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August, 1896—Subject: The Foreign
Board.
“The best prayer bookin the world is
a map of the world." —Dr. Gordon.
1. Prayer—God be merciful unto us
and bless us and cause his face to
shine upon us, that thy way may
• be known upon earth, thy saving
health among all nations.
2. Hymn—“ There's wideness in God's
mercy. ”
3. Scripture—Mission Work Command-
ed. —Mark 16:15.
Mission Work Directed by the
Spirit—Acts 18:2.
Mission Work Required.— Luke
10.2.
Mission Work to be Prayed for.
-Eph. 6:17, 18. 19.
Mission Work Exemplified.
Luke 10:1, 17; Acts 8: 5, 6
(These may be written out and
read by different persons, each
making short comment.)
4. Prayer—That we may see our obli
gation and opportunities.
5 Hymn—“ Tell it out among the
heathen.”
6. Biographical Sketches —The true
history of any great movement is
the history of the men and women
leading it.
Three minute talks on William
Carey, Adoniram Judson, Coler
idge Patterson and John G. Paton
7. Selected mus e.
8. Prayer for the successors of these
heroes
9. Reports of Secretary and Treasurer.
Other business.
10. Leaflet—“ The Foreign Board—lts
Administration and Policy,” by
Rev. J. S. Dill. D.D (Read in
sections by different persons )
11. Results as compared with other
denominations.
12. Secure su beer ip i ions for Mission
Journa’. Doxology.
Foreign Board.—" Ask of me and I
shall give thee the heathen for thine
inheritance.” Missionaries 36; native
assistants, 109: churches. 9S; member
ship, 4 295; baptisms, 735; schools, 31:
scholars, 851; S S scholars, 1,713. Re
ceipts of Foreign Board, $102,056.15
Contributions from native churches,
$5,553 20.
Study Topic. The Debt of the
Board. -Its effects; It burdens the Sec
retary; it burdens the missionaries; it
prevents progress. Our duty: Topray,
to give, to make sacrifices. Result;
God will be glorified and our force in
creased .
Foreign Board Recommendations
to Woman's Missionary Union,
Adopted at Annual Meeting.
Chattanooga, Tenn., May 11,1896.
1. That the Christmas Offering for
1896 be devoted to China, that wondrous
open door of God's Providence for our
generation.
2. That the societies make an effort
to raise for foreign missions $30,000.
3. That special effort be made to give
greater success than ever before to
Missionary Day. in connection with
the Sunday School Board.
4 That the Woman's Missionary
Union devise plans for taking up and
conducting the Sunbeam work, which
has been turned over to the Board by
Rev. Geo. Braxton Taylor.
5. That the societies of the Union
make earnest efforts to press the claims
and increase the circulation of TVte 3fis
sion Journal.
LETTER FROM DR. R. J. WILLINGHAM
TO WOMAN’S MISSIONARY UNION
EXPLANATORY’ OF THE RECOM
MENDATIONS
I send you the recommendations of
the F. M. B. to the W. M. U. for 1896-
97. In the first recommendation you
see that we ask the sisters to take again
the great work in China for the Christ
mas Offering for '96. This great nation,
comprising aboutone-quarter of the pop
ulation of the globe, stands open to the
Gospel messengers as never before. It
looks as if God is pointing his people to
China, and saying: “Go in and, possess
the land ” We ask you to join with us
in doing this great work by giving the
Christmas Offering of '96 for the re
demption of this land.
Second. We ask that the societies
endeavor to raise this year for Foreign
Missions thirty thousand ($30,000) dol
lars We know that this looks like a
large amount, but your societies have
increased in numbers, and in many cases
in interest. Os course, this is to in
clude the gifts made for Christmas Off
ering. and all other gifts from the so
cieties.
Third. For the past few years the
Woman’s Missionary Union has been giv
ing valuable help towards making a suc
cess of Missionary Day in our Sabba h
schools. By your cordial co-operation
we feel that not only will more money
be raised, but the Sabbath-school chil
dren will be trained in the great work
of the Master, so that in the future we
will have a generation of men and wo
men who have been brought up to
know of missionary work, and to love
to give for the advancement of the Mas
ter’s kingdom.
Fourth. We ask the sisters to take up
the “ Sunbeam work,” which has been
formerly so successfully carried for
ward by our brother,Geo. Braxton Tay
lor, Jr. While this will give you new
responsibilities, yet we feel that you
can manage it successfully In connec
tion with other work which is being
carried forward by you.
Fifth. The societies of the Union
have during the past done valuable
work in pressing the claims of 27t« Mis
sion Journal. The sisters are continu
ally sending us in good lists of sub
scribers. Knowing the need and bene
fit of missionary information, we feel
that wherever The Journal is taken and
read, that the work will be advanced.
We ask the sisters to try and get the
people to take 77ie Journal and other
papers which disseminate missionary
information. For the Band Depart
ment I would especially recommend
Kind Words.
Let me thank the sisters for their cor
dial co operation during the past year.
May you have the spirit of the Master
as you meet in your annual gathering,
and as you go forth to the work which
lies before you for another year. With
best wishes
Yours fraternally.
R J. Willingham,
Cor. Sec'y.
Italy.—Judging from the reports of
many Christian workers, the outlook in
Italy is brighter just now than it has
been for a long time. The difficulties
are none the less, but the encourage
ments seem greater, and the results more
tangible For this we thank God and
take courage.
Japan.- It has been a hard year for
missionaries in this country. The
Japanese heretofore have seemed ready
to receive the Gospel messengers, but
now, elated with victory after the war
with China, they have, to a large ex
tent, turned a deaf ear to the missiona
ries,
Italian Baptists.—lt is a comfort
to believe that our Italian Baptist
churches during the past year have
made progress not only numeric
ally and financially but also in
solidity. To this last, persecutions,
which have abounded at various sta
tions, have contributed, while the fact
that several of the churches have not
only given liberally, but have assumed
responsibilities for certain-expenses, has
tended to promote I'esprit de corps. As
the babe, described by Tennyson, comes
to consciousness of itself so it is with a
church whose members labor and suffer
together, and attempt what can be
reached only through a common concep
tion of the end to be attained and an in
telligent, hearty co-operation. Even in
our home lands, given a congregation
which enters a house of worship built
by others and ministered to by a mis
sionary whom others support, the spirit
of association is necessarily lacking,and
the members are but so many separate
units without any principle of cohesion.
How much more must this be the case
in countries not yet evangelized 1 I
long noticed with pain how Italian
Baptists would put their small coins
into the plate when it was presented,
and because it was with no thought of
the act before or after, or of the use to
which the contributions were put. Such
giving has no grace, and brings no re
flex blessing, while it can never secure
other than the most miserable pecuniary
results. To some extent this is changed
for the better, but the best of our
churches is still like the babe referred
to. Nor let it be supposed that any of
them are really near to self-support. A
good beginning has been made —that is
all; but that is much, for as new mem
bers are gained, they fall into line, and
what is chiefly needed is sufficient in
crease of members.
Finances. The receipts of the
Board from all sources were $108,150 56
for the year. The expenses of collect
ing in the various States were $6,094 41.
Our indebtedness, May 1, for money
borrowed, was $25,140 71; our chapel
fund, $6,760.00, making a total of $31,-
900.71.
The interest account has been veiy
heavy, 82.039 68 We need SIO,OOO 00
in cash every month to pay for the
work. We always begin to get in debt
the first month of the year, even while
the convention is in session. Special
efforts have always been made just be
fore the convention, and then for several
months after, the contributions are very
small. The past year, for instance, we
needed, to meet current expenditures,
from May 1 to October 1, about $50,000.
We received in that time $23,140. thus
forcing us to borrow nearly $27,000 in
addition to our other indebtedness, and
then pay interest on that sum. In
eleven months, less that $70,000 was re
ceived for the work, and in April, the
twelfth month, over $35;000 was re
ceived. Thus one third of all given was
received in the last month. Are we
honest with God in carrying on his
work in this way?
We need to change our method of
giving. Many churches should give in
May, June and July.—Foreign Mission
Journal.
•w.
China—The work in South China
(Canton and vicinity) has prospered.
Dr. Graves is back on the field, and
with him our talented young brother,
R E Chambers. Much work has been
done in the interior by the faithful
workers.
Many tracts and Bibles are being dis
tributed. The brethren in this mission
have training classes where they gather
the people and teach them in Bible
truths; in this way they are getting the
natives prepared to be leaders.
The year has been one more of patient
toil than of manifest results. Dr. H. A.
Randle, our medical missionary, re
ports 5 243 patients treated. The
churches have shown increased liberal
ity in their contributions, and many
baptisms are reported.
Statistics —The following are the
statistics showing the condition of the
work in all the fields: Number of
churches. 98; out stations, 128, male
missionaries. 38; female, 48; ordained
natives, 34; unordained native females,
8; males. 67; baptisms, 735; present
membership, 4,295; Sunday-school schol
ars, 1.713; houses of worship, 39. num
ber day schools, 31; scholars,Bsl; contri
butions, $5,553.20.
Taken altogether the year has been
one of gracious blessings. We have a
noble band of workers representing us
in foreign lands. We thank God for
what he has done through them and
with renewed faith and courage press
on in the work.
Mexico. —In this country the work
is doing well; 177 baptisms reported
The cause sustained a great loss in the
death of the consecrated, beloved broth
er, M. Gassaway.
There was a glorious revival in Sal
tillo last year, which resulted in many
conversions in our Madeiro Institute.
The self-support idea is working more
and more, and with good results
Several church-houses are being built
without expense to the Board. Many
Bibles ana Gospels are being sold,
though in some cases they have been
gotten by the priests, even by theft, and
burnt.
Brazil —ln Brazil the work has ad
vanced gloriously. From the different
stations come tidings of God’s blessings
and advance movements. Several per
sons of prominence have been baptized.
Notably among these is the ex canon
Dr. Ottoni, who is now pastor at Rio.
The press at Bahia is turning out
many tracts, and the Good News, a pa
per published at Campos, is accom
plishing much good. A spirit of inquiry
as to the gospel seems to be among the
people.
-w.
Africa.—The work has moved on
well: our force was small, being de
creased by death and removal, but
good results crowned the efforts of the
workers. The natives are taking part
in building their chapels, and in other
ways helping forward the work.
Foreign Board—The Foreign Board
reported, at the convention held in
Chattanooga, the most glorious year of
its history in conversions on the foreign
fields. There were 735 baptisms and
the missionaries seem full of hope.
Helping Hand has these words re
garding the inspiration of missionary
studies: “Our mission circles open to
women an exhaustible and inspiring
field of study. We have an investment
in India, and India has a new interest
for us. We are caring for some gifted
woman while she teaches those black,
barbarous children of ours in Africa—
and we want to know Africa itself.
Our missionary contributions are giving
us an ownership in old Earth that
makes her most distant lands dearer
than the homestead of our childhood.
What a literature is open to our study !
Facts before which fiction pales; truths
behind which romance must hide her
self. Read faithfully the best of our
missionary periodicals, with their he
roic history of our day, and you will
feel that you have trod the borderland
of heaven and listened to angel choirs.”
THE CHRISTIAN INDEX: THURSDAY. JULY 30 1896.
department
Working During Vacation
Many of the readers of the In
dex will be away part of the time
this summer. In the country,on
the mountain or by the seashore,
wherever you go, be sure to at
tend church, and if you can find
a young people’s meeting go to
it and take part in it. It may
well be that your presence will
be a great help, and you will find
yourself of more importance per
haps than you usually are. Peo
pie in out of the way places are
always glad to welcome strang
ers and to get new ideas from
them. Town folks are also expect
ed to have more of these new ideas
and to be able to transmit them
to others. You can sometimes
leave your influence behind to as
feet months of work by the read
iness of your help during your
short visit. Do it cheerfully and
willingly also, and with full ap
preciation of the worth of what
is being done. And if there is no
young people’s prayer-meeting
find the regular church prayer
meeting and attend that. Still
further, if you cannot find a Bap
tist church, find some other that
you can consistently work with
during your visit. It is very nec
essary that you put yourself on
the side of the Lord while on
your vacation trip and that you
do not let go entirely your hab
its of religious worship and ac
tivity. It will not interfere
with your resting, but rather
help it.
The Great Conventions.
We do not like the interde
nominational feature of the
Christian Endeavor Society, but
we do like the character of its
great conventions. These are
most devout and helpful seem
ingly in their entire work. There
is a noticeable absence of arti
ficial excitement. This is prob
ably because these organizations
began and developed naturally.
Others have risen to compete
with it and have felt obliged at
once to somewhat equal it in
power. From this has come a
manufactured interest at times.
The Christian Endeavor goes
next year to San Francisco,if the
rates can be made low enough.
Just succeeding he above came
the Milwaukee Baptist Young
People’s Convention. Here also
there was a large attendance and
much interest seemed to be
aroused. The good that these
conventions do is largely on the
community in which they are
held. Some time after the Ep
worth League Convention at
Chattanooga was over, we asked
a member of the Young People’s
Board of theM. E Church South
as to whether they felt any im
petus to their work from it. He
replied that he did not see that
it had either increased the num
ber of Leagues or quickened
their activity. The best results
are from State, district, and city
meetings. In these the numbers
and enthusiasm are not so great,
but the practical and efficient
work is much enhanced. Just
now this is the feature needing
the greatest attention among us.
The Young: People s Leader Topic,
Aug 2.—Things to Think About
Phil. 4:8
It is well to notice at the very
start of this verse that it is ad
dressed to the brethren. Paul is
not giving here general direc
tions for the thinking of unre
generate people, but a finally to
Christians. Great gospel themes
have occupied the previous por
tion of this epistle. The accep
tance of Christ as the Savior is
presupposed in its first words.
So let us remember that this is a
great rule for Christians who
have already accepted Christ and
given thought to his great king
dom. It now goes further and
takes up the outlying districts of
our daily concerns. For these
we are given this rule.
It will also be noticed that the
rule is somewhat broad and com
prehensive. It is “whatsoever.”
This takes in our conversations,
our reading,both newspapers and
books,our listening and our med
itation. Many of us are willing
to apply it to our Sunday
life, but are not so willing to
apply it to our daily life. If
it thus restricts, it at the same
time broadens our outlook. We
can welcome every line of thought
that can meet the tests herein
applied, and the further one im
plied of allegiance to Jesus. Thus
as Paul said in another place, all
things are ours, for we are
Christ’s.
Truth or substantiality or re
ality is to be a characteristic of
our thinking. Things that are
unreal are not worth much to
Christians. A great many relig
ious fads are shut out by this test.
Honest things, or things that
are what they seem to be, and
worth something. Some true
things are dishonest in their
plausibility. Worthy things are
to be ours. Justness is another
characteristic. Many things are
true, but when considered they
do not deal fairly with others.
For example, some deed done by
those we know may be true, yet
the recital of it in its bold facts
or even the consideration of it,
may be unjust to the persons con
cerned. Our thinking must be
about those things that to their
truth add justice.
Purity or cleanness is the next.
We all know what that means. It
is needed as a warning. Many of
us who would not do an impure
thing are not so particular about
impure thoughts. If we confine
our thoughts to pure things our
deeds will be confined there also.
Loveliness is also a characteris
tic of anything a Christian thinks
about. Beauty is very essential
to our thoughts. Os good report
is another. Those things that
bear a good reputation in the
world are to be thought about.
We can depend upon the fact
that such things as the best
Christians put under the ban are
not worthy of our time and
thought. Good and useful things
get a good reputation just as
surely as people do.
All the field remaining is sum
med up in the two classes. If
there be any virtue or any praise,
that we shall think of these
things. Whenever anything
stands for virtue or is worthy of
praise for its goodness we may
allow it in our thoughts.
V’.-K
The Baptist Union Topic, Auk 2.
Jonadab, ihe Son of Rechab
(Temperance Meeting:) Jer. 35:6.
The text assigned for this sub
ject teaches temperance only by
implication. It was an object
lesson in obedience to command
ments. These children of Re
chab had been commanded by
Jonathan, their father, not to
drink wine, and they had obeyed
him implicitly. They had also
been commanded not to dwell in
houses, and they had obeyed that
too. So, if we are to use this
verse as a Bible commandment
against wine,we mustjalso against
living in houses. God tells Jere
miah to carry back the example
of these Rechabites to the Jews
and convict them of their disobe
dience by it. This is the actual
teaching of the passage.
Yet it has bearings on the
question of temperance. These
men are examples of the power
of men to set themselves to a
purpose and refrain from the use
of wine throughout their lives.
Now we believe this aspect pre
sents itself to most young people.
They are fully aware of the dan
gers in the use of liquor. The
great thing is to get ourselves to
the point of making a deliberate
purpose to keep away from it.
We believe in the pledge for
those who have never been in the
habit of drinking,if the pledge is
emphasized as Waning some
thing. Such a promise formally
set forth is a great protection.
Let us, therefore, in our meet
ing,see if in our hearts there is a
determined purpose to keep away
from the use of liquor. If we
find that, while there is no ten
dency toward drink, there is also
none against it, let us make the
issue on the spot. We need to
bring every young man and wo
man to a positive and purposeful
stand. For this purpose let us
have a pledge if necessary. Many
people will say that that is not
necessary to them, but it will be
a help to them you may be sure.
The consciousness of such a
pledge will often restrain us in
after days.
These men also testify to the
possibility of making promises
for future years and keeping
them. This is an objection made
by many to signing pledges.
They say they fear that it may
not be kept. They are afraid to
venture so far ahead. We make
plans in other lines,however,and
we unhesitatingly make promises
connected with them. People
pledge in marriage and keep
their pledges also. We can do
the same with this question.
So the Rechabites stand as
those obedient to commands and
as men who could hold aloof from
common indulgences by the force
of their wills. They are an ex
ample for those who have yet to
form the habit of drinking. They
show the possibility before us all
of holding firm to our purposes
through life. Let us have a pur
pose of this kind in regard to our
personal relation to all kinds of
intoxicating liquors.
-u.n
The Sin of Sins.
It causes the child to cry and the
aged to fret.
It mars the face of beauty more than
can a hot iron.
It seals the door of service to the able.
It chokes and blights the tender plant
of friendship
It is the poison in the cup of love.
It manacles the hands that would
minister.
It desecrates God’s house and ser
vice.
It throws the pall of a blacker night
over the beauties of earth. It bears
the seal of society’s approval.
It robs the poor man of his crust,
It is at home in the family, in the
place of business, in the resort of pleas
ure
It creates the hypocrite.
It puts a thorn in the wreath of sue-
COSS.
It erected the cross on Calvary and
nailed the Lord thereon.
It closed the gates of Eden, and
opened the gates of hell.
It is none the less damnable because
respectable, and no less dreadful be
cause familiar.
Its incarnation is called Satan.
It is, finally, plain, commonplace, un
varnished, every day— selfishness.— Gold
en Rule J
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DAVID'S VICTORIES.
Lesson for Sunday, Aug. 9th,
1896.
Scripture Lesson.—2 Sam. 10:
8-19.
Motto Text.—“ The Lord is
my light and my salvation; whom
shall I fear ?” Ps. 27:1.
Remembering Kindness. — Time
and again we see brought out
David’s fine trait of remembering
and acknowledging kindness
shown him. Such an admirable
virtue is not to be had without
proper cultivation. It cannot be
left to mere circumstance or
caprice. Some one has pointed
out how that the memory of cer
tain persons is like a row of pegs
to hang grudges on. It is a sad
thing to fall in to away of remem
bering only things that are idle
or evil. Nothing so braces the
memory in retaining a sense of
kindness and goodness shown us
as the frequent acknowledgment
of them. David shows the dis
position to acknowedge kindness
from every source, whether from
friend or foe. He cares for the
lame son of his friend Jonathan,
and he sends a message of con
dolence to the son of an Ammon
ite king who had once done him
a kindness.
Mistrusting Kindness.— Sincere
and earnest were the words of
sympathy sent by David to the
Ammonite king. But the mes
sengers were suspected and
treated as spies. The Ammon
ite king could only think that
David had sent his men thither
with some evil design. There
was not enough nobility in his
own character to enable him to
appreciate a noble act upon the
part of another. The barbarous
treatment shown David’s men
led to a war with the Ammonites.
It is the mark of a base nature to
suspect or mistrust honorable
motives or intentions. Nothing
is more painful to a truly gen
erous nature than to have right
motives impugned. A disposi
tion that is prone to suspect or
misjudge others is earnestly to
be striven against. Apart from
the evil of it, it is a sure cause
of unhappiness.
Warning Against Foes.— True
kindness is no soft and yielding
virtue that will suffer right and
honor to be trampled under foot
David is magnanimous in his
kindness toward friend and foe,
but kindness toward foes must
needs have i s limit. Strong
love implies strong hate toward
things antagonistic to the objects
loved. It may seem a little hard
to turn from the consideration of
David’s rare kindness to think of
him as astern and vigorous war
rior. Yet David was much of
a fighter. His mission was very
largely one of military conquest.
He drove out the heathen tribes
and took possession of the land
in the name of the Lord, for the
Lord’s people.
Skillful Warfare. — Before and
behind came, the attacks upon
Israel. None but the closest
watchfulness will make us se
cure from the manifold evils that
threaten and beset us on every
side. Though we fight for God
and God fight for us, there re
mains the necessity of employ
ing the utmost watchfulness, dil
igence and skill.
Choice men were taken for the
difficult and dangerous posts.
Those who bear great responsi
bilities may find in their very
burdens a testimony to their own
worth. It should be counted by
us a joy and an honor that we
may stand sometimes in danger
ous passes, if by standing faith
ful we may drive back cruel ene
mies from our homes and loved
ones.
Mutual helpfulness was a prin
ciple to be followed in the sharp
conflict. Those who went against
the Syrians would be given
strong encouragement and in
cited to their best endeavors by
knowing that in a time of press
ing need help would come to
them from the other part of the
army. In all our work for the
Lord we are to stand ready to
give succor to any who may be
weighted down by heavier bur
dens or borne down by a stronger
foe.
The children of Israel are ex
horted to play the men, and the
appeal is based on the great in
terests involved, tiae important
issues to be determined. They
are to fight for the safety of their
people and their cities. Love of
country, of home, and of God,all
combined to stir them to the
loftiest courage and the most
steadfast endurance. In such
spirit they went on to victory.
Contagion of Fear and Defeat. —
“When the children of Ammon
saw that the Syrians were fled,
then fled they also.” Who can
estimate the contagious influence
of example ? A giving way in
one part of the ranks may cause
panic and dismay to spread
through a whole army. The
overcoming of some leading foe
may often be the signal for flight
to a host of allies. There is also
a contagion of triumph or suc
cess. One brave heart may nerve
many to a steadfast endurance.
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