it needless to speak at 'ISctraftf-.nlready before ihe public. The Board make known to the denomination, with a high degree of satisfaction, that his agency was crowned with complete . success. On his return to the field of his labors, lie 'bad funds sufficient to^ settle up with all the missionaries, leaving no claim unpaid except a ballancc of 8100 due to himself, and which lias since been sent on to him. He found the churches and native preachers in a happy and condition, though suffering for educational purposes by a treaty rc- many deprivations on account of the un- cenlly entered into between the United common severity of tho past winter, Tribes above mentioned ami the Govern- 1 The Lillian Mission enterprise must mont. This annuity of $2,000 per annum | long feel the beneficial influence of Bro. ...... „ . .. . и ill very nearly support the present пит- Buckner's visit to the Soulh, and the cording lo the reports, arc preparing for ' |,Cr of pujiils at said school. And by a j churches will no doubt remember it with the Christian ministry. This exhibit shows |rcaly made with the Minnies, whose J a commendable liberality. In the ibonth double the number of conversions and baptisms as compared with that of the pre¬ vious year. While, therefore, we mayre- gret that more ministers aro not being of September last, the Board commissioned the Rev. II. F. Buckner and the follow- place of residence adjoins that of the four united tribes, an arrangement was made for an educational fund for their children. 0 . „ , A contract was made for the establishment raised up to replace those who must toon nf a school among this people, but at last j Dm Chilli McIntosh, William Mclntosjt,' be removed, wc have great ca*isc to rc- I accounts from there— owing to the extra- 1 John Smith, I). N. McIntosh, Louis MUh- joice that the good Lord has so abundantly ordinary severity of the winter and the I t„«h, Yatoojah, Jacob Hawkins, Monday, blessed the endeavors of the nii—ionaries u:\-etllcd political a-pccts of the coun- j Halochc Islands, Yarjah, and James Ber¬ ing native preachers to preach the Gospel lo their own people in the Creek Nation :> in all parts of the Domestic field. INDIAN DEPARTMENT. Within a few days after tho adjourn¬ ment of the Biennial Convention at Mont¬ gomery, Ala., the Corresponding Secre¬ tary according to instruction-, proceeded to Louisville, Ky., and received from the Executive Hoard of tlm American Indian Mission Association a transfer of its mis¬ sions as well as all tho propci ty and rights try — the school had not been opened. Itjryman. The support of Bro. Buckner has is highly probable, however, that by litis I been guaranteed for one year from the time it lias gone into operation Both these schools, in accordance with the request of the Indians who negotiated the treaty, were placed in charge of the Rev. David Lykin«, who is also author¬ ized to exercise a general nipcrintendcncy over tho school at I'ulowatomic. This j brother has been in that country in the o,v..o „о - . - v . . 0.. ! capacity of missionary teacher to the In¬ vested in that society. On examining the j dims for twelve years, and is worthy of bonks and papers in the Mission Room, it | entire confidence, was ascertained that the Board were in- j The school in the Choctaw Nation was rlebted on school accounts, salaries of mis- i known as the "Armstrong Academy," sionarics and various local liabilities, over j and was originated in the year 1814, con- Ihirtecn thousand dollars: against which jointly; by the American Indian Mission there were were found reliable assets of Association and the Council of the Na- only «ix thousand dollars; leaving a .left- lion— the Choctaw Government agreeing ciency to he assumed anil supplied by the 1 to pay $2.900 on condition that the As»o- J . - ' ci.ttion would furnish $1,000 and conduct tho school. At tlm time of the transfer this institution was in a precarious condi¬ tion. The Louisville Board had failed — it seems— for two years to pay their por¬ tion of the funds, and the Indians, of course, began to complain. Rev. A. J. Moffat, mi-sionary for the Board in that I country, volunteered Jo take charge of it Ihe pastor anil people of the First Baptist; Church in Baltimore. Desirous of placing before the public ( definite information in relation to the pe¬ cuniary affairs of this undertaking, the secretary addressed a line on the subject] to the pastor, and the subjoined extract 1 contains his answer as follows: "The stubborn facts arc these. The church о\уез some $16000, assumed (and in part Domestic Board of seven thousand dollars This, however, was not the worst, for on the secretary's vi-iling the schools in the Kansas Territory, and opening a torros- pondcnce with all tho missiotiaiicsin other places, it soon appeared that about 81,200 more claims xvould be presented ; so that the actual deficit to be provided was some¬ thing above eight thousand dollars. This . “J -“-o'- - phase of affairs was truly discouraging, | till the denomination could bo heard front, still, there was but one course lobe pur- - To this proposition tho Trustees of the sued, which was to ascertain, as soon as j Academy assented, and he took charge possible whether the Baptists of tlwSouth and at once opened a correspondence with would meet Ihe- responsibility, and liqui- I the Domestic Mission Board with tho view date this enormous debt, A full state- j of having the school placed under their rnent of tho facts was published, and the I patronage. The Board (Inclined mterfer* Board waited with no little anxiety for in" in the case wbilo the Academy was a favorable response from the churches, still under the control-momma ly at The burden was lightened a little and hope least— of the American Indian Mission was excited bv finding some old school ac- Association. But immediately after the counts at the mission schools in Kansas transfer the correspondence with Bro. Mo- first of April by Ihe Baptist church at Montgomery, Ala., and the salary of D. N, McIntosh has been pledged by Ihe Wes¬ tern Association of Georgia. Two other natives in the above list aro sustained by two churches in Kentucky. The next missions demanding attention arc those in THE CHOCTAW NATION. In the region of Fort fjmilh, Rev. Jo¬ seph Smcdley has been employed as a missionary and teacher among the Indians ever since the year 1836. He first went there as a teacher under the United Slates Government. Afterwards he was taken under the patronage of some mission so¬ ciety at the North. Next he placed him¬ self in the service of the American In¬ dian Mission Association, and by il was transferred to this Board. The ' Board found him in the hands of the sheriff, and promptly released him, by sending on the necessary funds for the want of which he liad so long suffered. On the recommendation of Bro. Smed- ley, the following native preachers were appointed to preach in the region round about in their own nation : Simon Han¬ cock, Louis Cass, Shoonubbee, Ishialubby, Artumby, and William Cass. Others will in all probability be commissioned soon, Peter Folsom, a chief of wide popularity in his nation, was converted several years ago and is now_a faithful and an elhcient minister. He is provided for, through this Board, by the Bigby Association of Ala-, batna. Three others on this field are. lo receive their salaries from various sourcss in the Alabama Association. . - . , ’