Home and Foreign Journal, August 1857

■w чц| It, I л Г si»i I | Mill ц[ [oi.UMH VII. RICHMOND, VA., MARION, ALA., NASHVILLE, TENN., AUGUST, 1857. PUBLISHED BY THE BOARDS OF' ТЛЕ JJaLABAMA. _AUnPST, ,11 If 57. №“ \ra ■»,l list heard from Marion, “‘“iinlman, the esteemed Secrcta/y Ac Mi-on Hoard, had not l^ffrora his trip ‘о ^“*M| °"a К Indian Mi-ion Stations. tte i i^rffore no matter from him for ['Л the Journal. We trust that ’' „„г readers, will accept .» good r attempt to supply this deficiency. e Greatness anil Importance of e Work of Domestic Minion». _ Uloirin* is an extract fmm an article Tl" A,l, raiments have M none ol there bj Ию lapse of time, but rather 1 |,KjiijaNteJ force* L country had a Christian origin, bhive a high character lo maintain. Г" I' tl Cnr I BAPTIST CONVENTION. NUMBER 2. • '' s^cii. ,4 a valuable e and be- . Christian- ! if this con-' or settle- 1 t, whether is a blessed Work to give them the gospel I we trust, the merciful Lord ispurrouml- 1 ministry; for almost entirely have we ing our country, wo need notyabour to; the religious character and happiness of | deslroy it; if not, lei it comS'billier to j those people and of their posterity in our ' die. It is for us, through the potent agen- j power. But of the new communities, | cy of our Domestic Mission^ and the1 rising with unparalleled rapidity all over ! blessing of the Lord, to keep, tie healing ’ the land, what may we not say! The virtues of the waters so strong, that all , inhabitants of new settlements are pccu- ; the impotent who step into them shall be | jiarly susceptible of religious impressions. ' made whole. This is an important parti They have some childlike traits. They of the otiicc which wc arc botuid to fulfil, j amalgamate with each other more readily j and are partially fulfilling for’the world. | than the same persons would in older! • • • » •'’•** • communities. Their first religious leach- 1 Our Domestic Missions о ers will, in a majority of rases, impress | service to the world in the on the community its leading features, \hnlf of the Protestant form These impressions are a germ. The fu- , ity. Whether the original claj ture character of the people are a growth ' tinent, either from discOVJ from them. Every one of the old thir- 1 ment, be Catholic or Brutes' teen States hear yet the features of its • many Catholics or few shall nil this land colonial infancy. II belongs to our Do- ' their home, it is here that God is bring- , mesliv Missions lo impress on the infant , ing together, for the firstjftime in the j communities of the land, a character which * Christian era, the three potent elements will naei' fide away. ! of religion, intelligence, ana' freedom, to * * * * * * * | do their work on all the peojle of a great These missions asdst the prosperity and ‘ nation. Either the favourite' theory con- glory of our country, by hastening ike mu- coining the natural and appqnted relation tual assimilation of our people. We must 1 between freedom of conscience and pure have one standard of taste and moral*, j religion, is false, or wo mu^ expect that! We mn*t judge alike of the na'ure and , the gospel, effectually administered here, j 'll be no ii'eht matter for us to walk ' value of liberty, and of the. means of pre- j will yield the Protestant harms of Chris- и of our"early history; it will lw serving it. We must speak one language. ! tian faith and practice. The progress of Л bame to walk unworthy of it. : We mu»t have manners and customs a* ! the gospel in any country were the pop- ; ®s. ‘ ttJj sl|C|, ая ,io other nation j similar as our difference of climate and i ular mind is enlightened fijil lice, mu,t ! 11,1Л. , ' Qur manhood must corres- ] of occupations will allow. Wo rmi't j exclude all forms of worship and govern- 1 ■d to it' Our dereliction would bring have a common zeal for the universal ed- ( ment which tend to fetter :j»ther the un- , - orible reproach on Christianity. ] ucation of the people. All facilities must ' ilers tending or the couscie'nce. But in 1 character emblazoned in litcra-ibe created for mutual alliance from ас- 1 order to this, the free mincpjfof the people ■ пенсе and art, the traces of which ■ quaintance, interest, and love. All this | must be applied lo go‘peTi1rulh. Oiher- ver without some signal ratastro- 1 must be sought after with earnestness, • wise we shall have, not prjfbahlv Roman Г. "be obliterated from the world; with and on a large scale; fnr our country is j ism, but an ignorance of 6ji’ristianity and ' jijlir commerce, wealth, and power, 1 becoming afield fo'r the conflict, or the a perversion of it, and ^prostitution of. •stered'by illustrious Christian endow, j conciliation of all that is heterogeneous i our moral nature, not lestf criminal and; •it- anil ample for almost unlimited I in humanity on the face of the earth. ! pernicious than the mostjbenighled Ro- 1 «licence, we cannot hope that the dis- , Nothing but our Christianity can as-imi- 1 rnanism; and for this, American l’rotcs- , rceof our delinquency would ever be! late our people, and by no other means j tantism will be accountable. It is only ,!ч11еа. The republics of antiquity can our Christianity do this, than by our ■ through the agency of float Missions that , Without such reproach. It is rather a ; Home Missions. lour Protestantism can lie saved this re- i imlir that thev ever lived, than their ! As to the bearing of our Domestic Mis- : proach. It is only by t|tf, that we can recognizes giving as a matter of principle] wis?.” One tor к is w “h a Jho e die' and not mere impulse. It -perc'ieves the j tionary of words. " d duty which it enjoins, and lays plans to fulfil it, It is a giving which costs some¬ thing, and, therefore, is worth some¬ thing. "seL b’ivo> l,c »lwny* giving Who gives not, is nut living. liberality Rewarded. The giving of the Hebrews was made systematic by law. Under the new dis¬ pensation. it is committed to the volun¬ tary choice of Christ’s redeemed people. The Christian is left to groater freedom A poor shoemaker, who was only able of action, to show that his piety is not to earn a few shillings a week, regularly born of outward constraint, but is enri- 1 gave something to the cause of Christ • ncntly n principle Within, an internal dc- j and one day, being called upon by some vqtcdncsi of himself to his God and Sa- benevolent gentlemen, who were about to viour. Its external duties are fruits, and - - ' •• - - not seeds ; not planted to gain eternal life, but fruitful evidence, that eternal life is already his. So Paul, thanking the Phi institute a ragged school, he offered them w'liatwas.forlnma largo donation in aid ol the object. Surprised at such liberal¬ ity, they became interested in the man, lippian Christiana for their contribution “d questioned him as to his history! raised and sent to him, calls it “ an odour i Their conversation brought out the fact of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, j that a sum of ciglit 'hundred pounds had well pleasing to God ;” " not because I j been left to him, but was in the hands of desire a gilt," he says, " but I tlcsiro j a r‘ch man, from whom, as lie was unable fruit, I hat may abound to your account." ! lo "o to law, ho could not get it. Struck In this light, what significance is there j"11*1 ►totement, one of the gentle- in our givings to Christ’s cause, and how J 'venl *° doctors’ Commons, read the important that they be systematically ar- 1 , und lll3t *bo man’s tale was true, ranged for, in tiro circle of our religious | a’lJ ‘hereupon look such steps as led to duties. What evidence have we that wc j геспгегУ °f b'5 money; thus enabling have given ourselves lo him, unless we ! J'1* poor shoemaker to lire in comfort cordially and prayerfully give also of our j 111 , age. — London Juvenile Mission- means, bo they little or much, to extend "!l Magazine. his kingdom in the world ? Our Christian duties begin indeed wilh ourselves at quenen the !i»ht that is in us. Our mantling operation of the true law ol lib- 1 who differ fromus.- ИВД me name , «ij-.vtmH-bw-slAeri'ed-vfotevat-^AudJ.cttJb^ la.thit- view, .wc are .a wonder .to ota Protesfan Ца1'°п./Д^.Ьу.е. |o show, | ire'eibept in'oiir Ilbme Missions, cant the nations, and та? ^velt Eonf'WOnaet-tot thaWn*thtrtmly-fratiefi,>imT?r heaven a ■ . i . .■ i i 1 • ... .1 1 ! ' _ it 1 : -_ I . * r\C <l.n si'ai I 1 . ^ ||.a гл nm.M* nulirn vnlimmso iiil ч aj - 1 '|! «Г I Isd security a®am*t this" licgcneraVyr ourselves. Wc arc the light of the world, where the people enjoy entire religious Wont this scheme of carrying the lamp The rays of the sun of freedom which freedom, Protestantism is not tobeasso-i f life before the footsteps of our active have fillen on this land, are rcllecied wilh ciated with infidelity. If qur Home Mis- 1 ' migratin'' millions, how soon should ' great power on other nations, 'and though rions may, by Divine blessing, be our in- , Hti majoritv, strong, vicious, and few ol the nations seem fully picpaied n>: strument of aeeomphshing this, they j 'enough to give us the character, and 1 walk in the light, yet many arc now pul- 1 will perform an important office lor the, i'ignos to the doom of an “ungodlv . ting forth genuine signs of life. Woe to. world. • i iSioa," " 1 the world and ourselu'j, if we suffer our | We only remark further, that it is by Hr proportion of our country, subjtct, 1 liberty to outrun our religion; if we wake i these means, more than by any oilier, j hill destiny, lo the control of our Do- the people of tlie nations to a conscious- j that our country is io promote the glorp , •siic Missions give-, this eau-u an oeer- < ness of right and power, without corn -\ of God. She will thus become Hie. glory j I !< bung greatness in our view. Our | mending that righteousness by which 1 of the earth, and it will be known and; It will scatter as long as there is alone right and.power arc safe; if wo ap- 1 acknowledged in all the woilil as the, »n. They will live a> far asunder as ply to tin: picstnt susceptible generations handiwork of God It will bn seen that, hey can. Our "West” would have no ' of humanity, the cormssive compound of bis word_ is our_ light, that his laws are •estern boundary till it reached the I’a-' freedom and home, but they are not bounded there ; we arc lo befriend souls in the far West; we are lo spread the gospel in China, and gather infants to Jesus on the banks of the Indus; but this must be done by proxy— by stretching out our influence and Christian sympathies through our money, or other equivalent means, to the farthest bound of a fallen world. As this is a personal work, it commands itself with the same urgency to believing women and lo believing men, to children as well as to their fathers and mothers. Believing women, how is it with you? Do you arrange your expenses, spring and -winler.and summer, with, direct ref; crcnco to tills subject ? 'Perhaps silme of you may think you have so little to spend that the question is scarcely worthy of your regard. But giving much is not the Scriptural measure of obligation ; it is rather giving what you can. I was once told of a poor, aged, and inlirm Chris.lian, who used to give one cent to five differ- Liberality and Rovivak Jonathan Edwards, whose namo is in¬ separably connecled wilh some of the ear¬ liest and most extensive revivals of reli¬ gion on this continent, gives some striking thoughts in his " History of the Revival in New England,” upon the connection between deeds of liberality in benev¬ olent enterprise, and the outpouring of God’s Spirit in extensive awakenings.— Whatever may be thought the reason, it it is certain that wherever an extensive revival of „religion has occurred, it has been attendedNvilh air ‘aboundlfig:inrtM?i- duly. So we know it was with the great effusion of the Spirit, that began at Jeru¬ salem in the Apostles’ day. So in the re- malleable revival of religion in Saxony— which began by the labors of the famous wnouseu to give one cent to live Hitler- JVofosor Franck, and has spread its happy ent religious objects, making the sum of . ’ 1 j, , H- licentiousness. To prevent ! the foundation of our government, and that util woe, will be an invalu- ; his Spirit is the life of our religion. IV о :£«' and now that wc rule from ocean ; such shame a . . - - . — , . , . . . ’Mean, our people so abhor a vaeiium, ’ able service lo mankind. All we do lor j arc becoming a great ami mighty people, bt they instantly compass anil occupy , ourselves in this cause, wc do for the j Though wc sought nft conquest-', waged •bole. What but // vast and vigorous ; human race. Our Domestic Missions are , no wars, cherished no ambition for na- lire cents a year for her Christian chari¬ ties. When I first suggested it to her,” said her pa-lor, “ she could see no way of gelling live cent* ; but I told her to trust God for it. ft came, and never shall I forget the look of gratitude and joy which shone in her face as she handed it to me ; and now there is not a member of mv church that prays so for tho.-e ob- people shall abound in this duty in the !S. If airing follows Iim„ „Г ||.« irrml niltnniirtnffnf II, о Qnlrll influence into many parts of the world. The remarkable blessing that God gave to Mr. Whitcficld, and the great success with which he crowned him, may well be thought to be very much owing to his lay¬ ing out himself so abundantly in charita¬ ble designs. And it is foretold that God’s When we consider how 'lew of rely on Domestic Mission», our political ■ territory, climate, science, arts, commerce, ;ratory people liar e the di»po-itinn example will do the world more harm] law.», a’nd religion, foi us to exist w to . than good If tlm salt have !o-t its sa- ! have renown. If wc make our board of j'e ability to establish and maintain institutions for themselves, we ’ *nat the older and dcn-cr portions of /№ch have to do. Threo-lbuitlis of '*№ territoiy and population, io «tar within the bounds of truth, have ■ eady received, or have yet to receive, * «ginning of tlicir religious iiislitu- T11 1 .m,IS5ionary benefaction. The w activity of our increasing popu- , bves no habitable region unin- "... *l!b'n our bounds. Tlio people ‘e too far apart, and be too poor to LsCra in*li,utions of the gospel, U,j? .‘Г Ihey gain the numbers. Iii: in- vour, wherewith shall il besalled ? Wc are destined to serve all nations, ly In/iing many of their people to ourselves. The eyes of the pilgrim» of the world are towards our shoies. Thousands of the mople of God сото here from other Missions the angel flying in the midst of | our heaven, having the everlasting gospel ! to preach to all our people, wc ran re- ] garil ourselves as the people of God, and our land as the drvelling-plaee ol his glory. By blessing us, he will bless the I ‘"‘i Д«Ш1 UM? I |h. Ji'J- "»y u'ill lose the disposition. V, . ,. tasl extent of our new settle- > ^‘gospel must be planted by Do- le L f,,'v'i 'cry lerv, arc wchu! our whole Union, wlieie I,®, |0 ber missions, has not sonn- iiuj !г.Р'"яНс Missions, the Chris- ItoiJ,., "?c /l":i l/ic character and I.vj, , lflt future millions of this 1 2 Even by parent ' I,IC ministry in small IbV", ’ .stall0nary in numbers and i*P*adeni ,П0 *“*Pec»i,,S to become in- J'ifion.! 'c °,are act,n" Гог coming gen-' TOt’tnhYf" rnav be I'iitveli i doubtless most Genc- B'V Z. ' С?„.Ч,»У be expected to he- fl.r il.;. e Wl|hng to exert themselves fr;aie 0r n,"n. ^pport, and v.ilhout in- I'ttcl ««be» or ability, may be ex- I I f._, , 0 fu»tair, tlicm»elvcs. But 4 indeHr;i Vе t,,cir self-eiintaining pc- ‘«tot pit e’rf «““to; They are a per- of the missionary field. It lamia, tir lighten llieir temporal burdens, j world, and all the ends of the earth shall acd breathe the air of spiritual health. ] fear him. . Thousand» of nominal Protestants, with] These are only hints of the. views little piety and with none, come hither 1 which must often uri-c on this subject, lo to seek a worldly poition. To these \vp 1 the intelligent Christians of our country, have the privilege of tendering the living j They have great force for the people of word, by the hand of our missions. Thou- ■ «w communion. If ever we had a rail our communion. If ever we had a from God, we have now, for a vast and speedy enlargement of our Domestic Mis¬ sions. Men arc wanted; men picparcd and willing to serve Christ in the minis- ......... I try, wherever a place can be found. We should hid them Means of support are wanted. Our scale share of our her- ! of income and di-bursement mii-t be sand* of Catholics come hither, under a wise direction, ami for gracious purpose»., which they themselves never think of, but the remembrance of which must guide ih ill our reception and ticatrnenl of those people welcome ; give them a jeets as she does." It givin_ prayer, it is quite ceitain prayer will fol¬ low the gift, and who can tell rvliat a blessing it can bring with it ? Systematic giving mu-t, in a great measuie, come from saving. Lavish liv¬ ing. thoughtless purchases, sclfi'h indul¬ gences, must iicces-arily limit the purse for religious charities. Now, where can we retrench ? What purchase, what new stylo can wc forego, lor Christ’s sake. r We need spend no time in vainly wishing for more to do with, or cheat ourselves out of present duty by imagining what could be done under more favouring cir¬ cumstances, but may graduate what we time of the great outpouringof the Spirit, which shall be in the latter days; the Vile person shall no more be called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful. " But the liberal dbvbcth liberal things, and by lib¬ eral tiling» shall he stand." Indeed, Edwards dwells on this idea at length, as one of groat importance. He says, “ We seem, as yet, to have but little notion of the duty as taught in the New Testament.” Further, " So far аз I can judge by the Scripture, there is no exter¬ nal duty whatever, by which persons will itago of freedom. It is not ours to mo¬ nopolize. It is ours to offer to them. It belongs to all men. Wo cannot shut out the oppressed of greatly extended. Means mu«t be pro¬ vided to support rneii of suitable qualifi¬ cations, to superintend the operations in various sections of our great field. Means till? 0|>pn?!1.v tu ui other lands, who arc -w - - - . ,. drawn hither by the fame of nur freedom .must be had to support di-lant anu e m- and happiness, but must give them a cient missions, on a scale o! expenditure place, so long as they find their advan- 1 equal to that of some of our most expen- tage in coming. Even though we had sivc Foreign Mi-sions. And means must have lo give by this strictly personal ques- ' be so much in the way, not only of receiv- lion, “If I have been bought with a 'ing temporal benefits, but also spiritual price, and redeemed from sin and death ! blessings— lire influence of God’s Holy by the blood of the Son ol God, limv j g|,jrjj.„ We know that Ihe Scriptures are full of this idea. The fact which God has cho¬ sen, is represented to be, "to deal (hy bread to tlie hungry," And the reward of doing it is thus described:. “Then shall thy light break forth ns the morning, and thy health shall spring forth speedily, and thy righlcou-nl'ss shall go before thee, and blood of the Son uinch shall I give,— rather, how much shall I not give, to make known redeem¬ ing love to others !"—.'/jaeiican Mes¬ senger. Doiit" i-; Lettc-r titan Saying. less ambition to multiply, wc have other and higher reasons against cxclu-iveness ; and while our statesmen, for their rea¬ sons, are not exclusive in their laws, how much less shall Christian», for their nobler reasons, be exclusive in their feelings? We must learn not to dread the tow of Romish corruption am! infirmity, into our ocean of purity and health. If Roman¬ ism can fiourish in the atmo»phere of spiritual truth and freedom, with which, be at hand, to give the labourer a suitable reward ; for no American Christian, wor¬ thy of the name, can a»k or allow In» brother lo forego tlie ordinary comforts i оГ life, in order to serve the church in the Christian ministry. I low much to Give. To give svsUmalically. is ,0 g‘vc 'a'E'" ligeptly, fo'r system pre supposes fere- Д firmer in a country circuit had a mi-.sion.iry meeting in his house. The . - , meeting was good, tlie collection liberal 1 the glory of Ihe Lord shall bo thy reward, for tluMiumbcrs ; but some who had been Then shall thou call and Iho Lord shall expected from the maiket-town were ab- ! anawcr." Assurance of hope is made to sent. The following market day, the fir- bfi l)ie resu|tof beneficence, rin this" Love mcr’-s son met one of the absentees who ncilher in (ongue but in dced made an apology for Ins absence, and at “ , , ,, . thesamo time took a two-shilling piece, and m truth; and hereby, we know that from his pricket and said, " May be it won’t he too late to put that to the col¬ lection1." The young farmer thanked him, and went on, He scon met another who had also hern expected, and he, too, began lo express his regret, and was go¬ ing to make a long apology; but bis friend stopped him with, "Look ye here, lad, I have an apology worth two of thine, -see,” and he held • up the two- shilling piece. “That is it, и it? said we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him." ’ God rewarded Abraham's deeds of char¬ ily with rich discoveries of himself, when ho spent so much, and risked bis life fo redeem Lot and his people from caplivjly, and refused all reward, and bestowed Ihe * spoils taken upon the sufferers. "After' these, things the word of the Lord came