Home and Foreign Journal, October 1856

journal: RICHMOND, OCTOBER, 1850. NUMBER 4. PUBLISHED BY THE BOARD SOUTILERNj BAPTIST CONVENTION. ДОЮхГАЬЛВЛМЛ. OCTOBER, ПВО. Valedictory. Tins number will close my editorial con- nion will* tl*e Home Л»*1 Foreign Jour- j unless the Domestic lioard shall in.-i-t ’ „.j continuance ш that capacity till !enc,t meeting «Г the Bii.oiiinl Comet. № [ find it in be impracticable to edit c ilotue Department by the present nr- „.etneiil, so аз ю шике it efficient. The ' ! must be sent to Uiclimoinl a full lull in adunce of the publication, „I uot luting the opportunity to read uj correct the proof sheets, of course, fee final impression tviH abound with ly- graphical errors— such as character- .J the issues of August and September. Jastotury intelligence, also, is almost in- ,nibly superseded by the weeklies, and , otiseqoenily stale; while the space a I- ! ,,,etl a limits only of extracts from letters nu paragraphical remark*. Had not the .angement been in existence when [ «me Sectctary, I could ttetcr bate con- ' tiled to it. Till the meeting of the Coa¬ lition, I shall avail myself of the columns f such weeklies as will publish for the aril, hoping that in .May next some in will be adopted for the establishment * a distinct organ of publication for Do- 1 eslic and Indian Missions. Whateter, . erefore, may appear hereafter under the ' omcstic Head, will not be either from my :n or of my selection. JOSEPH IVALKF.R, 1 Cor. Sec, D. M. B. ’ hill business оГ it through the current fis- 1 give a detailed delineatio'i . iv> cal year, owing to the exhausting drafts | that excites it, or point ou jls lovely dur-* upon its treasury hy the transfer to the ! acteristics. The emotion perhaps rath- Board hy the Indian Missions. Economy ! er due to the liarinor.ious and combined lias been studied and practised. No ad- aspect of the whole, than I i any one par- ditiotial Sccretirins or Treasurers lute I ticular quality or property of the object, been employed. Now then, the way to! While there might b\ defects in certain insure entire telcase liotii embarrasMiiciits parts of it, considerej separately, these by the next Cnmention, is for the church* , are happily compensiletl by the higher cs to coiitiinio their contributions trt'M in- J excellencies of others) when all are con- crensol liberality. , tcmplated together, ijhjs as it may. . , , ,,'***" ,,Г' thcILmlisthousein Fret dnefeburg, viewed A -Model Utilise of \\ оЫщ>. ' f , t as a whole, struck us it^betng beautiful. The fourth bird's Day in August it was ' Not simply its predomi tint* gothic archi- our happiness to spend with the Baptist \ tccture on a basement >fmj mixed style, Church in Fredericksburg, Va. We can- its painted glass and d lusrve fresco, its fof the object I New Plan of Education. they could havo a guarantee that those Col. 1‘. P. Pitchlynn, Supcrinionder of w*J"m **>еу might send would slay сет- ! Public School, in^ the Choctaw Nation, has, with others, been instrumental in making a Treaty with the Government hy which an educational fund has been se¬ cured lor tho'Choclaw youths. A part of lainly for at least five years, it might be well to send ; but without such an expec¬ tation, the money could be better expend¬ ed elsewhere. Sacramento Ci'/y.-From all that the this fund he proposes to expend in educa- ^oard can learn, Bro, Shuck is doin" ting talented Indian young men al Me Southern Colleges. He will supply from iho nbovc named fund $250 per scholar, good work. His position as pastor of the American church enahlo. j - lor the Chinese. Ho has baptised three not forego the opportunity of penning a few lines in commendation of their neat, chaste pulpit and oaket finish, its fit pro¬ portions and bronze-rai j.d gallery, but all convenient and beautiful meeting bouse, these, uniting with sy hmeirical adapta Not that wo were more interested in the I tionin one expression, c hslijute its beauty liou-e than with the worship therein con- We were informed (It i in the planning ducted, but because Baptist improvement and arrangement of th house, much is o the Southern Religious Tress. | Brethren,— In another column you vv ill i e the Valedictory of the Domestic Sec- 1 larj, and his intention expressed — till I ilerent arrangements can be made— of mg, occasionally, a reasonable space in >ut periodical* for the advancement of e Domestic Mission interests. Letters j i nl reports from Missionaries, and such ; tides on the subject of Missions as will ! nnlticc to the spread of information and j t e eduction of a larger liberality, will | institute the character of the спру I nil, from time to time, forward. If any liters shall decline to publish said coin- sanitations as a gratuity for the benefit "this Mission Enterprise, of course the ■'«I of imparting missionary intelli- :nce «ill be, hy so much, lessened. JUSEPH WALKER. Cor. Sec. D. M. B. in hou-e-building lias, until recently, been of very slow progress. Under the street in the city, in the woods, or on the top of a hill in the country, or in some out of the way place, .difficult of approach, were the places most usually selected as suitable for Baptist worship-lum-cs— c-pecially if the lot was a gift from some well-wisher of the cause. But times have changed, and Christians in some places at least, in these respect*, have changed with them. They now display a better judg¬ ment in the selection of localities, com¬ bine convenience with comfort in the con¬ struction of their church edifices, and de- velopc a more refined architectural taste, both in the external and internal finish of these temples of the Lord. This is proper. Why should the Lord's House be unsight¬ ly and inconvenient? As a model building in which to wor¬ ship the Lord Jehovah, we would choose that in the town of Fredericksburg, Vir- duc to the sound judgm t and gooj taste of Rev. W. F. Broaddu j the paslor, who took a deep interest in i si erection. And now, in the /«Jfplace, wc shall annually, the remainder of the cost, if any I Chinese since his sojourn in that country there be, to be furnished by some Indian — onc of whom is colporteur and preach- Mission Board. Thus, ho hopes, young men will become qualified to go home and take the Indian Schools in charge, An excellent plan, wc should judge. He sends a son of Peter Folsom and one of Samuel Worcester, to Tenn., and will send others to other Colleges that are willing to receive limn. only notice the Ilaplistry, meeting-house sounds odd fA baptistry in a yenough to some of the brotherhood throughout the land, but it is estimated at itsfrjfal value by all who have witnessed thfi pie of baptism in . such a place under favorable circum- stances. The prejudice against baptismal pools in the house of the lord, would van¬ ish speedily as the morning mist before the rising sun, did the people who oppose them but see them usetjjjonce or twice. The river, if it is not tod! distant, super¬ sedes the necessity of Chirch baptisliies, when it has a solid bottomland allows of a proper view of the candidate and admin* jstrator, but .tveiUaJhHife^tkem-cati- be no valid objection to a baptistry. In all cases, however, the baptistries should be so constructed as to make the veiy . best impression on the beholding audi- In 111 c first place, it stands on an eligible ( cnce. 'phis desideratum ha* been happily silo — that is to say, on the corner of two provided for by the baptistry in the church ptincipal streets, and sufficiently central ;n Fredericksburg, as a converging point for the people from j ы uj ° # desrliplion of it. T|1C all parts of the city. IV e question .fa, ^ ,ea(Iin„ down into the water arc be- more de-irablc situation could have been , ш (,|e , -t wal|) lhat enti,ely with- fixed upon for general accommodation. , ы lhe audience room, between the pul- The Lord's House should be p aced as ^ anJ ,hc enJ Kall of lhe building nearly as is practicable m the raids/ of IIis . i(se,f Thcre |tandj ,|,e administrator people. 1 and receives the candidate, both of whom In tlie sccoHvf place, this house « d-x- arc in lhc wa!er unseen, in their descent, by the congregation. Once at the bottom Indian Treaty. A treaty was made recently between ; the Indian Department of the U. S. Gov¬ ernment and a delegation of Creek In- i ilians, hy which the latter will ho able to encourage and suppoit education among their people. A Family of Preachers. Chilly McIntosh, I). N. McIntosh, I.oui* McIntosh, William McIntosh, and Thomas McIntosh, all half blood Indians, are preachers of the Gospel in the Creek Na¬ tion, and sustained by the Domestic Mis¬ sion Board of Hie Southern Baptist Con¬ vention. Most, if not all of them, were brought into the church of Christ by the indefatigable labors of Rev. II. F. Ruck¬ er, and gives good promise of usefulness. Large congregations attend every Lord’s day at the Chinese Chapel, and the hope is that an abundant harvest may ere long he reaped. RIBLE BOARD.,. NASIIVILLB, OCTOBER, 1850. -Does-tlio Lord Convert Indians Some Folks are ready to maintain that it is easier to evangelizo the most bat ba¬ rons heathen nalinns — even the filthy, ig¬ norant Hottentots of Africa— than lhc American Indians. "Let facts be sub¬ mitted to a candid world.” There arc 1,500 Baptists in the Creek Nation, and over 500 in the Choctaw Nation— two- thirds of the latter full-bloods. Strange would it have been, indeed, if the merci¬ ful God hail consigned the Indian to rep¬ robation ! At Homo Again. There is no place like home !” It is 1 ‘ phea above all others uppermost in t e traveller’s mind and nearest and dear- utahis heart, No matter how iliier.-i- ;4l anil beautiful the landscape scenery trough which lie may have passed— or i “""able, polite nr obliging the now jfiuaintnnces lie lias formed, ho turns Ids '{«homeward at the appointed time with nptnrous delight. Then, “ welcome Ге' !аУ u'e- The dangers and fa- !“e of long journeys are over al least ,l !ejso"> and now, work, work, work | il be— still, “ welcome home," say Associations in Virginia. 0" returning from Kansas we employed pn'din °f "ur time in vi-iting Virginia ' ’-neiatio,,,, The Middle District, the ^fpnmaitnx, the Concord, the Sliiln, and '“shell ««re attended in the order of >r occurrence. We arc under great nb- ’hnns ,0 т*пУ friends and brethren for '' a"d liberal contributions to |MM* of Domestic Missions, nod shall ti e c"Use to remember these sacred con- "U'otij f„f m,„y m(l|1|[)j tf| cnme_ Needed Greatly. “ads to keep the Mi'sinu Car on the ' an'l in motion. Who will send his 18 lJ mad. Address W. HORNIWCKLE, Marion, Ala. Ute Way to Get Out. 1,6 Domestic Board will bare an up lightfully convenient. II is convenient of access, The congregation enter by a large door in the basement, and filing ЫТ to the right and left, ascend by two (lights of winding stairs to the audience room above. The ascent is easy and free from exposure. The pews— unlike lhe tight-angled diy- "ood's boxes of a former age— ate com¬ fortably adapted to the natural sitting po¬ sition of the hearers. The pulpit eleva¬ tion brings the preacher before the entire congregation— whether in'tlie gallery or on of the steps, the admini*trator puls his hand against a small door in the pulpit avail and pushes it open, when he and the candidate pass through the door by a canal into the main baptistry in front of the con¬ gregation. The immersion over, they pass out by the same canal, shut the door and arc seen no more. This construction of the baptistry prevents the remarks which opposers are but too ready to make on the least occurrence of disorder. We con- Rev. II. F. Buckner. This brother, since his return to the In¬ dian country has been toiling at the good woi k, both night and day. Crowds of the " Red Men" attend his ministry, and suc¬ cess attends il at every place. He Is, un- ( dor God, doing a great work for the Abo- ligincs of this land. Let him bo sustain¬ ed by the prayers of God’s people I How it Happened. Many of our readers may have thought it strange that the notice of our visit to Hamilton, Ga,, the Alabama Convention, the Georgia Convention, &c. which should have appeared in the May number of the Journal, or at the very farthest in June, should have made its appearance as though just written, dated Nashville, August 1st, in the August number. Wc thought it strange ourself. The mallFr which appeared in August was written and sent to Richmond in May, im¬ mediately after our return from Georgia. We do not know how it happened to be laid aside until its interest was entirely lost by the lapse of time. But we con¬ jecture that il was in this way. We arc sometimes very busy and, have no, leisure^ to write for the Journal, and somclimes’ we have a day of comparative leisure.— When one of these leisure days comes round wc write whether our previous ar¬ ticles have appeared or not, taking it for granted that those in charge of lhat pub¬ lication will file our matter away and re¬ produce it in the same order in which it was written. On this occasion they re¬ ceived other matter before this had been published and put it in, leaving this to wait over till August. It has happened just so once before. It is very natural that the printer should take hold first of that which he received last, and lest he should con¬ tinue this practice, I will hereafter dale every article myself so that the reader may not imagine that long delay of such no¬ tices is owing to any negligence of mine. Aug. 5, 185C. A. C. D. the main lloor. He can sec all, and may j gratu|alc ,|IC churcli at Fredericksburg, be seen by all. The sound of his voice . (,er vorthy and popular pastor, on ac- i. . count ((f (heir ejcce||ent house and large on its natural conversational key, may be distinctly heard in every part of the room. The window-glass is frosted so as to admit the light without being painful to the eyes, and the hou*e is agreeably ventilated and intelligent congregation. We have described said house at length in the Jour¬ nal, for the benefit of our Missionaries who are building meeting-houses. They nieni and beautiful, as otherwise. through the ceiling. Back of the pulpit m;gj,t just as well be comfortable, convc- thcre are three massive chairs, cushioned after the best style, and large enough to hold each a doctor of the highest grade, while between them and the Bible stand there is ample space for the speaker- even for pedcl gesticulation, if he have a talent and desire for such display. The rostrum in front of the pulpit and the aisles between the pews correspond, as to room, with the doors and stair-ways, so Indian Affaire- All that could possibly be done for the educational and spiritual welfare of tbo Kansas Indians at present under lhe pat¬ ronage of tho Southern Mission Board, lias been accomplished. The old claims «Г creditors have been cancelled, the that t'lie'egrcs* from the building may be , Schools reorganized, and arrangements effected without crowding the multitude,! completed for their support. Unless ilm and in proper time. \ l’nlillMl >l,ilb Р,еЫ"'? 'Ы Г|' In the third place, but not lastly, as the , region shall interrupt their progress, the preachers say, we were piea-antly capti- , " Red Man” must be grca'ly .mproicd valed by \\ie simple, beauty of this hou-e.jboih in his rnora), phys'cal, and social It is much more difficult to describe the . cnridil, on through their пПиепсе. ISot- beauty of an object than to perceive it. j wi.l.slandi.ig lbo_ valuable ‘ As some persons, yea, many, eulogize a , obtained concerning Hie CicoL, Sen..- sermon without the p.wer to slate itsanaly i nnlei, CI.erokecs, СЬвеим. the £ *c c- sis or remember the text, so they may feel tary may yet have to visit those tribes the emotions of beauty without being able to! ensuing fill. j They must Continue where they Are. Yes, where they are— the Indians can never be driven farther West. There is i no place on this continent to which they ; could go. They must stay w kero they now are. On the Pacific coast a mighty empire has sprung up whose population is extending Eastward, and lip the Atlantic slope the emigration is still moving West¬ ward, so that the poor Indian is shut in between these mighty armies — he must stay where lie is or be exterminated. And if he must stay there, then he must have the Gospel. He must be educated anil evangelized or lie cannot live contiguous- ! ly to the white man. The government i will help lo educate him : let the churches ; see to it that he receives the Gospel from j the lips of the living preacher. California. Oakland City.— Rev. E. J. Willis has been for the last three months in Virginia. It is hoped that lie may soon return to his interesting charge. California is crying loudly for help, and ought to have it. The Home Mission Society has sent several missionaries there who have remained for и season. The great desideratum for Cal¬ ifornia is a permanent ministry. The Do¬ mestic Board at the South has been s.olic- That l’lea for the Iliblo Board, Has gone already to thousands of fami¬ lies, li has spoken already to thousands of hearts, and already we begin to receive the spontaneous contributions of the Bible loving brethren and sisters in the South. Our hearts are big with hope. The churches will enable us to do our work. They would have done it before but they did not know precisely who we were nor what wc had to do. Now we understand each other, and the lollowing extracts will show how brethren feel and how they write. One dear brother writing from Jackson, Tenn., says: "I learned from the 1 Plea’ which lately came, that a con¬ siderable amount of money is desirod to be appropriated by the Bible Board of the S. 1). Convention. I wish to assist, in in¬ creasing lhc circulation of the word of God and send five dollars to be used for that purpose.’1 How many will do like¬ wise? Another esteemed brother writes from Kentucky: “As we had very generally- circulated your 1 Plea for the Bible Board,' we all understood the mailer, and did not consume the time in speech making. We unanimously agreed to organize a Bible Society auxiliary to the S. B. Board. We adopted the constitution and then elected our officers. We took up a subscription of $114 the first day, and on the next Sunday morning I obtained a subscription of $27 from our Sunday School.” (Only think of that, 827 from a single Sunday School. God will bless that Sunday School.) ” I have since increased our subscription to $185, and do not doubt we will be able to make it $250." , , ,n, Ц Now is not this encouraging— have.we not reason to thank God and work on with iled to send more men to that field, and if larger hopes and higher aims and: more