Home and Foreign Journal, June 1859

OLUME VIII. ~HV~ RICHMOND, УЛ, MARION, ALA, NASm^LE, TENN., JUNE, 1859. NUMBER 12. PUBLISHED BY TUB BOARDS OF TIIE SOUTHpN BAPTIST CONVENTION. L,0>-, ALABAMA. CTAnnirfFfieport of the „j of Domestic ami Indian „ill, a Constitutional requbi. fewn?. I Mb'c^nTCntiun, 11.0 HonrJ uf Domestic Ibi'iiiMWo"1 rrti'ler (ho fourteenth nn- lurtOllof theif stewardship. 0BIIOART. Io.(pre.itatoft!ra Board, Her. Jo«epl: " of Tennessee, finished his course „№,1350. 08G1N 0Г PUBLICATION. lubirJ of the Horae and Foreign Journal ppVjeJ as the principle channel of n with tl.e churches. Owing to tiul circulation, it does not meet the [iof tie Board, as an organ. Yet we do Itn low wo can do better. Could ul I onr In ml actire churel. members beeo.no in- K'dintbe circulation of our present paper, lirtlime tbo circulation would exceed 0 c.'pies- Could it gain such an access to (totes, it could 1/e so enlarged and in.- Id is to removo all motive to establish 1 for either Board, AGENCIES. Lcseatwe havebut two Agents in the (T.V. E. Kirtley, in Kentucky, and iSiaia Ball, in Mississippi. It.ffn.M. Farrer resigned his agency in Igimi last June— Her. J. 0. Scriven, and I W. J. Harley, theirs in Georgia last De¬ le, F.cr. N. Boweu, who has for some ahUredin South Carolina, resigned in tut CAUSE. Meeting views touching Mission plans, lies, expenses, Ac„ by which the denoin- о his been for some ti.no agitated, have agency work extremely annoying to Mgiged in it, and rather unprofitable to cause. Both tl.o agents and the ccncurred in the judgment tl.nt they fin a rbbokI i- * ir board Is wcdJetl to'no plan. ' "itlsthc utomry the Gospel to the destitute, the l.'.tij, cooperation and prayers of the a ne most need. It is of little moment u richer these blessings co.no iciV/i or ilpb. We bavo tried tho agcnoy-pl.m ) noa-agency-plan. In our experience, lr«« has succeeded much ti.o beat. We 1 Леа appealed to this Convention, and to Iketiren, fir a better, but our appeals ' Ks witiiout any gratifying result, e the collection of funds is a leading ia the appeintiae.it of an ngent, and dtohis prominent aim, and if clf.cient II *rcure them, yet an agent's services Jttutto to estimated simply by tl.o dub "d cents vvhicb lie brings into the treas. mo Missioua.y rarely ever does ns t ministerial work as an ivetive, la- “Kd wise agent. Xu Missionary lias 1 rile fold; uone has such opportuni- upon tbo heart of tl.e dcnonii- I crouso irad encourage to every good N'1 work. Tl.o Missionary services of I'ae. pious and active ngent, in.n.casur- M'weigh the salary which he .eteives Г J ljl' ЛЛ^- l0" often, unpleasant labor. И system of agencies must lie alrandon- rttipoctfully submit whether simple up- Г? (о it is not an unwise and unproniis- ptitute/o,- it, finances. I from all sources, during the last noetic Department, $21,010 7;!. ( to the Treasury, April let, 1858, ,i5" Total 20,132 55. i*?51','1’"" recc'Pts. «17,223 Cl. I'al- Ai’nl bt, 1858, $1,042 0$. To- I f Sum total f„r both enterpri- ■ ^ year, $4;,соз 27. 1» 1 v '!cU 0n (y'nr,aiium I t„, M .h cb: N c" 0rlennsi $0,902 33. “H objects, $54,000 50. |(. °»BUR!EMENT3. !|.V”r P1,(' Homcstio Missions, $23,- ЙИм'Т Bl#ce Church, X. f tijnj “ balance in tire Treas- 4£rJ!P"rtm°'"'$!,,’n|,J9'. Loav , w«oa!,a„,|of $3,245 75. ,’ncs Fcported is now due 7 "”1°” already rendered. ^ "ЛТ0 not jet come to hand. ЧАШМПЕЗ. 1 r«4t quar- lof Ul., " cl °“ Hio presentation of ■^Ж,:и^"'оВол,'1Ьл' ^ ?25,000 ' t!l0 coml°g year, RESOURCES. It ...ay not ho out of placu here tu speak of tl.e resources of the Hoard. Theso lire mainly tl.o voluntary contributions of pious brethren solicited by agents and pastes, and often by the generous prompting of an intelligent piety. In quite a number of cases, individuals, clrarcl.es and associations, bavo 'elected, or re-1 quired tl.e Hoard to select, a Missionary for them— w lion, they adopt as their Missionary, ami pledge his snppoit through this Board, This method has been pursued fur years, and the Board have labored to induce a still larger number to adopt it. It has its advantages. It brings tbo Missionary into more immediate connection with the sympathies, prayers ...id confidence of tl.o contributors. It may also I.avo u tendency to narrow down tl.o Mission¬ ary spirit to a single locality and a singlo in¬ dividual. To judge with any degree of accu¬ racy of tl.o infiucnco of tho plan upon tl.e great Mission cause requires, pe.baps, longer and ...ore ample experience than wo l.avo bad. This, however, wo have learned from our ex¬ perience, tl.at it will not do to roly on ns a per¬ manent resource, even so far as it is adopted. Some are regular and prompt to furnish the amount pledged. Xot so with n majority of these bodies. Sutnonre half a yoar— a year, and niuro in arrears. It becomes tl.o duty und work of tl.o Board to exercise a watchful fore¬ cast, and make provision for such emergencies by a general fund, from which tho wants of these Missionaries may bo applied ; otherwise they must suffer, or bo driven from tho field. By our present arrangement, no Missionary of the Board is required townit a singlo day for bis salary beyond tbo first meeting of the Board, after tl.o reception of bis quarterly re¬ port of services rendered. LABORERS IN THE FIELD. During tl.o last year 101 Missionaries and agents bavo been under commission of tl.e Bonn!; a few of whom l.avo labored only a portion of tbo year. We bavo Missionaries in every Southern und South Western State, it. tl.o Indian Territory and California. To the above number add 35 among tbo Indians, and we have 13!) ia tbo entire field. Wo trust the timewill sooncoine when tbo resources of the Board will ' e nnbte'them Ho -employ t present nunjbor. The harvest is yet largo and tho laborers few. I'RACriCAL RESULTS. All the actual services rendered liy a faith¬ ful Mi-sionary, cannot bo recorded with pen and ink. Mur is it our custom, in these annu¬ al reports, to give in detail all that tho Mission- ar.es record and transmit to tho Board. The following summary contains lira principle items contained in the reports for tho last year, su far as they have come to hand: Churches and stations supplied, 533; discourses delivered, I I,015 ; prayer meetings, 3020; baptism-) Hi' received by letter, 7 IS ; conversions in connec¬ tion with tl.o labors of tl.o Missionaries, but not baptized by them, DCG : Sabbath schools, 111; teachers, C01 ; pupils, 5570; teachers converted, 4; pupils converted, 202; pastorial visits, 10,391 ; eht.rcl.es constituted, 20; min¬ isters ordained, 24; deacons ordained, 13 young men connected « ill. mission cl.tiril.es preparing for the ministry, 53 ; meeting houses commenced during tho year, iS: niecti..; houses finished, 15. In tho performance id the.-e labors 75,G07 miles have been travelled, COLORED twei.VTIOX. As tl.o crowning evidence of tl.o Mos-iub- shipof Christ bo declares— " Tbo poor have tl.o gospel preached unto them." No part of our population have a higher claim to bcriii.lt- cd among that class which received sacl. spe¬ cial notice of tl.o Redeemer of lost men. They arc emphatically “poor.” They aro also nu¬ merous— some three und a half millions. Vast numbers of them l.avo believed in tl.e Lord Jesus Christ, died in tho f.iith, and have entered upon tl.o “rest that remains for the people of God.” Wo presume there arc not less than 150,000 now living in communion with the Baptist churches in tho Southern and South-western States. In very many sections where houses of wor¬ ship aro erected for tl.e whites, provisions are made for tho blacks ; and tho samo gospel preached to the master is preached to the slave. But there aro many districts of country, rich planting districts, w here tl.e white population is too sparse to demand such gospel provisions. Unless special missions are mode to these blacks they must live and die without the gus- pel. SADIUTII SCHOOLS, Tl.o B. nrd aro deeply impre-sed with tl.e importanco of this department of Christian la¬ bor. The learned French philosopher. Cousin, has truly said : “ A religious and mural edu¬ cation is the first want of a people,” This, to secure its highest aim, mustcomincnoo in child¬ hood ; and there is a large portion of this ebus wl.o will receive such an education oi Sabbath School, It is m, ado the duly of ovory mission: ngent ot tl.e Board to tnko a lively int. those institutions, establish nail prom«i wherever practicable. There arc now) i con¬ nection with the mission churches 114 1 ipUth Seho.ls, with 001 teachers and 5570 p. a Is. As an illustration uf tho spirit some of our missi.m, tries manifest is this depart, ^it if Christian labor, wo furnish tl.e follov. ig ex¬ tract from a letter recently received ft h one of our young missionary pastors: j « “ Our Mrongcstcncouragcment ipriii 4 from oar large, prosperous, nnd growing'! ijndoy School. Wo hang our hopes upon it. Ж 7e_arc having frequent accessions of teachers; wl pu¬ pils. In good wcatheronr number varfjlfrom 1G5 to 195. Every Sabbath new seb brought in. We bavo divided tho districts nnd appointed visiting coi The plan is succeeding admirably, ren in this way not only bring in new but get a taste for tl.at lest of all lit. doin'/ good. " Oar reports furnish most alarr counts of ignorance und destitutio. In our midst: ‘The shades of China have tf о their kindred shades.’ "Tu hcuofit these dear immortal sot desiro and determination." j CAUtORNIV. * ^ Our California Mission has been r? tnforeed during the year l.y tbo addition of К j. G. E. Davis and Rev. J. 11. Hupps to.tho Hi Americans nnd two Chinese aro In One of these Chinese, Lcong Clink, der pay of tl.o Board. SACRAMENTO. The first Baptist church in this p hers 125 communicants, and is said’ largest Baptist church in tho StatoJ jf ifteen Americans nnd five Chinese hare bf* ” ’ during tho year. There h also а Sabbath School eon neeted with tho c .arch ser¬ vices. Tho pastor, brother Shuck; instruct! a Bible class. Recently they have re-fitted tl/e edifice and paid tl.o expenses, and, tinguisbedjbo uld church debt. » ПЯТЯ1 fhfClfi visa language from three to five times a week, In there la¬ bors tl.e pastor has been much assisted by Wong Mooey and Leong Chak, wl.o bare nn excellent report for piety and mini-teriai effi¬ ciency. Sinco brother Shuck’s residence in California lie has baptized 10 Chinese converts, » l.oee constancy and fidelity give pleasing evi¬ dence tl.at they l.avo experienced tbo power of godliness in their hearts. OVKLaND. Her. II. Gilbert, who cnmmcnccil his labors with this church January 1st, 1854, has re¬ cently resigned his charge. SANTA CRUZ. Rcr. С. X, West, who was expected to enter this field last spring, was unable to reach it until the middle of September. October 23. d lie organized a church consisting uf seven members. SAN RAMON VALIEV. This is represented as a picturesque and fertile valley in Contra Costa county, thickly settled with thriving farmers. Her. G. E. Davis and Rev. J. B. Hnpps, twij brethren, young in the ministry, of very limi¬ ted pecuniary ability, but with deep lore for souls, have been traversing this valley, Irani-, ing up the scattered Baptists, and giving them such spiritual aid as they «его able. That they might devote more time, and render their labor of love and work of faith more effective, application was mado to this Board for their appoi.itmci.tns missionaries on a small salary. The appointments were made nnd they arc now laboring under tbier commission. HERMANS. In the field assigned us by Frbvidet.ee ti.c.e is a numerous German population. Large numbers of them are accessible to the means of grace. Some who are Roman Catholics have attended tl.o faithful ministry of tbo bumble missionaries, and have become subjects of di¬ vine grace. In many places, where one year ago, violent opposition to our mission work was manifest, now is found peace nnd quietude Xot a few of the strong opposers are quite reg¬ ular attendants upon tl.e ministry of those they so recently persecuted. IN LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, There is a German population of about 18,000. There, ns in other places, Romanism andothir errors, little less prejudicial to truth, engross tho minds of the people. Rcr. John B. Mad- ouiet has been our missionary At this point since June, 1857. The church numbered ele¬ ven members nt tho time bo took charge of it. Sson it increased to twenty-eight, with cucuur- aging prospects »f still larger growth. Recently the various Industrial employments to which most of tho members were devoted were not sufficiently remunerative to justify their longer residence in tl.o city. Fourteen of theif already weak, yet faithful band, hare taken letters and removed to their homesteads in Illinois. IN SI. LOUIS, MISSOURI, The Germans are supposed to number more than 39,000, and rapidly increasing. In May, 1857, Rev. Anthony llneuder took charge of a small and doubtful interest in this city. lie questions tho lawfulnes of calling such a body of men “a church of Jesus Christ.” He says: "Had it not pleased the Lord to send us 18 converts from tl.e world, and seve¬ ral good brethren and sisters from neighboring churches, ibis one must soon have becornoox- tihet. Now wo have a Sabbath School of 38 pupils, and G teachers, Our total membership ia 57, of whom 9 were baptized during the past quarter. Wo also expect soon to have a col¬ porteur actively engaged among onr people.” AT ST. GENEVIEVE, And other prominent points in Southern Mis¬ souri, ltev, Deter Klein, a native German, has been employed since January U, 1858, by this Board, in conjunction with tl.o Southern Missouri Baptist Convention. An extract from one of his letters will giro some definite idea of the people, and spirit with which ho is sur¬ rounded : “ Wo had a little timoof rcf.esl.iog; a few sinners converted, and sumo of then, were bap¬ tized, — and, thank the Lord, one uf them is a son of mine, aged 17 years, and a daughter 13 years. Thowhuto country around here is nt war. They disturbed n.o last Sunday while .reaching. Some uf them could not henr the truth any longer, and left the school-house, and raised a t.uiso outside so load that I had to stop. They call mo liar, wolf ia sheep's clo¬ thing; say my Bible is wrung, u. s. f. It is said a father, a Frenchman, wants to kill his own sun because ho was converted and bapti¬ zed. I will write you more folly in my next report, " This is a dark region of popery. They would kindlo the fires of their persecution here if wo had not tho law to protect us. There jtjehordly any of the French boro that can .’.Ьеп'етег they' cant their fiery eyes of wrath on me, I give them some tracts with a smiling face. Somo aro ashamed and take them, somo tear them in pieces, somo read then), some commence opposing and refuso to tako them because they believe too strongly in tl.e Holy Catholic Church, and helic.o all pow¬ er is given to their 'Priests, who can forgive sins us well ns God.” At a later da'o he writes more encouraging- !y— "I baptized four Homan Catholics not lung since.” IN NEW ORLEANS, The estimated German population is 30,000. There is n small German Baptist church, with a small hut act and coinfurtnMo house uf wor¬ ship, paid for. The mouthers lore tl.o truth, i.ml n.o willing to pay according to their abili- ly for its mini-tratinns. They voluntarily tax thcm-elvcs ten j-or cent on tl.cir gross income fur church expenses. Tl.e Hcv. Win. I'niching ins been labouring with the... frn.n January 15th, 1858, to Do- t ember 31st, 1858. KANSAS. Her. W. Thomas, our late missionary in Kansas Territory, resigned l.is commission to that field. coliseum пасе bai-tist church, ncworlevnj. Some weeks ago tho Board cherished tho cheering hope to announce at this time the c- mplcto extinguishment of tho debt, which has to lung embarrassed this church nnd an¬ noyed the denomination. For tl.o accomplish¬ ment of this desirable ol-jcct, much labor has 1 cea expended by the Financial Secretary. So earnest were your Board in this matter, no to divert l.is time and energy largely from the legitimate work of the Board to this object, for the last few months. On examining tl.o liabilities of the church, they were found tu he, instead of $15,009, as was supposed, $20,534 Oi, By the untiring industry of brother Sumner, bonds and pledge*, in amount sufficient to cover tho whole indebtedness was secured, and officially announced ; nnd there who bndgiren these obligations, were called on to remit the ■ effective sums according to contract. Thus far, only $0,902 23 have been paid in. Tho fault is certainly not on the part of the Board. rR.IUBE.KS. While it is wilh humiliation wo record tho comparatively small amount, contributed for .such important ends, by churches composed of a membership so numerous end wealthy, and *o little has been nicon.plislicd where so mu.h ought to ho done, it is, nt tl.o samo time, with humble grutitudo wo can report somo prog. ess. In 1S32, tho American Baptist Homo Mission Society was organized. Tim Stales now com- roving tho Southern Baptist Convention, con¬ tributed to nnd cooperated with that society till tire division between tho Baptists North and South took place in May 18J3. Their cedpe- ration with that body was thirteen years. Du¬ ring that period, according to tl.o report of that Society, tho entire sum of tire contribu¬ tions from tho Southern States, wns $38,G5G 40. Fourteen years hate elapsed sinco tl.e division. Owing to circumstances beyond tire control of tire Board hat little, by wny of cash collections, was done tl.e first year. Thirteen years labor, tire samo time of our connection will, the old society, is nearly tire time of our service. Du¬ ring tl.at time, theso san.o States l.avo contri¬ buted for Domestic Missions, $204,715 39 nnd for Indian Missions, (in four jears,) - . G1.G41 74 Total, S2GG.35G 13 As pleasing examples of this progress, take tho following States. Tire contributions of Virginia from 1832 to 18 li, $9,182 50 " 1845 to 1859, 40,47 1 71 Georgia from 1832 to 1845, 9,529 33 “ 1815 to 1859, 42,401 00 Alabama from 1832 to 1845, 493 50 •• " 1845 to 1359, -11,259 58 Other gratifying examples might ho furnish¬ ed, Among tho ninny cheering indications of progress, nt the command of the Board, in the field of mission work, wo select one. A missionary of tire Board it. Louisiana, for tire last live years, furnishes lire following brief but thrilling outline of his labors, dur¬ ing tho ti.i.o of his connection with tl.o Beard. Ho says: " I l.avo supplied nnd re-supplied 33 church¬ es and 82 other stations ; delivered 1150 ser¬ mons, nnd C51 exhortations ; attended GG9 prayer-meetings; baptized 213 whites nnd 19 blacks ; received by letter 107 whites and 17 blacks; organized 45 Sabbath schools; made 501 pastoral visits ; aided in tl.o constitution of nine churches ; in tl.o ordination of four ministers and 23 deacons; 13 now meeting houses have been built; distributed 10,030 pages of tracts, IG7 biblcs and 190 testaments : preached 47 funeral sermons; in tho perform- ancoof tl.eso .duties I hare travelled 10,820 ‘mir oJ.”' “ I l.avo had great reason to rejoice in view of what I have seen, heard and felt, I have also experienced much trouble, nnd endured severe hardships— travelled through heat nnd coll, wet and dry— away from homo, wife nnd children, suffering tire pinching) of hunger and tho pains of ticknesa. I l.avo spent nnd boon spent in tho good causo of preaching tho gos¬ pel to lire poor. And I say again, my heart lias been mado to rcjoico in view of what tl.e Lord Ires done. Suino neighbourhoods, noto¬ rious for wickedness in its most odious forms, have become moral— in somo instances reli¬ gion.*. Tire solitary place has been nmdeglad —lire desert has blossomed ns tho rose. " In some places I l.avo been honored with preaching tl.o first sermon tho people over heard. In other instances of preaching tho first Baptist sermon.” GENERAL SUMUVRY. Sinco tire organization of tl.e Board, there l.avo boon about 000 missionaries nnd agents commissioned. Sermons and addresses deliv¬ ered by them 77,51 1; prnycr meetings attend¬ ed 15,399; other religious meetings attended 1,175; pastoral visits 76,980; baptisms 13,312; conrcrts in connection with missionary labor, nnd baptized by otl.ers 5,100 ; additions by loiter 5,071; Sahhatl. schools 803; teachers 2,720 ; pupils 29,401; pupils nnd teachers con¬ verted 7 13; churches constituted 179; minis¬ ters ordained 172; deacons ordained 240; meetinghouses built 11G; young men prepar¬ ing for the ininisty 58 ; miles travelled in the perfirmui.ee of these Ыогз 003,507. INDIAN DEPARTMENT. - - ODITl'iHIES. Into this department of our field death (las entered and performed asndwork. Mrs. Mur- row, tire wife of Brother J.S. Marrow, finished her mission to ti.o Creeks in less than one year after entering upon it. This is a melan-hoiy bereavement to our brother, and a grievous loss to the mission. But tl.o " Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away.” Jacob Hawkins, a colored man, the oldest preacher, and ono of lire oldest гавтЬегз in the nation, died last September. Ho wn3 n man of strung nnd resolute mini, deep piety nnd devoted zeal. Ho hail n wido spread infiuenco in the nation, nnd hialoss is deeply felt. FINANCIAL STATEMENT. Thsro hes been considerable improvement in tho finances of the Indian deparlmcntthe past year. Tho total receipts for tho year, $17,223 G4. Add to this sum $1,042 08 In tho Ccasury nt tho commencement of tire year,