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tfSoutlily by tlio Foreign MIknIou lEourd of SoulhEra ISapibi' ConTCUtieu.
“ALL POWER IS GIVEN UNTO ME IN HEAVEN AND IN EARTH. GO
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VoK 12. — New Series.
RICHMOND, VA., MAY, 1880.
No. 2.— Whole No. 122.
[Entered nt tlio Post
at Richmond, Va.,
class matter.]
second.
FOREIGN MISSION JOURNAL.
RATES PER ANNUM:
One copy . ... .
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Four copies and
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to one nddross, ench .
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remit by Draft, Postal Order, or In KrRlstered
Letter, ami notify us promptly of any change In nddrese.
Address, FOREIGN MISSION JOURNAL,
RICHMOND, V*.
FOREIGN MISSION BOARD
OF THE 80UTHEBN
ВЛРТ1ВТ
CONVENTION,
Located at RICHMOND, VIRGINIA,
PlIESIDBNT— J.
Ъ.
M. OllRRY.
Vice-PkkbIDUHts.— Hiram Woods, Md., J. A. Haclrott,
La., J. H. Jeter, Va., U. H. McOnllimi, Fla., T. II. Pritch¬
ard, N. O., J. L. Burrows, ICy., S. Henderson, Alabama,
W. Pope Yeamttn, Mo., J. II. Link, Texas, \V. L. Kilpatrick,
Oa., L 0. Furman, S. O., Matt., HlUsman, Tenn., T. P.
OOnnKBPOHDIHO SHCllKTAltY— H. A. TUI’PEII.
тпклвиккп—
J. o. WILLIAMS.
Recoicuixg Secretary—
ЛУ.
H. GWATIIMEY.
Auditor — JOSEPH F. COTTRELL.
Board ok Managers — J. II. Hawthorne, J. H.Wntklne, H.
K. Ellyson, W. E. Hatcher, E. Worthum, Henry McDonald,
W.Goddln, H. H. Harris,
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E. Dickinson, J. W. Jones,
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H.
Olarke, J. H. Winston, T. J. Evans,
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II. Winston, S. O.
Clopton, _
CtTA ll communications in reference to the business
of this Hoard should be addressed fo-H.
Л.
Tuiwbb,
Corresponding Secretary, Richmond, Va.
cultlcs, cheerful In hours of long delay and disap¬
pointed hopes, lie wits the leader in our mission
work, and we sliall miss him more sensibly, and
fool our loss more poignantly, whenever great and
troublesome questions shall hereafter come before
us for solution.
Having enjoyed unusual opportunities for know¬
ing Dr. Jeter in tiie unreserve of our confidential
sessions,. having sat for yenrs with him around the
Council-Board, shut out from public gaze, and de¬
liberating witli anxious hearts for the prosperity of
Zion, we have known Ills inner nature, sounded
the depths of Ills great soul, and learned to revere
ami love him for his transparent frankness, ills un¬
suspecting guilelessness, Ills strong faith, ids calm
courage, his hatred of everything ovaslvo and dis¬
ingenuous, his unllagging zeal undiminished by
age, bis devotion to duty, his growing assimilation
in thought and word anil conduct to the spirit and
principles of the Master. The Board, the Mission¬
aries, the Convention, lmd in him a generous and
unselfish friend, a wise counsellor, and a bright ex¬
ample of what grace and the Holy spirit can ac¬
complish in the renovation and consecration of a
human soul —
Resolved, That the Secretary transmit a copy of
this minute to Mrs. Jeter, who contributed so much
to the usefulness and happiness of our departed
brother, with the assurance of our most cordial
sympathy' in her severe aflllction.
Resolved, That the page following the record of
tliis action of tins Board be left blank, with the ex¬
ception of tlio nanio and times of birth and death
of our associate and brottier.
DEPARTURE AND ARRIVAL OF MISSIONARIES.
also very nnxlous to go to China. The Lord is an¬
swering the prayers of his people to send laborers
into tlio harvest, aud wo thank Him that the peo¬
ple are giving increasing evidence that they aro
willing to take care of theso laborers in their har¬
vesting of souls.
FOREIGN MISSION JOURNAL.
For tlio sake of our missions and of tlio
churches themselves the circulation of this paper
should bo greatly increased. With a little effort
on the part of tlio friends of the Convention tills
result could be attained. In no way can tlio small
amount required for subscription to the paper bo
better invested for tiie promotion of Foreign Mis¬
sions than in subscription to the paper. Tiie last
report of the Journal to the Board, duly audited,
indicates that it is self-supporting, and is as fol¬
lows :
Statement of Receipts and Disbursements of For¬
eign Mission Journal from Jan. 13, 1879,
to April 1, 1880.
1879.
Jan. 13— To balance as per report this date, $ 25 28
“ 14 — To payment by Journal for
Board’s agents, returned by
Board . 47 25
May 1— To received from Board for print¬
ing their report of 1S78 . . 04 00
1880.
April 1 — To receipts of Journal to date».. 910 35
FORM OF BEQUEST.
“ I hereby give and bequeath unto tiie Southern
Baptist Convention, formed in Augusta, Georgia,
In the month of May, 1845, and chartered by tiie
Legislature of tiie State of Georgia, by an act
passed and approved December 29tli, 1845, (here
insert the amount , if in money , or 1 subject,' if
other property, either real or personal,) for Foreign
Missions.”
THIRTY-FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD
FOR FOREIGN MISSIONS.
DEATH OF REV. J. 11. JETER, D. D.
On the eighteenth day of February, 1880, tills
Father in Israel, in the seventy-eighth year of his
mortal life, passed away. On tiie, first of March
tlio following paper, presented by their president,
was mournfully adopted by tiie Board :
It is meet that tlio Board of Foreign Missions
should nut on permanent record its estimate of
Jeremian Dell Jeter as a man and a Christian, and
its sense of loss sustained in the death, of one so
inseparably interwoven with its entire "history.
The life of no other man was sp nearly the life of
the Board. In 1845, when tlio Board, at the first
session of the Convention, was established, Dr.
Jeter was appointed tins first Presklent. From
that day unto his departure lie was uninterrupt¬
edly a member. Intelligently and enthusiasti¬
cally interested in tiie work of tiie Board, lie re¬
garded it with peculiar affcctlonateness. Besides
What he did by pen and public addresses, we re¬
call with pleasure lioW, at times, In our regular
sessions, his great soul would bo . stirred within
him, and, in prayer or oxhortation lie would pour
forth ills expressions of gratitude or obligation,
showing how completely the extension of tlio Re¬
deemer’s kingdom hail become. a part of bis intel¬
lectual aud spiritual nature. The welfare of the
Missionaries was looked after with the tcndcrcst
solicitude. Their fields were', studied, their wants
comprehended, thoir success rejoiced in. Prompt
and punctual in his attendance on' the. sessions, sa¬
gacious and .fruitful In' the suggestion' of plans and
measures, prudent’ arid1' wi^o in adjusting diffl-
On tiie first of July, 1879, Rev. T. P. Crawford
sailed from San Francisco for China, and arrived
at Tung Chow on tlio 9th of August. On the 31st
of July the steamer in which he sailed from Japan
to Shanghai encountered a frightful typhoon. The
North China Herald, referring to the conduct of
tlio passengers and crew during the tempest, says :
“Rov. T. P. Crawford came uobly to tlio front.”
Dr. M. T. Yates wrote : “ Such was tiie condition
of the vessel that no mortal hand could change her
position from the trough of the waves. God pi¬
loted that ship, and brought her and all hands
eafoly into port; and to him be ascribed praise
and thanksgiving forever." Rov. IV. J. David and
wife sailed in tlio bark Cardenas from Now York for
Africa on tlio eighth of December, and arrived at
Lagos on the 1st of February. On the 7th of Feb¬
ruary Rev. E. Z. Simmons and wife, and Miss
Sallie Stein, our recently appointed missionary to
Canton, luft San. Francisco in the steamer City of
Pekin, and arrived on tiie 2d oi March nt Yoko¬
hama, Japan. They expected to be in Canton in
some eight or ton days. Rev. G. B. Taylor and
family sailed from New York on the 13tli of March
in the steamer Circassia, for Glasgow, en route for
Rome, where they arrived sometime in April.
That all these missionaries should have been per¬
mitted by tiie liberality of tiie churches to enter,
during the past year, into their respective fields of
labor, is an occasion for devout gratitude. In no
lirimcanlng form, but. with pious emphasis, thesq
servants of the churches, for Christ’s sake, beg;
pray for us. 'Mrs. Matthew T. Yates, of Shang¬
hai, who lias been our missionary for thirty years,
is now in this country— at no expense to tlio Board
—for the improvement of her health. Before 'the
next’meeting of the Contention, our missionary-
elect; Rev. J.
П.
Eager, yxpeets to bo at' work. In
a foreign land. Rov. J. 'C. Itobertson, of Texas, is
$1,052 88
1880.
April 1 — By Richmond Dispatch
to date for printing
Journal . 615 00
By do. printing In Jour¬
nal report Board May,
1879 . 05 25
By do. printing cards, etc. 9 00
By salary to D r. IV. II. G. '
for book-keeping and
mailing . 300 00 ,,
By postage on Journal... 30 G1
By extra postage . 2 50 ".
By check-book . 5 00
By wrapping-paper . 3 40
- $1,030 76
Balance in bank . . . $22 12
April 1, 18S0.
Supplement.
To received of Board for printing tlieir re¬
port of 1879 . 05 25
87 37
By paid Richmond Dispatch for printing
Journal to April 1 . '82 00
Balance . $5-37
“the foreign missions of the southern bap¬
tist CONVENTION.”
This work lias been published by the request of .
tlio Convention. Any profits, beyond tiie actual
expenses of publication and circulation, which
may accrue from tiie book, will go into the Treas¬
ury of our Board. The {following report was
adopted by the Board at its regular monthly mcet-
Ingj on April 5tli, 18S0 :
The Committee on Publications have much plea¬
sure in reporting that, during the past month, the.
n6w work of our Corresponding Secretary on “tlio
Foreign Missions of J the S. B.- Convention” was is¬
sued from the. press; • ' • '
It forms, a, large aud, handsome .volume of 500
pages, aiidis gotten up in excellent style.
