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MISS MARY E, WRIGHT, ; : Editress
Those of us who had the pleasure
of meeting our brother Cova, during
his recent visit to the States will
read with especial interest the letter
which we copy from the Home Field.
It was our pleasure in Augusta to
have Mr. Cova speak to us on Sun
day night about the work in Cuba.
A large congregation assembled to
listen to him and I have rarely seen
a more interested audience. Each
one present I think will deserve to
give something toward the Centen
nial Chapel fund, hoping that brother
Cova may enjoy some of it in a com
modious chapel for bis people.
Socially Mr. Cova is charming and
we could not but regret that all our
people were not permitted to enjoy
him in their homes.
Truly these missionaries bring a
blessing with them though their stay
among us is so brief.
In Augusta we consider ourselves
especially favored,- Mr. Cova on the
27tb, of Nov. and the anticipation of
a visit from our beloved brother
Powell on the Dec. 4th.
Our Centennial work is going for
ward quietly but earnesely, the ladies
are making a personal visitation of
the entire membership and we hope
and pray for large results. We hope
to have a Christmas Offering from
many of our people and to enlist
the children in this work by a Sun
day School Missionary celebration
and offering on Christmas Sunday.
This suggestion might find favor
with many of our Sunday Schools
throughout the state. We also pub
lish some extracts from letters re
ceived from missionary -workers con
cerning the Missionary Calendar
which may be of general interest.
CUBA.
BY REV. J. V. OOVA.
THE PEOPLE.
Os the one million and a half in
Cuba some eight hundred thousand
are white and the rest black, Chinese,
and mulattoes who were introduced
nto the island three centuries ago,
for laboring at the sugar, tobacco and
coffee plantations, there being so few
of the wdiite people at that time.
The whites are half Spaniards and
half Cubans. The first are generally
of the lowest class of society in their
country, and have come here to look
for fortune and leave the land as soon
as they get it. The cultured people
are among the Cubans, who have
always considered the Spaniards here
as their oppressors, and have revolted
many times for throwing off their
yoke. After the last revolution,
which lasted ten years, the hatred
has deeply increased, there being
a lack of blood between them. The
country has remained impoverished
and Spam, by the hardest tax, is
drawing from it as much as she can.
RELIGIOUS STATE.
The official established religion is
the Roman Catholic, but except a
very reduced number, who are regu
lar communicants of that church,
and our Baptist people, the rest live
without any religion at all. They
despise and ridicule the Roman
priests and laugh at their mass and
ceremonies. Nothing is, in truth,
more base and ignorant than the
Spanish Catholic priesthood who
come here from the old papal land
of Spain. They are truly imported
ministers, as if they were any other
merchandize. Those who find no
good opportunity of getting a living
n their country come to Cuba as
birds of prey to look for a chance.
The great majority are so ignorant
they can hardly write, and never
preach, being their whole religions
service to say or sing the Latin mass>
which the people do not understand.
Besides they have caused many scan
dals by grasping large sums of money
at the bedside of dying persons, and
by sensual impurities, drunkenness
and other vices. So the people
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have run away from them and have
lost all feeling of worship under the
guidance of such pastors. Recently
an Havanna paper published the de
tails of a Satanic feast at a village
in the vicinity of this city, which
was organized by four priests and
some women of their society which
ended by a quarrel among them, all
being shamefully drunk, when the
policeman surprised them.
OUR BAPTIST WORK.
Such are the people we have to
do with for bringing them to the
way of salvation. The Bible was
quite unknown on the whole island
being considered as a book to be read
by the priests. When our church
was established in Cuba it caused a
great surprise and sensation. This
people found that there was some
one who dared to speak of Christ
and the Bible without fear to be
ridiculous. The Baptist Missions
were assailed by vast multitudes.
They desire to know what was our
message, and we delivered it such as
the Master bids. Many went away,
but many remained and returned to
the services. They began to make
comparisons between our worship
and the Roman one; they liked our
simplicity and artlessness; they found
our baptism in accordance with the
meaning and object of the emblemati
cal washing, and in the full spirit
of the Scriptures; they were, upon
the whole, extremely interested in
the preaching of the gospel. They
had never tasted the word of life,
and they found it sweet and lovely
It was generally stated that to be
a Baptist was a noble and honest
thing. They say we require no
money to administer ordinances, and
were poor and trustful men who do
not pretend to abuse the people, but
do them good. So our work has
prospered in such away as we could
desire.
We have at present twenty-one
missionaries, fourteen missions, nine
hundred children usual average at
tendance at Sunday-schools, six Sun
day-schools.
And to the last membership re
ported in May 1 must add twenty-five
baptisms. We are called from every
where to establish new missions, and
the outlook is encouraging beyond
expression. If we had means to build
some chapels and send more mission
aries to the rest of the island, the
total evangelization of it would be a
blessed fact in a very near future.
The Lord blesses our work, and in
spite of the bitterest persecution from
the papists, and the many hard trials
we have suffered, the gospel of sal
vation iu Cuba is, and will be, over
coming the darkness and the hosts
of hell.
Yours fraternally,
J. V. Cova.
To those who have, through the
past year, followed the subjects sug
gested by the Calendar of Prayer,
there has come a wider, deeper love
for Missions.
Each day as we have prayed for
some chosen servant of God our
hearts have been lifted above our
narrow selfish interests, and we
have realized in a truer sense that
“the Earth is the Lord’s,” and that
we may have a share in winning it
back to Him.
Then too, we have felt the power
of united prayer; the u plifting of
hundreds of hearts for the same ob
jects cannot fail of a blessing for
has not God promised “that if we
agree on earth as touching anything
that we shall ask it shall be done of
ns of our Father?”We feel this pow
er.
The missionaries separated from
us by thousands of miles feel it and
are strengthened and upheld amid
trials and labors such as we have
never known.
Christians at home, our missionar
ies in distant lands are drawn into
closest sympathy.
“Facts arc the figures of God
that furnish fuel for Missions.”
To know of these missionaries,
THE CHRISTIAN INDEX: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8. 1892.
their labors and their success, is the
necessary condition of intelligent in
terest.
Acting upon tnis idea The Wo
mans’ Missionary Society, of Augus
ta have decided to issue a Calendar of
Prayer for 1893, which will be in
every respect an improvement upon
the last. These are now ready and it
is earnestly desired that a copy of it
may find its way into every home
within the Southern Baptist Conven
tion.
It will never be given ns to see
another Centennial of Missions. Shall
we let it pass and find us doing noth
ing for Him who died for us? Nay,
more, can we withhold from our
perishing sisters a share in His
love.
To show how great a comfort
these calendars have been to our
laborers in distant fields, we copy
a few extracts taken from private
letters. Mrs. Carlin a Southern
Baptist who with her husband is do
ing a grand work in Swatow, China
writes:
“The Calendar came while our
three children were ill, Lillie Ellen,
so desparately we gave up all hope
and for two months thought each
day would be her last. You can
see what a world of comfort the
calendar was to me and how each
day the passage of scripture seemed
especially for me. Just at that time
my husband had to go out on a
preaching tour. I was worn and
weary but I felt that I was trusting
God as I had never done before.
Day after day this verse was my
comfort. “They that wait upon the
Lord shall renew their strength.”
God bless you for thinking of send
ing me the calender and may its
blessed influence be felt in every
Baptist home in the South.
The next is from Mrs. Anna S.
Bruitt, Whang Hein, North China.
The Missionary Calendar proves
itself both a means of education and
a means of grace. It helps to teach
us how and for what we should pray.
Anna Seward Pruitt.
Hwang Hien, North China.
SOME REASONS.
Some reasons why I belong to a
Woman’s Missionary Society.
The first question asked by every
earnest enquirer as to Christian duty
is : “Can I thereby glorify God and
therein obey the scriptural injunc
tion, ‘Glorify God in your body and
in your spirit, which arc God’s?’ ” I
find it a good work, done in the
faith and fear of God. I find lam
in good company. The best female
members of the church are there
those who are regular at prayer
meeting and Sunday-school. I find
co-operation, system, method in their
work making it effective and faith
ful ; but better than all I find con
secration. The laying upon the
altar the sacrifices which are accepta
ble to God, and the visible fruit,
spiritual growth. I find that, not in
name only is it missionary, but it is
unbounded, unselfish and united in
effort reaching out to help save a
sinking world.
The question may be asked ; “Is
not the church sufficient; do we
need any other way of glorifying
God?” If after discharging all the
duties required of us as church mem
bers, regular attendance at every
service, taking an active part in the
Sabbath-school, we find other oppor
tunities within the church limits and
do not improve them we suffer loss
and the cause suffers.
The great wave of missions which
is spreading out over all Christian
lands is kindling enthusiasm, giving
zeal and leading on to greater Chris
tian activity. Latent energies are
developed, hitherto awakened, only
to slumber again because of inactiv
ity.
The elbow touch of sympathy in
united effort is a bond of union in
the society, which draws to the
church, to Christ, not away. Women
are the hitherto unused forces of the
church, except as witnesses for
Christ. Why has this force not been
utilized before? The church of
Christ on earth has reached that
stage when it has developed as a
natural consequence. Women can
not sit under the preaching of the
gospel of missions and the revelations
of the Divine Word and bo content
to remain idle, mere drones in the
hive. The missionary spirit is born
in the heart of every true believer
when first he knows the Lord. It
may be developed or it may be
dwarfed. We do not know the out
come of the movement but God’s
blessing is upon it, this we know be
cause it is bearing fruit to the glory
of God, and the presence and joy of
the Lord are ours. • Member.
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DINING WITH THE POETS.
A GAME FULL OF PLEASURE AND IN
SRUCTION FOR OLDER CHILDREN.
All gather about the liberary ta
ble as for dining. .Some one, who
may be called “Professor,” takes the
head of the table. With carver and
fork he begins the following dis
course, the other diners giving the
poets’ names, which are in italics:
‘‘l invite you to dine with me in
honor of our friends, the poets. I do
not inform you who they are to be,
but will suggest their names. When
in iny rambling talk I pause, under
stand that I have led you to that
suggestion, and shall expect you to
give me the required name before I
can go on. If your answer is appro
priate, whether or not it happens to
be the one I have in mind, I shall
accept it and proccocd.
“Now, my good friend (turning to
his neighbor on the left) in behalf of
our poet friends in whose honor we
dine today, what is expected of us?
to—”
“Chaucer” (chaw, sir).
“Not quite what I expected, but
excellent. You are indeed a wit.
But, Miss Butterfly, you are even—”
“Whittier” (wittier).
“The eliding of an ‘h’ makes little
difference in the sound of words,
takes a philogoist Master Charles, to
to tell how much a—• ’
“Wordsworth.”
“And wo must remember that the
real value of a friend depends very
little upon his physical stature. One
may save a little something from the
bill of his—”
“Taylor,”
“if one docs not happen to be a-”
“Longfellow.”
“Brt the long an?',, the uhort of the
whole matter counts very little at a
dinner. Now, my dear Miss Edith,
I do, indeed, hesitate to offer you a
portion of this oyster heap, for, alas
these delicious bivalves arc apt to
be—”
“Shelley,”
“and should be avoided by geniuses
with unreliable molars.
“Miss E., shall I offer you a bit of
this chicken? The carver is remind
ed by the special rigidity of this joint
that our bird is far from—”
“Young,”
“Besides, I’m convinced that the
cook has neglected the—”
“Browning”
“of this fowl. Usually a cook—■”
“Burns.”
The discourse goes on indefinite
ly. Notable people in any depart
ment of literature,' art, or history
may be chosen as special guests at a
dinner of this Kind.—Ladies’ Home
Journal.
HABITUAL POSTURE.
UNEQAUL DEVELOPMENT IN THE
TWO SIDES OF THE BODY.
Comparatively few persons have
both sides of the body of perfectly
similar proportions. One leg or one
arm is shorter than the other. The
two sides of the head are often of
unequal size. Few persons have
cars of an equal size and symmertri
cally placed. The 'size and position
of the eyes vary. In the mouth and
throat also we find inequality, and
the cartilage separating the two na
sal cavities is oftencr deflected than
vertical.
This condition of inequality in the
two sides of the . body is called a
symmetry.
Those who have observed the ef
fects of school life on bodily devel
opment must have noticed the influ
ence of habitual posture on the sym
metry and health of the body.
There is a tendency among schoo
children, and especially among
school girls, to assume habitual post
ures both in sitting and standing.
The habit of throwing all the weight
of the body on one leg produces a
corresponding throwing of the upper
part of the body toward the opposite
side in order to establish the neces
sary equilibrium. This tends, of
course, to curve the spinal column,
on which the upper part of the body
is supported.
In this position the body all the
internal organs are thrown out of
their normal vertical position, and
the force of gravity still further ex
aggerates this result. Thus the
muscles of the neck are unevenly ex
ercised in the unconscious balancing
of the head upon the vertebral col.
umn. Even the muscles of the face
tend to become unevely contracted,
and this, in time, develops a condi
tion of symmetry of the face.
It is a well known physiological
law that the use of muscles causes
an increase in its size, while neglect
causes it to become smaller.
The steady use of the same arm in
carrying a set of heavy books to and
from school, the propping of one
arm on a table, or the excessive use
of one" arm or log and the disuse of
the other—each such habit slowly
but surely brings about its own re
sult, unless constant effort be made
to counteract it.
The growing age is more subject
than any other to such influences
but every ago is directly and power
fully influenced by any occupation
or habit which tends to the exclusive
exercise of certain muscles, or to the
habitual taking of a certain posture.
—Youth’s Companion.
NOTES ABOUT CARVING.
Beef’s heart should be cut iu thin
slices and served hot.
A guest should say whether he
prefers the roast rare or well done.
A piece of the back and belly of
salmon should go to each person.
Tongue must be cut very thin; the
central portions are the choicest.
The results arc in ratio with the
skill used, not the force expended.
A haunch of venision should be
carved in slices down to the bone,
from the broad end upward.
A few drops of lemon juice and a
little paper and salt improve the fla
vor of mutton wonderfully.
Great care should be exercised in
the carving of fish,to keep the flakes
from falling to pieces.
Have plenty of room upon the
platter and in its vicinity; a great
many mishaps are thus pevented.
Make a heavy line of tar about the
paper on which the sugar box stand
if you arc troubled with ants,as they
nevr cross a tar line.
The sirloin of beef should be cut
in thin slices, a portion of the tend
erloin going on each plat.—Good
Housekeeping.
(Corner
WHEELBARBOW FOLK.
There are a good many children
and some grown people who go like
a wheelbarrow—that is, they go just
as far as yon push them, and when
you stop they stop. You tell them
to do a thing and they do it and that
is all they will do. If you want a
thing done again, you must tell them
to do it again. If you want it done
forty times, you must tell them forty
times to do it.
There are other people who, when
you set them going, can keep on
themselves. They have some “go” in
them. If you tell them to-day that
you want a thing done, to-morrow
you will find the same thing done
without telling them. If you com
plain that a thing has been neglected
this week, next week they will see
that it is not neglected.
There is a great deal of difference
in the value of these two kinds of
people, because the wheelbarrow
kind of folks need somebody to run
them ; just as much as a machine
needs somebody to attend it. They
only go while you watch them ; so if
you Lave one such person at work
you must employ another one to
watch him and keep him going; but
if you have one of the other kind
at work he will watch himself, do
do his work, and make you no trou
ble aboul it.
It is very important for all boys
and girls to decide which class they
will belong to—whether they will be
wheelbarrow folks, that go as far as
they are pushed and then stop, or
whether they can be depended upon
to keep in motion after they are
once started. Boys or girls who
must be told what to do and watch
ed while they do it, are not worth
their salt; but if a person can do a
thing with one telling, and continue
doing it without further care, such a
person is worth more than gold.—
Canada Presbyterian.
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PROFITLESS QUESTIONS. I
A whole evening will be spent by
brethren in discussing a question
just about as valuable as the famous
inquiry of the schoolmen, as to how
many angels would be able to stand
on the point of a single needle. Af
ter discussing it with some little
temper, perhaps, and having prayed
over it a good deal, too—though I
wonder how they dare do so—the
whole of it ends in a bag of wind or
a bottle of smoke, and nothiim else.
Had that same time been spent
in the visitation of the sick, and re
claiming the Arabs of our streets,
the lifting up of the ruffianism and
the blackguardism of London into
something like decency, morality
and Christianity, it might have been
much better. But there is very
much rubbish, and I am very much
afraid we all of us contribute to that
rubbish heap a little. We have all
some favorite notion, some conceit,
some invention of our own, some
addition to the word, some subtrac
tion from it, some impossible theory
some dogma or doctrine rather of
our own inventing than of Bible
teaching, ami so there is very much
rubbish, so that we cannot build the
wall. Does not one feel inclined
full often to say: “O, how I wish I
could get at it, really get at it, get
to doing something for God, and
the souls of men.” Just let the
dust cart come and clear the way.
These very excellent works upon fu
turity, and profound books upon
nothing—yes, let them go, beautiful
ly written as they are, and let us
plunge into the middle of affairs, and
say: “God forbid that I should
glory, save in the cross of our Lord
Jesus Christ.”—Charles 11. Spur
geon.
The Kimona,or tea gown,worn by the
Japanese women is tight enough to
hamper them seriously in active move
mentsjjior around it a piece of dress
ing material is wound several times
so tightly, that it is impossible for
them to take any but very short and
sliuflliiig steps. This makes them
almost as awkward and helpless as
if they were Chinese women with
crippled feet; and one can hardly
wonder that, notwithstanding their
natural conservatism, they willingly
followed the Empress when, on No
vember 1,188 G, she appeared for
the first time at a public entertain
ment in f“oreign” costume. The
consequences, however, were not
what bad been expected. It would
bo as easy for a leopard to change his
spots as for a nation of women to
suddenly discard a costume they
have worn counties generations, and
adopt another of an entirely differ
ent pattern, and wear it with ease
and comfort, not to speak {of grace.
No caricature could do justice to
the bad figures, the ill-fitting gar
ments, the screeching colors, that
have run riot in Japan during the
last four years.-Gospel in All lands.
Dr. B. F. Riley presented the leg
islature of Alabama with a beautifu
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I gavel, made from the foundation tim
bcrs upon which the iirst state Capi
tol stood at St. Stephens.—Alabama
Baptist.
EARLY HISTORY OF CUBA.
Thelsland of Cuba was discovered
by Christopher Columbus during his
first voyage, October 28th. 1492. It
was called by him Juana in honor of
Prince John, son of Ferdinand and
Isabella. After Ferdinand’s death,
its name was changed to Fernandina.
Still later it was called Santiago, and
Ave Maria, in honor of the patron
saint of Spain and the Virgin Mary.
Throughout these changes, however
the name by which it tVas known to
the natives, was still used, until fin
ally Cuba became its recognized
title. On account of its importance
and beauty it is also frequently
styled “The Pearl of the Antilles.”
Having just celebrated our own
anniversary of the discovery of
America, it is interesting to know
that Columbus also discovered the
Island of Cuba in 1492. It was
then peopled by a docile race of
Indians. Later on, in 1511, Diego
Velasquez overran the Island with
300 Spaniards, and easily subdued
the natives.
SLAVERY IN CUBA.
Three hundred Indians were given
to each Spaniard as slaves, but from
unkind treatment they soon died.
Others were compelled to take their
place, but the work required proved
too hard for them, and in about a
century the Indians were almost
totally extinct. Long before their
extinction, however, by order
Queen Isabella, and with the sanction
of Columbus, the importation of
negro slaves from the west coast of
Africa began. From that time to
the present the hard work upon the
sugar and other plantations has been
done by negroes. As already stated
there are about half a million of these
people now in Cuba, but they are no
longer held in bondage. It is said
that the incessant toil during crop
time and the effects of the enervat
ing climate cause a dimunition of
s ize, strength and energy with every
new generation. Whether this be
true or not the negroes form a large
part of the population and arc great
ly in need of the gospel.
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but obtained no relief: the sore gradually grew
worse. I llnally took S. S. H., and was entirely
cured after using a few bottles.”
C. B. McLemore, Henderson, Tex.
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