Home and Foreign Journal, May 1859

L® VI,L RICHMOND, VA., MARION, ALA, NASHVILLE, TENN, MAY, 1859. NUMBER 11. PUBLISHED BY THE BOARDS OP THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION. [jlHOS’. ALABAMA, •'1AV'1M01_ 'Our RwimiwbilHiw. . jjjjpl have committed to their “в-ыКВйя of no triUmu «!«««• 'noy have endeavoured |.niycrlully lifally to «cento thw trust. How ■u-havo succeeded others must judge. !и been tlicir aim to uppiroprinto judi- J(t|ie means contributed lor this oh- iVbcii they survey tho «Itolo extent bifiell, they a™ ««are that much yet ми’к done. Many of our cities B.tfiipicd. Our towns and villages ' t и i their relations, increasing in n and wealth, are without an evan- Jatuhtry Our enemies arc active, Й,1 of false doctrine, and a withering, ,.l Christianity arc being scattered j И1 deserving a better cause. To demands of the coining year, not kn «50,000 will be needed. From ix is this to come? The Baptists of Saih must answer. Shall no limit options to tho work of tho past | The thousands of coloured people : plantations, the Chinese flocking by els to our l'acific shore, the Germans J in our populous communities, and a Anglo-Saxon family, are sending ir cry, " come and help us.” ten, what can you do for these -a hat will you do? Will you for- pour own personal contribution to ijeet? season of our anniversaries is api¬ ng. Will you not see that your sends to tho Association a contri- lor the Domestic and Indian Mis- If each church would do soinc- ths aggregate would swell greatly ins of usefulness. You may not i agent to visit you ; act without у to feci your individual obligation it “Go preach my Gospel,” is the 1 of the Saviour. Shall we obey Band 1 We have spoken in love, the Spirit help ns all to bo more and feel a deeper interest in the ion of souls. der up our account, for power to do good is ever the measure of responsibility, Much has been given to us, and of us j much will he rcipiired. Our worshippers I number more than three millions, ami they comprise a very large proportion of the most efficient classes of the population of tho United States. How arc their talents , employed in tho service of the Master?” | Tho following remarks on Homo Mis- j sinus, with some mm li float ion, apply to our j Domestic Missions : “Our Homo Mission has done a noble work. It has planted pastors in the ! churches throughout the West, and, at a j very moderate expense, has been the inslru- , incut of incalculable good. * I’robably by 1 no other means which we have employed, | have we done so much to extend the king- , dom of our Lord. Bnt tho amount con¬ tributed to this Society (Hoard) lias been wholly unworthy of us. We raise for its | support some 340,01)0 annually, when wo ; ought to raise «200,000, and could do it with the greatest ease if wo would only 1 put our hands to the work ; and this is a 1 labour in which we have a special interest. , Of the emigrants from the Atlantic States pastor of Mariali church’ Clarendon; lie- 1 mg associated iu presbytery on tliat occa¬ sion with Itcvs. 1). W. Cuttinb, T. Mason,! and J. I,. Bollings, another missionary of I your Hoard. The attendance was large, i and the occasion solemn and interesting, j The church in Manning, growing with the town, lias received an accession of J',nr val¬ uable members by letter; and, at Jlettanyj Upper Salem, wo have a stale of things! which promises well for the future. Ajpong 1 the blacks, we have several ready foi'jbapi- j thin," 1 ^ 1 Received for Baptism. || On Talbot Island, twenty-scvcn'Milcs from .Jacksonville, where wo have qintc-a number of coloured Baptist!, who (have been entirely destitute of UaptLst preaching for many years, — they say ten or twelve. I have received live already, and prApcct good for others. L. Price; Jr. Destitution in Flo kin. pg' There are many churches hut a short distance out in tho country from) i|iis, (Jacksonville,) that have gono down- jiifb a state of entire dilapidation {for wintfvjf some one to preach tu them. I could[fl|d ; own brethren. If wo would send luission- ' aries in sufficient numbers to gather them . together, organize them into churches, and j break to them the Bread of Life, tho good ! that we might aecompli-h is altogether in* I calculable, and the fruit that would ho I borne in fifty years from seed thus planted, j no man can estimate. There is very much I land to he possessed, and if we do not now | occupy it, wo shall ho shut out of it, per¬ haps, Ibrcver.” Tiie Arkansas Baptist i its appearance on our table last l The nuohanie.il execution i« good, Rppcr presents a lino appearance. И the editorial management of Bov. f dhatson we wish lor it a success¬ or. It is published at Little Buck, • W per annum. Thoughts №siWy QiyanizHliuii n/llm 11, ij >- Г Dmnmtm. By I)u. Waylanh. mu-seen many extracts from, and-vdi MwaBcnilations and criticisms up«m Г|Ге nimei1 work, wo felt a strong Г h IcaJ ll entire. Wo sent tu the I ® and purchased a copy, and have The address was evidently pre- j “r the Northern organizations. Л1- : 11 Purports to ho “Thoughts on the Ииу Organizations of tho Bnptlit Ik- j i yet one might readily eon- '7 Лс author had no knowledge of L 1 crn ^“l'ftat Convention and its «'«is. kl page contains thoughts of truth i to the South as well as to the fife tlieerfu'ly givo them place iu pianial ; П t,la'nt condition of our mission- rOanifestly demands the prayerful j Q 0n of ev*ry true-hearted liap- 1 “““'bers are increasing, Our L , *eiltl1 “ sufficient for tho most s*slcm °f Christian enterprise. I'Jn!8.”0 *’ollcr ‘ban ever under- Lp th V *®rcMU0"t with tho priii- [ill . cw 'Testament is more gen- 11,311 31 any previous pe- k., 1 'j10 prominent articles of L h,3C|ice we are united. No dc- UA? ^ ^-bfistiana has greater ad- ml , 1D 0Urs*lvcs for labouring sue- I hf* lllC king* й0 advantages wo must reu- ! *'> the Best, a large proportion arc our | ample employment fur lour more men) lire, if we could only get tho means; But', ай! for u«, we have neither. ! j£j L. Ruce, JrA- - ... - — » ъ “It Vm No Act ofiHis.” % J i flry Kcv. Ij. It. Sim?», a missionary of Wo Board, laboring in Holmes tlnd Walton counties, Florida, writes Bldcr.l). P. ьУ;- ett a private note, which ho stab usjvvjili liberty to pnbli-h in tho Journal. W! tract the following: “Last Saturday'!;,,.^ to preach on church discipline;' ^atuiejay night, on the sure foundation ofiGodVp "' pile, and our duty growing ‘cut ' of security, after which a very intertetb- occurtcd.' ' An'oM 'gentlemanly tiio'nainc of M - , some sixty-five or seventy years of age, and twenty-two years» Presbyterian, came forward and calmly related his Chris¬ tian experience, lie remarked, in conclu¬ sion, that one tiling ho felt he lacked, and that was baptism. That l.e had felt for some time that he must obey Ids Saviour in this ordinance. That he had been told that he was sprinkled in infancy and did not consider it baptism, ami if it had hern, it was no act of his. lie was received in tears of gladness by the brethren, who have known him for years. There never has been a time since I have been here that 1 felt more encouraged than now.” Our Reflection?. With tills number we commence another Conventional year. Wo know nut the events ’of the future; the past is before us ! iu the details of its history, There are 1 something? to excite our gratitude, others to awaken our fears. The contributions to the cause of missions have been increased, hut not in proportion either to our increas¬ ed ability or tho demands made upon us. The spirit of revival has prevailed gener¬ ally throughout the land, the membership of the churches has been enlarged, and the aggregate of our nominal brotherhood greatly augmented, hut how many have come into the church to enter the list of devoted men, who shall not count their lives dear unto themselves, that they may win souls to Christ? IIow many fuel the weight of obligation resting upon every child of God to carry forward the great on terprises of Christ's kingdom. Mas! wo ure all too indifferent. Knch seeks too ex¬ clusively his own good, without reference to the wants of others. We did not however design so much to complain as to awake, if p ossible, the resolution to go to our work lor the future with renewed zeal and in¬ terest. Montgomery, Ala. The Bapitist church here, (under the pastoral care of Itev. I. T. Tichonor,) have requested the Board to appoint l!cv. (■', Calloway to labor as city missionary, and draw on the treasurer of their church, quarterly, for tho amount of Ids salary, S5U0. This church has been greatly pros¬ pered under the care of llro. T. They fur¬ nish their pastor a house to live in, and a salary of 82,000, sustain llro, Buckner iu tho Creek Nation, at a salary of S8U0, and now have raised «500 for tho salary of Bro. (!. They enjoyed an extensive revival la-t year, and many valuable members were added to tlieir fellowship. Die Lord null- tipdy the number of such churches. Little Lmln. Tins morning, on the way to the Mis¬ sion Booms, we were accosted by a little hoy, three or fuur years old, saying, “ I want to give you a dime to buy a Bible lur the poor children who have no Bible." Never did wo receive a contribution for tho mission cause with more grateful do- li-lit. “Out of the mouth of Labes and sucklings thou hast p.criccto.1 praise." • We took Ills “dime” with an humble benedic¬ tion oti the cheerful donor. May the Lord raise little Luda Wyatt to be a preacher of the Cuspid to the poor, Here aro some of the early fruits of a pious mother’s efforts to “train up a child in tho way it should B*” _ _ _ _ A Good Work Done. Bro. J. J. Fleming, Manning, S. C., March 30, writes : “ During the past quarter I have travel¬ led -108 miles in the performance of my la¬ bours, and besides pircaching and homing prayer-meetings, have distributed ll.i-» pages ot doctrinal and practical tracts “bread cast upon the waters.” On the third Sabbath in March, I assisted in the ordination of my brother J. 11. Fleming as AVo Hope So. 'l’ho Board have done a good work by timely aid to Florida; churches have been strengthened and built up>, and others bare been constituted and sustained by the Bund. I believe the day Is not far distant when Florida will return to the Board more than double for all she lias received. J. II. Breaker. Can You Help ? Bro. K. Chambers, of Little River, П.1., makes a modest but earnest appical fur some assistance to erect a house of worship at Alligator Court House, Fla, At which pioint there was formerly a Baptist church and a house of worship. By age and neglect tho house became, lung since, unfit for use. Meetings were then held in the Court House. Subsequently the Methodists and I’resliy- tcrians erected houses of worships. Now it is inipiracticable to gather a congregation at tho Court House. Tho Baptists have com- menced tho work of building a house fur the Lord. They are poor, and find them selves unequal to tho task. I ho brother asb, “Could not some agent present onr situation to tho people of the older and wealthier States, and raise a little for our cause. Bro. 1). G. Daniel has been here and preached in the Court House, and knows our destitution." Wc know that our brethren have many such calls ; hut possibly some one who reads this may feel a special interest in that field, and may fiud it in his heart and jiodcl tu send a small contribution to aid in this work. The following letter, received from an excellent brother, will he read with profit. It Is suggestive. How many of our friends •arc willing to follow tho example of the do- votei^ sister in Louisiana? Header, you may not have much of the gold and silver, hut you may have a heart iiiipivessed with the love of Jesus, and anxious to do good. Think hoiv this sister was alio to send her kn Mliirs, and do as she did. Resolve yourself into an agent of the Kingdom of Christ, and solicit it from others. “A Small Collection.” , (IreentLitry, La., March 22d, 1359* Rev. M. T. Sumner: Jirur .SVe, — Unclosed please find the sum of Ten Dollar *, a small collodion made by my wife fur Indian Missions. She has been ' in tho habit every year, for several years, of making a , small collection Hum her friends, and devoting it to tho u»o of the mission cause. 1 1' every sister would interest .herself to the amount of Ten or Twenty Dollars, and every sister can raise that amount amongst her friends, by getting filly ■ccntsfrum one, and five dollars from another, ‘the mission fund would swell, to an amount i to meet the wants of a («.wishing world. iVlth-my wishes for the prosperity of missions, and your personal happnncss, 1 subscribe myself, Yours in the Go'piel, The Way to Do. St. Louis. Accompanying the report of Rev. O. Mitchell, pastor of the -Ith Baptist church, St. Louis, Mo., ho says, “ You will see from my rcpioit, that I have opened another preaching station, and am supipiorting a young licentiate on the spot. I say, I am supipiorting him, that iq 1 collect for him here and there, and believe that a church will soon he organized. One uf our sisters has collected SI 21) from friends, in small sums; and ive liavo pmrehasod a framed house, ami have preaching and a Sunday School every Lord's day. Upwards of fifty aro in regular attendance.” It is truly gratifying to see the progress of onr work in St. Louis. This is really missionary labor that our good llro. M. is doing. All praise to our si-tcr for the part she takes in this work of love. No doubt, with our Bro., that soon a new church will he organized. This is the way— this is the aggressive mode of doing the thing. In New Orleans they are doing just this kind of work, stations are kc|it up iu different parts of the city, every Sabbath the Sun¬ day School is taught, ami the prayer-meet¬ ing is observed — soon churches will bo formed at these points; indeed, such was the origin of the German Baptist Church iu New Orleans. Tho Coliseum 1‘lacc Baptist Church, N. ()., has lime rtatinns and over 500 children iu attendance, be¬ sides a prayer meeting, (weekly,) for the benefit of the seamen, which wc found well attended when in that city recently. ally not very large, but compares favour¬ ably with most of tho others in tho city. Oar colored congregations aro usually largo and attentive. Many of them are serious up«m the subject of their souls' salt Nation, as is evinced in their requesting an interest in the prayers of Christians. I have baptized two colored persons since l bare been here, and two others aro waiting now to be baptized. We have received, by baptism, two white persons; loth men of intelligence, high standing and wealth. One of sixty-two years old ; the other Fail been nearly ten years a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. We have reason to thank God and take courage. Tho brethren here have ncteil most nobly in erecting so large and substantial a house uf wunshipi. It is so near finished that wc arc occupying the upper part. If entirely finished, it would he Olio of (lie Lest houses of worship in Texas. The pecuniary ability of the chinch has increased very much since they began to build, and after vesting awhile from their vigorous exertions, they will, doubtless, go on and finish tho house. W. Thomas. INDIAN DEPARTMENT. Fasting. It is no uncommon thing for Indians to Hist four days. Joseph Wands did it before an iinpiovlant meeting. Bis sisters 1ш\‘ eon- limit d to do it since his death. What an example of devout pdety ! The Greatest Himlrmicc. Mean white men aro the greatest hin¬ drance to tiie cause of Missions and tho ele¬ vation of the Indians. Fataii has several active, hard-working and successful agents there. Broach or sp-cak against tho iniqui¬ tous traffic iu ardent spdrits, under tho dis- guise of popular patent medicines, Ac., anil you will soon ascertain who these depraved creatures arc. Austin, Texas. This is an important and interesting field of labor. It embraces one of the шоЧ in¬ telligent communities in all the South-west. 'J'he white members of the church here arc pious, intelligent and hospitable, and, in the main, all willing to do their duty as church members. The colored members are mostly pious ami zealous Christians. We have services every Sunday afternoon especially Гог their benefit. We bare a weekly prayer meeting, which is usually well attended. Our congregation of white persons is gencr-| The Strong Passion. Many Indians, like many whites, h.ivo a ruling passion fur strong drink. They resort to many ingenious expirdients to elude the vigilant, “Light Horse,” and save their whiskey. On a public occasion when Lewis McIntosh was capilain of the Light Horse, lie saw a company of Creek Indians who were in a state of intoxication. It became his duty to ferret out the c\ il. A tier a long and seemingly li nil less search he found tho whiskey in n*tca-kcttb hanging over the fire, as if lor tiie piurpiose of attending to its appropriate business— boiling water. Unprincipled White Men. Sonic men, passing fur white, have obtain¬ ed a resting place in the Indian country, cither by p'Crmissiou of tho government agent, or by marriage with some degraded Indian woman, who, as might ho expected, arc the real and avowed enemies of the ele¬ vation and improvement of tho Indians. The light emanating from tho darkest spot of civilization, is too brilliant fur them. I Fence they oppose the introduction of light where they now are, lest their truo charac¬ ter shall ho made manifest, They do not hesitate to say that they rather see whiskey than education introduced among the Indi¬ ans. No one acquainted with them, ques¬ tions the sincerity of this avowal. Concern¬ ing the missionaries, they say as did tho de¬ moniac spirits of tho tombs to Christ— “ Art thou conic hither to torment us before the time.” Address of William Cass. In our visit to tho Indians, wo had the company of Our esteemed brother Iluckncr, • through a portion of tho Choctaw nation. At Cedar Creek, in Arkansas District. Wo had tho pleasure of meeting all the native preachers of the district, and remaining with them from Saturday till Monday. On Monday, at the closing exercise of a deeply interesting scries of meetings, Wm. Cass made a short address to us visitor», of which _ the following Is the substance as interpreted by l’cter Folsom. “Dear brethren. Il‘ is good to be here. But it is not tho lot of