Foreign Mission Journal
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Vo!. 10. — New Series.
RICHMOND, VA., APRIL, 1878.
No. 1. — Whole No. 97.
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FOREIGN MISSION BOARD
OF THE 80UTHEKN BAPTIST CONVENTION,
Located AT RICHMOND, VIUQINIA.
l’liKSliiKNT— J. L. M. OUltHY,
Teiin., J. II. Ilooiie, Ark.
CoititHsro.vbt.vu StcciiKTAitv— II. A. TUPPER.
TiiKASUitKit—
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WILLIAMS.
liKioitlilNii Skohktaiiy— W. H. OWATHMKY.
Aut.iTOii— JOSEPH F. COTTRELL.
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E. IV. Warren, J. I). Watkins, II.
К. ЕИуюп,
W. E. Hatcher, E. Wortham, Henry McDonald,
W. Goddlu, 11. II. Harris,
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K. Dickinson,.
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W. Jones,
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Clarke, J. II. Winston, T. J. Evans, U. II. Winston, J. II.
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of this Hoard should be addressed to II.
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Tupi'EK.
■Oorrcsponding Secretary, Richmond, Va.
FORM OF BEQUEST.
“I hereby {rift! and beqtieal h unto the Soutlicrn
Itaptist Convention, fortnetl in Augusta, Georgia,
in the month of May, 1845, and chartered by the
Legislature of the State of Georgia, by an act
passed and approved December 2'Jth, 1S45, (here
insert the amount, if in money, or 'subject,' if
other property, either real or personal,) for Foreign
Missions.”
ANOTHER VOLUME.
Tills number begins another volume of the
Journal. Away from the Mission Rooms, and
engaged in almost daily appointments to speak on
Foreign Missions, tiic editor brings into existence
this issue under no other favorable conditions than
that of a heart earnestly invoking the Holy Spirit
on the cirort to give information and encourage¬
ment to tlie people with regard to the evangeliza¬
tion of the nations. In our journey through the
South many kind words have come to our car about
the paper; hut wc understand, of course, that
pleasant tilings about ourselves arc more apt to
come to ns than are unpleasant, and that the organ
of a good cause is often regarded with the favor
due only to the cause itself. Rut ns ivo do not
propose to hunt up objectors, wo thank our pa¬
trons for their kind sayings, and beg that they may
aid the accomplishment of their good wishes by
doing what they can to circulate this now volume
of the Journal.
SEVEN OBSERVATIONS.
Visiting in rapid succession a number of churches
and communities, the mind is forced into a process
of generalization, of which the following conclu¬
sions are a specimen :
1. Graduates of the Soutlicrn Baptist Theologi¬
cal Seminary are thorough missionary men. 2.
Wherever the relation is sufllciently sympathetic,
whether tiie spirit is missionary or otherwise, the
rule holds good : Like pastor, like people. 3.
Wherever the missionary spirit abounds spiritual
prosperity attends the church and its home-work.
I. There is danger of being satisfied with having a
system of benevolence even though it does not re¬
sult in fruits “ as God hath prospered.” o. When
there Is decided missionary conviction on the part
of the people, the pastor is posted in missionary
intelligence, and is imbued with the spirit of
Jesus, li. The spirit of missions is most fully de¬
veloped by being exerched In weekly ollerings
under the stimulating and guiding Influence of the
sanctuary; (in order to do which most successfully
cliurch expenses should lie regarded as debts, and
paid like other debts outside of Sabbath-day con¬
tributions). The nearest approach which we have
observed to this plan was when the collection on
one part of the Sabbath was for benevolent pur¬
poses, and on the other for church expenses not
otherwise met. 7. Those who give the most freely
and pleasantly are Invariably the happiest and
most hopeful Christians, although there are many
hopeful and happy souls who can do little or
nothing for the cause of missions.
TBXP SOUTH.
Pressed by heavy drafts from our missionaries, 1
quitted the Mission Rooms, for a collecting tour, on
the 13th of February, and arrived next day in
Charleston, S. C.
On the way.
The journey was enlivened by Mr. and Mrs. J.
Wells Cliainpuey, of Massachusetts, who arc known
as writers and illustrators for Scribner, St. Nich¬
olas, and other magazines of the country. The
Madam wished some information about “ the opium
war of China,” and “ the Africans of the South.”
which I gave with pleasure, according to my abil¬
ity. Mr. Champney sketched comical specimens of
the colored nice, with wonderful rapidity and pre¬
cision. In Charleston, I committed them to a
friend from Boston, who said lie had “studied the
negro plirasoologically, physiologically, psycolog-
icnlly, and cthiiologlcally, ” and \\*lio could better
advance than I could the object for which my com -
pagnons de voyage proposed to sojourn in the Pal¬
metto State. A question raised and discussed was :
whether man can lie developed apart from a su¬
perior, either ideal, personal, or divine?
My native Home.
Addressing the Sabbath-school of the Old First
Baptist church of Charleston, where Bishop Shuck
presides in place of the sainted Furman and Man¬
ly and Brautly, 1 saw no face which was there
when I was a child in the school. Walking among
the tombs which surround the church the question,
Where are they ? was solemnly answered. A
brother reminded mo that forty ministers had gone
forth from the “Old First,” and suggested a
convocation of the survivors, on the approaching
two hundredth birth-day of the venerable “ Mother
of Preachers.” Dr. Chambliss, of the Citadel
Square Church, was aiding Dr. Hawthorne in Mont¬
gomery, Alabama, and I occupied the pulpit twice
on the Lord’s clay. The next day four brethren of
the two churches made a splendid tribute to their
devotion to the cause of missions and their faith
in South Carolina Baptists, by an advance to our
Board Of TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS. I COllld 110t
but think of their city motto, borrowed from the
manly followers of the heroic yEueas : animis op i-
busqueparali.
At Savannah.
Born with prejudices in favor of “the city by
the sea,” I admit the claim of the Metropolis of
Georgia to the title of the “ Queen city of the South.”
1 cannot dwell on the pleasant residences, the ever¬
green trees, the numerous public squares, the
tasteful monuments, and the rellned and elegant
people. The monument to the Confederate dead
Is of gray Canadian stone, surmounted by a female
figure, with an inverted torch in one hand, and
with the forefinger of the other hand pressed sig¬
nificantly against her lips. Bonna Venture, adorned
with live oaks of more than a century’s growth,
and crossed with pendant funerlal moss, hanging
almost to the ground, was said by the tourist Mur¬
ry to be the most beautifully appropriate cemetery
hi the world. The Rev. Timothy Harley, I under¬
stand is filling with hearers his immense house of
worship. In our missionary meeting my quondam
co-worker, Rev. Dr. Axson, of the Congregational
Church, and ills assistant pastor, Rev. Mr. Gordon,
of Richmond, Va., participated. A noble band
of brothers' and sisters will see that our cause shall
not sillier In their bands. From one of the latter
the following was received : “ I fear I cannot at¬
tend the meeting to-night, as I have a severe cold.
Mr. F. says I must stay in-doors, and I ‘obey.’ I
wish the enclosed were two hundred dollars. My
greatest cross is not being able to give liberally. I
would like to make at least one person happy every
day, but * they serve who only stand and wait.’ ”
Another note received In my absence at the
Mission Rooms :
Savannah, February 10th, 1878. — Please find en¬
closed five dbllars, for the advance of Foreign Mis¬
sions. C. D.
The $5 was not in the note. The Post-master
thought the envelope had been tampered with. I
invited “C. D.,” if present, to see me after the
meeting; but there was no response.
Moral : Send money by Post olllcc orders, or
checks on New York.
At Augusta.
I had four services here on Sunday, the 24th of
February, and a conference with some of the male
members of the Greene Street church. The breth¬
ren did nobly. “Curtis’ Chapel,” where Elder
Strickland ministers, is building up spiritually, and
being improved materially. The First Church is a
model in all its appointments and surroundings. Its
youthful Bishop preserves a level head and a glow¬
ing heart, In ids lofty and arduous position. I
spent a sad hour by the bed-side of our gifted Dr.
Shaver. I recall those splendid works of his
pen for the Index, and pray that the days of his
years may be yet many for our denominational
power and progress. As his intellectual commu¬
nications cheered others, 'so might lie not be cheer¬
ed by the thoughtful communications of ills breth¬
ren? Of delightful social attentions I must not
write. Augusta bears the marks of decided and
growing prosperity, and its churches arc Indeed
“a cit}r set on a bill.”
