Foreign Mission Journal
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"ALL POWER IS GIVEN UNTO ME IN HEAVEN AND IN EARTH. GO YE, THEREFORE, AND TEACH ALL NATIONS
Voh 14. — Now Series.
RICHMOND, VL, APRIL, 1882. No. 1.— Whole No. 145.
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Address, FOREIGN MISSION .TOUIINAL,
Kiel [MONO, Va.
FOREIGN MISSION BOARD
OF THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION,
Looatku at RICHMOND. VIIIO INIA.
I'uesidknt — J. I.. M. CURRY.
%’jCK-PiiKSmK.VT8.— Hiram Woods, Mil,, .1. A. Hnckett,
La., W. D. Thomas, Va., If. II. McOtillmn, Fla., T. H.
Pritchard, N. O., J. L. llurrows, Ky., I. T. Tlchenor.
Alnbaraa, It. S. Duncan, Mo., J. II. Link, Texas, W. L. Kil¬
patrick, On., Chas. Manly, S. 0., Matt. Hlllsmnn. Temi..
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Searcy, Ark., Goorge Whltflold, Miss., M. Ellison, W.
OoitussroNBiN a Skciiktaiiy— II. A. TOPPER,
TmtASUitKit— .1, O. WILLIAMS.
HaconniNO Skcuktauy— W. H. GWATHMEY.
Auditoii — JOSEPH F. COTTRELL.
BoAnDOrMANAtiKita. — J. II. Hawthorne, .T. R.Watklns, H.
K. Elly son, W. E. Hatcher, E. Wortham, Henr.v McDonald,
W. Ooddln, 11. II. Harris, J. Pollard, Jr., ,T. W. Jones, A. H.
Clarke, J. II. Wlnstou, J. II. Hutson, U. H. Winston, S. O.
Olopton. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
ZST All communications in reference to the business
of this Board should be addressed to II. A. Tnrrr.n,
Cbn-esponding Secretary, Richmond, Va.
SUMMARY OF MISSIONARY NEWS.
It was our purpose to prepare monthly such a
summary for the Journal. Hut most of our Bap¬
tist weeklies tlo this; and it has been thought best,
ou reflection, to give our columns mainly to com¬
munications that cannot he conveniently publish¬
ed in other papers; such as letters from our mis¬
sionaries, and articles which, though long, as the
one in this issue on “The relation of State- Hoards
and the Southern Baptist Convention, ’’should have
a permanent record in this organ of the Conven¬
tion. Tlie constant increase of missionary matter
in our religious papers, and the improvements and
multiplying of missionary periodicals in this
country and Europe, are one of the striking signs
of tlie times.
REV. WM. T. BRANTLY, D. D.
The death of this cultured gentleman, able and
evangelical minister, and dear friend, was a severe
blow to us. His father was the pastor of our
boyhood, and the President of tlie college where
we spent several years, .Tntl where we saw him
fall in speechless and fatal illness. His sons
seemed as our brothers, and the lamented de¬
ceased was a co-laborer for the Master in a dis¬
tant State, where we met at Board meetings and
the Conventions of the saints, and where we en¬
joyed him much in social and fraternal intercourse.
Our sons were college mates, anil room mates.
Many ties have been riven by this fall ; but one
cannot be broken. Let this be the consolation of
the bereaved. We shall all meet, if the children
of his Heavenly Father, where every tear shall
be wiped away, and where there shall be no part¬
ing forever.
DEATH OF MRS. M. O. HARLEY.
The sudden death of this noble Christian wo¬
man fell upon our people like a thunder-bolt from a
cloudless sky. Who seemed to promise life more
fairly ? Yet, witli only a moment’s premonition she
cries out : “Oh, God, I am dying!” and is dead.
Yet, not dead— she was translated across the abyss
between time and eternity, in more than a chariot
of lire.
Our Board had no truer, no more liberal friend,
than Mrs. Harley. Tlie Baptist Courier, South
Carolina, the whole south, must long bemoan her
loss. But let us not sleep for sorrow. Let us
brush the tears from our heart, and let us, follow¬
ing our sister’s example, Work while it is
da v—for in such an hour as ye think not the Son
of Alan comelh.
RELATION OF STATE-BOARDS AND SOUTH¬
ERN BAPTIST CONVENTION.
At the last meeting of the Southern Baptist
Convention the following was adopted :
That the Boards of the Convention be directed
to form the closest possible connection witli the
State Boards, where such exist, in such way as
shall be mutually agreeable, and in other cases
to secure such agency as each of the Boards may
deem best; in both cases providing for necessary
expenses incurred.
In pursuance of this action, communications
were sent to the several States, by way of discov¬
ering what methods on the part of our Board for
collecting funds and exciting interest in their re¬
spective bounds, would be “ mutually agreeable,”
and would tend most “to form tlie closest possi¬
ble connection with tlie State Boards" and our
Convention. The following replies indicate that
there is no friction between tiie agencies of the
Convention and the State organizations, and that
cordial relations exist generally between the States
and the Southern Baptist Convention.
Maryland— Rev. F. II. Kcrfoot, D. D., Balti¬
more, who introduced this subject to the Conven¬
tion, replies : “ I think I can say that our Board
will be willing and glad for you to adopt any
plan for exciting interest and collecting funds that
seems to you best. * * There is no State sensi¬
tiveness this way, and some of us are willing to
do our level best in the work of eliciting and
combining the energies of tlie whole denomina¬
tion.”
Virginia. —
И.
K. Ellyson, Cor. Secretary, re¬
plies: “The most cordial relations already exist
between our Board and the Southern Baptist Con¬
vention. This is true also of our General Asso¬
ciation and our District Associations. They have
never objected to the Convention employing in
Virginia such agencies for their work as they
deemed best, and the Convention lias been always
pleased that all funds collected for them in the
State should go to their treasuries through the
treasurer of our General Association. God bless
the Convention, its Boards and its missionaries! ”
West Virginia.— Rev. E. Ellison, Vice Presi¬
dent of our Board for this State, though person¬
ally deeply interested in our Convention, gives
what lie regards the common objections to “ the
closest possible connection,” which, abbreviated,
are as follows : 1. That tlie American Baptist
Missionary Union, by securing the co-operation of
tiieir several District Associations, “lias forestall¬
ed co-operation with the Southern Baptist Con¬
vention.” 2. That “ the running expenses of the
Missionary Union are provided for independently
of contributions by the Baptists of West Virginia,
while the Foreign Mission Board of the Southern
Baptist Convention are not so provided with
funds." 3. That the Home Mission Society having
proposed to add a dollar to every dollar raised
for home work, it is for the advantage of the State
“to affiliate with the Northern Board.” 4. That
“the cause originating the Southern Baptist Con¬
vention being swept away by the war, there is no
need of its existence.” Bro. E. says how to re¬
gain what has been lost in sympathy and in funds
is difficult to see. It should be .added, that
the General Association has always treated the
Cor. Secretary of our Board with the utmo t cor¬
diality, and in November Inst reported $100 con¬
tributed to our Board.
North Carolina. — Rev. John E. Ray, Cor.
Secretary, replies : “ As to Agency work, our peo¬
ple are opposed to that plan, and the Board has
thought it unwise to employ any such means. I
have been doing all I could to advance the work
by writing and travelling. * * * I find our
people waking to greater earnestness and zeal
for the cause. * * Ours, you see, is the Board
of Missions, including all our missionary works.”
South Carolina. — Rev. W. H. Strickland,
Cor. Secretary, writes as to the action of his
Board : “ We unanimously voted that we were in
heartiest sympathy with you and your work, and
were ready to help you in all ways that we could.
Our Board are a unit in its work of encouraging
all the missions of the Southern Baptist Conven¬
tion. * * We require all our missionaries to
preach on missions regularly and take collections,
and forward for all the Boards.”
Georgia.— Its State Convention has consoli¬
dated its work for missions into one Board, whose
Cor. Secretary and Treasurer, Rev.J. H. DeVotie,
D. D., does for our cause very efficient work.
The relations of this Board with ours are most
cordial, and Dr. DeVotie himself is regarded our
agent and representative for that State. He
has circulated freely our documents through
Georgia. The General Missionary Association of
North Georgia has just sent out a missionary to
China, and has for some time supported a native
Chinese assistant, under the auspices of our
Board. These facts sufficiently indicate the cordial
relations between tiieir body and this Board of the
Southern Baptist Convention.
Florida.— Rev. W. N. Chaudoin, Cor. Secre¬
tary, «writes: “Our plan, identically the Georgia
plan, best meets the exigencies of our case, yet
awhile at least. Our Board of missions makes
specialty of no branch of mission work. As Secre¬
tary, I try to bring all onrwork before the brethren.
I hope to nearly or quite double our contributions
to your board by the close of the conventional
year. I retain ten per cent on the amount raised.
Any thing I can do by circulating tracts, etc., I
shall cheerfully do, only asking you to meet ex¬
penses.”
Alad.vma. — Rev. T. M. Bailey, Cor. Secretary
and Treasurer, sends a copy of the “ Plan of Mis-
