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Rev. C. B. Martin, Ladonia, Texas,
has been preaching at his prayer
meetings sermons of ten minutes
length. He says they seem to take
with his people very much, and they
insist on his continuing them.
Brother N. B. Hogan, the field
correspondent and representative of
the Central Baptist, has been linger
ing in our interesting city for sever
al days, since the adjournment of the
Convention. He is much pleased
with Atlanta and would like to
make it his future home.
• Rev. W. C. Luther, pastor of the
church at Corsicana, Texas, has been
holding a series of meetings at his
church with Rev. T. S. Potts, of
Dallas, doing the preaching. Up to
the close of last week there had been
thirteen additions to the church and
the prospect for a still greater num
ber.
Rev. T. C. Carleton, of Missouri,
attended the Convention, broughfhis
family along and since the Conven
tion adjourned spent a week with
relatives at Elberton. He was in
Atlanta at the close of last week
looking well and gave u& the parting
hand. He will favor the Index with
something from Missouri soon.
There are 9,000 Roman Catholic
Priests in the United States wearing
the black dress and white dog collar
that indicate their profession. Be
side these indications they carry
under the arm or in the hand a big
' prayer book called a “Breviary’’
which they read in the cars and in
other public places, as a religious
duty. They are bound under pain
of mortal sin to read the “office” as
the portion of the Breviary of each
day are called.
W. E. 11. in the Religious Herald
• says: Atlanta is a beautiful city and
displayed superb hospitality. It is
pleasant to note that the Baptists are
growing rapidly in Atlanta. By far
the finest house of worship in the
city will be Dr. McDonald’s new
church. It will be of white stone,
with a very lofty tower and many
conveniences. It is pleasant to know
that our own McDonald, pure, ear
nest and full of love, is to have a
house so magnificent and beautiful
in which to preach.
The Baptist of Baltimore looks at
it this way : It strikes us that the
tilt between Rev. Thomas Dixon
and some of the Atlanta preachers
was attributed to a jumble of.indis
cretions. If one had not said this
and another had not said that, and
this one had not written somebody
else, and if silence had been put in at
another point and if charity had had
a half chance and if the folks were
wiser than they sometimes are, we
believe that unlovely scuffle of the
Lord’s big children might have been
avoided.
The Baptists in other states profit
by the munificence of Mr. John D.
Rockefeller, besides we in Georgia
Besides his donation to Mercer Uni
versity and other schools, his latest
donation is the placing of 850,000 at
the disposal of the Tabernacle Bap
tist church of New York, Rev. D, C.
Potter, pastor. The interest of this
sum is to be applied as the church
sees fit, subject to thq advice of the
donor. This arrangement is to last
for ten years, after which time the
members of Mr. Rockefeller’s family
for a second ten years may, if they
wish, continue to apply it to the
same work, or if not needed there,
of for any other reason, may use it
elsewhere. At the end of the twen-
if Ijrtetian 3niw<
ty years the fund goes K. the care of
the Fifth Avenue Baptist church at
New York City.
People ‘ differ in matters of
economy and extravagance as in
other things. The Watchman makes
a suggestion that W’ill pay any
church adopting it. The writer for
several years made it a rule to see
that his pastor attended the State
Convention and also the Southern
Baptist Convention. The worst
economy in church finances is to
scrimp the minister’s salary. A
couple of hundred dollars saved there
is poorly saved, for that sum may
mean to him all the difference be
tween an easy mind and elastic
spirits and a sense of anxiety and
depression that detracts from all his
■work. That last hundred or two is
the oil that makes the machinery
run without friction. It is not a bad
thing, either, to give the minister a
little more than has been agreed
upon.
The school elections in Illinois re
cently, in which the women were al
lowed to vote, brought out some pe
culiar results. The question of sex
seems not to have governed them ih
voting. In some of the towns two
tickets were out and one having a
majority of women.
The women divided and in some
cases defeated the womens ticket by
their own votes. And it is said the
women have come to understand
thoroughly the ordinary methods
employed in elections. They are
said to have displayed as much skill
and did as much “full work” as even
the veteran politicians. In one or
more instances they remained from
the polls till near the close, when
they come down like an avalanche
and carried the election by storm. In
some cases it appears that they cared
nothing for the privilege and did not
vote.
The Baltimore Baptist gets after
the daily papers of that city with a
sharp stick for noi giving any re
port of the Convention lately held
in Atlanta. We are glad to say that
the Atlanta daily press did the prop
er thing by the Convention. The
Baptist says: The immense Baptist
Convention in Atlanta, Ga., has beeu
poorly reported by our daily papers,
except the American. There are
over three millions of Baptists in
this country. It is the strongest de
nomination in America, but a little
too much opposed to Rome for a cer
tain Baltimore daily. It is time our
people are taking notice of the long
continued omission on the part of
this paper to do the Baptists justice.
If a change is not made, and speedi
ly, we shall give the great Baptist
host throughout the South some in
teresting reading on the subject.
The success of the Anti-Lottery
Democratic ticket, in the recent elec
tion in Louisiana demonstrates the
fact that it pays for the moral forces
of a state to rise up in mass against
any great public evil. There has
never teen, in the history of this
government such a gigantic enemy
to society, to good morals and honest
government as the Louisiana State
Lottery. It was simply death for
any one man or few to oppose it.
But the religious press backed by the
moral clement in the state took hold
of it, and like Caesar crossing the
Rubicon succeeded. In the late
election Mr. M. J. Foster, who has
been the leadey of the Anti-Lottery
movement from the start, was tri
umphantly elected, and thus the
public are assured of an administra
tion that will not debauch social and
political life in that state.
In this centennial year w hen our
Boards are pushing the work for
Christ, we would urge that three
elements be constantly watched. We
mean in so far as new fields are con
cerned and the building of houses of
worship. These elements are—the
site, the church building and the
minister. If you send a missionary
to a new field or a town on a new
railroad, with a view to establishing
a Baptist church, let the best, the
most elegible and the most command
ing site for a church be secured. It is
unnecessary to offer any argument to
show why this should be done. Suf
fice to say our population is rapidly
filling up the towns and cities. At
this time you can get such sites as
we suggest. Some years hence, you
may not be able to get them at all,
ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY. MAY 26, 1892.
or if at all, at an enormously high
price.
The site secured, build for the fu
ture, and then place in charge, min
isters who aro able and will present
the truth so as to win souls to God.
It has been a question with us
whether it was best for a finance
committee, or Board of Deacons, as
the case may be to move off with
their work, till about all the mon
ey for church expenses had been
subscribed. Experience however
causes us to think with the Watch
man.
It is easy to carry the plan of
having all the money for church ex
penses during the year subscribed
beforehand, and then of cutting the
coat according to the cloth, too far.
There is room for faith in the expen
ditures for Christian work. If it is
plain that new opportunity for serv
ing Christ in the community is open
ing to the church, it is no't always
wise to wait till all the necessary
money is subscribed before entering
the open door. Money will come,
and many will give to sustain a work
already commenced who will not give
a cent to start it, and many more
will contribute to a work that is suc
cessful whom you could not per
suade to give anything but cold wa
ter, if they were confronted with the
same thing as a project. Men are
queer.
The first meeting of the trained
warriors under the lamented Spur
geon have held the first College Con
ference, at Newington, since the
death of their chief. There was
naturally an air of gloom about the
meeting to inaugurate the session,
says the Baptist. The memories of
such an occasion were heart-break
ing. Mr. James Spurgeon, as acting
president, occupied the chair, vacated
by a touch of death’s icy finger since
last Conference, and performed his
part well, though it must have been
a desperately trying ordeal. His ad -
dress. waJ alternately pathetic and
martial in character, while smiles
and tears, like sunshine and cloud,
successively reflected the deep emo
tional experiences of his listeners.
The men, loyal to the traditions of
their departed leader, bore bravely,
as was testified by unmistakable ex
pressions of fraternal sympathy, their
share of the burden which pressed at
such a time in so much unseen force
upon the brother who has stepped
forward to fill the terrible breach, as
well as.upon his official confreres.
The great leader is only missed as
yet in bodily presence; it will take
months ere the blow comes home
with anything like full force.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers have been outspoken in
their efforts to prevent the Lord’s
day being used for work. They
passed resolutions in behalf of the
railroads observing the Sabbath as a
day of rest. Outside of the teach
ings of the Bible on this subject,
they declare that the Sabbath should
be to them because of the greater
security to the travelling public, the
safety to railroad property, the great
est good to themselves and to their
fellow employes engaged in train ser
vice. In order therefore that they
may have the enjoyment and the
rest of the Sabbath, and be at home
with their families, they passed
the foliowing:
Resolved, That we are in full
sympathy and accord with the aims
and work of the American Sabbath
Union in its efforts to make forever
paramount the American Sabbath as
a perpetual rest day, believing, as
we do, that “the Sabbath was made
for man”—for the railroad man, as
well as for the passenger or the ship
per : for the employe, as well as for
the stockholder—and we claim the
Sabbath as a rest day—as a God-giv
en right—and when so observed as
the one impassable barrier against
the encroachments of capital upon
the rights of labor.
A great baptismal festival is what
took place recently in the Timok
Valley, in Servia. No fewer than
400 Mohammedan Gipsies, belonging
to the tribe of Iroahim Hamil, were
baptised. The Baptist says: The
men appeared at the ceremony in
brand new garments, the women and
girls were adorned with real gold
and silver ornaments, presents from
the wives of the rich merchants in
the district, and after the baptism,
which was performed by the Bishop
of Zaitchar, there wai a great popu
lar fete. Sheep were roasted whole
at open fires, wine flowed in abun
dance, and when the popular dance,
the kolo, began iw' l t>-ont of the
church the new Servian Christians
acquitted themselves nobly. It is
evidently easy to convert multi
tudes of heathen at a certain price.
But surely no better method of ap
plying the sorry docyijie of baptis
mal regeneration could have been
followed if the aim of the missionary
bishops and clergy ww,, actually to
illustrate the absolute falsity, and
corruption upon which that doctrine
rests. With the marsh of Divine
truth, we may yet see a Baptist com
mittee of converts from Mahoinme
danism formed in India evangelise
Church of England clerics and mem
bers at home with a view to purify
ing the foreign missionary agencies
of that Church at their source. It is
a subtle paradox to talk of spreading
the regenerating Gospel and extend
ing the Christianity of Pentecost by
means of the present superstitious
system of fonts and sponsors.
Centralization seems to be the or
der, not only in this country but iu
Europe likewise. As one knows
the facts, he is forced in serious re
flection to ask what does it mean?
What is to come of it? The Presi
dent of tho Spring Assembly of
Baptists in England, in an admira
ble paper, pictured the concentra
tion of population in the towns and
cities. The growth of the towns
during the present century has been
phenomenal, and the most. conspic
uous feature of English life.’ The
stream of population has set in one
direction. The masses of the people
are gathering fast in the centres of
industry, and every year lhe rural
districts are pouring in the fresh cur
rents of their blood and strength.
Our cities have become leaser worlds
in themselves, with separate territo
ries for the villas of tl ~V ,j..wd pie
crowded Voltages of thl, a/uPan, in'
which there is no rest day or night
from the roar of the engine and the
anvil and the hurrying feet of the
multitude. Perhaps we, do not real
ize the volume of life/ until some
common purpose sways the myriads,
and the surging crowds come forth
from the fashionable subtirb and
from the purlieus of the poor, and in
a single hour we may gaze upon a
concourse vaster than that which
Xerxes wept over as the hosts of
Persia crossed the Hellespont. The
old inhabitant of the city points you
to many a densely crowded district
where as a boy he played in grew
fields and sunny meadows. The
Jewish legend ran that the night be
fore the destruction of Jerusalem
the Gate Beautiful of the Temple
opened of its own accord, but no
man could tell whether the omen
was for good or evil. No thought
ful man can look upon this ever-in
creasing centralization of human
life without concern. Will it be for
good or evil ?
EEOM JAPAN.
Five days sailing almost due north
from Hong Kong, and we touch at
Nakasaka, the most southern treaty
port of Japan and go ashore to see
the land of which we have heard so
much. The empire of Japan covers
four large islands and a great num
ber of small ones, and on the large
island of Kuisu, in the south, is Na
kasaka, one of the free ports, for
there are only five or six ports in
Japan, where a foreign vessel is per
mitted to land. Wo spent the day
looking at some temples and going
through the stores looking at the
innumerable pretty things which the
Japanese have for sale. The Baptists
have no mission here, but we called
on the Congregational missionary,
and found him very pleasant. The
Methodists also have a missionary
here.
At night fall we weigh anchor
and continue our way and the next
day we passed through the strait of
Shimonoseki and into the beautiful
Inland Sea. This body of water is
about two-hundred miles long by
from twenty to fifty miles wide, in
terspersed with lovely islands and
land-locked on every side except a
narrow strait at the entrance and
exit. I have never seen a more
lovely body of water in my life and
as the steamer glides along between
the islands, and the smoke of volca
noes on the shore rises into the
heavens, and the little villages dot
the green land with white, you feel
like you were in enchanted land.
At Kobo we proposed to quit our
stqamer and make headquarters for
awhile as this city is a good base
from which to do Southern Japan.
When we swung up at the wharf, I
step ashore and into a'jinvicasha and
ask to be driven to the house of Dr.
11. 11. Rhees, the veteran Baptist
missionary in Japan. I asked him
to tell me of a good boarding place
and find that he has room and ar
range to board- with him for awhile,
while my two young friends get
quarters near by. It is a short job
to go back to the steamer and get
my wife and the baggage all safely
ashore and we find ourselves in a
comfortable home, with an American
Baptist family.
Kobt) and the adjoining city of
Hyogs contain about one hundred
and twenty-five thousand inhabi
tants, and a large export trade in
porcelain and silks is done here,
several large cities and a very fine
agricultural country being tributary
to this point. Foreigners are not
permitted to live or to trade in
Japan as they please. At each
treaty point there is a concession in
which foreigners may live and hold
property and they can travel freely
within a radius of about twenty-five
miles, but beyond this they cannot
go without a special permit from the
Japanese government. Even the
missionaries must have these permits
and they must be renewed every
three months and they can only get
a permit to live in the interior when
employed by a Japanese or for the
purpose of teaching school. The
permits to travel are only given
when the object of the journey is
for health or scientific investigation,
so the missionaries are very much
restricted by these regulations.
The reason of this is that all
foreign governments except Mexico
deny to the Japanese government all
of jur’djetion over their citi
zens or subjects, for any act com
mitted by them in Japan, and so the
emperor denies to all but Mexicans
the right to travel through the
country without a special permit.
When Governor Hubbard -was our
minister to Japan he negotiated a
treaty by which Americans were to
have free access to the country and
were to become amenable to Ja
panese law when they were in the
country, but our senate refused to
ratify the treaty and the advantage
was lost to us. And here let me say
that I heard from all parties, both
natives and foreigners, the highest
praise of Governor Hubbard as a
wise diplomatists and a most popuar
official. This made me a little proud
when I remembered that though
Governor Hubbard has won his
honors in Texas, yet he is a native
of Georgia and a graduate of Mer
cer University. His administration
of our affairs in Japan was a credit
to our nation and had his policy been
carried out, our citizens in Japan
would have been greatly benefitted.
We visited the city of Osaka a
place of about two hundred thousand
inhabitants and Kioto with over five
hundred thousand, going into the
factories where magnificent porcelain
ware was made and where silk goods
are winning a world wilde reputa
tion and are exported in large quan
tites to Europe and America. I saw
a large piece of silk embroidery be
ing done for the Chcago exhibition
from a pattern said to be over a
thousand years old. Japan will have
an exhibition at Chicago that will
surprise our pe.oplc.
The Boston Board and the Rich
mond Board both have Baptist Mis
sionaries in this part of Japan. I
met Dr. 11. 11. Rhees, Rev. T. E.
Shoemaker, Bro. Thomson, Bro
Wynds and Rev. Baker of the Bos
ton Board and Brother J. W. Mc-
Collum of the Richmond Board. I
was sorry to learn that there had
been some friction between the re
presentatives of the two boards con
cerning fields of labor anti some time
and energy lost before the matter
was adjusted. Now it is settled I
believe that Brother Bronson and
McCollum of tho Rich monel Board
aro to remove south to the island
of Kiusu and tho representatives of
tho Boston Board are to leave them
in the undisputed possession of that
field. I can but think it is unfor
tunate for two Baptist Boards to
place missionaries iu the same field,
V
to do the same kind of work. When
the Millennium comes these un
seemly rivalries may cease. lean
but speak in high praise of the mis
sionaries I have thus far met in
Japan. They are gentlemen and
earnest Christians and this is true not
only of the Baptists but as well
also of the Congregationalists and
Presbyteeians whom I have met.
. This is a lovely country with a
climate about like southern Georgia,
where olives, grapes and the tea
plant flourish. lam charmed thus
far with what I have seen. Tomor
row we sail for Yokohama and
Tukyu, the capital after having been
here two weeks. I shall give you
some reflections on Japan in general
when I have finished the country.
0. 0. Pope.
AN APPEAL.
The Centenary Committee has
recommended raising $250,000 as a
special Centennial Fund; $125,000
for a Chapel Building Fund for the
Home Board, and $125,000 as a per
manent Fund for the Foreign Board,
to be used for “chapel building,
Scripture translation and other per
manent investment.” It is especial
ly for this latter fund that I make
an appeal.
We can reasonably and confident
ly appeal to the churches for a
Building Fund: (1) Because we
wish only to help our converts to
put up chapels. Ido not believe in
using foreign money to build chap
els in the various towns and villages
where we have members. When
the number of believers in a place
becomes too large to meet comforta
bly in a private house they should
endeavor to build or secure a house
for themselves. But in China our
converts are poor and would often
feel such an undertaking to be be
yond their strength. If, however,
we had a fund from which, for in
stance, we could appropriate SIOO
on condition that they would raise
S2OO, it would be an ’yoentivo
the native Christians to exert them
selves to build. In the large cities,
ground is very high in price and a
much larger proportion than one
third would generally be needed.
Thus we should follow the plan pur
sued by Education Society in the
United States and make a small sum
be the means of raising a larger one.
This principle of help does not pau
perize as a complete gift would tend
to do, but would on the contrary be
an incentive to develop the grace of
giving among our converts.
(2) Because chapels for the hea
then will be needed in larger towns
and cities where foreign missionaries
reside. We must distinguish be
tween a church-house and a preach
ing hall. Tho former should be
built and owned by the native Chris
tians, while the latter is a part of
missionary machinery. A building
fund would be helpful in securing
such chapels and halls for preaching
to the unevangelized masses, and are
needed in heathen lands even more
than mission halls are required in
destitute portions of our cities at
home before a church is gathered in
the neighborhood.
(3) Because our chapels are cheap.
The money spent on puttjng a stee
ple on some of our churches at home
would build several good, substan
tial chapels where the Gospel could
be proclaimed to the heathen and
Christians could gather on the Lord’s
day. Brethren who give to the
fund may rest assured that none of
their money would bo lavished on
costly church buildings or expensive
adornments.
(4) Because our chapels aro used
six days in the week. Christians at
home arc so accustomed to seeing
the churches, or at least the main
audience room, opened on Sundays
only that they forget the loss of cap
ital involved in leaving a largo hall
unoccupied for six days in the week.
Here, on tho contrary, wo use our
chapels every day except Saturday.
Thus a sum contributed for a chapel
goes six times as far toward accom
plishing tho end for which it is given
as it would if put into a church
building at home.
(5) Because missionary dwellings
aro needed as well as chapels. Ex.
perience has proved that it is the
best economy to provide healthful,
pleasant homes for missionaries. It
is the height pf extravagance to pay
tho passage and outfit of a family
and their salary for two or three
Brother Minister,
Working Layman,
salons Sister,
We aro striving to make
Tlie Iridozx:
the best of its kind. Help us by securing a
new subscriber.
VOL. 69.—N0. 21.
years and then have to pay their pas
sagfc home before they can accomplish
any work, just because they have
been living in an unhealthful house.
A comfortable home is needed to
enable most missionaries, and espe
cially ladies, to stand a trying cli
mate and to have vigor sufficient to
carry on efficient work. I am not
pleading for ease or self-indulgence
but simply for a business matter, a
matter of dollars and cents. So I
say nothing about the Christian love
which would lead thoso who are liv
ing in pleasant homes in America to
furnish a comfortable shelter for
those w,ho are bearing the heat aud
burden of the day.
(6) Because stereotype plates of
the Scriptures, printing presses and
other “plant” for Christian literature
are needed. I need say nothing of
the importance of a Christian litera
ture, especially among nations like
China, India and Japan which have
a heathen literature of their own.
All know its importance. Mission
money cannot be more judiciously
expended than in providing books
and tracts and especially Scriptures
for the people.
Let these few facts suffice to call
attention to the importance of this
“Permanent Fund.” Christians! may
we not count on your earnest, liber
al help? R. IL Graves.
Canton, China.
AUGUSTA NOTES.
Dr. Lansing Burrows and brethren
J. C. C. Black, McKinnie Law, John
Phinizy, and Henry Jones of the First
church returned from the Conven
tion last week full of the spirit that
pervaded the great Baptist host in
Atlanta. The mid-week meeting
■was given up entirely to “talks” from
these brethren, who told of the im
pressions made upon their minds
during the session of the recent Cogfc
vention. And while they talked, wd
remembered the fact that this great
Association of Baptists had it begin
ning in the very church within whose
walls their voices sounded.
A simple, but impressive ceremony
occurred at the First church last Sab
bath morning, when nearly fifty per
sons received the hand of fellowship,
extended by the pastor on behalf of
the church. Some few of this num
ber united by letter, but the greater
part were converted during the re
cent meetings, and were “buried with
|.Cluibi/m Four more were
baptized on Sunday night, and oth
ers still are waiting to follow their
Saviour in this sacred ordinance. A
few weeks ago, an old man, 72 years
age, gave his heart and the remnant
of his life to Christ, and on Wed
nesday night he too went down into
the liquid grave, and arose rejoicing
in his new-found Lord.
Rev. Thomas Walker, pastor of
the Second Church, returned last
Thursday from the Seminary at
Louisville, where he has taken a
year’s course in Bible studies. He
was met at the Depot by a large del
egation of his people, who escorted
him to his home. On Sunday night
the Second Church was literally
packed, the congregation being so
large that even standing room was
in demand. His few month’s course
at the Seminary has been of benefit
to Bro. Walker.
Much uneasiness was felt among
the friends and brethren of Dr. J.
L. Burrows when they learned last
Thursday that he was confined ta
his bed with partial congestion of
the brain. But the venerable broth
er soon rallied, and in a few days
was on the streets again. He
preached for his son during the lat
ter’s absence from the city last Sab
bath week.
The prayers of the First Church
ascend for Deacon Bothwell and his
wife in the critical illness of their
little girl. Only a few days ago the
Death Angel entered their house
hold and took therefrom a bright
eyed little boy, and now the life of
another loved one hangs as it were
only by a thread. May God give
them grace to say: “He doeth all
things well.”
IJon. J. C. C. Black delivered a
masterly speech in the Opera House
to-night before the Young Men’s
Democratic Chib. Mr. Black will
undoubtedly Le nominated by the
people of this District for Congress,
and if he is elected, Georgia will
have in the National Legislature one
of the ablest statesmen, one of the
purest men, one of the most eloquent
speakers of which tins country can
boast.
Tho 24th Anniversary vs Hat
mony (colored) Baptist Sunday
school was held last Sabbath night
in the new church building; Roy.
W. J. White is pastor of the churZh
and Prof. A. R. Johnson is superin
tendent of the Sunday school. They
are both devoted worshipers. The
writer had the honor and pleasure
of delivering the anniversary ad
dress. Sunday week 1 also had the
pleasure of giving two “layman’s
talks” to Dr. Nelson’s people at
Aiken, S. Q
The work at Berean and Curtis
churches is steadily progressing un
der Dr. Ivey, ami Rev. J. S. Patter,
son, there being more activity in
these fields than for many yean
past. J. C. S.