Foreign Mission Journal
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RICHMOND, VA., FEBRUARY, 1882.
No. 11.— Whole No. 143.
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FOREIGN MISSION BOARD
OF THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION,
Locatxd at RICHMOND. VIltOINlA.
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AUDITOR— JOSEPH
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Board or Manaoxhn.—J. II. Hawthome,.T. H. Watkins, H.
K. Ellyson, W. E. Hatcher, E. Wortham, Henry McDonald,
W.Qoddln, H. H. Harris, J. Pollard, Jr., J. W. Jones,
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Olopton.
DEPARTURE AND ARRIVAL OE’ MIS-
SIONAUIEU,
On the 3ist of December, Rev. W. S. Walker
and Rev. C. W. Pruitt, our missionaries respective¬
ly to Shanghai and Tung Chow, China, sailed
from San Francisco in the steamer Oceanica.
While in San Francisco they were hospitably en¬
tertained by Rev J. B. Hartwell, D. D., and wife.
Ofthese missionaries of tiie Home Board, and Mrs.
Sanford, associated with them in the mission to
the Chinese of California, Bro. Walker, before
sailing, wrote: "They arc all enthusiastic in the
work; they are at the mission every night in the
week." Brother Pruitt wrote: “ We are spending
the time most pleasantly with Dr. Hartwell and
his excellent family. I went with them to the
mission-school last night, and brother Walker has
gone to-night. So we are already missionaries.
Hoiv one’s heart does burn within him when lie
looks upon these thousands of Chinese I"
Rev. R. H. Graves, D. D., and wife, and Rev.
N. W. Halcomb, have arrived safely in China, the
former reaching Canton on the 24th of November,
and the latter Shanghai on the 26th of that month.
Brother Halcomb writes from Shanghai : “ I am
here, enjoying the hospitality of Dr. Yates’ de¬
lightful home. The Doctor is confined to his
room by his special trouble ; but his general
health is good/’
We have heard of brother Halcomb’s probable
»rrival at his station in Tung Chow.
Our Missionary, Mrs. T. P. Crawford, readied
Richmond, Va., on the 13th of January, 1882— an
event worthy of being recorded. Great good to
our cause— especially to woman’s work for the
heathen— is anticipated from the visit of this noble
woman to our country.
Her address will be : Woman’s Hospital, cor-
ner 50th street and Fourth Avenue, New York city.
OUR MISSIONARIES TO BRAZIL.
COMMENDATION.
On the 3rd of January, 18.82, Rev. Zachary Clay
Taylor was accepted by our Board, as a Mission¬
ary to Brazil. Brother Taylor, as well as his
wife, nee Kate Stevens Crawford, was highly
commended by prominent individuals of Texas,
and by the State Convention and General Asso¬
ciation of that State, who pledge themselves for
their support. Among others, Dr. Wm. Carey
Crane, President of Baylor College, wrote of Bro.
Taylor:
“ No man ever stood higher in Independence as
a man, a Christian, a student for the ministry, and
n minister of the gospel, for sterling qualities of
head and heart. Consistent, persevering, pains¬
taking, studious, devoted. 1 regard him as sin¬
gularly adopted to a mission in a foreign country.
Independence and Texas will follow him with
prayers and contributions.”
This letter was signed also as follows: "John
Hill Luther;
С.
C. Chaplin, President State Con¬
vention of Texas; Geo. W. Baines, Pastor Baptist
Church, Salado, Texas; M. V. Smith, Pastor Bap¬
tist Church, Belton.’’
ON THE WAY.
Mouth of Chesapeake Bav, \
January 12th, 12 a. m.,
1882./
Dear Dr. Tapper— We send you sketches of our
lives, prepared in haste, which we hope will an¬
swer your purpose. We left Baltimore yesterday
12 m. The weather is fine and weare happy that we
are on our way. Messrs. E. Levering & Co. showed
us the greatest kindness. We feel under many
obligations to them. We are well pleased with
our vessel— the bark Sirene. It is large and we
are comfortable. This will be conveyed back by
the pilot. We commit ourselves to God. Pros¬
perity to the Board in its earnest efforts for the
salvation of the world.
Yours obediently,
Z.
С.
Taylor.
ARTO BIOGRAPHIES. '
'The sketches of their lives referred to above,
which are very full and interesting, will appear in
the next issue of the journal.
WOMAN’S WORK
IN ANCIENT TIMES.
The first missionary organization under the
gospel was composed of several pious women,
who banded together for the support of our
Saviour as lie went up and down Palestine, preach¬
ing that the kingdom of heaven was at hand.
Priscilla and Aquila, who taught the eloquent
Apollos more perfectly the way of the Lord, was
a society in themselves, and suggested that mis¬
sionary work of man and woman might be carried
on conjointly. The same suggestion is given in
the 1 6th chapter of Romans, where Paul makes
mention of some thirty fellow-workers, of whom
a large number were women. And ever since
the days of Christ and the great Apostle to the
Gentiles, Christian women have been more or
less interested in spreading the news of salvation
by the son of the Virgin Mary. In the earliest
days of the missionary revival of modern times,
mite-societies and woman-societies were common ;
and the contributions of these societies of our
grand and great-grand mothers were sometimes
extraordinarily liberal.
RECENT AWAKENING.
In the past ten years our Baptist women of
America have been greatly aroused on the sub¬
ject of Foreign Missions. Under the influence of
the appeals of Mrs. Carpenter, of Burmah, eleven
ladies of the Baptist church in Newton Centre,
Mass., met February 28th, 1871, " lor the purpose
of forming a Woman’s Missionary Society for the
benefit of women in heathen lands, to act through
and in connectibn with the American Baptist Mis¬
sionary Union." A circular was “sent to every
pastor of Boston, Nortli and South Associations,”
and " many of the pastors' wives and other ladies
in and near Boston were visited and consulted in
regard to the proposed movement.” On the 3rd
of April, 1871, about two hundred ladies met in
the vestry of the Clarendon Street church, and
the Woman’s Baptist Missionary Society was or¬
ganized on a Constitution previously prepared.
The Executive Committee of the Missionary
Union presented a paper with some principles for
the harmonious co-operation of themselves and
this Society, whicli were adopted and have ever
since been acted upon by the Society. “This
paper suggested that the Woman’s Society leave
the direct appointment and distribution of
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laborers, the fixing of salaries, and the direction
of their work in foreign fields, where it now is —
in the hands of this committee ; adopting for itself
the no less important task of awakening by suita¬
ble means a missionary spirit in the women of our
churches and inducing them to contribute regu¬
larly to its treasury for the support of female (and
other) laborers in the foreign field, who seek
especially the religious, the mental, and the social
elevation of woman." In this society there is an
annual membership by the payment of $1, and a
life membership by the payment of $25. At first
the Missionary Union gave this society one-half
of the Macedonian as their organ, the society
paying one-half of the expense of publication.
Afterward, in 1877, the Union turned over to the
society the whole of The Helping Hand, the
Union having as their organ the Missionary
Magazine. The first year the society secured 141
auxiliaries; 146 life $netnbers; and $9,172.63.
They supported six missionaries. In the second
year a lady in each association was appointed to
present the cause to every church and assist in
forming and conducting circles. Their report of
1S78 says: “We have reason to thank our
Heavenly Guide for showing us this way to ex¬
tend our work.” That year $20,158.67 were raised.
In the third year the following was voted ; “That
while we bid a hearty God-speed to every good
object, and are glad to share in the work of the
Home Mission Society, we do not think it wise
in the church circles composing our society to
combine home-work and foreign, but recommend
to our circles the special effort needed to carry
out the object of the society, ns stated in the Con¬
stitution of the auxiliaries." That year tiie society
collected $26,061.52. The fourtli year $29,609.89
were raised. The fifth year $33,260,69. The sixth
year $35.925.00. In the seventh year, the society
reported 25 missionaries, 37 schools, 1,000 auxilia¬
ries and bands, 1,170 life-members, and $39,260.43.
In the tenth year, 1881, they report 40 missiona ries
