Home and Foreign Journal, May 1873

. [Published -Monthly by the Three Boa h of the Southern -Baptist Contention. Vol. 5-jSTew Series. RICHMOND, MAT, 1873. hQME&FOREIGNJOURNAL . - EDITOR. renthBE» XOWTHLY BI T!1B r 3f<t »f th« Strother* Bapthit Cenventkjn. TERMS: Tb* poeiHBti to which 'be ha* been .assigned requires a rsro combination ef qualities. Tb* HaptUt miteionary at Лото mutt be dfeeivet, able, judicious, practical, pious,, and above all reproaob. lie mutt have the oohfidenoe of bis brethren at home, and be ablo to- win that Pi the Italians. Dr. Taj lor baa all tbeae qndllff- catione. Не !н above all triok, artiSoc, 4* p*o- j fence; what bo mm to be be Ц. Ilia mine - mrv trj^ лт **№**••■• BS b- a. corr— 1 *кя*ву. ИгЬимА V». * 10 1 ie vigorous and cultivated. He is patient, and 1 со вгд,| a°d conciliatory ; untiring in labor, hop*»; « oo • lull and pcrticaeloo* ; ha understands raerr; j and whet is of the greateat importance fa a minister of Chrftt, к» loro* АЬе^нм* WwWdf haeffevtffwrtpft' TtKTJmr better than ho lores himself. Hie appointment cannot bat give tbo i liveliest satisfaction. Wo have the strongest | > guarantee that tbe mission to Rome, so bopcfulljr [ ■begun, will be ably and judiciously managed. ) *■ n «-во' elc,iittl l‘*‘ oj tu В». Jij T. mJzt* -Srar — -ulb} * ,, г w-li-w <i 4v man - X V r5i T- rv I • DMrwt S-enrUrj ш ths o ■цг.|„ Пита П far GeorfU, -,'u. ,■ .i-jbec. Oa. T a i-imu. sesot be Trass, ir, f Zid. J B. l-ok ^йА«й|а-22гь» 1 • ie.s aura*. Oomspoadm* Po*tdifSor, ЯяяЮя, %■ '2 CITABJSI. SQUARE JSATTIST CHURCH,.’ When we roaobed Charleston week before bat V JVC 'found e doiply . interesting state of here. The pastor and brethren had been yfo гроте /lights a series of prayer meet- la tbcUleeturc room, and Jbo lectures of fnnaer. In eoncection with pray os в aDd ex- tatiensr ef. the latter, lied aroused maoy i bounds Jo consider th*ir ssuis' need. It was our hi labor vvitli41iee« dear brethren far Mu /-in* Тя TROUT THRU. . .,,hf have great pablic interests ЭД trusted • £T) dBtbt t» be reepoasiblt for tbe meaner -hH, they discharge their t« oat. At proper »•, sat «n ier proper circumstaooee, they ■ repaired to robmit their acts to tbs , "йе R’u~r^ 1 ... . | rtteivea several _ seeing the веек tMrl sad ou.tt lOtTjl ’anti we кВ rejoiced together in H;abwn».af_ubrUi г stand ng to BHieritr ySgbenswe and blessings ; iV\‘9ltl»jfa ‘k>n Febrn a ry Rev. J. A. ^ tapeiMM. "We «его rn- told eince tl»t the occasion one of Tte-sreie preeent, by eo ^ cbbi1btpp\ »mtj№^_ waft ejv aatbwe not church wad great solemrflL On JacfSabb srppothtmenS i ' claims of the the sermon, a .. . . , . ... received one huiutzed and two Collate, a' red judgment of **»« constituent#. . ha5P Bjae(. гесоттев tweatj-fivemdre, Th c ’/rdship. but. a thing necessary mijd j indeed a liberal contribution w few we. - It*" the v ehould give an account ef their .that this ohnreti eoBtntxrtee'fciVoral t h. ,<r. .Ы.К a. T4SS'“K,C,*,k — -1- f tbe Sontbern Baptist Convention ^ HeT j_ д СЬшшЬГие jit tb* beloved „ ,,o-v ve-.r to the body appointing them , honored pastor of tb» church, and is is i,T hv tbe nature of* the owe. The , entwining arouml hiowelf the лвесНош» of - 1* .Ко v^rvio rar,r4M,.T.»«t hr thn ' we i««i pereuadnd that with each lni ,he f'°ple rePr”",'®d b? 'b° band af deacons andlayman as he has to si -•'.r, have a right to know what their j tain he >,Д1 acoompl^lL, great tbinga * Kin* been doing, and how far they j the SaTioux, c-.cmpUshing the work committed A в воиьзаг 8С1СЛ oSTo. ll^VWbold 1чТоГ;5Ц.. them to dnfbjgt »b»i tbe lord commanded', and n«M Mm elf^Und they regarded it SB nccttssary I *0 bo ilmrltd .with Christ in bapt'sm,' as Pitul j says In hie letlsr to tbe Roman chrirtians, with wMsh tbsy were no doubt specially familiar.*' It ia.-Ttry diOfuIt 10 imagine that the men who laboriously hewed out thsrbeptlstvy at the Cata¬ combs i who reared tbs spaoiduc. and ooetly bap¬ tistries of St. Giovanni t)( Route, .of Fbsaneo, Bad of 1'isa ; or who fashioned the MrAeiens. fante, sot tiered so widely, lb rough tbcUffi-mit oonutries of Be rope, bad any sympatlfy vMtji MW number Wl idayirtMl iigmoralon, pouring, and spilnkllng arc all ad- mieslbie— all equally valid. — National Maptiel. As (na my X view tbs Asst My heart h SUsd Andrbtec As It with The tros bets* ms AbS hi my wtM ti Tbs thmuriag Umi Tb»t cM.ur rrseroo upoa tbs Tirol sis. Are steb some ftuid sa. bike tboas'tbsl rssU U Mi. yst In bad see. By viator's parting Os sou. tbe bidden, arm do uis walked Wb«a past tb. Tbs bttgbtlBg And anas. Mi Of loaUIMB dla. ,S ‘. Д In oy fattHihfvqddh At last to IbB p.rf— Wysw. ; . Jmtrmr.wtpmrn a. tfofotomjl ,--. >Tbad yartob in lie Utoto ; C«, SS I too »r as, few *0t art, TV. rich Balsam атш^ , And la tba sttottagiaf Щ& «г» ТЫКВА IK' Ua^y la dotted over wi IpreMly itoslgntd ITALY. * * ТЫК INDIANS. At a time when the excitement produced by the treaoUerous murder of^General Csnby by th« Modooe is so groat, and there is such a gen- (^l|nellng agaiuetthe Indians, it is well that mu- attention ehould Lo turned to the other eido йС^ЯД “*•***•• have no idea that tilO poor, doomed rod man lisa ever had. that honest, blttilly {raatment which be onglit to have is- oeired, even from those who have been osteoal- bly hie friends. When the Government has been disposed to be jut and generous towards him, its good intention# have often beon thwarted bynnprinoipled and almost irresponsible agents. If tbeJodlens have not tiueted the white poople, may it not be beceuso they have been во often deceived by them f If they have been orucl nnd traacherous, may they not have been following tbo example of the white adventurers whobave Hvad among them as Government agents i The following from a correspondent of tbo IPufcA- ma and X’Jltctor is timely and interesting : Probably most of the readers of tlm IVafcA- твт and llrfipator know that under tbe present . Indian policy the different tribes ere aeeiguod to tbe isrioue religions denominations, and that tbo latter, through their representative*, nomi¬ nal» responsible ageate, who are appointed by the President. Thcee agents report to the In¬ dian Commissioners at Washington, requesting j stock appropriations ns in their judgment are ' atwssry for the tribes they have in charge, j .«tod from funds voted b_v Congress the commit- meet these requests, so for. as they oxirj A NEW DEPARTURE, There te nn increasing desire on the per t of our brethren that the plans of the 1 taa cst MAI le¬ sion Board should be somewhat changt f. The change d sailed is indicated in the I. lowinir extract from » letter written by Dr. Ui:m : “ fo occurs to me there must he eon.' lustier (Tsy to do the work ot the Marion Heard. Why' should it be always grating oroollkling with cur Slate sud Disti ict organisation l Why so much frietion and unnecessary labor sail ex¬ pense f why not lei (lie older States Uo their они work by their State and leoal orgahisto- Uene, and t h» Mxrioa Bparjf . ''' gions beyond 1" Tills comes from Kentuoky. A eimilec eng- gestion reaches us from Maryland. Tiro overr wakeful Dr. J. W. M. Williams, ot Baltimore, writes : “ I would sturgesc that the older Statem through the, г Stale BoArds end District Aewool- aticsis, supply their own destitution, and whetT orer is raised for the DoeneoHo' Hoard be scut directly to . Marion, with tho diettnot under¬ standing that It is to he spent la regions be¬ yond. “ I/ any State has no State Board, preferring lo send all its ooatributions to. the DomeetK Board, 1st it he understood that only, a.certefn portion shall come bsck to them, thoreetRO Jo the Indians and other deslhnte rogioas. Tbin - will simplify the wok, and increase the power of the Board.” • There are some things that паке us fk^ik that Dr- Sumner favoi a the plan here proposed - Some of the States that have heretofore mads' use of the Domestic Mission Board to carry on aU tbs missionary work in their own borders, are disposed to have organizations of their own.. Let them have them. State Boards end tbs, General Board move in different spin tvs Ulbep need he no oollision between them. P»ne«A$r the piano proposed by Drs. Helm and Willioraa may solve all the difficulties in the working#! our Missionary Boards. _ ' SHAWL-STRAPS AND 6PDRGE0N. While in London, the autborecs of '* 3hawIJ Birape,” as she relates, went to bear Spnrgees. After a spicy deociiption of her troubles in Boding the way alone into one of the worst parte of Loudon, she sals: ■' Tliei e certainly was neod of a tabemacla in that ni^gtcf. ЮГ'ШЬ потопу and wMkWSVse' were v'ery ,ii" Boys not yet iutbvir.lyis gtoggsredb . .tipsy ; bonhotlu» gkfo.ja»«Md.Abdut~ -ii 2c otl*er vrTltiif -*. A*cng with the work assigned them, . li-r a right to expect that there mil be 4 rcnroosble amount of confidence in r I'l'ic'err.i and integrity. In the dia- rr I'icir duty they will sometimes have j r **> ,t i- best abeolutefr, but what is ' >,.•■> . riT.;„mstances allow. The lack of j • lick of men, or some unforeseen | ' • • ' -Ы.о raiehap, may mar tbeir plane | ii' -mt -uccesi. They will sometimes j li, iu nrs, which at the time they can- , irlsiD . cut for doing which they have ' -1 ii-rcfitive reasons. They cannot al- i’ie public know why they mako or I ■ v.thdraw an appointment. Boards ! V. bmilieshave them secrets which j '■'*? innocently keep, and which if rc- , - . r- ,H 'jQ\y d0 harm. At the very least 1 v ' pect that we will believe that they • ir-'!-fely or intentionally betray the 1 ■* ...r.j jD them. 1 '• ■- - I .ure that oor Boards have not , - '-I i i right to explain ; and that we • '■ -‘-'I them as fully and as implicitly j It is not certain that this die- ; - - : -•n.etimea been an obetaole in tbe j n'i4»;s. Xo believe, and to make ! • ■ • c. that money contributed for J v Domeetic Missions or Sunday- "i Ke judiciously expended ; that • ' ' 1 in Paying useless agents, or in -i -naive machinery ; that the • i "dv-ssre wilful and dictatorial ; ut to paralyse their energies and ■' fountains of Christian liberality Г vis have done things y/hicli we ti'i.r.tand, wo have sometimee bean ' 1 . believe that they have been in- , ' ' unworthy motive*. We have with- •l'-m that confidence without which ’ t Kork together in a common cauee- - • •• '■> rone. It is in violation of that ' • -li helieveth all things and hopeth и з Ida to the tnmlens of our agents, - njuri.nu to our cause. Let us select • pret-ntative* able and true men, and "* b tb* jortiee to believe that bccon'' kfiaves or fools as soon ns r'“ "fficc. . . . - . „ -•***&> it there war to bo a baptism, and hence the crowd, even to the fill¬ ing up of «isles. After the sermon from the words, “ Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth are named,” tbe pulpit receded be¬ hind the curtains and exposed to view a largo pool of clear water. The pastor presently ap¬ peared and read n fovr passages from tbe New Testament, teaching the immersion of believers, and after a short prayer he led into the water a yonozlady, and said : “ Then answered l’etir, con any man forbid water, that these' should not bo baptized which have received-the Holy Ghost as well as wc f And he commanded them to be baptized in tbe name of the Lord.” He then buried her in the watery grave, and the choir sang those beautiful lines : “Jott ы I am without on* pW*», Bat that thy blood *s s tbed me. Aitd thiti thoa bidet mt come to tbe* : О Lunb uf God, X соше ! X come 1 And tbns, one after another, they followed Jeans into tho water, when, last of all, the pas¬ tor led Xoith his oldest daughter, a lovely girl of thirteen. His heart wsb full, his utterance c.boked, hut, controlling his feelings, he said : “ My child, upon a confession of your faith in tho * Lamb of God, who taketb awav the sin of the world, ’ I baptize thee,” Sc. Look at that vast assembly, they are bushel — they seem to hold their breath ! Hod is speakine, oh ! how solemnly antlappealingly, to every heart, and — • they weep, yw, strong men weep ; indeed there are few dry eyes here to-night. The choir sang, “ Glory te to the father and to the Son," Ac. It is over. It hod boo# dene as Jesus com¬ manded, and many hearts went home to ponder over tbo things they had seen, and many went home to lift a prayer of devout gratitude to Ged for the sermon they hod witn tweed that night — a sermon preaching Jeeus, bis burial and resurrection. - Hall. BOTWelgn Riae. that toal began Tbe мЬаае to re*cue Ы1*о «ив." - A. W. Lawab, in Working Christian. I- ’■ ЧЕ0- B- TAYLOR, D. D. w-writ brother has been appointed • "ti/Ti. Rome. He h'as signified his ae- '2" ,o'i,i°n’ *Dd »ш shortly t»n . . . He is comparatively a young ‘ 'j' ' 1,1 completed his fortieth year ; le l.as won a nstional reputation. He . ., j { ^ * 'ea^*n* 'nfinence among tho ■X ,гг'я'в> ,nd oo man in the Stato Ыт 1 esreer of wider influence. . . / ° -Crtion we have heard against his owe is that ho will leave so wide a e • . " <* his own «ountry, and his l;re will be so difficult to fill. A FRENCH TRIBUTE TO JUDSON. Pasteur Bersier, one of tho moet eloquent and inflnential pastors of France, in a mission¬ ary discourse delivered not long since at the Oratoire, tbe largest protestant church of Paris, pays a beautiful tribute to our immortal Jud- non. In a rapid glance at missions orer the earth, he first soys : “ I salute, in passing, the fine Karen phurches with their one hundred thousand proselytes, converted through the apostolic eiTorte ot tho intrepid Judson.” And then, in a note, he adds, for the information of his readers, »“ Judson, an American mission¬ ary, had first repaired to Uindoostan, from which ho was driven by the East India Company in 1813. This banishment bccam? tbe unex¬ pected cause of tho establishment of a mission in Bnrmah. Haviog fled into this empire, Jud- son had to struggle against obstacles which would have discouraged every other man. Per¬ secuted, repeatedly imprisoned, shamefully abused, threatened with the moet cruel punish¬ ments, he pursued, for forty years, his most heroic ioLn'stry. Ills pious companion contrib¬ uted largely, by her faith, her devotion, and her intellectual endowments, lo tho marvellous success of his work. The name of JudBon is almost unknown in France ; the lightest theat¬ rical writer enjoys a greater reputation amoDg ns. This good man is.'ncTertbclesei'ono.bfthe great characters of /tho nineteenth centdry, one of. those -before whom posterity * <U Vw- Watchman arid Reflector "the famous li i'uBH^'ii u by Ghiberti are among the richest ornamkhta in the city. The htoptistry itself was destroyed by one of the Medici in the sixteenth century. It was twelve feet in diameter. This was, of course, large enough for tho immersion of any person. Bo, a lev *re those at Verona, at Pisa, and that of A. Giovanni in Fonts, In Iloas. The latter is circalar, more than twenty fact in diameter, and fully three feet deep. At present aatotaller baptistry stands in its cento*. It is probably seven feet long and two and * half feet wide, and about the earn-, depth. It* dimensions are nearly the same as those of th» handsome por¬ phyry baptistry in tho Bibli*kaqus Rationale in Paris, in which, it is said*, that Clovis was baptized in the fifth century. The brptietry in Rome is said to be the one ito^hioh Constantine was baptized. Of course thitofe a mistake, hut its history goes back to a very early date, to tho third or fourth century. Another remarkable baptistry, also of a тегу early date, ie that in tbe Cataoemb of St. Гоп- zisno, on the Janiculum Ilili. Tbe bill seems to be honeycombed iu every direction by these re¬ ceptacles for the dead. In vimting the baptistry we had to pass along a narrow avenue for pro¬ bably a quarter of a mils. This avsnuo is not more than four or five feet . wide, and but little higher than the bead of a -man. On esoh side are recesses dug out of tbe: rock, on whioh the bodies of the dead were laid. Lateral passages branched off at various paints to the right nnd left oa our route. These we did not explore. At length we cams to sdeacandtngflightof nar¬ row steps, which led to a platform not more than four or five feet squetoi -Jtslow the level of this was tbo haptietry„/our and a half feet | long, three and a half feet wide, and the lame vada. It wae к very fovtoroats da у fotrthe Piute ' j Indians, when, under tbe new policy, Ilev.C, A. ! Bateman, for many rears general missionary of tbe Home Mission Society, was appointed agent ' tio " ‘ ~ in depth. It wae filled with bright, Clearwater, во clear that tbe lights from our little tapers enabled us easily loses tbe bottom. Directly la front, as we asms down the steps, was an arched recess, into whioh the baptistry extended. On tbo wall above this arch is on ancient fresco representing tbe baptism of the I-ord. He is standing in the water np to His loins. At His left is John ibo Baptist, ns though about to iy memo Him- On His right is an angsl Iioh tho Lord’s garments. There is also on t eiilo a hart — a frequent emblem of thejw desiring baptism. It war suggested by the words of the Psalioiat, ,l«lj panteth after tbs water brooks.", symbol I found in tbe chureh-of S' tho ninth century, in Ljren*, Ы tion as to show beyond a dou really is. t As I stood beside the in the Cataosmh ot Bt. '•This is the work ai fourteen ccnturie* ag out of the roek tide dttotfi like tbo BaptistajsC tbo in one rcapccti they th for this tribe. By invitation of brother Bateman, I Visited bun at his house, in IV adswortb, Nevada. | Wadsworth is put down in tho guiJo book as j containing about eight hundred inhabitants, I though my impresaicu is that they d&AiOt num- I ber more than three hundred. It-is distant I from Omaha fifteen hundred aAd . eighty-seven | miles; from Saeramento one hundred and eighty- I nine miles. Here is located one of tho division i workships at tbs Central Pacific railroad, nnd from this point goods are revhipped to a number of rfiliung towns off the line at the railroad. Of the population of WadeWbrth only one be¬ side brother Bateman ever made any profession of religion, ami that one hue nearly forgotten it. A more lonely home for a warm-hearted minister of Jesus it would bo hard, to find. Vtxily ho lias need of faith in the assurance, “ Lo, I sm with you.” There is not a Baptist church in the State of Nevada. The name *• Indian agent ” has had the Baffle I significance in tho West that “ Government oen- ; tractor ” hail here during the war. There may have been honest Indiau agents, but people in the territories don’t believe it. Consequently, when Christian men, urged by. desires to serve God and humanity, accepted appointments under tile new policy, they found, on reaching their fields that white men and Indiana alike rooeived them with distrust ; and before they could accomplish anything they were obliged tu face the unthankful task of removing tho stig¬ ma that attached to them or account of thoir office. Л ride of nine miles from Wadsworth beiiini two balky, mustang ponies, over tho alto plains, brought us to я little Sf»ot of- fifty* which being susceptible of irrigation apportioned to thirty-nine Piutsll*' under direction of brother Bet**"' one year made thie portion of-' literally to bud and hlossy-^ this one year theee Injf miles of dilcb, brought.^ nror to this id*t, th» planted jit with vr’ i harvested as gp'*^ I the West. ,*Г thirty-nim' furnish' that tair Sunday; “ Crowds were swartnlng zato the t.i Every Beat, aisle, window-ledge, step and way were packed with a strange to rr*.'e _\i t.„n , ; all colors, all ages, and neatly all bearing tba.” sad marks of poverty or sin. They oil eizng — cried out, if anything affected or plqased'-tham . in the sermon , and listened with in tensest Inter.-' ert to the plainj'yet fervent, word* of .the man who Ъоэ gathered together this flopk of . bluet , sheep, and is so faithful a shepherd to them-. Every one knows how Snnrgeon looks in idetaros. A square, florid face, stout figure, a fine; keen eye, and a natural, decided manner, veryisu-- pressivei a strung, clear vows, with much, drams tie power, and a way of walking tbo pulpit like Father Taylor. 14 His sermon was on ‘Small Temptations,* and he illustrated it by facte and examples taken from real life, pointing out Bsveral vd bis con¬ gregation, and calling them by name, which original proceeding seemed to find favor with ' hie people, lie used no notes, hot talked rather than preached ; and, leaning over the ratling, urged, aigued, prayed, and sang with я hearty . eloquence decide liy refreshing after "the High Church atutamery abroad and drowsy Ur dla--,* nanism ' Ti Jfp ~~ " RDd then he stopped to* give directions l^r.the comfort of his flooj;h ii-c — *- lice and easy imwlner, which .exiled — - tible smiles on the faces «•* Flacker, you’d b»” unto- room ; b-'- tbers’s pt dowe^ the \r ' f «b'-'V' ■ii.