Foreign Mission Journal, February 1888

-en — <.-i «л'»'1 Foreign Mission Journal. PUIlTilSlIRI) MONTHLY ltY 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.” You. 19 — New Series. RICHMOND, VA., FEBRUARY. xSSS. No. 7 — Whoi.e No. 235 [EntereU at the Poit-Otnce at rilchmonil, Va„ n* second-class matter.] liro. Eager, and a heavy burden it has proved. This, following vpon the service THE LONDON WORLD’S CONVENTION. It is an open secret that a joint Com- ЕлШИРМ M ICCIAM IauDM л t ° 1 1B 5 ears that had gone bcfure, rendered j niltlee, representing the evangelical foreign I ORbiGN MISSION JOURNAL. Ia season of rest a necessity, if we would i missionary boards and s RATES PER ANNUM: I. Гог vapors *epnmtely a»l dreaded, either to same or to different |urs»t оШсея : О no copy . ЯЛ eti, Three copies @ + 1, or . . . ЯЗЦ eta. apiece. societies of Europe and America, have had several meetings, in the past two months, in the city of New York,, to prepare a programme for a world’s missionary convention, to be held next spring in London, England, It will be re- I membered that in 1S60, and again in 1S7S, Rev. J. M. Joiner and family are in Texas, similar meetings were held with great ad- and have no hope of ever being able to re- j vantage to the cause of missions. The not have one of our best workers break 1 down completely. To prevent this the Hoard said to liro. Eager, “come home.” j Many friends welcome him. After a sea- ! soil of rest Hro. Eager expects to return to , Rome, И. Гог ivicknpce sent to one person, who slmll be resjKJUHlhlp for their dMilbutlon : Four copies for. ♦!, or more Щ . ...2f*cts. apiece. . — , . , , . ... . i — - - - - . — — — - Twenty-live copi.-sfor+n or more at . 20c is. apiece. ; lo Uniia, lo which they line! hoped to | facts presented and collected, with regard On. Hundred coi.lv. for fie, or more nt . . tact. .piece ! Kivo their lives. Hro. Joiner struggled hard to the needs of the nations and the work tenJ п''и«.АГпми1^о\|!уП|^^^0о>1п'т<ьуоТ,мпу'с1и'нс’. ! aKa'"St what every one about him saw was ! done among them, by evangelical missions, In inlilrsyl (lira m'/ai «Г I,!. /*|| г г • 1 . In mldree*. Л (litres*, FOREIGN MISSION IOURNAL, die necessity of Ins leaving l.is field. Had j was a revelation to many, and gave great ADVERTISING RATES. Richmond, 'va. ' 'lu re,na'l|ed tliere till now, he would in all ■ stimulus to the cause, the world over. In , probability have been lying beside Dnvault j view of the wonderful progress of missions , m Ins grave at Cliefoo. Ecw. if any, of us I in the last decade, members of the foreign j can realize the pain that a missionary feels ! missionary societies of England met in j at having to give up the work to which lie.) the House of the British and Foreign Bible 1 had devoted his life. If we dill, we would Society in Eondou on the 14th of Decem- j sympathize with them ns with those who Have passed through a great tribulation. ! liro. Joiner's physicians have advised him to engage in manual labor and let his 1 brain have rest, and lie will settle for a FOREIGN MISSION BOARD ! lime 0,1 a farm 1,1 tlle Panhandle of Texas, j preaching as be may be able. May Hie ; choicest blessings of our God he upon him SI'AOK. 1 Month. 3 Months 0 Months 12 Month* On»* Inch . 1 25 2 4(1 Я 4Г, 0 41 0 50 12 DO 12 00 22 DO Three IncliPi . Quarter column... llltU column . One column . . 3 60 4 7Г> 9 25 16 (Ю 9 20 1Я 00 2D 25 Ш 00 18 00 2D 00 46 00 92 50 82 00 40 (hi 00 on 178 (Ml OF THE 80UTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION. r.OCXTiD AT RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, her, iSS6, and after prayerful considera¬ tion resolved to take steps to secure another world's missionary meetingin iSSS. Tlie object of the meeting “is to stimulate and encourage all evangelistic agencies, in pressing forward, in obedience to the last command of the risen Saviour, * Go ye, therefore, and make disciples of nil на- Гп ksidbnt U. Harris. I’ll K8t dentp.--.J o*hua a I.pverlnc, Mil., (J. \V. , Trnnkle» T,a.. J. T4. Hunowei Va.. N. A. Hailey, Fla., ' ’ . . ” ‘ and his. He was doing a good work in tions,’ especially in those vast regions of China. Who will take it up and carry it on to completion? We hope that wherever our missionaries may go, they will he received in tile spirit W.T., Wright, N.O., (1 F.t'logby, ICy„ J.J. hi lien, .... .. ... . . . . troe, Aiubumu. Л. I' Gieene, Mo., U. II. Carroll, | r .„i u. «1. c- Te«04, W. H.1CU Patrick, qa.,Ohas. Marilyns. «., j °r thc resolution adopted by the South . . . ' ” " " Carolina Convention at its late meeting: "We shall ever welcome our returned J. M.- Sonirr, Trim.. J. It. Wtiltllrld Mire, W. F. Attklsson Seurc}', _A rk., George . Va. Оопшшчжш.чпНкепктлку— H. A. TUI’PEJt. Tmueviimi-J. O. WILLIAMS. IlSM'OltDINII Sncri KTAnY — A. II, CLAItKIi. ACDITOII-II. O. HURNEIT. missionaries to our Convention, to clitirclies and to our homes.” Hoard nr M.NAOKns —II. K. Ellyson, .1. 4. win- «Wu. О. II Winston. W. E. Hatcher, .Г. Pollard, ,Tr„ S (I. О • pun. >. 11. Ilnt.nn, W. t). Thomas, W W. Landrum, W ,T. Shlpmnn. Geo Cooper. О II. It viand. It. C. Burneti, T. P Mathews, It. II, I’ltl. T. P. Hell. 0£i~AU communications in reference to the , business of this Hoard should be addressedlo | °u*’ beautiful res.gnatlon to the will of 1 God under trying and painful circunt- the heathen world in which the people are still 'sitting in darkness and in the shadow of death, without a preached gospel, or even without the written ‘word of God.”' To accomplish this purpose it was pro¬ posed to take advantage of the experience of the last hundred years of Protestant our 1 missions, in the light of God's word, by ; gathering together Christians of all evan- I gelical denominations engaged in mis¬ sionary labors throughout the world “to confer with one another on those many amples of self-sacrifice fo, the good of hu- 1 »»Por‘»»‘ a"d deli'a" questions which inanity, self-consecration to the service of “'e pr°.BresS °J c,v.,,,“"on and "e >»»*» 1 expansion of missionary work have A NOBLE EXAMPLE, The history of missions is one full of ex- 1 H. A. Turrnit, Corresponding Secretary, Richmond, Va. ! which men shrink wjth dread and horror, - - - = - i heroism insufieringand in doing. And these CHEERING PROSPECTS, I are found not only in the missionaries in For several months past the Hoard has | Hie field, but often in the supporters of mis- been calling for trained men to reinforce | *ions nt home. These examples are so mi brought into prominence, with the view of developing the agencies employed for the spread of the gospel of the grace of God.” There are in the foreign mission fields of tlie world, tlie laborers of one hundred and fifty general missionary organizations. A representation of forty-eight of these j bodies, located in England, Scotland and some of our most needy missions. We are | merous that the recital of them comes to ' , ™ ve" ^огкгепгеГп.я.Гт glad to be able to state, for the encourage- 1 many ns an old story, full of monotony. | “«•‘of our readers, that these calls have j Vet every now and then our eyes fall on L of ,Ws After frce eXcl,nnge not been uiibceded, and we hope very soon some statement from the home or foreign f . between the rnntineme to he able to announce .be appointment of field that stirs onr hearts and uplifts us, as j ‘ Atf'Tfc » пГ rZlT.™ ' some choice men God is evidently moving 1 every example of true sacrifice or true con- 1 ,cd "V , Atlantic, я programme has been some choice men. coo is ev шепчу moving > ' j perfected. There are eleven great subjects, upon tlie hearts of a number of well trained , secretion does. Glancing over tlie Missionary Ilcrald, the The London Convention will be held in Exeter Hall, between the 9th and 19th days of June next. Ten thousand dollars has been already provided in London to meet the expenses. Special request is made by tlie committees in England and America that during tlie two weeks preceding that time, ns well as during tlie ten days of tlie convention, all the evangelical churches and missions of tlie world shall pray for God's blessing upon tlie deliberations of tlie meeting and upon the work of mis¬ sions throughout the world. No lover of tlie great cause can be indifferent to this request; and tlie ardent friends of mis¬ sions hope that tin's grand gathering in tlie world's metropolis may be the dawn of a new epoch in tlie history of tlie world's redemption. Will the press and tlie pulpit voice tills call until every church and mis¬ sion station in the world shall hear tlie appeal to come up to the help of the Lord— the help of tlie Lord against tlie mighty? The committee of the United States adds: “In order to promote the above named purposes, tlie committee recommend that inter-denominational foreign missionary meetings be held after January 1st, at such times and places as may seem best.” "It is believed that in many of the cities and larger towns Union Missionary meet¬ ings might be held which should be largely attended by Protestant Christians of every name, and that thereby the spirit of union, as well ns tile advance of the great work of the world's conversion would be greatly promoted.” Are not these “ inter-denomi¬ national foreign missionary meetings " practicable? Will not the friends of for¬ eign missions in Virginia and in all our Stoles, North and South, begin to move in this matter? Let us start right iiere. What say tlie missionary men and women of Richmond ? Would it be suitable for the Christian alliance to take up this matter? Or, shall the churches, in their individual capacity, bring it about by conference among themselves? We have no theory on the subject ; we only want tlie proposed prayer instituted for tlie blessing to come from it, May it not be that tills is tlie wuy for tlie clitirclies to be themselves most blessed ? Andrew Fuller said that so soon as his people began to think and pray about tlie hbatlien they were themselves powerful ly revi ved. — Religions Herald. Helds of foreign fields. The equipping o( sending them to their respective labor, must come out of moneys brforo'tlic Convention meets, for nftor tlio meeting, tlie income of tlio Board Is so small as hardly to meet current expense?. For the year ending April 30th, tlio whole of tlio $100,000 asked by tlie Boat'd ought, to iiavo boon paid into the treasury. Less than tills will not meet the demands of tlie ease. Before closing tills statement It may bo well to add a word ns to what lias boon 1I0110 towards raising tills $100,000. Jiy a refer¬ ence to f ho last page of tlio Journal It will lie seen that from nil sources tho receipts to January 10th have been $10,000.10. This leaves $53,001.00 to bo raised between tills date mid April 30th. Can It bo done? Easily. Will it bo done? I.ct tlio brethren answer. Let cacli one of us help to answer, “Yes.” organ of the English Baptist Missionary Society, we came across one of these exam¬ ples, which we felt was well worth giving to onr readers. Among a number of mis¬ sionaries of tliis Society who have died on tlio Congo field was a young man, Rev. II. young men, moving them to lay themselves living sacrifices on his altar for work in for¬ eign fields. And now our people must prepare themselves to supply tlie means for sending out ami supporting these men. Every time God calls one of our young men to go as a missionary, he calls on his «■" '-"['f' "c'“ W1” “ ‘'cv' 1 time, ns there will be only ten days for the people to support them. Will not our ■ G. \\ hitley. On the arriva of the news in | consideration of tllem. мПпу papers pre- brethren take this matter to heart, pray j England the Board of Missions passed h scnteiI not be rea(,t but w|„ be ^ub. over it, and give to this Hoard what it needs resolutions of sympathy with the be, caved |ished w|,h tbose presented to t,le mec\; c. - 1 — * - . 1. » ; father and family, and forwarded them.,— - -- K comprehending the vital interests of mis¬ sions in foreign fields and among the home churches, to be discussed under some fifty phases of these subjects, by tlie best quali¬ fied men of tlie new and old world. The addresses made and the papers read are restricted severely within narrow limits of for carrying forward tlie work? OUR RETURNED MISSIONARIES. By reference to tlie last issue of tlie Jour- , , , , , . , . Tlie programme itself, prepared with the In reply came a letter, of which we give a I ‘ , • , , 1 1 ... b 1 greatest care by experienced managers of part. Comment upon it is unnecessary : v . . . „ ,, , * ‘ 1 ■ foreignniissionsmalltheevangelicalde- “ Sorrowing as we do for tlie loss of our 1 nominations, isastudy.nndthevolunietobe . . — - .. ...n i>rniM\(-U * oeunt ■<<« ninni, ' the most valuable work for tlie guidance of missionary organizations everpublished. Tlie writers and speakers for tlie occasion have been selected with the single view of having the best possible representatives of e cause and the topics to be discussed. nal, i, will be seen that an unusually large j nfen. Thim disSu? Imk^u-lm | * the Convention will be probabiy number of our missionaries have, within n ! lives in onr hearts forever ; but ue ilo pro- r . . , . nose to endeavor to forward the grand few weeks, returned to tins country. Dr. , {,b:ec,s w|IICh he had so much at heart, and R. H. Graves and his excellent wife, both , ns wc cheerfully gave up our son to the broken down by their many years of hard work, so now, parents, brother and sister labor in tlie trying climate of Canton, are unite to equip some other soldier of the ha r . 3 . . ,, . 1 Cross, who, stepping into the gap, may i tli for a time sojourning in ban 1-ranusco, Mrs. j CjJ rry on t|,e warfare against heathenism ; | . , Graves being too ill to stand the trip and we pray earnestly that our Heavenly 1 H has been ^interesting to note how many across tlie continent. For over thirty years Fattier may grant His blessing in large 1 of the questions to be considered have they have borne tlie heat and burden of | measure to him who will take our son’s j arisen in the minds of all tlie mission- tlie dav in r-ininn— how sweet to rest for a fdace- . managers of the world. This fact of corn- time ' I’erinns ihev would umreciate some I " (,!‘s PurPose • •iav0 Sreat pleasure j mon difficulties and anxieties should bind ume. 1 ernaps tney uouiu appreciate ъише - .„-inthraCenue to cover outfit and .. , . - ... , ....... loving letters from some of our Journal passage expenses of a new Congo mission- the hosts of /л n closer together in their readers, telling them how much their labors ary, and remain, on behalf of myself and in Canton have been appreciated at home, family, “ Vo 11 rs, ^‘^\VlnrL i; y . how glad we are to see them back again, and that we are remembering them at tlie throne of grace, when we go to ask bless¬ ings upon ourselves and our loved ones. That " tlie spirit of Christ is tlie spirit j of Missions,” should be tlie key note of the life of every Christian disciple. One of A letter nddressed to Dr. Graves at San I the problems which I cannot solve, and I which I shall he anxious to have solved Francisco, care of Dr. J. li. Hartwell, will reach him. Dr. Graves hopes, after some time, to be able to return to his loved work in Canton. Rev. J. H, Eager and family have come from Rome, Italy, and are now enjoying the mountain air of Virginia, at Liberty. Since Dr. Taylor’s return to this country, something over two years ago, the care of all the churches in Italy has been upon wlitii 1 reach the kingdom of glory, is this: “ How will those Christians who say that they do not believe in missions explain l/tcir position to the glorified Redeemer ? ” -Dr. II. I I. Jessup. And a yet harder question to answer is, “ How will those who say they believe in missions and yet do little or nothing to forward these, explain their conduct to our Lord ? " common warfare with the powers of dark¬ ness. No subject appears on the pro¬ gramme not put there by unanimous con¬ sent. This is a promising feature, and suggests that perhaps tlie greatest unity of God's children will be perfected in their greatest of works— tlie world's evangeliza¬ tion. This raises an inquiry which we merely state without attempting any reply, viz: How are God's people ever to present I to tlie serried masses of pagandom any force, moved by the Holy Spirit according to tlie divine word, which shall be so vast and so compact as to present tlie appearance of the host of the Most High — "fair as tlie morn, clear as the^sun, and terrible as an army with banners?" FINANCIAL CONDITION OF THE BOARD. It Is with pleasure tlint wo are ablo to fay to tlie brethren tlint tlie Hoard In in a de¬ cidedly better financial condition than It was nt tills time Ia‘t year. By a reference to tlio report of tlio Treasurer of tlio Board, nindc to that body nt Its meeting in January, 18S7, wo find tlint tlio liabilities of tlio Hoard were $22,001. At tlio meeting in January, 1888, they were reported us being $15,3G1— a dif¬ ference of $0,700. Anil this, too, in spite of tlie fact that 11 heavy expense lias been en¬ tailed on tho Board by reason of the return homo id so many of our inisslciiailes, ns well ns tlie return to tlielr fields of labor of others. Since tlio meeting of tlio Conven¬ tion in May last, liro. llagbynnd family lmve returned to Rio do Janeiro, accompanied by MI'S Maggie R loo ; Bro. Eubank nml family Iiavo returned to Africa, and Dr. Taylor nml family to Rome, wlillo Mrs. Sanford lias gone to Canton. But wlillo tlio condition of tlio Board Is decidedly better than It wan a year ago, it Is yet serious enough to oeons'-'i no little anxiety ns to tlio final oiitciiic, and to call fortli tlio earnest prayers an lib¬ eral gifts of tlie brethren for its work. While not so largo ns It was a year ago, there yet Is a debt. Better $15,000 than $22,000— lint liow much better 't would be if there were no debt at all. Still, a debt nt till» time of tho year seems the common heritage of nil missionary bodies, and If this were nil our anxiety would not ho very great. Tills deficit will bo met by tho enlarged gifts of tlio Stales during tlie closing months of the convent lnnnl year. Blit other tilings tlioro are which awaken anxiety. Nearly all— nay, all of our fields need rein¬ forcements, nml some of them need these тегу much. Now missionaries must he sent to some of our stations nt once. And the new men mid women are, If wo may bo al¬ lowed tlio expression, coming into sight, are In sight, lleforo tlio Convention tlioro ought to be, as wo have reason to hope tlioro will be, a half dozen or more men and women getting ready to leave for SCRAPS PICKED UP. Tlie veteran Dr. Wm. Ashmore sailed from San Francisco Nov. 29th, for his old field of labor in Swatow, China. We trust lie will use ids pen freely in tlie llaplisl Missionary Magazine , as lie lias been doing for some time past . August 9, 188$, will be tlie one hundredth anniversary of tlie birth of Adoniram Judson, and it is proposed to observe it by erecting a memo¬ rial church in Mandalay, tlie capital of Upper Burma. This church will be within a short distance of Ava, where Dr. Judson suffered so much, and within two miles of his prison at Oung-pen-ia. An nged Bur- man woman, who was baptized by Dr. Jud¬ son, lias given twelve hundred of the, ten thousand dollars needed for tills house. . The blessing of tlie Lord still rests upon the Telugu mission of our Northern brethren. One missionary writer reports 184 baptisms from June 19 to Oct. 2 . Berlin lias now two Baptist cliapcls, tlie second one having been opened in October last . Tliere are in Russia 34 Baptist clitirclies, with 12,371 members, S50 of whom were baptized last year . The McAH mission lias 35 stationsin Paris . Among other movements in Japan towards West¬ ern things, is that of tlie women towards the Western style of dressing . In Uganda, Africa, tlie old story is repeating itself— severe persecutions are accompa¬ nied by deep religious interest . Mad¬ agascar lias 1,200 self-supporting churches. . The Englir.it Baptist Mission on the Congo lias been greatly afllictcd by death- of workers. In a comparatively short time upwards of fifteen persons connected with the mission have been called home. But no thought of going backward in this work is entertained by the brethren at home. New men are on their way to fill up the ranks . The union of tlie Waldensian Synod and tlie Free Church of Italy lias failed of consummation, the Synod having decided at its last session that no union was for the present possible . The American Board (Congregational reports for the year 1SS7-S, mission stations 89, with S91 out-stations ; American laborers, 461, of whom 4 are female physicians; native labor¬ ers, including teachers and helpers, 2,037 ; churches, 325, with 28,042 members; schools, including seminaries nad colleges, 976, in which are found 34.417 pupils . Thirty four missionary societies are now at work itt Africa, 33 in China, 50 in India, while Turkey, Persia and Japan are filling with mission stations and schools . A great work of grace is in progress in the Punjab, India, in connection with tlie En¬ glish Church mission . The entire Bible was first translated into Chinese at Serampore by Joshua Marshman in 1807-8. Dr. Marshman was one of Wm. Carey’s companions . Fifteen Christian chap¬ els ore now open in Canton for the daily preaching of the gospel . Two hundred and fifty millions of women depend for' the gospel on tlie women of the Protestant churches of America. • 1 % Tiie fact is that the last bolts and bars with which Satan clinched the gates of heathen empires centuries ago are drop¬ ping to the ground, and the rusty hinges are creaking open while the imprisoned nations stand wondering and waning for the liberty of Christ. — Dr. Jessup. , How long shall they wonder and wait? That depends in a manner on what .each Christian who reads this does to send them the gospel of liberty. '' W Л-Л1 Utif'i