Home and Foreign Journal, February 1852

UIGHMONO, I'EBRl :Y 1S52, NUMBER 8, AND FOREIGN MISSIONS OF TIIE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION. • r , i -'ii July of ilm Uoiiintir Board of ifai South»rn-Bnpn4t • г to muI missionaries 10 ihis nvwly formed- pornonot , .nlclimry i This question it Pioilnj lively interest ,, .i.K i 1' пипу southern men. The destitution of mli- i| . in о ш ih. . hnul 1» lamentable. Mqsiuae, vigorously 1 would «гаи txvpnie relf-suppdrting. Л large i in . uiigraiiiv nm'froiu the south and south-west, aud .pwhl claim upon- the sympathy of southern i i ifliei ilemiiniirations arc strongly occupying ihoso I»"- II O Bapliis as yel have aitcinplcd eotnpai.'lively i-'"'"»' an- «iilfieiint lo jusiify immediate and en- . hi mir Hoard. Bui shove all, iho favorable . i 1 .1 1 ™ i. n- a connecting link in ihe dram of mflu- a- 4 b. nl us in the heathen Д same naliona, and es- i.ilu l-i.iI einpiro of Chion, coasfltqln mi . important . ,n iV IW. We havdVeh Ы lo these reflection-, by . . ... n. brother Brifily, an esteemed -Baptist min- • I,- i4 ’inly returned from California. l;ie will no iv о i >r li. 1117 publicity to his communication, is it - e " I . . . facts, which ought lo be known by 1 » !'• *!»!»*• remark*: , «Id the ohurch tv l he amount of about foOO tor tho Erst year, there is good reason for believing that a. good and strong interest would' be gathered without further ni-1 from .abroad. Without such aid, for'thc time specified, l do not see lion that interest can live. When I, left Sacramento, I «footed to lravo boon back early in January next. Circumstances may. prevent mo ft om. ever returning to Californio, oltKough my heart Is there. It' is certain that I cannot, return mVnrly as the interests of 'Sacramento demand. A minister shoold bo pa tho ground immediate! h- There Is nut a day, to lose. Every hour’s delay is a serious injury lo tho cause thorn. There is e propriety iu that churob • appealing to you; nearly all its members aro frotu tho south. Gaunot your Board extend a Ыр- iog baud! While I and others would greatly regret to have any - minister outer California at a' northern or a southern man, we Would be glad, tu .seo both sections provoking each other, to good work?, and ntrainj* to supply ■the гренам whothnra gone out frotu their thurcbes to the now State’ with tiieVuad „Г life, S. I have stated that uoitbor tjie northoru nor south-' ore Board has done a tithe of what ought to be done for ■4-.Л& teresf, to"3 ber would! '' 5. Cm* small placi rag. Of t care of in Board. <5.- Creek station is one of Influence end in- !fh I have recently got access, Time and la- ко apparently build up an Influential' church. Tibia is -tho county seal of Franklin. Л • present ; no church, but an Important open- sc, Providence church is dow able - to tako tj tho others still need assistance of the , I ii- .ib-41 leaving Sacramonto city, Col., I prorn- ...I.... U u!i-. finiiierly Ilf j-ut Stall),- that I wonld 1 ui Gut your eity for the purpose of laying bc- i 1 ml the llnurd nf the Southern Convention, tho ■ ii'ieliii-n ami wante of California. Having rc- ■ . injiii;. while crossiug the Isthmus, which, for the ■ i.flu-s me lo the house, 1 arn forced to relinquish . i- b- iuir, all, expectation of visiting Bichmond. It - -c circuirstances, I tako the liberty to address ' в to yon npoicthin nhoye subject; accompanying . d'.-s, yon. fatter front brother Willis •-"-I’. As bro.-M'.-.-hes probably written pretty 1. 1 litc .-we subject, and you will undoubtedly I-- ti. th. let lot . it will nut bo necessary for mo t wt'h many remarks. 1 - a ni- lit my leaving California, I t7oajitt|*o|yf the nni'b III Sacramento city. For more : t№n, two 1 t l-i и « rcshloiit of tho State, and have been , --it"! hilh »i hits religion-1 and civil progress. . - - лги-, therefore, is based, not upon hearsay - ii--, bit! upon actual knowledge. There ure two b, m nij.opiiiiin, aro undeniable. 1st. Califon- • -iv cnnnnraging a Held for missionary labor as .. , и ih . fi-.. nf the globe. 2nd. Neither the -. 1 th- «..-iiln-rn Board Ins dona a tithe for - i f u! it in mir view, ought (o have been done. • . 1 1 - i- -I- ! i,, on each of those points! (’ ’./ui-r-ni .1, и missionary field— l can do notb- I • N- r- th ui refer to tbt seweraT classes which need ;. iil-ir-. ljr. 7 'Are ore Me Indians. As tho 1. 1 -em rally met only the “ dinner Indians,'’ -h uri'led and brutalized os csiats anywhero, ■ it ii ..ih'e opinion is entertained of the Indians of 1. lint there nre in California numerous tribes -f noble, athletic forms, with rudo but strong 1 1 1! pmitfs — ludinns that «ill not suffer in cotu- i .tli tie line»! tribe; И this side of the Rocky • 1 -I-. 'I lu-ve tribes, by menus of the “ mission In- ” I пч- e..me In nttnoli great importance to education. 1 -anl -f Imlinu Commissioners, in somo instances, I I ■ iii.il.'- я treaty unless th would engage that "o-tt -vruld supply thorn with school-teachers. I ' '< in my possession whiolt will before long bo. - ■ the puli! e by tho proper authority, wh-ch justify -.и bis that if trn arc toady to enter this department j -i.uy Ыигг, unusual facilities will he afforded. 77..-/Г i-iv the native Californians. — From an in- Iriiw ledge of the religious feelings of many of I !'- 1 1 » .trratiled in Saying, that n steady, pious, tlis- d'".itod iiiini-ter, oapnblo of preaching in Spanish, 1 n-l a glorious fluid of labor in California. There i.-'W a single missionary devoted to tho native minis. I think, there is not n' single Protestant '' ’ in the State, that ever preachos in Spanish. Out noi dod here. f'i-ie me nt present about ten thousand Chinese in .' ■ '.iu.— It is universally admitted in California, that 1 I iiii .ire among the most steady, industrious and J> eiiia-iu of the State. They arc never found nt “iikine or gambling saloons, and aro rarely brought • - Ih- police. So far as religious efforts have been .-. their behalf, these effort» have been well received, .i-rnin tli- missionary moots the Cbineeo away from • I edict r. and the thousand hindornnees which he ■nt 'is in Ids labors in the foreign field. If a mis- r) <‘> ibo Chinese of California canuot be hud, t recalling one from China, I am not sure but that -l mid I», justifiable. bi ore the 150,000 or 200,000 Americans in I mia that need the gospel— It is n mistake that • ill not hear preaching. J have preached in school- 1 churches, private dwellings, in the streets, mines, 1 i and I have never found in New England more tfol -г attentive audiences than I have met in Cal- 1 I hey are ready lo hear, but alas1 thoro aro but '•i'1.' topren-h. Downiville, dries Valley, Nevada, - Sonora, nnd some other plates, any one of which 'n several thousand inhnbita.its, aro destitute of t pr.-arliers ; and some of them have no preacher! ; denomination. Then thero is the valley of San ■ “iii'-li needs another man. jirothor Orenoll is laboring ■ 1' l.i-i hands- aro того- than full. Sacramento, my 1 id, in eds n man immediately. Thoro is a popnla- 't In, 1I1 10 ; the Baptists have a Enoplaoeof worship '"’ll but excellent cliuroh. If the northern or lottlh- • Board would pliwo a good can on tho gtosud, tad Parish of ■ During tS ami receivi*" I hnvo pr fi miles., ilia California. So far as our denomination is concerned, the north has only ono missionary thoro — the south has none. Is ono Baptist missionary nil that the great, grow- iug, promising .State of California needs — <1 State whose agricultural and commercial resources, even wore than her mineral wealth, indicate, with unmistakable certainly, that I in the lapse of a fow soars she will bo second in -порог- ( lanco lo no State In tho Union ! Have the north and the I “entb done their duty to California, when ono section has I'gicen her ono missionary, and the other none at all ! Oh 1 I uo ! Our MothodUt and Presbyterian Mauds, both north and south, have dune far better than we. May we imitate their excellent example. Wore Laborers for the Harvest. The extract below expresses so forcibly ono prominent duty of the ohurohos in order to reliov-o 'the scarcity of laborers universally complained of, that I trust the author of tho letter, (who wroto it for no ovo hut mine,) will ex¬ cuse the liberty I take in publishing it. В, M, Jit. “ Yon speak of tho eoarcity of ministers, and ask, What shall be done? I do not know wbat will be done : what could bo done, what ought to be doue, is comparatively easy to say. lie who prays “Thy hiogdom come,” and yet lavishos on his lusts the gifts of God for this very end, mocks God, and proves himself insincere. Alas! how almost unit erialiy is thin done ! So, when the churches pray for more laborers, and yet leave many nf those whom God hoe already given, under tho sternest necessity of secitkriamg .elmiielvovtimy fii«h.fli*W Kew-ao.^ii: know there are scores of well furnished men in the South ■ in the school room ; nnd that very tunny of these sro un- ! willingly there. Why — if I umy say so reverently enough I — should the Great Head of the ehuri-h give us more j Now I allow that men of ability, nnd solf-Uouial, and faith, 1 nnd undying earnestness, will generally, at length, be fed 1 and clothed. But thero nre few situations whoro this is I done ; and tho number of these places must bo greatly I multiplied before the hands of those whom God has already I given can be loosed. I understand this subject, my brother, ! I bare been on tho verge of want from my boyhood. I Thoso 0? you horn end nurtured under other circumstances, I Jo not know, except from the Dictionary, whut the word ' u-'inf means;' and consequently cannot su fully appreciate j the rircuiuatances of your brother. Do not understand mu ns repining. J nm, of into, comfortable enough myself, j but I sco others whore I was a fow yoaiu ago. The whnlo j matter conies to this : Feed the laborers— trust to God to .give them." LOUISIANA. Idiecll.—Rtv. Martin Haggard's Report ■fist quarter I have baptised twenty-thror three others for baptism, not yet bnptiiod Md thirty-eight sermons, and traveled 479 '* had to drop one of the chnrehea I have hcrctoforo^j.plioU. It waj difficult to get thero; tho r™p«t (®«№csbdiil not seen to warrant it, aud espccnUyJgJ.fyiil pressing- palls to other pbipc's. where raofe is G-isg-'.-efli-eted. On the Onacliitta- river, where 1 attend intfej, the prospect for a church is good. The Palestine njl( Salem i-hurchcs.nre loth in a very pros¬ perous oondjiion. At 0 protracted meeting in August, ton were r(|cive!l into tho Salem church ;' anjl in Scp- 1 tembor eixtgcn into- the Palestine chnreh. Tho Salsm ^nstlllitcd a little more than, twelve months ' members; now it numbers' twenty-nine, iplt comnriuioned by your Board here, the irch numbered eighteen members p now it fj-two. The God of missions is doiug great Jii w.-sfertr country. There is « general scene of tewais throughout the north-western part- of this State. Jfwo protuored meetings _w!re hold in Jack ' son county, p which upwards, of «ere baptized. TEXAS. иол.— Rev. J. B. Stiteler's Report. During,® past quarter this cborch hos coutributod 525 to doiSt|tio missiuus, SU for foreign, malting in nil for bcnovaejit pur| scs 8102 eioce January 1. 'We more probably before the close of the voar. is not more than $20. Our congregations icroaslng. Tbo Lord has bleJaed my labors that the church desiring to retain cm, I feel chnreh was ! ago, with, I When I iu i’alcatino cn numbers 1 things in shall raise { Last year ft; ore good ati .here ad admit it ray duty (^remain if possible. We aball hold a moot¬ ing when 1 r Chilton arrives. Misspimi. . Sr. Louis.— ptmaunieacion from Rev. EdtmJ Jor- •' v r’h Out;n. . Your oomrtppion camo to hand in due time. The field assigned ina&j.-ono of gveat interest, and will require nmoh failhf^lljibor. Noarly two-thirds of tho population in this city, attend no placs of worship— a prevails mostly among tho Germans of Ibis city. Sabbath breaking, drinking and gambling are common vices, The Roman Catholics ulso countenance these things equally with tho infidels. /го iu (Dor teiamirifs. VIRGINIA. Wheeling.— Rev. Edatnrd Fly’s Report. I forward you my second quarterly report. The cause hero is steadily, and I hope, permanently advancing. Of tho twelve added *'nce April, eight arc heads of families. Wo have lung felt tho need of working, efficient men to fill the office» nf tho church. Thiy aril in a measure- sup¬ plied. Our pecuniary ability is also somewhat increased; and wc feel greatly eneournged as to our prospects. Our congregations are good— prayer-meetiugs well attended, I have attended uno ordination. We tako monthly col¬ lections for doinostio nn.l foreign missions. Send four fresh copies of your Journal to my address. I sholi soon send you the names of at least twenty now subscribers. Wo have safiorod severely from the drought, not only in farm¬ ing interests, but the suspension of navigation during tho past tall. ALABAMA. California as a Foreign Mission Station. The importance of California as a mission station, espe¬ cially in its influence upon the Chinese, is illustrated by nn extract from a letter of l*r. Boring, who is a missionary of the Methodist Epi-copal church, South. ' Ho says ; — * Recently wo have strong indications of an interesting wnrli nnmtlg the Chinese of this city. You will recollect that 1 informed you 0, onetime since of a shipment of 0 I number of the- four Gospels and Acts of tho Apostlos, by brother Jenkins, to be distributed among the Chinese in this country. Since that lime I have hoeu gradually ap- C aching them, and dial ribuliug the books. (In Subbnlh ire last, throe of thorn attended chnreh in the morning, and ono ogain nt night. Early the following week 1 went out among them distributing tho scriptures, and found, to my great surprise aud gratification, one Christian man, who had been converted and baptized iu China, and who, though iu I' is distant and slr-uip - lni-1, is s bold and firm disciple of Jesus Christ. He is intelligent, and speaks and reads tin- Eli lisli language with case and clearness. He greatly rejoiced tu find a Christian church, and at oiieo identified himself with us. I trust, under the Ые of God, through this man’s instrumentality, wo ahull soon bo ! ablo lo inform you of the establishment of an interesting , mission among these sous of the Celestial Empire. Wo 1 have established on appointment for them nn every Bah- ( Bath afternoon, and uiyaelf tiiid family have engaged to ; instruet thorn at our rendence, two or three nights in each ; week, in reading and writing ihe English language. We I have one interesting and intense student, who lias olio be¬ come deeply concerned Open the subject of Ms soul's sal- | vation, and has asked to be baptized and received into thi 1 eliurch, which I now expect to attend to on next Sabbath .Others of them arc beginning to show signs of interest in I the matter, and will, Г trust, noon сото in. To me it is both novel and nil-absorbing to be pormlftod to instruct- those sons of night upon the truths of immortality and eternal life.” "Bexar.— Rev. IVm. Philips' Report. I wili give on account of the prospects of religion «I the different churches at which I. have preached duriag thj past year, as your missionary . 1. Providence church was constituted in 18 19, with tou roepibors. Now the number is forty-nine. A revival of religion began at oitr September meeting. Twenty-six I profossod conversion. Fourteen were baptised; four more : are waiting to join. Two of my own sons aro among the number baptuod. , i 2. Good. Spring church is in a healthy condition. , Twonly-nino member}, _ 1 j 3. Liberty Spring church, Tb'S,l“*B °M chnreh. It has been reduced in numbers: has it present twelve mem¬ bers. Somo worthy member»; .ремой of influence. They . at0 building » tarn of worship. The American Tract Society. From a New York paper, -we select the following faots respecting the printing establishment of this important . institution. l Tho American Tract Socioty is a most offoetive, as well !as powerful огцтшшоп for the .accomplishment of good. 1 By a judicious u-e of its funds, iu tho dissemination of sound Christian principles, chiefly by means of colpor¬ teurs, a comparatively small amount of pwney is made to tell with powerful effect, through those portions of tho country ordinarily inaccessible to other kindred agencies. ' Tho Society's loitlding, iu.NWau street, wherein are per- formed the priming and othor mechanical operations, sub¬ sidiary to the ono great object, was built for (his specific j purpose, bj a loan «cored by mortgage on the premises, ■ to bo paid from proceeds of rents of such pirts as are not ! occupied by the Society. It las been tench visited and greatly- admired for. tho perfection of its arran»eu-ent sad management. Its ospaoity baa been • fonsiaerablv in- at addition r, It is eighty foot by rdMty- crcvc-i bprecttte four, nnd Gvo stories high, besides baarment and. cellar.— . -Tho fir«t floor is occupied by tho Society’s salcs-'room and" other stores; tho sdeond furnishes offices' for' several; be¬ nevolent societies-; Ibo third contains the general deposi- tory and executive offices : the fourth ts tho bindery, and tho Will the printing office. ' _ j, ' There are employed in the buDdiug :— " ' ' • In the bindery, 57 men and 1 111 girls, ----- 197 priming and press rooms, 27 boya and ‘ 45 “ ' ooiupositors’ room, . . 14' Miscellaneous, including officers, clerks, Ac., Ac., 19 ■Total, 275 Of tho mon In the bindery, under Mr. Gant,- 28 aro forwarders: 8 stampers in gold workou coyerspjd-gildersj 7 pastors; 9csso makers -, 2 pros'ersand sewers, 2 cut¬ ters; 2 laborers and 2 foremen. Of tbs girls, -31 ate )rke! Bowers; 95 folders, posters, Ac. ; and 11' workers in gold The j^rN rcceivo from Si 50 to J9 per wcok,acd tho men from $10 to 818. Tim amount ‘of wage» paid thi former weekly, is about ,3 150, —tha latter, about SSOO. Tbo bindery now Urns out 4,0IJ0 bound, and 2,000 paper covered volumes per day. Tho Sieiet ’a publications now number twenty-five hundred, juokd'ng. рюге than Iwp hundred books, in ono hundred and eleven languages and rliulwiita V 11 1. a.. .. ! I... _ С И - _ . . b dialeete. As serving to givo nn idea of tho quantity of raw material consumed in their1 prod action, it mar' bo l! л.....) sL.i С НАЛ _ it. .? .....I!, . >1* trn nicnlioncd that $900 wortii of mii'liu, comprising 150 pieces Of 10 yards each, aro consuuicil monthly, also 40 Jm tons of binder's paste-boards, and about JOG -barrels of glno per annum. Gold leaf to the value of ^800 Ij cqn- Btmied each inotiih, in gilding edges and covers. Tho snoepings of tho Hour of the room in which tbo gilding H performed, aro carefully preserved, and when burnt, yield a dollar's worth of gold to the pound. Tho sales of paper scraps or emtiugs from tho edges of volumes, yield -about 5U,U0ll per annum. in tho printing and press rooms, under Mr. J. \Y. Brown, 45 persons are variously employed in preparing wood-outs, running presses, Ac. They receive about ?3U0 per week. Nineteen presses are kept punning nearly or quite all tho time, viz 13 powor-pressos, 2 liand'nnd •[ liydyaulic. and there nre oousuuiea per day, from- 5lf,tg 57 reams of paper, From 2,000 to 2, MW reams are .kept constantly on hand. Three power-presses aroeooauk M added. _ ' ". -*$r Of tho American Messenger, 19G,0uC- oupies sro struck off monthly, cnusiiiiimg 205 toums of paper. The “Child's Paper," gut tip in superior style, with numerous outs, and adapted to 8undny schools, has just bccu started. The work of .ngruvinir tho numerous ivood-catt re¬ quired for books and papers, is performed by Mr. Ii. Ft Childs, and forum a diatmet department. The machinery is propelled bv a fiftoon-lorre роЛг engine of lloc’s manufacture — tlm uioiivn power, being furnished by a (’uniwli boiler of 25 liorso puwer. Atmtlier tho by n furnish trailer of 25 liorso puwer. boiler of tho name diuiensmmt has been put in during past summer, 10 create ileum for beuting U10 building. Both boilers trru placed in vaults without tie building, tO avoid danger Лот «plosion. , > Tlio total numbor of cinigrahti nrriviid ill Hew .York1 during tbo month of November last, was 20,031, of whom there were from Inland, 14,805, Germany, 0,710 ; Eng¬ land, 3,112; Seotlnml, 023, France, 181; Switzciland, 319; and front Belgium, 143. The emigration during November of last year, wnv 17,917, and during tho oluveti months ending N'ov'rSOtb, 1850, 205,903. During the corresponding months of 1851, there arrivod 279,451, Increase this year, 73,191. Steamers to -Flilna. " ' The Snn Franciseo Onurior, in epos king of the necessity nnd feasibility of a steamship oorainunicution between that point and Chinn, remarks that such a lino would complete lira chain of stouin communication around the world, ex¬ cept a small break iu crossing (ha Isthmus of Suez, con- , nerting A*ia with Africa, The paper then says ■ This link completed, lira traveler, leaving Now York, call proceed to Ghagrus by atoaut, from thence to Fan Francisco, to Macao, tin Sandwich Islands, Guam, and Manilla-— thence to Suez, via Singapore, I'ottang, Ceylon, end Aden— thouce to Cairo and Alexandria, to SontliauJpp ton, via Malta and Gibraltar, nnd from llienco by Itoam' again to Now York. Tho only break in atiiam nivlgation will bo in crossiug Iho Isthmns of Suez. Thus he would bi- able to circumnavigate the world, visiting many points, nt interest, making tho tri-i in IK1 days! Tho oomqicr- frotu uial mlvnntngoe which must flow to tho United States frotu this and kindred sources, sro too groat for enumeration hers, and too woll kuown to require it. Cost op Rest tx Nr.w York.— There ore 6,003 liquor establwhinen's in tho city of Now York, or one for every 85 individuals. The aumjmt received from Buie for tliO solo of licenses, i* 811,980. If, as estimated, two thirds of the police, criminal, and almshouse expenses are caused by intemperance, it costs tho city -in taxos 3750,000. A Wum.dly Spirit.— If a man’s conduct shows that ha thiuks more of treasure nn earth, than of treazurs iu lien-'-en, and if, when ho has got the world, or looio pnlt- of и,Ъе hugs it close, nnd appears exceedingly reluctant to lot even a little of it go fur pious and charitable uses, though God promises him в thousand-fold more in heaven fur it, ho gives not the least evidence of his being weaned from the world, or that lw prefers' heavenly things, to the things of tbs world. Judging by his practice, - there й’ sad reason to believe that his- profession is in vain. Rev. Mr. Ivimsy of London, used to say, “The ChHl- tion's motto is, to labor hard, eonruua little, give much, and nil to Christ.” i country. 1 temjilo liter, ts cowl no гнои Patus Lands.— Copies of tho Gospels and .lots, of tbo Apostles, have been sent from China to California, for distribution among, tho Chincso there. . . v. Моне Into!, prance. —Tim French government have- ordered tho French and Foreign liitlo Society, to limit its distribution excinsivoiy to the New Testament in Do Sany** version, Tb|i translation Is p'uter thin any bther Roman Cathoiio vcrilon, but it leans to the support of- some Itomaa errors* to that Protestants eiouot оно it. A