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ELZA VINING.
fTnl« sketch was prepared for the “Bioobaphi
CAL COMMSOIUM,’' but did not come to hand
until the printing of that work had bee i comple
ted. We, therefore, give It a place in our
oolunui- J
The subject of this sketch was born in
Jefferson county, Georgia, April 22-1, 1816
Left in early life to the care and training
of a widowed mother, herself in very limited
circumstances, she was unable to give her
children anything like a fair education, but
she made up the deficiency as far as she
could by instilling into their minds and
hearts those principles which underlie cor
rect motives, founded upon the word of God
At the age of twenty-one, her son bound
himself to learn the trade of painter and
glazier, which trade he followed for several
years. At about the age of twenty-five he
was married. His wedded life proved to be
a very unhappy one, and only a few years
elapsed before a final separation became
necessary By this marriage a daughter was
born to him.
While the subject of this notice was not
habitually a very wicker! man, yet, under
the severe trials to which he was subjected
during this married life, and specially for
aome time after this separation, he seemel
to have given loose rein to the baser pas
sions of his nature, even going so far as to
make a mockery of the religion of the Bible.
But, during his wild and reckless career,
God saw fit to lay the hand of affliction on
him, and so severe were his sufferings that
he often said that he felt the very torments
of hell get hold of him, and that he never
expected to eat or sleep any more. When
all hope of recovery seemed shut out, he
cried unto the Lord to have mercy upon,
and to deliver him, and the Lord heard him,
and spoke peace and coraf >rt to his soul, and
delivered him out of his afflictions.
On recovering, his first business was to
search the Scriptures as to the line of duty
He also early sought the counsel of the pions
people of God. Among the first was his
aged godly mother, then the ministers of
Jesus; and, after long prayerful search in
the word of God, and attending on the min
istry, his decision was to unite with the
Missionary Baptist cfiurch at Reedy Creek,
Warren county, Georgia He was received
upon his experience of grace, and baptized
into its fellowship by that venerable man of
God, Elder Jonathan Huff
Soon after uniting with the church, he felt
that he was called of God to preach, and,
after exercising in public a year or two, was
ordained to the full work of the ministry.
Shortly after his ordination he felt con
strained to visit and labor among the desti
tute regions of Southern Georgia, and one or
two years werespent in teaching and preach
ingin Telfair, Irwin and adjoining counties.
From these fields of labor be went to Madi
son county, Florida, and from a letter writ
ten September 16th, 1847, to brother Walter
Stapleton, this extract was taken : “I am,
perhaps, in the most destitute section of
country that you have ever seen. I am, and
have been, entirety alone. I have tried to
preach the gospel where it was never
preached before, and I believe my labors
nave been blessed. My privations and toils
are, perhaps, beyond your conception. I
have been compelled to take my preaching
tours fifty miles on foot, and wade branches,
creeks and ponds, and travel with blistered
feet to reach those destitute people. I see in
The Index missionaries complaining of their
privations and wants, while receiving a good
compensation; but they have yet one thing
to learn, that is, to live without bread to eat,
much less butter, and not complain ; —this I
have had to do.”
From this section he went to West Flori
da and labored for a time, and then went to
Texas about the year 1850. On arriving in
Texas he located for a timein Jasper county,
then went to Polk county, where be spent
the short remnant of his days in preaching
and laboring for the salvation of the people
In 1852, he returned to Georgia for a short
time and took charge of his little daughter,
and with her returned to Texas.
In 1854, (having been divorced from his
first wife), he married his second wife. He
was also appointed to preach the Associa
tions! sermon, in 1855, from this text:
“Upon this Rock will I build my church,
and the gates of hell shall not prevail against
it.” But before the trial arrived his labors
an earth were brought to an end
In March, 1855, he was taken severely ill,
and soon became unconscious, in which
condition he remained till near his death,
when, it would seem, his gracious Lord,—in
order that he might give his dying testimony
to the truth of His saving grace,—granted
him a few lucid moments, which he em
ployed in exhorting all present to meet him
heaven.
Thus passed away —seemingly in the midst
of his usefulness—this heroic, self-denying,
self sacrificing servant of God. He had fin
ished the work which the Master bad assign
ed him, and then entered upon that rest
which remaineth for the people of God.
A DOUBLE MEETING.
Jhe Third District General Meeting and
Ministers’ and Deacons’ meeting of the
Hephzibah Association, met in conjunction
at the Mt. Horeb church, Jefferson county,
Georgia, on Friday, July 29th, and lasted
three days.
The Bev. Jane Stapleton was chcse i
to preside. He makes a good Moderator:
—has a versatile genius, and the rare
gift of pleasing everybody and himself too.
The business of the General Meeting was
first dispatched ; and our next Association
will meet in October at Silver Run church,
three miles south of Harlem. The next
General Meeting of the Third District will
meet in 1882 at Reedy Creek church, ten
miles south of Dearing. A committee of
three was appointed to select queries or sub
jects to be discussed (with pen or tongue) at
said General Meeting, and it was ordered
that they be published in The Index, and
here they are:
1. ‘‘Love your Enemies.” Matt. sth chap.
(How? and Why?)
2. ‘‘Judge not, that ye be not judged.”
Matt. 7th chapter. (In what sense is this to
be understood ?)
3. Which is the best plan to make our
our church prayer meetings more profitable
and attractive? (The value of prayer
meetings to the laity, and the best way to
conduct them).
4 How should a church deal with a mem
ber who refuses to speak to a brother or sister
of the same church? (We put this in on
account of the many vague and indefinite
opinions held upon the subject). All of the
subjects are numbered, and what is embraced
by the parenthesis is to be understood sim
ply in the light of suggestion. All persons
who feel interested will please file away this
Index for future reference, and in discussing
the subjects proposed, each one will be al
lowed to look from the standpoint that suits
his taste and judgment test.
I forgot to state, in the proper place, that
the Introductory sermon was preached by
brother J- Hamilton Carswell. It was well
studied, solid and appropriate to the times.
A number of important queries were dis
cussed by the ministers and deacons and
others in the spirit of Christ. I have never
seen a bodv of disputants show more respect
for each other’s feelings and opinions. God
grant that this may ever be the case. It is
not only evidence of Christian principles,
THE CHRISTIAN INDEX AND SOUTH-WESTERN BAPTIST: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1881.
but it also shows good breeding, and, I may
add, wisdom.
During the meeting we had excellent
preaching by Revs J Hamilton Carswell,
W. M Verdery. W. L Kilpatrick, E- R.
Carswell, Sr., and J. E Carswell, and I hope
that impressions were made that will tell
upon time and eternity.
The vast congregations from day to day
were amply fed by the kind and hospitable
residents of this and adjacent neighborhoods.
Reporter.
INTER-COMMUNION AMONG BAPTISTS OP
THE SAME FAITH AND ORDER IS LAW
FUL AND EXPEDIENT.
NUMBER I.
We do not propose a review of Dr. J. R.
Graves’ work, entitled, • Inter communion
of Churches—Unscriptural, Inconsistent and
Evil Only ” We prefer to leave that work
to more able hands. But we desire to notice
some things in the book, because we have
reason to know some of our dear brethren
are being misled by it only because they
have not examined it closely, and there is
danger of some of our churches Oeing divided
on the question.
D r Graves’ reason for writing the book is
realty the first argument in the series. He
says that "the old current arguments by
which B iptists have attempted to vindicate
our entire consistency in restricting our
communion to our own denomination, have
been shown to be untenable,” (page 9) and
our "principal arguments sophistical.” In
other words (taking the whole book as the
interpreter of this sentence), our open-com
munion opponents can taunt us with incon
sistency, and some of our own members are
dissatisfied with our position ; therefore, we
must forge out an entirety new line of argu
ment, and support it by abandoning our
custom of inter communion. We must
make a radical and universal change in our
practice to get ourselves right. If we fail to
do this, our opponents can say that, while
we profess to practice close communion, we
vitiate it by admitting those who are mem
bers of other churches. (We do not give the
words, but the substance of the argument.)
All that need be said of this argument is,
that it reminds one of the old man who lost
his donkey off the bridge,
Argument 2d. The Lord's suppe- is a
church ordinance. The fact used to exem
plify the writer's meaning of this is the order
of the Passover (page 221); that the lamb
slain must be prepare! and consumed by
one family. Here the illustration is a fail
ure, for the Lord himself (Ex. 12:4) gave
orders that, more than one family might
unite in the observance of the rite. We
have seen lambs of the first year that would
supply mea* for ten or twelve persons, and
we have seen families of which it would take
four or five to make the number, But why
plead this as a reason for abandoning this
practice? We have always held it to be a
church ordinance. Our meaning being that
unlike open communionists we never ad
minister the eucharist to sick and dying
persons in their chamber, or for other pur
poses observe it in any other than church
order.
Argument 3d The word church in the
New Testament must always be understood
to mean a local organization ; or it may, by
synechdoche as in Eph. 5:25-27, be taken as
one for all. (Page 135). In other words, he
rejects the translation ol Ecclesia, which
would cover more than one separate church.
Dr. J. M. Pendleton, on Eph. 1 22, 3 20 and
5 26, etc., says it refers to the church in the
aggregate, and that it would be absurd to
apply to a single church. —Christian Manual.
Other learned men agree with Dr. Pendle
ton; but it does not take much learning to
understand the term in that passage, and
others, to embrace more than one local
organization/. A careful reading of the-Word
can give us no other sense.
We shall examine other arguments in
future numbers. C. H. Stillwell.
PEN-DROPPINGS.
A disposition for saying things startling
rather than original has given to De Witt
Talmage a wide spread celebrity. This no
toriety seems to have turned his head. He
has of late made his utterances in a Sir Ora
cle style quite out of keeping with good
taste' He has assumed to pronounce him
self upon the New Version with the utmost
dogmatism. In order to give his opinion a
seeming of authority, he has taken as a text
the record of the summary punishment in
flicted upon Uzzah for daring to touch the
Ark of God. What the teaching of this in
cident is, we do not know. But we feel
quite sure that it is not that educed by Dr.
Talmage. The Bible is something which
must be studied and apprehended, and in
order that it may become the subject of
these intellectual efforts it must be put in a
language that it can be understood. If it
be sacrilege to revise a translation, it must
have been far greater sacrilege to make a
translation, and by the reasoning of this
Boanerges, the Sacred Record would have
been forever locked in the dead language in
which it was first written. To state such a
proposition is a suffleian proof of its absurd
ity. Yit, we fear there are many who have
no better reason for opposing the New Ver
sion than than that it is new while the old
has been in use for nine generations. Its
phraseology has become polarized in their
minds, and they are slow to apprehend that
this mannerism which King James' trans
lators gave the volume is realty not an es
sential feature Thus,because the old pleases
their taste, they will not admit that it less
accurately conveys the divine teaching than
the new. L L. V.
TO COUNTRY CHURCHES.
I would like to say a few things to our
sountry churches and pastors relative to one
thing that needs better attention, I refer to
the annual arrangement between pastors
and churches. Unfortunately, it is the case
that changes are very generally made an
nually. Since it is so, and may continue so
for some time, it would be well to so change
the pastoral year as to agree with other busi
ness. Other business affairs are arranged
three or four months before the new year
comes in, and if pastors have to supplement
their salaries with some other employment
it would oftentimes be to the interest of both
churches and pastors for the pastoral ar
rangements to be made as early as possible.
With every true minister of the gospel,
preaching is his first business, and as a mat
ter of course, should be provided for first,
but this cannot be done by a pastor whose
salary is so small as not to be depended up
on alone, and the pastoral year begins in
January and ends in December. Let the
pastoral year begin on the first of October,
then the other business of the pastor can
take form to suit the pastoral Interest. I
think if this were the general rule, the ex
ceptions would be few.
W. M. How ILL.
Glad Tidings —A meeting just closed at
the Ten Mile Creek church, Appling Co.,
Ga., commenced on last Saturday, the reg
ular monthly meeting, and was protracted
seven days. I preached two sermons each day.
The Lord graciously poured out his spirit on
us. I baptized forty-five; three are awaiting
baptism, and two restored, making fifty in
all. The meeting would not have closed yet,
but I had no help I never experienced such
a copious out-pouring of the Spirit ofGod in
all my ministerial life. Christians thoroughly
built up. Please publish it, so that our North
Georgia brethren may know what the good
Lord is doing for us in the Southern part of
the State.
Jas. E. Black, Pastor.
Jesup, Ga., Aug. 27th, 1881.
A TURN OF TIDE.
For more than a year the Blackshear
Baptist church has been without preaching,
except as a visiting minister would, bv
chance, drop in. It had no Sunday-school.
Everything was as an old waste field, no
ripening wheat, no matured corn, but the
weeds and briars had completely taken the
once fertile ground, so thoroughly worked
and kept in order, by the "modest Atkin
son.”
On the fourth Sunday in June the church
held a called meeting, to make an effort to
raise means to settle with the builder of the
house a remaining sum of eighty two and a
half dollars, which bad be m put into the
hands of an officer. This is, and no doubt,
will appear to be a very small sum to the
brethren, but large to a small and not over
pious church. I met the church, and
preached for them, after which the church
held a conference. The writer stated the
object of the meeting with an earnest ap
peal to the brethren to do something; after
which Mr. A N. Smith, a prominent mer
chant and one of our most popular men,rose
and said, “I am not a member of your
church, but I am a well wisher and lover of
the Baptist cause here, and desire to help
you. Now, if the church will raise fifty
dollars, I will pay the balance.” It was only
a few minutes and the last dollar was in the
hands of one of the Building Committee.
The cburch then solicited the services of the
writer, who agreed to preach once a month
as supply, until the cburch could get a more
competent one. and be now gives them the
second and fourth Sundays
On the afternoon of the fourth Sunday,. I
began a Sunday school with six pupils, and
had only that number for several Sundays.
But if you could haVe been with us for the
last two Sundays, I think you would have
said "well done.” We had three large classes
and an organist and have taken brothers
Boykin’s Sunday-school papers.
We are going to help collect Mission funds
after a short time. I also have a promise
from most of the brethren to take - he Index
which they will do as soon as they can real
ize a little'money from their crops.
A A. Andrews.
Blackshear, Ga., Augist 22d, 1881,
JOTTINGS BY THE WAY.
Dear Index : After leaving Atlanta I went
directly to Barnesville, where I found a gra
cious revival in progiess, conducted by Mer
cer noble President, Rev. Dr. A. J. Battle,
who Is now serving the Bu'uesville church
two Sabbaths In each month. The meeting
had been in progress s -veral days when I ar
rived, and the Inter .st was Increasing from
day to day. Somehow I felt tiiat tire Lord
was here even before I attended the first
hour’s service, and the longer 1 stayed the
more was 1 convinced that this was Ills "set
tune to favor Zion” in Barnesville. The 8
o’clock, a. m. prayer meetings w«re well at
tended and were precious seasons. The regu
lar evening service was attended by fine
congregations Dr. Battle was ably assis
ted by those beloved brethren, Rev. A L.
Moncrief, of Barnesville, and Bev. James Me
Bride, of Macon 1 felt it. was truly a blessing
to be here, and found it diltlcult to leave. 1
think the heart of every Christian present
durln 'th se meet ings was mad • to rejotce.Up
to the time I left quite a number had been re
ceived as candidates for baptism and several
added to the church by letter and restoration.
1 left Thursday noon and the meetings
were expected to continue over the next Sab
bath. In fact the brethren of the church
would scarcely listen to a proposal to close
the services even for a few days and then re
sume. They felt that a great work was being
done and it should be continued.
Barnesville is truly a churning little city.
Any one passing on the railroad sees but lit
tie of the real attractive features of the place.
It contains many handsome residences, fine
business houses, an extensive furniture fac
tory and two large carriage shops, and last
and best, one of the finest schools in Middle
Georgia. The Gordon Institute is a noble in
stitution of learning and is truly an honoAto|
MGvnesvUlu. The Methodist and
churches both have good houses of worshfp.
The Baptist house was built many years ago,
and the church contemplate butldlug an
other and more imposing edifle at an early
day This would be done at once, doubtless,
but for the fact that some of the members are
loth to give up the old site, where the people
have met to worship for so many years, (and
which is in the outskirts of the town in a
beautiful grove) while others are anxious to
have the building more in the center of pop
ulation. Dr. Battle has been serving the
church as pastor twice a month for some
time past, to the great delight of church and
people. He is truly doing a great work, and
tils labors are being blest. Never have I been
more kindly entertained then I was doing
my stay in Barnesville. My headquarters
were at brother A G. Moncriefs, to whose
door I was kindly directed by a stranger to
me upon my arrival. I knew no one in the
place, that I was aware of. But the brethren
here read The Index and I was not a stranger
long And then came invitations more than
I could accept. Heaven bless these good
brothers and sisters of Barnesville. I shall
love them as long as I live.
Saturday I went six miles up the railroad
to Milner with brother Moncrief, and atten
ded service at the Milner Baptist church, of
which brother M. is pastor. Here I met an
other band of brethren that are close neigh
bors, in the sense I use it, to them in
Barnesville. All strangers whom we met,but
brethren truly when we parted, lam glap
the scriptures sayeth, ‘‘we know that we
have been brought from death unto life be
cause we love the brethren," or words to that
eff-ct 1 could stay here but a few hours, but
it was a pleasant time truly, both socially
and spiritually and resulted in quite a num
ber of new names for The Index Milner is
a charming village. You do not see much of
it in passing the railroad, the dwellings, the
most of them, as well as business houses, are
a little removed. The Baptist church build
ing is handsome, complete and commodious.
And best of all it has a good membership
and excellent pastor. The church loves
brother Moncrief very much, and he so richly
deserves it The church has recently been
greatly revived, with several accessions to its
membership.
From Barnesville to Forsyth. But I will
give you an account of my visit to the latter
next week. J. M G. Medlock.
REV. THORNTON BURK.
Allow me a little space in your excellent
columns to make an appeal for an old broth
er who needs help—brother Thornton Burk,
of Cobb county. I visited him a few weeks
ago, and found him without means of sup
port. He says that since the Indigent Min -
isters’ Board has been disposed of he gets no
money. There are five in family—himself
and four females—and not one of them able
to make a living if turned out upon their
own resources. Brother Burk is eighty sev
en years old, waiting on the Lord to call
him home He has a house and some land
around it, but the fencing is all down, so
that it is not available, and he cannot rent
or use it in any way. Will the Baptists of
Georgia, while they read this, decide to send
this worthy object a contribution f Send it
to A. W. Yorke, Marietta, and he will be
sure to get it; or to Ujtshaw’s post office,
Cobb county. He lives at that office, and
brother Upshaw is his special friend. May
the Lord influence all to help.
Jambs Babbow.
Bowdon, August 261 h, 1881.
A Pleasant Meeting —Way's church,
Jefferson county, Georgia, held a protracted
meeting of several day's, embracing the first
Sabbath in August, 1881. Preaching by
Revs. W. L. Kilpatrick, (pastor of the
church), assisted by W. M. Verdery. Five
or six joined the church by experience, and
the meeting closed with a strong feeling
among outsiders. I shall expect to see
further fruits of this meeting in the future.
The hospitality of this section cannot be
excelled anywhere. Attendant.
Italy seems at last to be waking up to the
temperance question, and Mr. Pierre Luquet,
ofSpezzia, fills his letter with some of the
evil effects of wine-drinking, giving, in es
pecial, one anecdote of a man very much
addicted to strong drink, ‘who attended the
evangelical services, became a converted
man, and was completely cured of the evil
appetite.— 8- 8. Times.
Missionary Department.
REV. 1. H DkVOTIE. D.D., I vlj ,
REV. C. M IRWIN, D.D.,
MISSIONARIES STATE BOARD.
J. H. DeVotle, Atlanta, Ga.: C. M. Irwin, Mt.
Airy, Habersham, Rabun and White counties:
V. A. Bell. Ringgold, Whitfield and Chattooga
counties; Chas. Edwards, Toccoa, Habersham
county; T. C. Tucker, Cassandria, Dade and Wal
ker counties; W. J. King, Nannie; P. A. Jessup,
Eastman, Dodre and Telfair counties; A.C Ward,
Brunswick; George A. Blount, Eden, Eftlngham,
nryan and Liberty counties, D. G. Daniell, Wal
thourville; J. H. Campbell,Columbus, Muscogee
county; Alfred Corn, Blairaville, Towns county ;
T. C. Boykin, At'anta, State of Georgia; Simeon
Maxwell, Talbotton, Talbot county ; W. B. Ben
net, Quitman ; W. V. Perdue, Valdosta ; G. H
Washington, col., Albany. Mitchell county; J. C.
B yan, col.. Americus, Schley, Lee and Dough
erty counties; Frank M. Simmons, col., Stone
Mountain ; G. B. Mitchell col.. Forsyth ; H. A
McNeil, col, Quitman; M Brigman, Augusta,
Georgia ; J. M. Donaldson, Dublin ; J. A Steph
ens, Battle Ground.
MOUNTAIN BAPTIST ASSOCIATION.
This body convened with the Wolf Creek
church, Rabun county, Friday morning
August 19ih. We did not reach there until
in the afternoon, and hence did not hear the
Introductory sermon. Elder John Coffee,
long connected with this Association, —be-
loved by all, —was re-elected Modera'or, and
Elder Philesu, Clerk. The long and burn
ing drought, with which this section had
been visited, (having had but little rain since
April), and the consequent scarcity of prov
ender for horses, made it necessary to pass
rapidly through with the business and ad
journ, which was done, and the Association
adjourned Saturday, and most of tne dele
gates left for home.
But little time was left for speeches ; some
of us, however, made remarks on subjects of
general denominational interest, among
them the question, "Why is it that our effi
ciency as a denomination is not commensu
rate with our numerical increase? No
answer was asked for, but that all would
think about it and pray over it.
Rev. F. C. McConnell, just from our
Theological Seminary, was present and made
some valuable statements about the course
of instruction and general management of
the institution. All that this young brother
spoke of was timely and well said. His
statements made a fine impression.
We were glad to learn that several of the
churches havegood working Sunda y-schools,
and that this instrument tor good is receiv
ing more attention in this section than in
former years. They do iot yet sea the nes
cessity of the weekly visits of a well conduc
ted religious paper, but the importance of
this will be seen in the near future.
Although the business was done so hur
riedly, yet everything passed off most pleas
antly, and we were glad we went to see the
brethren of the Mountain Baptist Associa
tion Let us urge the brethren below to visit
this section more than they do, and mingle
with the brethren here.
The Northeast Georgia railroad will be
finished to Clarkesville in a few months, and
will be we are told, completed to Tallulah
Falls by next summer. This Association
will meet next year with Amy’s Creek
church, Habersham county, eight miles
from Clarkesville, near the road leading to
Nacoochee Valley. Come up, brethren 1
C. M. I.
LUMBER CITY BAPTIST CHURCH
Dr J. H. DeVotie: You advised me to
write to brother Jessup, of Eastman, and ask
him to come down and preach for us—that
you said so. I .lid so, and on the first Sab
bath in April brother Jessup, assisted by
elder D. J. Thompson, (who moved into this
neighborhood after I did) proceeded to dr
ganize a church with four male and five
female members. When we were about to
organize, Judge Reynolds and son, Dr. J, B.
Reynolds, (the Dr. and his mother both
Methodists), kindly tendered us the use of
their residence, and we organized there. We
called brother Jessup as our pastor, (indefi
tritely), since which time he has been preach
ing to us once a month in an old dilapidated
house, which we have rented. Our mem
bership will have doubled when two candi
dates, now standing over, are baptized, num
bering now eighteen, all poor. I feel much
encouraged, and try to be thankful to God
for his goodness to us
We aim to try to build a cheap house of
worship—say assoo house. lintend, pretty
soon, to see what can be raised here and
hereabouts towards building a house, and
thei) see if I cannot get some help from some
of the wealthy Baptists of Atlanta.
Ours is the first Baptist church ever organs
iz?d at this place, and the first baptisms ever
performed here was on the first Sabbath in
June, in the little Ocmulgee river, about
one-half mile from our church ; a beautiful
place, and was witnessed by quite a large
concourse of people for this place And on
the first Sabbath in July one candidate was
baptized, and the two standing over now
were to have been baptized the first Sabbath,
but brother Jessup was sick and could not
come. Quite a crowd was out on that day,
and of course were disappointed.
I think this one of the most important
places in all this section of country for a
Baptist church. True, this immediate
neighborhood is very sparsely settled at
present, but it is the nicest place to live, and
the healthiest place on this road, and if we
can start up some kind of a manufacturing
business, and get up a good school, the place
would go right up There is no liquor sold
here, because two thirds of the citizens
within three miles of the place will not sign
a petition recommending the granting of a
license. It has been tested a second time
lately.
May our Heavenly Father bless and corns
fort you, is our prayer.
Your brother in Christ,
H. L. Williams.
Lumber City, Ga., August 26th, 1881.
The Bible can remain where missionaries
are expelled. The noble Moffat tells a beau
tiful story, which may help to illustrate this
point. He says: “In one of my early
journeys I came, with my cbmpanions, to a
heathen village on the banks of the Orange
river. We had traveled far, and were hun
gry, thirsty and fatigued; but the people of
the village rather roughly directed us to halt
at a distance. We asked for water, but they
would not supply it. I offered the three or
four buttons left on my jacket for a little
milk, and was refused. We had the prospect
of another hungry night, at a distance from
water, though within sight of the river.
When twilight drew on, a woman approach
ed from the height beyond which the village
lay. She bore on her head a bundle of wood,
and had a vessel of milk in her baud. The
latter, without opening her lips, she handed
to us, laid down the wood and returned to
the village. A second time she approached,
with a cooking vessel on her head, and a leg
of mutton in one hand and water in the
the other. She sat down, without saying a
word, prepared the fire and put on the meat
We asked her again and again who she was
She remained silent till affectionately en
treated to give us a reason for such unlook
ed-for kindness to strangers. Then the tear
stole down her sable cheek, andshe replied,
'I love Him whose servants you are, and
surely it is my duty to give you a cup of
cold water in His name. My heart is full;
therefore I cannot speak the jov I feel to see
you in this out-of-the world place.’ Ou
learning a little of her history, and that she
was a solitary light burning in a dark place.
I asked her how she kept up the light of
God in her soul in the entire absence of the
communion of saints. She drew from her
bosom a copy of the Dutch New Testament,
which she had received from Mr. Helm
when in his school, some years before.
This,’ said she, ‘is the fountain whence 1
drink ; this is the oil which makes my lamp
to burn.' I looked on the precious relic,
printed by the British and Foreign Bible
Society, and the reader may conceive my joy
while we mingled our prayers and sympa
t hies together at the throne of our heavenly
Father. W. M Taylob, D. D."
HOME MISSION BOARD 8. B. C-—THE
SITUATION.
Special attention is called to the following
communication from Dr. Mclntosh, D
CALIFORNIA MISSION.
Brother Hartwell writes August 11th:
"The clerk of one little Chinese church has
just called on me to bring a contribution of
i wenty dollars (S2O) from the church to the
Home Mission Board of the Southern Bap
tist Convention. It is entirety voluntary. I
did not know of it until he brought me the
money. We have now only eleven Chinese
members, and several of them areaway from
the city, so that this has realty come from
about six or seven of the brethri n."
They appreciate the gospel. "By their
fruits ye shall know them.”
LEVERING MISSION SCHOOL.
The buildings are rapidly approaching
completion. Rev. J. A Trenchard, Supers
intendent, is now in St. Louis purchasing
the necessary outfit for the accommodation
of one hundred pupils. It is expee’ed that
the school will be opened early in Septem
ber.
NEW ORLEANS.
Rev. J. O’B Lowry has resigned the pas
torate of the Coliseum Place church. More
than ever laborers are needed in that inter
esting and growing field. The ooard anx
iously await the response of the churches to
their appeal for the means to carry out the
instructions of the Convention, "to send, as
soon as practicable, two or more missiona
ries to New Orleans.”
Let it be remem bered’that, in a population
of 2.5 000, the number of white Baptists is
less than 400, and that they are struggling
for life. Wm H.-Mclntosh Cor. Sec.
Marion, Ala., August 20th, 1881-
The question of self support is a very large
one, and it would be well if there could be a
common understanding between the socie
ties in regard to the best way of promoting
it. Every convert should be faithfully in
structed in the duty of contributing, and be
strictly held to the performance of that duty.
A fine example of the results of such train
ing is to be seen in the Baprist mission in
Burmah. The English Baptists have
wrought wonders in India, the past year, by
urging all to give, however small the
amount, though it be only a handful of rice.
We ought not get the idea that there are
unlimited centuries of time in which to
complete the work of foreign missions, nor
that, the churches of Europe and America
can do all that is to be done without the co
operation of the peoples of the mission fields.
Tne conversion ot the world is an appointed
task, with an appointed time for its comple
tion, and if we use wrong methods, or trifle
with the work, or, forgetting that it is God's
bu-iness, propagate divisions and seek de
nominations! glory, we may frustrate God’s
plans, and hinder the progress of the gospel.
Some complain that there are so taw mis
sionaries in the field, compared to Hie vast
populations to be converted, and call for
50 000 instead of 2 500 or 3 000. As if it were
the proper work of foreign missious to
preach the gospel actually to every man,
woman and child in pagan and Mohamme
dan lands! The sooner this idea is aban
doned the better the welfare of the cause.
If the gospel is to prevail in India, China,
and other countries, the work must be
wrought by native churches. —Christian at
Work.
YOKOHAMA STATION.
Missionaries.—Rev. James H. Ballagh,
Rev. E. R. Miller, in America.
Assistant Missionaries. Mrs. Ballagh,
Mrs. Miller, in America; Miss E. C, Whit
beck, Miss H. L. Winn.
Native Ordained Minister.—Rev. Akira
loaguki.
Licensed Helpers.—Mesirs. Tockichi Ito
and Hidetera Yamamoto.
Unlicensed Paid Helper.--Mr. Yuyemon
Kitamura.
Licensed Student in the Theological School
at Tokiyo.—Mr. Kaichi Banno.
158 members, 8 preaching places, 3 Sun
day-schools, 131 scholars.
One organized church, with 178 baptized
members, including children. Three Sun
day-schools with 131 scholars. Three out
stations, Kanagawa, Mishima, and Nagoya.
Here also is the Isaac Ferris Seminary, with
31 pupils.
The missionary in charge has been engaged
in assisting the pastor of the native church
in preaching at the regular church services,
in conducting preaching services at Kanaga
wa, and in conducting a Bible-class on Sab
bath mornings.
THE BENGALI BIBLE ESTIMA TED B Y WIL
LIAM CAREY AT A MILLION POUNDS
STERLING.
Writing to the Mission Society in 1796,
Mr. Carey says: “I would give a million
pound Sterling if I had it to see a Bengali
Bible. Oh, merciful God, what ao inestim
able blessing will it be to these millions!
The angels of heaven will look down upon
it to fill their mouths with new praises and
adorations.” He lived to see that precious
word, or parts of it, translated into Bengali,
and forty-tour other languages of the East,
and widely circulated.
David said, "Thy word is more precious
than thousands of gold or silver.”
Now, that it .s prepared, can we undervalue
it, and refuse to give it to th -se who perish
for lack of knowledge?
Can we withhold this light of heaven from
the millions of the heathen wbo are envelop
ed in the thick darkness of idolatry without
endangering our hold upon this greatest
blessing which we enjoy ?
“Is there a guide to show the path—
The Bible’s, he Who hath the Bible need not stray,
But he who hath and will not give
That holy book to all who live—
Himself shall loose the way.”
Think of this and act now. What price do
we put on the Bible? D.
Teaching Christianity in Japanese
Schools —The Japanese are a clever little
people. I say little because in stature their
men are not much bigger than our women.
And they very soon began to find out that
they could learn many useful things from
the nations who now called at their sea
ports. They wished to obtain from them
instruction in everything but religion. So
the Government engaged a clever American
gentleman to teach in a large school, and
when he arrived they placed before him a pa
per to sign, saying that he would not speak of
Christianity for three years Mr Clirkewas
much perplexed He had spent all his money
in coming to Japan ; if be did not agree to
this he might have his appointment taken
from him, and be left a beggar in a strange
country. “You had better sign,” said the
interpreter, “the Government won’tgivein.”
It was a bard matter. At last right conquer
ed. “Tell the Government I can’t sign,”
said the Christian scholar; "I couldn’t live
three years in a pagan country and keep sil
nee on the subject nearest my heart.” Was
ie sent away, do you think ? No, the teacher
was too precious to be given up; so the
lause was struck out, and Mr. Clarke not
mly spoke of Christianity, but taught it to
ibe young men under his charge —Mission
Life.
OLD OBJECTIONS.
We are reminded of these old objections at
the present time:
Rev. A. G. Fuller, son of the venerable
Andrew Fuller, in an address at the Jubilee
Meeting, at Kettering, held fifty years after
the birth of the Baptist Society for the Pro
pagation of the Gospel among the Heathen,
formed in 1772, says:
I remember the time when the successes as
well as the difficulties of this society were
spoken of in all that beautiful simplicity
which characterized the communications of
my revered father. I remember the time
when 1 heard him say in the vestry, in tones
so mellow and so deep, as he read a letter
from Carey, "The chains of caste are broken,
and who shall mend them?” We have heard
of the difficulties, the great objections, with
which the society had to contend at a very
early period of its history. Amongst these
objections, I well remember that this was
put forward, "You are leaving the scene im
mediately around you, the home to which
your energies ought to be devoted, to go and
expend them on a foreign land, and upon
individuals on whom your eyes have never
looked " That objection, we all know, has
received its answer. No sooner did Carey
and Thomas reach their destination on a
loreign shore, than the society actually em
ployed missionaries throughout various
parts of Great Brittain. But is has been said,
and it was said at an early period, “This is
a sectarian society, and therefore it is not to
be supported by men of liberal principles, or
men possessed of a catholic spirit.” My
father made application to the celebrated
Cecil for a subscription to this societv. Cecil
observed, “My great objection to it ‘is, that
you preach baptism’.” My father replied,
that he did, and inquired, whether Cecil, if
he believed in it, would not do the same. He
admitted that he would, but added, “You
make too much of it.” My father rejoined,
“Well; we do not make regeneration of it.”
Cecil gave him a guinea.
Again, he speaks of the spirit of prayer,
which preceded and accompanied those de
voted, talented and persevering men who or
ganized the society. Are we not deficent
in this fervent prayer?
Yes, it was a time of prayer, of great wrest
lings with God. Prayer meetings with them
were not matters of course, but were the
breathings of the heart United as the heart'
of one man, the persons here refered to strove
together tor the great objects laid before them.
They took hold of the strength of God. and
in that strength they wrought wonders, as
with the sword of the Lord and of Gideon.
I cannot but advert to one example of that
piety, of that solemn prayer. It was furnish
ed on the occasion of sending out Carey and
Thomas to the East Indies My father writes
respecting a prayer meeting, held March
20i.ii, 1792:—“Weconducted it in the follow
ing manner. The forenoon was spent in
prayer. At two o'clock Mr. Thomas preach
ed from ‘Their sorrows shall be multiplied
that hasten alter another god;’ proving how
this truth was exemplified in the state of
the neathen, and exciting the compassion of
Christians to endeavor to rescue them from
their miserable situation. After sermon there
was a public collection for the mission. At
six, Mr Hogg pr-ached from ‘The will of
the Lord be done;” and, after him, Mr Ful
ler addressed brethren Thomas and Carey,
from, ‘Peace be unto you; as my Father sent
me, so send I you.’ After him Mr. Thomas
read a very interesting interview which he
had with the Brahmins just before leaving
India.”
I think our missionary brethren, when
they see what the translation of the Bible
has done for our own language, may comfort
themselves with the assurance that, as the
centuries roll on, there shall spring out of
the work they have accomplished literatures
which shall do as much for other nations as
that in our own tongue has done for those
to whom it is vernacular Unknown, indeed,
and for the most part unnoticed, they are
translating now in far away lands; and when
they return to the churches from which they
first went forth, there be those among us
who sneeringly say, as they see them enter
the pulpit, “It is only a missionary.” But
in coming time they shall be named by the
peoples at the birth of whose literatures they
presided, with the reverence with which we
mention Wycliffe and Tyndale as men “the
latchets of whose shoes we are not worthy
to stoop down and unloose.”—Wm. Taylor,
Baptist Missionary Society —The report,
read by Mr. A. H. Baynes, set forth the past
year, not as one of thrilling interest, but yet
one of steady advance, both in the work
abroad and in the interest taken in it at
home. In printing a great deal had been
done both in Bengali and in Hindi. Mention
was made of the support secured by the
Jesuits’ College and the Vatican from the
Portuguese government with reference to
Central Africa, the Pope’s instructions being
to “harass and destroy the efforts of the
heretics!'' Five priests have gone out foras
many years to seduce the native King of
Congo with presents from the Court of Lis
bon. Those royal gifts comprised music and
rum, “a piano and silver tankards.”
A Remarkable Fact —lt is a remarkable
fact that Foreign Missions have originated
the greatest efforts ever mad for the spiritual
interests of our own land. Shortly after the
first missionaries had departed tor India, the
Society sent brethren to itinerate in Corns
wall, Wiltshire, and elsewhere, which led to
the establishment of the Baptist Home Mis
sionary Society in 1797; and as the result of
similar engagements in Ireland, also origin
ated by the Committee of the Foreign Mis
sion, the Baptist Irish Society was formed
in 1814,—Mission Magazine.
The Scriptures are now translated into all
the principal languages of the Turkish emp
ire, and a Christian literature can be present
ed to all who will read it.
Os the “thousands” of Indians now in the
United States, five entire tribes, numbering
nearly 70 000 souls, are civilized and exem
plary citizens.
An Irish monk of the sixt i century said,
concerning his personal duty; “My country
is where I can gather the largest harvest for
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