Home and Foreign Journal, June 1856

ilslaffl» Baptist State Convention. T!|IJ body met at Lafayette, in Cham- A) Co., Ala Ifrit ШЩЩШР'1-*'1"'* L ■ " '’'Ж?-. # \T olumk v, PUBLISHED 13Y THE - SOUTHERN BAPTIST „.uuo.v, льлнлмл,л;хк,ш!. _ The Long Letulor. a,t particular attention to thc arti- и Field of Domestic Miv-ions , ,|,e “ FieUi ''I column. Read it Ihrough-.,, cite [(contains facts for public use, -j worth con-nlering. evangelists, simply because they invite sinners to repentance. Prison may receive tlneves anil robbers, and other lh-rant transgressors of human and divine favvs but not the heralds of salvation, tn this fair land, no Pagan despot may interdict missionary energy ; nor can the least res- train! be tolerated, whether papal, legal, or M‘clnrian. ^ Tlie protective guarantees nf a magnanimous nation, are visible in every state of this Union. From the ships in its ports, and the ramparts of its fortresses, proudly and significantly waves the star-spangled banner ; silently intima¬ ting, that every rational soul, subject to American laws, shall be allowed the un- emb irrassed exercise of a pure conscience. A very advantageous feature connected with our home enterprise, is the fact, that, in many eases, the missionaries needed, can be obtained on the ground. Pious men — some of them ordained ministers, migrate to these new regions from a pres- during the second week in The delegation was rather small, much interest «ач manifested for the .^benevolent entei prises. Dr. Tab „I „ho had presided for several years Wl .• il.il ""b‘','u"'l"csviiuwri'gionsiromaprcs- ier the Convention with dignity ami ЛИ-, ,)f BCfewityi tn pro0C„re мЬл^псс „■declined being a candidate lor re-elec- 1 ('ur themselves and families. Others are sad Rev. A. <'*• McCraw cf Selma, , converted by the Spirit of Cod, after set- ccled Pre-ident. While we were ! 'ling in these untried districts. The ,,e ol,r former worthy President | ben'h.- the. blr- '•* n’.p,lical profession, itrj 10 see ui i are laid under conti ibution to the pulpit, «line, we we,c ['leased tn sec the honor > •[•[,„, a missionary corps is called out and i! the otGce fall on so worthy a man as formed on the spot, out of materials pro¬ vided by the world. Such instances, of late, have been of rather frequent occur¬ rence, and they ought to be Christians, as the voice of God, directing the bounty of their liberality. It is a voice seeming to Пищи the missionary year, dosed on 4V ' '^-е arc chosen vessels to bear ” ‘ the mrs-age of celestial mercy to their compeers in these wide wastes of the country ; now, let churches and philan¬ thropists support them for the work to which they have providentially been called. Here, by the obtaining of mis¬ sionaries .m the ground, is a great advan- tage on the score of expense j no trivial the number that were ever received | matter in times of monetary scarcity, or I I * ' . _ .. .. . tlnn н К П . олштпрлю) IVPnn.'IIHA., A .1. d I I — . . ■ . A 1 i, JlcCraiv. Stannary of Domestic Mission Labor. ie 31st of March, the missionaries of the luird have labored in the aggregate (JO weeks, supplied ЗШ churches and .1 01АП ... inons, delivered S100 sermons baptized .(I white persons and -179 colored— in j I, «bite and colored, 2.400. This is doti- ; ie sustained. ..baptism in any previous year. Wc I commercial pressures. A small annual -,iak the Domestic Mission Hoard should appropriation, in addition to what may be realized on the field— and even this may not be needed beyond the period of a year or two — is -generally all the salary’ re¬ quired. What a contrast between the co.-t of these missions, and that of those, where the whole of the salary, besides collateral expenditures, mus( be^ollected from burdened congregations. iy'The'qldae The Pressure, Quite a pressure of applications lias otn upon Ihe Hoard for several months ast. The petitioners seem to think that t e Board ought to appoint whether it lias raJj.br cot. But this cannot be done.— tbjv,cia7dfin?-i£y; ;ь4 itholit means it would be folly to appoint ussionaries. kingdom. . . penis and harmless as’dorei',' The facilities for mission are largely multiplied by Me- venture, and the march of pht/si . nenfs. The nineteenth cehtd^Ms bigbly j distinguslicd by a fevetRtj'ttc№n^nt and tendency to changes, which, -agf mire or less active in both hemispheric ;In the United States, the tide . of-erffigralion is setting Westward. With bam-Tp the Hu-t, and eyes tothc declining house- holds separate and' disperse, WcisUblish- ments are broken up, ehdedftd homes, baptized in Hoods of departing; teJrs, are forsaken, and sires, ma'trohfpohj and daughters, leave their сЫМНооЛефез, to seek for more promising hqtttsfitj the frontier wilds of theiatctyii*ufo(ffcr. ritory. Their money, time.-jtaBntJ.lmen- tal powers and natural energies JtreJhence- forth, to be expended, for wej'atajr yoe, on these untried and unimproved jpetions of the wild and virgin soil. Ancfno sooner have their swollen touched Mae prolific districts, than towns and citleljspring up, as by magic, in the midst of a tfcsfrt. The shaggy bear and the prairie waif are dri¬ ven far into their native thfjjets; and where, but a few years agof nothing was beard but the owlet's hoot and liie’barking of jackals, now, the flutter mffiondetous wheels, the clink of tho tnechanjo’s ham¬ mer, and the wild clattering oltijomplica- ted machinery, fill the humM atmosphere of the morning', with the cheerful sounds of industry. Manufacturing i»mpanies have been organized, wharves felt on the margins of turbid streams, raiProad con¬ nections completed, so that soojuthc iron horse, at the head of his obedient train, will speed his flight Westward? prancing over plains, up mountains, across vallies, and through tunnels, from tbe^oljJ com¬ mercial marts under the Atlantic slope, till reined in before the populous and thriving cities, on the shores of/jne majes¬ tic Pacific. Colossal steam pallces, move 2111 SO 1129 5.3 223 35 031 02 300 90 10 00 1 00 1 00 ltcv. H. F. liiiekiiur, during bis agency of Kentucky, " Georgia, “ Tennessee, " Alabama, " Mississippi, Livingston' Bap. Ob,, Ala., Folsom, Oubehaielie Hup. Ch., by'J. If. Be- bitie, Tuskcgeo Hap. Ch., Ala., by same, If. 1“. Williams, Aug., Oa. Mrs. Nancy Fcnclicr, Ala. Susan It. \Yomls, Sarah. N. Ihggaml, John Lee, Esq., Marion, Ala., by Dr. lane, Richard Lee, Marion, Ala., by same, Samuel White, liy Rev. Nicholas Lacy, Ky, F.ufalu Hap. Ch., by J. It. Dobotie, Mont. Rap. Ch., fur eupportof Buck¬ ner, Dr. (1. V. II. Crockett, I,. W. Clifton, Fulton, Miss., It. W. Stackhouse, Hinds Co., Miss. Aberdeen Association, Miss., for Worcester, W. HoaxBl'Ck-Li, Tran. Лот. J fit. Marion, April 21, 1856. was to one at least, as "cool water to a thirsty soul.” I have recently received interesting tetters from two of our native preachers, Peter Folsom and Samuel Wor¬ cester. They will appear in Ihe May number of the Journal and will be read i with interest. Since sending away the V ! SS ! Р°РУ for the Journal, 1 have received a - "*1 oo ! ,onS i -'ter from tiro. Buckner, extracts 2 00 tr0,n which are hereunto appended. 1st 34 00 One on temporal affairs, showing that In¬ dians have bodies as well as souls, and that these bodies must be fed and clothed or they will starve, freeze and die. Oh 1 33 33 ?l cbr'“1ian9i who dwell like princes on 5 00 07 00 18 00 2 09 5 00 25 00 2 50 INDIAN' DEPARTMENT. Indians. Some folks talk strangely of the In¬ dians. They cannot regard them in the same light with oilier members of the hu¬ man family, feel no interest in them.— Well, this is easily accounted for.— The oppressions of the white man have drawn out the Indian’s hatred, and his revenge, and the collisions between the two species have created distrust and a want of- confidence’ on both sides. Hut it is time that the white man should look be¬ nevolently on bis Red brother and seek to do him good. mysteriously up eddying riveij, and on states. w-AA?se№ sajrcf- scde.s the necessity of acquiring a foreign uPl,n their checks, arc knocking at the I . II at • • >1 ,1 A.lr i nl AIIF I’nniFPftEJ 1ПР 'Illmit. the glassy bosoms of fresh угмес lake whose blue surfaces had nemblfure been ripped. by any, crafts larger thanr1 . of defiuded Indians^. , '4 .‘•lii'a' woirdf the .untitled wastSias been ■Tef luimed'. peopled ,ihyp eji'fpjpiging'citi’ шщ' ■ e tmts of 'adalescence the hunting grounds of the "Red Man,!1 read and reflect seriously on the subjoined extract from Bro. Buckner’s letter : language, to enable the missionary to be doors of our National Congress, for admit- understood by bis audiences. It is this : 1 lance into this popular union of American Among the Welsh, French, Germans, Itol- ; slates. . I.imleis, and Itdlian-, thousands and tens ; Thysc gigantic and rapid strides of cn- Will not the Associations to he held in of thousands of whom are scattered, far, terprise, tlemaiid _corres|H)iiding eff'rts on jJ-summer, remember this Boar.l— the ! ^ Habitable region-of the J the part ofChnsUans, tojupply those pro- t ■!> A New Fact. The Indian must be evangelized and civilized where he is. He cannot be dri¬ ven farther West. He is surrounded by the Anglo-Saxon race. And if he must [• cjmtinue.on h'q present reserves, lie must well as the good of his white neighbors. "Everytliing is remarkably high, as goods have to be hauled from Boonville, Mo., or DcsArk, Ark., 300 mites. Coffee is three pounds to the dollar; nails 33 ctsj per pound, and other things in proportion. You can sec from this that $800 here will not buy as much as $400 in the States.— This lias been the coldest winter ever ex¬ perienced in this country, Many [юог In¬ dians have been frozen, and many more have died from pleurisies. We have missed two church meetings on account of the cold. The snow has been 15 inches deep since the 2'2d of December, and the North-west winds have been uncommon¬ ly severe. Winter seems now to be breaking, the rain is melting the snow, and it is Imped that soon the rivers will be navigable." Well, is it possible’ for Christianity to flourish among the Indians amid such tem¬ poral deprivations and discouragements? It would seem so from the letter below. — S' years ago, [ occasionally heard a hymn sung by a few good plain Baptists in Virginia, in which were these lines :— ".Brethren, if your hearts bo warm, lee and mow can do no barm.” Realty, I fancied that there was an illustra¬ tion of this truth at Brother Buckner’s all- night meeting among the Indians. Breth¬ ren and sisters, read it for yourselves, and if the simple narrative should start a few unbidden tears, they wilt do your souls ho harm : ' ' Tlie As-mi/iuticili-i. iiMti/i’c— and send it some aid they will. The Domestic ... . south-west, an adnmate proportion of\ miscuous masses of immigrants into the "c:/»wMcrs Am, Huh fir, been found among ' new settlements, with the gospel ot the Mission i n„ „,1,1 converts., out of their numbers. If Son ol God Many of them could not be Where are they? The Domestic Mission Board would em¬ ploy two or three missionaries to go and preach to the Indians. Among the Cher- okecs, Choctaws, Scminoles, and other nations. Who will offer ? intubations have ilccrea-ed lately. Let i the same ralio of iiiiiiisteri and converts happy, if denied the privilege of attend- b evil be reme lied at once. should be continued, no finite mind can ’ »ied, regularly, the worship ^of the ^anct u- _ _ _ estimate the value of this foreign a.txiii- ! ary. They sigh for ho opportunities of L ■ ^Jchi then, is the field from which to 7],, l-; i j ,. lr . arv, (o the mini-try in the home field. I former days, when at the tolling of (he i Domestic Missions. T|,’re in human nature, an in-tinctive 1 Sabbath bell, they went up to the hou-c ol Strani'crs in Ihe Lord together, to render homage to . . . c|, to partiality for compatiioti-m. Strangers in 'be Lord together, to renuer iio.nage ш ■'her the spiritual harvests nf the earth, a strange land, are drawn together by the the Ktng of klnS‘j f"d 'l®™ ?' bant. : reniini-renccs of home ; and they sympa- j jar inmges sat Be te m —m. » the garners of the church triumphant. am time, become tho abode of a.tmze *un ««« -‘•p-n-j •••—•, „ millions of souls— four limes the they do with the people in the land of ; call to loved ones a t Ьше. Rent population of this prosperous Re- their adoption. Hence, a sermon of one , preachers. _ Temporal l f 'tlic. Seeing, as with anxious desires, they instinctively us e !! lights, has "erected .her oW.'t^'^l’athe; ’ Г w/o Гк^сНоп, rouse , none. reeled such a spacious, | .h; . ,u-.°ns, and in-^re confitRncc; ; p “f ^SS Riches multiply, comforts ol every are at hand, blit the "bread of file” — alas ! that we have not. Send, 0 ! send Domestic Mission Receipts. j'^enienl, and glorious pal.icc, as a mere I while one equally £ood, as to its matter Nporary residence, ou^ht not the sol- lrom one of & different nation, would ut- • !!e .bl,!ful abode ? that liou-c not made . sec, as by force ol intuition, the great im- j !^ВеГьи1Сь[ме riseTand mUed°Sa. *;lh hands, eternal in the heavens-tli.U ! po.tance of this peculiarity. Let it be crucified, but since risen and ??i'.!?h lialh foundations, whose maker) well considered. . . „ 7; -Milder is God. Most assuredly they Again : The Domestic Mission Board V ’ к'УУ accession of new territory ! are encouraged to urge their appeals for LiL Ani1 argument for increase'll aid, Ы, the almost universal desire of them- ■ e j, church. Ala., by J. Li i .°ne of 1,10 strongest induce- ! labilants of those new settlements to have , ,, »ts to Domestic missionary labor, is the the go, pet introduced among them. I er- , p,|.im ц,ч,. Ohureh, Ala., by s.une, fl®™W "sped of the home fields, sons belonging to no church, have been i B,,p. Clmivli, ^ " Ware," t0 r0pCat l!|0 |4П„1)я,.е 0f' known to petition for missionaries, and A sister in Green Co., Ala. '• 'f'," vMe already to the harve-t.” I the communities, generally, are glad 10 : Jf"’’ Г fimrd Л|а' ^ " и':Ше" '"ay be regarded as receive them. Families, making- no ,.re- , ' Ch. ' , ' -entmg t|,eir nuturul and moral ficil- : tentions to piety, strange as it may seem, | s Кпи?ц.р< A]n- |!lln, fon. mra speedy occupation, and ahull- . are unwilling to reartlieir off-pring, in tlie ; Ch,lrlc, p. Wortliam, by J. H. Tay- , at success i midst of the.-e heterogeneous masses of I 'be ‘ ’ Our Visit. Wc confidently expect soon to be among the “Red Men of the Prairies,” if not providentially prevented. Should our de¬ sires be realized, we shall be absent from home several months, but the business of the office will be attended to. “February 24Й. Last night wc had meeting at the North The All-Night Meeting. You will find an account of it in anoth • or column, in tha extracts from Buckner’s tetters. ?’J 50 35 00 oo oo 2 50 m si 25 OO 30 O0 5 00 tor, physical access to these fields, i, I sociefv, without the guiding light of Beth- Rev. A. S. Morrall, G.i. rollblsm, ■ 3- 'heir long rivers, broad lakes, deep I tchcm’s golden Star. The world have a Hopewell Bap. Cl.., by Lev. h. Ira о - commodious sounds, and immense ijusler appreciation of the salutary power man. . в* f- .n,larie*- suPI’Iy "'em with a I of the word of life, than they arc often t water-coast, which can be but lit- 1 ready to admit, or Christians are willing to " M)’. less 85 00 17 00 II. I*. Williams, Augusta, Ga. . . . . . W. C. Clark, Flurid.i, sub. tu Rev. ready to admit, or Christians are willing to, j q Striven, ,, . than twenty thousand ! give' them credit for. They have ^oen tho j-pui-j., ch.. by J- П- Debolie, ’ " и of small moment, therefnic, ! gospel a con-crvator of virtue and round . I,,Actt McDonald, f [ ,'he mi<9ien station is in the inte- morals, a safer restraint again;! vice, than ; ltcv, J. U. 9cr,vc,i agenda. ' l!,e Mimtrv. or in Нч mmom • in the most stringent penal enactments have j Lev. .1. II. Delutie, Financial beer ever yet been ; and a surer deliverance ! tar^ МчйтвЛ, from the fatal thrusts of bowie-knives, or ' deadly pistol shots, than the threatening! , — j Uim’cr> of sombre dungeons or menacing gibbets. Self interest, possibly, without the least reference to spiritual improvement, may be the only impelling motive for these ex¬ pressed wishes of the unconverted: but no matter, the disciples of the Saviour 50 OO 1 00 Wes. j'lber th, Wefa* '°"П,ГУ' or 'n Its margin ; in il|j|, таУ he reached, witli ease , Anoih. г’’ 'Г1>т а"У 1,0'п' of the world. ' "Kt J , orablc circumstance, is the „I ,/n “yrtic prohibitions. Our па- ill .-и ' Ulil)n Sranls religious liberty M11! lii-. S| °b "hatever name, and the lion ov/T"?11 the pegi of their pro- 'civil, ,.a-‘. worshipping assemblies. Г the “titles have neither Ihe wish 10 00 05 00 10 00 120 00 Г0*» to persecute unobtrusive 450 OO 25 00 5 00 5 00 ought to avail thcmsclvcs_of i^propritious INDIAN RECEIPTS. Mont. Bap. Ch. for II. F. Buckner, by Rev. If. Dcbitic, Tmkcg-o Ban. Ch., by same, Mont. Bap. 0b., bv same, A sister in Green Co., Ala. $183 00 5 50 5 00 2 50 Buckner’s Well. Some of our good brethren have gotten tired of this well, and have told us to our face that if we kept talking about it, “we should run it in the ground.” This was exactly vvliat Bro. Buckner was obliged to do in order to get water, and in doing this lie incurred tho expense, for which wc arc now soliciting funds. One thing is certain in regard to this question : A'o one has com¬ plained who has contributed to the object. — Send us a few more dollars. The Baptist Church at Montgome¬ ry anti the Rev. II. F. Bite -tier. We giro below two extracts from a letter of Bro. Buckner which bad been previously sent to tho South Westom Baptist with the accom¬ panying romarks : Messrs. Editors:— At the instance of their excellent pastor, Rev, I. T. Tichcnor, the Baptist Church at Montgomery hare agreed to support Bro. Buckner and his wife in the Creek Nation for one year from the first of April. The present salary of Bro. B. is $S00, and for this act of gener¬ ous liberality the pastor and flock arc en¬ titled to the Blanks of the Domestic Mis¬ sion Board. The news of this good deed tlif'GvcatVrray Ecr. To-day we had a precious time. house was full, and 21 came forward for prayer, and a young licentiate— a white man from Arkansas — was received by letter. To-night reminded of "old times." The house was crowded, many had to stand out of doors for lack of room. Christians rejoiced. Such sweet singing I never heard. The hearts of God’s peo¬ ple, were so rejoiced that wo neglected to invite mourners. In this I fear wo did wrong; but it was difficult to restrain the members. As ever, yours, II. F. Buckner." P. S.— Will other papers please copy ? JHULE BOARD. The Bible Cause in Texas. We have just received a copy of tho minutes of the Baptist Convention of this new State, held at Independence the seat of their Uuiversity. We are rejoiced to sec that our breth¬ ren there arc ready and prompt for every good word and work. The letter circular and constitutions suitable for Bible Societies, auxiliary to the Bible Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, which we had sent them, were read and spread upon theic minutes, and will, we trust, receive the considerate and prayerful attention of tho brethren and the churches. But there is something which pleases us much more than this. The Convention Resolved, That each church would ob¬ serve a season of special prayer for the blessing of God upon the Bible in all lands where it is now read in every tongue.” Ah! If brethren will/irayfor the cause, wc have no fear of its success, for when they pray earnestly they wilt give freely. And this also our brethren in Texas resol¬ ved to do — and we trust have done before, this time. It was determined "that every pastor,’ or some other brother, deliver a suitable address, and that a collection be made in, aid of the Biblo cause as each church, might direct, in the month of January.” . We thank our brethren for this remeirt-