Home and Foreign Journal, May 1856

OF THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION. OF D0SESTII1 ЧЛГ.Ю ALABAMA, MAV, LViti. iK4Mi[m-(l l»y (lie Do- impervious jungle», wlioio wild Leasts ПШ11 111 pleasure, and savage |j|0 prcrlmn. imers, it jet invites attention to the com¬ prehensive grandeur ol these connected princes. Lying within the limits of a coiilcdency ol Mates, inhahited hr eii- lightened freemen, nnd protected 'hv a government, who-e equal the world In inestie .Mission bomtl. jll.vin ' traced the origin of the mi-siun- never yet seen— even in the palmie.-t days ,|Ci a,id n-certjined the lelative of ancient Greco or . . —this field - -• . - - --=H== - . f Ri ниш, is SSOO, which they will pay Ihrough the Domestic Mission Hoard. Much if the honour, for it is honourable to the whole body, is due to Rev. J T. Tickenor,’ their indefatigable pastor, ilis soul ij full of the missionary work, in all parts of tlifc "re.it field, which is the would. tVe have hail occasion to notice several 'times since our connexion with the Domestic Hoard, that the churches and Associations me ready, if only the pastors will go for¬ ward to give, and give libcrnllj.f 'Thcjr I |1П [ Domestic Mis'ioin, we are pre- cannot be slighted, with impunitv, liyllm-i ur,4 the claims of the latter on who possess the means of contiibulmg for hrnriofence of the churches. This its moral and religions cultivation. In the ' comes not before the public as an language of the lord Jehovah: '''There ' obsequiou-ly begging for mi- • rein linrtli yet very much land to be pu». . - •= ' i J donations, but with appeals and sc-m-iI." i are not so stingy us some persons ifayim- ' eat', on the ground of light and _ Hook on slbejjehh! Oh-erve, the word — '•••* •' . — 1 — - ...f" ' Its demands rest on the calls ol is /dural, implying .several, if not niinio- ^ ' evWits, local circumstances, uu- , IW1 sections of one and the same conn- loMirovideaces, and favorable oppor- trv. This is precisely the cast: with res. '.M fiir doing good, sign* which the |"'ct to the field, who-e interests! am now A n Christians never unheeded. ' advocating It is not simply и field, as fVcver in the history of this republic, : contemplated in the aggregate, hut a col- F the’prospect lor a large missionary lection of adjacent fields, forming, to- S .e,t more promising than' it is at the , gi'ther, an immense expan-e of habitable icatliour. In the beautiful simile of the territory. Its present diameter, from the field is " white” to the harvest. Cape H.itteras on the coast of North Car- .u-and signs, visible and tangible, in- "lj'ui m 'he л-,.е the willingness* of the destitute to " e*t, i4 not . . .„uiis.uiu nines — j., . . . . r ... , „ l * ' 1 gospel. Nothing is needed <" iw the distance from New York to l.iv- , 10 J;0»1'™ 'U'0Cm"0n 0 ' ,rS‘f : ,ic.V' I? .... . . V-sUners. In Ilirust into III., erpool— and from Wheeling, in Virginia. H. *• Huckner sustained by the Iiaptut twice the distance from New York to lav. Й! industrious reapers, ю inrun imo mo erpool— anil from IV heeling, in Virginia,, J. n - nop their sharp and bright sickles. ?• the North, to the I'aithest point of Flnr- ; Church at Montgomery, Ala. ; Rev. l’vter | ,,ir ’tint trutli by which the claims of idi, in the South, about two lliou-and FoImiiii liv the Rigby Association, Ala.: D ...tic Mi sums may lie urged, is the mile, ; atlor. mg a sweeping ciicumlbr- Rev. Samuel Worcester by the 'Aberdeen A of» of the home held. What Mo- ol, perhaps, j,ji,.fll thousand miles . 3 5, .aid to the Israelite* at the clo<e of On the large extent of country, compii. , ' ’• , , , . larly years pilgrimage in the wilder- sing sixteen states of the federal Union, | 'T the Western Association, Ua, ; : "Behold, I have set the land be- stretching across the entile continent, fiom Lewis Ca-s by live Ltclliren uf the -Ha¬ ft von, "0 in and posses' the lands," the ocean to ocean, embracing within its J bama Association, besides oilier native ,1 hie and glory said in substance to arms, the water-, and presenting , |lr(_,lch„s ,n|,|10rlcii by Alabama, Cal, aba a Associations, and one' by the rustles: Lift up your eves and look every variety ol Miriam ami climate, _ . .. , >• d Die fields." There field-*, а» I» mani- of evangelization have been founded i "1 * Assoc, atoms, and one fi-ilrom the impel alive style of the text, by the Domestic Mission Hoard of the j bapti-t Church at Centre Ridge, Ala,- jn* within the range ot their vi -ion, Southern H.ipti-t Convention, l'ropi these j All, however, ate supporicd through the \fl: a circumstance was an implied sea- 1 eentral stations, circle oil waves of spirit- 1 Domestic Hoard at Marion, Alaf We lics- 4-, 14 observing them with very partial- «at influence, till meeting mi, l-ivay bctue-n | ;la(e ,|0l lu 1Ы if lhi, p|anlwi|e more Jar attention. Thevi.erc app.uenl in the Hieir several points of departure, they un- 1 1 . 1 at of all observers, spread out to the ,lulite back again, to tlie place whence j SJ<*n**rally pursued, Agencies, Нп9\ entire they stalled; thus imbuing the mental i ly abandoned, might be largely i ina-ses, on which they act, with principles of truth and holiness. If lurirene. n, then can constitute a motive for vigorous and simultaneous exertion for the recoveiv о фи ic all the richness of summer luxu- f nice anJ variety, literally the fields of nt Sjmaria, over which multitude.-, ff perhaps moving at the time, to see er mao lllinrhimarWMuke as yckuever loan i . . . — , ------ . . Je" -v •* •) the lost, we have it m-tliis va-t mission These fields comprised a series of con- j arela- :i -us provinces, that might have been1 r ,. bed in a very few hours. The inis- , ary was nut requited to expatriate 1 м take leave lorcvcr of neighbors 1 loved relations, subject him-elf to ; and tedious voyages, incur an one- npea-e lor pi-age -ami outfit, be-' engaging actively m tin- duties of .An Opening lot- Doi A brother from Georgia? tl .ook, brethren nnd friends, on ‘he ie fields'. These mountains and valleys, hills and prairies, table lands and plains, knolls and pi'omomitniii's, peninsulas and islands, ravines and ridge- — ‘ill thi-e are to be dotted and studded with lumlels, . j;vl,s. villages, towns and cities; in which shall le-idii the teeming millions of our rare, lens ; but villi a 'warm heal t i.i hi-. ’ al! i'l-lirict with life, and eap.ibl" of at- "m, and the me-agu of savin • love biinmg to the highe-t pi'-ibb: degree ..f n his lips, he could pi each os he went, | but liable, on aecoimt ol ми, И having completed hi- la-k at one . “IT the example of hi- Loiil and. b-ter, by going into the "next towns." ' bint the.-c fields ol Jmlei were to the 1 e'olic disciples, borne of the new states И I territories are to the Southern llipti.-t • ‘ mention. They exhibit to the chinches | 'nc older states, an area of I'ron.ier ilo-i "ijboidering on their own ho/ne\leud<. • Bdaim saw Israel from the tops of J. mc“, shilling in his tents, >o may the •prior Hie West be seen on their’piai- , ■"’luCS’ abu'ing in their cabins. "ih man, "didiina leads enchantinent •"•'•lew bat with Christ it was near- •hit moved his comms-bn. On the to Is .■due- i ass, «imk to the ,.ml woe. lowest dcpllis of wretch. Revival tit tin; -Mission Station in Mobile. Mor.n.n, March 10, 1S.TH, Dmr ISro, Walker— My henit is over- tlowiug with gratiiudc to our Heavenly Father lor what he ‘i< doing lor u- at the i <- Mi-sion Station" in this ciiy. On j Thursday night, '.'Stli oil., at our l’raj er , Meeting, there was much good feeling ami ' rejoicing among the hn-lhrcn, and we lelt | biief but weighty cpi-tics. Compared with that the Lord was going lo bless u- wit’i :, ( ц|С tbou.-ands ll/at are written on liivial Sweet Tokens ot' Ilentemlinmee. W’c invito attention to the following matters every day, they arc as grains of gold in the sand, ns diamonds in the mire. Лч long ач we can have thox'.or Mich tf.s- timoniaU of love Гог tlic Minion саич*, we will toil on though the way be «lark ami . сотри -ьп. On the . rein-slung f In- presence. At the clo-e "«h »f the Sainaiilans, he cried, ! Hiat im-cling I announced that if i’rov- 1|<|,о|‘|. 1 «у unto v on, lift up your eves , idencu seemed lo indicate we would pro- 1 ^ mi the field,.'' Д, if |,e ,aj,i - tract the meeting from the next Sunday 'romrsdi-pravc, I humanity, liiat coin- "B'bb . That .night the Lord was pleased b'Myour fellow creatures is without tu manliest lus pies, -пси and display his . . . . . . . 1 V may do them good. Why seek 1111,1 tllC S®01* "or,c 14 j1,’11 Sn\nS 011 “"'l I'ickcnsviu.c, Aim, Mani. II, Ii "V distance for objects of mercy when increa*ms' in niter, '-t. Up to the present |r, yj./._Kn.-l.isnl plew find ' 'e may die and fin |0.t Vl:„' . |,' time fifteen have been received in hap- -r.vcutv UolUr.s for Indian .Missi-.ns-one linlf •hf' Hither pray tli it Ни- I Mil ,,r It, t'sm and two by letter. I have only time i ,.f vvlul-h is to redeem Km. Вт. '-‘would S to -ay that I newer have witnessed such a pledge to Ride,- Je-ssa A. Mims: th. other rj>*. 4 • «4 f 7 f Yn •n,TiZm |л,,игоЬйЖ sl.pi'v-i.vi . . . Dcminrk t'hurch ш Churi’h. not rociMV* — _ . . «ппшег- . . . . . e , im-.li mu- .vssueiau.». . consideration it ,4P°r, ami at li'rlitnin, sliced the many days slioiild have done, owing U ® eiigagemciu j d|’tant of them can be’i-nclu-d in i * 11111 a,sl'lci' by Levs. Kedar Havv-. t,, sn|,p.iri a iiiissi.mnry nn l Ins family in Uu- *' mi'st they fie |cft ; wi.cn thorn, Win. Spence, llrovvii, who н on Ins ,, It is a subject l led de-eidy J aacrificMMC male to way to Texas as a missionary, and V. . . . hope the . . . . will, „ me bread „Г i:r. . • ('.nllins nccnsiona V aml l,lis',u0' ,nnT be a ■“nst ihe’l.a ‘ nCss al lhc judgment, Fir. mbewarm and covetous pro- |"/Z^,°f (lie territory to be oc- "'Pfi-e 1пПоП1 1 lbe domestic Mission - l0 ,llc ’avorable regard of the .«cries, vs- 1 ., •-••'•““о-- ic-gjiu ui mt е‘Шсёп, i- " n ll H*unds no claims on dimensions, or large tracts of H. Coven. Handsomely Done. The Haptist Churdi at Montgomery, Ala., resolved at one of their recent con¬ ference meetings to sustain Rro. Ilruckncr in the Creek N align. His salary, per an- cuncnneil ni, m future, make un l liopo tlio AssnciatHii it n part of her rognlnr business. Yours, in Love of the 1 ™J". It. It. IIkrndox, Terns' r Vdj Jhtchi JmriilhH. March •!, Id-Mi. Ccu'Ei'ca Cocxiv, V.i. ) March -I, 1«C. j lkar Пго. lt«/to--Knclo-cd you will find five Dollars which you may iipply to die lam- efit of Hruthcr II. f. Buckner, in repairing the damages mi-taitic.1 by him while engag'd in bis lntiors of 1 ivo f.r the [wr rcl nian of the West. My dear trither, I Miiwicly wwi it vvai more, but being dependant upon my nw-n labor principally for the support of a growing firnilv, and having already nun c шу yearly contribution to your Hoard, it is but a mite I agine; but they need some one oraiorc'ld lead olf, and then they act out of warm and full heal Is. _ _ « v* Thu Flan to Dispeii'Ol'ivitli Agencies. _ . Some seven or eight of our missionaries to the Indians are sustained by ^hurches .or Associations. Wo may instance the , , , - . . >e l-a-t jtoS.mFra.ici.co,i„ll,e,,!eVi A. G. Mollatt who is supported bv . the willingncsss ol the destitute to Ы, i< nut less than чх thousand mile— | , . can s|.aro now, one-ball' of Itiis is sent l.y my wife, c.insocrati'd from her poultry yard. О that those win» have their Uwuaiids to spend in th.it и Inch is vvei-'O than vanity only felt their iildigatinii to Him who though Ini was rich yet for their snku- Uv.ua» poor. Then would you, dear brother, and the brethren of the Foreign Hoard Hint your ullicoimo of more ph-.v-iiie than it must now be. With nil oarne-t desire tbit ibis may l«e owned of the I, ir.l to the eimifort of our bro¬ ther and the glory of his и ime, 1 remain vours, in Christian bonds, Ana a и 11. I.miis. ’(.'.us Co. <tv„ Mart'll D), ISill. Dear Ilmlhrr — Innlo-e I you will find Two Dollars to nil in unking Brother lluekner and his wife comfortable in tin far west, I deeply sj mpathbo for them since reading bis letter in tlie March No. of the Journal. Will not all trad: but tberc are difficulties connected with its recovery, and liabilities to as¬ sume that may make its redovery unde¬ sirable. We shall see in due lime. February 8th, 1S.5G. Choctaw Agency, Arkansas. tin'. Jos. Walker : Dear brother, it has been some time since passed away in my communication to jou for which i beg to be excuse : Wc had a meeting held on by Ozeal | Cicek on the 2d December last, in which we injoyeil a lime of much refreshing [ from the presence of the Lord. The meeting lasted three days, during - which time wo received three convert the sisters contribute ми, milling to relieve tlwir j an,1X exl'eri,-'"t'0 we baptized ohe on the distresses? Dj let them liavo tlio well before sabbath. warm weather any how, that (hey may lino I Christians were much revived, and good water to drink, while they are trying t» ‘ sinners deeply afibcteil by the opperation tell the poor Indian of that well of Spiritual ; 0f ihe go-pel, the meeting went on in water. Of which if a l.vm drink ho -lull neier ' frfec, ace ani, U|1; givcn ;n,ire sat. thir-t again : but it shall be in him a well ot ; f n 0 water springing up into eierl.i-tiiig life. '’'action ot all present. ... ■Yours, irulv, San ui 11, Biioiin. | , J, icceive.l a dralt of three htindred dollars, that you sented to me through the ' care Brother Smeedly : I am not very •Sricnviu.t, (!., Mareh 10, ’ofi. Dear lira. Ihralaid/r— Seeing an appe.-il in | D. N.vMcIntosh Rev. [rtailcd. Georgia! Staig.olI.[i.oblifiHa]ifisls, prpjt.y of one hundred persons lo coni dollars each for the temporal coinfoit of Hro. Huckner. &)00 would repair the mission premises on which he lives, Now- read Ins letter below and .-end on the particular in those matter: for I got a help in such good time. I am well pleased with our new range- incut of the mission. IVe have done but little i/i our laboui , i I ■ 1 during month passed as whether so ex- 5Й. KS * -*■ »■' « ш «««s- »• my ..raver for Christ's sake. , «'"■booses as wc have no meeting houses . 'built as jet. iou will perceive we gene- J rally held our meeting under a bush ! arbor and sleep at night under a tree, I onr manner of preaching is not like it is ( in Slates. Notwithstanding all this dilli- | ctilty, wo take it pacicnlly and cheerfully insiruincntally doing good in preaching the Gospel. And wc intend doing as much as possible if God will. Brother Smeedly will also report every quarter- lie is more capable of doing so Ilian I, you will please look over iny error as [ am not good scholars. My post-office is at SkullyviUc, Choc¬ taw Agcncj-. You will please direct your letter to me at above post office. Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus -Oh.'wtir-is.my— [iraver to v'oi'i anil* all Churched. Yours, truly', “ tin- M.trvli No. of tlio Пиши Foreign .Jour nal in behalf uf lire. Ilui'kiier, my wife, Mrs. N. M, Johnson, herein responds by sending you Five D illurs lo I-' applied for the" solo u-o nnd lieiiefit of Hro. liui'koer and bis family. I also enclose you Fire Hollar, fur tlio Indian Mi* Youis, in Christian bonds, W’m. S. Joiixso.v. Sr.iTE or Tc\xr.s«u:, M i Lit v Co., 1 Mareh S, ISoli. ( Jhn. ll"»,. lla-iilanldi — Mai'lo-ed jou will /lad Two Dollars, agreeable to promise, fur In¬ dian Mis-ion. I did'iit bare the inniiey when tlie agent was here. SnxrullD J. Iiisrixu. Ubf.exviuc, 1’itt C"., N. 0-, j March 12, IS.-.G. j Dear llmther— Kiiclonnd you trill find Nino i Dollars fur the Indian Missions, contributed by thu (ireenvillo 11 ipti-t Church at it.s_ monthly Missionary meeting. Yuurs, in Christian love, Divio I.awiiexce, ii-riis. of the ti. II. Church. " Every one interested in the great work of inis-iotts, mu-t i't-t-1 ins in-ail deeply atTcctcd in glancing over tin: letter of Hro. Huckner. For one, I am willing , to make a more practical demoii-lr.iliuii than simply to indulge in u-ele-s regret-. I propose to he one of one hundred lo 1 ronlribiite $.). tuivaids an object so wor¬ thy, as rendering comfortable these devu- I led servants of our blessed Master. This : proposition m remain in force until Ли- 1 gu-t. Yours, in Go-pel bonds, Sam’l K. IV Fl-ltMAN." Iwisvii.ix, Miss., Fob. 20, l«fi ■ПУИогиЬисЫе. ГЛ.'.У. S. 11. C. , . i;ncb>4sl |i lease liimaii огПсмгТ1,)г'Оп,1)*!тпс» dred D dial's, which amount 1 wi-li tlio Dumos- liu 1! «id to accept, and appropriate as they think wall do must good. Jto-poi'tfully, D. ti. (ililiDEX, D-ar ltm. Walker — I read lire. Hucknei-'s letter with n great deal of interest, and will enclose Due Dulbu', which is tnilva.-tn.ill mile i but tin: lie-t t can do just now. " , Л Tare, l'amvii. Fioai a letter post-marked Greensboro’, 1 Georgia, wc make the following extract : ' llml.i-ed jou will find Forty Dollars to l« divided In'tween tlie lioli.m nod Dome-tic Mis- , -linn. May the ls.nl prosper tlio clFurts you , are ui iking in the iiroiimtioii of the cans.' mi 1 earl'i, and mav von fro eiii'imragi"! by lire light I of Iris coimtci'ia’nco to make .-till greater efibrts | fire ill.' prosperity of his kingdom, is tiro prayer ..f "in' who il.'s' res to sec Iris will it me on c irtlr ci en a- it is done in heaven. Kcr.J. A. \V. Thomas has sent up Nine Dollars from lire Hcniictlsville Church, N. C., Ibr Rev. II. F. Huckner'.» improve¬ ments, for which he will please accept inn thanks. INDIAN DEPARTMENT. i Li-itt'iy Ii'diii tin- N.-ttivr Ft-caulti’i's, iV’o give the following letters entire jibl as they came — not changing the lan¬ guage in the Ica-t. It will not he ex¬ pected, of course, that an Indian can write English with as much accuracy and elegance as the whites, who have been carefully educated: yet, I shall have been much deceived in iny judgment if the subjoined letters from our Reverend brethren do do not exhibit as large a de¬ gree of advancement in education as the most sanguine could have hoped. Hut let Christian* look at the fads repotted. Brother Folsom tells us that they hold their meetings under a " Hush Arbor and sleep tinder a tree, at nigni.” It .seems they have no meeting houses with cush¬ ioned pews, nor a house to sleep in. Yet, he says, "we take it palienllj! and cheerfully!" ■ Brother Worcester is supported by the Aberdeen Association, Miss., as brother Ful.-om is by the Rigby, in Ala. Tlie allusion to the Armstrong Academy will all be explained after the Secretary has made a visit to the Nation. (Ye presume it may be recovered if the Baptists de¬ mand it, as there is a "bona fide" con- l’u ген Folso..!. To Rev. Joseph Walker. Siimitel Worcester. Mount I'iuiiuiie, Feb. 8th, 185G. Dear llrolher : Though I am unacquainted with you in person — yet the Lord of Heaven and earth who is present everywhere in whom , I trust — will enable you to receive of this ' epistle; it is Пот your Brother Choctaw, of ' thu Choctaw Nation. I would had inform you of ту before this time, but I was ignore nt of my duty heretofore — also, I do not know where to direct my letters, in cousequenae of which I did notTopmt myself last year's labours last jear, in IS,::). I have been travel as ii-ual, hut not so much so as I ever done in one year — though under iny instru¬ ment in preaching, six persons, men and women, were added into the church of God, that is the Baptist Church of this neighborhood, which is newly organize to lie call Aberdeen Church of the Choctaw Nation; and many more promising. I hope the Lord of harvest will »cnd more labourer into Ibis his vinyard. I have re¬ ceived one hundred dollars under your direction on the 3d day ol this month, which I have been looking for it. Some time it was promis to me by Aberdeen Association— in 18.) I. It was much of need when it came to my hand— if they would send me another draft of one him- ■'red dollars, for the services done in 183.5, they would make my body stronger to travel this year. For the time are hard here, more -o than any where of the lord’" vinyard. And the churches of this nation are weak yet, to do us any accom- modalion. IVehave been depending on our own means: neither did wc look from them any things. Yet wc intend to preach to them the’ word of life, while we arc chosen to preach Christ and him crucified. It seem Haptist Missionary School at • Armstrong Academy of the Choctaw Na¬ tion is slop by the trustees of the school, but if you demanded of your right to it you can restoree again— because the gene¬ ral council of the Choctaw Nation has " established and give it up to the . Baptise Mission Association. I do not think of any one or two individual has any right to stop here and give to another church. I was present when the trustees made their report to the council. The. trustee1 of our district, Robert Nail, was not pres- ■ ent at the time.' Only one or two trustees ^ went there and made their report 'against , > Oi. i uui it