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THE CONVENTION,
The Southern Baptist Convention
which closed its 37th session in this
city last w eek was many degrees and
in several respects above the aver
age.
1. The spirituality that manifest
ed itself from the very beginning
was most gratifying to witness.
Countenances beaming with good
humor, hearty hand grasps,
cheering and Christian greet
ings, songs of praise and tri
umph that reached down into the
depths of the soul, making melody
and arousing enthusiasm, prayers
that were truly sincere, that knit all
hearts into fellowship-sermofis and
addresses that indicated divout study,
humility and godliness—all combin
ed to make the spiritual tone one that
begat brotherly love, nearest to Go d
and Christlikeness.
Now this may be easily accounted
for; for several years the constitu
ency of the Convention has been
sharply divided upon the question of
Sunday-school literature and kindred
issues; this division has caused dis
cussion, at times acrimonious, and
constant friction which things are
inimical to spirituality and unction.
Thanks to our Heavenly Father
this question has been settled and we
heard not the most remote reference
to it. We do not remember to have
witnessed so harmonious a meeting
as the one just passed. There was
no bone of contention.
2. The absence of anything like her
esy aihong the Baptists of the South
is a cause of devout thankfulness.
Again and again did we hear from
the speakers the most earnest insis
tance upon the audience and all to
rigidly adhere to the truth of the
old gospel and to walk in the old
paths.
While other denominations are
being rent with discensions and trou
bled with advocates of “Advanced
Thought,” “The New Theology,”
“Briggsism” and such, the Southern
Baptists can congratulate themselves
that our brethren are sound in the
faith and will boldly stand for the
defense of the truths that were dear
to Boyce, Jeter, Pendleton, Jess*
Mercer, the Furman’s and Manly’s
and the fathers of long ago. With
out boasting we may say, that no
other body of Christians in the world
can show such faithful adherence to
pure Pauline Theology as the Bap
tists of the South. Not simply the
pastors of Atlanta, but all the pas
tors of the Southern Baptist Conven
tion agreed that it is not expedient
to admit defenders of Briggsism into
our pulpits.
8. The themes discussed in the
meeting are worthy of mention—no
time was lost on side issues, no
breath spent in quibbling or stick
ling: Missions which are the heart
and life of the church, claimed tho
major part of tho time and discus
sions—truly might the meeting have
been called a Missionary Conference,
and that of very high order.
Concerning such subjects, there
might be difference of opinion
as to methods and minor details, but
as the great issue of “Go ye” all were
agreed and all ready to bid God
•peed. The interest manifested in
the discussions was marked and con
tinuous, the speakers indicated thor
ough acquaintance with their sub
jects, and surely the addresses of
Dr’s. Carter, Greene, Broadus and
Mabie reached “high water marks.”
From this standpoint the Conven
tion occupied vantage-ground over
many preceding ones. Very much
are we indebted to Dr. T. T. Eaton,
his Committee and his able speakers.
Seldom has our heart been stirred as
(Cljrisfian Shite
it was while we listened to these im
passioned appeals.
4. We may legitimately forecast
the future—since this meeting is
largely educative in its influence, we
shall expect that the strides made in
understanding the great question and
putting our obligations into practi
cal operation will be marked, rapid,
gratifying. Really many of us are
just waking up to realize the tre
mendous sweep of this missionary
enterprise, and shall it not grow on
us till we are filled with the spirit
of Yates, Powell and Judson? We
conceive of no subject better calcu
lated to broaden and enlarge the in
tellectual and moral horizon than
the constant, prayerful considera
tion of our duty to our fellow-man
as set forth in the work of Foreign
Missions. If, as said the Psalmist,
it is in God’s hands to make great, in
what other way, than that of duty to
others, does He so often enlarge our
faculties and multiply us for useful
ness? We are truly sorry for him,
who, often hearing discussed the
Moral-Basis of Missions, doesnot
have a loftier conception of life, both
relative and personal, and who will
not count sacrifices and cross-bear
ings a joy and delight.
Both for immediate effect and for
remote influence will the meeting
mark an era in our history—we will
not prophesy, but trust that a year
hence the whole of the Centennial
fund shall have been raised, together
with increased contributions to the
boards, so that ugly feature of debt
may not any more be reported. It was
the one spot in our feast of charity,
but we will [not speak of it.
5. Lastly we gladly saw a general
disposition to support -our Boards
and their worthy Secretaries. From
some quarters, mutterings of
discontent had been heard, but
these seem to be confined to
a few the great heart of the
Southern Baptists in touch and sym
pathy with all our Boards and their
self-sacrificing
would ' not have been
prised had “Mission Methods” claim
ed and obtained a dignified hearing.
But no, the time of the Convention
is limited, these matters have been
considered at sufficient length in one
of our leading journals—let that
suffice—so said, if not in words, set
in actions, the late meeting.
’Tis an easy thing to find fault, a
captious spirit can be fed on the slim
mest diet, but how much better, no
bler to strengthen the things that re
main, that have given proof of their
abillity, and have shared in the smile
of the Lord, as success has crowned
them. There are spots on the sun,
we admit, but let us look at the sun,
not the spots.
We had a great Convention—
thank God.
The meetings of the American
Baptist Home Mission Society, May
27th and 28th will be of unusual in
terest. The President, Hon. E. Nel
son Blake, of Massachusetts, will de
liver an address. Dr. Guild, of
Brown University, will throw new
light on Roger Williams as the great
pioneer missionary to the North
American Indians. Rev. J. S. Mur
row, for thirty-three years missionary
in Indian Territory, will tell what
has been wrought there. Dr. J. B.
Hartwell of California will deal with
a question of tho time: “The Chi
nese in America.” Dr. 0. A. Will
iams of Nebraska will speak on “The
West of 1792; of 1832; of 1892.”
Dr. E. B. Hulbert, of the Divinity
School of the University of Chicago,
will speak on the relation of Home
Mission to the stability and per
petuity of our Institutions. Dis
cussion will follow.
The centenary of the Separation
of Church and State will be observed
on Friday evening, when Dr. H. S.
Burrage of Maine will speak on Re
ligious Liberty in the 16th Century;
Dr. J. C. Long, of Crozer Seminary,
on Baptist contention for this princi
ple in America; and Dr. MacArthur
of New York on the Benefits of
Separation and what remains to be
done. Saturday afternoon, after
brief consideration of work among
foreign populations, there will be a
free field for discussion of the So
ciety’s thirty years work for the col
ored people, with a consideration of
its future policy.
Dr. A. H. Strong, of Rochester
Theological Seminary, will preach
the Annual Sermon on Sunday the
29th. “The Christian World In
~ ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY. MAY 19, 1892.
1492 and the Christian World in
1892, with American Christianity as
a new factor therein: or, the pro
gress of the Kingdom in the last 40C
years.
Jinny complimentary things have
been said, and deservingly so, aboul
our zealous, efficient and consecrated
Corresponding Secretary, Dr. J. G
Gibson. Perhaps none have been
more appreciated by him than, thi
resolution adopted by th late State
Convention in LaGrange. This is
official as we give it:
Resolved, That the liberal contri
butions for missions during the past
twelve months are largely due, undei
the divine blessing, to the ability and
zeal of brother J. G. Gibson, Cones
ponding Secretary State Board of
Missions; and it affords this Conven
tion great pleasure to boar witness oi
his efficiency and fidelity.
We are satisfied that brethren oi
Georgia, the rank and file of the min
istry, will sustain the Atlanta pastor;
in their statement to Rev. Thos. Dix
on, of New York, that on account oi
his utterances concerning Dr. Briggs
and his defense of his heresies, that
no pulpit in Atlanta would welconu
him. So far as we know they might
have said with equal truth, no pul
pit in Georgia. Excuse us from
Briggsism if you please.
FROM CHINA.
Hong Kong is a city of over tw<
hundred thousand people, built on ai
island with the harbor between it and
the main land. The island recedes
like an amphitheatre, rapidly fron
the shore and the city is built witl
one street above another, overlook
ing the bay and presenting a beauti
ful and picturesque appearance
About one-half the city consists of
beautiful European houses with fin<
public buildings and splendid man
sions and villas, while the other hal
is inhabited by Chinese. At night
the city is especially beautiful when
seen from the bay and lighted bi
electricity as the lighted streets tow
er one above anomer receding and
rising at the same time and present
ing a panorama of sea, land and
mountain rarely to be met with.
Hong Kong is under English control
as China was forced to concede the
Island to the English government foi
the purposes of trade. Our two young
lawyers mounted their bicycles and
we took jinrichas and we did the
city quite thoroughly. Late in the
afternoon another steamer goes up
the river 100 miles to Canton, a sure
enough Chinese city, and we engage
passage and ride by night arriving
very early in the morning at the
wharf in Canton. Thousands oi
Small boats lie all around us in the
water. These hold the people who
live on the water. Their boat is
their home and their means of mak
ing a living, and while they transport
persons and freight for hire, they are
born, eat, sleep, live and die in then
boats. Almost every boat is man
aged by a woman with a baby strap
ped on her back and two or three
children around her. The boat peo
ple are almost a race to themselves
and are considered an inferior class.
Among the better classes the women
do not mingle with the public but are
kept in seclusion.
We went to the hotel in the for
eign concession, and got breakfast,
my wife riding in a sedon chair for
the first time, for the streets of Can
ton are entirely too narrow to admit
of anything like a wheeled vehicle.
The foreign concession is outside the
walls of the city and is laid off and
built up like a small European city.
Foreigners arc not permitted to live
inside the city walls. We were told
that it was not safe to walk around in
the city as the natives would jeer at
us and might throw stones at us, but
we wanted to see as much as possi
ble and the only way to do this welj
is to walk, and besides, I did not like
to be cooped up in a covered sedon
chair and this was the only means of
conveyance to be had. Breakfast
over, we hired a Chinese as guide
who knew a little English, and my
two young friends, myself and wife,
set out to do the city. Just outside
the gates is the celebrated temple of
the five hundred Geni which we went
through and then through the silk
factories and tho numerous shops
where jewelry is manufactured, when
passing through the massive walls of
the city we were in Canton, founded
more than two thousand years ago
and containing a population of a mil
lion and a half of people.
The streets are very narrow—a
should say from three to six feet
wide—and the shops and houses
stretch along in almost endless rows,
while the crowds of people made it
ilmost impossible at times to get
along.
After being in Canton a little while
•me can easily believe that China
holds four hundred and fifty millions
of people. We visited the temples,
the Pagodas, the water clock, the
public buildings, stores and shops un
til we were w r ell tired out, when we
turned toward the river and made
tor the houses of our Baptist mission
tries. No violence had been offered
is and if they jeered at us we did
not understand what they said and so
it did not matter. Passing out thro’
the gates we wended our way along
through narrow alleys and jostling
crowds until we came to the house of
Dr. R. 11. Graves, beautifully located
m the bank of the great river. A
knock and Mrs. Graves came to the
loor and gave us a hearty welcome.
Dr. Graves, who was out attending a
neeting, soon came in and lunch was
spread and an hour or two spent
piite pleasantly. Mrs. Graves is a
laughter of Gen. Lowry,of Mississip
>i, and Dr. Graves is Wvetcran of 35
years in China. Adjoining his house
is the girl’s school and next to that
the house of Bro. E. Z. Simmons.
Our mission property is well located
nd the work seems to be going along
-moothly.
A small boat takes us back to our
-teamer and as the sun sets we drop
town the river and leave behind us
Canton with its tall pagodas, its queer
people and its hundred different
<mells, glad to breathe again the
breeze that swept in frym the sea.
Another day in Hong Kong and
then for Japan. The Chinese we
lave in America do not fairly repre
sent China. They are usually from
the lowest classes, while here many
>f the people are well educated and
wealthy. These live in style and
Iress elegantly and whi’e their civil
zati 'ai is peculiar it u, ffetcriiieless a
civilization, in many respects, of a
high order.
The. Chinese are quite conservative
ind any change in their customs or
habits must win its way very slowly.
They oppose European ideas and
methods and regard all other nations
as inferior to themselves. They
want no railroads or telegraphs, but
are quite content with things as they
have them. Ido not think any Eu
ropeans .would be allowed in the
country were it not for English and
American men of war in their har
bors. They regard all interference
by outsiders in attempts to teach
them a different civilization or reli
gion as an impertinence which they
resent as much as they dare to. They
are Buhdists in religion and spare
no expense or pains in their worship.
Many of them are fine philosophers
and well posted in the precepts of
Buhda and the subtile reasonings
of Confucius!
Their icfeas of Christianity are de
rived in the main from the Euro
peans and Americans whom they
meet in the treaty ports and who are
only nominally Christians, whose
lives are no credit to Christianity; as
well as to the treatment which they
receive from the English govern
ment in forcing the opium trade up
on them to their ruin, and from our
own government in demanding ac
cess to their country and denying
them any privileges in our own
country. Os this kind of Christiani
ty they want none of it and I do not
know that we can blame them much
from their standpoint.
China is not a country that I
should care to live in nor is it a very
pleasant country even to travel in.
To-night we set sail for Japan, of
which I hear wondrous stories from
the great numbers of globe trotters
that I meet. You shall know of it in
my next. O. C. Pope.
DO YOU WANT A HOME ?
You may think this is a cranky no
tion at first glance, but think about
it awhile and then if you are interest
ed write me and you will hear more
about it.
1. There are hundreds and thous
ands of families who by reason of
their isolation from other families and
the facilities of railroads, churches
and schools arc dragging out a mis
erable existence on poor farms in
backwoods places, their ehildren
growing up in ignorance and with
out the numerous advantages
to be secured by bringing the people
together into villages and towns.
The school, if they have one at all,
is often presided over by an incom
petent teacher, in a rude cabin of logs
called a school house. The people
go to church once a month, to Sab
bath-school seldom or never, and re
ceive patiently the harmless haran
gues of so-called preachers. These
facts are driving the people to the
towns and cities, not only for educa
tional and religious privileges but
also for protection from the numerous
and abominable thieves, cut throats,
libertines and abandoned classes gen
erally.
2. But many who leave their
old country homes to secure the ad
vantages offered in the towns and
cities, find after it is too late, that
they have jumped out of the frying
pan into the fire, for the towns and
cities are full of bar rooms, drunkards,
gambling hells, houses of prostitu
tion, Sabbath desecration, etc. More
than this, they find that they have
no means of support, and are forced,
after a few months, to abandon the
town and go back to their old home,
or if they unwisely sold it, to rent a
home from somebody else and go
back on a farm, poorer but wiser
people.
3. “There are temperance towns,”
you say well, after a fashion there
are, but who owns the property? Any
free negro,no matter how low down
and abandoned, any white man no
matter how vile, can buy a lot down
in the edge of some swamp and set up
an abominable den of infamy and
you cannot help yourself, and be
sides, you do not know how soon the
abominable rum sellers and suckers
will take a notion to’ sell liquor in
the place and begin to move negro
gamblers and low down white men
into the place until they acquire
strength enough to carry the town
“wet” and then you cannot help
yourself, but must submit to be in
sulted and taxed by them to their
hearts content, while they pile name
less tefnptAlion's before yuui» ffitirily
and bid defiance to law and order,
or sell your hard earned possessions
to them for what they are pleased to
give you and move somewhere else
to be treated the same way.
I have a remedy for all these evils,
so far as location and town govern
ment is concerned.
I want to find fifty or a hundred
families of people who can produce
a first class recommendation as to
morals and are willing to join a com
pany to build a farm village and a
at ree to submit to such rules as are in
dispensable to good goverment, to be
mutually agreed upon between those
forming the company or cummunty.
The idea is to purchase as much land
as is necessary so esch man can have
a good farm, build the town in the
center and make such law r s under
charter as will protect the cummuni
ty absolutely from objectionable bus
iness and characters. It can be done.
This plan will not only give all the
advantages now posessed by towns
but many not in the charter of the
towns in existence, and at the same
time give every inhabitant a farm and
self sustaining home in the midst of
a select neighborhood. I feel perfectly
safe in saying that such a village will
be worth five times what it will cost,
the day it is done, so that as an in
vestment there is nothing equal to it.
Your correspondence will be treated
confidentially and when I hear from
fifty people I will call a meeting to
orgnize. J. A. Scarboro,
Eastman, Ga.
Augusta.—Our Father’s compen
sations are truly wonderful!
I had set my heart on being at the
recent meeting of tho Southern Bap
tist Convention, hut a sudden sick
ness laid me aside, and most of that
precious time was spent by mo,
waarily, on my bed.
But what a sweet token of this
tender care and loving remember
ance, I have just enjoyed!
I received a most unexpected mes
sage from our dear Brother Hartwell,
of California, requesting me to “an
nounce a Chinese service for Wed
nesday night.”
I did not know before, that Dr.
Hartwell was in Atlanta; nor how
it was that he had been able to turn
aside to visit our mission here; but 1
instantly thought of some good
women who had gone up to the Con
vention, with hearts full of zeal for
the blessed work and concluded that
they were bringing him along with
them as they returned to Augusta
(this it proved otherwise); and my
heart was full of joy!
I was able, from the shortness of
the time, only to put a notice in the
evening paper, and to send a few
messages to our nearest boys—then
rise and go to tho meeting, last
night, held in the chapel of the First
Baptist church, where our Chinese
meet every Sunday afternoon.
And what a scene it was! Never
can I forget it!
A crowded room—on the front
benches a score or more of our
Chinamen well-dressed, attentive
and pleased!
Most of them recognized in the
dear brother before them, one whom
they had often met in far-off San
Francisco; one always ready to do
them a service, and who had come
now to preach Jesus to them, in their
own wonderful speeth.
As the strange language fell upon
our ears, many hearts, doubtless>
went up in earnest prayer to God,
for the descent of the Holy Spirit!
I tried to pray that the occasion
might indeed prove Pentecostal—
that God himself would come down
and open these closed hearts, and
unseal those blind eyes—that they
might receive Jesus, as their ever
lasting Lord and Savior!
And the audience sat almost spell
bound; not a sound was heard among
them, this we understood not a word
of the fervid utterance of this earn
est Ambassador pleading for his
King—with these, His revolted and
ignorant subjects!
‘■This is my beloved Son!” was
his theme ; and my eyes were full of
tears as I sat and watched the up
turned faces of those who listened!
Long and tenderly Brother Hart
well plead with them; and they sat
and drank it in—those familiar
sounds, that recalled to these exiles
—home and native land; but which
told, in no uncertain tones, of an eter
nal home and a better country—a
Father divine and a Savior!
Yes; let me repeat £-how Sweet are
the blessed compensations, we meet
by the way! Many of us, who could
not “go up to Jerusalem,” enjoyed
this sweet sermon—thanked God,
and took heart, for the work.
Oh! what a blessed thing it is—to
“minister,” to serve, to bear the word
of life to the perishing.
Brethren of the ministry, turn
not aside from your full privilege of
serving. It is high time to cancel all
thought of self or self-seeking; to be
immersed in the true work of the
ministry. It has seemed to me,
sometimes, that the church has al
most drifted away from this great
sheet-anchor of her mooring to Jesus
Christ—to have almost lost the true
meaning of the word and as
divinely instituted; and I feel, that
the world will never be converted,
until the great body of the ministry,
Peter-like receive again with bowed
heads and broken hearts—the same
positive but tender command: “Feed
my sheep; feed my lambs!” But I
started to write no homily; certainly,
to utter no harsh words. Let it fall
where it is sent, it hurts none who
are true!
The Chinamen remained after the
congregation, for Brother Hartwell
to have a personal word with each
one, and urge them again—“to talk
with Jesus, who alone could make it
all plain,” and then we parted, to our
several homes, with hearts full of
deep joy and gratitude.
We did so wish our Brother could
have remained a few days to repeat
again and again tho “old, old story,”
to these heathens in the midst of
churches, but duty calls him away,
to attend his own anniversaries. It
recalled the time when, a few years
ago, wo had with us for a week or
more on this same service of love
the almost painted graves of Canton
the brother-in-law of Dr. Hartwell.
But I must stop; only this more;
Chistians everywhere, pray for these
poor Chinamen in Augusta. We
feel our utter inability; God must
and will do the work!
Mrs. A. Smith Irvine.
May 12th 1892.
GENERAL MEETING.
The Summer Hill Association will
hold its meeting with tho church at
Richland, Ga., beginning on Friday
before the fifth Sunday in May. The
introductory sermon will be preached
by Rev. J. W. Hamner, tho sublet
, being “To Every Man His Work.”
The following subjects will bo dis
-11 cussed: '‘Encouragement to do tho
Brother Minister,
Working Layman,
Zealous Sister,
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Master’s Work,” “When God Helps
in His Work and How.”
At night Rev. W. W. Mabry will
preach upon the subject “Reward
for Christian Work, or tha Reaper
and His Rewards.”
Saturday morning at 9 o’clock ser
vices of prayer will be held, by Rev.
Morgan Cleveland and Rev. Daniel
Polk. Subject discussed: “God’s
use for money in His cause and How
to get it.”
At 11 o’clock Rev. W. W. Arnold
will preach from the “Promised
Blessings that Follow Giving.”
At 2 o’clock will be discussed ths
obligations of a church to its Sunday
School.
At 3 :30. “When to have a reviv
al and how to conduct it.”
Sunday morning a mass meeting
will be held and several addresses
will be delivered.
At 11 o’clock there will be a dedi
cation service at the new church just
completed. The brethren there have
just finished a very comfortable house
of worship which is an adornment to
the town and a credit to the faithful
disciples. It cost between fifteen
hundred and two thousand dollars.
Since the connection of Rev. W. W.
Arnold as pastor of the church near
ly three hundred dollars have been
expended in improvements, besides
giving twenty-five hundred dollars to
missions, and pastorial support. The
membership has increased from 74
to 91, and a good, live Sunday-school,
a splendid Prayer Meeting and an
interesting teacher’s meeting is held
each week. We are glad to note
this progress and prosperity under
Bro. Arnold’s pastorate. He is an
able preacher and a most excellent
brother. The Index has a cordial
invitation to attend this meeting but
arduous duties at home we fear will
prevent.
A CONDITION OF PEACE.
It is quite commonly supposed that
one may have peace -with God by
simply believing on Christ and thus
by faith in him receive salvation and
that salvation itself will bring all ths
peace that is obtainable.
Paul tells us that, “being justified
by faith, we have peace with God.”
This is true of course, but it does
not, in an amplified way at least, set
forth all the conditions of the broad
est and fullest peace which is obtain
able. Paul’s words refer to what
we might call the germinal principle
of peace and the fundamental condi
tion of securing it. Is is indeed
through faith that one obtains peace;
but there is something besides faith,
as a primary condition and single act,
which is necessary to the securing oi
largest and deepest peace; and this
we find indicated in God’s own words
to the Israelites thus: “O that thou
hadst hearkened to my command
ments ! then had thy peace been as.
a river.” (Isa. 48:18.) These
words show that had the Israelites
obeyed God’s commandments, they
would have enjoyed a strong and
deep peace; but not doing so, they
experienced the reverse of peace.
Plainly enough the obeying of God’s
commandments is one of the great
conditions on which peace with God
is secured.
And is not one great reason why
some Christians do not have a fulness
of spiritual peace,because they do not
unreservedly and sacrificingly obey
God’s commandments ? They obey
some of them, but some others are
so contrary to their own choices and
tastes that they evade them, and ths
natural consequence is, they deprive
themselves of that degree and depth
of peace -which they might have, were
they to fulfill the necessary condi
tions. God gives peace according
to our obedience.
C. 11. "WeTHERBE,
a’golden wedding.
Kev. and Mrs. F. M. Haygood,
propose to celebrate the fiftieth anni
versary of their marriage on the last
day of June. The people generally
will be invited to attend, and a most
interesting programme will be pre
pared for the occasion, which will be
announced in due time. The bridal
cake Ims been offered already, and
will be cut on tho day of the anni
versary. It will be so appropriate
for the many friends who shall as
semble with the happy couple to
offer words of cheer, to leave with
them substantial tokens of their af
fection. As they are drawing nea»
to tho evening of life, let the twi
light bo radiant with love’s sweetest
memorials, J. M. Brittain,