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MISSION REPORT.
Report of 4th District of Georgia,
read by Mrs. R. G. Louis, Vice-pres
ident before the Woman's Missionary
Union of Georgia at LaGrange.
In attempting a report of the work
in the Fourth District of Georgia. I
do so with great reluctance. Hav
ing been your servant for only two
months, I am not yet fully acquaint
ed with the details in all portions of
the field. Yet with the hope of en
listing a deeper interest in our por
tion of the state, therefore the pray
ers and aid of the Woman’s Mission
ary Union, I present this to you.
First of all, I would have you
know that notwithstanding the desti
tution that prevails our people are
kindhearted, generous and hospita
ble in the extreme.
I think that but few of you, my
dear sisters realize the destitution
of religion in South Georgia, that of
nearly eighty per cent, of the state.
Yet how much more have you
done to alleviate the destitution in
other portions. What few 'societies
we had last year struggled, and that
gladly, to aid in the support of our
dear sister Walker, yet how sadly
we realized the need of a missionary
in our own field. But thanks to a
a kind Heavenly Father, who over
looketh all things, our South, Ga.
brethren appreciated need, and in or
der to help us in a beginning, paid
a missionary’s salary for two months,
hoping that the union would port
her after that time.
This sister will tell you how suc
cessful has been her mission, in or
ganizing our women and teaching
them away to work for Jesus; how
delighted are these noble Christians
to learn of the work which they had
nover thought of as belonging to wo
yvjn, J can jiut.comjwre Miss Mor
gan, our missionary’s experience with
that of a dear sister who has for
years past struggled to organize so
cieties in her association, traveling
many miles, talking, reasoning and
teaching, meeting w ith such little en
couragement as to become almost
disheartened. While the women
were ready and willing, the pastors
and laymen were found weighing the
subject of women’s work—(not
preaching) —woman’s work. Even
now in these same localities that is
our greatest hindrance, though as a
general thing thing we have not that
hindrance to such a degree as our
sisters in north and middle Georgia.
Our churches are awaking from the
lethargy that has bound them, our
wdiole section from one end to the
other, is stirred as never before on
the subject of work. The anti-mis
sionary ideas once so prevalent are
gradually fading away and the spir
it of work pervades the churches. !So
then both as men and women the
cry is, “Lord what wilt thou have us
to do?”
The grain is riper. The women
are ready but stand waiting to be
led, not knowing w’here or how to be
gin. The prospect is very bright be
cause of this earnest desire to do,
but the lack of information is one
great hindrance. In several places
societies were organized but failed
to prosper for need of one woman to
lead the meeting. In woman’s work
we find the pastors are “the power
behind th<? throne” and without their
cooperation very little can be ac
complished; for the masses depend
almost entirely upon them.
Our pastor’s need to be convinced
that women are for something and
can do something and that they as
pastors are responsible if their wo
men do nothing. Our sisters need
information as to the real wants of
the home field. South, Ga., Home
Board etc., to say nothing of their
ignorance concerning the heathen
world. Our greatest necessity is
consecrated intelligence. Ignorance,
as in all things, is our strongest foe,
But the prospect brightens with
the building of several colleges, and
in many places fine schools. One of
the most gratifying evidences of
progress and improvement in th
Wiregrass region is the disposition of
the people to educate their children.
Our Woman’s Missionary Union
has a column in the Baptist Watch
man, published at Abbeville. May
God bless that paper for the help it
renders our work. It has been a
power for good in advancing the
cause of Christ, in whom we all as
men and women are one.
I would love for every society in
the union to learn through its columns
the prospect, possibilities needs of
our field.
The last thing I shall present as a
hindrance to the work, is the lack of
means to support missionaries both
male and female. Lady missionaries
we must have to teach our plans and
ways of working which to many
seem incomprehensible. There are
places which woman’s work cannot
reach these should be visited in or
der that the people may be instruct
ed as to the way of life. In por
tions of Ware Clinch and Echols
counties south of the 8. F. & W.
Railway, preaching is never heard.
Those whom we have as officers
there and the ministers themselves
are not financially able to reach
those people, but are pleading and
begging us for help. It is workers
they need, Sunday school workers,
missionaries and means to support
them. Our field is very large cover
ing one-third of the State, our labor
ers so few and means so limited.
0, sisters, could I but present the
situation to you as I should, not one
stone would you leave unturned to
help us in the salvation of these souls
so dear to us as citizens, brothers
and sisters in Christ.
How my whole soul has gone out
after this people and to these there
who are toiling, toiling and praying
with a hope that this convention will
bring them aid!
Shall we not answer their prayers?
O, sisters, my heart’s desire and
prayer to God for this people, is
that they might be saved. If they
call upon the name of the Lord they
shall be saved. “How then shall
they call on Him in whom they have
not believed? and how shall they
believe in him of whom they have
not heard? and how shall they hear
without a preacher? and how shall
they preach except they be sent?”
Now follows close upon these
words of God this question. How
shall they be sent without the means?
If Georgia does not this work,
who will?
It is ours—God given—and how
shall we render account in the last
day if we neglect thio cry for help?
Sisters, let us send them a mis
sionary, let us give them of our
means accompanied with our daily
earnest prayers to God, to turn the
hearts of South, Ga., to the Masters
work and that they in a little while
will aid us and pray with us “Thy
kingdom come, ty will be done on
ei.li as it is in heaven.”
HOW WE MAY HELP IN THE CEN
TENNIAL OF MODERN MISSIONS.
Read before the Woman’s Missiona
ry Union of Georgia by Miss M.
E. Wright.
As the Master looked upon the
Samaritans in their great need of re
demption and their eagerness to be
saved, he said to his disciples, “Lift
up your eyes and look on the fields
for they are white already to har
vest.”
So now, when he looks upon the
uttermost parts of the earth in as
great darkness and as eager for the
light, does he not say to us the same
word ? When the fields in India are
white to the harvest and the laborers
reap abundantly, when Japan is like
a “shock of corn fully ripe,” when
China pleads for a thousand labor
ers, when Ethiopia stretches out her
hands unto God, when Mexico and
Brazil and Italy out of their blind
ness cry out for the light of the
world, and when Cuba and the Isles
of the Sea, wait for the law of the
Lord, listen, do you not hear Him
saying to you, “Lift up your eyes and
look on the fields for they are white
already to harvest.”
Are we looking ? Do we try to
discover where is the greatest need
and there direct our efforts ? Do we
pray oftener and more earnestly for
Africa and China than for our own
favored city or State ? Are we just
as willing that our gifts shall go to
the far-off lands as to the adornment
of the home church? If we make
any distinction, unless it be in favor
of all the world, have we at all com
prehended the fullness of our Savior’s
last command?
Now that we face this Centennial
year we are forced to review the his
tory of “Modern Missions” and ask
if Christian people have done all in
their power these eighteen hundred
years to evangelize the world. How
indifferent the church has been to
the work abroad, failing to see that
it is the stronghold and the inspira
tion of the work at home.
When Cary went out to India,
supported by a few earnest souls,
fired by His enthusiasm, he was to
THE CHRISTIAN INDEX: THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1892.
lay the foundation of all that has
been accomplished since that day.
Beset with difficulties, surrounded by
discouragements, with God alone as
his refuge, he went out like Abraham
of old, “knowing not whither he
went” but strong in faith. Looking
at the history of Cary, can any one
of us say, I have neither talents nor
means and my way is hedged in. I
cannot attempt great things for Him,
no, let us believe that it is our glori
ous privilege to do “all things thro’
Christ which strengtheneth us.”
Reviewing the years, perhaps we
will feel a little discouragement that
the kingdoms of this world are no
nearer becoming the kingdoms of our
Lord and of His Christ; but the
Master Builder has been working
through it all, the pioneer -work is
done and let us in this day of innu
merable opportunities, redouble our
efforts until “no man shall say to his
neighbor, know the Lord, for all shall
known Him from the least unto the
greatest.”
In the old days when the king was
coming, the by-path over the moun
tains was transformed into a king’s
highway, every valley was exalted
and every hill brought low and be
fore him came the herald to an
nounce his coming. Our King’s her
ald said, “Prepare ye the way of the
Lord, make his paths straight.” Let
each one of us stop and consider how
we can help in this work of prepara
tion for His coming. Can we an
swer His call “whom shall I send and
who will go for me, with, “Here am
I, send me.” Can we send some one
else ? Can we enlarge our gifts and
by “systematic self-denial” increase
our offerings to missions ? Can we
pray daily for the laborers in these
fields and seek to interest others in
giving the gospel to all the world ?
There is something for each one of
us to do, let us find out just what it
is and;
"Think not if thou art not called to work
In mission Helds of some far distant clime,
That thine is no grand mission. Every deed
That conies to thee in God’s allotted time
Is just the greatest deed that thine could be,
Since God’s high will appointed it to thee.”
The appeals from the Home and
Foreign Boards bring this matter
very practically before us in their
call for a chapel fund of 1250,000.
And how is this fund to be raised ?
Principally by the women and chil
dren of the South. We must not
oniy take these cards ourselves, fcut
distribute them that there may be
not a Baptist woman in the South
who has not had the opportunity to
take one. Let every member of your
church be offered one, every child
in the Sunday-school. In a Mission
Band, the leader suggested that the
Band take one card, but the children
demurred—each one wanted a card,
and while all the children may not
raise five dollars a piece, the aggre
gate will be far more than $5.
But there is another practical way
to help in this work and that is by
distributing missionary literature, do
not hesitate about handing a friend a
tract or missionary paper, it is not
your message but God’s command.
Speak a word for missions, let it
often be the theme of your conversa
tion, study to make the subject inter
esting to others, and in this take for
your example the messenger of old,
“O, Jerusalem that bringest good ti
dings, lift up your voice with
strength, lift it up, be not afraid.”
Lose sight of self in all missionary
enterprise, seek to realize that you
are one with Him, and that He said
when on earth, “I am among you as
He that serveth.” Let us not shrink
from any service, however humble,
when we hear His voice bidding us
go forward. Heaven will be full of
surprises, for perhaps there will come
to meet us, souls won from China
and Africa and India, the fruit of
self-denial or prayer or humble ef
fort. These are the roses that bloom
on the other side of the wall. Our
Lord does not measure our efforts by
their success, but by their faithful
ness. He did not commend the wo
man for doing what some one else
thought she ought to do, or what she
thought she had time, talent or op
portunity for, but for doing “what
she could.”
Our Lord has prepared the end for
us, shall we not faithfully prepare
the way for him ?” taking for our ex
ample those forty noble men of the
Julian legion, the flower of the Ro
man army, who when the decree
came from Rome to far away Gaul
that every Christian in the army
should die, stood out bravely when
the decree was read to suffer the
penalty. Upon the ice in the lake
they placed them that they might
perish miserably, but as they floated
off, there came back the words, “for
ty wrestlers wrestling for thee, O,
Christ, claim for thee the victory
and from thee the crown.” and far
ther down the river, floating back
like an echo, they heard them chant
ing, “forty wrestlers wrestling for
Thee, O, Christ, claim for thee the
victory and from Thee the crown,”
until in the rush of waters the voices
ceased. Shall these men of old be
more faithful, more consecrated than
we. To us the Lord says, as to
them, “Be thou faithful unto death
and I will give thee a crown of life.”
MEMORIALTDAYr
Perhaps Memorial Day was never
more generally observed in Georgia
than on the 26th ult. The Constitu
tion gives the following in reference
to the origin of the day:
“Memorial Day, with all its sadly
sacred memories, has no counterpart
in the world’s written history. Na
tions have set apart days for decora
tions to some deity, profane or holy,
days for offering thanks for victories,
holding feasts for blessings or fasts to
induce them, for the successful ac
complishment of some great work,
for the celebration of a distinguished
countryman's birth or the observance
of his death, but the south stands
alone as a people who solemnly ded
icate a day for strewing with beauti
ful flowers the graves of heroes who
died following an unsuccessful flag
in defense of their country.
From a noble woman’s heart came
this day, when the soldiers’ graves are
the southern Mecca to whoso shrine
the sorrowing daughters, like pil
grims, “annually bring their greatful
hearts and floral offerings.”
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That woman Mrs. Mary Ann
Williams, whose jusband, Colonel
C. J. Williams, colitmel of the First
Georgia regulars, died early in the
war from disease contracted in the
first Virginia campaign. Others have
laid claim to the distinction of origi
nating Memorial Day, but the hon
or belongs to Georgia’s lamented
daughter.
After the death of her gallant and
brilliant husband, this loyal lady de
voted her life and ample fortune to
the confederacy. She projected and
established from Georgia to Virginia
the wayside homes tor soldiers. At
her home »n (k&inbftn she established
and maintained from her own means
a home for sick and wounded pri
vates. “Others will take care of the
officers,” she used to say.
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Justisfying faith is saving faith.
But what is it ? There has been much
said about, a world of books writ
ten about it, and yet in my humble
opinion, the mass of Christians do
not understand what is the faith that
saves the soul.
Webster’s definition of belief and
faith is primarily the same—the as
sent of the mind to the truth of a
proposition upon evidence.
This is not the Bible meaning of
the faith that justifies and saves. Be
lief is an element of faith ; an essen
tial element, I will say—but it'is not
the faith that justifies and saves; not
the umbilical cord that unites the
new-born soul to Christ.
There are'three words in the Greek
language, Pistis Peitho Peitharkeo,
which have a common root, and that
root is Pisma, a ship’s cable.
Pistis is faith, Peitharkeo is to
obey, Peitho is to persuade. A ship’s
cable holds and draws. Peitho per
suades, draw's, urges and brings to
obedience, and this is the Pistis, the
faith that justifies and saves; the
faith engrafts the soul upon Christ,
the true vine, that by which the soul
becomes adhesive to Christ—draws
its life from Christ, and by obedience
to Christ, bears the fruit of good
deeds, of holy living, so that men
seeing its fruits glorify God.
Even Luther was very much mis
understood in his day, and in our
day, he is grossly perverted. Yet
Luther, while teaching the precious
doctrine of justification by faith, de
clared in most emphatic language
that the sphere of good works was as
necessary to the child of God as was
the air to the bird or the water to
the fish; and he uses this illustration
to present objectively the relation of
good works to faith.
“It is as impossible to separate faith
from good works, as it is to separate
flame from its burning, shining prop
erties.” Meaning that faith and good
works were inseparable, as much so,
as sugar and sweetness, or vinegar
and sourness, or quinine and bitter
ness. And sugar without sweetness,
is no longer sugar. Christ is an his
toric character, historic existence, as
Caasar, Alexander and Washington.
But belief of the testimony of histo
ry, is not faith in Caesar or Washing
ton, nor is belief of the Bible as a
credible history, nay, even as of di
vine authority. Yea, I will say be
lief of the Bible as genuine, as au
thentic and inspired, is not the faith
that justifies and saves the soul.
Luther says, “O, this faith is a
mighty thing, wrought in the will, in
the spirit of a man, by the mighty
pow’er of the Divine Spirit.”
The faith that saves the soul, is
the faith that forsakes all for Christ;
forsakes the honors, the riches, the
pleasures of the world and the flesh,
for Christ.
The soul that is born of God, is
“sealed by the Holy Spirit of prom
ise.” Eph. 1:13.
Then is the kingdom of God set
up in the soul when the man has re
nounced all things for Christ; when
there is a conscious self-abnegation
for Christ.
There is no temporizing, or com
promising. It was the faith of Paul,
W'hen he cried out, “Lord what wilt
thou have me to do ?” As he fell to
the ground, his natural eyes being
blinded by the brilliance of the actu
al presence of the Son of God. The
eyes of the inner man beheld the cru
cified, the glorified Jesus of' Naza
reth, the Son of God; the lightening
flash of the Divine presence, that
smote him to the earth, smote also to
death the evil spirit that animated
and controlled him.
The faith that saves is that which
is visible in good works.
Read conclusion of 25th chapter
of Mark—a description of the judg
ment—and see that those on the
right hand are welcomed to the king
dom prepared for them, not because
of what they had believed, but be
cause of what they had done in the
way of good works—they had “fed
the hungry, given water to the thirs
ty, entertained the stranger, clothed
the naked, visited the sick and the
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prisoner. • ' 1
Hear Jesus in Matt. 7th: “Not
every one that saith unto me Lord,
Lord, shall enter into the Kingdom
of God, but he that doeth the will of
my Father in heaven.” And he says,
“A good tree cannot bring forth evil
fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring
forth good fruit, wherefore, by their
fruits ye shall know them.”
And by their fruits we have seen,
they shall be judged and rewarded.
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