FOREIGN MISSION JOURNAL.
Published Monthly by the Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention.
“ALL POWER IS GIVEN UNTO ME IN HEAVEN AND IN EARTH. GO YE, THEREFORE, AND TEACH ALL NATIONS»
Vol. 16— New Series.
RICHMOND. VA„ JANUARY, 1885.
No. 6.— Whole No., 198.
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Address. FOREIGN MISSION JOURNAL.
Richmond, Va.
FOREIGN MISSION BOARD
OF THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION,
Located AT RICHMOND, VIHOINIA.
1’nzsiDiotT— J. I.. M. GURRY.
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Hichmond. Fa.
tarOtiK Hates are plainly printed in
every number, and are put just as low as we
think compatible with the necessary cost of
publication. To ask further reduction in
any case is in effect asking us to furnish tile
paper nt less titan cost; in other words to
fall hack with a deficit on tile treasury of tile
hoard, to which we cannot consent. And
yet hardly a week passes hut we get a letter
enclosing, it maybe #1, and four separate
names, instead of tiirce, or some other simi¬
lar proposition, which vexes the soul of the
good brother who keeps the account and
mailing books, and leads to an unnecessary
correspondence. Please notice the terms
anti conform to them strictly, as we also
shall try to do.
1887*.
In entering the threshold of a new year,
we naturally look forward and seek to fore¬
cast tlie future. What will these twelve
months, as they shall roll rapidly around,
bring fortli ? To some they will be laden
with sorrows, which shall hurst thick and
fast upon unsheltered heads; to some they
will be freighted with joys, lighting their
pathway to higher ntid better things. How
comforting the thought that Jehovah reigns;
that, come what may, his purposes will work
themselves out, and that "Thou wilt keep
him in perfect peace, whose heart is stayed
on thee."
Tlie future of individuals is hid by an ab¬
solutely impenetrable network of possible
incidents and accidents. The drift of masses
of men, nations and peoples, can he .more
easily discerned. Looking at these, one
may say that tlie year promises to be event¬
ful. In tlie United States we are soon to try
a change of executive administration, from
one political party to another— it will very
certainly not tiring all the benefits its advo¬
cates have hoped, nor. all tlie ills its oppo¬
nents have feared, yet it will cause more or
less of movement and change from Maine
to Texas. The Southern States will look on
with peculiar interest, and watch for the out¬
come. In Europe there are signs of popu¬
lar commotion. There is restlessness every¬
where, and especially in England and Ger¬
many ami Russia. Tlie foundations of so¬
ciety seem to he tunnelled and charged
with explosives more powerful than dyna¬
mite, and more dangerous, since they de¬
stroy both soul and body. In western Asia
the Czar is pressing southward and east¬
ward, and the Sultan is more and more con¬
strained. On tlie eastern coast tlie barbar¬
ous war between 1'rancu and China, sus¬
pended now fnr winter, is likely to be re¬
newed with increased ferocity. In northern
Africa tlie war against the false prophet still
drags along with uncertain issue. To tlie
central southern part, tlie magnificent valley
of tlie Congo, with its 5,000 miles of naviga¬
ble water, the eyes of all Christendom are
turning.
We may surely anticipate that 1685 will lie
an eventful year, and that many of its events
will have a direct bearing upon the spread of
tlie gospel. All of them ought to appeal in
tones as of thunder to every Christian to
give to his perishing feliowmen tlie only
solace for tlie ills of a sinful world, tlie
only satisfaction for its restless cravings, tlie
only peace which can be lasting.
Southern baptists ought to do more tin's
year than they have ever done before to sus¬
tain tlie faithful preaching of a pure gospel
in their own homes and churches; to send it
to their kinsmen and fellow-citizens through
their established agencies for State and
Home missions, and to hold up tlie hands
of their Foreign Hoard, not only in sustain
lug the few already laboring among tlie
heathen, but in sending them prompt and
liberal reinforcements. If we are to do a
year's work, it behooves us to begin it at
once.
Tlie Journal may be expected this year
to follow on in tlie quiet path it lias hitherto
pursued. Letters from tlie field will be the
chief attraction in its columns. It is pro¬
posed also to give in successive numbers
brief sketches of each of our missions.
Some other improvements we hope to intro¬
duce, but cannot now definitely promise.
For one of them we must rely on our sub¬
scribers— that is, an enlarged circulation.
Many subscriptions expire this month. In
renewing at the reduced rates now offered,
please be prompt, and try to get some others
to join you, so that the Journal may con¬
tinue to lie self-supporting.
"The future of the Journal,” we wrote
not quite a year ago, "is assured." Then
there was some talk of an effort to suspend
its publication. Hut from all over tlie land
came numerous protests in tlie shape of re¬
newals and new subscribers. A little con¬
certed cfTort added largely to our list and
encouraged us to reduce tlie price. A dif¬
ferent sort of danger threatens now. We
can but fear that success will be tlie occa¬
sion of lukewarmness to some who stood by
us in our struggles— they will think tlie
paper can get along without their help — and
some, perhaps, will not appreciate it so
highly, since tlie cost is reduced.
Read in connection the letters of brethren
Yates and Unimex, ponder on the picture
they present, of their loneliness amidst tlie
millions in Central China, and olfer one
earnest prayer for more laborers. Two
young men that we know of are expecting
before long to join tlie Shanghai Mission.
Who else will volunteer for an expedition
into tlie very heart and centre of heathenism ?
The Livingstone Inland Mission, of which
we spoke last month, as turned over to our
brethren in Iioston, lias two steamers, one
below, tlie other above the falls. Our Eng¬
lish brethren have a similar equipment and
nearly as many laborers on the waters of tiie
same stream. They call theirs tlie " Congo
Mission."
STATE OF THE TREASURY.
We have several times of late congratu
iateil tlie brethren on tlie increase of contri¬
butions. Unfortunately the ratio has not
been maintained during tlie last six or eight
weeks. We find that a comparison with tlie
figures of a year ago shows an advance of
only a little over #2,000, and that is due to
tlie special collections made by brother
Powell and reported in the July number of
tlie Journal.
For tlie sake of comparison we put below
in parallel columns tlie sums asked from the
several States for tlie current year, and the
nggregate of amounts contributed in the
eight months already elapsed. A subtraction
of the second from tlie first will show how
much the Board still needs to carry out its
enlarged operations and come to tlie end of
tlie financial year without embarrassment.
Asked.
Reccitcd.
West Virginia .
. # 500
# 105 10
Florida .
. 590
372 75
Arkansas .
. 1 ,000
474 40
Louisiana .
. 1,000
545 40
Maryland .
1,750 27
Alabama .
1,375 SS
Tennessee .
. 5,000
1,509 IS
Mississippi .
. S,000
2,100 37
Xortli Carolina....
. 8,000
2,930 7S
Missouri . .
3/202
03
Texas .
. sjooo
4^090 85
South Carolina .
4,793 62
Georgia .
3,471 95
Kentucky .
. 12,500
4,338 17
Virginia .
5,151 91
Ollier sources .
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323 C3
#100,000 #30,009 4
In reference to these figures it is proper to
say tiiat tlie amount asked from some of tlie
States, as e. g. Texas and Soutli Carolina_
is smaller Ilian the brethren there ought to
or will be satisfied to raise. In some others,
as perhaps in Georgia, it is larger than we
can hope to realize.
Tlie contributions of last yearfrom January
1st to April 30th were over #15,000. For the
same period this year we need over $00,000,
and this we expect to receive before the
meeting of tlie Convention. The largest re¬
mittances are commonly sent just as the year
closes. If some of them could be forwarded
earlier, it would be better. Tlie need is
pressing. A dollar sent on now is worth
more than tlie same amount tlie last of April.
Attention lias been called by Dr. Yates in
letters to tlie Board, and by Dr. Ashmore, in
tlie Examiner, to flagrant violations of
solemn treaties in tlie recent persecution of
Chinese Christians. The treaties it seems
provided for tlie recognition of Christianity
as a moral religion, and guaranteed for its
adherents, whether native or foreign,
freedom from molestation, as iong as they
were good citizens. We fear, however, that
any remonstrance on tlie part of tlie U. S.
would he greatly weakened by tlie "anti-
Chinese ” legislation of a few years past.
"KIND WORDS."
We have had severaHetters suggesting the
consolidation of tlie Foreign Mission Journal
with tlie excellent children's paper, published
at Macon, Ga. They come, of course, from
persons in no wise connected with either
paper. We appreciate tlie compliment of
being thought worthy to associate with our
esteemed brother Boykin, llemakesa first-
class paper for tlie little folks, and sprinkles
through it a deal of foreign missionary news —
this is well. We try to make a paper for the
grown people and sprinkle through it some
seasoning for younger readers. A good
reaping machine will cut any grass or flow¬
ers in its path as well as grain.
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good
mower will take down heads of wheat as
well as grass. But a combined reaper and
mower is not a fust-class implement forcither
purpose. We therefore thank tlie good,
brethren for their kind thoughts and beg-
them to help us fill tlie grand sphere for
which the Journal is intended, and at the
same time help our brother to scatter his
"kind words " through every Baptist Sunday-,
school and family in all the land.
OUR QUESTION BOX.
FURTHER AnOUT TIIE TEI.UGUS.
La Fayette, Ala., Dec. 0, 1SS4.
I notice in answer to questions about tlie
Telugu missions, no reply is furnished as to
tlie number baptized in any one day. Tlie
largest number in one day was 2,222, but I
do not remember tlie day in August that it
occurred.
Truly yours,
Geo. E. Brewer»
the first modern missionary.
Was William Carey the first modern foreign
missionary ? I’lease answer in full.
This must be answered according to the
precise import of tlie phrase " first modern,
foreign missionary." If tlie querist wishes
to ask whether Mr. Carey was tlie first, wiio
in these modern times was sent out to carry
tlie gospel to heathen people, we say, un¬
questionably, no.
The Jesuits or Society of Jesus was es¬
tablished by papal bull in 1510, and tlie next
year sent one of its founders, Francis Xavier,
to the East Indies, where by ten years of un¬
precedented labor and success, lie won the
name of “ Apostle of India ” and tlie honor
of canonization as a martyr. The mission¬
ary labors of this order have been in their
way among tlie most notable of modem
times and are stilled continued— tlie last esti¬
mate we have seen puts their present force
in foreign lands at over 700 men. But it may¬
be said that these men are sent to preach,
not the gospel, but Romanism. There were
however, at least three organizations, ante¬
dating the time of Carey, which devoted
their efforts in part at least to foreign mis¬
sions. These were the "Society for the
Propagation of the gospel in foreign Parts,’*
(organized 1701,) the Moravian church, (1732,)
and tlie Wesleyan Society, (1709.) To the
period preceding Carey, belong the illustrious
names of Ziegenbalg and Schwartz in India,
Vanderkemp in Soutli Africa, Eliot, Brainerd
and Zeisberger, among tlie aborigines of
America.
But if the querist wishes to ask whether
tlie sending out of William Carey in 1792-3
was the beginning of that intelligent, earnest
and wide-spread interest in tlie cause, which
is sometimes called the “modern missionary-
movement,” we answer confidently, yes.
Tlie Jesuit Missions, as already indicated,
are quite different both in aim and in
methods from Protestant Missions. Tlie so¬
cieties above mentioned were working al¬
most exclusively in the foreign colonies of
European nations. Whether for this reason,
or because of comparative obscurity, or most
probably because the Christian world was
not yet ready for a geneial advance, they
seem to have exerted but little influence out¬
side of their own small circle.; while the or¬
ganization effected at Kettering in 1792 and
tlie mission of Mr. Carey, began a great
awakening of Christians to a sense of their
obligation to tlie heathen, and was followed
in rapid succession by the London Society,
(1795,) tlie Scotch, (1700,) the Netherlands,
(1797,) Church of England, (1799.) and then
by tlie great Bible Societies and tlie hundreds
of other organizations which are to-day at
work in heathen lands. We shall therefore
consider it appropriate for all English speak¬
ing Christians, eminently so for Baptists, la
observe tlie year 1892 as tlie centennial of
modern missions.
