Foreign Mission Journal, September 1888

t : • . iiiid г * •• . ! ^ vhJj • 1 . .-.л!:. PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE POltEIGN MISSION BOARD OF THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONTENTION. .,()[ ,\s '\\f. К»>1ЯЯ0Ч •ALL POWER IS GIVEN UNTO ME IN HEAVEN AND IN EARTH. GO YE, THEREFORE, AND TEACH ALL NATIONS." = Vol. 20 — New Series. RICHMOND, VA., SEPTEMBER, 1888. . No. 2 — Whole No. 242. (Enured at the Poet-Office at Richmond, Va., as second-class matter.] Foreign Mission Journal. RATES PER ANNUM: X. For papers separately addressed, olther to same or to different poet offices : One copy . . . . . ЗЛ cts. Three copies @$1, or . . . . . 33 Hots, apiece. TI. For packages sent to one person, who shall be responsible for their distribution j Fonr copies for $1, or more at . 23 cts. apiece. Twenty-flve copies for $3. or more at . 20 cts. apiece. One Hundred copies for $13, ormoreat..lOcis. apiece. O* Please remit by Draft, Fostnl Order, or In Regis¬ tered Letter, and notify us гпомгтьу of any change In address.' Address. FOREIGN MISSION JOURNAL, Richmond, Va. ADVERTISING RATES. BJ’AOB. One Inch,,..,,.,. Two Inohes...... Three Inches.,,., aunrter column. alf colamn.-... One column . 1 Month. 3 Months в Months 12 Months S 45 в 43 9 20 13 00 25 23 60 00 « 60 12 50 18 00 25 00 48 00 92 M) 12 00 22 50 32 00 48 00 90 00 178 00 FOREIGN MISSION BOARD OF THE 80UTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION, Locatxd AT RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. Puksidxnt— II. II, IlAnnis, Уюж-Рпхвтхятя.— Joshua Levering, Md„ C. W. Tomkle», La.. Л. В Owen, Va.. N. Л. Halley. Fla., W. L. WrlRbl, N.O., O.P.Ragby.Ky., W, O. ВЫ- p jo, Alabama, J. I*. Greeno, Mo., II. II. Carroll, Texas, Vf. L. Kilpatrick, Oa., Obae. Manly, S. 0., J. M. Senter, Tenn., J. B. Searcy, Ark,, George Whitfield, Mies., W. F. Attkleeon, W. Va, ОоппжягоэттгоВжспхтлпу— Н.Л. TUPPER. ASSISTANT ЗЕСКВГАВГ, T. P. BELL, ТпхАвоахв— J. O. WILLIAMS. Rxoobdino Sxcbxtart— A. B. CLARKE. AUDITOn— H. C. BURNETT. BOARD or J.Iakaoers — II. K. Ellyeon, J. П. Win- • ton, О. II. Winston. W. E. Hatcher, J. Pollard, Jr., 8. O. Olopton, .T. B. Hntion. W. D. Thomas, IV. TV. Landrnm, TV. J. Shipman. Geo. Cooper, O.H. Hyland, H. C. Bnrnott, T. r.Mathews, R. H. Pitt, R.S. Bcshor. ЛЯГ All communications in reference to the business of this Board should be addressedto H. A. Tuppkr, Corresponding Secretary, Richmond , Va. DEPARTURE OF MISSIONARIES. Rev. Hartwell R. Moseley left Greenville, S. C., on the 14th of August, for his field of labor at Saltillo, Mexico. He is the ad¬ vance guard of the little army of helpers for whom brother Powell has been praying and talking so long. Brother Moseley will be stationed at Saltillo. Miss Fannie Е. Russel), of Virginia, also left under brbther Moseley’s care for Sal¬ tillo, on her way to Gaudaiajara, where she will assist Rev. D. A. Wilson, she talcing charge of the school and assisting in other mission work. Rev. J. A. Barker and wife expect to sail from Newport News on the first of Sep¬ tember for their field in Bahia. Brazil, where they will enter on their work in con¬ nection with Rev. 7.. C. Taylor. ( Next month we hope to announce the departure. of quite a number more. The equipping and sending to' their fields of labor of these workers requires a large amount of money, far more than is being received by the Board. Cannot some of our churches and friends help us in this time of need ? MISS MINA EVERETT. This consecrated worker, who, it will be remembered by our readers, was compelled to leave Bahia, Brazil, on account of her health, and who has been intensely anx¬ ious to work for the salvation of those who are in the bonds of Romanism, has been appointed by the State Board of Texas to labor among Mexican women in San An¬ tonio. There are said to be 10,000 Mexi¬ cans in that .city, and our sister will have ample scope there for the exercise of her consecrated zeal and untiring energy. We bid her God-speed in ,her noble work and trust that many of Mexico’s children may by her be led from darkness into light. MONEY FROM VIRGINIA, Moneys for Foreign Missions from Vir¬ ginia should be sent to Norvell Ryland, Esq., Treasurer of the General Associa¬ tion. in order that the proper credit may be given to the churches and district Asso¬ ciations. At stated times brother Ryland makes returns of all such moneys received by him .to tlie.iBoard of Foreign Missions of the Southern-Baptist Convention. •••••••••••••••«a* v . i'di REV. GEORGE B, TAYLOR, D. D-, Son of Rev. James B. Taylor, D. D., the first Corresponding Secretary of the Foreign Mission Board. " Born in Richmond, Va., and studied at Richmond College,” and at University of Virginia. Was called by the Board, while pastor at Staunton, Va., to take charge of the Italian mission March 3d, 1873. Is at present in Rome, with the oversight of all the churches, the present nourishing condition of which is largely due to his wise direction. A VISIT TO THE CONVENTIONS OF ALA¬ BAMA, LOUISIANA AND MISSISSIPPI. It seems a little strange that these ex¬ treme Southern States should hold their Conventions in mid-summer, when the more northerly ones have all fixed their meetings in the fall. So the Alabama brethren felt, and changed their time of meeting from July to November. They will meet hereafter during the last week in No¬ vember. Louisiana also changed her time of meeting, but only from the first week in July to the first in August. This was done to enable the brethren who farm to lay by their crops and attend the meetings. This seemed a wise move to us, as we rode through some of the beautiful farming sec¬ tions of the State, and hoped that the own¬ ers of some at least of the magnificent plantations we saw were Baptists, and might by the change, be induced to attend the Convention and catch something of the missionary spirit which possesses it. This Convention is small in numbers, represent¬ ing a constituency of only about 20,000 Baptists, but it is full of zeal and energy, and through the efficient labors of its Board of Missions and the missionaries employed by it, is doing much to spread the truth as we hold it among the people of the State. The Board has had two excellent mission¬ aries among the French people, and has just secured the services of another. These brethren have found much to encourage them in their work, and several French Baptist churches attest the success of that work. Our Home Mission Board is going to give much-needed help to the Louisiana brethren in this and their other work. Nor do these Louisiana brethren forget the “re¬ gions beyond.” Each year for several past they have given more than their quota to Foreign Missions, and this year, when the Board asked them to increase their quota from $1,250 to $2,000, they gladly said "yes” to the request, And they mean to raise it, The brethren of Alabama gathered at Talladega with anxious hearts, burdened by the partial failure of Birmingham to ful¬ fill the pledges made last year to Howard College, and upon faith in which the col¬ lege was removed to that city. It was feared that there might be strife and resulting disaster occasioned by this state of things. But, as is so often the case, the greatness of the danger silenced all who might have felt aggrieved by past actions of the body and seemed to weld together the hearts of all the brethren and make them a unit on the subject of the college. That it must remain in Birmingham and that it must be there supported seemed to be the feeling of each and every one, and we venture to predict that the very greatness of its trou¬ ble now will prove a blessing to it in the end, rallying to its support all the hosts of Baptists in the State. Of course the neces¬ sities of the college absorbed a very large part of the attention of the brethren, but they did not neglect other important inter¬ ests of the Lord’s kingdom. The growing demand for houses of worship in the rap¬ idly developing sections of North Alabama led the Convention to appoint a committee, with headquarters at Anniston, whose at¬ tention is to be given wholly to this one work of building houses of worship. Here, too, the request of the Foreign Mission Board for increase of quota was cordially granted, and Alabama's quota fixed at «6,000. With over 1,400 Baptist churches in her bounds, it would be a shame if she (ailed to raise this amount. Part of our mission to this Convention was to consult with some of the brethren as to a suitable successor to the lamented; Dr. Renfroe, as Vice-President of the Board for the State. Rev. W. C. Bledsoe, of La¬ fayette, was so highly recommended by a number of the brethren that we felt he was the pian, and we are glad to be able to an- nounce that he lias been elected to that position by the Board, and has accepted. From Alabama we had to take the road back to Jackson, where the Mississippi Convention was to meet. This was one of the most enthusiastic Convenlions we have ever attended. And there was good cause for enthusiasm. There had been marked advance in every department of Christian work. More money had been given to the Boards of the Southern Baptist Convention than ever before ; the missionaries of the State Board had all been paid in full, leav¬ ing a balance in the treasury ; tile work of ministerial education had been done, up to the meeting of all demands, and a snug little sum was lefl over to begin operations on next year; and last, but not least, for the first time in years, the salaries of the. professors in Mississippi College had all been paid in full, and no debt was to be provided for or carried over to the next year. No wonder it was.a praise meeting. We were glad to be there. The future looked bright to these faithful toilers in Mis¬ sissippi, and as they locked forward their eyes seemed to be more and more.fixed on the regions that lie in darkness. Rev. J. B. Gambrell seemed to voice the sentiment of the Convention when he said that, having their home work in the condition they had longed to see It, they must now look more to the beyond, and enlarging their gifts yet more and more, direct more of them to the sending of the glad tidings into the regions of ignorance and spiritual despair. Mississippi will give the Board the $8,000 asked of her this year, we believe, and with the otb“r States in full accord with the spirit that is manifested by the brethren there, why should not the Board have the $120,000 asked for and needed for its work this year ? "COZEN GEORGE” SICK. A note from Rev. George Braxton Tay lor, the “ Coz, George ” of the Sunbeams, informs us that he is just recovering from an attack of typhoid fevei. We are sure all the Sunbeams will deeply regret his having been ill, but will rejoice with him in his re. covery. His illness will account for the non-appearance of the “Sunbeam Corner this month, as .also for any seeming neglect of his correspondents. He hopes soon to be able to prepare the Sunbeam programme for the fall meeting of the Societies, which will be printed and distributed as soon as possible. We hope soon to hear that, "Coz. George” is himself again. "WHO SHOULD GO." In the August number of the Journal we took the position that it was not absolutely necessary for men to have a full theological training before going out as missionaries, and even that it would be well to send some who had never had anything more than a good college education. We were aware at the time that our views on this question were opposed to those of some of our best and wisest men, and yet we believed, and therefore wrote. We are glad to find that we are in accord on this subject with some at least of our best missionaries. In a card recently received, Rev. J. H. Eager says: " Your article on ‘Who Should Go,’ reflects my sentiments exactly. I can go further and say, that now and then, a man might goto China or Africa who had never been to college.” Miss Lottie Moon, in a letter published in this issue of the Journal, says: “As I saw her (Mrs. Crawford) last week Instructing patiently for hours the men who eagerly gathered around her.mymem- ory was haunted by the words of Scripture ‘that no man take thy crown.’ It seemed to me that here was a woman doing the work of some young man among Southern Baptists of America, who ought to be here, and that when the harvest should be gar¬ nered in heaven, and the laborers receive- their reward, the Master would place on' her head the crown that should have been, his! As was remarked in an editorial. in; the Journal, women are doing their own work and much of that which properly be¬ longs to men. It was also stated elsewhere that no trained young men are offering for, China. More and more some of us on the field are beginning to think that there is great need here ofi earnest Iayrworkers. Consecrated, godly laymen, of sound prac¬ tical sense and good education, would find here a magnificent field for' all their ener¬ gies. The China Inland Mission is largely made up of the lay element. The calls upon us are more than we have time or strength to meet, and the field is constantly widening." Both of these accomplished workers take positions in advance of our own, but not in advance of that taken by the Great Head of the Church in the spread of his gospel among the nations in ages that are past. When a student in the Seminary at Louis¬ ville we were deeply impressed by a re¬ mark made by Dr. J. A. Broadus, to the effect that the great work of extending the kingdom of our Lord in all the ages had been done by obscure men, many of whose names were never known to posterity.. Iu each age a few men have towered above their fellows and become representatives of their; times, and are known the world oyer,- but most , of the work was done,, by the plain, unknown, often comparatively fgrio- rant men. We have need in our 'mission fields of some intellectual giants, but we need equally as much a great number of men of ordinary stature. Men are needed to do the, men’s work ourlady missionaries are doing in China, that these may be about' their own work. Men are needed to, answer those pressing calls that are "more than we have time or strength to meet,” ns Miss M0011 declares. But we laymen, especially business men, prosperous, well-to-do men, are largely responsible. We have not used iour in¬ fluence properly. We have too often made the pastor feel that there are too many calls of need. We have not discriminated in the worthiness and magnitude of chari¬ ties and benevolent objects. There, are influential Baptist men and women' wlio estimate the enriching of а of'wor- ship above the labor that will save n score — it may be, a hundred score— of heathen souls from everlasting torment; who will treat an appeal for a carpet, or clock as generously, and give. it. more' ready con¬ sideration, than the vote' of this body for an advance to the rescue of the. eartli from ruin. They imagine God is so well pleased with a hundred thousand dollars piled over their own heads in a fine edifice, that' a five hundred dollar contribution, to ' the spiritual temple of India or Japan is very laudable in his sight. So said Hon. G. A. Pillsbury.in.lils open¬ ing address to the Missionary' Union tin May. These words deserve being pondered over by our laymen — yea, and bur preachers too. These latter, in' their anxiety to have “the finest house, in the South,’.’ rot unfrcquently turn the stream of their peo¬ ple’s benevolence from the Lord’s work among the heathen— from, the saving of the lost — into their own church treasury, to build for themselves the. " finest house." We all, preachers and people, need the' converting power of the Spirit on this sub¬ ject of missions. But' the above was for laymen. Let them take it to themselves. Here is something he said for pastors: I am compelled to say, brethren, there is a responsibility for this, indifference to missions in high places. Our pastors have been remiss, too neglectful, too timid, too lukewarm in many instances. There are grand exceptions, but God and the people know there are many'riot' guiltless; Loving boldness, fiery energy, constant interest, absorbing attention to our- work abroad, in и pastor, never fails to impress his flock'. One sermon a year on foreign missions will not do it,, but a heart-deep and out-spoken concern will. And there is scarcely a church in all the land which', will not respond to living appealsfrom the pulpit, and respond with' open hands and eager souls. , ‘Last-year we reported the commence¬ ment of the Mission in Cuba; this.year we can write of its successful continuance; ‘In-Cienfuegos, the centre- of the Socie¬ ty’s operations, a great success'. has'.<atten- aed the preaching of the ever-blessed Gos¬ pel ; believers have been baptized and add-, ed, to (the church, and many souls have' been graciously-impressed, and the congre¬ gations have been good, and sometimes the-building has been filled to overflowing' with anxious listeners. ' » 1 .s "There is now a newly’formed Baptist church, with a membership of 180 believe ers.-5 deacons, and 34 inquirers; and day ana Sunday-schools. To God be all the praise." The above extract from tlie annual. re- port of the Jamaica Baptist Missionary So¬ ciety is full 'pf encouragement— the success of this work being, 'second only to the won¬ derful work of tour own Home Mission Board on this Island. In tho. Inst letter Thomas Comber, Africa, ever wroto to the secretary were these words. : — “ Surely thn work of tho Society— now so full of hopo'and promise — will not "be -crip¬ pled for lack of funds ! When I think of tho- bare possibility of this, I long to bo (rich that1 I mlghtglvoa fortune to help on a work that grows dearer and dearer to my-' heart as I know It better. As It Is, I can only glyo myself ; yet I know tho dear Lord will'ac-. cept oven this poor offering. Oh; for- more' S metical- dally sympathy with Ills self-sacri- co,- who, ‘though He was rich,- for our sako became poor.’ -*’ — ■jlfissionary- Herald {Bap' list) London. ‘ • Mr. Comber was a worker onjthe'Congo: Ho fell at Ills post iastyear. God. accepted .tho offering lio made,, jllay his. Spirit cross.-: tho. waters, and rest on’ Some of our'.yoiing'imon- andlcad them' to Africa1.' '' -: .. II p ЭЭЭч "( ИГ’/ Р VIJir-KJ.aDI . 1! .4 • и 11.M.JS I'r.r. . •o'.ii&i’j .faV