Foreign Mission Journal, December 1884

FOREIGN MISSION JOURNAL! rubllHlicit monthly by tlic Foreign Mission lionril of tho Southern P.apllst Convention. "ALb ROWER ISGmSN UNTO ME IN HEAVEN AND IN EARTH. GO YE, THEREFORE, AND TEACH ALL NATIONS.” Vol. 16 — New Series. RICHMOND, VA„ DECEMBER, 1S84. No. 6.— Whole No. 197. it i elin I’cet-OlUre at llldunoiiii, Л'л., h»<coiuI-c1iiih mitt ter.] Foreign Mission Journal RATES PER ANNUM: I Kor p • |м*гн Bi'ibiriitMly nildronxeil, Hlhrr to i>aino ж to ilil!«*n,nt jio'tolllcon: fill** copy . ЯЯМи. Tlll-OIOJIIHI* Avfll, nr . ЯЗЯ ot«. Iiplero II For |>:»rk:l|:**H M‘»t to one j.or#-on, who »linll In- reH'oncihb* tor tIHr tlMrll.tillon : l-our oopu*» for M or тог» nt . ‘23 rt n. n pi нес. TwviitVflv • c-opli'N for *\ or mori* ill.... 'juris и I Hi re. Оно 1 1 и ml red ropl-e for tlf», or того ut 10 ct*. aptcvi*. *i-ricnse remit by Draft, I'oital Order, or In Regis¬ tered Letter, ami notify us гкомгпл'оГ any change in iddress. Address, FOKUIGN MISSION JOURNAL. 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Ti Won. tsOT All communications in reference ( о the b item cm of this Hoard .should he addressed to H. A. Tvppbr, CorrteponHing Secretary, thrhmuud, I’u • OUR NEW RATES. As may be seen above, the special rates ottered during tho summer months will he continued. They involve a reduction of about one-fourth from the previous terms. This reduction is made on tho principle frequently heretofore announced, viz., that не desire the receipts from subset iptions to c»vcr the cost of publication and nothing more. It is proper to add that the reduction is made partly because of the increase in number of subscribers already obtained, partly with the hope of securing a still larger circulation. To be entirely candid, we must say that the present number of sub¬ scribers at the rates now offered, will hardly pay the necessary expenses, hut we confi¬ dently rely upon them not only to renew when their time expires, but to induce otliers also to subscribe. We particularly request our friends to in- incsease the number of copies ordered rather than reduce the amount of annual re¬ mittances. Thus, one who has been taking a single copy at .TO cts. a year can get two neighbors to unite with him, send us Я and order three copies ; one who lias been get¬ ting three papers at $1 can forward the same and got four ; one who has been getting ten copies nt Я’, can now get twelve; one who has heretofore sent $10 for forty copies can order fifty, and so for the rest. Thus the Joikn.u. will lie kept on a self-sustaining basis, while by being more widely read, it will better subserve its purpose of exciting and maintaining an intelligent interest in our foreign Mission work. The paper is printed for tire benefit mid at die- cost of its readers. Tire more tire benefit is distributed, the greater it is lo any we, but the more the cost is distributed, the is it is to any one person. For two reasons, therefore, every reader ought to get others to join him. Our next move will be 10 '"crease tire size, which we promise to do as soon as tire subscription list will justify 1 'e increased expense, possibly next August, Possibly a year later. One other remark. Subscribers are uoti- le< Postal when their terms expire. If DAILY BREAD. I lie drafts upon our treasury have been unusually heavy for the past two months. Besides the regular quarterly drafts for salaries and current expenses of the mis¬ sions, there has been one for $0,001) for the purchase of property at Chin-kiang and otliers for the outfit and travelling expenses of the twelve new missionaries, who have sailed for Africa and for China; and yet the money has come in to meet them all. The receipts have been larger titan was ever known before at this season. And what is still more worthy of grateful mention is the striking fact that it lias come to hand just when it was needed. For example, the Corresponding Secretary drew from New York, upon what was when lie left home an empty treasury, for about ft, not) to pay* passage- fine, S:c., of tile four who sailed to Lagos, and before lit- draft reached iiicimioiul just enough to meet it was sent up from various churches. A few days later he drew from Louisville for some $2,000 for llie party going to China, and the same tiny that the draft arrived came also enough of contributions to pay it. And so it has been all through these months. Verilt, verily the same God who puts it into the heart of one to carry tiie gospel to the heathen, puts it into the hearts of otliers to send him and sustain him. Ours is as truly at home as abroad, a work of faith. Still more notable is it that the needed supply does not come in one or two large sums, but in a number of small ones, from all over the countiy, teaching us that while we rely upon God, we must expect him to work oil and through the masses of the peo¬ ple. There are in the Southern BnptistCou volition comparatively few who can give their thousands, but there are thousands who can give a hundred, or fifty, or ten, or five, or even a few cents, and the aggregate of all these will lie enough lo carry on the l.ord's work. It has been proposed through the weekly- papers that the season may be most appro¬ priately observed by a thank-offering to the Giver of all blessings, in a generous contribu¬ tion for llie spread of the gospel. As issug- gesled in the sixty-seventh Psalm, when we make known his saving health among all nations then God, our own God. shall bless IIS. Our regular work is constantly enlarging and will need more and more of working and praying and giving. It is, however, much farther South, being in about the same latitude with Central America. - and У. There are half a dozen or more societies working among the Telugus. The pioneer was the London Missionary Society, which opened a station at Vizngapatam, on the coast nearly mid- way between Calcutta and the Cape, in 1SD0, but not meeting with success, almost abandoned it for a season, but have now a strong force of laborers. Hut we presume our brother is asking about the mission which six years ago drew tiie attention of the whole Christian world. It was authoiized by a vote of the old Trien¬ nial Convention, held in Richmond in 1838, and was begun by sending out in September Rev. S. S. Day and wife. They readied Cal¬ cutta in February, 183i>, went first to Viznga¬ patam, but soon to Madras, the capital of the district, and after four years to Nellore, where lie baptized the first Telugu convert, the second was baptized in 1843. Thus for about thirty years the work went on with your comfort, hope and strength; little appreciable result. Twice at least the sai^'. ‘ ':?• 1 FT1.1' alway, eve OUR QUESTION BOX. I am pleased that there is to be a Question )!ox in tiie Journal and submit the follow ing: 1. Where is the Telugu country? Describe, so it can lie located on a common school atlas. 2. When was the mission established? 3. By whom ? •J. Mow many have been baptized among the Telugus ? fi. How many in any one day? E. L. C. I. The Telugus arc a race of people num¬ bering about 20 millions. They have no separate government of their own, therefore no definite boundaries. Nine-tenths of them live along the eastern coast of Hindustan, (/'. c. north and west of the Hay of Bengal,) between Calcutta and Cape Comorin, the rest are scattered through India. The Telugu country, or that in which most of them live and in which they are tiie most numerous, though not tiie only inhabitants, is about equal in size and shape to tiie South Atlantic States, from Maryland to Florida, inclusive. Missionary Union seriously considered the propriety of giving it up and sending their men and means to more hopeful fields. Yet all this time Mr. Day, with his associates and successors, Jewett, Douglass and Clough, kept on faithfully preaching the word. •I and The great ingathering began in 1КПЗ and culminated just after a terrible famine in IS7S. In July of llie year last named, Mr. Clough with his assistants, bap¬ tized 7,513 ; 3,530 of them were baptized in three clays ; bow many in any one day we have not been able to ascertain. The whole number baptized that year was 1(1,001. (For fuller information, see report of Board of Missionary Union, 1ST!), and tracts entitled “The Lone Star,” and "Mission to the Telugus ") The mission was divided in 1873, a part being assumed by our Canadian brethren. Their stations shared in the gracious season, but we have before us no report of their statistics. The Missionary Union in its last annual report counts 34 Telugu churches, and 20.1 stations, 10 American missionaries, men and women, 174 native preachers, 2,719 baptisms, and a total membership of 24,508. Adding the membership of llie Canadian Mission, over 1,000, and allowing for deaths, we estimate that over 30,000 Telugus have been baptized within nine years. ploits in (lie rear of their armies. Herscliel would have made a poor astronomer if lie had Kept his eyes on the stars till he stepped ihto a ditch and broke his neck. One of our missionaries could not see this until the Secretary wrote her, " You think you are making a martyr of yourself; you are not; you arc only digging a suicide's grave.” It has been asked, was Paul inspired when lie sent back to Troas for Ids cloak ; 1 think he was. "Second— Cultivate that rarest grace, com¬ mon sense. Get along with your fellow-mis¬ sionaries by all the graces, gifts and common sense. Do this despite the bad example of those two distinguished missionaries, Paul and Barnabas. “Take it for granted that the Foreign Mis¬ sion Board is interested in foreign missions, and that their experience gives them an ad¬ vantage over otliers. More missionaries fail for lack of common sense than from all other causes combined. “ Do not expect to perform in a day the work of a lifetime or of a century. The systems are progressive, are tiie growth of ages. It is given you to preach tiie gospel; it is God’s to give tiie result. Look to Jesus. This is my hit word to you, look -to him for *i; lie lias , . en to the end.’ May God bless you for his own Son’s sake.” THE FAREWELL MEETING. The Courier- Journal of October tile 20th gave a full report of the meeting held at Broadway church, Louisville, Ky., on Sun¬ day evening, October lftli, to take leave of the six missionaries then cn route for China. Addresses were made by Drs. J. M. Weaver, Green Clay Smith and II. A. Tapper. We greatly regret lack of room for the full re¬ port of all these excellent discourses. Dr. Weaver presented clearly and forcibly four essentials to success in mission work, viz: 1. Confidence in the message as of God, and in its adaptation to'lhe end dcsiretl. 2. A thorough conviction that God is living and acting to-day in the world. 3. Constant, concious contact with him ill daily commu¬ nion. 4. An eye fixed on the promised glory, the certain reward. Gen. Smith discussed our obligations to sustain llie missionaries while working with them and for them in our own separate sphere at home. The Corresponding Secretary gave the departing brethren some practical advice, which we condense from the imperfect re¬ port: “ My first advice is, lake good care of your health. You may think a good soldier is reckless of his life ; I suspect that Ctcsar, Bonaparte and Lee made their mightiest ex¬ Л very interesting letter from brother Hal¬ comb, dated August 1 4th, was handed to tiie printer two months ago, but was omitted for want of room, and is now almost out of date. We regret that it was crowded out, and promise our brother not to let another as good letter from him siiare the same fate, it told of several visits to Shang-Tswang, and the cheering signs of a revival in the church there, which after years of alienation and coldness, determined to resume regular services, called brother Halcomb to the pas¬ torate and opened a school, the teacher to conduct religious worship in the pastor’s ab¬ sence, and to lie supported entirely by the church. The Livingstone Inland Mission, with its seven stations on land and one steamer afloat on the Congo, will be, after January 1st, 1885, under the charge of the American Baptist Missionary Union, Tiie cost to the English brethren who established it, in 1878, has been about $150,00(1. While transferring the responsibility to the Boston Board, tliey will continue to contribute to its support and extension. Our little band on the Niger will most heartily sympathize with the more imposing work on the larger river, south of them. We look for a great revival of in¬ terest all over the United States in African Missions. Two Mexicans are at the Southern Bap¬ tist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Ky. Senor M. J. Gaza was for some years a Pres¬ byterian pastor, we believe, at Palos, and is said to lie a most excellent preacher. He lias been baptized, and is seeking to learn the way of the Lord more perfectly. The other, Senor J. M. de la Fitentc, is a promising young brother of Saltillo. Rev. Wm. Dean, D. D., in his seventy- eighth year, and after fifty years of mission¬ ary life, mainly at Bangkok, Siam, landed the other day in New York. He proposes, after resting awhile with a son and other relatives in this country, to return. A letter from brother Bagby, telling of tiie formation of a church at Rio and of tiie prospects that open to him in that great city, is crowded out of this issue. If we had been setting the types ojirselves we should have left out something else to make room for this. The Fiji islanders have about forty-thou¬ sand church-members among them, and are sending missionaries to the New Guinea savages.