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"BOARD OR NO BOARD."
The Foreign Mission Board has
lately published a tract, titled
“Board or no. Board,” It is being
sent out from their rooms in Rich
mond, and also from the Maryland
Baptist Mission Rooms in Balti
more. It was written by Dr. R.
H. Graves, of Canton, China, and
is a thorough discussion of a very
important question. Indeed we
consider it one of the most impor
tant papers recently sent out for
circulation in the denomination.
Dr. Graves has been for years work
ing as missionary in China and cer
tainly is prepared to speak upon
the great issues involved.
Not having space to reprint the
whole tract and yet desiring to give
it editorial prominence and em
phasis, we present the following
liberal abstracts.
“My attention has been called to
brother Herring’s proposition, as
reported on page 44 of the pro
ceedings of the Southern Baptist
Convention. * * * lam per
suaded that we need the Board for
the effective prosecution of the mis
sion work. Whether we look at
the home work of the Board, or its
work in foreign lands, it is needed
in order that our mission work may
be carried on in the most economi
cal and efficient manner.
1. HOME WORK FOR FOREIGN MIS- |
SIONS.
1. Transmission of (funds. *
* * * But if the appointment
of funds to the various fields that
demands the judgment and wisdom
Board; if the Southern
Baptist churches are to have effi
cient missions in various lands,
I do not see how the work can
be accomplished without a Board.
2. Missionary intelligence.—The
Foreign Mission Journal and the
leaflets and tracts from the Mary
land Baptist Mission Rooms have
already been the means, in God’s
hands, of cultivating intelligent
giving among our people.
3. The plan of separate missions
has been a failure.
4. The experience and judgment
of the Board are useful in se
lecting men for the field. Almost
every Board lias to reject as many
applicants for appointment as it
accepts. Individual churches may
be better judges of a man’s piety,
but they cannot judge so well of
his fitness for a sepcial field.
5. “To conduct our Foreign
work by means of individual
churches would be to work differ
ently here [(from what experience
has proved to be the most efficient
method in other departments of
Christian effort. If the motto for
foreign missions should be,
“Churches to the front,” and every
thing else is unscriptural, the same
principle applies to Home missions
and State missionsand Seminaries.
Why should the foreign field be an
exception. The moment a group
of churches or an association at
tempts to(do any joint work, they
must commit it to a single man or
a committee, and then we have a
Secretary or a Board though it may
be under another name. It may
be well for some men, who have
the means, to go out as self-sup
porting, independent missionaries,
and for some church, which has the
means, to send out one of its own
members as its representative
among the heathen; but the great
majority of the preachers and
churches cannot do the work in
that way.
6. “A Board tends to secure the
missionaries stated and equal salar
ies.)
7. “To abolish the Board would
tend to narrow the interest and
sympathies of a church to a single
field. The church which supports
a missionary in Mexico would be
doing nothing for the heathen, and
the churches which send a man to
Africa would be giving no help to
our brethren laboring in papal
fields.
2. THE WOKK ABROAD.
If a Board is of service for the
advancement of the Foreign mis
sion work at home, it is equally
useful in securing the efficiency |of
the work on the field.
1. “It tends to secure continuity
and permanence in the wotk. I
know a man who called himself an
independent missionary, who learn
ed simply to repeat the creed and
the Lord’s Prayer, and went about
the villages selling books and re-
peating these sentences, persuad
ing himself that he had offered the
gospel to the Chinese, and if it was
rejected it was at their peril.
Others go to the other extremes
and think that to preach the gospel
means to open a school; that there
is no hope for the present genera"
tion, but that the young are our
only hope. These are both mistakes.
There are [many such practical
difficulties. lam convinced that a
thoroughly independent localized
work cannot be carried on except
with great loss of labor and waste
of the Lord’s money.
2. “Independent mission work
may tend to lead men to send too
reseate accounts of their work. I
do not mean that men (would pur
posely deceive. They picture
things less as they are than as they
expect them to be. Others are
very imaginative, and see present
things in a rosy light, very differ
ently from what they are viewed by
men or larger experience and more
sober judgment. Instances have
occurred to my own knowledge
where enthusiastic persons, with a
vivid power of description have se
cured large sums of money for more
special branch of work, or some
fruitless scheme altogether dis
proportionate to their real value.
Ina mission,a man’s (or a woman’s)
plans must be approved by his
brethren on the field before the
Board will take them up. The home
' churches too often call for thrilling
j adventures and interesting inci
| dents. These frequently depend
I much on a man’s temperament, on
his recklessness, or want of tact.
I remember once hearing a man
complain that the churches which
had promised to support him failed
to forward the means. Visiting
among these churches, I heard the
complaint that the missionary fail
ed to write and keep up the inter
est of the people in his work. I
fear this would not prove a solitary
instance, if many men were sus
tained by individual churches in
depently of a Board.
3. “Avoiding friction on the mis
sion field.—lt is a sad fact that
there is sometimes friction between
those who are working for a com
mon master. It happens some,
times, as many city pastors can
testify, between pastors at home.
“These are some of the reasons
which lead me to think that we
cannot conduct our foreign mission
work efficiently and economically
without a Board or some corres
ponding body of a different name.
There is nothing human to which
some objection may not be urged.
No man is perfect. Boards may
make mistakes, but so may mission,
aries and churches. In order to
unify onr work and give it promi
nence and efficiency ; in order to
develop the resources of our
churches and give all our members,
even the poorest, an opportunityjto
have a chance in giving the gospel
to the perishing heathen, I can see
nothing better than a Foreign Mis
sion Board.”
It seems to us that the Conven
tion and its Board could hardly
have a more(successful vindication
of their work and policy than is
here given by one of their repre
sentatives who has been doing suc
cessful work for a long term of
years on the Foreign field. Surely
his testimy commands most heed
ful attention.
Those who were in the South
ern Baptist Convention at its last
session in Nashville when these very
s questions were under discussion,
must have been impressed with the
fact, that the Convention, repre
senting the great Baptist brother
; hood of the South, was in fullest
| sympathy with the Foreign Mis
| sion Board in the policy of its
[ work.
Indeed this Board, which for
many reasons is 'the first of the
three Boarrds of the Convention,
, is to be congratulated upon the
magnificent showing which it
makes of the work, both as to re
sults on the field and management
at home. The Convention in the
very purpose of its organization
has guaranteed support to the
Boards, and the churches, repre
sented in the Convention, stand
pledged by the highest and holiest
compact to see this guarantee
made good, in sympathies, in pray
ers and contributions.
The Index has many sub
scribers in Florida who will read
with interest our full report of
their State Convention, which has
i just closed an interesting and profit
able session. We are glad to say
■ our list is growing in this State.
THE CHRISTIAN INDEX: THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1894.
DIVINE GRACE IN ITS RELATIONS
TO THIS LIFE-
What divine grace may be, in its
exercise towards the creatures of
other worlds we do not know. The
Almighty has given us no revela
tion upon the subject. We have
no concern with it, except so far
as it affects the human race. To
us, it is a theme of transcendent
interest.
Let us not forget the definition
already given. “Divine grace is
the favor which God bestows upon
ths unworthy.” This definition is
quoted from a living writer of
great learning, and it certainly ex
presses the New Testament idea of
divine grace. God may bestow
favor, in a degree immeasurable,
upon the holy angels that have
never sinned ; but such favor is not
grace, in the sense in which the
word is used in the teachings of
Christ and his apostles. It is rath
er a reward of merit bestowed by
eternal justice upon loyal subjects
who love and obey and honor their
infinite Sovereign. It is just what
we should, a priori, expect at the
hands of a righteous Ruler.
But favor, shown to the human
race, has been bestowed, not upon
loyal subjects who have loved,
honored and obeyed their lawful
Sovereign ; but upon rebels, who,
if it were possible, would subvert
his throne. Grace exercised
towards such a people is most as
suredly “favor shown to the un
worthy.”
To support this conclusion, and
also to illustrate the plenitude
of divine grace to man, let us
notice some of its manifestations
found in the common blessings of
life. These are innumerable as
the dew-drops, and they all come
from “the Father of light, in whom
there is no variableness or shadow
of turning.” In the possession of
these “good and perfect gifts” the
race might have been happy. God
so intended; but alas, man’s evil
nature has well nigh defeated our
Father’s gracious purpose. It is
hardly too much to say that 90 per
cent, of human suffering, in this
life, is due to man’s own perver
sion of the good gifts with which
the grace of God has blessed him.
Os this, only a few examples need
to be given.
God gave to man the home. In
its normal condition, it stands upon
the earth a memorial remnant of a
lost Paradise, while, at the same
time, it is the type and the promise
of a better home in the mansions
of the skies. But in many coun
tries, and for many ages, man's lust
and.folly have changed it into a
loathsome harem, within whose se
cluded walls, gentle woman, whom
God designed to be his comforter
and a helpmeet for him, is reduced
to the condition of an underling
and a slave.
God gives to man his children.
“They are a heritage of the Lord.”
These words indicate the source
whence they come. Again, “They
shall be as olive plants around the
table.” Olive plants are the prom
ise of the matured trees, whose
fruit supplies the oil, which in an
cient times was the standard seas
oning of human food. Upon this
fact the metaphor was founded.
And it teaches that children, when
they grow in strength, shall, like
the olive trees, bring their contri
butions to their father’s table. But
how often does parental folly, by
weakness of discipline, by our :n
--dulgence, and by vicious training,
change these olive plants, some
times, into briers, whose irritating
tortures destroy the peace of the
household, and sometimes into
thorns, whose keen spikelets may
pierce the heart and bring the
father or the mother with sorrow
to the grave.
But thank God! We are glad to
know that parents are not always
to blame when their children go
astray. There are many who fully
comprehend their duty, and do their
best to lead their children in wis"
dom’s ways. In such cases, it is the
profligate himself who sets at naught
the grace of God. He turns his back
upon a loving father, whom God's
grace had given him, and like the
prodigal wastes his blessings in
riotous living. In either case,
whether the blame be on the parent
or the child, the grace of God was
so neglected or abused, that it
failed to accomplish its beneficent
design. And thus it is in a thou
sand other cases.
It may intensify the foregoing
thoughts, just to mention some of
the good gifts which the Lord
hath bestowed upon his creature,
man. Think of his wonderful
organism, his erect statue, his pli
ant limbs and his cunning handi
craft, in all which he stands su
perior to every form of sentient
life. Think of that mysterious ex
pression which beams from his
eyes, whose gaze it is said, no beast
can endure. But above all these,
think of man’s God-like mind
whose powers enable him to ac
quire knowledge, to form judg
ments, and to discover truth.
Consider also his imaginaiton, on
whose elastic pinions he soars away
from the realm of the “ real ” to
the realm of the “ ideal,” where he
is able to construct new combina
tions of thought, which by and by
may be realized in the achieve
ments of art, and in the produc
tions of genius. What a power is
the imagination !
Think, in the next place, of man’s
emotional nature. There we come
to the region of the affections.
These are the motive powers which
impel and direct all human activi
ties, while, at the same time, thei r
lawful indulgence upon proper ob
jects, and in right methods, affords
to the soul its highest happiness.
Then add to all these endowments,
a moral and voluntary nature
which still reflects in some degree
the likeness of God, and man
stands before us as a creature who
in the very constitution of his
being, God designed should be hap*
py-
But to secure this end, divine
grace has made all nature tributary
to man’s wants, and to his enjoy
ments. For him, the sun shines,
the seasons change, the rains fall,
and the earth brings forth its in
crease.
We have only glanced at these
topics. But enough has been said
to show that God in his goodness,
intended man to be happy, and
that he has made ample provision
for him that he might be so. If,
therefore, man is not happy, it is
not the fault of his Creator, but of
man himself. His proclivity to
sin betrays in him a carnal mind at
enmity with God. This will ac
count for the woes of the present
life, in the midst of unnumbered
blessings.
MINISTERS AND MONEY-
Rather a rare subject, we con
fess. It is one in which the two
elements are brought into conjunc
tion, to any considerable extent,
but seldom, unless it be by means
of the conjunction “and,” yet
whether the amount be large or
small, when money is held and used
by the minister it becomes a re
flector of his character. Indeed
this is true of every one, but we
are interested now in working out
this thought, and in seeing its ap
plication to the preacher. He is
warned against being greedy of
filthy lucre. Though primarily
addressed to Timothy, this exhor
tation is meant to apply to the
ministry for all time. To be swept
into the strong current of an ordi
nary “boom” and to engage in
speculution according to the prin
ciples which control it now-a-days,
is hurtful not only to the man him
self, but to the cause which he
represents. Not a few ministers
had their influence singed by the
fires of real estate excitement
which swept through the country
a few years ago.
But another difficulty which the
minister encounters is debt. He is
a man of like passions with other
men. He craves delightful food,
js fond of goodly apparel, likes a
good hotse and vehicle, and is no
more averse to the delicacies and
comforts of life than others. But
these connot be had without
money, and if the money be want
ing, then these must be lacking
also. Nothing is more discredita
ble, especially to a preacher, than
debt. How can he admonish men
to observe the first principles of
ethics if he himself violates them?
If this be known, his preaching is
as sounding brass and tinkling
cymbol. The commonest princi
ples of honesty cannot be urged
from the pulpit, if the occupant
of that sacred place will not pay
his debts. Suppose it be urged
that he has made debts which he
cannot pay? That does not re
lieve the situation, nor exonerate
him from wrong. No man has a
right to make a debt which he
cannot meet. How solemnly true
is this of the minister?
A merchant complained to the
writer, only a short while ago, that
a bill had been made by (a certain
minister who was known to both,
who had gone his way with a
promise to pay for a package
of goods which he had bought,
but had failed to meet his promise.
A letter to the promising preacher
failed to evoke a [eply.
Another merchant complained
that another minister, and one who
occupies a prominent position had
purchased of him a valuable article
to be used as a present upon a
notable occasion but had not paid
for it, nor could he get him to set
tle. Instances might be multiplied
but these serve to point out clearly
enough the principle.
It is possible that a minister,
like any other, may fail to realize
his money at the expected time,
and hence fall short of his engage
ments.
In such an event, he should not
fail to notify his creditor of the
reason of his failure.
It will be a sad day when even a
few preachers grow lax with re
spect to their disposition of money.
They should shun debt as they
would the fatal pestilence.
Methodists certainly set us an
example in the distribution of de
nominational literature. Their
preachers have made their people
a denomination of readers, especi
ally of Methodist literature. They
are untiring workers. They keep
their presses busy. Their writers
are taxed to produce thought for
the people called Methodists-
Their strongest and best men are
not forgotten. They write through
out their lives and after they pass
away, they are written about.
Striking biographies, correspond
ence, sketches, sermons, lectures—
how they abound in Methodist
literature! Every Methodist
preacher talks about their works,
urges his people to purchase and
read them, and fills his sachel or
saddle-bags as he goes to his ap
pointments. Their publishing
houses have thriven and their peo
ple have in turn grown stronger in
Methodist faith. The publishing
houses and people act and react up
on each other. Would that Baptists
were as intent upon publishing the
claims of our denominational liter
ature.
The public are at last relieved of
the speculation about the stealage
of Louis Redwine. He confessed
to robbing the bank of $103,000,
and the result, to him, is to be six
years imprisonment in the peni
tentiary. The penalty is quite sur
prising to the general public. We
shall not -be surprised to hear of
more banks being robbed. As he
has been in jail a year, which add
ed to the six to be served in the
penitentiary, he will realize about
$14,000 a year. Is this not liable
to encourage other fast young men
who are put in places of trusts.
The Examiner of New York, in
directly charges the editor of the
Western Recorder of Louisville, of
being selfish, in giving “a qualified
and grudging commendation”of the
Leader, the monthly paper for Bap"
tist young people recently started
by the Sunday-school Board of
the Southern Baptist Convention
WAYSIDE JOTTINGS.
An old method of teaching was
to require definitions, and as a test
of each definition, examples were
given. Definitions are easier than
examples. It is much easier to de
fine what an editor ought to be,
than to furnish in yourself an ex
ample of what one should be. Put
into a company all you can find
who are able to define what should
be the qualifications and duties of
an editor or of a preacher and pas
tor. Then draw out into another
company all who could fill either
of these ofiices in an exemplary
manner, and how many would be
left? It would be a rare thing to
find a man whose knowledge is not
far superior to his practice.
• * •
A good brother in Alabama re
cently defined the qualifications of
a secretary of a mission board. “He
should have the brain of a New
ton, the heart of a Spurgeon, and
the hide of a rhinoceros.” This
is unique, to say the least. This
good brother would greatly mag
nify the office. Truly the office is
one to be magnified. Its respon
sibilities are weighty enough for
any brain or heart or hide. Lack
of faithfulness or wisdom here
will bring disaster. Os all the ob
jections to missions to be met and
overcome by the workers among
the churches, none is so formidable
as a charge, with even slight evi
dence to support it, of carelessness
or indiscretion in the application
of funds contributed. The very
highest gifts and the most earnest
endeavors may find full scope in
the exercise of the duties of a sec
retary’s office.
• • •
But maybe, after all,',it isn’t best
for a preacher to have so many
and such excellent gifts. Then
the Lord, or many of the preachers,
has been making mistakes. If the
preacher has ability to do all the
work, what is the use of the
churches? So if a mission secre
tary has all the wisdom, what is
the use of giving him a Board of
counselors? The work is not en
tirely his own, nor is it to be done
by him alone. It is the work of
the denomination, and the wisdom
and help of the denomination are
to be made available and effective.
With the right kind of Board to
give counsel, and a full co-opera
tion upon the part of the denomi
notion any man of good ability
would make a good secretary,
though not every one might dis
tinguish himself. It is a poor sort
of thing to exalt the office or work
of another, when our real spirit if
understood is to put our own re
sponsibility upon them. We have
known a man who bragged a great
deal upon his wife, and the very
way in which he did it was certain
proof to us of his own utter worth
lessness. He was meanly stri\ing
to excuse himself.
• • »
We think the tendency is to
leave the secretaries too much
alone in their very difficult work.
It is no easy matter for members of
the Board, even when attending
all the meetings, to maintain that
acauaintance with all the work be
fore them that will enable them to
give a right judgment upon intri
cate questions. In their press of
other duties they are too willing,
often, to leave matters altogether
to the direction of their leaders.
When they meet with little other
purpose or result than to endorse
or concur in the secretary’s plans,
a weak point is being reached.
The great burden of every earnest
secretary, we venture to say, is the
difficulty he has of getting his
councelors to look close enough
into the merits of his perplexing
problems to be able to give the
real assistance of intelligent judg
ment.
» • ♦
“The hide of a rhinoceros.” The
suggestion in this seems to be that
a secretary must be impervious to
all criticism or assult. This might
add to his comfort, but we ques
tion whether it would contribute
to his efficiency. The keener ones
susceptibility to criticism, the
greater should be his efficiency.
To be engaged in the service of
others with no faculty to discern
from their hintsand criticisms how
their work should be done is a sad
predicament. Criticism is com
monly regarded as the weapon of
an enemy. It is sometimes the im
plement of a friend, if he is a faith
ful friend. Not many are blessed
j with a large number of friends
that are close enough to inflict “the
faithful w'ound.” If we will be
very patient and think not too
much of opposition or persecution
we may gain some valuable lessons
from the assults of our enemies.
They seek out our weak points.
The discovery and strengthening
of our weak points may be a bet
ter victory than the demolishing of
our enemies. A very fine test may
be made of any man by noting the
way he behaves himself under the
fire of criticism.
• * *
Great uneasiness was felt some
time ago when our Boards and sec
retaries were being severely criti
cised. Now it appears that almost
all men are coming to an agree
ment to speak well of them. “Woe
to that man by whom the offence
coineth.” “Woe to you when all
men speak well of you.”
* * ♦
Well done for the Quitman
church! All praise for faith
ful pastor and people. This six
hundred dollars sent up on
the New Year for the support
of a missionary is a notable con
tribution, all the more notable
in the midst of these hard times.
Are there not forty churches in
Georgia that might do as well?
It is a great joy that even an oc
casional one is coming up to some
thing like a full measure of duty.
• • *
We know of no man with zeal
so untiring, with spirit so fervent
as pastor J. D. Chapman of Mil
ledgeville. His is the first good
meeting we have heard reported
in the New Year. As he has been
doing his own preaching his people
have stood by him through clouds
and rain, and the blessing of the
Lord has crowned their labors.
The Milledgeville saints enjoy
great blessings in the possession of
so faithful a preacher and pastor.
Sunday School Board.
If the clerk of every Baptist As
sociation in Georgia, or some mem
ber of the Association, would send
a copy of the Minutes of his Asso
ciation to the “Baptist Sunday
school Board, Nashville, Tenn.,”
it would be something done to
wards the getting up of the Sun
day-school statistics of the South.
Who will do it.
It is pleasant to note that the
Board is conducting its work on
high business principles, not resort
ing to cut-rates and other short
cuts to success. We commend
their action in this matter.
The periodicals of the Board are
very neat and they are well prepar
ed in all respects. The changes
made at the beginning of the year,
were improvements. Our series of
helps is admirably suited to our
schools.
The missionary feature of our
Series will be found to be of great
value in the matter of interesting
and instructing our little folks in
the mission work of the Southern
Baptist Convention. This has been
called “The Missionary Training
Series.”
The new paper, began by the
Board on the first of January,
“The young People’s Leader,” is a
twelve page monthly, and is filled
with good things for our young
people. It is designed, primarily,
to meet the needs of the young
people’s societies, but will be found
very valuable for young people not
organized into societies, for ad
vanced Sunday-school scholars, and
for the home as well. The price is
40 cents a year, whether for single
subscribers or in clubs.
Dr. Whitsitt, Dr. Lansing Bur
-1 rows, Dr. H. A. Tupper, Jr., Rev.
| Carter Helm Jones, Rev. E. B.
Pollard and E. B. Hatcher are the
regular writers for the Young Peo
ple’s Leader. But many of the
best writers of the South will be
heard from in its pages from time
to time. Subscribe now so as to
get the whole course of studies.
Home Board.
; "
St. Louis. —The Baptist cause
in this city is comparatively weak,
I although it has a few strong
churches. The Third church, now
one of the strongest churches in
the West, and the Fourfh church,
were before the war mission sta
tions ot the Home Mission Board.
■ Since the war the efforts of the
Board have been mainly devoted
to work among the Germans.
In 1880 St. Louis had a popula-
I tion of 350,000. There were seven
I churches with an aggregate mem-
I bership of nearly 1,600. It now has
i a population of about 600,000, and
there are fourteen churches with
I an aggregate membership of near
ly 4,000. In 1880 it had one
! church for every 50,000 of popula-
■ tion, and one out of about two
I hundred and twenty-five of [this
I population w'as a Baptist church
member. It now has one church
for every 42.000 of population, and
; one out of one hundred and fifty is
a Baptist church member. The
j present population of St. Louis if
located in the country would make
fifteen countieshaving each 40,000
population, and there would be one
Baptist church in each county.
if such a field of desolation were
found in any one of our rural dis
tricts, it would be regarded with
astonishment. For example the
j population of St. Louis is equal to
' one-third of the population of
Virginia. If one third of the en
, tire population of that T>l3*’~scate
had but fourteen Baptist churches,
i it would justly be regarded as field
for mission work which should re
ceive immediate and liberal aid.
Counting one church as capable of
supplying the spiritual needs of
3,500 people, and we have in St.
Louis churches enough to supply
but 50,000 of its inhabitants, while
55,000 are left destitute.
The State Board of Louisiana
thrilled the Southern Baptist Con
vention at its meeting in Atlanta,
with the facts and figures which
I showed a destitution of 250,000 in
that state. But the city of St.
Louis has twice the destitution of
the whole State of Louisiana. St.
Louis must have a hundred more
churches before it can be said that
• it is no longer a mission field.
Home Missions—Our Cities.—
In one of its reports to the ConvenJ
| tion, the Home Mission Board said,
. “There are single cities in the
' bounds of the Convention in which
the Board might expend all its in
| come for the next five years, and
still not fill up the yawning chasm
of its spiritual necessities.”
This statement made little im
-1 pression on the body, and was
probably regarded by many as born
of imagination, and not descrip
tive of the real condition of any
one of our great cities. Should
| any of our readers be of this opin
' ion, let him ponder the facts which
we have condensed from the Cen
| tral Baptist as to the condition of
our Baptist cause in St Louis.
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State Board.
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Corresponding Secretary J. G.
Gibson has returned from the
Florida Baptist Convention. He
i says it is admitted to be the best
convention the brethren have ever
held. The most brotherly feeling
and spirit pervaded the brethren.
He thinks the Florida Baptists
have a bright hope for progress and
; prosperity.
Dr. Gibson was exceedingly
gratified on his return home to find
that funds were coming in more
encouragingly. As the month
will soon end, he hopes to be able
to pay the missionaries. He has
no fears if the brethren over the
State will busy themselves a little
in getting up funds for the Board.
The corresponding secretary has
many enquiries as to the best
means of systematizing’ovr church
work. He is much gratified at this,
since it is the great essential to suc
cess in all our church enterprises.