Foreign Mission J ournal
I'ultliNlica Monthly toy the ForeiBii MioHion lloiml ol the .Southern Ilnplisi Convention.
"ALL POWER IS GIVEN UNTO ME IN HEAVEN AND IN EARTH.
GO YE, THEREFORE, AND TEACH ALL NATIONS •
Vol. 1 1 . — New Scries.
RICHMOND, VA., SEPTEMBER, 1879.
No. 6. — Whole No. 114.
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(hnrespondiny Secretary, Richmond, Va.
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“ I hereby give and bequeath unto tin; Southern
Itiipl 1st OonvtMit ion, formed in Augusta, Georgia,
In llm month of May, 1815, ami chartered by Hie
Legislature, of Hie State of Georgia, by an net.
|i!iss,‘il anil approved Deei'inher 2!>th, 1815. (here
insert the amount , if in money, or 'subject,' if
other properly, either real or personal,) for Foreign
Missions.”
OUK EUROPEAN MISSION 1870-1873.
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Jlis Father.
One of Hie pleasant recollections of oursludent-
4fo at Madison University was a visit, there of
Mndnnie Poller, of Hu* Grand Llgiio Mission, of
< amnia. 'J'lils lady was aecoinpanied liy Dr. Goto,
previously a priest, who
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associated with her in
iier noble and successful enterprise. Though con-
leiiiphithig at that time goiiur into the IV, reign
lii'ld, and being, fora wiiile, Corresponding Soere-
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“Society for Iinjuiry,” we little thought
lliat in after life
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should be so intimately re¬
lated to Hie son of this reverend gentleman. The
Doctor was the author of “ Un Mot cn Passant."
Ills Memoirs have been given to the public. .
Dr. Cole and a Superintendent.
As early as 1850 the Hoard turned their attention
la Europe. On the 7th of October of that year
Hie “Rev. .lolm K<i:lnnan was reijiiestcd to appear
before tin; Hoard in reference to Ids going to Switz¬
erland as an agent of the Hoard.” The same
'lay Hie Hoard resolved “to adopt Franco ns a Hold
°f missionary labor,” and Rev. E. Kingston!, svho
"as about to visit that country, “ was requested to
"lake such inquiries * * as would afford ncccs-
sa|,y information to the Hoard." In 1SG9 the
Hoard reported to the Convention on “the obliga¬
tion of Haptists to give tlm pure gospel to Catholic
Europe, some parts of which arc in us great need
of the gospel as Hie Pagan world, anil also on the
wonderful openings of these llelds by the hand of
Providence.” In 1870 tin’s language of an intelli¬
gent brother was quoted to the Convention: “I
believe Italy is the heat place for a now mission.
Ollier denominations arc at work there ; butHap-
Hst principles arc pnrticiilaily needed, and will bo
likely to ibid a response in many a heart. * * *
It is also important to know that some of our
brethren, who will be large contributors, are feel¬
ing a special desire to see our Hoard entering and
occupying some European Held.” On the 13th of
.lime Rev. ’Win. N. Cote, M. 1)., who was Secretary
of the Young Men’s Christian Association of
France, and was engaged to work in the Latin quar¬
ter of Hie city of Paris, was present with the Hoard,
whose attention to hint as a suitable missionary had
beencalled by Rev. Drs. F. Wilson, G. IV. Samson,
and A. 1). Gillette. Dr. Cote addressed the Hoard.
Five days later It was resolved : “ 1 . That the Hoard
proceed at once to establish a mission in Southern
iCiirope, to lie located at Marseilles, or Milan, or
('liambony, or such other point as shall, after in¬
vestigation, lie considered the most advisable. 2.
That Dr. W. N. Cole, of Paris, he appointed as a
missionary of the Southern Haptist Convention,
with authority to appoint two or more pious young
Haptists to labor under his supervision, as colpor-
ters and missionaries. II, Thai the young men so
appointed, and others, shall lie trained and in¬
structed by Dr. Dote, for other and more impor¬
tant- labors as full ministers of the gospel.” Three
thousand dollars was appropriated for the work.
Dr. Cote having accepted the position .lime 22d,
sailed soon after to Europe. On reading letters
from him and Dr. John A. Hroadus, from Home,
tin; Hoard instructed a committee March G, 1871,
“to consider the expediency of enlarging our ope¬
rations in Italy: and specially to inquire into flic
propriety of securing a suitable brother from this
country to superintend our missions in Southern
Europe.”
Impressions and Expressions.
Dr. Cote wrote: “Home is now open to the
gospel. The power of the anti-Christ lias come to
an end, and his spiritual power is fast decreasing.
A bountiful harvest in Home and t lie provinces
awaits tiie diligent powers of the truth. Let Hap¬
tists he up and doing. Let them reclaim from
error and perdition the fallen descendants of the
primitive Roman Church, whoso faith and suilbr-
ings for the cause of Christ had earned the com¬
mendation of tiie Christian churches of the whole
world. * * * God he praised! , Our room in
Via della Croce was crowded last Thursday and
Sunday evenings. Wc propose, when the King
shall have made his entry into Rome, and Hie union
of the Roman .Provinces with Italy is formally
sanctioned by Parliament, to hold, by way of ex¬
periment, one or two large meetings in tiie Music
Hall. Hy doing so, wc hope to complete the work
already begun hy our district meetings. * * We suc¬
ceeded in dlstrihutlngahout fifteen hundred portions
of tiie "Word of God. * * There seems to be a re¬
markable preparation in Home for the reception of
the gospel. The licentious habits of tiie clergy
have divested them of all respect In the eyes of the
people. * * Outside of Homo itinerant evan¬
gelists anil colporters should lie employed along
the lines of railways from Turin to Milan and
Venice ; 'Turin to Hologna ; Hologna to Ancona anil
Hriudisi; Hologna to Piltoia and Florence; Flor¬
ence to Romo and Naples ; Rome toCtvita Vcccbla
and Leghorn, and then along tiie coast to Genoa
and Nice.”
Dr. Hroadus wrote :
“The field is interesting in a high degree. There
are but two essentially distinct types of Christian¬
ity— Church Christians anil Hiblo Christians. —
Those people have seen the evils of the first, anil
it seems a refreshing anil inviting contrast to pre¬
sent them Hie other. Yon will see presently that
there have already been encouraging results. I
hail no idea beforehand how interesting and pro¬
mising a field Home would now he, and had not
thought much about this mission. I am now tho¬
roughly satisfied that the Hoard has acted wisely in
establishing this mission, and T should exclaim
vehemently against any idea of abandoning it.
“Rev. .1. Wall, of England, who came here from
Hologna Hie day before brother Cote arrived, has
been eight years lit Italy — supported for five years
by a single man in England, and since hy private
contributions. He wants to he independent, and
to go about as an evangelist, so as to he, as lie ex¬
presses it, a franc tircur, or frec-sliootor. He is a
deeply devout man, with true missionary fervor;
has become fluent in Italian, and speaks quite im¬
pressively. lie is unselfish, and docs not seem sen¬
sitively ambitions.
“Last evening five men were baptized (in a lmth
house, the Tiber being very swift, very muddy, and
popularly regarded as very unhealthy.) and this
morning three more. All, except tiie colporter,
are Romans and new converts: some of them with
very interesting faces, and all regarded hy brethren
Cote and Wall as giving good evidence ot conver¬
sion. Tills morning these eight, with the oilier
colporter and brother Giannini. anil brethren Cote
anil Wall and their wives, wore constituted a church.
Hrotlicr Cote had urged me to stay and he present.
(I was to have left yesterday,) and I found it a very
interesting occasion. Dr. Warren Randolph, of
Philadelphia, and myself witnessed tiie baptisms,
and tills morning briefly addressed the church,
(through Wall.) and gave them the hand of fel¬
lowship, assuring them of the sympathy and
prayers of baptized believers in America. After¬
wards they observed Hie Lord’s Supper— wc parta¬
king. Thu idea of forming a church was not sug¬
gested hy me, hut originated with the missionaries
themselves.”
Thirty thousand copies of portions of the Scrip¬
tures had been furnished by* tiie Riblc-stand of the
Crystal Palace, and tracts and Hlhlcs hy the Amer¬
ican Tract Society and the American Haptist Publi¬
cation Society. The Hoard reported that- “twenty
five thousand copies of parls of tiie Word of God
lm\'0 been put in circulation, vvliich is marvellous in
our eyes.”
Dr. Cote wrote :
“These were gladly received — indeed, crowds of
men. women and children would, at times, hold
out their hands for the books. Priests passing hy
would scowl at us, hut did not. dare to say a word,
for fear of the people. They act with great cau¬
tion now, for they well know that Hie least inter¬
ference on their part might place their lives in jeop¬
ardy, so much are they hated and distrusted hy Hu;
whole people. Wo went as far as the magnificent
church of St. Peter, and under tiie very shadow of
tiie Vatican distributed tiie Word of God. The
work of distribution, far from being interfered
with by tiie police, is approved. A city guard, to
whom one of our colporters gave a hook, said to
him, ‘Go on with your work ; Rome lias great need
of those hooks.’ ”
The statistics of the mission, as announced to the
Convention in 1871, were “ W. N. Cote, M. D.,
