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One of the eighteen preachers the
American Baptist Missionary Union
is supporting in Russia has been
exiled to Siberia for preaching, the
gospel, and another sent out of the
country on only three hours notice.
Did you ever think that you
would like to die joyous ? Such a
death can only be to those who live
with a view to dying. The Rev. Dr.
Spring says that he never knew an
irreligious man to die joyous; nor a
religious man to die miserable.
The Methodist General Conference
at Omaha, after much discussion of
the question of women delegates,
- roted as a compromise measure, that
die district conference should ballot
on the matter, and unless a two
thirds opposition results, the word
“lay” shall be understood to include
women. Most of the conferences,
have already decided the matter
in saver of the women, and
hence the compromise measure vir
tually settles the question.
Late dispatches from Honolulu in
dicate a revolution in Hawaii, the
capital city of the paradise of the
Pacific. This excitement grows out
of the arrest, the hitter part of May,
of twenty persons charged with the
crime of treason against the Hawai
ian Government. The persons ar
rested are understood to lie mem
bers of the “Hawaiian Protective As
sociation.” The purpose of these
men is to overthrow the present Gov
ernment, of Queen Liliuakalini and
establish instead a republic.
There are many Baptist ministers,
both North and South, who use the
Revised Version of the Scriptures in
their pulpit reading. We see. that
the Episcopal Convention of Massa
chusetts has by a decided majority
voted to ask the general convention
of that church to sanction the use of
that version in public worship. The
Standard, of Chicago, has this word
on the subject:
“While the use of the revised ver
sion is not so general as was expect
ed upon its promulgation, it seems to
tie certain that its use will gradually
extend during the years to ' come.
The vote of this branch of this con
servative denomination is note
worthy.”
When the Christian people and
lovers of good order all over our
country are bringing their influence
to bear in favor of closing the gates
of the world’s fair on the Lord’s-day,
it is discouraging to have so eminent
a man as the Rev. Dr. Gifford, of the
Immanuel Baptist Church, Chicago,
preaching in favor of opening them.
Every denomination nearly, through
its highest representative body, has
voted in favor of closing.
The truth about Sunday opening
is tersely stated by the Philadelphia
Ledger: “The dangerous classes
want the Chicago exposition open on
Sunday. The best citizens want it
shut.”
In May a Jewish Rabbi and nine
children were received into the He
brew Christian Church in New York
and all baptized upon a confession of
their faith in Christ.
Rabbi Herman Faust, Ph. D., his
wife and his two oldest children re
ceived adult Baptist upon confession
of their faith in Christ. It was their
own idea and desire that in addition
to their former names they should
each receive a new name chosen from
the New Testament. In accordance
with their request, Mr. Freshman, the
pastor, baptized the Rabbi, Herman
“Paul,” his wife Ida “Mary,” his
glje (Sljristian 3nOrr.
daughter ft «Uelmina “Martha,” and
his Son Herman “Matthew.”
They feyßev. Mr. Gabelein, the
Assistant pastor, questioned the pa
rents in/ Jarman as to their desire to
bring g ae children in the Chris
tian faffnr They heartily responded
in the affirmative. Mr. Freshman
then baptized the seven younger as
follows: Rebecca “Magdalene,” Ed
win “Mark,” Alfred “Luke,” Martin
“John,” Caroline “Elisabeth,” Rudol
phine “Anna,” Elijah “Timothy.”
We are reminded of the homely,
but pregnant remark Os Josh Billings
when he said, “It is better not to
know so mneh than to know so many
things that aint so.” The higher
critics become exceedingly impatient
when we of a lower plane venture to
suggest that their critical guesses
may lack’ substantial bases. Yet
here is an instance of historic erran
cy that may well cause us to pause a
moment. The Boston Watchman
makes this good point:
“It is not asking too much to re
quest the scholars, whose revolution
ary conclusions in Biblical criticism
are presented for our, acceptance, to
confirm our faith in their findings by
then 1 trust-worthiness in the matters
of which we know something. Prof.
C. H. Toy, for instance, in the New
Review says that Astruc was a
favorite at the Court of Louis XIV.
Louis died in 1715, and it was not
until 1720 that Astruc was appointed
consulting surgeon to the King. In
1715 and for years afterward he was
at Montpelier. We should have a
good deal more confidence in Prof-
Toy’s conclusions that we cannot
test if he did not trip in stating facts
that we know something about also.”
The eyes of the political world are
just now turned to Minneapolis
and Chicago. At the first place the
Republican national nominating con
vention to nominate a Candidate for
the presidency is to be. It seems
now that it will be President Harri.
son against the field. • There have
been developed strong elements of
opposition to the present incumbent.
It may be that these elements can
unite upon Mr. Blaine. The health
of Mr. Blaine isjuncertain, and Mr.
Harrison’s chances seem best. Yet
it is the uncertain that happens.
At Chicago the Democratic nation
al convention will meet later for the
purpose of nominating a candidate
for the presidency. Perhaps there
is greater uncertainty as to the nom
inee, since there are many more
names to come before this conven
tion. Among the names most prom
inent are Ex-Governor Gray, of In
diana, Senator Palmer, of Illinois,
Governor Boies, of lowa, Ex-Govern
or Campbell, of Ohio, besides Ex
president Grover Cleveland and Sen
ator Hill, of New York. Beside the
greater uncertainty, there is proba
bly greater difficulties to solve by
the Democratic convention. While
Mr. Cleveland is undoubtedly the
choice of a majority of the politicians,
in Democratic circles, he is also op
posed by the masses of the agricul
tural people especially in the South.
This opposition comes of his differ
ing with them upon the monetary
questions of the hour. There is a sort
of novelty in this situation. Gov
ernor Boies when Mr. Cleveland was
elected before was a Republican
and opposed him and supported
Blaine. If he should now be nomi
nated he would oppose Blaine if the
latter should be nominated •at Min
neapolis. But such a status will
probably not exist, when the two
conventions have concluded their
work.
Governor Northen’s proclomation
in behalf of older and peace, as
against lynch law is very timely and
appropriate. His utterances were
forcible and to-the point as the emer
gencies of the hour demand. It is
to bo hoped that the colored people
will unite their influence and efforts
to prevent their people committing
the crimes which lie at the bottom
of these lynchings. This done and a
rigid enforcement of the laws by the
courts and executive power of the
state, we arc satisfied the practice
of lynching people in the South will
cease. The failure, if not the power
lessness of the laws, to bring the per
petrators of outrageous crimes to
j ustice, has caused certain elements
to rise up and take the law in hand.
This should not be allowed to con
tinue, and the Governor’s move in
ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY. JUNE 9, 1892.
the matter should be promptly and
liberally supplemented by the law
abiding element in the State. It is
unnecessary to give the several rea
sons why this should be done. Be
side the necessity of disposing of
such matters by process of law, it is
necessary to keep down organized
defence by the colored race. Al
eady the y have begun to collect and
publish statistics showing the num
ber of legal executions and the num
ber of lynchings last year, by sec
tions and by races. Whether these
statistics are correct or not, we are
not able to say. It may be worth
the time to give them, that our read
ers may see what they claim.
They say there were 125 persons
legally executed on conviction of
capital crime in the United States in
1891, while 195 were put to death
without process of law. Os the legal
executions, twenty-seven were in the
Northern States and ninety-six in
the South. One colored man was
legally hanged in the North, while
twenty-six white men were so ex
ecuted there.
In the South sixty-four negroes
were executed under due process of
law and thirty-two white persons.
Os the persons lynched in the
South, 118 were negroes and fifty
one whites.
We give the figures from the
standpoint of the negro race. Wheth
er they are correct or not, we are
convinced that the practice of lynch
ing is too frequent and that public
sentiment should decry it, and indi
vidual effort should be made to stop
it as far as possible.
FROM JAPAN.
BY REV. 0. C. POPE.
We arrive at Yokohama safely
and obtain a boarding place with Mr.
and Mrs. Staniland, ex-missionaries,
who now keep a splendid hoarding
house where Christian people can
find all the comforts of a home. Mr.
Staniland is an English Baptist, who
accepted an appointment as mission
ary from the Board of the Christian
or Campbellite church of America
and went to Japan, but it did not
take long to find out that he was not
a Campbellite in sentiment and he
was discontinued. He is a whole
hearted capital good man and were
he instructed in the way of the Lord
more perfectly on the question of
communion, would make a good
Baptist worker. His wife certainly
knows how to run a house well.
Yokohama is quite a modern city,
having grown from a struggling vil
lage to a city of about two-hundred
thousand people since the country
was opened to foreigners thirty or
forty years ago. It is the principal
sea port of Japan and the entrepot
for Tokyo the capital. It looks about
as much like an American or Eu
ropean city as it does like a Japa
nese place. There are good hotels,
large business houses and fine resi
dences, several splendid Protestant
churches and good buildings for mis
sion schools. The Baptist have a
church of about three-hundred mem
bers organized under the Boston
Board, with a house of worship worth
about t 2,500. They also have a girl’s
school of seventy pupils and a school
building that cost about $15,000.
The Presbyterians are ahead, having
two fine brick churches and good
schools. Tokyo, the capital is an
hour’s ride by rail and contains about
a million and a half of inhabitants
and being over a thousand years old
is of course thoroughly Japanese.
We spent several days quite profita
bly in this city. The principal ob
jects of interest are the magnificent
Buhdist and Shin too temples of
which there are many, the palace
and grounds of the emperor, the
great national university and the
various factories and innumerable
stores. There are three Baptist
church organizations with a small
house of worship, and a girl’s school
belonging to the Baptist with a prop
erty worth $6,000. We made the
acquaintance of the missionaries and
teachers and found them pleasant
and hopeful. The national univer
sity in buildings and equipments
will compare favorably with the best
institutions we have in America. It
is modern and fully up with the age.
I visited Nikko about a hundred
miles still further in the interior and
connected with the capital by rail.
This is a mere village famous for the
finest and most sacred tvJtples of the
country. These temples, built about
four hundred years ago,-are very fine
and every year hundied? of thous
ands of people resort to them. The
location at the foot of a range of
mountains, is very fine and the sur-'
rounding scenery extremely grand.
We have been in Japan a month,
so I will sum up my observations.
As to climate, it is about similar to
that of our Atlantic States, from
Florida to Maryland, so? while the
whole empires contains about as
many square miles as the State of
California, it stretches North and
South over eight hundred miles.
The Southern portion grows tropi
cal fruits and knows nothing of ice
and snow, while the Northern part
is quite cold in winter. The climate
is warmer than similar latitudes in
China owing to an ocean current
which sweeps around the island sim
ilar to our Gulf Stream off the At
lantic coast. There was a snow fall
the middle of February in Yokohama
of six inches in depth, but it lay on
the ground only a few hours.
Through the centre of the islands
there is a range of mountains with
now and then a high peak thrown up
by volcanic action and one of these
peaks, the beautiful Fujiyamma tow
ers up about thirteen thousand feet
with its summit perpetually covered
with snow. This is a volcano which
occasionally becomes active. It is
doubtless volcanic action which
causes the frequent earthquakes one
of which caused such great destruc
tion of life and property not long
before our arrival in the country.
The railroad from Kobe to Yokoha
ma was not in running orker during
our visit on account of the earth
quake. The valleys on either side
of the mountain range, are very fer
tile and are cultivated like a garden.
Though the whole empire has an
area only about equal to that of Cali
fornia it has a populat of over
forty millions tAo-tlwa**, i *ucb a*T
the population of the .v'lwlp United
States, and such is the , fertility of
the soil that a sufficiency is produced
to support this vaet population and
large qualities of rice, tea and silk
are exported to other countries.
Flowers abound everywhere and the
land-scapes formed by the well cul
tivated fields, the numerous flowers
with green ipountains in the back
ground are perfectly lovely. I do
not think we have seen a country
anywhere outside of the United
States bo beautiful as Japan.
The people are small of stature as
a rule but extremely bright and in
telligent. It is a rare thing to meet
a person even of the lowest classes
who cannot read and write. They are
quick to catch any need idea and are
quite progressive both in arts and
sciences. They are very neat in their
dress and in their houses, polite to
strangers and seem to be merry and
happy. The women mix freely in
society, and as a rule are merry and
good looking. The Japanese are
born artiste and not only produce
beautiful designs in silks, embroider
ies and porcelain ware, but adorn
their persons and their houses with
the results of their skill. I have seen
even small boys and girls doing work
on porcelain vases that would bring
from twenty to thirty dollars each.
Their machines are, of course, in
many respects crude and old fashion
ed, but they produce with them mar
vellous results, and quickly discard
an old appliance as soon as they
learn of something better. They are
proud of their history running back
nearly three thousand years, for their
present emperor or Mikado as he is
called, claims to be the hundred and
sixty third occupant of the throne in
a direct line, and can trace his ances
try directly back for over two thous
and years.
The Japanese are famous for their
family affection. No member of the
family will permit another member
to suffer, while he has the meairs to
prevent it, and the son or daughter
never gets two ol(l to be relieved
from the obligation to assist the old
folks in need. Os course many of
their social customs differ very wide
ly from ours, but they are not to be
judged by our standards.
The religion of the country is a
mixture. Originally it was Shintoo
ism in which those distinguished for
their supposed virtues or heroism
were deified, and shrines erected for
their worship. Buhdism was intro
duced into the country from China
and took a firm hold of the people
and now the two religions are so
blended that the masses profess both,
and there are Shintoo temples and
Buhdist temples in which the people
worship alternately as they choose,
and in some temples there are shrines
to both religions. The emperor is
the head of. the religions as well as
the civil life of the people, but there
is no restriction by law on religious
worship of any kind, each one being
free to worship or not, as he chooses.
Christianity has made some prog
ress and I think that Japan is by far
the most hopeful field for Christian
work of any country in Asia. The
emperor thought at one time of
adopting Christianity as the national
religion and sent his chief minister of
religion to Europe to investigate and
report upon the influence of Christi
anity on the nations where it was
professed. On his return the minis
ter reported that in the so-called
Christian countries which he visited
he found drunkenness, licentiousness
and crime so prevalent that he
doubted if the religion of those coun
tries was any improvement on that
of Japan and so no change was
made. The bad example of Euro
peans and Americans in India, China
and Japan is one of the greatest ob
stacles which the missionaries have
to encounter in impressing our re
ligion upon the natives.
Our steamer the beautiful Oceanic
is lying in the bay and to-morrow we
leave for a voyage of 5,400 miles to
San Francisco, via Honolulu, but we
leave Japan with regret and shall
long carry in mind the memory of its
lovely valleys, beautiful mountains,
and pleasant and polite people. If
you get the opportunity be sure to
visit Japan.
Yokohama, Feb, 23d, 1892.
FROM ARKANSAS.
INFORMATION WANTED.
Since it lias come to light that Mr.
i
Towner is not a Baptist, but a
' Northern Methodist, a great many
Baptists are wanting to know who
appointed him to take charge of the
singing at the Convention in Atlan
ta, and if the parties appointing him
know that he was a Methodist when
they appointed him. We want also
to know if it was known that he
had a song hook he wished to adver
tise, a real Methodist song book, so
deeply dyed in Methodism that the
_good old Baptist song “How Firm A
Foundation” has been changed in
the last line to read “The soul that
on Jesus doth lean for repose.’’
Many Baptists bought this book and
carried it home with them for their
children to sing such songs not
knowing these things. I learn that
when some one called the attention
of the friends of this book to -this
change, they said that it was copied
from Harvest Bells song book which
only makes it Io much worse, for
that proves that it was not a mitsake,
but that the change was made inten
tionally since it is a fact that Har
vest Bells has “Hath leaned for re
pose.” Our great Southern Baptist
Convention has certainly reached a
very low point when it is used as a
“market place,” or a bulletin board,
to advertise a Northern Methodist,
and his book. Pretty cheap adver
tising it seems to me. I have to pay
for all the advertising I get, and I
do it willingly, and cheerfully, hut
this free advertising arrangement
seems to run clear of the papers so
that they are not troubled with an
expense account. We want to know
if this thing is to be repeated at the
Centennials at Louisville, and Rich
mond. The Methodists are enjoy
ing this thing hugely and I do not
blame them, for they together with
all others have said for a great while
that Baptists were an ignorant set,
and now Baptiste have furnished the
proof. If brethren Branham, Haw
thorne, Tichenor, Jones or any one
else can give us any information
about the matters herein referred to,
I think at least two millions of Bap
tists North and South would like to
have it. Several good Baptist breth
ren from the North have asked me
recently a very hard question, “How
is it that you Southern Baptiste
claim to bo such strong Baptists and
get a Methodist to lead the singing
at your Convention?” I take nearly
all the Baptist papers in the South,
and I failed to see that any of them
have said a word about this innova
tion except two. I suppose the at-
tention of the others has not been
called to it. W. E. Penn,
Baptist Evangelist.
DR. MILLER EXPLAINS.
BRIEFLY ’STATING HIS VIEWS OF
CHURCH MUSIC.
Editor the Christian Idex :—A
recent issue of your excellent paper,
in an editorial on “Criticism of the
Convention,” does me and perhaps,
the choir of the First Church, Atlan
ta, an unintentional injustice, as a
word of explanation will plainly
show. lam writing a series of arti
cles for the Arkansas Baptist on
“The Old Gospeland having been
very much impressed by the singing
in the Convention of “Old Time Re
ligion.” I wrote an article on the
subject, and to emphasize what I was
saying in favor of “Old Time Reli
gion>” I mentioned that Dr. Haw
thorne, the able and eloquent pastor
of the First Church, was so much
impressed with the hymns sung with
so much good effect in the Conven
tion that he requested Dr. Carroll to
preach in his church Sunday night
on the old time doctrine of repent
ance, and I referred byway of con
trast, for the purpose of making the
sentiment of my article all the more
forcible, to what was said of the fine
operatic or classical music at the
First Church that night, and which I
heard severely criticized by brethren
at the hotel where I was stopping.
I was not present myself as I preach
ed in another church at the same
hour. I emphatically disclaim writ
ing that article as a criticism in any
sense of the Convention or anything
that occurred in that great gathering
of the Lord’s hosts, or as a Phillipis
against the choir in Dr. Hawthorne’s
church. Such is not my style nor
my taste. Yet I stand by every
sentence or sentiment of that article
in its proper connection. And now,
in regard to choirs, church music,
etc. I have no word to say, as I en
tertain som& views formed from long
expedience which poss : Lly may be ,
of service to others. Choirs and con- i
gregations both have their rights
which should he promptly recogniz
ed and duly respected. Allowing a
bit of personal experience byway of
illustration, I will state that several
years ago, while State evangelist in
Kentucky, I was asked to supply the
pulpit of the Walnut Street Church,
Louisville, for a time, and on arriv
ingin the city I soon found that
there was a conflict, of a more or
less serious nature, between the choir
and some of the congregation. A
brother came to me with the sug
gestion that I should announce the
first hymn immediately on going in
to the hulpit; but I said the choir
would likely have a voluntary of
some kind for the opening; and that
is just what we don’t want” was his
prompt and rather emphatic reply.
“Very well,” said I; “When does
the choir meet ?” I had made up my
mind to . meet with the choir,
and have matters understood.
So I attended the meeting, which
was very full, the choir from the
Jewish temple being present, and
the music was very fine. Just be
fore the close of the practice. I
took the leader of the choir aside
and said to him ; “You have a very
fine choir, and I am delighted with
the singing. I shall probably be
with you for a few Sundays, and I
want to say that you can make your
voluntary or anthem at the opening
just as artistic and classical as you
like, and so of the “offertory,” the
pleasure of the choir shall be my
pleasure; but you will please set
plain, familiar tunes to the hymns
announced from the pulpit, so that
as many as may desire to do so may
join in the singing. I further re
marked that I always had some such
understanding in the churches where
I preached as it was right and there
by trouble was avoided.- I made
the suggestion because I knew per
fectly well that the choir and a con
siderable class in the congregation
would not be satisfied with less, and
the rights of the congregation were
fully guarded by the singing of the
hymns to familiar tunes. And I
hope never to be less careful or pru
dent in my allusions to the music of
any church. Great and good as was
the late Dr. Fuller, I could not but
think that his criticism of the music
in the First Church, Memphis, when
the Convention met there, was too
severe. After a very finely render
ed anthem by the choir Sunday
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morning, he announced a hymn, re
questing the congregation to sing it,
and saying that he would rot give
the singing of one good hymn by the
congregation for all the operatio
music by trained choirs in the world;
and well do I remember how loud
and emphatic were the “amens”
from a number of good brethren.
But Dr. Fuller came to me the next
day, and begged me, as pastor of the
church to apologize to the membera
of the choir for what he had said,
fearing that he had hurt their feelings.
I was glad to be able to say that
none were hurt at what he had said,
and I sincerely hope that no one
has been offended at anything I
have said. Surely nothing could
have been further from my intention.
Hoping that I have made myself
fully understood, and that good and
not harm may result from what hag
been said, I am
Yours sincerely,
A. B. Milleb.
Little Rock, May 30, 1892.
FROM ALABAMA.
Strained analogies are very com
mon. A clebrated preacher in Geor
gia, was said to have a famous ser
mon cautioning against apostasy, bas
ed on the parable of the wiseand fool
ish virgins, assuming that the oil in
the vessels represent grace in the
heart. I mentioned this case to a
man of some rough-hewn ability,
and considerable ingenuity, who re
plied, “Oh but the foolish virgins
had no oil in the vessels—they only
said they had,” showing that he also
made the same assumption. So I
have frequently heard sermons in
appeal to the unconverted drawn
from the parable of the prodigal son.
Perhaps it were better to say these
cases were an unauthorized use of
mere incidents in the story. Such
thing is very common. Another
preacher assumed that the servants in
the parable of the talents represented
Christians. Towards the end of his
discourse, he stopped short as he ap
pioached the statement that the un
faithful servant was “Cast into out
er darkness,” somewhat like a man
suddently coming upon a precipice
with horse and buggy. ’ Incidents
are not to be regarded as a part of
the res gesta, unless intimated by
the context, sustained by the analogy
of faith, by comment of the Savior
or apostles, or by the scope of the
passage under interpretation. In the
cases cited, nothing is clear, but the
use of marriage customs to warn all .
to be prepared to meet their account
with God, to eschew the jealousy
manifested by the older brothen
(the Jews,) to use gifts and endow
ments, on whomsoever bestowed, for
tho service of God. More apposite
to our heading, is the insistence of
Paul in* the 6th, 7th and Bth of
Romans, that converted people are
not under the law but under grace,”
denominated by the influence and
satisfying power of the Holy Spirit,
not wholly but mainly. If wholly,
sinless perfection were indicated; if
not at all sanctification were denied.
The point aimed at, is that analogies,
things which do not go all fours, are
not to be accepted as absolute like
nesses, or to be used at all except
when the use is pointed out clearly
by comment of Christ or his apostles
or authorized by the general teach
ing of Scripture.
How wild the spitualizing habit of
such great men as Oligen and Gill,
resulting from strained analogies,
Lord’s very able book on Figures of
Speech, laying down the basis pro
position that in-figurative language
the figure is always in the predicate,
never in the subject of the proposi- x
tion, unless something in the context
or scope of the passage or its sur
roundings, indiartes the fact, —by
which last clause he unwillingly
throws away entirely his great prin
ciple,—is a remarkable case of over
looking the necessity of recourse to
that common-sense judgment which
rises above all technical Canons.
Accepting his lame theory, men look
for the certain literal restoration of
the Jews, and tho premillennial per
sonal coming of Christ, a theory that
would seem to require the restora
tion of the Mosaic ritual, and throw
us back on a typical ’Gospel. A
double meaning however as in many
of the Psalms, may not be impos
sible.
Many men think strongly but not
safely; are carried away with
liknesses, overlooking uulikenesses,